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LAHORE, Pakistan — The president of the Pakistani bishops’ conference expressed his grief following the country’s worst-ever earthquake and urged all Pakistani Christians to contribute to relief aid. Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore, conference president, expressed his “profound shock and grief at the large-scale destruction of life and property caused by the great earthquake” that struck Pakistan, India and Afghanistan Oct. 8. He said prayers were offered in all Pakistani Catholic churches the next day for the eternal peace of the deceased and for the recovery of thousands of injured survivors, according to an Oct. 10 statement issued by his office. “This was the greatest natural disaster in our country’s history,” he wrote, calling upon all Christians “to do their part” in relief efforts. He urged them to contribute one day’s salary to the President’s Relief Fund and announced a donation of 500,000 rupees (US$8,357) from the Pakistani Catholic Church, reported UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. The earthquake along the Pakistan-India border was magnitude 7.6. Its epicenter was near the town of Muzaffarabad, almost 60 miles northeast of Islamabad in Pakistanicontrolled Kashmir. Pakistani officials said Oct. 11 that the death toll from the earthquake would surpass 35,000 people, and tens of thousands are injured. Officials in India Oct. 11 reported a death toll of 1,300. Some news reports said up to 5 million people were homeless. A woman mourns the death of her son in Muzaffarabad, capital Father Sebastian Kalapura, principal of St. of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Oct. 11, three days after a Joseph School in Baramula, in India’s Jammu powerful earthquake struck India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. and Kashmir state, said the devastation is “very EARTHQUAKE, page 3
Synod members offer local snapshots of Eucharist in church life By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Amid theological and spiritual reflections, several members of the Synod of Bishops offered snapshots of the Eucharist in the life of their local churches. Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem told the synod Oct. 11 that in the Cenacle, the upper room where Jesus instituted the sacrament of Communion, the Eucharist is not reserved in a tabernacle and liturgies are not celebrated regularly. The chapel is on the second floor of a building
owned by the Israeli government. It is above the site venerated by Jews as King David’s tomb. “The Holy Land is a land of conflict, hatred and death, a land of blood spilled and dignity violated,” said the patriarch, according to the text of his speech published by the Vatican. But at the same time, he said, the Holy Land is a place where people seek peace and seek God, “the only source of true peace.” Patriarch Sabbah said Christians in the Holy Land, most of whom are Palestinians, need to realize that “adoration, the Mass and Communion are
not exercises in piety,” but a push for unity “in the parish and beyond the parish with the whole city or village and the whole country.” Education is needed to help Christians leave behind the “inferiority complex” of being a small, neglected minority who use “piety as a refuge,” and should instead use their piety as a source of power for their involvement in building a better world, he said. According to a summary of his talk, Cuban Auxiliary Bishop Alfredo Petit Vergel of Havana told SYNOD, page 4
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Dribbling her way to a full ride at Cal State Fullerton is Sarah Louise de Tuboly, a senior at Mercy High School, San Francisco. Sarah was last season’s leading blocker in the West Bay Athletic League and was named to the NorCal40 Girls Class of 2006. Proud parents are Louise Allrich and Louis de Tuboly. Her brother, Louis, Jr., is a freshman at San Francisco’s Academy of Arts and Science…. Commemorating their 35 years as husband and wife on the auld sod were Angela and Ken Norton – she a ’66 alum of Notre Dame High School, Belmont and he a ’65 alum of Junipero Serra High School. “We were high school sweethearts,” Angela told me. “We enjoyed a fairytale holiday at Dromoland Castle in County Clare and Ashford Castle in County Mayo,” she
said. Also along for the fun and shillelagh-gans were sons, honor and best man Athena and Elmer Elsbree who celMatt, Serra ‘04, Michael Serra ‘99, Robert, Bellarmine ebrated their 65th wedding anniversary May ‘97, and Rob’s girlfriend, Joanna Malinowski. The cou- 12th….Much missed at St. Veronica Parish are longtime ple – longtime parishioners of St. Bartholomew’s in San members Barbara and Dennis Crossland who have Mateo – took their moved to Washington State to be with family memvows September 5, bers. “We all wish them the best and hope that they will 1970 in Palo Alto at keep in touch with their many, many friends here,” said St. Anne’s Chapel. longtime pal, Irene Unsinn…. Hats off again to St. They said they are Ignatius College Preparatory now in its 151st year. additionally thankful The school marked its for the “Irish tourist sesquicentennial year tips” they received with publication of from St. Bart’s Spiritus Magis: 150 Ireland-born pastor Years of St. Ignatius Father Michael College Preparatory, Healy ….Congrats to by SI alumnus, and Jutta and John longtime faculty memHappy 45 years married October Pappas, parishioners ber, Paul Totah. Paul 15th to Norm and Dianna Baetz of Immaculate Heart and his wife Kathryn longtime parishioners of St. of Mary, Belmont for Isabella’s in San Rafael. Daughter will be married 20 30 years and married Lynn Gulick and her husband Roy years December 28th. Sarah Louise de Tuboly 50 years September hosted a party for the couple Oct. Their daughter, 3rd. It was “all 16th. Also on hand to celebrate their Lauren, is an SI junior and son, Michael, is an 8th aboard” for “a wonder- parents were Dianna and Norm’s grader at Villemar School in Pacifica. To order a copy ful week in Cancun” son David with his wife, Karen, and of the SI story, go to www.siprep.org….Remember marking the occasion daughters, Dawn Baetz and Jaime this is an empty space without ya’!! The email with a troupe that address for Street is burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Rasp with her husband, Robert. Mailed items should be sent to “Street,” One Peter included sons, Mark, and his wife, Anne, Johnny, and his wife, Lisa, and Yorke Way, SF 94109. Pix should be hard copy or elecMichael as well as grandkids Andrew, Stephen and tronic jpeg at 300 dpi. Don’t forget to include a followDerek. Not to be missed were the couple’s matron of up phone number. You can reach me at (415) 614-5634.
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visible” in villages along road between Srinagar, India, and Muzaffarabad. The priest had accompanied the Caritas India team to Uri, one of the worst-hit areas on the Indian side of the Line of Control that divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. The two nations established the line in 1972, after fighting over the disputed territory since they gained independence together in 1947. Father Kalapura told UCA News that assessing the damage is difficult, because rain and landslides blocked roads to interior villages. Army personnel were clearing the roads to reach those villages. “We are trying to help people on two fronts — health and shelter,” Father Kalapura said. He said his school would erect tents for temporary housing and church workers planned to transport wounded quake survivors from villages to St. Joseph Hospital, which is attached to the school. “We don’t have doctors, so Caritas has promised to send a few doctors from New Delhi,” Father Kalapura said. Meanwhile, Catholic agencies abroad continued to pledge assistance. Initial contributions were pledged by various church organizations and dioceses, including $500,000 from Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency. CRS, which has worked in South Asia for more than 50 years, said it planned to raise up to $5 million for longerterm recovery efforts. The Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace sent an initial contribution of $100,000 (US$85,000) for relief efforts in the devastated region. The British bishops’ Catholic Agency for Overseas Development pledged 100,000 pounds (US$176,000) to Caritas Pakistan to set up urgently required medical camps in the worst affected areas. The group also pledged the same amount to Islamic Relief. Britain’s Aid to the Church in Need
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An injured child sits on his father's lap as they wait to be taken to a hospital by helicopter in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistancontrolled Kashmir, Oct. 10. A devastating earthquake struck India, Pakistan and Afghanistan Oct. 8, killing more than 35,000 people.
responded with an initial grant of 17,000 pounds (US$29,300) for emergency relief with the promise of more long-term help to repair and rebuild the churches, rectories, convents and schools damaged in the quake. Pakistani Bishop Anthony Lobo of Islamabad-Rawalpindi told members of Aid to the Church in Need that even though there were few Christians in the region affected by the earthquake, the church wanted to launch a large relief program aimed at all victims regardless of faith, racial origin and class. Bishop Lobo reported that in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, two school buildings were so badly cracked they might have to be destroyed. In Rawalpindi, the upper floor of a convent and the wing of a new church were badly damaged. The tower of St Michael’s Church in Peshawar, close to the border of Afghanistan, was about to collapse, he said. Caritas India, the social service agency of
Carmelite Sister Jophy consoles Hanifa Begum at a makeshift tent near her house in India. Begum remained under the rubble of her house for two hours before being pulled out by her neighbors.
the Indian bishops, rushed a team from its headquarters in New Delhi to the Kashmir valley as the first step in preparing long-term assistance. The valley lies southeast of Muzaffarabad, the Pakistani town nearest the epicenter of the magnitude 7.6 quake. Several villages in the valley reportedly were flattened. Rescue teams had not reached many remote mountain villages even after 48 hours. “Resources won’t be an issue,” Father Varghese Mattamana, deputy director of Caritas India, said Oct. 10. He said the church and its agencies “will remain engaged for the long term” in Kashmir. Father Mattamana said the local church’s services through schools and hospitals across Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, have created “tremendous good will” and a good network. The initial focus will be on providing
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medicines and food for those affected, Father Mattamana said. He said convents and other church institutions are already active in the field, and Caritas and others “would provide the assistance they require.” Catholic Relief Services is accepting donations for victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake that hit Pakistan, India and Afghanistan. Funds should be earmarked for “South Asian earthquake relief.” Catholic Relief Services — phone: (800) 736-3467; online at www.catholicrelief.org; or mail to: CRS, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, MD 21203-7090. The Catholic Near East Welfare Association also is accepting donations. Those who wish to give may call (800) 4426392; donate online at www.cnewa.org; or mail donations to: CNEWA, 1011 First Ave., New York, NY 10022-4195.
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Synod . . . ■ Continued from cover the synod Oct. 10 of the great love the Cuban people have for the Eucharist. “In the face of the difficulty and virtual impossibility of building new churches, we have so-called ‘prayer houses’ or ‘mission houses’ in outlying neighborhoods and small towns and villages where every week, or whenever possible, small groups of faithful — no more than 40 people — gather under the leadership of a committed layperson, sister or deacon,” he said. A priest comes occasionally, he said, and Mass “is celebrated in these homes with great devotion and respect for the liturgical norms after the opportunity for sacramental confession for those who, with a right disposition, want to share the eucharistic bread.” Ugandan Bishop Joseph Zziwa of KiyindaMityana said Oct. 10 there is a very high rate of attendance at Mass in his diocese, but he worries that Sunday is not a day of rest for poor farmers, owners of small shops, taxi driv-
ers, restaurant workers and students who “do serious reading in libraries on Sundays.” “Paradoxically,” he said, “the rich people or middle class, some of whom do not even go to church on Sunday, are the ones who really rest on Sunday. They wake up late, they watch television for long hours, they go to the theater or cinema, they drive out to visit friends, etc.” Bishop Bosco Lin Chi-Nan of Tainan, Taiwan, asked the synod members to pray for the church in mainland China and particularly for the four bishops from the mainland who could not attend the synod because the government would not give them passports. As the population of China grows, Bishop Lin said, so does the number of Catholics. While the growth of the church is good, the fact that full religious freedom does not exist means the church runs “the risk of division” with some Catholics insisting on worshipping secretly while others go to Mass in government-approved parishes. “We must offer heartfelt prayers so that we would be one body, one spirit as we are called to build the body of Jesus Christ our Lord,” he said.
