January 16, 2004

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2004 March for Life Building unity on core life principles aim of marchers

Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

By Mark Pattison

(CNS PHOTO BY DON BLAKE, THE DIALOG)

Participants in the 2003 March for Life head toward the U.S. Capitol on their way to the Supreme Court building in Washington Jan. 22. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected for the 31st annual march and accompanying activities, which mark the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade that legalized abortion on demand.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — To observe the 31st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion virtually on demand, sponsors of the annual March for Life have chosen “Build Unity on the Life Principles” as the theme for the Jan. 22 rally on the Ellipse and march to the U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court buildings in Washington.

“Some people think unity is everybody holding hands, and we all be nice to one another,” said Nellie Gray, who had directed each March for Life since the first one in 1974.

“We’re not talking about that. We’re talking about unity in the life principles — no exceptions, no compromises.”

Gray defines possible exceptions and compromises as “life of the mother, health of the mother, rape, incest, a deformed child and all that.”

The March for Life Education & Defense Fund states as the life principles: — “The life of each human being shall be preserved and protected from that human being’s biological beginning when the father’s sperm fertilizes the mother’s ovum.”

— “The unalienable right to life endowed by our Creator vests in each human at fertilization.”

— “There must be equal care and protection for each born and preborn human.”

— “When in doubt opt for life.”

— “When two or more humans are in a situation in which their lives are mutually endangered, all available ordinary means and reasonable efforts shall be used to preserve and to protect the life of each human so endangered.”

Gray said the life principles also apply to euthanasia.

The March for Life will be the biggest event MARCH FOR LIFE, page 8

By Jack Smith In the past two months, about 90 lay people throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco have completed intensive training for key roles in implementing “safe environment” programs for children and young people in their own parish and school communities.

The safe environment program of the San Francisco Archdiocese arises from a mandate in the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” which was approved

by U.S. bishops in June 2002. An important element of the Charter is the requirement that all dioceses develop and implement programs to enhance and ensure the safety of young people at school, at church and in the community at large.

The San Francisco Archdiocese has partnered with the KidWISE Institute to “help parents teach their children to be safe in society without being scared,” according to director of pastoral ministry for the Archdiocese, Presentation Sister Antonio Heaphy.

KidWISE, based in Oakland, was founded in 1992 by psychotherapist and author Paula Statman as an educational institute for parents and professionals. The Institute’s “Out of Harm’s Way” program was developed following the highly publicized 1993 Polly Klaas abduction case as a way to provide helpful information to parents on keeping their children safe from predators. The program is based on Ms. Statman’s SAFE ENVIRONMENT, page 8

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(l-r) Linda Renteria of St. John the Evangelist, Debbie Pinkston of St. Raymond, and Ann Roggenbuck of St. Isabella received training on Jan. 9-10 to become safe environment presenters.

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Bush stresses importance of vouchers in remarks to Catholic educators WASHINGTON — In a Jan. 9 address to more than 250 Catholic educators, President Bush stressed the importance of voucher programs and urged the Senate to pass a bill to “make school choice in Washington, D.C., a reality.”

The president made his remarks in the East Room of the White House to educators attending a Jan. 8-11 symposium in Washington celebrating the centennial of the National Catholic Educational Association.

Although he did not specifically use the word “voucher,” Bush spoke highly of the need to provide scholarships for low-income families for children in failing schools, particularly in Washington, where a choice initiative already passed in a House bill and is up for a vote as part of a Senate omnibus measure.

“I suspect that this program would have a lot of takers when we can get it funded,” he said.

The president added that parents who think that their child’s school is not meeting his or her needs would naturally want another option, and to that end, he said, Washington’s Catholic schools would provide “a really good alternative” that the federal government is willing to help fund.

Bush stressed that the Senate needs to pass the scholarship funding for Washington’s schools not just to help “begin a change in education around the country” but to help local Catholic schools “fulfill their mission, meet their obligation and to continue doing the excellent work they’re doing.”

He also said he plans to ask Congress to provide $50 million in this year’s budget for a national choice incentive

(CNS PHOTO BY BOB ROLLER)

By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service

President Bush speaks to members of the National Catholic Educational Association at the White House Jan. 9. Catholic educators were in Washington to celebrate the NCEA's centennial.

President Bush praised Catholic schools and urged the Senate to pass a bill to "make school choice in Washington, D.C., a reality."

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The president’s 25-minute address was punctuated with applause from the educators, who were praised throughout his remarks for their good work. Bush started off by describing Catholic education as “a noble calling” and noting that Catholic schools’ insistence on high standards and academic achievement are “models for all schools around the country.” He also commended them for their low operating costs.

“Catholic schools have a proven record of bringing out the best in every child, regardless of their background.

And every school in America should live up to that standard,” he said. “We want our public schools to live up to the standard you have set in Catholic schools.”

He also noted that much of the wording behind the educational reform in the 2-year-old No Child Left Behind Act stems from the examples set by Catholic schools.

In the back row of the East Room, Sister Edwin Quinn, a Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary who trains teachers in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, couldn’t have been happier.

Sister Quinn, who has been a Catholic educator for more than 40 years and is one of a family of 15, all of whom attended Catholic school, said it was “an exciting experience just to be here” at the White House and the fourday symposium where the educators were discussing the future of Catholic education.

Even though her order no longer runs nearly as many Catholic schools as it once did, she said she was extremely hopeful about the future.

“It’s a wonderful time to be in Catholic education,” she told Catholic News Service. “There is so much forging ahead to do.”

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Bush guest worker proposal raises hopes, raises questions WASHINGTON — A new guest worker proposal by President Bush may address some of the goals of Catholic and other immigrant advocates, but they say they are worried about the lack of details on his plan. Bush on Jan. 7 announced a proposal for allowing temporary workers from other countries to be admitted to the United States to take jobs which employers cannot fill with people already in the country. The plan would include giving at least some of the estimated 8 million or more illegal immigrants already in the United States permission to stay here temporarily, as long as employers demonstrate a need for their labor. Advocates who work with immigrants raised doubts about whether Bush’s proposals will turn into the legislation necessary to make them happen, and whether anyone besides large employers and their workers would really benefit.

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, Coadjutor Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., praised Bush’s decision to bring up the issue of immigration again with his proposal and his plans to renew bilateral migration talks with the government of Mexico. In a Jan. 8 statement, he commended the president for acknowledging the need for worker protections and his call for the government to issue more “green cards” or permanent resident visas. Bush’s proposal, however, “does not provide a solution to the serious problems we experience as the result of continued undocumented migration and an immigration system that is broken.”

Lawmakers who back abortion told not to receive Communion LA CROSSE, Wis. — Archbishop Raymond L. Burke has formally notified Catholic lawmakers in the La Crosse Diocese that they cannot receive Communion if they continue to support procured abortion or euthanasia. The four-paragraph canonical notification, published in the Jan. 8 edition of The Catholic Times, the La Crosse diocesan newspaper, called upon Catholic legislators in the diocese “to uphold the natural and divine law regarding the inviolable dignity of all human life.” It said, “To fail to do so is a grave public sin and gives scandal to all the faithful.” Archbishop Burke, who is to be installed Jan. 26 as St. Louis’ new archbishop, released the canonical notification along with a 10-page pastoral letter to Catholics in the La Crosse Diocese about their political responsibility to uphold the value of human life.

Missouri seeks moratorium, study on death penalty ST. LOUIS — Bills seeking a moratorium and further study on the death penalty have been introduced in the new session of the Missouri General Assembly, which opened Jan. 7. Members of the Senate will consider a bill to put a moratorium on the death penalty, and a similar bill is expected to

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be introduced in the House. Democratic Sen. Mary Groves Bland, the Senate sponsor, has filed similar bills in the past.

Republican Rep. Sherman Parker has said that he likely will sponsor a House bill. Bland’s bill would create a nine-member commission to study all aspects of the death penalty as administered in Missouri. The commission would hold public hearings and review all charges of murder or voluntary manslaughter filed after 1977. All executions would be prohibited during the review. The commission would report its findings by Jan. 1, 2006, and make recommendations on modifications to state law to ensure adequacy of counsel, accuracy of findings of guilt, elimination of race disparity, fair court procedures, and fairness and consistency in charging and sentence recommendations by local prosecutors.

Religious rhetoric in campaign: Democrats talk faith WASHINGTON — Maybe the Democratic candidates for president are paying attention to those opinion polls that say voters genuinely want to know about politicians’ religious beliefs. In the last few weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about God and religion coming from the major contenders for the Democratic nomination. Numerous major daily newspapers have recently run prominent stories about the candidates’ religious influences. It’s even come up in the context of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean’s explanation of why he supported the state’s civil unions law and in a National Public Radio debate among six of the candidates.

In that Jan. 6 debate, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman said that too often members of his own party “feel uncomfortable talking about faith or try to exclude faith or expressions of it from the public square.” Lieberman, who as Al Gore’s running mate in 2000 became the first Jew to be part of a major national party’s presidential ticket, warned that because “religion matters to people ... we’ve got to talk about it. Otherwise the Republicans will convince people they’ve got some sort of a monopoly on values and faith.”

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Pope urges international help for Iraq to establish democracy VATICAN CITY — In his annual “state of the world” address to diplomats, Pope John Paul II urged the international community to help Iraqis “retake the reins” of their country and establish a democracy that reflects their aspirations. The pope’s comments Jan. 12 looked beyond his own strong opposition to the war in Iraq and focused instead on the present challenges after the fall of former President Saddam Hussein’s regime.

“The numerous steps taken by the Holy See to avoid the painful conflict in Iraq are well known,” the pope told more than 100 ambassadors accredited to the Holy See. “What is important today is that the international community help the Iraqis so that they are able to retake the reins of their country and democratically determine a political and economic system consistent with their aspirations,” he said.

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Seminary rector to leave post in June Sulpician Father Gerald D. Coleman will resign as President-Rector of St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park in June after serving 16 years in that post.

In an announcement released Jan 12, San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada, Chancellor of St. Patrick Seminary, and Father Donald D. Witherup, Sulpician Provincial Superior, said Father Coleman decided to resign at the conclusion of the Spring semester. They said Father Coleman had announced earlier a long-delayed sabbatical for the coming year and this seemed an opportune time to make this decision and to prepare for an administrative transition.

The announcement commended Father Coleman for his service as President-Rector, noting that during his tenure, “he oversaw the development of a new master plan for the seminary, new programs in priestly formation, a recruitment plan and a significant increase in enrollment.” Father Coleman also was praised for overseeing the sale of unused

seminary property, which enabled the seminary to retrofit its historic building and improve the library and student residences.

In an interview Jan. 12, Archbishop Levada, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Seminary, said, “We are all indebted to Father Coleman for the outstanding work he has done and the many enhancements he has brought to the program at St. Patrick’s Seminary, and we thank him for his selfless service.”

According to the announcement, the Sulpician Provincial Council, in collaboration with Archbishop Levada, will initiate a search for a new President-Rector.

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Longtime Serra principal’s legacy to continue in new role

By Tom Burke Happy to contribute as long as it benefits students, Michael Peterson has taken on a new role at Junipero Serra High School. Mr. Peterson served as principal of the all-boys San Mateo school for 25 years before becoming Serra’s first Director of Institutional Advancement in June. The position includes fundraising and oversight of a $25 million campus building project that is adding new sports fields as well as academic and other facilities to the school. Mr. Peterson is in his fortieth year as a Catholic school educator.

