January 13, 2006

Pope Benedict names Archdiocesan priest to lead Reno diocese

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

By Catholic San Francisco Staff

Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester, aposather Randolph R. Calvo, pastor tolic administrator of the Archdiocese, of Our Lady of Mount Carmel praised Bishop-designate Calvo as a parish in Redwood City, has been “competent and caring pastor of God’s named Bishop of Reno by Pope people.”

Benedict XVI. The appointment was “I know I speak for his fellow priests, announced Dec. 23 at the Vatican. and, indeed, everyone in the Archdiocese Bishop-designate Calvo, 54, replaces of San Francisco, when I say how proud Bishop Phillip F. Straling, who retired we are that Father Calvo has been selectin June. His episcopal ordination will ed for this important service of the take place Feb. 17 in Reno, with church,” said Bishop Wester.

Archbishop George Bishop-designate Niederauer of San Calvo was ordained a Francisco presiding. priest of the San In a statement on F r a n c i s c o the day of his Archdiocese in 1977 appointment, at St. Mary’s Bishop-designate Cathedral.

Early Calvo said he felt assignments includ“somewhat overed service at Holy whelmed” at the Name Parish in San news.

Francisco and St. “In my family, I Pius Parish in am the seventh Redwood City. He child. Now I will be served as Judicial the seventh bishop of Vicar of the Reno. Perhaps I will Archdiocesan be a ‘lucky seven’ (in for ten Father Randolph R. Calvo Tribunal Reno). But I rely on years beginning in more than luck to fulfill my ministry. I 1987. He was named pastor of Our lady rely on God’s grace, the guidance of the of Mount Carmel parish in 1997.

Holy Spirit, the advice and support of He also has been a member of the my co-workers and the prayers of all,” Council of Priests, the College of he said.

Consultors and the Independent Review In a part of the statement written in Board which handles child sex abuse Spanish, Bishop-designate Calvo said cases. he would make a special effort to In 1996 he was elected president of understand the needs of the Hispanic the Canon Law Society of America. community.

Bishop-designate Calvo also has taught In a news release, San Francisco RENO, page 7

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Lisa Twigg, 17, and Karie Garafola, 17, protest in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 9, the first day of Judge Samuel Alito Jr.’s confirmation hearing in Washington.

The signs refer to Norma McCorvey, known as “Jane Roe,” who was the lead plaintiff in the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 decision legalizing abortion. In 1995, McCorvey began fighting against abortion; she became a Catholic in 1998. (See News-in-brief page 4)

Utah Catholics praise Archbishop Niederauer, sad he will leave

By Christopher Gray and Barbara Stinson Lee SALT LAKE CITY (CNS) — The news of the Dec. 15 appointment of Bishop George H. Niederauer of Salt Lake City as Archbishop of San Francisco came as a surprise to many Utah Catholics.

Their responses were a mixture of heartfelt pride and sadness. Archbishop

Niederauer will leave the Diocese of Salt Lake City, with its 200,000 Catholics, for an archdiocese with more than twice as many Catholics.

On receiving news of Archbishop Niederauer’s appointment, Msgr. J. Terrence Fitzgerald, vicar general of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, said: “His sharp mind, quick wit, compassionate heart and generosity

are qualities we will greatly miss. The bishop’s ecumenical outreach and frequent presence at both civic and Catholic events leaves a significant impact on Utah. No doubt the people of Utah will feel great sadness at his departure. We wish him well.”

Holy Cross Sister Jacinta Millan, who works with Holy Cross Ministries, a social services provider in the Diocese of Salt

Lake City, said “Archbishop Niederauer has been a bridge-builder here in Utah, not only among different cultures but also in the ecumenical area.”

“Clearly, the news of Bishop Niederauer’s new assignment is both happy and sad news,” said James Hamburge, principal of Judge Memorial UTAH CATHOLICS, page 6

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The Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry hosted a Christmas Celebration December 19th. Bishop John C. Wester was on hand for the good time. Back from left: Joe Bernabe, Sergio Canjura, Misha Simmonds, Bishop Wester, John Brust, Luci Polli, Cathy Carrig, Eileen Salinas. Front from left: David O’Brien, Marlene Goer, Mary Jansen and Stephanie Wesolek of the Young Adult ministry office, Steve Finnegan and Robert Vallerino.

Young Adults at St. Peter and Paul Parish were hard at work collecting Toys for Tots. Steve Watson, left, Hunter Stair, and Helen Chen were among those helping organize the four boxes of goodies that brightened Christmas day for many a lad and lass.

Mighty proud of her nephew Patrick Dunleavy is Cathy Dunleavy Rosaia. The Junipero Serra High School freshman has become at 14 years of age “the youngest student” to make black belt in the three decade history of the Karate Program at South San Francisco Recreation Department. Pat is the son of Brian and Fran Dunleavy of Mater Dolorosa Parish. Brother Chris is a Serra junior.

Proud grandparents are Frank and Mary Cianciolo and Pat and Kathleen Dunleavy, also of Mater Dolorosa. “He’s been doing karate since he was 7 and the first in the family to take it up,” Aunt Cathy said. “He received his black belt in November.”…Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory honors athletes of earlier times January 21st with entry into the school’s Hall of Fame. Hats and sports helmets off, rackets raised, hurdles hurdled for Patricia Mekeel Olson, ’56, Joseph Devine, ’41, Phil Marvier, ’54, Dick Morosi,

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Changes ahead for St. Vincent School for Boys in Marin County

By Jack Smith The historic property at St. Vincent School for Boys in Marin County may soon be home to a new student retreat center administered by San Francisco’s Saint Ignatius College Preparatory High School.

Saint Ignatius and Catholic Charities CYO are in final negotiations on a property agreement that participants say would benefit both parties.

“It’s still a work in progress,” Catholic Charities CYO Executive Director Brian Cahill said, “but God-willing it’s a good deal.” Cahill said the agreement would provide “a retreat center for Catholic high school youth in the Bay Area, and for Catholic Charities CYO, a real foothold to rebuild St. Vincent School for Boys.”

St. Vincent’s celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It is the oldest institution west of the Mississippi dedicated exclusively to the care of boys. Over the years, the school has transitioned from serving orphans to its current role of providing housing, therapy, education, and spiritual care to boys with deep emotional disturbances stemming from abusive situations.

The 300 acres, on which the school sits, was given by Don Timoteo Murphy in 1853.

The land has long been considered the patrimony of the Marin school. For many years, St. Vincent School was under the administration of the Archdiocese’s Catholic Youth Organization (CYO), which merged with Catholic Charities in 2003.

Cahill hopes proceeds from a sale or lease of certain portions of the San Rafael property to Saint Ignatius will “get us going toward our goal

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of rebuilding St. Vincent’s.” Buildings which currently serve St. Vincent’s boys are fragmented and in disrepair, Cahill said. Catholic Charities CYO goal is to move the Boys’ School, including education, 60 to 80 bed residential treatment center, therapeutic and recreational functions and buildings into its own single footprint on the property. “We’d be our own piece of property,” Cahill said. He roughly estimated the cost of construction at $30 million.

Under terms of the agreement, Saint Ignatius would purchase or lease with an option to purchase a 15 to 20 acre portion of the property including the historic “H-Block” buildings and chapel. An added benefit to the agreement, Cahill said, it that Saint Ignatius will rehabilitate the historic buildings, which otherwise would be the responsibility of Catholic Charities CYO. “Those buildings were built for youth and now they’re going to continue serving youth in a slightly different way,” he said.

Specific financial terms of the arrangement have not been disclosed, but Cahill said the “whole rationale” of the project is to “rebuild the entire School for Boys.” The proceeds, while substantial, are not expected to cover the entire reconstruction cost, he said.

In the long term, the property at St. Vincent’s would be configured so that “St. Vincent’s would have their piece of property, Saint Ignatius would have their piece of property and then Catholic Charities would have their piece of property,” Cahill said.

According to Catholic Charities CYO longterm strategic plan, Saint Vincent’s would eventually join with San Francisco Boys’ and Girls’ Home as a separate non-profit corporation. Cahill said it “makes sense” operationally and would benefit St. Vincent’s and the Boys’ and Girls’ Home in terms of “fundraising opportunities” to be a separate non-profit from Catholic Charities CYO. Catholic Charities CYO would end up owning acreage which use has long been in dispute with planners and activists in Marin County.

Should there be proceeds from any of the developable land owned by Catholic Charities CYO,

“the first call on any funds goes to the rebuilding of St. Vincent’s,” Cahill said. Money could also be used for scholarships to those who cannot afford Catholic schools and “for family support services to keep kids out of foster care,” he said.

There are a number of tenants currently in the “H” Block buildings, and Cahill said all current leases would be honored. In addition, the chapel is currently used for Masses as a mission church of St. Isabella parish in Terra Linda. Cahill said, “The Sunday Mass will continue as long as St. Isabella and the Archdiocese want it to continue.”

