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A contingent of day-care clients of Holy Family Day Home opened with song the Oct. 13 grand opening and dedication festivities for the Home’s new $7.1 million facility. See photos, Page 6.

Archbishop apologizes

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Communion controversy erupts

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midst a building storm of Internet and media attention, San Francisco’s Archbishop George H. Niederauer has issued an “explanation – and with it an apology” for distributing Communion to two members of San Francisco’s Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at an Oct. 7 Mass at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco.

Carried on Page 5, the Archbishop’s statement reports he “did not recognize either” of the members of the faux religious community “as wearing mock religious garb” when they approached him during Communion, but that “afterward it was made clear to me that these two people were members of the organization ‘Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence’ who have long made a practice of mocking the Catholic Church in general and religious women in particular.”

“After the event I realized that they were members of this particular organization and that giving them Holy Communion had been a mistake,” he states, adding, “I apologize to the Catholics of the Archdiocese of San

Francisco and to Catholics at large for doing so.”

Members of the group openly caricature Church teaching, leaders, practices and women religious. Mocking actions, including an “exorcism” of Pope John Paul II, celebration of a “condom savior consecration and vow,” distribution of “oh communion” laced with tequila, an annual “Hunky Jesus” contest at Easter, and caging a figure called “Pope Dementia” have been strongly criticized in the past by Catholic leaders and Catholics in general.

While some Internet outlets and blogs as well as FOX-TV’s “The O’Reilly Factor” accused the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence of attending the Mass to embarrass the Archbishop for strong archdiocesan criticism of a recent Folsom Street Fair poster that debased The Last Supper, a spokesperson for the organization told Catholic San Francisco the two individuals had attended the Mass on their own initiative.

The Archbishop and others in attendance at the Oct. 7 liturgy described the celebration in its entirety as reverent and devout.

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By Michael Vick The upcoming film “Bella” tugged both the heartstrings and moral compasses of more than 300 parish leaders, department personnel, agency representatives and others from the Archdiocese of San Francisco at an advance screening last month.

The vast majority praised the film in more than 100 questionnaires returned to Catholic San Francisco in the days following a Sept. 6 pre-screening at the UA Stonestown Twin Theater in San Francisco.

Both the production’s leading actor, Eduardo Verástegui, and its writer-producer, Leo Seberino, attended the event.

Verástegui plays José, a former soccer star on his way to signing a multi-million dollar contract when his career came to an abrupt halt. Now a cook in his brother’s restaurant, he meets a waitress named Nina, played

by Tammy Blanchard. The film chronicles how each BELLA, page 20

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whisper. “The secret is we boil the spaghetti in holy water.”… We’re a few days late but Happy Birthday to Rosalie Taggi, 100 years old Oct. 16. “A longtime parishioner of St. Francis of Assisi Church (now the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi), Rosalie is still beautiful and charming and well-known and popular in North Beach,” said Patricia Cady. “In the 1940s she was ‘Rosie the Riveter’ at the Richmond shipyards and in 2004 neighbors laid a plaque in her honor at the corner of Vallejo and Kearny.” Couldn’t have said it better myself, Patricia.

Thank you…. Congratulations to Katherine A. King who was presented Sept. 24 with the Bishop William G. Connare Award for Distinguished Service by the International Catholic Stewardship Council at meetings in Miami Beach. Involved in stewardship and fundraising for more than 30 years, Kathy is currently executive director of the Daughters of Charity’s Seton Health Services Foundation. Kathy holds a graduate degree in non-profit management from USF and her relationship with the Daughters of Charity is lifelong, she happily admits. “I was taught by the Daughters of Charity Families from St. Stephen Parish and School recently enjoyed Cougar Family Bingo with more than 450 adults and children on board for pasta and plenty of fun. This was the last spaghetti bingo night at Donworth Hall, named for late St. Stephen pastor, Father Joseph A. Donworth, which will soon be demolished to make way for a new parish center.

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By Rick DelVecchio The future of the Catholic Church as a global force depends on shared power and mutual respect between the Church’s historic center in Western Europe and its fastexpanding population base in the Southern hemisphere, Georgetown University theologian Father Peter Phan told a conference in Berkeley Oct. 6-7.

Father Phan, a popular and sometimes controversial figure who brings an Asian cultural perspective to Catholic thought, described the growth of Catholicism in the developing world and the importance of local culture among people embracing the Catholic faith in Africa and Asia.

The Curia, the Church’s central administrative and judicial body in Rome, should resist fighting the trend, Father Phan said. It must share ecclesiastical authority with bishops on the periphery and embrace their non-European roots as vital to the Church’s global mission, he said.

“Power relations cannot be ignored in global Christianity simply because we say we are a religious institution,” Father Phan said. “The task is to try to make the voices of the global South heard by the ecclesiastical core.”

The Church must be a “house of love rather than a house of fear” and the West must not impose its cultural norms on the East, said Father Phan, the first non-Anglo to be elected president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, serving from 2001 to 2002.

Father Phan said he is advocating mutuality, not conflict. In a follow-up interview with Catholic San Francisco he said he is not challenging the Church’s core principles of papal primacy and papal infallibility.

Father Phan was the keynote speaker at an international conference sponsored by the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley. The two-day event focused on how globalization is changing the Church and what the Church can do to change with it.

The conference explored how the Franciscan intellectual tradition can point the way to change through dialogue.

Speakers covered the life of the 13th century philosopher John Duns Scotus and said his vision of a Christianity of abundance and generosity has much to offer believers today.

“Franciscan spirituality is all about beauty,” said Sister Mary Elizabeth Ingham, CSJ, a philosophy professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. “It’s less about convincing people. It’s more about being ourselves.

Jesus was great because in his presence people could be themselves.”

Franciscan Father Johannes Freyer, Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical Antonianum University in Rome, said the

impact of globalization on the Church will have profound theological implications.

“The future of the Church is depending on this ongoing discussion between a strong Christological, hierarchical vision and a dialogue vision of the trinitarian Church,” he said.

Father Phan, in an interview before his talk, declined to discuss his troubles with the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith over his 2005 book, “Being Religious Inter-religiously: Asian Perspectives on Interfaith Dialogue” published in 2004 by Orbis.

According to the National Catholic Reporter, the CDF has challenged aspects of the book that Father Peter Phan speaks at Berkeley conference Oct. 6. appear ambiguous on Christ’s role as universal The rejection can be painful, Father Phan said. For savior, the function of the Catholic Church in salvation and example, he said, Asian bishops do not enjoy conducting the value of non-Christian religions.

Father Phan, who grew up in Vietnam and arrived in the business in Italian and providing economic reports to United States in 1975 as a refugee, avoided those theologi- Rome. They are more comfortable conferring in their own cal topics in his remarks to the conference. Instead, he language over tea and measuring their success as ministers offered his model for a global Church that is accountable to by their own norms.

“Bishops are not secretaries,” Father Phan said. its culturally disparate faithful.

“We Asians,” he said in response to an audience quesThe theologian challenged the notion of a unified Christendom, calling the idea an example of Eurocentric tion after his talk, “we are very humble, we are very kind.

But be careful. Don’t overstep us.” ideology.

Father Phan offered the social structure of early “I reject this,” Father Phan said. “Positively, we say ‘Christianities’ – plural. In fact, in the first seven centuries Christianity as a model for a global Church in the 21st centhe most successful fields of mission were not Europe but tury.

“Early Christianity is not a single tree rooted in Rome,” Asia and Africa, with Syria as the epicenter. And the most vibrant intellectual centers were located not in the Western he said. “The right picture is the rhizome that grows in the part of the Roman Empire but in West Asian and African ground, that spreads everywhere. There’s no trunk. It just cities. Until the 7th century there was more Christianity in spreads and spread and spreads. That’s a far more accurate picture of early Christianity.” the East than in Rome. Rome was as backwater.

By 2050, Father Phan said, 80 percent of the world’s “When we talk about the legacy of the early Church we always talk about Latin and Greek,” he said. “Please, look three billion Christians will live in the Southern hemiat the other side. There’s a whole Christian theological and sphere.

“By that time a white Christian is an oxymoron,” he liturgical heritage that usually disappears from the pages of THEOLOGIAN, page 18 Church history books.”

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When asked why Jews were not sent the letter, Sayyed Hossein Nasr, a professor at George Washington University in Washington and a letter signatory, said it is “a theological letter and not a political letter.” He said he hoped a letter reaching out to all faiths from Muslim leaders would be sent in the future.

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Muslim leaders send letter WASHINGTON (CNS) — For the first time, more than 100 senior Muslim leaders from around the world sent a letter to Pope Benedict XVI and other Christian leaders proposing theological similarities as a basis for peace and understanding.

“Finding common ground between Muslims and Christians is not simply a matter for polite ecumenical dialogue between selected religious leaders,” said 138 Muslim leaders in a letter released Oct. 11 in Washington. Christians and Muslims “make up more than 55 percent of the world’s population, making the relationship between these two religious communities the most important factor in contributing to meaningful peace around the world,” they said. “If Muslims and Christians are not at peace, the world cannot be at peace.”

French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, told Vatican Radio Oct. 12 the letter is “a very encouraging sign because it demonstrates that good will and dialogue are capable of overcoming prejudices.” He noted the letter was signed by both Sunni and Shiite Muslim leaders.

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Retired bishop heading home TUCSON, Ariz. (CNS) — Retired Bishop Francis A. Quinn of Sacramento, who has spent the last 13 years in the Diocese of Tucson ministering to the Yaqui and Tohono O’odham tribal communities, is returning to his native California. Bishop Quinn, 86, was bid farewell by the staff of the Diocese of Tucson Sept. 24 during a Mass of thanksgiving at the Bishop Moreno Pastoral Center.

The bishop Bishop Francis Quinn “endeared himself” to the people of the diocese as “a true man of faith,” Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas said during the Mass. Bishop Quinn lived in a motor home parked behind Bishop Kicanas’ residence.

Bishop Quinn said he planned to donate the motor home to Blessed Kateri Parish to be used for a fundraiser.

WASHINGTON (CNS) — Americans in the South contributed a far greater portion of their incomes to charity than those in the Northeast in 2005, according to a new book. And when the calculations of charitable giving are limited to those made to churches and religious organizations, the average annual expenditures by Southern households in 2005 was nearly twice that of households in the Northeast. “The State of Church Giving Through 2005,” which was to be published Oct. 15, is the latest in a series of analyses produced by Empty Tomb, an Illinois church stewardship research and consulting company.

The researchers found that Southerners gave 2.1 percent of available income to charity, those in the Midwest 2 percent, those in the West 1.5 percent and those in the Northeast 1.2 percent.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Funneling resources toward military spending rather than providing basic health care to all citizens is making an already “sad landscape” even bleaker, a top Vatican official told the U.N. General Assembly. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, said Oct. 9 that the world community “seems to have been losing focus on the need to ensure the right to basic health care for all,” although studies have shown even simple medical prevention can effectively and successfully improve the health and stability of society.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican’s secretary of state will visit Cuba early next year. Vatican sources confirmed Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone would travel to the communist island nation and possibly visit to its ailing leader, Fidel Castro.

