January 18, 2008

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Abortion not a ‘civil right,’ declares leader

By Michael Vick Dr. Alveda King, niece of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and a leader in the pro-life movement, says abortion is not a civil right.

If her uncle had lived, King said, he would also be championing the cause of the unborn.

“My uncle said, ‘The Negro cannot win if he’s willing to sacrifice his own children for immediate comfort and safety,’” King told Catholic San Francisco. “He also said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ Abortion is unjust.”

King will be in the Bay Area this weekend as a keynote speaker for the 4th annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco.

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Bush peace efforts: observers say time will tell the outcome

By Judith Sudilovsky

Dr. Alveda King openly concedes her personal experience with abortion has galvanized her commitment to the pro-life movement

JERUSALEM (CNS) — Time will tell what — if anything — will come out of U.S. President George W. Bush’s efforts for the Middle East peace process, said political observers in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

“The fact is that nothing significant was given to the Palestinians on the so-called minor issues ... such as the prisoners, the roadblocks ... but on the other hand the fact that a push was given to the permanent status talks and that Bush is talking of coming back here not just for Israel’s 60th anniversary celebrations (but to continue working on the peace talks) is significant,” said Wadie Abunasser, a Catholic Arab from northern Israel and director of the International Center for Consultations.

Following Bush’s visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories, Palestinians will be looking to see concrete results within about a week after his return to the United States, said Abunasser.

He said it is encouraging that Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have expressed commitment to the process, noting that the next steps must be taken by local leaders.

“There is no clear-cut result on one hand, but we don’t have to neglect the fact that so far since his visit there have been no Israeli incursions (into the West Bank,)” said Abunasser.

The president spent Jan. 9-11 in the Holy Land, where he met with Israeli and Palestinian officials and visited Christian holy sites.

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INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION News in brief . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Columnists. . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Coast Miwoks receive apology from bishop

St. Anthony Christmas outreach touches thousands

Marital vow renewal Mass scheduled Feb. 9

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Dan Duggan, left, was honored as a member of the Good Steward Society of Seton Health Services Foundation Dec. 1 at the Lake Merced Golf Club. Dan was one of 24 donors recognized for support of the foundation’s work with annual donations of $5,000 or more joining more than 100 current Good Stewards. Congratulating him are Daughter of Charity Sister William Eileen Dunn, Deacon John Norris, foundation chair, and Bernadette Smith, chief executive officer and president of Seton Medical Center and its subsidiary sites. Funds raised by Seton Health Services Foundation support charity care at Seton hospitals in Daly City and on the San Mateo County coast.

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Details on tickets to papal Masses remain sketchy

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) — The chance of getting a ticket to Pope Benedict XVI’s April 20 Mass at Yankee Stadium might depend on whether one lives in a diocese close to the Archdiocese of New York or in one of the nation’s oldest archdioceses. Or it might come down to sheer luck.

The precise formula to be used to distribute tickets to the Yankee Stadium Mass and other events during the pope’s April 15-20 visit to Washington and New York has not yet been made public, but some details are emerging.

Dioceses from Anchorage, Alaska, to Syracuse, N.Y., have been posting notices on websites about how to request tickets for the papal Mass at Yankee Stadium, which holds 65,000 people, and an April 17 Mass at Nationals Park in Washington, which will seat up to 45,000.

But the various notices make one thing clear: If the opportunity to request a ticket has not already passed, it will soon.

The Diocese of Syracuse posted a brief notice that it had “filled all the requests possible” for the New York Mass, with its allotment of 500 tickets already reserved.

Catholics in the Anchorage Archdiocese were told they had until Jan. 1 to submit ticket requests to the chancery. The Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, said requests for its “very limited number of tickets” had to be in by Jan. 18, with a lottery planned if requests for tickets exceeded the number received.

Three archdioceses that share with the Archdiocese of New York the distinction of marking 200th anniversaries this year will receive special treatment at the Yankee Stadium Mass. The archdioceses of Boston, Philadelphia and Louisville, Ky., will be honored at the Mass, along with the nation’s first diocese, the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

Last month planners told those asking about tickets to visit the websites of the Archdiocese of Washington, www.adw.org, or the Archdiocese of New York, www.archny.org. However, the chances of obtaining tickets are essentially nil.

Led by a student group called the “i3 Project” which delves into issues of race, ethnicity, culture, religion, gender, economics “and all other aspects that contribute to students’ development of identity,” the Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory student body honored the legacy of slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Jan. 15 during a school-wide convocation, reported a school spokesperson. Students, faculty and administrators included prayers for the Terrell Rogers Family. Rogers, whose daughter is an outstanding SHCP basketball player, was gunned down Jan. 12 when he left the gymnasium during halftime of a SCHP girls’ basketball game. A prayer service for the family was held Jan. 16 led by the SHCP Campus Ministry Team. A school statement on the tragedy is carried on its website: www.shcp.edu. “i3 Project” members above include, from left: Samantha Alberto, Alim Hicks, Andrea Martinez, Kevin Greene, Vincent Lee, Dasarte Yarnway, David Lobato, Jacob Sandoval, Christine Moy and Andrew Jolivette.

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Vendors protest VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Breaking what the Rome Jewish community says is a concession hundreds of years old, the Vatican governor’s office has told street vendors who sell rosaries and medals at the entrances to St. Peter’s Square they are not welcome. A dozen vendors and their families staged a protest in the square Jan. 12, the latest in a month of demonstrations. The vast majority of the vendors who have sold in the square are Jewish.

Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, president of the commission governing Vatican territory, issued the order Dec. 10 as part of a yearlong battle by the city of Rome to stop unlicensed street vendors from clogging the street leading to St. Peter’s Square with copies of designer handbags and luggage, watches and scarves.

Passionist Father Ciro Benedettini, vice director of the Vatican press office, said Jan. 14 the Vatican does not consider the 16th-century permission to be a valid license.

Straight talk rattles Rome VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In an apparent rebuke to Rome government officials, Pope Benedict XVI criticized what he called “very serious degradation” in areas of the city and the surrounding region. The pope urged the officials to resolve a series of emergencies in education, housing, poverty, unemployment and public safety.

He also warned that there should be greater support for the traditional family “founded on marriage” — an implicit criticism of recent efforts in Rome to grant legal recognition and benefits to cohabiting couples.

The talk Jan. 10 ignited a storm of political controversy, and the next day the Vatican issued a statement expressing amazement at the reaction.

New link to Vatican past VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Scholars, history buffs and the public will now be able to peek inside some of the Vatican’s historical black-and-white photograph collection. The written contents of the Vatican photo service’s entire Giordani Collection have been transcribed into a searchable Microsoft Word file that can be sent, free of charge, to anyone on request by e-mailing photo@ossrom.va. Some half-million images, most-

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Seek cardinal’s removal WASHINGTON (CNS) — Members of the Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests are calling for Cardinal Bernard F. Law’s retirement and subsequent removal from eight Vatican congregations before the pope’s visit to the United States in April. Barbara Blaine of Chicago, president of SNAP, along with three other SNAP members, personally delivered a letter to the Vatican Embassy in Washington Jan. 9 stating their desire that Cardinal Law, former archbishop of Boston, officially retire. The letter was addressed to Pope Benedict XVI in care of Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the apostolic nuncio to the United States.

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Bush encourages Bethlehem JERUSALEM (CNS) — U.S. President George W. Bush told residents of Bethlehem he hoped someday the creation of an independent Palestinian state would eliminate checkpoints and walls at the Israeli border.

“Someday I hope that, as a result of a formation of a Palestinian state, there won’t be walls and checkpoints, that people will be able to move freely in a democratic state,” Bush said Jan. 10 during his visit to the birthplace of Jesus. “That’s the vision, greatly inspired by my belief that there is an Almighty, and a gift of that Almighty to each man, woman and child on the face of the earth is freedom. And I felt it strongly here today.” Bethlehem residents have said a 25-foot-tall wall surrounding the city has left them feeling imprisoned. Israel says the wall — part of a planned 400-mile cement and barbed-wire barrier through the West Bank — has proven its effectiveness against suicide bombers.

Taiwan president asks help VATICAN CITY (CNS) — President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan has asked Pope Benedict XVI to support his country’s bid to join the United Nations and to participate fully in other international forums. “Having long been persecuted by communist China, Taiwan has been excluded from taking part” in the United Nations, the World Health Organization and other agencies designed to bring countries together to address global problems, the president wrote. But because of China’s insistence that individual nations and international organizations not recognize Taiwan’s independence, “Taiwan has been unable to work hand in hand with the international community in seeking solutions to issues of mutual concern, especially to matters regarding the survival of mankind,” Chen said. Taiwan has diplomatic relations with only two dozen countries. Its Vatican embassy is its only diplomatic mission in Europe. While the Vatican continues full diplomatic relations with the country, it has not sent an ambassador to Taiwan in more than 30 years.