Shy and not quite ready to talk about any legacy he might leave at the school, Mr. Peterson said the most important thing to him has been “students walking away from Serra believing in themselves” and in support of one another. “A hallmark of Serra is that it’s a great community – a family of believers – and I am very glad to be continuing as a part of it.”

“I became part of education because I saw it as a great way to influence the future and I still believe that,” Mr. Peterson said. He said he is especially glad to touch years ahead with the Serra High School mission – “to preach the word of God and live the word of God.” “I have never considered coming here as going to work,” Mr. Peterson said. “It’s been a privilege to be in and be part of a place where young men learn how to be better people. I believe teaching to be a noble profession and teaching in a Catholic school better than that. I want to be here as long as people want me here and continue to help the school and the kids.”

The “community” dimension of Serra will be served by the new construction, Mr. Peterson said, in ways including students not having to find facilities elsewhere. “Just one example is the new soccer field,” he said. “You can play right now year round on our new surface. They don’t have to get in busses and travel and their peers can watch them play right here. You’re talking again about that sense of community. I like being here. It’s a healthy place to be. It’s lively, vibrant.”

The last 25 years have brought many changes to education, Mr. Peterson said, saying he’s most grateful for “the realization that there are many different ways to teach and how it’s done is as important as what gets done.”

“There is a lot more sensitivity now than there ever was before,” Mr. Peterson said. “Generally, teachers are much more attuned today to kids and the environments they come from.”

Archbishop William J. Levada presided at rites commemorating the long service of Michael Peterson at Junipero Serra High School December 9. In his homily, the Archbishop called Mr. Peterson a man of “commitment” who has made students “his life’s work.”

“My wish for Serra is that it continues to become a better place and I know it will,” Mr. Peterson said. “Junipero Serra High School has been part of my life and my family’s life for 25 years and I think we are all richer for it.”

Serra president, Father Joseph Bradley, is a 1973 graduate of the school. He served as a member of Serra’s theology faculty and chaplain from 1997 until being named president two years ago.

“We are who we are in a large part because of Mike Peterson,” Father Bradley said. “We are the institution, the academic, the social. We are who we are because of his 25 years of leadership. He’s created a warmth at Serra and an environment where things can prosper. I am privileged to follow both Mike and Father Stephen Howell, who preceded me as president.”

Father Bradley called Mr. Peterson “a man of faith who has the respect of graduates, parents, faculty, priests, and religious” and has been “crucial to the school’s existence.” Serra has also benefited from Mr. Peterson’s acumen in the area of finance and his “overriding interest in the welfare of students.”

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If anything has marked Mr. Peterson’s time at the school it has been “his energy,” Father Bradley said. “Michael’s enthusiasm is remarkable. He goes to service events, sporting events, club events. Even in the most difficult times I have never heard him say a bad word about anyone. I have great respect for him.”

With appropriate praise for the individuals who have a part in the operation of Serra, the “center of the school is and has been faith,” Father Bradley said. “We are a Catholic school.”

His wish for graduates is that “they leave Serra with a conscious sense of the role of Christ and faith in their lives.”

Father Bradley recalled his days at Serra during the “tumultuous times of the Vietnam War” and teachers asking, “What would Jesus have to say about this?” The confrontations were a conversion experience for him. “I hadn’t gotten that before,” Father Bradley said. “Faith for me had been learning prayers.”

Serra graduates from all academic levels are making substantial contributions to the world, Father Bradley said. “The proudest tradition of Serra is that our graduates go out and give back to the community. It’s a sacred tradition that we send people out – however God calls them - in roles of service.”

Serra principal, Lars Lund, has 17 years previous experience at the school as member and head of its Theology Department and his tenure last year as associate principal.

He is also a former assistant superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Mr. Lund said the future of the school “will be built on what Mike has already done.”

“Mike is a hard act to follow, big shoes to fill,” Mr. Lund said. “Nobody did it better than Mike Peterson. He is a good Catholic man who created a great sense of community and common purpose here at Serra. He always had the students’ interests first and foremost in his mind and treated the teachers well. He made sure we were a community with Christ as its core.”

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By Patrick Joyce With the first budget of a new governor now on the negotiating table in Sacramento, officials of the California Catholic Conference find themselves fighting a familiar battle, once again struggling to protect “the poor and most vulnerable in our midst.”

“Our priorities on the budget are always about speaking for those people and making sure that the pain does not fall disproportionately on them,” said Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the CCC, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops.

“We want to respect those people who have a greater claim on us. We think there are some people in society who have a claim on our assistance, and we want to

respond to that in light of the Gospel.”

Everyone involved in the budget process, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, acknowledges that the state faces tough choices in trying to bridge a budget gap of $15 billion for the 2004-2005 fiscal year. The governor’s proposed solution relies on a combination of spending cuts, borrowing, tax shifts and higher fees, but no tax increases.

The conference’s biggest concern is the proposed $2.9 billion cut in projected spending on services for the poor. “There are unfortunate choices put forward right now and most of them focus on health and human services. I wish it was different,” Mr. Dolejsi said.

Things might be different, he said, if Californians tried to fix the state’s tax system.

“I’m not saying we need more taxes but we

The Week of Christian Unity is celebrated each year from January 18 through January 25. Pope John Paul II has repeatedly said that the most indispensable thing to do is “pray: to pray for Christian Unity.” All parishes are asked to pray for Christian unity this week and many will be holding special events.

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St. Francis is topic of TV program Sunday, Jan 18 St. Francis, Assisi and the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco are the topics for a fast-moving “For Heaven’s Sake” program airing Sunday, Jan 18 at 6:30 a.m. on KRONChannel 4. Father Allan Ramirez, a Conventual Franciscan Friar and Rector of the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco talks about the enduring gift of spirituality provided by the influence of the beloved saint. “For Heaven’s Sake, hosted by Maury Healy, airs the third Sunday of each month at 6:30 a.m. on KRON-4.

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Mr. Dolejsi pointed to two areas where the state can save money: public schools, which receive $33 billion, and prisons, which get $5.7 billion from the $76 billion general fund.

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With taxes off the table, Mr. Dolejsi said, “All of the conversation focuses on expenditures and that runs smack against a constitutional requirement to address education. Then you have health and safety needs of the society, and the safety seems to be the dominant one now. So that leaves health and human services, where the choices are very difficult: Do you

Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) will provide live television coverage of events in Washington, D.C. Jan 21-22 marking the thirty-first anniversary of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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March for Life . . .

■ Continued from cover surrounding the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade and Doe vs. Bolton anniversaries.

The March for Life Education & Defense Fund will sponsor a convention at a Capitol Hill hotel Jan. 20-21 that will include a session on problems facing the pro-life movement. Convention speakers include Gray, Priests for Life founder Father Frank Pavone, Human Life International president Father Thomas Euteneuer, journalist Russell Shaw and two Pennsylvania Republicans in the U.S. House, Reps. Melissa Hart and Patrick J. Toomey.

A capacity crowd is expected to jam the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for its annual National Prayer Vigil for Life, which begins with a Jan. 21 vigil Mass with Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore as principal celebrant and homilist.

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■ Continued from cover “Parents’ Choice Award” winning book, “Raising Careful, Confident Kids in a Crazy World.” “Out of Harm’s Way” has been selected by numerous dioceses throughout the U.S. to assist in creating safe environment programs.

Lay people trained in the program are qualified to make presentations to parents in parish and school communities.

Presesentations, which will begin in the Spring, have been specifically tailored for the San Francisco Archdiocese.

The two-hour presentation includes a video, facilitated dialogue and instruction with a trained lay person, and an instruction booklet with tips, instructions and exercises designed to increase a parents awareness and skill in keeping their children safe.

An instructional video has an introduction by Archbishop William J. Levada and a presentation on the “spiritual and moral duty” to children by Jesuit Father Bernie Bush. Father Bush says in the video “what’s done to a child, for good or evil, God takes as done to himself.” As such, he says, the participation of parents in this program is a “blessing.” “Every parish is expected to participate,” Sister Antonio said, and presentations will be additionally available in Korean, Chinese and Spanish.

The goal of the program is to help parents “dramatically reduce the likelihood of their child being sexually abused or abducted,” according to Ms. Statman. This is done by showing parents how to “help their child develop the good instincts and skills to resist common lures,” and helping parents be good listeners and communicators with their children. It is also designed to help parents tell their children what they need to know to be safe “without over-

Marchers are invited to stay in the basilica’s lower level to sleep overnight and participate in various services, including a rosary, confessions, hourly holy hours, night prayer and morning prayer, winding up with a morning Mass celebrated by Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York.

Before the march, a youth rally and Mass will take place at the MCI Center, downtown Washington’s pro sports arena. The rally will feature musician Steve Angrisano and Franciscan Father Stan Fortuna, the “rapping priest,” followed by Mass celebrated by Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick. Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington, Va., and other bishops will be concelebrants.

Also before the march, the National Pro-Life Religious Council will host the National Memorial for the Pre-Born and Their Mothers and Fathers at an undetermined Senate office building on Capitol Hill. The free ecumenical event will include prayer, praise, music and awards. Guests will whelming them with the world’s troubles,” or using scare tactics, Ms. Statman said.

In the third session of its kind since November, about 25 lay volunteers from throughout the three counties of the Archdiocese were trained to be presenters at an intensive two-day session at St. Sebastian parish in Greenbrae last week. Parishioners being prepared as trainers come from all walks of life, but most have some experience with children as parents, teachers, nurses, counselors or other participation in “helping” professions or ministries.

Volunteers first listened to and participated in the two hour presentation they will be expected to facilitate themselves. They then received specific training and tips on the content of the program and skills of presentation. Finally, the volunteers made their own presentation of a portion of the program and received feedback on their performance from Ms. Statman and their peers.

Debbie Pinkston, who teaches “beginnings of faith” to children at St. Raymond parish in Menlo Park, praised the training and program for its reliance on the laity themselves. “It’s giving the people of the parish a tool where they are responsible . . . without relying on the clergy or anyone else,” she said.

Linda Renteria is the mother of three children in religious education at St. John the Evangelist parish in San Francisco. She was chosen for the training program in part because of her facility with both English and Spanish. Mrs. Renteria was most impressed with the breadth of the program. “It’s not necessarily just a church issue, but how to help our children. It’s about empowering our children,” she said. The program helps parents be aware of all sources of danger to their children, she said. “It’s not just about strangers or priests. It’s about the whole environment around them – to protect them, to help them to feel empow-

include actress-singer Melba Moore and Alveda King Tookes, niece of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. After the march, Priests for Life will host a “Silent No More” vigil on the steps of the Supreme Court. Expected to participate were Moore, Tookes and actress Jennifer O’Neill.

The March for Life’s annual Rose Dinner will be held Jan. 22, following the rally and march. The guest speaker will be Pepperdine University constitutional law professor Douglas Kmiec, talking on “Life and the Necessary Relationship Between Law and Morality.” Kmiec had been dean of the law school at The Catholic University of America, Washington.

American Collegians for Life will conduct a weekend student leadership conference at Catholic University Jan. 23-25 to which high school juniors and seniors are welcome. The keynote speaker is Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the onetime abortionist who later became an ardent abortion foe and a Catholic.

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Latino Dons: Bound together by faith, culture and La Virgen

By Jayme George Graduating college students need special guidance in this struggling economy if they ever want to see the inside of an office building, and not just as the person who delivers sandwiches. In an effort to combat depressing post-graduation statistics, students at the University of San Francisco have rallied their resources.

