May 18, 2012

‘Rosary for the USA’: One Catholic’s idea to calm a divided nation

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By Joyce Coronel

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PHOENIX (CNS) – As Manny Yrique prayed before the Blessed Sacrament, his heart was burdened with concerns about the United States and the level of animosity in American discourse.

“I knelt down to pray and I was overwhelmed by the feeling that Our Lord wanted me to pray a rosary,” Yrique said. “I felt him telling me, ‘Take it to my mother.’”

He pulled out his rosary beads and as he began to pray, he was struck by the realization that each of the 50 Hail Mary prayers of the rosary could be offered for one of the 50 United States.

Yrique said he’s always had a strong devotion to Mary.

He remembers being 8 years old, kneeling with his 6-year-old sister to pray the rosary while their mother was undergoing surgery.

“We didn’t know if our mom was coming back home, so we took out our plastic rosaries, knelt down at the Virgin of Guadalupe statue that was over my mom’s bed and we prayed a rosary,” Yrique told The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Phoenix diocese. “It was like, ‘Nothing’s going to happen as long as Mary’s with you.’”

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The Ascension of the Lord

School kids hold food drive

The solemnity is observed Sunday, May 20. Readings, reflection on Page 16.

Students from Holy Angels School, Colma, and Daly City’s Our Lady of Mercy School and Our Lady of Perpetual Help School held a springtime food drive for North Peninsula Food Pantry.

Pictured April 27 are some of the young workers with the fruit of their labors.

Catholic leaders reject Obama’s declaration in support of same-sex marriage

By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – Catholic leaders rejected President Barack Obama’s May 9 declaration in a television interview that “personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married.”

“President Obama’s words today are not surprising since they follow upon various actions already taken by his administration that erode or ignore the unique meaning of marriage,” said Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. bishops, in a May 9 statement.

“We cannot be silent in the face of words or actions that would undermine the institution of marriage, the very cornerstone of our society,” Cardinal Dolan added. “The people of this country, especially our children, deserve better.”

In December 2010, Obama said his views on same-sex marriage were “evolving” and that he “struggles with this,” adding he would continue thinking about the issue. An Associated Press story May 10 quoted Obama as saying he wanted to announce his support for such unions “in my own way, on my own terms” but acknowledged earlier remarks

by Vice President Joe Biden prompted his announcement.

On May 6, Biden, a Catholic, said he was “absolutely comfortable” with same-sex couples marrying, adding they should get “the same exact rights” heterosexual married couples receive.

The Catholic Church upholds the sanctity of traditional marriage as being only between one man and one woman, and also teaches that any sexual activity outside of marriage is sinful.

“I pray for the president every day, and will continue to pray that he and his administration act justly to uphold and

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protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” Cardinal Dolan said. “May we all work to promote and protect marriage and by so doing serve the true good of all persons.”

In a May 9 statement, the Archdiocese of Washington said it “opposes the redefinition of marriage based on the clear understanding that the complementarity of man and woman is intrinsic to the meaning of marriage. The word ‘marriage’ describes the exclusive and lifelong union of one man and one woman open to generating and nurturing children. Other unions exist, but they are not marriage.”

In its statement, the archdiocese said it would “continue to strongly advocate for the federal government’s existing definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” adding it supports efforts undertaken by those who uphold the traditional meaning of marriage.”

One such effort is a petition drive in the state of

Maryland to overturn a law passed earlier this year to allow same-sex marriage in the state. The archdiocese covers five Maryland counties in addition to the District of Columbia.

The Maryland Marriage Alliance said May 2 that a petition to put the law to a vote had collected more than 30,000 voter signatures. Nearly 56,000 valid signatures are needed by June 30 to add the referendum to the November ballot, with half due May 31 to the Maryland State Board of Elections.

“For us in Maryland, the vote on marriage this November has nothing to do with politics,” said Mary Ellen Russell, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, in a May 9 statement. “It will be a vote on the issue of marriage itself.” She added, “The definition of marriage is not a matter of politics. It is a matter of values and the foundation of society and family.”

On May 8, North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman by a 3-to-2 margin.

Across the country the views of many Catholics, though, appear to be trending toward support of same-sex marriage.

A March poll conducted jointly by the Public Religion Research Institute and Religion News Service found overall Catholic support for same-sex marriage to be 59 percent, with 36 percent of Catholics opposed. Support by Americans overall is at 52 percent, with 44 percent opposed.

Among white Catholics, 57 percent support same-sex marriage and 37 percent oppose it.

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By Tom Burke A mortarboard salute to Anne Marie Barsi, who graduated summa cum laude from Notre Dame de Namur University May 5. Anne Marie with her husband, Dan and their children, Danielle and Dominic are parishioners of St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo and the kids are students at the parish school. Ann Marie’s mom, Anne Marie Barsi and Margaret Silva Margaret Silva, is most proud of her art history degreed daughter.

“Anne Manages her home, her husband’s business, volunteer teaches in an Art in Action program at St. Gregory School and all while attending college and achieving excellent grades,” Margaret said in a note to this column. “I never taught Anne the word no. She is very giving of her time and talent.”

• Catholic San Francisco has let me be the voice to lead an “all hats off” for Jane Sears, a parishioner of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame and buried from there May 2. Jane was a welcome contributor to Catholic San Francisco with columns about the church today especially its rites and traditions.

She zeroed in on her areas of concern and Jane Sears interest. Jane will be missed. Though I did not know her outside of her work here, Jane evidently came from a family of writers and like her mom penned a few romance novels through the years.

• All at HQ were happy to celebrate the 70th birthday of Auxiliary Bishop Bill Justice with a Mass and cake May 8. Archbishop George Niederauer was principal celebrant joined by Bishop Justice and Msgr. Jim Tarantino, moderator of the curia, as concelebrants. Deacon Rich Foley assisted. Laurie Miller, administrative assistant to Archbishop Niederauer and cantor at St. Paul Parish, San Francisco, led song. In opening remarks Archbishop Niederauer, soon to be 76, welcomed Bishop Justice to the “septuagenarian” ranks noting that he should “come right in, the water’s fine.”

• Remembered specially at the Mass by Bishop Justice was Msgr. Jim O’Malley, ordained in 1946, and now in the closing time of his life. Msgr. O’Malley, retired pastor of St. Kevin Parish, helped Bishop Justice see priesthood as a vocation,

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he said, as far back as his days as a student at St. Gregory School when Msgr. O’Malley was an associate pastor there.

• The junior class at Immaculate Conception Academy hosted a finale to a service project revealing information about underrepresented peoples. More than 150 guests attended the event. ICA’s Eileen O’Kane and Leticia Cottrell led the case studies. “We do this project for two

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reasons,” Leticia said. “We have a strong belief in interdisciplinary studies. The religion and history departments worked together on this. Secondly, the project helps bring Catholic principles to life.” Students worked in pairs and were assigned to gather two hours of interviews with a person on the “margins of our society,” the school said. Agreeing to interviews were victims of drug abuse, the poor, and parents of children with disabilities among others.

• Thanks to retired Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel F. Walsh for his thoughts on his recent ad limina visit of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to the Vatican. His updates were printed in the bulletin of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish where he now resides. Bishop Walsh is a native San Franciscan and was named an auxiliary bishop here in 1981. “The visit to Rome demonstrated to me the greatness of the church we are part of,” he writes. “The church is concerned with all that happens in the world. We are part of a great family of faith that cares for and loves all that is human and strives to bring justice and peace to all our brothers and sisters throughout the world.”

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Bill to repair archdiocesan church buildings in ‘many millions’ The Archdiocese of San Francisco has completed a $300,000 study of every leaky roof, antiquated boiler system, and dry-rotted wall of every building it owns in the three counties of San Mateo, San Francisco and Marin.

The next step is painting and repairs – a process that a top church official says could cost “many millions of dollars” but is necessary to preserve the patrimony of the generations who built the churches, schools, convents and other facilities.

Many of the buildings were constructed after the 1906 earthquake during the building boom of the 1920s and ‘30s, and in the postwar boomer expansion of the 1950s.

“I think we have a responsibility, quite frankly, to make sure we take care of the legacy that has been left to us by generations past who did a lot of hard work and put a lot of hard-earned money into building those parishes,” said Msgr. James Tarantino, vicar of administration and moderator of the curia for the archdiocese. This is the first archdiocesan-wide maintenance evaluation ever conducted and was at the recommendation of the Council of Priests, he said.

“There will be many parishes where people will be asked to give of their time, talent and their treasure to meet those individual needs,” said Msgr. Tarantino.

“Anyone who owns a house would understand and agree these are not optional things you can put off indefinitely. These are things that have to be done.”

Every parish has some deferred maintenance needs, ranging from $100,000 to a couple of million dollars, Msgr. Tarantino said. The study began in 2010 and archdiocesan officials will get their “arms around” what remains to be done by fall.

Because the process began in 2010, some parishes have already completed needed repairs.

The goal is to take care of all of these repairs during the next several years, Msgr.

Tarantino said, “so that the archdiocese of the future does not have to deal with these items that will only get more expensive.”

Three county-wide meetings were held to discuss the deferred maintenance plan and business managers, parish councils and finance councils were invited, Msgr.

Tarantino said.

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on the west side and mold is growing on the east side,” Oertel said. “It needs some work.”

“We’re reaching out,” said Father Carter, who estimates the cost will be “nothing less than $200,000.” Among those he hopes will support the effort: former students of All Hallows School which closed in 1990, parishioners of the former All Hallows Parish which was suppressed in 1994 before reopening as the chapel in Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in 1997, and Bayview residents who have moved out of the area as well as current parishioners.

“We have to think, not of ourselves, but of the following generations,” said Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor of Our Lady of Angels in Burlingame.

Our Lady of Angels is fortunate to have a building and maintenance committee that keeps a close eye on OLA’s building,

and to have the resources to make needed repairs, Father Mahoney said. The parish has now implemented the recommended maintenance plan recommended by the archdiocese to maintain the buildings, he said.

“I think it speaks well of the church and how the church sees itself in this particular archdiocese at this particular time,” said Msgr. Tarantino, noting the church is not just reacting to the many challenges to the church, “but we are really striving to be more pro-active to meet not just the current needs but the needs of tomorrow.”

“This new effort will also be a testimony of the faith of our current Catholic population,” said Msgr. Tarantino. “Great things can happen when people are willing to collaborate and work together. You see great generosity when people are made part of the process.”

All Hallows Chapel in San Francisco’s Bayview District is a rare example of Carpenter Gothic architecture but the paint is peeling and the walls have developed mold in the 125-year-old building.

“We are asking every parish, every site to take a look at its own particular needs and collaborate among themselves to come up with a plan to meet their long and short term needs,” said Msgr. Tarantino.

At Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in San Francisco’s Bayview District, pastor Father Dan Carter is getting ready to launch a capital campaign to repaint, eradicate unknown amounts of dry rot, and fix other still undiscovered maintenance issues in the 125-year-old All Hallows Chapel. The chapel, built in 1886, is all wood but is one of a half-dozen in the Carpenter Gothic style still standing on the West Coast, with Gothic-style features such as cornices built of wood instead of stone.

“When you see it from a distance, it looks great,” said Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Council President Terry Oertel, who noted the chapel is built entirely of old-growth redwood. “Paint is peeling

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Vatican, Benetton settle over ad VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and the Italian fashion house Benetton reached an out-of-court settlement after the Vatican took legal action against an ad campaign that depicted Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim leader.

The settlement included the fashion company making an unspecified donation to a Catholic charity and a promise to stop the image from being used by third parties, including being displayed on the Internet, according to a Vatican statement May 15.

The campaign, titled “Unhate,” was unveiled Nov. 16 and featured doctored images of supposedly antagonistic world leaders in kissing scenes.

One of the images was of Pope Benedict embracing Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb, president of al-Azhar University in Cairo, who had announced the suspension of dialogue with the Vatican in 2011. A large poster of the image had been hung not far from the Vatican, at the bridge of Castel Sant’Angelo.

The Vatican issued a strong protest the same day, condemning the “completely unacceptable use of the image of the Holy Father, manipulated and exploited in the context of a publicity campaign for commercial ends.”

Shortly afterward, the company withdrew the image from circulation and the website of the Unhate Foundation.

Benetton issued an apology May 11, reiterating its dismay for having “upset the feelings of His Holiness Benedict XVI and the faithful.”

Pope: Christians’ civic role must respect others’ beliefs SANSEPOLCRO, Italy – Celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of a town founded to be a model of Gospel peace and justice, Pope Benedict XVI said Christians today must find ways to infuse their cities and nations with Gospel values while welcoming and respecting people with other beliefs.

In his evening visit May 13 to Sansepolcro, named after the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, the pope urged the townspeople to use the anniversary to emulate Sts. Arcanus and Aegidius, who established the town after returning from Jerusalem. The saints saw the town as a place where Christians could fulfill their vocation to build a society marked by peace through the practice of justice, he said.