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Father Thomas French, President of Archbishop Riordan High School, is joined by Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Catholic Schools, and Bishop John C. Wester, Apostolic Administrator, at the "Fulfilling the Legacy of Hope" capital campaign kick-off Oct. 1. Father French announced that the Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation has awarded Archbishop Riordan High School a leadership gift of $1 million to build a new Campus Ministry and Student and Faculty Technology Center.
Father Bradley’s Thanksgiving Mass Father Joseph Bradley, who underwent successful heart transplant surgery in August, will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving for his new and continuing good health Oct. 16, at 9 a.m. at St. Catherine of Siena Church, 1310 Bayswater in Burlingame. “I am doing wonderfully and am grateful everyday for the incredible prayer and support,” Father Bradley, a former president of Junipero Serra High School, said. The donor of the life-saving organ will be especially remembered in Sunday’s Mass, Father Bradley noted. Father Bradley, who has also served as parochial vicar at St. Charles Parish in San Carlos, will continue his recuperation until at least mid-winter when he expects to take up residence at St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo.
John Gulick holds daughter Cecilia, 3, during an all-day eucharistic prayer vigil at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Oct. 10. The vigil featured religious and lay speakers, Mass, confessions and eucharistic adoration. It came on the final day of an international week of prayer and fasting to promote "a culture of life," which was sponsored by a coalition of Catholic and other Christian organizations.
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World Mission Sunday 2005 Bishop Wang pictured with children on his visit to Haiti during Christmas 2004. Father John O’Connell, Columban Father with children in Lima, Peru.
Dear Friends of the Missions, October 23rd is a special day for all of us who are called, by Baptism, to be involved in the missionary work of the Church: It is World Mission Sunday. The Diocese of Lodwar in Kenya is one of the 1,150 mission dioceses in the world. Last summer I received the visit of seminarian Javier Guativa, who just completed his mission experience in Kenya, and will start theology in Racine, Wisconsin. While in Kenya, besides teaching catechism, he also helped to build animal sheds and milked goats! He invited me to visit Kenya and promised that he would not offer me their high protein and nutritious drink – fresh goat blood mixed with milk unless I asked for it. “Have you tasted it?” I asked. With a twitch on his face, he replied, “I have!” I asked, “Did you enjoy it?” A little frown was his answer. On this day of such importance to our mission family and to our own growth in faith, I ask your most generous gift of prayer and the offering of your personal sacrifices, in union with the sufferings of Christ on the Cross-for the redemption of the world. I ask also for your financial help for the work of the Church among two-thirds of our human family.
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As noted in the papal message for this year’s celebration of World Mission Sunday, written and released by Pope John Paul II before his death: “World Mission Sunday is a opportune occasion to increase our awareness of the urgent necessity to participate in the evangelizing mission undertaken in particular by the Pontifical Mission Societies. This mission requires the support not only of prayer and sacrifice, but also of concrete material offerings. I take this opportunity to recall once again the valuable service rendered by the Pontifical Mission Societies and I ask you to support them generously with spiritual and material cooperation.” Thanking you for your commitment to the Church for this most important work, I am Sincerely,
Most Reverend Ignatius C. Wang Auxiliary Bishop / Archdiocesan Director
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San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang celebrated a Memorial Mass and Healing Liturgy Oct. 8 at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma for all babies who have lost life, by any cause, before or soon after birth. Mass was concelebrated by Fathers John Jimenez, Mark Taheny, Vito Perone, Charles Kullman, and Peter Shea. More than 130 people prayed, cried and sang as they processed to the Rachel Mourning Shrine prior to the final blessing. This statue is at the foot of a section in the cemetery where babies of families with no money are buried. Fetuses from Catholic Hospitals are also buried here. One young woman attending the event, who had recently suffered a miscarriage, was grateful for the healing nature of the ceremony. “I could finally do something to start to heal,” she said.
University of San Francisco celebrates 150 years The University of San Francisco is celebrating its 150th anniversary during the 200506 academic year with many special programs, including several free public events Oct. 15 and 16. The entire community is invited to these events. Oct. 15 is the actual birthday of the university. The free public events include: “The Phoenix & the Bell: A pageant celebrating USF At 150 Years” A light-hearted extravaganza presenting USF’s history and lore, held at St. Ignatius Church with a reception to follow in a giant tent on Welch Field. Saturday, Oct. 15, 3 p.m. “University Green and Gold Gala” A birthday celebration in the University Center featuring live music and entertainment, dancing, and light refreshments. Saturday, Oct. 15, 9 p.m. “Sesquicentennial Mass” A Mass at St. Ignatius Church to commemorate the arrival of the Jesuits in San Francisco and the legacy and promise of USF, featuring a homily by USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J., and USF Chancellor John Lo Schiavo, S.J., with a reception to follow. Sunday, Oct. 16, 11 a.m. Free parking for the above events is available in the Koret Lot at Turk and Parker or on Ulrich Field and Benedetti Diamond at Golden Gate and Masonic. Throughout the year, other special events to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of USF will be held, including an ongoing free show at the Thacher Gallery in Gleeson Library on the USF campus, celebrating the history and lore of USF. For details, registration, and potential costs for all events throughout the year, visit website: www.usfca.edu/150years.
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BridgeHaven program at San Francisco’s AlmaVia brings families peace of mind By Evelyn Zappia Feliza Sanchez loves to walk. It is the one thing that her dementia has not taken from her. It is also the reason her daughter, Susana, placed her in the BridgeHaven program where the doors are locked and the residents are allowed to leave with only caregivers or family members. The security brings Susana peace of mind. “Mom is safe here,” she said. Before entering the BridgeHaven program at San Francisco’s AlmaVia, Feliza successfully sneaked out of her home regularly in the middle of the night. “We needed to watch her 24 hours a day,” said Susana. “It just wasn’t possible.” The decision to place her mom in any assisted living residence was quite difficult. Susana remembers Feliza as a vibrant independent woman, and a loving mother who raised two daughters on her own. It was impossible to ignore Feliza’s increasing frustration as her independence seemed to slip away more each day. The family “tested” other assisted living residences but AlmaVia was the one to “pass” a rigid review. “It was obvious the BridgeHaven program was more aware and in control of everything going on,” said Susana. “BridgeHaven is for residents still able to function yet needing more support than just an assisted living environment,” said Regina Silbert, Community Relations Director. “The residents need a lot of reminding and redirecting from the staff.” Activities focus on verbal conversations. Daily newspapers are displayed and current events are discussed. Sometimes that’s all it takes, said Silbert. A little discussion can bring out the cognitive function that still remains. Other verbal group activities include community crossword puzzles, and games similar to Wheel of Fortune and Name that Tune. Wednesdays are set aside for outings. Recently, the residents visited the Marine Mammal Center and enjoyed lunch at a nearby restaurant. Feliza enjoys the activities, especially the visiting entertainment. Susana said, “We obviously weren’t fulfilling mom’s needs when she was living with us but things are better
Feliza Sanchez with her daughter, Susana Sanchez
for her now. She is independent, and doesn’t feel like she depends on us for everything.” When asked if she likes living at AlmaVia, Feliza said, “Of course.” Desmond Grogan couldn’t stand saying goodbye to his wife, Phyllis. “I cried each time I had to leave her,” he said. Ironically, Phyllis adopted AlmaVia as her home quickly, while Desmond’s grief grew stronger. He suffered from guilt and joined an Alzheimer’s group for support. Born in Dublin, Ireland, fast-talking Phyllis with a heavy Irish brogue announced, “I’m Irish out and out! And, Catholic from day one – absolutely, that’s me,” she said. She holds on to her Catholic heritage by praying the Rosary weekly with other residents, and attending weekly Bible study classes. Somehow, Phyllis accepts her life with a great attitude and sense of humor. “With my brain” she quips, “you could be asking me questions for 20 years and I wouldn’t be able to tell you how long…when I came…and if I’m going.” Desmond visits Phyllis often. They take long walks. “She loves to shop,” he said.
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Saturday, October 29, 2005 Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel * 11:00 a.m. All Saints’ Day Mass Todos Los Santos Celebration Bishop John C. Wester, Presiding Ministers of Hospitality – St. Paul’s Parish Refreshments will be served in the Garden following Mass
Calendar of Events Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma All Souls’ Day Mass Veterans’ Day Service All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Star of the Sea Veteran’s Section Rev. Piers Lahey, Celebrant Outdoor Service – No Mass Wednesday, November 2, 2005 – 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 11, 2005 – 11:00 a.m. Christmas Remembrance Service All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – No Mass Rev. John Talesfore, Officiating Saturday, December 10, 2005 – 11:00 a.m.
