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by Tom Burke Woodside Priory is honoring several benefactors with St. Benedict Medals, the school community’s highest honor. Wayne and Cindy Davison became active at the Portola Valley school when their daughter, Amanda, who graduated in 2000, became a student there. Their son, Andy, is a sophomore this year. “Wayne and Cindy have headed or chaired key committees for eleven school auctions and their leadership is evident in the growth of this event as the school changed and increased in size over the past decade,” the school said. “Their vision, creativity, personal support and countless hours of volunteer service have benefited hundreds of students and their families.” Jack and Joan McGraw were “early supporters of the Priory during its first decades, and have remained constant supporters over the years,” the Priory, which counts the couple

Service is part of every day at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School where eighth graders travel weekly to entertain and assist elderly residents at Villa Residential Care Home. Hats off to Mary Lucett, now in her 25th year at the school and 16th teaching eighth grade, who spurred the good work. From left: Eighth graders Mary Ann Zapanta, Samantha Magat, Jaysen Ymas, Veronica Aguilar, Aaron Sansalang, Ashley Villjian, Mabel Cristobal.

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among its founders, said. The McGraw’s two sons are Priory alumni, John, class of ‘80, and Michael, class of ‘83. Jane Yates has prayed with the Priory church community for more than four decades, the school said, touching many lives with her interest in and unflagging support of the Benedictine community. In addition, Jane co-chaired a current campaign that will raise $250,000 for the renovation and expansion of the Priory chapel. … Graduates of Mercy High School, Burlingame, returned to their alma mater January 5th to speak to current juniors and seniors about college life. Thanks to 2004 alumnae, Claire Reitmann-Grout, now at Maryland’s Towson State University; Mary Kate McNamara, now at Sonoma State University; Genevieve Haight, now at Whittier College; Christine Giusti, now at Cal State Hayward and Maureen Cary, now at Regis University…. St. Ignatius College Preparatory’s Sesquicentennial celebration is off and running, said school PR person, Paul Totah. “Banners now decorate Sunset Boulevard and various locations where the school has had campuses over the past 150 years,” Paul, an SI alum, told me “We are having a June 4, 2005, block party called A Day on the Boulevard, open to everyone, to celebrate our anniversary.”… Following in the footsteps of their fathers at Junipero Serra High School are freshmen, Nick Bertoldi (John, 1981), Andrew Bet (Claudio, 1974), Michael Dekker (George, 1988), Anthony DiSanto (Michael, 1975), Tim Dunleavy (Kevin, 1980), Sean Flynn (Kevin, 1982), Joseph Frank (Glen, 1980), Daniel Kidwell (Andrew, 1982), Elliott Lanam (Joseph, 1973), Thomas Leddy (Sean, 1976),

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Thousands join in peaceful, prayerful ‘Walk for Life’ in San Francisco

By Patrick Joyce More than seven thousand peaceful and prayerful Catholics and people of other faiths joined in the first ever Walk for Life West Coast Jan 22 in San Francisco.

Following a rally at Justin Herman Plaza at the foot of Market St., the large pro-life throng made its way along San Francisco’s Embarcadero to the Marina Green. For a good portion of the two-mile route, the Walk for Life participants faced taunts, insults and some obscenities from about one thousand angry pro-abortionists.

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PAGE 16 A calm demeanor characterized the long line of pro-life walkers as they sang, prayed or walked quietly, many carrying signs proclaiming, “Women deserve better than abortion.” Several hundred San Francisco Police Officers marched in single-file between the Walk for Life participants and pro-abortion protestors, who lined part of the route from Market St. to Fisherman’s Wharf.

“They said it couldn’t be done but you are all here to show that it can be done,” Dolores Meehan told a cheering crowd that filled Justin Herman Plaza for the first large-scale Roe vs. Wade anniversary demonstration in San Francisco, a city officially hostile to their message. Meehan and Eva Muntean, both of San Francisco, were the primary organizers of the event.

“We are here to celebrate life, to speak out against abortion. However, there’s a lot of people in San Francisco who have come here who feel threatened by our message,” Meehan told the crowd. “We are not here to force or impose our beliefs on other people.

We are here to stand witness to our beliefs, that belief being the culture of life.”

A rally of abortion supporters earlier in the morning at Powell and Market drew an estimated 3,000 people. This pro-abortion rally was organized specifically to protest the Walk for Life West Coast. Some of the pro-abortion marchers dispersed after a march down Market St., but about one-third to one-half of the group took up positions along the planned Walk for Life route.

At noon, Walk for Life participants pre-

San Francisco native and Saint Dominic parishioner Dolores Meehan was co-chair of Walk for Life West Coast.

UC Berkeley Students For Life march down the Embarcadero. They were joined by a large contingent of pro-life students from Stanford University as well as students from University of San Francisco and Saint Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula.

pared to make their way down the Embarcadero where they encountered about one thousand protestors lining the sidewalk, jeering and frequently shouting.

“Go home . . . this is a pro-choice town . . .

Right-wing bigots, go away.” Some carried “Stand Up For Choice” signs. Some held up crudely written obscene signs and shouted obscenities.

Few marchers responded. Instead they followed Meehan’s advice at the rally: “So as we meet the protesters . . . It is imperative that we return any agitation with a smile or by just looking forward . . . We are a peaceful group because you cannot stand for life if you do not also stand for the life of the person who is not being all that nice to you.”

Participants in the Walk for Life West Coast came from near and far. Dolores Meehan said about a quarter of the pro-life people were from San Francisco, while other contingents came from San Mateo County and Marin County as well as other dioceses in northern California. The diverse crowd of old and young people, including many families walked beneath a

sea of signs that reflected a frequentlyheard refrain at the walk: “Women Deserve Better than Abortion.”

Some prayed the rosary, others sang hymns in Spanish and English and as the walk neared its end, they simply chanted “Ave Maria, Ave Maria.” Oblivious of the heavy Catholic participation in the walk, sidewalk hecklers jeered about “Fundamentalists” as people carrying a banner of Our Lady of Guadalupe passed by.

Using hit and run tactics, abortion activists were able to block the march near Fisherman’s Wharf, causing the Walk for

Life marchers to take a prearranged detour.

Police arrested two pro-abortion activists.

The protesters were reflecting the sentiments of Supervisor Bevan Dufty and other city politicians who opposed the Walk for Life. “These outsiders who oppose women’s right to participate fully in our society are not welcome in San Francisco,” said Dufty, a native of New York who settled in San Francisco 12 years ago.

Meehan, a fourth generation San Franciscan, took the irony in stride. Carol Crossed, president of Democrats for Life, told the rally she found those views puzWALK FOR LIFE, page 14

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U.S. bishops launch ads they say dispel myths about legal abortion WASHINGTON — The Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a major advertising campaign encouraging people to take a “second look” at their views on abortion. The ad campaign, called the “Second Look Project,” presents basic facts about legalized abortion, according to Cathy Cleaver Ruse, director of planning and information in the pro-life secretariat. “Three decades after Roe vs. Wade, many people still do not understand basic facts about legal abortion — like the fact that abortion is legal through all nine months of pregnancy,” she said in a Jan. 24 announcement about the campaign. Ruse noted that recent polls showing support for Roe described the Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling as “the decision which legalized abortion in the first three months of pregnancy.” Ruse called that description “a flagrant distortion of the truth.” The advertisements direct viewers to a Web site, www.secondlookproject.org, for more information.

protect the most dependent,” he said, “the handicapped, the elderly, the unloved or (those who are) simply inconvenient become increasingly vulnerable.” Bush pointed to laws passed during his first term in office, including the PartialBirth Abortion Ban Act in 2003. Implementation of the law has been held up by three separate federal district courts — in New York, Nebraska and California — which have declared it unconstitutional. Under the measure, “infants who are born despite an attempted abortion are now protected by law,” he said to applause. “So are nurses and doctors who refused to be any part of an abortion.” And, under the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, which he signed into law last April, “prosecutors can now charge those who harm or kill a pregnant woman with harming or killing her unborn child,” Bush said.

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March for Life participants chant pro-life slogans as they make their way to the Supreme Court in a demonstration against abortion Jan. 24 in Washington. An estimated 100,000 people took part in the annual event.

President tells March for Life of efforts to foster ‘culture of life’ WASHINGTON – Four days after his second presidential inauguration, President George W. Bush said the federal government is “ working to promote a culture of life, to promote compassion for women and their unborn babies.” The president spoke for about five minutes at the beginning of a March for Life rally Jan. 24. “We know that in a culture that does not

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Women speakers at Walk for Life Archbishop gives invocation, rally say ‘Women deserve better’ joins in Walk for Life

By Patrick Joyce In protesting against abortion, “We walk in the shoes of our feminist foremothers, women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who refused to choose between women and their children,” Sally Winn told the Walk for Life Rally.

“Abortion is a betrayal of feminism,” Winn, national vice president of Feminists for Life, said. “Abortion discriminates. Abortion underestimates women. Abortion is violence against women. As Elizabeth Cady Stanton said, ‘Abortion is the ultimate degradation of women.’”

Winn traced this betrayal to the two men who founded the National Alliance to Repeal Abortion Laws. “These two guys essentially said if you want equal pay, equal promotion, equal education you can have it,” she said. “All you have to do is control your bodies. . . . If you want to be educated, paid and promoted like a man, then you better act like men. . .. If it’s your body and it’s your problem.”

“How is this pro-woman?” she asked.

“Is this the best we can do for women?

Don’t women deserve better than this?”

A study by Planned Parenthood’s research arm shows that abortion “is not about controlling our bodies.” Winn said.

It shows that women are having abortions for two primary reasons: “lack of emotional and lack of financial resources.”

“It’s time for friends, families, employers and universities to wake up and smell the coffee,” Winn said. “We’re women. We’re not men. We have children – so get over it. Accommodate us for who

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we are instead of making us fit into a male model. Why should we have to sacrifice our children and violate our bodies in order to achieve our academic and career goals?”

Pro-abortion attorney Sarah Weddington told the Supreme Court in Roe vs. Wade “that a woman couldn’t complete her college education if she became pregnant,” Winn said. “Sorry, Sarah, I did.”

“Abortion has been a 32-year experiment on women, and it has failed,” Winn said. “When they ask us today as we walk, ‘What about the woman?’ We will not answer, ‘What about the baby?’ We will tell them that we refuse to choose between WALK SPEAKERS, page 14

In his invocation for the pre-march rally of Walk for Life West Coast, San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada recalled the words of Psalm 139 and said for three thousand years we have prayed to God: “Truly you have formed my inmost being. You knit me in my mother’s womb. I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works.’

“Like the psalmist, we too give you thanks today, O Lord, for the precious gift of human life from the first moment of conception to natural death,” Archbishop Levada prayed. “May the way we live our lives prepare us to receive from you the gift of eternal life.

“We pray for a renewal of a culture of life within our communities that we do not separate our creed from its ethical requirements concerning life. We pray for a transformation of our culture so that it supports life and overcomes all discrimination, violence and exploitation against women, that we understand that we are called to bear witness to the meaning of genuine love.”

“We ask your blessing on the many who have gathered here to witness to the cause of justice in our country, the right of unborn children to life.”

Earlier that morning, Archbishop Levada concelebrated the 8 a.m. Mass

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at St. Mary’s Cathedral with Santa Rosa Bishop Daniel Walsh, Oakland Bishop Allen Vigneron, and San Francisco Auxiliary Bishops Ignatius Wang and John Wester. More than 1,500 people attended the Mass, At the Walk for Life rally, Dolores Meehan introduced Archbishop Levada as a spiritual leader of Catholics and “a man who has made very courageous stands for life and for family in this city where it is so difficult sometimes to defend those values.”

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Despite reassurances, minority Christians in Iraq are afraid

By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Each time a church in Iraq is attacked or a religious figure is threatened or kidnapped, most church leaders there quickly explain that the incident does not signal an assault against Christianity.

But Christians in Iraq are afraid.

As a tiny minority in an overwhelmingly Muslim nation, Christians enjoyed relative religious freedom under former President Saddam Hussein’s otherwise oppressive, though secular, rule.

The U.S.-led embargo, then war and occupation of Iraq that toppled Saddam’s dictatorship brought further hardship to the people there. Damaged infrastructure and the reigning chaos have altered life for everyone.

“Christians live like all people in Iraq, they have the same worries,” said the apostolic nuncio to Iraq, Archbishop Fernando Filoni.

“But given these attacks, Christians are even more worried; it’s understandable the church finds itself in double the difficulty,” he told reporters in Rome Jan. 18 between meetings with Vatican officials.

