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Walk for Life West Coast overflows waterfront An estimated 30,000-plus pro-life advocates filled the boulevard along San Francisco’s waterfront for nearly a mile Jan. 24 for the 5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast. The crowd heard calls for support for women considering or having had abortions, for opposition to government support of abortion, and for renewed commitment to the pro-life movement. The Jan. 22 March for Life 2009 in Washington, D.C. drew tens of thousands to the nation’s capital. Both events marked the 36th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. See additional coverage on Page 9.

Pro-life leaders rebuke Obama for reversing Mexico City policy

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Pontiff congratulates Obama on inauguration VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI, congratulating Barack Obama on his inauguration as U.S. president, prayed that he would remain steadfast in promoting understanding, cooperation and peace in the world.

The pope, in a Jan. 20 telegram, told Obama he prayed God would “grant you unfailing wisdom and strength in the exercise of your high responsibilities.”

Popes traditionally send a telegram of congratulations to new presidents of the United States on their inauguration day. Pope Benedict said he prayed, under the new president’s leadership, “may the American people continue to find in their impressive religious and political heritage the spiritual values and ethical principles needed to cooperate in the building of a truly just and free society.”

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By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican launched a video channel on YouTube that will feature news coverage of Pope Benedict XVI and major Vatican events.

It marked the start of the Vatican’s strategic vision of working “to be present wherever people are,” said Archbishop Claudio Celli, head of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications.

The Vatican officially unveiled the new channel Jan. 23 during a press conference that presented Pope Benedict’s message for World Communications Day, which was dedicated to new media technology.

The Vatican channel is the result of a new partnership the Vatican Television Center and Vatican Radio forged with the Internet giant Google and its video-sharing website, YouTube.

The Vatican’s television and radio operations had been collaborating for the past year and a half to produce short VATICAN YOUTUBE, page 16

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – Pro-life activists quickly denounced President Barack Obama’s Jan. 23 signing of an executive order reversing the Mexico City policy, a move that clears the way for the federal government to provide aid to programs that promote or perform aborMEXICO CITY POLICY, page 8 tion overseas.

A Vatican cameraman captures Pope Benedict XVI during a recent weekly general audience. The Vatican launched a YouTube news channel Jan. 23 featuring videos of the pope and Vatican events.

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION ‘Web only’ stories . . . . . . . . . 5 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 ‘Inkheart’ reviewed . . . . . . . 16

TV Mss sustains faith-life family ~ Page 3 ~ January 30, 2009

Father Patrick Keane Jesuit superior general life, ministry recalled to visit California ~ Page 5 ~ ~ Page 7 ~

National conference for deaf ministry ~ Page 18 ~

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Members and supporters of the Catholic Women’s Advocacy Group with baby supplies collected at an “Epiphany Baby Shower” recently sponsored by the organization. Clothes, blankets, bottles, et al were donated to the St. Francis Center in Redwood City.

From left: Sherri Martin, Carrie LaBriola, Susan Fox, Marlene Olivencia, Rich Lang, Joan Hilton, and Father Thomas Seagrave, pastor, St. John of God Parish in San Francisco where the charity event took place after a Sunday morning Mass Jan. 4.

Happy to hear from Anne Maughan Faye on behalf of her mom, Mary McGee Maughan, a born-and-raised St. Paul parishioner now making her home in Santa Rosa. “My mom was born Jan. 3, 1914, and graduated St. Paul’s Elementary and High School, Class of ’32,” Anne said in an e-mail. “She still corresponds by mail with her lifetime classmate, Ann Lehane Willis, who lives on Dolores and is in St. Paul Parish. My mother not only attended St. Paul schools, she received all her sacraments there including her marriage to St. Paul alum, James Aloysius Maughan. Over the years, we have heard many reminiscences about life at and around the parish. St. Paul graduates are truly amazing people.”

Mary talks to her sister, Anne McGee Courter every day, Anne noted, remembering their brother, John McGee, who died several years ago. Anne’s dad died in 1979. Anne’s sibs are Rita Eastman, Teresa Emory, and James Maughan and all of the Maughan kids attended St. Cecilia Elementary

Ruby, who attends Holy Family Day Home in San Francisco, cuts ribbon on facility’s new Joan Crotty Children’s Library during ceremonies Dec. 4. Also assisting in the effort are, from left: library volunteer, Nancy Lucero; Joanna Crotty, Michael Crotty, Dominican Sister Sheila Keane, and Barney Crotty.

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School. Anne today belongs to St. Gabriel Parish. “I do enjoy ‘On the Street Where You Live’,” Anne said, to which I reply, ‘Thank you.’ I still love writing it. Holy Family Day Home dedicated its new Joan Crotty Children’s Library Dec. 4. The new book and reading space’s namesake, now deceased, “mended our children’s books for the past 10 years,” said Donna Cahill, Holy Family Day Home executive director. Joan, a longtime parishioner of St. Stephen’s in San Francisco, leaves her husband, Barney, adult children Joanna and Michael, and a sister, Dominican Sister Sheila Keane. “Many of those who attended are Joan’s friends and family as well as volunteers who made this dream of a children’s library happen here at the day home,” Donna said.

“It was a total volunteer effort. Volunteers painted, designed and built book shelves, collected new books, purchased furniture and donated computers, and a professional librarian – one of our parents – cataloged the entire library.”…

Congrats to the new executive board of the St. Thomas More Society of the Archdiocese of San Francisco: Gregory E. Schopf, prez; Thomas B. Reed, veep; J. Dennis McQuaid, secretary; Adrian G. Driscoll, treasurer; and board members Dean Jeffrey Brand, Robert L. Dondero, Thomas K. Hockel, Martin J. Jenkins, Robert L. Zaletel, Terence J. Coleman…. More than 500 people, including Madeline Duggan, Bill Duggan and Dan Duggan took part in a Remembrance Service just before Thanksgiving at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Daly City. Duggan’s Serra Mortuary sponsored the liturgy, now an annual event, for families they’ve served. “We hope this helps families in their own individual process of grieving,” Bill Duggan said. Presiders included Father William Brown, pastor Our Lady of Mercy, Deacon Jim Myers, and Father Mark Reburiano of St. Matthew’s in San Mateo. Russell Ferreira, music director at St. Cecilia Parish, conducted the music that included pieces by the St. Cecilia Choir as well as solos by Russ and Teresa Proano. Youth from Holy Angels Parish in Colma also assisted in the rite and at the reception that followed….This is an empty space without you! E-mail items and pictures to burket@sfarchdiocese.org.

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TV Mass sustains worship life of many faithful It was an active Sunday afternoon at Aegis of Corte Madera assisted-living center. The main door swung open often as visitors came and went through the lobby. A dark-haired man in a chair carefully worked his crossword puzzle.

He stood and greeted Msgr. Harry Schlitt when the priest arrived. Then Don Torre led him to his wife’s room.

Photos of Don and Noelle Torre’s three sons and daughter and their families decorate the walls of Noelle’s bright, comfortable room. After two hip surgeries, an impending knee replacement and indications of forgetfulness, the Torre family wanted Noelle to be safe and comfortable, so she has lived at Aegis of Corte Madera since September. As Msgr. Schlitt enters Noelle greets him with her huge smile.

Msgr. Schlitt visited Noelle because she is a parishioner of a special congregation – persons who are shut-in can attend Mass only via television.

Msgr. Schlitt is the easily recognizable celebrant of the San Francisco Bay Area’s TV Mass which is produced under the umbrella of God Squad Productions, Inc., which Msgr. Schlitt founded in 1968.

Noelle thanked him for helping her sustain that important connection with her faith. She noted that her TV “alarm� is set for Sunday mornings so she can watch the Mass each week.

A veteran of the broadcast media, Monsignor celebrates this unique liturgy looking directly into the television lens that is the eye bringing his image to the viewer. Participants often tell Msgr.

Schlitt that the broadcast rite feels like their own private Mass even though they can only be observers.

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Left, Msgr. Harry Schlitt visits TV Mass “parishioner� Noelle Torre.

Msgr. Schlitt, above, is celebrant of the weekly Bay Area televised liturgy.

In December, Msgr. Schlitt was host of a national Christmas television special, “Christmas Eve at the National Shrine of St. Francis,� which was taped at the Porziuncola Chapel of the national shrine.

Msgr. Schlitt held Noelle’s hand and offered a prayer for her and her family. The couple was delighted to have Noelle’s “parish priest� pay a home visit.

In his “other life,� Msgr. Schlitt is the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s vicar for administration and moderator of the curia.

According to Msgr. Schlitt, the many faithful who can only take part in Mass through its broadcast “can more completely participate if they are able to receive the Holy Eucharist.� Volunteers, he said, “are always needed to bring Communion to those who cannot get to Church.� He urged parishioners to consider exploring the ministry of extraordinary minister of the Eucharist.

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Mass for sick, caregivers Feb.7 Archbishop George Niederauer will be principal celebrant at a Feb. 7 Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco held in honor of Our Lady of Lourdes and commemorating the World Day of the Sick.

The noon liturgy will include an anointing of the sick, a blessing for caregivers and a blessing with water from grotto in Lourdes, France. The Western Association U.S.A. of the Order of Malta will host the event. The universal Church officially marks the 17th Annual World Day of the Sick Feb. 11. For more information, call (415) 788-4550. A free, wheelchair-accessible shuttle to and from the Mass will be available starting at 10:30 a.m. at the Japan Center Garage, 1610 Geary Blvd., between Webster and Laguna.

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Logging practices protested Father Jose Andres Tamayo delivers a homily at the Catholic church in Salama, Honduras, earlier this month. An environmentalist who has led marches of rural residents who want to preserve the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forests, the priest receives frequent death threats and has two bodyguards provided by the Honduran military. At right, logging trucks wait along the highway near Talanga, Honduras. Indiscriminate logging has reduced the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biosphere but also provoked an alliance of religious leaders and environmental activists to defend the forests.

the Bay Area last year, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;May Archbishop Jadot continue to watch over the American nation, which was close to his heart.â&#x20AC;?

Pope to visit Africa VATICAN CITY (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pope Benedict XVIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s March 17-23 trip to Cameroon and Angola will be his first visit to Africa and his 11th trip outside Italy since the beginning of his pontificate in April 2005. The previous trips have been to: Germany, Aug. 18-21, 2005; Poland, May 25-28, 2006; Spain, July 8-9, 2006; Germany, Sept. 9-14, 2006; Turkey, Nov. 28-Dec. 1, 2006; Brazil, May 9-13, 2007; Austria, Sept.

7-9, 2007; United States, April 15-20, 2008; Australia, July 12-21, 2008; France, Sept. 12-15, 2008.