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LEGACY AND PROMISE: THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO CELEBRATES ITS 150TH ANNIVERSARY By Alan Ziajka
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n October 15, 1855, Saint Ignatius Academy, the antecedent of the University of San Francisco, first opened its doors to three young men who crossed the sand dunes surrounding an undeveloped Market Street, entered a small wooden building, and became the first students at the Jesuit Catholic educational experiment in the City by the Bay. For 150 years, the institution has served the citizens of San Francisco, the nation, and the world. USF has graduated students who went on to become leaders in government, education, business, religion, sports, journalism, and the legal and medical professions. Among the alumni, the school counts two San Francisco mayors, a United States Senator, four California Supreme Court Justices, a California Lieutenant Governor, two Pulitzer Prize winners, an Olympic medalist, several professional athletes, and the current president of Peru. Today the University of San Francisco enrolls more than 8,400 students, and its main campus occupies 55 acres near Golden Gate Park. It continues to fulfill a mission stretching back in time to the founding of the Society of Jesus in 1540 by Saint Ignatius of Loyola, that took root in San Francisco in 1855, and that flourishes in 2005, its sesquicentennial year, as a premier Jesuit Catholic University. The origins of the University of San Francisco can be found in the efforts of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, who in the 16th century sent his followers throughout the world to establish educational institutions and promote Jesuit and Catholic ideals. The result of these first Jesuit initiatives was the largest network of schools and colleges in the world, amounting to 700 educational institutions by the 18th century. In 1789, Jesuit education came to the new republic of the United States with the founding of Georgetown College. By 1855, the seeds of Jesuit education were planted in San Francisco with the establishment of Saint Ignatius Academy, the forerunner of the University of San Francisco. During its 150 years, the university’s leaders and community members have repeatedly demonstrated faith, reason, creativity, and moral courage to face challenges and crises. In 1855, the challenge was to build and sustain an experiment in Jesuit education amidst the turbulent economic and social forces at work in San Francisco in the wake of the California Gold Rush. Despite a minuscule original student enrollment and rising debt that extended over several decades, St. Ignatius Academy (renamed St. Ignatius College in 1859) gradually expanded its student base, built a reputation for academic excellence, and developed a network of social service and community outreach activities in San Francisco buttressed by its connection to St. Ignatius Church. In 1880, St. Ignatius Church and College, facing rising taxes on the Market Street location (between Fourth and Fifth Streets) and increasing enrollment, risked further indebtedness to build a magnificent institution on Van Ness Avenue, a block from City Hall, that soon became a center of educational and cultural life in San Francisco. The college’s academic reputation spread throughout the state and nation, and many of its graduates became leaders in law, government, business, and religion. This golden age of St. Ignatius Church and College came to an abrupt end on April 18, 1906, when an earthquake and fire destroyed the institution and two-thirds of San Francisco. The Jesuit leadership of St. Ignatius College faced the crisis caused by the earthquake and fire with courage and commitment. Just five months after the devastation, they rebuilt and opened a temporary home, known as the shirt factory, near Golden Gate Park. For 21 years, the institution at this location successfully
adapted to local, national, and international forces and events. The college added a law school, experimented with new programs, launched an intercollegiate athletics program, and managed to survive the drain on human resources caused by World War I and major debts from the rebuilding of the church, exacerbated by a national and local recession. By 1919, the institution was $1 million in debt and on the verge of declaring bankruptcy. The college leadership called upon alumni and the community for help, and they were successful in the first major fundraising campaign in the institution’s history. So successful, in fact, that the school began to purchase property in the 1920s and early 1930s on the current site of the University of San Francisco. St. Ignatius College was renamed the University of San Francisco in 1930. The Depression of the 1930s, followed by World War II, brought new challenges to USF. Enrollment decreased slightly during the Depression years and resources were limited, but the real crisis came during the war, when enrollment fell dramatically and the monthly debt skyrocketed. Once again, the university leadership confronted the crisis by first securing federal support through an officer-training program, and when that ended, by appealing directly to alumni and friends for financial support to save the school. With the end of World War II, the school faced pressure to rapidly expand facilities, classrooms, and housing for the burgeoning enrollment at USF, induced in part by the GI Bill of Rights. Changes in the student population also called for more programming for professionals and working adults with families. Again, the institution responded effectively, launching a major building campaign and initiating many new programs. Growth continued into the turbulent 1960s, which saw the emergence of new demands for ethnic and gender equality, social change, and curriculum reform. USF rose to the challenge and successfully addressed problems that proved insurmountable at many other institutions of higher education. The early 1970s brought the nation’s economic problems, including recession and inflation, directly to USF, and when paired with a significant decline in the number of traditional college-age students, USF faced another major economic crisis. Three successive USF administrations struggled with a host of economic and enrollment issues, and it was not until the early 1980s that solid financial stability was restored, enrollment began to increase, and the stage was set for the expansion of the 1990s that has continued into our own time. Recent years have been punctuated by a new set of issues and challenges, including defining an identity for a Jesuit Catholic institution in a world marked by international economic and social injustice, violence, and war. The new Vision, Mission, and Values Statement of the University of San Francisco speaks to those global issues and advances a blueprint for change. Its words reflect a legacy of educational excellence and social justice in San Francisco that has prevailed for 150 years and Jesuit values that have endured for 465 years - a promise to use reason and faith, mind and heart, to seek a better world now and in the future. Adapted from the university’s anniversary history book, Legacy & Promise: 150 Years of Jesuit Education at the University of San Francisco by Alan Ziajka. The book is available at the USF bookstore for $18.55 (plus tax/shipping). Call 800/423-4118 or go to www.sanfran.bkstr.com to order a copy. Throughout the 2005–2006 academic year, there will be many special events on campus to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the founding of USF. For details, visit website: www.usfca.edu/150years
This drawing is of the first site of St. Ignatius Church and Academy in 1855. The buildings stood amidst sand dunes on an undeveloped Market Street, between what would become 4th and 5th Streets.
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St. Ignatius Church and College in San Francisco as it appeared in 1863 on Market Street. St. Ignatius Church and College on October 15, 1905, the day the institution celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding in San Francisco.
After the earthquake struck at 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, fire broke out all over the city. One of those fires swept up Hayes Street and engulfed St. Ignatius Church and College, ultimately gutting the Institution. (PHOTO COURTESY OF CALIFORNIA PROVINCE OF THE SOCIETY OF JESUS ARCHIVES)
The first day of class, September 1, 1906, at St. Ignatius College when it was housed in a temporary building known as the “shirt factory,” a wooden structure hastily nailed together following the 1906 earthquake and fire.
ROTC Annual Review, April 17, 1941. The “Armory” center sits atop the old cemetery reservoir. Standing (left to right) are Robert Griswold ’43, Ezio Paolini ‘42, and James Switzer ‘43.
An aerial view of the University of San Francisco in 2005. From 1970 to 2005, USF witnessed extraordinary change: student enrollment grew from less than 6,800 to more than 8,300 students; the number of full-time faculty members increased from 230 to 348; the institution significantly increased in acreage and number of buildings; and the university developed a multitude of new on-campus, regional and international programs.
(PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO ARCHIVES)
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Views in the news Proposed euthanasia law By Simon Caldwell Catholic and Anglican leaders in Britain have united to condemn a new attempt to legalize euthanasia for the terminally ill. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor of Westminster and Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion, spoke out against euthanasia on the eve of a debate in the House of Lords. The debate focuses on a House of Lords select committee report on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill, which 73-year-old Lord Joffe plans to reintroduce at the end of October or beginning of November, according to reports in the British press Oct. 10. Cardinal Cormac MurphyO’Connor, speaking on a British Broadcasting Corp. program Oct. 9, said he hoped politicians would argue against the bill. “I would be totally against this law, not because I haven’t got sympathy, but I also have sympathy for the law which protects life,” he said. “And if that goes, I think a moral Rubicon will be passed in this country which we Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor would live to regret.” He added, “If this law is passed, it seems to me that the duty of the law to act on behalf of the people would be broken, because the law is there to protect life, and a right to die can become a duty to die.” Archbishop Williams, writing in Britain’s The Mail on Sunday newspaper Oct. 9, said he had seen his mother, Nancy, suffer during her final months of dementia. He said he remained opposed to euthanasia “chiefly on the grounds of my religious commitments — the conviction that life is a gift from God that we cannot treat as a possession of our own to keep or throw away as we choose.” Lord Joffe told reporters Oct. 9 that he is considering changes to the legislation in an attempt to win more support. He said he might model the bill on the 1997 Oregon Death With Dignity Act, under which doctors were allowed to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients as long as they did not administer the drugs themselves. On Oct. 7, Britain’s religious leaders sent a joint letter to each member of the House of Lords and the House of Commons before the Oct. 10 debate. The group explained that standards of palliative care were advancing so rapidly that they rendered false any claims that euthanasia was necessary to combat the suffering of terminal illness. They warned of the risk of euthanasia being broadened to apply to new categories in people, citing the example of the Netherlands, where voluntary euthanasia is legal and where there are moves to sanction involuntary euthanasia for people who are mentally incapacitated and for seriously ill infants. They said that in Britain the majority of doctors opposed euthanasia and opinion polls purporting to show public support for the practice were misleading. “Assisted suicide and euthanasia will radically change the social air we all breathe by severely undermining respect for life,” they wrote. “The socalled ‘right to die’ would inexorably become the duty to die and, potentially, economic pressures and convenience would come to dominate decision-making.” The letter was signed by Catholic Archbishop Peter Smith of Cardiff, Wales; Greek Orthodox Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain; Anglican Bishop Tom Butler of Southwark; and the Rev. Joel Edwards, general director of the Evangelical Alliance. Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders also signed the letter. Archbishop Smith, chairman of the English and Welsh bishops’ Department for Christian Responsibility and Citizenship, told Catholic News Service Oct. 7 that if the law were changed in relation to assisted suicide and euthanasia, Britain would be “going down a very dangerous path — no one is entitled either legally or morally to take the lives of any innocent person, because that is what it amounts to.” Archbishop Smith said he had been informed that the British government, which has previously stated its opposition to euthanasia, was now prepared to allow a euthanasia bill sufficient parliamentary time to become law. It will take months for a bill to pass through Parliament. Simon Caldwell’s report is from Catholic News Service.
Good God proofs Thank you for the October 7 commentary by Fr. Ron Rolheiser titled, “Proofs for the existence of God.” I run into many people in my adult education class at City College who aren’t so sure God exists, and would probably benefit from reading what Fr. Rolheiser has to say. I plan to pass on the article. Betty Dy San Francisco
Tales of the City Your article, along with the pictures of “old St. Francis Church” (CSF – Sept. 30) struck a memory cord in me. I am a 92 year-old senior citizen, who at the preteen ages served Mass at the Church. Fathers Callopy, Dransfeld, and Bray are the names that I can recollect, along with the Boy Scout Troop #42, with the Scout Master who was Father Bray’s brother by the name of Washington J. Bray. On the East side of the church, there is a walkway connecting the rectory with the sacristy, and the back fence of our house abutted this walkway. We lived around the corner on Grant Avenue. Many a time when an altar boy didn’t show up, Sam, the sexton, would bang on the fence and call me to serve the function, be it a funeral, wedding, whatever. I could go on, and on. Thanks for the memories. Joseph E. Saccone San Rafael
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Blind faith It takes more “faith” to believe in a blind force of evolution than it takes to believe in intelligent design - an intelligence which “guided” the evolution of mankind. To explain man’s evolution as a blind force of chance is not sci-
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ence at all - but blind faith. It’s interesting that when a scientist sees a watch he knows there’s a watchmaker - but when he sees a human being, he thinks it just made itself. It’s like believing that if a hurricane blew through the same junkyard for millions of years that it would finally come up with a computer. Mary Pecci San Francisco
Crosses to bear Barbara Loughrey (Letters – Sept. 30) is a “Catholic, Pastoral Associate, mom, wife and heterosexual” and is “appalled” that the word of God was correctly articulated in this paper (Editorial – Sept. 16). She declares that two people “loving” (and committed to) each other is enough to constitute a marriage because “Jesus is there”. She is saddened by the church for having a “homophobic” attitude toward gay marriage. At no point does she acknowledge sin. Jesus said that if you love me, take up your cross and follow me. It isn’t enough to claim Him, we are called to walk like Him. Crosses come in all types and sizes; none can be carried without Him. To some, giving up a certain lifestyle, is a cross to bear. We all have certain besetting sins. But Jesus made it possible. We have to choose. Which will it be? The world or Christ? It’s not impossible if you are really serious about Jesus and your eternity. Stephen Catalano Manteca