The added difficulty comes when certain fundamentalist groups see the church as a symbol or reflection of the Western world or when they assume church members are collaborators with the U.S.-led occupying forces.

Syrian-rite Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa of Mosul, Iraq, told the Rome-based missionary news agency MISNA Jan. 18 that Christians feel unsafe

because “the U.S. soldiers deployed in various parts of the country, and whom the local inhabitants see as occupants, have helped create a negative image of Christianity among people of other faiths.”

But confusing the church in Iraq as being an arm of the West “is very offensive, especially to the Chaldeans,” said Msgr. Robert L. Stern, secretary-general of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association.

Chaldean Catholics, who make up the majority of Iraq’s Christians, “resent the idea they are being identified as Western because they are original inhabitants” in Iraq, dating back to “before the time of Mohammed and the coming of Islam,” Msgr. Stern told Catholic News Service Jan. 21 in Rome.

But not everyone interprets the violence against Christians and their churches as being just part of the general chaos or as a confused sense of the enemy.

Dominican Father Mikhael Najib told Vatican Radio from Iraq Jan. 18 that “there is a true campaign under way against Christians.”

He said religious, priests and lay Christians in Mosul have faced numerous threats that have escalated in number and intensity as the Jan. 30 date for scheduled elections in Iraq neared.

Mosul, in northern Iraq, is home to many Kurds and pro-Syrian groups.

Certain Muslim factions, including the mujahedin, were apparently threatening Christians as a way to pressure them “to not align themselves with either the proSyrian (groups) or the Kurds,” Father Najib said.

Most Catholic leaders in Iraq and especially the

Vatican want the Jan. 30 elections for a transitional National Assembly to go ahead as scheduled.

Archbishop Casmoussa told Vatican Radio he did not think this was “the right moment” for elections given the climate of insecurity. He spoke after unidentified Iraqis released him less than 24 hours after kidnapping him Jan. 17.

But Archbishop Filoni told CNS the vote “will be carried out,” even though it will not be held “in a normal situation.”

Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said violence will prevent pockets of Iraqis from voting.

Whether the poll results should be considered valid if large numbers of people do not vote “will need to be seen according to how (the voting process) is carried out,” Archbishop Filoni said.

Latin-rite Archbishop Jean Sleiman of Baghdad told CNS Jan. 17 that a substantial number of Christians are “going on vacation” over the election period, “so they have an excuse” not to vote.

Casting a vote is dangerous for the Christian community, he said.

“If they vote, the others will retaliate, but if they don’t vote, they will be losing something, too,” he said during a visit to the Vatican.

One informed Vatican official said the legitimacy of the January elections should be called into question if entire groups sit it out.

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Archbishop discusses possible abuse case settlements with pastoral council He said the Archdiocese is involved in about 75 of the lawsuits, either alone or with another diocese, noting that the dioceses of Oakland, Santa Rosa and Stockton were part of the Archdiocese until 1962, and the Diocese of San Jose was established in 1981.

He said some cases are likely to be dismissed because there are no grounds for the claim that the Archdiocese had knowledge of the abuse.

Archbishop Levada said the Diocese of Orange, under a mediation order, recently settled some 90 cases for $100 million, or an average of $1.1 million per claim. He said the settlement in California is about 10 times higher than other states, some of which have limits for claims against non-profit organizations.

The Archbishop said he was providing the council with information and asking for a discussion. He asked “If we have an experience like that of the Diocese of Orange, how are we going to deal with it?” He said in the Diocese of Orange, insurance companies provided about half of the settlement amount.

Archbishop Levada said, “We do have some properties and it has been suggested that the sale of these church properties might be used to pay for settlements.”

He said one such property is St. Brigid Church, an unreinforced masonry building closed in mid-1994.

According to city ordinance, the building would require

By Maurice Healy San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada spoke to members of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council Jan. 19 about the possibility of settlements in civil lawsuits filed against the Archdiocese by alleged victims of sexual abuse by clergy and other church employees.

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ronald Sabraw is coordinating approximately 150 lawsuits against a halfdozen northern California dioceses. The lawsuits arise from a state law which set aside the statute of limitations for claims against employers of alleged perpetrators for one year. All of the lawsuits were filed in 2003, the one year allowed for such claims.

Under the law, written by a trial attorney who represents plaintiffs in two-thirds of the lawsuits, claims could be brought by adults seeking damages against employers.

Many of the lawsuits involve claims of abuse many decades old. Earlier this month, Judge Sabraw ordered a mediation process to begin with the hope of having the parties reach settlement of the claims.

In speaking to the members of the Pastoral Council, composed largely of lay people from parishes within the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Archbishop Levada said the mediation process locally and the recent settlement of abuse claims in the Diocese of Orange are important to the local Church.

expensive seismic retrofitting, while a pastoral commission in 1993 recommended the parish be closed.

Archbishop Levada said there are three other Catholic churches within a mile’s distance, and retrofitting an unneeded church at a current cost of $5 to $7 million would not be good stewardship.

Doris Munstermann, a long-time member of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council, said she had strong family ties to St. Brigid Church and was saddened by this news. Archbishop Levada said he was sympathetic to those who hold close ties to the church and he said he would be glad to meet with the group of former parishioners.

Archbishop Levada said, “We are in a time of limited priest resources and we simply have more church capacity than we need.” He said he did not think it would be a responsible decision to re-open St. Brigid. He added, “If the St. Brigid property is sold, a portion of the proceeds would be used for a matching grant fund to help St. Brigid School build a gymnasium.”

Archbishop Levada said difficult decisions must be made in the current environment. “At a different time, I had hoped funds from these properties could be used to help support the Catholic school education of inner-city children and other aspects of the Church’s mission.

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Shame of San Francisco Thanks to the repugnant rhetoric of city officials and the boorish behavior of several hundred pro-abortion activists, San Francisco went a long way on Jan. 22 to solidify its reputation as one of the most intolerant cities in the nation.

When two San Francisco Catholic women, Dolores Meehan and Eve Muntean, voiced their plan to have a “Walk for Life – West Coast” to mark the 32nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v.

Wade decision, San Francisco’s pro-abortion establishment reacted with fear and loathing.

Planned Parenthood, National Abortion Rights Action League and others in the abortion industry went to work with local politicians. On Jan 11, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution declaring the city to be a “pro-choice” zone – effectively disenfranchising those citizens of San Francisco who are opposed to abortion on demand.

In declaring “Stand Up for Choice Day” — in reaction to plans for Walk for Life West Coast — San Francisco Supervisors sent a bellicose message to pro-choice activists and a call for aggressive action. Local Supervisors, who like to think of themselves as liberal and progressive, called for a reactionary and intolerant response. In the process, San Francisco’s elected officials raised their voices against freedom of speech and right of assembly.

Despite the Supervisors’ innate message of “Don’t come, don’t speak, don’t march,” a peaceful Walk for Life – West Coast rally at Justin Herman Plaza featured noted women and movements calling for better treatment for women. At noon, the prolife throng of 7,000 people – young, old, and many families with children —began a procession along the Embarcadero to Marina Green. As the praying, singing and smiling pro-life people began their route, they were met with loud insults and vile invective thrown at them by proabortion zealots. Many insults were specifically anti-Catholic.

What was the object of their hatred? The Walk for Life participants who quietly and purposefully walked behind a banner that simply said, “Abortion hurts Women.” The pro-choice activists were enraged to see thousands of people proceeding under a sea of posters with the simple message, “Women deserve better than abortion.” More information is available at www.walkforlifewc.com.

The stage for aggressive behavior by those protesting the Walk for Life was set at a pro-abortion rally of about 3,000 people held earlier that morning at Market and Powell. San Francisco elected officials came close to inciting mayhem in their harsh rhetoric condemning the Walk for Life participants.

About 1,000 pro-abortion zealots, the most angry and hostile remnant of the earlier rally, took up positions along the Embarcadero and waited for the Walk for Life marchers. The worst of these actors shouted obscenities and vile insults, some with the aid of loud speakers.

While many pro-choice demonstrators lining the route were content to shout derisive opposition, their muted behavior, by comparison, was overwhelmed by the hate-filled antagonism of several hundred rabid activists.

San Francisco officials had tried to villainize the pro-life group as “outsiders.” This is an epithet that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. easily would have recognized. When King participated in marches for civil rights in various U.S. cities, he often experienced the same kind of insults that were thrown at the participants in the Walk for Life. Worse still, the angry shouts of pro-abortion activists, telling the marchers to “Go back to the Central Valley,” were thinly veiled racist attacks on Hispanic Americans.

Hundreds of San Francisco Police Officers provided a cordon between the Walk for Life march and pro-abortion protestors positioned on the side of the roadway. Yet, pro-abortion activists defied police and several times tried to block the route of the Walk for Life procession. Near Pier 39, the long line of pro-life marchers was delayed. At Fisherman’s Wharf, the protestors blocked the route, but a pre-arranged detour allowed the Walk for Life procession to continue to Marina Green. There, the peaceful participants in the first ever Walk for Life West Coast joined in a humble prayer of thanksgiving.

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Visit your mother church Reading King On behalf of Archbishop Levada, the Board of Regents, staff and parishioners of Saint Mary’s Cathedral, I want to thank you for Jack Smith’s extensive article on the Cathedral and its ministries, along with an open invitation to everyone in the Archdiocese to visit their mother church.

I hope readers will mark their calendars with two upcoming Archdiocesan Cathedral events that they will not want to miss - the annual Chrism Mass on Tuesday of Holy Week, March 22, 2005 at 5:30 p.m. and the Ordination of Priests on Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 10:00 a.m.

I’d also like to take advantage of this opportunity to ask for donations toward a modest re-landscaping project that was overlooked in the CSF article. While I’m sure that such a plea for donations will seem shameless in the midst of a thank you note, but when it comes to the Cathedral I have no shame. I only have pride in it and hope that every Catholic in the Archdiocese will take pride in their Cathedral too.

Fr. John Talesfore Administrator pro tempore St. Mary’s Cathedral

Beautiful bronze and soul

Catholic San Francisco welcomes letters from its readers. Please:

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

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

Right order In the Saint for Today feature from Catholic News Service (CSF – Jan. 14), the statement is made that Margaret of Hungary was given to the Benedictines.

Margaret became a Dominican Sister not Benedictine. The Dominicans have been proud to have her as a patron for centuries and have celebrated her feast as one of their own.

Thank you for giving us an opportunity to correct this error.

Sr. Anna Louise, OP San Rafael

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Thanks to Jack Smith and to Fr. John Talesfore for the striking, well written and interesting centerfold about St. Mary’s Cathedral in this week’s Catholic San Francisco.

Permit me to correct one statement concerning the six great bronze panels illustrating, in chronological order (Visitation, Flight into Egypt, Wedding Feast at Cana, Mary at the Foot of the Cross, Mary and the Apostles at Pentecost, and Mary’s Assumption) six moments in the life of Mary: only the classical first two and last two are by Enrico Manfrini himself. The Wedding Feast and the Crucifixion, in more baroque style, are by his studio partner and fellow artist at Villa Clerici in Milan, Maestro Mario Rudelli.

You may perhaps recall the “Works of Man” by Rudelli, which were beautifully reproduced in a famous 1966 Vatican philatelic emission of 12 postage stamps, three by Manfrini and 9 by Rudelli.

I had the honor and privilege of speaking at the dedication of our Cathedral bronze doors in the presence of Professor Manfrini in 1975, and of concelebrating at Villa Clerici with Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, Pope Paul VI legal executor, on May 19, 2004, Enrico Manfrini’s funeral Mass (he died on May 15).

May his beautiful soul rest in peace!

Fr. Larry N. Lorenzoni, S.D.B. San Francisco

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I want to commend your choice of printing “Letter from Birmingham Jail” for the celebration of Martin Luther King’s birthday.

The letter is so often overlooked and is so thought-provoking.

Thank you for provoking our thoughts - and actions!

Valerie Voorhies San Francisco

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In regard to the Jan. 14 supplement on the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, I have a question that I imagine many in the Archdiocese may also wish to ask.

The supplement indicated a budget need of $6,399,300, yet you are asking us all to contribute $5,237,100, which, together with your other stated sources of income, comes to $9,560,686, an amount in excess of your stated budget needs of $3,161,386. Would you please explain why there is a need for $3,161,386 more than your budget needs.

Patricia Miller San Mateo Ed. note -The total budget for the Archdiocese of San Francisco for July 2004 through June of 2005 is $9,560,686. The agencies that are designated to receive support from the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal represent $6,399,000 of that amount. The remaining agencies and ministries are funded by income on investments, rentals and fees, and restricted gifts. Since the Annual Appeal will produce $5,237,100, the agencies designated to receive AAA funds must also receive funds from those other sources. AAA funds raised and earmarked for the work of specific agencies become restricted funds and may not be used in any way associated with settlement of sexual abuse claims.

