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WASHINGTON (CNS) – Catholic charitable organizations are stepping up to help victims in the Philippines after the worst flood in decades hit in late September. “Many of the people who have lost everything are sleeping in schools right now,” said Luc Picard, Catholic Relief Services’ country representative in Manila, Philippines. “They’re calling this the Katrina of the Philippines.” Picard told Catholic News Service in a telephone interview this week that rescuers were still searching for survivors from the flooding and mudslides. The flooding followed Typhoon Ketsana, or Ondoy, as it was referred to in the Philippines. Picard told CNS that after the storm more than 100,000 families were sheltered in temporary housing, elementary schools and churches. While some families will be able to go back home soon, others have lost everything, he said. In a statement, CRS said it was providing immediate food aid, blankets, mosquito nets, sleeping mats and soap, among other basic necessities. “With CRS’ initial funding, we’re helping 5,000 families through Caritas. All the food and other items being distributed are getting to people via CATHOLICS AID, page 10
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Residents use a boat to transport a motorcycle and pedicab through floodwaters in a town south of Manila, Philippines, Sept. 28. The Philippines appealed for international aid to help tens of thousands of people marooned by floods associated with Typhoon Ketsana.
Leaders of Catholic Charities seek ways to cut poverty in half by 2020 By Catholic News Service PORTLAND, Ore. – Following news in mid-September that U.S. agencies of Catholic Charities served 10 percent more people in 2008 than in the previous year, leaders from the Catholic Church’s main network for domestic social services gathered in Portland Sept. 24-26 to devise ways to cut U.S. poverty in half by 2020. The Catholic Charities USA convention called for unprecedented cooperation among anti-poverty groups, businesses and government to address the issue, plus a plan to persuade and inspire the public about it via digital media. It’s a major step for the more than 170 diocesan and other Catholic social service agencies that make up the umbrella organization and deliver day-to-day services while also working for systemic change. “We must think and act anew,” said Father Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA, which is based in Alexandria, Va. Urging resolve, he reminded agency leaders that it took President Franklin D. Roosevelt four or five years to get New Deal policies in place during the Great Depression. Catholic Charities has faced an unprec-
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edented workload during the nation’s economic crisis. Americans are still losing jobs, creating new and large categories of people coping with hard times. “You are trying to do more with less,” Father Snyder told the social workers gathered Sept. 24 in a Hilton Hotel ballroom in downtown Portland. “We are living in a 1930s-type era.” By federal counts, 40 million Americans live in poverty and 15 million are unemployed. Last year, Catholic
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Charities agencies in the U.S. served 8.5 million people. “Unlike McDonald’s, our goal is not to increase the number of people served,” Father Snyder said. Yet Catholic Charities sees this economy as an opportunity, as the priest put it, to “build a better nation that leaves fewer behind.” And the Catholic Church is right to help with the job, said Father Snyder, noting that two priests who helped found
the movement in 1910 later played a role in developing Social Security. Catholic Charities workers seemed fueled by the goal to reduce poverty, but unsure just how to proceed yet. “Everyone wants to do it,” said Deacon Brian Escobedo from Catholic Charities in Albuquerque, N.M. “It’s not a matter of whether, but how you are going to do it. We won’t back off.” CNN contributor and presidential adviser David Gergen challenged the charity agency executives to be leaders in this time for change. He called for socially innovative ways to tackle poverty and other vexing issues. “If you want to go first, then go alone,” he said. “If you want to go far, then go together.” One member of a panel looking at strategies for reducing poverty noted that more activity, or even more money was not the answer – stressing a need for more collaboration. The panel noted that Oregon alone has 15,000 nonprofit groups addressing poverty, while in Washington state, there are 24,000. Kevin Walker, who runs a Minnesota foundation that aims to reduce poverty in eight states, said the general public CUT POVERTY, page 9
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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Don’t miss the annual Festival of Choirs at St. Mary’s Cathedral this Sunday, Oct. 4, at 4 p.m. The concert is the closing rite for the annual Festival of Flowers that kicked off Oct 1 and continues through the weekend. You’ll hear singers from parishes throughout the Archdiocese. “It’s well over 100 singers,â€? said Russell Ferreira, director of music at St. Cecilia Parish. Musical selections include All Creatures of Our God and King, For the Beauty of the Earth, Make Me a Channel of Your Peace in honor of the solemnity of the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi and Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. Singing ensembles represent parishes including St. Thomas More, Mission Dolores Basilica, St. Hilary, Mater Dolorosa, St. Bartholomew, St. Cecilia, St. Dominic, Notre Dame des Victoires, Nativity, San Francisco. Folks in attendance will be encouraged to join in with well known hymns of praise, I’ve been told, so bring your best B-flat! Free admission‌.Was glad to speak with Carolyn Bacigalupi, born and raised in St. Peter and Paul Parish and now a member of Noe Valley’s St. Paul’s. Carolyn, a member of class of ’46
The Dominican Sisters of San Rafael recently welcomed Elizabeth Simovich, center, a candidate hailing from Eureka and a Cal State Humboldt grad. Kathy Repass, left, a marketing specialist from North Carolina, moved to the congregation’s house of formation in January. Colleen McDermott who recently completed post-graduate work in education at the University of Georgia, joined the Sisters a year ago. Thanks to Kate Martin for the good news!
from San Francisco’s now closed and much missed Presentation Academy, and my mom, Peggy Burke, are about the same age. Born in 1927 and 1928 with Carolyn being the younger they are members of that “greatest generationâ€? so rightly anointed in the book of several years ago. They are women with grit and a tremendous ability to not only hang on in tough times but move forward. They were raised in the Depression years and, from my experience with my mom and her four sisters, can make meals from the most meager of rations. My mom studied Salt Lake City Bishop John C. Wester welcomed family and friends including his “stretch-itâ€? cuisine under mom, Helen, niece, Jennifer Barbi, sister, Nancy Barbi and nephew, Stephen her oldest sister, Rose, my Barbi. to the 100th anniversary celebration of the Diocese of Salt Lake City’s godmother now deceased. Cathedral of the Madeleine in August. Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Aunt Rose and my mom Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and former Archbishop of could take whatever was San Francisco with whom Bishop Wester served as an auxiliary bishop here, in “the Frigidaireâ€? and in an almost Loaves and was also among special guests. Fishes fashion feed a bunch. May I say for all of us, “Thanks, Mom, Carolyn, Aunt Rose and all of the St. Cecilia parishioner dropped more than a hundred greatest generationâ€?! When I asked Carolyn for advice flyers announcing her campaign in her neighborhood. on a long life she said she had none but added “saying Neighbors came through with supplies as well as cash that purchased more supplies. the rosary every day certainly won’t Erinn, even at her young age, hurt.â€? Just for fun, if you have any stays aware about poverty Depression-era or “stretch itâ€? recipes and homelessness and tries you make or your mom still makes, to help. As a sixth grader she please send it in and we’ll share what led a class effort to collect we can. My mom’s meatloaf is still Christmas Presents for homethe best as are her potato pancakes – less families. Mighty proud are just leftover mashed potatoes and salt her folks, Suzie and Declan and pepper with maybe some minced and her brother, Connor, a onion fried in a skillet. Just e-mail me third grader at St. Cecilia at the address below with names of Elementary School‌.This the foods and a little bit about them. If is an empty space without you give me permission, I’ll list your you. Send items via e-mail to e-mail for anyone who’d like to contact burket@sfarchdiocese.org you for the recipe. Be sure to include and by ground to “Street,â€? your name, please, parish, too, and the One Peter Yorke Way, San person who handed down the goodie. Francisco 94109. Electronic Yum!... Congrats and thanks for the photos should be jpegs at 300 example to Erinn Sheedy, an eighth dpi. No zip files, please. Hard grader at Charles Armstrong School, Erinn Sheedy copy photos are also welcome on her self-initiated school supply sent to the Peter Yorke Way drive that gathered backpacks, binders, paper, pens and much, much more benefiting students address. I can be reached at (415) 614-5634. with less through the Homeless Prenatal Program. The
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Bay Area faith leaders call for comprehensive immigration reform
From left, Father Brendan McBride, chaplain to the Irish Catholic community for the Archdiocese of San Francisco; Msgr. Maurice McCormick, retired pastor of Mission Dolores Parish in San Francisco; Rabbi Camille Shira Angel; Methodist Rev. Israel Alvaran; Father John Balleza, pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish in Redwood City; Methodist Rev. Gloria Soliz; Bishop Justice, and Father Arturo Albano, pastor of Mission Dolores Parish.
By Michael Vick Photos by Jose Luis Aguirre Bishop William Justice joined local Protestant and Jewish faith leaders in a Sept. 26 interfaith event calling for comprehensive immigration reform. Held at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco and sponsored by the Office of Public Policy/ Social Concerns, the San Francisco Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, and the San Francisco Organizing Project, the event featured testimonials from immigrants, a musical performance and a prayer service for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, some of whom were in attendance. At an August summit in Mexico, President Barack Obama said while immigration reform is important to his administration, he did not expect a bill this year. The president said he anticipated legislation to be drafted by the end of the year, but that final passage would not likely come until 2010.
Joe Trigueros, parishioner at St. Peter Parish in San Francisco signs a petition calling on President Barack Obama urging him to make comprehensive immigration reform a priority in 2010. Circulated by the San Francisco Organizing Project, the petition also calls on San Francisco Supervisors to repeal the practice of automatic referral of immigrant youth to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents upon their arrest for unrelated charges.
Bishop Justice signs a petition calling for comprehensive immigration reform in front of a gathered crowd after the interfaith event.
A young mother sits with her child during the interfaith event. She asked not to be identified, but said she and her husband both face deportation.
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Oakland bishop on local TV Oakland Bishop Salvatore Cordileone is guest on the television program “Mosaic” airing Oct. 4 at 5 a.m. on KPIXChannel 5. Host Tom Burke talks with the San Diego-born and raised prelate for the first time since his March 23, 2009 appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to head the Oakland see and it’s almost 600,000 Catholics living in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Oakland Bishop Bishop Cordileone was Salvatore Cordileone ordained to the priesthood July 9, 1982 and named an auxiliary bishop of San Diego July 5, 2002.