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Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, at right, and Father Stephen Saawuan of the Diocese of Sokoto, Nigeria, celebrate a multicultural Mass in the chapel of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ building in Washington Jan. 10. Bishop Wester was at the USCCB headquarters for events during the Jan. 6-12 National Migration Week.

Names hydrologist to academy VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Just days after giving a homily and a major speech that emphasized the importance of safeguarding and sharing water resources, Pope Benedict XVI named an internationally recognized hydrologist to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, 68, is a professor in Princeton University’s department of civil and environmental engineering and was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize in 2002. A Venezuelan who also holds U.S. citizenship, Rodriguez-Iturbe has focused his work on measuring and predicting long-term cycles of flooding and drought, as well as the most efficient means for distributing water.

Won’t object to ash scattering ROME (CNS) — Although the Catholic Church would prefer that those who die be buried in the ground, cremation is acceptable and, in certain circumstances, the church in Italy will not object to a person’s ashes being scattered, reported the daily Catholic newspaper Avvenire. The Italian bishops released their new translation of Catholic funeral rites in November, for the first time adding prayers to be recited at a crematorium and NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5

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Israel to build near Jerusalem

Kenyan appeals heard NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS) — A Kenyan bishop said his appeals for humanitarian assistance for the Diocese of Eldoret have been met quickly following the violence sparked by the country’s disputed Dec. 27 general elections. Bishop Cornelius Arap Korir of Eldoret told Catholic News Service things gradually were taking shape as agencies such as the United Nations, the Kenyan government, the Red Cross and other churches were joining Catholic relief agencies in sending financial and material assistance. Ken MacLean, country representative for Catholic Relief Services, said his Nairobi-based office had moved three emergency response officers to the worst-hit area of Eldoret, about 125 miles northwest of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. CRS is the U.S. bishops’ international development and relief agency.

Sainthood causes to slow?

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican is preparing to issue a set of instructions to promote “greater caution and more accuracy” in the opening of new sainthood causes by local dioceses, a top Vatican official said.

Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, head of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said the instructions were needed to reflect the “new spirit introduced by Pope Benedict XVI in beatification procedures.” More precision will be asked in diocesan canonization processes,” Cardinal Saraiva Martins said the new document.

Asks traditional Host reception VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The reverence and awe of Catholics who truly believe they are receiving Jesus in the Eucharist should lead them to kneel and receive Communion on their tongues, said a bishop writing in the Vatican newspaper. “If some nonbeliever arrived and

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JERUSALEM (CNS) — Despite the instructions of the Israeli attorney general, recommendations from previous attorneys general and promises to the United States, the Israeli Housing Ministry is pushing forward with the construction of more than 1,000 residential units at the edge of Jerusalem. The construction in what is known as Har Homa is “creating an urban wedge between the Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem and the Palestinian neighborhoods of the West Bank, especially Beit Sahour,” said Sarah Kreimer, associate director of Ir-Amim, a nongovernmental organization that works for the stability of Jerusalem for Palestinians and Israelis. Ir-Amim has said the issue could threaten the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The Housing Ministry took the land under terms of the absentee landowner law, but most of the landowners live in the West Bank town of Beit Sahour and are unable to reach the land because of the Israeli separation barrier.

Catholics gesture as they wait for a statue of the Black Nazarene during a procession in Manila, Philippines, Jan. 9. Tens of thousands of devotees, many of them barefoot, thronged the capital to snatch a glimpse of a centuries-old black statue of Jesus during an annual parade. The wooden Black Nazarene, carved in Mexico and brought to the Philippine capital in the early 17th century, is cherished

by Catholics, who believe touching it can lead to a miracle.

observed such an act of adoration perhaps he, too, would ‘fall down and worship God, declaring, God is really in your midst,’” wrote Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, quoting from the First Letter to the Corinthians.

Scranton priest charged SCRANTON, Pa. (CNS) — A Scranton priest working as a hospital chaplain has taken a leave of absence following his Jan. 2 arrest on perjury charges stemming from a grand jury investigation into a casino owner reported to

have mob connections. The Diocese of Scranton called the arrest of Father Joseph F. Sica “a deeply distressing development” but noted that the charges did not involve the diocese or the priest’s service in Scranton. State police took Father Sica, 52, into custody outside his residence at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Scranton Jan. 2 and transported him to the state capital in Harrisburg, where he testified last August before a grand jury investigating Louis DeNaples, the owner of Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono. After a brief hearing in Harrisburg, Father Sica was released on $20,000 bail.

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By Patricia Zapor

Retired Sacramento Bishop Francis Quinn relaxes recently during a walk at Mercy McMahon Terrace in Sacramento where he now resides.

Bishop Francis Quinn apologies to Miwoks

By Julie Sly SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CNS) — Retired Bishop Francis A. Quinn of Sacramento, during a Dec. 15 Mass at the Church of St. Raphael in San Rafael, apologized to the Coast Miwok Indians for the Church’s mistreatment of them two centuries ago.

The Mass was held to commemorate the 190th anniversary of the founding of Mission San Rafael Arcangel.

The Miwok Indians once occupied the lands from the Golden Gate to north of Bodega Bay and helped Spanish priests build and maintain the mission in 1817.

The bishop conceded that the Indians were repaid by Church authorities with the destruction of their own spiritual practices and cruel punishment for any disobedience. “I’ve studied the Coast Miwok tribe and found that some of the Church missionaries treated them rather roughly in insisting that they accept a European Catholicism and disciplined them for not following what they taught them,� Bishop Quinn told The Herald, Sacramento’s diocesan newspaper, in an interview. “I felt I should express regret that the Miwok were treated unfairly in many ways, although the missionaries were well-intentioned but mistaken and doing only what they had been taught to do in bringing the faith to the Indians,� Bishop Quinn added. “They probably didn’t expect an apology, so some of the Indians even wept. I look on it as a time of reconciliation and understanding between the Miwoks and Church representatives.�

Greg Sarris, head of the Miwok tribal council, officially called the Federal Indians of Graton Rancheria, told The Associated Press that Bishop Quinn’s remarks were historic. “I have not heard this happening anywhere else in this country,� he said.

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By Rick DelVecchio Catholics can keep up with legislative news and stay in touch with their elected representatives by using a new e-mail alert system co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the California Catholic Conference of Bishops.

The California Legislative Alert Network allows pastors and parishioners to receive news on a broad spectrum of issues and to share their views with federal, state and local representatives.

The service expands statewide an existing legislative alert network run by the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. The system can target messages to recipients based on specifics topics, elected leaders and geographical areas.

In theory, any of the state’s 1,100 parishes could fine-tune a list to distribute news of parish or neighborhood issues or events.

The service will be announced officially later this month. The goal is to register 100,000 Catholics, said Steve Pehanich, new director of advocacy and education for the California Catholic Conference.

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By Michael Vick St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco and St. Anthony Foundation are among nearly 200 organizations in California, Nevada and Arizona receiving more than $3 million in grants from Catholic Healthcare West.

St. Paul of the Shipwreck will receive $15,000, while St. Anthony’s award is $10,000.

Father Paul Gawlowski, St. Paul of the Shipwreck pastor, wrote the grant for the parish. Father Gawlowski said the money would be used to help finance the church’s after-school program, built around Catholic Charities CYO athletics.

The program includes a music class and a choir program in addition to a sports component.

The condition of participating in the parish youth program is that the children maintain a 2.3 grade point average. For students at risk of falling below this threshold, the program offers tutoring.

The program “gives kids a healthy alternative to the life of violence on the streets,� said Father Gawlowski. “They learn positive values. We hope to give them the tools

to overcome the obstacles of growing up in our neighborhood.�

Francis Aviani, spokesperson for St. Anthony Foundation, said the grant awarded to the group is earmarked for its homeless recuperation program. “The money will provide temporary housing to poor, uninsured, homeless patients, who may not necessarily need to be in the emergency room, but who need care� to recuperate from an illness, Aviani said.

Aviani said the grant is enough to provide for a one-week stay in local hotels for 50 to 60 individuals. “They get a week to be in a safe place to heal themselves,� said Aviani. “They also are linked with St. Francis Hospital and the social work center and other services here at St. Anthony’s.�

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■ Continued from cover King said her pro-life stance was born of hardship. Her first pregnancy ended in an abortion performed by a doctor without her consent. Depressions and changes in her behavior stemming from that first abortion led King to terminate her second pregnancy in 1973. Abortion had been legalized by the U.S. Supreme Court earlier that year on Jan. 22, ironically her birthday.