In a press release sent before Christmas to local pastors and school principals in Marin, Saint Ignatius Board Chairman Mark Cleary said, “We are respectful of the historical uses of the ‘H’ Block – particularly the chapel, auditorium and gymnasium – by the community and local parish groups and hopefully we can take them into consideration when establishing programming for the center.”

Saint Ignatius will operate its portion of the property as a retreat center for its students, as well as offering the facilities as retreat space for other Catholic school students in the Bay Area. According to Saint Ignatius vice-president Stephen Lovette, “A multi-day retreat is one of the most important and culminating elements of a Catholic high school education, and the need for retreat centers is far greater than the sites available.”

A question and answer sheet sent to local pastors and principals by Saint Ignatius and Catholic Charities CYO indicated that fees at the facility would “be consistent with other retreat centers with similar facilities.”

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Survey shows high school seniors feel abortion is wrong, favor curbs (CNS PHOTO/STEPHANO RELLANDINI, REUTERS)

WASHINGTON — A national survey of high school seniors reported that many of them have a strong moral opposition to abortion and favor restrictions on “a woman’s right to choose” an abortion. An analysis of the survey said that when they answered general questions about abortion, seniors “appeared supportive of abortion rights,” but responses to more detailed questions on circumstances in which it should be allowed showed “most seniors regard abortion as morally wrong” and that they “would significantly limit” when a woman could have an abortion. The survey of 1,000 public and private school seniors, conducted by Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., and Zogby International was released Jan. 5.

Bishop celebrates Mass and community remembers miners PHILIPPI, W.Va. — “Today is a very sad day for the church in West Virginia and for the people of West Virginia,” Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of WheelingCharleston said to those gathered for Mass Jan. 8 at St. Elizabeth Church in Philippi. The community was remembering the 12 coal miners who lost their lives after the explosion at the Sago Coal Mine in Upshur County and were praying for miner Randal McCloy Jr., the only survivor. Philippi lost three of its residents in the incident, and Bishop Bransfield came to celebrate the Mass to help foster healing and to bring comfort to the community. The bishop said the black ribbons that draped the front doors of St. Elizabeth “signify the sorrow of all of us for the miners who have perished, the one who remains ill and for their families who continue to suffer through these difficult days.”

Migration Week calls for solidarity with immigrants WASHINGTON — National Migration Week, Jan. 814, focuses on solidarity with immigrants and refugees in the theme “Journey to Justice,” said Bishop Gerald B. Barnes of San Bernardino, chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Migration. He said all people are called to make a journey “in solidarity with migrants, immigrants, refugees, human trafficking victims and other people on the move seeking justice and peace.” He added, “Never has this call to solidarity been needed more than today. Too often

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War’s heavy toll for community

PORTLAND, Ore. — Despite a court ruling that could significantly boost the amount the Portland Archdiocese must pay for sex-abuse settlements, archdiocesan leaders said the local church and its work will endure. “The archdiocese is committed to continuing its religious and charitable mission to Catholics and others, including thousands of schoolchildren, its parishioners, and the poor and dispossessed, as it has for its 157-year history in Oregon, no matter what obstacles confront it,” said an archdiocesan statement issued after the Dec. 30 decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Elizabeth Perris.

In a ruling that asserted the primacy of secular law over church law in the matter of bankruptcy, Perris said the archdiocese is the owner of parish and school properties. That means parish and school real estate worth hundreds of millions of dollars can be tallied when the court decides how much claimants will be paid. The archdiocese has 124 parish-

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ty and human trafficking. The pope said the resolution of differences must be based on the truth about people and their communities, that they are equal but have legitimate differences that must be balanced.

Pro-life posters at BART stations and cars More than 800 million defaced and destroyed OAKLAND – Pro-life advertisements in children are exploited, Oakland BART stations and in BART cars have come under attack since they first went says Vatican report up on Dec. 26. The two advertisements, sponsored by the Oakland Diocese Friends of Respect Life Ministry, feature the picture of a woman with facts about abortion, under the theme “Have we gone too far?” Monika Rodman, coordinator for Respect Life programs in the Oakland Diocese, said the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sponsored a similar campaign last year in Washington, D.C. She said the pro-life advertisements began to suffer defilement and destruction almost immediately after the $40,000 onemonth campaign began in Oakland. She said because so many posters in stations and cars have been destroyed, it is hoped that BART will make adjustments, including moving the advertisements to more secure locations.

War, poverty ignore truth about human dignity, pope says VATICAN CITY — In the Middle East, in Africa and wherever violence and extreme poverty threaten human life and dignity, people must recognize the truth that all people are created equal and have a right to exist in freedom, Pope Benedict XVI said.

“Bloodshed does not cry out for revenge, but begs for respect for life, for peace,” the pope said Jan. 9 in his address to ambassadors and other diplomats representing their nations at the Vatican. The pope specifically mentioned ongoing tensions in Israel and the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Iraq, the Darfur region of Sudan and the Great Lakes region of Africa. He spoke about the threat to peace caused by terrorism, extreme pover-

VATICAN CITY — More than 800 million children around the world are victims of malnutrition, disease, trafficking and other forms of economic and social exploitation, an annual Vatican report said. Among the more worrisome trends are the more than 200 million child laborers between 5 and 14 years of age and the increase in street children on several continents, it said. Millions more children are forced into armed conflict or prostitution. In many countries, births are unregistered, leaving those children open to a lifetime of exploitation, it said. “They are the scandal of our time. For 860 million children of the world, the future is an unknown and the present is a nightmare that lies on the consciences of adults,” said the report, issued Jan. 5 by Fides, the Vatican missionary news agency. The annual report, first prepared in 2004, seeks to draw attention to the plight of young people on the feast of the Epiphany of the Lord, which the church marks as the world missionary day for children.

the peoples, is the love of God revealed in the person of the Incarnate Word,” the pope said.

In celebrating Christ revealed to the world as the one who reconciles everyone to God, the papal celebration of the Epiphany is also the occasion for the formal announcement of the date Easter will be celebrated, the pope said.

Sung in Latin by a deacon, the announcement proclaimed: “As we have rejoiced at the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ, so we announce with joy the resurrection of our savior ... on April 16 we will celebrate with joy the holy Easter of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”

At baptism, Pope urges parents to lead children on path of truth VATICAN CITY – Continuing one of his predecessor’s favorite traditions, Pope

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Beneath Michelangelo’s famous frescoes of the creation, mothers used pacifiers and rhythmic rocking to try to keep their babies quiet. The pope, standing next to a large marble font, poured water from a golden dipper over the head of each baby as he pronounced the words of baptism. The five girls and five boys were children or grandchildren of Vatican employees.

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Storms fail to dampen spirits at Vallombrosa retreat

By Tom Burke Storms that knocked the power out at Vallombrosa Retreat Center had little luck dousing the spirit of those gathered for prayer at the Menlo Park facility over the New Year’s holiday.

“The power went off even before the retreat started in the early hours of Dec. 31,” said Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, interim director at Vallombrosa. The thought of canceling the retreat was a moot point. Phones at Vallombrosa are tied to the electric supply so no one could

call out to spread the news of the dilemma or call in to inquire about conditions.

“People came in good faith,” Sister Rosina said, noting 83 men and women of all ages made the retreat. They braved the inclement weather that spurred outages, traveling from as far as Stockton and as near as neighborhoods bordering the retreat center, she said.

Neighborly hospitality marked the emergency. Two cases of tall vigil candles were lent to the cause by the Dominican Sisters of Corpus Christi whose monastery is just across Oak Grove

Maggie St. Claire spoke in terms with which many Utah Catholics would agree: “My first thought on hearing of Bishop Niederauer’s appointment was a selfish one. I want to keep him ■ Continued from cover here, and I’m sure I’m not alone.

Catholic High School in Salt Lake City. “It is happy for him, but “He makes our job easier by being so involved in the comsad for us. He has been an incredible leader, and he understands munity and by setting such a fine example,” St. Claire said. and respects all aspects of education.

“The community has a great deal of Javier Chavez, a businessman in respect for him, which makes everything Ogden, said that although the appointeaser for us. ment was good news “it’s a loss for Utah.”

“Working for Bishop Niederauer has “Right now he is being called by God been one of the best experiences of my to help the community in San Francisco, life. It has transcended a working relajust as he has helped us for many years. tionship. I have learned from him every As a Hispanic, I believe we have grown day,” she said. up a lot in our faith community with him “Bishop Niederauer and I have leading us,” he said. grown very close,” said Msgr. Michael Cece Holt, a longtime Utah resident, a J. Winterer, pastor of Christ the King parent and an active member of the Parish in Cedar City, in southern Utah.

Hispanic community, said the church “is “He is a bishop of the people. He is blessed to have someone such as Bishop also a bishop of the priests. His priests Niederauer as an archbishop, but what a feel very close to him, and priests are loss for Utah!” people, too.