“Today there is a particular need for the church’s service to the world to be expressed through enlightened lay faithful,” involved in civil society “with a desire to serve that goes beyond their private interests and beyond partisan views,” he said. “The common good counts more than the good of the

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Pope recognizes Hildegard as saint

Mexican priest who helps migrants takes break after increased threats

VATICAN CITY – Although she was never canonized, St. Hildegard of Bingen is to be added to the Catholic Church’s formal list of saints, and Catholics worldwide may celebrate her feast day with a Mass and special readings by order of Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican announced May 10 that the pope formalized the church’s recognition of the 12th-century German Benedictine mystic, “inscribing her in the catalogue of saints.” The same day, the pope advanced the sainthood causes of 19th-century U.S. Bishop Frederic Baraga of Marquette, Mich., and of Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, a member of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth in St. Hildegard of Convent Station, N.J., who died in 1927. Bingen is depicted The pope’s order regarding St. in an icon by Hildegard recognizes her widespread Augustinian fame of holiness and that Catholics Father Richard G. have venerated her for centuries.

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In St. Hildegard’s time, there were calls for radical reform of the church to fight the problem of abuses made by the clergy, the pope said in 2010. However, she reproached these demands and reminded people that “a true renewal of the ecclesial community is not achieved so much with a change in the structures as much as with a sincere spirit of penitence,” the pope said in 2010.

MEXICO CITY – A Mexican priest known for sheltering undocumented Central American migrants – and defying organized criminal groups and corrupt politicians – has withdrawn from his work temporarily due to threats, but says he will return.

News of the threats came the same day officials in the northern state of Nuevo Leon found 49 dismembered bodies stuffed into plastic bags – bodies they feared could be undocumented migrants transiting Mexico.

Father Alejandro Solalinde, director of the Brothers of the Road shelter in Oaxaca state, has been threatened and will remain away from the facility he founded for the next two weeks, said Scalabrini Sister Leticia Gutierrez, director of the Mexican bishops’ human mobility ministry.

Sister Leticia told Catholic News Service May 15 that Father Solalinde would take advantage of a previously scheduled trip abroad, which coincided with the latest threat – and not abandon his ministry or run from the situation, as some media outlets reported.

Father Solalinde’s situation reflects ongoing difficulties for church workers who try to protect migrants passing through Mexico from risks such as kidnapping and robbery; many of those workers have been threatened.

News of Father Solalinde’s troubles followed the discovery of 49 bodies dumped May 13 in the municipality of Cadereyta Jimenez, about 100 miles from the U.S. border at McAllen, Texas. The massacre, attributed to rival drug cartels, marked the third atrocity of its kind to be committed in Mexico over a 10-day period.

‘Worrisome erosion’ of religious rights cited by Canada’s bishops

Bishops join call to White House to reduce role of nuclear arms

OTTAWA, Ontario – Canadian religious groups are “experiencing a worrisome erosion” of freedom of conscience and religious freedom – universal rights that face increasing threats around the world, said the Canadian bishops.

In a 12-page pastoral letter to all Canadians, the bishops said they “particularly want to address those members of the faithful who find themselves in difficult situations where they may be pressured to act against their religious faith or their conscience.”

The bishops urged the protection of rights of conscientious objection that are being undermined in Canada and other Western democracies. They also encouraged people to form their consciences in the light of objective truth and to resist, even to the point of suffering, any pressures to violate them.

In Canada, the bishops said, most of the conflicts concern legislation or regulations that involve human life or the traditional family. Among recent problems in Canada, they noted colleges of physicians compelling doctors who refuse to perform abortions to refer patients to a doctor who will perform the procedure; pharmacists threatened if they refuse, on conscience grounds, to fill prescriptions for contraceptives or the morning-after pill; and marriage commissioners in British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Saskatchewan who must perform same-sex marriages or resign.

WASHINGTON – Representatives of various groups advocating nuclear arms reduction, including the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, presented a petition with over 50,000 signatures to the White House, the conference announced May 15. The petition urges president Obama to reduce the role and number of nuclear weapons as he makes a once-in-a-decade decision on the Presidential nuclear weapons policy “guidance.”

The White House received the petition at a May 7 meeting with Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications and speechwriting. Stephen Colecchi, USCCB’s director of International Justice and Peace, represented the U.S. bishops. Leaders of arms control groups, including the Arms Control Association, the Council for a Livable World and Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, and the Union of Concerned Scientists, also participated in the meeting.

“In the 21st century, nuclear weapons are a global liability, not an asset,” the petition said, calling on the president to “end outdated U.S. nuclear war-fighting strategy, dramatically reduce the number of U.S. nuclear weapons and the number of submarines, missiles, and bombers that carry those weapons, and take U.S. nuclear weapons off high alert. Maintaining large numbers of nuclear forces on alert increases the risk of accident or miscalculation.”

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North Carolina voters approve amendment upholding traditional marriage CHARLOTTE, N.C. (CNS) – With a heavy turnout at the polls, North Carolina voters approved a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman by a 3-to-2 margin.

In unofficial results calculated late May 8 by the North Carolina State Board of Elections, 1,303,952 people – 61.05 percent – voted for the amendment while 831,788 people – 38.95 percent – voted against it.

The amendment read, “Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state.� It enshrines the definition of traditional marriage in the state constitution, elevating it from what has been state law since 1996.

Bishop Peter J. Jugis of Charlotte and Bishop Michael F. Burbidge of Raleigh, who were at the Vatican May 8 for their “ad limina� visits, had both championed the amendment, which they said would prevent any arbitrary redefinition of marriage.

Marriage, they reminded Catholics, is based in natural law by God and instituted as a sacrament by Jesus Christ. It binds together a family, the fundamental building block of all societies, and provides the most stable and nurturing environment to raise children.

Bishop Jugis said May 8: “I am pleased that the people of North Carolina voted for marriage. The church consistently teaches that marriage is created by God as the faithful and exclusive union of one man and one woman, open to the gift of children.�

In a separate statement, Bishop Burbidge urged Catholics to pray “that whatever divisions may have occurred during this referendum process, may be healed by the grace of God and a mutual renewed commitment by all people of good will, so that we may together build a society reflective of the unity that is ours as members of God’s family.�

Bishop Jugis had mentioned the marriage amendment battle during a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI earlier that day. In his

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Parishioners of St. Ann Catholic Church in Charlotte, N.C., form a prayer chain in front of the church May 6 to voice support for the proposed statewide constitutional amendment to protect marriage.

homily at Mass at the altar of the tomb of Blessed John XXIII in St. Peter’s Basilica May 8, Bishop Jugis said he and Bishop Burbidge had endured scorn for their efforts to uphold church teaching on marriage. It was a cross worth bearing, he said, “to be courageous in witnessing to the Gospel.� “I shared with another bishop my sadness over this criticism of our support for something as beautiful and foundational to society as traditional marriage,� he said. The other bishop “encouraged me by saying, ‘Wear it as a badge of honor.’�

Ever since the amendment was put on the ballot by the Republican-led Legislature last fall, the bishops had urged Catholics to vote for it. They communicated with parishioners in print and online diocesan news media, TV

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The bishops had said the vote presented an opportunity to explain the importance and sanctity of traditional marriage in the church and in society.

In a joint letter read at all Masses May 5-6, the bishops wrote, “We are for marriage, as we believe it is a vocation in which God calls couples to faithfully and permanently embrace a fruitful union in a mutual selfgiving bond of love, according to his purposes. It is not only the union itself that is essential to these purposes, but also the life to which spouses are called to be open, the gift of children.�

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by Vote For Marriage NC, a nonpartisan coalition of churches, groups and individuals that organized public support for the amendment, which even at the start of the campaign last fall was considered widely popular among North Carolina voters. Each diocese also donated $50,000 to the Vote for Marriage NC campaign for its advertising blitz and voter education efforts.

In a statement released on election night May 8, Tami Fitzgerald, chairwoman of Vote For Marriage NC, said, “We are thankful to God and to the people of North Carolina for joining together today to preserve marriage as the union between one man and one woman in our state constitution. “North Carolinians have been waiting for nearly a decade to protect marriage – a sacred institution authored by God – from being redefined against the will of the people,� she added. “The marriage protection amendment ensures that it will always be the people of our state who determine what marriage is in North Carolina, not an activist judge or future politicians.�

North Carolina is the 31st state to define traditional marriage in its constitution, and the last among the Southern states to do so.

The amendment attracted large numbers of people to the polls, with 2.1 million (34 percent) of the state’s 6.3 million registered voters casting a ballot on the question, according to the state elections board results. Turnout was as high as 50 percent in some counties.

Oakland Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Subcommittee on the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, said the amendment’s passage “demonstrates people’s awareness of the essential role that marriage, as the union of a man and a woman, plays for the common good.�

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Sister John Dominic Samaha, OP, 90; educator was a religious for 71 years Mission San Jose Dominican Sister John Dominic Samaha died May 4 at the congregation’s St. Martin Residence on the motherhouse property in Fremont.

She was 90 years old and a religious for 71years.

Born in San Francisco, Sister John Dominic “loved St. James and Immaculate Conception Academy,� said her brother Marianist Brother John Samaha who, with their sister, Mildred Samaha, survives her. “My sister was always responsible and dependable, even as a youngster,� Brother John told Catholic San Francisco. “She was the oldest and my mother depended on her to help

the rest of us. And she would rise to the occasion. This carried over into religious life. Give her a job and she’d do it. “She loved people, especially the elderly and the children and was always attentive to those in need.� Sister John Dominic was a dedicated teacher and principal, her brother said. “She especially liked the boys among her students and gave special attention to freshmen in high school. She enjoyed good music and good movies and liked to sing.�

Sister John Dominic’s principal active ministry was elementary and secondary education as well as administration, the Mission San Jose Dominican Sisters said in a notice

of her death. Schools where she served as principal include San Francisco’s St. James School.

Immaculate Conception Academy was among her teaching assignments.

Sister John Dominic A funeral Mass was celebrated Samaha, OP May 12 at the sisters’ chapel with interment in the congregation cemetery. Remembrances may be made to the Dominican Sisters Retirement Fund, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont, CA 94539.

Sacred Heart Sister Rita Ryan, 94; 70 years a religious, lifelong educator Religious of the Sacred Heart Sister Rita Ryan died May 3 at Oakwood, the Society of the Sacred Heart’s elder care center in Atherton. She was 94 years old and a religious for 70 years. “Sister Rita was loving, sensitive and appreciative,� the Sacred Heart Sisters said in an announcement of her death.

Sister Rita was attracted to religious life from an early age and later met the Sacred Heart Sisters at their Duchesne College in Nebraska. “The women I met there were wonderful religious, intel-

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Sister Rita’s first assignment after final vows was at the Sacred Heart Schools in Atherton. She held a graduate degree in English literature from San Francisco College for Women.

Since 1982, Sister Rita has served with the Sacred Heart Sisters in the Archdiocese of San Francisco moving in 2006 to the Oakwood retirement facility. “She often spoke of her gratitude to God for the gift of living in beautiful California, having spent more years there

than in any other state,� the sisters said. “She also had deep gratitude for her vocation to the Society of the Sacred Heart.�

She is survived by a brother, Don Ryan of Montana, and two Sister Rita sisters, Nancy Olderog and Jean Ryan, RSCJ Ryan of Nebraska.

A funeral Mass was celebrated May 12 at Oakwood with interment in the congregation’s cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Society of the Sacred Heart, 4120 Forest Park Ave., St. Louis, MO 63108.

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USF center to host British Jesuit scholar The Lane Center at the University of San Francisco will host British Jesuit Father Frank Turner during the month of July as the sixth Lane Center Summer Scholar-in-Residence.

Father Turner is the general director of the Jesuit European Office, which reflects and comments on European affairs from the primary perspective of justice and peace.

Father Turner will present a series of three lectures July 11, 18 and 25. The lectures will focus on “Catholic Social Thought and Magisterial Claim to Authority in Ethics,” “Catholic Social Thought’s Claim to Universal Relevance,” and “Modes of Christian Ethical Participation in the Global Discourse.” Each talk will be held in Fromm Hall at 5 p.m. on the University of San Francisco campus and are free and open to the public.

The Summer-Scholar-in-Residence program brings scholars to campus whose work intersects and informs Catholic social thought in the public arena. Past scholarsin-residence have included: Mary Jo Bane of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Jesuit Father. A. E. Orobator, provincial of the East African Province of the Society of Jesus; Margaret O’Brien Steinfels of Fordham University Center for Religion and Culture; Jesuit Father James Keenan, professor of theological ethics at Boston College; and Jesuit Father Tom Reese, senior fellow at Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University.

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Archbishop appoints 3 pastors, 6 administrators Archbishop George Niederauer on May 9 announced the appointments of three pastors, six administrators and a parochial vicar in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Father Roberto A. Andrey has been named pastor of St. Patrick Church in San Francisco. Father John L. Greene has been appointed pastor of St. Robert Church in San Bruno.

Father Mark G. Mazza has been named pastor of Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco.

The appointments are effective July 1.

Father Victorio R. Balagapo has been appointed administrator at Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco, through June 30. Father Dominador F. Corrales has been named administrator of St. Peter Church in Pacifica, effective July 1. Father Alex L. Legaspi has been appointed administrator of Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco, from July 1 through June 30, 2013.

Father James H. MacDonald has been named administrator of St. Patrick Church in San Francisco, through June 30.

Father Vito J. Perrone has been named administrator of Our Lady of Fatima Church in San Francisco effective July 1.

Dominican Father Emmanuel Taylor, has been named parochial vicar at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco.

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Also, Dominican Father Garry J. Cappleman, who has been a parochial vicar at St. Dominic, is departing to serve the Newman ministry in Riverside.

