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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass of canonization for five new saints in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 11.

Pope canonizes five new saints, calling them models of Christian love

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) – At a Mass Oct. 11 in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Benedict XVI proclaimed five new saints, including Father Damien de Veuster, the 19th-century Belgian missionary who ministered to people with leprosy in Hawaii before dying of the disease, and

Sister Jeanne Jugan, a French nun whose Little Sisters of the Poor continue to assist the elderly in the United States and more than 30 other countries. Thousands of pilgrims from around the world attended the canonization and heard Pope Benedict describe the new saints as “shining examples” of Christian love. FIVE NEW SAINTS, page 22

Archdiocese feels pressure of priest shortage, looks to planning, vocations By Gerald Korson Special Report SAN FRANCISCO – In comparison to many other Catholic dioceses in the United States, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has had relatively little difficulty in providing enough active priests to serve the pastoral needs of its faithful. The ministry of priests from other countries at parishes in the archdiocese has, for many years, filled the gap between the archdiocese’s need for new priests and the number of its ordinations to the priesthood each year. So far the archdiocese has been spared the most serious effects of a priest shortage seen in some other regions of the country, where more than 18 percent of parishes do not have a resident priest. But the demographics of an aging resident clergy combined with a lower number of annual ordinations are putting pressure on the archdiocese’s abil-

ity to meet the needs of parishes. The spared the kind of logistical predicaments Archdiocesan Directory lists 44 priests with regard to clergy assignments that ordained in the decade 1970-79, while the have plagued other regions of the councomparable listing for the decade 2000-09 try where the priest shortage is felt more acutely. Its 90 parishes shows 22 priests. dot a relatively compact “I’ve been vicar of 1,012-square-mile landclergy for two-and-ascape, and supply priests half years, and a priest have been plentiful due ministering in the archto the presence of clergydiocese for 41 years,” said rich institutions such as San Francisco Auxiliary the University of San Bishop William J. Justice, Francisco, the Graduate “and this is the first year Theological Union and that I’ve said to priests, in several retreat houses a joking manner, ‘No one situated within and around can get seriously ill or die. the three-county archdioThat’s an order.’ Because cese. we don’t have anybody to Bishop William Justice “We are not in dire replace them.” Bishop Justice, who carries the respon- straits,” Bishop Justice told Catholic San sibilities of Vicar for Clergy, paused, and Francisco. “Because we’ve been able then added in a serious tone: “We’ve got to to supply priests for the parishes, there hasn’t been a lot of pressure on us to look continue to do some serious planning.” The archdiocese largely has been forward.”

Like other major metropolitan areas of the country, the San Francisco Bay Area is attractive to priests from other countries, including foreign-born clergy seeking to do ministry in the United States, some of whom already have relatives in the area.” Yet even with these resources, the archdiocese is beginning to feel the pinch. Looking ahead to the 2010-12 threeyear period, 29 active archdiocesan priests will be eligible to retire. While many of these priests will elect to remain active in ministry, even if they officially retire, this demographic trend can be startling. Particularly when contrasted with the number of priestly ordinations in the archdiocese – three this year, and eight projected for the next three years – a number that falls short of what is needed annually to replace the priests who die, retire, or are unable to continue in ministry. PRIEST SHORTAGE, page 10

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Education…. Notre Dame de Namur Sister Helen Dugan turned 90 years old on October 2, the Feast of the Guardian Angel. Students, teachers and staff gathered to celebrate this happy occasion and wonderful woman, said Jodie Penner, school mom and public relations person for Notre Dame Elementary School. Our community loves her very much. Sister Helen was born and raised in San Francisco and attended the now-closed and much-missed Notre By Tom Burke Dame High School. Two years later she entered religious life and never looked back, Jodie said. Sister Helen has always enjoyed teaching New directors of religious education and youth min- the younger primary grades and if there is one istry were welcomed and shown the ropes by staff of the thing she d like people to know about her it is Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry in that she loves children. A special birthday card mid-September. The sessions helped orient the catechists from students named their 90 favorite things and youth ministers with the about the beloved Front from left: Brother Thien Nguyen, DRE, Sts. Peter & pastoral center and “how our religious. These are Paul, Marirose Macaraig CRE, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, office supports their ministerial just some of them: Sister Maria Luong, DRE, Corpus Christi, Claudia Miramontes, efforts,” said Vivian Clausing, “God made her just Coordinator, Hispanic Catechesis, Our Lady of the Pillar, Miguel associate director of youth right…She knows a Balboa, DRE, All Souls. Back from left: Moises Pelayo, CRE, ministry. Also on hand were lot of good jokes… Social Service Sister Celeste She likes cookies as Church of the Visitacion, Father Dennis Barlaan, parochial vicar, Arbuckle, director of the Office much as we do…She Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Barbara De Barros, youth minister, of Religious Education and listens…She’s cool… St. Anthony of Padua, Novato, Thu-Ha Rae, DRE, St. Stephen. Youth Ministry, Anelita Reyes, She’s there when associate director for catechesis I need her…She and Franciscan Sister Graciela cares about everyone…She’s Father Francis Goode will preside. St. Dominic’s Solemn Martinez, associate director for so optimistic…She always High Choir will lead song. “This is our third annual Breast Hispanic catechesis. remembers my name…She Cancer Awareness Mass,” said founder, Marti Dinan. The guests were also taken doesn’t give up on us in “This year we dedicate it to all the wonderful care givthrough the new updated class…She’s patient…She’s ers.” Special opportunities to remember someone you Office of Religious Education awesome.” Sister Helen marks know who has breast cancer or who has died from it are and Youth Ministry website her 70th year as a Sister of available. Call Marti at (415) 929-9242 for details…. and invited to participate in Notre Dame in August…. Vincent Riener, principal of South San Francisco’s All Sister Helen Dugan, SNDdeN November’s Faith Formation Remember that this Sunday, Souls Elementary School is mighty proud and well he Conference, www.sitekreator. October 18, the annual Mass should be. “We had a dress down day with the students com/faithformation. “We enjoyed meeting and welcom- for those suffering from breast cancer as well as those and raised $1400 for the Philippine Relief fund through ing those new to their positions in the Archdiocese of San who have died from the disease, and their family and the Catholic Relief Services,” Vincent said. “In these times Francisco,” Vivian said. For the record, DRE is Director of friends will be celebrated at St. Dominic Church, Bush I thought this was a great effort from our school comReligious Education and CRE is Coordinator of Religious and Steiner St. in San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. Dominican munity in one day.”… If you get the chance, be sure to get to the October 20 meeting of the Catholic Professional Business Club. Guest speaker Front from left: Evie Fong, DRE, Star of is Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone. the Sea, Isabel Zarate, Nicole Macaraeg Details on tickets and the group can be found at youth minister, St. Augustine, Mariel cpbc-sf.org. I had the opportunity to meet and interview Bishop Cordileone for KPIX CBS Manela youth minister, St. Augustine, 5’s Mosaic and he was great. That show airs Naomi Cornejo youth minister, Our Lady of on Channel 5 on October 25 at 5 a.m. I know, Mt. Carmel, Redwood City, Sister Noreen I know. So tape it then!... Next issue is Oct. O’Connor, DRE, St. Thomas the Apostle, 30! This is an empty space without you. Send Tamara Rozofski, youth minister, St. Peter’s, items via e-mail to burket@sfarchdiocese. Pacifica, Teresa Navarro St. Bruno, Kristen org and by ground to “Street,” One Peter Quilan, DRE, St. Raymond. Back from left: Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Electronic Michael Smith, DRE, St. Dominic, Michele photos should be jpegs at 300 dpi. 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these countries but maybe in lesser numbers than we hoped. But when you look on this AMMAN, JORDAN – Christians may question, ask why they leave. And they are be a tiny minority in Jordan, the land where not just Christian people leaving – Muslim Jesus was baptized and Moses was buried, people, the same thing. And in Israel, maybe but their affinity with the Muslim majority on the same thing. Why? All of them – Christian, fundamental values can be a model of rela- Muslim, Israeli—they are looking for peace. tionship for peace-loving people throughout There is no peace. They want peace for their children. They are looking to go to countries the troubled Mideast. Two Jordanian Arab Catholic leaders where it is possible to have peace and work, offered that hopeful perspective in encounters and that’s it. Once peace is established in with Christian journalists Sept. 27. Catholic these countries, and the possibility of work, San Francisco interviewed Bishop Selim no one will think about migration.” The day Bishop Sayegh spoke, the diffiSayegh, auxiliary bishop and vicar general for Jordan for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. culty of the task was highlighted by clashes Later that day 20 U.S. and Canadian Christian between Israeli security forces and Palestinian journalists on a press tour of Jordan met protesters at holy sites in Jerusalem’s old with Father Nabil Haddad, a Greek Melkite city, 45 miles west of the Jordan River. Two Catholic priest who is executive director of days later, Richard Goldstone, the head of the Jordanian Interfaith Coexistence Research the U.N.’s fact-finding mission in Gaza, told the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva Center. that Israel used disThe interviews proportionate force came a week after Pope Benedict XVI When we insist on what aimed at Gaza’s civilian population in its announced that he was convening a is common together, life military operations last December and Synod of Bishops January. The 1,400 for the Middle East is beautiful dead included more to be held in October 340 children, 2010. The synod will – Bishop Selim Sayegh than which “contributes discuss problems to a situation where that beset minority young people grow Christian communities in the region, in particular Israel, the up in a culture of hatred and violence,” he Palestinian territories and Iraq. The issues said. Goldstone also accused Palestinian include migration, conflict and interreligious armed groups of committing war crimes and concluded that “the teaching of hate dialogue. “The Christian presence in the Middle and dehumanization by each side against East is a big question mark,” said Bishop the other” is contributing to the region’s Sayegh, 74. “When you see what is happen- destabilization. The events followed speeches at the U.N. ing in Iraq, what is happening in Syria, the Palestinian question, and all around us. Big General Assembly the previous week by trouble – all the Middle East is in big trouble Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, so this sort of synod will be very good for the accusing Israel of “racist ambitions,” and by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Christian presence.” The region’s instability is driving people saying the Iranian leader denies the reality of the Holocaust and foments hatred against of all faiths away, Bishop Sayegh said. “It is very sad, but not desperate,” he Jews. More than a third of Jordan’s Arab said. “Christian people remain forever in

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Christians have emigrated to North America, Europe, Australia and elsewhere. Different statistics are offered for the current count but it is tiny by any measure – according to the government, no more than 3 percent in a country of 6.2 million, Bishop Sayegh said. In 2003, Jordan opened its doors to what would become an influx of 56,000 Christian war refugees from Iraq. Most are making their way to permanent homes outside the region. “Very sad situation on the human level,” Bishop Sayegh said. “Generally, Iraqi people have a high standard of living and suddenly, poof, they are nothing. They beg in the streets to have some money to eat to give to their children. It is a drama, this question of the Iraqi people. And what for? Why?” The role of the Church in the region’s many troubles is not a political one, Bishop Sayegh stressed. Instead the Church is a force for “real strength, moral and religious strength, to push to a real peace.” One of the Church’s greatest strengths in Jordan is education. The patriarchate runs 28 schools, which are popular with the Muslim majority. “Many Muslim people try to send their children to our schools because they know that in our schools there is not only learning but there is morality, too,” he said. “And we are happy to receive them because our mis-

sion is to teach our pupils to live together, Muslim and Christian, to respect each other…It is good for our Jordanian society because fundamentalism is working as well among the poorest of the poor, and that’s why the more we are working and having children in our schools, the more we help the society to live peacefully with each other.” Bishop Sayegh is particularly proud of the patriarchate’s Our Lady of Peace Center in Amman, where the Holy Father made his first stop on his pilgrimage to the Middle East last May. The center offers free services to people with disabilities, who face discrimination in Jordanian society because some families may not see them as fit for marriage. Bishop Sayegh has worked to combat these fears by inviting Muslims and Christians to work together on the common ground of human dignity. He recounted a meeting in Aqaba where he began with a silent prayer for the dignity of disabled people and closed with an Our Father and sign of the cross. “I think it was the first time in the history of Christian-Muslim relations that a group prayed together for a social goal and religious goal and human goal,” he said. “The first time in history. And since that time, in all our meetings we start always with a silent prayer.” The effort has grown to the point where JORDAN: VOICES OF PEACE, page 14