Priests must help laity solve world’s problems NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Priests must guard against becoming limited to sacramental ministry and must help lay Catholics take up their duty to try to solve “the massive problems we are facing,” Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles said in a talk at the University of Notre Dame. “As a leader of a faith community of co-responsibility, the ordained priest best serves his people by promoting their royal priesthood at a moment of world crisis,” he said. The cardinal’s Sept. 18 address stressed the importance of the baptismal priesthood – the role of every Catholic in the church’s ministry – during the Year for Priests, which Pope Benedict XVI opened June 19. “The priest’s ministry is not focused solely on the celebration of the Eucharist and other sacraments,” Cardinal Mahony said. “He, too,
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Cardinal, bishop, others urge Mid-East diplomacy WASHINGTON – Three Catholic clerics have joined a wide-ranging group of religious and ethnic leaders in supporting President Barack Obama’s effort to seek a diplomatic solution to the continuing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington; Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace; and Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh, president emeritus of the University of Notre Dame, were among 30 people who signed a Sept. 22 letter that said peace between Palestinians and Israelis is vital to American interests and could best be achieved by establishing “two viable, secure and independent states living side by side.” “We find common cause in supporting strong U.S. leadership to achieve a negotiated, sustainable resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” the letter said. The letter outlined several principles that the signers support and that they said will assure peace in the Middle East, including the right of Israel to exist and the right of Palestinians to have a “viable, sovereign and secure state of their own,” the importance of addressing Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, ensuring that Syria and Lebanon are part of the peace process and the importance of normalizing relations between Israel and Arab nations.
Digital media theme for 2010 VATICAN CITY – For World Communications Day 2010, Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the theme “The priest and pastoral ministry in a digital world: New media at the service of the Word.” As the church celebrates the Year for Priests, the pope also wanted to invite the world’s priests to consider ways they could use digital media in their ministry, said a statement from the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. The Vatican announced the theme Sept. 29. If understood and used wisely, new media technology “can offer priests and all pastoral workers a wealth of information and content that was difficult to access before, and facilitate forms of collaboration and greater communion in ways that were unthinkable in the past,” the statement said. While the church also
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An Iranian Zelzal missile is launched during a test at an unknown location in central Iran Sept. 27. Iran test-fired short-range missiles four days before the Islamic republic was due to hold rare talks with world powers worried about its nuclear ambitions.
must be aware of and address problems the new digital culture causes, it said, the church should recognize the enormous potential new instruments of communication have in ministry and evangelization. Thanks to the new media, those involved in preaching and catechizing can now reach individuals and entire communities on every continent using words, sounds and images, it said.
Biotechnology will improve African farming, experts say ROME – African farmers should be able to use new biotechnology, including genetically modified organisms, NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5
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to help lift their continent out of poverty, Vatican officials and agricultural experts said. Focusing on agricultural development is the key to improving the lives of Africans and their economy, and all tools must be considered to further that goal, according to speakers at a symposium Sept. 24 in Rome on the topic “For a Green Revolution in Africa.� The participants agreed that one of those tools could be genetically modified products, the use of which is widespread in the United States but controversial in Africa. Archbishop Giampaolo Crepaldi, former secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said that underdevelopment and hunger in Africa are due in large part to “outdated and inadequate agricultural methods.� Therefore, he said, new technologies “that can stimulate and sustain African farmers� must be made available, including “seeds that have been improved by techniques that intervene in their genetic makeup.�
Latino leaders host launch WASHINGTON – With several hundred guests for a reception at the Vatican Embassy Sept. 23, the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders, or CALL, launched its first national outreach effort at an observance of Hispanic Heritage Month. “To be a leader is to have a clear sense of identity,� said Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States, in welcoming CALL members and hundreds of others to the embassy. “What I wish for all Latino leaders is that you have a sense of identity and of very clearly belonging.� CALL was founded in 2007 under the guidance of then Denver Auxiliary Bishop Jose H. Gomez. Now the
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head of the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Archbishop Gomez was among about a dozen bishops and archbishops at the Sept. 23 event. Cardinal William H. Keeler, retired archbishop of Baltimore, also attended. Manny Garcia-Tunon, secretary of the organization, told Catholic News Service that the reception was intended to mark CALL’s national presence. GarciaTunon said local chapters are being developed in Miami, San Antonio, Denver, Houston and Phoenix, all of which will have events in October.
Archbishop urges palliative care OTTAWA – The president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has sent an open letter to members of Parliament, urging them to support good palliative care instead of assisted suicide or euthanasia. As debate approaches for a bill to amend the Criminal Code (Right to Die With Dignity), Winnipeg Archbishop V. James Weisgerber took aim at the “misleading and unclear� terms framing the debate. Archbishop Weisgerber asked politicians to use “clear definitions� and to consider the “profound impact� such a bill would have on society. “Those wishing to reopen this debate are no doubt motivated by concern for the sufferings of others,� he said in an open letter sent Sept. 23. “An unfortunate understanding of compassion has led them to suggest euthanizing the most vulnerable instead of providing them with proper care, effective pain control, and social, emotional and spiritual support until their natural death.� Without clear terms, the discussion can be “confusing and unhelpful,� Archbishop Weisgerber said.
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‘Four Pillars Gala’ San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice was presented with the 2009 Four Pillars Gala Award September 18. Nearly 400 people attended the black-tie gala at the St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center. Proceeds from the evening benefited St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park. From left: Laura Bertone, Pedro Castaneda, Maria Cunningham, Bishop Justice, Archbishop George H. Niederauer, Sulpician Father Jim McKearney, St. Patrick Seminary rector and president; Jennifer Morris, Sulpician Father Gerald Brown, former rector and president; and Mary Verducci.
divorced or remarried parents are deprived of fixed points of reference and can suffer from inner conflict and confusion, Pope Benedict XVI told a group of bishops Sept. 25. The traditional family based on a man and woman united in an indissoluble marriage is under attack in today’s world, he said. “There are forces and voices in present society that seem committed to demolishing the natural homestead of human life,� the pope said during a meeting with bishops from Brazil. Families in secularized cultures, especially where
divorce is legal, seem deeply immersed in uncertainty, he said. More and more couples build their unions on the fragility and impermanence of cohabitation, which is merely based on an “individual’s feeling or subjectivity,� he said. He said as divorces increase and cohabitation is on the rise, the children in these situations are “deprived of their parents’ support and become victims of malaise and abandonment, thus spreading social disorder.� – Catholic News Service and Catholic San Francisco
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Father Damien events at St. Rita Parish in Fairfax The canonization of Father Joseph De Veuster, SSCC, (Father Damien of Molokai) will be celebrated with a series of events open to the public at St. Rita Parish in Fairfax from Oct. 4 through Oct. 11. Highlighting the events will be a special Mass honoring Father Damien, celebrated by Archbishop George Niederauer, at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 7. During the Mass, St. Rita School students will present their class projects reflecting the life of Father Damien. A theatrical presentation, “Damien” will be staged in St. Rita Church at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5. The one-man play, which stars actor Dan Cawthon, will be presented without charge. On Sunday, Oct. 4, Father Kenneth M. Weare, pastor, will deliver a homily titled, “Francis of Assisi and Damien of Molokai: Saints for All Seasons,” juxtaposing their historical milieu, ministry to the oppressed, and dedicated commitment to social justice. On the following Sunday, Oct. 11, Father Weare will deliver the homily: “St. Joseph De Veuster, SSCC: Model
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Damien events at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 15 A prayer service at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 15 at 7:30 p.m., led by Archbishop George Niederauer and other bishops, will welcome and venerate a relic of Damien of Molokai. All are invited to hear choral music including Pacific Islanders, view historical exhibits, and see scenes from the play “Damien.” Also on Oct. 15 at 1:30 p.m., the play “Damien” will be performed for student groups at the Cathedral Event Center. Call (415) 567-2020 for information.
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About Bishop Cordileone, new Bishop of Oakland Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone was born in San Diego, California. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy in 1978 from the University of San Diego. He then furthered his studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning a Bachelor’s in Sacred Theology in 1981. He returned to the Gregorian and received a doctorate in canon law in 1989. In the summer of 1995, he returned to Rome to work as an assistant at the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, the highest judicial body in the Vatican under the pope. He was raised to the rank of Chaplain of His Holiness in 1999. On July 5, 2002, Cordileone was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of San Diego byPope John Paul II. Cordileone was later named the fourth Bishop of Oakland by Pope Benedict XVI on March 23, 2009. Bishop Cordileone serves on the episcopal advisory board of the Institute for Religious Life. Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), he sits on the Bishops’ and Presidents’ Committee on Catholic Education.
“Brother Wind,” a sculpture by Fiorenzo Bacci, shown here with Monsignor Harry Schlitt, Vicar of Administration for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, is on display through Oct. 31 at the Porziuncola Chapel of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in North Beach in San Francisco. Joining the life-size piece is a series of “maquettes,” smaller models of sculptures Bacci is likely to do in larger, life-size form at a later date. The art arrived in conjunction with the first anniversary of the chapel’s dedication last September. The Porziuncola Chapel is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The chapel is a replica of the small church in Assisi where St. Francis founded the Franciscan Order of the Friars Minor in 1209.
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PUBLIC SQUARE ROSARY CRUSADE America is at a historic crossroad. Secularists are trying to push God from the public square. They reject His beneficial action upon society. But without God, where will our leaders get the wisdom to solve the great problems we face?
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Catholic Social withfollowed Specialby Reference to Pope Benedict Latest Caritas Registration startsTeaching, at 5:30 p.m. networking. Program beginsXVI’s at 6 p.m. andEncyclical, ends by 7:30 p.m. in Veritate” Includes The talkCeasar’s will outline theserved key principles CatholicNo Social antipasti throughoutfrom the evening. host Teaching, beverages. which have specific application to various sectors of society. It will then apply them to the question of ethics in the workplace, highlighting the difference between a workplace environment based on these principles and values, and one characterized by the more common utilitarian approach taken nowadays. Pope Benedict XVI’s recent Encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (“Charity in Truth”), makes a timely contribution to this discussion.
In The Secret of the Rosary, Saint Louis de Montfort said: “Public prayer is far more powerful than private prayer to appease the anger of God and call down His mercy, and Holy Mother Church, guided by the Holy Ghost, has always advocated public prayer in times of public tragedy and suffering.”