Though it will be the first time he visits Cuba as the Vatican’s No. 2 official, Cardinal Bertone traveled there and met with Castro in 2005 when he was the archbishop of Genoa, Italy.

The sainthood cause has formally begun for Father Stanley Rother, a priest of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese who was brutally murdered in 1981 in the Guatemalan village where he ministered to the poor. Oklahoma Catholics gathered Oct. 5 to again pray for his canonization.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI asked for prayers for the Catholic-Orthodox international theological dialogue after the Russian Orthodox delegation walked out of the meeting.

“I ask you to join me in praying that this important meeting will help the journey toward full communion between Catholics and Orthodox and that we could soon share the same chalice of the Lord,” the pope said Oct. 10 during his general audience.

Members of the dialogue commission were meeting Oct. 8-15 in Ravenna, Italy, to continue work on a document on the sacramental nature of the Church and its consequences for the Church structure and decision-making.

U.S. Cardinal William H. Keeler, retired archbishop of Baltimore and a member of the dialogue, told Catholic News Service Oct. 11, “I expect we will have the agreed statement ready by the end of the meeting.” In preparation for working on the document, Roman Catholic participants met separately from Orthodox participants, who came from 16 different Orthodox churches.

During the Orthodox meeting, Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria told other Orthodox participants his delegation would abandon the meeting if they did not ask the Estonian Orthodox delegation to leave. The Russian Orthodox Church does not recognize the Estonian Apostolic Church, which is tied to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, said a statement by the Russian Orthodox Church. The Russian Orthodox Church believes the Orthodox in Estonia fall under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church, not the ecumenical patriarchate.

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As estimated 650 beneficiaries, benefactors, staff, dignitaries and well-wishers were present for the Oct. 13 grand opening blessing and dedication ceremony for Holy Family Day Home’s new $7.1 million facility and refurbished campus. Among those to address the group were, from left, Archbishop George H. Niederauer who blessed the building and site; Marie Hurabiell, secretary of the Home’s board of directors; Donna Cahill, executive director; Bevan Dufty, San Francisco Supervisor, District 8; Jose Cisneros, city treasurer; Alex Randolph, Mayor’s Office liaison to District 8; Sister Gladys Guenther, president of the Sisters of the Holy Family who founded and still sponsor the Home;and Tom Bonomi, board of directors president. The Home’s capacity has nearly doubled and enrollment stands at 171, officials said.

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Bishop Soto of Orange named Sacramento coadjutor WASHINGTON - Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Jaime Soto, auxiliary bishop of Orange, Calif., to be coadjutor bishop of Sacramento.

The appointment as coadjutor bishop confers on Bishop Soto, 51, the right to succession to Bishop William K. Weigand, 70, of Sacramento. The announcement was made Oct. 11 in Washington by Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States.

San Francisco’s Archbishop George H. Niederauer welcomed Bishop Soto to northern California in a brief statement issued shortly after the appointment was announced.

“I congratulate Bishop Soto on his appointment as coadjutor bishop of Sacramento and I welcome him to the Metropolitan Province of San Francisco. This appointment is a blessing for the Diocese of Sacramento and for Bishop William Weigand, who was my predecessor in the Diocese of Salt Lake City,” stated Archbishop Niederauer who was bishop of Salt Lake for 11 years prior to being appointed to the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

“Bishop Soto was a student at St. John’s Seminary College in Camarillo, Calif., when I was on the faculty there,” Archbishop Niederauer recalled. “He is a gifted, zealous and articulate man with a great love for the Church and a keen interest in issues of justice and peace.”

The two prelates were celebrants at an Oct. 9 Mass during the Region Eleven

Commission on Spanish Speaking Sacramento will soon get to know a defender (RECOSS) meeting in San Francisco, a of the Church and an advocate for the dignity gathering of directors of Hispanic ministry of all persons. The whole State of California, not just Sacramento, got a gift.” from California and Nevada dioceses.

“For more than seven years, Bishop Soto Mary Jansen, director of the San Francisco has taken part of the Archdiocese’s Office of RECOSS meetings proYoung Adult Ministry viding great input to the and Campus Ministry, Hispanic pastoral minagreed. She noted that istry at regional and Bishop Soto had worked national level,” said with her office on young Cecilia Arias-Rivas, San adult events in the past, Francisco Archdiocese’s including being the Hispanic ministry coorkeynote speaker at the dinator. “He has a strong young adult Fall Fest pastoral vision of incluthree years ago at the siveness in our Church University of San which is gifted with culFrancisco. tural diversity. We need “Bishop Soto chala bishop like him in lenges young people to Sacramento to continue embrace their faith,” the care, the solidarity, Jansen said, noting that and to be a voice of the the bishop “is technologvoiceless.” ically savvy, but more Bishop Jaime Soto The Sacramento importantly, engages appointment was also hailed by George young people in conversation about current Wesolek, director of the Archdiocese of San issues that affect their lives.”

Francisco’s Office of Public Policy and Social In a statement delivered in both English Concerns. “Bishop Soto has a keen pastoral and Spanish, Bishop Soto said that over the approach and an incisive sense of the politi- years he has admired the work of Bishop cal,” Wesolek told Catholic San Francisco. Weigand and “the extensive pastoral min“He will be a strong advocate for the poor, the istry” of his diocese. immigrant and the unborn. The politicians in “The expanse and diversity of the Church’s

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The Diocese of Sacramento has a Catholic population of more than 550,000 Catholics.

Its 20 counties cover more than 42,000 square miles of Northern California, from the San Francisco Bay to the Oregon border. It has 103 parishes and 42 mission churches.

Bishop Soto was born Dec. 31, 1955, in Inglewood. He earned his bachelor of arts degree in philosophy in 1978 from St. John’s, and master of divinity degree in 1982. He earned a master of social work degree from Columbia University School of Social Work in 1986.

He was ordained for the Diocese of Orange in 1982, and was appointed auxiliary bishop of Orange, March 23, 2000.

Bishop Soto’s pastoral experience includes work in Catholic Charities, immigration reform and ministry to the Hispanic community. He is a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Administrative Committee; chairman of the Committee on the Church in Latin America; a member of the Committee on the Laity and its Subcommittee for Youth and Young Adults; and the Ad Hoc Committee for the Spanish Language Bible.

He is treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc., CLINIC. Bishop Weigand was installed as head of the Sacramento Diocese in January 1994. In April 2005 he had liver transplant.

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‘For Heaven’s Sake’ features DSPT prexy Dominican Father Michael Sweeney, president of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, talks about “giving voice to the Gospel in our culture” on the For Heaven’s Sake TV program, which will air Oct. 21 at 5:30 a.m. on KRON-Channel 4.

Interviewed by archdiocesan Director of Communications Maurice Healy, Father Sweeney has been president of the Berkeley school, part of the Graduate Theological Union, for the past three years.

He also is the co-founder of the St. Catherine of Siena Institute, which promotes lay formation and parish involvement.

The priest will be one of the keynote speakers at the Saturday, Nov. 10, East Bay Catholic Men’s Conference which will take place at DSPT. Theme for day-long event is “Catholic Men in the World: Standing with St. Joseph.”

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Pope completes second encyclical

By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI has completed his second encyclical, a meditation on Christian hope, Vatican sources said.

The text, tentatively titled Spe Salvi (“Saved by Hope”), is about 65 pages, sources said Oct. 16. No release date had been set.

The working title comes from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, in which he wrote: “For in hope we have been saved.” The encyclical is said to explore the Christian understanding of hope, with reference to modern philosophy and the challenges of disbelief.

The pope worked on the encyclical this summer, when he had time to write during his sojourns in northern Italy and at his villa outside Rome. At the same time, he was working on a third encyclical that deals with social themes, Vatican officials said.

The pope published his first encyclical in late 2006.

Titled Deus Caritas Est (“God Is Love”), it called for a deeper understanding of love as a gift from God to be shared in a self-sacrificial way.

The pope spoke about the importance of the virtue of hope in 2005, when he addressed Mexican bishops on their ad limina visits to Rome.

“Confronted by today’s changing and complex panorama, the virtue of hope is subject to harsh trials in the community of believers. For this very reason, we must be apostles who are filled with hope and joyful trust in God’s promises,” the pope told the bishops.

From a pastoral standpoint, he added, hope means reminding Christians that God never abandons his people and is alive and active in the world.

“In contemporary society, which shows such visible signs of secularism, we must not give in to despair or a lack of enthusiasm in pastoral projects,” he said.

In introducing a section on hope, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “Hope is the theological virtue by which we desire the kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness, placing our trust in Christ’s promises and relying not on our own strength, but on the help of the grace of the Holy Spirit.”

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Cathedral lights way by going dark Father Talesfore encouraged Catholics to participate in the event.

The lights that blanket St. Mary’s “We’re doing this because of the Cathedral will go dark Saturday night, pope’s repeated emphasis of our Oct. 20, in a citywide effort to conserve Catholic obligation,” he said. “The energy called “Lights Out San organizers saw the Cathedral as someFrancisco.” The initiative, sponsored by thing of an icon that could catch the the San Francisco Chamber of attention of Catholics to do the same.”

Commerce and Pacific Gas and Electric Father Talesfore has agreed to Company, coincides with PG&E’s comshut the lights off all night, not just mitment to distribute one million enerfor the one-hour event. He also said gy efficient compact florescent bulbs. the Cathedral is working with PG&E Other famed San Francisco landto retrofit the lights to be more enermarks — City Hall, the Transamerica gy efficient.

Pyramid, the Bay Bridge and the The Cathedral’s events center is now Golden Gate Bridge — are also being outfitted with CFL lights, and Father asked to turn off all non-essential lights Talesfore said he and other Cathedral Moonlight will be the only light between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. Oct. 20. officials are working with specialists to St. Mary’s pastor Father John overhaul the entire electrical system. illuminating St. Mary’s Cathedral on Talesfore said the event gives Father Talesfore said PG&E has Oct. 20. The Cathedral is taking part Catholics the opportunity to raise in “Lights Out San Francisco” to call donated CFL lights to the Cathedral to awareness of Pope Benedict XVI’s attention to energy conservation and be distributed to local parishes. He estirecent statements in Sacramentum mated 500 to 1000 lights will be given global resource stewardship.

Caritatis on the moral responsibility away at Masses, one per household. to protect the earth’s resources.