A convocation for priests of the archdiocese and religious order priests assigned to parish ministry in the archdiocese takes place Sept. 25-27 with the theme “Priesthood, The Journey We Travel.” Clergy Retreat Week is Oct. 8-Oct. 12. An Advent Day of Recollection for Priests with Paulist Father Terry Ryan is scheduled for Dec. 5.

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Sisters of the Good Shepherd mark 80 years in ministry in San Francisco

Giants support St. Anthony Foundation St. Anthony Foundation’s $4 million capital campaign, the final phase of funding for its new dining room on Jones Street in San Francisco, was highlighted in a homeplate ceremony at AT&T Park April 27. Larry Baer, president of the ballclub, organized the ceremony, and pitcher Barry Zito served as spokesman on a 30-second public service announcement. Pictured from left are Giants principal partner Larry Nibbi; Shana Daum, Giants vice president of public affairs and community relations; Zito; Shari Roeseler, executive director for St. Anthony’s; Franciscan Father John Hardin, president, St. Anthony’s board of trustees; Clio Tarazi, president, St. Anthony’s board of directors; Baer. www.stanthonysf.org.

Archbishop Riordan High School to adopt iPad Archbishop Riordan High School is the latest school of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to opt for the iPad. For the 2012-13 school year, Riordan said it encourages parents to purchase either the iPad2 or the new iPad (version 3). In fall 2013, all students will be required to have an iPad in class.

The tablets will decrease the cost of textbooks because they will be downloaded digitally, Riordan President Patrick Daly said in an email to parents. But he said the more important reason is a desire to keep students technologically adaptive.

“Our discussion centered around this question: What skills do students need to be successful in the future? The ability to use and adapt to new technologies and embrace new ways of learning are right up there,” Daly wrote.

New technology systems will be installed during the summer to serve as infrastructure for the iPad learning system, the school said.

Mercy High School, Burlingame began using the iPad as part of the curriculum this school year, and several other schools are considering them.

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The Sisters of the Good Shepherd celebrated their 80th anniversary of service in San Francisco with a Mass April 28 at St Elizabeth Church. Father Charito Suan, pastor, concelebrated with three Jesuit priests, Father Ray Allender, Father Frank Buckley and Father Radmar Jao from St. Agnes Parish.

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The order’s traditional work continued until 1977. From that time the community moved from a large institutional building to a smaller house for the community and Gracenter, a transitional house built in 1961. For the last 25 years Gracenter has been a licensed primary recovery program for women.

Today, the community consists of eight sisters who work with those most in need, including those struggling with addiction, people with disabilities and those in hospice care. The community also has parish ministries at Most Holy Redeemer and St. Agnes in San Francisco and at other Bay Area churches.

In his homily, Father Allender spoke about how God reveals his love through the Good Shepherd. He said the Sisters of the Good Shepherd remind each of us of our true calling to be a good shepherd to others.

St. Anne school teacher honored Michelle Ferrari, a seventh grade teacher at San Francisco’s St. Anne School, was recognized by KOIT-FM in its Salute to Teachers Award program. Michelle was introduced at an Oakland A’s game for the honor and the school received $1,000 for support of school programs. Parents of Michelle’s students nominated the teacher for the award.

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Iowa diocese reaches agreement on scholarship conferral for gay student

Student Keaton Fuller of Clinton, Iowa, is pictured in a photo provided by the Eychaner Foundation. The foundation awarded the gay student from Prince of Peace Catholic School in Clinton with its Matthew Shepard Scholarship, given in memory of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old tortured and murdered in Wyoming in 1998 because he was gay.

tion that “promotes a position that is contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church” from presenting at a diocesan institution.

“While the diocese supports antibullying programs promoted by the Eychaner Foundation, its advocacy for same-sex marriage is contrary to Catholic social teaching,” said Deacon David Montgomery, diocesan director of communications.

Eychaner told The Catholic Messenger, Davenport diocesan newspaper, in response to a question, that the foundation supports equality in marriage for any two people committed to monogamy.

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Fuller said in a statement that he was glad the matter had been resolved.

“My biggest fear was that this matter would overwhelm my classmates’ significant accomplishments and the joy we are feel in graduating,” he said. “My family is

focusing now on graduation and celebrating the end of the school year.”

In a May 7 letter addressed to the Prince of Peace student body and staff, Fuller had expressed disappointment with the diocese’s decision but had plenty of praise for his school.

“Being the lone openly gay student in a small, Catholic school has not always been easy. Upon first realizing I was gay, I suffered a lot of anxiety over wondering how everybody in this school would treat me if I were to tell people the truth about my sexual orientation,” he said. “When I did begin to tell people, I was pleasantly surprised and touched to find that nearly everybody treated me with the same acceptance and respect as they always had. I have always been very grateful to you for this.”

Learning that he had been awarded the foundation’s highest scholarship – the $40,000 Gold Matthew Shepard Scholarship – was one of the happiest moments in his life, he wrote. “When word got around about this achievement, I received a great deal of praise from many of you, for which I am extremely grateful.”

Rich Eychaner, who established the foundation that has granted 130 scholarships since 2000, said its mission “is to promote tolerance, understanding and anti-bullying policies.”

“We help lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students survive and work to prevent teen suicide,” he added.

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DAVENPORT, Iowa (CNS) – The Diocese of Davenport has reached an agreement that will allow a gay student at Prince of Peace Catholic School in Clinton to publicly receive a scholarship awarded by an Iowa organization that promotes tolerance, quelling a controversy over presentation of the award.

Keaton Fuller, a senior at Prince of Peace, is one of eight recipients of a Matthew Shepard Scholarship from the Eychaner Foundation based in Des Moines. The scholarship honors the memory of Shepard, a 21-year-old tortured and murdered in Wyoming in 1998 because he was gay.

Under the agreement, Lee Morrison, diocesan superintendent of schools, will read a script prepared by the Eychaner Foundation and reviewed by Bishop Martin J. Amos of Davenport during graduation ceremonies at Prince of Peace Church May 20. A member of the scholarship committee will present an eagle statue to Fuller.

In a May 11 news release announcing the agreement, Bishop Amos said, “Principles of mutual respect and careful listening exhibited by all parties allowed a solution to emerge.”

“We have many things we agree upon, and have also agreed to accept the fact that we also have some things we disagree about,” he added. “But that shouldn’t prevent all of us from celebrating Keaton Fuller’s success over 13 years in Catholic schools and our mutual hope for his success in college and beyond.”

The diocese’s decision not to permit an Eychaner representative to present the scholarship to Fuller had generated national press attention.

The diocese said May 7 that diocesan policy prohibits any person or organiza-

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – New York Cardinal “Religion, faith, the church promote a culture Timothy M. Dolan praised the class of 2012 at The built on the ‘Law of the Gift,’” the cardinal said.

Catholic University of America, saying in his May “Thus, wise people from Alexis de Tocqueville to 12 commencement address that the 1,500 students John Courtney Murray ... have observed that an receiving degrees that day had all majored in “the essential ingredient in American wisdom and the Law of the Gift” – learning to pattern their lives after genius of the American republic is the freedom it the self-giving love of Jesus. allows for religion to flourish.”

Cardinal Dolan noted how Blessed John Paul II He predicted that a challenge the class of 2012 New York described the “Law of the Gift” this way: “For we “will inevitably face is the defense of religious are at our best, we are most fully alive and human, Cardinal Timothy freedom as part of both our American and creedal when we give away freely and sacrificially our very legacy.”

M. Dolan selves in love for another.”

Cardinal Dolan said the “Law of the Gift” also The cardinal noted how Jesus spoke about the “Law of the provides special insights into the Catholic Church’s teachings Gift” when the Lord said, “Greater love than this no one has, on marriage. than to give one’s life for one’s friends.”

The law “is most poetically exemplified in the lifelong, lifeNew York’s archbishop, who also is president of the U.S. giving, faithful, intimate union of a man and woman in marriage, Conference of Catholic Bishops, encouraged the graduates to draw which then leads to the procreation of new life in babies, so that on their faith to help in the effort to stand up for religious freedom husband and wife, now father and mother, spend their lives sacrificially loving and giving to those children,” the cardinal said. in the United States and to oppose efforts to redefine marriage.

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■ Continued from cover Yrique said he designed the Rosary for the United States of America through prayer, often waking in the middle of the night to compose the intentions.

He has already given away or sold 3,000 of the red, white and blue rosary beads and has ordered another 2,000. He has a website, www.magnalitecatholic.com/usa_rosary.html. Along with the rosary, people can order a prayer booklet or prayer card that lists all the intentions as well as the names of the 50 states.

Each of the five decades has a designated intention.

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Yrique’s conviction about the love of the mother of God is something that he said can partly be explained by his own mother’s unshakeable devotion to her children.

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“I believe the Blessed Virgin Mary is the same way – she’s always been my mother and I believe she has the ear of God at her command.”

The “Rosary for the USA” is not a political statement, Yrique said. He’s not praying for a particular candidate to win the upcoming election or for any political party’s success. He’s simply praying for the United States – its leaders and populace.

“At the time I started praying for my country, I was really concerned with how divisive we became over the S.B. 1070 (immigration) issue,” Yrique said. “So when I saw things happening on the news – when I saw people being angry at one another, shouting at one another, I thought, ‘This is not the way I was brought up.’”

Yrique said it’s important for the 30 million Catholics in the United States to pray for their leaders, regardless of political persuasion.

“I really believe that it doesn’t matter who we elect if the power of God is not working through our elected officials,” he said. “I’d like people to get off their soapboxes and get on their knees and pray. God will bless America when Americans remember to bless God.” Coronel writes for The Catholic Sun in Phoenix.

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Program seeks healing for all in wake of sex abuse crisis PHILADELPHIA (CNS) – Church action following the clergy sexual abuse scandal is most importantly about justice for the victims. But it’s also about healing – not only for the victims, but for the entire church community.

With that in mind the Archdiocese of Philadelphia has begun a new initiative, “Honesty, Healing and Hope in Christ: Confronting Sexual Violence in Our Archdiocese.”

The plan, which consists of four phases implemented over six months, is designed to address the feelings and responses experienced when final resolutions about clergy are announced and going forward.

Coordinating the initiative is Mary Achilles, who served as victims advocate for the commonwealth of Pennsylvania for a decade, and who is the victims advocate for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

“This is all about the parishioners, people who have been impacted,” Achilles said at a May 4 news conference. “As Catholics, we have been battered by this experience, and our sense of the integrity of the process has been robbed.

“This is an opportunity, a leaping off point, letting people get their arms around the sex abuse scandal, look at it honestly and in a way that people can have an opportunity to voice their concerns, look at remedies and actions that can begin the healing process,” she added. “Nothing ends today; today is the beginning.”

(CNS PHOTO/SARAH WEBB)

By Lou Baldwin

‘As Catholics, we have been battered by this experience, and our sense of the integrity of the process has been robbed,’ said Mary Achilles, victims advocate for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, seen May 4 with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput.

Achilles and her committee have put together a binder that was given to the clergy that covers a multitude of scenarios and suggestions, including how the news should

be broken that a former priest of the parish has either been restored to ministry or permanently removed.

It covers meetings with parish staff, pastoral and financial councils and communicating with parishioners, complete with sample announcements and even sample homilies prepared by St. Charles Seminary faculty as well as suggestions such as informal gatherings for coffee and donuts after Masses where people can exchange their views.

“We have communities of faith that need support and assistance in processing this,” she said. “This is certainly not the most positive era in the church, but we have to honor the victims by responding to them appropriately and by doing the best that we can to prevent this from happening to someone else and the best we can to respond better the next time.”

Achilles cited statistics that show 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be sexually assaulted before age 18.

“We have a moral imperative to reach out to everyone, and it is not just clergy sexual abuse,” she said. “A quarter of the people in our pews’ lives have been directly touched by sexual violence as a child.

“We cannot return men to ministry without realizing that these individuals will view these men through their lens of victimization, their lens of experience of sexual abuse,” she added.

Conference takes stock of church’s response to abuse crisis since 2002

By George Raine Ten years after the crisis of sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests first captured the nation’s attention, Santa Clara University on May 11 hosted a conference to take stock, to determine what needs to be done to reduce risk that any child is injured.

“We pat ourselves on the back for the successes, but we are not done,” said Thomas Plante, a professor of psychology at Santa Clara and conference co-host.

The conference title, “Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: A Decade of Crisis, 2002-2012,” is the same as the title of a

book co-edited by Plante, who has conducted 700 psychological evaluations of candidates for seminaries over 25 years.

The so-called 10-year anniversary of the crisis – the Boston Globe reported widespread abuse in Boston in 2002 – presented an opportunity for what Plante in an interview called reflection and discernment, and also a forum for critics of the institutional church response to assail the nation’s bishops.

“Are kids safer in the church in 2012? Yes. But we still have to be vigilant to make sure no child gets harmed,” said Plante. “We have the best practices, you have great policy procedures, but now you have to implement them, and it takes one bishop to mess up and they all come down,” he said.

“Kansas City is a good example (where Bishop Robert Finn is accused of not telling police about child pornography found on a priest’s computer) as is Philadelphia (where a grand jury report accused three priests and a Catholic teacher of abuse and said 37 other priests were in ministry despite “credible” allegations of abuse against them),” said Plante.