“Pope Benedict (XVI) could not have “Bishop Niederauer is also a man of selected a better person; he is so in tune Archbishop George H. Niederauer deep prayer,” Msgr. Winterer added. “In with the people,” she said. “The diversity in the church is some- the Gospel we hear John the Baptist refer to Jesus as ‘the sent thing that has been very important to him. He is just what the one.’ Bishop Niederauer is definitely a man in that same church needs right now. model. He was sent to us — a treasure, and now we send this As executive director of Catholic Community Services of treasure on to the people of San Francisco. He is a treasure Utah, the social services arm of the Diocese of Salt Lake City, from all of us to all of them.”

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Bishop John C. Wester, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, led the retreat that began with dinner on New Year’s Eve. “We had our own Vallombrosa reality show and we all survived,” Bishop Wester said noting that the cold was the toughest hurdle of the two-days. A “roaring fire” in the library fireplace was the sole source of heat during the weekend.

“I am very impressed how the people banded together,” Bishop Wester said. “If I were marooned on an island I think they would be good company. They bundled up and went with it.”

Sandra Valentine attended the retreat from St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish where she has been a member for 15 years. “I was surprised when I arrived and saw the power was out but it’s where I thought I should be and never considered leaving,” she said. “It was a beautiful experience all around. I came away from the retreat with high spirits, determination and the desire to share my gifts as best I am able.”

Marie and Jack Murray attended the retreat from Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont. “It was a nice way to start the New Year spiritually,” Mrs. Murray said. “The lack of power made us realize how lucky we are and that many people in the world live without heat and electricity daily.”

at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park and at the Institute on Matrimonial Tribunal Practice at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

Bishop-designate Calvo was born in Agana, Guam, a Pacific island which is a U.S. possession. He moved to San Francisco with his parents in 1957. He received his seminary education at St. Patrick Seminary.

He earned a doctorate in canon law in 1986 from the University of St. Thomas in Rome.

The Reno Diocese covers 70,852 square miles and has a Catholic population of 98,000 in a total population of 574,000. The diocese was established in 1931.

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ly priest. The Diocese of Reno is blessed to have him as their new Bishop, said Cole.

Liturgy Committee Chairperson Dolores Hodges has found working with Father Calvo enlightening and rewarding. “He always leads with humble, honest, dignified faithfulness to the Gospel,” said Hodges.

“I feel blessed to have worked with him and learned from him. Father Calvo has all the gifts needed to serve commendably as a Bishop in the Church today,” she said. “We will miss him, but we rejoice with him in his new role in service to the Church.”

Franciscan Sister Norberta Vilasenor, who heads the Spanish and English Religious Education Program, said, “Father Calvo is a priest of the people of God. In six years of working with him, he has been present to every human being. He treats everyone with respect and dignity regardless of his or her faith, culture, gender, or age. His pastoral vision is practiced every day. He walks his talk.”

Parishioner Al Stanley said, “He has the ability to relate to all families with different backgrounds and to unite a community during triumph and tragedy. He will be a great bishop.

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obituarIES

Sr. Mary Emmanuel Sister Kathleen Donnelly, SNDdeN Murray, SNDdeN

Sister Mila Marie Santos, OP

Notre Dame Sister Mary Emmanuel Donnelly died Dec. 12 at the care center of the Convent of the Holy Names in Los Gatos. She was 91 and had recently celebrated 70 years as a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur.

A native of San Francisco, she was raised in St. Monica Parish.

Sister Mary Emmanuel was an educator for 45 years, serving as a teacher and administrator in many of the high schools founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in California, including Notre Dame High School in San Francisco and Notre Dame High School in Belmont. She also taught at College of Notre Dame (now Notre Dame de Namur University) in Belmont. She also coordinated the Notre Dame California State Alumnae Federation for fifteen years.

She is remembered as a quintessential educator and a woman of indomitable spirit and courage. Notre Dame Sister Louise O’Reilly said “Education was her passion and as administrator she was forward moving; she was a pioneer in our time with an ability to take risks and to use good business acumen. She exemplified and encouraged leadership at a time when leadership for women was barely a movement.

Leadership . . . is the legacy of Sister Mary Emmanuel— that the greater Bay Area is peopled with Notre Dame women who have provided leadership and integrity in our communities.”

In 1979, at the age of 65, she launched a new career as a pastoral minister at St. William Parish in Los Altos where she was affectionately called “Mary E”. Father Michael Burns, one of four pastors to serve with her, said “She really became the heart of the parish . . . she really knew the people, in their joys and in their sorrows. She did everything that was needed. She was everything a parish priest should be; she was the real pastor of the parish. She had the pulse of the parish.”

A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Dec. 17 at Cunningham Memorial Chapel, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1520 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, CA 94002.

Sister Mila Marie Santos, a Mission San Jose Dominican for 31 years, died Dec. 24, in the Philippines. She was 74 years old and entered religious life from St. Patrick Parish in San Francisco.

Sister Mila taught at schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco including St. Gabriel and Immaculate Conception elementary with additional service at schools in Southern California.

When diagnosed with cancer in the late 90s, the late religious wrote, “God allows me to go through these sufferings because he has given me the grace and equipped me with his strength and courage to go through this part of my life’s journey.”

A funeral Mass was celebrated Dec. 29 in the Philippines. A memorial Mass was celebrated January 12 at her congregation’s motherhouse chapel in Fremont. Remembrances may be made to the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont.

Notre Dame Sister Kathleen Murray, formerly known as Sister Gerard Marie, died Dec. 18, at Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland. Sister Kathleen was 85 years old and a religious for 67 years.

For nearly half-a-century she served at her congregation’s schools throughout California including four years at Notre Dame High School and 17 years at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. She also was a member of the pastoral ministry team at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in San Francisco from 1972 to 1980.

“Sister Kathleen Murray was revered by students and colleagues alike for her dedication to education and her fairness,” said Notre Dame Sister Margaret Hoffman, who served with the late religious at Notre Dame de Namur University in the late fifties and early sixties. “She was a mentor to many and in her so-called ‘retirement’ years, she carried on an extensive correspondence with many former students and colleagues.”

“Sister Kathleen was not afraid of change,” Sister Margaret said. “She was welcoming to the best in the women’s movement and in women’s spirituality and saw the value of the information revolution mastering computer communication as a new form of ministry. We sisters cherish her as friend, mentor and wise woman, a true sister of St. Julie, our foundress.”

“I met Sr. Kathleen in 1957 when she was dean at Notre Dame de Namur University,” said Mary Ellen Boyling, former English professor at the school. “Living on campus, I had ample opportunity to see Sister Kathleen as a hands-on administrator who mentored new, young faculty and who was tireless in her efforts to maintain high standards.

A Memorial Mass was celebrated Jan. 7 at Notre Dame de Namur University’s Cunningham Chapel. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

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Speak, Lord, your servant is listening

By Fr. John Regan January 8 – 14 is National Vocation Awareness Week.

Fr. John Regan, Vocations Director for the Diocese of Joliet, reflects on the meaning of God’s call in the first reading for January 15 from the Book of Samuel.

As a vocation director, I often find myself reflecting on the stories of call in the Bible, both from the Old and New Testaments.

Most of the call stories are excellent for meditation. These stories of call, however, are not merely meant to tell us of the events of a people long ago. They are intended to come alive and inspire us in our place and in our time.

One of the more famous and interesting of call stories is that of Samuel, in 1 Samuel 3:110. It takes place in a time when people felt it was rare for God to speak and Godly visions were uncommon. Samuel was a youth ministering to God with the Jewish priest Eli. One night when Eli was an old man, Samuel was lying in the sanctuary of the temple, and the Lord called Samuel by name. The boy answered “Here I am” and ran to Eli, because he thought the priest was the one who called.

Eli told Samuel to go back to bed, because he had not been called. Again Samuel hears his name called and again runs to Eli. Eli tells the youth to go back to sleep again, as he did not call. A third time Samuel runs to the priest believing he was called, and this time Eli realized that the boy was being called by the Lord. Eli then instructs the youth that the next time he hears his name called, he should respond, “Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.”

This story is rich in the meaning of vocation. It speaks of God’s call, a young person’s response, and the role of others in supporting the process. And it speaks not just to God’s call to a young man centuries ago, it ought to inspire

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us today. We live in a time when many believe that it is rare for God to call the young. Yet from my experience of ministering with young people, I know that God is still calling, and dreams of Godly proportion are abundant.

Many young people hear the cries of the world still in need of redemption and healing, and they feel called to use their

ers, youth ministers, and even priests have to a young man or woman on fire to answer the call? Too many of us are like the early Eli. “Go back to sleep!” some say. Maybe because Eli had grown weary in his old age, he did not want to be awakened by Samuel. In a similar way, maybe some of us have grown weary through life experiences and are not ready to be awakened ourselves. If we tell young people to go back to sleep, we do not have to get up either.

Yet the more plausible reason Eli told the young man to go back to sleep was that he did not understand how or simply that God was calling Samuel. Unfortunately, many people who are natural mentors for our young people do not believe or understand that God would call a person in their youth today. Some people believe that young people need “real life” experiences before responding to the call. This is interpreted to mean that they should give in to worldly temptations so that they will understand others. Yet one does not have to be of the world to understand it.