“Lights Out San Francisco” is the first event of its kind “The world is not something indifferent, raw material to in the United States. It is an initiative of “Lights Out be utilized simply as we see fit,” wrote the pope. “The jus- America,” a grassroots group based in San Francisco. tified concern about threats to the environment present in The group is planning a nationwide “Lights Out” event for so many parts of the world is reinforced by Christian hope, March 28, 2008. So far, eight major cities in addition to San which commits us to working responsibly for the protec- Francisco have agreed to participate:Boulder, Boston, tion of creation.”

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Dominican educator Sister Kathleen O’Sullivan dies Sept. 29 dies Oct. 11 A funeral Mass was celebrated Oct. 11 for Adrian Dominican Sister Adella Diederich, formerly Louise Marie, who died Oct. 7 in Seattle, Wash. Sister Adella was in the 60th year of her religious profession having been part of the Dominican Sister Adella Sisters of Edmonds for 55 years and Diederich, OP the Adrian Dominican Sisters for the last four years. She was 78 years old.

Born in Bakersfield, Sister Adella held an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Seattle University and a graduate degree in the subject from St. Louis University. Locally, she earned a graduate degree in theology from St. Mary’s College in Moraga.

Almost 50 years of Sister Adella’s ministry were spent in education including three years at St. Peter Martyr School in Pittsburg when the East Bay city was still a part of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Sister Adella also taught religious education with the Native American community of the Tulalip Reservation in Washington State and English as a Second Language at Wuyi University in Jiangmen City in China.

Interment was in Calvary Cemetery in Seattle.

Remembrances may be made to the Adrian Dominican Sisters, 1257 Siena Heights Dr., Adrian, Mich. 49221.

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Sister Kathleen O’Sullivan died on Sept. 29 ident of mission integration, remembers fondly. sheltered in the loving care of her companions at A former student wrote upon hearing of LabourĂŠ Residence in Los Altos Hills. She lived Sister Kathleen’s death, “The way to remember as a faithful Daughter of Charity for 66 years.

Sister Kathleen today is to be especially kind and friendly to someone in our lives who is, Born on Texas Street in San Francisco on April say, a bit difficult. Kathleen could do this with 23, 1922, she attended Star of the Sea Elementary us, and we could be difficult. I am sure her School and graduated from St. Vincent High habitual way of being energetic, positive and School. As a well-respected educator, she taught happy wore off on all of us. Certainly on me.� in Natchez, Miss.; Perryville, Mo.; St. Louis, Mo.; Sister’s kindness extended to all of God’s and Donaldson, La. for almost 30 years.

Sister Kathleen creatures including animals, especially dogs.

Returning to San Francisco in 1968, she O’Sullivan She is survived by her brother, Jack O’Sullivan, served as principal and teacher at Cathedral and his family of Petaluma. A funeral Mass was celebrated High School for almost five years.

Settling in on the peninsula, her next eight years were Oct. 3. Father Robert McKay, chaplain at O’Connor spent as provincial secretary at Seton Provincialate in Los Hospital in San Jose, presided at LabourĂŠ Chapel. Interment Altos Hills. “She was always kind, encouraging and affirm- followed at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos. ing,â€? recalls Sister Chris Maggi, DC, Councillor at Seton.

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■ Continued from cover It was Archbishop Niederauer’s first visit to the parish since arriving 20 months ago. He has visited approximately 70 of the Archdiocese’s 90 parishes for confirmation or a Sunday liturgy.

“This whole thing has been highly distorted,” said the spokesperson for the pretend religious order, who declined to be named. “We support the parish and have donated money to it and will continue to do so in the future. There is a lot of animosity that has been created, and this was not about mocking the Church.” He refused further comment.

Hundreds of Catholics, most of them critical of Archbishop Niederauer, contacted archdiocesan and parish offices as Catholic blogs erupted with comment and condemnation. A video of the men in the Communion line in white face paint and ersatz nuns’ regalia circulated on the Internet.

As of Tuesday, a video of the MRH event being carried on YouTube had been viewed more than 4,500 times with comments on the Internet site generally negative toward the “sisters.”

Reaction has whipsawed between some who insist the “sisters” had set out to embarrass the Church and Archbishop and others who felt the unannounced visitors who videotaped the Mass were more of an intrusion than the costumed men.

The men were “gay militants in bizarre dress” whose intent was to mock the Mass and Niederauer,” O’Reilly said on his Oct. 14 broadcast.

Catholic World News editor Phil Lawler aimed his criticism at the Archbishop. “They were not celebrants but demonstrators, and the Archbishop should have known better when he visited Most Holy Redeemer,” he wrote. CWN is an Internet news site.

“Their attendance was intended to shock regular Mass goers and call attention to themselves,” wrote Deacon Keith A. Fournier, editor-in-chief for Catholic Online, another Internet news portal.

“However, for these extremists that was not sufficient. They intentionally came forward and placed themselves in the Communion line in order to receive the Most Holy Eucharist, the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ,” he wrote.

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“When a Catholic receives this Sacrament, he or she attests to being in the full Communion of the Catholic Church,” Deacon Fournier added.

In an interview, retired Father John Malloy, the former pastor at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in San Francisco, asked what the Church is going to do about allowing members of the group to take part in Communion.

“You can’t keep people out of church but you can keep people away from the Eucharist and you can advise them and talk to them,” he said.

The two “sisters” who received Communion from the Archbishop did not respond to e-mail requests to be interviewed.

One of the two, reportedly “Sister Delta Goodhand,” sent a message to the MHR briefly carried on the parish website thanking the congregation for being “so welcoming” and stating “it was great to be able to participate in the Mass.”

According to the SPI website, “Sister Delta Goodhand” is a management consultant, grew up with a strong Catholic faith and went to a Marianist high school outside New York City.

“It is most unfortunate this incident has clouded the fact the Archbishop came to meet with his people and celebrate a beautiful and reverent Mass together — and that is what really happened,” said Father Stephen Meriwether, MHR pastor. “This incident has been blown way out of proportion.”

The pastor said parishioners have told him it did not appear the two SPI members “were trying to grand stand at all.”

Parishioners were, however, “upset by the people roaming around filming and taking pictures,” he said.

In addition to the Archbishop and Father Meriwether, concelebrants were Father Joseph Healy, parochial vicar of St. Robert Parish, San Bruno, and Jesuit Father Donal Godfrey, executive director of university ministry at the University of San Francisco and author of “Gays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church,” released earlier this year.

Members of the Most Holy Redeemer community stressed that the Oct. 7 Mass was prayerful and that the two “sisters” were respectful. People who were there said the “sisters” knelt in a back pew after receiving Communion.

“If all the people who are complaining could just see a group

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of people praying in that church and being there in spite of the fact that the Church says they’re intrinsically evil, and yet we still come to church, we’re doing the best we can as Christians and doing what we do,” said Nick Andrade, former head of the parish council. “If people could see that part of Holy Redeemer, they’d have a much better picture.”

To David Differding, co-chair of the parish liturgy council and master of ceremonies of the Oct. 7 liturgy, the critics “can’t get over the fact that God created gay people. That’s my impression. They want to put up every roadblock they can.”

Les Young, the pastoral council chair at Most Holy Redeemer, was asked if members of the “sisters” often attend Mass in their regalia.

“I don’t know if they attend regularly out of gear but I have not witnessed them in gear,” he said. “I may have seen them in a Christmas Eve Mass and that’s about it.”

Noting the way the two men were dressed was “disrespectful to religious Sisters,” Father Godfrey nonetheless said, “My impression was it probably wasn’t their intention (to offend.)

They knelt in all the right places. They stood in all the right places. Except for the way they were dressed they weren’t doing anything disrespectful.”

“I thought it was disrespectful for somebody to go to another church with the intention of filming it,” he added, “without asking the pastor permission to do that and, second, with the intention of using that in a hostile way, without having a conversation first with the pastor. On the face of it they were out to get the Archbishop.”

Asked about the reaction he had been receiving about the Oct. 7 Mass, Archbishop Niederauer expressed concern about the impact of blogs. “The blogoshphere is a kind of dangerous, endless recess in a global schoolyard,” he said, “where the bullies with the biggest bullhorns can shout whatever they want.”

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“Sometimes just surviving is a miracle...”

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hen it rains heavily and water rises inside her tiny, cramped shack in northern Haiti, Yvonne Jean prays, “God, give me strength and courage.”

She bails water with a bucket, tossing it outside even as the water level inside keeps rising. Sometimes she spends all day bailing out water.

Worst are the times at night when she fears for her baby Fadner, 5 months, little Sulfise, 2, and Jovnel, 9.

“The last time the water was in here, it was at night,” Yvonne said. “I put the children on the bed. I stood next to the bed watching the children as the water came in up to my knees.

I was afraid. I was watching to make sure the water wouldn’t come in any higher. I stood next to the bed all night, watching the children.”

The poor don’t have safe, sturdy homes to keep out the rain and the wind. All they have is their trust in God. Survival is a daily struggle.

Rosemarie Lucien, 29, has no home or bed. All she has is a pink sheet on a concrete floor in northern Haiti. A widow, she and her four small children sleep in a spare room loaned to them by a friend. Frequently the children get sick from the poor living conditions. There is one prayer that is constantly on Rosemarie’s lips.

“I pray, ‘God, send someone to deliver me and my children.’ I ask God to give me someplace to live with my children,” she said.

Rosemarie’s husband died in the Dominican Republic. He had gone there to work to support his family. Now homeless and alone, Rosemarie is left with nothing. She was forced to move in with a friend who had a spare room.

When her husband died, Rosemarie was devastated. “I was afraid because I didn’t know how I would take care of my children.

I don’t have anyplace to live with them. Now there is nothing.

Whatever problems I have, I have to deal with myself because I have no one to count on,” she said.

Her greatest fear is for her youngest, who is just 3 months old. “Sometimes just surviving is a miracle,” Rosemarie said. “Nothing is certain.”

Dedicated priest works hard to help the poor One priest who is making a difference in the lives of the poor in northern Haiti is Father Augustin Duken. Through Food For The Poor, Fr. Duken is building new, safer homes for the residents of slums

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Archbishop: background and an apology A recent event that greatly concerns me group’s use of the hall on the parish grounds, Archdiocese of San Francisco and to needs some additional explanation — and once I became aware of it.

Catholics at large for doing so. with it an apology.

In the year and a half since I arrived in San The manner of dress and public comportOn Sunday, Oct. 7, I celebrated Mass at Francisco, there have been several instances of ment of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is Most Holy Redeemer Parish here in San offensive attacks on Catholic faith and devo- deeply offensive to women religious and to the Francisco, during my first visit there. The con- tional life. Only two weeks ago Catholic San witness of holiness and Christian service that gregation was devout and the liturgy was cele- Francisco carried my remarks condemning the women religious have offered to the Church brated with reverence. I noticed no demonstra- derisive use of the image of the Last Supper on and to the world for centuries. The citizens of tion, no protest, no disruption of the Eucharist. a poster printed by another local group.