“I would like to see more fraternal correction, because all of the bishops suffer by the behavior of one bishop.”

He added, “If the bishop in Kansas City does not report child pornography for five months it is like all the bishops did not report child pornography for five months.”

The lone bishop in the conference room was Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Daly of the Diocese of San Jose, who welcomed the conferees and said that when he became director of vocations for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2002 – the year the Boston story broke – a colleague at Marin Catholic High School, where he was president at the time, volunteered that the appointment was akin to “being a recruiter for Vietnam in 1968.”

“In the midst of all this turmoil you are asked to speak to families and to parishes about the ongoing call to priesthood, vocations,” said Bishop Daly. “It was a period of time the church was experiencing a cleansing and a humiliation, but it also led to a humility and a truth and a new generation of young men of great quality is stepping forth,” he said.

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‘We are not going to stand for this’ Parish prayer vigil focuses on violence in southeast San Francisco Immaculate Conception Academy sophomore Estephania Cortes was walking down the street in broad daylight two blocks from her home in the Excelsior when a gang of girls followed her, roughed her up, took her money, and stabbed her.

“Wrong time, wrong place for me,” said Estephania, 15, after an interfaith prayer vigil against violence at Corpus Christi Parish Hall May 9 in San Francisco. Estephania, who was jumped a week before the meeting and was not seriously injured physically, was one of a handful of people to tell stories of their encounters with violence.

“Once I crossed the street, they turned me around and hit me,” Estephania said, saying the gang of about eight girls had begun following her and calling out, asking for money.

She was home from school and had just gone for a walk outside her home.

“I was scared and didn’t know what to do,” she recalled, saying she began kicking once they started hitting her and going through her pockets. “They stabbed me. It was hot and bleeding.”

The girls ran off and Estephania called her mother. The police arrived and she was taken to the hospital. “Luckily it wasn’t anything bad,” she said. “I didn’t expect anything to happen that day.”

Estaphnia was one of a number of young people who participated in the Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Healing and Peace,which was held by Salesian Father Jose Lucero, Corpus Christi associate pastor, in cooperation with the San Francisco Organizing Project.

“We should not have to walk in our streets paranoid,” Father Lucero said. “We are not going to stand for this violence. We are going to do something about it.”

The priest said the gathering was “an opportunity for us to speak, to not live in fear.” He later added, “Prayer is the most important way we can get rid of violence.”

The Nortenos organization claims the Excelsior as its territory but residents must contend with both gang and non-gang affiliated violence, said Julio Escobar, restorative justice coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The day of the prayer vigil at Corpus Christi Parish, May 9, a San Francisco Superior Court jury convicted Edwin Ramos, 25, of three first-degree murder counts in the mistaken identity shootings of Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, in the Excelsior. Prosecutors said that Tony Bologna was driving his sons home from a family gathering in Fairfield on a Sunday afternoon, June 22, 2008, when Ramos, who had a long history of violence affiliated with the MS-13 gang, mistakenly identified one or more of the Bolognas as members of a rival gang, blocked the street with his car and shot the family.

A meeting about public safety was held the night before and an area-wide meeting is planned for 11 a.m. June 16 at the parish, Father Lucero said.

In addition to two members of SFOP, one who works primarily with Catholic parishes and Protestant congregations and another who works with the Muslim community, the meeting was attended by Jaime Gonzalez, restorative justice ministry organizer of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Imam Abu Qadir Al-Amin, whose mosque, The San Francisco Muslim Community Center, recently relocated to the Excelsior from the Fillmore District, prayed with the group.

“This neighborhood in general has been affected by violence in different ways,” Father Lucero told the vigil participants, many members of the Corpus Christi youth ministry, who sat in a circle of chairs in the church hall.

Last year, Father Lucero’s $10,000 music studio, set up by a volunteer, was destroyed and furniture wrecked in the parish hall meeting rooms. The inside of the hall was defaced with graffiti and eggs, and still needs to be repainted, the priest told the group. The musical instru-

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■ Continued from page 12 St. Patrick’s Seminary & University in Menlo Park, agreed the quality of current seminarians is high. “There are exceptions to this, but they are highly mature, most of them have been in the world and have had very reputable, professional jobs. They come into the seminary having made a mature, professional decision,” he said.

Even with such strides, including improvements in screening and detecting abuse, said Jesuit Father Thomas Reese, senior fellow at Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, “We have not dealt with the elephant in the room, which is bishops who aren’t doing their job.”

He added, “It is a disgrace that only one bishop (Cardinal Bernard Law, former archbishop of Boston) resigned because

(PHOTOS BY VALERIE SCHMALZ/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

By Valerie Schmalz

Salesian Father Jose Lucero, associate pastor at Corpus Christi, is interviewed by a TV crew.

Tiffani Johnson, center, who teaches at KIPP Bayview Academy, is pictured with Willie Landers, 17, and Lamesha Mobley, 16.

The teens attend Leadership High School, San Francisco.

Estephania Cortes is a sophomore at Immaculate Conception Academy.

ments were stolen. No one has been charged with the crime, Father Lucero said.

A teacher from KIPP Bayview Academy attended with two teens from Bayview. “I’ve buried two of my (former)

students this year,” said Tiffani Johnson, who teaches at the K-8 school located in the former St Paul of the Shipwreck School building. The former students, both 18, were Kevin Hall and Tuco Lopez, she said. Hall was killed mid-day in August when in a car driving on Alemany Boulevard.

Another car pulled up and someone in the car shot him.

Lopez was shot in Hayward on Halloween.

During prayers with the group Father Lucero said, “We are all God’s children.” At the vigil’s conclusion, each participant placed a battery-lighted votive candle around lit candles and a river-rock arrangement in the shape of a heart.

SFOP community organizer Emmanuelle Leal said the community organizing group hopes to bring a violence prevention campaign, Lifelines to Healing, to area residents, possibly at the next community meeting. Leal said the group does not know if violent crime is actually going up, “we do know people really do feel scared,” and he cited the stabbing in broad daylight of the ICA sophomore.

Asked about the impact of the vigil, Estephania said, “It’s going to help people be more aware of their surroundings.”

of his failure to deal with the sexual abuse crisis. The church would be in a much better place today if 30 or more bishops had stood up, acknowledged their mistakes, taken full responsibilities, apologized and resigned. A good shepherd is supposed to lay down his life for his sheep; these men were unwilling to lay down their crosiers for the good of the church,” he said.

There was acknowledgment of protections put in place for generations of young people in the church to come, and that the number of instances of abuse shrank significantly after a peak 30 years ago – but even the total number of instances between 1950 and 2002, put at 15,000, was dismissed as illusory, because victims remain silent, and there was a sense, too, that victims haven’t been truly embraced by the church hierarchy.

In May, 2011, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, which examined the causes and context of the crisis, concluded there was no single cause or predictor of sexual abuse, but said social and cultural

changes in the 1960s and 1970s manifested in increased levels of deviant behavior, including among priests.

There was some criticism of that finding, and Dominican Father Thomas Doyle, who has tracked abuse cases since 1984, made a reference to it in his remarks, saying that until the efforts to blame the secular culture, the sexual revolution … “Woodstock or Janis Joplin are abandoned and replaced with a fearless and probing examination of the clerical culture …, collective hope that this terrible nightmare will someday be the worry of a distant past will never happen.”

Karen Terry of John Jay College, the researcher who did the report, and a keynote speaker at the event, said in an interview, “First, we did not say that Woodstock caused it.

The point here is that there are a number of social changes in the U.S. over that time period, underlying social forces that have an influence over changing cultural norms. We are saying that the church was not immune to those social forces.”

At the vigil’s conclusion, each participant placed a battery-lighted votive candle in a rectangle around lit candles and a river-rock arrangement in the shape of a heart.

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Half a century later, still answering Fatima questions SOTTO IL MONTE GIOVANNI XXIII, Italy (CNS) – The feast of Our Lady of Fatima, May 13, is the occasion every year for millions of devotees to celebrate the apparition of Mary to three Portuguese peasant children in 1917 and to meditate on her call for repentance and conversion by the modern world.

For a much smaller but highly dedicated group of people, the anniversary of the first apparition is also an occasion for exploring their belief that, 95 years later, the Vatican is still hiding a portion of Mary’s revelations.

The controversy is associated in a particular way with the pontificate of Blessed John XXIII, because one of the Fatima visionaries, Sister Lucia dos Santos, committed the so-called “Third Secret” to writing, with instructions that the pope should read it in the year 1960. Blessed John, who was pope from 1958 to 1963, declined to reveal the secret, which was published by the Vatican only in 2000.

The official version of the secret comes with a Vatican commentary interpreting it as an allegory of the Catholic Church’s past struggles with 20th-century ideologies and characterizing its description of a “bishop dressed in white” shot down amid the rubble of a ruined city as a prophecy of the 1981 assassination attempt on Blessed John Paul II. But some argue that the long-suppressed document must contain something even more disturbing, perhaps a prophecy of what they call the “great apostasy”: the modernizing changes that followed the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), which was called by Blessed John.

One man with whom such skeptics would very much like to talk is Archbishop Loris F. Capovilla, Blessed John’s personal secretary, who was present when the pope read the secret for the first time.

Speaking to Catholic News Service, Archbishop Capovilla, now 96, dismisses reports that he told an Italian writer in 2006 that part of the secret remains unpublished. He says that he noticed no discrepancy between the published version and the original.

Yet he qualifies his statement with a rare admission of doubt about his own remarkable memory. “I remember a bit,” he says,

(CNS PHOTO/NACHO DOCE, REUTERS)

By Francis X. Rocca

In this 2007 file photo, the statue of Our Lady of Fatima is carried through a crowd of pilgrims at the shrine built in her honor in central Portugal as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims joined in celebrations marking the 90th anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin Mary to three shepherd children.

“but you will understand, after so many years I wouldn’t know how to reconstruct (the secret) fully.”

Nor does he rule out the presence of such a document elsewhere in the archives of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, often referred to as “the Holy Office.”

“At the Holy Office there must be a kilometer of paper regarding Fatima,” the archbishop says. “I don’t deny that there may be something else, but I don’t know it.”

When he was prefect of the doctrinal congregation, Pope Benedict XVI wrote the Vatican’s commentary on the secret and insisted that what was published in 2000 was everything.

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Begin by assuming others’ intentions are honorable I am writing about the article “At Georgetown, Ryan defends budget ...” in the May 4 edition. I must first confess that I have not read Mr. Ryan’s budget ... but, I suspect that is also true of many of its critics.

As a Catholic who is (or at least tries to be) faithful to the magisterium, I am in concurrence with the bishops’ concerns that our budget priorities reflect our moral obligation to the poor and vulnerable. Given the state of our economy, this is even truer now. And, if it were up to me, I would spend less on defense in order to preserve or enhance our preferential option for the poor. I also firmly believe in the principle of subsidiarity Having said that, it is also clear to me that our country is rushing headlong toward a debt crisis, one that will dwarf the problems we have seen in Europe. I think this crisis is still avoidable, but we are rapidly approaching a point of no return. Mr. Ryan is correct when he states that if we do not dramatically reduce our annual deficits, this crisis will come, and the poor will be much worse off than they are now.

I do not think either cuts to spending or tax increases will be sufficient by themselves.

From all that I have read, most experts agree with this – it will require both cuts and tax increases. According to the IRS, the majority of federal revenue comes from income taxes, and the IRS says that almost 50 percent of wage

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earners pay no federal income tax at all. I think it is in the interest of the common good, and a strong democracy, that the income tax burden be shared, at least in small part, by (almost) all. My hope and prayer is that our elected leaders will summon up the courage, and the commitment to the good of the nation, to work out a sustained agreement in time to head off financial disaster.

In the final analysis, individual public officials must exercise their good faith prudential judgment as to how we will reduce our annual deficits and accumulated national debt. As this debate proceeds, we must at least begin by assuming that others’ intentions are honorable, and their proposals are a good faith effort toward this goal. This charity must be extended to Mr. Ryan, and all, if we are to resolve our disagreements in a reasoned and civilized manner. If others disagree with Mr. Ryan’s proposal, they should critique it on its merits.

I am saddened that some have instead chosen to question his commitment to our church’s teachings on social justice ... as Father Thomas Reese said regarding Mr. Ryan “I don’t think he can get away with Catholic social teaching as a cover for his budget cutting.” With all due respect to Father Thomas, he at least strongly implies he doubt’s Mr. Ryan’s good intent, and this is both uncharitable and an ad hominem argument.

Myles Kelley Pacifica

Marian articles welcome Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your May 4 edition included many inspirational articles, pictures, and letters about our Blessed Mother that, truly, makes Catholic San Francisco deserve many thanks and kudos.

I could be wrong but I don’t recall in previous years such a celebration of the Virgin during your May editions. In either case, keep up this wonderful and important work. Just wondering if the paper will have any articles

In a book marking the 90th anniversary of the Fatima apparitions, he said publishing the text “was a time of light, not only because the message could be known by all, but also because it unveiled the truth amid the confused framework of apocalyptic interpretations and speculation.”

He said he had written the commentary “after having prayed intensely and meditated deeply on the authentic words of the third part of the secret of Fatima, contained on sheets written

by Sister Lucia.”