In 1983, King experienced a transformation, committing her life to Jesus and repenting her past actions. Since then, she has been deeply involved in the pro-life movement.

“I confessed to having killed my own children,” King said. “I began to come to grips with how I had hurt my body and spirit.”

King, a former member of the Georgia House of Representatives, said that while a woman has the right to choose what she does with her own body, the child that grows inside her is not an extension of that body, but rather a separate person altogether.

She said the African American community remains strongly pro-life, and that as more people become educated on the topic, the strength of that movement grows.

“Many people are not aware of the genocidal influence of abortion,” King said. “As soon as they become aware, they become pro-life.”

According to Vicki Evans, coordinator of Respect Life Ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, nearly 36% of U.S. abortions are done on black women, “even though minority women comprise only about 13 percent of the female population.” Evans echoed King, calling abortion “genocide.”

Like her uncle, King is a Baptist, but said it is fitting she works closely with Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, one of the Walk for Life West Coast’s sponsors. Recalling her uncle’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech, she said Protestants and Catholics should work together to end abortion.

King said abortion should be a nonpartisan issue as well. In 2006, she spoke in Washington, D.C. at the pre-March for Life breakfast for the Democrats for Life of America. DFLA is one of 22 sponsors of this year’s Walk for Life, along with the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the dioceses of Santa Rosa and Oakland and the Knights of Columbus.

“God’s not a Democrat or a Republican,” King said. “This issue transcends politics. The hearts of all people need to be turned to life. It should not have anything to do with a political position.”

If she had the ear of the 2008 Democratic presidential candidates, she would have simple advice: “Choose life.”

King holds a master’s degree in business management from Central Michigan University, and an honorary doctorate from St. Anselm College. She said she plans to continue post-graduate studies to earn a doctorate in theology.

The Walk for Life West Coast will begin with talks, including King’s, at 11 a.m. at Justin Herman Plaza at the Embarcadero. The march will begin at about noon and end at the Marina Green.

Other guests will include Gianna Jessen, an abortion survivor; Pastor Clenard Childress of the group Black Genocide; radio host Jesse Romero; (potentially) Eduardo Verástegui, star of the film “Bella”; and Father Pavone.

Evans said 120 buses are expected to bring participants to the event from all over the West, up from 87 last year.

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Saturday, Jan. 19, 11 a.m. – noon, Justin Herman Plaza. Walk for Life West Coast speeches. A stage will be set up on the lawn 100 yards wwest of plaza. EWTN will broadcast the speeches live.

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Engaged couples’ program scheduled at Old St. Mary’s Saturday for Engaged Couples, a one-day class exploring the meaning of marriage from a Catholic perspective, will be held at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Parish on Feb. 2, Apr. 12, June 7, July 19, Sept. 13 and Nov. 8.

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Married couples of the Archdiocese of San Francisco have been invited by Archbishop George H. Niederauer to take part in the annual marital vow renewal Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. To take place Feb. 9 at 10 a.m., the liturgy will pay special honor to couples marking their 25th, 50th, and longer anniversaries. A reception will follow. Registration forms are available at parishes or online at www.sffamilylife.com. For more information, call (707) 552-3394 or e-mail cfm@sfcatholic.com.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Part I Marriage and the family In marking the beginning of the New Year, Pope Benedict XVI returned to the themes of marriage and family and their importance to humanity, as he repeated the Second Vatican Counsel’s description of the family as “the primary living cell of society.”

“The natural family, founded on marriage between a man and a woman, is the cradle of life and love and the first and indispensable teacher of peace,” the pope said at a St. Peter’s Basilica Mass, Jan. 1.

In a commentary released earlier for the World Day of Peace, which the Church marks on Jan 1, Pope Benedict said, “The natural family, as an intimate communion of life and love, based on marriage between a man and a woman, constitutes the primary place of humanization for the person and society, and a cradle of life and love. The family is therefore rightly defined as the first natural society, a divine institution that stands at the foundation of life of the human person as the prototype of every social order.”

Throughout his papacy, Pope Benedict has addressed the concerns of marriage and family many times. For example, speaking to a diocesan group last June at the Vatican, the pope said that, contrary to what many people think today, marriage is not a “casual sociological construction,” but a reflection of the truth about the human person, the meaning of life and the relationship of human beings with the God who created them out of love and for love.

The pope said a lifelong pledge of fidelity between a man and a woman and the openness to having children also are a reflection of the identity of the human person as an “indissoluble” unity of body and spirit.

“Man is a soul which expresses itself in the body and a body that is given life by an immortal spirit,” the pope said.

“The body of man and of woman has, then, a theological character that is not simply corporeal, and that which is biological in the human person is not simply biological, but is an expression and fulfillment of our humanity,” Pope Benedict said.

“Human sexuality is not something that exists alongside our being a person, but belongs to it,” he said.

When a man and a woman say “yes” to each other, they are pledging their entire being to one another: body and soul. Saying “yes” implies using one’s freedom to make a choice and a commitment, he said.

“The greatest expression of freedom is not the search for pleasure without ever making a true decision; rather, it is the ability to make a decision about a definitive gift in which freedom, freely given, finds its fullest expression,” the pope noted.

“The various modern forms of the dissolution of marriage — like free unions, ‘trial marriages’ and the pseudo marriage between persons of the same sex — are expressions of an anarchic freedom,” he said.

What many people today think of as freedom is a way of acting based on the idea that each person should do whatever he or she wants, whenever he or she wants, paying no attention to what it means to have been created male and female and called to love completely and responsibly, the pope said.

Just as understanding the full meaning of human sexuality requires an acknowledgment of the human vocation to love, so the true meaning of parenthood can be grasped only when seen in the light of love, Pope Benedict said.

The pope said it is “contrary to human love, to the profound vocation of man and of woman, to systematically close their union to the gift of life and, even worse, to suppress or tamper with the life about to be born.”

Pope Benedict said the Church’s obligation to help build strong families must not stop with defending marriage, preparing engaged couples and helping married couples in crisis.

The fundamental role of parents to educate their children in the faith, in morality and in good citizenship also is under attack today, he said.

“A particularly insidious obstacle to education today,” he said, “is the massive presence in our society and culture of that relativism, which recognizes nothing as definitive, leaving as the ultimate standard only the individual and his or her desires.”

The pope said that without guidance a person’s individuality and desires end up “being a prison,” rather than freedom.

MEH NEXT: U.S. Bishops’ National Pastoral Initiative for Marriage.

Amazing sketches What a joy to see the work of Francis Putulin (“USF student sketches Catholic churches of San Francisco – all of them,” Jan. 11).His drawings are amazing. Francis was a kindergartener during the last year of St. Joseph School when I was teaching fifth grade there. I wanted to see his picture of St. Joseph Church, but it was not included.

I am not surprised at the quality of his work or his ability. Francis stood out among the students even though he was only in kindergarten at St. Joseph School.

Cecelia Segurson San Francisco

Catholic radio praised Thanks to the enterprising laymen who make Immaculate Heart Catholic Radio (1260 AM) possible in our area. Now we can share trustworthy programs from Mother Angelica’s Eternal World Television Network and Catholic Answers rather than the Catholic bishops’ conference whose flunkies recently promoted the anti-religious film, “The Golden Compass.”

At least from reliable sources we can learn and be encouraged to remain faithful Catholics in our surrounding secular culture.

Beatrice Smalley San Francisco

Editorial correct Certainly Catholic San Francisco’s Jan. 11 editorial is absolutely correct.

The doors of the Church must not be barred even against those who use powerful political office to work “counter to Church teachings.” The problem is not that Mayor Newsom, Speaker Pelosi, Senator Kennedy and so many other Catholic politicians are welcomed to enter a church. The problem is that the leaders of the Church, the clergy and the hierarchy, refuse to discharge their responsibility to admonish these “Catholic” leaders, to teach them that it is wrong to use their power against the teachings of the Church while claiming to be Catholic.

Edmond Francis McGill Novato

Father Ken Weare is to be congratulated for his excellent expose’ of the Church in Vietnam (“Christmas in Vietnam: indicator of widening Church role,” Dec. 21).

His articulate and balanced analysis is refreshing. At a time when the U.S. media is fixated on scandals and portrays the Church so negatively, it is uplifting to learn about the positive dimensions of the Church in other parts of the world, especially in places we never hear about.