Fortunately for Samuel, Eli had a conversion of mind. The priest came to realize the workings of God in Samuel’s life and encouraged the young man to respond, “Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.” For the sake of our young people, and really for the sake of Christ’s work within the world, many of us need that same conversion of mind and heart today.

The Calling of St. Matthew – Hendrick Terbrugghen, 1621.

We need to believe in the power of young people being led by the Spirit and called gifts and lives for a meaningful mission. In a vivid way one by Christ from their youth. Our responsibility is to be the young man recently described his hopes to me, “I don’t want later Eli to young people passionately telling them to to die on the couch with the remote control in my hand.” respond, “Here I am. Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.”

In the months since Pope John Paul’s death much has Others do not want to give in to what the world describes as successful and meaningful. They are driven to bring Christ to been written on the impact John Paul II had on young peothe world today. They are willing and ready to take steps to ple. He understood them, and more importantly believed in offer their lives for something of true and ultimate importance. them and their power to witness to Christ today. The title of When these young people turn to older generations for one of his last books, the one that looked at his early expesupport and guidance in responding to the call, what are riences of being a bishop, is “Rise, Let us be on our Way.” He was loved by so many young people the world around they told? What reaction will parents, grandparents, teachprecisely because he didn’t tell them to go back to sleep, but in word and action, he profoundly challenged them to live boldly for the Gospel to “Rise, Let us be on our way.”

From his place now in heaven may John Paul II pray for us that we might be another “later Eli” to young people we know. What a difference is made when a young man or woman says, “Speak, Lord, your servant is listening.”

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Finding God and being found by God

By Sister Helene Hayes, RGS Sister Helene Hayes currently works to raise awareness about the global scourge of human trafficking. She has also served as an educator and administrator of her region of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.

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We, as human beings, are not “hard-wired” to grasp who God is. God is utterly unknowable and lies well beyond any available categories in our minds to explain. All major religions agree on this point.

And yet, in the Christian faith, God can be known in human terms because God came into this world as a human – “and thus can be known about in the familiar language of earthly experience. Jesus did not live a parallel existence alongside of the world, instead he plunged into our world to transform it by His mission.”

Thus, in Jesus, we can know that the unutterably mysterious God, “whose explosive power hurls galaxies into space is the same God whose tender love enfolds the disinherited, the dispossessed, the ‘throw-aways’ of the earth.” No parable expresses this radical, even disconcerting, truth more clearly and unequivocally than the parable of the Good Shepherd.

When we speak about spirituality or a spiritual path, we are talking about the moment when we gain an insight into the nature of reality and then begin to love that reality. Over a lifetime, it is, as Annie Dillard tells us, “the heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning” how to love and who to love.

While we are not “wired” to grasp who God is, what we are hard-wired for is openness to mystery. We are created with a gnawing “incompleteness, an unfinishedness, an emptiness” at the core of the self. We are radically open to mystery and are driven there by our thirst for something more, something beyond our “ego encapsulated” selves. St. Augustine says, “we seek one Mystery, God, with another mystery, ourselves.”

The parables of Jesus give us an opening on the mystery of God by shattering our hardened perceptions of reality and flipping them upside down. The parables give elbowroom to God whose compassion is always a surprise, always an imaginative shock.

The parable of the Good Shepherd cuts quite quickly to the ‘spiritual marrow.’ It is only five sentences long. The theme of this parable of the lost sheep, like the lost coin and the lost treasure, is about “homecoming,” about overcoming our lostness. It is about finding and being found, about finding God and being found by God. It is the spiritually stunning news that God, through Jesus has caused our “homecoming.” This parable is about our reconciliation with holy mystery, with the sacred.

When we begin to accept this “homecoming” there are two dimensions to our liberation, to our “heart’s hard turning” personal conversion and social transformation. A turning toward God as a rudder in life and a turning towards others in compassionate service. A deep relationship with God always extroverts us for service to others.

Jesus draws us into “the heart’s slow learning” who to love and how to love when he asks: “What do you think? Suppose a man has a hundred sheep. If one of them strays, does he not

leave the other ninety-nine on the hillside and go in search of the one that strayed?” Here he reverses our expectations. Using the ‘tawdry materialism’ of our day we might draw the opposite conclusion. Why leave the 99? This parable shocks us by cutting through “our perennial inclination to draw lines, invoke boundaries, establish hierarchies, maintain discrimination.” The gospel breaks down all barriers. “Conversion of hearts is the great equalizer.”

To leave the 99 in favor of the “one” is to understand our universal kinship with all human beings. It is to understand that our salvation and liberation are intertwined in a profound way with the salvation and liberation of the “stray ones,” the poor, the ostracized, those left in the bleak margins of society. When we hear in this parable the preferential delight that the Shepherd-God takes in this one lost sheep, we come to know the mysterious, boundaryshattering truth that the poor, the marginalized, those left behind without hope are the Beloved of God. Jesus tells us this quite plainly, “It is not the will of your Abba-God that one of these little ones should be lost.”

When we listen deeply to this parable of the lost sheep we are swept up into a decision about the depths of life’s meaning and our own patterns of living.

This parable is an invitation to participate in God’s project for humanity which we call the reign of God. The reign of God is that space in

our hearts and on the earth where conversion has taken place – where the “heart’s hard turning, the heart’s slow learning” how to love and who to love has unleashed the most potent energy in the universe – God’s love loose upon the earth.

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PRIESTS FOR THE FUTURE You haven’t chosen me. I have chosen you.” “Tu no me has elegido. Yo te he elegido a ti.”

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God, our Father, In Your love and providence, You call each of us to a more holy and abundant life. We pray for our young people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Open their hearts and minds to know the vocation You have planned for them from all eternity.

If they are being invited to follow You as a priest, Brother, or Sister, give them a generous heart to respond to Your challenging call and the strength to follow wherever You lead them. May families desire to please You by encouraging and supporting vocations within their homes. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. Amen

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Scripture

1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20; John 1:35-42 A READING FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL (1 SAM 3:3b-10, 19) Samuel was sleeping in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was. The Lord called to Samuel, who answered, “Here I am.” Samuel ran to Eli and said, “Here I am. You called me.” “I did not call you,” Eli said. “Go back to sleep.”

So he went back to sleep. Again the Lord called Samuel, who rose and went to Eli. “Here I am,” he said. “You called me.” But Eli answered, “I did not call you, my son. Go back to sleep.”

At that time Samuel was not familiar with the Lord, because the Lord had not revealed anything to him as yet. The Lord called Samuel again, for the third time. Getting up and going to Eli, he said, “Here I am. You called me.” Then Eli understood that the Lord was calling the youth. So he said to Samuel, “Go to sleep, and if you are called, reply, Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening.” When Samuel went to sleep in his place, the Lord came and revealed his presence, calling out as before, “Samuel, Samuel!” Samuel answered, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

Samuel grew up, and the Lord was with him, not permitting any word of his to be without effect.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10) R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I have waited, waited for the Lord, and he stooped toward me and heard my cry.

And he put a new song into my mouth, a hymn to our God. R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

Sacrifice or offering you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me.

Holocausts or sin-offerings you sought not; then said I, “Behold I come.”

R. Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.

“In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, to do your will, O my God, is my delight, and your law is within my heart!”

R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

I announced your justice in the vast assembly; I did not restrain my lips, as you, O Lord, know.

R. Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS (1 COR 6:13C-15A, 17-20) Brothers and sisters: The body is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body; God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one Spirit with him. Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 1:35-42) John was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to them, “What are you looking for?” They said to him, “Rabbi” - which translated means Teacher.-, “where are you staying?” He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they went and saw where Jesus was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about four in the afternoon. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard John and followed Jesus. He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” - which is translated Christ. Then he brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you will be called Cephas” - which is translated Peter.

FATHER GERARD O’ROURKE

Peter and Andrew point the way There is something magnificent about the Gospel reading from John for the 2nd Sunday of Ordinary Time. It tells us that John the Baptist was with two of his disciples. He then deliberately pointed to Jesus as he said, “Behold the Lamb of God.” Here was John the Baptist at the height of his popularity as a prophetic voice, with vast crowds following him with unprecedented adulation in his life and with complete generosity, he pointed to Jesus as the one to follow to two of his finest disciples. That truly points to the magnificence of John the Baptist as a true prophetic leader, completely dedicated to the work of God and not to his own considerable personality.

It also pointed to the magnanimity of the two disciples who eagerly followed Jesus. They spent some very valuable time with Jesus observing him and learning from him.

The two disciples were clearly impressed, especially Andrew.

Andrew immediately went off to his brother, Simon, to share with him his experience of meeting with Jesus. “We have found the Messiah,” he told his brother. This was an amazing acknowledgement of Jesus after just one encounter.

He then introduced Simon to Jesus.

Immediately, Jesus recognized Simon’s quality as an outstanding leader. He gave Simon a new name. It is the name all Christians down through the centuries have known him as. His new name was Peter.