Archbishop Capovilla does not disguise his reservations about the cult of Fatima, not least, he says, because it was “sometimes exploited a bit for political ends.”

During the Cold War, many interpreted the Virgin’s prophecy that Russia would “convert” as foretelling the fall of the Soviet Union. But Archbishop Capovilla says he considered those words to mean merely that Russia would embrace Christianity, which he suggests did not exclude the survival of communism.

“I have known people in perfectly good faith who were communists, but they weren’t atheists,” he says.

The archbishop’s reservations about Fatima extend more generally to the phenomenon of Marian devotion.

“A cloistered nun who has visions – here we underscore one aspect of the Christian life,” he says.

Amid the enthusiasm for ecumenism that animated Blessed John’s papacy and the Second Vatican Council, he recalls, “it was concluded, as far as Marian devotion was concerned, that perhaps it would not be appreciated by the Protestants.”

An excessive focus on Marian devotion also runs contrary to the express wishes of Mary herself, he says.

Imagining himself receiving an apparition of Mary, Archbishop Capovilla says he would tell her: “Lady, you were present at the wedding at Cana; you said words that remain eternal, ‘Do what Jesus tells you.’ You come now to tell me to convert, to do penance.

But he already said all of this; it’s in the holy Gospel.”

He adds that “all of Christianity – all – for me, for the Protestants, for the Orthodox, is summed up in these words: Convert, recognize your condition as little creatures and believe in the Gospel, put it into practice, live it.”

“Having said this,” the archbishop says, “it seems to me that is everything.”

coming up on Marian devotions and piety such as creating a home May altar, the significance of the May crowning, or planting a Marian garden. There are so many ways to love and relate to our Blessed Mother daily in our everyday lives and environments. Finally, as a Cuban-American I was especially delighted by your inclusion of an image of Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, the patron saint of Cuba, something we don’t see that often out here on the West Coast. Great balancing job celebrating our mother in heaven within our Christcentered faith during this, her special month.

Oscar M. Ramirez Antioch

Faith sustains community In the last decade the decline of religion and its influence on community spirit have been obvious. Does the Internet take its place?

In American history community spirit, led by religion, spawned useful lessons.

Commercials and breaking news snatch our attention sporadically but cannot supplant churches reinforcing our need for God. In my opinion atheist groups and the ACLU have dedicated efforts to erasing God from America and vestiges of Judeo-Christianity, including the Ten Commandments.

Olivia Fisher San Francisco

Lenten psalms inspiring Thoughts on charity Thank you and Father Peter Daly for Father Daly’s “Praying the psalms” (March 2). Reading the psalms during Lent seemed like a good idea. I decided to give it a try and it proved to be a challenge but a worthwhile experience. To become more familiar with the psalms and to appreciate them more fully I plan to continue reading them.

Mary L. Zgraggen San Francisco

Support the sisters

I have been thinking about the question of Christian charity and how it has evolved in my lifetime.

When I was a child the Catholic community and the church in America were very poor. Work was scarce and fathers worried about feeding their wives and children yet in those harsh times families and neighbors came together and helped each other as much as they could.

Fast forward to present times and we see that most charities, Catholic charities included, are funded largely by the government. Is this a good thing or does this expectation that government should take care of all our needs absolve us from the personal responsibility of helping the poor?

Hard times are here again and we can no longer expect the government to cut generous checks for our needs.

What does Jesus Christ say about charity? I do believe that many of us would be willing to give a few more dollars a month but in return we would expect and demand that this money be spent wisely. Each dollar that is spent should be with the realization that a sacrifice was made by many who could ill afford it.

Perhaps occasionally in one of our Sunday collections parishioners could be asked to sacrifice a few additional dollars to be spent only for the needy in one’s own community.

Mary Mendoza Millbrae

L E T T E R S

The Vatican proclamation regarding the Leadership Conference of Women Religious is a shameful attack on our Catholic sisters – the same sisters who live the Gospel every day, applying the teachings of Jesus Christ by ceaselessly serving the church and all the people of God. The sisters’ average age hovers above 70: They don’t willingly retire.

Learned in Catholic theology and steeped in the teachings of Vatican II, the 57,000 nuns take their leadership role seriously. They pray, think, act and speak.

This five-year “review” of women religious is a powerful bullying tactic by the bishops who seek to control the compassionate voices of our faith-filled sisters.

Surely it is clear to any fair-minded person that it is certain priests and their bishops who require more supervision ... not the good sisters!

Joseph and Geraldine Walsh Marin County

May 18, 2012

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Guest Commentary

How awake are we to the Spirit’s action in our lives?

The Holy Spirit comes in for special attention during preparation for confirmation and on the feast of Pentecost, but beyond that, how conscious are we of the Spirit’s activity in our lives and world?

Statements by theologians from various churches would seem to indicate “Not much.” To wit: “The Spirit among Catholics is faceless, somehow shadowy” (Walter Kasper). “The Spirit is a vague something or other” (Georgia Harkness). “Of all three divine persons, the Spirit is the most anonymous” (Norman Pittenger). “The Spirit is the half-known God” (Yves Congar).

And yet, if as we proclaim in the Nicene Creed the Spirit is “the Lord and Giver of Life,” then opportunities for encountering the Holy Spirit are as broad as the world itself. We encounter the Spirit in nature, in the personal world and especially in love relationships, and we encounter the Spirit in the social world – economic, political, cultural.

The Spirit, as the biblical prophets proclaimed so eloquently, is especially present and active whenever the poor are mistreated, when violence breaks out, when the widow and the orphan are oppressed.

We encounter the Spirit here when we join hands to resist these evils and do the work of justice and peace.

The words we use to speak about the Trinity are but pointers to divine mystery, and many of them, not surprisingly, are analogies, images and metaphors. One second-century theologian, Tertullian, used metaphors of the natural world to speak about God. One was that of a river which has its source (Father) and flows outward (Christ) and irrigates land to bring forth vegetation (Spirit).

He also uses the metaphor of a plant with its parts of a hidden root (Father), the shoot coming out of the ground and into the world (Christ), and the plant itself bringing forth leaves, fruits and seeds (the Spirit). Both of these analogies point to the Spirit as the one who produces the final, fruitful effect.

(CNS PHOTO/PAUL HARING)

By Father Thomas Ryan, CSP

A window depicting the dove of the Holy Spirit is the centerpiece of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculpture, “The Throne of St. Peter,” in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.

And what, in the big picture, is that final, fruitful effect? The redemption of all creation and the salvation of humankind.

The second-century church father Irenaeus wrote about God being at work in the world from the beginning of time with two hands – the word and the Spirit. Both

hands are working in tandem with each other, and at one point the word becomes flesh in Jesus of Nazareth who, at the end of his human life, gives us an advocate, the Holy Spirit, who will teach us everything (John 14:26).

In writing about the sweep of these

“two hands” at work in the world, Irenaeaus distinguished four successive periods in the history of salvation, each one corresponding to a divine covenant.

First, the covenant with humanity in Adam and Eve. Second, the covenant with Noah, who symbolizes the religious traditions of the nations. Third, the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenant with Israel. And finally, the covenant established by God in Jesus Christ.

The covenants stand to each other as so many ways of divine engagement with humankind through the Word and the Spirit. The covenant with Noah constitutes the lasting foundation for the salvation of every human person. In its entirety, it appears as an outline of the covenants with Abraham and Moses. Israel and the nations thus have a common base: They are in covenantship with the true God and under the same salvific will of that one God. The covenant with Noah thus assumes a far-reaching significance for a theology of the religious traditions of peoples belonging to the “extrabiblical traditions.” Because they, too, are covenant peoples, they deserve to be called “peoples of God.” Vatican II acknowledged that in ways known to God’s own self, God can lead to faith those who, through no fault of their own, are ignorant of the Gospel (“Ad Gentes” 7). This happens through the universal working of the Spirit of God: “Christ died for all and since all human beings are in fact called to one and the same destiny, which is divine, we must hold that the Holy Spirit offers to all the possibility of being associated, in a way known to God, with the paschal mystery” (“Gaudium et Spes” 22).

The church’s Spirit-guided mission is to share the fullness of divine life which God has destined for all by incorporation in Christ and becoming one people of God. Paulist Father Thomas Ryan directs the Paulist North American Office for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, Washington, D.C.

Making Sense out of Bioethics

The hidden power in suffering In a 1999 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, patients with serious illness were asked to identify what was most important to them during the dying process. Many indicated they wanted to achieve a “sense of control.” This is understandable. Most of us fear our powerlessness in the face of illness and death. We would like to retain an element of control, even though we realize that dying often involves the very opposite: a total loss of control, over our muscles, our emotions, our minds, our bowels and our very lives, as our human framework succumbs to powerful disintegrative forces.

Even when those disintegrative forces become extreme and our suffering may seem overwhelming, however, a singularly important spiritual journey always remains open for us. This path is a “road less traveled,” a path that, unexpectedly, enables us to achieve genuine control in the face of death. The hallmark of this path is the personal decision to accept our sufferings, actively laying down our life on behalf of others by embracing the particular kind of death God has ordained for us, patterning our choice on the choice consciously made by Jesus Christ.

When asked about the “why” of human suffering, Pope John Paul II once stated, with piercing simplicity, that the answer has “been given by God to man in the cross of Jesus Christ.” He stressed that Jesus went toward his own suffering, “aware of its saving power.” The pope also observed that in some way, each of us is called to “share in that suffering through which the redemption was accomplished.” He concluded that through his only-begotten son, God “has confirmed his desire to act especially through suffering, which is man’s weakness and emptying of self, and he wishes to make his power known precisely in this

weakness and emptying of self.” The pope echoes St. Paul’s famous passage: “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

The greatest possibility we have for achieving control, then, is to align ourselves in our suffering and weakness with God and his redemptive designs. This oblation of radically embracing our particular path to death, actively offered on behalf of others and in union with Christ, manifests our concern for the spiritual welfare of others, especially our friends and those closest to us. We are inwardly marked by a profound need to sacrifice and give of ourselves, a need that manifests our inner capacity to love and be loved.

As no one had ever done before, Jesus charted the path of love-driven sacrifice, choosing to lay down his life for his friends. He was no mere victim in the sense of being a passive and unwilling participant in his own suffering and death. He was in control. He emphasized, with otherworldly authority, that, “nobody takes my life from me: I lay it down, and I take it up again.”

Yet we see that his life was, in fact, taken from him by those various individuals and groups who plotted his death and sought his execution. His life was taken from him by evil men, even though, paradoxically, nobody took his life from him, because nobody had power over his being, unless granted from above.

We experience a similar paradox in our own deaths: While it may seem that our life is being taken from us through the evil of a particular ailment or the ravages of a particular disease, we can reply that nothing takes away our life, because nothing has power over our being, except what is ordained from above. In his providence and omniscience, years before the fact, God already knows

and foresees that unique confluence of events that will constitute our death, whether it be by stroke or cardiac arrest, liver failure or Alzheimer’s, or any other means. By spiritually embracing in Father Tadeusz God that specific path to death, our freedom is Pacholczyk elevated to new heights; indeed, we “achieve control” in the most important way possible, through willed surrender and radical gift in our innermost depths.

Jesus foresaw that his greatest work lay ahead as he ascended Calvary to embrace his own powerlessness and self-emptying. Although we may feel condemned to our powerlessness as we receive help from others in our sickness, and although we may feel supremely useless as we are “nailed” to our hospital bed, our active, inward embrace of the cross unleashes important graces for ourselves and others, and reveals a refulgent light beyond the obscurity of every suffering. Jesus’ radical embracing of his Passion – and our radical embracing of our own – marks the supreme moment of a person who achieves control over his or her destiny through immersion into the hope-filled and redemptive designs of God. Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Mass., and director of education at The National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 1:1-11 In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the When Jesus was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God, some people may have thought that he abandoned his disciples. One RCIA candidate assumed he did.

The reality is that by his Ascension, the risen Lord presents himself in a new way, continuing the saving mission given him by the father.

There are two significant points of this feast of the Ascension: 1) Jesus is entering into his eternal glory; and 2) we and his disciples are taking up his special mission through our baptismal and confirmation call.

The Ascension is a fulfillment of the divine plan of salvation for all people that continues throughout the world. The Ascension marks a change in the way that Jesus is present in the world. He is now present through us, his followers. It also marks a change in Jesus’ activity in the world.

Jesus no longer acts through the parts of his physical body, but through the members of his mystical body. In other words, Jesus no longer acts by using his own human voice to address people, his own human heart to love people, and his own human hands to reach out to others. Rather, he acts through us, his disciples.

He uses our voices to proclaim the Gospel to all people, our hearts to love our neighbors, and our hands to reach out to people. J.T. Niles said,

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The Ascension of the Lord Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9; Ephesians 1:17-23; Mark 16:15-20 sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

All you peoples, clap your hands, shout to God with cries of gladness, For the Lord, the Most High, the awesome, is the great king over all the earth.

God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy; the Lord, amid trumpet blasts.

Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our king, sing praise.

God mounts his throne to shouts of joy:

a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

For king of all the earth is God; sing hymns of praise.

God reigns over the nations, God sits upon his holy throne.

God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS EPH 1:17-23 Brothers and sisters: May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge of him. May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the hope that belongs to his call, what are the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones, and what

Scripture reflection DEACON FAIVA PO’OI

The Ascension’s call to disciples “Evangelization is one beggar telling another where he found the bread.”