It puts Catholic San Francisco in the forefront.

Dolores Stoll Fairfax

Get facts straight Thank God that the pastoral council and school board finally responded to the condemnation of the pastor at St.

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Bravo, Ross Foti Bravo, Ross Foti, you are truly an active example of Pope John Paul II’s encyclical, “The Gospel of Life.” First and fundamental among human rights is the inviolable right to life of every human being. The United States Government declares it is acceptable for a mother to kill even her own live human child up to nine months. I don’t understand why some of the parents in St. Matthew Parish are upset with Ross Foti’s pictures on the side of his truck. The true and disturbing pictures were made possible by some of our previous government officials, our highly cherished medical profession and Christians who do not protect or defend the lives of God’s precious unborn.

Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy; Lord, have mercy.

Roy Domenico Petri San Anselmo (Ed. note: On Nov. 13 Ross Foti was placed under citizen’s arrest by St. Matthew’s pastor, Father Anthony McGuire, for alleged trespass. Foti is scheduled to appear in San Mateo County Superior Court in South San Francisco on Feb. 1 to contest the charges on legal and factual grounds, said his lawyer, Cyrus Johnson. Foti, 73, a retired businessman, faces two counts of misdemeanor trespassing.)

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Matthew’s. This is the second time in San Mateo County that two good and conscientious priests have been tried and convicted without hearing the complete stories.

Perhaps those who responded to Mr. Foti’s side of St. Matthew’s saga should have waited to get all the facts. Get your facts straight! We have too few great priests left. Attack those who are hurting the Church.

Come to think of it, pray for those who need it.

Marilyn V. McCarthy Novato

Shrinking world

The Declaration of Independence stated that all men are created equal with inalienable rights — thus accepting the concept that we are social beings living and working together in society. In this way we realize we must develop mutual respect for one another in our daily activities. Although civilizations developed first as clans with the strongest as the leader, early philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle did develop some thoughts of democracy.

Many of the conflicts between and within countries arose through ideologies both political and religious. These conditions are still prevalent, but need to be addressed to avert catastrophic results. The American Revolution created what we now see as a democratic form of government. In the Western world came the Magna Charta and the United States Constitution.

Gradually many nations became democracies with elected officials by the citizens whether they had an elected president or a monarchy with legislative bodies.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore warned us of global warming. Today my concern involves the shrinking world. With the advent of the Internet along with encyclopedic websites and the outer space exploration along with super jet air busses, all of us must drop our urban views and become globalized. This observation indicates that an awareness that the vast knowledge stored in the many libraries and minds of humanity will be through the Internet available everywhere and to anyone.

We should all be considering the effect our actions will have world wide. World conditions are getting too complex; even a small country with atomic power can create world-wide chaos. It is necessary for all world leaders (as Pope Benedict has said) to sit down and address problems without any more destructive violence.

Alan E. Kahn Fairfax

January 18, 2008

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The Catholic Difference

Henry J. Hyde, rest in peace Shortly before Thanksgiving, 1986, Henry Hyde’s prostate started acting up, so he spent the holiday in Georgetown University Hospital. My daughters concocted get-well cards of the sort that only eight- and four-year-old girls can make, and we went off to see the Congressman en route to our family festivities in Baltimore. When we opened the door to Henry’s hospital room, we found the great man composed in a way I shall never forget: propped up in bed with tubes coming out of here-and-there, smoking a gigantic cigar, watching the Lions play his beloved Bears on TV – and reading a huge biography of the 19th century British parliamentarian and reformer, William Wilberforce.

That was Henry Hyde, who died Nov. 29. We shall not see his like again.

He was the most consequential Catholic legislator of his time, a man who loved the U.S. House of Representatives and who was, in turn, well-loved by its members, Republican and Democrat alike. By all accounts, he was the most brilliant extemporaneous debater in living memory, and while his comments could be sharp, they never drew blood, for Henry was, at heart, a gentle man.

He marched to the drummer of his own conscience, whether it was leading the pro-life forces in Congress or breaking with conservative Republican orthodoxy by supporting an assault weapons ban. He led the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, not out of partisan

rancor, but because of a deep-set conviction that America could not have, as its chief law enforcement officer, a man who was guilty of a crime – perjury – for which other men were serving time in federal prison.

The night the House managers delivered the articles of impeachment to the Senate, Henry called me, late. “We’re not going to make it,” he said. “I saw the look in [Majority Leader] Trent [Lott]’s eyes. He’s not going to fight.” We spoke for at least an hour, and agreed that, if the President was going to be acquitted, it was important to lay down some rhetorical markers so that the whole affair didn’t descend into farce. Thus Henry opened the House case against the President with a meditation on the importance of the rule of law, typically citing examples from sources ancient and modern. It was spoken in solemn sorrow rather than anger, and while it did not sway two-thirds of the Senate, that defense of the majesty of law as the great public barrier against barbarism will remain one of the few honorable moments in a low, tawdry time.

He was a man of rollicking good humor. Over more than 20 years of friendship and collaboration, I can’t remember a conversation with him that didn’t include his telling at least one really good joke. And if joy really is the unmistakable sign of God’s presence, then Henry Hyde, who exhibited a joy in living that few could match, was a man who truly lived in the Presence.

In his office, there was a photo that surprised those visitors who only knew Hyde in his portly phase. It was a photo

of Henry, playing for Georgetown, going up against DePaul’s George Mikan, the first of basketball’s great big men. That photo always struck me as a kind of metaphor for Henry’s life as a public George Weigel man, and especially as the nation’s leading pro-life legislator. Henry was used to going against the odds, against the big battalions. He exulted in the battle because the battle was right. He was a happy warrior who could dish it out, take his licks, and come back to fight another day. He didn’t recognize the received wisdom that certain things couldn’t be done, so he went ahead and did them anyway. When he won, those who lost admired him, and some came to love him. When he lost, he lost well – and refused to abandon the cause.

If the pro-life movement is the great civil rights movement of our time, then Henry J. Hyde was one of America’s greatest civil rights leaders. Today’s holy innocents, who welcomed him at his final homecoming on Nov. 29, had no doubt about that.

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

Twenty Something

Joyful optimism: a great New Year goal Somewhere along the line, optimism got a bad rap. It was linked to Pollyanna, and it never escaped the association. Over time it morphed into a synonym for naiveté and ignorance.

Meanwhile, cynicism was married to the Simpsons and hence, became cool. To be cynical is to be savvy and witty, a wisecracking pessimist, nobody’s fool.

American public life, with its steady string of scandals, molds this cynical disposition. We, the onlookers, learn to expect the worst. If a politician is peaking in the polls, we wait for the other shoe to drop. “He’ll butcher the debate,” we predict. “A skeleton will come out of her closet.”

We’re equally cynical of actors and athletes. “She’ll be back in rehab,” we say. “I wonder how the Vikings will blow this lead.”

And we apply this thinking to our personal lives, making cynical remarks to provoke chuckles and to prepare ourselves: low expectations make for minimal disappointment.

When we fall into this mode of thinking, we don’t fret; cynicism seems to be a choice like any other.

A glass half-empty or a glass half-full? That cliché strips outlook of its spiritual essence. Optimism is not a casual preference. It is a belief in an infinitely generous Lord who repeatedly fills the cup ’til it overflows.

This idea was a cornerstone of the preaching and writing of St. Francis de Sales, a 17th century French bishop.

He identified it as a virtue and gave it a wonderful name: joyful optimism.

St. Francis didn’t lead a charmed life. He knew suffering and injustice. He also knew the greater power of God’s redeeming love and the greater possibility of God’s inspiring hope. And he worked to help others know it.

When his friend, St. Jane de Chantal, was recovering from illness, he wrote her an encouraging letter: “Keep your heart, my dear daughter, wide open before God; always go joyously in his presence. He loves us, he cherishes us, he is all ours, this sweet Jesus…. Even if we have bitter waters up to our neck, while his mantel lifts us up, we have nothing to fear.”

Francis and Jane founded a school called Visitation.

Across the ocean and centuries later, Visitation students still learn about joyful optimism. It blossoms in various ways.

Take Mary Engelbreit, who attended the Visitation in St. Louis. If you don’t recognize her name, you’ve seen her greeting cards with their signature checks and cherries.

Joyful optimism is infused in her illustrations. They are, as St. Francis would say, “full of joy, brimful of God.” Mary’s art has been given a label that makes her bristle: cute. The half-compliment seems to insinuate, “What an idealistic little world you draw.”