India honors Missionary of Charity CALCUTTA, India (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sister Nirmala Joshi, superior general of the Missionaries of Charity, was among 10 people selected to receive Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second-highest civilian award. On Jan. 25, the eve of Indiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Republic Day, the federal government named 133 people from various fields for different categories of civilian awards, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. No one this year was selected for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bharat Ratna,â&#x20AC;? the top civilian award which in English means â&#x20AC;&#x153;jewel of India.â&#x20AC;? Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who founded the Missionaries of Charity, won that award in 1980. Sister Nirmala, 74, was among 10 people selected for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Padma Vibhushanâ&#x20AC;? for her social work.

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Pope: seek Christian unity VATICAN CITY (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Full Christian unity will be a gift from God, but it is something Christians themselves must work for, pray for and experience personal conversion in order to receive, Pope Benedict XVI said. Dedicating his weekly general audience Jan. 21 to the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the pope said God wants Christians to be one, but that can happen only through deeper unity with Christ. The theme of the 2009 week of prayer was â&#x20AC;&#x153;That they may become one in your hand,â&#x20AC;? a quote from the Book of Ezekiel in which God tells the prophet to take two sticks, representing his divided people, and join them together.

To scrap laws against Catholics?

LONDON (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A British politician has introduced a bill to repeal some of his countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last remaining laws against Catholics. Evan Harris, a Liberal Democrat member of Parliament, said the bill would abolish the sections of the Act of Settlement of 1701 which prevented British monarchs from either becoming a Catholic or marrying a Catholic. The bill will be debated for the first time in March. Harris does not intend to repeal the requirement of a British monarch to be an Anglican.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; With a new president and members of the House and Senate sworn into office, officials of U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities have something to crow about, with 52 members of the 111th Congress who are alumni of their institutions, nearly 10 percent of the 535 members of the current Congress, with 11 Jesuit alumni in the Senate and 41 in the House of Representatives, according to a newly released report by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Washington.

Some of Jesuit alumni are new to Congress and some are highranking members, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, Senate Assistant Majority Leader Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and special assistant to the speaker of the House, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., the report said.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Cardinal Stephanos II Ghattas, the retired head of Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest Catholic community, died in Cairo Jan. 20, just a few days after his 89th birthday. For almost 20 years before retiring in 2006, the former patriarch of the Coptic Catholic Church led a community of about 200,000 members, a small fraction of Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population of more than 80 million people, predominantly Muslim.

Ask synod on Holy Land Christians VATICAN CITY (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Iraqi Catholic bishops called on Pope Benedict XVI to convene a synod to address the mass exodus of Christians from the Middle East and the lack of full religious freedom there. They also expressed hope that the new U.S. administration under President Barack Obama would be able to bring peace and security to Iraq before withdrawing U.S.-led troops. The bishops, in Rome for their â&#x20AC;&#x153;ad liminaâ&#x20AC;? visits to report on the status of their dioceses, spoke during a Jan. 22 press conference at Vatican Radio. Chaldean Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk said a general synod dedicated to the challenges Christians face in the Middle East would help the church forge a clear plan of action for the present and future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything by ourselves that would be as well-researched, -prepared and -analyzedâ&#x20AC;? as it would be during a two- or three-week Advertising: Joseph Pena, director; Mary Podesta, account representative Sandy Finnegan, advertising and promotion services

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Retired Belgian Archbishop Jean Jadot, former apostolic delegate in the United States, died Jan. 21 at his home in Brussels. He was 99. A career Vatican diplomat, Archbishop Jadot represented the Vatican in the United States from 1973 to 1980.

After leaving Washington, the archbishop served as propresident of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, now called the Pontifical Council Archbishop Jean Jadot for Interreligious Dialogue.

He retired in 1984. Announcing the archbishopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s death Jan. 21, Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Mechelen-Brussels said Archbishop Jadot was not well-known in Belgium since he spent so much of his life outside his homeland, but he was well-known in the United States. The cardinal said that while full U.S.-Vatican diplomatic relations were not formalized until 1994, Archbishop Jadot helped pave the way. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At a moment when the eyes of the whole world were on the White House, this man of the Church returned to the house of the Father,â&#x20AC;? the cardinal, who visited

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Want end to raids Women rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in Washington Jan. 21.

Hundreds of immigrant supporters and religious leaders joined the demonstration calling for an end to ICE raids and asking President Barack Obama to offer illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.

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VIDEO: St. Elizabeth School’s critical year Ranked fragile on a consultant’s scorecard of K-8 schools in the Archdiocese, St. Elizabeth faces an uphill battle. As the Archdiocese takes a hard look at systemwide demographic trends and parish costs, St. Elizabeth has named a task force to recruit students, to address finances, and to promote the school. The group of alumni, parents, teachers and administrators plans a written report for Archbishop George Niederauer in March.

COMMENTARY: From front lines of the culture war East Bay parishioner Tom Loarie was a frontline organizer in the Catholic get-out-the-vote for Proposition 8. He writes that many in the Church supported the campaign but others “chose to abdicate.”

VIDEO: Vallombrosa’s challenge Tour Vallombrosa Center with Director Dominican Father Patrick La Belle, and learn about the economic challenges facing the Archdiocese-owned retreat center in Menlo Park, considered a gold standard in the industry. Read the related story on the website homepage.

STATE NEWS: Catholic farmers to share bounty California growers can provide direct aid to farmers in poor countries and help ease the global food crisis, under a pioneering Catholic Relief Services effort supported by Catholic parishes and interfaith partners. Read the story on the homepage.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 26 at St. Isidore Church in Danville for Father Patrick J. Keane who died Jan. 20 at Serra Clergy House in San Mateo where he had lived since 1995. St. Isidore’s was chosen as site for the Mass because the late priest, an East Bay native, often presided at Masses there in retirement.

Retired Oakland Bishop John Cummins presided. Retired Anchorage Archbishop Francis Hurley, a seminary classmate, and San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice were also present. Ordained in 1951, Father Keane is a former pastor of St. Cecilia Parish in Lagunitas and Good Shepherd Parish in Pacifica. He was 83 years old.

Father Patrick J. Keane Father John Kavanaugh, retired pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish in Redwood City and also a resident of Serra Clergy House, grew up in the same Oakland neighborhood as Father Keane.

“He lived on 42nd St. and I lived on 41st,” Father Kavanaugh told Catholic San Francisco.

“We both attended Sacred Heart Elementary School. Pat was seven months younger than I. Our parents were Irish immigrants and our neighborhood, in the best sense of the word, was a ghetto.”

Father Kavanaugh remembered Father Keane as a “fanatic” when it came to the San Francisco 49ers. “I think his season tickets went back to Kezar Stadium and he had no time for referees or umpires,” said Father Kavanaugh, laughing at the memory. “Pat would go to every game, taping it from television at home while he was away. During the week, he’d watch it again and analyze it.”

“Pat Keane was very devoted to his family,” Father Kavanaugh said. “He spent holidays with them. Always had gifts for them. Always talked about them. He was very, very devoted to them.” Father Keane’s brother, now deceased, was Oakland priest Father Jim Keane. “When his brother was suffering from Alzheimer’s, Pat lived with him as his caregiver for several years.”

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Pope lifts excommunications of Lefebvrite bishops

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunication of four bishops ordained against papal orders in 1988 by the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The move was considered a major concession to the archbishop’s traditionalist followers.

The Vatican said the decree removing the excommunication, signed Jan. 21 and made public three days later, marked an important step toward full communion with the Society of St. Pius X, founded by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1970.

It said some questions remain unresolved with the society, including its future status and that of its priests, and that these issues would be subject of further talks.

“The Holy Father was motivated in this decision by the hope that complete reconciliation and full communion may be reached as soon as possible,” a Vatican statement said.

The head of the Swiss-based society, Bishop Bernard Fellay, had requested the removal of the excommunication in a letter Dec. 15. Bishop Fellay wrote that he and the three other bishops illicitly ordained in 1988 were determined to remain Catholic and accepted the teachings of Pope Benedict “with filial spirit.”

The Vatican said the pope had responded positively to the request to promote “the unity in charity of the universal Church and succeed in removing the scandal of division.”

In a letter published after the Vatican announcement, Bishop Fellay said his society was eager to begin talks with the Vatican about the causes of the “unprecedented crisis” shaking the Church.

“During these discussions with the Roman authorities we want to examine the deep causes of the present situation and, by bringing the appropriate remedy, achieve a lasting restoration of the Church,” he said.

The decree removing the excommunications, issued by the Congregation for Bishops, underlined the hope the step would be followed by full communion and that all members of the Society of St. Pius X would demonstrate “true fidel-

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ity and true acknowledgment of the magisterium and the authority of the pope.”

The move came after one of the illicitly ordained bishops, British-born Bishop Richard Williamson, provoked Jewish protests with assertions that the Holocaust was exaggerated and that no Jews died in Nazi gas chambers. He spoke in a TV interview recorded last November and aired in midJanuary.

The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, said emphatically the Vatican did not share Bishop Williamson’s views, but that it was a completely separate issue from lifting of the excommunication. “Saying a person is not excommunicated is not the same as saying one shares all his ideas or statements,” he said.

Removal of the excommunication was a key condition of the Society of St. Pius X in its on-again, off-again talks with the Vatican over reconciliation. In 2007, the pope granted another of the society’s requests, widening the possibility for use of the Tridentine rite, the form of the Mass used before the Second Vatican Council.

Archbishop Lefebvre rejected several important teachings of the Second Vatican Council, including those related to religious liberty, ecumenism and liturgy. The Vatican statements did not mention the council’s teachings. Father Lombardi had no comment on whether the society was asked to adhere to them.

The Vatican action came the day before the 50th anniversary of Pope John XXIII’s announcement of the Second Vatican Council. Father Lombardi said it would be wrong to see the lifting of the excommunication as a rejection of Vatican II. “On the contrary, I think it is a beautiful thing that the council is no longer considered an element of division, but as an element in which every member of the Church can meet,” he said.

In addition to Bishops Fellay and Williamson, the decree removed the excommunication of French Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais and Argentine Bishop Alphonso de Galarreta. The Vatican said in 1988 that Archbishop Lefebvre and the bishops he ordained had incurred automatic excommunication for defying papal orders against the ordination.

Bishop Fellay called the pope’s action a “unilateral, benevolent and courageous act” and described it as a victory for Catholic traditionalists worldwide. But he said he had made clear to the Vatican that the society still has problems with Vatican II.

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“Such gibberish is unacceptable,” said German Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews in an interview with the Italian daily La Repubblica Jan. 26.

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British-born Bishop Richard Williamson of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X has claimed that the Holocaust was exaggerated and that no Jews died in Nazi gas chambers.