Have it your way Would that the story in the New York Times reporting that Cardinal Walter Kasper at the funeral for Brother Roger Schutz, founder of the Taize Community in France and a Swiss Protestant, gave communion “to the faithful indiscriminately, regardless of denomination,” be true. Last year I attended a funeral at which a priest witnessed the presence of Christ by inviting all present to the table of the Lord who in His compassion, love and generosity would most certainly invite all without discrimination to partake of His banquet. How this sharing of the Eucharist could demean the faith of Brother Roger in the Real Presence, as suggested by George Weigel (CSF – Sept. 30) is beyond me. Sharing the Eucharist gives real meaning to the word catholic. On another note, I’d propose the following addition to the vocation prayer published in the Oct. 7 issue, “O God, may the official Church accept the vocations of women and married men to whom you have gifted with the call to serve You as ordained priests.” Louise Courpet Daly City
Ignatius of Antioch c. 37-c. 107 feast – October 17 This Syrian-born martyr, who gave himself the nickname “God-bearer” because of his certainty of God’s presence within him and who may have been a disciple of St. John the Evangelist, became bishop of Antioch about 69. Eventually Crosiers he was arrested and sent to Rome, where his strong desire for martyrdom was fulfilled when he was thrown to the lions in the Colosseum. In seven letters written to Christians in Asia Minor and Rome, he stressed the need to heal church conflicts, the authority of local bishops and the Eucharist as a source of unity. Saints for Today
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The Catholic Difference A year or so ago, my friend Liz Lev, the best Englishspeaking guide in Rome, was taking a group of American tourists through St. Peter’s Basilica. Seeing the bronze statue of Pope Pius XII, one of the tourists said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, “Oh. Hitler’s Pope.” As Liz remarked later, that Pius XII was some sort of antiSemitic crypto-Nazi had become the common wisdom. Whence this preposterous calumny? Although the Pius Wars were launched in 1963 by Rolf Hochhuth’s mendacious play, The Deputy, it wasn’t until John Cornwell stuck the label “Hitler’s Pope” on Pius XII in his 1999 book of that title that the calumny got into general circulation. Cornwell’s account was subsequently demolished by Ronald Rychlak in Hitler, the War, and the Pope – to the point where Cornwell was compelled to concede that he was no longer confident in his judgment on Pius. But Cornwell’s moniker – “Hitler’s Pope” – stuck. Rabbi David Dalin’s new book, The Myth of Hitler’s Pope (Regnery), is a courageous attempt to rebut Pius’s critics by a Jewish scholar who believes that Pius XII should be honored as one of those “righteous gentiles” who saved Jewish lives during Hitler’s reign of anti-Semitic terror. In addition to reminding a 21st century audience that Pius XII was uniformly praised by Jewish leaders between the end of World War II and his death in 1958, Rabbi Dalin demonstrates the falsity of the key charges against Eugenio Pacelli: that he was an anti-Semite; that he had helped Hitler consolidate his power by negotiating the German
concordat of 1933; that he favored Nazi Germany as a bulwark against the Soviet Union; that he was indifferent to the suffering of European Jewry. In addition to recounting the numerous ways in which Pius XII helped save hundreds of thousands of Jewish lives (including hiding Jewish refugees from Rome at the papal estate at Castel Gandolfo), Dalin also shows how the Pius Wars have gotten enmeshed in several other debates: the debate within the Catholic Church about its nature and mission, and the debate within the wider society on the role of revealed religion and traditional morality in public life. Pius-bashing, it seems, can be both a useful way to press certain internal Catholic agendas and a tool to promote certain explicitly anti-Catholic agendas. The Big Lie, it seems, has a protean quality to it. Dalin is at his most innovative in his portrait of the man who really was Hitler’s favorite cleric: Hajj Amin alHusseini, a genuine anti-Semite with real blood on his hands. He had become Grand Mufti of Jerusalem through an incomprehensibly stupid decision by the British authorities in mandatory Palestine; but that didn’t prevent alHusseini from taking Nazi Germany’s side in the war, to the point where he eventually moved to Berlin. There, he was feted by Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, chief architect of the so-called “Final Solution” to the “Jewish question.” Perhaps the most chilling moment in Dalin’s book comes when a disguised Hajj Amin al-Husseini visits the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he urges the guards and the
executioners to “work more diligently.” Hitler had a clerical supporter, to be sure: but it wasn’t Pius XII, it was Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a precursor of contemporary Islamist terrorism. George Weigel The Myth of Hitler’s Pope is a kind of lawyer’s argument for the defense, written in an accessible style for a popular audience. If he succeeds in denting the myth that confronted Liz Lev in St. Peter’s, David Dalin will have done everyone who cares about truth a genuine service. There remain, of course, many questions in need of careful exploration – questions about the past with serious implications for the future. How does the pope’s role as a global moral witness co-exist with the diplomacy of the Holy See, which must “play” according to the established rules-of-the-game? How does the “universal pastor of the Church” address a situation in which many of his spiritual sons and daughters are manifestly in the wrong? Those are questions worth debating. The question of whether Pius XII was complicit in the Holocaust is not. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Family Life
Helping children find and keep good friends Even one or two good friends can make an amazing difference in the quality of your child’s life. But what makes a friend “good”? Certainly part of it is loyalty. A good friend is someone who will be on your daughter’s side when the other girls in the class suddenly turn on her. This is a person who will hang in there even when your son is being a doofus. But another part of the “good” in “good friend” is the person’s character. Is he or she virtuous? Not in some comic-book-hero sort of way but in everyday life. You know that matters a lot because you know how strongly friends influence a child. Being pals with a good kid helps your child be a better kid. Being buddies with a youngster doing some not-so-good things can lead to all sorts of problems. So how can you help your children find and keep good friends? A few thoughts: —It’s true you get to pick your friends but not your family. Consider yourself blessed if your children are friends with each other. (Consider your family absolutely normal if, at times, they aren’t.)
—Good people - of any age - want to hang around other good people. To make and maintain good friends, your child needs to be a good friend - to be a person who is loyal and who is virtuous in his or her everyday life. —You can’t force your child to be friends with someone (a youth you like or the son or daughter of your friend, for example). On the other hand, youths who spend some time together may discover they do enjoy each other’s company, have a mutual interest or share an offbeat sense of humor. Children who are shy - and a lot are - may need some time to get to know someone else and some time before allowing themselves to really be known by that someone else. Again, as you know, having your child involved in some activities with other children is a good place for that to happen. —Even good friendships can fade away or end abruptly for a variety of reasons. How do you know if your child still wants to be friends with a peer who hasn’t been around much lately? Ask her. It could be both simply have new interests. Or it could be there was a falling out. It isn’t
always a tragedy or a problem that needs to be fixed when a friendship ends. —Your primary God-given responsibility is to be your child’s parent, not his or her friend. Parents who first Bill and Monica think, act and advise as Dodds a friend are not helping their children. You may be a parent and a friend, but it’s a big mistake to try to be a friend - or maintain a “friendship - at the expense of being a good parent. After your child reaches adulthood, there’s plenty of time for friendship to deepen and grow. Bill and Monica Dodds are the editors of “My Daily Visitor” magazine.
Spirituality
Our inability to cast out demons The older I get, the more I realize that there is a huge difference between speaking effectively, perhaps even brilliantly, and actually changing anybody’s life. It’s one thing to impress a person, move a heart, inspire someone, reveal the depth of some truth, help someone to understand himself or herself more deeply, or to teach and minister in a way that brings admiration. No small thing. But it’s something else, something much more difficult, to move someone in such a way that he or she actually changes and gives up the habits, compensations, addictions, indulgences, fears, and angers that stand between him and her and the joy of being a saint. Even when we are at our best, we are still not very effective in helping each other better our lives. In effect, people listen to us and say: “You’re wonderful, but this isn’t going to change my life!” Like John the Baptist, we are able to point out the way, but not able to help affect the transformation that’s needed for someone to actually change his or her way of life. That’s why there’s a lot more admiration than transformation inside religious and moral circles. And that’s true too in the world at large. In the arts, politics, and academia, we’ve become masters at everything, except actually creating new beauty and actually bettering community. We’re brilliant at showing what’s wrong, but far less effective in actually improving the situation. If we’re honest, we can all truthfully speak these words (which John Shea puts into the John the Baptist’s mouth): “I can denounce a king, but I cannot enthrone one. I can strip an idol of its power, but I cannot reveal the true God. I can wash the soul in sand, but I cannot dress it in white. I can devour the word of the Lord like wild honey, but I cannot lace his sandal. I can condemn the sin, but I cannot bear it away.”
Why? Why is our power less than our knowledge? Why, when we know so much, are we so powerless to change things? Largely, I believe, it’s because our own lives aren’t integral enough. We aren’t saints, pure and simple, and only saints have the right to actually ask someone to change his or her life and have some power to affect that transformation. Why? There’s a story about a troubled mother who had a daughter who was addicted to sweets. One day she approached Gandhi, explained the problem to him and asked whether he might talk to the young girl. Gandhi replied: “Bring your daughter to me in three weeks time and I will speak to her.” After three weeks, the mother brought her daughter to him. He took the young girl aside and spoke to her about the harmful effects of eating sweets excessively and urged her to abandon her bad habit. The mother thanked Gandhi for this advice and then asked him: “But why didn’t you speak to her three weeks ago?” Gandhi replied: “Because three weeks ago, I was still addicted to sweets.” And there’s the lesson: We must do more than just point out the right road to others, we must be on that road ourselves. For this reason, the integrity of our private lives and private morals, down to the smallest detail, is the real power behind our words. In her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, Therese of Lisieux tells how she sensed that she could help others, across time and distance, by being part of the silent, hidden, moral heart within the Body of Christ. Hidden away in an obscure convent, she sensed she could help people outside those walls, and help the whole world, by being part of a hidden moral heart. And so she bore down in her private life and focused on making every action, no matter how
small, pure and loving, believing that some universal power would flow forth from this private, hidden goodness. How right she was! We know that from our own lives. Anyone who has had the right and Father power to ask us to make Ron Rolheiser a real sacrifice has had that right and power only because he or she was inviting us into a moral reality that he or she was already living, at least essentially. Conversely, we’ve all experienced how feeble is the invitation from someone who speaks the right things, but doesn’t live them. In the gospels, we see an instance where Jesus’ disciples are perplexed because they’re powerless to cast out a demon. When they ask Jesus about it, he says: “This kind is cast out only by prayer and fasting.” That cryptic phrase contains more than we suspect. The power to baptize with fire and spirit, that is, the power to actually change someone’s life for the better, unlike the power to simply enlighten, issues forth only from a heart that is essentially pure, moral, and integral because only that kind of heart can cast out the real demons. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.
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TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaish 45:1, 4-6; Psalm 96:1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-5b; Matthew 22:15-21 tremble before him, all the earth; say among the nations: The Lord is king, he governs the peoples with equity. R. Give the Lord glory and honor.
A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH (IS 45:1, 4-6) Thus says the Lord to his anointed, Cyrus, whose right hand I grasp, subduing nations before him, and making kings run in his service, opening doors before him and leaving the gates unbarred: For the sake of Jacob, my servant, of Israel, my chosen one, I have called you by your name, giving you a title, though you knew me not. I am the Lord and there is no other, there is no God besides me. It is I who arm you, though you know me not, so that toward the rising and the setting of the sun people may know that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, there is no other.
A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS (1 THES 1:1-5B) Paul, Silvanus, and Timothy to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace. We give thanks to God always for all of you, remembering you in our prayers, unceasingly calling to mind your work of faith and labor of love and endurance in hope of our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father, knowing, brothers and sisters loved by God, how you were chosen. For our gospel did not come to you in word alone, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with much conviction.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 96:1, 3, 4-5, 7-8, 9-10) R. Give the Lord glory and honor. Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all you lands. Tell his glory among the nations; among all peoples, his wondrous deeds. R. Give the Lord glory and honor. For great is the Lord and highly to be praised; awesome is he, beyond all gods. For all the gods of the nations are things of nought, but the Lord made the heavens. R. Give the Lord glory and honor. Give to the Lord, you families of nations, give to the Lord glory and praise; give to the Lord the glory due his name! Bring gifts, and enter his courts. R. Give the Lord glory and honor. Worship the Lord, in holy attire;
A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (MT 22:15-21) The Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech. They sent their disciples to him, with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. And you are not concerned with anyone’s opinion, for you do not regard a person’s status. Tell us, then, what is your opinion: Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?” Knowing their malice, Jesus said, “Why are you testing me, you hypocrites? Show me the coin that pays the census tax.” Then they handed him the Roman coin. He said to them, “Whose image is this and whose inscription?” They replied, “Caesar’s.” At that he said to them, “Then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”
The Ecstasy of Saint Therese – Gianlorenzo Bernini, Santa Maria della Vittoria, c. 1652. October 15 is the feast day of St. Teresa of Avila, founder of the Discalced Carmelites and Doctor of the Church.