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CCHD pulls funding from two agencies, investigates two others WASHINGTON (CNS) – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development has canceled grants to two organizations after learning about their involvement in activities contrary to church teaching and is studying the actions of two other groups. Ralph McCloud, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ anti-poverty program, told Catholic News Service Sept. 23 funding was canceled for two San Franciscobased organizations, the Chinese Progressive Association and Young Workers United. The Chinese Progressive Association, which works to improve working conditions and advance social and economic justice for Chinese immigrants, was set to receive $30,000. Young Workers United, a coalition advocating for the rights of low-wage service-sector employees, was awarded a $25,000 grant during the 2009-10 funding cycle, according to CCHD records. McCloud said the funding was canceled after he learned that both organizations had advocated that its members vote “no” in the November 2008 election on an amendment to the California state constitution that defined marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In the same election, the workers group also urged San Francisco voters to adopt a citywide proposition that would have decriminalized prostitution. The marriage amendment passed, while the prostitution initiative failed. George Wesolek, director of CCHD for the Archdiocese of San Francisco said: “It is an unfortunate situation since both of these groups do good work in empowering the poor.
The Bellarmine Web site claims the community action network, which works on housing issues and advocates on behalf of homeless people, has supported same-sex marriage and promotes contraception at a health clinic it operates with other organizations. The network was awarded a $40,000 grant in June and it remains in place. Since 2005, it has received an additional $90,000 in CCHD funds for its work on housing issues and
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Judith Maxwell Greig takes oath of office as new president of Notre Dame de Namur University, witnessed by university board chairperson Marc Desautels.
Judith Maxwell Greig, Ph.D. was inaugurated as eighteenth president of Notre Dame de Namur University in ceremonies at the Belmont school Sept. 25. “I hope the footprints we leave give evidence to a strengthened Catholic identity,” President Greig said in her inaugural address calling all associated with the school, founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1851, to help keep Catholicity at the forefront. “I hope for a faculty and staff discussion group on campus which helps us to be more intentional and explicit about Catholic social teaching and the Catholic intellectual tradition and how we choose to integrate it into the life of the campus.” President Greig is a 21-year veteran at Notre Dame as teacher and administrator. She was named president in February 2009. She holds graduate degrees from Santa Clara University and Stanford University as well as a post graduate degree from Stanford. Notre Dame de Namur University is an independent Catholic coeducational institution with an enrollment of more than 1,600 students.
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advocacy on behalf of homeless people. The Philadelphia group has partnered with WomenVote PA, which opposes an amendment to the Pennsylvania state constitution banning same-sex marriage and has supported comprehensive reproductive health services, including abortion and emergency contraception for rape and incest victims. Catholic San Francisco contributed to this story.
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Maltese prime minister visits San Francisco parish, confers honor on local priest By Michael Vick Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi of Malta capped a threeday stay in the Bay Area with a Mass at St. Elizabeth Parish in San Francisco Sept. 27. After the Mass, Gonzi presented Msgr. Francis Cilia, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of San Jose and a second generation Maltese-American, with a certificate of dual citizenship. Msgr. Cilia said the presentation was a surprise, but that he had begun the process of obtaining dual citizenship more than year ago. He told Catholic San Francisco the new status had both practical and sentimental value. “When traveling in Europe, having a passport from an EU country is a convenient thing,” said Msgr. Cilia. “Also, I’ve always been very proud of my Maltese nationality.” Malta, a densely populated archipelago off the coast of Italy, is predominantly Roman Catholic. Charles Vassallo, Consul General of Malta in San Francisco, said Catholicism remains a strong part of Maltese life in America. “I don’t know one (Maltese-American) who isn’t Catholic,” Vassallo said. Vassallo said around 20,000 Maltese-Americans live in the Bay Area. While many originally settled in San Francisco, they
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is willing to do more than donate money to address poverty. His group did a survey in the Midwest region that showed a quarter of the public had opened their homes as shelter to a friend or loved one in need during the current recession. That’s a sign of massive will that Walker said could be channeled. “We need to redefine the sense of the common good and figure out what role each of us can play in getting us out of this trough,” he said. Jodi Pfarr, a panel member who runs a Minneapolis nonprofit providing housing for homeless women, said funders of anti-poverty programs need to be more patient. Grants that expire after a year don’t give agencies time to get at the root of problems, Pfarr explained, arguing that it takes about seven years to bring a systemic change. Pfarr added that solutions to social ills work best when people of all classes are involved in how they are designed – the poor, the middle class and the wealthy. Good collaboration, the panel concluded, takes humility, willingness to change, passion and enlightened self-interest. In mid-September, Catholic Charities USA released its annual survey of services showing a significant increase in the need for emergency shelter and permanent housing services, which jumped 12.4 percent in 2008 as the economic recession gained momentum.
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Earlier this month, the Vatican confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI plans to visit Malta next April to commemorate the 1,950th anniversary of St. Paul’s shipwreck on the Mediterranean island.
Overall, the 142 Catholic Charities agencies responding to the survey – about 85 percent of the nationwide Catholic Charities network – reported serving more than 8.5 million people in 2008, a 10 percent increase from 2007. Without being able to offer specifics, Father Larry Snyder, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, said the demand for housing and other social services continued to climb as the recession deepened during 2009. “We can only conjecture that when we get the figures for 2009 it’s going to be much, much greater,” he said. Jeff Bialik, executive director of Catholic Charities CYO for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, attended the Portland convention and concurred in meetings last week that the agency was seeing a much higher demand for services as a result of the recession and job losses. On Sept. 29, San Francisco Catholic Charities CYO announced that it had been selected to receive a $2.7 million Federal stimulus fund grant to expand efforts to prevent families from becoming homeless. The grant, which will be spent over three years, was awarded by the San Francisco Human Services Agency for provision of the San Francisco Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing Program (HPRP), as part of an $8.75 million grant from the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development. Father Snyder also said the recession is causing local Catholic Charities agencies to struggle with “many of the same challenges as our clients.” Cuts in government funding for social services coupled with significant losses in donations of cash and goods are causing local agencies to scale back services, reduce hours of operation, lay off staff, freeze wages and implement workdays without pay, he said. “It is going to continue to put a great stress on our local agencies to continue to provide services,” he added. Overall, Catholic Charities agencies had revenues of more than $3.9 billion in 2008. Two-thirds of the revenue came from local, state and federal government sources. Despite the challenges posed by the recession, Father Snyder expressed optimism that the agency will be able to make strides in its nearly 3-year-old campaign to reduce poverty by 50 percent by 2020. “I actually think the recession gives us a greater opportunity to do that because when you look at the challenges that we have right now, one thing that should be very clear is that we can’t just meet those challenges with what we were doing before,” Father Snyder explained. Catholic San Francisco contributed to this story.
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Stranded by floodwaters caused by Typoon Ketsana, people take refuge inside a church in Cainta Rizal, outside Manila, Philippines.
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Philippines’ executive director, said: “The situation is very challenging. Many of our local social actions centers are still unable to reach the worst-hit areas because of the debris and the flooding. People are in need of food and clean water, as many of the water sources have been contaminated. We’re also sending cooking utensils, sleeping mats and bed sheets.” Estimates provided by officials at mid-week said approximately 250 people had died, and the death toll was expected to rise. The equivalent of a month’s worth of rain fell in six hours and, at one point, more than 80 percent of Manila was under water.
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Natural family planning: Procreation, and deeper marital spirituality, “under the guidance of the Holy Spirit” Here is a more extensive definition of NFP from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ NFP website: Finola Glassmoyer, a parishioner of Church of the NFP is an umbrella term for certain methods used to Nativity Parish in Menlo Park, is a certified teacher of achieve and avoid pregnancies. These methods are the Billings method of natural family planning. She based on observation of the naturally occurring signs and her husband, Gary, have been married for 16 years and symptoms of the fertile and infertile phases of and are parents to two teenage sons, – both conceived a woman’s menstrual cycle. Couples using NFP to through Natural family planning. avoid pregnancy abstain from intercourse and genital “Artificial contraception was not an option in our contact during the fertile phase of the woman’s cycle. marriage,” Glassmoyer told Catholic San Francisco. She No drugs, devices, or surgical procedures are used to noted that her non-Catholic husband “was supportive avoid pregnancy. that NFP was the only acceptThree NFP methods are able means to space pregnanavailable to couples. The oldWhat do you call people cies for me, and so it became est is the Billings Ovulation a way of life.” Method. The Creighton “I always believed that to Method, like the Billings, is who practice the rhythm deliberately artificially conbased on mucus observations. tracept was to make a deciThe third model, the Symptomethod? Parents. sion that went against Church Thermal Method, combines teaching,” Glassmoyer said. “I observations with daily –Finola Glassmoyer mucus just knew in my heart that the temperature taking. Church’s teaching was wise Glassmoyer admits that and prudent and if the pope NFP takes some patience: spoke definitively about an aspect of procreation then “Practicing NFP required some effort and self-discipline he did so under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.” on our parts, but we knew that waiting is temporary and Glassmoyer, a nurse with a specialty in obstetrics and we accepted it.” gynecology, is the daughter of a physician. “It helped She noted that, in her experience, “NFP users are that I grew up in a family where my father was a family typically more open to life than non-NFP users and practice doctor, NFP only,” she said. “That probably often have large families.” She counts herself among played a part in forming my beliefs on the subject.” those who she says “are more at one with nature and Glassmoyer pointed out that “NFP-only physicians more eager to embrace life and view (children) as God nowadays are few and you have to travel in the Bay blessing their marriage.” Area to find one.” Glassmoyer, who is an NFP teacher recommended Natural family planning refers to forms of birth by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, thanks Gloria regulation which, in conformity with Catholic teaching, Gillogley, a pioneer in NFP instruction in the archdiodo not involve use of any artificial means of contracep- cese, for getting her started as a natural family planning tion. teacher. “Gloria’s instruction was very thorough and her
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Finola Glassmoyer with her teenage sons, Michael, left, and Steven. Glassmoyer and her husband, Gary, planned and conceived their children through natural family planning.