The result: The Latino Dons, a male non-exclusive affinity group at the University of San Francisco dedicated to establishing a network of Latino individuals who support and encourage one another both during and after their college years.

The Latino Dons, headed by student Co-Presidents Marlon Morales and Jason Cienega and faculty advisor Father George Schultze, provides opportunities for its members to learn leadership skills by organizing events and participating in volunteer work and educational events. The group is also often in contact with members of the Latino Alumni Association, La Compania, as references to networking possibilities. “We are a reminder to Latino students that when we are [at USF] and after we graduate, we are connected as a community,” said Morales.

One of the events that Latino Dons organize annually is Las Mañanitas Prayer Service for the celebration of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe. With the help of El Teatro Jornalero, a community theater group composed

of day laborers, the Latino Dons successfully hosted their fifth annual celebration of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe on Friday, December 12.

The day’s festivities began with a prayer service at St. Ignatius Church and a theatrical performance by El Teatro Jornalero entitled “Las Mañanitas Jornaleras,” a contemporary adaptation of the traditional story, “La Virgen del Tepeyac.” With the closing of Mass, worshipers moved to the Xavier Residence Hall where a lively reception featured traditional food, music, and dance.

The sounds of a Mariachi band filled the air as guests munched tamales and drank cinnamon flavored chocolate in a room adorned with roses and brightly colored paper.

Celebration of the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe is only the beginning of advent holidays for Latin American countries, but the significance of the occasion touches upon an important issue in Latino communities.

“When the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego in 1531, she had chosen to present herself to a poor, indigenous farmer. The bishop at the time could not believe that she would appear to so lowly a person, but Juan Diego’s devotion and faith were what really mattered,” said senior Latino Don member Rudy Castañon.

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The Ministry of Deacons

Taking the ‘High Road’ in faith

By Patrick Joyce

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im Myers and John Sequeira have chosen to “Take the High Road” in more ways than one - first as deacons, then as partners in a combination business and ministry designed to improve the moral climate of business.

Their “Take the High Road” presentations are “more of a conversation about the Golden Rule rather than religious doctrine,” Deacon Sequeira says. “We talk a lot about doing the right thing because it is the right thing to do - not because someone told you to do it, not because you’re going to jail or you’re going to get fined.

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“We are going back to that basic human instinct: people want to do what’s right. We are appealing to that and trying to create change in the company. We are not preaching Catholic doctrine, not preaching at all. We do a survey of an individual company that tells us what their problems are.

Then we can focus on the crux of those problems.”

“We talk about identifying good and evil,” Deacon Myers says. “We do a segment on the Faustian bargain: Do you want to be in league with the devil, or do you want to choose the good way to go.”

Ironically, he says, “Catholic business leaders say to us: ‘Don’t overdo the Catholicism.’ But a major business leader who is an evangelical said, ‘Tell them you’re Catholic deacons and get some doctrine into your talks. They, the evangelical business leaders, want that in there.’”

“This fellow said, ‘What gives you two the moral authority to talk about this is the fact that you are ordained ministers in the Catholic Church,’” Deacon Sequeira says.

“One of our philosophies is that change begins with one person,” he says. “It doesn’t matter who that person is, they will have an impact, either in the company they’re in - or they will go to another company and make that same impact.”

“Much of the material we use is from our own lived business experience, how we have dealt with situations, where we were faced with question of ethics and honesty and integrity, things that might have attacked some of our core beliefs,” he says. “How do you deal with that?”

“Someone will say, ‘My boss tells me I have to do this.

Do I go right out on a limb, say no, and lose my job?’ We say,

‘You don’t have to do that. There are many ways to go before The roots of Take the High Road go back eight years. you get to that point.’ We don’t discount the fact that ultiDeacon Sequeira and a friend “wanted to bring spirituality mately a person may have to go all that way. But if they do, into the workplace,” he says, “but you can’t talk about it that they shouldn’t be in that company anyhow.” strongly so we talked about ‘the spirit’ in the workplace. We “It all starts with management,” Deacon Myers says. “If worked with some good people and developed ideas. Then, management doesn’t buy into what we’re doing, it doesn’t for a number of reasons, we put it on hold.” work. Most employees will say, ‘But if I do this, I could get Two years ago Deacon Sequeira decided to take the projfired.’ Management better be supportive of what we’re doing.” ect off hold and asked Deacon Myers to help. “Much of that In addition to Take the High Road, the deacon team time, much of the energy has gone into developing the conpresents one-day religious seminars and retreats for busitent, fine-tuning our message, and into legal formation,” ness people. The idea grew out of an incident at a manageDeacon Sequeira says. “The last four or five months, in a ment and sales training seminar Deacon Myers was giving very, very difficult marketplace, we have been trying to marin New York. “Somebody came up to me and said, ‘You’re a ket our product. It’s not the easiest thing to market.” deacon in the Catholic Church?’ I said yes. He said, ‘The “The people who are involved with us in Take the High evangelicals push this really hard: let’s infuse spirituality in Road never started this with the idea of saying, ‘Here’s a way we the workplace. Could you give a talk on that?’” can make a killing, we really want to make a lot a money,’ Deacon Myers said he and we haven’t,” Deacon couldn’t do it during the regu- “How can we somehow, with the Sequeira says, laughing. Their lar sessions but he could do it guiding vision, he says, is afterward, with attendance time we have left, start the “How can we somehow, with voluntary. “Out of 800 people, the time we have left, start the movement toward change, start only one person left.” he says. movement toward change, “Then I went other places and the pendulum back again, away start the pendulum back people said, ‘I understand you again, away from taking God do spirituality workshops from taking God out of everything.” out of everything.” would you do one for us?’”

“We’ve dedicated the rest – Deacon John Sequeira of our lives to this. . . . We “Then John, more than I, came up with this idea: let’s don’t get paid to be deacons,” put a bunch of business leaders together for a retreat, do a day Deacon Myers says. “ We’re obligated to find some means of with them, and mix spirituality and some of the things we do supporting ourselves so that we can continue to be ministers. in Take the High Road. Catholic business leaders are saying We decided we’d do something for the good - even if we can to us. ‘We can help you introduce this into the community if make just ten people - or one - change their attitudes.” you do this one-day retreat and let people see who you are and “Jim brings such a perspective to this with background what you’re doing. They would then be interested in your in the media,” Deacon Sequeira says. “I bring almost a pure three-day workshop on honesty in the workplace.’” business background, risk management. I can tell you, from “We make it clear that this is a spiritual retreat with a settling insurance claims, that if people would operate ethistrong Catholic bent to it,” Deacon Sequeira says. “So we’re cally, honestly and with integrity, any company would reduce choosing mostly, probably 90 percent Catholics. and others their insurance claims. They’ll save ten times whatever we’re who are open to the idea.” going to charge them.”

“We tell them going in: we’re talking doctrine here.

Deacon Myers agrees. “We had a lawyer from a top ten We’re Roman Catholic. If you want to come here, you’re Fortune 500 company say to us: ‘If you guys just changed the going to hear Catholic doctrine, and don’t argue with us. attitudes of 10 percent of our employees, you can’t believe the Please get up and leave,” Deacon Myers says with a grin. hundred of thousands of dollars we would save.’ These companies are looking for something that would help change attitudes.”

In the aftermath of the Enron and other business scandals, he says, investments are no longer based “purely on a price to earnings ratio. Now there is a whole new factor, the creditability factor: can they believe what the company is telling them. . . . The numbers I am looking at - do they accurately reflect the position of the company?”

Ethical practices are also good business practices, Deacon Myers says. “There are studies done by Harvard and Northwestern and others that ethical companies are perceived much better by their employees - they stay longer their vendors and the people who buy their product or service. They look at them and say, ‘I can trust them.’”

Revitalization of Perman

Deacon Jim and Linda Myers

After serving for more than a millennium as simply a step was in the early Church: a permanent ministry with its own d serving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. They range in a including Hispanic, Tongan, African American and Filipino. S The Second Vatican Council called for the restoration of Gentium” described deacons as ministers “upon whom hands a ice . . . they serve in the diaconate of the liturgy, of the word, an The stories presented here represent the second installment manent diaconate ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisc

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While many people look on this as a secular nation, Deacon Sequeira says, “Research by George Gallup Jr. shows that 90 percent of Americans pray to a personal God, and that is how they set their values. That doesn’t mean that 90 percent of Americans worship in formal religion - they don’t but they pray to a personal God. . . . inside just about everybody is this code or standard they hold themselves to, and it’s definitely got a spiritual base to it.”

Deacon Myers has spent his working life in the media, starting as a reporter for NBC, moving on to disc jockey, sportscaster, station manager of KSFO radio and KRON television. “Now, I emcee numerous business, sports, and charitable events and give speeches, training for executives - how to manage a company, how to manage employees, how to find the right employees, sales training, too - teaching people how not to lie but still get the orders,” he says.

Deacon Sequeira spent more than 40 years in the commercial property and causality insurance business, 25 years as a commercial insurance broker, the last 13 years as the director of risk management for a large exporting, importing logistics company but he has done a lot of public speaking over the last 13 years from the pulpit of St. Bartholomew’s in San Mateo.

Deacon Myers and his wife Linda have three children and five grandchildren. “We have always been involved as a couple,” he says. He has worked on every committee, he says, “with the exception of the linen committee - I don’t iron well,” at their parish, St. Isabella in San Rafael. “Linda is a Deacon John and Barbara Sequeira musician, responsible for four different types of choirs, is involved in running the liturgy for St. Isabella. She’s also head of a liturgy music committee for the archdiocese.” go into boardrooms and they accept us as business Deacon formation is not simply academic, Deacon Deacon Myers decided to try the diaconate at the sugperson/deacon. People take you aside and say, ‘I’m having Sequeira says. “It’s this idea of formation of you as a deacon, gestion of two priests. “ I decided to go the first year and see trouble at my place of employment or at home or I need help the change your life undergoes. The best advice I got - right what the education is like.” he says. “The education we with this moral or ethical decision.’” before I started the formation process - was from my current received at St. Patrick’s Seminary was outstanding - in teachThe diaconate is “a natural progression of my involvepastor, who’s been my spiritual director for years, Father Dan ing me about my faith and in teaching me things I didn’t ment in the Church,” Deacon Sequeira says. “I started as Keohane. He said, ‘Don’t try to make this into something you know.” The program was “so challenging and informative an altar server in the fourth grade. . . . I was part of the want to make it into. Just let it happen to you.’” that it was a ‘no-brainer’ to stay with it.”

Sodality at USF. After Barbara and I got married, we found “In all my years as a deacon, including the formation, The social justice elethe Church was a tremenI have let that happen, and it’s not an accident that Jim and ments of formation had a dous influence in our lives as I are doing the things we’re doing. It’s where I’ve seen the profound impact. “I had “A lot of married people and kids I was moved around in my ministry taking me. I have to devote my life to this.” always been involved in char- will come to us because they know “We are servants,” Deacon Myers says. “It may mean takwork. We found not only spirities - putting on events, ing a load off the priest’s shoulders - being another set of hands itual and religious support emceeing events,” Deacon we have marital experience and and legs. We reach out into the community for them because of but a lot of social support in Myers says. “But to get down all the things that priests are already doing. . . We’re pressed into our parishes. We were one of we’ve also had children.” and really work with the preaching and performing other duties because of the shortage the leadership couples homeless and the indigent of priests. But basically we’re supposed to be the community nationwide for Worldwide – Deacon Jim Myers and the gang kids - I had outreach - to bring problems back so they can resolve them.”