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Nov. 20-21 in Santa Clara Faith Formation Conference to sparkle with workshops, song, dance, prayer and even puppets • Sessions on Catholic social teaching from Caroljean Willie, NGO representative at the Attendees of the 48th annual Faith United Nations, and Michael Duffy, director of Formation Conference, to be held Nov. 20-21 the University of San Francisco’s Lane Center at the Santa Clara Convention Center, will be for Catholic Studies and Social Thought greeted with a fresh crop of presenters this year, • Liturgical dance expert Carla DeSola, who among them a United Nations representative for will lead two sessions on “Dance as Living the Sisters of Charity Scripture” Federation, an expert • Patrick Vallezin liturgical dance and Kelly, director of the a two-woman musical Archdiocese of San puppet show. Francisco’s Office of Social Service Sister Worship, who will Celeste Arbuckle, direclead talks on the new tor of the Archdiocese of Roman missal San Francisco’s Office • Talks centered on of Religious Education Pope Benedict XVI’s and Youth Ministry, said declaration of 2009 as she and other organizers the “Year of Africa” of the event bring in from Dan Griffin, new talent each year so Catholic Relief Service’s the conference remains regional representative vibrant. She also said for the Horn of Africa, because half or more of and Steve Pinkston, the participants are typiteacher and Christian cally regular attendees Service Director at of the yearly gathering, San Jose’s Bellarmine planners try to keep the College Preparatory Liturgical dance expert event from becoming In addition to speakrepetitive. ers, the gathering will Carla DeSola will lead sessions The conference have an exhibit hall on “Dance as Living Scripture.” draws a wide variety of with representatives people including parish from scores of agenreligious education teachers, catechists, religion cies and groups, including Ignatius Press, teachers and others from Catholic schools, Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Pauline Books and individuals involved in youth ministries or other Media and Habitat for Humanity. parish work, and interested Catholics. The conference will also feature Spanish, “I get excited finding new people excited Korean and Vietnamese language sessions. about their faith and the new creative ideas that Among the foreign-language session leadcome with that,” Sister Celeste said. ers will be Bishop Dominic Luong, auxilSan Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer iary bishop of Orange County; Holy Names and Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire are among Sister Sophia Park, professor at Holy Names nearly 50 presenters. Highlights include: University and the San Francisco Theological • Recording artist Mary Rice Hopkins and Seminary, and Franciscan Father Rigoberto puppeteer Darcie Maze, who will lead sessions Caloca-Rivas, founder and executive director on using music and puppetry to illustrate Bible of the Multicultural Institute. stories Five dioceses sponsor the event: the

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Major concerns remain unresolved in health reform bills, key bishops say By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – None of the major health reform bills before Congress adequately addresses the concerns raised by the U.S. bishops in the areas of abortion, conscience protection, immigrants and affordability, according to a statement by the heads of three major committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. One of those major bills passed the Senate Finance Committee Oct. 13 in a 14-9 vote. The measure, proposed by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the committee chairman, must now be combined with a version from the Senate health committee. Efforts in the last several weeks to amend the Baucus bill to prohibit coverage of abortion funding and include a conscience protection clause for health care workers failed. In a letter to all members of Congress dated Oct. 8, Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City said: “If final legislation does not meet our principles, we will have no choice but to oppose the bill.” “Much-needed reform of our health care system must be pursued in ways that serve the life and dignity of all, never in ways that undermine or violate these fundamental values,” they added. “We will work tirelessly to remedy these central problems and help pass real reform that clearly protects the life, dignity and health of all.” The three chair the USCCB committees on Domestic Justice and Human Development, Pro-Life Activities and Migration, respectively. The bishops reiterated their earlier calls on Congress to ensure that any health reform plan: – Exclude mandated coverage of abortions and incorporate long-standing federal policies against taxpayer-funded abortions and in favor of conscience rights. – Make quality health care affordable and accessible to everyone. – Include effective measures to safeguard the health of immigrants, their children and all of society, with legal immigrants given “comprehensive, affordable and timely access to health care coverage” and an adequate safety net provided to others. “We sincerely hope that the legislation will not fall short of our criteria,” the USCCB leaders said. But they said they “remain apprehensive” at committee votes that defeated amendments that would have protected freedom of conscience and ensured that no taxpayer money went to abortions. “If acceptable language in these areas cannot be found,

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we will have to oppose the health care bill vigorously,” the bishops said. “We remain committed to working with the administration, congressional leadership and our allies to produce final health reform legislation that will reflect our principles,” they added. The Baucus bill does not include a public insurance option, which some health care reform advocates have pushed for. The 10-year, $829 billion bill would limit co-payments and deductibles and would help low-income families purchase coverage. It would set up exchanges that would allow people to shop for health insurance and would make most Americans buy some kind of coverage. The only Republican on the finance committee to vote for the measure was Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine. In the U.S. House lawmakers were working to finalize their own health care reform proposal, which includes a public plan. Action on the floor of both the House and Senate was expected in the coming weeks. Whatever legislation is passed by each chamber would then go to a conference committee, where differences in the two measures would be hammered out. In separate statements released Oct. 13, the Catholic bishops of California and Pennsylvania echoed the concerns about reform bills raised in the letter to Congress by the USCCB committee chairmen about abortion, conscience protection, immigrants and affordability. In the statement from the California Catholic Conference, Bishop Stephen E. Blaire of Stockton, conference president,

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Catholics, Muslims appeal for release of Irish priest in Philippines PAGADIAN, Philippines – Catholic and Muslim leaders in the southern Philippines have appealed to kidnappers to release Irish Columban Father Michael Sinnott. “As we urge the people to pray for his safety, we also appeal to his abductors to treat him with respect and release him as soon as possible,” Bishop Emmanuel Cabajar of Pagadian said Oct. 12. His statement was reported by the Asian church news agency UCA News. No group has claimed responsibility for the Oct. 11 kidnapping of the priest in Pagadian City. However, police told media they suspect the gunmen came either from the al-Qaidalinked Abu Sayyaf group or from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, two separatist groups active in the area.

In his Oct. 12 statement, Bishop Cabajar said that Father Sinnott “has worked for a long time in the diocese and is giving an invaluable service to the people, especially the children.” Earlier, the bishop told Catholic-run Radio Veritas that church officials had not received any letter of demand from the kidnappers. He also said that Father Sinnott has a medical condition and needs daily medication, and that the priest had only one day’s supply with him when he was taken. A Columban lay missionary said Father Sinnott had heart bypass surgery in 2007. Father Sinnott, 79, was taking a customary walk after dinner on the lawn of the Columban Fathers’ house in the city when armed men burst through the gate. They snatched the priest and bundled him into a vehicle that was later found burned in the suburb of Santa Lucia,

Msgr. John Foudy is shown with San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice and his sister, Mary Foudy, at his 96th birthday party Oct. 1. A party at Alma Via residence where he now lives was attended by his sister Mary and 30 family members and friends, according to Mercy Sister Joan Marie O’Donnell, Alma Via chaplain. “We had a special blessing for Msgr. Foudy and presented him with a cross of the Good Shepherd,” she said. In a brief phone conversation, Msgr. Foudy told Catholic San Francisco that he prays everyday “always trying to include the rosary.” Msgr. Foudy, ordained in 1940, is retired pastor of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish and former Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese.

near the sea, the Columban Fathers’ incident civil society organizations in Mindanao, said it was praying for the priest’s safety and his report said. immediate and unconditional Columban Father Michael release. McGuire, a regional official of Father Sinnott, a native the order, wrote that at Santa of County Wexford, was Lucia, Father Sinnott was put ordained in 1954 and assigned in a small boat that headed out to Mindanao, 1957-1966. He into Pagadian Bay. returned to the Philippines A spokesman for the in 1976. western Mindanao police told In 1998, he established a reporters a special task force diocesan-based rehabilitation has been formed to work for program for special-needs the release of the priest. children. The Muslim community Father Sinnott is not the in Pagadian City also critifirst priest to be kidnapped in cized the kidnapping, calling Irish Columban Father the southern Philippines. it an “act against the morality Michael Sinnott, 78, was In 2001, rebels kidof Islam.” taken at gunpoint by napped Italian Father Luciano In a statement issued after six men who stormed Benedetti, a member of the their emergency meeting in a Columban missionary Pontifical Institute for Foreign Pagadian Oct. 12, the regional house Oct. 11 in Missions, and Sacred Heart council of the Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society Pagadian City, Philippines. Father Giuseppe Pierantoni in separate incidents. Father expressed “solidarity with our Christian brethren in strongly condemning this Benedetti was released, reportedly after ransom act.” The society, a network of Moro Muslim was paid, while Father Pierantoni escaped. (CNS PHOTO/COLOMBAN MISSIONARIES, HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

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Survey finds declining support for legal abortion among groups WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Although a new poll showed a significant decline in support for abortion in the United States, an official of the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pro-life secretariat said the results would have been even more strongly pro-life if they had been grouped to truly reflect the current state of U.S. abortion law. Deirdre A. McQuade, assistant director for policy and communications in the bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said Oct. 6 that the survey results from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released Oct. 1 showed encouraging shifts in American opinion against legal abortion and for parental consent before a minorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s abortion. Overall, Pew reported that 47 percent of Americans believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases, while 45 percent said it should be illegal in all or most cases. A year ago in a similar Pew poll, 54 percent said it should be legal in all or most cases, while 41 percent said it should be illegal in all or most cases. The margin of error for the most recent survey was plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Needs assessed as new flooding washes away Philippine homes WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; A new wave of flooding, brought on by the second tropical storm to hit the Philippines within 10 days, has left thousands of people homeless and at least

18 villages underwater, Catholic Relief Services officials reported. Flooding in the provinces of Pangasinan and Benguet, about 120 miles from the capital Manila, began Oct. 8 after one dam collapsed and officials released water to save another dam from being breached as Parma, downgraded to a tropical depression, continued its onslaught of the island nation. Pat Johns, director of emergency operations for CRS in the Philippines, told Catholic News Service by phone Oct. 9 that the region underwater was already saturated after Typhoon Ketsana swept through the country Sept. 26, dumping more than a monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth of rain in 12 hours. Johns was planning to visit the region Oct. 10 with representatives of Caritas in the Philippines to assess the extent of the flooding and determine exactly how many people were forced to flee when waters rose rapidly after the dam along the Agno River failed. CRS, the U.S. bishopsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; international relief and development agency, is part of the Caritas Internationalis charitable network.

Blair cites â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;challenge of relevanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Christians and Muslims alike face â&#x20AC;&#x153;the challenge of relevanceâ&#x20AC;? in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s society, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Oct. 7 at Georgetown University. The challenge includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;showing how faith can be a force for the future, for progress, that it will not fade as science and technology and material prosperity alters the way we live,â&#x20AC;? Blair said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We face an aggressive secular attack from without. We face the threat of extremism, often from within,â&#x20AC;? he added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These challenges are not for Muslims alone or Christians alone or Jews, Hindus or Buddhists for that matter. They are challenges for all people of faith. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those who scorn God and those who do violence in Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name both represent views of religion. But both offer no hope for faith in the 21st century,â&#x20AC;? he said. Blair, who became a Catholic months after he stepped down in mid-2007 after a 10-year run as Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s prime minister, spoke at a Georgetown-sponsored conference, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Common Word Between Us and You: A Global Agenda for Change.â&#x20AC;? NEWS IN BRIEF, page 9

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Bishops advise on humanitarian, moral issues in Afghanistan WASHINGTON – Long-term development and humanitarian assistance, protecting civilians and dealing with the root causes of terrorism should be among the guiding principles of how the United States deals with problems in Afghanistan and Pakistan, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace. In a letter dated Oct. 6 and released Oct. 9, Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., offered the advice to retired Marine Gen. James L. Jones, the national security adviser, as the administration reviews U.S. strategy in the region. Bishop Hubbard acknowledged that the U.S. bishops are not military experts, but, in light of the implications for regional and international security, he said they wanted to offer some principles of Catholic teaching and experience that might help inform policy choices. “In the face of terrorist threats, we know that our nation must respond to indiscriminate attacks against innocent civilians in ways that combine a resolve to do what is necessary, the restraint to ensure that we act justly and the vision to focus on broader issues of poverty and injustice that are unscrupulously exploited by terrorists in gaining recruits,” Bishop Hubbard wrote.

Father Kapaun, Korean War hero, recommended for Medal of Honor WASHINGTON – Father Emil Kapaun, the U.S. Army chaplain who saved the lives of dozens of soldiers and died as a prisoner of war in North Korea in 1951, should receive the Medal of Honor, the Army’s top official determined prior to leaving his post in September. Father Kapaun, a priest of the Diocese of Wichita, Kan., was deserving of the honor because of his actions to protect and inspire soldiers, wrote former Secretary of the Army Preston M. Geren III in a letter to Rep. Todd Tiahrt, R-Kan. Geren left his position Sept. 21 when a new secretary was sworn in. A canonization cause for Father Kapaun formally opened June 29, 2008, with a Mass at St. John Nepomucene Church in his hometown of Pilsen. Church officials in Kansas and elsewhere had been collecting documentation to support the sainthood cause

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for years prior to its official opening. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien of Baltimore started the process in 1993 when, as head of the U.S. military archdiocese, he called for Father Kapaun to receive the title servant of God. “After giving this request careful, personal consideration, I have determined that Chaplain Kapaun’s actions in combat operations and as a prisoner of war in Korea warrant award of the Medal of Honor,” Geren said in the letter.