Scripture RABBI ARTHUR WASKOW, PH.D.
What belongs to God? In the first chapter of Genesis, the with a question. This, says the folklore, Torah teaches that God made Adam, and is an old Jewish habit. As it is taught, the human race, in the image of God. “Why does a Jew answer a question with What does this mean? The ancient rabbis a question?” Answer: “Why not?” So Jesus answered: “Whose image is taught: Adam, the first human being, was cre- on this coin?” The man who had challenged him ated as a single person to show forth the greatness of the Ruler who is beyond all answered: “Caesar’s.” Then Jesus did respond: “So give to rulers, the Blessed Holy One. For if a human ruler [like Caesar, the Roman Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what Emperor who was the ruler in their time is God’s.” This answer, say Matthew, Mark, and and place] mints many coins from one mold, they all carry the same image, they Luke, took his opponents by surprise, all look the same. But the Blessed Holy and they went away and left him alone. But for two thousand years, Christians One shaped all human beings in the Divine Image, as Adam was…And yet have argued over what this answer not one of them resembles another. meant. What is Caesar’s, and what is God’s? Does the answer suggest two dif(Sanhedrin 38a) The rabbis drew an analogy between ferent spheres of life, one ruled by the image a human ruler, Caesar, puts Caesar and one by God? Does it mean to upon the coins of the realm, and the submit to Caesar’s authority in the mateimage the Infinite Ruler puts upon the rial world, while adhering to God in the many “coins” of humankind. The very spiritual world? How do we discern the diversity of human faces shows the unity boundary? and infinity of God, Why did the queswhereas the unifortioners go away? Was mity of imperial This, says the folklore, it simply because coins makes clear the Jesus had avoided the limitations on the is an old Jewish habit. horns of the dilemma power of an emperor. they had brought, and Several years ago, so could not be As it is taught, I realized that this arrested for his teaching is linked answer? Or was there with a story in the “Why does a Jew a deeper meaning to Christian New the answer? Is the Testament, which answer a question answer a koan, an stems from the same answer that forces the period of history and with a question?” questioner to seek a the same community deeper question? of Jewish teachers. Now reread the Answer: “Why not?” One of the beststory with a single line known New and gesture added: Testament stories of Jesus’ life—and for “Whose image is on this coin?” asks centuries one that has most puzzled his Jesus. Christian followers—is the tale of an His questioner answers, “Caesar’s.” encounter concerning the image on a Then Jesus puts his arm on the troucoin. blemaker’s shoulder and asks, “And According to the story—which whose image is on this coin?” appears in Matthew 22, Mark 12, and Perhaps the troublemaker mutters an Luke 20—some of Jesus’ opponents sent answer; perhaps he does not need to. Not people to trick Jesus into saying some- till after this exchange does Jesus say, thing that would provide a pretext for his “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to arrest. God what is God’s.” One of these spoke up, saying: Now there is a deeper meaning to the “Rabbi, we know that what you speak response, and to the troublemaker’s exit. and teach is sound; you pay deference to Jesus has not just avoided the question no one, but teach in all honesty the life- and evaded the dilemma: He has path that God requires. Give us your rul- answered, in a way that is much more ing on this: Are we or are we not permit- radical than if he had said either “Pay the ted to pay taxes to the Roman Emperor?” tax” or “Don’t pay the tax”—a way that Jesus, say the Gospels, saw through is profoundly radical, but gives no obvitheir trick and said to them, “Show me a ous reason for arrest. silver coin.” Jesus has not proposed dividing up the When they dug one out for him, no turf between the material and the spiritudoubt annoyed at his changing the sub- al. He has redefined the issue: “Give ject, he asked them: “Whose image is on your whole self to the One who has this coin, and whose inscription?” imprinted divinity upon you! You, a felWhat was the trick? The coin had low rabbi, know that is the point of this Caesar’s image on it, with the inscription story. All I have done is remind you.” “Divus”—“God.” To the Jews, treating The coin of the realm will matter very an emperor as a God was idolatry. So just little if the troublemaker listens. So he using the coin itself might constitute walks away, suddenly profoundly trouidolatry in Jewish law, and thus be for- bled by the life-question that he faces. bidden. To use the coin to pay taxes to Rabbi Arthur Waskow, Ph. D., this same Caesar was still worse! But by founded and directs The Shalom Roman law the taxes must be paid. So the “trick” was that by answering one way, Center in Philadelphia Jesus would break Jewish law; by (www.shalomctr.org), which brings answering the other way, he would break Jewish and other spiritual thought Roman law. Either way, he would be suband practice to bear on seeking ject to arrest. peace, pursuing justice, healing the But Jesus had not quite answered. Instead, he had answered the question earth, and celebrating community.
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Bishops bring wide range of interests to Eucharistic Synod
unemployment, corruption and increasing poverty which especially punish women, young people and children who suffer the silent martyrdom of the slavery, injustices and afflictions,” Flores said. “The Masses celebrated in our communities, very well attended, deeply felt and joyful, are privileged spaces of fraternity, to collect and fill baskets with food, medicine, clothes and possessions in the offerings given to be later distributed to those in need,” he said. “Around the altar crop up initiatives for solidarity to house abandoned children and to establish nursery schools and dining halls to feed them; initiatives for the promotion in the self-management, sustenance and development of families and their meager economies.” CAUTION ON CORE DOCTRINE Other synod fathers, however, warned that an overly “horizontal” emphasis could obscure core doctrinal points. Benedictine Abbot Andrea Pantaloni, for example, from the Silvestrine Congregation of the Benedictines, argued that the synod should stress the eschatological dimension of the Eucharist, meaning belief in resurrection and a “new heavens and new world.” “Other problems, such as ecology, are important, however — in the synod — they are used only to take the attention away from the substance,” Pantaloni warned. “I do not believe they should be connected to the Eucharist, they
could only distract one’s attention.” Bishop Antun Skvorcevic of Pozega, Croatia, called for better collaboration between local bishops conferences and the Congregation for Divine Worship in Rome, the office responsible for approving rites and their translations into local languages, especially when the congregation does not have sufficient expertise in languages, such as Croatian. Such collaboration is important, Skvorcevic said, “to avoid problems at the level of the particular churches and reproaches of centralism in the elaboration of the liturgical texts.” A similar call was made by Cardinal Peter Turkson from Ghana, regarding cases when bishops request dispensations from general norms to respond to local situations. “The bishops wish to use the medium of this synod to appeal to the pertinent offices in the Vatican, to which these request for dispensation will come, for understanding and sympathetic consideration,” he said. Despite criticism from some quarters of an overly legalistic approach to liturgical norms, other participants have defended the rules that come from Rome as necessary to safeguard the integrity of the rites. Another common theme during synod discussion has been the desirability of expanding the practice of Eucharistic adoration apart from the Mass. Cardinal Ivan Dias of Bombay proposed that bishops and priests all over the world should spend an hour each day in adoration, “interceding for themselves, for the faithful entrusted to their pastoral care and for the needs of the whole church.” Archbishop Wilton Gregory of Atlanta, former president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, spoke this morning on the need for priests to be effective homilists. Gregory said he repeatedly hears stories of people traveling vast distances to attend services where they know they will be nourished spiritually by effective preaching, as well as a prayerful and reverent celebration of the rite. Gregory also underlined the importance of “careful and accurate translations of liturgical texts.” At the end of the synod, participants will produce two documents — a set of propositions that are private and for the pope and a message for the public. This article appeared originally in the National Catholic Reporter online edition. It is one of several daily reports by their Rome correspondent John Allen. Reprinted with permission.
ities, the rancor of living in extreme poverty on an extremely rich soil and under soil, scandalously exploited for the well being of others, the wars that lead to destruction and forced displacement, the upheavals of tribal and ethnic hatred, to mention just a few examples, are tragedies that mark the way of the cross of the people of the Congo. Being the victims and, at the same time, ‘authors of their own misery,’ the people must be illuminated ‘by the mystery of the sacrificed Body and spilt Blood’ to find grace of conversion, purification of sin, sincerity of reconciliation with God and with others, and commitment to fight evil under all forms and in all areas of public and private life.” ARCHBISHOP CHARLES MAUNG BO, S.D.B., OF YANGON, MYANMAR “Over 2,500 parishes around the world now have perpetual Eucharistic adoration. About 500 in the Philippines, the United States has about 1,100 chapels of perpetual adoration, the Republic of Ireland about 150, South Korea has about 70 and lesser numbers in India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Holy Father, if the perpetual adoration chapels were to be established in all the dioceses in the world and in all possible parishes, what a magnificent result that would be for the Eucharistic Year.” CARDINAL ALFONSO LOPEZ TRUJILLO, PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY “Can access to Eucharistic communion be allowed to people who deny human and Christian principles and values? Politicians and lawmakers have great
responsibility. The so-called personal option cannot be separated from sociopolitical duty. This is not a ‘private’ problem, the Gospel, the Magisterium and true reason have to be accepted! ... The Lord is truly present in the Eucharist, the Lord of the family, of life, of love, of the alliance that unites husband and wife. God is the Creator of human dignity. ... Politicians and lawmakers must know that, in proposing or defending iniquitous laws, they have a serious responsibility, and they must find a remedy to the evil done ... in order to have access to communion with the Lord, Who is the Way, Truth and Life.” BISHOP FELIX LAZARO MARTINEZ Sch. P., OF PONCE, PUERTO RICO “Many Catholics are still far from being able to explain or defend their faith. As St. Peter says in his first letter: ‘Always be prepared to make a defense to anyone who calls you to account for the hope that is in you.’ Yet it is difficult to love what one does not know. And if one has no knowledge of the Church, the Eucharist or the Christian faith, then with difficulty one can love the Church, the Eucharist or even the Christian faith itself. What is needed is catechesis. In my view we are suffering from a lack of catechesis. ... The absence of catechesis and religious formation can, perhaps, also explain why some of our faithful so easily go to other religious confessions or sects, attracted by the blinding light of pseudo religious science because we were unable to illuminate them in time with good and appropriate catechesis.”