This change does not mean that we are on our own. We cannot preach in Jesus’ name on our own power and ability. We preach with Jesus’ power and life, and we always look to Jesus to live, to minister and to preach effectively.

In the second reading, Ephesians 4:1-13, it states the virtues necessary for disciples to “preach the gospel” effectively: humility, gentleness, patience and love. It also instructs the community of the fruits of effective preaching: unity,

peace, hope and the building up of the body of Christ. As a deacon, I always pray for these virtues that are required of his disciples, for without humility, kindness, patience and understanding, I would not be able to minister effectively.

On this feast of the Ascension, Jesus passed on to us, his followers – like the passing of a baton from one runner to another in a relay race – the responsibility to make Jesus present in today’s world. The risen Jesus passed on to us the responsibility to let him continue to speak, love and reach out to people in need through us

is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great might, which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens, far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 16:15-20 Jesus said to his disciples: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to every creature. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved; whoever does not believe will be condemned. These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will drive out demons, they will speak new languages. They will pick up serpents with their hands, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not harm them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

So then the Lord Jesus, after he spoke to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God. But they went forth and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through accompanying signs. in our modern world. This is the mystery that we celebrate in this feast. This is the challenge that the Scripture holds out to us today.

Remember that Jesus has promised us that he will be with us always when we “proclaim the good news to all creatures.” He’s ready to help us whenever the need arises.

And so the feast of the Ascension is both a challenge and a consolation. Jesus challenges us to follow his commandments and directions for journeying to our eternal destination. As a consolation, Jesus also reminds us that he is with us every foot of the way. This is the message of today’s feast. This is the promise that we celebrate on this feast. This is the good news of the Ascension.

Let us share these words of Jesus to his followers in the “Sermon on the Mount” from Matthew 5:14, 16: “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden. … In the same way let your light shine before people, so that they will see the goods things you do and glorify your father in heaven.” May the Eucharist give us a new spirit to be what we are: the new body by which the risen Lord speaks, loves, and reaches out to people in today’s world.

Deacon Faiva Po’oi serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo.

Question Corner

Sponsor scrutiny, disposing of sacred objects Question: I have been asked to be a confirmation sponsor. The priest wants all sponsors to produce a “current baptismal certificate with notations.” Isn’t it the candidate who is under scrutiny, not the sponsor? Is this a new church law – or just a way of annoying people who accept this duty? (Batesville, Ind.) Answer: A confirmation sponsor is selected for a role that is quite specific: to provide an example of a life of Catholic discipleship. This means a sponsor should be chosen not simply to repay a family favor or to honor a friend.

The law of the church sets forth clearly the requirements for a sponsor in Canon No. 874 of the Code of Canon Law: He or she must be at least 16, have received the sacraments of Eucharist and confirmation and be someone “who leads a life of faith” in keeping with the function to be taken on.

A baptismal certificate is used to indicate the sponsor’s sacramental history, since it would include notations giving the dates of first Communion and confirmation.

Often there also is a required form signed by the pastor of the sponsor’s home parish, verifying that the sponsor is someone in good standing with the Catholic Church who regularly attends Sunday Mass and, if married, is in a marriage recognized by church law.

These requirements are in place not as a way of annoying people who accept this duty but simply to ensure that the sponsor truly is a person committed to Catholic faith

and practice and can serve as a model for the confirmation candidate.

Canon law also suggests (in Canon No. 893, section 2) that “it is desirable to choose as sponsor the one who undertook the same function in baptism.” That may be impractical, however – either because (as sometimes unfortunately happens) the baptismal sponsor no longer serves as a model of Catholic faith and practice or (as is more often the case) the baptismal sponsor lives too far away to be involved in the candidate’s preparation for confirmation.

Many parishes have valuable sessions where the candidates and sponsors study and learn together and where sponsors can share with the candidates why the Catholic faith is important in their lives.

Question: Over the years, as members of my family have passed away, I have acquired a large collection of rosary beads, missals, scapulars and palm – all of which have been blessed. They are no longer used or needed, and I’m wondering what is the proper way to dispose of these devotional articles? (Sayreville, N.J.) Answer: The palm you have collected was almost certainly blessed, the rosaries and scapulars probably were, and the missals quite likely were not. Objects of religious devotion do over time break or wear out from use but, perhaps surprisingly, the law of the church is not specific about their disposal.

Canon No. 1171 simply says in general that “sacred objects, which are designated for divine worship by dedication or blessing, are to be treated reverently” and are not to be used in inapFather propriate or profane Kenneth Doyle ways. Church custom over the centuries has extended this reverence to all articles blessed for devotion, even if they are not used in a liturgical context.

The common practice, when disposing of blessed articles such as rosaries, scapulars or palm, has been to burn or bury them. Blessing signifies sanctification for a sacred purpose – and the underlying idea, in burying or burning them, is that what has been dedicated to God should be returned to God. Father Doyle’s column is carried by Catholic News Service. Send questions to Father Doyle at askfatherdoyle@gmail.com and 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.

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Just 15, student gives back with speech of gratitude for Catholic education De Marillac Academy promotes six virtues – compassion, leadership, perseverance, integrity, gratitude and responsibility – and people who were there say that Deja Wilson, the 2010 graduate who was the featured speaker at the school’s annual fundraiser in February, showed flashes of all six and one more for good measure: resiliency.

The event was Feb. 9 at the Westin St. Francis at Union Square, before an audience of 800, who were friends and benefactors of the Catholic school in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. It would have been an intimidating assignment for many or most 15-year-olds, and Deja had good reason to take a pass on giving the speech. Her mother, Denise Wilson, who had reared her and her younger sister, Tamia, a De Marillac eighth grader, as a single parent, had died a few days before Christmas.

No doubt her mother would have wanted her to go on, and to express, as she did, her gratitude for supporting what she called “our little miracle in the Tenderloin,” and talk about her passion for the arts that were stirred at De Marillac, a passion still being nurtured at Mercy High School where she is a sophomore.

As she spoke that night, Michael Daniels, the president of De Marillac, said he remembered thinking, “It makes me so proud of this program that we have worked hard to develop. To have her find her calling and sense of self and confidence and expression that she might not have otherwise. It’s a great example for the rest of the kids as well as the faculty and staff.”

Daniels said that Deja Wilson’s poise and maturity that night reflected “what we have been working toward for so long,” and was all the more remarkable because of what she has been through.

In an interview three months later, Deja said, “I thought it was important to give the speech and De Marillac has been such a great influence on my life so I wanted to make sure I could speak and show them how grateful I am for the opportunities they have given me.”

Lauren Stevens, the director of graduate support at De Marillac, had asked Deja prior to her mother’s death if she would be the guest speaker. It was an honor. Stevens put that on back burner, however, to allow Deja to grieve – when seemingly out of nowhere, said Stevens, Deja said to her, “’What about the speech? Time is running short. I have to prepare for this.’”

Reared in the Mission District, Deja and Tamia came from a low-income home but one with an emphasis on education.

Deja entered De Marillac, which offers tuition-free, benefactor-supported education in grades four through eight, and was transformed – moving from a public school with a student-to-teacher ratio of 45-to-1 to 12-to-1 at the private school.

“I can honestly say that De Marillac Academy has made me the person I am today,” she told her audience that night.

Here’s who she is: She was graduated

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By George Raine

Deja Wilson graduated with first honors and found a calling as a painter. ‘De Marillac Academy has made me the person I am today,’ she told an audience of 800 at a school fundraiser.

Examples of Deja Wilson’s artwork include abstract cityscape, above and study of a face. She was encouraged in her painting at De Marillac Academy and thanks to the Good Tidings Foundation, a De Marillac benefactor, at the LeRoy Neiman Art Center for Youth at Pier 9 in San Francisco.

with first honors from De Marillac, and along the way she seemingly found a calling in painting, finding encouragement not only at the school but, thanks to the Good Tidings Foundation, a De Marillac benefactor, at the LeRoy Neiman Art Center for Youth at Pier 9, where the students can take classes.

And, by the end of the eighth grade, she had visited eight colleges around the Bay Area on field trips.

“I mean, what other eighth grader do you know who has already visited that many colleges and is even thinking about what they want to major in and what college they want to go to?” she asked her audience.

She recalled that her mother was a “compassionate and hardworking mom, who was determined to provide a fulfilling and stable life for us, something she never had.” She introduced the girls to De Marillac, “which quickly became an extension of our family,” said Deja.

She chose Mercy High School because she thought the smaller size would be a good fit for her – as is the single-gender education. “I feel more comfortable in expressing myself without having to worry about anybody. I get to be myself,” she said.

“I found myself. I know who I am. I know what I like.”

Indeed, when last year her counselor, Sky Chandler, recommended Deja for a summer course scholarship at Academy of Art University – she got it – she wrote in part that Deja’s style of painting, largely acrylic abstracts, is different than that of most of her peers. “Where some students might try to assimilate,” Chandler wrote, “Deja just notes this difference with curiosity and then carries on, enjoying what she does best: Being Deja.”

She’s also appeared in “Dead Man Walking,” “Hairspray” and other productions at Mercy and has that bug, too, and

is an advocate for arts education across the board: “I think it is important because students need a way to express themselves, like when I act. It is fun to be able to be someone else. It is fun to transform into another character. It is the way I express myself.”

Dr. Dorothy McCrae, the principal at Mercy, said Deja is the ideal Mercy girl.

“It’s her ability to express herself and how much she has grown in her confidence in the sense, in the single-gender school, of finding and knowing who you are,” she said.

Deja and Tamia now live with Ginale Harris, her mom’s best friend, and her family in Daly City. Tamia is a story herself, and is following in Deja’s footsteps. She has just been selected as the De Marillac Academy Class of 2012 salutatorian and will be speaking at the eighth grade graduation this year on May 25. Deja gives Tamia her due: “First of all, she’s brilliant,” she said.

2 parish pilgrims visiting every Catholic church in city for Mass

By Tom Burke

Barbara Mason, left, and Carolyn Eriksson are pictured at the Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and the Porziuncola where they began their church pilgrimage through San Francisco in 2009.

The Sunday drive takes a new spin in the hands of Barbara Mason and Carolyn Eriksson. Eriksson, a parishioner of St. Matthew in San Mateo, Mason of St. Denis Parish in Menlo Park, are in the midst of visiting all the churches in San Francisco for Sunday Mass.

Both women spoke with Catholic San Francisco about their pilgrimage, a journey spurred by information in the paper, they said. “We read your articles about the new Porziuncola at the Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and wanted to go up and see it,” Eriksson said. “We decided to make a day of it and attend Mass at the shrine, tour the Porziuncola and then have lunch somewhere in North Beach. It was such an amazing day for us and we

felt so spiritually moved that we thought we’d like to see more churches in the city, and that blossomed into the idea of the pilgrimage.”

The holy trek began in May 2009 and so far the women have attended Mass at 23 churches in San Francisco, a “half-way mark” both said. They make the trips once a month and expect the pilgrimage will keep them busy for another two years or so.

Eriksson grew up in San Francisco, lived in several parishes, and always thought the churches were beautiful.

“Traveling through Europe, I always loved going to the churches from the big cathedrals to the little chapels. It isn’t just the architecture; it’s the sense of God’s presence in each place.”

Mason spent some time in Europe

quite a few years ago and found that some of the churches in San Francisco remind her of the across-the-pond architecture. “There is a real beauty in these houses of God,” Mason said. “I remember especially talking to the priest after Mass at St. Boniface in the Tenderloin. He said `wasn’t it wonderful that these people who see so much ugliness around them can come into this church and share in its beauty.’”

They make the trips by themselves but have spoken of the trips with their family members. “I don’t see this as a group activity but do encourage my other friends to find a friend to do this with,” Mason said.

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Spirituality for Life

The power of powerlessness There are different kinds of power and different kinds of authority. There is military power, muscle power, political power, economic power, moral power, charismatic power and psychological power, among other things. There are different kinds of authority too: We can be bitterly forced into acquiescing to certain demands or we can be gently persuaded into accepting them. Power and authority are not all of a kind.

Imagine four persons in a room: The first is a powerful dictator who rules a country. His word commands armies and his shifting moods intimidate subordinates. He wields a brutal power. Next to him sits a gifted athlete at the peak of his physical prowess, a man whose quickness and strength have few equals. His skills are a graceful power for which he is much admired and envied. The third person is a rock star whose music and charisma can electrify an audience and fill a room with a soulful energy. Her face is on billboards and she is a household name. That’s still another kind of power. Finally, we have too in the room a newborn, a baby, lying in its crib, seemingly without any power or strength whatsoever, unable to even ask for what it needs. Which of these is ultimately the most powerful?

The irony is that the baby ultimately wields the greatest power. The athlete could crush it, the dictator could kill it, and the rock star could out-glow it in sheer dynamism, but the baby has a different kind of power. It can touch hearts in a way that a dictator, an athlete or a rock star cannot. Its innocent, wordless presence, without physical strength, can transform a room and a heart in a way that guns, muscle

and charisma cannot. We watch our language and actions around a baby, less so around athletes and rock stars. The powerlessness of a baby touches us at a deeper moral place.