Faith-based groups open campaign urging Senate to pass climate bill WASHINGTON – Faith-based advocates are ratcheting up efforts to get the U.S. Senate to pass legislation that addresses the causes of climate change and funds programs to help people in the world’s poorest countries deal with the impact of global warming. Under a campaign called DaySix – the day the Book of Genesis teaches that humans were created by God – the advocates outlined a lobbying campaign and introduced a corresponding Web site Oct. 8 during a nationwide teleconference. Primarily utilizing new media and the Internet, the campaign is designed to rouse people of faith to urge senators to pass climate-change legislation sooner rather than later. Among the groups organizing the campaign were Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency, the Evangelical Environmental Network, Interfaith Power and Light, the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and Renewal: Students Caring for Creation. The advocates said millions of people around the world already are feeling the effects of climate change through extended drought, reduced crop yields, stronger storms and the spread of more virulent forms of tropical diseases.

Apostles’ relics tour to educate about foundations of faith LOS ANGELES – A standing reliquary containing relics of more than a dozen apostles and evangelists will tour the United States in an effort to educate adults and schoolchildren about the foundations of the Catholic faith. The “Apostles – Foundation of Our Faith” tour is being organized by the Los Angeles-based International Crusade for Holy Relics USA, which also was responsible for the 2007 “Relics of the Passion” tour in Guam and the recent three-year “Operation Special Intentions” tour of U.S. military bases. Enclosed within the reliquary that will go

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administrators or church closings in the immediate future, it has begun taking steps to ease the burden of its parish priests by empowering lay men and women for service. n Continued from cover Two years ago, the archdiocese trained 35 lay persons “Certainly, it would be good to have at least four or five as parish business managers to relieve pastors of some ordinations to the priesthood each year in the archdiocese,” administrative duties, and all have found work at one or more parishes. Models of collaborative ministry which have said Bishop Justice. On the national level, the numbers tell the story of been developing since the Second Vatican Council are now vocations in the Catholic Church. According to statistics bearing fruit with greater urgency in many parishes. Permanent deacons, the ordained ministry that is expereleased earlier this year by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), 3,357 riencing consistent growth nationwide – with an average of seminarians were enrolled in the post-baccalaureate level of 400 new ordinations annually since 1985 – are also taking priestly formation in the United States during the 2008-2009 on greater parochial responsibilities. In the United States today there are 16,380 permanent deacons, or nearly one academic years, an increase of 71 over the previous year. The sobering reality, however, is that while that figure for every parish in the country. According to CARA, 3,400 of the nation’s 18,280 parishrepresents a modest but welcome one-year increase of two percent, it pales in comparison to the 8,159 graduate-level es – 18.6 percent – presently lack a resident priest or pastor, seminarians of the 1967-68 academic year recorded just 22 and 517 parishes have a deacon, religious sister or brother, or lay person formally serving as pastoral administrator. years ago. Even amid the priest shortage, however, Bishop Justice Still, any uptick in vocation interest is cause for optisees the Holy Spirit at work in the more active role of deamism. The CARA report indicates “not a categorical jump, but cons and laity. “The running and administration of a parish does not an increase nonetheless,” said Father David Toups, associate director for the Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life and only involve clergy, although they are very important. It’s Vocations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “As also laypersons who can be trained as professional lay minI travel the country and speak to diocesan vocations direc- isters and can work together with the priests, deacons and tors, I find the numbers are increasing and the quality of the religious,” the bishop said. The vocation crisis thus “brings about a different way of candidates is increasing.” being the Church, being a Sulpician Father Gerald parish.” Brown, who began a sab‘God is still calling plenty of Even if vocations were batical this summer after to become numerous again, serving five years as rector men to serve in the ministerial he said, “We wouldn’t want and president of St. Patrick’s to go back to the way it was Seminary and University in priesthood, if only they would 100 years ago” when priests Menlo Park, has observed were expected to do virtually those same trends. hear him and respond.’ all parish ministry. “They’re starting to come Father Brown agreed that back,” he said of the younger the growth of lay ministry is candidates. “That’s a devela silver lining of the vocations crisis. “I think the role of laity opment that I think is very hopeful.” Father Brown characterized the more youthful crop of in the Church, thank God, has emerged,” he said. “I think seminarians today as a bit more conservative and serious it is important for people to know that, because of that, we than in the past, and as wanting to give of themselves and offer more ministry to people in this country than in any other place in the world.” “believe in what they are willing to live and die for.” Collaboration with laity and the easy availability of supply Older men in their 40s and 50s – sometimes referred to as “late vocations” – still are common in seminaries, he said, priests notwithstanding, a dramatic increase in the number of which creates a healthy dynamic in the formation process. men discerning their vocation to the archdiocesan priesthood “We’ve been blessed with the older candidates, because the remains essential for the future of the San Francisco archyounger guys can learn from their experience, and the older diocese. The key is to get all the faithful – clergy, religious guys can get to know how the younger generation is thinking and laity alike – to play an active role in creating vocation awareness in the parish and in the family. these days,” said Father Brown. Father Thomas Daly, archdiocesan director of vocations, Although the San Francisco archdiocese may not have to resort to circuit-riding priests, parish clusters, lay pastoral

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points out the three necessary components to any successful vocations effort: Prayer, a personal invitation, and the lived example of the priest. “There has to be an awareness of how each person and family in the pew contributes to the building of vocation awareness through regular prayer specifically for priestly and religious vocations,” said Father Daly. “Once you have that prayer and example, and a commitment with a group of people to foster vocations and make them a priority, then I think the programs are effective.” A very positive trend he has seen in the younger priests and seminarians of the archdiocese is a willingness to reach out proactively in encouraging young people to consider a priestly vocation. In this Year of the Priest that began this summer, San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer has said he wants seminarians to give witness talks to young people, which has already proven effective, Father Daly said. He hopes to offer witness talks in a more structured and formal setting in individual parishes. Father Daly remains optimistic and believes the vocations are “out there”: God is still calling plenty of men to serve in the ministerial priesthood, if only they would hear him and respond. It is a matter of encouraging all the faithful to seek personal holiness and the will of God in their lives. “We have special challenges, and I believe God is not going to abandon us,” he said. “We just have to be trusting, creative and courageous in fostering those vocations.” Back at the U.S. bishops’ conference, Father Toups recalled a bit of wisdom he once heard from the present archbishop of San Francisco. Archbishop Niederauer has said that we don’t have a vocation crisis, we have a discipleship crisis,” said Father Toups. “Call our people to discipleship, and the vocations will be there, and the strong marriages and families will be there. That’s really the crux of it.”

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‘This Catholic Life’ Making a life in the law still leaves time for Church, family, volunteering Pete Murphy says he lives life with “the glass half full.” The optimistic San Francisco attorney loves being Catholic and “wouldn’t have it any other way.” Pete and his wife, Joanne, married 44 years July 17, met at a Catholic Alumni Club gathering for single Catholic college graduates at Lake Tahoe, Pete said, telling the story with his ever present smile and accompanying laugh. “The club had its national convention in Squaw Valley in 1964 where Joanne and I met and I just knew,” Pete said, adding that he is very glad Joanne said ‘yes.’ “I married an absolutely great woman who is a great wife, companion and mother.” “We’re very lucky,” Murphy said. “Our three boys – Martin, John and Patrick - and their families live close and we happily get to be doting grandparents.” The youngsters they get to spoil are Martin and his wife, Marie’s, daughters, Milan and Sierra; John and his wife, Adrienne’s, daughter, Olivia; and Patrick and his wife, Jenny’s, son, Luke. Martin D. Murphy, Pete is a nickname given him by his now-late parents from his love of his stuffed animal Peter Rabbit, grew up in San Francisco’s Marina District and is a graduate of Notre Dame des Victoires Elementary School and St. Ignatius College Preparatory. His mom, Anna, was a longtime teacher at San Francisco’s Galileo High School and his dad, Martin, also an attorney, retired as president of Transamerica Title. “We’d see people everywhere in the Marina and they’d know my mom from school,” Pete recalled. “It was always ‘Hey, Mrs. Murphy’ and ‘Good afternoon, Mrs. Murphy.’ People knew and respected my folks.” Pete completed undergraduate work at Santa Clara University and later served two years as a lieutenant in the Army. He graduated from University of San Francisco Law School in 1961 and

Pope to visit Rome synagogue VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In a gesture of interfaith reconciliation, Pope Benedict XVI will visit the Rome synagogue and meet with the city’s Jewish community in January, the Vatican announced. The Jan. 17, 2010 visit coincides with the Roman Jewish commemoration of “Lead Mo’ed,” which recalls a historical event considered miraculous by the Roman Jewish community. In 1793, anti-Jewish tensions ran high throughout the Papal States because Jews were being blamed for supporting new revolutionary ideas coming from France. A Roman mob descended on the city’s Jewish ghetto, intent on burning down its gates and doing violence to its residents. Authorities were unable to stop the rabble and feared the worst, but a sudden and tremendous downpour extinguished the mob’s torches and scattered the crowd, saving the ghetto’s inhabitants. The name “Lead Mo’ed” refers to the dark, leaden color of the Roman skies just before the rain began to fall. Pope Benedict has made Catholic-Jewish relations a priority of his pontificate and has visited synagogues in New York and Cologne, Germany. He also visited Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in Poland. During his trip to the Holy Land in May, he met with Holocaust survivors at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

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joined San Francisco’s Tobin and Tobin law firm in 1962. He has sits on the Board of Counselors at USF Law School. Joanne is a been a partner there since 1970 and senior partner since 1985. longtime St. Brendan and St. Vincent de Paul Society volunteer and also assists with organizations including the Pete’s law specialty is non-profit organizaLittle Sisters of the Poor and Little Children’s tions, wills and estates. Among his firm’s clients Auxiliary of Catholic Charities CYO. are the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Sisters “I like people,” Pete said. “I’m what they of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, call an extrovert, I think. I’m comfortable Holy Family Sisters, and Hanna Boys Center. with people and get energized when I’m with Pete is a daily communicant, a “good habit” them.” he started 29 years ago. “When I turned 45 I The Catholic Church also energizes Pete took to heart the Vatican II words that Mass and he considers himself lucky to be a lifelong was the highest form of worship and I thought member. “The Mass and Eucharist are the ‘Why not get in on that?’” Church,” he said. “I think Archbishop (George) Pete said starting the day with Mass helps Niederauer is a real man of the people. He’s put perspective to his daily life. “I don’t take not aloof and is a real good guy, a decent guy. life all that seriously,” he admitted, this time He just has it, I think. In addition, I really do minus the laugh and smile, “and I’ve been very Pete Murphy think we have good priests here.” lucky. I had wonderful parents who provided The Church is always strong in the sacraments, Pete said. me with a wonderful growing up and Catholic education.” The rosary is also a prayer Pete tries to get to everyday and “Sometimes in its human capacity the Church is weak but in its he enjoys spiritual reading with his favorite selections coming sacred capacity it is always solid.” “I’m a happy, husband, father and grandfather,” Pete said. from C.S. Lewis, Frank Sheed and Peter Kreeft. Pete is a forever fan of daily Mass and recommends that Pete and Joanne have been members of St. Brendan Parish for 41 years. “It is truly a top rate parish,” Pete said, noting anyone not already in the habit think about getting it on their he’s happy with the appointment of new pastor, Father Dan schedule. “Consider attending one weekday Mass in addition Nascimento. “He listens, has a presence all around the parish and to Sunday Mass,” Pete said. “Develop the habit of attending some weekday Masses. Most are but a half-hour long. If the appreciates the help and advice he gets. He’s a good man.” Pete and Joanne both are very active as Catholic volunteers. sacraments, especially Eucharist, are not a part of your life make Pete currently chairs the St. Brendan Parish capital campaign and them a part of your life.”