He repeated his position in a Swedish television interview recorded last November but aired Jan. 21 – on the same day Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication against Bishop Williamson and three other bishops who had been ordained against papal orders in 1988 by the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The Vatican made the decree public Jan. 24.

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China and Church topic Jesuit Father Thomas E. Buckley, professor of American religious history at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, will hold a lecture and discussion on Catholicism in China at Herbst Theatre in the War Memorial Building, 401 Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco Feb. 26. Father Buckley’s research focuses on church-state relations and the interaction of religion with social policy. The 6 p.m. lecture will be followed by a reception. For reservations or more information, contact Maria Helena dePedraza at (510) 549-5012 or mpedraza@jstb.edu. The University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim / Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History is a co-sponsor of the “Theology in the City” event.

Jesuit Father Adolfo Nicolás, elected superior general of the Society of Jesus one year ago, will visit California from Jan. 30 through Feb. 7, in part to mark the California Province’s 100th anniversary.

The superior general, who carries the nickname “Black Pope,” will meet with “many of the nearly 390 Jesuits in the province, hundreds of their lay partners, and still more parishioners, students, volunteers and benefactors associated with Jesuit parishes, schools and ministries,” a spokesperson said.

Beginning in Los Angeles, Father Nicolás will tour Homeboy Industries, a job-training program for former gang members; dine with migrant men at the Guadalupe Homeless Project; celebrate a multilingual Mass (English, Spanish, and Tagalog) at Blessed Sacrament Church in Hollywood; and deliver a keynote address at Loyola Marymount University.

In Sacramento, the Jesuit leader will attend an assembly at Jesuit High School for its students and those from Cristo Rey High School.

In San Francisco, Father. Nicolás will celebrate Mass at St. Ignatius Church and take part in a Feb. 4 press conference as well as visit the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco and St. Ignatius College Preparatory.

In the East Bay, he will visit the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and People Improving Communities through Organizing (PICO) in Oakland.

In San Jose, he will celebrate a multilingual Mass (English, Spanish, Vietnamese and Tagalog) at Most Holy Trinity Parish, then conclude his visit at the Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos.

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Father Nicolás is scheduled to meet with Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles, Archbishop George H. Neiderauer of San Francisco, Bishop Patrick J. McGrath of San Jose, Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento and Bishop Allen H. Vigneron of Oakland.

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Father Nicolás was born in 1936 in Spain where he entered the Jesuits in 1953. He studied theology in Tokyo and was ordained to the priesthood there in 1967. On Jan. 19, 2008, he was elected superior general at the order’s 35th General Congregation in Rome.

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Jesuit Father John P. McGarry currently serves as the California Provincial.

Marriage vow renewal liturgy Feb. 14 Auxiliary Bishop William Justice will be principal celebrant at the annual Mass for married couples wishing to renew and celebrate their wedding vows Feb. 14 at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, 850 Judah St. in San Francisco.

The 10 a.m. Mass will include special recognition for couples celebrating 25, 50 or more years of marriage. A reception will follow.

Couples are being asked to register plans to attend. Forms are available at St. Anne’s parish office, and at www.sffamilylife.com. For more information, call (707) 552-3394 or e-mail sfcath@gmail.com. The event is being coordinated by the Catholic Family Movement.

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D.C. March for Life 2009 draws thousands Members of the Sisters of Life cheer and two students watch at the pro-life youth Mass at the Verizon Center in Washington Jan. 22. Young people from across the nation packed the arena for the events held in advance of the annual March for Life 2009 which drew tens of thousands to the nation’s capital.

Members of the Sisters of Life also took part in the Walk for Life West Coast Jan. 24 in San Francisco.

Cardinal says Roe events unite all in ‘common goal’ WASHINGTON (CNS) – Pro-life events held across the United States each January unite Catholics “in a common goal: to proclaim the inherent dignity of human life from the moment of conception to natural death,” said Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles.

As the annual March for Life drew tens of thousands to Washington Jan. 22, the 36th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion was also marked around the country with Masses, conferences and rallies including San Francisco’s 5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast.

Cardinal Mahony celebrated the Los Angeles Archdiocese’s annual Respect Life Mass Jan. 24 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. A Christian ensemble named Shantigarh and several parish choirs performed “Requiem for the Unborn.”

In his homily at a pro-life Mass Jan. 22 in the Diocese of Sacramento, Bishop Jaime Soto called it a “sad” anniversary for a decision that “legalized the sin of abortion in America.”

“It has burdened our society with sin,” he said. “It continues to extinguish the innocent lives of the unborn as well as scar the lives of countless women.”

He said that “our Christian witness” should lead people to pray in front of abortion centers and “place us at pro-life centers or at maternity homes where desperate women seek out a hand of comfort and a word of guidance.”

“We can stand with Christ at the doors of legislators,” Bishop Soto said. “We will also find the cross standing with all those whose dignity is often denied, demeaned or forgotten: the homeless, the incarcerated, the immigrant.”

In New Hampshire, Bishop John B. McCormack of Manchester said he looked proudly at the nation’s progress toward victory over racism with the election of its first African-American president. He noted the beginning of a new administration “gives rise to an expectation” the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will come to an end and the needs of working-class and middle-class Americans will be addressed.

President Barack Obama is “a president for all of us,” even those who didn’t vote for him, he said in an opinion piece that appeared in mid-January in three New Hampshire daily newspapers, the Union Leader, the Telegraph and the Monitor.

He said change “is wonderfully manifest” in Obama but the

bishop urged change in “our nation’s attitude toward human life, and there will be an end to abortion.”

In their annual statement to mark the Roe anniversary, the Catholic bishops of Florida outlined the number of ministries the Church provides for pregnant women in need, such as the Gabriel Project, which provides assistance to mothers and their children, and Project Rachel, which offers counseling for women and men suffering “emotionally and spiritually” because of their involvement with abortion.

“The truth is abortion kills not only the tiny child conceived in the womb but also injures the mother, leaving her to cope with the emotional and physical pain,” the bishops stated.

In the days leading up to the Jan. 20 inauguration of Obama and the Jan. 22 Roe anniversary, a national campaign was launched to encourage churches around the U.S. to schedule a Mass on Inauguration Day to pray that the new president, who has expressed his support for keeping abortion legal, would “work to protect and defend all human life.”

According to the campaign’s organizers, more than 100 Masses in more than 30 states and in seven foreign countries were celebrated with that intention.

Mexico City policy . . .

Pelosi’s support for it which she emphasized last Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

According to the San Francisco Archdiocese’s spokesman, Maurice Healy, the Archdiocese received scores of phone calls and hundreds of e-mails protesting the San Francisco area Catholic lawmaker’s televised comments.

Media reports indicated the decision to omit the $200 million “set aside” came after Obama called Democratic leaders and told them the initiative did not fit the criteria for jobs creation legislation.

Criticizing the president’s Mexico City policy change, Charmaine Yoest, president of the Washington-based Americans United for Life Action, said, “What a terrible way to begin a new administration, with an abortion business bailout that will exploit women in developing countries for political ends.”

“We should not export the tragedy of abortion to other nations, and we certainly shouldn’t do so via the hard-earned dollars of American taxpayers,” she said.

The policy banned U.S. taxpayer money, usually in the form of funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development, from going to international family planning groups that either offer abortions or provide information, counseling or referrals.

A federal law known as the Hyde amendment prohibits U.S. funding from being used directly to provide abortions.

The Mexico City policy was reversed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and re-established under President George W. Bush in 2001. Clinton and Bush each took their actions on Jan. 22, the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 decisions

of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton that recognized abortion as a constitutional right and overturned state laws against abortion.

Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the conference, had urged Obama shortly before his inauguration not to reverse the Mexico City policy.

News of the executive order also drew strong public criticism from Priests for Life, a group that calls itself the largest U.S. Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia, and the Catholic bishops of Colorado, as well as House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

“This executive order is a profound disappointment for me and millions of other Americans who were hopeful that President Obama’s vow to govern from the center would apply to the divisive issue of abortion,” said Boehner, who is Catholic.

Many people expected Obama, like Clinton and Bush, to sign the executive order Jan. 22, when thousands of pro-life marchers were protesting U.S. abortion policy, but he decided to wait a day.

“I see that as a sign of respect to the Catholics and other pro-life activists,” said Thomas P. Melady, a former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, who wanted to see the Mexico City policy remain intact.

Not everyone saw Obama’s waiting a day after the pro-life observance as a sign of respect.

“If he respected the pro-life cause, he wouldn’t have signed this order at all,” said Deirdre A. McQuade, assistant director for policy and communications for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Office of Pro-Life Activities.

■ Continued from cover Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, called the reversal “very disappointing.”

“An administration that wants to reduce abortions should not divert U.S. funds to groups that promote abortions,” Cardinal Rigali said.

In a Jan. 23 prepared statement, Obama said, “It is clear that the provisions of the Mexico City policy are unnecessarily broad and unwarranted under current law, and for the past eight years they have undermined efforts to promote safe and effective voluntary family planning in developing countries.”.

He made the comments shortly after he signed the executive order reversing the ban first instituted by President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

“For these reasons,” he continued, “it is right for us to rescind this policy and restore critical efforts to protect and empower women and promote global economic development.”

Obama signed the order with no fanfare and with no news media in the room, a marked contrast to signings of earlier executive orders.

Meanwhile, House Democrats eliminated federal funding for new contraceptive services and ongoing programs to combat sexually transmitted diseases from the federal economic stimulus plan earlier this week, despite Speaker of the House Nancy

Network launched to mobilize Catholics against death penalty

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien HARRISBURG, Pa. (CNS) – The Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Death Penalty, launched Jan. 25 in Harrisburg, is not just another initiative of the bishops but instead represents lay Catholics at the grass-roots level “taking up the challenge” put forth in bishops’ documents, statements and actions over the past three decades.

That’s how John Carr, executive director of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, described the network at a news conference at the close of a training conference of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty in Harrisburg.

The network, which will operate independently from the USCCB, will be designed to reach out to young people and Hispanic Catholics on the issue of capital punishment. It was begun with seed money from the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille, whose best-known member is death penalty abolitionist Sister Helen Prejean.

Author of “Dead Man Walking,” Sister Helen speaks frequently at college campuses, and said she has seen “how hungry” students are “to participate in substantive exchanges on important issues.”

Saying that many students are “looking for soul-sized activities,” she said they might be encouraged to visit prisons, write to death-row inmates and reach out to family

members of murder victims through the network.

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Catholic teaching opposes the use of the death penalty in nearly every circumstance, since society has other adequate means to protect its citizens.