And this is the way we find and experience God’s power here on earth, sometimes to our great frustration, and this is the way that Jesus was deemed powerful during his lifetime. The entire Gospels make this clear, from beginning to end. Jesus was born as a baby, powerless, and he died hanging helplessly on a cross with bystanders mocking his powerlessness. Yet both his birth and his death manifest the kind of power upon which we can ultimately build our lives.

The Gospels describe Jesus’ power and authority in exactly this way. In Greek, the original language of the Gospels, we find three words for power or authority. We easily recognize the first two: energy and dynamic. There is a power in energy, in physical health and muscle, just as there is a power in being dynamic, in dynamite, in having the power to generate energy; but when the Gospels speak of Jesus as “having great power” and as having a power beyond that of other religious figures, they do not use the words energetic or dynamic. They use a third word, “exousia,” which might be best rendered as “vulnerability.” Jesus’ real power was rooted in a certain vulnerability, like the powerlessness of a child.

This isn’t an easy concept to grasp since our idea of power is normally rooted in the opposite, namely, the notion that power lies in the ability to overwhelm, not underwhelm, others. And yet we understand this, at least somewhat, in our experience of babies, who can overpower us precisely by their powerlessness.

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We want divine power in iron, muscles, guns and charisma.

But that’s not the way intimacy, peace and God are found.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas. www.ronrolheiser.com.

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Author looks at Crusades from view of disintegrating Eastern empire “THE FIRST CRUSADE: THE CALL FROM THE EAST” by Peter Frankopan. Belknap Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2012). 296 pp., $29.95.

Reviewed by Brian Welter (CNS) Byzantine Emperor Alexios Komnenos deserves much credit for calling and getting the First Crusade off the ground, and for bringing it to a successful conclusion. By 1107, he had achieved all his main aims despite the hardto-control Western knights and the ever-present threat of Muslim counterattacks.

In “The First Crusade,” Peter Frankopan, a British scholar of the Byzantine empire, ably refutes the centuries-held view that the emperor was deceitful and disloyal to the Crusaders.

Rather, Alexios supported the Western warriors, as with consistent and generous provisioning all along the route to the Holy Land, and even after the capture of Jerusalem in 1099.

He fulfilled his promises. Westerners who accused him of failure to respect sworn oaths failed to understand all the circumstances. For instance, Alexios couldn’t come to Antioch in late 1097 and lead the badly divided Westerners because of concerns for his safety in traveling so far from the capital, and from potential insurgencies from within Constantinople in his absence.

The author offers an Eastern-oriented view, preceding his discussion of the Crusade by outlining the slow-motion yet seemingly inevitable disintegration of the 11th-century Eastern empire to various Turkish warlords. Unfortunately, Frankopan doesn’t offer character portraits of various emperors and Turkish warriors, which would have added to this background. Nonetheless, this discussion, as with the more sympathetic, Byzantine-oriented view of Alexios, is a welcome addition to an oft-neglected or badly reported

aspect of the Crusades as a whole. The Greeks are usually portrayed as tricky bit players.

The First Crusade, readers learn, was as much an undertaking of the Byzantines as it was of the West: “The context of the First Crusade is not to be found in the foothills of Clermont (where Pope Urban II held a council to call for the Crusade) or in the Vatican, but in Asia Minor and in Constantinople. For too long, the narrative of the Crusade has been dominated by Western voices.”

Likewise neglected in many Crusader histories, the author’s interesting, easily understood background to the divided Western church shows how the pontiff remade the medieval church through the Crusade. Pope Urban II needed something big like a war to unite the church and reinvigorate the papacy.

The Crusades, Frankopan boldly claims, remade the Middle Ages as a whole: “The First Crusade defined the Middle Ages. It established a common identity for the knighthood of Europe, pinned firmly on the Christian faith.”

Such a sweeping statement, which the author doesn’t try to prove, is more opinion than anything, and therefore out of place. Yet the discussion of Western church politics, and how they so closely complemented those of the Eastern empire, reflects the author’s expertise in both the Greek and Latin medieval worlds. This dual scholarship helps to give

“The First Crusade: The Call from the East” its distinctive contribution to knowledge of the Crusades.

The First Crusade, a partnership of Constantinople and Rome coming just decades after the Great Schism, demanded cooperation and trust between Christian East and West – perhaps at a level not seen since. Greek monks, for instance, wrote treatises showing that East-West division was not so deep.

The book refers less to the military and more to the political, cultural and religious forces of Christendom. Frankopan doesn’t bog readers down in the details of the battles along the way from Constantinople to Antioch, and from there southward to Jerusalem and ultimate triumph. Even readers unfamiliar with the Crusades or histories of military campaigns should be able to follow the action.

The author shows how, politically speaking, Alexios remained a driving force for the Crusades along with the pope and other Latin leaders. Importantly, Frankopan observes, “It seems it was only after the Crusaders began to argue amongst themselves that attitudes toward Alexios began to harden. By the autumn of 1098, he had become a lightning rod for criticism, a convenient cipher for the squabbles and rival ambitions amongst the Crusade leadership.”

Yet, despite this “slander” and later “airbrushing” of Alexios from histories of the Crusade, Alexios and the empire won in a big way, as the campaign reinvigorated the empire militarily, politically and economically for the next 100 years, allowing a 12th-century empire that was, in the words of the author, “strident, self-confident and militaristic, very much in Alexios’ own image.”

Welter is studying for his doctorate in systematic theology and teaching English in Taiwan.

Ex-Swiss Guard recounts business lessons learned from Pope John Paul II “THE POPE & THE CEO: JOHN PAUL II’S LEADERSHIP LESSONS TO A YOUNG SWISS GUARD” by Andreas Widmer. Emmaus Road Publishing (Steubenville, Ohio, 2011). 155 pp., $12.95.

Reviewed by Daniel S. Mulhall (CNS) The story is an unusual one. A young man leaves his home in a small village in Switzerland and becomes a member of the elite Swiss Guard that protects the pope and the Vatican. During his few years in the Swiss Guard the young man learns life lessons from the pope, which he then uses to become a successful businessman. Wishing to give back, the man shares what he learned and how it applies to running a successful business.

That paragraph describes the book, “The Pope & the CEO.” The young man, Andreas Widmer, served as a member of Pope John Paul II’s protection detail with the Swiss Guard for a few years in the late 1980s. The book presents a series of principles that Widmer learned from John Paul, and then his application of those principles to business success. Both the principles and the business advice are of interest and worth the consideration of anyone engaged in running a business.

The book is enjoyable to read, and the stories are quite appealing. The idea of gleaning wisdom from the teachings of a pope and applying them to business is novel, although there have been other books written along this line that use the principles from religious life – Jesuits in particular – and show how they translate into successful business management.

What makes this book different is that much of Widmer’s learning comes from observation: Widmer would see the Children reflect the strains of childhood within and outside of the family

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While this personal connection to the Holy Father makes the book of greater interest to religious readers than a book just about business might be, there are times when this personal connection seems a bit too much to believe. That John Paul II would know his protection detail well and treat them with dignity and respect is quite acceptable. That he would become a companion and friend stretches credulity.

Fortunately, such claims are rare.

The business principles that Widmer presents here are not that much different than one expects to find in a typical book written for business leaders, although because they are often stated in religious language, it approaches business somewhat differently.

Widmer encourages business leaders to know who they are and why they do what they do; what he calls being true to their vocation. Widmer argues that to succeed, the leader must find and maintain a proper sense of balance. He also encourages business leaders to make prayer a part of their regular routine and to develop a sense of humility, recognizing their own limitations and abilities. Leaders are also

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Other key ideas presented are training our wills to make good decisions; having a clear mission and vision with goals that can help us to accomplish our objectives; recognizing and honoring the value of others on our team; leading by example; and living a balanced life. Each chapter concludes with a summary statement and reflection questions that business leaders can use to apply the lessons from the book to the decisions they have to make and the way they make them.

The book is published by a division of Catholics United for the Faith and contains a foreword by George Weigel, a prominent biographer of Pope John Paul. The book also contains a selection of photos of Widmer as a member of the Guard along with more recent photos showing him with his nephews, who are now members of the Guard.

Mulhall is a speaker and writer on topics related to evangelization, catechesis and pastoral planning.

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■ Continued from page 17 faith who gather in them. “I loved the closeness of the congregation at St. Emydius,” Mason said.

A favorite part of the trips has been celebrating Mass in languages other than English. “We’ve heard Mass in French, Latin, Italian and Polish,” Eriksson said. “We used the directory from the Archdiocese of San Francisco to locate all the churches and then pick which Masses to attend at each church, and we specifically sought out Masses in different languages.”

A Mass in Latin was especially moving for Mason.

“When we went to a Latin Mass, I was amazed at how much more reverent it felt. Not better, not worse – just different,” she said.

Hospitality is “amazing,” Eriksson said, adding each community has its own personality. “At some churches the members of the congregation all seemed to leave their pews and walk around, greeting everyone with a smile and a handshake during the sign of peace. At other churches, members warmly asked us to join them at their pancake breakfast while others greeted us at the

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door and asked if we were visiting. We were made to feel welcome everywhere.”

Mason agrees. “All the churches were more than welcoming, but I always felt especially good when I saw college-age boys and girls at Mass. This is a time many of them leave the church because they don’t have their parents telling them they have to go, so I love that they are still going.”

Eriksson was very pleased with the homily at St. Dominic, with Holy Name of Jesus for its choir and with St. Mary’s Cathedral for liturgical detail.

“We’ve met so many wonderful priests who appear so dedicated to their parishioners and their churches,” Eriksson said. “We’ve been so warmly welcomed by parishioners across all ethnic and age demographics. We’ve found so often that the homilies seemed to be directed at us personally. For example, one day while we were driving up to the city, we were bemoaning all the time we waste checking emails, browsing the web, etc.

The sermon that day was about `disconnecting from our computers’ and `connecting with life.”

Mason said she felt “exactly the same way.”

The pilgrimage, Eriksson said, “Has been the most rewarding spiritual experience in my adult life.”

May crowning Makayla Jones, 7, smiles as she holds a floral crown before processing into Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Roosevelt, N.Y., for a Mass on Mother’s Day, May 13.

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THREE-DAY VOCATION: “Weekend Religious Life Discernment Retreat” for single Catholic women 18-40, May 18, 19, 20. Is God calling you to consider consecrated life as a Dominican Sister? Discover your place in the mission of Christ with the MSJ Dominicans.

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SUNDAY, MAY 20 SCHOLARSHIP LUNCH: Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court of Our Lady of the Miracle, No 1701 in Novato awards scholarships to students from Our Lady of Loretto and St. Anthony parishes with proceeds from the group’s annual Salad Luncheon at OLL Parish Hall, 1805 Virginia Ave., beginning at 11:30 a.m. The day’s treats include a salad buffet, rolls, beverages and desserts. Tickets for Basket Raffle will be sold. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children.

Call (415) 892-3834 by May 14.

CONTEMPORARY SACRED ART: Art by David and Thea Ramsey through June 6, Tuesday-Saturday noon-4 p.m., at Notre Dame de Namur University’s Wiegand Gallery, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Artists and teachers David and Thea Ramsey created art imbued with the sense of the sacred. The two taught at schools including Notre Dame de Namur University, Mercy High School, Burlingame and Canada College.

Special reception opens the exhibit May 20, 2-4 p.m.

Visit www.ndnu.edu/alumni/upcoming-events.aspx.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 THREE DAY REVIVAL: St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, Third Street at Jamestown, San Francisco at 7 p.m. Join the annual Pentecost Revival with Dominican Father Paul de Porres Whittington, pastor, St. Benedict the African-West Catholic Church, Chicago. Inspirational Voices of Shipwreck Gospel Choir and other Bay Area gospel choirs lead song. Prayer continues May 24, 25.

Admission is free. Offering will be taken. Free parking lot entrance on Key Street. Visit www.stpauloftheshipwreck. org or call (415) 468-3434.

FRIDAY, MAY 25 CATHOLIC CHARISMATICS: Three-day convention, May 25-27, celebrating 25 years of unity in the Spirit at Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara. Weekend includes praise, worship, teaching, reconciliation, healing with all-weekend and day tickets available for adults and children, youth, and young adults. Principal celebrants of convention Masses included Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia and San Jose Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Daly. Speakers include Msgr. James Tarantino, longtime liaison to

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Spaces available for vendors at $35 each before May 25/$50 each after May 25.

Spaces are one full parking space. Call (415) 461-0704 or email sebastian94904@ yahoo.com. Pictured is last year’s event with all its fun and hustle and bustle. the renewal for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and EWTN’s Jesse Romero. “Come expecting the power of a faithful God,” organizers said. Visit www.ncrcspirit.org.

SATURDAY, MAY 26 ROSARY CRUSADE: “Public Square Rosary Crusade,” at San Francisco’s UN Plaza, Eighth and Market streets, noon, led by Father John Jimenez.

“Don’t let God be pushed from the public square,” organizers said. Call Juanita Agcaoili at (415) 647-7229 or Helen Rosenthal at (415) 661-1991.

SUNDAY, MAY 27 UNITY MASS: The faith communities of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral and Holy Family Chinese Mission will celebrate a parish unity Mass at 11 a.m. followed by a luncheon. The St. Mary’s School Choir will participate.

Call (415) 288-3800.