enthusiasm inspired me to want to spread this message to other couples,” she said. Additional training in the Billings method and interfacing with other teachers as well as “priests and doctors who are all promoters of NFP” led her to “realize, sadly, that NFP is the best well-kept secret there is.” NFP is “poorly understood,” Glassmoyer said “and often confused with the ‘rhythm method’ or ‘calendar method’ which was an old method based on every woman having a 28-day cycle and, of course, that is not the case. It was what gave way to ‘What do you call people who practice the rhythm method? Parents.’” NFP instructors do not have to have a medical backNATURAL FAMILY PLANNING, page 12
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asked me ‘How does natural family planning work?’” Pat and Deacon Bill Turrentine of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax have been married for 31 years and are certified NFP teachers. They are the parents of five sons, ages 29 to 15. “When we were married, we did not understand that the Church had a formal – and binding – teaching against the use of contraception and in favor of openness
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“With no more surprises – except that they were all boys – we have been blessed with four more sons,” he said. The Turrentines found that NFP improved their communication over the years and helped them form deeper relationships with God. “NFP was such a blessing to us, we decided to become teachers through the Couple to Couple League (CCL) in 1985 and have been teaching classes ever since,” Deacon Turrentine said. “CCL is a wonderful organization of volunteer teaching couples and promoters. We need more teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area.” The Turrentines can be reached through the Couple to Couple League at www.ccli.org The Archdiocese of San Francisco supports natural family planning as the preferred method of regulating birth and recommends its use both for couples who need to delay a pregnancy as well as those trying to become pregnant, said Deacon John Norris, director of pastoral ministry for the archdiocese. “While we do not have qualified instructors on our staff or available to us as volunteers, all of our Marriage Preparation programs promote the use of NFP and refer people to the Archdiocesan Office of Marriage and Family Life, where a list of available programs is available,” he said. Deacon Norris noted that interested couples may also visit the website of the Couple to Couple League for the names of professionals in the Bay Area who offer these classes.
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Natural family planning: Myth and reality
Myth: NFP is too complicated to be useful for most people. Reality: Anyone who is taught by a certified teacher and motivated to use NFP can do so. The methods are so simple that they have been successfully adapted to suit the needs of cultures all around the world. According to Kambic and Gray (Human Reproduction, 1988), NFP use worldwide ranges from 1 to 35 percent in developing countries. These authors state that “NFP has a role as an important method of family planning in many countries, irrespective of religion, socio-economic development, and overall level of contraceptive use� (p. 693). Myth: NFP is not a reliable method of family planning. Reality: When couples understand the methods and are motivated to follow them, NFP is up to 99 percent successful in spacing or limiting births. The effectiveness of NFP depends upon spouses’ following the rules of the method according to their family planning intention (i.e., achieving or limiting pregnancy). Those who are strongly motivated to avoid pregnancy and follow the method-defined rules are very effective in meeting their goal. Effectiveness of Natural Family Planning in avoiding pregnancy (number of pregnancies among 100 couples in one year): Couples who carefully follow all the rules for avoiding pregnancy all the time – 1-3. Couples who do not follow all the rules for avoiding pregnancy all the time – 2-15
Myth: Couples who use NFP have less sex than the average American Reality: Most people most of the time are not engaged in sexual activity (see table). If couples who practice NFP were to engage in intercourse on all the days when abstinence is not required for spacing births, they would be doing so at a rate almost twice the national average! Average monthly coital frequency among both married and unmarried couples in the United States: AGE
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If by “spontaneity� one means only being able to engage in sexual intercourse whenever the desire arises, then NFP does not measure up. But then, respect for your spouse–whose desires may not always be exactly the same as yours at any moment–is also in tension with that kind of “spontaneity.� Any limitation on “spontaneity� in NFP should be judged in light of the freedom couples gain by not using chemical or barrier methods of contraception. Remember, chemical contraceptives carry heavy baggage in terms of contraindications and side effects.
hood� married couples carefully weigh their responsibilities to God, each other, the children they already have, and the world in which they live when making decisions about the number and spacing of children. Responsible parenthood is lived out within the structures which God has established in human nature. The nature of sexual intercourse, which is both life-giving (pro-creative) and love-giving (unitive), reflects a Divine plan. That is why the Church teaches that couples must not actively intervene to separate their fertility from their bodily union.
Myth: There is no difference between NFP and artificial methods of contraception. Reality: NFP methods are different from, and better than, artificial contraception because they • Cooperate with, rather than suppress, a couple’s fertility • Can be used both to achieve and avoid pregnancy
Myth: Sex is a private decision between two people. Reality: Sexual intercourse is not only eminently personal, between a man and a woman, but also has a public and even universal dimension. Human reproduction orients sexual activity to the future of the world. The public consequences of sexual intercourse are illustrated by the miracle of birth, and also through the public devastation wrought by sexually transmitted diseases. Remember, sexual intercourse radically unites a man and a woman and is the only human act which can worthily bring another person into the world!
There is a difference between simply “having sex,� which includes actions directed towards the self, and “making love,� which requires the giving of self to the other –NFP program, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops If wishing to avoid pregnancy, a couple practicing NFP is usually advised to abstain from intercourse and genital contact during the wife’s fertile time. NFP couples can make love no less frequently in each cycle than other couples. Myth: NFP does not allow for sexual “spontaneity.� Reality: This depends upon what one means by “spontaneity.� If by sexual spontaneity one means loving gestures, caresses, kisses, loving words, etc., then NFP does not hinder spontaneity. In fact NFP encourages couples to explore ways to express their love to one another because sexual intercourse is not always available. And the spontaneity with which a couple unites in lovemaking each cycle is something NFP couples find to be very special.
• Call for shared responsibility and cooperation by husband and wife • Require spousal communication • Foster respect for and acceptance of the total person • Have no harmful side effects • Are virtually cost free NFP is unique because it enables its users to work with the body rather than against it. Fertility is viewed as a reality to live, not a problem to be solved. Myth: The Catholic Church wants people to have as many babies as possible. Reality: In fact the Church encourages people to be “responsibleâ€? stewards over their fertility. In this view of “responsible parent-
Myth: The Church does not want couples to have sex for pleasure’s sake. Reality: The Church wants married couples to have the best sex possible! Remember, there is a difference between simply “having sex,� which includes actions directed towards the self, and “making love,� which requires the giving of self to the other. Only in a lifelong, committed, loving relationship, centered in Christ, can couples hope to fully experience the sacrament of life and love, i.e., marriage. Current studies confirm what the Church has always taught: married sex is more fulfilling and enjoyable than uncommitted sex. People who “use� sex only for their own pleasure end up using other people–and they lose the real joy of sexuality. Unconditional love is what marriage is all about. That love is a real source of joy in the lives of married couples! Used with permission from the NFP program, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. All rights reserved.
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Archbishop’s Journal
Jesus challenges us to challenge ourselves San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer delivered the following homily at the annual meeting of the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Northwest Lieutenancy, in Boise, Idaho on Sept. 27. Ninety years ago, William Butler Yeats, a great Irish poet of the last century, wrote a famous poem, “The Second Coming,” in which this line appeared, describing the world Yeats saw around him: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.” What Yeats saw was that so many young people, who should have been the hope for the future, believed in nothing, and dedicated themselves to nothing, (“the best lack all conviction”) while the Nazis and Communists, then seizing power, tried violently to force their ideas on everyone (“the worst are filled with passionate intensity”). Indifference and intolerance were side-by-side threats. In our gospel reading today, Jesus Christ attacks both these temptations. John the Apostle tries to show Jesus what a loyal follower he is by telling the Master that he has caught a stranger using Jesus’ name to cast out an evil spirit! John very jealously tried to stop the stranger from doing that, because he was not one of the officially authorized disciples. Jesus teaches John (and us) a lesson in tolerance: “Don’t stop him! No one can act in my name and power and speak ill of me – if he is not against us he is with us.” Those words of Jesus remind the Church of a story about Moses and Joshua, so we have our first reading this afternoon. Moses tells Joshua to not be jealous of a gift of God to other people, just because they received the gift while separated from Moses and Joshua. Sometimes our neighbors will not permit us to live our Catholic lives in peace and with respect. This is a much greater problem in other countries than it is here, but it happens in this country as well. Still, that is not an excuse for us to treat others with hatred or contempt or sarcasm. Instead, we need to give a good example of the tolerance everyone should practice. We ought to rejoice over the goodness in everyone, including those who do not share our faith. Remember those words from the Prayer of the Order that we prayed together yesterday: We asked of Christ, “Give us the strength to love all beings of the world your Father has created, and more so, our enemies.” Perhaps the greatest single challenge we presently face as Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem is summed up in the title of Jim Pahanik’s book, “The Long Journey: The Search for Peace and Justice in Jerusalem,” and in the title of Patriarch Michel Sabbah’s most recent book, “Faithful Witness: On Reconciliation and Peace in the Holy Land.” It is fear of violence, weariness with oppression, and
the impossibility of a free life of civil peace and of gainful employment that have so severely diminished the Christian presence in the Holy Land in recent decades. We are called to pray, sacrifice, witness and work for peace and justice for all who live in the Holy Land. Without the mutual regard and respect that tolerance demands, peace and justice will forever be just a few more negotiating sessions away. Tolerance is not the same as indifference. If we admit that there may be more than one way to God, that is not the same as saying we believe that every way is equally good, or that it doesn’t really matter which way you choose. That is not what we Catholics believe. To admit that all truth is bigger than any one man’s grasp of it is not the same as saying that no one can know the truth or that there are no real answers anywhere. That is not what we Catholics believe. When someone attacks our Catholic faith, we need to be informed and committed enough to respond, and to respond vigorously as well as respectfully. However, a vigorous defense is different from a savage attack on the faith of someone else. Several years ago, in Regensburg, Germany, Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI strongly but respectfully challenged those who would use violence to defend their own faith and to force that faith on others. In some places his statement was met with the very violence he was denouncing. Individually and collectively, our human temptation is to be intolerant of others and very tolerant of ourselves. We easily condemn in someone else what we overlook in ourselves. For example, I might say, “My neighbor spoke harshly to me this morning. That proves what he is really like inside. It shows how he really feels about me.” But I easily make excuses for myself: “She shouldn’t be angry just because I spoke a little strongly. She should realize I had a headache, and I was in a hurry.” Making excuses for ourselves comes more easily than making excuses for others. So Jesus teaches us to save our “passionate intensity” for our commitment to our own faith, and not to spend it on attacking others. The words Jesus uses here sound extreme: If your hand or your foot or your eye leads you into sin, cut it off or pluck it out! The custom in the time of Jesus was to use exaggeration for the sake of emphasis. Remember some other examples from the Savior’s teaching: he sees the Pharisees making a big deal out of a small matter, and then not even seeing a truly serious matter for what it is, so he accuses them of straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel. Another time Jesus teaches his followers to correct their own faults before correcting those of others, so he asks, “Why do you see the tiny speck in your neighbor’s eye,
but do not notice the log in your own eye?” Besides, we often speak like this ourselves. Think of the exasperated mother who says, “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a million times, don’t exaggerate!” Or someone with a closet Archbishop full of clothes who George H. complains, “I haven’t a thing to wear!” Indeed, Neiderauer according to the Apostle James, in our second reading, we had better go through our closets from time to time and give what we no longer wear to those who need it more. What is Jesus teaching us here? To be passionate and whole-hearted in our effort to follow him, to apply his teaching to every aspect of our lives, to every relationship, so that nothing is “off-limits” to our living as a Catholic Christian. Jesus challenges us to challenge ourselves: “Do not tolerate the sins you commit with your hands or your feet or your eyes.” That includes the places we go, the things we read and watch and listen to, the gestures we make, and all the sins we commit in our speech. We need to try to cut out of our lives those actions that offend God and hurt our sisters and brothers in Christ. Of course we do not cut the actual tongue or hand or foot or eye. Instead, we try to cut out the actions that abuse those parts of us that are gifts from God. The lessons Jesus teaches in the gospel story today support one another. We need to welcome and value the people whose backgrounds and beliefs differ from our own, especially when we can make common cause with them in working for peace and justice. At the same time we need to be vigilant about the words and actions over which we do have control and for which we have responsibility: namely, our own words and actions. We pray for our Order around the world to be given the courage, perseverance and generosity of those first Knights, so that, in our time, we cooperate with God’s grace working within us and among us, so that peace and justice may flourish in the land made holy by the Savior who gives himself to us in this Eucharist and gave himself for all peoples on the Cross. We call out to the Lord with the words of our Order’s Prayer: “Free our soul and heart from sin, from partiality, from bias, selfishness and timidity, so that we can be worthy of Your sacrifice.”