Although the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that “the traditional teaching of the Church does not exclude recourse to the death penalty, if this is the only possible way of effectively defending human lives against the unjust aggressor,” it quotes Pope John Paul II as saying that cases in which the execution of the offender is an absolute necessity “are very rare, if not practically nonexistent.”

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Keynote speakers at the Jan. 24 5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast included, from left: recording artist Diana Nagy who introduced her son Jarren Williams whom she had placed for adoption after becoming pregnant at 15; Frank Lee of Asian Americans Against Abortion; and the Rev. Clenard Childress, founder of BlackGenocide.org.

5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast draws record crowd

By Michael Vick

Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, auxiliary bishop of San Diego, and Bishop Rutilio Del Riego, auxiliary bishop of San Bernadino.

Featured speakers included Frank Lee, coordinator of Asian Americans Against Abortion. Lee told Catholic San Francisco his group was particularly concerned this year about the incoming Obama Administration and its pledged support for the Freedom of Choice Act, which opponents say would strike down medical conscience provisions and parental notification laws across the nation.

“Freedom does not give us the right to do anything,” said Lee, who addressed the crowd in English, Mandarin WALK FOR LIFE WEST, page 14

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The 5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast drew an estimated 32,000 Jan. 24 for a rally and three-mile march along San Francisco’s Embarcadero to the Marina Green. The procession stretched over a mile, with marchers crossing the finish line for an hour.

March organizer and co-founder Eva Muntean called this year’s Walk for Life a “huge success.”

“The message was heard loud and clear,” Muntean said. “I thought because of the weather people might stay away, but the numbers were huge considering the weather forecast.”

The march, which marked the 36th anniversary of the

Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade, has drawn more people each year, starting with 7,000 in 2005. In the same period, counter protests have dwindled, starting strong with 3,000 at a pro-choice counter rally in 2005 and shrinking to just a few hundred this year and last.

For several hundred marchers, the day began with a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Principal celebrant Auxiliary Bishop William Justice reflected on the farewell address of Moses in the book of Deuteronomy, wherein the prophet extolled Israel to “choose life.”

The pre-march rally at Justin Herman Plaza began with a prayer from Bishop Justice. Joining Bishop Justice for the rally and march were Bishop Jaime Soto of Sacramento,

(PHOTO BY MICHAEL VICK/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Protest Walk for Life An estimated 200 to 300 persons staged a protest of the Walk for Life West Coast, including members of the Catholic Churchmocking Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights.

Above, Dolores Meehan, one of the Walk for Life West Coast founders, addresses marchers. Many, right, had attended a Mass for them at St. Mary’s Cathedral in the morning.

Thousands of youth and families made the three-mile trek.

(PHOTOS BY DARWIN SAYO/JIM MCKENZIE)

Marin Catholic High School’s Respect Life Club was one of dozens of youth organizations walking with banners and taking part in the Jan. 24 Walk for Life West Coast.

(PHOTO BY MICHAEL VICK/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

The signature slogan for the Walk for Life West Coast has become “Abortion Hurts Women,” emblazoned on the banner which led the Walk’s more than 30,000 participants.

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Catholic San Francisco

January 30, 2009

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Stir into flame the gift of God American Catholics, along with many U.S. citizens of other faiths or no faith, express their deep respect for the dignity of life in many ways. For example, the Catholic impulse is to strongly condemn murder or acts of violence, question capital punishment, and protest policies that condone torture. Yet, when it comes to the basic issue of life – protecting the unborn – many Catholics are reluctant to speak out.

In Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22, an estimated crowd of between 150,000 and 200,000 people participated in the 2009 March for Life, an event held in the nation’s capital every year since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision struck down state laws and made unrestricted abortion the law of the land.

But in a nation of 61 million Catholics, we would suggest that the national March for Life should have numbered two or three million participants.

In San Francisco on Jan. 24, more than 30,000 people participated in the 5th Annual Walk for Life West Coast. This event, originally conceived by San Francisco and Bay Area Catholics, has grown from 5,000 walkers in 2005 to more than six times that number in 2009.

But in a region that includes nearly two million Catholics, we would suggest that the Walk for Life West Coast should have numbered 150,000 to 200,000 participants.

Nonetheless, these two pro-life events – one on the East Coast, one on the West Coast – are wonderful examples of Catholics living out their faith and giving witness to the sanctity of life.

Among the participants were many young people – a sign that the torch of the pro-life movement is being passed to a new generation. The entire Catholic Church owes a huge debt of gratitude to the staunch advocates for life – mostly lay Catholic women, who have carried the burden for 36 years.

We believe that more Catholics should join with these young people, and the veterans of the pro-life movement, in witnessing for life and speaking out on the issue of abortion.

We should take unto ourselves the counsel that St. Paul provided to Timothy, urging him to “stir into flame the gift of God.” In his letter to Timothy, St. Paul says, “For God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather of power and love and self-control. So do not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, but bear your share of hardship for the Gospel with the strength that comes from God.” (2 Tm 1; 1-8) There now is an urgent and much greater need for Catholics to speak out on American policies regarding abortion. One day before the national March for Life, President Obama – in one of his first acts – overturned the so-called Mexico City Policy, under which funds in the U.S. “population assistance” program go only to overseas organizations that pledge not to “perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning.”

Less than a week before the inauguration of the new president, Cardinal Francis George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, had written to the president-elect urging him to retain this policy.

Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee, called the president’s action the first in an anticipated series of attacks on longstanding pro-life policies. Johnson said the strenuously proabortion agenda of the Obama Administration includes repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which would result in tax-funded abortion as a birth control method in the U.S., and imposition of sweeping pro-abortion mandates on private employers through health-care “reform” legislation.

According to the NRLC, one effect of the order will be to divert many millions of dollars away from groups that do not promote abortion, and into the hands of those organizations, like International Planned Parenthood Federation, that are the most aggressive in promoting abortion in developing countries as a method of population control.

Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities, in a Jan 23 statement said, “It is very disappointing that President Obama has reversed the Mexico City Policy, which prevents U.S. funding of organizations that perform and promote abortion as a family planning method in developing nations. An Administration that wants to reduce abortions should not divert U.S. funds to groups that promote abortions.”

Deirdre McQuade, assistant director for policy and communications at the USCCB’s Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, said pro-abortion groups have already sent a comprehensive 55-page blueprint for their agenda to the incoming Administration – an agenda that includes publicly-funded abortions, passage of the so-called Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), and attacks on longstanding pro-life provisions in appropriations bills. For more information visit www.usccb.org.

McQuade said, “Widely supported, constitutionally valid measures, some of which have been proven effective in reducing abortion rates, are now seriously threatened by abortion advocates and their allies in Congress. On behalf of children and their mothers, we will have to fight to keep such laws in place.”

We urge you to become more actively involved in the pro-life struggle and “not be ashamed of your testimony to our Lord, but bear your share of hardship for the Gospel with the strength that comes from God.” MEH

Prayer for conversion Attending Mass on Saturday morning, Jan. 24, I contemplated in prayer my upcoming bus ride to the Walk for Life march in San Francisco. A strange image entered my mind. Consider the beginning of life, the tiny embryo slowly unfolding and growing.

Nestled firmly inside his mother’s womb, the miracle of life takes form. The tiny life grows a little more each hour and day, a tiny heart beats, tiny limbs form. God-given life moves forward, protected in the warm womb. Suddenly, a metallic hook invades the womb, scraping side to side until suddenly the tiny life is ripped away, dragged out and thrown away as medical waste.

When the Walk began, a priest with a bullhorn began singing the refrain from “Immaculate Mary.” I joined in, and soon found myself singing the refrain, “Ave, Ave, Ave Maria; Ave, Ave Maria,” over and over again. I drifted too close to the hecklers, and suddenly a young man, screaming loudly and with such a disgusting, hateful expression, I became overwhelmed and shouted “Praise to Jesus Christ,” “Praise to Jesus Christ,” loud and clear, three or four times.

Suddenly, I didn’t hear the screamer any more, and the most wonderful feeling of peace came over me. I soon began singing “Ave Maria,” until we ran out of hecklers.

My prayer is that by invoking the holy name of Jesus Christ in that moment, that a conversion took place.

Richard L. Dullea Mill Valley

Coherent life ethic

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Stick with humor I very seldom read George Weigel’s column because I don’t agree with most of his views, but when I started to read his Jan. 23 column in Catholic San Francisco I was pleasantly surprised at his display of humor and his rational defense of George Bush’s humanitarian accomplishments.

But, sad to say, Mr. Weigel had to spoil it by denigrating W’s critics, especially by referring to Michael Moore as a “cretin.” I believe a cretin is defined as a stupid person, whereas Michael Moore is a very intelligent and creative individual who happens to have political and social convictions opposed to those of Mr. Weigel, who would do well to make more use of his apparently latent sense of humor.

Robert Sheehan San Mateo

L E T T E R S

Dr. Robert Rowden’s Jan. 23 letter contains misinformation that must be corrected for a proper understanding of Dignitas Personae.

We first need to be clear about when the life of a new human being begins. It is not at implantation. It is not 14 days after conception. It is at the moment of fertilization when the zygote is formed. This is when a new human genetic code, different from either the mother’s or father’s, comes into existence. From this point on there is no qualitative change in the human organism. It moves in a perfect continuum toward the formation of the embryo.

There is an intelligence here, an organizational principle that guides the single-celled zygote through its development.

It is true that 50 to 70 percent of fertilized eggs are spontaneously aborted through miscarriage or inability to implant in the womb. That fact does not justify calling the developing embryo biological material unworthy of recognition as a person. The possibility of twinning is often used to argue that an individual person does not exist in the zygote. But the question of whether the zygote will end up as one or two individuals does not make it any less deserving of our protection.

The second area of misunderstanding relates to the purpose of magisterial documents. In Dignitas Personae, the teaching authority of the Church applies moral judgments to new bioethical questions that

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concern society. Scientific advances in areas like embryonic stem cell research, cloning, in vitro fertilization and genetic engineering must be evaluated through the lens of morality.

There are moral absolutes that a society caught up in relativism cannot easily understand.

The beauty of authentic Catholic teaching is that it is coherent, unchanging and unchangeable. Science and technology have great potential for doing both good and evil, but they must be guided by an ethic grounded in human dignity. There is no doubt that Dignitas Personae provides us that coherent framework.

Vicki Evans Respect Life Coordinator Archdiocese of San Francisco

Timely tribute

George Weigel is a journalist gifted with the ability to delightfully turn a phrase or two. His article in praise of President Bush was thoughtful, timely and most appropriate to the occasion of President Bush leaving office. His description of Michael Moore as a cretin is beyond accurate!

Also, perhaps Dr. Rowden could explain further his letter concerning human reproduction. I don’t think that I fully comprehend everything that he is telling us.

