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Second graders raise funds to equip police dog St. Matthew School second graders, pictured at a school assembly March 6, launched their own dog biscuit business, Bow Wow Bones, and earned so much money – $5,000 – that they bought a custom-made bulletproof vest for local San Mateo Police Department K9 dog “Borry,” a 4-year-old German shepherd handled by Officer Travis Barker. Other funds were left for classroom extras, said teacher Mary Downs. Downs said the six-week project was a great way for the children to see how their talents can translate into success in the real world.

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Christians unite in opposition to HHS contraceptive mandate

By Andy Telli NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) – The new federal mandate that employers provide free insurance coverage for contraceptives that can be abortifacients, sterilizations and other services has united Christians across denominational lines, said a lawyer for the American Center for Law and Justice during a panel discussion at Aquinas College in Nashville.

“They understand it’s not about contraceptives but religious liberty and abortion,” said David French, senior counsel for the center who lives in Columbia, south of Nashville.

Although Catholic bishops have been fighting increasing attacks on religious freedom for a while, “it is heartening to see the outrage with which the Protestant community has met the mandate,” French said. “The unanimity of the bishops has given the Protestant community a spinal transplant.”

French was joined in the discussion Feb. 28 by Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

since 1988, and Geoffrey Surtees and Francis J. Manion, both Catholics living in Bardstown, Ky., and serving as staff attorneys for the center.

The Washington-based center, founded in 1990 by the Rev. Pat Robertson, focuses on pro-life and religious liberty issues.

The discussion on “Current Threats to Religious Liberty: The Right of Conscience Under Attack” was part of Aquinas College’s spring lecture series.

The threat to religious freedom represented by the contraceptive mandate “is as serious as any threat we’ve faced in my lifetime,” said Land. “This regulation ... is just the first swing of the club.”

“It’s compulsory participation in the sexual revolution ... one that in many ways will trump the original American Revolution” and the religious freedoms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, French said.

The mandate includes an exemption for religious institutions but the U.S. bishops have said it is so nar-

rowly written that it would not include Catholic schools, hospitals or social service agencies.

Employers who don’t provide the mandated coverage would be subject to substantial fines, Surtees noted. “The mandate requires religious institutions and others to pay the government to follow their conscience,” he said. The nation’s founders “would be aghast.”

Although the mandate is part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the health care reform law, Manion warned against broadening the attack against the mandate to an attack on health care reform.

The contraceptive mandate “is not a necessary result of health care reform,” said Manion, who noted that the U.S. bishops have supported comprehensive health care reform for decades. Even before the Obama administration won passage of its health care reform, the bishops have consistently made the argument that the country can have health care that includes conscience protections UNITE, page 9

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION News in brief. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Cuba’s changing church . . . . 8 Prep, CYO sports . . . . . 10-13 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Father Rolheiser . . . . . . . . . 20

Fire chief: Tough leader, ‘dedicated servant of Lord’ ~ Page 3 ~ March 16, 2012

Spiritual journey of Rex William Henry Wallace ~ Page 6 ~

Inspiring day trips: School drama roundup . . . . 21 Notable area churches Service Directory . . . . . . . . 26 ~ Page 24 ~ www.catholic-sf.org

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By Tom Burke Jennifer Ho, an eighth grader at St. Timothy School in San Mateo, was recently awarded a scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. “The audition was very competitive and a lot of hard work, but it was fun and exciting.” said Jennifer. Jennifer, who looks to teach piano, is the daughter of Emily and Truong Ho of San Jennifer Ho Mateo. Her ultimate goal is to go to medical school and become a pediatrician, the school said.

• Two singers from Notre Dame School, Belmont sang with the California Music Education Association’s Bay Area Honor Choir in January. Eighth grader Meg Tillman and seventh grader Ellie Duebner were nominated by music teacher/choral director, Barbara Varian Barrett.

The girls sang in an ensemble of 120 seventh to ninth grade singers at San Jose State University. Ellie’s proud folks are Cathleen Benko Duebner and George Duebner.

Meg’s proud mom and dad are Joan and David Tillman.

• Congrats at Holy Name of Jesus School where students have gathered around good health causes for us twolegged folk and our four-legged best friends, too, More than $700 was collected for leukemia cures and Ave and Nico Sullivan sold lemonade to raise more than $80 for the San Francisco SPCA. • Catholic high school bands from the Archdiocese of San Francisco played March 2 in a Bay Area Catholic Schools Concert. Conducting musicians from Archbishop Riordan was Scott Souza; St. Ignatius College Preparatory bandleader is Gillian Clements; and Ted Allen conducts the ensemble from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.

• The cards will be dealt April 20 for a day of bridge at St. Charles Parish hall in San Carlos with proceeds benefiting St. Francis Center in Redwood City. Last year’s tourney drew 100 players and things look just as rosy this year said Lynda Connolly, of the St. Francis Center auxiliary and a bridge player. “It is lots of fun and done very nicely,” Lynda, an Immaculate Heart of Mary parishioner, told me. Last year’s big finishers were St. Timothy Parish for highest average score and

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San Rafael Knights of Columbus and Marin County pro-life advocates raised $19,000 for the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist now teaching at Marin Catholic High School. Pictured from left are Mark Doherty, a seminarian studying for the Archdiocese of San Francisco; Dominican Sister Mary Samuel; Grand Knight Joe Tassone; and Dominican Sister Thomas Aquinas.

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Fire chief called tough leader, ‘dedicated servant of the Lord’ Looking back, you can see how the pattern took shape, how it makes sense that Joanne Hayes-White would not only become a firefighter but the fire chief of San Francisco, making the department the largest in the world with a female chief.

As a kid, she was intrigued by fire engines, and there was a station near the Hayes home – Station 19, at Stonestown on Buckingham Way. That was very cool.

At Mercy High School – Dorothy McCrae, the principal, loves telling this story – Joanne Hayes was a model student, and the first in line for fire drills.

“Well,” said Hayes-White, by way of explanation, “I have always been a very social person and like rallying the troops.

I always wanted to make sure in my homeroom that we would be the first ones out. I was always very mindful of making sure that everyone is safe.”

That’s a quality you want in a fire chief and, indeed, while the chief is not much for jewelry, she does wear a black band on her wrist with the inscription, “Everyone Goes Home.”

Joanne Hayes-White, a devout Catholic and lifelong parishioner at St. Stephen, was sworn in as the 25th chief of the San Francisco Fire Department on Jan. 16, 2004, the first appointment of then-Mayor Gavin Newsom who had taken office Jan. 8. It was a bold stroke, of course, because tradition has it that men assume the role after perhaps a 30-year run in the department, en route to retirement. She was 39 at the time, a 14-year veteran, a mother of three boys, then 10, 7 and 4. She is now one of the longest-tenured chiefs in the department’s history.

“He was looking for someone who would respect that history and tradition but not be afraid to move things forward,” Hayes-White said of Newsom.

Hayes-White was familiar with the fishbowl. In 1990, she was the tenth woman to enter the San Francisco Fire Department. She was a product of a court-ordered consent decree in which San Francisco, beginning in 1987, agreed to diversify its fire department. From the day she entered the recruit academy in April 1990 to today, said Hayes-White, the teamwork – like basketball and volleyball she played at Mercy High School – and the department’s mission have made the work a great fit for her.

“I thought, wow, that sounds like a really interesting job,” she recalls thinking upon hearing the department was hiring women. “I thought, you have to be physically fit, you are

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San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White is pictured with her sons, from left, Sean, 12; Riley, 18; and Logan,15.

physically challenged. And I thought, this is something that inspires me,” even without any female role models.

Her rise was steady and quick: lieutenant in 1993; captain and acting battalion chief in 1996; assistant chief in 1998, and along the way she was given major assignments, including serving as director of training, and helped hire 400 firefighters.

There have been three major accomplishments on her watch: establishing promotional testing, for years bogged down in litigation; implementing random on-duty alcohol and drug testing, with the support of the firefighters’ union, to take on a perception of lack of control at the fire stations, and integrating emergency medical services in the department after a difficult merger.

The three major accomplishments at home are the boys: Riley, 18, a senior at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory; Logan, 15, a freshman at Sacred Heart, and Sean, 12, a sixth grader at St. Stephen.

She has crafted nine budgets, and has had to cut every year.

“We have done a lot of clipping and shearing but operationally we have remained intact, while a lot of other departments have had firefighter layoffs. We are proud we didn’t have to do that,” said Hayes-White.

Meantime, more women have joined the department. Today, 250 members of the uniformed workforce, or 15 percent, are women, putting San Francisco in the top tier of the category in a profession still dominated by men. The figure is 1 percent or less in New York and Boston.

No matter the challenges of the work she chose, it was compelling for her, she said, because service had been drilled into her – at St. Stephen School; at Mercy High School, class of 1982; at Santa Clara University, class of 1986, and at home.

Thomas Hayes, her late father, who with a sixth grade education had immigrated from County Limerick to become an apprentice union plasterer in San Francisco, and go on to develop a successful plastering and real estate development company and become a force in San Francisco Democratic politics, and her mother, Patricia, taught her, her brother and two sisters to treat people with dignity and respect, and to serve the community.

Mercy High’s McCrae likes to think the chief’s values and strengths come from single-gender education. “What happens to women is they develop leadership potential,” she said. “I think they develop their own voice, and I don’t see Joanne (a Mercy board member) intimidated by anything.”

Forty-eight-year-old Hayes-White presides over a department in which many religions are represented, “but there are a lot of values I was raised with related to faith and treatment of other people that I carry with me every day,” she said. “They are core values I carry with me as a mother and a fire chief, and I consider this department an extension of my family,” she added.

She and her mother are always at the 8 a.m. Mass on Sunday at St. Stephen, and Father Paul F. Warren, the pastor, marvels that she is rarely absent from a parish or school function, despite her long days as chief. “But it is her service as minister of the Eucharist (the official term is extraordinary minister of holy Communion) which speaks to me of the depth of her Christian commitment to bring Christ to others,” he said. “Her service at the Eucharist is a sacrament of who she is for others all through her work day. By her faith, love and service, she is a dedicated disciple of the Lord and a model to me personally.”

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Number of Catholics, priests, bishops worldwide increased VATICAN CITY – The number of Catholics in the world and the number of deacons, priests and bishops all increased in 2010, while the number of women in religious orders continued to decline, according to Vatican statistics. At the end of 2010, the worldwide Catholic population reached 1.196 billion, an increase of 15 million or 1.3 percent, slightly outpacing the global population growth rate, which was estimated at 1.1 percent, said a statement published March 10 by the Vatican press office. Catholics as a percentage of the global population “remained stable at around 17.5 percent,” it said. The statement reported a handful of the statistics contained in the 2012 “Annuario Pontificio,” a yearbook containing information about every Vatican office, as well as every diocese and religious order in the world. The percentage of Catholics declined slightly in South America and considerably in Europe, while increasing in Southeast Asia and Africa.

Vatican: Water is human right VATICAN CITY – Clean and potable water is a human right, not a for-profit commodity dependent on market logic, said the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in a recent document.

Unfortunately, “there persists an excessively commercial conception of water which runs the risk of mistaking it for just another kind of merchandise, and making investments for the sake of profit alone, without taking into account water’s worth” as a public good, it said. “There is a risk of not seeing one’s brothers and sisters as human beings possessing the right to a dignified existence, but rather seeing them as simply customers,” which leads to making water and sanitation available only to those who can pay, it added. The document, “Water, an Essential Element for Life,” is an update to previous documents of the same title by the council. The update, which focused on effective solutions to the world’s water crisis, was presented at the Sixth World Water Forum being held March 12-17 in Marseille, France.

Trappists’ brew world’s best OXFORD, England – A hearty dark brown beer produced at a Trappist monastery in Belgium has been rated the world’s best brew by an online community of beer lovers. Coincidentally, the monks are temporarily boosting production of its special brew to pay for renovation work at its western Flanders abbey. The monks at the Trappist Abbey of St. Sixtus of Westvleteren said they will temporarily make one additional batch per month and offer it at participating supermarkets, a first for the order. The monks’ Westvleteren 12 brew – with an alcohol content of 10.2 percent – was rated the best in the world by Fulton, Calif.-based

Syrian bloodshed A doctor displays a bullet removed from the hand of a young girl March 8 wounded during what protesters said was an attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in Homs.

Ratebeer, which offers beer connoisseurs the chance to discuss and rate their favorite brew. Until now, the Trappists sold their beer only to individuals – never to distributors or retail outlets – directly from the abbey. Customers must call ahead to reserve their purchase, which is limited to two crates of 24 bottles each every 60 days. The extra income will “finance important works” at the abbey, which dates to 1831, monastery spokesman Mark Bode, told La Croix, France’s Catholic daily newspaper. In a March 6 report, La Croix said the 30 monks usually produce 100,000 gallons of their popular Westvleteren 12 brand annually.

10 die in Nigerian blast, violence JOS, Nigeria – A suicide car bomber attacked a Catholic Church as Mass was being celebrated, killing three people and sending dozens of worshippers fleeing into the streets, officials said. Seven others died in retaliatory rioting that erupted March 11 in the central Nigeria city of Jos, authorities reported. On Sunday evening, gunmen killed three Christians in a village south of the city, said Pam Ayuba, Plateau state spokeswoman.

She said officials did not believe the shootings were connected to the violence at St. Finbar Church earlier in the day. The incidents are the most recent in a decade-long conflict among Christians and Muslims that has claimed thousands of lives in and around Jos. Ayuba said the blast damaged the church’s roof, blew out its windows and destroyed a portion of the fence surrounding the church’s compound, the Associated Press reported. The bombing led to retaliatory violence by youths who set fire to homes.

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and found that physical abuse was widespread and sexual abuse was endemic in many institutions for boys run by members of religious congregations. Cardinal Brady, whose Armagh archdiocese straddles the border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, spoke after a meeting March 12 with the group Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse in Northern Ireland.

“I wish to confirm that we believe the experiences the group shared with us and acknowledge its ongoing impact on their lives,” Cardinal Brady said after the meeting. “We apologize wholeheartedly and without reserve for the abuse that they suffered as children. We remain committed to fully cooperating with the inquiry.”

Victims’ representative Jon McCourt said he was pleased with the discussion, which he described as positive and “challenging.

In the cardinal’s own words, this was the most profound meeting he has ever held on this issue,” McCourt said.

Legislatures consider many proposals to limit abortion WASHINGTON – Various proposals to regulate or limit abortions or abortion funding continued to move through state legislatures in early March. Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law March 7 a bill requiring an ultrasound to determine gestational age before a woman undergoes an abortion procedure or takes an abortion-inducing drug. The legislation had been amended to exclude victims of rape and incest and to require the routine transabdominal ultrasound rather than the more invasive transvaginal test.

Meanwhile, the North Dakota Catholic Conference expressed disappointment at a decision by Judge Wickham Corwin to put on hold implementation of the state’s Abortion Drug Safety Law, pending resolution of a lawsuit against it. The law requires that abortion drugs be administered according to the Food and Drug Administration protocol for their use.

In Utah, by a 22-6 vote March 8, the Senate passed legislation to increase the waiting period before an abortion from 24 hours to 72 hours and sent it to Gov. Gary Herbert for his signature. The only other state with a 72-hour waiting period is South Dakota, where the requirement has been blocked by an injunction.

Doomsday prophecy ‘sinful’ OAKLAND – Radio evangelist Harold Camping apologized for his “incorrect and sinful” prediction that the world would end May 21 and the saved would be taken to heaven.

“We must also openly acknowledge that we have no new evidence pointing to another date for the end of the world,” the Bible literalist and his staff wrote in a letter posted on the website of his organization Family Radio. “Though many dates are circulating, Family Radio has no interest in even considering another date.

God has humbled us through the events of May 21 to continue to even more fervently search the Scriptures (the Bible), not to find dates, but to be more faithful in our understanding.

“We have learned the very painful lesson that all of creation is in God’s hands and he will end time in his time, not ours!”

Camping’s much-publicized run-up to what he called the biblically predicted end of time ranked as No. 7 on the Religion Newswriters Association’s list of top stories of 2011.

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British bishops speak against legalization of same-sex marriage

By Simon Caldwell MANCHESTER, England (CNS) – Legalization of same-sex marriage could obscure the “real meaning” of marriage for generations to come, the bishops of England and Wales are telling Catholics.

In a letter that was to be read aloud in about 2,500 parishes the weekend of March 10-11, the bishops tell the faithful that an Archbishop imminent government Vincent Nichols proposal to change the law represents “a profoundly radical step.”

“Its consequences should be taken seriously now,” said the letter, co-signed by Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Westminster, president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, and Archbishop Peter Smith of Southwark, vice president.

“The law helps to shape and form social and cultural values,” the letter says. “A change in the law would gradually and inevitably transform society’s understanding of the purpose of marriage.

“It would reduce it just to the commitment of the two people involved,” the letter says. “There would be no recognition of the complementarity of male and female or that marriage is intended for the procreation and education of children.