Deacon John Norris Director of Development Archdiocese of San Francisco

Delightful reading I was delighted to find some columns worth reading in the January 14 Catholic San Francisco.

In addition for Fr. Ron Rolheiser’s about respecting differing Catholic points of view, Antoinette Bosco’s article on the Earth Charter was excellent and informative. It helps us realize that we, as Catholics, have a responsibility to one another and to the entire human family.

The Earth Charter, based on the U.N. General Assembly Declaration of Human Rights, spells out how to work for a just, sustainable and peaceful global society.

Too bad church leaders are not providing the dialogue to involve us in this work and to help us deal with the real issues facing our youth and our families in terms of an unjust war and lawless government.

Arthur Duffy San Rafael

January 28, 2005

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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK 2005 During the week of January 30 through February 5, 2005, we recognize the huge contribution Catholic Schools have made to our country and our Church. This week, we identify Catholic Schools: Faith in Every Student, as our mantra and our responsibility. Schools have planned a variety of activities and events during this week to celebrate the unique contribution they each make to their community. Nothing is more exciting or inspiring than spending time with students in our Catholic Schools as they take time to relish their traditions, their faith and the joy they experience as part of their Catholic school community.

If you have the opportunity to join in these weeklong celebrations, please do so. I am sure that you will agree that you had the time of your life. Taking advantage of the opportunity to share in the joy of our students, teachers, administrators and pastors will encourage and delight.

– Maureen Huntington

Archbishop William J. Levada presided at a Mass of Thanksgiving commemorating the 50th anniversary of St. Raymond Elementary School in Menlo Park on the Feast of St. Raymond, January 7. Concelebrants included Father Patrick Michaels, pastor, and parochial vicar, Father James Morris. The community welcomed song-leader, Laurie Hawkins, Archbishop Levada’s administrative assistant, who formerly served as cantor at the parish. Additional rites included the blessing of a renovated school courtyard. At right is St. Joseph Sister Ann Bernard, school principal.

I had the opportunity to be one of 106 participants who met at the American Airlines Conference Center in Dallas Jan. 13-17, 2005, for an interdepartmental planning convocation to draft a strategic plan for the National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA). NCEA is the largest private, professional education association in the world, representing more than 200,000 educators serving 7.6 million students in all levels of Catholic education.

The planning meeting was another major event in the association’s centennial observance, which began in 2004.

Prior to its centennial year, NCEA commissioned reflection papers by prominent Catholic educators. In 2003, dioceses and regional organizations conducted more than 100 meetings to collect comments from more than 15,000 Catholic educators. All of this material was available in January 2004 when a larger group of 250 participants met in Washington, D.C., to draft a strategic vision for the future of Catholic education in the United States.

That group drafted a vision statement that subsequently was ratified by members at the association’s annual convention in Boston in April. The vision statement contained three elements: ❖ Identity: How to proclaim and continue the Catholic identity of schools and religious education programs. ❖ Leadership: Where to seek and how to train the administrators, teachers and catechetical leaders of tomorrow. ❖ Engagement: How Catholic schools and programs interact with other segments of society.

The Dallas meeting focused on applying the strategies of the vision statement specifically to the mission and operations of NCEA through 2010.

According to NCEA President Michael J. Guerra, “When we speak of Catholic education, we speak of the hundreds of thousands of administrators, teachers, catechists and students involved in schools, parish religious education programs, diocesan offices, colleges and seminaries. Participants invited to the Dallas meeting represented all of those constituencies. They were invited specifically because NCEA values their long-term commitment to advancing all aspects of Catholic education. Their recommendations will provide direction as NCEA moves into its second century of service.”

Working through small-group discussions and plenary sessions, the group established goals, drafted strategies to achieve the goals and established measurable signs to know when the goals are achieved. Participants will have an opportunity to review and refine the strategic planning document before it is presented for the approval of the NCEA board of directors at the 2005 annual convention in Philadelphia in March.

Participating in a national discussion regarding Catholic Schools is both exciting and challenging. Many of the challenges faced by Catholic Schools nationally reflect our local challenges. In the Archdiocese of San Francisco, we have a number of excellent schools – educational institutions that are authentically Catholic and provide an outstanding academic program. The leadership in our schools and parishes contribute to the historical and current success of our Catholic Schools.

Ms. Maureen Huntington Superintendent of Catholic Schools

Students from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory make ready the way for items from a Thanksgiving Food Drive that were delivered for wider sharing to San Francisco Food Bank. Standing, from left, Justin Lam, Kristina Olney, Marika Stephens, Monica Lui, Jessica Mangundayao, Matt Szeto, Justine Vigil, Rachel Amato, Preston Jeung, Marie Obuhoff. Kneeling: Brendan Costello, Nora Werner.

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An annual fall event at Marin Catholic High School asks students to sacrifice a bit for the sake of others. “It is a day when we ask all students to give up lunch for a day and to donate $2 for a bowl of broth and a roll,” said the school’s Tim Navone.

“When students are feeling hungry later that day, we ask them to think of those without food and other basic needs around the world.” This year’s effort raised more than $350 for OXFAM, an international agency funding self-help, development and disaster relief projects in Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Carribean. Marin Catholic president, Father Thomas A. Daly, and seniors, Lauran Stempel (left) and Jessica Ghirardo were among the day’s servers.

MISSION STATEMENT Sixth graders from San Francisco’s St. Charles Borromeo School recently mopped up their Mission District neighborhood. Assisted by Notre Dame AmeriCorps volunteers, Paige Payton and Crystal Zapanta and school staffer, Rachel MacNeilly, the students showed no mercy for discarded paper, wrappers, bottle caps, and other litter. From left: Maria Ocon, Gretchel Miraflor, Bianca Paredes, Jaritza Martinez, Raquel Morales, Paige Payton, and Edgar Ocon. Also on the project were their classmates Josephine Alonzo, Bill Alvarenga, Jonathan Blanquera, Martha Cardona, Lose Laus, Jennifer Luna, Angel Meza, Abraham Olivar, Bianca Paredes, Oscar Sobrevilla, Francine Talapian.

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Many people are warmer these cold winter days thanks to the hard work and generous hearts of students from Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School in Daly City, who collected 500 coats in three days for the San Francisco Rescue Mission. “Now that is truly making a difference,” said Arlene Fifie, principal.

“I’m very proud of the students.” School parents, Armando Leigh, dad of 5th grader, Justin, and Joseph Espinueva, dad of 5th grader Jake, conceived the idea. Also assisting were Jannine Nelson, Parent Teacher Organization President and Daly City Fire Department Battalion Chief Steven Hawthorne.

Eighth graders Nea Ignacio, at left, Nick Nelson and Cassandra Hawthorne helped gather donations.

St. Philip School In the heart of Noe Valley

St. Philip School offers a great team of teachers who are dedicated to helping each child achieve their academic and spiritual goals.

Open House January 30, 2005 - 11 am to 1 pm

“Let the Learning Begin!”

665 Elizabeth St, at Diamond St. 415-824-8467

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80 Wellington Avenue Daly City 94014 (650) 755-4438 Fax: (650) 755-7366 e-mail: olphdc@yahoo.com www.olphdc.org – Call for school visit – Open House: Sat., Jan. 29 2:00–4:00 P.M.

7 Elmwood Drive Daly City 94015 (650) 756-3395 Fax: (650) 756-5872 www.olmcath.org e-mail: olmdc@yahoo.com Open House and Curriculum Fair Wed. February 2 7:00–9:00 P.M.

20 Reiner Street Colma 94014 (650) 755-0220 Fax: (650) 755-0258 www.holyangelscolma.com Open House: Sunday, February 6 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

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479 Miller Avenue So. San Francisco 94080 (650) 583-3562 Fax: (650) 952-1167 www.ssfallsouulsschool.org e-mail: allsoulsssf@yahoo.com Open House: Sunday, January 30 10:00 – 11:30 am

1040 Miller Avenue So. San Francisco 94080 (650) 588-8175 Fax: (650) 588-0426 www.materdolorosa.net e-mail: materdolorosa@covad.net Open House: Sunday, January 30 11:00 am – 1:30 pm

434 Alida Way So. San Francisco 94080 (650) 589-3909 Fax: (650) 589-2826 e-mail: stveronicaschool@yahoo.com Open House: Thursday, February 3 7:00 – 8:00 pm

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St. Dunstan Elementary School

909 Oceana Boulevard Pacifica 94044 (650) 359-4544 Fax: (650) 359-4558 www.goodshepherd-school.org e-mail: goodsheppac@hotmail.com Open House: Wednesday February 2 8:30 – 9:30 am

345 Oak Avenue San Bruno 94066 (650) 583-5065 Fax: (650) 583-1418 e-mail: stroberts@sanbrunocable.com – Call for school visit –

1150 Magnolia Avenue Millbrae 93030 (650) 697-8119 Fax: (650) 697-9295 www.st-dunstan.org Open House: Sunday, January 30 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

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4 Saint Anselm Elementary School 40 Belle Ave., San Anselmo 94960 (415) 454-8667 Fax: (415) 454-4730 Web Site: www.stanselmschool.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care 5 Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School 1181 Virginia Ave., Novato 94945 (415) 892-8621 Fax: (415) 892-9631 Web Site: www.ollnovato.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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16 Saint Charles Borromeo Elementary School 3250 18th St. 94110 (415) 861-7652 Fax: (415) 861-0221 Web Site: www.sfstcharlesschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

7 Our Lady of the Visitacion Elementary School 785 Sunnydale Ave. 94134 (415) 239-7840 Fax: (415) 239-2559 Web Site: www.olvisitacion.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

17 Sacred Heart – Saint Dominic School 2445 Pine St. 94115 (415) 346-9500 Fax: (415) 346-8001 Web Site: www.school.stdominics.org Grades: K-4, Extended Care

8 Sacred Heart – Saint Dominic School 735 Fell St. 94117 (415) 621-8035 Fax: (415) 861-7039 E-mail: sacredheart9@hotmail.com Grades: 5-8

18 Saint Elizabeth Elementary School 450 Somerset St. 94134 (415) 468-3247 / 48 Fax: (415) 468-1804 E-mail: saintelizabethschool@usa.net Grades: K-8, Extended Care 19 Saint Finn Barr Elementary School 419 Hearst Ave. 94112 (415) 333-1800 Fax: (415) 333-0177 Web Site: www.stfinnbarr.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

10 DeMarillac Middle School 175 Golden Gate Ave. 94102 (415) 552-5220 Fax: (415) 621-5632 Web Site: www.demarillac.org Grades: 6-8

20 Saint Gabriel Elementary School 2550 41st. Ave. 94116 (415) 566-0314 Fax: (415) 566-3223 Web Site: www.stgabrielsf.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

11 Stuart Hall For Boys Elementary School 2222 Broadway St. 94115 (415) 563-2900 Fax: (415) 292-3165 Web Site: www.sacred.sf.ca.us Grades: K-8, boys, Extended Care

21 Saint James Elementary School 321 Fair Oaks St. 94110 (415) 647-8972 Fax: (415) 647-0166 Web Site: www.saintjamessf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

12 Saint Anne Elementary School 1320 – 14th Ave. 94122 (415) 664-7977 Fax: (415) 661-6904 Web Site: www.stanne.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

22 Saint John Elementary School 925 Chenery St. 94131 (415) 584-8383 Fax: (415) 584-8359 Web Site: www.stjohnseagles.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

13 Saint Brendan Elementary School 234 Ulloa St. 94127 (415) 731-2665 Fax: (415) 731-7207 Web Site: www.stbrendansf.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

23 Saint Mary Chinese Day School 910 Broadway St. 94133 (415) 929-4690 Fax: (415) 929-4699 Web Site: www.stmaryschinese.org Grades: K-8

14 Saint Brigid Elementary School 2250 Franklin St. 94109 (415) 673-4523 Fax: (415) 674-4187 Web Site: www.saintbrigidsf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

24 Saint Monica Elementary School 5950 Geary Blvd. 94121 (415) 751-9564 Fax: (415) 751-0781 Web Site: www.stmonicasf.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

15 Saint Cecilia Elementary School 660 Vincente St. 94116 (415) 731-8400 Fax: (415) 731-5686 Web Site: www.StCeciliaSchool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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9 Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School 2222 Broadway St. 94115 (415) 292-3126 Fax: (415) 563-0438 Web Site: www.sacred.sf.ca.us Grades: K-8, Girls, Extended Care