MONDAY, MAY 28, MEMORIAL DAY MASS: Masses commemorating Memorial Day at cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco: 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Old Mission Road, Colma, with Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy, presiding. 11 a.m. Mass is outdoors at Holy Cross Cemetery, Santa Cruz Avenue at Avy, Menlo Park with Father Lawrence Goode presiding. 11 a.m. Mass is outdoors at Mount Olivet Cemetery, 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, with Father Paul Perry presiding. 9:30 a.m. Mass is outdoors at Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery, Miramontes Street, Half Moon Bay. Visit www.holycrosscemeteries. com or call (650) 756-2060.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1 ‘IGNATIUS BEHIND BARS’: Jesuit Father George Williams, chaplain at San Quentin State Prison, will be guest speaker at Catholic Marin Breakfast Club.

Mass begins the gathering at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Road at Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, Greenbrae with talk and full breakfast after. Father Williams has called his ministry “Ignatius behind bars.”

Group meets again first Friday in September. Breakfast is $8 members/$10 nonmembers. Email Sugaremy@ aol.com for reservations.

NOVENA: Nine days of prayer honoring St. Peregrine, “the cancer saint,” at St. Dominic Church

through June 9. Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto, pastor of St. Dominic, will preach. Masses, MondaySaturday, 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. and Sunday at 11:30 a.m. Caregivers, friends, family members and other loved ones are invited to this special occasion of prayer and intercession for those suffering from cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening illnesses.

Sponsored by the Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus. Call (415) 931-5919 or visit www.stjude-shrine.org.

SATURDAY, JUNE 2 125TH ANNIVERSARY MASS: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, is 125 years old. Archbishop George Niederauer is principal celebrant of an anniversary Mass in Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel at 11 a.m.

Refreshments served after Mass. Visit www.holycrosscemeteries.com or call (650) 756-2060.

MEN’S CONFERENCE: “Courage to be Catholic” at St. Luke Parish, 1111 Beach Park Blvd., Foster City, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. with registration beginning at 7:30 a.m.

Jesse Romero and Terry Barber are guest speakers.

Last year’s event drew more than 500 participants.

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WHALE OF A SALE: St. Sebastian Church parking lot, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and Bon Air Road, Greenbrae, set-up 7:30 a.m. and shopping from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Spaces available for vendors at $35 each before May 25/$50 each after May 25. Spaces are one full parking space. Call (415) 461-0704 or email sebastian94904@yahoo.com.

MONDAY, JUNE 4 FIVE-DAY VOCATION EVENT: Religious Life Discernment Retreat with the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose for single Catholic women 18-40. This is a live-in experience June 4-8 at Dominican Sisters MSJ motherhouse 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont. Call Sister Marcia at (510) 502-5797. Time includes discernment, sharing, quiet, community, Mass, prayer, study and service. Overnight accommodations, meals and snacks provided. Free-will offering accepted.

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TRIBUTE: Archbishop Riordan High School with San Francisco Fire Fighters Local 798 honors Lt. Vincent Perez, a 1981 Riordan graduate, who was killed in the line of duty. Luncheon and raffle support the Lt. Vincent Perez Scholarship Fund at Riordan.

Event and raffle tickets – a chance to win a 2012 Harley Davidson Street Glide – can be purchased by calling the union at (415) 621-7103 or email info@riordanhs. org for more information.

SUNDAY, JUNE 24 NEW DEACONS: Archbishop George Niederauer will ordain candidates to the permanent diaconate at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco at 3:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 REUNION: Class of 1972, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Contact Notre Dame alumnae office at (650) 595 1913 ext. 446 or email dseveri@ndhsb.org or eileen_browning@yahoo.com.

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) 479-3838 or Mergie, at (415) 453-7714.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14 REUNION: Presentation High School, San Francisco, class of 1982, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at Elks Lodge, 920 Stonegate Drive, South San Francisco.

Tickets at $40 per person include delicious brunch.

Email Kathy Cooney Eagles at kathycooney@hotmail. com or call (650) 892-7310.

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 for details. Spread the word to our fellow graduates!

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parish pastors with the Alemany Award in ceremonies at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street and Geary Boulevard, San Francisco. Honorees are cathedral pastor, Msgr. John Talesfore; Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto, pastor, St. Dominic Church, San Francisco; and Jesuit Father Charles Gagan, pastor, St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco. “Please join us in recognizing three Catholic priests who have served the church and city of San Francisco,” organizers said. Visit www. dspt.edu/alemany2012 or call Michael Chinnavaso at (510) 883-7159.

ICF RAVIOLI DINNER: Italian Catholic Federation Branch 173 annual ravioli dinner at Our Lady of Angels Gym, 1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame. No-host bar at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7. Wine available for purchase with dinner. Raffle tickets for sale. Adult tickets $18 and children $5 (12 and under). Call Sandra at (650) 697-4279 to RSVP by June 6.

BOCCE BALL: Riordan Bocce Ball Tournament at Orange Park in South San Francisco. Contact Sharon Ghilardi-Udovich, director of special events at (415) 586-8200 ext.*217 or email sudovich@riordanhs.org.

ALUMNAE DAY: Notre Dame High School Legacy Luncheon, Notre Dame High School, 1540 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Contact Denise Severi at Dseveri@ ndhsb.org. Reunions for class of ’87, Aug. 5, contact Heather Oda at moda@co.sanmateo.ca.us; class of ’67 Oct. 27, contact Susan Angle at susanangle@ comcast.net or (925) 680-4917.

SATURDAY, MAY 19 GOOD FOOD: “A Taste of San Francisco,” 6-10 p.m.

Sample food from some of the area’s best restaurants and benefit St. Brigid School, 2250 Franklin St., San Francisco. Foods from restaurants including Street, Osha Thai, House of Prime Rib, Gioia Pizza, Good Luck Dim Sum, El Porteno Empanadas. Music by Turnaround Jazz Trio. Beverages including spirits and wine will be available for purchase. A live and silent auction featuring student art, fine wines, restaurant dinners, sporting events, gifts and services from many local merchants will be held. Proceeds benefit St. Brigid School scholarship programs and new computers. Tickets are $50 per person. Sponsored by the “St. Brigid Dads’ Group.” Visit http://saintbrigid.eventbrite.com or buy your ticket at the door. Email SBdads@gmail.com for more information.

THREE CHEERS: A celebration of Ron Isola’s 45 years of service to Archbishop Riordan High School and Bay Area athletics. Tickets are $80 per person.

Mass is at 5 p.m. followed by cocktails, dinner and program. Visit ronsretirement@riordanhs.org.

NEW PRIESTS: Rev. Mr. Armando J. Gutierrez, Rev. Mr. Felix B. Lim, Rev. Mr. Jerome M. Murphy are ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of San Francisco at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough Street at Geary Boulevard, San Francisco.

REUNION: Class of ’51 from Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City at the 16 Mile House in Millbrae.

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Ph. 415.515.2043 Ph. 650.508.1348

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Notary

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Lic. 631209) 9)

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Cell (415) 517-5977 (650) 757-1946 NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

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Counseling David Nellis M.A. M.F.T. • Marriage problems • Individual problems • Loss and grief

– NOTICE TO READERS – Licensed contractors are required by law to list their license numbers in advertisments. The law also state that contractors performing work totaling $500 or more must be statelicensed. Advertisments appearing in this newspaper without a license number indicate that the contractor is not licensed.

For more information, contact:

(650) 580-6334 / (925) 330-4760

Do you want to be more fulfilled in love and work – but find things keep getting in the way?

Unhealed wounds can hold you back - even if they are not the “logical” cause of your problems today. You can be the person God intended.

Inner Child Healing Offers a deep spiritual and psychological approach to counseling:

The Irish Rose

Home Healthcare Agency Specializing in home health aides, attendants and companions.

❖ 30 years experience with individuals, couples and groups ❖ Directed, effective and results-oriented ❖ Compassionate and Intuitive ❖ Supports 12-step ❖ Enneagram Personality Transformation ❖ Free Counseling for Iraqi/Afghanistani Vets

Serving San Francisco, Marin & the Peninsula.

Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT

Contact: 415.447.8463

San Francisco: 415.337.9474 Complimentary phone consultation www.InnerChildHealing.com

SUPPLE SENIOR CARE “The most compassionate care in town”

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When Life Hurts It Helps To Talk • Family • Work • Relationships • Depression • Anxiety • Addictions

Dr. Daniel J. Kugler Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Over 30 years experience • Reasonable Fees

Confidential • Compassionate • Practical (415) 921-1619 • Insurance Accepted 1537 Franklin Street • San Francisco, CA 94109

Discount to CSF Readers

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Electrical ALL ELECTRIC SERVICE 650.322.9288

Service Changes Solar Installation Lighting/Power Fire Alarm/Data Green Energy Fully Licensed • State Certified • Locally Trained • Experienced • On Call 24/7

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• Spiritual problems

We Provide reliable & experienced caregivers to help seniors in their own home. *Companionship, Bathing, Alzheimer, Dementia & more.

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License # 858573

ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND

John Holtz Ca. Lic 391053 General Contractor Since 1980

Painting

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Kevin Cooper

HOLLAND Plumbing Works San Francisco

San Francisco 415 759 0520

Call BILL 415.731.8065 • Cell: 415.710.0584

Windows

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10% Discount: Seniors, Parishioners

Painting & Remodeling

O’DONOGHUE CONSTRUCTION Kitchen/Bath Remodel Dry Rot Repair • Decks /Stairs Plumbing Repair/Replacement Call: 650.580.2769 Lic. # 505353B-C36

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➤ Hauling ➤ Job Site Clean-Up ➤ Demolition ➤ Yard Service ➤ Garbage Runs ➤ Saturday & Sunday

FREE ESTIMATES! • Fast & Affordable

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Construction VONNEGUT THOREAU construction On-time — on-budget.

MATT JOYCE 415.314.8415 www.vtconstruct.com 118 Mateo St., San Francisco

Cahalan Const.

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Carpentry Doors • Locks • Moldings • Stairs • Hand Rails • Cabinetry Not a licensed contractor

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May 18, 2012

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Visit us at www.catholic-sf.org

help wanted PILGRIMAGE SALES â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Unitours, one of the most respected names in Catholic Pilgrimage Travel is seeking a sales representative in this area. Representatives call on local priests and parish pilgrimage organizers to assist in planning and promoting Catholic Parish Pilgrimages to Europe and the Middle East. Position is commission based and international travel experience and basic computer skills are required.

To apply, complete the application and attached resume at www.Unitours.com/sales

PUBLISH A NOVENA

Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

$139

Cost $26

If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call 415-614-5640 Your prayer will be published in our newspaper

Name Address Phone MC/VISA # Exp.

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Restorative Justice, spiritually based ministry in South San Francisco seeking a full-time administrative staff position.

The ideal candidate is highly responsible; possess excellent computer skills (including Excel), energetic, uplifting, and a capable multi tasker.

Please return form with check or money order for $26 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

Interested applicants please forward resume to: SDesmond@svdp-sanmateoco.org

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St. Anthony of Padua in Novato is looking for a Faith Formation Coordinator for Grades one through six. The position would be 20 hours per week with benefits. Dates of the position would be August 15th through June 15th of the following year. The candidate would be paid over a twelve month payroll schedule. Salary is negotiable upon experience.

Please send your resume to 1000 Cambridge St. Novato, CA 94947 or email to christiestanthonys@comcast.net.

GOSPEL CHOIR DIRECTOR POSITION AVAILABLE!

St. Paul of the Shipwreck Catholic Church has a fabulous Gospel Choir, and we are looking for a Director to direct our choir and musicians at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday Gospel Mass. Salary is negotiable within range of the Archdiocese of San Francisco established guidelines. Email your Resume/Application to spswoffice@aol.com, or FAX to (415) 468-1400.

For more details, call Rev. Mr. Larry Chatmon, Deacon, daytime at (415) 557-5330, or evening (510) 430-0353.

open house

50 YEAR JUBILEE CELEBRATION SAN RAFAEL, CA May 3, 2012 - 2012 marks the fiftieth anniversary of NAZARETH HOUSE of San Rafael. Since 1962, Nazareth House has been known as an innovative pioneer of the planned Catholic Retirement Community. Providing 50 years of committed personal residential care, delicious foods, and relaxing activities on their secure and beautifully landscaped 5 acre campus. Nazareth House, a non-profit residential care community, would like to announce its â&#x20AC;&#x153;50 year Jubilee Celebration~OPEN HOUSEâ&#x20AC;?. SUNDAY JUNE 3, 2012 ,1-4pm.

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The Sisters, staff, volunteers, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Friends of Nazareth Houseâ&#x20AC;? would like to welcome the community to an afternoon celebration featuring: Multi-Media Displays, Memorabilia, Live Music, Food & Refreshments.

In celebrating itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 50 Year Jubilee, Nazareth House welcomes the community to come and meet their dedicated staff and volunteers. They and the Sisters of Nazareth, all share a deep commitment to serving and enriching the physical, emotional and spiritual well being of its residents. The Open House also allows guests to reflect, enjoy a quite moment in the on-site Chapel, or take a stroll among the landscaped gardens and gazebo. Tours will be offered by staff of the care center, gathering spaces and residential units.

OPEN HOUS E Date: Sunday June 3rd, 2012 Place: 245 Nova Albion Way, San Rafael, CA 94903 Time: 1:00-4:00 pm

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