Guest Commentary From broke to brokenness By Cyrus Johnson
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Sometimes it takes everything being taken away to see what remains. In a modern world in which all fleeting things have been promoted and promised as eternal human ideals, it’s easy to believe that human happiness subsists in human things. How could it not? Television, movies, fashion, pop radio, the Internet, and technology all promise to make us better, wiser, prettier, healthier, happier, and richer. A modern King Midas would today be a personal mental figure in each of us, not a physical one; for all around us is promised mental gold, if only we would read out and touch what we are told to grasp. But when a creeping economic slowdown; a collective dissipation of worldly value threatens the cultural storyline many of us believe, we have but two alternatives: denial or submission, hubris or humiliation. Denial and hubris is one route. We can tell ourselves that when jobs fail, income fails, housing values fail, government fails, families fail, religious leaders fail, that there is no failure. We can tell ourselves that what is happening is not. We can tell ourselves that the riches which were promised are just delayed, or hidden, or actually in our possession but we just do not realize it. We can make our religion a human “hope” and paper over the failing of human solutions with more human platitudes. But a false hope is only temporarily satisfying; a slogan when one needs a belief. And in the end a fleeting satisfaction is no satisfaction at all for it placates without true relief. No, we must not choose denial and hubris. We must elect the tougher part. In our present slowdown we must allow ourselves to be brought low. In a culture that has failed us, but will not admit to it, or we ourselves to it, we must stand for the humiliation which comes from recognition that man-made things provide only man-made solutions (which, because man is imperfect, must always fail eventually). It is a difficult time economically and for people in today’s culture. Many of us have lost our jobs or seen reductions in our business or seen our income or economic wealth diminish.
Now nearly all of us also suffer through an acute moral poverty, unseen in history, brought on by a lack of diversification in our human intentions. We put all our faith in man and forgot who made us. And now, like a “Dotcom” or “real estate” bubble, in a larger sense, humanity’s bubble has burst. We must ask just what dark figure convinced us to believe all of this in the first place. The answer is to see through the myths of our age to the brokenness of each one of us. Man will not, the culture will not, the government will not fix what is broken inside of us, our loss of our sense of brokenness. Let us see the graces in the present American and global difficulties. Let us see that from this God is bringing forth greater love and union with him. Let us recognize, through thought but more so in prayer, that we are loved in spite of our brokenness – we need not run from it but should embrace it to receive the “Sole Consolation” that never fails. “Christ Our Hope” was the message of Our Holy Father when he visited our country last year. We should ask ourselves today if we are seeking that “Sure Hope” or a modern humanbased counterfeit. Our present difficulties invite and illumine this choice, and what a gift that is in itself. The answer to economic and human poverty is spiritual poverty. Divinely and humanly expressed by Christ in the Beatitudes from the Sermon on the Mount; “Blessed are the poor in spirit, the kingdom of heaven is theirs.” The answer to being brought low is to bring oneself low. The answer to the failing of human solutions is the abandonment of more human solutions. When we realize what we are not, we realize what we can be, when we put our head low and away from the frenetic hand of man we cannot help but see the “Loving Hand” there to console us. And this is also the one true “Invisible Hand”; the essence of the path of love. It is even made visible in our priests! From broke to brokenness. From brokenness, through the valley of human fiction, to Eternal Consolation: Such is the grace of today and what a loving God we have! Cyrus Johnson is a parishioner and father at St. Matthew Parish and School in San Mateo.
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Making a Difference
Standing for life on the front lines The front lines are always dangerous. Standing up for a just cause in the face of injustice is uncomfortable at best and deadly at worst. Jim Pouillon knew that. According to LifeNews.com, almost every weekday for over 10 years in Owosso, Mich., Pouillon publicly witnessed to the humanity of unborn life by holding a large picture of an unborn baby. With his oxygen tank and leg braces, he prayerfully endured verbal insults and projectiles. But on Sept. 11, 2009, he paid the ultimate price. While holding a picture of an unborn baby on a public sidewalk in front of Owosso High School, Jim Pouillon was shot to death. Scant media coverage has kept most Americans in the dark concerning Pouillon’s murder. But when an abortionist who makes his or her living killing innocent unborn babies is murdered, it’s breaking news. Federal marshals are sent to abortion mills to ensure continued access to these killing centers. Killing is not the way of the nonviolent Jesus. Killing an abortionist is gravely immoral. But the killing of unborn babies is also gravely immoral – arguably more immoral. There’s a double standard here. Where are all the news stories about Pouillon’s murder? Why aren’t federal marshals being stationed to protect pro-lifers at abortion mills? I have a firsthand sense of what’s happening here. Nearly
every Thursday I stand with a few men and women on a public sidewalk near an abortion mill in Baltimore. There we pray the rosary and hold large pictures of aborted babies. From passing motorists we get everything from thumbs up to middle fingers. We hear horns blowing in agreement and angry shouts of condemnation. And sometimes we too are threatened. We live in a culture that often hides the truth. So when people are presented with the truth – like the reality of what an aborted baby looks like – many react with anger. But most of the passing motorists are not angry; they are indifferent. It’s mostly indifference that keeps the barbaric practice of abortion legal. It’s indifference that keeps the masses asleep in the midst of evil. Even the Church is often napping when it comes to confronting the “culture of death” (see Pope John Paul II’s prophetic encyclical letter “The Gospel of Life”). Why is it so difficult to persuade Catholics and other believers to join us on the front lines? Yes, it’s potentially dangerous. But genuine Christianity cannot be lived in a protective shell. It’s said that ships are always safest in a harbor, but ships are not meant to stay safely anchored in harbors; they are meant to sail the open and often rough seas!
But even the safe harbors of pro-life homilies and legislative lobbying are only occasionally sailed into. Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, told me that “America will not reject abortion until Tony Magliano America sees abortion.” Despite the tragic indifference of many, the seeds of pro-life activism are being planted in the consciences of many others who see the horrific pictures of aborted babies. Jim Pouillon is a modern pro-life martyr. He shed his blood to help end the shedding of the blood of unborn babies. Tertullian, an early Church father, observed that during times of persecution the Church’s membership grew enormously. He wrote: “The blood of the martyrs is seed.” May Pouillon’s death be a seed that inspires many to actively join pro-life efforts – even on the front lines! Tony Magliano writes a column for Catholic News Service.
Twenty Something
Reminding each other what God can do Oprah imagined the comeback long before Whitney Houston stepped on her stage and delivered it. She sang, “Oprah said, ‘Girl, do you know you’re loved?’ Now I know my own strength.” Oprah blinked away a tear and the audience screamed, and in that moment, Whitney’s triumph over addictive drugs became Oprah’s triumph over sagging ratings. It was a classic Harpo exchange, one that managed to feel both commercial and spiritual. As the two women hugged, I thought about the transformations we cheer into being, clapping and whistling, waving brightly-colored poster boards that broadcast our confidence. In my twenty-some years, I’ve been blessed with many cheerleaders, and lately, I’ve been more attuned to their impact, the way they spur along my pursuit of big dreams and small to-dos. The other day, for instance, I told my dad that a National Public Radio editor is considering an essay of mine and has requested audio samples – something I’m a tad short on. Dad didn’t miss a beat, recalling a few 10-minute segments I did five years ago. “You’ve got radio experience! Did you tell him about those Relevant Radio interviews?” His confidence gave me the strength to press send on the email I’d pieced together, to take the risk and make the leap.