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3 Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School 1560 40th Ave. 94122 (415) 731-4077 Fax: (415) 731-3328 Web Site: www.holynamesf.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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25 Saint Paul Elementary School 1690 Church St. 94131 Grades: K-8 (415) 648-2055 Fax: (415) 648-1920 Web Site: www.stpaulsf.net E-mail: stpaulsceltics@yahoo.com Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

27 Saints Peter and Paul Elementary School 660 Filbert St. 94133 (415) 421-5462 Web Site: www.stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us Grades: K-8, Extended Care 28 Saint Philip Elementary School 665 Elizabeth St. 94114 (415) 824-8467 Fax: (415) 282-5746 Web Site: www.saintphilipschool.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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30 Saint Thomas the Apostle Elementary School 3801 Balboa St. 94121 (415) 221-2711 Fax: (415) 221-8611 E-mail: stthomasapostlech@earthlink.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care 31 Saint Thomas More Elementary School 50 Thomas More Way 94132 (415) 337-0100 Web Site: www.StThomasMoreSchool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care 32 Saint Stephen Elementary School 401 Eucalyptus Dr. 94132 (415) 664-8331 Fax: (415) 242-5608 Web Site: www.st-stephen.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care 33 Star of the Sea Elementary School 360 9th Ave. 94118 (415) 221-8558 Fax: (415) 221-7118 E-mail: cgrewal@starsf.net Grades: K-8, Extended Care

14 Nativity Elementary School 1250 Laurel St., Menlo Park 94025 (650) 325-7304 Fax: (650) 325-3841 Web Site: www.nativityschool.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

5 Our Lady of Angels Elementary School 1328 Cabrillo Ave., Burlingame 94010 (650) 343-9200 Fax: (650) 343-5620 E-mail: angelsk8@olas.org Grades: PreK-8

15 Good Shepherd Elementary School 909 Oceana Blvd., Pacifica 94044 (650) 359-4544 Fax: (650) 359-4558 E-mail: goodsheppac@hotmail.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

6 Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School 80 Wellington Ave., Daly City 94014 (650) 755-4438 Fax: (650) 755-7366 E-mail: olphdc@yahoo.com Grades: K-8

16 Woodside Priory School 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley 94028 (650) 851-8221 Fax: (650) 851-2839 E-mail: strujillo@woodsidepriory.com Grades: 6-8

7 Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School 17 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary School 1000 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont 94002 301 Grant St., Redwood City 94062 (650) 593-4265 Fax: (650) 593-4342 (650) 366-6127 Fax: (650) 366-0902 E-mail: mcpbihm@hotmail.com Web Site: www.MountCarmel.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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8 Saint Catherine of Siena Elementary School 18 Saint Pius Elementary School 1300 Bayswater Ave., Burlingame 94010 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City 94061 (650) 344-7176 Fax: (650) 344-7426 (650) 368-8327 Fax: (650) 368-7031 E-mail: stcat@pacbell.net Web Site: stpiusschool.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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29 Saint Vincent de Paul Elementary School 2350 Green St. 94123 (415) 346-5505 Fax: (415) 346-0970 E-mail: svdp@svdpsf.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

4 Notre Dame Elementary School 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont 94002 (650) 591-2209 Fax: (650) 591-4798 Web Site: www.nde.org Grades: 1-8

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9 Holy Angels Elementary School 20 Reiner St., Colma 94014 (650) 755-0220 Fax: (650) 755-0258 Web Site: www.holyangelscolma.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

19 Saint Charles Elementary School 850 Tamarack Ave., San Carlos 94070 (650) 593-1629 Fax: (650) 593-9723 E-mail: stcharlesschoolsc@stcharlesschoolsc.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

10 Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School 7 Elmwood Dr., Daly City 94015 (650) 756-3395 Fax: (650) 756-5872 Web Site: www.olmcath.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

20 Saint Gregory Elementary School 2701 Hacienda St., San Mateo 94403 (650) 573-0111 Fax: (650) 573-6548 Web Site: www.stgregs-sanmateo.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

1 All Souls Elementary School 479 Miller Ave., So. San Francisco 94080 (650) 583-3562 Fax: (650) 952-1167 Web Site: www.ssfallsoulsschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

11 Saint Joseph Elementary School 50 Emilie Ave., Atherton 94027 (650) 322-9931 (MAIN #) Fax: (650) 322-7656 Web Site: www.shschools.org Grades: PreK-8, Extended Care

21 Saint Matthew Elementary School 910 South El Camino Real, San Mateo 94402 (650) 343-1373 Fax: (650) 343-2046 E-mail: kprincipal@aol.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

2 Mater Dolorosa Elementary School 1040 Miller Ave., So. San Francisco 94080 (415) 588-8175 Fax: (415) 588-0426 E-mail: materdolorosa@covad.net Grades: K-8, Extended Care

12 Saint Raymond Elementary School 1211 Arbor Rd., Menlo Park 94025 (650) 322-2312 Fax: (650) 322-2910 Web Site: www.straymond.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

22 Saint Timothy Elementary School 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo 94401 (650) 342-6567 Fax: (650) 342-5913 Web Site: www.sttimothyschool.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

3 Saint Veronica Elementary School 434 Alida Way, So. San Francisco 94080 (650) 589-3909 Fax: (650) 589-2826 E-mail: stveronicaschool@yahoo.com Grades: K-8, Extended Care

13 Saint Dunstan Elementary School 1150 Magnolia Ave., Millbrae 94030 (650) 697-8119 Fax: (650) 697-9295 Web Site: www.st-dunstan.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

23 Saint Robert Elementary School 345 Oak Ave., San Bruno 94066 (650) 583-5065 Fax: (650) 583-1418 Web Site: www.saintroberts.org Grades: K-8, Extended Care

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The Girls Athletic Association of Mercy High School, Burlingame is an advisory council to the school Athletics Department. Back from left: Athletic Director Meave Fallon, Rhonda Sheen, Kelly Gorrell, Meghan Denton. Front from left: Geraldine Posadas, Janine Waddell, Ella Khan, Katey Cavanaugh.

Congratulations to Good Shepherd School eighth graders, Rosaleen Folan, Connor Ahlbach and Marisol Terrazas on their earning first, second and finalist spots in the annual St. Thomas More Essay Competition sponsored by the St. Thomas More Society of San Francisco. More than 340 essays were entered by students representing18 schools. Rosaleen and Connor received $500 and $300 for their winning words with like amounts going to the school. From left: Marisol, Language Arts Teacher Julie Cotter; principal Patricia Volan, Rosaleen and Connor.

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The spirit of the season permeates an annual Caroling Fest that sends students at Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School home for the Christmas holiday. From left, Julia Roehl Addy Altholz, Grace Fish, Megan Quinn, Caroline Ferguson-Dryden. The Sacred Heart schools community also includes Convent of the Sacred Heart High School, Stuart Hall for Boys, and Stuart Hall High School.

Honored scribes are Jack Kamm, Melody Pak and Joey Armao, juniors at St. Ignatius College Preparatory. The three have been named winners in an annual writing contest sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. In all, 2,500 students from across the nation submitted essays they wrote for English class as well as essays based on an impromptu topic. Approximately 700 entrants received the highest recognition.

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Primary Campus K to 4: Emphasis is placed on the foundation of education Intermediate Campus 5 to 8: Intensive High School Preparatory Program Extended Academic Day at Both Campuses: 20% increased instructional time Value Based Education and Community Based Service Learning Catholic Education and Weekly Liturgies Championship Sports Program Music Classes, Theatre Arts program, and Latin Language Classes Student-run Government and Newspaper Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, Social and School Spirit Events

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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK Principals speak on Catholic education I feel lucky and blessed to have a job I absolutely love - being the principal of St. Stephen School. The community is supportive and our students are truly wonderful.

Sharon McCarthy Allen St. Stephen School, San Francisco It is wonderful to be involved in the early formation of young people. You can almost see the gifts developing as they move through the grades on to the next step of their education.

Sr. M. Pauline Borghello, R.S.M. St. Gabriel School, San Francisco St. Mary’s Chinese Day School offers me the opportunity to blend my experience of 38 years as an educator and religious educator. I am privileged to administer an educational program designed to prepare students to live values and learning expectations by offering opportunities to: ● Inculturate Chinese traditional ethnic and cultural values in light of the Gospel; ● Stand firm in view of conflicting ideologies; and ● Exhibit compassion and service.

Jerome F. DiNoto, Ph.D. St. Mary’s Chinese Day School, San Francisco I am blessed to be leading St. Joseph’s School of the Sacred Heart - not just because it is a very special school with a clear mission articulated by the RSCJ (Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus), but because I attended this school for Preschool, Elementary and High School. I have the rare opportunity to work with those who taught me - what a gift!

Karen E. Eshoo St. Joseph’s School of the Sacred Heart, Atherton It has been my privilege over the years to watch “my” children grow in faith and knowledge, move on, then come back to enroll their children in their alma mater.

Arlene Fife Our Lady of Mercy School, Daly City It has been a privilege and joy to have been involved in Catholic education in a variety of schools for the past thirty years.

As Principal at Notre Dame High School, Belmont my mandate is clear: excellent Catholic college preparatory education for young women; incorporation of Catholic teachings and values throughout all of our programs; and daily cultivation of a nurturing Christian environment for all of our wonderful students.

Rita Gleason Notre Dame High School, Belmont

I feel Catholic schools influence students to become dynamic agents of change in society in the areas of social and racial justice, human dignity, and peace. Students are formed by values that call all to lead God centered lives.

Catholic schools exemplify a strong sense of family and embrace wonderful, dedicated, and committed Catholic school personnel. I feel privileged to have been chosen by God to minister in Catholic schools.

Dr. Eileen Gorman All Souls School, South San Francisco As principal, I have promised the community at Star of the Sea School, to do my best to provide the most positive and caring school environment possible so that our teachers can teach and our students can fulfill their potential for spiritual, academic and personal growth.

Carol Grewal Star of the Sea School, San Francisco I am a Catholic school principal because this ministry allows wonderful opportunities to: ● Stretch the minds and spirits of children; ● Ask that all in our community of faith and learning focus on what is essential; ● Invite young people — and sometimes older people, too — to deepen their relationship with God; ● Celebrate the abundant diversity of gifts sent our way by our loving and creating God. Sr. Carolyn Marie Monahan, OP Saint Anthony-Immaculate Conception, San Francisco Working with our wonderful, multicultural St. Timothy School family is truly a blessing. Visiting the classrooms, helping to lead the singing at monthly school liturgies, and snapping photos of the students’ activities for our annual yearbook allows me to interact with the children beyond my administrative tasks.

I am grateful for our dedicated staff and supportive school parents.

Evelyn M. Nordberg St. Timothy School, San Mateo

Sr. M. Pauline Borghello, R.S.M.

Jerome F. DiNoto, Ph.D.

Arlene Fife

Rita Gleason

Dr. Eileen Gorman

Carol Grewal

Marilyn Porto

Don Ritchie

Jeanette T. Swain

Patricia Volan

Tom White

The ministry of Catholic education gives me the opportunity to share my own experience of a faith filled environment.

Dr. Margaret Purcell-Brisken Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Belmont The opportunity to serve the Marin Catholic community as principal comes after spending most of my life in Catholic schools as a student, administrator and teacher. I

look forward to the challenges and rewards.

Don Ritchie Marin Catholic High School, Kentfield To have the opportunity to teach and to administer is to live the Gospel each day.

Surrounded by a vibrant, faith community endeavoring to fulfill the call to serve is a joy. I am grateful.

Jeanette T. Swain Mater Dolorosa, South San Francisco PRINCIPALS, page 11CS

I am very blessed to have been welcomed into the loving and supportive community at Saint Rita School and Parish! I value the opportunity to be involved in the spiritual and academic growth of these children and the community as a whole.

Marilyn Porto Saint Rita School, Fairfax

Open House Mission Dolores School 3371–16th Street San Francisco, CA 94114 Sunday, January 30, 2005 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Currently accepting applications for Grades K-8 for the 2005 - 2006 school year.

Please come and get acquainted with our school program.

For more information, please call 415-861-7673

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Saints Peter and Paul Salesian School 660 Filbert Street San Francisco, CA 94133 (415) 421-5219 ❖ fax (415) 421-1831 www.stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us

“Education is a matter of the heart.”

Come to our Open House!

Sunday, January 30, 2005 10:00 a.m. to Noon

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Catholic Schools Week

January 28, 2005

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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK Catholic School Highlights 2004 – 2005 There are 8,102 Catholic schools in the United States.

Elementary: 6,707 Secondary: 1,114 Combined: 282 Total Catholic school student enrollment in the U.S. for 2004-2005 is 2,548,710.