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Background and analysis Signs of movement on immigration seen in Congress and federal agencies By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – After two years of essentially no change in the “on hold” status of immigration reform legislation, as well as eight years of increasingly restrictive federal policies toward immigration enforcement, signs of movement on both fronts are now coming fast and furiously. President Barack Obama has repeatedly said he wants to begin consideration of a comprehensive immigration bill this fall, after health care legislation is finished. As Congress neared votes on health care, progress was reported on drafting immigration legislation and supporters of comprehensive reform were rallying their forces and carefully laying the groundwork for the legislative battle to come. Meanwhile, promised administrative reviews of some of the most harshly criticized aspects of federal immigration policies also were beginning to produce results that generally made advocates for immigrants happy. The same week, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano outlined an overhaul of the system for immigrant detention. The changes address many of the long-standing complaints about the treatment of detainees, most of whom have applied for asylum, are awaiting resolution of applications to stay in the U.S. or have pending deportation proceedings. Among the changes she said she anticipates are housing people with no criminal records and no history of violence in more residentiallike facilities, such as converted nursing homes or hotels, rather than in prisons and jails, where most are now kept. Others are likely to be released to their homes with ankle bracelets to monitor their whereabouts. In late September, her agency announced it had moved the last of the families in detention out of the much-criticized

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Jordan: Voices of Peace . . . people of faith have marched from mosques to churches to demonstrate for the humanity of disabled people. “When we insist on what is common together, life is beautiful, life is beautiful,” Bishop Sayegh said. “We respect each other. We can do many good things for our people and the whole world.” Father Haddad, the Greek Melchite priest, said the Jordanian Interfaith Coexistence Research Center has grown from its start in 2003 to include 80 influential Muslim leaders. The center’s mission is to promote understanding based on the common values of the Abrahamic faiths of Islam, Christianity and Judaism and the tradition of religious coexistence in Jordan. It helps to protect the moderate majority who may be silenced by the louder voices of the extremist minority. “When we talk about Christians and Muslims I believe politically it’s very important when it comes to combating the extremism,” Father Haddad said. “I have always said that Christians are not the only victims of extremism. The moderate Muslim is also a victim.” Father Haddad said: “Muslims have no choice but to love me, no choice but to respect me, if they want to be Muslims – unless they want to have a new version of Islam, unless they want to be more Muslim than the Prophet Mohammed…What we need here is education, understanding, but more important what we need is people who have that passion which we call in Christianity, love. Believe me, it is stronger. You can conquer hatred with love.” First in an occasional series.

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After an Arabic-language Mass at a Latin rite Catholic church in Amman, worshipers offer a devotion at a Marian shrine. A culture of respect between Jordan’s small Arab Christian community and the Muslim majority is a force for peace in the Mideast, Catholic leaders say.

Daughters of Charity, Mercy project wins affordable housing award By Catholic News Service LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif. – A collaboration between the western U.S. province of the Daughters of Charity and Mercy Housing California has been named one of the nation’s best affordable housing developments by readers of Affordable Housing Finance magazine. St. Vincent’s Affordable Housing in Santa Barbara won in the master-planned/mixed-use category in the magazine’s fifth annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

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For God all things are possible Archbishop George H. Niederauer delivered the following homily at St. Brendan Church in San Francisco Oct. 11 at the Installation Mass for new pastor Father Daniel Nascimento. Mark Twain’s hero, Huckleberry Finn, said on one occasion: “It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I don’t understand that bother me – it’s the parts I do understand.” We know what Huck means: Jesus challenges us in what he says, challenges our assumptions about life, challenges our values and the priorities we set, challenges the ways we live out our lives. Today’s gospel story from Mark is one of those passages that bother us, if we understand it. The rich young man is impressed and excited by Jesus as a teacher, and he asks Jesus what he must do to share everlasting life – to go to heaven. Jesus tells him he already knows the commandments and should obey them. The man persists with his questions, saying that he has obeyed God’s commandments all his life, and asking what more he should do. Jesus admires the young man’s good will. Obeying the commandments will help us to avoid evil and will gain respectability with our neighbors. But there’s more to following Jesus than just avoiding evil and being respectable. Living by the rules is necessary, but it’s not enough. Jesus calls his followers not only to avoid evil but also to do good, to make sacrifices in order to make a difference by the love we show to God and to one another. So Jesus lovingly calls the young man to sell what he owns, give it to the poor, and follow him as one of his full-time disciples. Sadly, the young man turns away, because he can’t choose Jesus over his money and what it will buy. He wants to be good, but he doesn’t want it badly enough; he doesn’t want to make sacrifices to live the life Jesus calls him to. Jesus doesn’t just let this sad moment pass. He draws a lesson for his followers by saying, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” The apostles can’t believe their ears, so Jesus repeats himself: “It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” Maybe you don’t understand how insane that statement sounded to Peter and the others. It was a moral earthquake. Religious Jews in the time of Jesus assumed that wealth

was a proof of good character and a sign that someone was one of God’s favorites. Some Christians even today have thoughts like these. But these thoughts go directly against the teaching of Jesus Christ. Why? Is Jesus condemning having money, and the things it will buy? No, but Jesus is warning us that the things we have can fix our hearts on having them, rather than on God’s love and will for us. Prosperity tests a person at least as powerfully as adversity does: we know that success can make us proud, arrogant, selfish, worldly and snobbish, just as surely as failure can make us depressed and desperate and bitter. The second reading for today, from the Letter to the Hebrews, praises the power of the word of God: it says that God’s word makes things happen in our lives, if we listen to the word and put it to work. God’s word wakes up our souls to what matters most, and what doesn’t. Today, God’s word, spoken by Jesus in the gospel, has told us: “Be careful. Don’t put your trust only in money and what it can buy. Instead put your trust in Jesus and the Father who sent him.” A “rich young man” these days is not only someone with lots of money in the bank or lots of stocks and bonds. A young man is rich with time, the years of his life that probably stretch before him for decades and decades. A young man is rich in the health and energy and enthusiasm that equip him for life. A young man is also rich in the gifts and skills and talents God has given him. So a young man has to choose: he can use these gifts only to serve himself and his own interests, or he can share them and use them in the service of God and of others. In every generation since Jesus Christ, young men have heard the Lord’s call and shared themselves and their gifts in service as priests in the Catholic Church. Father Daniel Nascimento is such a man. I am proud and delighted to install him as your new pastor here at St. Brendan’s Parish. Though I have been Archbishop for less than four years, I know what you are already finding out: Father Daniel has said “yes” to Jesus Christ in priesthood and now generously lives out that “yes” day by day. I challenge all of you to support Father Daniel’s “yes” with your encouragement, your cooperation, your love and your prayers. Jesus makes a promise to everyone who trusts him in that way. At the end of the gospel reading, Jesus tells Peter – and

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Festival of Flowers What a wonderful exhibit there was all week-end at the Festival of Flowers at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The floral displays are a treat for the senses and the soul. It is great

to see more and more parishes participating. The Sacred Treasures of the Cathedral with their complimentary flower arrangements are a real source of pride. The fellowship refreshments and warm welcome from Father John Talesfore completed this most enjoyable event. May the festival continue to grow and bring joy for years to come. Lilla Roll San Francisco

Basis for reflection I want to express my appreciation for Carol McMackin’s thoughts on ordination (CSF Sept. 18, “Stained glass ceiling”). Your thoughts prompted me to reflect even more on the role of priests in the Church, and I am grateful for your pastoral response to a question that is often very difficult to answer. Dat Nguyen Seminarian Archdiocese of San Francisco

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In “Health Care Reform, a Catholic Priority,” George Wesolek set down four central priorities with which all Catholics can agree. The call for universal health care, which protects the life and dignity of all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable, is central to Catholic teaching and practice. In the same commentary Wesolek describes the Catholic Church’s commitment to and deep involvement in health care in the United States. One out of every six hospitals in the United States is a Catholic hospital. The Obama administration and the U.S.

tells us – that whatever we sacrifice for him and for our faith in him will return to us a hundred fold in this life – along with persecution too – and in the age to come, eternal life. Yes, persecution too, because living the life Archbishop of a faithful Catholic George H. Christian is like swimming upstream, against Neiderauer the current. It is hard to do lots of the time, and other people may laugh at us or get angry because we act different and try to make a difference. We are all called to follow Jesus Christ as his disciples, to let his life and teaching influence all we say and do. That is hard to do, but with God’s grace it can be done. Most Catholics answer this call from Christ and live it out in marriage and family life. Some men and women are called to priesthood and religious life, to follow Christ full-time in service to the kingdom of God. That’s how the rich young man was called. Jesus gave himself completely for the young man, and he called him to give himself completely as well. Jesus is not a compromiser: he didn’t say, “Go, sell half of all you own, put it into a blind trust, and follow me for six months to see how you like it.” No, instead Jesus said: “Go, sell all you have, give it to the poor, then you will have treasure in heaven, and come follow me.” Once upon a time you may have given some thought to such a vocation, but maybe then you quickly said to yourself, “Oh, I could never do that!” No, you could not - by yourself. But Jesus doesn’t call you to follow and serve him by yourself. He calls you the same way he called Peter and the others, to be his companion and a companion to the others following him. Take my word for it, and Father Daniel’s word too: such a call is to a happy life. It is a gift. It’s just as Jesus says in the gospel today, “For men it is impossible, but not for God. For God all things are possible.”

Congress have made health care reform a central priority of their legislative agenda. But will the priorities as set forth by the Catholic Bishops be answered by legislation currently under consideration by the US government? The commentary which follows Wesolek’s provides a telling insight to the answer to that question. It describes the unwillingness of the Senate Finance Committee to exclude federal funding of abortion. Sadly that unwillingness is supported by Catholic Senators on the committee. The thousand pages of this bill will grow into millions of pages of regulations and a huge government bureaucracy. Our experience with Medicare and Medicaid tell us how effective and efficient that system will be. I can only speculate on the impact it will have on the health care provided through the Catholic Church. Based on my experience of government run programs, it will not be good. Furthermore, the Obama administration and the current leadership in the US Congress seem to believe that the only way to reform health care in the United States is to take it over. The “government insurance option” which is central to the legislation is clearly just the first step to a single-payer system administered by the US government. The Democratic Party has fairly won control of the U.S. Congress and the presidency. This control has given them the short term opportunity either to govern fairly or to arbitrarily rule the nation. Health care represents one sixth of the US economy and is a central concern of every US citizen. Reforming health care should be a central priority of our country. However that reform should be bipartisan and involve the input of all that are affected by it. That goal will not be accomplished by a massive piece of legislation dictated by a single perspective and rammed through in a single legislative session. Nick Scales San Francisco

On Rolheiser and Hell In his column “God judges no one” (CSF Oct. 9), Father Ron Rolheiser went to great lengths to assert that God judges no one and sends no one to Hell. People judge themselves, he claimed, and send themselves to Hell. While affirming that Hell is a real place, Father Rolheiser insists that God did not create it, and by implication, is apparently not responsible for it. In support of this claim, Father Rolheiser quotes from John 3, the famous passage about God loving the world so much that he sent his Son to save it. He ends his quote with the words “I judge no one” as if those words were in the passage. But they are not; they were apparently added by Father Rolheiser to support his point. A moment’s reflection reveals the incoherence of Rolheiser’s position. If God created all things, including people, and people created Hell to send themselves to, then God must also have created Hell. Moreover, since no one would voluntarily remain in Hell, God must prevent those in Hell from leaving. Either way, God remains responsible for Hell. And as for who does the judging, one need look no further than our earliest creed, which affirms that Jesus “will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead.” A perfectly just God has every right to separate Himself from sinful men, which, sadly, means everyone. The good news is that God is also perfectly merciful. Through Jesus’ life and sacrificial death, He created the means by which we could spend eternity with Him even though we do not, by our own actions, deserve it. But God does not force His will upon us. We remain free to reject Him. And He remains free to attach a consequence to our choice. In the end, it is better to rest in the assurance that a perfect God has adequate reasons for His actions than to apologize for Him. Al Serrato Millbrae

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Another black legend, down the chute The Thirty Years War looms large in the contemporary secularist imagination. There, it’s simply taken for granted that religious fanaticism laid waste to Europe between 1618 and 1648, and that the carnage only stopped when the exhausted powers of the day agreed to the Peace of Westphalia, which ended the wars of religion by adopting the principle of cuius regio eius religio – the prince’s religion would determine the religion of the principality. More subtle secularists find in cuius regio eius religio one root of modern statecraft, from which religious ideas and religiously informed moral judgments are to be rigorously excluded. That’s the way it was, and that’s the lesson to be learned, right? Well, no, actually. Or so writes Peter Wilson in “The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy” (Belknap/Harvard). As Professor Wilson’s subtitle suggests, the Thirty Years War was indeed a horrible business. When it was finally over, the Holy Roman Empire of the Hapsburgs had lost 20 percent of its population—some 8 million people—which is truly dreadful, even by 20th century European standards of mass slaughter. True, Wilson writes, the Thirty Years War began as a religiously-inspired civil war within the Hapsburg lands. But it became an international affair and a historic disaster when Sweden’s Gustavus Adophus, waging war behind a facade of Lutheran piety, saw his geopolitical chances and took ‘em. (That Richelieu and the Catholic French sided with the Lutheran Swedes in order to cut their Catholic Hapsburg rivals down to size nicely illustrates Lord Birkenhead’s comment in “Chariots of Fire:” “The Frogs aren’t a terribly principled lot...”).