San Francisco have ample reason to be grateAt Communion time, toward the ful to women religious for their end of the line, two strangely ‘ . . . the presence of the Sisters of Perpetual unfailing support of those most in dressed persons came to receive need, and to be deeply offended Communion. As I recall one of them Indulgence at the Mass on Oct. 7 was intended when that service is belittled so wore a large flowered hat or garland. outrageously and offensively.

Someone who dresses in a mock I did not recognize either of them as as a provocative gesture.’ religious habit to attend Mass does wearing mock religious garb.

Afterward it was made clear to me that Although I had often seen photographs so to make a point. If people dress in a manner these two people were members of the organi- of members of the Sisters of Perpetual clearly intended to mock what we hold sacred, zation “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” who Indulgence, I had never encountered them they place themselves in an objective situation have long made a practice of mocking the in person until Oct. 7. I did not recognize in which it is not appropriate for them to receive Catholic Church in general and religious who these people were when they Holy Communion, much less for a minister of women in particular. My predecessors, approached me. the Church to give the Sacrament to them.

Therefore I conclude that the presence of the Cardinal William Levada and Archbishop After the event, I realized that they were John Quinn, have both denounced this group’s members of this particular organization and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the Mass on abuse of sacred things many times in the past. that giving them Holy Communion had Oct. 7 was intended as a provocative gesture. In that moment I failed to recognize it as such, Only last year, I instructed the administrator of been a mistake.

Most Holy Redeemer Parish to cancel the I apologize to the Catholics of the and for that, as I have said, I must apologize.

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Support boys’ home I write to encourage readers to continue support for the proposed restricted senior housing development on a small portion of the property that surrounds St. Vincent Boys’ Home. It is important we continue to show our appreciation to county officials who have studied and analyzed the issues.

This is not some greedy developer’s vision of massive changes to the cherished Marin landscape, but rather a thoughtful approach to the long-term needs of two vulnerable groups — the boys who are given care and nurture at St. Vincent’s and the county’s own growing senior population. No one will be displaced, and indeed many of the neighbors we now know will be able to remain in the county after they no longer enjoy full independence.

Surely we can show we care enough for all God’s people to provide generously for those whose youth has

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been scarred and for those who have long been our family members. If you put yourself in either group for a moment, it becomes apparent that only good can come of these modest changes.

Peter C. Storandt Washington, DC

Give respect to receive it Well, this story is indeed national.

I heard about it over the weekend here in North Carolina. This morning, I read about it — complete with a link asking me to comment directly to you.

Many are condemning the Archbishop for this. I hold no such view. I think he got taken by surprise and had about 1/2 second to choose between withholding Communion to one of God’s children, and allowing the Eucharist to be mocked. That’s a hard choice, and he didn’t get a lot of time to make it. It is not like he had any time for reflection, or research into the intentions of these people.

How was he to know for certain who these people were, and what their intentions were with the garb?

This is shameful, that is for certain. Regarding groups such as this, I see a group of people who want respect, but will go out of their way to prove they have no respect for others.

Mocking the Eucharist is way over the line, and it will take a lot for them to ever regain my respect after this incident. In fact, showing such blatant disrespect to the Church probably set back their cause 100 years. If people want respect, they have to give respect, and this group obviously does not understand that.

This was not the Archbishop’s fault. I know I would not have wanted to be in his shoes at that moment. He had absolutely no time to decipher what was really going on.

I trust you are all working hard to

find a plan where this does not happen again, and that is good enough for me.

H. Kennedy McGovern Clemmons, N.C.

Apology unnecessary When I hear reactionary Catholics crying for politicians and others to be denied Communion, the words of the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen come to mind as he was speaking to the inmates at Folsom Prison, “The only difference between you and me is that you got caught and I did not.”

Archbishop Niederauer looked very Christ-like giving Communion to two members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at Most Holy Redeemer Church on Oct. 7. I do not understand his need to apologize five days later. Jesus did not apologize for eating with sinners.

Father Richard Bain Director, Healing and Eucharistic Spirituality Mill Valley

Faith debased

dressed as nuns. This is negligence of the worst sort. I have students who have seen this video on the Internet.

How can I explain to them that the Archbishop personally gives Communion to a group of men who openly mock and ridicule the Catholic faith in a perverted way and who have the motto, “Go and sin some more.” I am asking you, I am begging you, to do something about this outrage. I am also asking you to help me explain this situation to my high school students who are trying to hold on to their Catholic faith in a world that mocks it.

A situation like this simply makes the Church look ridiculous and the teachings of our faith meaningless.

Kevin Rilott Rockford, Ill.

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I wish to express my regrets at the recent events that took place at the Most Holy Redeemer Church. While I do support “gay rights,” I find it repulsive that anyone - regardless of gender - would debase the Catholic faith in the tasteless manner witnessed at the church.

Surely, if the shoe was on the other foot, I am certain that these “sisters” and their supporters would be crying “foul” and calling for a public apology.

Eric F. Scholl Tulsa, Okla.

World mocks faith I teach Catholic eighth grade and high school students in Rockford, Ill. As a teacher of the Catholic faith I am saddened and heartbroken at the blatant disrespect directed toward Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament at Holy Redeemer Parish and by Archbishop Niederauer giving Communion to men

Irreverent actions With reference to the irreverent actions against the Catholic Church, including the recent intrusion of the Communion service at Most Holy Redeemer, it brings to mind a quote I heard some time ago: “Every once in a rare age transcendental truths are recognized and held sacred by a particular group. You will recognize this group by this sign: The fools of the world will rise up in protest against it.”

M. Pecci San Francisco

FOX coverage off

Following is the letter I sent to the Fox Network in response to the Archbishop’s pastoral visit to Most Holy Redeemer Parish on Oct. 7: I must object to your comments on this evening’s show regarding the events at Most Holy Redeemer Church in San Francisco this past Sunday, Oct. 7.

I was the Master of Ceremonies for this Mass with the Archbishop, and there was no disruption of the Mass by the two so-called “Sisters” who took Communion. They happen to be LETTERS, page 16

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Spirituality for Life

Finding ‘David stones’ for life’s Goliaths There’s no substitute for imagination. Without good images to provide us with vision, the world overpowers us and leaves us feeling small and helpless. Unless our symbols are working, fate can never be turned into destiny.

This is especially true regarding how we, as persons of faith, stand before a world that can often be cold, loveless, unjust and hard. If you’re a sensitive person it‘s easy to feel overwhelmed by your own powerlessness and seeming insignificance. What can you do?

Whenever we feel discouraged in this way, a helpful image can be the biblical picture of David standing before Goliath. It‘s an archetypal image of how, invariably, good stands before evil, justice before violence, sensitivity before brute indifference, and tenderness before iron. David standing before Goliath is the perennial image for how good and evil face off. What is good, just and tender always looks hopelessly overmatched.

Here’s the image: At one point in her history, Israel, who here represents God’s cause, is in battle against the Philistines who (as the word “philistine” still connotes) represent brutality, lack of justice, lack of feeling, lack of goodness, and lack of God. Their champion is a giant, Goliath, a brute of unparalleled strength who as presented has no feelings, no sensitivity, no goodness. He walks onto the battlefield clothed in iron, seemingly inanimate, sneering, disdainful of all opposition.

On the other side, stands Israel, intimidated in the face of this brute strength, knowing that, among them, nobody who can fight Goliath on his own terms.

So they change the terms! Instead of taking their strongest man, clothing him in iron, and sending him against Goliath, they send a young David, with no armor at all. He goes out

barefoot with only a slingshot, more a boy’s toy than a weapon.

And he cuts a pathetic figure. He walks onto the battlefield as a naive child, unsophisticated in war, someone not to be taken seriously. That is also how Goliath sees him.

“Am I a dog that you come out against me with sticks?

You’re not an opponent even worth fighting. This is a joke!

Come over here and I will cut off your head and feed it to the birds!” Godless forces do not exactly cower when truth marches out to do battle against them.

We know the outcome. David reaches into his shepherd’s pouch, takes out his slingshot, inserts a smooth pebble, and his first shot penetrates the skull of the giant. He then cuts off Goliath’s head with his own sword. A boy fells a giant; the toy of a child overpowers the weapons of war; what’s naive defeats what’s sophisticated; and sensitivity proves more powerful than iron.

There’s a lesson in this: That image, David before Goliath, the child before the giant, depicts how anyone who is a true defender of God’s cause invariably stands before the world - hopelessly overmatched, looking naive, a child before an adult, bare skin against iron, a joke. But victory belongs to the child. It’s the giant who is vulnerable, it’s iron that won’t hold up, providing of course the child has some smooth pebbles inside his or her shepherd’s pouch.

When David reached into his shepherd’s pouch and took out a slingshot and a pebble, you can be sure that this was not the first time he had done this. As a shepherd, in the fields by himself, he would have spent countless lonely hours practicing, searching for just the right pebbles, and then palming those pebbles to know their feel, to really

make them his own.

When he walked out to face Goliath, his weapons may have looked pathetic in comparison to his opponent’s, but he knew their exact feel. They were an extension of himself.

Father And in that is the lesson.

Ron Rolheiser Long before we walk onto any battlefield to confront what opposes God, love, truth and feeling, we too need to spend countless lonely hours palming and polishing what’s in our shepherd’s pouch - prayer, sacraments, our traditions, and especially our charity and respect. These are David’s pebbles, our weapons against Goliath. We need, through many lonely hours, to palm them, press them, and give them the smell and feel of our own skin. Then, when we fling them at the giant, they will penetrate the iron and hardness that stand in the way of God. We won’t always have spectacular results, like David.

We won’t always save the world or our own nation, but at least we will save our own sanity.

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

His website is www.ronrolheiser.com.

Guest Commentary

Special needs child: challenge and blessing “Do you want a boy or a girl?” an expectant parent is asked. Perhaps the most common answer is “I don’t care as long as the baby is healthy.”

“So how big was the baby?” the parent of the newborn is asked when announcing the good news. Perhaps the most common answer, in addition to weight and height, is “and he has all his fingers and toes.”

A healthy baby, a healthy child with all his or her fingers and toes — that’s what every parent wants. Sadly, however, that’s not always to be.

What we wrote in a column more than five years ago holds true today: Having a child with special needs changes your family. It adds stresses — and blessings — that can’t be imagined when you first hear the words, “There may be a problem.”

We know.

There’s no good way, no easy way to receive that news. It might be obvious or a distinct possibility before or at birth. It might be suspected and then confirmed as the child grows older. It might be an accident or illness that robs a normally developing child of health or ability.

Initially there’s shock and denial, grief and fear. And even while dealing with layer upon layer of emotion, there’s so much to do, so much to learn. No longer a sad but very abstract condition, this is a challenge your precious

son or daughter is going to face for a lifetime. This is a challenge your entire family is going to face for a lifetime.