As you probably know, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity starts on Wednesday, January 18 and goes until Wednesday, January 25 just as it does every year. The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is a crucial, annual time of prayer for all of us who call ourselves Christians.

It is this special week of prayer that we devote to praying for the fulfillment of the last wish of Jesus, which he declared at the con-

Calling of the Apostles – Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1481, Sistine Chapel.

clusion of the Last Supper. You could say it was his last will and testament. His words can be read in Chapter 17 of John’s Gospel, especially Verse 21: “that they all may be one as you Father are in Me and I in You.” This appeal was made to all of us who are followers of Jesus Christ. And it was made by Jesus at perhaps the most sacred moment in his life. And we have got to admit it, his appeal has largely been ignored by us. However, in the age that we live in, the age of the Vatican II Council, we at least are made aware of the vital importance of the call for Christian unity.

Starting with Pope John XXIII, all of the recent Popes including our present one, Pope Benedict XVI, have and are taking the work of Ecumenism, that is the work of Christian unity very seriously and have made it a priority in their agendas. They have set a very powerful example for all of us to follow, at least by making prayer a priority for Christian Unity.

As we recall the two great apostles, Peter and Andrew in today’s Gospel reading we should see them as two great champions for Christian unity and especially for the unity between our Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches.

Doctrinally there is very little that separates our two Churches. However spiritually, culturally and indeed mentally we have been separated by a thousand years of suspicion and caution. St. Andrew and St. Peter may be a real source to bring the long awaited reconciliation between our two traditions.

During Vatican II there began a wonderful healing between our Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople with the lifting and disappearing of the sanctions and excommunications that we inflicted on one another over the many centuries. Patriarch Athenagoras then visited the Vatican in 1964.

He gave a gift of a beautiful icon to Pope Paul.

When I visited our Ecumenical Office at the Vatican a few years ago, I was able to see this most treasured piece of art. The icon represents Peter and Andrew embracing one another as the brothers they really were but also as the most venerated patron saints of Rome and Constantinople.

This good relationship of love and respect exists today between Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Bartolomeo of Constantinople. May this year 2006 be the year when the spirit of love and friendship be taken on by all of us, whether lay people or clergy, in the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches and indeed among all people who are Christians.

The official prayer for the Week of Prayer for Christian United was adopted in 1993. May we find time to pray it during the week starting on Wednesday, January 18: O God, holy and eternal Trinity, we pray for your church in the world.

Sanctify its life; renew its worship; empower its witness; heal its divisions; make visible its unity.

Lead us, with all our brothers and sisters, towards communion in faith, life and witness so that, united in one body by the one Spirit, we may together witness to the perfect unity of you love.

Amen.

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Guest Commentary

Hope deferred in West Virginia “Hope deferred makes the heart sick” (Proverbs 13:12), and as I write I hear the angry voices drifting in from the television in the next room. There are sick hearts tonight in Upshur County, West Virginia. When miners were trapped a few days ago, initial hope of a rescue gradually waned. Then last night, unbelievable news arrived of a miracle, that twelve of thirteen were still alive. Yet it was shortly followed by the shattering revelation that the toll was in fact the reverse, and only one had survived. And so what might simply have been feelings of grief have ricocheted from exultant confidence in miracle to resentment and rage.

During the crisis hundreds had gathered in the Sago Baptist Church to watch and pray. When the initial good news came through last night there was rejoicing and church bells rang. But when the gathering learned hours later that their miracle had not happened after all,”They didn’t know what to do. They began to holler and curse,” local resident John Casto told CNN, in a voice cracked by tears. “Just a few minutes before that, we was praising God.” What had been a place of united praise was now riven by furious shouting.

“Our pastor got ‘em settled down and he said, ‘Look to God in this tragedy,’” Casto went on. “I don’t believe in cussin’, but one guy said, ‘What in the hell has God ever done for us?’”

When not exhausted and tried by roller-coaster emotions, such a guy could probably list dozens of good things God has done for him. Anger is a brief distraction from grief, but within days it will wash back in, and families will once again look toward the God whom they had sought in the midst of the disaster. They will think about the particular man, or maybe still just a boy, whose voice is no longer

heard in the kitchen and whose muddy boots are no longer by the door. Such a death is a risk in mining, and we hear that one of the victims had told his fiancée that he expected to die in the mines. But that doesn’t make it any less agonizing for a relative or loved one to imagine that beloved face at last succumbing to the dark.

The members of Sago Baptist Church, like Biblesteeped people everywhere, can draw on powerful resources to make it through the long nights ahead. The image of thirteen men trapped in poisonous darkness is matched by the image of three young men in a fiery furnace; in the midst of death they were not alone, and the king who condemned them said, “I see four men...and the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods” (Daniel 3:25). A century ago, when Sir Ernest Shackleton led two other men through a blizzard across the uncharted mountains of South Georgia Island, he too said that “it often seemed to me that we were four, not three” (a perception that his companions later confirmed). In fire, in ice, and in the depths of the earth, those who face down death may be comforted and companioned in ways we cannot know.

John Casto tried to explain, in an accent broad as the hills, how this works, how faith can make it so you’re not alone. “You know, I’m not kin to none of these people under that hill over there, but each and every one of ‘ems a brother to me. Each and every one of them.” He then looked toward the reporter and said, “Because you’re my brother,” and then turning to the cameraman, “and you’re my brother. The way I look at it.”

There was something electrifying about that moment.

In the midst of bitterness and turmoil, Casto broke through

the wall. “Because I love Christ,” he went on. This is not the sort of thing you usually hear on the news, and the camera was already pulling back. The reporter’s voice softly murmured “All right, Frederica John.” But Casto continued, “We’re gonna to Mathewes-Green pray for each and every one of these people.” At this point, the reporter patted him on the shoulder, with a “that’s enough, now” gesture. “We’re gonna pray that this community will leave today in peace and always be in peace, in the town of Sago,” Casto said.

At that point, the film ends. But John Casto got to say his piece. Hope based on a particular outcome is a fragile thing; it can be smashed by events. Hope based in a particular Person can endure. Whether a miracle occurs or doesn’t, we are never alone.

“Thou who hast made me see many sore troubles wilt revive me again; from the depths of the earth Thou wilt bring me up again” (Psalm 71:20).

Frederica Mathewes-Green writes for Our Sunday Visitor, Christianity Today, NPR’s “Morning Edition” and others.

This article originally appeared on Beliefnet.

The Catholic Difference Every year, just before or after Christmas, the pope meets with senior members of the Roman Curia for a review of the year just past and a preview of the year ahead.

In 1987, John Paul II used the occasion to promote his distinctive Marian theology of the Church, telling the assembled prelates (most of whom quite naturally think of themselves as working at the epicenter of Catholic life) that Mary’s discipleship is a “more...fundamental” reality in the Church than Peter’s authority - although both are essential.

One can imagine that some of those present were surprised.

This past December 22, Pope Benedict XVI used the annual papal meeting with the Curia to give his collaborators, and indeed the entire Church, a clear idea of how he understood the past four decades of Catholic life - which has vast implications for how he intends to lead the Church into the future. Why, the Pope asked, had Vatican II (which concluded just forty years ago) had such a difficult reception? Why had a Council intended to give the Church a new birth of evangelical energy on the threshold of a new millennium given rise, instead, to decades of energy-sapping quarrels and power-struggles?

According to the conventional story-line, Vatican II was a battle between (good) “progressives” and (wicked) “conservatives” in which the former won the battle of the Council itself but the latter made a comeback during the (engaging but reactionary) pontificate of John Paul II. Which is, of course, utter nonsense. The radically antimodern forces at and after Vatican II, identified with the

French archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, were and are something of a sideshow. The real struggle at the Council, and ever since, has been between two groups of reformers.

One group of reformers saw the Council as a sharp break with the Catholic past, and particularly with the wholesale rejection of modernity found in the 19th century pontificates of Gregory XVI and Pius IX. A second group of reformers, committed to a renewal of Catholic life that reached back to the sources of Christian self-understanding in the Bible and the first millennium “Fathers” of the Church in order to engage modernity in a distinctively Catholic way, saw Vatican II as the fulfillment of reformist tendencies in the Church that had been underway for decades, rather than as a thorough rupture with the past. The first group of reformers was enthusiastic, even fulsome, in its embrace of contemporary culture; the second group of reformers wanted the Church’s dialogue with the modern world to be a two-way street. The first group seemed largely unconcerned with the self-destructive tendencies in Western culture in the late 1960s; the second group saw this eruption of nihilism and relativism as a cautionary tale, for both the Church and for modernity.

In his December 22 address to the Curia, Pope Benedict underscored his membership in this second group of reformers and his conviction that this school’s interpretation of Vatican II best reflects the intentions of John XXIII in summoning the Council and Paul VI in seeing it through to a successful conclusion. An interpretation of Vatican II according

to a model of “discontinuity and rupture,” the Pope said, was an inauthentic, indeed false, reading of Vatican II. The Second Vatican Council, he insisted, was a Council of “reform” in continuity George Weigel with “the teachings of Jesus [and] the Church of the early martyrs.”