Wilson’s challenge to conventional secularist wisdom lies in his summary judgment: this grisly business had far less to do with theological arguments over justification by faith than it did with dynastic ambition, greed, political incompetence, and a ruthless lack of morals among early practitioners of that foreign policy “realism” on which certain parties in Washington, D.C., pride themselves today. In short, the Thirty Years War was about politics detached from ethics, not about religion detached from reason. If that’s true—and Professor Wilson makes a strong case— adjustments ought to be made in the Standard Version of the modern history of church-and-state. Recent scholarship has demonstrated that Stalin, master of a hyper-secularist regime in Soviet Russia, killed more people on a slow afternoon than the dread Inquisition consigned to death in a decade. Now Peter Wilson demonstrates that the Thirty Years War (proportionally, a slaughter three times greater than World War II) was primarily a matter of unbridled politics, not maniacal religion. These two readjustments in historical understanding demonstrate, across a span of three and a half centuries, that the modern nation-state has been more deadly than the Church by orders of magnitude. That, in turn, ought to be an arrow in the rhetorical quiver of those Europeans and Americans who continue to argue, against secularist bigotry, that religiously informed moral argument has a legitimate place in the public square of 21st century democracies. Then there’s cuius regio eius religio, which the Standard Version typically posits as a step toward the institutional separa-

tion of church and state and the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. Poles taught me years ago that precisely the opposite was the case: for Poles, whose lands did not experience the European wars of religion, George Weigel regard the Westphalian imposition of religious faith by state edict as the world’s first systematic experiment in totalitarianism—the coercion of consciences by a public authority that claimed control over the innermost sanctuaries of the human spirit. Thus if we are looking for deeper and sturdier roots of religious freedom in Europe, we might look elsewhere: to the Polish theologian and canonist Pawel Wlodkowic, who argued at the 15th century Council of Constance against the forced conversion of pagans; or to the 17th century Polish king, Zygmunt August, who declined the invitation of his countrymen to resolve their religious squabbles by stating that he was not “the king of your consciences.” In the light of Peter Wilson’s book, perhaps some intrepid soul will raise these points in the Christophobic European Parliament. The reaction would be instructive. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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Father Polanski would go to jail Imagine if the Knights of Columbus decided to give an award to a pedophile priest who had fled the country to avoid prison. The outcry would be universal. Victim groups would demand the award be withdrawn and that the organization apologize. Religion reporters would be on the case with the encouragement of their editors. Editorial writers and columnists would denounce the Knights as another example of the insensitivity of the Catholic Church to sexual abuse. And they would all be correct. And I would join them. But why is there not similar outrage directed at the film industry for giving an award to Roman Polanski, who not only confessed to statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl but fled the country prior to sentencing? Why have film critics and the rest of the media ignored this case for 31 years? He even received an Academy Award in 2003. Are the high priests of the entertainment industry immune to criticism? The president and cultural minister of France, where Polanski has been protected for years, objected when the Swiss arrested Polanski at the Zurich airport when he arrived to attend a film festival at which he was to be honored. Good

for the Swiss. Good for the Los Angeles prosecutors who have not given up on this case. Polanski’s defenders, including a 2008 HBO documentary, argue that he should not be punished. They say that the girl was willing and sexually experienced and she has forgiven him (after receiving a settlement). They even cite his tragic childhood and life as an excuse. And besides, it is ancient history. Such arguments from pedophile priests would be laughed out of court and lambasted by everyone, and rightly so. It makes no difference that the girl is willing and sexually experienced, it is a crime. It is the role of the court, not the victim, to decide who goes to jail and for how long. It is not as if Polanski is the only Hollywood celebrity to be accused of child abuse. Woody Allen and Michael Jackson come to mind. I am sure that with a little research the media could come up with quite a list. The Catholic Church has rightly been put under a microscope when four percent of its priests were involved in abuse, but what about the film industry? The world has truly changed. Entertainment is the new

religion with sex, violence and money the new Trinity. The directors and stars are worshiped and quickly forgiven for any infraction as long as the PR agent is as skilled as a saintly confessor. Entertainment, not religion, is the new opiate of the people and we don’t want our supply disturbed. Is there a double standard here? You bet.

Father Thomas J. Reese, S.J.

Father Thomas J. Reese, S.J., is Senior Fellow at Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. He writes for the blog Georgetown/ On Faith, a partnership between Georgetown University and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive.

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Afghanistan: Another immoral war Responding to the horrific attacks of 9/11 – eight years ago – President George W. Bush retaliated with a massive bombardment upon Afghanistan. But was that a morally right response? Immediately after the terrorists’ attacks, opinion polls reported that over 85 percent of Americans – certainly including the vast majority of U.S. Catholics – strongly favored Bush’s retaliatory attacks upon Afghanistan. But is retaliation a proper Christian response? Doesn’t the Gospel teach a much different and better way? In efforts to destroy al-Qaida, for killing nearly 3,000 innocent Americans and foreign nationals, and their Taliban allies, Bush ordered a massive air assault upon one of the poorest countries on earth. Starting on Oct. 7, 2001, U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles and B-1 and B-52 bombers pounded al-Qaida and Taliban positions often heavily populated by civilians. According to University of New Hampshire Professor Marc Herold, who has been documenting the conflict since the first six months of the war in Afghanistan, between 3,000 and 3,400 innocent children, women and men were killed by U.S.-led air assaults – certainly more than those killed by alQaida on 9/11. Furthermore, in the years that have followed, combined reports from respected organizations such as the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and Human Rights Watch have documented that between 8,436 and 28,028 civilian deaths

have occurred as a result of U.S.- led military actions. Although U.S. military strategists have not directly aimed at civilians – as did al-Qaida – it is nonetheless obvious that attacking enemy targets in urban areas kills many innocent civilians! Therefore, these actions do not meet the just-war theory principle of discrimination, which insists that noncombatants not be attacked. In Catholic moral theology, the end never justifies the means. The means as well as the end must always be morally good. One cannot hide behind the illogical argument that our military was, and is, simply trying to destroy their military. Since that strategy obviously kills innocent noncombatants, it is obviously immoral. Next, consider the just-war theory principle of proportionality: Waging war must not cause people greater harm than the harm experienced prior to war. However, with many thousands of civilians dead, approximately 700 U.S. military personnel killed and the reported astronomical military cost of approximately $300 billion, it is also illogical to argue that this endless war in Afghanistan fulfills the principle of proportionality. Furthermore, according to a 2008 report by the Asian Centre for Human Rights, since 2001 only $15 billion in international aid has gone to rebuilding war-torn Afghanistan. And of that, $6 billion has gone back to donor nations in corporate profits and consultants’ salaries.

From 2001 to 2008, the U.S. has only spent $5.2 billion in reconstructive aid. This is a tiny fraction of the amount spent compared to fighting the war. With approximately 63,000 U.S. troops in Tony Magliano Afghanistan – and more on the way – President Barack Obama is holding to his belief like his predecessor that this war is just. Not so! A truly just strategy is outlined by Pax Christi USA (www. paxchristiusa.org) in its statement “It Is Time to End the Trail of Resentment and Hatred.” It writes: “It is clear to us that reducing the U.S. military footprint would be one of the most effective measures to weaken the armed opposition. “A shift in U.S. policy in support of a multilateral diplomatic and development surge has far greater potential for achieving long-term peace and stability in Afghanistan.” It all comes down to the biblical directive of turning “swords into plowshares.” Tony Magliano writes a column about social justice issues for Catholic News Service.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH IS 53:10-11 The Lord was pleased to crush him in infirmity. If he gives his life as an offering for sin, he shall see his descendants in a long life, and the will of the Lord shall be accomplished through him. Because of his affliction he shall see the light in fullness of days; through his suffering, my servant shall justify many, and their guilt he shall bear. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22 R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy. He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full. R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine. R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.

Twenty-Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 53:10-11; Psalm 33:4-5, 18-19, 20, 22; Hebrews 4:14-16; Mark 10:35-45 Our soul waits for the Lord, who is our help and our shield. May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you. R. Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you. A READING FROM THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS HEB 4:14-16 Brothers and sisters: Since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has similarly been tested in every way, yet without sin. So let us confidently approach

the throne of grace to receive mercy and to find grace for timely help. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK MK 10:35-45 James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to Jesus and said to him, “Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.” He replied, “What do you wish me to do for you?” They answered him, “Grant that in your glory we may sit one at your right and the other at your left.” Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Can you drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?” They said to him, “We can.” Jesus said

merica loves its larger-than-life heroes, and nowhere is this more obvious than in the movies. Characters as diverse as Indiana Jones, Norma Rae, and Spiderman move boldly through every scene, taking on countless challenges with style and grace. They look good, they sound good, and everyone knows that they are in charge. Charismatic and compelling, these leading men and women can seemingly do it all. Our culture celebrates and embraces them and we all want to be like them. However, not all of us can scale the outside of buildings or take on Nazi treasure hunters. Many of us find steep stairs or wayward pets to be challenge enough. Thankfully, we occasionally encounter movie heroes who are a bit more average, a bit more ordinary, in other words, a bit more like us. One of my favorites of all time comes from the film trilogy, “Lord of the Rings.” There are plenty of heroes to choose from here, but the biggest of all may be the one with the smallest stature, the short little hobbit named Sam. He was the faithful friend of Frodo, his fellow hobbit who was charged with destroying an evil ring in order to save the world. Sam had no special powers and didn’t stand out as a warrior or leader. Instead, as Frodo’s steady companion, he offered loyalty, love, and friendship. No matter what happened, he was always by Frodo’s side. He never abandoned him, was never tempted to leave him. Even when all was darkest, when all seemed lost, Sam was there. Without Sam’s constant presence and support, Frodo would never have had the strength

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‘May your kindness O Lord, be upon us.’ or courage to complete his mission. In Lord of the Rings, Frodo gets much of the credit, but goodness triumphed because of that little hobbit named Sam. This is a hero we can relate to. One can’t help thinking of Sam when hearing this week’s Gospel. James and John have stars in their eyes, hoping for the prime seats on either side of Our Lord. They see themselves with leading roles, earning the fame and glory that comes with top billing. Yet in their desire for status and recognition, they forget for the moment that their model is Jesus, who consistently rejects the trappings of kingship in order to serve and save a world

He dearly loves. So He gently reminds them, and us, that it’s not the big screen heroes of the world who will be first in the Kingdom, but those, like Sam, who make all of the difference through their lives of selfless service. We shouldn’t be too hard on James and John, because many of us are like them, dreaming of seeing our names up in lights. We’d much rather be Brad Pitt or Meryl Streep then lost in the crowd of background extras. Yet Jesus in His wisdom understands that it’s far from the spotlight that the real work of God’s Kingdom takes place, where its true glory can be found. He also knows that in our

to them, “The cup that I drink, you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized; but to sit at my right or at my left is not mine to give but is for those for whom it has been prepared.” When the ten heard this, they became indignant at James and John. Jesus summoned them and said to them, “You know that those who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones make their authority over them felt. But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all. For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

hearts we have what it takes to be like Sam, to give of ourselves without expecting reward or counting the cost. Through the life and example of Jesus we can see how it’s done, and now He trusts us to do it. There isn’t much glamour in teaching Religious Ed on an early Sunday morning, yet lives are touched, futures are changed, and the Kingdom grows. There is little recognition in praying quietly by a hospital bedside, yet healing begins, God’s love is made real, and the Kingdom grows. There is faint praise for time spent bringing the Eucharist into the jails, yet hope is given, faith is restored, and the Kingdom grows. Our Lord looks to us to do the small things, the necessary things, the kind and generous things, the things that make all of the difference in this world. Our appreciative audience may be small, just God and the people we gently love, but what better audience could there possibly be? At the end of Lord of the Rings, Frodo collapses in his attempt to destroy the ring, and it seems all is lost. But, of course, it’s not, because Sam is there. Sam says, “I can’t carry the ring, Mr. Frodo, but I can carry you”, and he reaches down, puts him on his shoulder, and carries him to their destiny. Jesus came to do the same for us, quietly bringing light and hope into a darkened world. Now it’s our turn to do it for each other. Permanent Deacon Michael Murphy serves at St. Charles Parish in San Carlos.