“We have a duty to married people today,” the archbishops write, “and to those who come after us, to do all we can to ensure that the true meaning of marriage is not lost for future generations.”

The letter was sent out to parish priests throughout England and Wales, but its contents were published after they were leaked over the Internet.

In their letter, the archbishops argue that the roots of the institution of marriage are natural and based on the complementarity and fertility of opposite sexes.

“Neither the church nor the state has the power to change this fundamental understanding of marriage itself,” the archbishops say.

“Nor is this simply a matter of public opinion.

“Understood as a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman and for the creation and upbringing of children, marriage is an expression of our fundamental humanity. Its status in law is the prudent fruit of experience, for the good of the spouses and the good of the family,” they add.

The letter comes ahead of a consultation on gay marriage that could result in a change in the law before the next general election in 2012.

British Prime Minister David Cameron has said he is “emphatically in favor” of such a change.

It also comes days after Cardinal Keith O’Brien of St. Andrews and Edinburgh, Scotland, criticized government proposals to redefine marriage. Cardinal O’Brien said that civil partnerships introduced by the government in 2004 already conferred many of the rights of marriage on homosexual couples.

The drive to legalize gay marriage repre-

sented, he said, “an attempt to redefine marriage for the whole of society at the behest of a small minority of activists.”

“Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools and for wider society,” the cardinal said in a March 4 article in The Sunday Telegraph. “It will redefine society, since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.”

He also argued that the legalization of samesex marriage would be “a grotesque subversion” of Article 16 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which recognizes the right of men and women to enter into marriage.

Cardinal O’Brien’s remarks were criticized, however, by Peter Tatchell, a gay rights activist and coordinator of the Equal Love campaign.

“Cardinal O’Brien is out of touch,” Tatchell said in a March 4 statement. “Gay marriage is about love and commitment. These are Christian values, so I don’t understand why the cardinal objects to gay couples getting married.”

Church joins petition drive launched on same-sex marriage in Maryland ANNAPOLIS, Md. (CNS) – Leaders of a petition drive to bring Maryland’s recently passed same-sex marriage legislation to referendum expressed confidence they will collect more than the nearly 56,000 needed signatures to put the issue on the November ballot.

“You are going to find that in just a few short weeks, we are going to turn in not only the signatures,” said the Rev. Derek McCoy, leader of the Maryland Marriage Alliance, “but, ultimately, we are going to uphold (traditional marriage) for the citizens of Maryland.”

Rev. McCoy joined several members of the House of Delegates during a Feb. 29 news

conference in Annapolis outlining the goals of the petition drive.

The Maryland Marriage Alliance, which has partnered with the Maryland Catholic Conference, filed a petition with the Maryland Board of Elections Feb. 24 to be the official proponents of the referendum campaign against the same-sex marriage legislation. Its website, marylandmarriagealliance.com, will become the official site to obtain petitions for the referendum.

Maryland citizens will stand up against same-sex marriage, Rev. McCoy said, because they recognize the “intrinsic, fundamental value to society” of maintaining the definition

of marriage as being between one man and one woman.

The Maryland Marriage Alliance will be working in churches, synagogues, mosques and other grass-roots organizations to promote the petition drive, Rev. McCoy said.

Last year, a bill legalizing same-sex marriage passed in the Senate, but was returned to

committee in the House of Delegates when there were not enough votes for passage.

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley, a Catholic who sponsored this year’s legislation, helped win its passage in the House and Senate. He signed the measure into law March 1, asserting that “the way forward” is found in “greater respect of the equal rights of all, for the human dignity of all.”

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The Serra High School gym was packed on February 23, when more than 800 guests supported Fund a Dream—an important fundraiser established to provide financial aid for deserving Padres. New England Patriots quarterback and Serra alumnus Tom Brady ’95 charmed the crowd with a heartfelt speech about the values he learned at Serra. Among the crowd were Bishop William J. Justice ’60, Bishop Robert McElroy and Serra Chaplain Father Joe Bradley ’73.

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“We have a special culture here for learning—a culture built for success,” said the charismatic Brady, who personally pledged $100,000 for financial aid. Brady thanked his parents, Tom and Galynn Brady, for their unwavering support and for giving him the gift of a Serra education.

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March 16, 2012

‘Foxes have holes and birds have nests but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head’ Ask Rex William Henry Wallace a question and, nine times out of 10, he will thumb through his Bible and come up with an appropriate passage from Scripture.

“I always use the word of God,” he says.

“There have been times in my life when I have denied and disregarded the Gospel, but I never denounced or disrespected it.”

So when the question about his being homeless for the past 10 years comes up, Wallace – who attends daily Mass at St. Boniface Church in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco – immediately turns to the passage in Luke where Jesus explains his unorthodox living situation to a prospective disciple: “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests,” reads Wallace, “but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

For some time now, Wallace has been laying his head on a narrow strip of concrete between the sidewalk and a rarely used garage door in an alley just off Eighth and Howard streets. He has taken on the role of caretaker of the tiny, L-shaped passageway, keeping it neat and clean and thereby endearing himself to those who live and work there.

“All the people know me,” he says, waving to a couple of residents as they drive off in their cars. “I watch over their property, and I keep them on a prayer list.”

Dressed in a pair of faded but clean black Levis, a black, button-down shirt and black Nikes, Wallace is as neat as the street he has adopted. He may be homeless, he says, but he is also a child of God. As a Christian, he believes it is his mission to proclaim the Gospel as best he can – even if he happens to be a drug addict who lives on the streets.

“I’ll be frank with you,” he says. “I am battling a disease called sin. I have been abusing a drug called crack for 24 years.

I never sold, but I pointed enough people toward death and now God has given me the desire to point people toward life.”

A native San Franciscan, the 49-year-old Wallace grew up with seven brothers and

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Wallace looks to the Bible for direction in life.

sisters – one of whom, he says, is a retired law-enforcement officer. He graduated from Fremont Elementary School. Although he dropped out of Mission High School, he later obtained his GED while attending San Francisco City College.

While still a teenager, he went to work for a local carpet cleaning business whose owner introduced him to cocaine. Soon, he was addicted.

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“I take responsibility for my addiction,” says Wallace, who has been clean, he says, for only a few days. “I am a demon fighter. I’m battling. The spirit of God has never left me.”

While much of the past has been hazy and obscured during that battle, the date of July 12, 1996, stands out like a beacon on a foggy stretch of coastline.

“That’s when I asked the Lord to come into my life,” he says. “I was sitting by a fireplug by the Butterfield auction house, working in a soup kitchen.”

In 2002, says Wallace, he was evicted

from the Mission District hotel he had been living in for seven years, for speaking out publicly against the conditions there. Since then, he has been homeless.

“My biggest fear was getting back to the streets,” says Wallace, who had endured shorter periods of homelessness prior to his eviction from the Mission District hotel.

“Life on the streets is difficult at times,” he says. “Sometimes I get in what I call my bellyaching mode. I wonder – what’s the point?”

When those periods of doubt arise, he says, Wallace reminds himself that God is able to use anyone to further his purposes here on earth, even a homeless man addicted to drugs. Wallace works to bring the Gospel message to the men and woman – many of them also homeless – he encounters in his daily life on the streets.

“God created us in his image,” he says.

“Should the homeless be viewed as outcasts, or as vermin? The emotions I see in people’s eyes when they look at me are often pity, contempt and fear.”

Wallace says he refuses to receive Social Security Insurance, which makes up the bulk of income for many people who find themselves homeless, because he doesn’t want to be a burden to taxpayers.

Wallace’s present location is convenient, he says, because of its proximity to the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Ozanam Wellness Center on Howard Street. He attends meetings there to help him fight his addiction.

Occasionally, he watches movies there on Friday night.

“I was actually very intrigued by him,” says Sister Jean Marie Fernandez. “I would often see him at the daily Mass at St. Boniface. I noticed that he was very engaged with the Eucharist, and I was very touched by his participation.”

A member of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, whose home parish is St. Elizabeth in San Francisco, Sister Marie works as case manager and in outreach at the wellness center. She says she has been impressed by Wallace’s friendly demeanor, neat appearance and helpful attitude.

“They (the homeless) are God’s people,” she says. “And because they are marginalized, their voices aren’t heard.”

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obituary March 24 Mass at cathedral for those affected by violence Sister Stella Marie Yee, CSJ; longtime St. Mary teacher San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice will be principal celebrant of a Mass March 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, commemorating the lives of those lost to violence. The day is the 32nd anniversary of the political assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero in San Salvador during El Salvador’s civil war.

The bilingual liturgy begins at 9:30 a.m.

The Mass, sponsored by the Restorative Justice Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, also celebrates the 20th Bishop William anniversary of Comunidad San Dimas, an outreach to incarcerated youth in San J. Justice Francisco and San Mateo counties.

“We gather as a Christian community during this Lenten season to pray for the restoration of our families, neighborhoods, and peace in the world,” said Julio Escobar, director of the restorative justice office. “Parents, families and all interested persons are invited to this memorial and healing liturgy. It is in memory of those who have died as a result of violence or have been affected by it, including offenders.”

Engineer, 96, visits cathedral Leonard Robinson, a retired structural engineer who had a hand in the creation of St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, visited the cathedral Feb. 29.

“What an amazing man,” said Msgr. John Talesfore, cathedral pastor. “At 96, he is sharp as a tack, remembering every detail of design and construction of the most important work of his career.”

Robinson explained many complex elements of the cathedral building, which was dedicated in 1971.

Robinson’s daughter Bonnie Robinson and other family members Msgr. John accompanied the retired engineer to Talesfore and the cathedral. She thanked Msgr.

Leonard Robinson Talesfore for his personal attention to the family and said the experience “was one of the highlights of my father’s life. It was truly a special time for us.”

“The entire Robinson clan would like to thank you for sharing your time and expertise with us last Wednesday,” she said in a letter to Msgr. Talesfore.

In an email Bonnie Robinson said: “My father had a long and distinguished career as a structural engineer but his work on the cathedral was the highlight of his career. The building was so complex and beautiful that he jumped at the chance to be a part of it.”

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Francisco, she was a Sister of St. Joseph of Orange for 64 “She was a faithful and joyful religious as a teacher, years. principal, missionary to Papua, New Guinea, Sister Stella Marie taught at St. Mary School and secretary general of the Sisters of St. Joseph in San Francisco for more than 20 years retiring of Orange,” the congregation said. Sister Stella in 2005. She was a graduate of St. Mary’s and Marie’s return to San Francisco to teach at said it was there that she “found the love of God,” St. Mary School came as no surprise to her. said Paulist Father Daniel McCotter, pastor of Old “Somehow, I just knew that I would return to the St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. Father very place that I had encountered God for the McCotter was a concelebrant and eulogist at the first time and to be able to share with the children funeral Mass at the sisters’ motherhouse chapel there what I received from God’s goodness,” Sister Sister Stella in Orange.

Marie Yee, CSJ Stella Marie wrote in her autobiography.

“Sister Stella Marie was incredible, wonderSurvivors include siblings, Sister Dorothy Ann ful,” Father McCotter told Catholic San Francisco. Following Yee, CSJ and Elaine Chan. her move to retirement in Orange, she sent regular notes as A memorial Mass was celebrated March 10 at Old St. well as $10 donations toward the new St. Mary School and Mary’s Cathedral.

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Cuban church has become more public in a rapidly changing culture HAVANA (CNS) – The Catholic Church that Pope Benedict XVI will visit March 26-28 is, to put it simply, more.

Since Pope John Paul II’s visit in 1998, the church is more unified, more public, more likely to work with the government in accomplishing specific goals, more involved in providing assistance to the Cuban people, more comfortable in its place in society. Its bishops, priests and laypeople, while still wary of pushing official tolerance too far, are more confident in teaching the faith in a way they believe can help shape the future of all of Cuba.

Above all, it is more hopeful.

In interviews and casual conversations with Catholic News Service in mid-February, just about everyone – including nonbelievers – in the places Pope Benedict will visit expressed hope for what his trip might trigger. People said they saw important changes the last time a pope visited Cuba, and they have hopes for what this trip might bring.

They spoke of a Cuban people around the world unified by the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre – La Caridad as she is affectionately called. Pope Benedict’s stop in Cuba has been described by the Cuban bishops as a personal pilgrimage to share in this year’s celebrations of the 400th anniversary of La Caridad.

“It is a blessing for all Cubans,” said Juan Alberto Alba, whose infant godson was one of 33 children baptized Feb. 11 at the Shrine of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, where the pope will visit March 27. “In the past it was bad to be Catholic, but the faith has grown.”

“The Cuban church is a church with hope in Christ,” said Msgr. Ramon Suarez Polcari, chancellor of the Havana Archdiocese. That sense of hope has become more obvious in the past few years.

It has happened in low-profile ways such as in the growth of thriving home-based missions and the expanded presence of Caritas, the church’s development and relief agency. Among higher-profile events, a new seminary opened outside Havana in 2010; Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino mediated the release of more than 50 political prisoners; and processions and prayer services across the country drew thousands of people to pay homage to a statue of the nation’s patroness.

New church efforts include the country’s first MBA program, just one offering at the not-quite-open Father Felix Varela Cultural Center. It fills an education gap in a country where only

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in the last few months have individuals been allowed to own businesses, and few people have the necessary background to run one.

Roberto Veiga Gonzalez, editor of Espacio Laical, a widely respected magazine for the laity published under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Havana, said that “every day the church is more integrated into society.”

Catholicism is “a moral, religious reference point for many sectors of Cuba, even when they are not Catholic. Catholicism is a part of Cuban culture,” he said.

Though the church estimates 60-70 percent of Cubans are

2 local women Cuba-bound to ‘witness faith’ The combination of fascination with Cuba – so near yet so far, due to political ideology – plus a papal visit that is compelling for Catholics is cause for two San Francisco women to visit Havana this month when Pope Benedict XVI makes his historic visit.

Anne Stricherz, a religious studies teacher at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, and Victoria Terheyden, director of communications at Archbishop Riordan High School, are booked for a trip March 24-29 that will include following the pope’s movements in Havana and possibly greeting him upon arrival.

The tour is arranged by Cuba Tours and Travel, based in Long Beach, a travel company licensed by the U.S. government and California to provide travel services to Cuba, and was arranged on relatively short notice – it was announced in December – said the company president, Peter Sanchez. That partly explains the less than expected interest, as only 30 people are booked, he said.

It’s an expensive country, too, particularly for Americans, said Sanchez, who is calling the trip “Pilgrimage of Hope and Unity.”

More important, said Stricherz and Terheyden, they see the Cuba visit as an opportunity to build a community with Catholics

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“I am attracted to the culture, the people, the music, the food. For whatever reason – maybe it was my Spanish class in high school – Cuba has always been a place I really have been intrigued by,” said Stricherz. She is also attracted to the devout Catholic faith there, and finds that depth interesting given the fact Cuba is a totalitarian communist state.

“Any time there is a restriction put on humanity, for some reason that seems to be a place where things take root,” said Stricherz.

She added, “I am going to witness the faith of the Cuban people, as well as (Pope Benedict’s) leadership. How will he lead and respond? How will he speak to the people in a place where they may not be as free to worship as we are?”

For Terheyden, the trip is an important part of their own mission as workers at Catholic institutions. We are going to meet with other Catholic communities from across the world. I think that is the ultimate building of community.”

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Catholic, attendance at weekly Mass remains low, in single digits as a percentage of the population. A majority of children are baptized, but far fewer receive other sacraments. Catholic funerals are popular, however.

So much has changed about the attitude toward Catholicism since 1992, when the government dropped its official designation as atheist, that even the biography of President Raul Castro on Wikipedia lists his religion as “Roman Catholic (formerly atheist).”

But a series of polls done for the church in 2002-2003 as part of preparations for a pastoral plan found that 75 percent of practicing Catholics were unfamiliar with the national ecclesial “encuentro” of 1986 that is considered a turning point for the Cuban church’s pastoral style.

Gustavo Andujar, cultural director of the Varela Cultural Center, set to fully open next year, said that means three-quarters of practicing Catholics “were not ‘historic’ Catholics, but latecomers, with little if any formation and without a deeply rooted sense of belonging to the church.”

It has been an uphill climb for the church since soon after Fidel Castro took power in 1959. Church properties were confiscated, many clergy and religious activists were jailed or expelled and religious schools closed.

Veiga said state policies against religion put the church “very, very low on the social hierarchy. In my opinion that helped the church, because it had to learn to become more integrated into society, to reconnect with its base.”

The papal visit, Veiga said, will be a time to show that the Catholic Church “is not looking for power, but to be with its own people, side by side with those who are suffering, and to be side by side with those who can change the situation so fewer people suffer.”