Al Labourdette Novato

Burning Bush Nothing wrong with being pro-Bush.

After all, 27 percent of Americans are on George Weigel’s side. The other 76 percent see things differently; for example, some of the commandments have a bearing on the Bush performance. False witness: no weapons of mass destruction. Shalt not kill.Who is to be held responsible for the deaths and wounding and maiming for thousands upon thousands upon thousands of Americans, Iraqis, et al?

Stealing: our hard-earned tax money.

Totally wasted on a war based on deceits, lies, and the Deity-told-me-to-do-it mind of an inept, ineffective, inarticulate, and totally incompetent ID. Coveting a neighbors goods - oil and oil.

Dishonor one’s father. Big daddy was on TV sometime ago weeping because Jeb was stepping down as governor of Florida..

I think big daddy was crying because of the mess junior has made of this country and most of the civilized world. He could no longer clean up junior’s mess who claimed he was on a divine mission to invade Iraq.

Since each human is made in the image and likeness of God, do you think God would tell a human being to go and kill another human being made in God’s image and likeness? He would be destroying his own image, right? God would never tell someone to declare war on another country.

SinceBush and his fundies and evangies think this way, they seem to be worshiping the wrong totem pole.It would never happen that way.

Victor Popovitch San Mateo

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Guest Commentary

A postcard from Barack My sister Cynthia Norris was director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries for the Archdiocese of Chicago in 1987 when the Church nationwide was preparing to send delegates to the historic Sixth National Black Catholic Congress in Washington that spring. Nearly 100 years had elapsed since the mostly annual national congresses ended abruptly after the fifth one in 1894.

But not everyone excited about participating in the sixth congress could be among the 1,500 delegates or observers anticipated. So, for people locally to address black Catholic concerns, the Chicago OBM sponsored a mini-congress at Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica two months prior to the national one in May. One of the facilitators invited to do a workshop on community organizing was a man in his 20s making a name for himself as a social activist, Barack Hussein Obama II. Obama had moved to Chicago after graduating from New York’s Columbia University, where he majored in political science while specializing in international relations. In Chicago, he became the director of the Developing Communities Project, a church-based community organization that included Catholic parishes on Chicago’s far South Side. He worked there for three years from June 1985 to May 1988.

He helped set up a job training program, a college pre-

paratory tutoring program and a tenants’ rights organization.

He worked too as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.

In the summer of 1988, Obama reportedly traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he finally met several of his Kenyan relatives.

But it was during his trip to France that he remembered with a postcard the OBM director who had engaged him for the mini-congress and who had, per his request, written a letter of reference for him when he applied to Harvard Law School a year later.

He wrote: “Cynthia: Hope all goes well with you. ... I wander around Paris, the most beautiful, alluring, maddening city I have ever seen. One is tempted to chuck the whole organized/political business and be a painter on the banks of the Seine. You’ll be amused to know that since I don’t know a word of French, I’m left speechless most of the time.

Wish you a fruitful summer. Love, Barack.”

They lost touch after Obama entered Harvard with all of its demands. At the end of his first year, Obama’s good grades and performance in a writing competition prompted his selection as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. The next year he was elected its president; it was a full-time volunteer position.

As editor-in-chief, he supervised a staff of 80 editors.

After graduating with a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991, Obama came back to Chicago.

A year later he married Michelle Robinson, whom he met in 1989 when he was a sumCarole Norris mer associate at the Greene Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. Robinson was his adviser then.

My sister, now director of social concerns at St. John the Baptist Church in Silver Spring, Md., said recently that she will give the president-elect time to settle into the Oval Office, and then she’ll drop him a line reminding him of that postcard showing Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral and verbalizing a fantasy to “chuck the whole organized/political business.”

Her message to him, she said, would be brief: “So glad you didn’t!”

Carole Norris Greene is Catholic News Service features editor.

The Catholic Difference

The Word and the Church Although it was one of the signature innovations of the Second Vatican Council, the Synod of Bishops rarely receives the rapt attention of the people of the Church. Yet Synods have been the occasions for some of the most important decisions and documents of recent Catholic history.

The 1985 Extraordinary Synod, which marked Vatican II’s 20th anniversary, decisively shifted the interpretation of the Council from a template of discontinuity and virtual revolution to a template of continuity, retrieval, and renewal: the notion that the Catholic Church began anew between 1962 and 1965 was buried at the 1985 Synod, even if some people (akin to 90-year old Japanese soldiers on remote Pacific islands) haven’t gotten the word.

The 1990 Synod on priestly formation led to the 1992 apostolic exhortation Pastores Dabo Vobis [I Will Give You Shepherds], which confirmed the sacral character of the ordained priesthood and immensely influenced the “John Paul II generation” of younger priests.

The 1994 Synod on religious life eventually yielded Vita Consecrata [The Consecrated Life], the magna carta of religious communities that are growing rather than dying. The pre-Jubilee regional Synods gave us, among other things, Ecclesia in Europa [The Church in Europe], John Paul II’s prescient analysis of Europe’s current crisis of civilizational morale.

What of this past year’s Synod on “The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church”?

Writing in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore

Romano, Father Robert Imbelli of Boston College, a Synod observer, made several trenchant observations about key themes in the Synod that one hopes will take root in the “life and mission of the Church:” ● The “Word of God” is a multi-dimensional concept.

It includes holy Scripture but is not confined to it. The Bible is the written witness to the fact that “the Word of God is ultimately a Person. It is Jesus Christ himself who is the full and final embodiment of God’s Word ... [which] ‘became flesh and dwelt among us’ [John 1:14].” ● Thus, as important as the Bible is, Christianity is not so much the “religion of the book” as “the religion of the person: the person of Jesus Christ who calls all into personal communion with the Father through him.” ● Jesus is the key to unlocking the scriptural treasury.

The Bible isn’t a random collection of books. Because the biblical witness always aims at Jesus and testifies to him, Jesus Christ is the “principle of interpretation” that should guide our reading of both testaments. ● Historical-critical approaches to biblical study are important, because the Word came into history. Still, historical criticism has its limits; it can tell us important things about the past, but the Bible is not just a book about the past. It “challenges [us] in the present, and [it] opens [us] to a future fulfillment.” Therefore, the Eucharist, where the living Christ opens the book of the Word of God for his people, is a privileged place to “hear” the Scriptures. And because the Bible speaks of now and tomorrow, not just a distant yesterday, dif-

ferent methods of reading Scripture are important. ● Biblical study and dogmatic theology need each other. If biblical scholars ignore theologians and approach the sacred text as an entomologist approachGeorge Weigel es a dead bug, Scripture will cease to be the “soul of theology.” Conversely, theology without Scripture is theology that “no longer has a foundation,” as Benedict XVI put it at the Synod. ● Biblical preaching should be “mystagogic”: bishops, priests and deacons should break open the biblical texts so that they lead to “a life-giving encounter with Jesus Christ, the very Word incarnate.” ● Receiving the Word of God in its many dimensions should make the Church less self-focused and more intent on its mission. Christ, not the Church, is the light of the world. By preaching and witnessing to the Word incarnate, the Church lives its vocation and best serves the world.

In sum: discipleship is not just a question of our “appropriating” God’s Word, but of letting the Word of God take hold of us – and shaking us up, when and if necessary.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Spirituality for Life

Our struggle to celebrate It’s hard to celebrate properly. We want to, but we don’t know how.

Mostly we celebrate badly because our idea of celebration is to overdo things. We try to celebrate by taking ordinary things (eating, drinking, singing, telling stories, playing) to excess. Celebration, for many of us, means over-eating, over-drinking, loud socializing, drunken singing and staying at parties into the wee hours, all in the hope that somehow in all that excess we will achieve celebration (whatever that means). But, for all our frenzied effort, there is precious little genuine enjoyment.

Occasionally we do succeed and genuinely celebrate. At those times we feel ourselves more deeply joined to others, widened, made larger, made more aware, made more playful, and sense more deeply the love and joy at the heart of life.

That rarely happens. It never happens when we are in frenzy.

Too often our celebrations are followed by a hangover (of one kind or another).

The reasons for this are complex, deep, and mostly hidden from us. Perhaps the primary reason is that we seem to lack the capacity to simply enjoy things, to take life, pleasure, love and enjoyment as a gift from God, pure

and simple. It’s not that we lack the capacity, it’s more that this capacity is generally buried under a mound of guilt. We cannot enjoy legitimate pleasure because somehow, however unconsciously, we sense what is articulated in the ancient myths, namely, that in enjoying pleasure we are somehow stealing something from God. We tend to blame religion for this, but this neurosis is universal, as much outside religious circles as inside them.

Somehow, most everyone feels guilt in pleasure.

And because of this, we tend to alternate between rebellious enjoyment (“pleasure we steal from God”) and joyless duty (a dutiful life without genuine pleasure and enjoyment).

We never seem to be able to genuinely celebrate. I say genuinely because, paradoxically, our incapacity to enjoy is the very thing that pushes us into pseudo-celebration, hedonism, an unhealthy pursuit of pleasure.

Simply put, because we pursue enjoyment too much and substitute excess for enjoyment.

This often leads to a dangerous confusion wherein we substitute pleasure for enjoyment, excess for ecstasy, and the obliteration of consciousness for heightened awareness. The champagne-soaked athletes celebrating a major

victory and the mindless frenzy of a Mardi Gras give us all the video footage we need to understand this. But excess isn’t enjoyment, nor is obliterated consciousness heightened awareness.

Father The very purpose Ron Rolheiser of celebration is to heighten and intensify the meaning of something (a birthday, a wedding, a major achievement, a victory, a graduation, a birth, the beginning or ending of a year). These events demand to be shared, heightened, trumpeted. We have a congenital need to celebrate and this is healthy.

To celebrate an occasion is to heighten it, share it, savor it, enlarge it. We also celebrate to link ourselves more fully to others, to be playful, to intensify a feeling, to bring ourselves ROLHEISER, page 14

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Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Scripture reflection

Deuteronomy 18:15-20; Psalm 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9; 1 Corinthians 7:32-35; Mark 1:21-28 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DEUTORONOMY DT 18:15-20 Moses spoke to all the people, saying: “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin to him you shall listen. This is exactly what you requested of the Lord, your God, at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, ‘Let us not again hear the voice of the Lord, our God, nor see this great fire any more, lest we die.’

And the Lord said to me, ‘This was well said. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin, and will put my words into his mouth; he shall tell them all that I command him. Whoever will not listen to my words which he speaks in my name, I myself will make him answer for it. But if a prophet presumes to speak in my name an oracle that I have not commanded him to speak, or speaks in the name of other gods, he shall die.’”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9 R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord; let us acclaim the rock of our salvation.

Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us joyfully sing psalms to him.