On one of the last full days of speech-making, many of the popular themes in the 21st Synod of Bishops surfaced anew: celibacy and the priest shortage; divorced and remarried Catholics; the Eucharist and ecumenism; the balance between linking the Eucharist to justice and ecology, versus concentration on core matters such as the real presence of Christ and the resurrection. What seems clear is that it’s much easier to identify key points of concern than to come to consensus about them. During the open discussions Monday night, for example, two bishops from Western Europe rose to defend the discipline of celibacy in the Western church, against suggestions that the priest shortage might be addressed by relaxing the celibacy rule. “The priest shortage is not due to celibacy, but to a crisis of faith,” one bishop told the synod. Vatican policy on the open discussions is to reveal what was said, but not the name of the speaker. This bishop argued that marriage is also in crisis, and that if the church were to allow priests to marry, before long it would also have the problem of priests who are divorced. Another European bishop said that the synod should not “weaken the gift of celibacy.” He argued that the synod must go beyond “utilitarian” arguments on celibacy, and develop its relationship with the “absolute novelty” of Christ and his gospel. Yet another affirmed that the shortage of priests is due to a “crisis of faith” rather than the discipline of celibacy. A MEETING OF CHRISTIANS On ecumenism, several bishops advocated steps that might improve relations with other Christian bodies, above all the Orthodox churches of the East. One suggested that the pope call a meeting of “all baptized Christians” similar to the inter-faith gatherings that John Paul II convened three times in Assisi (1986, 1993 and 2002). Another proposed that the Catholic church adopt the Eucharistic prayer of St. Basil, widely acknowledged in the Orthodox churches, for use in the Catholic Mass. On the other hand, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, underlined one limit to ecumenical openness. “To favor unity with our separated brothers, we must not be divided ourselves. And the sure way to avoid division is faithfulness to the current discipline of the church,” Sodano said.
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Bishops from around the world leave the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist at the Vatican Oct. 6. The synod, which is focusing on liturgical and pastoral issues facing the church, is the closing event of the Year of the Eucharist.
Sodano then quoted at length from John Paul II, to the effect that sharing of the Eucharist implies unity in faith, it does not produce that unity. Hence “con-celebration” with other Christians, Sodano suggested, would be a false path to unity. On divorced and remarried Catholics, while no bishops today advocated changing the rules on receiving Communion, several spoke in favor of expanded use of the tribunal system to resolve the marital status of these Catholics. Many of these bishops came from the developing world, where use of marriage tribunals has long been spotty. One Asian bishop, for example, said that in his diocese, in 95 percent of the cases when Catholics have come forward seeking canonical assistance, the tribunals have been able to resolve the difficulty and allow these Catholics to return to the sacraments. The tendency for bishops from the developing world to emphasize the linkage between the Eucharist and social justice continued. Bishop Adalberto Martinez Flores, for example, from the San Lorenzo diocese in Paraguay, argued for an intrinsic connection between the two. “In the present day of our country, great and serious exclusions continue still due to social iniquities, the deficient access to health, the unjust distribution of goods and land, the devaluation of the dignity of human life,
Bishops’ concerns across the globe Following are excerpts of speeches by bishops from around the world participating in the Synod on the Eucharist: CARDINAL JORGE MARIO BERGOGLIO S.J., ARCHBISHOP OF BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA “Our faithful people believe in the Eucharist as a Eucharistic Marian people; they unite affection for the Eucharist and affection for the Virgin, our Mother. At the school of Mary, Eucharistic woman, we again read and consider those passages in which John Paul II contemplated the Virgin as Eucharistic woman, and we see she is not alone, but ‘together’ with the people of God.” BISHOP RIMANTAS NORVILA OF VILKAVISKIS, LITHUANIA “Without the will or the possibility of sacramental reconciliation, it becomes impossible for Catholics to experience the most profound union with Jesus Christ and the Church, favored by the Eucharist. Thus Christians reach a point where they cannot appreciate the value of the Eucharist as a source of grace and, little by little, they lose their bonds with the parish community and their closeness to the whole Church. At the same time, without the practice of reconciliation, subjectivism tends to increase, and it becomes more difficult to evaluate personal behavior and religiosity. The decline of the practice of this Sacrament is very obvious throughout the world. ... Alongside the
decrease in the practice of Penance, tendencies opposed to Christian faith often emerge. Religious necessity and past experiences of religious life tend to lead towards the search for new and broader paths. As we can all see, in today’s societies, especially Western societies, esoteric, magic, occult and New Age tendencies have all become widespread. All this enables people to create new community and social ties, distancing them from the Church and Catholic thinking and weakening the faith. Looking further ahead, we see a deformation of consciences, changes that touch the whole personality. For the positive formation of conscience and Catholic understanding one of the best - I would say privileged - instruments is reconciliation and spiritual guidance.” ARCHBISHOP STANISLAW RYLKO, PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE LAITY “ . . . In this situation one of the most urgent challenges that the Church must face is that of adequate post-Baptismal Christian initiation, capable of creating Christian communities that live faith deeply.” BISHOP NESTOR NGOY KATAHWA OF KOLWEZI, CONGO – KINSHASA “In a country such as Congo-Kinshasa, the Catholic faithful must be ‘initiated to bring their sufferings to the altar,’ sufferings which are those of all the people and which have existed for decades. The frustration that arises from injustice and social inequal-
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Food & Fun Oct. 14, 15, 16: Annual Fall Festival benefiting Star of the Sea Parish, 8th Ave. between Geary and Clement, SF. Prizes, games, raffles, nightly dinners and more. Fun for all ages. Fri.: 7 – 11 p.m. Sat.: 1 – 11 p.m. Sun.: 4 – 7 p.m. Call (415) 751-0450. Oct. 15: Holiday Boutique benefiting Sisters of the Holy Family at their Fremont Motherhouse, 159 Washington Blvd., 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. All types of needlework, seasonal items holiday decorations baked goods and more. Oct. 15, 16: St. Augustine Parish marks its 35th anniversary with a parish fair. Saturday: 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Sunday: 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Come and join us for children’s games, home and garden booths, Silent Auction, good food and much more. The address is 3700 Callan Boulevard, SSF. Oct. 15: Annual Fall Festival benefiting St. Thomas More Elementary School, 50 Thomas More Way, Sf, 11:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. Booths, games, food, and plenty of fun for all. Call Patricia at (650) 7569525 or Linda at (650) 755-1297. Oct. 15: Immaculate Heart of Mary School Golf Fundraiser at Crystal Springs Golf Course followed by catered Awards Dinner at San Mateo Elks Club. Call Tim Connolly for Tee Times (650) 592-7714 Golf $150; Dinner $50; Golf & Dinner $180. All Proceeds benefit IHM School Programs. 4-person scramble, games, prizes, contests, raffles Oct. 16: Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Fashion Show 2005 at the Argent Hotel, 50 3rd St. between Mission and Market in SF. Proceeds benefit St. Brendan Elementary School. Festivities include silent auction and raffle. Tickets: $60 adults/$45 children. Call (415) 731-2665. Oct. 18: Octoberfest Fall Carnival at Panorama School, 25 Bellevue Ave., Daly City, 11 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. Fun all day! Great food, face painting, crafts, balloon jump, raffle and silent auction. Call (415) 586-6595. Oct 22: The Saint Stephen Women’s Guild is sponsoring its annual fashion show at the Olympic Club Lakeside at 11am. Tickets to this fun event—”Cougar Couture”—are still available through event chairs Nancy Crowley and Colleen O’Meara. Raffle tickets are also available for grand prizes including a $500 shopping spree at Stonestown Galleria. (Winner need not be present to win; free drawing ticket available at school office upon request.) Contact Nancy @ 415/664-7164 or email: nancycinsf@aol.com; or Colleen @ 415/7314736 or email: colleenomeara@comcast.net. Oct. 26: Octoberfest benefiting the work of the Good Shepherd Sisters and Guild at the Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco with social hour at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:30 p.m. $40 per person. Call Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5374. Oct. 29: Halloween Bunco Luncheon benefiting work of Dolores #7, YLI, in St. Cecilia’s Lower Church, 17th Ave. at Vicente in San Francisco. $20 per person. Plenty of parking. Costumes encouraged. Call Claire at (415) 751-5875. Oct. 29: A “Great Happening” in the Bayview Hunters Point Community. The SF Giants and St. Mary’s Medical Center are teaming up again this year to help strike out disease and illness. The 3rd Annual Faith-based, Interfaith, Community Health Fair takes place at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Catholic Church, 3rd and Jamestown and The Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center, 6301 3rd St. at Ingerson. All Services are Free and everyone is welcome! Continental Breakfast at 9:30 a.m. followed by workshops and lunch. Take advantage, too, of multiple health screenings, “Ask the Doctor Booths”, fitness and wellness programs, insurance enrollment, and other services for all ages until 3 p.m. For more information, call (415) 750-5683. November 5: St. Paul’s Annual Dinner Dance and Auction, “Les rues de Paris.” Please be sure to attend this year’s event at the United Irish Cultural Center. The silent auction and cocktails begin at 6:00 p.m., with dinner, live auction and dancing to follow. Cost is $65/person and benefits the St. Paul Preservation Catholic Networking Night for job seekers and everyone else. Employers are also invited to present job openings. Guest speakers are Craig Nathanson, a vocational coach, and Kathy Devine, a career coach. Takes place at St. Dominic’s Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF from 2 – 5 p.m. Admissions is free. Come and expand your network. Exchange ideas and brush up on job search skills. Admission is free. Reservations are requested. Contact Connie at daura@ccwear.com.
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Datebook Harvest Fest with all its fun takes place October 15th, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at St. Matthias Preschool, Canyon and Cordilleras Road, Redwood City. The Arts and Crafts Fair also features a Bake Booth, Food Booth, Silent Auction and Raffle, plus a Children’s Game Area. “It’s a fun-filled day for the entire family,” said preschool director, Mary Ornellas. Kyle Taylor was one of many children last year to enjoy the face painting booth and the skilled work of preschool teacher, Sharon Dick. Fund; established to reduce the debt for the building of St. Paul’s School and the retrofit of the stunning St. Paul Parish Church. Tickets are available by calling St. Paul’s Rectory at 415-648-7538. Nov. 5, 6: Annual St. Ignatius Fashion Show benefiting St. Ignatius College Preparatory. Saturdays’ event is High Roller gala and the Sunday soiree is a Luck Be a Lady Luncheon. Call the school, at (415) 731-7500. Nov. 12: Fundraising Hawaiian Dinner Dance sponsored by St. Emydius Church Fil-Am Unity Club. Dinner 6:30 -8:00pm. Dance till midnight. Father O’Reilly Center, 255 Jules Ave., San Francisco. Donation $25.00. Ticket must be paid by October 31st to reserve seat. Call Jose or Bea Delgadillo (415) 239-0632 or Cora Cabal – (415) 469-0311. Nov. 12, 13: 2nd Annual Holiday Crafts Sale at St. John of God Church Hall, 1290 5th Ave. at Irving St., San Francisco. Sat: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sun.: 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Shows/Entertainment Nov. 5: The SangTinig Choir, (formerly SF Archdiocesan Filipino Choir) will stage Encore, its premiere performance at 7:00 p.m. at the St.Thomas More Church in 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd., San Francisco. Donation is $15.00. For information call: Loy Banez (650) 878-5149 or Delia Valencia (415) 239-8185. Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admissions free. October 16: Christoph Tietze, Organist. October 23: David Hatt, Organist. Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free.