For the Journey

Spirituality for adults: What is it exactly? As winter was approaching, I felt it was time for my days to have an infusion of what I simply call “something sunny.” Then I saw an ad in a magazine for a program at Wisdom House, a retreat center not far from where I live. Elizabeth A. Dryer, a professor at Jesuit-run Fairfield University in Connecticut, was scheduled to give a program on “Spirituality for Catholic Women.” I signed up. But first I bought her book, “Making Sense of God: A Woman’s Perspective” (St. Anthony Messenger Press). I immediately knew I was in the right place when I read that “spirituality is the joy of falling in love with God and living out that love in everyday life.” That sentence was something worth meditating on! At the program, I sat down next to two lovely women, Felicia and Barb; surprised to learn that they lived in my own town and are members of a former parish of mine. We were actually neighbors! Felicia and Barb were sponsoring a “ministry of mothers” meeting on Friday mornings. They invited me to join them when I could, which I did a week later. It was a joyful encounter. Felicia, a mother of teen triplets, spoke of their mothers ministry as having evolved into a meeting of “companions who share grounding in faith and a commitment to see all of our

life experiences through ministry.” She added, “Now we have re-fallen in love with God.” Barb said, “Our moms ministry has given us the strength to survive what life throws at you all the time.” I cannot justly describe the joy that was in that room, but I knew the source of it. Often I’ve been reminded by my Catholic teachers that, where two or three are gathered in his name, God – the source of all joy – is in their midst! Another book I was reading that week also gave me a spiritual boost. In “Listening to God’s Word,” award-winning Catholic author Alice Camille explains in her introduction that her book is “to facilitate that holy crossing from the world of the Bible to the world in which we live and move and have our being.” And she adds a truth as only someone deeply immersed in the study of our religious history could: “If our citizenship in the reign of God does not influence our citizenship in this world, we may well be holding a false passport.” Camille begins her book by telling of a time when she suffered from a depression she said she couldn’t shake. She asked God “testily”: “So what do you want from me?” and told him, “Forget happiness. ... I’d settle for meaning. I long for a reason to do something, anything,” to get away from the future that “yawned so emptily.”

What she learned is that “God works in mysterious ways.” She picked up a dust-covered red Bible and read it “from cover to cover.” Her life was changed, and she has ever since Antoinette affirmed: “We need the Bible. We need it not just as Bosco a record of salvation history, but for the sake of what we might call salvation present.” Nothing is better “for the God seeker to read” than this book, she affirms, for it is the story of God’s journey and ours. Camille’s book is in a series called “Catholic Spirituality for Adults,” published by Orbis Books. These experiences I’ve just shared have told me that it truly is about time that spirituality for adults continues to make good headway in our church! Antoinette Bosco writes a column for Catholic News Service.

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Importance of private integrity In the movie “City Slickers,” there’s a scene that sheds light on the importance of private integrity: Three men, New Yorkers, close friends, have gone off together for a summer to help on a cattle drive in the hope that this experience will help them sort through their respective mid-life issues. At one point, riding along on the trail, they are discussing the morality of sexual affairs and the dangers inherent in them. Initially their conversation focuses mostly on the fear of getting caught and two of them agree that an affair isn’t worth the risk. You are too likely to get caught. But their friend poses the question again, this time asking them if they would have an affair if there was the absolute assurance that they wouldn’t be caught. “Imagine,” he says, “that a space ship touches down. A beautiful woman emerges from the space ship. You make love and she returns to Mars. There are no consequences. Nobody can possibly know. Would you do it?” Billy Crystal, who plays the lead role, answers that he doubts that this is ever possible. “You always get caught,” he submits, “people smell dishonesty on you.” But his friend protests, “what if it was really possible to have an affair and not get caught. Would you do it? What if nobody would ever know?” Billy Crystal’s answer: “But I’d know, and I’d hate myself for it!” His answer highlights an important truth. What we do in private, in secret, has consequences that are not dependent upon whether or not our secret leaks out. The damage is the same. What we do in secret helps mold our persons and influences how we relate to others in much deeper ways than we suspect. There is no such a thing as a secret act. The most critical person of all always knows. We know. And we hate ourselves for it,

hate ourselves for having to lie, and this colors how we relate in general. What we do in secret ultimately shapes the person whom we present in public. Dishonesty changes the very way we look because it changes who we are. That’s the reason why so often those around us will intuit the truth about us, smell the lie, even when they don’t have any hard evidence on which to suspect us. Doing something in secret that we can’t admit in public is the very definition of hypocrisy and hypocrisy forces us to lie. And lying, among all sins, is perhaps the most dangerous. Why? Because we hate ourselves for it and we stop respecting ourselves. When we stop respecting ourselves we will, all too soon, notice that other people stop respecting us too. That’s the intuitive place where we “smell” each others’ lies. Moreover, lying forces us to harden ourselves so that we can live with our lie. Sin doesn’t always make us humble and repentant. We have the all-too-easy, popular image of the honest sinner, someone like the repentant woman who anoints Jesus’ feet. That is sometimes the case and is the case for certain sinners who accept Christ more easily than do many moral, church-goers. But it doesn’t always work that way. The biblical image of the honest sinner humbly turning towards God is predicated precisely on honesty, on the sinner not hiding or lying about his or her sin. When we don’t honestly admit our sin we move in the opposite direction, namely, towards rationalization, hardness of attitude, and cynicism. Moreover, it’s the lying, not the original weakness, that then becomes the real canker and constitutes the greater danger. When we hide a sin, we are forced to lie, and with that lie we immediately begin to harden and reshape our souls. You can do anything, as long as you don’t have to lie about it. That’s very

different than saying that you can do anything as long as nobody finds out about it. The quality of our persons depends upon the quality of our private integrity. We are as sick as our sickest secret and Father we are as healthy as Ron Rolheiser our most private virtue. We cannot be doing one thing in private and radiating and professing something else in public. It doesn’t matter whether others know our secrets or not. We know and, when those secrets are unhealthy, we hate ourselves for them and our hearts harden as we live with our lie. We should never delude ourselves into thinking that the things we do in private, including very small actions of infidelity, of self-indulgence, of bigotry, of jealousy, or of slander, are of no consequence since no one knows about them. Inside the mystery of our interconnectedness as a human family and as a family of faith and trust, even our most private actions, good or bad, like invisible bacteria inside the blood stream, affect the whole. Everything is known, felt, in one way or another. Others know us, even when they don’t exactly know everything about us. They smell our vices just as they smell our virtues. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX. Visit his website at www.ronrolheiser.com.

Guest Commentary The Bible and homosexuality: “Shrimp-cocktail” defense Anything can be justified by misquoting the Bible. dietary laws, such as the eating of shellfish, are relaxed, of human anthropology When the issues of slavery and segregation were divid- other standards, including those regarding sexual morality and anatomy, as well as ing our nation at different points of our history, advocates (inclusive of the homosexual act) are maintained. growth in our spiritual quoted the Bible as justification for both, as well as for racial As we have recently completed a year dedicated to St. relationship with God inequality (usually Genesis 9:25-27). In the Book of Joshua, Paul, it is worthwhile noting that the moral exclusion of and His commands (not God commands the Hebrews to wipe out every living thing illicit sexual activity is also present in the Pauline writ- the least of which are in Jericho after the walls collapse (Josh 6:21), implying a ings, maintaining the consistent biblical teaching regarding the life and teachings of biblical sanctioning of genocide and ethnic cleansing. The sexual immorality (1 Cor 6:9-10; Gal 5:18-21; Eph 5:5-7). Jesus Christ), while the examples of these passages, however, are not consistent Ephesians, in fact, relates these sins to idolatry; hence sexual reasons for these prohithroughout the Scriptures and must be taken in context to immorality is not a social sin, but rather a sin of worship! bitions and the penalties Father William be understood correctly. Galatians (in a popular passage with protesters against resulting from them may Fortunately biblical quotation does not appear to be homosexuality) presents a whole list of offenses alongside have changed, the proNicholas prominent among supporters of abortion. However, other sexual immorality, placing “idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, hibition has remained advocates of values and lifestyles contrary to Judeo-Christian jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunk- consistent. teaching have taken up the practice of turning to the Holy enness, carousing, and things like these” with “fornication, Given all of this, where do we go from here? To begin with, Scriptures for defense. impurity [and] licentiousness.” (Therefore, if sexual sin is the one should appreciate the importance of developing at least a A recent skit, featuring Hollywood stars like Jack Black only issue on this list with which the homosexual community working knowledge of Scripture so as to understand parts of it and John C. Reilly, mocks the biblical disapproval of homo- struggles, I dare say they are doing better than most!) in proper context and recognize developments and consistensexuality (Lev 18:22) by comparing it to the cies throughout; as well as the fallacy of proofbiblical directive against eating shellfish (Lev texting with specific single passages in order 11:9, Deut 14:9-10). The skit implies either to support a particular social, political or moral Our call is to be true, not fashionable; to be that those who eat shrimp are as guilty of position. As to the issue of the homosexual act, being an “abomination” as those who engage we already know what the Church teaches, that strong in our convictions, morals and standards, in the homosexual act, or that, like the eating the teaching has both a biblical and traditional of shrimp, the homosexual act is no longer foundation, and that the teaching is consistent considered sinful. (I point out that, in the bibliand unchanging. We do not need to repeat it not apologetic because of dissent or opposition; cal text, shellfish are considered “loathsome” over and over again as a point of moral onewhile the homosexual act is considered an upmanship of one group against another, nor to be consistent in maintaining traditional moral “abomination.”) As the issue of “gay marshould we descend into permissiveness in the riage” has divided our state with the passage name of “tolerance,” or moral-leniency in the teaching, not to misquote Holy Scripture so as of and legal battles surrounding Proposition 8, name of “compassion.” this comparison has become a frequent biblical Our call is to be true, not fashionable; to be politically correct or to bow to the current defense of the homosexual lifestyle. to be strong in our convictions, morals and In answer to this comparison it must be standards, not apologetic because of dissent prevailing moral wind. pointed out that in the New Testament, Jesus or opposition; to be consistent in maintaining renders all foods clean (Matt 15:10-20, Mark traditional moral teaching, not to misquote 7:15, 18b-23), while still maintaining that the Holy Scriptures so as to be politically other acts, including sexual immorality, render a person It must be pointed out that nowhere does the Bible advocate correct or to bow to the current prevailing moral wind. As unclean because these acts are generated from within. This homophobia or violence against homosexuals. Even the law a community of faith, since all of us one way or another is re-enforced when Peter, in a vision of a canopy filled in Leviticus 20:13, declaring the homosexual act a capital engage in activity that puts us at risk of losing the Kingdom with “unclean” foods, hears the declaration, “what God has offense, must be understood in the context of Old Testament of God (Gal 5:18-21), we are called to walk together as we purified you are not to call unclean” (Acts 10:15). Following ethics, much of which is expressed in a black and white struggle to overcome whatever keeps us from authentically the Apostolic Council of Jerusalem, the Apostles declare to choice: Life and Death (Deut 30:15-20). Any act – like murder embracing and living values of the Gospel, whatever that be the will of the Holy Spirit that some traditional Jewish (Exod 21:12) – that was understood as choosing death over struggle may entail for each of us. observances, including some dietary laws, will no longer be life resulted in the penalty of death. This included cursing (or observed as a mandate. Other laws, however, are maintained wishing death upon) one’s parents (from whom you received Father William Nicholas is parochial vicar at by the apostolic council, “namely, to abstain from meat life) (Lev 20:9), sacrificing against the God of Life (Lev 20:2), Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato. Ordained sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled and any sexual union that violates the family (nurturer of in 2001, he also has served at Nativity Parish in animals, and from illicit sexual union” (Acts 18:29). The life) or the purpose of sexuality (the procreation of life) (Lev Apostles declare, “You will be well advised to avoid these 20:9-16). Such sins constituted a choice and therefore merit of Menlo Park and St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco. things.” Hence, as expressed in the Bible, while several death. With the development over time of our understanding Visit his website at www.frwcnicholas.com.