Mary’s response: “What’s wrong with that? Don’t you

wish you lived there, too?” Besides, she has said, “What I draw is taken from my life. I honestly had a wonderful childhood.”

Despite the sorrow Mary has known, she chooses to focus on the Christina joy and to share it with Capecchi others.

We are all called to practice this virtue, and the New Year offers a perfect chance. We must tackle that blank calendar with joyful optimism, keeping our hearts wide open before God. Yes, 2008 will bring changes and challenges – in public and private spheres. We’ll have a new president, new addresses, new jobs and new relationships. The year also holds surprising blessings from a creative, generous God. So move toward them!

Joyful optimism begins simply: Rise each morning, inhale deeply and whisper, “Here we go, God!” Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. E-mail her at christinacap@gmail.com.

Spirituality for Life

Clapton, the blues and conversion Recently some friends gave me the autobiography of Eric Clapton (“Eric Clapton, The Autobiography,” N.Y., Random House, 2007). I generally shun biographies of the rich and famous, but his story interested me. Eric Clapton is perhaps the best blues guitar player in the world, I have been a long-time fan, and I knew nothing about his life. So I picked up the book.

I wasn’t disappointed. The book gives all kinds of insights into the inner world of rock music, but more importantly, Clapton tells his story with a wonderful intelligence and disarming self-effacement. This isn’t a cheap celebrity, ego-trumpeting book, but a story of art, youth, restlessness, search, falling, near-disaster and life-saving conversion. Its real interest lies in that latter element. As Heather King puts it, sin isn’t interesting but conversion is.

Clapton fans won’t be disappointed either at how seriously he takes his art. Throughout his whole career, however fuzzy his head may have been about other things, he was always clear and single-minded about his art, the blues, willingly sacrificing popularity and money for the sake of his craft. For him, art is pure, something near to God, and is meant always to remain pure. His words: “For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.”

Those are the words of a good artist, but his real struggle was never with art but with his obsessions, addictions and ego.

Success came early and the world of rock-and-roll bathed him in a culture of alcohol, drugs and irresponsibility. He was soon an addict, with everything in his life other than his music spinning out of control. Eventually grace intervened and, during a second trip to an alcoholic clinic, he found grace and sobriety. Here are his own words: “Nevertheless, I stumbled through my month in treatment much as I had done the first time, just ticking off the days, hoping that something would change in me without me having to do much about it. Then one day, as my visit was drawing to an end, a panic hit me, and I realized that in fact nothing had changed in me, and that I was going back out into the world again completely unprotected. The noise in my head was deafening, and drinking was in my thoughts all the time. It shocked me to realize that here I was in a treatment center, a supposedly safe environment, and I was in serious danger. I was absolutely terrified, in complete despair.

“At that moment, almost of their own accord, my legs gave way and I fell to my knees. In the privacy of my room, I begged for help. I had no idea who I thought I was talking to, I just knew that I had come to the end of my tether, I had nothing left to fight with. Then I remembered what I had heard about surrender, something I thought I could never do, my pride just wouldn’t allow it, but I knew that on my own I wasn’t going to make it, so I asked for help, and getting down on my knees, I surrendered.

“Within a few days I realized something had happened for me.

An atheist would probably say it was just a change of attitude, and to a certain extent that’s true, but there was much more to it than Father that. I had found a place Ron Rolheiser to turn to, a place I’d always known was there but never really wanted, or needed, to believe in. From that day until this, I have never failed to pray in the morning, on my knees, asking for help, and at night to express my gratitude for my life and, most of all, for my sobriety. I choose to kneel because I feel I need to humble myself when I pray and with my ego, this is the most I can do.

“If you are asking me why I do all of this, I will tell you ... because it works, as simple as that. In all this time that I have been sober, I have never once seriously thought of taking a drink or a drug. .... In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.”

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Isaiah 49:3, 5-6; Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; 1 Corinthians 1:1-3; John 1:29-34

A READING FROM ST. PAUL’S FIRST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 1:1-3 Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called

FATHER PHILLIP BLOOM

How should we calculate the worth of human life?

A READING FROM THE PROPHET ISAIAH IS 49:3, 5-6 The Lord said to me: You are my servant, Israel, through whom I show my glory. Now the Lord has spoken who formed me as his servant from the womb, that Jacob may be brought back to him and Israel gathered to him; and I am made glorious in the sight of the Lord, and my God is now my strength! It is too little, the Lord says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scripture reflection

St. John the Baptist. Titan. c. 1540.

to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 1:29-34 John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away The sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’ I did not know him, but the reason why I came baptizing with water was that he might be made known to Israel.”

John testified further, saying, “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and remain upon him. I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.”

Let’s talk about a very basic issue: the value of human life. The value we place on human life determines how we treat ourselves and others — the poor, the immigrant, the unborn, the handicapped, the infirm and the dying. Not to mention the person who makes my life difficult or who I just cannot forgive.

Where does the value of human life come from? Why does human life have value at all? Today’s Gospel gives us the answer. In a nutshell, the answer is this: Human life has value for the same reason gold has value.

To illustrate, I offer a story. In his book on the Holocaust, Martin Gilbert tells about a concentration camp prisoner.

Before his arrest, the man was a jeweler.

The Nazis robbed him of all possessions, but he managed to smuggle a small amount of gold into prison. He hoped to survive and use the gold to begin his life again. But, with the lack of food, he began growing thinner and hungrier. In desperation he took the gold he had carefully hidden and showed it to a guard. He asked the guard what he would give for it. The next day the guard returned with two potatoes — small, shriveled and about to rot. The prisoner hesitated for a moment, then handed the gold to guard and quickly ate the uncooked potatoes.

Gilbert comments that the exchange represented a precise scale of worth. In that concentration camp, a few scraps of food were more valuable than gold. What we see is that gold has value because of the price someone is willing to pay for it.

Something similar applies to the value of human life. This Sunday we will hear the price someone is willing to pay for a human

life - yours and mine. When John the Baptist saw Jesus coming, he said, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” In the Old Testament, each year, they used to select a lamb - a young male sheep.

He was a year old, the time when his meat and wool were most valuable. They would offer the young sheep as a sacrifice to God. The priest placed the lamb on the altar and opened its throat. The blood of the lamb brought forgiveness. It restored people to God. When St. John saw Jesus, he said: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.” Like a young sheep placed on an altar, Jesus would give his blood - his life - for us. That is the greatest price, because Jesus is perfect man and true God. Ultimately our worth does not come from our brilliance or virtue or beauty or strength. We are valuable because someone is willing to pay a great price for us.

It is important for us to say that today.

We live in a society that does not place proper value on human life. In his encyclical Spes Salvi - in hope we are saved - Pope Benedict talks about the importance of offering our daily trials in union with Christ. What a person endures - for the sake of Christ - can have great value. This applies particularly to the suffering involved in one’s final illness. This message is hard to proclaim - and even harder to live: That each human life has incalculable worth - even in the face of great suffering.

As Christians we know we have been purchased at a high price.

Fr. Phillip Bloom is pastor of Holy Family Parish in Seattle.

Guest commentary Spe Salvi – hope is the goal and the journey

By Michele Szekely Hope is both the goal and the journey. Hope is the goal in the sense that it is the direction that we are walking to, it is the promise that we believe in, a most amazing and beautiful promise that someone who loves us is waiting for us and hope is, at the very same time, the actual journey. It is the process that takes us to the goal.

It is the manner in which we walk, our ability to advance one step at a time, exercised in proper prayer and tested in charitable action.

What a paradoxical and complex thing it is! It is both fragile and solid. The goal and the journey are, by their very nature, two different things. But true and living hope is weaved into both.

I just finished Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical letter Spe Salvi and I am extremely thankful for the encouragement it brought. I had been struggling with understanding what “hope” really means. By peeling away the various layers of the hope brought by salvation, his latest encyclical both explains what it is and reveals the program that it entails.

It is crucial for us believers to be able to articulate the reason for our hope. For the ones among us who are privileged to have faith, this encyclical will re-enforce it and deepen it and give us many tools. For the ones among us who are not so sure, for the seekers among us (and I remember clearly how it feels), this encyclical will be both enlightening and challenging. Download it, read it,

alone or as a group, and e-mail your favorite quotes to your loved ones. Here are my top 3: ● “Let us say once again: we need the greater and lesser hopes that keep us going day by day. But these are not enough without the great hope, which must surpass everything else. This great hope can only be God.” ● “God is justice and creates justice. This is our consolation and our hope. And in his justice there is also grace. This we know by turning our gaze to the crucified and risen Christ.” ● “No one lives alone. No one sins alone. No one is saved alone. The lives of others continually spill over into mine: in what I think, say, do and achieve. And conversely, my life spills over into that of others: for better and for worse.”