Elementary: 1,810,329 Secondary: 616,195 Combined: 122,187 Catholic schools in the U.S. employ 163,374 professional staff.

Lay women: 74.6 percent Lay men: 19.8 percent Women Religious: 4.2 percent Priests and Brothers: 1.4 percent

Catholic school enrollment in the Archdiocese of San Francisco is 27,022.

Elementary: 18,613 Secondary: 8,409 There are 61 elementary and 14 secondary Catholic schools in the Archdiocese.

Non-Catholic enrollment is 23 percent in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Minority enrollment is 55 percent in elementary schools of the Archdiocese and 45 percent in secondary schools.

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Patricia Volan Good Shepherd School, Pacifica The dedication and commitment of our school staffs and parents allow us to offer students a dynamic, challenging, and caring Catholic education. Thank you, one and all!

Tom White St. Anne School, San Francisco

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THE CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS OF SOUTHERN SAN MATEO COUNTY WELCOME YOU! BURLINGAME Our Lady of Angels • Gr. K-8 1328 Cabrillo Avenue, Burlingame (650) 343-9200 • Fax (650) 343-5620 E-mail: angelsk8@olaschoolk8.org Tours by appointment

St. Gregory • Gr. K-8 2701 Hacienda Street, San Mateo (650) 573-0111• Fax (650) 573-6548 E-mail: lgrund@stgregs-sanmateo.org Open House: February 3 • 7 - 8:30pm

SAN MATEO St. Matthew • Gr. K-8 910 S. El Camino Real, San Mateo (650) 343-1373 • Fax (650) 343-2046 Website: stmatthewcath.org Open House: February 3 • 7pm Tours by appointment

St. Catherine of Siena • Gr. K-8 1300 Bayswater Avenue, Burlingame (650) 344-7176 • Fax (650)344-7426 E-mail: office@stcatherineofsiena.net Open House: January 30• 10am-1pm Tours by appointment

St. Timothy • Gr. K-8 1515 Dolan Avenue, San Mateo (650) 342-6567 • Fax (650) 342-5913 Website: www.sttimothyschool.org Open House: February 2 • 7 - 8:30pm Tours by appt. - K Testing in February

BELMONT Immaculate Heart of Mary • Gr. K-8 1000 Alameda de Las Pulgas, Belmont (650) 593-4265 • Fax (650) 650-593-4342

SAN CARLOS St. Charles • Gr. K-8 850 Tamarack Avenue, San Carlos (650) 593-1629 • Fax (650) 593-9723 Website:scharlesschoolsc.org Open House: February 3 • 7pm Tours by appointment

Please Call Archdiocese of San Francisco Fr. Tom Daly 415-614-5683

Asians are the largest ethnic minority group in San Mateo and San Francisco, while Hispanics are the largest minority group in Marin. Elementary minority enrollment is: San Francisco: 71 percent San Mateo: 44 percent Marin: 16 percent Students enrolled in Catholic schools in the City of San Francisco alone save the public school system $112,437,088 each year based on published 2002-2003 per pupil expenditures in San Francisco Unified School District.

Notre Dame Elementary • Gr. 1-8 1200 Notre Dame Avenue, Belmont (650) 591-2209 • Fax (650)591-4798 Website: www.nde.org Weekly tour Testing - March 19th

REDWOOD CITY Our Lady of Mount Carmel • Gr. K-8 St. Pius • Gr. K-8 301 Grand Street, Redwood City 1100 Woodside Road, Redwood City (650) 366-6127 • Fax (650) 366-0902 (650) 368-8327 • Fax (650) 368-7031 E-mail: schoolinfo@mountcarmel.org Website: saintpiusschool.com Open House:January 30 •10am-12:30pm Open House: January 30 •10:30am-12pm Tours by appointment Tours by appointment MENLO PARK

Nativity • Gr. K-8 1250 Laurel Street, Menlo Park (650) 325-7304 • Fax (650) 325-3841 Website: www.nativityschool.com Open House: January 30 • 11am-1pm Tours by appointment

St. Raymond • Gr. K-8 1211 Arbor Road, Menlo Park (650) 322-2312 • Fax (650) 322-2910 Website: www.straymond.org Open House: January 30 • 11am-1pm

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January 28, 2005

A CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE! ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●

Challenging college preparatory curriculum with over 98% continuing on to college Education which provides ethical and moral foundation of Christian values Education which addresses personal growth of the whole person Education in a supportive family atmosphere Education for service, justice and peace Athletic programs affording a wide range of team and individual participation Programs which foster leadership in community service Dedicated faculty, staff and administrators committed to Catholic education Variety of extra curricular activities provide opportunity for individual interests

All schools are committed to serving children who desire an excellent Catholic education. Substantial scholarship and financial aid programs for students and families who qualify are available.

A Catholic high school can make all the difference in your child’s teenage years and for the rest of their lives!

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL 175 Phelan Avenue San Francisco, CA 94112 (415) 586-1256 Web Site: www.riordanhs.org

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL 1540 Ralston Avenue Belmont, CA 94002 (650) 595-1913 Web Site: www.ndhsb.org

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL 2222 Broadway Street San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 292-3125 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org

SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY 1055 Ellis Street San Francisco, CA 94109-7795 (415) 775-6626 Web Site: www.shcp.edu

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY 3625 - 24th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 (415) 824-2052 Web Site: www.icacademy.org

SACRED HEART PREP HIGH SCHOOL 150 Valparaiso Avenue Atherton, CA 94027 (650) 322-1866 Web Site: www.shschools.org

JUNÍPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL 451 West 20th Avenue San Mateo, CA 94403 (650) 345-8207 Web Site: www.serrahs.com

SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL 1500 Butterfield Road San Anselmo, CA 94960 (415) 258-1905 Web Site: www.sandomenico.org

MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL 675 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard Kentfield, CA 94904 (415) 464-3800 Web Site: www.marincatholic.org

ST. IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY 2001 - 37th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94116 (415) 731-7500 Web Site: www.siprep.org

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL – BURLINGAME 2750 Adeline Drive Burlingame, CA 94010 (650) 343-3631 Web Site: www.mercyhsb.com

STUART HALL HIGH SCHOOL 1715 Octavia St. (at Pine) San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 345-5812 Web Site: www.sacredsf.org

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL – SAN FRANCISCO 3250 – 19th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 (415) 334-0525 Web Site: www.mercyhs.org

WOODSIDE PRIORY SCHOOL 302 Portola Road Portola Valley, CA 94028 (650) 851-8221 Web Site: www.WoodsidePriory.com

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL SCHOOLS CELEBRATING CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK!

January 28, 2005

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The Catholic Difference Of the 19,500 Catholic parishes in the United States, it’s a safe bet that none had a more spectacular aesthetic renovation last year than Our Saviour’s Church at Park Avenue and 38th Street in midtown Manhattan. That’s why I’ve chosen Our Saviour’s as the first in what I hope will be an occasional tour, in this column, of Catholic “great places.”

Our Saviour’s was chartered in 1955 and completed in 1959. One clerical legend has it that the late Cardinal Spellman wanted a Park Avenue church to rival the Anglican’s St. Thomas, which boasts perhaps the most magnificent stone reredos in America; another New York tale says that “Spelly” resented the fact that the only Park Avenue church was in the hands of the Jesuits. Whatever the truth of the matter, Our Saviour’s became, sadly, the archdiocesan great white elephant.

Debts mounted, bills went unpaid, the fabric started to erode, and some began to wonder whether the church shouldn’t be abandoned despite its prime location – four blocks south of Grand Central Station in the middle of the capital of the world.

Then, six days after 9/11, a man with no small plans came to Our Saviour’s as pastor: Father George Rutler – convert from Anglicanism, graduate of Dartmouth, the Pontifical Gregorian University, and Rome’s Angelicum, EWTN personality, and one of the wittiest correspondents in the universal Church. What had been a parish of midtown daytime transients and weekend dowagers quickly began to attract flocks of twenty- and thirty-year olds. Children were once a rare

sight at Our Saviour’s in the past; last year, fifty-two baptisms and almost fifty weddings were celebrated there. The parish had never produced priestly vocations; it now has more seminarians than any other in the archdiocese. Substantial funds were raised to cover overdue structural renovations and the parish, long beset by deficit budgeting, was put into the black.

But Father Rutler wasn’t through. At the Metropolitan Museum, he had seen a medieval reproduction of an icon of the Christos Pantokrator, Christ the Universal King – and it occurred to him that Our Saviour’s would benefit by something like it. But not just any something. For what Father Rutler commissioned, and what has now been sensationally completed by an Irishman and a Korean (converted by Father Rutler, of course), is a twenty-four foot tall Christos Pantokrator based on the great icon of that style at St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mt. Sinai. What I once wrote of the St. Catherine’s icon is just as true, now, of the luminous apse of Our Saviour’s, Park Avenue: “The Christos Pantokrator is an image of Christ in a typical iconographic pose, full-face toward us, the Lord’s head surrounded by a golden corona or halo, his left arm clutching a jeweled Bible to himself (the Word of God, the Second Person of the Trinity, holding the Word of God, the Holy Scripture), his right hand raised in a gesture that is both greeting and blessing, the thumb and ring finger touching (in acknowledgment of the two natures united in the one person of Christ), the index and middle fingers crossed (in acknowledgment of the instrument of

salvation). The colors are impressively rich: gold and ivory, lavender and vermillion. But it is the Holy Face – majestic, calm, strikingly masculine – that draws us into the icon and into an encounter with the Lord George Weigel himself.

“It is one face, for Christ is one. Yet the iconographer, by painting a face with two subtly different expressions, has drawn us into the mystery of God Incarnate, the Son of God come in the flesh. For all its humanity, we see – perhaps better, we sense – that, while this is a truly human face, it’s unlike any face we’ve seen before. He is in time, in one dimension of his face, but beyond time, in another. He is like every other human person, i.e., a person of time and space and history; but he is also transcendent, eternal. We meet him in his humanity; he draws us into his divinity.”

The white elephant of Park Avenue has become a vibrant center of Catholicism and an embodiment of the unity of truth and beauty.

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

Family Life

Getting out of pigeonholes In Jeremiah 1:5 the Lord says, “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.” In most households family members can be quick to add: “And now I live with you, so I know you even better. You’re the ...”

Smart one. Handsome one. Athletic one. (Those don’t sound so bad.)

Not-so-smart one. Plain one. Klutzy one. (Those don’t sound so good.)

It’s amazing — but not really surprising — that the negative labels we’re given as children are the ones we often cling to as adults. Sometimes they’re the ones we continue to spot (or hunt for!) in ourselves, even though most evidence is to the contrary. And to be fair here, those tags can also be the ones that family members are quick to hang on us again, years later, when everyone gets together.

A family doesn’t hold up a mirror and say, “This is you.” It paints a portrait (sometimes with quite a bit of interpretation), holds it up and says, “This is you.” Not, “This is what you look like” or “This is what you act like” or “This is how I see you.” No. “This. Is. You.” Yes, you may be thinking as you read this, my family of

origin does do that sometimes. But, of course, family isn’t just “they.” Part of that family is “you.” At times you’ve been pigeonholed. At times, you’ve been the pigeonholer.

As children and adolescents, we all do a lot of mean, spiteful, power-grabbing things to our siblings because we are children and adolescents. What’s sad is when that behavior — or a more subtle form of it — continues into adulthood.

Just as you’re not exactly the same as you were when you were 5, neither is your sister the same as she was at 10 or your brother as he was at 15. Your mother now is not identical to your mother of 20 or 30 years ago. Your father is not the exact same person he was then.

You’ve changed. They’ve changed. Like the maturing young Jesus, you’ve each — in different ways — grown in wisdom, age and grace. But as we know from Matthew 13:55, even Christ was pigeonholed. After he began his public ministry, some of the locals couldn’t help commenting: “Wait a minute. He’s the carpenter’s son.”

REALISTICALLY ENCOURAGING YOUR CHILD Of course you want to encourage your child. Of course

you’ll slip at times and make a negative comment, or offer a needed criticism or correction that comes off just a bit too strong. Two suggestions: —Apologize when you come on too strong.

Bill and Monica (Forgive yourself too.)

Dodds —Avoid puffing up your child with unrealistic praise. A child who hears nothing but “You’re perfect” is likely to start believing it. And — no offense, Mom and Dad — she isn’t. Then, too, a child who never receives an honest, loving correction and assessment by a parent may crumble when he’s handed one by a teacher or coach.

Bill and Monica Dodds are the editors of “My Daily Visitor” magazine.