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Global poverty initiative reaches more than 250,000 US Catholics By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – More than 250,000 Catholics have been reached through the Catholics Confront Global Poverty initiative, a joint effort by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services to address the root causes of global poverty through education and advocacy. In less than seven months, the initiative has reached one quarter of its goal to mobilize 1 million Catholics, according to a recent announcement from the USCCB and CRS, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency. The initiative calls on Catholics to

learn about and share the stories of those struggling to rise above extreme poverty, to pray for the world’s poorest people and to approach policymakers on the issue as advocates for the poor worldwide. “The global financial crisis is having a devastating impact on people here and the poor around the world, and the progress that has been made could be wiped out for decades to come,” Ken Hackett, CRS president, said in a statement. “In a world where an estimated 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty, the message of the church is clear. As Catholics, we are called to help our brothers and sisters in need.” Catholics Confront Global Poverty was launched in February 2009 in response to

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Bishops call Catholics to be main agents of change in Africa VATICAN CITY (CNS) – African Catholics must become the main forces to ending the continent’s wars, promoting reconciliation, fighting corruption, safeguarding the family and protecting Africa’s natural resources, said members of the special Synod of Bishops for Africa. In the first week of the Oct. 4-25 synod, members of the assembly listened to almost 200 speeches on ways the church can be a force for reconciliation, justice and peace on the continent. The need to overcome lingering ethnic tensions was a predominant theme of the assembly, followed by concern for the family, the importance of protecting the environment, a recognition of the dignity and contributions of women, and the need for dialogue with the continent’s Muslim communities. Bishops denounced the exploitation of tribal differences by politicians and by multinational corporations seeking control of minerals and oil. But many bishops also urged an examination of conscience by Catholics, saying they have not always acted like members of one family. “Questions like selfishness, greed for material wealth, ethnicity resulting in ethnic conflicts and others, which are the root causes of the lack of peace in many African societies, must be confronted without fear or favor and be followed up with specific pastoral directives,” Cardinal Polycarp Pengo of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, told the synod. The cardinal said the synod “must have the courage to denounce even against ourselves things like the misuse of the role and practice of authority, tribalism and ethnocentrism,” as well as partisan political involvement by religious leaders. Another major theme in synod speeches was the importance of the family in African culture. Bishops warned that families are threatened by wars, disease and ideas about divorce, abortion, sexuality and homosexuality imported by Western media or promoted by Western organizations promising aid in exchange for a forum for spreading their views on family life and sexuality. Archbishop Marcel Madila Basanguka of Kananga, Congo, told the synod that the traditional family is Africa’s main force for peace and reconciliation but is under almost constant attack. Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg, South Africa, said that Africa’s traditional cultural values “are threatened by the new global ethic which aggressively seeks to persuade African governments and communities to accept new and different meanings of the concepts of family, marriage and human sexuality.” On a cultural level, “Africa faces a second wave of colonization, both subtle and ruthless at the same time,” he said. A Tanzanian prelate also asked the bishops to reconsider their often too accepting approach to blessing the marriages of couples who do not belong to the same church. Too often, said Bishop Almachius Rweyongeza of Kayanga, the result is family tensions over the religious education of chil-

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dren or the total neglect of religious education in order to keep peace in the family. “Mixed marriages can easily be like building faith on sand, whereby it will be hard to produce fruits of love, reconciliation, justice and peace,” the bishop said. Another frequent topic of synod speeches was the environment and particularly how environmental degradation and the thoughtless exploitation of Africa’s natural resources have increased violence and poverty on the continent and triggered flooding and desertification. Bishop Denis Kiwanuka Lote of Tororo, Uganda, told the synod that his country in the past two years has experienced alternating flooding and drought conditions leading to crop failure as a result of recklessly cutting down forests. “Natural laws cannot be ignored, just as one cannot ignore the directives contained in the manufacturer’s manual if one wishes his machine to function well,” the bishop said. Cardinal Bernard Agre, the retired archbishop of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, said many African nations had been forced to “mortgage their natural resources” in order to pay the never ending interest on development loans, making it impossible for

governments to adequately fund education and health care for their people. The cardinal urged the synod to convoke a panel of economic experts to conduct a serious study of which countries’ debts have actually been repaid at a fair rate, to advise African governments on avoiding loan terms that continue the cycle and to monitor the way development loans are spent. Bishop George Nkuo of Kumbo, Cameroon, asked the synod to adopt an extremely cautious attitude toward genetically modified food crops because the long-term impact of such new technology on human and environmental health is still not clear. While poverty poses “one of the great obstacles to justice, peace and reconciliation” and is “the single greatest cause of hunger” in Africa, the continent cannot be shortsighted in embracing genetically modified food, he said. As in other parts of the world, the majority of parish members and active participants in Africa are women and their rights and needs also were repeated topics of concern at the synod. Sister Felicia Harry, the superior general of the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Apostles, asked the bishops to imagine what the church would be like if there were no women members. The superior general from Ghana told the synod that women are happy to “teach catechism to children, decorate parish churches, clean, mend and sew vestments,” but they also want to be part of church decision-making bodies. Sister Pauline Odia Bukasa, superior general of the Ba-Maria Sisters from Congo, echoed Sister Harry’s points when she told the synod, “We, mothers and consecrated women, ask the fathers of this church-family to promote the dignity of women and give them the space needed to develop their talents in the structures of the church and society.” Archbishop Telesphore Mpundu of Lusaka, Zambia, told the synod that “the dignity of women, their giftedness to humanity (and) their potential massively huge contribution to the church” are not recognized, utilized or “sufficiently celebrated.” Several North African bishops urged the synod to replace fear of the Muslim community with real efforts to understand and learn from Islam and to collaborate with Muslim leaders to promote development and peace on the continent. “We all know that fear is a bad counselor,” Bishop Maroun Lahham of Tunis, Tunisia, told the synod.

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Five new saints . . . After brief biographies of the five were read aloud, the pope pronounced a solemn decree of canonization and proclaimed them models of holiness for the whole Church. Relics of the new saints were placed on the altar as St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basilica was filled with a sung â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alleluia.â&#x20AC;? In his homily, the pope said the newly canonized had typified the Christian vocation of radical conversion and self-sacrifice made â&#x20AC;&#x153;with no thought of human calculation and advantage.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their perfection, in the logic of the faith that is sometimes humanly incomprehensible, consists in no longer placing themselves at the center, but in choosing to go against the current by living according to the Gospel,â&#x20AC;? he said. Thousands of U.S. pilgrims came to Rome for the canonization, including a delegation of leprosy patients and their caregivers from Hawaii, where St. Damien worked and died, and residents from homes for the aged run by Little Sisters of the Poor across the United States, including St. Anneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home in San Francisco. The basilica was filled beyond capacity, and an estimated 40,000 people watched the liturgy on giant TV screens in St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Square. The Mass was moved inside at the last minute because of a threat of rain, but blue skies and sunshine prevailed throughout the liturgy. St. Damien, a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, worked on the island of Hawaii for eight years before volunteering in 1873 to work at a leprosy colony on Molokai, where he served as pastor, doctor and counselor to some 800 patients. In 1884 he contracted leprosy but, refusing to leave the island for treatment, continued to work until the month before his death at age 49 in 1889. The pope said St. Damien â&#x20AC;&#x153;felt at homeâ&#x20AC;? as â&#x20AC;&#x153;a leper with the lepersâ&#x20AC;? during the final years of his life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He invites us to open our eyes toward the `leprosiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that disfigure the humanity of our brothers and sisters and that today still call, more than for our generosity, for the charity of our serving presence,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Members of the Little Sisters of the Poor bring up flowers during a canonization Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 11. The pope named five new saints including Sister Jeanne Jugan, a French nun who founded the Little Sisters of the Poor.

The procession to place St. Damienâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relics on the altar included Hawaii resident Audrey Toguchi, 81, whose cure from cancer was attributed to the miraculous intercession of St. Damien, as well as her doctor and a leprosy patient from Hawaii. In his homily, the pope said that in view of her service to the elderly, St. Jeanne Jugan was â&#x20AC;&#x153;a beaconâ&#x20AC;? for modern societies, which â&#x20AC;&#x153;have still to rediscover the unique place and contribution of this period of life.â&#x20AC;? She was so effective with the aged because she recognized in them the person of Christ, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her charism is still relevant, because so many older people suffer from fears and solitude, having sometimes been abandoned even by their families,â&#x20AC;? he said. Born in northern France in 1792, St. Jeanne formed a small prayer community and, in 1839, brought home a sick and blind elderly widow, giving the woman her own bed. Caring for the abandoned elderly became the primary focus of her religious order, and remains so today for the approximately 2,700 Little Sisters of the Poor.

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The pope noted that St. Jeanne had herself accepted â&#x20AC;&#x153;obscurity and deprivationâ&#x20AC;? in her later years, a reference to the fact that she was removed as superior of her religious order and sent out to beg on behalf of the poor. She died in 1879, and today the Little Sisters serve more than 13,000 elderly residents in 202 homes around the world. The other new saints included a Pole and two Spaniards: â&#x20AC;&#x201C; St. Zygmunt Felinski, a former archbishop of Warsaw, Poland, and founder of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary. Born in 1822 near Volinia, which today is in Ukraine, he was deported to Russia and, after being freed, worked among the poor farmers of Ukraine and Poland, founding schools for rural children. He died in 1895, and today the church sees him as an intercessor for all who are persecuted. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; St. Francisco Coll Guitart, a Spanish Dominican priest who founded the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the 19th century. He was famed for

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Teens’ religious lives ‘all over the map,’ says book on national study “SOUL SEARCHING: THE RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL LIVES OF AMERICAN TEENAGERS” by Christian Smith, with Melinda Lundquist Denton. Oxford University Press (New York, 2009). 346 pp. $17.95.

Reviewed by David Gibson The attempt to understand teenagers too often overlooks the religious faith and spiritual practices in their lives, according to the authors of “Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers.” Their research shows that religion makes “quite a significant difference” in teenagers’ lives. But while “any adequate understanding of American adolescents must recognize and account for (the) religious and spiritual realities in many of their lives,” the authors caution religious communities against “accepting and promulgating what may be simplistic generalizations about American youth.” For, religiously speaking, “American teens are complicated and ‘all over the map.’” Christian Smith, a sociologist at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, wrote “Soul Searching” with Melinda Lundquist Denton, a sociologist at Clemson University in South Carolina. The book presents, analyzes and comments on the findings of the National Study of Youth and Religion, conducted from 2001 to 2005 at the University of North Carolina. “To our knowledge, this project has been the largest, most comprehensive and detailed study of American teenage religion and spirituality conducted to date,” the authors, members of the national study’s research team, explain. The study reflects the views of Christian teenagers across denominational lines, as well as Jewish and Mormon youths. The inclusion of numerous interviews with teenagers that read like stories about their lives heightens the enjoyment of what, at times, is a technical report.

Readers may garner hope from the strong, balanced faith convictions of some who were interviewed. At other times readers, like me, may find themselves troubled by what teens say – by the apparently risky and self-serving statements some make about the implications of a moral life, for example. On a hopeful note, the book rejects the notion that religion makes no differencee for the direction takenn in the lives of teenagers. s. In fact, say the authors, s, religion “arguably exerts rts significant effects on important outcomes” in their lives. “Soul Searching” dispels certain commonly held beliefs about contemporary teenagers. For example, it says that “very few American adolescents appear to be caught up in the much-discussed phenomenon of ‘spiritual seeking’ by ‘spiritual but not religious’ seekers” – the pursuit of spirituality outside religion. Furthermore, the authors found little evidence of the quest for a more “exotic” religion that widely is thought to intrigue many teenagers. “In the U.S. marketplace of spiritual practices, the religious option that is actually having the greatest influence on teen experimenters with other faiths is” Christianity, they write. Just how complicated are teenagers, religiously speaking? “Many U.S. teenagers construct religion in nonessential terms,” the book says. Still, it notes elsewhere, even “the majority of nonreligious U.S. adolescents are not particularly antireligious.” And it finds that “relatively few teens appear to be actively negative about or hostile toward their religious congregations.”

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About Bishop Cordileone, new Bishop of Oakland Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone was born in San Diego, California. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy in 1978 from the University of San Diego. He then furthered his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a Bachelor’s in Sacred Theology in 1981. He returned to the Gregorian and received a doctorate in canon law in 1989. In the summer of 1995, he returned to Rome to work as an assistant at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial body in the Vatican under the pope. He was raised to the rank of Chaplain of His Holiness in 1999. On July 5, 2002, Cordileone was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego byPope John Paul II. Cordileone was later named the fourth Bishop of Oakland by Pope Benedict XVI on March 23, 2009. Bishop Cordileone serves on the episcopal advisory board of the Institute for Religious Life. Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), he sits on the Bishops’ and Presidents’ Committee on Catholic Education.

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be mistaken, based on the enthusiastic devotion witnessed at large Catholic youth assemblies, to conclude “that Catholic teenagers in the United States are doing quite well religiously,” the book advises. It says that at parish and perhaps diocesan levels, the Catholic Church seems “relatively weak when it comes to devoting attention and resources to its youth and their parents.” In a somewhat gentler vein, the book says the Catholic Church could do better at engaging teenagers “in its religious practices, though our findings hardly suggest that overall it is entirely failing to do so.” “Soul Searching” should be taken seriously by those committed to nurturing the lives of teenagers. These include religious congregations and organizations, which “are uniquely positioned” in the array of U.S. social institutions “to embrace youth, to connect with adolescents, to strengthen ties between adults and teenagers,” the book comments. But, it warns, this “will not happen automatically.”

Not surprisingly, then, “Soul Searching” encourage religious communities to stop “presuming that th U.S. teenagers are aactively alienated by religion.” It says, r “Huge “Hu numbers of U.S. teenagers are currently teen in congregations, feel c OK about them, mostly plan to continue to stay involved at some level,” though so the th congregation “does not mean that “d much or make much m sense to many of s them.” t An affirming view of parental influence is presented here. “Parents are normally ma very important in shaping the religious and spiritual lives of their teenage children, even though they may not realize it,” the book states. “Soul Searching” proposes that “the best way to get most youth more involved in and serious about their faith communities is to get their parents more involved.” The book’s discussion of Catholic teens may disturb a few readers, while prompting some to action. It would

Gibson was the founding editor of Origins, Catholic News Service’s documentary service. He retired in 2007 after holding that post for 36 years.