Reunions Oct. 19: Class of ’40, Presentation High School at Delancey Street Restaurant on the Embarcadero. Contact Anne Brickley (415) 824-7990 or Grace Scholz at (415) 664-9678. Oct. 20: St. Joseph Grammar School and St. James High School Reunion at Archbishop Riordan High School ‘s Lindland Theatre. For information email vrassam@riordanhs.org Oct. 22: Archbishop Riordan High School - Alumni Homecoming. $15 per person includes lunch and admission to the game. For information email vrassam@riordanhs.org Oct. 29: Class of ’55, Immaculate Conception Academy at Embassy Suites in Burlingame. Contact Anne Nolan Dowd at (650) 359-2601 or andown@aol.com.
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Oct. 29: Class of ’45, St. Paul High School, San Francisco, United Irish Cultural Center. Call Lillian Carter at (415) 584-3938. Nov. 5: Class of ’85, Mercy High School, San Francisco, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd, San Francisco. Tickets are $40 per person. Please contact mercyhs85@yahoo.com or call (510) 845-5728 for tickets. Nov. 5: Class of ’60, All Souls Elementary School. Call Nancy Eli-Galli at (650) 593-5334. Nov. 4, 5, 6: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Reunion Weekend 2005. Friday, Nov. 4 begins the festivities with Back to School Day. Saturday, Nov. 5, enjoy the reunion dinner featuring cuisine from the various diverse neighborhoods of San Francisco. Sunday, Nov. 6, attend Alumni Mass and Brunch. For more information, contact Gregg Franceschi, Director of Alumni Relations at 415.775.6626 ext. 636 or gregg.franceschi@shcp.edu. Nov. 12: Class of ’65 from St. Emydius Elementary School at the United Irish Cultural Center at 2700 45th Ave., San Francisco.For reservations, please contact one of the following people: Christine Terry (Hutson) at (408) 298-7676; Dennis Warde at (510) 208-4811 or Emmet Monahan at (415) 586-4588. Nov. 12: Class of ’64 Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School. Contact Kevin Brady at kbrady2626@msn.com or www.holynamesf.com/alumni. Nov. 18: Archbishop Riordan High School’s Annual Downtown Luncheon at Sir Francis Drake Hotel. $60 per person. Guest Speaker: Football’s Ronnie Lott. For information email vrassam@riordanhs.org Nov. 19: Class of ’80, Presentation High School, San Francisco. Contact Bernadette Sallaberry Hurley at (650) 359-8218 or jbjnhurley@aol.com.
Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Oct. 24, 25, 26, 27: St. Matthias Church presents a four day mission entitled Come Find Yourself, a spiritual program designed to illustrate how people might best find themselves by finding God. Deacons John Sequeira and Jim Myers speak at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m.The mission will be introduced at weekend Masses Oct. 22 and 23. Envelopes will be distributed for free will offerings. Hospitality will be served. St. Matthias Church is located at 1685 Cordilleras in Redwood City. For more information, call Laurie Coulter at 366-7085, ext. 12 Oct. 29: St. Luke Mass and Banquet sponsored by SF Guild of the Catholic Medical Association at St. Cecilia Parish, 17th Ave. and Vicente, SF beginning with Mass at 5 p.m. Contact George Maloof, MD, at (415) 219-8719.or gemaloof2003@yahoo.com. Oct.28: Reveling in God’s Presence, a time of reflection, exploration and practice of living led by Notre Dame Sister Phil D’Anna, a student of Zen meditation. 10 a.m.
– 2 p.m. - Bring a bag lunch - at Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont Pre-register: 650593-2045 X 277 or Barbara.cunningham@SNDdeN.org
Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Check out our Web site for a list of events around the Bay Area and download our Newsletter at www.sfyam.org. We publish a quarterly newsletter to connect college students and young adults to the Catholic Church. October 18, 25: Theology on Tap at San Francisco’s Ireland 32, 3920 Geary Blvd. Oct 18: Making Justice Your Career in a Global World: A Road Map by David Batstone. Professor of Ethics, University of San Francisco and Executive Editor, Sojourners Magazine. Author, Saving the Corporate Soul—and (Who Knows?) Maybe Your Own. Bishop John C. Wester, Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco will offer prayer and presence. October 25: Immigration: Moral Convictions and Social Policies by Fr. Stephen Privett, SJ, President, University of San Francisco. Takes place 7 – 9 p.m. both nights. Sponsored by Archdiocese of San Francisco Young Adult Ministry and The Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought at the University of San Francisco. Contact: Julia Dowd, 4222531, dowd@usfca.edu http://www.usfca.edu/lanecenter
Single, Divorced, Separated Oct. 29: Catholic Singles Network invites all Catholic Single Adults throughout Northern California to a special Halloween Party-Mardi Gras Style at the Crowne Plaza Hotel—1221 Chess Drive, Foster City at 7:00 p.m. Cost of $38 includes facilitated ice-breakers, hot and cold appetizers and dancing. A special raffle drawing will be held for valuable prizes. Proceeds from the raffle drawing will benefit the Hurricane Relief effort. For more info, visit our website at www.catholicsinglesnetwork.com or contact Carlos, at (888) 208-9555 ext 84 or email at carlosn@catholicsinglesnetwork.com. Nov. 4 – 6: Widowed, Separated, Divorced Weekend at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park. The weekend is designed to be a time of closure on the past and new beginning in the present. For more information, call La Verne (650) 355-3978, Ward (415) 821-3390, or Nicole (408) 578-5654, or see the website: www.beginningexperience.org.
Meetings Oct. 15: The San Francisco Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women’s Fall Convention at St. Sebastian Parish, 373 Bon Air Road at Sir Francis Drake Blvd, Greenbrae. Trafficking: Human Exploitation of Women & Youth is the topic of the day. Keynote speakers include Holy Names Sisters Jean Cather and Mary Alice Heinz. Panel discussions with political, governmental, social justice/human rights and law enforcement representatives follow. Day begins with Mass at 9 a.m. and ends after lunch. For more information or for a ride, call Diana Heafey (415) 731-6379 or Carole Gianuario (650) 593-5681. $25.00 cost covers the program, continental breakfast, luncheon and handouts. 2nd Wed.: Men’s Evening of Reflection: Being Catholic in the Modern World at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF beginning at 7 p.m. Call (415) 983-0405. Courage, a Catholic support group for persons with same-sex attraction, meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Call Father Lawrence Goode at (650) 322-2152.
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A Jesus worth dying for ON THE WAY TO JESUS CHRIST, by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), Ignatius Press (San Francisco, 2005), 185 pp., $19.95
Reviewed by Justin Nickelsen Christology seems to have come full circle. Beginning with Albert Schweitzer’s Quest For the Historical Jesus, initiated at the turn of the twentieth century, and accented with Rudolf Bultmann’s existentialist approach, theological inquiry into the person of Christ has been gradually picking up speed on a downward spiral, hitting rock bottom in the last many years when many theologians, under the pretext of licit academic freedom, have been found writing off even the most rudimentary elements of ecclesiastical teaching; teachings hammered out in the beginning centuries of the post-apostolic era. Most recently, Roger Haight–former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA)–was under investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) for ideas he forwarded in his book, Jesus Symbol of God. The inquiry into his work climaxed at the beginning of this year when the CDF, then under of leadership of Joseph Ratzinger–now, Pope Benedict XVI–published a notification on Haight’s book, claiming that it denied the divinity of Jesus, the Trinity, the salvific value of Jesus’ death, the exclusive and universal mediation of Christ in salvation, and the resurrection. One would be naive to think that the lack of such notifications on the part of the magisterium would mean that Haight is a black spot on a white wall; this could not be further from the truth. In the midst of a quite telling defense given to the theologian throughout the academic world, the most appropriate of responses came from Jesuit, Gerald O’Collins, who said, “I wouldn’t give my life for Roger Haight’s Jesus. It’s a triumph of relevance over orthodoxy”. Indeed, it is. It is into this scene that we welcome Ratzinger’s newest book, On the Way to Jesus Christ. In this timely collection of essays, from a scholar who has so often been at the forefront of these debates, he responds again to the question of Christ: “Who do you say that I am”. While many theologians seem to suggest that there can be no true and orthodox response to this inquiry, Ratzinger shows that the mystery of Christ is such that while there are certainly boarders within which one must swim, theological speculation, faithful to the Church, is like an ocean–virtually inexhaustible. It is ironic that the re-construction of the “historical Jesus” is being taken on by the same strand of thinkers whose philosophical presuppositions led to the deconstruction to begin with. This “band of scholarship”, notes Ratzinger, “forbids God access to the world” because is
starts with the inference that “history is fundamentally and always uniform and that therefore nothing can take place in history but what is possible as a result of causes known to us in nature and in human activity.” “Divine interventions”, he continues, “that go beyond the constant interaction of natural and human causes…cannot be historical.” What follows, then, is a God that has no real activity in the world, and “consequently…no ‘revelation’ in the proper sense.” The Church, in the last 2000 years, has encouraged and kept the sciences alive, but in the hands of human beings they have honest limits that many adherents seem unwilling to admit. Ratzinger explains that a science which begins by asserting an inept God–a God that cannot act supernaturally in the world–starts with a tenant that is as un-provable as the notion of a “Creator”. Nevertheless, that does not, and should not, keep mankind from reaching beyond the scope of this world into the universe in response their innate thirst for knowledge, and making logical deductions based on clues found within nature. While faith is certainly the foundation of Christianity, it is a faith that “first acknowledges the dignity and scope of reason”. “Reason is critical of religion in its search for truth; yet at its very origins,” says Ratzinger, “Christianity sides with reason, and considers this ally to be its principle forerunner”–an admittance that sets Christianity out among the other world religions. Christianity’s believability, nonetheless, transcends the sciences, and one would be remiss to not acknowledge the witness of martyrdom accompanied by a “renewed life”, on the part of believers, “which reopens our closed horizons.” The Church has historically “regarded conversion to the faith as a positively intellectual journey, in which man is confronted with the ‘doctrine of truth’ and its arguments”. Therein man “acquires a new life companionship”, and consequently “new experiences and interior progress become possible for him.” While the newest Pontiff explicitly and implicitly responds to the crisis in Christological scholarship throughout the book, his other essays range from a more “aesthetic” approach, reminiscent to that of Hans Urs von Balthasar–one of Ratzinger’s greatest influences–and into a discussion of the Eucharist, including an epilogue reflecting on the reception of the Catechism ten years after its publication. A book that the average to more advanced reader can appreciate, On the Way to Jesus Christ refrains from mere dogmatic regurgitations. The essays are novel, yet faithful to, and at the service of, the Church, written by a theologian that swims within the ocean of Catholic thought, presenting a Jesus that is truly worth dying for. Justin Nickelsen operates the “Sources Chrétiennes: Renewal in Catholic Thought” blog (nouvelletheologie.blogspot.com).