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the Lord who made us.

For he is our God, and we are the people he shepherds, the flock he guides.

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

Oh, that today you would hear his voice: “Harden not your hearts as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the desert, Where your fathers tempted me; they tested me though they had seen my works.”

R. If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 7:32-35 Brothers and sisters: I should like you to be free of anxieties. An unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord. But a married man is anxious about the things of the world, how he may please his wife, and he is divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is anxious about the things of the Lord, so that she may be holy in both body and spirit. A married woman, on the other hand, is anxious about the things of the world, how she may please her husband. I am telling you this for your own benefit, not to impose a restraint upon you, but for the sake of propriety and adherence to the Lord without distraction.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 1:21-28 Then they came to Capernaum, and on the Sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority and not as the scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, “What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!” Jesus rebuked him and said, “Quiet! Come out of him!” The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him. All were amazed and asked one another, “What is this?

A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.”

His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.

Statue of St. Paul the Apostle in front of the Basilica di San Pietro

SISTER ELOISE ROSEBNBLATT

Readings provide insights into the role of the prophet Deuteronomy is composed largely as a final speech from Moses to the Israelites about how they should insure doctrinal orthodoxy and fidelity to the covenant, provide for liturgical celebrations, interpret laws, settle disputes, establish social structures, maintain tribal relations, and preserve a spirit of gratitude to God. Moses, like a beloved parent on the verge of death, gives far-ranging instructions to reassure the community. The actual writing of Deuteronomy is retrospective, much later than the time Moses actually lived, probably after the time of King David. The pastoral authors reassure worriers that prophets will continue to arise from within the community, even after Moses has died.

Who will such a prophet-teacher be? The one raised up will be “one of you own kin.”

The emergence of such a person is not a sign that God has imposed top-down authority on the community. Rather, the prophet is an answer to the people’s prayer. This passage makes the notion of “prophet” domestic and personal, countering an image of the fiery leader and challenger we sometimes associate with figures like Amos and Ezechiel.

The prophet is an interpreter of what God is saying, and just like Moses, speaks for the divine intentions, for structures that should exist, and how laws should be interpreted. The prophet is not an independent authority over the people, but someone who leads, guides and counsels, as God would do, as Moses has done.

Paul in Corinthians speaks about the attentive love a husband has for his wife, and a wife for her husband. Paul deals with a question peculiar to his time: If the end of the world is close at hand, should we take a chance and get married now or not? This reflects a common belief in the early Church that the end of the world was at hand. At this moment Paul thought the emphasis should be on watchful expectation and preparation for the reappearance of Jesus. He didn’t oppose marriage, but he thought it wiser that unmarried people not set up new households expecting that domestic life would continue for many decades to come. Unfortunately, some

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to ecstasy, and, more commonly, just to rest and unwind. But too often we try to create that enjoyment through excess and seek ecstasy of heightened self-awareness in obliteration of our consciousness.

Small wonder we trudge home with a hangover, emptier, more tired, more alone. A hangover is an infallible sign that somewhere we missed a signpost.

But we must continue to try. Christ came and declared a wedding, a feast, a celebration, at the heart of life. He shocked people as much by the way he enjoyed his life as by the way he gave it up. In the end, he was rejected as much for his message of enjoyment as for his message of asceticism.

That is still true. We tend to read the Gospels selectively, to ignore Jesus’ positive challenge to enjoy without guilt.

And in that lies our problem: Because we are rarely challenged religiously and in the name of Jesus to enjoy, deeply and without guilt, the very human pleasures of our lives. Our healthy, God-given need for pleasure and enjoyment tends to go underground. We still seek pleasure and enjoyment, but now we split them off from what is religious and holy and “steal them from God” rather than enjoy them simply and religiously.

God has given us permission to enjoy life and its pleasures. That truth too needs to be a central part of our religious teaching. Pleasure is God’s gift, not the forbidden fruit.

and Cantonese. “It certainly does not give us the right to commit murder. These laws are important for our young girls.”

Singer Diana Nagy, who also spoke at the rally, said her own crisis pregnancy at 15 brought her closer to God. “It saved my life,” Nagy said. “I was heading down the wrong path. As long as God gives me a voice, I will spend the rest of my life fighting for the unborn.”

Nagy gave her son up for adoption, and said that although she wanted to care for him, she did not believe she was ready. Nagy recently reunited with her son, Jarren Williams, and introduced him to the crowd.

Other speakers included: • Karen Shablin of Feminists for Life, a former member of the National Abortion Rights Action League.

Shablin said she regretted having an abortion earlier in life.

“I could have achieved everything I have today if I had my child or had given it up for adoption,” Shablin said. “I should have demanded more for myself and of myself.”

• The Rev. Clenard Childress, senior pastor of New Calvary Baptist Church in Montclair, N.J., and founder of BlackGenocide.org, who encouraged increased pro-life efforts in the wake of Barack Obama’s inauguration. “We thank God today for this moment,” Childress said. “We’re going to rise in this hour as never before. You’re not going away. I’m not going away. This is our moment.”

• Mother Agnes Mary of the New York-based Sisters of Life, who said the message of life must be one of love.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser can be contacted through his website: www.ronrolheiser.com.

readers in the generation after Paul thought he opposed marriage, that Christians should give up sexual activity, and that marriage was less virtuous than living ascetically as a single person.

These distortions, blamed on Paul, are a misreading of his perspective. Authentic Christian teaching reverences the body, supports marriage commitments, and promotes attentive, mutual love of spouses for each other. Like Paul, we finally accommodate ourselves to live with uncertainty about when the end of the world will come.

Mark describes the synagogue of Capernaum as a place where Jesus confronts demonic forces. How odd that a demon should go to temple services, but how appropriate that liturgy is a place where evil can be overcome.

This is the first miracle Jesus performs in Mark, so we are to understand it as “programmatic” for his Gospel.

The good work of Jesus begins with driving evil out of a place dedicated to God. Who knows how many divisions and distractions this poor possessed man created in the community?

And how helpless and disempowered the rest of the worshippers felt, week after week? No one knew what to say to the man — or the demon — that would quiet it once and for all, and restore peace to the man and the congregation.

Was this an act of “brief therapy”? Jesus speaks authoritatively and drives out the idea, or the feeling that alienates the man from his true self. What happens to one member is a benefit to everyone; amazement leads to recognition, and recognition leads to gratitude.

The Communion antiphon invites us to personal meditation, with assurance of God’s blessing, healing, and restoration to rightmindedness: “Let your face shine on your servant, and save me by your love. Lord, keep me from shame, for I have called on you.”

Sister of Mercy Eloise Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is a biblical theologian, and attorney at law in private practice in San Jose. Her focus is employment law and rights of women in the Church.

“Let us pass on the love,” Mother Agnes Mary said. “Let us tell the truth. Let us change the world.”

Among first-time participants was Dr. Olivia Hsia, a Fremont physician who survived an abortion 55 years ago. Hsia said signs carried by fellow demonstrators with messages about how abortion hurts women hit home for her.

“We need to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves,” Hsia said. “I should know. I was one.”

Hsia said what she called the hypocrisy of the medical field angered her.

“As doctors, we pledge an oath to do everything to save life,” Hsia said. “I was in China after the (Sichuan) earthquake. At the local zoo, they had set up 24-hour nursing care for a panda expecting a child. We give so much care for an unborn panda bear. What about the unborn child? We’re so prideful. It hurts God’s heart.”

As the march began, the crowd protesting the event walked alongside carrying pro-choice signs and shouting slogans like, “Pro-life remains a lie, you don’t care if women die,” and “Not the church, not the state, women must decide our fate.”

Marchers had been instructed not to engage with counter demonstrators. Little interaction occurred along the parade route.

Few counter protesters continued along the Embarcadero past the initial piers west of the Ferry Building.

Most onlookers watched in silence as the marchers walked along the parade route. Many snapped pictures, particularly in the tourist heavy Fisherman’s Wharf area. A few clapped, drawing loud and positive response from Walk for Life participants.

“We’ve heard nothing but positive feedback,” said organizer Muntean. “We’re quite proud with the outcome. It rejuvenates and reinvigorates our mission.”

For more information, visit www.walkforlifewc.com.

Additional photos are posted at www.catholic-sf.org.

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obituary

Oldest Daughter of Charity dies Engaging educator remembered The oldest Daughter of Charity in Orleans, La. the world, whose first assignment was Immediately after her first mission at in the Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. Vincent School, she went to Poyang, St. Vincent School in San China, to care for orphaned Francisco (1919-25), passed children at Our Lady of the away Jan. 19 at the age of Miraculous Medal Mission.

108.

Because of political condiA religious for 90 years, tions in China, she returned Sister Esther Diaz returned to the United States in to St. Vincent School after 1927. assignments in and out of Her assignments over the country for a second the years also took her to teaching tour from 1942Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; 46.

New Orleans, La.; Chicago, S h e d i e d a t S e t o n Sister Esther Diaz, DC Ill.; and Evansville. She Residence in Evansville, held bachelors degrees in Ind., where she had resided since 1991. Spanish and English.

Her funeral Mass was celebrated Jan. 23 Sister Esther is survived by many at Seton Chapel there, and interment was nieces, nephews and cousins, mostly at St. Joseph Cemetery, Evansville. from New York and New Jersey, and her Born Aug. 21, 1900, in Brooklyn, Sisters in Community.

N.Y, Sister Esther joined the Daughters A memorial donation may be made of Charity in 1918 in St. Louis, Mo., to the Daughters of Charity Foundation, and completed her secondary educa- 9400 New Harmony Rd., Evansville tion at St. Joseph High School in New 47720.

Sister Benilda Desmond died Christmas Day. the Dominican Sisters said. “Sister Benilda She was 80 years old and a Dominican Sister was much loved for her warm personality of Mission San Jose for 60 years. A funeral and her engaging teaching style. Throughout Mass was celebrated Jan. 3 at her educational career she was the congregation’s motherhouse instrumental in helping students in Fremont with interment on the learn and model Catholic social motherhouse grounds. teachings. She encouraged the Born Lillian Marie in Los formation of vibrant justice Angeles, Sister Benilda was action groups especially at the “proud of her Irish roots,” high school level.” according to a release announcLocally, Sister Benilda ing her death. “She treasured taught at St. Elizabeth schools her rich family heritage and was in Oakland with additional able to make several trips to her service at schools in Southern family homeland.”

Sister Benilda Desmond California.

The late religious attended Known for her love of Sacred schools in Los Angeles before entering the Scripture, she was active in adult education and Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose. She faith formation for 20 years at the parish level completed undergraduate work at Queen of near Los Angeles.