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Notre Dame des Victoires wins academic contest honors

The Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires decathlon team: Front row, Andrew Wilcox, Clare McCarthy, Claire Rand, Kaitlynn Hong, Danielle Sheridon, Angela Iton (captain), Henry Frazer, Tiffany Cheng, Jackie Day, Madeleine Plant, Judith Shilstone (moderator). Second row, Jolie Villegas, Francesca Briggs, Emma David, Philip Toulinov, Clovis Curl, Kimberly Derderian.

The Junior High Academic Decathlon for the Archdiocese of San Francisco took place March 3 at St. Pius School in Redwood City.

Taking first place in overall scoring was Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires, with St. Charles School, San Carlos, in second place, and Nativity School, Menlo Park, in third.

In addition to competing for the overall prize, schools competed in categories including logic (first place. St. Pius; second, St. Charles; third, Ecole Notre Dames des Victoires) and Super Quiz (first place, St. Charles; second, Nativity; third, Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires).

Other schools taking part included All Souls School, De Marillac Middle School, Good Shepherd School, St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception School, St. John School, St. Pius School, St. Raymond School, St. Thomas More School, Sts. Peter and Paul School, School of the Epiphany, Our Lady of Mount Carmel School.

Ecole Notre Dames des Victoires goes on to compete in the state decathlon finals May 5 in Southern California.

Coaches and moderators for the championship team were Judith Shilstone, Britney Vanderheyden, Sarah Boniface, Kathleen Burns, Jenifer Lake, Aileen Albertson and Sharon Hupf.

Blessing homeless residence Archbishop George Niederauer is pictured with Catholic Charities CYO President Deborah Dasovich and Father Brian Costello, pastor of Star of the Sea Parish, March 7 at a blessing of Star Community Home, a residence and program for homeless women and their children in a former convent at the Richmond District parish in San Francisco. While Archbishop Niederauer presided over the rite, he affirmed that the convent had already been blessed by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet, who had lived in the building and taught at the school for nearly a century.

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Father John J. Sakowski, the pastor of St. Thomas Apostle R. Bonfiglio will become pastor of St. Ignatius Church in Church in San Francisco, will take on an additional pasto- San Francisco July 1. ral assignment, simultaneously serving as pastor Also in the March 12 announcement these diaat San Francisco’s St. Monica Church, effective conate changes were announced: Deacon Brian R. July 1, Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice of the Bromberger, St. John of God Church, San Francisco, Archdiocese of San Francisco, announced March 12. effective March 6; Deacon Alejandro D. Madero, Our A new assignment for Father John L. Greene, Lady of Loretto Church, Novato, effective Feb. 1; pastor at St. Monica since 1999, is pending. He Deacon Eugene Smith, spiritual advisor, Saint Vincent served two six-year assignments and was permitted de Paul Society, U.S. Western Region, and continuing to stay an additional year, 2011, as the parish celat St. Raphael, San Rafael, effective Feb. 1; and Deacon ebrated its centennial. He will continue in his role Virgil D. Capati, St. Bruno Church, San Bruno.

Father John J. as chaplain of the San Francisco Fire Department.

Also, Dominican Father Patrick O’Neil becomes Sakowski Bishop Justice will be at Masses at St. Thomas director of the Vallombrosa Retreat Center July 1 the weekend of March 17-18 to discuss Father Sakowski’s and Father Joseph P. Bradley becomes part-time chaplain at new assignment with parishioners.

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Objections to the mandate are not about limiting access to contraceptives, Manion said. “We’re simply saying don’t make us pay this.”

Manion noted that even Catholics who have supported President Barack Obama in the past raised objections to the contraceptive mandate and its impact on Catholic institutions. “I don’t want to see this mandate become completely politicized,” he said, because conservative and liberal Catholics need to be united in their opposition to stop it.

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Wildcats’ ‘cannon for an arm’ quarterback gathers college offers In the vernacular of football, Jared Goff, the recordbreaking quarterback at Marin Catholic High School, can throw all the routes. He can throw a football 70 yards or five yards, both with phenomenal accuracy. Whatever it takes.

Throwing all the routes in football is a blessing for the offense, notes head football coach Mazi Moayed, because it means he and Goff can open the playbook and ‘He is just a choose a route at will. It’s a curse for the defense, of course, because it means kid fortunate they’re going to have to enough to get a guard the entire field.

“Other quarterbacks – there they can’t gift that doesn’t do, soarea things defense doesn’t have to worry about those come around areas,” said Moayed. “With Jared, all of a sudden it every day.’ forces you to cover all your bases. He’s going to be a – Jerry Goff great college quarterback.”

Fortunately for Moayed, 17-year-old Goff has another season at Marin Catholic, but as a junior he already has three offers to play college football – from UC Berkeley, Washington State University in Pullman and Boise State University – and more are expected.

Goff plays in a region and in a smaller division often overlooked by college coaches and recruiters, but the six school records he set last season have caught their attention: Passing yards, 3,240; passing touchdowns, 44; scoring record, 49 total touchdowns including the 44 passing and five rushing; most touchdowns in a game, five; completion percentage for the season, 61.9 percent, and completion percentage for league play, 69.7 percent.

There’s one other pertinent Goff number: 3.8 GPA. Goff’s father, Jerry, a catcher, played baseball at Cal and was a major league player, and, naturally, his bias is for his son to play at Cal. But that’s a discussion for another day. He and his wife, Nancy – they also have a daughter, Lauren, at UCLA – are supporting their son and helping him keep some perspective.

“He’s a pretty grounded kid,” said Jerry Goff, of Novato, now a firefighter in the Millbrae Fire Department.

“He understands that he is no better than anybody else just because he can throw a football. It is very fortunate that he is able to recognize that, and hopefully Nancy and I instilled some of those values in him. He is just a kid fortunate enough to get a gift that doesn’t come around every day.”

Clearly, Jared Goff has received the humility message.

“He tells me to stay humble and stuff like that and he

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Dangerous throwing at 70 yards or five, record-breaking Jared Goff leads the Marin Catholic Wildcats.

always reminds me that I need to gain weight or I need to get faster, so I don’t get a big head,” Jared Goff said of his father. “He knows what it takes and that helps a lot, too. He’s been there,” said Jared Goff.

Both his parents were Cal students, in fact, although his mother, Nancy, was not an athlete, said Goff. “She’s just smart,” he said.

In his sophomore year as quarterback, the Marin Catholic Wildcats had a 12-0 record before losing a post-league game, and their record was 13-0 with Goff at the helm last season – and once again they lost in the post-season. They were, however, champions of the Marin County Athletic League both years.

The winning streaks were possible, said Goff, because the team melded, each player knowing “we have each other’s backs and will do anything for another person.”

Forty-four touchdown passes were possible in large part, he said, when “everything started clicking with me and the wide receivers and the linemen started meshing and, I think, it all started flowing and I think everyone just brought their game to the next level. Each game we just got better.”

Good fortune is not rewarded without work, of course.

In the summer, Moayed runs a three-hour training camp four days a week. The first week, the drill starts at 6 a.m.

The following weeks it’s worse – at 5:45 a.m.

“That really makes our team closer, I think,” said Goff.

Archbishop Riordan High School junior Zac Contreras and senior Julian Morrisette took home honors in the California Wrestling State Championships in Bakersfield at the California Interscholastic Federation meet March 2-5.

Contreras finished the season 37-4, a two-time West Catholic Athletic League champion, a two-time Central Coast Section champ and Top 12 in State. This year the Crusader wrestlers also finished in ninth place in CCS competition, the first time the team has had a top-10 finish for two years in a row. Head coach for the Crusader varsity wrestling team is Vittorio Anastasio, ’84.

Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton scores winning seasons in soccer, basketball (PHOTO COURTESY OF ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL)

Riordan wrestler ranks 12th in state as team finishes in conference top 10

Archbishop Riordan’s Zac Contreras, left, and senior Julian Morrisette.

Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton teams took home championship trophies in soccer and basketball in the just-ended West Bay Athletic League seasons.

The Gators boys varsity soccer team won their fourth consecutive WBAL title with a league record of 12-0-2 and 16-1-4 overall.

Close behind them Atherton girls junior varsity soccer finished 14-4-2. were the boys and girls junior varsity teams.

Boys junior varsity soccer took the WBAL title with a league record of 6-1-1 and an overall record of 12-4-3.

The Atherton girls junior varsity soccer team was league co-champion with a league record of 8-1-1 and an overall season record of 14-4-2.

Boys junior varsity basketball team was a co-champion in the WBAL with a league tally of 10-2 and an overall record of 16-8.

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“It helps us bond and – going through hard stuff together – it makes us so much better.”

The student athletes, said Moayed, “learn that if you want to do something you want to make sure you love it. It helps us to know that everyone who is there at 5:45 a.m. loves what they are doing, or they are not going to show up.”

Goff was a starter in three varsity sports – football, baseball and basketball – in his sophomore year. He dropped basketball in his junior year to give himself an off-season. Moayed is optimistic about the next season.

A running back, Akili Terry, is returning as are two wide receivers, Drew Celis and Nick DeVere. The Wildcats are losing three receivers, seniors Ryan Farney, Connor Mulcahy and Chris Tewhill.

For Moayed, the back-to-back championship seasons have proven once again, as coaches know, “you have got to have the horses, and we had some good horses,” including one with, as he puts it, “a cannon for an arm.”

There’s more to turning out complete student athletes, said Marin Catholic Athletic Director Adam Callan. “It starts with the mission of the school – faith, knowledge, service – and we try to integrate that in everything we do.

It is part of our core belief at the school,” he said. “We preach that to the families as well. It starts at home and Jared’s parents raised a great kid, and he is continuing to do that here at MC.”

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CYO Athletics adds high-school-age basketball, volleyball leagues

By Valerie Schmalz Sad to say, the last eighth grade CYO game is often the final competitive basketball or volleyball game for many young athletes.

High-school basketball and volleyball teams, whether freshman, junior varsity or varsity, can only select a few players, leaving many enthusiastic athletes looking for other options. For most of the about 8,000 graduating CYO eighth grade athletes, that means finding new sports at the high-school level, which is also exciting as they venture into tennis, wrestling, track and field and other sports.

However, for high-school athletes who still want to play basketball or volleyball but are not playing at the high-school level, CYO Athletics has launched a new program. The league is a recreational league but includes playoffs and a championship game. It is open to high-school teams put together by the student athletes themselves, says Courtney Clendinen, director of CYO Athletics.

Girls’ basketball begins March 18 and continues through May 13, according to the website sfathletics.cccyo.org.

The first season was boys basketball and

CYO Athletics high-school-age basketball teams in recreational play last fall.

kids, “it was nice to play again, it was nice to compete again,” she said. “That is the goal, to give them an opportunity to continue to participate.”

There was only one forfeit the whole

12 teams with 115 boys total participated in the fall, Clendinen said.

“It was fun to watch them. Initially some of them were rusty, the kids who had not played since CYO,” she said. But for the

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season, she said. “All the boys who participated were excited and had fun. We didn’t have any issues,” Clendinen said.

The teams register themselves and self coach, Clendinen said. Each game has two officials officiating and the players on each team are issued reversible jerseys. CYO will begin a high-school girls volleyball league in the fall.

The cost is $75 per player for the season.

Each season includes a minimum of six games and each team must have a minimum of seven players. There is no maximum number of players. The top four teams advance to a single elimination post season, including playoffs and championships. Games and practices are at the CYO gyms at St. Emydius and at Serramonte from 5-9 p.m.

Sundays. Winners receive commemorative championship T-shirts.

The girls basketball league is open to all high-school-age girls who do not participate in their high-school basketball teams. No players with varsity experience are eligible.

Clendinen said her goal is to help students stay physically active. “There are so many advantages to continuing exercise, from good physical health to good mental health,” she said.

(PHOTO BY PAUL GHIGLIERI/SI)

CYO offers summer basketball, volleyball for grades three to eight

Left, St. Ignatius College Preparatory golfer Nick Noya signed a letter of intent with UC Davis. Right, SI senior Maria Kemiji McDonald, West Catholic Athletic League girls basketball Player of the Year, goes up against a defender from Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep in a January matchup. St. Ignatius was co-champion with San Jose’s Archbishop Mitty High School in the WCAL girls basketball season. Both teams finished the season with 11-1 records.

CYO Athletics offers summer recreation leagues for coed volleyball and boys and girls basketball in San Francisco. The leagues begin in May. Volleyball camps begin June 18 and each runs for one week.

Basketball workshops start June 23.

For the summer leagues and the volleyball camps, children in grades three to eight are eligible and do not need to be attending Catholic school and do not need to have played a CYO sport previously. The basketball workshops are two-day events and only those in grades six to eight may sign up.

For more information, visit http://cyo. cccyo.org/home/.

Here are the CYO schedules.

San Francisco summer leagues: Coed volleyball, May 30–July 3; boys basketball, July 9–Aug. 16; girls basketball, July 9–Aug. 16.

Volleyball camps: Camp No. 1, grades six-eight, June 18-22; No. 2, three-eight,

CYO athletes in action in last year’s summer recreation league.

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Basketball workshops: Grades six-eight, girls and boys, June 23-24 and Aug. 4-5.

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SHCP’s unprecedented trifecta Fightin’ Irish boys soccer, both basketball teams capture division championships

By Valerie Schmalz

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory senior Jonathan Rojas was named West Catholic Athletic League Forward of the Year on March 5, just two days after helping lead the varsity soccer team to its first ever CCS championship.

(PHOTOS COURTESY OF SHCP)

Sometimes good things really do come in threes.

On March 3, three Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory varsity teams captured the championships in the Central Coast Section Division III. The boys soccer and boys and girls varsity basketball teams all clinched championships on the same day – the third day of the third month of the year.

For boys varsity soccer, this was the very first championship win ever – dating back to the program’s inauguration at the San Boys varsity Francisco school in 1971.

It was a victory made soccer won its even sweeter two days when Fightin’ Irish first title since later senior Jonathan Rojas was named boys soccer Forward the program of the Year by the West Catholic Athletic League. started 40 SHCP’s Celeste Boureille was named WCAL girls years ago. soccer Player of the Year at the same time.

“Jonathan ranks as the most productive forward to ever play in the SHCP soccer program,” said head coach Jeffrey C. Wilson, saying Rojas finished the season with a school record 22 goals, including 15 league goals, and 14 assists. “His scoring ability and vision is second to none. This combined with a relentless desire to compete for his team make him a special player with a limitless future.”

SHCP girls varsity soccer coach Matt Nutall called Boureille, who will be playing on a full soccer scholarship at UC Berkeley in the fall, “an extraordinary player, the most gifted technical player I have ever worked with in my 12 years of coaching in San Francisco. This season, she added to that technical prowess by turning herself into the fittest and most relentless player on the field as well.”

“She was regularly faced with triple- and quadrupleteaming from opponents and still managed to win,” said Nutall.

For girls basketball, the CCS title was its eleventh and it won the final game by beating Terra Nova High School 61-56. It finished the season with a record of 15-14.

The men’s basketball team won its eighth CCS title in a 71-53 rout of El Camino High School. SHCP boys basketball team season record was 25-5.

Fightin’ Irish senior Celeste Boureille was named West Catholic Athletic League Player of the Year March 5, the first SHCP female soccer player to earn the award. Boureille will attend Cal on a full scholarship in the fall.

Marin Catholic wrestlers win league title, sectional honors Marin Catholic’s wrestling team won the Marin County Athletic League title for the first time since 2002 this year, and then earned a slew of medals in North Coast Section competition.

The team had four individual NCS medals and placed 14th at the NCS for its highest regional finish ever.

Tony Kosinski captured first place in his weight class of 285 pounds in the MCAL and went 5-0 at NCS, for a first-place medal.

He went on to compete at the California Interscholastic Federation, an honor in itself although he did not win at state, falling 0-2.

Mike Sitzmann triumphed in the 145-pound class at MCAL,

making him a two-time champ there and then came in third at the NCS, going 5-1. He also qualified for state competition, where he was 1-2.

Byron Barriento placed second in the 113-pound class at MCAL; Andrew Cresalia placed first in 126-pound class at MCA. Eric Wardenburg took first in 132-pound class at MCAL; Anthony Guisti took third place in the 160-pound class; Liam Coll was third in 170-pound class; Mike Nichols was second in 182-pound class; Wil Thomson was first in the 195-pound class; and Nate Bozin was second in the 220-pound class.

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Letters of intent mean athletic scholarships for archdiocesan youth

Four Marin Catholic athletes sign letters of intent. Pictured are Alexandra Thomason, water polo, Michigan; Emily Easom, basketball, Portland State; Kimmie Kreuzberger, swimming, UC Santa Barbara; and Shauna Klein, volleyball, UC Santa Barbara.

Serra baseball players Collin Theroux and Antonio Freschet and wrestler Tim Glauninger signed letters of intent at a special ceremony at the archdiocesan Catholic boys high school in San Mateo.

(PHOTO COURTESY JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL)

(PHOTO COURTESY JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL)

Four Junipero Serra High School seniors have signed letters of intent to play sports in college in exchange for scholarships. They are among a raft of graduating Catholic high school students who have signed national letters of intent so far.