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The Greatest Game Ever Played Reviewed by Steven D. Greydanus The Greatest Game Ever Played is perhaps the most visually and emotionally dynamic film ever made about a game of golf - perhaps the most visually and emotionally dynamic possible film about a game of golf. If that’s not enough to sell you on seeing it, it’s also a rousing, true underdog story about a poor, young American caddy named Francis Ouimet (Shia LaBeouf, Holes, Constantine) who, in 1913, at a time when golf was a rich man’s hobby played solely on exclusive private courses, stunned the genteel golf world and the nation with his performance in the US Open against the best amateur and professional player of dominant Britain and America. Francis’s amazing story helped democratize the game, raising general interest and leading to the institution of public courses. His story was recently celebrated by writer Mark Frost, who adapted his own best-selling nonfiction account for the screen. If that’s not still enough to sell you on seeing it, it’s also a rare humane sports film that doesn’t demonize the opposition, in this case British professional Harry Vardon (Stephen Dillane), a top-ranked player nicknamed “the Stylist” with a workingclass background similar to Francis’s. A movie needs a villain, of course, and The Greatest Game has several, from the odious Lord Northcliffe (Peter Firth), who expects a cabinet seat if he can pull off a British victory, to the sinister aristocratic specters that only Vardon sees, shadows of a childhood memory that haunt him at every stroke, silently telling him that he’s not good enough. But these onscreen villains are only prox-
ies for the true adversary, the class system that tells the less privileged to stay in their place and not get any ideas above their station. The real point of The Greatest Game is not who wins or loses, but whether a man of privilege is ultimately worth more than a common man. It’s a story of honor, courage and friendship, in which the noblest stroke is made not with a club, but with a word, as when Francis stands up for pudgy little Eddie Lowry, who has lugged his clubs around for the first two days of the Open - long enough for Francis to prove his worth to the American hosts, but also long enough for Eddie to prove his worth to Francis. Or when Ouimet’s opponent Vardon stands up for Francis himself, snapping to Lord Northcliffe, “If Mr. Ouimet wins tomorrow, it’s because he’s the best, because of who he is - not because of all the money he’s got. I’d thank you to remember that. There’s a respect a gentleman gives as a matter of course.” And if that’s still not enough to sell you on seeing it, there’s always the cute factor. John Flitter is a scream as little Eddie Lowry, the 10-year-old caddy that Francis got stuck with because Lowry’s older brother got nicked by the truant officer. Lowry’s too cute and smart to be true, except that it seems he really was. Or, at least, that’s the way he remembered himself later in life; Frost based his portrayal of Lowry, along with other details of the game, on Lowry’s own unpublished account of the Open, written in middle age and acquired by Frost from Lowry’s sister. Back to the film’s unique visual style. Directed by Bill Paxton (Frailty), The Greatest Game is a daring effort to film the game from inside the mind of a golfer, where it is really played. Previous golf movies, like
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early two-strip Technicolor. LaBeouf is earnest and appealing as Francis, and Dillane is effortlessly classic and sympathetic as Vardon. If the film has a fault, it may be that for all its visual inventiveness, the story and the characters remain profoundly generic. I’m willing to accept that historically both Francis and Vardon had typical movie sportshero relationships with their disapproving fathers (à la The Rookie), but The Greatest Game has no insights or observations about this type of relationship to differentiate the film from a dozen similar portrayals. Yet if The Greatest Game doesn’t manage to distinguish itself from other sports movies, it’s still more than good enough to distinguish itself from other golf movies. Other golf movies assume that you either already love the game or that you don’t; The Greatest Game may give you some appreciation for why other people love it even if you don’t. I can’t say it’s made me a golf fan, but if I ever find myself watching a game of golf in the future, I don’t think I’ll watch it quite the same way.
Bagger Vance and Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius, filmed the game of golf as you would have seen it if you were there watching. The Greatest Game Ever Played sets out to film the game as you would feel it if you were there playing - or rather, as players like Francis and Vardon would have felt it. When Francis looks out toward the horizon, measuring the distance to an impossibly remote flag, the distance between him and the flag seems suddenly to telescope until the flag appears quite close, and you know he’s in the zone, and will nail the shot. Conversely, when he’s rattled and off his game, the flag wavers and shoots off into the distance, and you know he isn’t getting anywhere near it. Vardon perceives the game differently. The consummate professional, he blocks out all distractions as he prepares to take a shot, and everything around him - the crowd, the trees - simply melt away, leaving him standing alone on a plain of green untouched by any landmark but the flag in the distance. Cinematographer Shane Hurlbut bathes the film in bright, oversaturated colors, like
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Unhealed wounds can hold you back - even if they are not the “logical” cause of your problems today. You can be the person God intended. Inner Child Healing Offers a deep spiritual and psychological approach to counseling: ❖ 30 years experience with individuals, couples and groups ❖ Directed, effective and results-oriented ❖ Compassionate and Intuitive ❖ Supports 12-step ❖ Enneagram Personality Transformation
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REAL ESTATE SPECIALIZING IN SAN MATEO COUNTY REAL ESTATE If I can be of service to you, or if you know of anyone who is interested in buying or selling a home, please do not hesitate to call me . . . * Parishioner of St. Gregory’s Church, San Mateo
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The Peninsula Men’s Group, now in it’s 7th year, is a support group which provides affordable counseling in a safe and nurturing setting. Interested candidates may call for a free brochure.
(650) 591-3784 974 Ralston Ave. #6, Belmont, CA 94002
BONDED & INSURED
415-205-1235
Insured PL, PD & Workmen’s Comp.
Contract Lic. #859459
Plumbing • Fire Protection • Certified Backflow
John Bianchi Phone: 415.468.1877 Fax: 415.468.1875
Painting & Remodeling
100 North Hill Drive, Unit 18 • Brisbane, CA 94005 Lic. No. 390254
John Holtz
Ca. Lic 391053 General Contractor Since 1980
(650) 355-4926
Painting & Remodeling •Interiors •Exteriors •Kitchens •Baths Contractor inspection reports and pre-purchase consulting
Expert Plumbing Repairs ●
General Repairs Clean Drains & Sewers Water Heaters ●
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FAMILY OWNED
415-661-3707
Lic. # 663641
24 HR
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FAMILY AND OUR EMPLOYEES MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO GIVE EACH CUSTOMER A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE.
LIC. #747796
Construction
Handyman Handyman
Barbara Elordi, MFT Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist. Offers individual, couple + family and group counseling.
CA LIC #817607
www.hitechhardwoodfloor.com
Dr. Daniel J. Kugler
1537 Franklin Street • San Francisco, CA 94109
ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND
415-720-1612 415-387-9561 (home)
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Over 25 years experience
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PLUMBING HOLLAND Plumbing Works San Francisco
RESIDENTIAL & COMMERCIAL
Professional Installation & Refinishing Specialist
SERVING THE BAY AREA • MANY LOCAL REFEFERENCES
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• Family • Work • Depression • Anxiety
P.O. Box 214 San Bruno, CA 94066
St. Robert’s Parish San Bruno
Free Estimates. Call Anytime
Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT
When Life Hurts It Helps To Talk
All Mfg. Warranty: Rebates and Special Dealer Finacing goes to Registered Owner/s
HIGH QUALITY SERVICE AT REASONABLE RATES
COUNSELING Do you want to be more fulfilled in love and work – but find things keep getting in the way?
Floors
REPAIRS & PRESSURE WASHING Leaks, Dryrot, Decks, Safety grab bars Mike: (650) 355-8858 Lic # 778332
– Senior Discount –
Painting, roof repair, fence (repair/ build) demolition, carpenter, gutter (clean/ repair), skylight repairs, landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, janitorial. All purpose.
Call (650) 757-1946 Cell (415) 517-5977 NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR
Carpentry, Cabinetry, Painting,Refinishing Floors and Furniture, Door & Window Instal.,Cement Work. Se habla Español & Tagalog. Serving also the East Bay, Contra Costa,&Marin Counties
• DRAIN-SEWER CLEANING SERVICE • WATER HEATERS • TOILETS • COPPER REPIPING • SEWER REPLACEMENT • GAS PIPES
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OR
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Clothing Alteration
Organist
CLOTHING ALTERATION AND REPAIR.
ORGANIST WEDDINGS • FUNERALS
Hemming pants, skirts and jackets. CALL MARIA (415)643-5826
Worship Services, Catholic Experience Marie DuMabeiller 415-441-3069, Page: 823-3664 VISA, MASTERCARD Accepted Please confirm your event before contracting music!
RECRUITMENT
Tahoe rental FOR RENT Lake Tahoe large 4 bedroom house sleeps 15. Minutes from Heavenly and casinos, close to all other ski resorts. Great winter or summer for large groups and family reunions. Still available Thanksgiving and Christmas. Wood burning fireplace, brand new hot tub, in Tahoe Keys, has boat dock. Ski packages can be arranged. www.tahoevacationhouserentals.com 480-380-3688
irish caregiver Many years experience, excellent local references, responsible and reliable. Available days and nights.
Please call for info 415-374-6495.
Elderly Care ORI’S ELDER CARE AGENCY Personal care companion. Help with daily activities; driving, grocery shopping, doctor appts. Required: CNA, Nurse’s Aid, Certificate, honest, reliable, excellent refs, bonded. Call Ori 415-713-1366
Thank you St. Anthony, St. Jude and Blessed Virgin Mary, never known to fail for prayers answered.
Novenas
PUBLISH A NOVENA Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted
Cost $25
If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call 415-614-5640
Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted. S.C.M.
CHIMNEY CLEANING
Land For Sale Land for sale:
CALL 415-485-4090
Incredible 72 acres. Hunter’s paradise. Turkey, deer and tons of wildlife. Gorgeous timber surrounds brand new, all wood, old west style barn. Fenced and cross-fenced. Corrals and stalls. Road to building site winds through woods and beautiful pastures. Totally secluded on dead-end road. Easily commutable to KC Int'l Airport. Priced to sell at less than $4K per acre.
CHIMNEY CLEANING SPECIAL!
Call Niki McKenzie at 785-214-0237 or 785-242-7700.
Employment opportunities heaven can’t wait Serra for Priestly Vocations Please call Archdiocese of San Francisco Fr. Tom Daly (415) 614-5683
COORDINATOR
OF
PARISH LITURGY
Our Lady of the Snows is seeking a full time staff member to oversee the liturgical needs of an active 2000 household parish in Reno, NV. A successful candidate will be Coordinator of Parish Liturgy, responsible for the design and coordination of a comprehensive liturgical program. The job will include planning and development of the full liturgical cycle including special liturgical events during major liturgical seasons; Be a liaison to and provide leadership to liturgical teams and committees; Collaborate with the Music Minister and oversee the parish’s music program; Supervise the scheduling of presiders, lectors, eucharistic ministers, altar servers, musicians, ushers, greeters, hospitality ministers and sacristans; Conduct a liturgical education program; Coordinate the evaluation of overall parish liturgical needs including the Church environment; Report to Parish Life Administrator and work collaboratively with Parish priest. A Master’s Degree in Liturgy or Theology is desirable and 3-5 years Parish experience. Send cover letter and resume to: Sr. Anita Minihane, Our Lady of the Snows, 1138 Wright St., Reno, NV 89509.
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Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal. You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted. L.T.
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Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920
GIGANTIC SALE! Little Sisters of the Poor
300 Lake Street, San Francisco Saturday, October 15th ● 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
SALES MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITY We are: One of the largest marketers of financial products in North America, looking for people who want to succeed. We offer an excellent educational system to teach you our business, a comprehensive support network, and competitive products that are highly desirable to most consumers. Candidates should: Desire an excellent income, be committed to working hard, and posses a strong desire to succeed.
For more information, contact Primerica Financial Services N. Margriet Rensch 866-247-2466 Lic.# OB 27214
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