Those who know Joseph Ratzinger - as distinct from the cartoon Ratzinger created by his critics and broadcast through the media - would have expected precisely this thoughtful and careful correction of the conventional storyline. Yet to have him say these things, as pope and at one of the key agendadefining moments of the Roman Church’s year, was important.

Now, almost nine months into the pontificate, comes the hard part: how will Pope Benedict XVI “translate” his convictions about the intentions and meaning of Vatican II into a reform of the Curia and a reform in the process by which bishops are chosen, so that the Church’s leadership, in Rome and around the world, is committed to authentic reform, not “rupture” and not clerical business-as-usual?

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Spirituality

An immune system inside the Body of Christ We’ve gone mystically tone-deaf.

Robert Bellah tells how one of his researchers, speaking at a conference, made the statement: “Some people believe that human life is priceless.” A scientific expert, in all seriousness, challenged him: “We have no data on that.”

We might smile a little at the naiveté of that but, sadly, most of us are often just as insensitive when it comes grasping some of the deeper things that under gird life. Mysticism is not our strong point and that leaves us mostly in the dark in terms of intuiting one of the central realities within the Christian faith, namely, how the body of Christ works.

We believe in what we can grasp rationally, but how the body of Christ works is not something we can grasp in that way. Hence some of what’s important to health inside that body is often neglected because we simply don’t know any better. Just as ignorance of what is good for us physically can lead to bad health habits, so too inside the body of Christ. We need to know how to keep a strong and healthy immune system.

How do we build up a strong, healthy immune system inside the body of Christ?

Part of our Christian faith, as canonized in our creed, is the belief that our unity and community with each other in Christ is so real, so deep, so physical, and so mutually interdependent that we constitute not an aggregate or a corporation but an organism, a living body. The body of Christ is not a body in the way General Motors is a body, but is a body in the way that a man or woman is body. The unity inside that body is not mystical or analogical, it’s real.

And, just as in any physical body there are visible aspects that can be observed with the naked eye and other, more invisible, aspects that go on under the surface and escape simple observation, so too within the body of Christ. Most of what is happening regarding health or disease within the body is, long before it shows up externally, not observable to the unaided eye.

Enzymes, bacteria, viruses, and antibodies do their work for health or disease invisibly. By the time we see external symptoms, they have already been working for a long time.

This is true too inside the body of Christ.

The things that, in the end, preserve health or cause disease are, like viruses and antibodies, invisible. They are only seen in their eventual effect on the body. What Father happens for health or for Ron Rolheiser disease in any one cell, be it ever so small, eventually affects the health of the whole body. Thus, Christ taught, and the saints believed, that the most private spiritual and moral battles, which go on inside one’s conscience, have an effect for good or for bad on all of humanity. Private acts have a profound effect on the whole body, beyond what “we have data on.”

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In his own words Monday, Jan. 16 is the national observance of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr, an American icon in the struggle for civil rights, social justice and peace who was slain in 1968. We join in honoring the memory of Rev. King by recalling just a few of his words. ● ● ● ● ●

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A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control.

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Let doctors decide The guest commentary, We won’t abandon our ‘Old Friends’ (CSF – Dec. 16), by Sr. Miriam Walsh, Pastoral Care Director at Laguna Honda Hospital, is full of inaccuracies.

Most important is the fact that Laguna Honda is not an “old folks home”. It is licensed by the State of California as a hospital-based skilled nursing facility (SNF) and rehabilitation center for adults. It is a major facility of the San Francisco City and County Department of Public Health care system; it is not an autonomous facility in any way.

San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) is a major referral source of many of the patients discharged from the acute care setting at SFGH and who need skilled nursing care or acute rehabilitation. If Laguna Honda did not exist, such patients would have to remain at SFGH congesting the acute care hospital and causing it to be unavailable to other patients in need of acute care.

San Francisco is fortunate to have one of the most talented of our nation’s public health department directors, Dr. Mitchell Katz, directing this complicated, under-funded, renowned health care system. My inclination is to support Dr Katz and patients who need care, not fight them.

Sister Walsh pleads with Catholic parishes and groups to sign a petition to put a “Ballot Initiative” before voters in June 2006 to establish criteria for admission to Laguna Honda and thereby interrupting the flow of appropriate patients from SFGH to Laguna Honda. This City and State has had its share of voterinstigated initiatives which serve only to complicate matters by not taking the “whole picture” into consideration. Sister is encouraging voters to pit the physically-ill elderly and rehab patients requiring SNF care against “younger able-bodied SFGH patients” who might also be behaviorally ill through a mechanism of voter imposed skilled nursing facility admission criteria. Somehow, the older chronically ill patients are more deserving than the younger ones. I see nothing humanitarian, Christian or Catholic in this mischievousness. It is not in the least bit worthy of support.

Joseph C. Barbaccia MD, MPH San Francisco

The second annual “Walk for Life West Coast” takes place Saturday, Jan. 21 in San Francisco, with a rally beginning at 11:00 a.m. at Justin Herman Plaza, followed by a peaceful walk to the Marina Green.

The inaugural 2005 Walk for Life West Coast drew more than 7,000 marchers who by their presence and prayerful march gave their support to the cause of respect for life.

Catholic San Francisco strongly supports the Walk for Life West Coast, and we urge all Catholics to consider participating in the march this year.

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Seniors need protection The appeal by Sister Miriam Walsh, Director of Pastoral Care at Laguna Honda Hospital (LHH), is an urgent call to protect frail, elderly and disabled patients at LHH. It deserves the support of Catholic San Francisco readers, and all San Franciscans.

The volunteer group, “San Franciscans for Laguna Honda” is well informed, and it includes respected physicians. It needs 10,000 signatures to place an initiative on the June 2006 ballot that is vital to the safety of patients at LHH. The measure will prohibit the City from sending people to Laguna Honda, who have psychiatric or behavioral

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conditions, and pose a danger to themselves, or a threat to a safe environment.

This proposed ordinance will also strengthen Laguna Honda’s primary focus to care for San Franciscans who are frail, elderly, disabled, and in need of long-term skilled nursing, and LHH’s specialty care for dementia, hospice, AIDS, respite, and physical rehabilitation.

As a former City Commissioner on Aging and Adult Services, and a board member of the Handicapables, and the Fitschen Trust for Seniors, I urge CSF readers to please support “San Franciscans for Laguna Honda.” (415-386-4934) Please tell your friends and neighbors to sign this petition.

Mike DeNunzio San Francisco

Catholic San Francisco welcomes letters from its readers. Please:

➣ Include your name, address and daytime phone number. ➣ Sign your letter. ➣ Limit submissions to 250 words. ➣ Note that the newspaper reserves the right to edit for clarity and length.

Send your letters to: Catholic San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109 Fax: (415) 614-5641 E-mail: healym@sfarchdiocese.org

I was recently at San Quentin prison where some of us go on Monday nights to lead Centering Prayer. At our break, two or three of the residents were telling me that the Schola Cantorum of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi performed there the previous week. With huge tears in his eyes, one man was describing the performance and said, “I didn’t even know anything like that even existed!” Another said, “I simply could not believe it; I kept looking for their microphones, and then realized they had none and it was just their voices.”

So, I thought I’d let you know what a gift the Schola was for these very isolated men who live in this prison. I thank the Schola so much for doing this for my brothers. Please extend this message from San Quentin to the members of the Schola.

Mary Ann Scofield, RSM Staff, Mercy Center Burlingame

Execution fans

It was really disheartening for an old Pax Christian like me to open the weekly diocesan paper and find, not one, but two letters from righteous Christians defending capital punishment based on the criminality of the ones to be executed (Letters – Dec. 16).

When will we start looking at the crux of the matter? It’s not about them. It’s about us.

Marie Louise Haseleu Burlingame

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“Scientific fraud is always revolting, but it is fortunately rare and, in the end, truth will out. But in this case, American scientists and the American media have been complicit in the fraud, because of their zeal in the politics of stem-cell and cloning research and their hostility to the Bush funding policy. Concerted efforts have been made these past five years to hype therapeutic cloning, including irresponsible promises of cures around the corner and ‘personalized repair kits’ for every degenerative disease.”

– Dr. Leon Kass, former chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, on news that South Korean Scientist, Hwang Woo Suk, admitted faking his media-hyped cloning claims.

It is nowhere near abolition. Judging from statistics, though, the death penalty, like Karl Marx’s imagined socialist state, may be withering away.

In the year just completed, 60 convicted killers were executed. That is a drop of 39 percent from the recent peak of 98 in 1999, according to a year-end report by the nonprofit Death Penalty Information Center, which opposes capital punishment.

Perhaps more significant, death sentences are dwindling. In 2005, there were 96 new death sentences, according to the center. This is down 70 percent from 1996, when courts sentenced 320 people to die — the largest annual number since the modern era of capital punishment began in 1976.