Benedict XVI is a good teacher. He has the ability to take abstract theological concepts and tough intellectual ideas and open them up for today’s listener in a clear and accessible manner. In the process, he is guiding us to the heart of the matter, the love of Christ in his first encyclical and the hope of salvation in the second one. He takes our contemporary malaise (fueled by atheism and materialism, by modern arrogance) and redirects our gaze to the only solution, the one that is not found in our own navel (contrary to some voices) but above and beyond our own ego, in a transcendent love, in the love of God.

There are many types of hope and we all experience some of them to some degree (if not, then how can one get out of bed in the morning?). But the deeper types of hope have to do with our worldview, with the big picture, and the most profound and durable and tested type of all is the one anchored in God. Pope Benedict XVI calls the various types of hope the lesser and greater hopes. He explains right upfront how faith and hope are intermingled, how they rest on a proper understanding of what it is to be Christian, what is the promise of eternal life and what is the true fabric of this life, this abundant life that Christ opened up for us. He cautions against the modern temptations of individual salvation, of a political or scientific solution where we save ourselves by our own efforts. He develops to great lengths the need for every generation to work for the kingdom even though he is pointing out the errors and limitations of recent false premises of a better world without God. A parishioner of Notre Dame des Victoires, Michele Szekely was born and raised in France and has lived in San Francisco since 1971. See her FrenchAmerican Catholic blog at http://www.leblogdelabergerie.com.

Contact her at michele@leblogdelabergerie.com.

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January 18, 2008

Peace effort . . .

with the opposition they will face within their own constituencies as the pace of

the talks, which started with the U.S.sponsored peace conference in

Annapolis, Md., intensifies. Although one of Olmert’s main coalition partners has threatened to withdraw from the government if the core issues are discussed, he has so far remained steadfast in his determination to follow through with negotiations.

Hanna Siniora, the Catholic Palestinian co-director of the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information, said that if Olmert is able to survive his government’s internal difficulties, such as the evaluation of his actions during the war in Lebanon nearly two years ago, the peace process has a chance to move forward.

“But it has to happen this year, and we need a stable government in Israel and a reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas,” the two Palestinian factions, said Siniora.

He said the European Union and Arab states also had an important role to play in brokering a peace agreement.

The Arab states specifically will be instrumental in eventually bringing Hamas and Fatah together, he said.

A few days before the Bush visit, Arab leaders appointed a committee to start the process of reconciliation between the two Palestinian factions, he added.

ored by their neighbors at Alsabeel Masjid Noor Al-Islam Mosque with a five-course meal which included steak, chicken, fish, vegetarian dishes, basmati rice, and a special Egyptian holiday dessert. The meal was entirely prepared and served by members of the mosque in appreciation for St. Anthony’s year-round service to the poor

and for use of the St. Anthony Kitchen during the month of Ramadan. Mosque members fast during Ramadan to be reminded of the experience of hunger that many of the poor experience every day.

Every one of the 3,000 guests who walked through the door at St. Anthony Foundation Dining Room on Christmas Day

received a Christmas present donated, assembled and wrapped by some of San Francisco’s most respected businesses, along with a ham dinner. PG&E, Ghirardelli Chocolate and the Clift Hotel all contributed gift items for Dining Room guests.

The St. Anthony Foundation website is www.stanthonysf.org.

Christmas outreach . . .

■ Continued from page 7 cial website set up by Family Giving Tree, who then arranged for the toys to be specially donated by groups or individuals.

St. Anthony Foundation’s staff was hon-

(CNS PHOTO/LARRY DOWNING, REUTERS)

■ Continued from cover Israel has continued to respond to Palestinian missile attacks from the Gaza Strip and killed 17 Palestinians — including three civilians — in a military operation Jan. 15. A Palestinian sniper killed an Ecuadorean volunteer working in the fields near the Gaza Strip early that day.

Meanwhile, Palestinian legislators were split in their appraisal of Bush’s visit, said Bernard Sabella, a Catholic and member of the Palestinian parliament from the Fatah movement. Some of his colleagues were pleased after Bush’s four-hour meeting with Abbas, he said.

“Others are more realistic ... and note that Bush steered clear from mentioning Jerusalem or international resolutions,” said Sabella. “There really is not much optimism that the visit will garner results.

These members say they have not been given the feeling that Bush will push for a solution which is equitable and fair to both parties.”

Either way, he said, it is too early to tell how Abbas and Olmert will contend

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Event to benefit transitional center for women, and honor individuals

By Tom Burke An evening of music Jan. 27, featuring the women’s vocal ensemble Musae, will celebrate the work of the SVdP Catherine’s Center and honor three individuals who have been active in rehabilitative programs for the incarcerated and those leaving incarceration.

“All funds raised by this event support the work of St. Vincent de Paul’s Catherine’s Center, a transitional home for women newly released from jail or prison,” said Mercy Sister Marguerite Buchanan, program director. “The efforts that go into planning and supporting this event are a way for many people to offer critical support to our women, who are determined to reclaim their lives after incarceration. They cannot do this without us.”

“The evening will recognize the work of Elizabeth The vocal ensemble Musae will perform Jan. 27 to benefit Gheleta, Don Horsley and John Keast., three extraordinary St. Vincent de Paul’s (SVdP) Catherine’s Center. people in our community who have supported innovative jail programs geared toward the re-entry of ex-offenders into society,” Sister Marguerite said. Elizabeth Gheleta is a forMercy Sisters Marguerite Buchanan and Suzanne mer executive director of the Service League. John Keast is Toolan founded Catherine’s Center in 2003 in collaboration founder and director of the Inmate Correctional Education with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo Project. Donald Horsley is a retired San Mateo County Sheriff. County. In 2007, the program expanded into a newly Musae takes its name from the original “ladies of song,” remodeled building and increased the number of women the classic muses of Greek mythology. Founded in 2004, being helped at one time from six to 11. To date, 36 women Musae has performed throughout the Bay Area. The group’s have benefited from the highly structured, individual prorepertoire includes sacred chants, baroque masterpieces, grams offered at the facility. women’s choral standards, chamber pieces with string quarTickets for the event that will take place at Kohl Mansion tet, spirituals, folk songs, jazz and popular music from five on the Mercy Sisters Burlingame compound on Adeline Drive continents. are $100 per person. Call (650) 373-0637.

Immaculate Heart Radio’s mission and plans in the Bay Area are the topic of “For Heaven’s Sake” this Sunday, Jan. 20, at 5:30 a.m. on KRON Channel 4.

The recently launched Catholic radio station’s director of community relations, Christopher Lyford (above right), is interviewed by Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Director of Communications Maurice Healy. The station’s call letters are KSFB, 1260 AM.

TV program notes…

Television program notes for the week of Jan. 20: Sunday, Jan. 20, (EWTN) “Love Is a Choice.” This documentary looks at the life of St. Gianna Beretta Molla through interviews with those who knew her and letters she exchanged with her husband. ● Sunday, Jan. 20, (EWTN) “Walsingham: England’s Nazareth.” A look at the history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in Norfolk, England, a place of pilgrimage since medieval times. ●

L’Osservatore Romano features duel over Harry Potter books

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican newspaper sponsored a face-off between a writer who said the Harry Potter novels offer lessons in the importance of love and self-giving and one who said they teach that with secret knowledge one can control others and the forces of nature.

The newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, dedicated a full page in its Jan. 14-15 issue to the debate about the novels

by J.K. Rowling.

Paolo Gulisano, a physician and the author of a biography of J.R.R. Tolkien, said the Harry Potter books counter the individualism of the modern age by making a hero of a boy “guided by moral values such as the choice of good, giving, sacrifice, friendship and love.”

Rolheiser . . .

■ Continued from page 13 “You are never more of a mature adult than when you get down on your knees and bend humbly before something greater than yourself.”

I read those words in a catechism book when I was a little boy and knew, already then, that they contained a truth that perennially needs to be asserted in the face of human pride. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin says something similar. At a certain time in your life, he says, you realize you have only two choices: Genuflect before something greater than yourself or begin to self-destruct.

Eric Clapton, I think, would agree.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher and awardwinning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

His website is www.ronrolheiser.com.

The stories, he said, teach young people “without moralizing” that material riches, immortality and anything obtained without effort “are illusions and that what truly counts is commitment, friendship and love.”

“It is not power, not success, not an easy life that lead to the truest and deepest joy, but friendship, self-giving and adhering to the truth,” he said.