Students from St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Marin Catholic High School, and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory have also signed the letters which require the student to play at least one academic year for the college in exchange for financial aid.

Serra football player Erich Wilson signed with the University of Washington Huskies, while Serra baseball players Antonio Freschet signed with Northwestern University and Collin Theroux signed with the University of Nevada. Serra’s Tim Glauninger will wrestle at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory soccer player Celeste Boureille will play at UC Berkeley on a full scholarship.

Marin Catholic athletes who signed letters of intent are Alexandra Thomason, University of Michigan, water polo; Monica Murray, UC Berkeley, water polo; Shauna Klein, UC Santa Barbara, volleyball; Kimberlyn Kreuzberger, UC Santa Barbara, swimming; Jake Newman, Providence College, lacrosse; Shelby Brown, University of North CarolinaGreensboro, soccer; Kristi Cascio, University of Nevada, soccer; Emily Easom, Portland State, basketball.

At St. Ignatius, the following students report letters of intent: Michellie McDonaldO’Brien, University of Pennsylvania, volleyball and track; Katherine DeRuff, Bucknell, water polo; Kate Bettinger, Stanford, soccer; Nick Noya, UC Davis, golf; Chad Cohan, Duke, lacrosse; Claire Healy, Bucknell, volleyball; Alena Shikaloff, Northeastern, crew; Andrea Wong, UC Davis, golf. The Ivy League colleges do not offer athletic scholarships, but St. Ignatius reports that John-William McGovern will play lacrosse at Yale.

(PHOTO COURTESY MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL)

By Valerie Schmalz

Future University of Washington Huskie Erich Wilson is pictured with fellow Serra senior Luke Longinotti, who will play for Yale University in the fall.

Notre Dame boasts freshman top player Notre Dame Belmont is a small girls Catholic high school and struggles all the way through the West Catholic Athletic League season, as it goes up against much larger schools.

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Soccer WCAL Freshman Player of the Year.

The WCAL also picked several Notre Dame players for the WCAL All-League Team. Parque was picked for the soccer first team, and for the WCAL second team, the league picked sophomore Katherine Uhl and junior Michaela Brady.

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PREPARE TO FEAST Preheat the oven, dust off the breadboard for St. Joseph’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day celebrations

St. Patrick

St. Joseph

c. 389-461 March 17

Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary March 19

Born in Britain, Patrick was carried off by raiders and enslaved in Ireland. He became prayerful during six solitary years as a herdsman. After escaping, he made his way to Gaul, on the continent, where he trained as a priest. In a dream he was called to evangelize Ireland, and in about 432 returned as a bishop. For nearly 30 years he was the apostle to the Irish, bringing an organized church into existence in a pagan land. Toward the end of his life he made a 40-day retreat in Mayo that gave rise to the famous ongoing Croagh Patrick pilgrimages.

– Catholic News Service

Holiday Recipes

Anne-Marie Burns-Martin, owner of Copper Kettle Irish cafe and bakery in San Francisco, displays seasonal favorites Irish soda bread and Irish whole wheat bread.

Left, guests at Charles Farruggia’s St. Joseph’s Day event in San Francisco sample treats including homemade fish balls as part of a meatless meal that serves about 50 guests.

Below, Italian pastries are pictured at the Farruggia feast day celebration. A speciality is zeppole, a fried treat that is rarely available except on St. Joseph’s Day.

St. Joseph is honored with feast days throughout the liturgical year. This feast encourages us to look at Joseph’s role as husband and head of the Holy Family. Most of what we know about the life of St. Joseph comes to us from Scripture and legends that have sprung up regarding his life. Though Joseph is only mentioned by two of the evangelists, he is paid the compliment of being a “just” man.

This is a way of saying that Joseph was such a good and holy man that he shares in God’s own holiness.

– Catholic News Agency

MARY’S IRISH BATTER SODA BREAD

GREEN SHAMROCK SUGAR COOKIES

ZEPPOLE OR ITALIAN DONUTS

Ingredients: 3 cups unbleached flour or Better 1 teaspoon allspice for Bread flour ½ teaspoon ground cloves 2/3 cup brown sugar ½ teaspoon nutmeg 1½ teaspoons baking soda (Bob’s 2 eggs Red Mill aluminum-free baking soda 1¾ cups buttermilk works best) 1 pound yellow raisins

Ingredients: 1 cup butter (soft) 1½ teaspoons baking powder 1 cup sugar Green food coloring (optional, and as 1 egg dark as you prefer) 1 teaspoon of vanilla 3 cups flour Pinch of salt (1/2 teaspoon or so)

Ingredients: At least 2 quarts vegetable oil for frying 2 eggs beaten 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 cup ricotta cheese 2 teaspoons baking powder ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract 1 pinch salt ½ cup confectioners’ sugar for dusting 1½ teaspoons white sugar

Preheat oven to 350 F. Cream butter, sugar, vanilla, egg. In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients, sift together and then add to butter mixture, beat.

Form the dough into two balls and refrigerate for about an hour. Roll out with rolling pin, cut with shamrock cookie cutter, decorate with colored sugars.

Bake for about 10 minutes or until bottom of cookies are lightly brown.

Cool on flat surface.

Makes 3 dozen cookies.

(Recipe courtesy Jan Schachern of the Archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal)

Using a deep fryer, heat oil to 375 F. In a medium saucepan, combine the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.

Stir in the eggs, ricotta cheese and vanilla. Mix gently over low heat until combined. Batter will be sticky!

Drop by tablespoons into the hot oil a few at a time (don’t crowd). Zeppole will turn over by themselves. Fry until golden brown, about 3 or 4 minutes.

Drain on a paper sack or paper towel.

Dust donuts in a bag with the brown sugar as they are too hot to handle directly from the oil. They must be dusted with the sugar while warm. For a change, toss the warm zeppole with cinnamon sugar.

(Recipe courtesy Gail Tesi, Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish)

Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease and flour a 10-inch iron skillet.

In a large bowl, mix all dry ingredients. In a separate bowl, beat eggs and mix well with buttermilk. Add buttermilk/egg mixture to dry ingredients and mix well. Add raisins. Turn batter into prepared skillet.

Bake in 350 F. oven for 55 minutes.Test with a cake tester in the center of the loaf to see that it is perfectly dry before removing from oven.

Makes 1 loaf.

(Recipe courtesy Mary Peterson) Anne-Marie Burns-Martin’s Irish soda bread

(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Theodora Fitzgibbon, although the books are now out of print. The cookbooks, “A Taste of Ireland,” “Traditional Irish Food,” and others can be found used on the internet or in secondhand bookshops, she said. “My own copies are ancient, stained, and held together with cello tape,” Neff said.

On Taraval Street and 32nd Avenue in San Francisco, St. Gabriel parishioner Anne-Marie Burns-Martin runs The Copper Kettle and offers Irish food every day, including Irish soda bread.

Not far down the street from her, longtime St. Cecilia parishioner Mary Peterson is famous for her Irish batter soda bread, a slightly easier, wetter version of soda bread that is poured into a pan instead of rolled and pummeled on a breadboard.

“Thousands of Catholics have tried this bread!” says Peterson’s daughter Frances. “Sometimes people hear my mom is making her bread for a Legion of Mary function and people will show up and confess that it was the bread that brought them. So they love the bread, but learn the faith.”

Mary Peterson says don’t be daunted if you haven’t made this treat before. “If you can make pancakes, you can make Irish bread,” Peterson said.

Not everyone is a baker, and for those who aren’t there are quite a few options. However, Jane Nelson of St. Paul Parish says, “I vote for John Campbell’s Irish Bakery” on Geary Boulevard between 20th and 21st avenues. “Yummy scones and bread and more.”rest

(PHOTO COURTESY CHARLES FARRUGGIA)

It is one of life’s little ironies that the feast days of St. Joseph and St. Patrick almost always fall within Lent, but that doesn’t slow down celebrations honoring the beloved saints here in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

St. Patrick’s Day falls on March 17, closely followed by the solemnity of St. Joseph’s feast on March 19.

St. Patrick is co-patron of the Archdiocese of San Francisco with St. Francis of Assisi. St. Joseph is the patron saint of all parishes and fathers, and in Italy St. Joseph’s Day is also celebrated as Father’s Day, said Laura Bertone, interim director of the archdiocesan office of worship. St. Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland.

St. Joseph’s Day sfinge, a type of cream puff or donut also known as zeppole, is specially baked in honor of the foster father of Jesus. Several local bakeries take orders in advance, including Victoria Bakery in North Beach and Dianda’s Italian American Pastries in San Mateo and San Francisco.

But the treats can be homemade as well.

Immaculate Heart of Mary’s Gail Tesi recalls whipping up zeppole as a child in the kitchen with her mother. ”I can remember my mom making these and always receiving a burn from the ‘popping’ hot oil! As a child I would love to

shake these donuts in a paper bag with lots of sugar,” Tesi.

Sts. Peter and Paul Parish hosted the St. Joseph Day Table with a tradional fish dinner March 14.

In North Beach, Charles Farruggia continues a St. Joseph’s Day family tradition begun by his grandmother Rosa Machi who arrived from Sicily sometime before 1906. A home Mass, a St. Joseph’s altar and the feast are all to honor St. Joseph for the family overcoming poverty, he said. Farruggia cooks for two days with buddy Frank Alioto while his wife Stephanie prepares the St. Joseph altar. The meatless meal includes “fish balls to die for” and zeppole from Original U.S. Restaurant as well as a special loaf of bread baked by Boudin Bakery to resemble a face of St. Joseph, Farruggia said.

For St. Patrick’s Day, there is the parade down Market Street on March 17 as well as numerous dinners at parish halls and gyms. But, a caution for those hoping to be as Irish as the Irish – Irishwoman Kelly Neff says corned beef and cabbage is strictly an American invention. “Irish people do not eat corned beef – it is completely unknown there and is an American dish,” says Neff, whose sister and brother-in-law own a cafe in Dublin. Neff, a parishioner of Church of the Good Shepherd in Pacifica, says the best source for Irish lamb stew recipe and Irish soda bread are recipes in the cookbooks of Irish cookbook author

(PHOTO COURTESY CHARLES FARRUGGIA)

By Valerie Schmalz

NANA ROSA TARANTINO MACHI’S EGGPLANT Ingredients: 1 quart tomato sauce and 1 cup water 1 bunch fresh basil, chopped 2 eggplants 6 tablespoons olive oil 2 cups Parmesan cheese 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 cups canola oil for saute Black pepper to taste ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes First, make the sauce. In a 3-quart saucepan, heat 6 tablespoons of olive oil. Saute all minced garlic; do not brown. Add 1 quart of tomato sauce and a cup of water. Add black pepper and ¼ teaspoon of red pepper flakes. Simmer for ½ hour then add 1/2 of the chopped basil, stir and set aside. Peel eggplant skin or leave on (optional). Slice egg plant ¼ inch thick lengthwise. Using a frying pan, saute eggplant in plenty of canola oil until golden brown on both sides. Place browned eggplant on a flat platter covered with paper towel to absorb oil. In a casserole dish, put a ladleful of sauce, then add a layer of eggplant, add sauce, Parmesan cheese and fresh basil. Repeat until the casserole dish is filled. Place casserole dish in refrigerator for about 6 hours, remove and serve. Goes great with any type of pasta. Pasta can be served hot or cold.

(Recipe courtesy Nana Machi’s grandson Charles Farruggia)

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Church must better explain teaching on sexuality, pope tells US bishops VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Permissive attitudes toward sex, cohabitation before marriage and acceptance of same-sex marriage can damage individuals and are harmful for society, Pope Benedict XVI told a group of U.S. bishops at the Vatican.

“It is in fact increasingly evident that a weakened appreciation of the indissolubility of the marriage covenant, and the widespread rejection of a responsible, mature sexual ethic grounded in the practice of chastity, have led to grave societal problems bearing an immense human and economic cost,” the pope said March 9.

Meeting the bishops of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, who were making their “ad limina” visits to report on the status of their dioceses, the pope said ignorance of or challenges to church teaching on marriage and sexuality were part of the “intellectual and ethical challenges” to evangelization in the United States today.

The pope did not focus on current tensions between the U.S. bishops and the Obama administration, particularly over health care coverage of contraception and other practices that violate church teaching.

But at the beginning of his speech, Pope Benedict reiterated his concern about “threats to freedom of conscience, religion and worship which need to be addressed urgently so that all men and women of faith, and the institutions they inspire, can act in accordance with their deepest moral convictions.”

Concentrating his remarks on the need to promote and explain church teaching on sexuality, the pope said the church’s key concern is “the good of children, who have a fundamental right to grow up with a healthy understanding of sexuality and its proper place in human relationships.”

Acknowledging the clerical sexual abuse scandal, the pope said, “It is my hope that the church in the United States, however chastened by the events of the past decade, will persevere in its historic mission of educating the young and thus contribute to the consolidation of that sound family life, which is the

(CNS PHOTO/L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO)

By Cindy Wooden

Pope Benedict XVI poses for a photo March 8 with bishops from Minnesota during a meeting on their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican.

surest guarantee of intergenerational solidarity and the health of society as a whole.”

The moral virtues espoused in the church’s teaching on sexuality are “the key to human fulfillment,” he said, because they promote sexuality as “a source of genuine freedom, happiness and the fulfillment of our fundamental and innate human vocation to love.”

“The richness of this vision is more sound and appealing than the permissive ideologies exalted in some quarters,” which are “powerful and destructive,” he said.

One of the first steps, he said, must be to help Catholics “recover an appreciation of the virtue of chastity,” which forms the human heart to love in the most authentic way.

Pope Benedict told the bishops he was aware of “the powerful political and cultural currents seeking to alter the legal definition of marriage” so that it would include samesex couples.

“The church’s conscientious effort to resist this pressure calls for a reasoned defense of marriage as a natural institution,” which is “rooted in the complementarity of the sexes and oriented to procreation,” he said.

“Sexual differences cannot be dismissed as irrelevant to the definition of marriage,” the pope said.

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Remember Divine Mercy Sunday I expected to see some mention in today’s archdiocesan newspaper about Divine Mercy Sunday. Jesus Christ himself designated the Sunday after Easter as Divine Mercy Sunday. “On that day, a person that has gone to confession and receives holy Communion, shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment.” These are words spoken to St. Faustina. This is an opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start anew. What a deal. I am surprised that this is not mentioned each Sunday prior to Easter and the Sunday after. Think about it.

Joseph Thelen South San Francisco

Don’t call it ‘St. Patty’s Day’ On Page 21 of the March 9 edition of Catholic San Francisco there were notices about three events to celebrate St. Patrick’s

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Day. The notices were headed “St. Patty’s Day.” What is with this “St. Patty’s Day”? I never heard a genuine Irishman referring to this feast as “St. Patty’s Day”!

Tadgh O’Cinneide Menlo Park Editor’s note: In a follow-up conversation the writer said he could abide “St. Paddy’s Day.”

Our debt to the courageous I read with great satisfaction the article “Nation honors naval hero ignored because of race” in the Feb. 3 edition of Catholic San Francisco. I am very proud of Chief Petty Officer Carl Clark’s service on board the USS Aaron Ward, and I am truly grateful that he has finally received the long overdue recognition of his exceptional bravery on the night of May 3, 1945.

This story brought up memories for me. My father, a naval officer, knew Lt. Commander Arnold Lott. Commander Lott served in the 1920s on the first U.S. Navy ship named Aaron Ward, and in the early 1960s he wrote a book titled “Brave Ship, Brave Men” about that fateful battle in which Chief Petty Officer Clark distinguished himself. For years, I treasured an autographed copy of this gripping book, a tale of undaunted courage.

I thank God for the faithful service and courage of men like Chief Petty Officer Clark.

Defending traditional marriage is not simply a matter of church teaching, he said; it is a matter of “justice, since it entails safeguarding the good of the entire human community and the rights of parents and children alike.”

Pope Benedict praised the U.S. bishops’ 2009 letter, “Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan,” and he asked them to continue reviewing and strengthening both religious education materials and marriage preparation programs.

In conversations with the bishops during the “ad limina” visits, he said, some of the bishops have expressed concern about how difficult it is to communicate the church’s teaching effectively and some have told the pope there are decreasing numbers of young people in their dioceses asking to be married in the church.

“We cannot overlook the serious pastoral problem presented by the widespread practice of cohabitation, often by couples who seem unaware that it is gravely sinful, not to mention damaging to the stability of society,” Pope Benedict said.

The pope said that in responding to situations in which many engaged couples already are living together, there must be “clear pastoral and liturgical norms for the worthy

celebration of matrimony which embody an unambiguous witness to the objective demands of Christian morality, while showing sensitivity and concern for young couples.”

Pope Benedict did not suggest specific norms or provide guidance on how insistent priests should be that cohabitating couples live separately before a church wedding.