Marriage Encounter and we never done that. I thought, ‘I Deacon Sequeira points out that the permanent diaconate touched a lot of people.” can actually do some good here.’ You go out with the great was not revived as way of dealing with the priest shortage. But “Deacons are the great bridge between the people and idea that I’m going to save the world and then you look because of that shortage, he says, “We are going to be called the clergy,” he says. They can “walk very comfortably in around and you say, ‘If I can only pull one kid out of 100 into liturgical ministry - weddings, baptisms, preaching, vigil both worlds. We understand what’s going on in a boardfrom this trouble or pull one marriage back together.’” services for the dead, burials. The numbers just don’t work on room, around the water cooler in a business.”

“A lot of married people and kids will come to us the other side, but a deacon should be spending, if he possibly Deacon Sequeira and his wife Barbara have two daughbecause they know we have marital experience and we’ve can, about 50 percent of his time working with people who ters and three grandchildren. “I have often said, even from also had children,” he says. “They come for somebody to talk need to be helped - the poor, gang people, doing something like the pulpit, my wife is probably more qualified to be a deacon to and we try to guide them to where they should go. . . . We what Jim and I are doing. Or just helping the parish.” than I am. Barbara went to every class, wrote every paper. She “Take the High Road is not designed to make you a better even delivered a homily when we had the homily part. Now salesperson, a better accountant, a better manager,” Deacon we really serve our parishes as a deacon couple.”

Myers says. “It’s really trying to train you to be a better person.

“Barbara has a masters degree from the College of Notre Corporate executives don’t know how to classify that, although Dame in pastoral studies. She taught for 16 years in the relion the way to priesthood, the diaconate is once again what it more of them are coming to the realization when they look at gious studies department at Notre Dame High School in distinctive character. Sixty-seven permanent deacons are now all these studies and realize it can benefit their companies.”

Belmont and was chair of the department. She’s a certified age from 39 to 82 and come from a variety of ethnic groups “We’re talking about fundamental change, and it takes spiritual director. She is a great wife, great mother and Some are widowers or bachelors, but most are married. a leap from fear to faith,” Deacon Sequeira says. “If our sales tremendously supportive of what I’m trying to do. We both the permanent diaconate. The Council’s document “Lumen have been slow it’s because people say, ‘This is a great idea.’ have a tremendous love for the Church.” are imposed not unto the priesthood, but unto a ministry of servThen they say, ‘What am I getting myself into?’” But he Deacon Myers’ wife Linda “was very excited about the d of charity to the people of God.” thinks more people may be willing to take that leap in the faith education she received by going to class every week. She t of a special Catholic San Francisco series looking at the perwake of corporate scandals. He says, with a smile, “Enron, said, ‘what a great learning experience for me, I am learning co.

Tyco and Martha Stewart helped us get attention.” so much about the faith.’”

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Against the mind of winter “April is the cruelest month,” wrote poet T.S. Eliot, but for my money January tops the list.

In January, we find ourselves abruptly slowed from December’s activity – in the spiritual preparation of Advent for the coming of Christ, and the temporal distractions of holiday celebrations, Christmas shopping and family gatherings.

In many parts of the nation, the charm of snowfall has given way to a grim determination to trudge ahead until the Spring thaw. Even where there is no snow, we seem to feel the cold more. Perhaps it’s the sense of isolation that the shortened days of Winter bring to interior as well as exterior landscapes.

To counter any feelings of loss and to make good use of this quiet time, reading scripture and following the feasts of the Church’s liturgical calendar are recommended.

In January, we celebrate the feast of the Baptism of the Lord and the Feast of the Epiphany. The baptism of Jesus, a baptism in which we share, dispels any fear that we are alone. Epiphany reminds us of the promise of God, “Rise up in splendor Jerusalem! Your light has come, the glory of the Lord shines upon you.” (Is 60:1) Pope John Paul II last Sunday asked that Christ’s baptism illuminate the way for every Christian and offer fresh light and strength for their journey of faith.

When John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan River as a symbol of repentance from sin, the Holy Spirit descended on Jesus in the form of a dove and a voice from heaven was heard to say, “You are my beloved Son. On you my favor rests.”

“This event,” said the pope, “marked the first public showing of Christ’s messianic identity after the adoration of the Magi.”

“Jesus comes as the ‘lamb of God’ to take away the sin of the world,” the pope said. “And as we celebrated the Incarnation of God with Christmas, we are invited to continue contemplating the face of Jesus — the human face of God, the divine face of man.”

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Put faith into action this year Whether you made a dozen resolutions for 2004 or none at all, here’s one that will make this the best year of your life: Resolve to make a difference in every way possible!

The good you have done, and continue to do, is no small thing. Still, it seems to me that most of us miss many opportunities given by God to inspire, challenge and serve others.

But first we need to examine our prayer life? Prayer is to the soul as food is to the body. Prayer not only makes a difference in our own lives, it provides us the wisdom and courage to make a difference in the world. Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta said: “If we don’t pray, we don’t live, but we are not meant to do only that. The fruit of prayer is love, and action is the fruit of love.” Without action our faith is worthless (see Jas 2:15-17).

Whenever you hear of a need, try to do whatever you can. Respond to as many requests as possible. Send whatever you can. Even one dollar will help. If every teenage and adult Catholic adopted the give-a-dollar habit, numerous charitable organizations would receive millions of dollars to assist the needy.

Remember, God will not be outdone in generosity.

Some of the stores you patronize probably sell pornographic magazines or videos. Talk with the managers and express your concern. It’s quite easy.

Sometimes they will remove them. And if they don’t, let them know you intend to shop elsewhere. Never be too embarrassed to witness to the faith.

Develop the habit of writing letters, e-mailing or calling your government representatives and corporate CEOs on behalf of those who suffer from war, abortion, poverty and all forms of exploitation. It doesn’t take much time. A short letter can be written in 15 minutes. It’s so important!

Let’s put Catholic faith into action! Let’s make 2004 a year dedicated to dismantling what Pope John Paul II calls the “structures of sin.”

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. boldly proclaimed: “There are some things in our social system to which I’m proud to be maladjusted.... I never intend to adjust myself to the evils of segregation and discrimination.... I never intend to become adjusted to the madness of militarism.” Faced by all the injustice in our world, “the challenge to us is to be maladjusted.”

But to move from maladjustment to corrective action we need to learn what truly is happening to our suffering brothers and sisters, near and far, born and unborn. Watching the evening news is not enough. It is essential to consult challenging Catholic sources of information.

Read every national and global article in your diocesan paper, and in a spirit of prayer allow the light of the Gospel and Catholic social teaching to guide your active response to the news.

Methodism’s founder, the Rev. John Wesley, summed it all up quite beautifully: “Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can.

As long as ever you can.”

Tony Magliano writes a column for Catholic News Service.

Eloquent Archbishop Thanks to Archbishop Levada for his timely and touching articles in the December 19 issue on Advent and Christmas Carols.

It is at once educational, informative and spiritual. Eloquently presented as the Archbishop is capable of doing.

Jerry Ellen Cannizzaro Mill Valley

A theology of music I quite enjoyed Archbishop Levada’s “Getting Ready for Christmas” theme in the December 19 Ordinary Time column. His personal anecdote regarding his pleasing discovery of Christmas hymns previously unheard (by him) at the Schola Cantorum concert really helped make his point about “getting ready.”

Music, particularly choral music of this type, has a way of conveying truth affectively and effectively. The texts of the songs he quoted were beautiful. The music itself has a way of eliciting feelings that illuminate the meaning of the words. And, the blended sound of the voices of the choir speaks the truth that man (and woman) in harmony produces such beauty as contrasted with humanity in discord. The concordance of text, music and human voices results in a new creation, a sum greater than its parts.

Music is one of the Creator’s wonders, a kind of theology. And, the music of the Schola Cantorum points us towards the miraculous creation at Bethlehem.

By the way, the Schola can be heard at Vespers on Sunday afternoons throughout the year at the Shrine of St. Francis.

Jack Hitchcock San Mateo

Flu season or not

L E T T E R S

Since the flu is now an epidemic shouldn’t we go the final step of omitting a breeding source - holy water in founts. This would follow the Archbishop’s mandate to eliminate such possible communal exchange of infection as in handshaking.

It is high time to consider that, flu season or not, the offering of the cup at Mass is not a healthy practice.

Patricia Swendsen San Francisco

Rosary Crusaders Just a short note to tell you that until after the Holidays I did not have a chance to read your Sesquicentennial Issue of Catholic San Francisco.

You named one of the 12 great moments during the last century, as being the Rosary Crusade in Golden Gate Park, and rightly so.

However, you omitted two important

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names in your story. They are the late Bishop Mark Hurley and the last Msgr.

Alvin P. Wagner. The former did all the “leg” work, and the latter all the preparation and paperwork. Msgr. Wagner was the chairman of this great event, and was assisted by Bishop Hurley.

I know this for a fact because my sister and I were volunteer helpers of Msgr. Wagner for 39 years and were privileged to have initiated the correspondence that took place over many months in preparation for this largest gathering of religious and laity ever to have taken place in the Archdiocese.

Another name not to be forgotten is that of the late Father George Johnson, who carried the Blessed Sacrament into the Polo Field on that fantastic day.

Joan Hammond San Rafael

Behold the great priest

The moving public response to Father Bill O’Donnell’s death attests to the power of his priesthood, but may leave some things unsaid about the roots of that power.

At. St. Joseph’s College, almost sixty years ago, Bill was one among a number of admired peers, but even then, stood out for me as a wisdom figure. This Livermore farm boy, impatient of academic abstraction and unimpressed by pretense or pomposity, had an instinct for what was authentic in persons or in systems. It was balanced, fortunately, by a compassion and understanding that distinguished the half-century of his priesthood.

Those of a certain age can remember the hymn we sang whenever the bishop processed up the aisle of our chapel. At the rustle of vestments and glitter of cross and crozier, we burst out with “Ecce Sacerdos Magnus” “Behold, the great priest!”

Ah, the great priest! At one time in Catholic culture we may have set the priest too much apart from his flock. Called to touch and administer things holy, to preach and interpret the Word, to direct our spiritual growth, he stood, in manners and practice at some indefinable distance from his flock. In our own day, that culture of distance has effectively diminished and our priests now are honored to the degree that they moved towards us, to the degree that they understand rather than preach, share rather than explain, our sufferings and our exaltations. It is a mission, as I see it, that does not set our priest above, but draws him into, the lives of his people, and hence, into the life of the community in which they live. It is, in turn, a mission which alerts us to our own share in the priestly role.

In the emergence of this maturing culture, Bill was on the front lines. His sense of mission compelled him like Christ, to know the great spiritual hunger of the crowd, the loneliness of the ignored and the insignificant, the rage of the exploited, the despair of those overwhelmed by dependencies, the self-disdain of those whose passions have atrophied in the cold transaction of the flesh. Bill was the priest for this role, one who, as he lifted the Host, lifted us to the altar with him because he had first descended into the mystery of our own unique and ordinary lives.

Those who know Father Bill well know that he was more likely to star for the Bolshoi Ballet than ever to wear episcopal purple. But, today, as I grieve and remember, my heart sings out one hymn above all others: Ecce! Sacerdos magnus! Behold the great priest!