Holy Rosary College later earning graduate Survivors include Presentation Sister degrees in history at Catholic University of Bridget O’Leary who was with Sister Benilda America and in biblical studies from Providence at the motherhouse when she died.

College in Rhode Island.

Remembrances may be sent to the “This preparation made her a dynamic edu- Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 43326 cator whose students knew she loved teaching,” Mission Blvd., Fremont 94539.

Fr. Keane . . .

at parishes including Holy Name of Jesus and St. Anne of the Sunset in San Francisco and St. Catherine of Siena in Burlingame. He retired in 1987 and served as the Archbishop’s Delegate to retired priests until 1990.

Survivors include his sister, Mary Piombo, and brother, Jack Keane, as well as nephews and

■ Continued from page 5 just what Pat Keane did. He left the world a better place.”

The priests became friends in 1942 at the

now-closed St. Joseph Seminary in Mountain View. “Pat was always there,” Father O’Connell said. “He was considerate, kind, generous, thoughtful and caring. He was a truly remarkable man. Pat will be missed. He was an exemplary parish priest.”

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Mendelsohn’s arts criticisms open eyes of mind and heart “HOW BEAUTFUL IT IS AND HOW EASILY IT CAN BE BROKEN” by Daniel Mendelsohn. Harper, 456 pp. $26.95

By Father Basil De Pinto A mouthful, I know, but in this case don’t judge the book by its title. The lines are by Tennessee Williams, from “The Glass Menagerie,” and more about them later. The essays are by the estimable critic Daniel Mendelsohn, most of them familiar to readers of The NewYork Review of Books, where they first appeared. His wide-ranging interest in the arts – theater, film, music and literature – is valuable as a guide not only to performance practice but to setting the works he deals with in a living historical context.

The word “critic” is largely abused today, conferred on newspaper reviewers who (true confessions) see a show or read a book and then dash off a few hundred words to meet a deadline. Of deep reflection and careful analysis not much goes into this kind of writing (well, some of us do try – witness for the defense).

Mr. Mendelsohn is a critic in the classical sense, following a tradition that goes back as

far as Samuel Johnson and extends at least to T. S. Eliot. His most outstanding trait is his ability to put his finger on the essential meaning of a work, to elucidate its inner core and express that in crisp, no-nonsense prose.

His work shows the effect of concentrated study and serious reflection, which leads the reader to a high degree of trust in the critic’s judgment.

Is he occasionally excessive and onesided? Yes. (I think he is too hard on Ted Hughes.) On the other hand, he is refreshingly devoid of cant and is most persuasive when pricking the balloons of Hollywood and television. But legitimate theater comes in for its whacks as well.

A good example of his approach is his consideration of a recent Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie.” In a number of his plays Williams returns almost obsessively to the beautiful in life and how often it is destroyed, whether by selfishness or greed or plain incapacity to understand. This is exemplified most often in female characters who have a vulnerability, literally a pathos about them, that leads them to doom, to a smashed existence.

In our post-feminist age that might seem

the play as the author conceived it. You wind up with a shell from which the inner life has been removed. This is what happens, in a similar field, when a stage director, completely clueless, sets a Mozart opera in a chintzy diner or a Trump tower penthouse (I’m not making this up; it has been done).

In reviewing productions of this sort, Mendelsohn is not playing the role of curmudgeon, but showing deep respect for the creative artist whose genius gave us the work, as opposed to the interpreter with delusions of superior wisdom. Precisely because we are so far from the author’s world – Euripides, Shakespeare, yes, Williams – it is incumbent on us to seek the author’s meaning and not impose one of our own. Mendelsohn is such a dependable guide because he never jumps to the quick, easy conclusion. With slow, subtle shifts in reasoning he examines the great works and probes reflectively to discover there not his own views but those of the originator.

Reading this kind of criticism opens the eyes of mind and heart and happily makes all things new.

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insulting, or more often dated and out of synch with current sensibilities. But if you try to update the play, to wrench it out of its precise cultural context – the old South, male social dominance – and make it “relevant” for folks today, you destroy the essence of

Father Basil De Pinto is a frequent contributor on the arts scene.

‘Inkheart’ celebrates reading and close family relationships NEW YORK (CNS) - The power of fiction and the importance of close family relationships are celebrated in the lavish fantasy adventure “Inkheart” (Warner Bros.).

Director Iain Softley’s adaptation of German writer Cornelia Funke’s phenomenally successful 2004 international best-seller for young adults (on The New York Times bestseller list for 70 weeks) – the first volume in a trilogy she completed in 2008 – includes some moderate action violence that might frighten the very youngest viewers, but is otherwise acceptable for all.

At the heart of this paean to reading is bookbinder and book lover Mortimer “Mo” Folchart (Brendan Fraser), who accidentally discovers he is a so-called “Silver Tongue,” meaning he has the power to bring imaginary characters to life simply by reading aloud.

This has proved to be anything but a blessing, however, as his recitation of the titular novel to his then 3-year-old daughter, Meggie (Eliza Hope Bennett), nine years earlier not only brought to life the well-meaning but weak-willed juggler Dustfinger (Paul Bettany) but also archvillain Capricorn (Andy Serkis).

Worse still, Mo’s beloved wife, Resa (Sienna Guillory), disappeared into the tale as these characters emerged from it.

So with the help of her Aunt Elinor (Helen Mirren) and the book’s eccentric author, Fenoglio (Jim Broadbent), Meggie teams with

Vatican YouTube . . .

■ Continued from cover news videos that are aired on the Vatican Radio website.

Officials said Pope Benedict “was personally informed about the project and sees it as a positive step” forward for the Church.

In his World Communications Day message, Pope Benedict asked young Catholics to use their computers, Facebook accounts, blogs and Internet video posts to share with peers the joy of faith in Christ.

The Vatican’s ad-free YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/vatican, each day will offer one to three short video news clips of the pope or major Vatican events with audio commentary in English, Italian, Spanish and German.

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Brendan Fraser stars in a scene from the movie “Inkheart.”

her consistently caring father in a relentless quest to return the homesick Dustfinger and the scheming Capricorn to their own world and to retrieve her beloved mother.

Along the way, Meggie is shown to share both Mo and Elinor’s passion for the printed word, even demonstrating her knowledge of rare books when her angry aunt discovers the child in her cherished library.

Cinematographer Roger Pratt makes the

Vatican Radio to produce the audio commentary.

Viewers will be able to leave comments, distribute the videos by e-mailing or messaging the links, and share the videos with friends on various social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, as well as submit the Vatican video links to news aggregator sites like Digg.

Unlike many videos available on YouTube, which viewers can rate according to YouTube’s one- to five-star grading system, the Vatican videos cannot be rated or embedded onto external websites or blogs. The Vatican channel’s home page, however, can be embedded elsewhere.

Just a few hours after its launch, the Vatican channel recorded more than 12,000 views and enrolled more than 500 free subscribers who will receive regular updates of new Vatican video uploads.

most of the stunning Italian landscape, be it Elinor’s tranquil lakeside estate or Capricorn’s sinister mountaintop castle. And the appearance of Toto and the flying monkeys from “The Wizard of Oz” – read into reality along with a unicorn and the Minotaur of Greek mythology – adds lightness.

Best of all, “Inkheart” may inspire some of its targeted youngsters to lay their text messaging and video games aside in favor of reading or, parents or guardians willing, listening to a good old-fashioned yarn.

The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-I – general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG – parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

Mulderig is on the staff of the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

More reviews are available online at www.usccb.org/movies.

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

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

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

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

KSFB Catholic Radio 1260 AM offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith – visit www.ihradio.org.

EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229; Astound Channel 80; San Bruno Cable Channel 143; DISH Satellite Channel 261; Direct TV Channel 370.

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Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life First Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 9 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468.

Feb. 1, 8, 22, 2-4 p.m.: “How to Mangle Your Marriage in Three Easy Lessons,” a Sunday afternoon conversation at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. Lecture, input and discussion presented by Dominican Father David O’Rourke, MFT. Call (650) 325-5614.

Feb. 4, 7 p.m.: St. Dominic’s Social Justice Council presents Franciscan Father Louis Vitale at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco.

Father Vitale is a well-known social activist and former pastor of St. Boniface Parish in San Francisco. The priest’s talk will focus on violence as being “ineffective as a method of true change.” Free will offerings will benefit non-violence efforts. Reception follows. Call (415) 567-7824 for more information.

Feb. 10, 7 p.m.: “Emergence of the Feminine Paradigm,” in 21st century leadership, a conversation at Notre Dame de Namur University’s Cunningham Chapel, 1500 Ralston Rd. in Belmont. Free and open to the community. Sponsored by the school’s Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement. Call (650) 508-4120 or e-mail dstannardfriel@ndnu.edu.

Feb. 12, 8:15 a.m.: Notre Dame Sister Roseanne Murphy tells the story of late Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang who was murdered for her work on behalf of poor South American farmers on Feb. 12 several years ago. Takes place in library of Notre Dame Elementary School 1200 Notre Dame Ave. off Ralston in Belmont.

Call Jodie Penner at (650) 344-1205 or e-mail jpenner@ nde.org.

Feb. 17: The Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought at University of San Francisco announces its Spring Events beginning Feb. 17 with John T. Noonan Jr. in conversation with visiting social justice chair, Msgr. Robert W. McElroy, 4 p.m. in the Berman Room of the school’s Fromm Hall.

Topics include “A Church that Can and Cannot Change: The Development of Catholic Moral Teaching.” For full events schedule, directions and more information, call (415) 422- 5200 or visit www.usfca.edu/lanecenter.

Mar. 14, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.: Training for New Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. Offered by the Office of Worship. $15.00 fee at Corpus Christi Church, San Francisco. Please pre-register at (415) 614-5505 or buchsiebm@sfarchdiocese.org.

Mar. 21, 10 a.m. - noon: Training for Communion to the Sick and Homebound. Offered by the Office of Worship. $5.00 fee; waived for previous attendees.

To be held at Corpus Christi Church, San Francisco.

Please pre-register at (415) 614-5505 or buchsiebm@ sfarchdiocese.org.

Datebook Feb. 7, 7 – 10 p.m.: Little Children’s Aid Junior Auxiliary honors Karen Leach, a member of St. Stephen Parish and active member of the LCA Juniors for more than 25 years, with its annual Alice Phelan Sullivan Award at Forest Hills Club House, 381 Magellan Ave. in San Francisco. The honoree teaches kindergarten at St. Brendan School in San Francisco and is a past president of the LCA Jrs. Evening includes silent auction, hosted bar, hors d’oeuvres and entertainment by the Hot Frittatas. Tickets are $75 per person. Contact Mary Rotunno at (415) 310-1315. Jack and Marie Fitzpatrick, left, who won the Alice Phelan Sullivan Award in 2002 with this year’s winner Karen Leach and her husband, Tom. Mar. 14 and Mar. 21 (Session I & II): Training for New Lectors. Offered by the Office of Worship. $20.00 fee. Session I: Mar. 14, 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Session II: Mar. 21, 10 a.m. - noon, at Corpus Christi Church, San Francisco. Please pre-register at (415) 614-5505 or buchsiebm@sfarchdiocese.org.