But Edoardo Rialti, a professor of English literature at the University of Florence, said the books “communicate a vision of the world and of the human person that is full of profound errors and dangerous suggestions.”

First, he said, the books teach that “evil is good,” and that violence, lying, trickery and manipulation can be positive if used to obtain something good.

But the deeper problem, he said, is that the books advo-

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cate gnosticism, the idea that a select elite can develop special powers and gifts through specialized knowledge that is hidden from most mortals.

The professor ended his article by saying that Pope Benedict XVI was correct to express concern about the books in a 2003 letter to a German writer.

As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he wrote to Gabriele Kuby to acknowledge receipt of her book, “Harry Potter: Gut oder Bose” (“Harry Potter: Good or Bad”), which cautioned that children could become fascinated with the occult through reading the series.

The future pope praised Kuby’s attempt to “enlighten people about Harry Potter” and the possible “subtle seductions” that can distort children’s thinking before they mature in the Christian faith.

January 18, 2008

St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco.

Thursdays, Jan. 24 – April 17, 7:30 p.m.: Shedding Light on the Study of God: A Guided Reading of St. Thomas Aquinas. Series explores The Treatise on the Divine Nature, Part 1 of St. Thomas’ Summa Theologiæ. Each session will reflect independently on one of the Twelve Questions of the reading. Participants are welcome to attend as many or few as they wish. The free series is conducted by Stephen C. Córdova, who teaches philosophy at the University of San Francisco and Dominican University. Contact Stephen at cordova@usfca.edu for details. No meeting March 20.

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Jan. 23, 7 p.m.: The A.S.K. (Ask, Seek, Knock) Seminar: The Christian “Secret”. Are you comfortable asking God for specific things- on a daily basis? Do you think God cares about you personally and would love to hear your requests? Or do you mainly ask for things when times are a bit rough? Have you set your goals for 2008? Would you like some help in that process? Join Joe Murphy in an interactive seminar which promises to change the way we pray.

Jan. 30, 7 p.m.: Join Jesuit Father Russ Roide as he considers the following: Can I learn that being a pilgrim is ok? Is having it all together an obstacle to a healthy spirituality? Can I find God in the mess of our lives?

Jan. 19: A Night In Monte Carlo social and fundraiser at St. Agnes Community Center, 1530 Page St., San Francisco. Doors open at 5 p.m.

Enjoy casino games, food, music and prizes.

Tickets are $40 in advance or $50 at the door.

Admission includes hors d’oeuvres, $25 in chips and one raffle ticket. For more information or to purchase tickets in advance, contact Rosemary Robinson (415) 487-8560 or rosemary@saintagnessf.com).

Jan. 19, 5 – 9 p.m.: Wine and Cheese Spartanfest benefiting Immaculate Conception Academy, 24th & Guerrero St. in San Francisco with silent auction/photo exhibit. The evening is filled with wine tasting, food and a chance to win the grand prize of a 6 night/7 day stay in a private condo in Kauai, Hawaii with a $1000 gift certificate for airfare. Raffle tickets are $20 or 3 for $50. Tickets at $25 per person include a complimentary ICA wine glass. Call (415) 824-2052 or email sgiverts@icacademy.org.

Jan. 19, 6:30 p.m.: Crab feed and dinner dance sponsored by Epiphany Parents Association in Epiphany School Cafeteria.

Tickets at $40 adults/$15 children 3-13 years of age include crab dinner plus salad, bread and pasta. Call (415) 337-4030, ext. 240.

Jan. 24 – May 31: Dine at Cetrella Restaurant, 855 Main St. in Half Moon Bay and 10 percent of what you spend will benefit Seton Medical Center Coastside, a division of Seton Medical Center in Daly City. Tickets for the wine and appetizer kickoff party Jan. 24 are $30. Call (650) 726-4090, ext. 317.

Jan. 26: Crab Bowl benefiting St. Thomas More Elementary School. Tickets for the “all you can eat crab extravaganza” are $40 and include wine and dessert. Sponsored by St. Thomas More Alumni Association. Contact Linda at Lp1114@aol.com or call (415) 218-0401.

Jan. 26, 5:30 p.m.: Crab dinner benefiting St. Elizabeth Parish, Cantwell Hall, Wayland and Goettingen St. in San Francisco. Includes choice of crab or roast chicken dinner plus appetizers, salad, dessert and coffee as well as open bar.

Tickets are $49 adults/$42 seniors. Call (415) 587-7858.

Jan. 26: “Mardi Gras,” the San Francisco County Council of Catholic Women’s Annual Fundraiser at the Olympic Club with silent auction and no-host cocktails starting at 11:30 a.m., followed by luncheon at 12:30 pm and fashions

by Simi’s of West Portal. Tickets are $55 with tables of 10 available. For more information, call Cathy Mibach at (415) 753-0234, and for reservations, checks can be sent to Diana Heafey at 389 Dellbrook Ave., San Francisco 94131 or call (415) 731-6379.

Jan. 26, 6 – 11 p.m.: Celebrate Mardi Gras at St. Margaret Mary Parish Hall, Oakland. Live Music by the Blues Box Bayou Band, Gourmet New Orleans-Style Buffet, and auctions. All proceeds go to complete the renovation of the 75year-old tower of St. Margaret Mary Church. For ticket information, contact Lily Mullen (925) 8271946 or lilypad@sysmatrix.net.

Jan. 26: Zydeco Dance at St. Finn Bar Church Hall, 415 Edna St. at Hearst in San Francisco from 8 p.m. – midnight. Tickets are $15 in advance/$20 at the door. Refreshments and food will be available for purchase. Call (415) 5854524 or (415) 333-3627.

Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m.: San Francisco County Council of Catholic Women at St. Paul’s Church Hall. All Christ Child Layette items will be on display. Speaker will be Margarita Mendoza from the Seton New Life Center, which is a prenatal clinic that provides obstetrical services to lowincome women in San Mateo and San Francisco counties. All women of the Archdiocese are invited to attend. Refreshments will follow and then the Council’s meeting. For more information, please call Cathy Mibach at (415) 7530234.

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State Prison, will deliver a free public lecture on “Restorative Justice and Catholic Social Thought: Challenges as Opportunities for Society, Church and Academy” at the University of San Francisco’s Fromm Institute, Xavier Hall.

Arts & Entertainment Through Feb. 29, 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.: Black and white photos of Gene Wright at Mercy Center Art Gallery, 2300 Adeline Dr. in Burlingame. Features pictures of San Francisco from 1949-2000. Call (650) 340-7474.

Jan. 24, 5:30 p.m.: Free Rush Hour Concert at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant in San Francisco featuring music of Franz Schubert and others. Call (415) 288-3817.

Feb. 1, 2, 8, 9 at 7:30 p.m; Feb. 2 and 10, 2 p.m.: Notre Dame de Namur University Department of Theatre and Dance graduating seniors will produce and direct original one-act plays at the NDNU Theatre, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont; $10 general admission. For more information, call (650) 508-3456 or e-mail boxoffice@ndnu.edu.

Feb. 3, 3 p.m.: Notre Dame de Namur University’s a-cappella quartet, The Edlos, will perform on campus at the Ralston Hall Mansion Ballroom, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Admission $20/$10 seniors and students. For information, call (650) 508-3729 or e-mail concerts@ndnu.edu.

March 7, 6-10 p.m.: Cinema Vita Film Festival, Delancy Street Theater, 600 Embarcadero, San Francisco.

For information, visit www.ignatius.com/cinemavita.

Sundays at 3:30 p.m.: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral followed by Vespers. Call (415) 5672020.

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Immaculate Conception Academy opened commemorations of its 125th year with Mass at neighboring St. James Church Nov. 4. Father Jerry Foley, St. James pastor, is at altar. Concelebrants included Father Daniel Carter, pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Church in San Francisco. Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose who are ICA alumnae served as extraordinary ministers of Communion. They included Sisters Lauren Boyle, ’51, foreground, Mary Susanna Vasquez, ’67; Mary Paul Mehegan, ’41; Mary Mark Schoenstein, ’50; Patrick Mary Kerney, ’55; Rosemarie Hennessy, ’55; Mary Virginia Leach, ’68; Mary Jarlath McGrath, ’56. The Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose founded ICA in 1883. Future celebrations include a Mass of Thanksgiving Nov. 16 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Visit www.icacademy.org or call (415) 824-2052 for more information about anniversary year events.

See Food and Fun below for Spartanfest fundraiser Jan. 19.