That’s so because having a special-needs child doesn’t affect just your child, your spouse and you. It also affects your other children, the grandparents and the extended family. They too have to adjust to the news, have to come to grips with what this means and learn how they can help.

A few points to consider: ● Continue to educate yourself about that condition or disability even though finding out more can be scary. ● Never hesitate to seek help from health professionals, social service agencies, parents’ groups and schools. If you have a concern or complaint, speak up. ● Pace yourself. All parenting is a marathon, not a sprint, especially parenting a child with a special need. ● Don’t watch “inspiring” made-for-TV movies about a super parent who does everything right for a specialneeds child. That’s Hollywood, not real home life. ● Know that as the caregiver of a child with special needs (no matter his or her age) you and your loved one are being prayed for by members of the Friends of St. John the Caregiver, a Catholic organization that promotes care for family caregivers.

On a related topic, we learned about Prenatal Partners

for Life from our cousins, Brian and Madonna Farrell. It offers support, information and encouragement for parents who have received “an adverse prenatal diagnosis” and are raising a child with Bill and Monica special needs. Visit Dodds www.prenatalpartnersforlife.org or write P.O. Box 2225, Maple Grove, Minn. 55311.

The organization’s founder and director, Mary Kellet, has an article in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2007-2008 Respect Life Program. It’s online at www.usccb.org/prolife/programs/rlp/Kellett.pdf.

Bill and Monica Dodds are the founders of the Friends of St. John the Caregiver and editors of My Daily Visitor magazine. Their website is www.FSJC.org; their e-mail is MonicaDodds@YourAgingParent.com.

The Catholic Difference

Why was John F. Kennedy murdered?

John F. Kennedy would now be 90 years old – a circumstance virtually impossible to imagine, for those of us alive on Nov. 22, 1963. When Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullets killed the 35th president of the United States, our memories of him were frozen in a kind of memorial amber. It’s hard enough to picture a 60-year-old JFK as the proprietor of a great newspaper (a post-presidential career he was considering). It is simply impossible to conjure up images of him at 75, much less 90. He remains, forever, young, at least in the memory of those who remember his presidency.

Do we understand why he died, though? And does the regnant interpretation of the Kennedy assassination mask the truth about his presidency, and about his place in the spectrum of American political opinion?

In a brilliant new book, “Camelot and the Cultural Revolution” (Encounter Books), James Piereson argues that the answers to those questions are “No” and “Yes.” Some books make us think again about events or personalities. Jim Piereson (an old friend, I happily concede) does all of that. But he also asks us to rethink again an entire era, and to reckon with how its interpre-

tation (and misinterpretation) have shaped our own troubled times.

Why did John F. Kennedy die? According to the interpretation advanced by admiring biographers (and former Kennedy aides) Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Theodore Sorensen, JFK’s assassination was the by-product of a culture of violence that had infected the extreme American right-wing: thus right-wing paranoia about communism and civil rights activism had turned the city of Dallas into a seething political madhouse where something awful was very likely to happen.

In proposing this interpretive framework for grappling with the seemingly incomprehensible, Schlesinger and Sorensen followed the lead of the mainstream media. For both print and electronic coverage of Kennedy’s assassination and Oswald’s subsequent murder had bathed these events in a torrent of introspection about an America allegedly fearful of the world, fearful of social change, and addicted to violence.

The Schlesinger/Sorensen interpretation was also congenial to Jacqueline Kennedy. After Oswald had been arrested and identified, Mrs. Kennedy lamented that her husband hadn’t even had the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights;

his murderer had been a “silly little communist,” a fact Mrs. Kennedy thought had robbed JFK’s death of “any meaning.”

So meaning would be created. And thus was born the familiar imagery of the George Weigel Kennedy White House as an Arthurian Camelot, a “brief shining moment” that must “never be forgot” (as Alan Jay Lerner’s lyrics, from a contemporary Broadway musical, memorably put it).

Yet the fact remains that Lee Harvey Oswald was a convinced communist, a former defector to the Soviet Union, and a passionate supporter of Fidel Castro. The Kennedy administration was a sworn foe of Castro and his Cuban communist regime. Hatred of Kennedy’s Cold War policies was Oswald’s motivation for assassinating President Kennedy. Thus John F. Kennedy was a casualty of the Cold War – a Cold War, Piereson reminds us, that he prosecuted vigorously, if not WEIGEL, page 20

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■ Continued from page 14 Catholic; they attended the service and were as respectful as the other 300-plus people in the congregation. They treated the Archbishop with respect, and he in turn did the same.

There was no demonstration. There was no outrage by the Archbishop. It was a congregation of Catholics attending Mass on a Sunday with the Archbishop presiding.

You need to get your facts straight before you sensationalize an event that was a non-event! Report on the inhumanity of the Bush and Company wars throughout the world, and leave us San Francisco Catholics alone!

David Differding San Francisco

Gravity and wisdom An ancient word of wisdom to the sponsors of the recent Folsom Street Fair, the Miller Brewing Co., and participants: “He who spits to the sky, it falls on his face.”

Aurora Toma San Matero

Kneeling vs. filming

looking their sinfulness. Who is to know that if, by the Archbishop’s act, these two men might receive a level of conversion they might not have experienced at all had the Archbishop turned them away?

I live in Sacramento, and on the occasion I saw Archbishop Niederauer offer Mass he struck me as a holy and humble servant of Christ, but bold as well, not afraid to speak the truth. I have a good friend in San Francisco, an 80 year-old Franciscan tertiary, who has told me how humble Archbishop Niederauer is and how much she likes him. My friend is no push-over.

Let’s not judge Archbishop Niederauer too hastily.

Jan England Sacramento

Apology misleads The Archbishop’s incredulous apology misleads all who have not seen the video. Is political correctitude worth desecrating the Blessed Sacrament? Our Church deserves better leadership.

Joanne Maher San Francisco

God’s instrument I often read the words, “the Catholic Church teaches” or “the teaching of the Catholic Church is” and many people reject what follows for a variety of reasons. I think many forget to remember that Jesus Christ, who is God, established the Church to “go and teach all nations.”

By his authority the Church is the mouthpiece of almighty God. The Church teaches, by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, what God wants us to know, what we need to know. He wants us to know those truths necessary for our salvation.

The teachings of society and the world on abortion, euthanasia, homosexual acts, to name a few, are in direct opposition to God’s law and thus, “the teaching of the Church.” The Church does not arbitrarily and without thought teach anything. “How we fail to understand that sin is a battle pitched against God....He who can commit more sins

I want to respectfully say how truly beautiful it is to see the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence not only attending Mass, but actually participating and receiving the most holy sacrament at Most Holy Redeemer Church! What a groundbreaking expression of love and good will on behalf of the sisters who attended. The sisters do such amazing work throughout the community.

I was also impressed at their kneeling after receiving Communion. As a Catholic, it is my understanding that Communion is the most holy of holy moments at Mass.

And we used to have to kneel until the Eucharist was returned to the tabernacle. I do find it peculiar and amazing actually, how the sisters kneeled in silent prayer while someone from St. Joseph’s Men’s Society felt it more appropriate to take digital photos? Talk about slapping God in the face.

J. Scott Gemmill San Francisco Catholic SanFourFrancisco times per month Sept. through May, except

Don’t judge hastily

I, too, was shocked, and greatly saddened when I first heard the report of the Mass at Most Holy Redeemer Parish and two Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence receiving Communion. And yet something in my heart wondered if Christ was not at work in this incident.

After reading Archbishop Niederauer’s apology, I do still wonder.

I believe Archbishop Niederauer when he said he didn’t recognize the two individuals as members of the aforementioned group. Did you see the look on his face when giving them the Holy Eucharist? It is a very loving look.

Jesus himself instructed the people who were judging the woman caught in adultery: “’Let those among you without sin cast the first stone,’” and one by one they left, the elders first.” Perhaps Archbishop Niederauer recognizes we are all sinners in need of God’s mercy?

It is said that saints have the gift of seeing the good in people and over-

invents more treachery against his King.”

(St. Teresa of Avila) The Church is our Mother given to us by God to lead us home to heaven. We must listen to her and love her so we can one day know the eternal joy of the saints. The Church does not stand on her own; she is God’s instrument.

Diane Dawes San Francisco

Popes can fire bishops I was drawn to your newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to read the apology of Archbishop Niederauer regarding the recent eucharistic “scene” at Most Holy Redeemer Parish. After that, I read the letters and was disturbed by the one titled “Naive reasoning” by Jim McCrea. Mr. McCrea, in describing Pope Benedict says, “...who believes he knows better... .”I would remind Mr. McCrea that our Catholic faith teaches us that it is “upon Peter,” and all other popes to follow, who are the “rock” upon which our Church is built.

Then, Mr. McCrea voices the Protestant position of local authority of congregations by saying that Pope Benedict “has used his papal position (no, it’s authority, Mr. McCrea) to undercut the rightful authority of bishops to manage the internal affairs of their respective (arch) dioceses. I say to Mr. McCrea that popes appoint bishops, and they can “fire” them.

Simeo (Sam) Gallo, Chairman & CEO Gallo World Family Foundation Baton Rouge, La.

Transparency imperative Having read the Sept. 28 Catholic San Francisco I continue to be concerned by the inadequate flow of information

regarding the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools and St. Philip’s enforced membership in this organization.

Whilst I believe the article was intended to reassure parents and parishioners the Alliance is a positive step forward for participating schools, it was peppered with inaccuracies. One article’s closing sentence advised readers that two further schools are being ”encouraged” to join the Alliance for the 2008/2009 school year. Use of the word “encouraged” is scandalous when, unlike the Oakland consortium that is currently being formed, membership in the Mission Alliance is not optional.

The article also failed to address the recent announcement by the Archdiocese of Washington D.C. that it would be releasing eight schools from the Center City Consortium as they were unable to continue funding them. The Washington Post published an article which indicated the Washington D.C. model is many million dollars in debt, with a projected $56 million in debt in the coming five years.

In June, we asked how the Washington D.C. model had been adapted to meet the needs of San Francisco.

We have not yet received an answer to that question or to many others our parent body raised concerning the Alliance.

If the Alliance is to avoid the pitfalls of the Washington D.C. model, it is imperative that participating schools be given access to information on request and that the Alliance administration operate with complete transparency.

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FATHER BILL NICHOLAS

Have you ever felt like you were being ignored — that no one was paying any attention to you and that your efforts and your appeals were falling on deaf ears? I suppose everyone has had that experience in one way or another with children, parents, teachers, students, bosses. There is probably no one with whom we have not had that experience at one time or another.

Have we ever had that experience with God? Have we ever prayed (or at least hoped) earnestly for something, believing that if we just pray hard enough it will come to pass – and then it did not? “It’s not fair,” we say. “We’ve prayed so hard – and nothing.”