The church itself “must acknowledge deficiencies in the catechesis of recent decades, which failed at times to communicate the rich heritage of Catholic teaching on marriage as a natural institution elevated

by Christ to the dignity of a sacrament, the vocation of Christian spouses in society and in the church, and the practice of marital chastity,” he said.

Archbishop John C. Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis, speaking on behalf of the bishops, thanked Pope Benedict for announcing a special Year of Faith, which will begin in October.

“There is a profound crisis of faith affecting large numbers of people in today’s society,” the archbishop said. “Secular values have taken hold in many minds and hearts, causing a rejection of the very notion that true human happiness is found in conforming our lives to the will of God.”

Men such as he have protected us and our freedom; they are all deserving of our utmost respect and gratitude. As God promises, the selfless acts of such men will be revealed, sooner or later (1 Corinthians 3:12-14, 1 Corinthians 4:5). And always, God knows of their courage and selfless love, and he will reward them richly.

May God bless Chief Petty Officer Clark and all our heroes.

Myles Kelley Pacifica

This has given me a great deal to think about this Lent.

Bob Nelson Daly City

Remember Boston Harbor, 1773 Archbishop Niederauer (“Contraceptive mandate diminishes liberty,” March 2) finds a lesson from the Boston Tea Party to guide Catholics today in confronting the oppression of the Obama administration in requiring Catholic institutions to act contrary to the faith. The Sons of Liberty were militant and determined patriots who dumped the tea into Boston Harbor in 1773 as a prelude to a revolution in which patriots were willing to die in order to win liberty. What should we do if the government does not back down?

Edmond Francis McGill Larkspur

Thought-provoking comment for Lent

Citizenship and the mandate To be clear: The mandate of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is not that employees of Roman Catholic universities and other institutions give up their religious freedom and use contraceptives; rather HHS is requiring that, as part of their nondiscriminatory health plan, these institutions provide to employees the private and personal option of contraception.

That is, the religious freedom that the hierarchy judge to be diminished (“Contraceptive mandate diminishes liberty,” Archbishop’s Journal, March 2) is their own.

In addition, the hierarchy would not be paying for this option of a person exercising their religious freedom to use or to not use contraception, and the employee requesting contraception could obtain it from another source (as they could obtain, for example, HIVcontrolling drugs or a heart transplant from another source, if they could afford it). So for what religious freedom is the hierarchy arguing? Surely not immunity from any involvement in what they consider a moral evil.

Bishops are citizens. Being a citizen in a democratic society inevitably includes participation in what a particular person might judge conscientiously to be evil. Bishops bless and pray with those going off to war. Bishops share the body and blood of Christ with judges who sentence people to be executed for capital crimes. Bishops counsel those seeking to end a marriage by divorce. Perhaps even a few in the LETTERS, page 17

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Thank you for publishing Jesuit Father William Byron’s wonderful meditation (March 9) on the importance of magnanimity and generosity in the spiritual journey. I could not help but notice that it was sandwiched between an article by George Weigel on the “Tragedy of liberal Catholicism,” in which he repeatedly calls liberal Catholics “of the diaspora” – a not-so-subtle kind of excommunication – and a letter to the editor titled “Serving humble pie to ‘social justice types.’”

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By Father Thomas Ryan, CSP My engagements during the past month afforded opportunities to speak with students at universities in Ohio, Tennessee and Minnesota. “The millennial generation” they’re called, born between 1982 and 2002, the majority of them in their late teens and twenties now.

On my return home, in leading a discussion in a parish on one of the presentations, “The Mystery of God,” in Robert Barron’s “Catholicism” series, I was struck by the fact that there was no one under 55 in the room.

Soon after, the Washington Theological Union sponsored a symposium titled “Attending to the Spiritual Landscape of the Millennial Generation.” Presenters were Franciscan Father Daniel Horan, a millennial and author of “Dating God,” and Patience Robbins, who has served as a spiritual director for the past 25 years with the Shalem Institute.

Statistics indicate that there is a significant increase in the number of young adults who are interested in religious practice. Often their putting off of commitments such as marriage or having children is ascribed to delayed maturity or to irresponsibility.

But, according to Horan, there are other factors involved, economic and career-related, such as employment opportunities or the requirement of travel in a job.

This also explains, he said, why they don’t settle into other commitments. “They oftentimes lack roots or stability, are always on the run – and not necessarily by choice.”

When it comes to engaging in faith practices, they’re expressing their interest in different ways than the traditional ones of Sunday mass, Benediction, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and the rosary. Recent surveys show that while twothirds of them acknowledge the importance of these practices, only 18 percent are coming to church to participate in them.

What does draw them are service-oriented immersion programs like Peace Corps or Americorps or spring break trips to places where they’ll do something like help to build

homes or assist in cleaning up an area after a natural disaster.

Praxis is first for them.

There is also a curiosity about practices in other religions, like Zen meditation or Muslim fasting or Hindu chanting. While many are interested in the traditional forms of spiritual practice in Christianity, it’s necessary to think outside the box in relating to millennials, said Horan. “They are interested in questions of deeper meaning, but the ways they express their faith are going to be very different. You’ll have to meet them where they are.”

Spiritual director Patience Robbins expanded on that theme. “Millennials want genuine, authentic mentors and spiritual guides. Meet and accept them where they’re at, and they’ll come back. Be open and flexible around forms of prayer and names for God. Let it emerge rather than imposing a topdown traditional model of practices.”

Robbins said the three themes she emphasizes in spiritual direction with millennials are: One, you are beloved of God. Two, cultivate listening for God in your life. Why am I here?

What’s my role? Three is generosity. Be open; let the divine love flow through you to others.

“Such an approach is countercultural,” she said, “in the face of the current cultural emphases on ‘more’ and ‘faster’ because neither favors being grounded in the ‘now.’ What am I rushing for? There’s nowhere to go and nothing to ‘get’ – it’s here! And the next question becomes: If you’ve already got this deep connection with God, how do you want to cultivate it?”

Her words reminded me of something I saw happen in our family after my father died and my mother lived alone.

One of her granddaughters, a nurse working in another state, liked to come and spend days at a time with her. She joined her for her meditation at the beginning of the day, and then accompanied her to daily Mass, and prayed the rosary with her at the end of the day.

And along the way I became aware that this granddaughter had begun going regularly to Mass at her local parish. Her grandmother was her mentor. She accepted her granddaughter where she was, but continued to live her own faith with integ-

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Spirituality and the ‘millennials’

At the end of the closing World Youth Day Mass in Madrid last Aug. 21, a Brazilian pilgrim cheers as Pope Benedict XVI announces that the next World Youth Day will be held in Rio de Janeiro in 2013.

rity and conviction, to carry it in living form and to manifest its fruits. Her peace and serenity made of her life a living word.

Her granddaughter saw it and, over time, reached out for it.

There is instruction and encouragement in that for us all.

Paulist Father Thomas Ryan lives in Washington, D.C., and has written several books on spirituality. www.tomryancsp.org

The Human Side

Roots of peace: Humor and education Without a doubt, one of today’s most battered virtues is tolerance.

Religious groups often are intolerant of one another.

Members of Congress frequently demonstrate they can’t stand each other. Countries we shed blood to protect want no part of us. Bigotry abounds when discussion arises about immigrant families being allowed into the United States.

The air we breathe is not only ecologically polluted, but it is also filled with toxic inhuman fumes of intolerance, narrow-mindedness, racism and prejudice.

Tolerance means to bear, to put up with one another, to allow and to permit. It is a prized virtue, the basis for peace and unity we desire for our country, our families and businesses.

Helen Keller, an American author and the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, once said, “The highest result of education is tolerance.”

I’m not talking about school. Earning an “A” in school does not make a person educated. We are educated when we view an issue from many sides, when we are open-minded, docile and admit we don’t know everything.

We are educated when we have cultivated introspection, when we don’t jump to conclusions and we admit mistakes.

Author W. Somerset Maugham points to another aspect of tolerance: “You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”

Expanding on this idea, the renowned theologian Father Romano Guardini tells us: “One other thing is required by kindness, something of which we rarely speak – a sense of humor. It helps us to endure things more easily.

“Indeed we could hardly get along without it. The person who sees man only seriously, only morally or pedagogically, cannot endure him for any great length of time. We must have an eye for the oddity of existence.”

He goes on to add: “Everything human has something comic about it. The more pompously a man acts, the greater is the comic element. A sense of humor means that we take man seriously and strive to help him, but suddenly see how odd he is, and laugh, even though it be only inwardly. A friendly laugh at the oddity of all human affairs – this is humor. It helps us to be kind, for after a good laugh it is easier to be serious.”

To this we can add: It also makes us tolerant.

Most of the intolerance we are experiencing can be traced to a lack of education and a loss of a sense of humor.

These two ingredients are imperative for purifying the present toxic atmosphere of intolerance that exists and to generate the unity and peace needed to restore our mental health.

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The mandate and contraception

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Re CSF March 9 front page article on Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan (“Laity urged to bring faith-based convictions to public square”).

If Cardinal Dolan succeeds in matching U.S. health insurance policy to current church theology he will surely raise his “papabile” status. Overall that is a good thing because he would be forward looking, in contrast to the present church regime. Hence, why not support his efforts?

Looking at the underlying issue itself, one could reach a different conclusion. From the gradual but mounting change of attitude of Catholic theologians and also the presumed pastoral advice at the parish level, it is predictable that the church will eventually change policy on contraception. So why not do it now? The pastoral level may be presumed from the fact that close to 90 percent of the Catholic population, the same as the overall U.S. population, does use contraceptives, after careful deliberation and evaluation of conscience.

Given the opportunity, perhaps Cardinal Dolan and other U.S. bishops would support an early change in church policy. But that will not happen in the present church regime.

That causes bishops to react strongly by raising a political cry of religious freedom. Because I am not well versed in the law, I do not understand how an institution has religiousfreedom concerns if the individuals belonging to that institution are able to continue to practice their religion freely.

That is a subtle issue that the courts may have to decide.

In my opinion Catholic voters would do well to support Cardinal Dolan in his encounter with the Obama administra-

tion because U.S. and church politics intertwine to benefit Catholics if he wins.

Alex M. Saunders, M.D. San Carlos

By Father Eugene Hemrick

secrecy of the confessional advise a penitent to use contraception for a time in order to avoid the greater evil of a pregnancy that could destroy a marriage for financial or health reasons.

Bishops do not argue that these ministries and their participation in what they may consider an evil diminishes their religious freedom. They may well argue that the good that they are trying to foster outweighs their participation in the evil. In doing so, they would be recalling the complexities of the universal reality of “cooperating with evil,” which they studied at length in their seminary moral theology courses.

Archbishop Niederauer is accurate in noting that, just as the Boston Tea Party was not about tea, so, too, the bishops’ protest is not about contraception. It also, however, is not only about religious freedom. Rather it is about religious freedom within a society in which Roman Catholicism no longer is dominant. From at least the 1930s, the hierarchy’s position on moral issues was in fact the position of most of U.S. immigrant (primarily Roman Catholic) society. In the 2010s, however, it is not, as survey after survey reveals. The hierarchy is functioning increasingly as the minority opinion. It exerts what influence it has in the context of a more diverse, educated (largely by religious orders) and even antagonistic society. The hierarchy must, of course, work to reduce its participation in situations that it considers morally evil, but it cannot eliminate it and remain a vital part of that society.

The revised HHS rule offers them just that opportunity.

Michael C. Busk San Francisco

Father Eugene Hemrick’s column is carried by Catholic News Service.

Two sides to church-state line The bishops’ saying something doesn’t make it so.

Churches and religious institutions are exempt from the mandate to provide full access to health care for women.

Churches have their complete freedom of religion, as outlined in the Constitution. Unfortunately the U.S. bishops ignore the fact that along with a guarantee of freedom of religion is an all important and equally emphasized “freedom from establishment of any religion.”

Religious freedom is not under attack. It makes a convenient talking point, but it’s not the truth. The law, a clarification of laws already on the books in over 26 states, does nothing to deny anyone’s religious freedoms. No one is forcing the church or any places of worship to violate their moral teachings. The bishops are overreaching, now advocating protection for all who have any moral claim against any such services.

The United States is not a theocracy but a democracy based on many contrasting rights and freedoms. I suggest the bishops, according to Christ’s own words, “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” and unto God what is God’s.” In this country, all are guaranteed their freedom of religion and protection from establishment of, and endorsement of, any one religion.

Peter Mandell San Francisco

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A READING FROM THE SECOND BOOK OF CHRONICLES 2 CHR 36:14-16, 19-23 In those days, all the princes of Judah, the priests, and the people added infidelity to infidelity, practicing all the abominations of the nations and polluting the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. Early and often did the Lord, the God of their fathers, send his messengers to them, for he had compassion on his people and his dwelling place. But they mocked the messengers of God, despised his warnings, and scoffed at his prophets, until the anger of the Lord against his people was so inflamed that there was no remedy. Their enemies burnt the house of God, tore down the walls of Jerusalem, set all its palaces afire, and destroyed all its precious objects. Those who escaped the sword were carried captive to Babylon, where they became servants of the king of the Chaldeans and his sons until the kingdom of the Persians came to power. All this was to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah: “Until the land has retrieved its lost sabbaths, during all the time it lies waste it shall have rest while seventy years are fulfilled.” In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord inspired King Cyrus of Persia to issue this proclamation throughout his kingdom, both by word of mouth and in writing: “Thus says Cyrus, king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord, the God of heaven, has given to me, and he has also charged me to build About 20 years ago, I went to see a movie called “Sophie’s Choice,” which tells the story of a woman named Sophie who has survived the Nazi concentration camps of World War II. When we meet her, sadness and despair are overwhelming her life. Flashbacks tell the story of her time in the camps, and we finally discover an awful secret that Sophie is keeping, one that has become too much for her to bear.

Upon arriving at the camp, Sophie and her two children find themselves at a processing station. New arrivals are sent in two directions – either to the camps to live, or to the gas chambers to die. Sophie’s children are pushed toward death. She begs for their lives. A sadistic guard gives her a choice: She can save one of the children. For one to live, she must select the one that will die. Sophie chooses, and begins her descent into madness.

As a parent, I can see how horrifying “Sophie’s Choice” must have been. Without question, all of us would do anything to protect our children. Without question, all of us would choose to save our children and go in their place.

The love that parents have for their children is a love so great it cannot be overstated.

In this week’s Gospel, we hear Jesus tell us that God so loved the world, he gave his

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Fourth Sunday of Lent 2 Chronicles 36:14-16, 19-23; Psalm 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6; Ephesians 2:4-10; John 3:14-21 him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Whoever, therefore, among you belongs to any part of his people, let him go up, and may his God be with him!”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 137:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6.

Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

By the streams of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.

On the aspens of that land we hung up our harps.

Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

For there our captors asked of us the lyrics of our songs, And our despoilers urged us to be joyous: “Sing for us the songs of Zion!”

Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

How could we sing a song of the Lord in a foreign land?

If I forget you, Jerusalem, may my right hand be forgotten!

Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

May my tongue cleave to my palate if I remember you not, If I place not Jerusalem ahead of my joy.

Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you!

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS EPH 2:4-10 Brothers and sisters: God, who is rich in mercy, because of the great love he had for us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, brought us to life with Christ -by grace you have been saved-, raised us up with him, and seated us with him in the heavens

Scripture reflection DEACON MICHAEL MURPHY

‘Sophie’s Choice’ and Easter only son so that everyone who believes in him might not die but have eternal life. There’s so much to what Jesus is saying – that God loves us, that he promises us eternal life. Yet if we listen closely, we hear how great that love of God truly is. He loves us so much that he chose to give us his only son. I cannot think of any other way that could so clearly demonstrate how great, how infinite God’s love for us truly is. The choice that drove Sophie mad, God also

made because he so loves the world. Because he so loves all of us.

God gave us his only son that we might learn how to be truly human, so that we can find happiness in becoming the people that we’ve been created to be. God gave us his only son that we might have light and hope, so that we will not be overwhelmed by the darkness and confusion that can overtake our world. God gave us his only son that we might know that this world is not the

in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so no one may boast. For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works that God has prepared in advance, that we should live in them.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 3:14-21 Jesus said to Nicodemus: “Just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.”

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the verdict, that the light came into the world, but people preferred darkness to light, because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come toward the light, so that his works might not be exposed. But whoever lives the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be clearly seen as done in God. end; that we all share together in the amazing promise of eternal life, that ultimately we never lose each other. But mostly, God gave us his son so that we might finally begin to understand how incredible his love for all of us actually is.

During this Fourth Sunday of Lent, we have the opportunity to acknowledge the immensity of the choice that God has made. Having done so, we have no alternative but to respond. Such incredible love must be reciprocated. Knowing what God has given us, what can we possibly give in return? The answer is simple, but pales in comparison to God’s gift of his son. We must give God our entire selves.