EWTN Catholic TV to air new series and Mass from National Shine Two new series and an All Saints Day Solemn Mass from the National Shrine in Washington highlight special telecasts on EWTN, the Global Catholic Network. Two Irish priests, Fathers Owen Gorman and John Hogan, in “Forgotten Heritage: Europe and the Eucharist,” explore the Eucharistic heritage of Europe, revealing how belief in the Eucharist has shaped Western culture. The series airs Sunday at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. and Thursday at 1 a.m. “The Roamin’ Catholic - Rob Wahl Children’s Series” traverses the globe on adventures of discovery, as Rob explores the great truths of our Catholic Faith. Aimed at helping children enjoy learning about the Faith, the program airs Monday at 1:30 p.m. and Saturday at 7 a.m. The Solemn Mass of All Saints will air live from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Nov. 1 at 9 a.m. The majestic basilica provides a wonderful setting for solemn liturgies. EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 116, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261 and Direct TV Channel 370. Comcast airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County. Visit www.ewtn.com for any updates and for more information about special programs.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 Oct. 25, 11 a.m: Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving commemorating the canonization of St. Jeanne Jugan. Oct. 24, 5:30 p.m.: Cathedral Gospel/Jazz Mass. This very spirited, annual Celebration of the Liturgy, led by the Bay Area Gospel Mass Choir, will include the St. Ignatius College Preparatory Jazz Ensemble and a special appearance by Edwin Hawkins. Oct. 24, 8:30 p.m.: “Hope for the World Concert” featuring: Edwin Hawkins and The New Edwin Hawkins Singers; celebrating 40 years of “Oh Happy Day.” Hawkins will be joined by Grammy award winning Gospel singer, Yolanda Adams, as he launches a World Tour, which will include prayer for world harmony and peace by leaders of all faiths. Tickets for this event will be $25 and will be on sale at the Cathedral Office: (415) 567-2020. Oct. 25, 3:30 p.m.: “Organ Symphony Concert” featuring: Anthony Hammond. Pierre Cochereau (19241984) was one of the most significant organists of the last century. He was titular organist at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, concertized around the globe, and was famous for his improvisations and compositions. In 1974, Cochereau came to St. Mary’s Cathedral to improvise an organ symphony. Fortunately for us, that symphony was recorded. Anthony Hammond, a doctoral candidate at Bristol University in England, has reconstructed the symphony and will perform it here, on the original instrument.

Good Health October 21, 6:00 p.m.: Running without Injury, St. Mary’s Medical Center’s Outpatient Therapies Department will have a physical therapist explaining how the most common running injuries occur and how to train to prevent them. St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan Street, Doctor’s Dining Room - Level B. RSVP to Leigh.Allen@chw.edu or (415) 750-4991. October 22, 4:30 p.m.: Managing Joint Pain and Arthritis, nearly half of all Americans suffer from arthritis. Come and learn activities you can do to ease your hip and knee pain without surgery. Presented by Leigh Allen, Physical Therapist at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan Street, 3 East Conference Room – 3rd Floor. Call (888) 457-5202. Oct. 22, 29, 4 p.m.: Free Caregiver Workshops for primary family caregivers who are caring for an older adult with memory loss and confusion, especially when challenging behaviors begin to surface. Workshops are not for professional caregivers. Offered by Catholic Charities CYO San Carlos Adult Day Services. October 22 Focus: Facilitating Daily Care; October 29 Focus: Challenging Behaviors and Situations. For more information or to obtain a registration brochure please contact Michael Vargas, MSW at 650.592.9325 or mvargas@cccyo.org. October 27, 1:00 p.m.: Practical Approaches to Back Pain, Presented by Judy Silverman, MD of St. Mary’s Spine Center. She will discuss ways to ease your back pain without surgery. St. Mary’s Spine Center, 1 Shrader Street, Suite 450. Space is limited. Call (888) 457-5202

Pauline Books and Media Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City (650) 369-4230 - Visit www.pauline.org Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m.: The Daughters of St. Paul invite all who are interested to meet for Lectio Divina – a calm, contemplative praying of the Scriptures. Contact St. Paul Sister Armanda Santos

Reunions Nov. 7, 11 a.m.: St. Paul’s High School Annual Homecoming Mass and Luncheon at St. Paul’s Church followed by lunch in the parish hall. The class of 1960 is the honored Golden Belles, and the event is being hosted by their “little sisters,” the class of 1963. Cost of the luncheon is $35. For more information, please contact Marilyn Highlander-Pool at St. Paul’s Rectory (415) 648-7538.

Arts & Entertainment October 23, 7:30 p.m.: “A Night of Chorale Harmony” with the world renowned Philippine Madrigal Singers at Holy Name Church, 39th Ave. at

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Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone guests on Mosaic October 25 at 5 a.m. on KPIX CBS 5. Bishop Cordileone, named to the Oakland see by Pope Benedict XVI on March 23, 2009, has served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of San Diego – his home diocese since 2002. In the interview, Bishop Cordileone and host, Tom Burke, talk about the prelate’s new role as shepherd of the almost 600,000 Catholics in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, as well as his joy in getting to know them and the priests, deacons and religious of the Oakland diocese. He loves Italian food, exercises regularly and said he is a “man who loves God” and who “will listen” to his flock. Lawton in San Francisco. The ensemble is UNESCO Artist for Peace, and winner of the 2007 Grand Prix de la Ville de Tours Award. Proceeds benefit upcoming Simbang Gabi Advent gatherings. Tickets: $25. For inquiries, call: (415) 699-7927, (415) 564-0323, or e-mail paribolmusic@yahoo.com October 25, 3 p.m.: The renowned Philippine Madrigal Singers at St. Patrick Seminary chapel, 320 Middlefield Rd. in Menlo Park. Proceeds benefit seminary work. The ensemble is UNESCO Artist for Peace, and winner of the 2007 Grand Prix de la Ville de Tours Award. Tickets $40 each. For inquiries, call (650) 289-3320 or e-mail Pedro. Castaneda@stpatrickseminary.org.

Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 Oct 31, 11 a.m.: All Saints Day Mass – Todos Los Santos Celebration - All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, Msgr. Fred Bitanga, celebrant. Refreshments in the courtyard following Mass. Nov. 2, 11 a.m.: All Souls’ Day Mass - All Saints Mausoleum Chapel, Msgr. Robert McElroy, pastor St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo, celebrant. Nov. 7, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass, Father Brian Costello, pastor, Mater Dolorosa Parish, South san Francisco, celebrant.

Special Liturgies Oct. 18, 11:30 a.m.: Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Mass at St. Dominic Church, Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco. All are invited including survivors, care-givers, and relatives and friends of those who have died from the disease. St. Dominic’s Solemn High Choir will lead song. Call (415) 929-9242. Nov. 1, 2 p.m.: Annual memorial Mass for all religious, alumni, friends and priests associated with St. Peter Parish and schools at St. Peter Church 24th and Alabama St. in San Francisco. Reception in parish hall. Call (415) 647-8662 by Oct. 15 if planning to attend.

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Marine View off County Line Rd. in Belmont. Many major home franchisers and independent artists will be represented. Shop for jewelry, housewares, clothing, food items,. Admission free. Raffles every 15 minutes. Children’s Secret Santa table, too. Call (650) 591-5937 for more information. Oct. 21, noon: Spaghetti and meatball lunch at Immaculate Conception Chapel, Folsom off Cesar Chavez/Army St. in San Francisco. Tickets are $8 per person. The family-style meal includes salad, bread, pasta and homemade meatballs. Beverages are available for purchase. The meal is served in the church hall, beneath the chapel. Call (415) 824-1762. Oct. 22, 11:30 a.m.: October Fest of Good Shepherd Guild at the Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave. in South San Francisco. Tickets are $40 per person. Bingo will be played after lunch. Proceeds benefit Grace Center, a drug and rehabilitation center for women sponsored by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Call Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5374. Oct. 22, noon: Serra Club of San Fancisco annual “Almost Columbus Day” lunch at the Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Street off Mission Street in San Francisco. Guest speaker is Randy DeMartini, executive director of the Salesian Boys and Girls Club who will talk about the arrival in San Francisco of the Salesians from Italy and of Father Trincheri and the start of the club. Lunch tickets are $20 and include wine. October 23, 24, 25: Roman Holiday, annual festival benefiting St. Cecilia Parish and school, 17th and Vicente in San Francisco. Friday: 6 – 10 p.m. Saturday: noon – 4 p.m. and 6 – 10 p.m. Sunday: noon – 6 p.m. Enjoy a fun-filled weekend featuring games for children, prize booths for children and adults, a giant slide, silent auction, bingo, face painting, raffles, delicious snacks and treats right off the grill. Visit www.scfestival.com Oct 24 – 11:30 a.m.: St. Stephen School Annual Fashion Show at the Olympic Club. It’s a mom’s day out with a silent auction, lunch, and a wonderful fashion show with students and moms wearing the most stylish clothes from top designers. For tickets and more information please call Annette Rocca at (415) 987-0365 or email am_rocca@yahoo.com. Oct. 24: Holy Name of Jesus School presents “Fright Fest”, a fall Halloween fundraiser featuring games, crafts, Bouncy houses, Haunted House, giant slide,

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BINGO, Prizes, Raffle, Silent Auction, food and much, much more. We will have snacks, lunch and dinner. Admission is free to the public. 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. at Holy Name of Jesus School, 1560 40th Avenue at Lawton. Please call (415) 731-4077 for more information. Oct. 24, 11 a.m. – 9 p.m.: Terror on Thomas More way - haunted house, carnival games, toddler’s area and teen center, costume parade, dunk tank, delicious barbecue sandwiches and more! All are welcome. Free admission. Benefits St. Thomas More School, 50 Thomas More Way at Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. Visit http://stthomasmoreschool.org Oct. 24, 6:30 p.m.: Horror Movie Madness is a Halloween-themed fundraiser for Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group. The evening includes the award winning film Shaun of the Dead appropriate movie food and snacks, a soda, beer and wine bar, and a very Spooky raffle of over $800 in prizes. You need not be present to win. Location is MHR Ellard Hall at 100 Diamond near 18th. In San Francisco. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Movie at 7 p.m., Raffle concludes the evening at 8:45 p.m. A suggested donation of $10 is requested. To purchase raffle tickets or for more information call (415) 863-1581 or visit www.mhr-asg.com Oct. 25, 6 p.m..: 2009 Dance 2 Care Dance-aThon supporting San Francisco Adult Day Services Network programs. The six-hour event will take place at Hotel Whitcomb in San Francisco. By creating a team under Catholic Charities CYO’s San Francisco Adult Day Services name, the program receives 75%-90% of money pledged. Contact Patty Clement, Director of CCCYO Adult Day Service for more information pclement@cccyo.org or 415-452-3500. Nov. 14, 6 p.m.: “To Planet St. Paul,” Annual Dinner Dance and Auction benefiting St. Paul Restoration Fund at Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd. in San Francisco. Evening begins with social hour and “stratospheric auction” followed by “dinner in another world.” Tickets are $65 per person. Sponsor positions are available beginning at $250. Call (415) 648-7538.

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698. Oct. 23 – 25: Widowed, separated, divorced weekend at Vallombrosa Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. For information and brochure call LaVerne at (650) 355-3978, Helen at (415) 388-9651 or Ward at (415) 8213390. You can also e-mail SJBeginExp@aol.com.

Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life Oct. 20, and 3rd Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Rosary Prayer Examine how the mysteries of the Rosary are manifest in daily life and pray for an increase of faith, hope and love at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd.(off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Contact Sister Frances Mary Pierson, (510) 933-6335 or email sfmpeace3@msjdominicans.org. Oct. 24, 9 a.m. – noon: Julian of Norwich Spirituality Workshop with Paulist Father Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Bookstore and Gift Shop at California and Grant St. in San Francisco. Julian of Norwich was the first woman mystic to write in the English language. Julian, along with other women, began to supplement the Latin writings of monks. Julian did not live in a monastery. She had 13 revelations in one night. She then spent much of her life writing about them. Coffee and treats begin the morning. Workshop will include a 20 minute silent meditation. For more information contact Mary Wyman of Contemplative Outreach, 415-290-1856 or mary.wyman@yahoo.com

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OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE Approximately 2,000 to 10,000 square feet first floor office space available (additional space available if needed) at One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco (between Gough & Franklin), is being offered for lease to a non-profit entity. Space available includes enclosed offices, open work area with several cubicles, large work room, and storage rooms on the lower level of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chancery / Pastoral Center. We also have mail and copy services available, as well as meeting rooms (based on availability). Reception services available. Space has access to kitchen area and restroom facilities. Parking spaces negotiable. Ready for immediate occupancy with competitive terms. Come view the space. For more information, contact

Katie Haley, (415) 614-5556 email haleyk@sfarchdiocese.org.

Catholic San Francisco

October 16, 2009

Open House Sunday - October 25

Where Young Women Prepare to Make a Difference in the World!

Presentation begins at 9:00am Ample neighborhood parking RESERVATIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED

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Mercy High School 3250 Nineteenth Avenue - San Francisco A College Preparatory High School for Young Women Catholic Education sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy in San Francisco since 1952