– Charles Lane, Washington Post

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■ Continued from page 13 Therese of Lisieux based the very core of her spirituality on this and her life and death eventually gave us “data” that validated her faith in this. As a lively 15 yearold, she fasted and prayed that a condemned criminal might become a Christian before being executed. He did. As a dying 24 year-old, she offered her sufferings so that others might be healed and she boldly stated that upon her death she would deliver a shower of roses upon this earth.

Everything that’s happened around her name and to the little town of Lisieux ever since provides considerable data that she did deliver on that promise. Small private acts can deeply affect the overall health of the whole world.

This idea can of course be badly understood. At its worst, it has been understood as a kind of “Divine Credit Union” into which the good paid and the bad withdrew - the crucified Christ and the saintly mother pay in and the wayward child takes out! In its most crass form, some of these divine savings bonds could even be sold as indulgences.

But such a misunderstanding is not our danger today. Our problem tends to be the opposite: An age which is besotted by the empirical and which de-emphasizes private morality, tends to forget that a body needs a strong immune system and healthy antibodies to keep it free of disease.

What are the antibodies that create a healthy immune system within the body of Christ? If we can believe those who have been doctors of the soul, we create healthy antibodies when we silently suffer for each other, when we pray for each other, when we live out lives of quiet martyrdom, and when we emerge victorious in our little battles with what’s petty inside of us. Our seemingly small sins the grudge, the masturbation, the little lie, and the petty jealousy - do make a difference.

Mystics have secrets worth knowing. The health of a body depends on tiny processes invisible to the naked eye.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX.

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EWTN, the 24-hour Catholic TV network, will provide live coverage of events in Washington, D.C., Jan 22-23, marking the 33rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision mandating abortion on demand in all 50 states.

On Sunday, Jan. 22, EWTN will telecast the Solemn Vigil Mass for Life the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, in Washington, D.C., starting at 5 p.m. (2 hrs.)

On Monday, Jan. 23, beginning at 8 a.m., EWTN will air the annual March for Life. The 5-hour telecast will include a “Rally for Life” at the Washington Monument and interviews with pro-life leaders from across the nation. Encore telecasts of the March will be shown on Jan. 23 at 7 p.m. and Jan. 24 at 6 a.m.

Also, on Saturday, Feb. 4, starting at 8 a.m., EWTN will present a 7-hour telecast of its Jan. 28-29 celebration in San Francisco of the network’s 25th anniversary.

EWTN is carried on Comcast Digital Channel 229; RCN Channel 80; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 422. Comcast Airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information about any event listed here.

January 14: Enjoy the spirit and sounds of worldclass Gospel Music by The Northern California Gospel Music Workshop of America Choir and the Lighthouse Singers of Marin at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and all are welcome. A Free Will Offering will be accepted. Call (415) 567-2020 x220.

Jan. 29: RCIA Pilgrimage at 3:30 p.m. with reception in lower halls.

Feb. 5: Chinese New Year Mass at 3:30 p.m. with reception in lower halls.

Feb. 11: Annual Anniversary Mass at 12:10 p.m. honoring couples from throughout the Archdiocese.

Feb. 11: Four Chaplains Interfaith Service at 2 p.m.

Feb. 15: Mass of celebration welcoming new Archbishop George H. Niederauer at 2 p.m.

Cathedral Autumn Group: All people 55 and over are cordially invited. Call (415) 567-2020, ext.

218. Jan. 19: San Jose trip by train. Feb. 16: Visit newly refurbished Tanforan Shopping Center.

Reservations Required to (415) 567-2020 ext. 218.

January 13, 2006 St. Mary’s Cathedral conference center. Sponsored

by Divorced and Separated Ministry of the Archdiocese. Call Vonnie at (650) 873-4236.

Separated and Divorced support group meets 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452. Group also meets 1st and 3rd Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Parish in Pacifica. Call (650) 359-6313 for location.

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Consolation Ministry Grief Groups meet at the following parishes.

Please call numbers shown for more information.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-558-1015; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sr. Carol Fleitz at 650355-2593; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. Call Barbara Cantwell at 650-755-0478; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call Parish at 650-366-3802; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call Sr. Patricia at 650-589-2800.

Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo. Call Brenda MacLean at 415-454-7650; St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at 415-472-5732; Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sr. Jeanette at 415-897-2171.

San Francisco: St. Dominic. Call Sr. Anne at 415567-7824; St. Finn Barr (Bilingual). Call Carmen Solis at 415-584-0823; St. Gabriel. Call Elaine Khalaf at 415-564-7882.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at 415-614-5506.

Ministry to Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-558-1015.

Information regarding grief ministry in general call Barbara Elordi at 415-614-5506.

Food & Fun Jan. 21: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory inducts athletes of earlier years into the SHCP Athletic Hall of Fame. No-host cocktails at 6 p.m. followed by dinner and the awards ceremony. Contact Gregg Franceschi ‘94 at gregg.franceschi@shcp.edu, or call (415) 775-6626 ext. 636. Register online at www.shcpalumni.com/hof.

Take a break over wine and cheese from 5 – 9 p.m. January 21st at Immaculate Conception Academy, 24th and Guerrero in San Francisco. The fundraiser features a Silent Auction and Photo Exhibit. Tickets at $25 per person include a complimentary wineglass. Gourmet Olive Oil of the Dominican Sisters of San Jose will also be available for purchase. Call (415) 824-2052. Bonnie Bonzani, left, Gina Espinal and Kathleen Hayden, with Salvador Iraheta, left, and Eduardo Ramirez, are among the organizers.

Shows/Entertainment January 15: Mozart’s The Magic Flute at 2:30 p.m. in Old St/ Mary’s Church, Grant and California in San Francisco. General Admission $15, Seniors/Students $10, Children under 14 free.

Proceeds to benefit Old St. Mary’s Restoration.

Jan. 29: Ralston Concert Series at 3 p.m. featuring Mihai Marica on cello with Carlos Avila, piano in Ralston Hall Mansion Ballroom located on the NDNU campus at 1500 Ralston Avenue in Belmont.

Tickets $25 and $20 for students and seniors. For more information or to charge by phone, call (650) 508-3429 or check details at www.music.ndnu.edu.

Through Jan. 27: Paula Thompson Art Exhibit at Mercy High School, San Francisco’s. McAuley Art Gallery, 3250 19th Ave., M – F 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. For more information contact Gail Bennett, Coordinator of McAuley Art Gallery at (415) 334 0525 X 312 or gbennett@mercyhs.org or the artist at paulat8491@comcast.net 1st and 3rd Tues.: Noontime Concerts – 12:30 p.m.

- at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, SF. $5 donation requested. Call (415) 288-3800.

Social Justice/Respect Life Jan. 30: Serrin Foster, President of Feminists for Life of America, will present “The Feminist Case Against Abortion” at 7:30 PM in Building 200, Room #2 at Stanford University. The talk will address 200 years of Jan. 24, 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21, 7:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.: Join Jesuit Fathers Cameron Ayers, Kevin Ballard, Tom Buckley, and Jesuit Scholastic Kent Beausoleil for an informative and insightful program on the History of the Jesuits at the Spiritual Life Center of St. Agnes Parish, 1611 Oak. St. between Ashbury and Masonic in San Francisco.

In just 500 years, the Jesuits have made an indelible mark on Western Civilization. Come see how.

Parking is available next to the facility. Call (415) 487-8560, x. 238 or visit www.stagnesslc.org.

pro-life feminism and explain how the modern women’s movement came to support abortion. For more information, contact Noelle Patno at 650-497-2707.

TV/Radio Sunday 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

Harry Schlitt presiding.

1st Sun, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: Mosaic, featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.

3rd Sun, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: For Heaven’s Sake, featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Jan. 14: Hope in Today’s World, a morning of prayer, 9:30-11:30 a.m. at Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont (Across from Ralston Hall on the campus of Notre Dame de Namur University) What kind of spirituality do we need to live in hope in today’s world? Mary Lou Schoone will facilitate a reflection on the intrinsic relationship between spirituality and prayer. Call (650) 593-2045 X277 or check [ http://www.SistersofNotreDameCA.org.

Jan. 21, 22: Walk for Life Eucharistic Adoration: To prepare for the Walk for Life, St. Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert Street, between Powell and Stockton, will offer all night Eucharistic Adoration from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. Please call (415) 421-0809 to sign up and schedule a time to be with the Blessed Sacrament. All are invited to attend, and the parking lot will be open.

January 15: For your Sunday morning worship, join the St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church Community at the 21st Annual MLK Gospel Mass Celebration.

Shipwreck’s own Inspirational Voices Gospel Choir will minister in song. The church is at Jamestown and 3rd St. in San Francisco. Light Refreshments following Mass in the Vestibule of the Church. Call (415) 468-3434.

Jan. 25: When Prayer is Poetry and Poetry is Prayer at Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave, Belmont 9:30–11:30 a.m. and 7 -9 p.m.The Celts lived a mystical spirituality of being encircled at every moment by the Sacred, a spirituality that sustained them in what was called ‘the dark ages.’ This workshop, led by Notre Dame Sister Kay McMullen will explore Celtic prayer and poetry as guides for hope in our own dark times. Please pre register at (650) 5932045 x 277 or Barbara.Cunningham@SNDdeN.org.