In this Sunday’s Gospel reading our just and loving God appears to be compared to an unjust and corrupt judge. We are even less encouraged as we relate to the widow who appeals to the unjust judge as many of us would appeal in prayer to God. However, our focus should be not so much on the judge, or even on the corruption, but rather on the persistence of the widow in her demand for justice. The corruption of the unjust judge to whom she appeals makes the situation appear all the more hopeless and pointless. Yet, despite this, the widow succeeds. The judge gives her the justice he originally denied, if for no other reason than to finally be rid of her.

We find examples of this persistence in the face of frustration throughout our Church’s history, not only when appealing to God, but also on the human level. For example, it was the relentless haranguing of St. Catherine of Sienna that finally persuaded Pope Gregory XI to return the papacy to Rome after it spent 70 years in Avignon, France.

An example, more closely resembling the protagonist of the parable, is St. Monica. Monica had so much stacked against her in a pagan, Roman society. She faced failure as a Christian parent when her son, Augustine, strayed so far and so long from the faith. Nevertheless, she is known principally for her relentless tears and prayers to God (and one could imagine her nagging her son to a fair degree) to which St. Augustine would later credit his eventual conversion.

In looking at this parable, however, one must remember that the “justice” demanded by the widow and denied by the judge is

Marian factoid Following are words about Mary by some saints: “God could enlarge the world, extend the heavens, but he could make nothing greater than the Mother of God.” - St. Bonaventure (+ 1274) “Mary is no less necessary to the redeemed than she was to the Redeemer.”

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paralleled at the end of the Gospel to the “rights” and “justice” granted by God to those who ask him. These are not always granted in the manner or degree that we would have them, since God responds according to his own rather than to human standards. Jesus’ teaching does not limit God’s granting of our prayers to simply whatever we want. Rather, he teaches that God gives us the grace to be holy, faithful and persevering in our living the Gospel and encouraging one another to do the same.

In another part of the Gospel Jesus says, “Ask and you shall receive.” But he does not say we will necessarily receive what we ask for. “Seek and you shall find,” but not necessarily what we are looking for.

“Knock and the door shall be opened,” but it might not be the door on which we happen to be knocking at the time.

For Moses, in the first reading, his prayers (and keeping his hands raised) resulted in God granting victory to Israel against Amalek. In the second reading Paul points out to Timothy that God has already granted us many answers in the Scriptures as well as the teachings we cling to as people of faith, if we only have the resourcefulness to recognize them. The Gospel message is clear: persevere – never give up.

Never give in to discouragement when things don’t seem to be going our way.

Never loose hope when disappointment comes, when as a people of faith we take some knocks because our values are at odds with mainstream public opinion. When God appears to be ignoring our endless cries for justice, grace and strength we must “hang in there.”

Jesus puts it plainly at the conclusion of our Gospel reading. When all is said and done we must persevere in faith that God will hear and answer our prayers in a manner suited to his purpose. But, Jesus ends with a simple question. Does that type of faith indeed still exist? If Christ were to return today, would he find such faith on earth?

Parochial vicar at St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco, Father Bill Nicholas is the author of “I Saw the World End: An Introduction to the Bible’s Apocalyptic Literature,” released in July by Paulist Press.

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF EXODUS In those days, Amalek came and waged war against Israel. Moses, therefore, said to Joshua, “Pick out certain men, and tomorrow go out and engage Amalek in battle. I will be standing on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

So Joshua did as Moses told him: he engaged Amalek in battle after Moses had climbed to the top of the hill with Aaron and Hur. As long as Moses kept his hands raised up, Israel had the better of the fight, but when he let his hands rest, Amalek had the better of the fight. Moses’hands, however, grew tired; so they put a rock in place for him to sit on.

Meanwhile Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other, so that his hands remained steady till sunset.

And Joshua mowed down Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

know from whom you Learned it, and that from infancy you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that one who belongs to God may be competent, equipped for every good work.

I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingly power: proclaim the word; be persistent whether it is convenient or inconvenient; convince, reprimand, encourage through all patience and teaching.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE Jesus told his disciples a parable about the necessity for them to pray always without becoming weary.

He said, “There was a judge in a certain town who neither feared God nor respected any human being.

And a widow in that town used to come to him and say, ‘Render a just decision for me against my adversary.’

For a long time the judge was unwilling, but eventually he thought, ‘While it is true that I neither fear God nor respect any human being, because this widow keeps bothering me I shall deliver a just decision for her lest she finally come and strike me.’”

The Lord said, “Pay attention to what the dishonest judge says. Will not God then secure the rights of his chosen ones who call out to him day and night? Will he be slow to answer them? I tell you, he will see to it that justice is done for them speedily. But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”

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Students at San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan High School joined together to help fight breast cancer with its annual Denim Day Oct. 5. More than 80 percent of the school community made donations and raised more than $3,400. Attire regulations are relaxed for the event allowing the school’s 650 young men to come to class in a “pair of favorite jeans.” They also sport pink Denim Day ribbons – the basis of the student formation pictured above — featuring the day’s motto “Real Men Wear Pink.” Denim Day is organized by the school’s Core Service Team, moderated by Ted DeSaunier, religion teacher, with special assistance from Candy McDonald of Riordan’s administrative staff.

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The Church should respond by building a new pluralistic social compact on the foundation of a century of modern Church teachings on human dignity, the preference for the poor in the exercise of Christian charity, justice, human rights, international relations and the environment, Father Phan said.

At the heart of the social compact must be a more open-ended view of ecclesiastical authority, he said.

“In globalization,” he said, “stratification has shifted to function. It doesn’t matter who you are, whether you are ordained or not ordained. It doesn’t matter. The ques-

tion is, ‘Can you do and do it well?’”

This shift from rights and privileges to functional competition, he said, “presents the Church with huge challenges.”

“We must enter into humble dialogue with other subsystems, particularly religious subsystems, to learn from them new truths and new ways of living – not seeming to tell them we are the best, we are superior to them and they are deficient,” he said.

“Think about this in terms of clergy in the Catholic Church,” Father Phan concluded, “and you can see all kinds of problems arise.”

In a response to Father Phan, Antonie Vos, a theology professor at Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands, argued for the primacy of belief over culture. He also celebrated the role of one local culture – Italian – in sustaining the faith.

“Let us be grateful to Italy and grateful

to Rome,” he said. “The world center is simply given. It is a gift from history and if you don’t have that gift from history, then you have nothing.”

A former Salesian and now a priest of the Dallas Diocese, Father Phan holds the

Ellacuri chair of Catholic social thought in the Georgetown theology department.

The priest has earned three doctorates and is also on the faculty of the East Asian Pastoral Institute in Manila, Philippines, and Liverpool Hope University in England.

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The new weight room offers both machines and free weights to help student-athletes gain strength and endurance.

St. Ignatius College Preparatory students can now enjoy the Columbus Piazza during recess, at lunch and after school.

The new choral room has a suspended ceiling to muffle echoes and create an ideal environment for practice and recitals.

$12 million West Campus Expansion dedicated at SI

By Paul Totah St. Ignatius College Preparatory’s West Campus Expansion Project, dedicated Oct. 13, brought together 600 of the school’s supporters for a black-tie dinner, tour and multimedia presentation.

The event also convened a disparate cast of characters, from Harry Potter to SI founder Jesuit Father Anthony Maraschi.

The $12 million project includes a student piazza, new classrooms, a hall of music, and athletic training facilities.

Named for Monica Devereux and her husband, filmmaker Christopher Columbus, the new student piazza provides students with stunning views of the Pacific and a place to congregate at recess, during lunch and after school.

Columbus, who had one child graduate from SI and who has another enrolled, decided to donate to the school for several reasons. “High schools often take a back seat to universities,” said the filmmaker responsible for the first two “Harry Potter” films, “Home Alone” and “Mrs. Doubtfire,”, “but they shape the future for so many kids. I rarely have seen a high school as strong or as committed to each student as SI is.”

Columbus also likened SI to Harry Potter’s Hogwart’s School “in that it cares for and pays so much attention to all its students. With other schools the size of SI, certain kids can get lost. I can’t imagine that happening here.”

Columbus Piazza sits atop the Mary Ann and Jack Gibbons Hall of Music, which houses a state-of-the-art practice and recital space for SI’s many singing groups and handbell choir.

Jack Gibbons (’37) donated the funds for this building to honor his mother, Charlotte McFarland, who had been orphaned in infancy and adopted by an aunt who was both staunchly anti-clerical and opposed to the formal education of women. In the late 1800s, Charlotte contacted SI founder Father Maraschi, who agreed to teach her to read.

“She had to hide her books from her aunt, who would burn them upon discovery,” said Gibbons. “But both Father Maraschi and my mother were persistent. She was an extremely bright woman who, later in life, would read the Wall Street Journal and the racing form every day. She thought the sun rose and set on Father Maraschi.”

SI Development Director Joe Vollert (’84) believes the juxtaposition of the piazza and the choral room serves as a poetic symbol for the students. “The new rests atop the foundation of the old,” he noted. “Mr. Columbus, who is new to the SI community, helped create a piazza that sits atop a facility named for a man whose connections to SI go back to our founder.”

The Gibbons Hall of Music holds the Doris Duke Wall Choral Room, named for the late wife of Dr. C. Allen Wall (’46). The room’s suspended ceiling, curtains and tiles provide optimum acoustics for the school’s Chamber Singers and Mixed Chorus.

The West Campus Expansion Project also includes new classrooms (named for the Class of 1977, the Herbst Foundation and Donald White (’42)), the Dana Family Batting Center (which holds two indoor, underground batting cages modeled after the ones at AT&T Park), the

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Other donors include Ernest and Jenny Go and Terrence V. McGuire (’45), for whom the choral director’s and weight room offices are named, respectively.

The project is part of the school’s five-year “Genesis V: New Horizons” campaign, which envisions a new retreat center and playing fields and a new goal for the scholarship endowment.

“The new campus facilities provide for our burgeoning programs in academics, athletics and fine arts,” said Vollert. “They also change the atmosphere of the school by opening up the west side for students and for events.”

CSDA Architects, led by Randy DeVoto (’68), designed the buildings with curved walls and barrel rooflines and include a decorative arch, a departure from the rectilinear design of the main campus. “The architects somehow managed to make the new structure different enough while also wedding it to the existing campus in a seamless way,” added Vollert.

“Devcon Construction expertly built the project into the last undeveloped portion of SI’s 11-acre campus,” he noted.

“The project came in on time and under budget thanks to the collaboration between Devcon and CSDA. The payoff comes from seeing so many students enjoying the piazza, working out in the weight room and taking batting practice after school. It’s also an absolute joy hearing our students sing in the Wall Choral Room. It’s a testament both to their talent and to the generosity of so many in our community.”