There was no happy conclusion to “Sophie’s Choice.” Her terrible pain ended in tragedy. Yet our story ends differently, because we know that the joy of Easter awaits us. God’s sacrifice, as great as it was, had meaning, had purpose, and has made all the difference in our lives. As we remember God’s choice, we rejoice, knowing that he so loved the world, that he gave us his only son.

Mike Murphy is a permanent deacon serving at St. Charles Parish, San Carlos. He teaches religion at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton.

Question Corner

The church and indulgences Question: I enjoy your simple explanations to questions you are asked. My question is this: What happened to gaining indulgences?

Years ago, we were encouraged to say certain prayers or to perform certain acts to help ourselves or the souls in purgatory so that after death we or they could be excused from some of the punishment due for our sins and be able to enter heaven more quickly.

Since I don’t have any children who will request Masses for me after I die, I’d like to “earn some credits” now.

I don’t hear much about indulgences anymore. Does the church still believe in them?

Answer: The doctrine on indulgences has been part of the church’s teaching for at least the past 1,000 years.

The current Code of Canon Law devotes six separate canons to the topic, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church speaks of indulgences in nine different paragraphs.

But the topic seemed to have faded from prominence until it was revived by Pope John Paul II in the year 2000, as part of the celebration of the church’s third millennium, and again

by Pope Benedict XVI to mark the year of St. Paul in 2009.

The rationale behind indulgences is that the church, as part of its authority from Jesus to “bind and loose,” is empowered to use the merits gained by the sacrifice of Christ and the good works of holy men and women – and then to apply those merits to reduce the time of purification necessary for some

people before they enter heaven (Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1478).

The description of an indulgence in your question is an accurate one. It involves “the remission before God of temporal punishment for sins whose guilt has already been forgiven,” and “the faithful can gain partial or plenary indulgences for themselves or apply them to the dead” (Canon Nos. 992, 994).

According to the church’s Enchiridion (manual) of Indulgences, a partial indulgence can be gained by such acts as: raising the mind in prayer and invoking the help of God; offering one’s time or resources to help a person in need; sacrificing something pleasurable as a penance; or giving open witness to one’s faith in front of others.

A plenary indulgence (the remission of all temporal punishment) is granted for such specific acts as: Reading or listening to the Scriptures, or adoring Jesus present in the Eucharist – either of these for at least half an hour; making the Stations of the Cross; or reciting the rosary in a church or in a family or community setting.

An indulgence can be gained only by those who are in the state of grace, and a plenary indulgence also requires receiving holy Communion, making a sacramental confession and praying for the pope’s intentions, as well as forsaking any attachment to sin.

Indulgences have had a checkered history in the church.

The abuse of indulgences (granted for such things as contrib-

uting to building projects) led Martin Luther in 1517 to denounce the “selling” of indulgences, thus igniting the Protestant Reformation.

Misunderstandings continued as time went on. Many were puzzled Father when an indulgence of Kenneth Doyle 300 days was attached to a certain prayer. They wondered what the remission of 300 days in purgatory could possibly mean in an eternity where time itself means nothing.

In fact, what it meant was that saying that particular prayer had merit equivalent to what a sinner in the early church gained from doing penance for 300 days.

This lack of clarity led Pope Paul VI in 1967 to modify the rules for indulgences and redefine partial indulgences so that now there is no designation of days or years.

Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News Service. Send questions to Father Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.

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GOD’S WORD

The interfaith “Verbum Domini” exhibit of rare biblical texts and artifacts at the Vatican showcases 150 items from the third century B.C. to the 17th century.

Above, a Torah begun in 13th-century Spain, and Torahs burned during the Holocaust and by communists are seen Feb. 29.

Vatican exhibit shows Bible’s evolution, beauty, perseverance

By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Desecration, censorship, the ravages of time and even nesting mice have been unable to destroy the word of God, handed down for millennia by people of faith.

The endurance of sacred Scripture is the centerpiece of a new interfaith exhibit called Verbum Domini, which brings to the Vatican rare biblical texts and artifacts spanning a period from the third century B.C. to the 17th century.

“We seek to tell the amazing story of the preservation and translation of the most loved, most debated and the best-selling book every year and of all time,” said Steve Green, an entrepreneur and the primary benefactor of The Green Collection, a private collection of more than 40,000 biblical antiquities.

Plans are under way to set up a permanent museum for a portion of the collection, ideally in Washington, D.C., he said.

He said the exhibition at the Vatican was inspired by “Verbum Domini” (“The Word of the Lord”) – Pope Benedict XVI’s reflection on the 2008 Synod of Bishops on the Bible.

The show, which brings together about 100 items from The Green Collection and 50 items from other collections, opened to the public March 1 and will run until April 15 in the Vatican’s Braccio di Carlo Magno – a hall next to St. Peter’s Basilica.

The rare biblical texts from Jewish, Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant traditions have been hand-picked to reflect the interconfessional heritage and cooperation behind efforts to preserve and pass on God’s word.

The Bible’s endurance, however, has at times come at great cost.

“It’s a remarkable part of the story (in terms of) both the sacrifice of human investment whether through time and labor or even the cost of life, as well as how the book itself has survived,” said Scott Carroll, a manuscripts scholar, director of The Green Collection and curator of the Verbum Domini exhibit.

Carroll said papyrus fragments of some of the earliest known texts of the Gospel from the second and third centuries A.D. have been found at digs at an ancient garbage dump in Oxyrhynchus, Egypt.

Even more surprising has been the discovery of early Old Testament Greek texts inside Egyptian funerary masks, he said. Layers of

A 1611 first edition of the King James Bible

An Egyptian funerary mask, first century B.C. Such masks contain ancient Scripture fragments.

papyri and plaster had been used to make the papier-mache-like painted masks.

The most precious find, according to Carroll, is the Codex Climaci Rescriptus – one of the earliest, near-complete Bibles in the world.

On display is one of codex’s manuscripts, which was recycled six times between the fourth and ninth centuries by scribes who wrote a new codex over text from the preceding centuries.

What has excited scholars most, Carroll said, is that The Green Collection, together with

Oxford University, has devised a way to read and study the original Palestinian Aramaic – the dialect of Jesus – under the successive layers of Greek and Syriac lettering.

“It’s the earliest example of scripture in Jesus’ dialect,” Carroll said.

The Bible has had not only the forces of time and nature to contend with, but also human error and ferocity, he said.

One exhibition shows a Torah whose singed edges speak of its escape from the pyres of Spanish Inquisitors; others show how Nazis desecrated sacred texts by cutting them up and turning them into shoe liners, a soldier’s satchel and table coverings.

Ironically, “their ill-intentions actually had worked to preserve the book,” Carroll said.

Even the church itself had spurred a collection and preservation frenzy, he said, when in medieval times it banned the publication and spread of an English translation of the Latin Bible; censored works often become black market best-sellers.

But as the translation of sacred Scripture into the vernacular became more widely accepted and standardized, the Bible was crucial to the spread of literacy and learning throughout the world, as people sought to deepen their faith.

One illustration of this can be seen in a

13th-century Gospel book – one of the earliestsurviving Ethiopian manuscripts, whose lower page margins were gnawed through by mice.

It had been commissioned by a woman for her daughter, Carroll said, and reflects the extent of female literacy and the importance that families placed on reading Scripture.

The common thread running through the eight-gallery exhibit is how Jews, Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants found ways to cooperate and collaborate in the preservation, translation and dissemination of Scripture.

“I think the untold story in how we got the Bible is the interfaith connection,” Carroll said.

People often think sacred texts are used more often as a weapon to hurt or divide, he said.

However, as experts study the different communities’ texts and artifacts, “you’ll see that Jews, Orthodox, Catholics and Protestants really work together and benefit from each others’ devotion to the same book,” he said.

Jesuit Father Stephen Pisano, dean of the Pontifical Biblical Institute’s biblical faculty, said the ways in which a text is interpreted can be divisive “because when you interpret, you give a particular meaning to something and that meaning may not be necessarily shared by everyone.”

However, the different faith communities do have common ground in the biblical text, he said, and an exhibit like Verbum Domini is a reminder of that joint heritage.

The Feb. 29 inauguration was attended by Vatican officials, representatives of Rome’s Jewish and Orthodox communities, and numerous members of the Green family, who are evangelical Christians.

Lamar Vest, president of the American Bible Society, said the exhibit doesn’t just celebrate history, “we are also making history by making a statement to the world that those of us who do follow Christ are brought together by a single holy Scripture.”

The exhibit “is not just a celebration of the past, it’s a living book” that speaks to every generation and culture, he said.

So many men and women risked so much and worked so hard to faithfully pass on God’s word throughout history and around the world, he said.

He said, “Now it’s our responsibility to put (Scripture) into practice in our own lives” and communicate the Bible’s message in new ways.

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Spirituality for Life

Sublimation and the sublime Celebration is a paradoxical thing, created by a dynamic One of its strengths was its lived belief that feasting depends interplay between anticipation and fulfillment, the ordinary upon prior fasting and that the sublime demands a prior and the special, work and play. Life and love must be cel- sublimation. I have clear memories of the Lenten seasons ebrated within a certain fast and feast rhythm. Seasons of play of my childhood. How strict that season was then! Fast and most profitably follow seasons of work. Seasons of consum- renunciation: no weddings, no dances, few parties, few drinks, mation are heightened by seasons of longing. And seasons of desserts only on Sundays, and generally less of everything that intimacy grow out of seasons of solitude. Presence depends constitutes specialness and celebration. Churches were draped upon absence, intimacy upon solitude, play upon work. Even in purple. The colors were dark and the mood was penitenGod rested only after working for six days! tial, but the feast that followed, Easter, was We struggle with this today. Many of indeed special! our feasts fall flat because there hasn’t been a Perhaps this is mostly nostalgia speakMany of our previous fast. In times past, there was genering; after all, I was young then, naive and ally a long fast leading up to a feast and then deprived, and able to meet Easter and other feasts fall flat a joyous celebration followed. Today, we’ve celebrations with a hungrier spirit. That may reversed that: There is a long celebration be, but the specialness that surrounded feasts because there leading up to the feast and a fast afterward. has died for another reason – namely, we The season of Advent, for example, in do not anticipate them properly anymore. hasn’t been a effect kicks off the Christmas celebration.

We short-circuit fasting and the prerequisite The parties start, the decorations go up, longing. Simply put, how can Christmas previous fast. the Christmas music begins to play. When be special when we arrive at Christmas Christmas finally arrives, we are already Day exhausted from weeks of Christmas satiated with the delights of the season. By parties? How can Easter be special when Christmas Day, we’re ready to go back to ordinary life. The we’ve treated Lent just like any other season? How, indeed, Christmas season used to last until February. Now, realisti- can anything be sublime when we have lost our capacity for cally, it’s over on December 25. sublimation?

That hasn’t always been the case. Traditionally the Today the absence of genuine specialness and enjoybuildup was toward the feast, and celebration came afterward. ment within our lives is due in a large part to the breakdown Today the feast is first and the fast comes after. We are poorer of this rhythm. In a word, Christmas is no longer special for that. Without a previous fast there isn’t much sublimity because we’ve celebrated it during Advent. Weddings are no in the feast. longer special because we’ve already slept with the bride.

We mix the anticipation with the celebration itself And experiences of all kinds are often flat and unable to because we find it hard to live in tension without moving excite us because we had them prematurely. Premature expetoward resolving it. Longing and fasting are not our strong rience is bad simply because it is premature. To celebrate points, nor is feasting. Because we can’t build properly toward Christmas during Advent, to celebrate Easter without first a feast, we can’t celebrate it properly either. fasting, to short-circuit longing in any area, is, like sleepI am old enough to have known another time. Like our ing with the bride before the wedding, a fault in chastity. own, that time too had its faults, but it also had some strengths. All premature experience has the effect of draining us of

the great enthusiasm and great expectations that can only be built up through sublimation, tension, and painful waiting.

It’s Lent. If we use this season to fast, to intensify longing, to raise our psychic temperatures, Father Ron and to learn what kinds Rolheiser of gestation can develop within the crucible of chastity, then the feast that follows will have a chance of being sublime.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

Evangelization and confession VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Confession can help Catholics build lives filled with hope and holiness, which are needed for effective evangelization, Pope Benedict XVI said.

“New evangelization, therefore, also starts from the confessional,” he told those attending a course March 9 sponsored by the Apostolic Penitentiary. New evangelization “draws its life blood from the holiness of the children of the church, from the daily journey of personal and communal conversion to adhere ever more deeply to Christ,” he said.

The true conversion of a person’s heart that has opened itself to God’s transformative power of renewal “is the driving force of every reform and it translates into a true evangelizing force,” the pope said.

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“Damn Yankees” is on two high-school stages this spring. St. Ignatius actors pictured here are Keyera Milliner as Lola, Kieran Firlit-Ring as Joe Hardy, David Campos as Mr. Applegate. Tri-School actors are Notre Dame Belmont’s Veronica Goetz as Lola, Serra’s Joey Ruggiero as Mr. Applegate, Serra ‘s Nick Newman as Joe Hardy, and Mercy Burlingame’s Amanda Odaz as Meg Boyd.

By Valerie Schmalz This spring, take a walk “Into the Woods” with Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory or grab your suitcase and tap dance along with Archbishop Riordan High School’s “Anything Goes.”

And, just in time for baseball season, St. Ignatius College Preparatory and Tri-School Productions are separately performing “Damn Yankees.” This spring, most of the Catholic high schools are staging classic musicals featuring classic composers and writers. As Riordan drama director Valerie O’Riordan says, “Let us tap dance our way into your hearts with de’lovely music of Cole Porter.”

“Damn Yankees,” the George Abbott musical about a Washington Senators fan who makes a pact with the devil to help his team win the league pennant, is surefire entertainment for fans of both Broadway musicals and baseball. Tri-School’s production is in March, and is staged by Junipero Serra, Notre Dame Belmont, and Mercy Burlingame, while St. Ignatius’ show is in April and May. Convent of the Sacred Heart and Stuart Hall High School present Leonard Bernstein’s music in “On the Town,” about three sailors who fall in love during a 24-hour shore leave during World War II. “Hairspray” will be making another Bay Area comeback with Mercy San Francisco’s production this year, based on the film written and directed by John Waters.

The musical recounts a true story dating from Waters’ teen years in Baltimore during the early 1960s, where a local TV station sponsored a teen dance on weekday afternoons.

“While ‘Hairspray’ lampoons the outrageous hair styles and dance moves of the early ‘60s, it also takes a serious look at the effects of prejudice,” the school notes.

SHCP’s production is full of “cockeyed characters” in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “fractured fairy tale,” says drama director Francine Torres-Kelly, including “an ambivalent Cinderella,” a bloodthirsty Little Red Riding Hood, a Prince Charming with a roving eye and a witch who raps.

While San Domenico School’s “The Drowsy Chaperone,” debuted in 2006 on Broadway, it is a homage to earlier times, with The New York Times describing it as “revved-up spoof of a 1920s song-and-dance frolic, as imagined by an obsessive 21st-century show queen.”

In the only non-musical offering of the spring lineup among Catholic high schools, Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton presents “The White Rose.” The play written by Lillian Groag tells the story of college students in Munich, Germany, in 1943 who were captured and executed for advocating the overthrow of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

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“Anything Goes” is at Archbishop Riordan High School. Foreground, Logan Carter, Devin Ampola and Alex Ruiz. Background, Miguel Guerrero, Dean Ricasa, Joseph Sanchez and Matthew Dusanic.

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Springtime brings singing and dancing to Catholic high school stages

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory’s Tyler Mahoney plays the wolf to Ciara Kyne’s Red in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s fractured fairy tale “Into the Woods.”

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“Anything Goes” Archbishop Riordan High School, Lindland Theatre, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco; March 23, 24, 30, 31, 8 p.m.; April 1, 2 p.m.; $5 student/senior, $8 adult; (415) 587-5866, voriordan@riordanhs.org, www.riordanhs.org

“Into the Woods” Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Sister Caroline Collins DC Theater, 1100 Ellis St., San Francisco; March 16, 17, 23, 24, 7:30 p.m., March 24, 2 p.m.; $7 student/ senior, $12 adult; shcp.edu

“Damn Yankees” St. Ignatius College Preparatory, Bannan Theatre, 2001 37th Ave., San Francisco; April 24, 25, 27, 28, May 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 p.m.; tickets $11 students/$16 adults purchased online at siprep.org

“On the Town” Convent of the Sacred Heart/Stuart Hall High School, SYUFY Theater, 2222 Broadway, San Francisco; March 15-16, 7 p.m., March 17, 2 p.m.