Food & Fun Jan. 31, 8 p.m. – midnight: Mardi Gras Zydeco Dance at St. Finn Barr’s Goode Hall, 415 Edna St. at Hearst in San Francisco. Tickets are $15 in advance/$20 at door.

Call (415) 585-4524 or (415) 333-3627.

Feb. 6, 7 a.m.: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae for Mass with breakfast and talk following. Guest speaker is Father Tom Daly, director of vocations for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and president of Marin Catholic High School. Members breakfast $7/visitors $10. Call (415) 461-0704 weekdays or email sugaremy@aol.com.

Feb. 7, 6 p.m.: 13th Annual Holy Name Crab Cioppino Dinner, Ryan Hall 40th Ave. at Lawton in San Francisco.

Tickets are $45 each /$40 seniors/$10 for children age 6 – 12. Menu includes Father Don D’Angelo’s “Heavenly Garlic Bread” as well as appetizers, crab cioppino, dessert, with hosted bar and live music for dancing. Call (415) 664-8590 or visit parish center, 38th Ave. at Lawton.

Feb. 7, 5:30 p.m.: Crab Cioppino Dinner Extravaganza benefiting Mercy High School, San Francisco In Barrett Hall, 3250 19th Ave in San Francisco. Tickets are $40 per person or $75 per couple. Call (415) 334-7941 or e-mail events@mercyhs.org.

Feb. 9, 5:30 p.m.: “To the Power of Ten,” an evening commemorating first decade of “Safehouse” an interfaith alliance program helping women leaving prostitution. An evening of art, fun, dining and reflection takes place at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Guests include Carolyn Tyler of ABC 7 News; Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey; San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris. Tickets are $75. Call San Francisco Network Ministries at (415) 928-6209 or e-mail SusieWong58@aol.com. For more about the project, visit www.Sfsafehouse.org.

Feb. 12, noon: Reunion lunch for class of ’57 from St. Ignatius, Sacred Heart and Archbishop Riordan high schools at Caesar’s Restaurant, Bay St. at Powell in San Francisco. Tickets at $35 include lunch, tip and contribution to Riordan scholarship fund. Contact John Strain, SI, at (415) 492-3310 or e-mail bigstrains@ sbcglobal.net; Tom Doonan, SH, at (415) 621-6324 or e-mail tobenapa@aol.com; Mike Farrah, Riordan, at

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Feb. 14, 7 p.m.: Valentine Zydeco Dance at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, 1122 Jamestown Ave. at 3rd St in San Francisco. Adults only, 21 years of age and older.Tickets are $15 in advance and $20 at the door.

Free dance lessons 7 – 8 p.m. with Olivia Guillory.

Dance music by Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic. Call (415) 374-6698 or (925) 522-8727.

Feb. 28, 6:30 p.m.: Annual “All You Can Eat” Crab Feed sponsored by Serra Club of San Francisco at St. Anne Parish’s Moriarty Hall, Judah at Funston in San Francisco. Tickets are $45 per person. No-host bar. Call Joan Higgins at (415) 333-2422 or e-mail at jhigg2390@aol.com.

Feb. 28, 5:30 p.m.: Cioppino Dinner and Silent Auction benefiting St. Thomas More School, St. Thomas More Way and Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. Tickets are $40 per person including complete dinner and wine.

Visit www.stthomasmoreschool.org March 1, 5:30 p.m.: Columban Fathers Annual Dinner and Raffle at United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Guests of honor are Nora Mullane and Terry and Dan Kelleher. Tickets at $40 per person include pot roast or chicken pomadora dinner.

Call Pam Naughton at (415) 566-1936 or Anne Quilter at (415) 586-8017.

Vocations/Meetings Third Fridays, 8 p.m.: Refresh your soul with a moment of peace and quiet away from the busyness of life. Listen to beautiful music and join others in prayer and song around the cross at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont. For further information, contact Maria Shao, (408) 839-2068, or maria49830@aol.com or Sister Beth Quire, OP (510) 449-7554 or beth@msjdominicans.

Feb. 12, noon: Meeting of the Serra Club of San Francisco at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Street off Mission Street in San Francisco. Jesuit Brother Douglas Draper, retired Dean of Students at St. Ignatius College Preparatory is guest speaker.

Tickets for lunch are $16 per person. Non-members are welcome. Contact Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224 or e-mail pecrudodds@aol.com.

Special Liturgies Feb. 7, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Call (650) 756-2060 or visit www.holycrosscemeteries. com.

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Jan. 31, 5 p.m.: Rites commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Salesian Sisters’ service in the United States at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, 666 Filbert St. on Washington Square in San Francisco. North Beach liturgy includes concert as well as slide show chronicling the Sisters’ work in the local Church. Call Frank Lavin at (415) 276-2166 for more information.

Feb. 21, 10:30 a.m.: Bishop William Justice presides at Mass for secular and lay orders of the Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. Thomas More Church, Brotherhood Way at Junipero Serra Blvd. in San Francisco. Reception follows. Call Mary Munden at (408) 730-5385 or Linda Silverio at (415) 239-4200 for more information.

Reunions Mar. 7, 1 p.m.: Were you a Scout with Troop 343 in San Francisco or Daly City? Boy Scout Troop 343 at St. Thomas More is celebrating its 50th anniversary and is inviting all former and current Troop members and their families. Join in remembering the history of Troop 343 and catch up with buddies from years past. For more information, e-mail emailtroop343@gmail.com or visit this website to find out more about current troop happenings www.sftroop343.org Sept. 26, 27, 2009: St. Elizabeth School in San Francisco marks its 60th anniversary. Graduates, former students, staff and friends of St. Elizabeth Elementary School please mark their calendars for a weekend celebration and e-mail your contact information to stelizabethalumni@yahoo.com to receive detailed information regarding the weekend’s events.

Class of ’59 from San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Academy is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Maria Elena Keizer at (415) 924-9756 or Keizerm@ sutterhealth.org San Francisco’s Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School is ramping up to an all-school reunion in 2011. Alumni, former students, friends should visit www.holyname-sf.org or www.holynamesf.com Holy Name’s class of ’83 will hold a reunion in December.

Classmates should contact Julie at Julie_popovic@ yahoo.com or Anne at annecarew@yahoo.com The class of ’72 is also planning an event. Contact Donna at smardypants@comcast.net

Consolation Ministry Grief support groups meet at the following parishes.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 558-1015.

St. Dunstan, Millbrae; call Barbara Cappel at (650) 692-7543. Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-0478. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 3663802. St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sister Patricia at (650) 589-2800.

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

San Francisco: St. Dominic; call Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824; St. Finn Barr (bilingual); call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823. St. Gabriel; call Monica Williams at (415) 350-9464.

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CALL 415-614-5642 FAX 415-614-5641 EMAIL penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

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Help Wanted We are looking for full or part time

RNs, LVNs, CNAs, Caregivers

(415) 794-7308

In-home care in San Francisco, Marin County, peninsula Nursing care for children in San Francisco schools

Room for Rent

If you are generous, honest, compassionate, respectful, and want to make a difference, send us your resume:

$ 625/month. Quiet, Kentfield nrbrhd., Marin County. 12’x12’ room, shared K & B. Seeking mature woman, late 30’s – early 60’s, nonsmoker. $625 deposit + references.

Pls. call Pat at (415) 258-1753.

Nice rental.

ADVERTISING SALES For The Largest Publisher of Catholic Church Bulletins This is a Career Opportunity!

• Generous Commissions • Excellent Benefit Package • Minimal Travel • Stong Office Support • Work in Your Community

Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Fax: 415-435-0421 Email: info@sncsllc.com Voice: 415-435-1262

PRINCIPAL JOB POSTING Immaculate Conception Academy 3625 – 24th Street, San Francisco, California 94110 Immaculate Conception Academy, a Dominican, Catholic, collegepreparatory, future Cristo Rey high school for girls in San Francisco (www.icacademy.org) is searching for qualified and dedicated individuals interested in applying for the ministry of Principal for the 2009-2010 academic year. The Principal reports to the President.

Required Qualifications: • A practicing Roman Catholic in good standing with the Church • A valid teaching credential • A Master’s degree in educational leadership and / or an Administrative credential • Five years successful administrative experience at the secondary level (with at least three in Catholic schools) • Familiarity with and enthusiasm for the Cristo Rey work / study model for urban education of secondary students (visit: www.cristoreynetwork.org )

Call 1-800-675-5051 Fax resume: 707-258-1195

Desirable Qualifications:

PLEASE RECYCLE THIS PAPER!

Timeline:

• Fluency in Spanish (speaking and writing) • Experience in administrative teamwork in the President / Principal model • Cover letter and resume labeled ICA PRINCIPAL APPLICANT sent electronically to: cphilbin@icacademy.org by February 12, 2009.

Sister Mary Virginia Leach, OP, President, Immaculate Conception Academy

penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

EDITOR – CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

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

Say prayers 3 days. C.O.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco is seeking a highly qualified and motivated individual to serve as editor of Catholic San Francisco – the official newspaper of the San Francisco Archdiocese.

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

St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

Never known to fail.

You may publish.

M.P.L.

LAKE TAHOE RENTAL Vacation Rental Condo in South Lake Tahoe.

Sleeps 8, near Heavenly Valley and Casinos.

Call 925-933-1095 See it at RentMyCondo.com#657

Catholic San Francisco Editor plans newspaper content including news and feature stories; organizes and directs editorial staff, freelancers, photographers; writes and assigns stories; edits copy; selects wire service material; works collaboratively with advertising director and production manager, leads the production of each issue of the newspaper, and manages/oversees the content of the Catholic San Francisco Online website. Position reports to associate publisher/ executive editor. This full-time position is located at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center, One Peter Yorke Way, in San Francisco.

Desirable candidates for the editor position will have a degree in journalism and 14 or more years of newspaper experience, including 7 or more years experience as editor or assistant editor. Candidates should be faithful Catholics with a commitment to Church doctrine and teaching. They also should have a working knowledge of the U.S Catholic Church and an understanding of the universal Church. Prior diocesan newspaper experience is helpful, but not required.

Catholic San Francisco is published weekly most of the year and twice a month in June, July and August.

Please send cover letter, resume, and samples of work to schmidtp@sfarchdiocese.org.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco

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Catholic San Francisco

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