Jan. 29, 7 – 8:30 p.m.: Taking Your Career Pulse, Catholic Networking at St. Dominic Church in modular classroom, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco. Reservations requested. Admission is free. Call (415) 664-0164 or email daura@ccwear.com.

Feb. 1, 7 a.m.: Following 7 a.m. Mass at St. Sebastian Parish, 373 Bon Air Rd., Kentfield, the Catholic Marin Breakfast Club will convene at St. Sebastian Hall to hear a presentation by Laurice Compagno-Levine, Thalassemia outreach coordinator for Children’s Hospital and Research Center, Oakland. Breakfast is $7 members/$10 visitors. Thalassemia is a blood disease. For information, call (415) 461-0704 or e-mail Sugaremy@aol.com. The next Breakfast Club meeting is March 7.

Feb. 10, 12:15 p.m.: San Francisco County Council of Catholic Women will hold their 22nd annual “Afternoon of Recollection” at Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. at 8th Ave. The afternoon will begin with Mass followed by luncheon in the school auditorium. Spiritual director for the afternoon will be Sister Eymard Flood. Price for the day and lunch is $20. For more information, call Cathy Mibach at (415) 753-0234.

Deadline for reservations is Feb. 5.

Taize/Chanted Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Young Adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking available. For information contact, mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net.

1st Friday at 7:30 p.m.: Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m.

Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113.

2nd Friday at 8 p.m.: Our Lady of the Pillar, 400 Church St. in Half Moon Bay. Call Cheryl Fuller at (650) 726-2249.

1st Tuesday at 7 p.m.: National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco. Call (415) 983-0405 or visit www.shrineSF.org.

Sundays: Gregorian Chant at the National Shrine of Saint Francis, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco, 12:15 p.m. Mass. For more information, call (415) 983-0405.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese.

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

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

Lectures Jan. 24, 7 p.m.: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is scheduled to deliver a free, public talk on her book, “Memo to the President Elect,” at Dominican University, San Rafael, in Angelico Concert Madeleine Hall. For information, call 485-3202.

Albright Jan. 31, 7 p.m.: Dismantling Systemic Racism with speaker Angela Davis at Notre Dame de Namur University Theater, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Tickets are $20/$10 students and seniors. Visit www.ndnu.edu for more information about Angela Davis the Diversity Speaker Series and its presenters or call (650) 508-3718.

Jan. 31, 7 p.m.: Francis Bok, author of “Escape from Slavery,” will speak to Marin Catholic High School parents in the Performing Arts Center, 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. On Feb. 1 he will address the school student body. “Escape from Slavery” was one of Marin Catholic’s mandaFrancis Bok tory summer reading titles. The real life story tells how seven-year-old Francis sold his mother’s eggs and peanuts near his village in southern Sudan, when his life was shattered when Arab raiders murdered men and women and gathering children into a group. Strapped to a donkey, Francis was taken north into a life of slavery under wealthy Muslim farmers. For information, call Marin Catholic Communications Director Tim Navone at (415) 464-3222.

Feb. 1, noon: Msgr.

Robert W. McElroy, pastor of St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo and author of “Morality and American Foreign Policy,” will speak on “Foundations for a Catholic Ethic of War Termination: The Case of Iraq” at the Handlery Dining Room of the Msgr. Robert University of San W. McElroy Francisco’s Lone Mountain campus, Room 100. Lecture is free and open to public.

Feb. 29, noon: Jesuit Father Kurt M. Denk, a law student at the University of California, Berkeley, and associate chaplain at San Quentin

Martin Luther King Commemorations Jan. 20, 2008 - St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, San Francisco, will welcome revivalist preacher Redemptorist Father Maurice Nutt from Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Catholic Church in Memphis, Tenn., as guest celebrant and homilist as part of the 23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Solidarity Gospel Mass at 10:30 a.m.

St. Paul of the Shipwreck is located at 1122 Jamestown Ave.; phone (415) 468-3434). All are invited. Refreshments will be served following Mass.

Faith Resources/Trainings Jan. 20: Ecumenical prayer service at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant in San Francisco. Commemorates 100th anniversary of Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Call (415) 288-3817.

Jan. 26, 9:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Is your life hectic and stressful? Are you drawn to silent prayer, as well as traditional prayers of petition, thanksgiving and praise? Learn the Centering Prayer practice and discipline at the University of San Francisco, Fromm Hall behind St. Ignatius Church at Stanyan and Parker in San Francisco. Suggested donation is $35. Bring bag lunch. Call Sister Cathy Cahur at (415) 553-8776.

Feb. 23: Training for new extraordinary ministers of Communion offered by the Office of Worship at the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont, 9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. Expert instruction offered in basic liturgical theology, spirituality and practice. Pre-registration required, $15. Call Pat Vallez-Kelly at (415) 614-5586 or e-mail vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

Feb. 23 and March 8: 1-day training for new lectors offered by the Office of Worship at Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Session I: Feb. 23, 9:30 a.m.- 3:30 p.m. Session II: March 8, 10 a.m.- noon. Expert instruction offered in basic liturgical theology, spirituality and practice. Preregistration required, $20. Call Pat Vallez-Kelly at (415) 614-5586 or e-mail vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

March 8: Training for extraordinary ministers of Communion to the sick offered by the Office of Worship at Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont, 10 a.m. - noon. Pre-registration required, $5, or prior attendance at Office of Worship EM training. Call Pat Vallez-Kelly at (415) 614-5586 or email vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

St. Thomas More Legal Society Visit http://www.stthomasmore-sf.org for more information about this and other St. Thomas More events or contact Terrence J. Coleman, president, at (415) 433-8000 or tcoleman@pillsburylevinson.com.

Jan. 24: “Faith in the Public Square,” presented by Honorable Carlos Bea, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, noon at Bankers Club, 555 California St., 52nd Floor. Tickets are $45/$20 law students. To rsvp, contact Gregory Schopf at (415) 984-8314 or gschopf@nixonpeabody.com

Datebook is a free listing for parishes, schools and non-profit groups. Please include event name, time, date, place, address and an information phone number.

Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired. Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633, or e-mail burket@sfarchdiocese.org.

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January 18, 2008 Children and adult choirs at St. Charles Parish in San Carlos performed their annual Christmas concert on Dec.14 under the direction of Claire Giovannetti. The adult choir sang a selection of carols from different lands and the children’s choir sang their favorite, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” as well as other Advent and Christmas songs.

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

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The Department of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking elementary principals for the 2008-2009 school year. Candidates must be practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church, possess a valid teaching credential, a Master’s degree in educational leadership, an administrative credential, and five years of successful teaching experience at the appropriate level.

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Sacred Heart Catholic School, a Parish elementaryy school in Medford, Oregon, is seeking an experienced leader to direct a dynamic school community. The position will begin with the 2008-09 school year. Located in the beautiful Rogue Valley of Southern Oregon, Medford is near Southern Oregon University, is a regional medical center, and has unlimited access to outdoor recreational activities such as skiing, hiking, fishing and rafting. The Oregon Shakespearean Festival and the Britt Music Fesstival are within 10 miles.

Sacred Heart School serves 335 students in Pre-School through Eighth grade with a faculty of 25 teachers and 15 support staff.

Additional information on the position can be found on the school web site at: www.shcs.org We are currently accepting applications. Deadline for applications is March 1, 2008. For application, please send letter of interest and resume to: Sr. Betty Larson, O.S.B., Sacred Heart School Search 2838 East Burnside Street, Portland, OR 97214 (503) 233-8348

ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR FAITH FORMATION AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking an Assistant Superintendent for Faith Formation and Religious Instruction has primary responsibility to provide leadership and support to administrators and teachers in the area of programs and services regarding Faith Formation, Religion Curriculum, and Family Life Curriculum. The Assistant Superintendent works collaboratively with the Administrative Staff to implement the Mission and Goals of the Department of Catholic Schools.

Responsibilities include: ● Work with leadership groups to give vision and direction to the Catholic mission of the schools. ● Implement programs for leadership formation, including staff development and spirituality so that the faith is understood and lived out in the Catholic Schools. ● Provide for effective religious instruction in the Catholic Schools ● Support the efforts of the Superintendent and the Department of Catholic Schools Qualifications: ● A believing and practicing Catholic. ● Advanced Degree in Theology, Religious Education, or comparable field. ● Minimum of three to five years as a Catholic elementary or secondary teacher. ● Ability to organize, plan, think creatively, develop and administer programs. ● Skill in the application of computer software and technologies to support teaching and learning. ● Excellent verbal and written communication skills. ● Excellent relationship skills Please send cover letter and resume to: Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Department of Catholic Schools Huntingtonm@sfarchdiocese.org

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