Dad is also there to classify failures as flukes. “You just had an off day,” he said last month, after a softball game filled with strike-outs. He pulled me out of my rut with batting practice. “You were watching the ball,” he said between pitches, “but you weren’t focusing on it.” After a few more whiffs, I put bat on ball. Then I made smoother strokes. The next game, I was back. My mom also has cheered me along. She was there to listen to every story I wrote as a girl. Where there were heavy adverbs and too many participial phrases, Mom heard a burgeoning vocabulary and a creative mind. She listened to my clarinet, sipping her tea and trusting that “Three Blind Mice” would one day turn into Mozart. She believed scales would be followed by symphonies and flat notes would slide into tune; that Dr. Seuss would lead to Shakespeare, Little League to varsity, and tantrums to temperance. She knew what practice could do, what braces could do, what a good night’s sleep could do, what time could do, and ultimately, what God could do. This month’s readings illustrate the transformative power of God’s love, a God who counted each hair on our heads, the God who restored vision to the blind man, the God for whom “all things are possible.” We never really outgrow the desire for gold stars and
blue ribbons. The rallying cries of our cheerleaders mean even more in young adulthood, when doubts can be darker and more persistent. It is a novel juncture: We are old enough to recognize and appreciate their support, Christina and we’re old enough to become cheerleaders Capecchi to others, including our parents, blossoming into vibrant grandparents and active retirees. When we demonstrate our belief in friends and relatives, classmates and colleagues, we invite them into a clearer sense of self, a picture that is closer to the way God sees them: cherished, resilient, whole. How blessed we are by the ones who love us as sinners and believe in us as saints. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. Email her at Christina@readchristina.com.
The Catholic Difference
Some Cold War truths On Christmas Day, 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev transferred the Soviet nuclear codes to Boris Yeltsin, called President George H.W. Bush to wish him a happy Christmas, and picked up a pen, intending to sign the document that would dissolve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, created by Lenin 74 years before. The pen wouldn’t work. Gorbachev had to borrow a replacement from a CNN crew covering the story. The Cold War was officially over, which was a very good thing. Yet as we prepare to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall—the symbolic centerpiece of the Revolution of 1989, which made the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 virtually inevitable—there seems to be a remarkable lack of interest in a struggle that dominated world politics for 43 years, threatening nuclear ruin to North America, Europe and the USSR, devastating Korea and Southeast Asia, and embroiling the Third World in proxy wars from which many developing countries have never really recovered. Something that large and consequential, you would think, would merit considerable and ongoing attention. Yet, to take but one example, modern history classes in Polish schools today stop at 1939 (or, in some cases 1945). Things are not much better in the United States, I fear. Americans are traditionally good winners who don’t hold grudges. There was no gloating over the collapse of the USSR. There were no equivalents of the Nuremberg Trials, or the Allied military tribunals in post-war Japan, to bring the murderers of the KGB to book. There wasn’t even a VC Day—Victory Over
Communism Day—to parallel VE Day and VJ Day in 1945. Perhaps many Americans thought it would have been unsporting to declare victory. We quickly put the Cold War behind us. Worse than today’s lack of interest, however, are those interpretations of the Cold War that suggest it was all a terrible misunderstanding, or that Stalin was “provoked” into hostility toward the West, or that the West could have comes to terms with the Soviet Union long before 1989. With an eye toward the 20th anniversary of the wall coming down, let me propose a few truths about the Cold War and its ending, with special reference to the Catholic Church and its roles under, and against, communism: Moral equivalence is moral idiocy. The United States and its western allies during the Cold War were imperfect democracies that sometimes did wicked things. Throughout the Cold War (and long before), the Soviet Union was a pluperfect tyranny that did terrible things as a matter of course, murdering millions of innocent people in cold blood. Any suggestion that the U.S. and the USSR were “two scorpions in a bottle” (as one Carter administration nominee famously put it) reflects a fundamental moral obtuseness about the situation. The Ostpolitik of Pope Paul VI did not ease the situation of the Catholic Church behind the iron curtain. Pope Paul’s openness to dialogue with communist regimes can claim one genuine (if unintended) accomplishment: it created openings that a Polish pope (who viewed his predecessor’s Ostpolitik with considerable skepticism) could exploit (often against the counsel of Vatican
diplomats). On the ground, the Ostpolitik of Paul VI was a disaster in Hungary (where most bishops from the mid-1960s on collaborated with the regime), in Czechoslovakia (where the underground Church George Weigel felt betrayed), and even in Rome, where Soviet bloc intelligence agencies used the new diplomatic contacts necessitated by the Ostpolitik to penetrate the Vatican in a quite striking way. Moral power was the key to success. Communism might have collapsed of its own economic incompetence, but why did it collapse in 1989 rather than 1999 or 2009 or 2019? And why did it collapse without violence (Romania excepted)? Our premier Cold War historian, John Lewis Gaddis of Yale, has the answer: the moral revolution launched by John Paul II during his first pilgrimage to Poland in June 1979 was the key to all the rest. There were winners and losers in this epic contest. Be grateful that we won. Be grateful for all those who sacrificed blood and treasure for the victory. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF SIRACH SIR 3:17-24 My son, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. For great is the power of God; by the humble he is glorified. What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond your strength search not. What is committed to you, attend to; for what is hidden is not your concern. With what is too much for you meddle not, when shown things beyond human understanding. Their own opinion has misled many, and false reasoning unbalanced their judgment. Where the pupil of the eye is missing, there is no light, and where there is no knowledge, there is no wisdom. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 16:1B-2A AND 5, 7-8, 11 R. You are my inheritance, O Lord. Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge; I say to the Lord, “My Lord are you.”
October 2, 2009
The Solemnity of St. Francis of Assisi Sirach 3:17-24; Psalm 16:1b-2a, 5, 7-8, 11; Galations 6:14-18; Matthew 11:25-30 O Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot. R. You are my inheritance, O Lord. I bless the Lord who counsels me; even in the night my heart exhorts me. I set the Lord ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed. R. You are my inheritance, O Lord. You will show me the path to life, fullness of joys in your presence,
the delights at your right hand forever. R. You are my inheritance, O Lord. A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE GALATIANS GAL 6:14-18 But may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither does circumcision mean anything, nor does uncircumcision, but only a new creation. Peace and mercy be to all
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arely does the Church supplant the readings and prayers designated in the liturgical year for a particular Sunday Liturgy, but there are exceptions, and the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron of our archdiocese, is one of those exceptional days. And lucky for us because this weekend we get to experience, in addition to the timeless wisdom of Sirach, Paul and Matthew, the exceptional power of the Sacramentary’s beautiful liturgy of the saints, a treat usually only enjoyed by folks who attend weekday mass. The texts of the scriptural readings are familiar to us: From the wisdom literature of Ben Sira, we hear the advice to live a life of humility; from Paul’s letter to the Church at Galatia, the simple reminder that it is God’s providence, His new creation, not our observance of law, that brings grace; and in Matthew’s recounting of Jesus, a call to the simple wisdom of children. No accident it is that these readings for the feast of the counter-cultural, give-it-allaway and-live as-servant Francis speak to the counter-intuitive (and counter- cultural) truth that it is humility and reconciliation, not arrogance and domination that ultimately bring deep and abiding joy. And, given the tendency of us humans to see ourselves as the center of the universe, no surprise it is that the world of the third millennium is as much in need of the advice of Sirach, Paul and Jesus to consider our place in the vastness of this immense cosmos as was the ancient world. As familiar as these readings may be, their challenge is no less demanding. To help us move from the mere hearing of the word to the becoming of what we hear, the Sacramentary offers in the liturgy of the saints several places for our presiders and deacons to make a departure from the standard prayers to which we have become accustomed and to present, instead, dynamic prayers specifically
Scripture reflection ROB GRANT
How do we celebrate our saints? geared to the feast of Francis. For instance, the “collects,” the prayers in our liturgy which the presider opens with “Let us pray...” on this feast of St. Francis reference the actual life of Francis, calling us who hear the prayer to imitate Francis in our lives In its wisdom, the Church allows presiders to revisit the ancient practice of adapting prayers to the particular needs of the community by improvising these collects so as to aid the faithful in their movement from words to deeds. With this in mind, presiders could consider this opening prayer for the Feast of St. Francis: Ever loving God, stir up your Spirit in us as we gather here in prayer. Let us hear in your Word the call to humility and simplicity, the call answered so fully by our exemplar, advocate, and patron, Francis. Lead us forward in the work of peace, reconciliation and selflessness that mark the life of gentle Francis. Open our eyes, that we, like Francis may see, and become responsible caretakers of, the beauty of all creation, the Kingdom of God, breaking into our midst. Amen.