John Savant San Rafael

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The Catholic Difference The proposed federal marriage amendment begins with this straightforward affirmation: “Marriage in the United States is exclusively a union of one man and one woman.”

Some pro-family critics of the amendment suggest that it defends only the word “marriage,” not the institution of marriage. I’m not persuaded by this criticism, as a matter of law; but in any event these well-meaning critics may be missing some crucial points about language and its effects on culture.

1. It’s not an accident that the proponents of “gay marriage” want to claim the word “marriage.” Gay activists understand that ideas, which have consequences, are formed by words. Everyone knows that, whatever the benefits conferred and whatever the rhetorical chaff surrounding those benefits, a “civil union” is not a “marriage.” Defending the right meaning of words is more than an exercise in semantics; it’s a defense of a public moral culture which recognizes that there are moral truths built into the human condition. One of those truths is that “marriage” – an institution millennia older than the modern state – is “exclusively a union of one man and one woman.” The law’s recognition of that truth is no small thing. If “marriage in the United States is exclusively a union of a man and a woman,” then those who wish to defend the primordial institution of marriage will not be contradicted by the law when we do so.

2. Culture is made of ideas-shaped-by-words. One of the ways communism tried to destroy civil society and democratic culture was through verbal mendacity: “people’s democracy” was the communist euphemism masking the reality of

totalitarianism. If the word “democracy” and what it means was worth defending (and it was), so is the word “marriage.”

3. It’s important that the law help keep public discourse about marriage honest. Doing so strengthens the hand of other institutions committed to defending and promoting stable marriages – institutions like families, churches, synagogues, schools, and voluntary associations. These institutions of civil society are, arguably, even more important than the state in building what Maggie Gallagher of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy calls a “marriage culture.” Their work would be undercut if the legal meaning of “marriage” is changed, i.e., distorted and debased.

4. When gay activists talk about the “benefits” of marriage, they’re talking about entitlements granted by the state.

When advocates of “marriage” rightly understood talk about the “benefits” of marriage, we mean, at least in the first instance, something different. As Gallagher puts it, we mean “the good things that happen when husbands and wives are joined in permanent, public, sexual, emotional, financial, and parenting unions” – we mean the good things that happen to couples, and to the children who grow up in stable families.

Legal “benefits” are secondary to these goods.

5. If the advocates of “gay marriage” succeed in legally claiming the word “marriage,” the notion that sexual love is simply a matter of satisfying personal “needs” will be further enshrined in our law. We’ve already gone too far down that road, thanks to an out-of-control U.S. Supreme

Court and misguided initiatives like “no fault” divorce. To lose the word “marriage” is to lose more than the word “marriage” – it’s to lose any idea of sexual love as an expression of sexual George Weigel complementarity, permanent commitment, and generativity.

Are “civil unions” a good idea? No, they’re not. But to cite Maggie Gallagher once again, while “civil unions are one unwise step down a pathway from a marriage culture,” so-called “gay marriage” is “the end of the road.” The question of what “marriage” means requires a binding and unambiguous national solution in which the word “marriage” reflects the human and moral reality of marriage.

Defining “marriage” for what it is is a good in itself.

Defining “marriage” for what it is is good for children. And defining “marriage” for what it is erects a barrier to the further dismantling of a public moral culture that, by recognizing the truths embedded in human nature and human action, is capable of sustaining democracy.

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

Evangelization

Will 2004 be a year of peace?

Will 2004 be a year when we can celebrate peace? The answer to that question depends on you and me! Peace begins within each one of us. If we have a peace-filled spirit we can spread peace wherever we go and make a difference in our world. This “sounds simple and simplistic,” you are probably saying to yourself as you read this. However it is neither simple nor simplistic!

While it is true that peace begins with each one of us it doesn’t do much good if we are not willing to share that peace and help it become a reality in our world. When we participate in the Sunday Liturgy we are reminded to share a “sign of peace” with each other. That is not just something “nice” we do in church. It is meant to have a lasting effect on us as we work through our days and our weeks. There is little use in “sharing peace” in the nice peace-filled atmosphere of worship only to go out and “yell” at someone who annoys us as we leave the parking lot. If this happens, then, that “peace” which we so willingly shared, must have been shallow and did not last very long! This gift of peace that we share is meant to make a difference in our lives and the lives of those with whom we have contact every day. We know what we ought to do but we don’t always do it!

Perhaps if we take time during this new year and really

focus on how we can be instruments of peace we may be able to make some progress. Many times during Mass and at prayer services people pray for peace in the war torn areas of the world. This is very good and we need to be mindful of that “peace” which is the “absence of war.” But it is also very safe for most of us because we will never have to deal with the challenges of those unfortunate people in foreign lands. So what does “peace” mean in your life? I believe that one good way to find out is to pray and reflect on the Prayer of St. Francis: “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy.” When we think through our daily interactions with family, friends and co-workers the above prayer just about covers what “peace” can be for us. If we pray this prayer and really try to mean what we are praying we will soon find out how “peace” can become the focus of our daily living. We will become more conscious of how strife-filled our immediate world is and we will find opportunities for spreading the love of God which is the ultimate bearer of peace.

Over the past several weeks the Scripture readings brought us many reminders of the need for peace in our world. You will recall the angels’ greeting of “peace to per-

sons of good will” and the reminder of “beating our swords into pruning hooks”. These and many more references are not there just by accident.

They are there as rather strong reminders that if the message of Christ is Sister to prevail in our society, we as members of this Antonio Heaphy society have an obligation to “hear” the Word of God and to “act” on it. As Pope Paul VI tells us “If you want peace work for justice”. Somewhere else we are reminded to “think globally and to act locally.” If we indeed “act locally” in sowing the “seeds of peace” perhaps by next December we will see the “flowers of peace” blooming in our homes, our neighborhoods and in our workplaces.

Presentation Sister Antonio Heaphy is director of the Office of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Spirituality

Facing otherness and differences David Tracy, the eminent intellectual, submits that perhaps the biggest challenge confronting us today is that of facing our differences, of truly accepting, otherness. This challenge confronts us at every level: social, political, moral, religious.

Here are his own words: “For anyone in this troubled, quarreling center of privilege and power our deepest need, as philosophy and theology in our period show, is the drive to face otherness and difference. Those others must include all the subjugated others within Western European and North American culture, the others outside that culture, especially the poor and the oppressed now speaking clearly and forcefully, the terrifying otherness lurking in our own psyches and cultures, the other great religions and civilizations, the differences disseminating in all the words and structures of our own Indo-European languages.”

But that’s not easy, despite a lot of glib rhetoric to the contrary. Most of us claim to accept otherness and difference, but, as Aquinas might say, we’re there in desire more than in actuality.

We burn lots of politically correct incense in front of the shrines of multiculturalism, gender equality, and alternative lifestyles; but, as we’ll all admit when we’re honest, the reality isn’t as easy as the rhetoric. The fact is that otherness frightens us and often brings out the worst in us. It’s not easy to be comfortable, at home, welcoming, to what’s other, different, seemingly deviant. More often than not, we try to put up walls against it.

We see that today in the rise of fundamentalism and paranoia of every kind. Everywhere, and not just on the right of the ideological and political spectrum, there seems to be an exces-

sive itch to circumscribe, to rein in, to exclude, to punish anyone or anything that doesn’t fit our mold. For all our talk of global community, there is, almost everywhere, a growing obsession with boundaries and with protecting one’s own kind in terms of ethnicity, language, religion, gender, lifestyle.

Not that all of this is bad. True community can only be predicated on the strong self-identity of those who enter it and true ecumenism can never be rooted in people abandoning their own cherished values and beliefs. True acceptance of otherness and difference only means something if someone first has a strong identity, complete with real boundaries and cherished borders to protect. Fundamentalism arises precisely when human beings feel adrift, cut off from their own roots, without clear boundaries. We need to protect what we cherish.

But protecting cherished values and defending necessary boundaries is a good place to start from. Ultimately we must move on to face and accept otherness. Our survival depends upon it. We can no longer live just among our own. Sooner or later, given that the planet is both limited and round, we’ll find it impossible to avoid what’s foreign to us. What’s strange to us will soon enough be part of our neighborhood.

Moreover, welcoming what’s other and different is, in fact, a key biblical challenge. In the scriptures of all the great religions we see that God is defined precisely as “Other,” as what’s beyond imagination, as outside the realm of the familiar. This is what Scripture means when it calls God “Holy”; “Holy,” first of all, not because of some moral quality but because of some ontological

quality, namely, otherness and difference from us.

Thus, biblically, we have the great tradition within which revelation from God is understood to come through the stranger, the foreigner, the unfamiliar. For his reason Father the Scriptures insist on the Ron Rolheiser importance of welcoming strangers. Since God is Other, strangers, among all others, are the most likely to be carrying God’s revelation.

There’s a Chinese greeting that works as both a blessing and a curse: “May you live in interesting times!” We live in such times and, indeed, it’s both a blessing and a curse. We’re being overwhelmed by otherness. Nothing’s safe for long. It’s not easy to have our boundaries, values and ideas under constant redefinition, especially when we believe in eternal truths.

But we’ve never grasped those truths deeply enough.

We have them in part, in small pieces. That’s why we call them mysteries. Moreover, and this is the point, a lot of the pieces we still need to fill out those mysteries lie precisely in what’s foreign to us, in what’s other, strange, different.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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“Marriage:” a word with consequences

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Trust in the abyss of My mercy A personal story of healing after abortion

By Theresa Bonopartis At 18 years old, after months of denial, I was nearly four months pregnant. I was happy at the thought of a child growing within me, but also feared telling my parents.

My parents’ reaction took me by surprise. Shocked, angry, and disappointed, they told me to leave the house and forget that I was their daughter. They believed that premarital sex was wrong and thought it would be a disgrace to have a child out of wedlock. At least, I thought, my parents were practicing Catholics and would never ask me to abort my child.

Alone in the Darkness It wasn’t long before the baby’s father and I broke up. A friend’s mother invited me to stay in their home.

During this period, my father sent several messages urging me to have an abortion. He even offered to pay for it. I refused at first, but as time went on and I began to feel more desperate, I decided, finally, to have the abortion.

No one explained to me the baby’s development or what the abortion would be like. I lay there just wishing that I could die. I could feel my baby thrashing around as the saline burned his skin and lungs. He was dying. Labor began. Alone in the room 12 hours later, I gave birth to a dead baby boy.

I looked at his tiny feet and hands. All I wanted to do was pick up my son and put him back inside of me.

I couldn’t fathom what I had done. I rang for the nurse.

She came in, picked up my son and dumped him in what looked like a large mayonnaise jar, marked 3A.

Project Rachel Ministry Project Rachel is a post-abortion healing service of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The program offers assistance in healing the pain of abortion, and finding the path to peace and reconciliation. If you have been affected by the pain of an abortion, no matter how long ago, please call 415-717-6428. All calls are strictly confidential.

She left the room and I was alone filled with hatred for could for me. He was very empathetic and supporting. myself. The thought of death seemed comforting. My At last, I was on my way home. downward spiral had only just begun.