“Damn Yankees” Tri School Productions (Mercy Burlingame, Notre Dame Belmont, Junipero Serra), Gellert Auditorium, Serra High School, 451 W. 20th Ave., San Mateo ; March 23, 24, 30, 31, 7:30 p.m., March 25, 2 p.m.; $13 student/senior; $18 adult; (650) 345-8207, ext. 560, www.trischoolproductions.com

“The Drowsy Chaperone” San Domenico School, 1500 Butterfield Road, San Anselmo; March 15-17, 7:30 p.m.; $7 student/senior, $15 adult; sandomenico.org

“Hairspray” Mercy San Francisco, 3250 19th Ave.; April 21, 28, 7:30

“The White Rose” Sacred Heart Preparatory, Campbell Center, 150 Valparaiso Ave., Atherton; March 15-17, 7:30 p.m.; $5 student/ senior; $10 adult; jloschmann@shschools.org

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Dennis leaves Maryknoll after 22 years, maintains commitment to justice

By Dennis Sadowski WASHINGTON (CNS) – Reading the documents coming out of the Second Vatican Council convinced Marie Dennis that there was no better calling than to seek justice for the world’s most impoverished and marginalized people.

For more than 40 years, Dennis, a Pittsburgh native, has devoted her life to connecting people’s faith with the justice envisioned in Scripture and portrayed in those documents.

A physicist by training, Dennis spent more than 22 of those years with the Maryknoll Society, which re-established a Marie Dennis public policy office in Washington in 1989.

The office in 1997 became the Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns with Dennis as its director.

Dennis, the mother of six, left Maryknoll in January to devote more time and energy to Pax Christi International, which she serves as co-president with Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg, South Africa. In addition, she serves on the board of JustFaith Ministries in Louisville, Ky. She also was one of the founders in 1986 of the Assisi Community in Washington’s Petworth neighborhood, where a group of people inspired by their Catholic faith to work for social change decided to establish a common residence and share lives of prayer and support for each other.

Question: What drew you to Maryknoll?

Answer: I was doing similar work at the ecumenical Center

for New Creation in northern Virginia. It focused on reaching middle-class people of faith to engage them in conversations about social justice and peace. I was one of the founders and had been there for 10 years. But it was a struggling, small nonprofit. I was a single mom and I needed to find a more stable place. I was looking when Maryknoll came back to Washington. I was very lucky.

Question: What did you do at the center?

Answer: The center didn’t have a high profile, but we were doing interesting work at a time when there was growing interest in justice and peace in this country and in the Catholic Church.

Although it was an ecumenical center, probably the most visible thing we did was the Peace Ribbon. It wasn’t our idea, but we put on the event in 1985 in Washington. It stretched 26 miles from the Pentagon around the Mall and back. It made us realize what wonderful networks we had in the peace community and in religious circles.

Question: What convinced you to begin this work?

Answer: One impetus was the Second Vatican Council and the documents that followed. Then there was a period of time when, between the Vietnam War, the United Farm Workers and so on, the issues of social justice were becoming more evident.

The Richmond diocese (under Bishop Walter F. Sullivan, now retired) asked if we would host a workshop on social justice.

Bishop Sullivan was open to engaging laypeople in the work of the church, especially in the marketplace. So we began – this was at St.

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It became evident that lifestyle questions did matter. We were asking, “What is the vocation for a white middle-class Catholic Christian in a world where countries were struggling for a decent quality of life?�

Question: What do you take away from Maryknoll?

Answer: Clearly, relationships. One of the gifts with Maryknoll and with Pax Christi is being able to visit the world and, almost always, the margins of the world. I think we have faithfully tried to create spaces at decision-making tables for those partners from the margins to have their voices heard.

Question: What would you say to others working for justice?

Answer: There are two things I think about. One is that there is looking and then there is seeing. Some of my favorite passages in Scripture are about the blind being given sight because in our society we have created a plethora of ways to avoid seeing even when we’re looking at the world. There is a challenge of helping to create the possibility that we will really see what’s going on in the world.

The other is that the debate is so false. It’s so vicious. It’s so self-indulgent and self-serving. We seem to have no commitment to truth. We seem to think disinformation is perfectly acceptable.

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By Father Ghislain Cheret Bazikila In January, I assisted at an all-women’s retreat for deaf and hearing impaired in American Sign Language at Mother of Christ Catholic Church in Miami.

On each of the retreat’s three days, the participants wore a color of special meaning: On Friday, Jan, 20, they wore pink T-shirts in part to honor former participants in the church’s retreat who have died in recent years. On the next day they wore blue T-shirts, which suggested where they were spiritually before coming to the retreat and where they are presently – on that day – seeking the grace of God. On the third and final retreat day the women wore white T-shirts to represent our true life in God, the spiritual beauty we have in God and the glory of the resurrection that Christ won for all of us and which Mary, the Mother of Christ, has fully blessed in her maternal heart for us.

During the retreat days, all the women were encouraged to share, talk, listen, support and accept each other, manifest a genuine interest in the stories and experiences and to encourage a transformative new life in each other.

Everyone came to build up the retreat because this is the best way to become a good retreatant. Women’s retreats are based on and focused on real connectedness, relationships, situations, feelings and desires.

I offered an opening prayer each morning, blessed meals with prayer and offered evening prayer each night to close the day’s activities. I also made a presentation on knowing God through the sacraments and the sacramental life – especially

reconciliation and marriage – and gave pastoral counseling and spiritual direction to the women. Each woman comes with a unique story she reveals privately to the intimate new group of friends. So, I realized that I should first become a retreat friend before they open themselves to me.

When I was asked about what I do, I talked about my school ministry at Mercy High School in San Francisco. I told them that the students are very excited by books in the school library, and in a Sunday homily I repeated that and explained that God has given us a homework assignment – and that is “life.�

I said the Gospel means library, and that Jesus told us to believe in the Gospel. I said I hoped that the participants will be as excited as the Mercy girls are, and this refreshed their hearts, minds and smiles.

Women came to the retreat not because they were weak, lacking for something within their spiritual lives, but because they wanted to awaken their relationships with God and with one another.

Retreat activities are mostly a kind of dialogue. Listening attentively to what is being said, respecting the person and the situation is demanded, receiving the experience and responding with trust in the situation can really change life and the person.

This meant that experience changes and brings a new kind of relationship with God, church and neighbors.

A women’s retreat can be seen as a community of experiences, situations and hopes. They bring the interior experiences to the exterior ones. Interested in this special ministry, I would like to encourage many deaf women to discover and come to appreciate a retreat.

The writer is in residence at St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired San Francisco.

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Book tells of brave students, trailblazing priest in turbulent times “FRATERNITY” by Diane Brady. Random House (New York, 2012). 228 pp., $25.

Reviewed by Regina Lordan (CNS) In 1968, 20 young black men were recruited to attend the very white and oftentimes hostile College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. Many of the young men graduated to became successful men in their communities, among them Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, author Edward Jones, Wall Street CEO Stanley Grayson and trial lawyer Theodore Wells.

In her debut book, “Fraternity,” Bloomberg Businessweek writer Diane Brady describes in great detail the struggles and successes of these young men who survived collegiate life in part because of their persistent and trailblazing advocate, Jesuit Father John Brooks. In “Fraternity,” Brady not only has provided an account of a tumultuous time in American history, she has written an enjoyable story about brave young men who inspired permanent reform on their campus and in the nation.

Coming of age in 1968, the year of the Tet offensive and the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the first recruits were student leaders and athletes from mostly black communities in the eastern United States.

Anything but enthused about attending a preppy school with bitter cold New England winters, the men were intrigued with offers of academic rigor, opportunity and scholarship money from a convincing and determined Father Brooks. And, seeing no better offer from other universities, the men obliged.

When they arrived, they were greeted with loneliness, jeers, isolation and challenging coursework. But they also found com-

passion and an open ear from Father Brooks, as well as a sympathetic college president, who worked on the behalf of these men to make the campus more welcoming and flexible to their needs.

Inspired by the civil rights movement and just plain sick of the status quo, the students created the first Black Student Union.

Seeking more comfort in their own skin, the men fought for and were granted a corridor for black students. They also demanded and received better access to a social life appealing to black students. These mature young men were the first of many black recruits who would follow in their footprints and further change the culture on the campus.

Brady tells an interesting story about the young adulthood and past of Thomas and the others. But more importantly, her book is sure to spur discussion and reflection about civil rights, affirmative action, reverse segregation and the pragmatic role of Catholic social justice teaching.

Lordan is former assistant international editor of Catholic News Service.

History of NY Catholic orphanages also tells moving personal story “RAISED IN THE CHURCH: GROWING UP IN NEW YORK CITY’S CATHOLIC ORPHANAGES” by Edward Rohs and Judith Estrine. Fordham University Press (New York, 2012). 228 pp., $22.95.

Reviewed by David Gibson (CNS) “I remember being lonely, but I was never alone,” writes Edward Rohs in “Raised in the Church,” his moving, true story of growing up from the age of 6 months until he was 19 in the Catholic orphanage system of Brooklyn, N.Y. Rohs’ mother and her boyfriend brought him to the Mercy Sisters’ Angel Guardian Home in Brooklyn in 1946. At that time, immediately after World War II, orphanages experienced a “huge influx of infant baby boomers and young children.”

Some of these were the children of war widows “who could not support their family.” Some, like Rohs, were “babies born to unmarried women.”

Rohs eventually learned that his mother “was a poor young woman of German descent who worked in a factory in Brooklyn.” She “was poorly educated and possessed few skills.”

He notes, too, that unwed mothers in that era frequently “were shunned by their families.” Some brought their child to an orphanage in order to “marry without the shame and responsibility that came with being an unwed mother,” he explains.

The author’s mother and father eventually married, but never agreed to take him back. For some reason his parents also never signed papers allowing him to be considered for adoption.

Angel Guardian Home was the first of the five institutions in which Rohs lived. Because “the Catholic orphanage system in the 1950s and 1960s separated children by age and by gender,” Rohs remained in each institution only until he “aged out” and was sent to the next one.

Frequently today, news reports tell about the past abuse of children in church schools and homes in various countries.

Against that background, I suspect many readers will feel refreshed at hearing much that Rohs tells of his relationships

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with the sisters and religious brothers who raised him.

He felt “homesick” at age 11 when he moved to St. John’s Home for Boys, run by the Marianist Brothers. For the first time he found himself in a place with “no sisters.”

Before long, however, one of the Marianists was added to Rohs’ “list of men I wanted to be like when I grew up.”

Mercy Sister Johanna McLaughlin was one of the strong women in Rohs’ early childhood. Much later, she served as a unique information source when, as an adult, he sought to understand the circumstances surrounding his entrance into the orphanage system.

Some readers will draw inspiration from Sister Johanna’s sister, a laywoman named Katherine McCarthy. She first became a caring presence in Rohs’ life when he was 4.

“Aunt Katherine” provided a long-lasting, hospitable connection to the world beyond the institutions Rohs inhabited. He came to welcome her gift of treating him as someone “special.”

The author does, however, tell about two unwelcome incidents involving a religious brother who visited the orphanage briefly and attempted to abuse him sexually while he was asleep in bed. Thinking he would not be believed, Rohs did not report this at the time. Many years later he revealed to the brothers at the home what happened.

Another disturbing account involves the “out-of-bounds” behavior of an innocent-looking layman the nuns hired, but who instilled considerable fear in the young Rohs. Describing the man

as “a sadist,” Rohs says he was “cruel and mean” when alone with the boys as a group.

“No child should grow up in an institution,” Rohs concludes.

Despite its limitations, though, he insists not all was bad about the orphanage system.

“Raised in the Church” is the story of Brooklyn’s postwar Catholic orphanage system. The book reminds us that every generation is challenged to find ways to take care of children whose parents cannot do so.

Of course, times have changed. Rohs points out that by 1982, the “answer” to how “parentless, abandoned or abused kids” would be raised had shifted “from institutionalization to foster care.” Various social services aimed at keeping struggling families together also now help to answer this important question about children.

But much more than a history of orphanages, “Raised in the Church” is Rohs’ own story. It is an autobiographical account of growing up in genuinely out-of-the-ordinary circumstances.

Happily, it appears that Rohs’ heightened social conscience took form in these very circumstances. Not surprisingly, after living so long with so many boys of various races and ethnicities, and witnessing the issues in their lives firsthand, he went on to spend much of his adult life working with youths.

Yet, for an amazingly long time Rohs did not tell others about his orphanage past. He considered it “a shameful secret.”

Then one evening, during an awards dinner where he was honored, Rohs experienced “an epiphany” and revealed his story. “It was time to acknowledge that even though I had been raised in an institution, this experience no longer defined me,” he states. “It was time to share my story because, finally, there was no shame.”

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By Jim Graves The Archdiocese of San Francisco is known for its many beautiful and historic churches. Beginning with the establishment of Mission Dolores in 1776, Catholics of the region have built many magnificent houses of worship in which to practice their faith.

The following are profiles of five archdiocesan churches worth visiting, just a few of many which could have been selected, which can give readers a greater appreciation of the richness of the 236-year Catholic tradition in the Bay Area.

National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco; (415) 986-4557; www.shrinesf.org Hours: The main church is open daily 10 a.m.-5 p.m. La Porziuncola Nuova, a replica of the church St. Francis built 800 years ago, is open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. It contains a rock that tradition says St. Francis handled himself. Mass is celebrated there on special occasions: Attend on August 2 and you are eligible to receive an indulgence, under the usual conditions. The gift shop is open TuesdaySunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Rector: Father Gregory Coiro, OFM Cap. Parking: The shrine has no parking lot.

Look for free street parking, or there are parking garages nearby that charge $3 an hour.

The shrine is located in North Beach, not far from Fisherman’s Wharf. Sts. Peter and Paul Church is two blocks away. The church began as St. Francis Parish in 1849, the year before California became a state and San Francisco

With gas prices nearing $5, nearby getaways may be the perfect thing for a spring or summer weekend. These 5 historic churches in the Archdiocese of San Francisco have much to offer travelers interested in beautiful architecture and regional church history.

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was incorporated as a city. The church was first a small wooden shack, and was then replaced by an adobe structure. Bishop of Monterey Joseph Alemany used the church as his cathedral for three years and held California’s first ordination to the priesthood there. The current church building, a Norman Gothic church, was completed in 1860. The church survived the 1906 earthquake but was severely damaged in the subsequent fires. A new church was rebuilt within the original church walls; it was rededicated in 1919. It was scheduled for closure 20 years ago, but the archdiocese opted instead to make it a shrine. Hence, it is no longer a regular parish church. Highlights include stained glass windows, colorful murals and beautiful statues.

It is also home to relics of St. Francis, St. Clare of Assisi and St. Anthony of Padua. It welcomes pilgrims and visitors for prayer and meditation.

It is a California historic landmark, and was named a shrine in 1999. There are indulgences associated with visiting the shrine; see the website for information.

Church of the Nativity 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park; (650) 323-7914; www.nativitymenlo.org Pastor: Msgr. Steven Otellini Nativity is a pretty, historic little church built in the New England style. It began as a mission church in 1872, and became a parish in 1877.

The initial church was enlarged and modified and officially dedicated in 1888. Other elements were added through the years, including an impressive rose stained glass window in 1900.

Fortunately, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake did little damage to the church (while wrecking

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the rectory). The church is built in the cruciform style and made of redwood painted white. Its many impressive features include beautiful stained glass windows and hand-carved side altars; it is surrounded by attractive landscaping, including palm and oak trees. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

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Holy Rosary Chapel One St. Vincent Drive, San Rafael; (415) 507-2000 Mass times: 9:30 a.m. (English), 12:15 a.m.

(Latin Tridentine, extraordinary form) Confessions: Sundays, 11:30 a.m.-noon Priests: No priests on site; visiting priests celebrate the Masses.

Holy Rosary is on the grounds of St. Vincent’s School for Boys, which was founded by the Sisters of Charity in 1855. St. Vincent’s was a home for orphaned, neglected and abused boys, and operated under the auspices of Bishop Alemany. The chapel was one of a group of Renaissance-style buildings built in the 1920s by the director of St. Vincent’s, Father Francis McElroy. Today, St. Vincent’s is part of Catholic Charities CYO, and serves at-risk boys. The chapel – or church, because it is the size of a regular parish church – is beautiful inside and out. Special elements include 15 magnificent stained-glass windows which feature Bible stories that appeal to youth (remember, it was built in the days when St. Vincent’s was an orphanage). The chapel is modeled after a Tuscany seminary, and has an Italian feel. Take a walk on the beautiful grounds afterward. They are green and lush, with horses (and occasionally cows) in pastures. Visit the old orphanage buildings, built in the 1920s, and see the courtyards and ball fields. In decades past, the priests and nuns of St. Vincent’s set many orphaned boys on the path to become virtuous, productive citizens.

St. Dominic Church 2390 Bush St., San Francisco; (415) 567-7824; www.stdominics.org

Pastor: Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto Parking: Ample parking, park in the church lot or on the street.

St. Dominic is among San Francisco’s most beautiful churches. The Dominican friars first came to San Francisco in 1850; the first St. Dominic’s church was built in 1873. A larger church was built in the 1880s, but collapsed in the 1906 earthquake. The current church on that site was completed in 1928. Nine flying buttresses were added in the 1990s to make the church seismically stable. It is an impressive Gothic-style church, including a carved marble altar from Italy, carved oak side altars, shrines and confessionals, many impressive statues, paintings and stained glass windows. Call the parish about taking a docent tour. It also houses the Shrine of St. Jude. The square block compound is the property of the Dominican Friars.