The next “collection:” of prayers is the Prayer of the Faithful which ideally is to be written by the community to reflect, on this feast, the community’s desire to bring to modern life the healing, conciliatory example of Francis. Such prayers underscore an essential purpose of liturgy that we may all too easily overlook: ritual as the vehicle of personal and communal transformation. The very derivation of the word liturgy, from the Greek Leitourgia, itself from the words leito (of the people) and ergon (work) remind us that, not only is liturgy “the work of the people,” a public expression of worship, but it is intended to be “work,” that is movement, accomplishment, an effort that builds and produces change in the participants. To further amplify this transformational intent, the Sacramentary also offers special texts for the preface of the Mass and the Eucharistic Prayer: It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere to give
who follow this rule and to the Israel of God. From now on, let no one make troubles for me; for I bear the marks of Jesus on my body. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers. Amen. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 11:25-30 At that time Jesus said in reply, “I give praise to you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, for although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal him. “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for your selves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God, through Christ our Lord. You exalted your servant Francis through sublime poverty and humility to the heights of Christ like perfection. You inflamed him with angelic love to exult with unspeakable joy over the works of your creation. You branded him with the sacred stigmata, and so gave us the image of the crucified Jesus Christ our Lord. Through Him the choirs of angels and all the powers of heaven praise and worship your glory. May our voices blend with theirs as we join in their unending hymn of praise: Following this is the Eucharistic Prayer, and on this feast day, an option for using one of the other14 (rarely used) Eucharistic Prayers offered in the Sacramentary, the beautiful text of the Eucharistic Prayer for Holy Men and Women: Father, all-powerful and ever-living God, we do well always and everywhere to give You thanks. For You are glorified in the assembly of Your saints, for in crowning their merits, You crown the gifts You have given them. In their lives on earth, You give us an example; In our communion with them, You give us their friendship; In their prayer for the Church, You give us strength and protection. This great company of witnesses spurs us on to victory, to share their prize of everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord.... How best do we celebrate the saints? As our readings and prayers for this day challenge us, perhaps Francis and his heavenly companions would hope that we put as much energy into making real in our own lives their earthly virtues as we do imploring their heavenly intervention. Rob Grant is a 30-year veteran of parish music ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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Eucharist as a celebration of everyday life We sometimes forget that Jesus was born in a barn, not a church, and that the God of the Incarnation is as much about kitchen tables as ecclesial altars. God is as much domestic as monastic. This is important to keep in mind as we try to understand the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the body of Christ, a continuation of the Incarnation, and, like Jesus’ birth, is meant to bring the divine into concrete, everyday life. Hence, among its other things, the Eucharist is meant simply to be a family meal, a community celebration, a place, like our kitchen tables and living rooms, where we come together to be with each other, to share ordinary life, to celebrate special events with each other, to console and cry with each other when life is full of heartaches, and to be together simply for the sake of being together. It is not good for the man to be alone. God spoke those words just before creating Eve, and he meant them not just about Adam, the first man, but about every man, woman, child, and creature forever. Nothing is an island, not even a molecule or an atom. Everything is meant to be in relationship. The Eucharist honors that. When Jesus gave us the Eucharist, he intended it to be
a ritual that invites us to come together as a family in every circumstance of our lives. In faith, just as in nature, we are meant to come together with others when we are happy and when we are sad, when the occasion is festive and when the occasion is mundane, when we celebrate new life and when we bury loved ones, when we give ourselves to each other in marriage and when we need reconciliation, when our energy is high and when our energy is low, when we feel the need for each other and when we want distance from others, and when we have no other reason to be together other than the fact that our nature invites us there. The Eucharist invites us to gather as family. The very essence of family life is sharing with others both the special and the ordinary moments of life. Families gather together to celebrate occasions: Birthdays, weddings, graduations, transitions, illnesses, wakes, and funerals. At these times the atmosphere is more charged, the energy is higher, and there is a clearer sense that this is an occasion that merits our coming together. But families that sustain themselves also gather regularly, ideally daily, irrespective of whether there
is a special occasion or not. They don’t just gather when the energy is good, when everyone is at his or her best, when nobody is bored or angry, and when some occasion merits the effort. They Father come together reguRon Rolheiser larly, despite tedium, boredom, low energy, busyness, distractions, and interpersonal tensions because they recognize, however inchoately, that family life is as much about sharing the mundane, the distracted, the sports scores, and the tensions of life, as it is about sharing special and joyous moments. The weekday supper of hotdogs and beans, wolfed-down in 20 minutes with the conversation going no deeper than the sports scores, is not exactly the same SPIRITUALITY FOR LIFE, page 17
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St. John Vianney and the Year for Priests The patron saint of my parish is St. John Vianney. This year the whole Catholic world is becoming familiar with him because Pope Benedict XVI has proclaimed a Year for Priests under the patronage of St. John Vianney. Jean-Marie Vianney is the patron saint of parish priests. He was the pastor of the little town of Ars, France (near Lyon), in the turbulent era following the French aRevolution. He is known as the Cure of Ars since as a pastor he had the “cure” or “care” of souls. He died 150 years ago. Aug. 4, 1859, is his “dies natalis,” the day of his birth into everlasting life. Before I came to my parish, I didn’t know much about St. John Vianney. And what I did know did not seem very appealing. He seemed like one of those plastic saints, a little unreal, even a little ditzy. I never liked the stories about him eating rotten potatoes or spending 18 hours a day in the confessional. I just didn’t believe it or think it sounded healthy, spiritually or physically. Pope Benedict has noted that sometimes the biographers of the saint were given to “pious excess.” I never heard St. John Vianney even mentioned in my seminary years, even though we were supposed to be training to be like him, parish priests.
It was not until I came to a parish named for him that I began to learn about his life. People gave me books about him and collections of his sermons. His sermons struck me as severe, mostly admonishing the sinner and condemning sin. John Vianney did not approve of dancing or playing cards. But gradually, I have come to admire St. John Vianney. Ironically, the man who is now the model and measure of parish priests almost did not get ordained himself. He was, to be blunt, not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. He was sent to Ars, a town of only 230 souls. Few of them went to church. The bishop is reported to have said that at least John Vianney could do no damage in Ars. He stayed in that little parish for 42 years, the rest of his life. (Imagine, only one assignment!) There he fell in love with the people of his parish. Eventually they fell in love with him. They could see that he cared about them. He also cared about being a priest. He had reverence for what he was and what he did. His greatest love was celebrating the liturgy. “All good works taken together,” he wrote, “do not equal the sacrifice of the Mass.”
He loved hearing confessions, because he loved the people who came to him. He cared about their souls and their happiness. He wanted them to be free of the burden of sin. Near the end of his Father Peter life, John Vianney’s repuJ. Daly tation as a confessor was so great that people came from all over France just to confess their sins to him. He was famous as a holy man. The French government awarded him its highest honor, the Legion of Honor. His most eloquent sermon was his life. Pope Benedict has said of him, “St. John Vianney taught his parishioners primarily by the witness of his life.” In that sense he is a very real and modern saint. Today we put more faith in lived example than in words of holiness. St. John Vianney was a saint who “walked the walk” more than “talked the talk.” In that regard, he is an example for us all.
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accept this is evident in the simple criticism that is made of people who go to church principally because of its social aspect: “She doesn’t go to church to pray! She just goes for the socializing, for the chance to talk with others!” That is always voiced as a negative when, in fact, it a good reason, among others, to go the Eucharist. The ritual of the Eucharist was given to us because we are social in our very make-up. To go to church to socialize is reason enough to be there. I wish I had known that as child when I went to church on special feast days, like Christmas or Easter, and heard the priest using the word “celebration” to describe our Eucharistic gathering and never, not even for a second,
connecting that with the much-anticipated family dinner we would be having once we got home from church. I wish too that people would know this when they stay away from church because of boredom or anger or because they feel their presence there is only social and not an act of prayer. One of the reasons we go to church is to pray, but we go there too for the same reason we go to the family table every evening. It’s good to be there, no matter what!
■ Continued from page 16 stuff as the fare of the Christmas dinner or the conversation that takes place at a wedding or a funeral, but it is equally as important in creating family and keeping a family together. Families are for everyday, just as they are for special occasions. So too is the Eucharist. For a variety of reasons, we have been slow to take this aspect of the Eucharist seriously. Perhaps this is because its other dimensions seem more sacred. Our reluctance to
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Pope urges Czechs to regain values that inspired fight for freedom PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CNS) – Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the peaceful revolt that brought down the country’s communist regime, Pope Benedict XVI urged people in the Czech Republic to rediscover the spiritual and moral values that sustained their struggle for freedom. In gatherings Sept. 26-28 with political, social, cultural and religious leaders as well as the Catholic faithful, the pope delivered a message of hope meant to inspire both the country’s majority of nonbelievers and the minority Catholic community. Central to his message was that no society, no matter how democratic, could ever maintain a healthy and ethical sense of freedom without guidance from the truth found in God and the wisdom of faith. The pope’s trip to Prague, Brno, and Stara Boleslav was his 13th trip abroad and his seventh to Europe. The fact that more than half of his apostolic journeys so far have been to Europe reflects his deep concern for revitalizing the continent’s Christian heritage. “True freedom presupposes the search for truth – for the true good – and hence finds its fulfillment precisely in knowing and doing what is right and just,� the pope said during a meeting Sept. 26 with diplomats and political, civil, religious and cultural leaders in Prague’s presidential palace. Under the soaring gilded stucco ceilings of the palace, the pope reminded his audience that the country’s hard-fought freedom must be properly used. Leaders in society have the duty to encourage citizens to seek the truth and goodness, he said. “Jointly we must engage in the struggle for freedom and the search for truth, which either go together, hand in hand, or together they perish in misery,� the pope said. He urged people “to apply their faith respectfully yet decisively in the public arena� so that the truth and wisdom of faith could light the path of human progress. “Far from threatening the tolerance of differences or cultural plurality, the pursuit of truth makes consensus possible, keeps
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Young people in traditional dress pray before the start of Mass with Pope Benedict XVI in Brno, Czech Republic, Sept. 27. The papal Mass drew an estimated 120,000 people and included pilgrims from the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovakia, Germany and Poland.
public debate logical, honest and accountable� and ensures a society that is united and dedicated to the common good, he said. The Czech Republic represents a unique challenge for the church. Some 60 percent of the population claims to profess no religious belief – making it the most secular country in Europe. The largest faith community on the landscape is the Catholic Church, but Catholics are still only 30 percent of all inhabitants, and only a small percent say they are active members of the church. The pope told journalists aboard the papal flight to Prague “that normally those who determine the future are the creative minority,� and he said this applies to European countries like the Czech Republic. “The Catholic Church must see itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not passe but are alive and relevant,� he said. At a welcoming ceremony at Prague’s airport, the pope said the impact of 40 years of an atheist totalitarian regime could not be underestimated. The flame of faith has been kept alive thanks to the many “courageous martyrs whose fidelity to Christ spoke far
louder and more eloquently than the voice of their executioners,� he said. At an outdoor Mass Sept. 28 to celebrate the feast of St. Wenceslas, the patron saint of the Czech Republic, the pope said bearing witness to the Gospel was not easy. “It is not enough to appear good and honest: One must truly be so. And the good and honest person is the one who does not obscure God’s light with his own ego, does not put himself forward, but allows God to shine through,� the pope said in his homily. Sometimes it seems there is little motivation to put Christ first when so many people who exclude God from their lives and show no respect for others end up reaching the highest pinnacles of power or achieve great success, he said. But “one need only scratch the surface to realize how sad and unfulfilled these people are,� and history points to many powerful figures in history who all of a sudden were stripped of their power, he said. Some 40,000 people assembled for the outdoor Mass in a large field in Stara Boleslav. The town, 15 miles northeast of Prague, represents the spiritual heart of Bohemia and the origin of Czech statehood. Every year on Sept. 28
patriotic sentiment and religious devotion merge as citizens take part in a pilgrimage to Stara Boleslav, where St. Wenceslas, a 10th-century prince credited with bringing Christianity to the Czech people, was murdered by his brother. The Mass seemed like a mini-World Youth Day celebration as past youth day theme songs were sung and thousands of young people cheered and waved the flags of various countries. Many slept overnight in tents and some even came by water on rafts from a small town three miles away. After the Mass, the pope told the young people that Christ “knocks on the door of your freedom and asks to be welcomed as a friend.� While young people are often led astray by “illusory visions� of happiness, he said, only Christ can satisfy the human desire for happiness and meaning in life. Addressing students and scholars at Prague’s Hradcany Castle Sept. 27, the pope said education is not merely “the accumulation of knowledge or skills� and must include forming the human conscience so that the individual seeks to live a virtuous and ethical life. The pope highlighted his concern for families and children during his visit Sept. 26 to the Church of Our Lady of Victory, where he venerated the Infant of Prague. Kneeling before the 18-inch-high statue, which draws two million pilgrims a year, the pope gave a special blessing for all the children of the world and appealed for increased attention to children in difficulty. The holy infant recalls the beauty of childhood, he said. “Yet how many children are neither loved, nor welcomed, nor respected. How many of them suffer violence and every kind of exploitation by the unscrupulous,� he said. There was not much public sign of the pope’s presence in Prague, with few posters and very little fanfare along the routes taken by the papal motorcade. Much of the city had emptied out for the three-day holiday weekend, perhaps spurred by dire warnings of traffic snarls during the papal visit. But the papal visit drew Catholics from all over the Czech nation and from neighboring Austria, Slovakia, Germany and Poland, specifically for the outdoor Mass Sept. 27 in the POPE URGES CZECHS, page 22
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Reviewed by Sister Mona Castelazo, CSJ “Wrestling With Our Inner Angels” by Nancy Kehoe, “Jesus Wept” by Barbara Crafton and “A Spirituality for Brokenness” by Terry Taylor deal with spiritual and psychological disturbances. Each author offers insights into the connection between faith and mental illness. Sister Nancy Kehoe, author of “Wrestling With Our Inner Angels,” is a Society of the Sacred Heart sister and clinical instructor of psychology who realized that the health care system has ignored the religious life of patients. She conducts groups of depressed, suicidal patients in exploring spirituality in relation to their illness.