Spirituality

Honouring Jacques Dupuis On December 28, 2005, Jacques Dupuis, a Belgian Jesuit and a professor-emeritus at the Gregorian University in Rome, died at age 81.

Jacques Dupuis was not an ecclesial, household name, such as Barth, Rahner, or Tillich. That doesn’t diminish his importance. We live in a world wherein the question of interreligious dialogue, the relationship of the major world religions to each other, is not just a question of religion but of survival and, among Christian theologians on this issue, perhaps none are more important, or more balanced, than Jacques Dupuis.

In his “The Word From Rome” (January 7, 2005) John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter does what Eliade suggests; he properly honours a death within the family. He gives us an insight into the theologian and the man that was Jacques Dupuis, detailing too, a little, both his struggles with the Vatican and the special gift that he was for the Christian community. I heartily recommend Allen’s piece.

The question that Dupuis tried to address and which became his life’s work is very critical today: How do the major religions of the world interrelate? More specifically for us as Christians, how do we bring together our belief that there is one God who has created all people equally, plays no favourites, and wills the salvation of everyone, and yet has somehow made Jesus Christ the saviour of all?

Dupuis’ greatness lay in his fidelity to both poles of this tension. He was always a traditional Christian who believed in the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, even as he affirmed (in the face of much opposition) the non-negotiable fact that God loves everyone equally and that salva-

tion is never a matter of privilege, chance, or of simply belonging to the right or wrong religious family.

His last book, Christianity and the Religions, From Confrontation to Dialogue, might well serve as the Christian compass in this area. He articulates both how far Christianity can go and how far it must go in understanding the relationship of Jesus Christ to other religions - and he ends up too liberal for the conservatives and too conservative of the liberals.

For him, there is salvation outside of historical Christianity and the great world religions are more than simple natural theologies. In ways that we don’t understand, they are also paths to salvation, instruments of divine revelation. Yet he is clear too that not all religions are equal and Christianity is not just another path, among others, to salvation. Jesus Christ is unique and somehow normative in his revelation of God. Here’s a sample, a taste, of his own language: “He [Jesus] would not have liked his name invoked against founders and believers of other religious faiths. ... [Jesus] recognized the positive value in God’s eyes of the religious experience of others and of the religious traditions in which they lived their faith in the God of the Reign and of life.”

Historical Christianity, he states, is not the Kingdom of God, but an instrument that serves the Kingdom: “As the ministry of Jesus demonstrated, the Reign of God goes beyond all human boundaries of any kind: ethnic, national, religious. ... It has in fact been suggested that there is only one beatitude, namely, that of poverty, of simplicity of gaze, of openness to God’s will, of personal availability to the God of the Reign and to other human beings. This beatitude is attainable by all people of goodwill.”

Statements like this upset conservative critics, though

liberal critics were likewise distressed by his stubborn refusal to back away from Christ’s claim that he, alone, is “the way, the truth, and the light.” He refused to reduce the tension inherent in respecting a Father great mystery.

Ron Rolheiser That left him ecclesially lonely, a loneliness that, given his gentle nature, wore heavily on him.

I had the privilege of getting to know him somewhat during his last years. He was a friend and mentor that we, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, leaned on to help us sort through some of our own struggles in this area. He was always available, always gracious, and always radiated a big heart and a keen intellect.

A couple of years ago, he joined us in Thailand for a symposium on world religions. When the meeting ended, he left for the airport, by taxi, at 6:00 am, with a couple of my Oblate confreres. They rode along in silence, as befitted the early hour, until Dupuis, in the front seat, turned to my Oblate confreres in the back and asked: “Isn’t anyone going to talk?” That was also his plea concerning the fearful silence that has for so long surrounded the question of inter-religious dialogue.

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

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Catholic San Francisco

January 28, 2005

FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Scripture

Zephaniah 2:3, 3:13-13; Psalm 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10; 1 Corinthians 1:26-31; Matthew 5:1-12a A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ZEPHANIAH (ZEP 2:3; 3:12-13) Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth, who have observed his law; seek justice, seek humility; perhaps you may be sheltered on the day of the Lord’s anger.

But I will leave as a remnant in your midst a people humble and lowly, who shall take refuge in the name of the Lord: the remnant of Israel.

They shall do no wrong and speak no lies; nor shall there be found in their mouths a deceitful tongue; they shall pasture and couch their flocks with none to disturb them.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10) R. Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs! or: R. Alleluia.

The Lord keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry.

The Lord sets captives free.

R. Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

The Lord gives sight to the blind; the Lord raises up those who were bowed down.

The Lord loves the just; the Lord protects strangers.

R. Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

The fatherless and the widow the Lord sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts.

The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations.

Alleluia.

R. Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS (1 COR 1:26-31) Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters. Not many of you were wise by human standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth.

Rather, God chose the foolish of the world to shame the wise, and God chose the weak of the world to shame the strong, and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something, so that no human being might boast before God. It is due to him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, as well as righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, so that, as it is written, “Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord.”

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (MT 5:1-12A) When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up the mountain, and after he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

He began to teach them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me.

Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.”

Blessed are the peacemakers

By Jim Forest Following is an excerpt from an article

by Jim Forest, secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship, on the beatitudes in which he describes them as rungs on the ladder of progress to communion with God. The seventh rung — “Blessed are the peacemakers.” Only after ascending the first six rungs of the ladder of the Beatitudes can we talk about the Beatitude of the peacemaker, for only a person with a pure heart can help, in God’s mercy, to rebuild broken bridges and pull down walls, to help us recover our lost unity. The maker of peace must be a person who seeks nothing for himself, not even recognition. Such a person does not even regard his actions as “good deeds.” They simply are the consequence of having been drawn more deeply into God’s love. Because of this, such a person cannot help but see others, even the most unpleasant or dangerous person, as a child of God, someone beloved of God, someone made in the image of God even if the likeness is presently very damaged or completely lost. Think of the teaching of St. Sergius of Radonezh: “Contemplation of the Holy Trinity destroys all discord.”

How desperately we need such people!

We need them not only in places where wars are being fought or might be fought, but we

need them within the church and within each parish. Even the best and most vital parishes often suffer from deep divisions. And who is the peacemaker who is needed? It is each of us. Often it is harder to forgive and understand someone in our own parish than an abstract enemy we see mainly in propaganda images on television. See can see within our Orthodox Church that we don’t simply disagree with each other on many topics but that often we despise those who hold an opposing view. In the name of Christ, who commanded us to love one another, we engage in wars of words. Far from loving our opponent, we don’t even respect him.

But without mercy and forgiveness, without love, I am no longer in communion either with my neighbor or with Christ.

At the deepest level, the peacemaker is a person being used by God to help heal our relationship with God, for we get no closer to God than we get to our neighbor. As we know from the Parable of the Good Samaritan, our neighbor doesn’t just refer to the person next door of the same nationality but even more to the person regarded as “different” and a “threat.” St. Silouan of the Holy Mountain taught that love of enemies is not simply an aspect of Christian life but is “the central criterion of true faith and of real communion with God, the lover of souls, the lover of humankind.”

BISHOP ROBERT F. MORNEAU

The Beatitudes’ Promises Who are the happy, fortunate, blessed people? What is the source of human happiness?

One of the most important and paradoxical sections in all Scripture is the vision of happiness Jesus gives in his Sermon on the Mount.

In the Gospels of Matthew (5:3-10) and Luke (6:20-26), Jesus proclaims what blessedness is and makes promises to those who follow his proclamation. The blessed, the happy, the fortunate, he tells us, are the poor in spirit, those who mourn and are merciful, those who seek righteousness and peace, the ones pure in heart, the persecuted. The promise that awaits them is God’s kingdom!

The Greek word makarios means “blessed” or “happy,” which implies a certain freedom from anxieties and worries. In Matthew’s Gospel the notion of beatitudes conveys deep joy flowing from the grace of salvation and the promise of God’s kingdom. The blessed and “successful” people are those who put on Jesus’ mind and heart.

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” In our more honest moments, we recognize our profound neediness, our intellectual limitations, our spiritual inadequacy, our moral failures. In our helplessness, we turn to God. Our response of gratitude and trust, itself a grace, means that the kingdom of heaven is ours.

“Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.” The journey of life involves having our heart broken time and time again. Sometimes this is due to our own sin, sometimes because of the cruelty of others. Jesus reminds us that the truth does set us free. Those who are honest about their sorrows and sins will gain the consolation of the Lord. They will be comforted and will be given the gift of courage.

“Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land.” God seems to be vulnerable to those who are humble and lowly. These meek individuals place themselves under the Lordship of Jesus, striving to emulate him in obedience and submission to whatever is sent their way. But the meek know that God is ultimately in control, and they are about doing the divine will. The great inheritance that will be given is peace. This is not an earthly inheritance but one that is everlasting.

“Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.”

We all have longings: for meaning, for inti“The Sermon on the Mount” by Alexandre Bida from an illustrated Bible published in New York, 1874.

macy, for depth. But one of the deepest is for justice—where relationships and life are properly ordered. Only when rights are protected and promoted, only when we fulfill our obligations to God and to one another will we have this hunger and thirst satisfied.

“Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.” If we give mercy, we shall get mercy. God has been merciful to us, and we are to pass the gift on to others.

A merciless Christian is a contradiction in terms. Mercy is love in the face of sin and injury. Mercy is the presence of Jesus in a wounded and fractured world.

“Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God.” The pure of heart are those who are not defiled and polluted by values and attitudes that take us away from God. We know that our seeing is dependent upon the condition of our hearts. If pure, we shall see the glory of God and our own as well as others’ dignity.

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” God’s peace is the rightness of relationships.

Peace embraces four satellites: truth, charity, freedom and justice. Peacemakers are instruments of all four of these graces.

When that work is done well, they know themselves to be blessed because they are truly sons and daughters of God. “Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” This Beatitude shows how radical the message of Jesus is: that persecution and happiness go together.

The true Christian longs to share fully in the life of Jesus: his life, suffering, death and resurrection. This is the gateway into the kingdom of heaven.

The mission of Jesus was to take people from the mysteries of sin and death into the happiness of heaven. The Beatitudes describe his vision and chart the paths to make that journey. In the end, it is all the work of the Holy Spirit.

Robert F. Morneau is auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin.

He is the author of numerous books, including Paths to Prayer (St. Anthony Messenger Press) and two children’s books, The Gift and A Tale from Paleface Creek (Paulist Press).

January 28, 2005

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Year of the Eucharist

To pray as Jesus did Jesus did not start a brand new religion. He and His disciples were all Jews, and Jewish patterns of prayer became the basis for worship even when the Gospel had spread beyond Judea and the majority of believers were of Gentile origin. Our celebration of the Eucharist is shaped by the patterns of Jesus’ prayer.

At the time of Jesus, the Jewish people had three places for prayer: the Temple, the synagogue, and the family table.

It is hard for us to appreciate the significance of the Temple, because we have no equivalent Christian site.

There was only one Temple, and devout Jews journeyed there for the principal feasts of the year: Passover, Pentecost and Booths. We know from the Gospels that Jesus went to the Temple for these feasts. Jews who lived at a great distance from Judea would try to come for Passover at least once in their lives. (This explains the numbers of people speaking different languages who were present in Jerusalem at Pentecost.)

Along with annual major feasts, there were daily sacrifices offered in the Temple by the priests. The Temple was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70, and has never been rebuilt. The followers of Jesus interpreted this as a sign that the sacrifice offered by Jesus on the cross was the one perfect sacrifice, and so the worship offered in the Temple was no longer needed; the Letter to the Hebrews bears witness to this conviction. Christ’s sacrificial self-offering fulfilled

the liturgical rites of the Temple, and His sacrifice is offered up now, not in one place, but wherever Christians celebrate the Eucharist.

The second locus for Jewish worship is one with which we are still familiar: the synagogue. Even before the destruction of the Temple, this was the primary religious meeting place for Jews living outside Judea, and since the destruction of the Temple it has been the main communal center of worship for all Jews.

The service in the synagogue consists of psalms, readings from Scripture, a homily and intercessory prayers. We know that Jesus regularly attended the synagogue, and Luke’s Gospel relates a homily given by Jesus in His home town of Nazareth (Lk 4:16-30). When Paul visited different communities to preach the Gospel, he always went first to the synagogue.

The first part of our Mass, the Liturgy of the Word, follows the structure of the Jewish synagogue service. We praise God with psalms, listen to His word and reflect on its meaning in our lives, and offer prayers of intercession for our needs and the needs of the whole world.