St. Patrick Church 756 Mission St., San Francisco; (415) 421-3730, www.stpatricksf.org Pastor: Father Ed Dura Parking: Park in the nearby parking structure; on the weekends you can receive a church validation and it is inexpensive. No church parking lot and limited street parking.

A historic landmark surrounded by museums, a park and hotels, St. Patrick is located downtown off Market Street. The parish was established in 1851 to serve Irish immigrants who came to California hoping to strike it rich in the gold fields. The church at the current site was built from 1870-72 and rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire. It is built in the Gothic style, and inside features the Irish national colors, green, white and gold, which appear in the marble work. It has beautiful stained glass windows, with each of the patron saints of the 32 counties of Ireland showcased on Tiffany-style stained panels. There is a gift shop on the west side of the church that sells religious items.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 17 ST. PATTY’S DAY: St. Patrick’s Day Mass with San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice as principal celebrant at St. Patrick Church, 756 Mission St., San Francisco at 9 a.m. St. Patrick’s Day Parade is at 11:30 a.m. Irish Festival at Civic Center begins at 11 a.m. Visit www.uissf.org.

ST. PATTY’S DAY: Corned beef and cabbage dinner sponsored by Knights of Columbus at Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay. No-host cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25/$12 children under 12. Call Bob at (650) 464-0164 or email knightscouncil7534@yahoo.com.

ST. PATTY’S DAY: St. Patrick’s Day Family Festival at St. Dominic Church from 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m. in the church parking lot, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, San Francisco. Enjoy games and prizes, Irish dancing, goodies for sale. Admission is free. If it rains, we’ll be in the school basement. Tickets are available for St. Patrick’s Day Family Feast, from 4-5:30 p.m. $15 adults/$7 children 12 and under. Contact Michael at dre@stdominics.org.

SUNDAY, MARCH 18 PRIEST REMEMBERED: A memorial Mass for late Father Peter Sammon will be celebrated at 5:30 p.m. at St. Teresa Church, 1490 19th St. at Connecticut, San Francisco. Father Sammon, who died in 2002, was pastor of St. Teresa for 32 years. Call Debra Ballinger Bernstein at (415) 561-2300, ext. 31.

MONDAY, MARCH 19 GOOD HEALTH: St Mary’s Diabetes Health Fair, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Heart attacks and strokes are preventable with a managed diabetes plan. Free blood glucose testing; foot screenings by a podiatrist; tips on daily diabetes care. St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., hospital cafeteria, Level B. Call (415) 750-5513.

TUESDAY, MARCH 20

MUSIC AND PRAYER: The Vallombrosa Choir sings at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, at 2 p.m. Bring along nonperishable food item for the poor. Free will collection benefits nearby St. Anthony de Padua Dining Room.

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PASTA: Spaghetti and meatballs at Immaculate Conception Church, 3255 Folsom St., just up the hill from Cesar Chavez. Delicious noon meal is served family style. Tickets are $8 per person with beverages available for purchase.

NEW ROOF FUNDRAISER: St. Peter Church, Pacifica’s Raise a New Roof Dinner at Luigi’s Italian Restaurant. Dinner is $50 per person and starts at 6 p.m. Contact Vivian Queirolo at vn_queirolo@yahoo. com or call (650) 359-6313 for reservations.

LEARN MORE: Did you know that students who attend Catholic elementary schools go on to attend the city’s top high schools? Are you interested in finding out about what a Catholic education could do for your child? Come and meet representatives from San Francisco Catholic schools. Learn about the application process, tuition assistance and more at the Catholic Middle School Fair, 4:30-7 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Visit www.sfdcs.org/dcs/mythbusting or www.sfdcs.org/dcs/.

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 THEATER: Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, across from Washington Square Park in North Beach, hosts the Salesian High School Mystery Players at 8 p.m. They portray a meditation leading up to the death of Jesus on the cross with no speaking parts using special lighting, inspirational music and narration. Attendance is free but donations welcome.

Visit www.mysteryplay.org or contact Janet Ross at (415) 955-3263.

BISHOP REMEMBERED: Memorial Mass for the Servant of God, Bishop Alvaro del Portillo. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert McElroy will celebrate the Mass for the first successor of St. Josemaria Escriva, founder of Opus Dei at 10 a.m. at St Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Ave. off El Camino Real, San Mateo. The cause of canonization of Don Alvaro, as he was familiarly known, was opened in 2004, and many people have received favors through his intercession. He visited San Francisco in 1988, as part of a pastoral visit to the United States.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 28 SISTERS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: Mass of Thanksgiving marking 80th anniversary of the Good Shepherd Sisters’ work in the Bay Area. Mass is at 10:30 a.m. at St. Elizabeth Church, Wayland and Somerset streets, San Francisco, followed by a reception in St. Elizabeth Church Hall. For more information, email Sister Barbara at b.beasley@ earthlink.net.

REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy, class of 1972 in San Francisco. Contact Michele Clark at (916) 607-5691or mclark2514@comcast. net.

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CANTONESE SPEAKERS: “Catholic Marriage – Biblical, Historical and Moral Perspectives,” in Cantonese, at St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center from 2-5 p.m. Jesuit Father Lucas Chan, visiting professor at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley facilitates the session. Event is sponsored by the Chinese Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. For more information, call Sister Maria Hsu at (415) 614-5574.

RELIGIOUS LIFE TODAY AND TOMORROW: “Sharing the New Wine: Vowed Religious in a Postmodern Age,” a day of communal reflection and dialogue on the present reality and future of religious life, at Santa Clara University, Locatelli Hall, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, 8:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.

Visit www.sharingthenewwine.blogspot.com and www.scu.edu/jst/religiouslife. Day is sponsored by California Province of the Society of Jesus, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Verbum Dei Missionary Fraternity, and others.

FRIDAY, APRIL 13 SEW: St. Vincent de Paul Society-San Francisco’s Seventh Discarded to Divine with unique fashions and home décor from recycled clothes, benefitting homelessness and domestic violence programs.

Complimentary public preview 6-8 p.m., de Young Museum. Visit www.discardedtodivine.org/.

THURSDAY, APRIL 19 VATICAN II: Father David Pettingill speaks April 19, 26, May 3, 10 at St. Emydius Church, 286 Ashton Ave. off Ocean, San Francisco. Father Dave’s topic is Vatican II 50 years later. Father Dave is a former seminary professor and pastor and a nationally known authority on the church council of the 1960s.

Talks are from 7-8:30 p.m. Donation of $20 requested for entire series. Call (415) 587-7066.

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RELIGIOUS LIFE: Single women, ages 23-45, are invited by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur to a “Discernment Retreat on Religious Life” March 30, 31 and April 1 at Notre Dame House of Prayer in Carmel. Enjoy time by the ocean for prayerful reflection, understanding God’s call, relaxation and interaction with other interested women. Contact Notre Dame Sister Jacinta Martinez at (650) 722-1040.

BRIDGE PLAYERS: Queen of Hearts tourney at St. Charles Parish hall, 880 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos, with check-in at 9:30 a.m. and games at 10 a.m. Entry fee for the six-round contest is $50 per person. Lunch included in fee. Register for the event by April 17 with Lynda at (650) 592-7714.

Proceeds benefit St. Francis Center in Redwood City.

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SATURDAY, MARCH 31 AUCTION: St. Philip School Spring Auction 2012, 5:30 p.m.-midnight at the Great Hall, San Francisco.

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Dance to the Martin Lacey Band. Tickets are $75 per person/$60 seniors. Mail check with contact

REUNION: Immaculate Conception Academy honors all graduates with special attention to classes of 1952, 1962, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007.

Event begins at 11 a.m. at Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco. Contact Patty Cavagnaro at pcavagnaro@icacademy.org.

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HIGH TEA: Time for Tea with St. Robert Parish, San Bruno, 1 p.m.-4 p.m. It is an afternoon of fun and friendship, a chance to visit with old friends and to meet new ones. Tickets are $23/adults/$11 children under 10. A special menu will be available for children. For tickets or more information, call (650) 589-2800 or email PPCC5@SaintRoberts.org.

WALK: San Francisco Interfaith Council’s Communities Responding to Overcome Poverty Walk around Lake Merced, 1:30 p.m. registration and 2 p.m. start time at parking circle at Sunset and Lake Merced Boulevard. Visit www.cropwalksf.org.

SUNDAY, MAY 6 CONCERT: St. Elizabeth Church, 459 Somerset St. at Wayland, San Francisco sponsors a concert celebrating 25th anniversary of the church’s Schoenstein Pipe Organ at 3 p.m. David Schofield will play. Choirs will sing including the parish choir and Light of God Fil-Am Choir. Admission is free.

Donations accepted. Reception follows. Free street and lot parking is available. Visit www.stelizabethsf. org or call Karen Haslag, music director at (707) 996-9113.

SATURDAY, MAY 12 REUNION: Mercy High School, San Francisco, class of ’67 at the school. Contact Stephanie Mischak Lyons at (415) 242-9818 or smlyons@ earthlink.net or on Facebook at Mercy SF ‘67.

SATURDAY, OCT. 6 REUNION: Marin Catholic High School, Class of ’62 at Jason’s Restaurant, Greenbrae. Visit www. marincatholic62.com or call Jeannie at (415) 4793838 or Mergie at (415) 453-7714.

SATURDAY, OCT. 20 REUNION: St. Paul High School class of 1972 at the Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco. Email sphs1972reunion@gmail.com by April 30 for catering head count. Include your contact information with your maiden name, so we can send you the details.

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Gala reception, live show, auctions from 6-10 p.m., San Francisco Design Center Galleria. Tickets are VIP $195 and general admission $95 ($75 if purchased by March 31). Visit www.discardedtodivine. org/.

MARCH 29, CHRISM MASS: The chrism Mass will be concelebrated by Archbishop George Niederauer, Auxiliary Bishops William J. Justice and Robert W. McElroy and all priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco at 5:30 p.m. in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. During the liturgy, the archbishop will bless the oil of the sick, oil of the catechumens and oil of chrism that will be used in every parish in the archdiocese between this Easter and next. Also at the Mass, priests renew their commitment to priestly service.

All faithful of the archdiocese are welcome.

LENTEN MISSION: If you’d like some inspiration during Lent, come to St. Robert Parish, 1380 Crystal Springs Road, San Bruno. John Angotti leads this parish mission March 20 and March 21. John has given retreats and concerts all over the world and participated in World Youth Day in Madrid. The mission theme is “Extraordinary Love.” Sessions Tuesday and Wednesday from 9:10 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 7 to 8:15 p.m. On Tuesday from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. and 3:30-4 p.m. Everyone is most welcome to attend any sessions that fit their schedule. Free will offerings gladly accepted. Call (650) 589-2800.

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Visit www.mercyhs.org.

VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE REMEMBERED: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice is principal celebrant of a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco, commemorating the lives of those lost to violence.

The day is the 32nd anniversary of the killing of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador. The bilingual liturgy begins at 9:30 a.m. Call Jaime Gonzalez at (415) 793-0048.

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Lenten Lectio Divina

Hosted by the Daughters of St Paul, this prayer experience using the Gospel reading of the Liturgy for the day and the ancient form of Lectio Divina, the “divine reading of Scripture”, will enhance your Lenten journey and bring you into contact with the Living Word of God. We will be using the book, Lenten Grace as our guide. Bring your own Bible. Obtain a copy of Lenten Grace at the Pauline Book center.

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Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

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THANK YOU Archdiocese of San Francisco for the Extraordinary mass in San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception Chapel at 3255 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94110

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Help Wanted Victim Assistance Coordinator Needed Archdiocese of San Francisco The Archdiocese is seeking a qualified candidate to work directly with the Archbishop, Auxiliary Bishops and the Office of Child and Youth Protection in the role of Victim Assistance Coordinator.

Responsibilities include: • On-going help for survivors • Process any new allegations • Communicate with the Independent Review Board • Assist with education programs to prevent child abuse This important position is an exempt position with excellent benefits.

Requirements: Position description available on our Web site at: www.sfarchdiocese.org • MFT or Psychology Degree and work experience • Practicing Catholic Please submit resume and cover letter to: Patrick Schmidt Associate Director of Office of Human Resources, Archdiocese of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109 Fax: (415) 614-5536 E-mail: schmidtp@sfarchdiocese.org

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of February HOLY CROSS COLMA Ethel Clorinda Silva (Sr. M. Carmel Silva, PBVM) Aileen Elizabeth Regan (Sr. Mary Fidelmia, PBVM) Stephen Ahlquist Marjorie Jean Alvarado Uchechi C. Amaechi Arleen Anderson Roger P. Artoux Marianne Auerbach Fulgencio R. Bautista-Soto Jean Baux Leonarda Birco Ricardo A. Blanco Agnes M. Boehle Angela Kim Borromeo Renee Boulay Robert K. Brink Madeline R. Briseno Frank Bueno Vilma Burgos Martha J. Byrne Veronica P. Byrnes Constancia Cabangis George Reynolds Caesar Muriel S. Calegari Ivanna A. Callo Lillian A. Canton Carolyn V. Carmon Marian C. Carrick Graciela E. Carrillo Espranza C. Castano Manuel Catania Frances M. Cheney Mary L. Colombo Otto Compagnin Victor S. Contreras Bela Csejtey, Jr. Zoltan Csukonyi Albert DeMello Frank P. DeSalvo Margaret Urmini Di Basilio Henriette J. Dominique Fely Dupin Angelina Marie DeLeon Duran Francisco Eacalante Joseph P. Enea Patricia J. Farina Raymond G. Fellman Baby Diego Rafael Flores Mary C. Frey

Matilde M. Galamay Glenn Gallaven Nellie Gardiner Joseph Ignacio Gerardo Yolanda Mary Ghilotti Tiffiny Ann Gillette Colleen Goetzelman Lawrence “The Goat” Gotelli Bijou Andrew Harrell Esther E. Hawkins Ida Laura Hickman George Hughes Brother John A. Hunt, S.M. Virginia Imsand Catrina Iniguez Patricia Ellen Jacobs James J. Jarocki Genevieve Louise Jelicich (Dean) Lillian F. Kearney Lena L. Keel Maureen “Mickey” Kelley Joseph T. Kennedy, Jr. Christine Ellen Kohman Jerrold G. Kollmann Ricardo Francisco Lopez Alfredo Madeira Francisca M. Maher Regina A. Malaspina Candida M. Malolot Dominic J. Mancuso Michael F. Mazely Albert J. McGoogan Sr. Feliciana Mercado George Parker Miller Bernadette Miller-Gallaven Bernice Moschini Victtorio Museo Reinaldo “Rin” Navarro Carolyn F. O’Malley B. George Ossy Consuelo Torio Palacio Ana Celina Parada-Moran Kristina A. Payne Alfredo Perli Cora Piombo Filbert F. Pombo Stanley Predomo Teresa Premenko Antonio E. Racelis, Jr. Carol B. Reidy Rodrigo M. Rilles James Morgan Roach Francisco Rojas Antonio J. Romo Antoinette M. Rosa

Roy Alvie Rosaia Gloria Rovegno Elvonia Rushing Jean Pierre Sabarots Eliza Marie Saddozai Arshaluis K. Sarapinyan Rafael Senteno Dolores H. Silacci Norman B. Siri George S. Smandra Fely P. Soriano Isabel J. Sosa Theodore Springer Virginia Stark Virginia Stary Sik Kun Sun Delia M Thylstrup Toy Woon Yee Tom Gail F. Trainor Stephen W. Trujillo Jane E. Tuck Venturada F. Tugade Jacqueline T. Turner Ana Maria Valencia Santos Valencia Olga S. Viti Maria Vogel Earlene May Walker Eleanor T. Wilson Ken Wong Rosemary D. Wong Alice Elizabeth Young Pai Hwang Yu Josephine Norma Zolezzi

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Howard M. Daschbach Terrence James Donohoe Paul Nick Lentos Miguel Madrigal Marta Christina Ortez Margaret R. Palomar Juana Vasquez

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR, HMB Donald Anthony Dutra Ana Reid

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA Annual Mass Honoring Father Peter Yorke Palm Sunday, April 1, 2012 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am • Bishop William Justice, Celebrant EASTER PRAYER SERVICE Holy Saturday, April 7, 2012 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am • Msgr. Harry Schlitt, Officiant When you visit the Cemetery during this Holy Season of Lent, please take the time to pray the Stations of the Cross.

There are beautiful Mosaics outside in Section G2 and L2, lovely refurbished Stations of All Saints Mausoleum and historical Belgium oil paintings of the Stations in Holy Cross Mausoleum.

“The Way of the Cross” prayer booklets are available in the office and All Saints Mausoleum.

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.