I began to see the priest regularly for spiritual direcAfter the abortion I wasn’t the same person any- tion. At first, all I could see was darkness. It took a lot more. I went through the motions of daily living but of effort to do the things he asked, like examining my had no desire for anything. At night I’d lie awake ask- life, because I was sure I would uncover what a terrible ing God over and over again person I was. But I was tired to forgive me. of the depression and desDesperate for love, I ‘My mother told me that my perate enough to try. I felt married a man who abused sorry for my children who alcohol and was emotional- abortion was her sin and that had a mom who cried a lot ly and psychologically abuand simply couldn’t cope sive to me. After the birth of she would take it to the grave with life. I wanted more for our second son, I didn’t the three of us. And so I know how I was going to with her. I was able to comfort prayed, went to Mass every care for two children while day, and spent time before living with someone addictthe Blessed Sacrament. I ed to alcohol. I didn’t want her, telling her that we both needed so badly to trust in the boys to experience this God I had been told was abuse. One day when my bore responsibility for it. I told so good. husband was drinking I continued to struggle again, I took the children her that I forgave her and with depression. I would and walked out the door. beg Jesus for healing. I felt This time, thank God, I had asked her to forgive me.’ bad that I had not experimy children. enced a full healing, and my confessor’s eyes showed his A Ray of Hope Every day was a challenge just to get out of bed and own sadness over my continued struggle. I understand take care of the boys. I did, however, begin attending now that the fullness of healing must come in God’s Mass again, sitting in the back of the church, certain time.

One night I felt depressed and suicidal again, but that everyone knew I had had an abortion - certain that the walls would come crashing down on me. But I despite these feelings I also somehow had a deep trust went, listening for some word of hope that I could be in God. I didn’t want the children to see me crying again, so after putting them to bed I closed myself in forgiven for my terrible, “unforgivable” sin.

My seven-year-old son was ready to make his First the bathroom, crouched on the floor, and repeated over Confession. At a meeting for the parents, a priest and over, “Jesus, I trust in You.” talked about God’s mercy and His desire to forgive any Lifting the Burden sin - even the sin of abortion. I remember thinking: I don’t know how many hours I did that, but well Can this be true? Did I hear him correctly? Will God into the night an experience changed my life. I experireally forgive abortion? That evening I left with the enced being on the Cross with Christ. But instead of first inkling of hope I had known in 10 years. encountering suffering, I felt love so intense that it was It took time and courage, but I decided to call that capable of taking away my pain. His love washed away priest and ask him to hear my Confession. Scared and my sin and I knew my healing was complete. nervous, I made my first Confession in many years.

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The Morning After Pill: Plan B marketing deception On the front page of the December 17th New York The truth of the matter is that EC pills have three Times, the “new” Morning After Pill (levonorgestrel) is effects: delay and inhibit (1) ovulation and/or (2) fertildescribed as a “contraceptive” because it “prevents ization and (3) alter the endometrium, thereby inhibitunintended pregnancies.” No further specifications are ing implantation. It is impossible to determine which of given. This statement is, I believe, a type of “marketing these three is responsible in any given cycle of a rhetoric” which can and likely will cause incalculable woman. Ovulation is not always stopped, cervical harm to untold numbers of women who accept this dis- mucus is not always made impenetrable, the lining of course and make use of the Morning After Pill, official- the womb is not always rendered unreceptive to a fertilly named Plan B. In Plan B, the first pill should be taken ized egg, and fallopian tube activity (the so-called tubal within the first 24 hours after unprotected sex, with a transport factor) does not always inhibit sperm and second pill taken 12 hours later. Plan B will sell for ovum unification. about $20 to $30.

Respected medical authorities have clearly To further muddy the demonstrated that “breakwaters, the NYT’s article through ovulation and cites, on the one hand, ‘Plan B and its marketing strategies pregnancy occur even Planned Parenthood which with ‘perfect’ use of ECs.” argues that the Morning represent a medical and moral As a matter of fact, ECs After Pill is “safe” and, on taken within 72 hours of the other hand, Dr. James disaster of monumental proportion.’ sexual intercourse may Trussell of Princeton precipitate ovulation, thus University, a proponent of the over-the-counter sale of Plan B, claiming that Plan putting the woman at risk for a potentially fatal ectopic B’s easy access “sends a signal to women that it is safe.” pregnancy. A number of highly-qualified researchers Let’s use truth as our option-of-choice and carefully conclude that “post-coital drugs act principally to terminate a viable pregnancy by interfering with the lay out clear medical and moral analyses of Plan B: Morning After Pills (Preven, e.g., has been a prescrip- endometrium.” Consequently, Plan B is not solely an tion drug of this type) are technically called an “emergency contraceptive” since it de facto also acts as “Emergency Contraceptive” (EC) whose aim is the “ter- an anti-implantation pill. This action of Plan B is thus mination of a possible pregnancy.” Plan B’s current pack- nothing other than a chemically-induced abortion.

Over-the-counter use of Plan B will exclude the paraging indicates that the two pills work principally by preventing ovulation or fertilization by altering the transport ticipation of physicians - and parents - who would hopeof sperm and/or ova. The packaging adds that Plan B fully provide and interpret this information. The misuse “may” also inhibit implantation by altering the of ECs is especially grave in the case of a minor who will have ready access to Plan B without ever seeing a endometrium.

This claim is misleading by its calculated vagueness. doctor or notifying her parents. This fact can easily Every EC inhibits implantation of a newly conceived increase risk-taking behavior and promiscuity.

Embryology textbooks overwhelmingly recognize human embryo, and thus leads to the embryo’s death.

Plan B’s packaging, especially when approved for over- the fact that human life and development begin with the the-counter sale, gives the casual impression that taking union of male and female gamates. The development of Plan B is no more harmful than taking an aspirin. The human life begins with fertilization and any deliberate implication is that Plan B bears no recognizable medical intervention to end this life or prevent its survival by or moral issues. In fact, quite the opposite is true. rendering implantation impossible is morally tantaConsider Planned Parenthood’s postcards about ECs: mount to abortion.

The “safety” of Plan B is premised on occasional or “You have 72 hours to erase last night.”

one-time use of the pills. Over-the-counter availability will encourage women to choose it routinely and this amounts to an unethical and reckless experiment with women’s health.

Teenagers in the U.S. already have a higher rate of sexually-transmitted disFather Gerald eases than their counColeman, S.S. terparts in other developed countries, e.g., England, Canada, France and Sweden. It is thus alarming and incredulous that the Women’s Capital Corporation to market Plan B is targeting younger audiences. One ad shows a group of young men standing outside a dormitory, with the message, “So many men, so many reasons to have back-up contraception.”

The clear message is that casual sex, particularly for high school and college-age women, is without adverse consequences as long as one has access to this “backup.”

Plan B sustains the potential for severe medically harmful effects on women (e.g., nausa, vomiting, and increased risk of ectopic pregnancy), and is morally reprehensible in its suggestion that “last night can be erased,” casual sex is fine and care-free, and that these pills only have an anti-contraceptive effect.

Parents should be especially alarmed at the moral “ethos” that is being used to promote Plan B especially with younger women. No physician or parent needs to be informed of its use, thus infringing on a woman’s health, and distancing her from her parents.

Plan B and its marketing strategies represent a medical and moral disaster of monumental proportion.

Sulpician Father Gerald D. Coleman is president and rector of St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.

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What’s a deacon? Whatever is needed

By Patrick Joyce “Isn’t it amazing,” Peter Boulware says with a sly smile, “that the older you get, the more you think of your mortality. You want to cover all the bases, to grow in wisdom and grace before the Lord.”

Deacon Boulware is describing his path to the permanent diaconate - from boyhood on a farm in Pennsylvania, through Catholic schools and college, to FBI agent in Washington, D.C., to the marketing department at Pacific Bell in San Francisco.

“My education is completely Catholic - grammar school, prep school, college, St. Francis of Loretto in Pennsylvania,” he says. “I was raised on a farm outside Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. After college I went to Mass on Sunday but that was about it - minimal. I was a Sunday parishioner - no time to do more.”

He had more time after his retirement in 1990 at the age of 52, and two years later, he began volunteering at his parish, St. Mary’s Cathedral, “picking up the garbage that blows around here - everything that’s loose in San Francisco blows onto the property at Gough and Geary.”

The future deacon eventually moved inside, becoming master of ceremonies at liturgies in the cathedral, he says.

“Our liturgies are our highest form of worship, and they deserve to be letter perfect. They are designed to elevate people and take them out of their common place and bring them to a special place while the liturgy is going on.”

“I like to see things done right. In the cathedral things need to be done right. If the celebrant stumbles on the edge of the carpeting two Sundays in a row, they’ll be doing that up at Grace Cathedral two weeks later. They’ll think it’s part of our liturgy,” he says with a smile.

“I had not had any experience with deacons until I became acquainted with Russ Holm,” Deacon Boulware says. “Russ was ordained in the first class of permanent deacons and assigned to the cathedral. Russ is retired now but then he was an example to me of what an ordained deacon is.”

After he had been working for a few years as a lay volunteer, “Deacon Joe Borg, who was assigned here at the time, suggested that I go for a little bit of the extra graces and study for the diaconate,” he says. “So I looked into that and found out what the diaconate was all about.” He liked what he learned about the ministry and applied for the diaconate in 1995. He was ordained in 1999 and assigned to the cathedral.

Deacon Boulware came to San Francisco originally as an FBI agent in 1962 but was quickly called to Washington, D.C., after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963.

He was assigned to do background checks on the incoming Johnson White House. When those were completed, he went to the Washington field office’s Eastern European embassy and consulate division.

Two sweltering Washington summers in that job

Mercy . . .

■ Continued from page 14 only the profound love and forgiveness Christ gave me.

I’ve watched my life transform, miraculously, as I’ve been privileged to help countless women and men suffering from abortion’s aftermath. Christ’s love transformed not only my life, but the lives of those I love.

Before my mother died, I learned that my abortion had caused her great suffering, although she had never told me. One day when we were watching TV, abortion came up. She said, “Well, sometimes it’s all right to have an abortion.” I said, “Mom, it is never all right.”

God gave us this moment of grace. My mother told me that my abortion was her sin and that she would take it to the grave with her. I was able to comfort her, telling her that we both bore responsibility for it. I told her that I forgave her and asked her to forgive me. After that my mother went to Confession to the same priest I had seen for direction, and she felt her terrible burden lift.

I believed that God was calling me to speak out against abortion, but I knew I couldn’t unless my children first knew of my own abortion. I was terrified that they would hate me. By then I was active in the pro-life movement and they had been brought up to respect human life.

Facing the Challenge I planned to tell my children about my abortion many times, but each time I backed out, afraid to say the words. Finally, one day I knew I was being given the grace to talk to them about it. How can I describe that day? I trembled as I told them of how our lives had come to be as they were. If it were not for my abortion, they would not be living in a fatherless home or seeing the strained relationship between my father and me.

prompted him to make a career change. “I’m not sitting in a car eight hours a day doing surveillance with no air conditioning for the rest of my life,” he says. He came back to San Francisco in December, 1966, and went to work for Pacific Bell in the marketing department.

From his apartment across the street from the site of the new St. Mary’s Cathedral, “I watched this place come up out of the ground. My dad was an architect, so I was raised in a family that understood architecture and what it was all about. Seeing St. Mary’s built was a real treat - that somebody had the vision to go outside the box and break the stereotype and do something challenging.”

Now Deacon Boulware plays a variety of roles at the cathedral: “I try to be present and available whenever the archbishop is going to celebrate here in the cathedral. I do all of the English baptism preparation and all of the marriage prep for couples from the parish who are not being married here. I have two of them right now. One is going to Barcelona, and one is going to Rio de Janeiro for their weddings. I preach on rotation, usually on the first Sunday of the month and perform baptisms.”