The final center of Jewish worship, and in some ways the most important, is the family dinner table. In many ways the Jewish faith is a family religion, and it is this aspect which has helped it survive the destruction of the Temple and the persecutions they have experienced – often at the hands of Christians, to our shame – over the past two

thousand years. Even without Temple or synagogue, the Jews have been able to pass on their faith through the weekly Sabbath meal and the annual Passover feast in the home.

We have a reminder of the Sabbath meal in the Mass: the prayers said by the priest when the bread and wine are placed on the altar are taken from the blessings offered in the Jewish home. On the Passover, the meal takes on a much more solemn religious character, as symbolic foods are eaten and the story of the Exodus is retold. Those participating in the Passover Meal do not simply remember the Exodus, they take part in it.

Our Liturgy of the Eucharist is shaped by this Passover celebration. For us, it is not the story of the Exodus which is told, but the “Passover” of Jesus from death to life, our deliverance from the slavery of sin and death into the Promised Land of eternal life. The altar is the family table of the Christian faithful. In the Eucharist we are privileged to pray in the same way Jesus did: singing the psalms He sang, hearing the Scriptures as He did, sharing in the Passover Feast He celebrated with His first followers.

Part of a series presented by the Liturgical Commission of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Washington Letter

Debate heats up over abortion litmus test for judiWASHINGTON (CNS) — As concern about present and future appointments to the Supreme Court and other federal courts nears fever pitch among organizations working to assure that Roe vs. Wade remains the law of the land, the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities is taking a more measured approach.

“We’re a church, not a political organization,” said Gail Quinn, director of the bishops’ pro-life secretariat.

“We do not support or oppose nominees. That’s not our role.”

The committee’s contribution to the debate on court nominees began Jan. 6 with a letter from Cardinal William H. Keeler calling on the U.S. Senate to reject the view that “nominees who oppose the purposeful taking of innocent human life (are) somehow unfit for judicial office in the United States.”

The Catholic Church’s right-to-life ethic “has profound consequences not only for abortion, but for many other areas of life, including the death penalty, the application of scientific research to human subjects, the right to adequate health care, and the role of the state in promoting the common good,” he added. “Our civil society will be all the poorer if senators, as a matter of practice, prevent a Senate vote on well-qualified judicial nominees whose consciences have been formed in this ethic.”

The Baltimore cardinal is chairman of the pro-life committee, which also is considering a nationwide postcard campaign aimed at the U.S. Senate — the first on a life issue since the 1998 blitz on partial-birth abortion — as well as educational campaigns targeting both members of Congress and the general public.

But the opposition to nominees viewed as pro-life will be staunch, judging from the outcry already being generated by groups such as NARAL Pro-Choice America, the organization formerly known as the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Through its Web site, NARAL Pro-Choice America is recruiting what it calls “rapid responders” to mobilize against any Supreme Court nominee that the organization finds unacceptable.

“Pro-choice Americans must remain vigilant, keeping watch on the court and the Bush administration,” it says.

“We must be ready to make our voices heard in defense of the freedom to choose.”

Planned Parenthood is using the language and imagery of nuclear weaponry to warn about threats to the filibuster strategy in the Senate.

Calling the filibuster “the strongest weapon of defense against anti-choice judicial nominations,” the organization said that “right-wing conservatives in Congress” have come up with “what’s been dubbed the ‘nuclear strategy,’” which would allow the presiding officer of the Senate, Vice President Dick Cheney, to declare filibusters unconstitutional for judicial nominations, if a majority of senators agreed.

“This potential course of action has been referred to

(CNS PHOTO BY BOB ROLLER)

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien

Norma McCorvey, the "Jane Roe" in the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion 32 years ago, stands in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 18 after announcing that she is formally asking the court to reverse Roe or at least order a new trial on the merits of the case for reversal.

as ‘nuclear,’ because it would be the political equivalent er traditions of the Senate so that it may carry out its constitutional duties free of ideological captivity.” of a nuclear explosion,” Planned Parenthood said.

Although the issue of nominees to the Supreme Court Any senator can hold up a vote by filibustering — or remains moot until one of the justices prolonging a discussion indefinitely — decides to retire, Bush signaled his comunless 60 senators vote for cloture — an mitment to his choices for various federend to the filibuster and immediate vote al judgeships late last year when Scott on the issue at hand.

McClellan, presidential press secretary, An ad campaign by NARAL Proannounced that Bush would renominate Choice America depicts President 20 men and women who did not receive George W. Bush, Supreme Court Justice an up or down vote in the Senate during Antonin Scalia and several senators as his first term. old-time movie monsters, and says a Sixteen of the nominations had been “prehistoric brotherhood” of “creatures submitted more than a year ago, with five from the far right” has brought the dating back to 2001. Among those to be United States to “the dawn of a dark new renominated is California Supreme Court era.”

Justice Janice Rogers Brown. Senate Showing Bush as “King Wrong” atop Democrats denied Brown an up or down the Supreme Court building, the advervote on her appointment to the District of tisement says the president plans to use Justice Janice Columbia Circuit Court in the last “his brutish strength to pack the court Rogers Brown Congress. with extreme judges and overturn Roe vs.

When the Senate fails to act on nominations, “this only Wade.”

In a Jan. 17 statement, Father Frank Pavone of Priests exacerbates the issue of judicial vacancies, compounds the for Life said some senators “have made history in their backlog of cases, and delays timely justice for the obstruction of the constitutional process simply because American people,” said McClellan Dec. 23. “The Senate (they) find the religious and ethical beliefs of some of the has a constitutional obligation to vote up or down a president’s judicial nominees and the president looks forward to president’s nominees unacceptable.”

He vowed to make judicial nominations an election working with the new Senate to ensure a well-functioning issue in 2006, and called for efforts “to restore the prop- and independent judiciary.”

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

Call (415) 567-2020 for more information.

Feb. 4: Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament every First Friday after the 8:00 a.m. Mass Friday and continuing throughout the day and night until 7:45 a.m. Saturday with Morning Prayer and Benediction. (Exposition is suspended during scheduled Masses at 12:10 noon, 7:00 p.m. and 6:45 a.m. according to liturgical norms.) Join us as we pray for world peace, a culture of life, priests and the special intentions commended to our prayers. For more information or to volunteer please call (415) 567-2020 x224.

Sundays: Concerts at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admission free. January 30: SF Recorder Group. Feb. 6: David Schofield, organist.

January 28, 2005 March 12: St. Cecilia Elementary, class of ’50 at the parish Collins Center. Call Doris Grimley at (415) 664-2247.

March 31: Star of the Sea Academy, classes ’39 to ’45. Contact Marie at (415) 564-2603 or Dorothy at (415) 681-1493.

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Prayer/Lectures/Training’s Feb. 26: Training for New Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion at St. Matthew Church, 675 1 Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo Sat., 9am-3: 30pm.

Please pre-register at 415-614-5585.

Mar. 12: Training for New Lectors at St. Matthew Church, 1 Notre Dame Ave., San Mateo. Sat., 9am3:30pm. Please pre-register at 415-614-5585.

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Food & Fun Jan. 29: Mardi Gras Zydeco Dance at St. Finn Barr Parish, 415 Edna St., San Francisco 8 p.m. – midnight.

Music by Andre Thierry and the Zydeco magic. Tickets #13 in advance/$16 at door. Call (415) 333-3727.

Feb. 4: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers for Mass and special presentation. The morning begins with Mass at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. Breakfast and presentation follow in parish hall. Today, Bill Cuneo speaks about the Marin County Guatemala Mission Program which he began and now includes the efforts of San Domenico School, St. Rita Parish, St. Anselm Parish, and St. Hilary Parish. In three and one-half years the group has built a school and two churches. Reservations required to Sugaremy@aol.com or (415) 461-0704 daily.

Members $7, others $10. Dues $20 per year.

Feb. 5: Mercy High School’s Second Annual Crab Cioppino benefiting school Athletics Program beginning at 5:30 with No-Host Wine & Beer and dinner at 6:30 of Salad, Pasta & Plenty of Cioppino. Donation: $35 per person. Seating is limited to the first 250 (No Children, please). No tickets will be sold at the door. Deadline to Purchase Tickets is Feb 2nd. Contact Mercy High School with any questions at (415) 334-0525, ext. 235.

School is at 3250 19th Ave. in San Francisco.

Feb. 12: Annual Mori Point Walk benefiting works of Kateri Tekakwitha Fund and its efforts for the poor in Guatemala. “A guided tour of beautiful Mori Point begins at 11 a.m. Fair Trade Coffee will be provided,” the group said. Sign in at Café Salada, 220 Paloma Ave. at Oceana Blvd. in Pacifica at 10 a.m. Call (650) 355-8104. Cost $15.

February 12: “Sail Away with LCA,” annual gala at the World Trade Club this year honoring Francie Pasquini, a longtime volunteer with Recreation Center for the Handicap, Saint Vincent de Paul Society, and LCA. Evening includes Silent & Live Auctions, seated dinner and dancing to the Joel Abramson Orchestra. Starts at 6pm. $125 per person or $1100 per table. Phone (415) 972-1243 or visit www.littlechildrensaid.com.

February 13: Pianist J.R. Manolito performs at 4 p.m. as part of Concerts at St. Stephen’s. $10 donation benefits parish music ministry. Call (415) 6812444. The church is at Eucalyptus Dr. and 23rd Ave. in San Francisco.

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Feb. 26: Purple and Gold Gala benefiting Archbishop Riordan High School at Hyatt Hotel in Burlingame. Call school Development Office at (415) 586-9190.

Shows Jan. 28 and 29: Full Out, a dance concert featuring students of Mercy High School, 3250 19th Ave., San Francisco. Ensemble will perform in variety of styles including ballet, jazz, tap and hip-hop. For ticket information and curtain times, call (415) 334-0525, ext. 242.

Feb. 11, 12, 25, 26: “Smallest of All” A musical rendition of “Song of Bernadette” at 7:30pm St. Thomas More 1300 Junipero Serra near Brotherhood Way. Donation of $10 suggested. Kids 14 & under Free.

Also playing Feb 18, 19 at 7:30pm and 20th at 2pm at St. Boniface Theater 175 Golden Gate Ave near Leavenworth. www.stmchurch.com (415) 637-1484.

Respect Life/ Family Life Feb. 12: The Gospel of Life in Action, potluck dinner and presentation sponsored by Marin County Respect Life Program at St. Sebastian Church, 373 Bon Air Rd. at Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Greenbrae.

Call Vicki Evans at (415) 945-0180.

Feb. 13: Building Strong Families, a Retreat for the Entire Family sponsored by parishes of Deanery 11 at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park, 1:30 – 4:40 p.m. Facilitators are Tim and Popie Stafford. Call Laurie Coulter at (650) 366-7085; Sister Mary Keefe at (650) 368-0429; Sister Norberta Villasenor at (415) 368-8237.

Northern California Vincentian Family Day takes place February 4th at St. William Church, 611 So. El Monte at Covington in Los Altos begins with Mass at 6 p.m. All who are interested in the mission of serving the poor and spirituality of St. Vincent de Paul are invited. $10 per person.

Call Lorraine Moriarty of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Mateo County at (650) 373-0624.

Are you in a troubled marriage? Retrouvaille, a program for couples with serious marital problems, might help. For information, call Tony and Pat Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.

Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 6145680.

TV/Radio Mon – Fri., KVTO 1400 AM, 7:30 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour features rosary, music and commentary with Father Tom Daly.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

Reunions Feb. 2: Marin Catholic High School Alumni office starts the new year with a “Mums of Alums” outing to Bay Meadows Racetrack. Last spring’s Day at the Races had Moms of Alumni laughing all the way to the track and back. For info email or call Tracy Hogan at thogan@marincatholic.org or (415) 464-3843.

Walking with Biblical Personalities along the Path of the Enneagram: Spiritual Reflection for Lent 2005 at St. Thomas More Church in San Francisco.

Claudia Devaux facilitates. $50 for entire series to be held on first five Sundays of Lent. Enrollment limited. Call (415) 4529634.

Volunteer Opportunities St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco needs your help at its Help Desk. Service includes sorting donations and helping clients. If anyone would like to volunteer - also small groups of volunteers one Saturday a month - they should call (415) 202-9955.”

St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County needs Spanish/English-speaking volunteers to answer phones in 2 – 3 hour shifts between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. at their offices, 50 No. B St., San Mateo. Volunteers do intake of clients’ requests, log the call and enter into Accessbased computer data system. Call (650) 373-0620.

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.

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Thank you and Farewell, an evening of Thanksgiving at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, for the masterful ministry of Richard Allen Davis, organist and choirmaster for 53 years at parishes including All Souls in South San Francisco, St. Bartholomew’s in San Mateo and for the last 13 years at St. Anne’s.