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By Diana Sai Farias One would assume a film with a title like “Bella” to be a foreign flick entwined with passionate love triangles. But this 91-minute film is about how people give each other the strength and courage to grow, mature and develop their personhood through the gift of friendship.

True to its Spanish translation “beautiful,” the title is thoroughly descriptive of what transpires as a young man and woman overcome unfortunate circumstances together. As they grow closer in a New York City Latino neighborhood, trust and loyalty ultimately lead them, while seemingly stuck in no-way-out situations, to make heroic life-long decisions.

Foreign elements, passion and love do pop up in unexpected ways. For example, a passionate sense of justice compels Jose, played by Mexico’s soap opera star and recording artist Eduardo Verastegui, to deal honestly with his past and move forward through positive action and change.

Foreign to our modern day movie culture is Jose’s selfless pursuit of genuine companionship with leading lady Nina, played by Emmy Award winning actress Tammy Blanchard. Familial love bonds family members

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Mary Peterson of South San Francisco’s St. Veronica Parish, who attended the screening, praised the film.

“It was a beautiful, poignant and dare I say contemplative movie,” Peterson wrote. “The vignettes of their passionate, loving family life were wonderful.”

Attendee Willie Villasica said he felt the movie’s underlying pro-life message resonates without being preachy.

“The movie has a different way of presenting the pro-life value,” wrote Villasica, who attends Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Daly City. “It searches the

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The failure to acknowledge this in a country still jittery over the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and the subsequent substitution of the Camelot myth for the facts, had consequences that remain with us, Jim Piereson argues.

By turning John F. Kennedy – the embodiment of pragmatic, rationalist, results-oriented anticommunist liberalism – into a mythical figure whose idealism could never be recaptured, Mrs. Kennedy, the Kennedy biographers, and the mainstream media helped destroy the confidence in progress that had once characterized the liberalism of FDR, Truman – and John F. Kennedy.

Conspiracy theorizing migrated from the Bircher fever swamps of the extreme right and began to infect American liberalism. And since the glorious Camelot past could never be re-captured, American liberalism became less a matter of substantive change than of style – and eventually of lifestyle.

The net result was the liberalism we know today – a liberalism for which the legal recognition (indeed, promotion) of lifestyle libertinism is the paramount concern.

All of which would probably have puzzled John F. Kennedy, had he lived to 90.

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

as they decide to support one another.

There are a couple of annoying glitches that keep us guessing from the beginning — like the beach scenes that interrupt the story line at odd times. Jose appears in these with face, beard and clothing unchanged and with nothing that would illustrate a different time frame. As we reach the conclusion, we realize the scenes were at least six years or so into the future.

The conclusion is surprising and refreshing, but too abrupt compared to the overall pace of the plot. It felt like someone slammed on the brakes, leaving the viewer with questions about how the missing years must have played out. I am hoping there will be a “Bella II” to fill us in.

Despite the glitches, “Bella” is potentially a classic if only for its theme of hope. It has a strong story line that engages and an old-world charm that inspires. Intended to reach teen Latino audiences, the life lessons it teaches are universal.

“Bella” won the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award and nine other film festival awards, including the Smithsonian Latino Center Legacy Award.

President Bush presented director Alejandro Monteverde with the 2006 U.S. Department of Immigration’s American

by Choice Award for “Bella” at the White House. core value of individuals that makes their soul search for a deeper meaning of how to celebrate life.”

There were criticisms. While calling the film “beautifully filmed and acted,” audience member Lorraine Vallejo nevertheless saw problems with the execution of the film’s message.

“It is certainly not overtly preachy but in subtle ways I felt it was drawing the conclusions for the audience,” wrote Vallejo, ethnic ministries representative for the Croatian community at the Church of the Nativity of Our Lord in San Francisco. “I’m not quibbling with the screenplay. I’m just pointing out that the story can be seen as just a little contrived.”

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‘Bella’: story of heroic decisions, genuine friendship

Archbishop George Niederauer and “Bella” leading actor Eduardo Verastegui visit following a pre-release screening of the film Sept. 6 at the UA Stonestown Twin theater in San Francisco.

For more information go to www.bellathemovie.com or contact Metanoia Films at 1-888-474-602.

Diana Sai Farias, a member of St. Agnes Parish in Concord, is a fine arts reviewer. This review originally appeared in The Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Oakland Diocese.

Also addressing those attending the screening, Archbishop George H. Niederauer endorsed the message and content of “Bella” and urged them to encourage others to view the film on opening day, Oct. 26.

The film won the coveted People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival last September, outshining two Oscar-winning films, “The Last King of Scotland” and “Babel,” both of which also premiered at the festival.

Past films honored with this award, “Life is Beautiful” and “Chariots of Fire,” went on to win the Academy Award, prompting rumors of Oscar possibilities for “Bella.”

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

Call (415) 567-2020 for more information.

Oct. 20: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed.

Call (415) 751-8531.

Oct 20: Cathedral is hosting fifth annual Jazz/Gospel Mass and Prayer for World Peace.

This vibrant celebration begins at 5:30 p.m. and highlights the “Jubilee Singers” of Sacred Heart/Cathedral Prep High School, “Touch of Class” from Sala Burton High School, and St. Paul of the Shipwreck’s “Inspirational Voices of Shipwreck”, directed by composer and liturgy director Rawn Harbor of St. Columba Parish in Oakland. Contact Doug Benbow for further information, (415) 567-2020, ext. 220.

Oct. 27: Point7Now! Action Conference, a continuing effort against poverty. Invited speakers include U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer as well as U.S. Representatives Tom Lantos, Anna Eshoo and Lynn Woolsey.

Sponsors include the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic Relief Services, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Seton Institute. Tickets are $20. For information or to register, call (415) 614-5567 or e-mail publicpolicy@sfarchdiocese.org.

Taize/Chanted Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

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

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

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

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

Food & Fun Oct. 24: Good Shepherd Gold Octoberfest luncheon and bingo, at Basque Cultural Center, 500 Railroad Ave. in South San Francisco with social at 11:30 a.m. Tickets are $40. Call Judith Terracina at (415) 753-2081.

Oct. 27: St. Thomas More School Halloween Festival, 50 Thomas More Way, San Francisco, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Raffle, carnival, games, prizes, jumpers and more. Foods include BBQ Tri-Tip & Chicken. Questions? STMParentsClub@hotmail.com or (415) 905-4660, ext. 20#.

Oct. 27: Casino Royale 2007, annual silent and live auction benefiting Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Elementary School in Redwood City. The evening includes dinner and entertainment.Visit www.mountcarmel.org for more information and to purchase tickets online.

Oct. 29: 15th Annual Capuchin Seminarian Golf Tournament, Stanford Golf Course in Palo Alto with a shot-gun start at noon. Check-in and lunch at 10 a.m. Dinner at 6 p.m. at Our Lady of Angels Church Hall in Burlingame. Tickets at $300 include golf, cart, lunch, beverages, cocktails, dinner and prizes. Tickets available to dinner only for $50. Call Mike Stecher at (650) 342-4680 or Anne Hahn at (650) 692-5044.

Nov. 2: Catholic Marin Breakfast welcomes speaker John Weiser, a parishioner of St. Anselm in Ross and former chair, Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. The GTU is the largest partnership of seminaries and graduate schools in the United States. Group meets at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae; Mass at 7 a.m. followed by breakfast. Members breakfast $7/visitors $10. Call (415) 461-0704 weekdays or e-mail sugaremy@aol.com. Archbishop George H. Niederauer addresses the group Dec. 7.

Nov. 3: Oldies but Goodies Night at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, 1122 Jamestown Ave. at 3rd St. in San Francisco 8 p.m. – midnight. Tickets $20 in advance/$25 at door. Adults only. Call (415) 468-3434.

Nov. 10: Notre Dame des Victoires’ 57th Annual Bal de Paris “Une Soirée en Ville.” The gala will be held at Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason St., San Francisco. Cocktails/silent auction at 6 p.m. dinner, dancing at 7.30 p.m. Black tie optional.

Tickets $125 each or become a Bal Patron and receive tickets based on donation level.

Fundraiser supports school/parish. Call (415) 421-0069 for information.

Arts & Entertainment Through Nov. 3: “Malcolm and Teresa,” a play about an interview with Mother Teresa and BBC television’s Malcolm Muggeridge at Quo Vadis Theater, 1635 Park Ave. in San Jose. Tickets are $15/$12 students and seniors. For curtain times, call (408) 252-3530.

Oct. 21 at 3 p.m.: San Domenico School presents the 30th annual “Vivaldi at San Domenico” benefit concert, showcasing their award-winning orchestra, 1500 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo.

Tickets $50. To attend, please call 415-258-1921. www.sandomenico.org Nov. 2-3: Notre Dame de Namur University’s

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San Domenico School presents the 30th annual “Vivaldi at San Domenico” benefit concert, showcasing their award-winning orchestra Oct. 21 at 3 p.m., 1500 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo. Tickets are $50. To attend, please call (415) 258-1921. www.sandomenico.org.

Theater Arts and Dance Department will collaborate with choreographer Anandha Ray of Moving Arts Dance to perform “Night Visions,” called “a performance in the spirit of Halloween”; 7:30 p.m. in the NDNU theater both days; 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Tickets are $20/$15 seniors and students. For information, call (650) 508-3456 or e-mail boxoffice@ndnu.edu. For a complete listing of NDNU theater and arts events visit www.ndnu.edu/the-arts/.

Nov. 8, 9, 10 15, 16, 17: Sacred Heart Preparatory Theatre Company presents an adaptation of the Ken Kesey classic, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in the DePaul Auditorium, Ellis and Gough St. in San Francisco.

Ticket prices and curtain times available by calling (415) 775.6626, ext. 840 or visit www.shcp.edu.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Oct. 19: Mass of Thanksgiving for breast cancer survivors and those lost to the disease; 7:30 liturgy at St. Dominic Church, Bush and Steiner St. in San Francisco. Call Marti Dinan at (415) 929-9242.

Oct. 20: Annual St. Luke’s Mass and Banquet sponsored by San Francisco Guild of Catholic Medical Association, 5 p.m. at St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. at Vicente St. in San Francisco with banquet to follow. Dr. Colman Ryan, founder of the San Francisco Heart and Vascular Institute at Seton Medical Center, will speak on the dangers in being overweight. Tickets are $70,$35 for clergy, religious, students. Call Dr. George Maloof at (415) 219-8719 or gmaloof2003@yahoo.com.

Oct. 20 – 28: Annual St. Jude Novena at St. Dominic Church, Bush at Steiner St. in San Francisco, home of the St. Jude Shrine. Dominican Father Carl Schlichte will preach. weekday novena Masses: 8 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. and Sunday 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Confessions before each Mass. For more information, contact the Shrine office at (415) 931-5919.