“Some people don’t understand the difference between the deacon and priest,” he says. “In reality, probably many priests don’t care, because the deacons are taking a tremendous burden off them. When people call me father when I’m vested, I correct them, and they look at me - deadpan ‘What’s a deacon?’”

In addition to his parish duties, Deacon Boulware works with Father Dave Pettingill, head of the deacon formation program, and Father John Talesfore, director of the archdiocese’s Office of Worship who was recently named administrator of the Cathedral.

With Father Pettingill, “I work on whatever he needs me to do. This year I will speak to deacons in formation about life in the field and about spiritual direction.” For the past four years, he has also volunteered his time to help Father Talesfore “on major projects, the 2000 Jubilee Mass at PacBell park, confirmation Masses at the cathedral for deaneries. They take a lot of planning, signage, postage, setting up and tearing down. We’ve confirmed as many as 150 here at the cathedral in one liturgy.”

Even when he’s not at the parish office, Deacon Boulware is on call, thanks to an office phone line at home.

“My cathedral phone number is published in the bulletin. It makes me available. People call and want to schedule a baptism or ask about baptism or marriage preparation.”

At times the calls are more urgent. “I answered the phone one night two or three years ago and talked to someone I knew who was sitting over in Alameda with a loaded revolver in his lap. We talked for about an hour. It worked.

He’s still walking around.”

“I have experienced people who wish to speak to me that don’t want to talk to a priest . . . . They want to speak to someone who is a minister of the Church” but who also shares many of their experiences as lay people.

The boys struggled with their feelings. They were angry with me. They grieved for the brother they never knew. They felt guilty for surviving. It took time, a lot of talking, and the grace of God, but they eventually understood why things were as they were, and why I had spent years crying. They grew closer to God and we grew closer to one another.

I didn’t speak about my abortion publicly right away. Before I would do that, the boys needed time to deal with their feelings and cope with the loss of their brother. I was resigned and even at peace with the thought that the day might never come. But a few years later they gave me their blessing. To say I am proud of them is an understatement. They have become great advocates for life.

I’ve now worked for some years with the Sisters of Life, offering days of prayer and healing for those suffering abortion’s trauma. I have witnessed countless miracles of His mercy and am convinced that God is marshaling an army of once-wounded women and men to dispel the lies of abortion.

St. Faustina Kowalska’s diary, Divine Mercy in My Soul, tells of these words spoken to her by Christ: Let the greatest sinners place their trust in My mercy. They have the right before others to trust in the abyss of My mercy. My daughter, write about My mercy toward tormented souls. Souls that make an appeal to my mercy delight Me. To such souls I grant even more graces than asked. I cannot punish even the greatest sinner if he makes an appeal to My compassion, but on the contrary, I justify him in my unfathomable and inscrutable mercy.

I know that this is true. Jesus, I trust in you.

Reprinted with permission from Lay Witness.

Abridged from the original with permission, U.S. Catholic Conference Office of Pro-Life Activities.

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Retirement is full-time job for former FBI agent, marketing man

Deacon Peter Boulware

“Sometimes people just need to talk. I’ve found out that one of the attributes I had to work on developing is being a good listener, and just letting them talk. Don’t try and think ahead of what your answer is going to be. I have tried, as best I can, to build that into my personality - to listen well, to make sure that what I have said is understood the way that I meant it. And you can do that with follow-up questions: ‘Did you understand what I said.’”

A friend of mine who is recovering from a heart attack “has been inquiring of me about the faith, in his 62nd year of life.. . . He’s curious about my commitment and motivations and, being a very worldly individual, he is slowing down enough to begin to ask questions of himself - ‘where am I going, where have I been?’”

“Eternity’s a long time,” Deacon Boulware says with a grin.

The community of deacons is important to him. “Some of our best times are on retreat together - when you are not worried about your parish and don’t have any appointments for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You get to see people and talk about your ministry and their ministry and how things are going. . . . We stick by each other, communicate with each other.”

Roe anniversary events Thursday, January 22, will mark the 31st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.

Members of the Archdiocese are invited to the following services to pray that our nation will embrace life, love all children, support pregnant women and heal the wounds of abortion.

January 22: Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang will celebrate a 12:10 p.m. Memorial Mass at St. Mary Cathedral, 1111 Gough Street, San Francisco.

January 22: The Archdiocese is chartering a bus to the California Pro-Life Council’s Annual Pro-Life Mass and Rally in Sacramento. The bus will leave Stonestown Galleria parking lot in San Francisco at 7 a.m., make a stop at St. Sebastian’s parking lot in Greenbrae (Marin County) at 7:45 a.m. and arrive in Sacramento for the Pro-Life Mass at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. A Rally for Life, Life Workshops and Pro-Life speakers will follow. The bus will return to the Bay Area at approximately 4 p.m. A donation of $10-$15 is requested. For information and reservations call Vicki Evans at (415) 945-0180. Space is limited.

January 23: The Interfaith Memorial Service for victims of abortion will be held at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 999 Brotherhood Way, San Francisco at 7:30 p.m.

The commemoration “brings together people from various denominations who desire to see the healing of the wounds of sin and division which have befallen our country from the legalization of abortion 31 years ago,” said Father Mark Taheny, parochial vicar of St. Veronica Parish, and member of the Interfaith Committee for Life. Mary Orias of Mary’s House, a resource for pregnant women, is among guest speakers presenting on a theme of “The Truth Will Set you Free.” Ample parking near the church. Call (415) 664-3570.

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Food & Fun Jan. 24: Cioppino Dinner Dance in new Student Center of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School, Ellis between Gough and Franklin, SF. Tickets $32 per person available at (415) 775-6626 or www.shcp.edu. Alumni especially invited!!!!

Jan. 24: The Godfather, a Crab Feed benefiting St. Vincent School for Boys in San Rafael. “Fresh crab, pasta, salad, and refreshments,” said J.R. Moreno. Takes place at St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center from 6 p.m. to midnight. Evening includes silent auction, music and dancing. Tickets $40 per person. Call J.R. at (650) 808-0201.

Jan. 24: The baton will be handed to new Mission Dolores curator, Andrew Galvan with Auxiliary Bishop John Wester presiding at 3 p.m. Among Andy’s ancestors is “a Mission Indian baptized at Mission Dolores in 1801,” said Episcopal Brother Guire Cleary, whom Andy will replace and who will take up residence and ministry in New Zealand. A digital projection of historic imagery onto the dome of Mission Dolores Basilica will take place at 2 p.m. and again Mon. through Sat. until Feb. 7th from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sundays from 1:30 – 4 p.m. The presentation “celebrates history” of the beloved and respected landmark and holy place. Call (415) 6218203.

Jan. 25: All Decked Out, annual luncheon and fashion show benefiting the San Francisco County Council of Catholic Women, begins at 11:30 a.m. with a silent auction and ho-host cocktails at the Olympic Club, Lakeside. Fashions from Macy’s at Stonestown Galleria. Tickets at $45 per person are available from, Diane Heafey at (415) 731-6379.

Jan. 26: San Francisco Council of Catholic Women meet in St. Paul Church hall, 29th St. at Church, SF, at 7:30 p.m. “All our Christ-child layette items will be on display.,” said Cathy Mibach. The evening’s speaker is from St. Joseph’s Family Center. Refreshments follow. Call (415) 753-0234.

TV/Radio Mon – Fri., KEST 1450 AM, 7 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour features rosary, music and commentary with Father Tom Daly.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

3rd Sun, 6:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: For Heaven’s Sake features conversations about Catholic spirituality.

Vocations/Lectures 2nd Sat: Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur offer Saturday Morning Prayer 9:30 – 11:30 each 2nd Sat. of the month at their Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave. across from Ralston Hall on their university campus in Belmont. Additional offerings include the Catholic Scholar Series featuring Feb. 22: Notre Dame Sister Barbara Fiand; March 23: Sulpician Father Richard Gula. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350.

Jan. 16-18: Are you considering a vocation to the priesthood? Do you think maybe you should? – a Discernment Weekend for men considering priesthood at St. Patrick’s Seminary, 325 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park. Free with no commitment or obligation.

Call Father Thomas Diaz at (650) 325-5621, ext.

302.

Jan. 16, 30: Conversations on The Blessings of Age with experts in the field at the Province Center of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur,1520 Ralston Ave. across from Ralston Hall on their university campus in Belmont. 10 a.m. – noon on both dates. “Aging is our ally,” said Ilene Cummings, Ph.D., who is among the facilitators. Call Shyrl McCormick at (650) 593-2045, ext. 350, or Denise Hughes at (650) 592-8239.

Jan. 27: Where are We Going After This Life? – Catholic Teaching on the Afterlife with Franciscan Father Benedict Groeschel at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF. This is an all day event with Part I beginning at 10 a.m. and Part II at 1:30 p.m. Please bring a bag lunch. Beverages will be provided. Admission $15. Call Mary Peterson at (415) 614-5564. Sponsored by the School of Pastoral Leadership of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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The class of ’53 from Noe Valley’s St. Philip Elementary School reunited for the first time in 50 years in October. Revelers attended from as far as Washington, D.C. as well as State, and for many it “was the first time they had seen classmates” in several decades said, ‘53er, Carol Read Buzzo. Front from left: Carol Read Buzzo, Mary Alice Galvin Baker. Back from left: Consuelo Aguilar Hooper, Carol Mikelson Cutler, Carla Bruno Cukar, Rosemary Toohey Campbell, Arlene Musante Ciccarelli, Mary Ellen Baumann Rogers, Shirley Mullins Macpherson, Gwenith Register Brandt. Others in attendance included Andrew Cereghino, Bob Pent, Walter Caldwell, Larry Dunnigan, Norbert Osterholt, Frank Kitchell, Bob Crowley, Ray Olson, and Rick O’Keefe.

Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800. Immaculate Information about Natural Family Planning and Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) people in the Archdiocese offering instruction 598-0658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850. St. are available from the Office of Marriage and Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, 5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171. St. Gabriel, SF. Call director, at (415) 614-5680.

Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr, Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 SF in English and Spanish. Call Carmen Solis at Eddy St. between Franklin (415) 584-0823; St. and Van Ness, SF. Call Cecilia, SF. Call Peggy (415) 752-4922.

The Interfaith Memorial Service for Abdo at (415) 564-7882 Victims of Abortion takes place Jan. 23rd at Worldwide Marriage ext. 3; Epiphany, SF in Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 999 Encounter Weekends Spanish. Call Kathryn Brotherhood Way, San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. can add to a Lifetime of Keenan at (415) 564The commemoration “brings together people Love. For more informa7882. from various denominations who desire to tion or to register, call Ministry for parents see the healing of the wounds of sin and diviMichele or George Otte at who have lost a child is sion which have befallen our country from the (888) 568-3018. available from Our Lady of legalization of abortion 31 years ago,” said The Adoption Network Angels Parish, Father Mark Taheny, parochial vicar. St. of Catholic Charities Burlingame. Call Ina Potter Veronica Parish, and member of the Interfaith offers free adoption inforat (650) 347-6971 or Committee for Life. Mary Orias of Mary’s mation meetings twice a Barbara Arena at (650) House, a resource for pregnant women, is month. Singles and mar344-3579.

Young among guest speakers presenting on a ried couples are invited to Widow/Widower group theme of The Truth Will Set You Free. Ample learn more about adopting meets at St. Gregory, San parking near the church. Call (415) 664-3570. a child from foster care.

Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi Call (415) 406-2387 for at (415) 564-7882. information.

Information about children’s and teen groups is available from Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

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Separated and Divorced support groups meet 3rd Sat. at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, call Pat at (415) 492-3331; and 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

Catholic Adult Singles Assoc. of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.

Consolation Ministry Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information.

St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame. Call Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

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Returning Catholics Jan. 20, 27; Feb. 3, 10, 17: St. Gregory Parish announces a Catholics Returning Home series in the parish’s Worner Center located next to the church at 28th Ave. and Hacienda St., San Mateo.

The 7:30 – 9 p.m. sessions are for Catholics interested in returning to the Church and will include informal sharing and information about the Catholic faith today. Call Kathy Lange at (650) 345-8506.

Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call the parish office at (415) 282-0141; St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, parish office at (415) 453-2342; St. Sebastian,

St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco needs your help at its Vincentian Desk at 470 Ellis, SF, one shift per week from 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. or 12:30 – 3:30 p.m. More than 40 homeless men and women are served each day. Call Sally Rosen at (415) 202-9955.

Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group needs volunteers to provide practical and emotional support to individuals with HIV-AIDS and/or assist with various program events and activities. Many opportunities available. Call (415) 863-1581 or www.mhr-asg.com. Caring for the Caregiver with Carolina Shaper meets Mondays 6 – 7:30 p.m. Call Ms. Shaper at (415) 984-0501.

Help a child succeed in school and in life by serving as a tutor for two hours a week at Sacred Heart Elementary School, 735 Fell St., SF. Sessions take place Mon. – Thurs. from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Help welcome in a variety of subjects. Call Mary Potter at (415) 621-8035.

St. Joseph’s Family Center, a homeless shelter for families at 10th and Howard St., SF, is looking for volunteers to help on a regular basis to help with monitoring the computer lab and routine clean-up of the facility. If you are interested, call David Harvey at (415) 575-4920, ext. 218. Young adults visit here Saturdays, twice a month. Contact Susan Guevara, susangsf@yahoo.com.

Young adults are invited to assist in the Tenderloin Children’s Reading Program, Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7 p.m. at 570 Ellis St., SF. Helps 6 – 11 year olds with homework. Contact James Nitz, tenderloinkids@aol.com, (415) 923-0376.

San Francisco’s St. Anthony Foundation needs volunteers as well as canned goods and other staples. Non-perishable foods may be taken to 121 Golden Gate Ave. M – F from 8”30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Volunteer candidates should call (415) 241-2600 or visit the web site at www.stanthonysf.org.

SF’s Laguna Honda Hospital is in need of extraordinary ministers including Eucharistic ministers and readers as well as volunteers to visit with residents and help in the office and with events. Call Sister Miriam Walsh at (415) 664-1580, ext. 2422.

St. Francis Fraternity, a secular Franciscan organization, needs volunteers to help with their 20 year old tradition of serving breakfast on Sunday mornings to their Tenderloin neighbors. Call (415) 621-3279.

Maryknoll Affiliates: Bay Area chapter meets 4th Sat. for two hours at St. Ignatius Church, corner of Fulton and Parker, SF, to share community, prayer, and action on social justice and global concerns.

Members occasionally do short periods of mission service around the world at Maryknoll locations.

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Questioning what to buy and what to be CONSUMING FAITH: INTEGRATING WHO WE ARE WITH WHAT WE BUY, by Tom Beaudoin. Sheed and Ward (Lanham, Md., and Chicago, 2004). 180 pp., $19.95.

PERSONAL VOCATION: GOD CALLS EVERYONE BY NAME, by Germain Grisez and Russell Shaw. Our Sunday Visitor (Huntington, Ind., 2003). 169 pp., $12.95.

Reviewed by Mike Hayes Catholic News Service In “Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are With What We Buy,� Tom Beaudoin focuses on what he calls “economic spirituality.� Beaudoin, who explored “the irreverent spiritual quest of Generation X� in his previous book, “Virtual Faith,� put off his doctoral dissertation in theology to embark on a selfreflective study of a branding economy.

He wanted to examine how the goods we purchase have a personality all their own that we buy into. The result is a new perspective on a “consuming faith� — one that “integrates who we are with what we buy.�

Beaudoin says that we all make choices about the things we purchase — the sneakers we wear, the cars we drive. He asks: What do those choices reveal about us?

What consequences do those choices have on others?

Beaudoin began his research by asking the producers of the goods he buys to tell him about how those goods are produced.

He later writes, “I know that the materials that enable my comfort were forged under the fluorescent lights in a large room of young women half a world away. ... I must open myself to seeing my goods as part of ‘one body,’ and looking through my goods to their human producers.� It is through this connectedness to others that we build up the body of Christ.

While calling people to greater sensitivity and a deeper and more revealing examination of conscience, Beaudoin asks a new and fundamental Catholic question: “What is it about us that cannot be bought, branded, traded away, drugged up or dieted off?� As usual, Beaudoin has captured the experience of young adults well. He brilliantly calls us to see, as St. Ignatius would say, “God in all things,� even in a trip to the mall.

In their book, “Personal Vocation: God Calls Everyone by Name,� authors Germain Grisez and Russell Shaw make the point that the idea of “vocation� encapsulates all that we choose.

Marriage, children, political affiliation and even (like Beaudoin) economic choices are all matters of personal vocation. They are decisions that can reveal who you really are.

Grisez, a professor of Catholic moral theology, and Shaw, a prolific, Washingtonbased freelance writer on Catholic topics, have authored several books together. In “Personal Vocation� they correct the narrow Catholic view of vocation as simply “a calling to the priesthood or consecrated life.� Instead, they say, a personal voca$GYHUWLVHPHQW

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The authors take a firm stand on calling young people to vocation, not just to employment. Often young people are pushed into careers that make good economic sense without regard to their own unique God-given talents. They urge individuals, educators, religious and parents to help form personal vocations in this new light.

A great practical section toward the end of the book and quotes and stories from all over the wide-ranging Catholic spectrum (St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, is mentioned in the same breath as Dorothy Day) are just two of the bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strengths.

This book is a must-read for all those who are caught at the crossroads of major decisions. At times, the book is rather dry (especially in the historical section) and also reeks of anti-intellectualism in parts, but it certainly speaks the truth about the vocation crisis in the world.

Both these books are gems. Reading

them will certainly open your eyes to the wonders of discerning where God is calling you personally.

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Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory (SHCP) is a Catholic, college preparatory school, sponsored by the Daughters of Charity and the De La Salle Christian Brothers. Located in the heart of San Francisco for over 152 years, SHCP serves a student body of 1,230 students. The vast majority of the students live in San Francisco and the demographic makeup of the school reflects the cosmopolitan nature of the city. A candidate for Principal must have teaching and secondary school administrative experience. Candidates must model strong leadership skills and have experience as a supervisor of personnel.

We seek a practicing Roman Catholic who will embrace and embody the Lasallian/Vincentian mission of SHCP. The Principal, as Chief Operating Officer of the school, has the primary responsibility for achieving the mission of SHCP by maintaining and developing a college preparatory curriculum, providing counseling and guidance services to students, maintaining and developing dynamic and balanced co-curricular programs, and providing a vibrant and meaningful campus ministry program.

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H e l p Wa n t e d Directory of Music and Liturgy Large, urban parish with school located in Albuquerque, N.M. is seeking a creative director of music and liturgy. Qualified applicants should have three to five years experience at the parish or diocesan level and a master’s degree in a related field.

A skilled communicator who is very parishioner oriented will find this position fulfilling. Must have good keyboard skills. A very strong faith community awaits the selected candidate. Pastoral team model used. Will be collaborating with the school’s principal, DRE, director of parish life and a host of strong volunteers. Competitive salary, high $40s to low $50s and excellent benefits including employer contributed retirement.

Please fax or mail resume with three current letters of reference to: Search Committee, Our Lady of the Annunciation Church 2532 Vermont N.E. Albuquerque, NM 87110 Fax (505) 298-0120

– School Openings – President ● Principal

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Cardinal Newman High School / Santa Rosa, CA Cardinal Newman High School (CNHS) is a Catholic, diocesan high school for boys. The school seeks both a President and a Principal to begin on July 1, 2004.

The President will direct the school as its chief executive officer. The Principal will direct the daily administrative operations of CNHS. Preferred qualities in a candidate include practicing Catholic, minimum of five years experience in Catholic secondary administration, in possession of an advanced degree, skilled at institutional advancement (president), at interpersonal relations, at communication, at organization, and at problem solving.

Send letter of intent and resume to John Collins, Department of Catholic Schools, P.O. Box 6654, Santa Rosa, CA 95406,

by February 15, 2004.

PRINCIPAL

PRINCIPAL

Principal: Archbishop Riordan High School, located in San Francisco, is an Archdiocesan Catholic School that has been sponsored by the Marianist priests and brothers since 1946. Faculty and staff strive to develop the character of young men and instill Gospel values in an environment of academic excellence that reflects the cultural richness of the San Francisco Bay area. The school seeks to foster the five characteristics of Marianist education: ◆ educate for formation in faith ◆ provide an integral, quality education ◆ educate in family spirit ◆ educate for service, justice and peace ◆ educate for adaptation and change

Marin Catholic High School, is a Roman Catholic, college preparatory school that serves 725 men and women. Founded in 1949 by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the campus is located in Kentfield, CA, 8 miles north of Golden Gate Bridge.

Consistent with our Gospel values, we are committed to the education and development of the whole person. We provide a spiritual, academic and extra curricular environment dedicated to imparting knowledge, values, and vision. Candidates for principal must be able to assume responsibilities for day to day administration of the school as well as in developing long-term goals and plans for the school. Excellent leadership and communication skills and enthusiasm for maintaining a top academic, religious, and extra-curricular program is a must.

The Principal reports to the President.

Qualifications: ◆ a practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church ◆ a Master’s degree in educational leadership (or related field) ◆ a valid teaching credential ◆ five years of successful teaching/administrative experience at the secondary level

Salary is commensurate with credentials and experience.

Qualifications: ● a practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church ● a Master’s degree in educational leadership (or related field) ● a valid teaching credential ● five years of successful teaching/administrative experience at the secondary level

Salary is commensurate with credentials and experience.

Letter of interest and a résumé should be sent to: Marilyn Lynch, Associated Superintendent/Personnel One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Email: lynchm@sfarchdiocese.org ◆ Fax: (415) 614-5664 Deadline: February 20, 2004

Letter of interest and a résumé should be sent to: Marilyn Lynch, Associate Superintendent/Personnel One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Email: lynchm@sfarchdiocese.org Fax: (415) 614-5664 Deadline: February 20, 2004

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Catholic San Francisco

January 16, 2004

You Have Selected Cremation – Now What?

Cremation is not the end. The Catholic Church strongly recommends that cremated remains be placed in the safekeeping of a Catholic Cemetery.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery has a wide variety of choices for permanent placement and memorialization of cremated remains: ✦ ✦ ✦ ✦

In ground burial in cremation urn gardens Outdoor and Indoor Marble Niches Glass front Niches in All Saints Mausoleum Cremated remains can sometimes be placed in an existing family grave or crypt

Many familes hold their loved one’s cremated remains at home not knowing what to do next. Knowing what to do means getting the right information. Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery has that information.

Our Family Service Counselors have guided many families through this sensitive issue.

We are dedicated to helping you make informed decisions. Please call us at (650) 756-2060 for information and advice.

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020

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