“I’ve enjoyed every moment of it,” the artist, who has recently retired, said. Mass is Jan. 29 at 5 p.m. featuring music from choir members who have served with Mr. Davis through the years. A reception follows in St. Anne’s newly refurbished Moriarty Hall. Call (415) 665-1600.

On November 22nd, students of Saint Elizabeth Elementary School in San Francisco celebrated the Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The rites recalled Nano Nagle who founded the Presentation Sisters and the members of the congregation who began St. Elizabeth School in 1949. From left, Student Council members Stephanie Dixon, Samantha Resurreccion, Emily Masangcay, and Megan Maffei.

3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston Hall on the campus of their Notre Dame de Namur University. Call (650) 5932045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 474-2882.

1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225

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Aid agencies hope disaster provides leverage for peace in Aceh BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CNS) — The aid agencies that arrived in Indonesia’s Aceh province after the tsunami disaster may provide the international community with the leverage needed to force a lasting peace and cease-fire in the region, Catholic aid officials said.

Without a permanent cease-fire, aid workers said they fear the millions of dollars earmarked for survivors in Aceh may not reach those who need it most.

“My hope is that the international community can use its leverage to get the government and the rebels at the peace table,” said Patrick Johns, emergency response team director for Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency.

Reports of sporadic gunfire between the Indonesian military and rebels of the Free Aceh Movement, known by its Indonesian acronym, GAM, have circulated since the tsunamis hit Dec. 26. Indonesia said Jan. 22 that it has killed about 200 rebels since the relief effort started.

Johns said an upsurge in violence could force aid agencies to scale back operations.

“The last thing we want to see is for us to put all this time into helping the people rebuild, and then to have flare-ups of violence and continued tension cause it to go down the tubes,” he said.

One aid worker said the province’s progress toward peace and human rights

“will depend on how receptive the government is to civil society expressing themselves.” The worker told Catholic News Service that initial signs from Indonesia were discouraging.

“Indonesia has already said that the refugees will be moved into larger camps, and then the communities will be rebuilt and the people will move back. But there are a lot of issues to consider; it’s going to be somewhat controversial,” the worker said.

(CNS PHOTO’S BY PAUL HARING)

By Stephen Steele

A woman washes laundry on the foundation of a destroyed home in a fishing village near Meulaboh, Indonesia, Jan. 22. Catholic Relief Services plans to rebuild 100 homes in the village beginning in late January. The skeleton of a building (left) stands in rubble near the seafront in Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.

“The people should have a voice into their future, and those views should be taken into account,” the worker said. “When you’re talking about more than 400,000 people, you’re talking about a huge political force. Is the Indonesian military prepared to listen to them?” he asked.

In Indonesia, CRS works to gain trust with Muslim community

By Stephen Steele BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CNS) — In Aceh province, where the predominantly Muslim population follows Shariah, or Islamic law, Catholic organizations are viewed with suspicion and must take great care in how they are perceived by local authorities.

So during the recent celebration of the Muslim holy day Eid al-Adha, the staff of Catholic Relief Services in Banda Aceh presented a cow and three goats to a mosque across the street from the agency’s home.

The act of good will also was a measured response to show Islamic leaders in the world’s most populous Muslim country that CRS was in Banda Aceh to serve survivors of the tsunami disaster and that the agency would respect the local culture and customs, said Pat Johns, CRS emergency response director.

“This was the first time in 30 years with CRS that I’ve ever bought a cow, but if it helps us complete our job, then I think it was a good thing,” Johns told

Catholic News Service in mid-January.

Completing its mission will be a daunting task for CRS and the dozens of other U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations that arrived in Aceh province to help victims of the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunamis. The disaster leveled buildings miles inland; most of the up to 174,000 dead Indonesians were in Aceh.

The destruction was shocking even for veteran aid workers; many said it would take at least five to 10 years for Aceh to rebuild.

About one month after the disaster, bodies continued to be collected around Aceh or washed up along the coast. Three victims reportedly washed up in neighboring Malaysia, several hundred miles away. Large dump trucks filled with body bags were a familiar sight on Banda Aceh’s streets.

CRS, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency, has been appointed the lead agency in the Caritas Internationalis federation and is directing how to disperse the $261 million Caritas has collected to help survivors.

Leo MacGillivray, country director of the International Catholic Migration Commission, said the international community “must be vigilant to ensure that these vast sums of money are used to meet the needs of the most vulnerable.”

Caritas Internationalis, the confederation of Catholic aid agencies, has raised about $261 million for tsunami disaster relief.

In an attempt to prove to the international community it is serious about securing peace, Indonesia said it is willing to negotiate anything — except independence — with the rebels.

Resource-rich Aceh has been beset by conflict since Indonesia declared independence from the Dutch in 1945. President Sukarno, the country’s founder, promised the Acehnese special autonomy, which never materialized and led to several conflicts during the 1950s.

In 1976, the Free Aceh Movement was founded, and it declared Aceh an independent nation; in 1979, the movement’s leadership fled to Sweden.

During the 1980s, a period known for its human rights abuses by the Indonesian military, President Suharto declared Aceh a military zone. In 1998, the Suharto government collapsed. Cries for a referendum on autonomy

grew louder in Aceh. Also during this time, the people began speaking out on the abuses they experienced, creating more tension between the Acehnese and the central government in Jakarta.

Tensions also developed between the Acehnese and Javanese migrants, causing the Javanese to flee to refugee camps in North Sumatra province, where the Jesuit Refugee Service works.

In 2002, a cease-fire agreement was signed between the GAM and Jakarta, with neither side honored.

An aid worker familiar with the province said large portions of the province were under siege by the rebels and the military, which the worker said uses murder, kidnapping and extrajudicial killings to gain control.

“They (Acehnese) want to live in a dignified way. I don’t feel GAM represents their views, and the military is reviled,” the worker said.

Ingvild Solvang, advocacy manager for the Jesuit Refugee Service Indonesia, said the province’s bloody past provides the framework for post-tsunami work in Aceh.

“It’s like the people are saying, ‘Which trauma should we heal first? Where do we begin?’

It’s definitely more than just the tsunami. You have to understand that to work here,” she said.

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Walk for Life . . .

■ Continued from page 3 zling in light of her earlier experiences in San Francisco.

“This great international city welcomed me to exercise my right to speech and my right to assembly for myself and fellow antiwar activists from all over the country but yet this city fails to welcome its own citizens to exercise their rights today,” Crossed said.

Meehan praised the San Francisco Police for their “professionalism and heroism” in protecting the pro-lifers and the marchers themselves for their “integrity and dignity” and their calm amid the storm of protest.

“We ran a gauntlet of hate for two hours. It was diabolical at some places, people running next to you and screaming in your ears,” she said. “The crazy faces were on,” Meehan thought as she looked at the jeering, noisy pro-abortion protesters on the sidewalk.

The anti-life demonstrators were most aggressive on Jefferson Street where they sat down on the pavement and blocked the walk route. A dozen police officers confronted the protesters, while several others arrested two others a block away. Meanwhile, the pro-lifers took a pre-arranged alternate route while chanting “Ave Maria, Ave Maria” and then singing “We Shall Overcome” as they reached the end of the walk in Marina Green.

To the pro-lifers, it was a fitting end to a walk that began with a rally at which they cheered enthusiastically for the Rev. Clenard Childress, a Baptist minister from New Jersey. The Rev. Childress praised pro-lifers as “righteous men and women who are willing to stand up in the public square for those who cannot stand for themselves.”

In the battle for the rights of the unborn, “You have held the line. We’re now catching up with you. I think God has a sense of humor. In the early 60s the civil

Forney has been married more than 20 years and has a 15 year old daughter who “struggles to understand how a mother could take the life of her child.”

■ Continued from page 5 “I don’t think women need abortions,” she said. “They women and their children. Women deserve better than need real support. It’s to get past the rhetoric of a woman’s right and look at what’s right for women’s abortion.”

Speaking from hard-learned experience, Georgette health.”

Carol Crossed, president of Democrats for Life, spoke to Forney agreed with Winn. Forney, a founder of the National Silent No More Awareness Campaign, spoke to the rally about the politics of abortion. Eight Democrat the rally from the experience of an abortion “consumer.” members of the House of Representatives and one U.S. Senator are on the federal advi“I’m here today because as sory board of her organization. a woman who has had abor“We represent the 47 pertion, I know abortion is not a ‘I’m here today because as a cent of Democrats who want good choice,” Forney said. “It the party to move away from is time to hear from the con- woman who has had abortion, its extremist absolutist posisumers who have made the tion and take greater measchoice. If there’s a problem I know abortion is not a good ures to protect mothers and with any other product, you listen to the consumer but for choice.’

– Georgette Forney their unborn children. . . .” she said. “While the majority some reason people don’t want of Democrats are conflicted to listen to women who have about Roe vs. Wade, the majority of Democrats are not had abortions and we are the consumer of the product.

Forney had an abortion in 1976 when she was 16 years conflicted about the need to regulate and restrict abortion old and 12 weeks pregnant. “I didn’t want people to know – measures that would protect women.”

“Why does our party that defends the rights of women I was sexually active. Nobody knew except the boy. It was just a matter of driving to the clinic and getting the abor- to be fully informed about breast cancer treatment, about consumer products – why then do they not also support tion.”

For the next 19 years, she was “what some would call her right to be informed about the alternatives to aborpro-choice. . . I really tried not to think about the issue a tion?”

The message to the Democratic Party of last year’s whole lot.” Then, as she was “asking God to give me some guidance on other issues before I knew it I was facing the election is: “Give pro-life Democrats a home . . . support truth of what the abortion had done in taking the life of my the values of inclusiveness and tolerance that once defined our party.” child. . . I lost a child. . . . a precious child God created.”

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rights movement was basically black and Baptist. Now it’s white and Catholic,” he said to cheers and laughter.

After the walk, Meehan said, “First, I am thankful to God and to the people who were praying for us. I was especially heartened by the bravery of the old people and the small children, the most vulnerable of us. We would try to get the children into the middle but they would take their signs and turn them to the protesters.”

Meehan and Eva Muntean chose San Francisco as the site of the Walk for Life for several reasons. The City has one of the highest abortion rates in the country, she said, and “If you’re trying to reach out to women and to change their hearts, you reach out to them where they are.”

“We also knew it would be a lightning rod for the media” – a pro-life march in a city whose political leaders describe it as “pro-choice.” And, Meehan says with a laugh, “We chose San Francisco because it’s where I’m from. It’s a fiefdom of radicalism. We were tired of the intolerance of this radical abortion agenda.”

Christians in Iraq . . .

■ Continued from page 6 Americans decided not to vote, would that simply be an ‘imperfect’ election? This is the problem,” said the official.

More than 62 percent of Iraq’s population is Shiite Muslim, while 34 percent is Sunni Muslim, a different branch of Islam.

Under Saddam, power was generally in the hands of the Sunni minority, while Shiite institutions were under strict control, and the mostly Sunni Kurds in the North were persecuted in their drive for autonomy.

A political struggle between Sunni and Shiite groups after elections could pose a real threat to Christians, Archbishop Sleiman said.

“The real danger is in the division. If the Sunni don’t share in elections, it will be sure to cause problems,” he said.

Sunnis “have to be more realistic. They have to share power; they cannot have it again like before,” he said.

Whether elections will lead toward a stable interim government or “worst-case scenario, a civil war,” Msgr.

Stern said, the church and Catholic donor agencies will continue their work in Iraq.

“The church has been functioning in every part of the Islamic world, except Saudi Arabia, where it’s banned,” he said.

“I don’t envisage any scenario that would totally block the church,” though continued conflict and insecurity “might slow things down” in plans to expand the humanitarian and health care services the church offers those most in need, he added.

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Archdiocesan Respect Life coordinator Vicki Evans and Walk for Life co-chair Eva Muntean (above).

Pastor Clenard Childress of L.E.A.R.N. gives a rousing speech at Justin Herman Plaza.

San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang (above) gives a final blessing at Marina Green.

(PHOTO BY CATHY JOYCE)

Police arrest a pro-abortion demonstrator (left). Pro-abortion demonstrators had blocked the Walk for Life twice.

Police form a line (right), separating the pro-life marchers from the pro-abortion counter-protesters.

Members of the Marin Catholic High School Respect Life Club attended Mass at the school chapel before heading to the Walk for Life in San Francisco.

(PHOTOS BY JACK SMITH)

( C N S P H OT O B Y G R E G TA RCZYNSKI)

(PHOTO BY CATHY JOYCE)

First annual Walk for Life – West Coast

Seminarians and staff from St. Patrick’s Seminary.