Indicate time preference; 9:30 a.m. or 7:00 p.m.

January 29: St. Cecilia Elementary School celebrates 75 years of Catholic education in the Parkside District of San Francisco. All alumni, friends, faculty and former faculty are invited to join in this celebration at the 11:30 a.m. Mass. A reception will follow. Contact the school office at (415) 731-8400 for further information.

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Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633.

Sundays, Jan. 29 – March 12: Divorce Recovery Course at St. Stephen Parish, O’Reilly Center, 451 Eucalyptus in San Francisco from 7 – 9 p.m. $45 cost includes materials. Call Vonie at (650) 8734236 or Susan at (415) 752-1308.

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Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, call (415) 4532342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, (415) 664-8590.

San Mateo County: St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter at (650) 375-8023; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Sylvia Miles at (650) 355-6650, Jerry Trecroci at (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher at (650) 355-4355; St. Matthew, San Mateo. Jim Shea at (650) 344-7622.

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‘The Ringer’ Special Olympics send-up is ‘surprisingly sweet’

By David DiCerto On first thought, the Special Olympics hardly seem like appropriate fodder for a comedy, but “The Ringer” (Fox Searchlight) — outrageous yet surprisingly sweet — proves otherwise.

Endorsed by Special Olympics chairman Tim Shriver (credited as a producer), the feelgood film centers on insecure office worker Steve Barker (an appealingly sympathetic Johnny Knoxville), whose sought-after promotion requires firing the company’s longtime janitor, Stavi (Luis Avalos).

Being a nice guy, Steve hires Stavi to mow his lawn, at an increased salary. Injured while cutting grass, Stavi lands in the hospital with three severed fingers and no insurance.

Desperate for money to pay for Stavi’s surgery, former track star Steve reluctantly conspires with his sleazy uncle Gary (Brian Cox) — mired in gambling debt — to “fix” the Special Olympics by posing as a mentally challenged athlete and defeating the games’ reigning king, Jimmy (Leonard Flowers).

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bets on long-shot “ringer” Steve to beat the hot-dogging champ.

Steve’s conscience is further panged when he falls for a pretty volunteer, Lynn (Katherine Heigl), from whom he must shield his true emotions.

Steve befriends several other athletes — some played by actors with mental disabilities — who, wise to his scheme, decide against blowing the whistle, rallying around him instead and helping him train to unseat the cocky Jimmy.

There is never any doubt that Steve will do the right thing in the end, and become a better person in the process.

Produced by the Catholic-raised Farrelly brothers — no strangers to pushing the envelope of off-limits humor — the film bears their signature blend of bawdiness and sentiment. (As to the former, there is scattered locker-room banter — ostensibly to illustrate that the athletes are just “regular” guys — and a slightly impious joke involving a Catholic priest.)

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does not demean people with disabilities.

Rather, it uses satire to subvert societal stigmas and stereotypes by showing the athletes as fully productive individuals. (You find yourself laughing with, not at, the characters.)

There is one scene some may feel reinforces the stereotypes the film purports to dispel — a scene in which Steve tries on various outfits to better “look” the part. But taken within the context of the story, it shows Steve’s maturation as he moves past his earlier preconceptions.

The film itself is unevenly entertaining, with director Barry W. Blaustein walking a fine line between indelicate and uplifting — though never exploitative or mean-spirited.

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.

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Barbara Elordi, MFT Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist.

Offers individual, couple + family and group counseling.

The Peninsula Men’s Group, now in it’s 7th year, is a support group which provides affordable counseling in a safe and nurturing setting. Interested candidates may call for a free brochure.

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CALL 415-485-4090

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Handyman Painting, roof repair, fence (repair/ build) demolition, carpenter, gutter (clean/ repair), skylight repairs, landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, janitorial. All purpose.

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We can make them look as good as new without damaging the originals.

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Bring New Life to Old Memories

January 13, 2006

PUBLISH A NOVENA Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

Cost $25

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 Adress Phone MC/VISA # Exp. Select One Prayer: ❑ St. Jude Novena to SH ❑ Prayer to St. Jude

❑ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin ❑ Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Please return form with check or money order for $25 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

Room Elderly For Rent Care Quiet and sunny room for rent in home, Ocean Ave. $650/mo.

Call (415) 584-5307

For Rent 1 br. $550 in a 4 br. house, share kitchen, 2 baths, livingroom, FDR, yard w/fruit trees, Portola dist.

Tel: (415) 519-2210, (415) 468-8178

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ORI’S ELDER CARE AGENCY Personal care companion.

Help with daily activities; driving, grocery shopping, doctor appts. Required: CNA, Nurse’s Aid, Certificate, honest, reliable, excellent refs, bonded.

Call Ori 415-713-1366

Worship Services, Catholic Experience Marie DuMabeiller 415-441-3069, Page: 823-3664 VISA, MASTERCARD Accepted Please confirm your event before contracting music!

chiropractor KARL A. GILJUM, D.C. Doctor of Chiropractic Providing quality not quantity care 500 Sutter St. #601 San Francisco, CA 94102 (415) 706-1920

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Classifieds For Information Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days. M.B.

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By a Conservatory Graduate

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– FAMILY DENTISTRY – Fillings Root Canal Therapy

Crowns Bridges Dentures Bonding New Patients Welcome

Evenings & Weekend Appointments Most Insurance Accepted

REY P. JOVES, DMS 6879 Mission St., Daly City

(650) 756-8400

FAMILY DENTISTRY Smiles are a gift in any language.

DIANE POOLER, D.D.S. 66 San Pedro Rd., #B Daly City, CA 94014

FAMILY DENTISTRY

Family, Cosmetics, Implant Dentistry 2033 TARAVAL STREET

(415) 665-8397

(650) 756-6968 Specializing in Cosmetic Procedures including Invisalign Invisible Braces, and Zoom!

2 Teeth Whitening.

DOUGLAS D. BOUCHER, D.D.S. 825 OAK GROVE AVE., MENLO PARK (650) 325-8030

EDWARD JEAN E. BARTHMAN, D.D.S. WALTER, DDS Where beauty, health, General Dentist 2427 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94123

and comfort come together

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MONTEREY DENTAL OFFICE

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749 Monterey Blvd.

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St. Jude Novena

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

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Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked.

Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

M.B.

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

Never known to fail.

You may publish.

M.B.

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

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

B.K.

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Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

$50 mo. once a week lesson

26 West Portal Ave., #4 San Francisco (415) 661-7779

DR. ERICH K. HABELT

Help Wanted

Yearly Recitals At Clarion Hotel

MISSION PLAZA DENTAL

Caring For and Enhancing Your Smile

Prayer to St. Jude

Special Needs Companion Services

Children of all levels

WILLIAM L. GALLAGHER, D.D.S.

WEST PORTAL FAMILY DENTISTRY

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

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

M.B.

Adult Beginners

SAN MATEO COUNTY

(415) 731-0816 ORGANIST WEDDINGS • FUNERALS

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY

2345 Noriega Street

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NOVENAS

DENTAL DIRECTORY

FAMILY DENTISTRY

Catholic San Francisco

3500 Callan Blvd.

South San Francisco, CA First Floor space available

Call Charley Haggarty (650) 344-3044

DENTISTS: Reach over 215,000 readers of Catholic San Francisco in our monthly Dental Directory.

Call Mary Podesta (415) 614-5644 or e-mail: podestam@sfarchdiocese.org

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Must be age 55 to apply BEING AGE 55 OR OLDER IS GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT! THE SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM OFFERS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR INDIVIDUALS AGE 55 AND OVER TO SUPPORT THE US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY THROUGH A GRANT SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL OLDER WORKER CAREER CENTER. NO FEES ARE INVOLVED. BENEFITS INCLUDE VACATION, SICK, HOLIDAY LEAVE PAY AND HEALTH INSURANCE.

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PART-TIME BOOKKEEPER NEEDED St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo is in need of a bookkeeper. This person is to perform the full range of accounting and bookkeeping functions such as payroll, accounts receivable, purchasing, etc., under the general supervision of the Director of Parish Operations. These duties include but are not limited to maintaining all financial as well as all Business and Human Resource records and the functions associated with the above processes. Applicant must have past experience in bookkeeping and posses proficient computer skills. The job is parttime 18hrs/week, benefits not included.

Please send or fax your resume to: St. Bartholomew Parish, Attn: Lori Delgado Wise at lori@barts.org or fax to (650) 347-2429 or mail to 600 Columbia Drive, San Mateo, CA 94402.

CITY: San Francisco/Richmond POSITION ID: $9.56/hr CA337/Administrative Support (San Francisco) $9.56/hr CA338/Administrative Support (Richmond) $9.56/hr CA340/Administrative Support (San Francisco)

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Catholic San Francisco

January 13, 2006

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 650-756-2060 415-479-9020 Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

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