Oct. 23: Cardinal Godfried Danneels, archbish-

Oct. 24: Notre Dame Sister Roseanne Murphy will sign copies of her new book “Martyr of the Amazon: The Story of Sister Dorothy Stang,” at Notre Dame de Namur University’s Ralston Hall Mansion, 1540 Ralston Ave. in Belmont, from 7 - 9 p.m. For more information, call (650) 508-3551. Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang was murdered Feb. 12, 2005 in Brazil where she worked for nearly 40 years as an advocate for the poor. She was 73. The gunmen were hired killers paid by a now-convicted local rancher and other landowners.

op of Brussels-Mechelen, will speak on Catholic evangelization in light of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Populorum Progressio at St. Rita Church, 100 Marinda Dr., Fairfax at 5:30 p.m. Call Noele Kostelic at (415) 456-4815 or nkostelic@sbcglobal.net.

Oct. 24 at 7 p.m.: Lorraine Moriarty, “Finding the Silence To Hear God’s Call,” Homer Crouse Hall, St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd. in Redwood City. For more information call (650) 365-0140.

Oct. 27: A novena procession from St. Ignatius Church, Fulton and Parker St. in San Francisco begins at 10:15 a.m. arriving at St. Dominic Church for the 11:30 a.m. Mass. For more information, call Rosa or Jaime Pinto at (415) 3338730.

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Nov. 10: “Catholic Men in the World: Standing with St. Joseph,” a conference for men at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, 2301 Vine St. six blocks north of UC, Berkeley, 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. “Deepen your understanding of what it means to be a Catholic man in today’s society. Be supported by, and be supportive of, your brothers in the Faith,” organizers said. Registration at 8 a.m. Tickets are $25 by Oct. 21 and $35 at the door. Fee includes lunch and continental breakfast. Register on-line at www.dspt.edu, the Men’s Conference link is at the bottom. Mass and opportunity for the sacrament of reconciliation are part of the day. Speakers include, Keith Borchers, Department for Evangelization and Catechesis for the Oakland Diocese and Dominican Father Michael Sweeney, DSPT president.

Sponsored by DSPT, Ignatius Press and the Diocese of Oakland. For more information, contact Ed Hopfner at ehopfner@dspt.edu Mary’s bookstore, Grant at California in San Francisco at 12:30 p.m. Light snacks provided.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

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Oct. 27: Immaculate Conception Academy, class of ‘67, at Dominic’s Restaurant at Oyster Bay. Contact Annette Lacrouts Lee at (650) 7550473 or jdmpro@aol.com or Liz Baiocchi Parodi at (650) 574-1980 or eparodi@cooley.com.

Oct. 27: Class of ’52 from St. Ignatius College Preparatory, San Francisco. Contact Dick Wall at (415) 434-3323 or owwm@pacbell.net or Jack Mona at (415) 564-4492 or jemona@sbcglobal.net.

Nov. 2: Alumni Back-to-School Day at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. Graduates are welcome to sit in on current classes, tour campus, meet with students and faculty, and lunch.

Continental breakfast and registration at 9 a.m. at the Herbst Library and Information Center, 6th Floor, La Salle Campus – 1055 Ellis St.; $10 per person. Visit www.shcp.edu or contact Director of Alumni Relations John Brown at john.brown@shcp.edu Nov. 3: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory classes of ’62, ’67, ’72, ’77, ’82, ’87, ’92, ’97: Alumni Mass 5 p.m. at Victor Barulich ’39 Memorial Chapel, 6th Floor, La Salle Campus, 1055 Ellis St.; dinner dance 6 p.m. – Midnight in Sister Teresa Piro, DC, Student Life Center.

Tickets are $75, $60 for the Class of ’96. Price includes hosted bar and appetizers from 6 – 7:30 p.m., and dinner with wine. Classes will be seated together for dinner. Class photos will be taken. Register online at www.shcp.edu or contact Director of Alumni Relations John Brown at john.brown@shcp.edu Nov. 3: Class of ’82 from Presentation High School, San Francisco, at Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Contact kathycooney@hotmail.com or LucyMulkerrins@sbcglobal.net.

Nov. 3: Class of ’57 from San Francisco’s St. Emydius Elementary School. Tickets at $39 include meal, tax and tip. No-host bar. All takes place at Caesar’s Restaurant in San Francisco.

Call Barbara Lassalle Watson at (415) 897-6757 or Nancy Glueck McCann at (415) 924-4358.

Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs are available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 422-6698.

Separated and divorced support groups: 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, San Francisco; call Gail at (650) 591-8452 or Vonnie at (650) 873-4236. 1st and 3rd Thursday at St. Peter Parish Religious Education Building, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica.

Call Diana Patrito or Joe Brunato at (650) 3596313.

2nd and 4th Wednesday in Spanish at St. Anthony Church, 3500 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Toni Martinez at (650) 7763795.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639 for information.

Oct. 27-29: Beginning Experience, a peer ministry for widowed, separated and divorced men and women, announces a weekend retreat at Vallombrosa Retreat Center in Menlo Park. BE is designed to be a time of closure on the past.

Those who come should be beyond initial feelings of anger and despair. Once an application for the Beginning Experience weekend is received, someone is available to help each person evaluate his or her readiness for the program. For more information, call Donna at (650) 961-1172, LaVerne (650) 355-3978 or Helen (415)388-9651; or e-mail sanjosebe@comcast.net. The international the website is www.beginningexperience.org.

Nov. 9 – 11: You Can Help Your Marriage – Do you feel alone? Are you frustrated or angry with each other? Do you argue, or have you just stopped talking to each other? Does talking about it only make it worse? Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi with a long i) helps couples through difficult times in marriage. For confidential information or to register for the next program call (415) 8931005 or visit the website at www.Retrouvaille.org.

Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church.

Contact Mary Jansen at (415) 614-5596, or email jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Check website for Bay Area events, or download quarterly newsletter at www.sfyam.org.

Oct. 26: The 20s & 30s crowd is a sought-after demographic. Hear insights and engage in conversation with the author of “Googling God,” Mike Hayes, co-founder of bustedhalo.com, an online magazine for young Catholic seekers, Old St.

Oct. 22, 7:30 – 9 p.m.: “Welcoming the Stranger: Church’s Perspective on Immigration,” St. Bartholomew Parish Media Center, 600 Columba Dr. at Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo, with representatives from groups including Catholic Charities CYO and Archdiocese of San Francisco. For more information, call (650) 347-0701, ext. 17.

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Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633.

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Catholic San Francisco

October 19, 2007

(PHOTO BY DAN MORRIS-YOUNG/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Fatima message: following Gospel is path to peace

More than 200 persons prayed the Rosary and processed around the San Francisco Civic Center Oct. 13 led by Father John Jimenez, above. The two-hour event was one of what officials of the organization America Needs Fatima said were nearly 2,000 thousand such “Public Square Rosary” rallies across the nation to mark the 90th anniversary of the Marian revelations at Fatima, Portugal. Another rally of more than 100 participants led by Father Jose Corral took place at the same time at Mission Dolores Park in San Francisco. Other scheduled rally sites in the Archdiocese of San Francisco included Daly City, Menlo Park, Mill Valley, Novato and South San Francisco. Father Jimenez is chaplain at San Francisco General Hospital. Father Corral is administrator of St. Finn Barr Parish.

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FATIMA, Portugal (CNS) — The heart of the message of Fatima is that following the Gospel is the path to authentic peace, Pope Benedict XVI said in a message broadcast Oct. 14 at the Marian shrine.

Marking the 90th anniversary of the last apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to three young children, Pope Benedict said the shrine continues to echo Mary’s call to “her children to live their baptismal consecration in every moment of their existence.”

“She is the refuge and the path that leads to God,” he told thousands of pilgrims at the shrine for an anniversary Mass and the dedication of a new shrine church.

During his midday Angelus prayer at the Vatican, the pope asked Mary to give “all Christians the gift of true conversion so that the perennial Gospel message, which shows humanity the path to authentic peace, would be proclaimed and witnessed to with coherence and fidelity.”

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone marked the 90th anniversary of the last Fatima apparition with a Mass Oct. 13, then dedicated the new church Oct. 14.

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Minimum of 2 years supervisory experience. Bachelor’s degree in administrative or management field required; Master’s degree preferred. The person must demonstrate a pastoral presence in ministry and interpersonal sensitivity to matters of faith and cultural differences, has collaborative style of decision-making, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, self starter, can work independently, maintain confidentiality, prioritize and multi-task.

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LICENSED VOCATIONAL NURSE / MEDICAL TECHNICIAN Provides for the administration of medications and basic healthcare monitoring and preventative healthcare programs for residents. Must possess a LVN Nursing degree from an accredited vocational college or university, a CA LVN license and currently CPR certified. Must have one year recent experience in an assisted living facility, skilled nursing or acute care facility, gerontology experience preferred. Must demonstrate personal integrity and commitment to ethical principles, tact, flexibility, leadership qualities, ability to work well with others, make independent decisions, knowledgeable in nursing and medical practices and procedures, maintain confidentiality.

SISTERS ASSISTANTS I AND II Provides personalized care and support to Sister-residents together with person-centered care teams to ensure Sisters’ continuing independence and quality of life. High School diploma or GED required.

Minimum of two years work experience, preferably in elder or healthcare facilities, or comparable education/training or a combination of both. Must enjoy working with the elderly, is caring and compassionate, flexible, with good communication and interpersonal skills, can understand and follow individualized care plans, multi-task and prioritize and work with evolving systems and structures.

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Catholic San Francisco

October 19, 2007

U N S D A N Y O I S S I M WORALSPDECIAL DAY FOR ALL OF US IS OCTOBER 21, 2007 “All the Churches for all the world.”

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World Mission Sunday 2007 Dear Friends of the Missions, October 21st – World Mission Sunday – is a special day for all of us who are called, by Baptism, to be involved in the missionary work of the Church.

Because you care enough to S hare Y our L ove with the missions.

On that Sunday, every nation, even the poorest in the Developing World, contributes to the mission needs of the Church worldwide.

World Mission Sunday truly belongs to the world. It is celebrated in every country, in every diocese and in every parish — in a remote chapel far out in the African bush, in a predominantly Muslim or Hindu area in Asia, in a poor village in Latin America. We are citizens of the world, members of the one Body of Christ, and are at our best when we act lovingly and generously to our brothers and sisters in the Missions.

So this year remember that on October 21st, World Mission Sunday, the family of the Church celebrates that we are “one family in mission.” Please pray for the people of the Missions and for missionaries. I ask also for your most generous help to make Christ known. The collection gathered for the Society for the Propagation of the Faith on that Sunday — the offerings of Catholics worldwide — is vitally needed for the pastoral and evangelizing work of more than 1,150 dioceses throughout Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands and remote regions of Latin America.

Asking the Lord to bless you for your generous missionary spirit, I am Sincerely, Most Reverend Ignatius C. Wang Auxiliary Bishop Archdiocesan Mission Director

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