Struggling with dual challenges of mental illness and guilt, patients felt they were inherently evil and were therefore unable to relate to others, to appreciate beauty, to use “well-chosen words or images,” or to experience hope. Sister Kehoe shares her personal experiences and those of her patients to show how healing requires both psychological and spiritual ministry. By listening to each other, patients connect and help one another. Sister Kehoe believes that all therapists should be open to the idea that each patient “has a sense of an internal life-giving voice, even in the midst of chaotic, hallucinatory experience.” Destructive family and/or religious experiences may lead to mental illness, but discernment,
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St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 Oct. 1 – 4: Cathedral Festival of Flowers - The International Year. The Cathedral Festival of Flowers was founded in 2007. In 2009, “Cathedral Festival of Flowers – The International Year” will welcome some of the most renowned floral artists from the Bay Area alongside special guest designers from the Northern Ireland Group of flower Arranging Societies, the National Association of Floral Arrangement Societies of England, and the Association of Irish Flower Arrangers. The Festival will conclude on Oct. 4 at 4 p.m. with a Festival of Choirs. A complete schedule of events for the festival can be found at: cathedralflowers.org. Oct. 4, 2 p.m.: Blessing of Animals at neighboring St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell. Please bring pets on a leash and also your own pooper scooper!St. Francis, feast day Oct. 4, (1181 - 1226) founded the Franciscan Order and is the patron saint of San Francisco and of Italy, and of all people who work to protect the environment. Oct. 4, 4 p.m.: The Annual Festival of Choirs at St. Mary’s Cathedral is among closing rites for the annual Festival of Flowers. Choirs from parishes throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco will participate. The concert will include performances from approximately a dozen choirs plus a combined effort of the entire ensemble of voices. “It’s well over 100 singers,” said Russell Ferreira, director of music at St. Cecilia Parish. Selections include All Creatures of Our God and King, For the Beauty of the Earth (Rutter), Make Me a Channel of Your Peace (in honor of the solemnity of the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi and Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. Free Admission. St. Damien’s Day at the Cathedral, Thursday, October 15: The Belgian born Father Damien (priest to the lepers of Molokai, later becoming a leper himself) will be canonized on October 11, in Rome. On October 15 his relic will be brought to the Cathedral, en route to Honolulu where the relic will be permanently housed.7:30 p.m. Reception and Veneration of the Relic of St. Damien of Molokai, Archbishop George H. Niederauer will receive the relic of St. Damien with prayer, word and song led by Bay Area members of the Pacific Islands, all are invited to attend.
Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life Oct. 6, Nov. 10, Dec. 1, 7 p.m.: Father David Pettingill, an inspirational, energetic, speaker who helps connect faith with life will speak on documents of the Church and Vatican II at St. Charles Parish, 880 Tamarack Ave. at Belle in San Carlos, His warm style and ease ensure a thoroughly enjoyable experience discovering these aspects of the faith anew. Free admission. Contact Nancy Farrant at (650) 591-7349 or e-mail nfarrant@stcharlesparish.org. Oct. 10, 11:30 a.m.: Rosary Rally at St. Catherine of Siena Church, Bayswater at El Camino Real in Burlingame. Parking in church lot. Event is part of national America Needs Fatima Campaign. Final apparition of Our Lady at Fatima was Oct. 13. Contact Judy Miller at (650) 342-1988. Oct. 30, 31 Nov. 1, 2: Teacher-training seminar in the Church-approved Billings Ovulation Method of Natural Family Planning will be held at Seton Medical Center, Daly City, from Oct. 30 to Nov 2. A preceptor and exam are included toward teacher certification. 19 CEUs are available for nurses. Cost: $575/person or $675/couple. Application deadline: Oct 15. See www.boma-usa.com or email boma-usa@msn.com or phone (650) 868-3090 Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468.
Reunions Oct. 16, 5:30 p.m.: Serra High School Homecoming and Alumni BBQ. All Serra alumni welcome. Kickoff at 7 p.m. Halftime ceremony honors undefeated football teams of ’49,’68, ’69. Contact Bob Greene ’85, alumni director at (650) 593-9935 ext 191 or e-mail bgreene@serrahs.com Oct. 17, 5:30 p.m.: Junipero Serra High School
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Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 Oct. 3, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass, All saints Mausoleum Chapel. Oct 11, 11 a.m.: Free cemetery walking tour – Notable Figures of San Francisco – a Holy Cross Cemetery Walking Tour in association with the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco History Association. Special Guest, Author Doug Dorst Alive in Necropolis. Call (650) 756-2060 to reserve your spot.
Special Liturgies Wednesdays 7 – 8 p.m.: Meditation Circle at Jane d’Aza Convent, 60 Locust Avenue at Grand Ave. in San Rafael. Women 18-35 wishing to experience a time of prayer and reflection with the Dominican Sisters of San Rafael are invited. For more information, call Dominican Sister Patricia Farrell at (415) 257-4937. Oct. 2, 7 p.m.: Domestic Violence Awareness Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th St. at Dolores in San Francisco. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William Justice will preside. Music features Mission Dolores Choir with Anna Maria Mendieta on harp. Sponsored by Ministers of Light. Call (415) 625-2710. Oct. 18, 11:30 a.m.: Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Mass at St. Dominic Church, Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco. All are invited including survivors, care-givers, and relatives and friends of those who have died from the disease. Dominican Father Francis Goode will preside. St. Dominic’s Solemn High Choir will lead song. Call Marti Dinan at (415) 929-9242 for more information.
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early as 4 in the morning and culminating with the “Misa de Gallo” on Christmas Eve to welcome Jesus’ birth. October 17, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: Parol Making Workshops on the lower level of St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Hall A. Learn to craft Christmas lanterns linked to Filipino Christmas tradition. Sponsored by participating parish Simbang Gabi communities with the Parol Lantern Festival and Parade sponsored by the Filipino American Development Foundation. Donations accepted to cover cost of materials and supplies. Contact: (415) 348-8042 or e-mail bernadette@bayanihancc.org. October 23, 7:30 p.m.: “A Night of Chorale Harmony” with the world renowned Philippine Madrigal Singers at Holy Name Church, 39th Ave. at Lawton in San Francisco. The ensemble is UNESCO Artist for Peace, and winner of the 2007 Grand Prix de la Ville de Tours Award. Proceeds benefit upcoming Simbang Gabi Advent gatherings. Tickets: $25. For inquiries, call: (415) 699-7927, (415) 564-0323, or e-mail paribolmusic@yahoo.com Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m.: Simbang Gabi commissioning Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough St. at Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. For more information e-mail nelliehizon@yahoo.com
Food & Fun Oct. 21, noon: Spaghetti and meatball lunch at Immaculate Conception Chapel, Folsom off Cesar Chavez/Army St. in San Francisco. Tickets are $8 per person. The family-style meal includes salad, bread, pasta and homemade meatballs. Beverages are available for purchase. The meal is served in the church hall, beneath the chapel. Call (415) 824-1762. Oct. 2, 3: Bingo night at Star of the Sea, Parish, Geary Blvd. at 8th Ave. in San Francisco at 6 p.m. $1 per card or $8 for 10 cards. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. Parish Festival, October 3, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Theme honors parish school’s 100th anniversary. Activities include festival games, TouchA-Truck, bounce-houses and climbing wall, as well as crafts and great food. Star of the Sea Italian Dinner, October 3. Social hour is at 4:30 p.m. with dinner 5:30 -7 p.m. Pasta, homemade sauce and meatballs, salad and ice cream. Live music and raffle, too. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for children. Parking is available for all events. Oct. 7, 6 p.m.: Serra Club Sisters and Brothers Appreciation Dinner honoring and thanking the women
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religious and professed Brothers of the Archdiocese of San Francisco at El Patio Espanol Restaurant, 2850 Alemany Blvd. in San Francisco. Socila at 6 p.m. begins the evening. Dinner Cost; $ 35 per person for dinner. Contact Vivian Mullaney at (415) 239-8280 or e-mail vivianmullaney@yahoo.com for reservations by Thursday, Oct.1 and indicate choice of entree: Salmon, New York Strip, or Pasta Primavera. Oct 9, 10, 11: Mission Dolores Harvest Festival: Friday 6-10 p.m. with a pasta dinner sponsored by the MD Alumni Class of 2008. Tickets at the door. Saturday 10 a.m. -5 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Pumpkin patch, carnival games, jumpers, international foods and entertainment will be located in the school yard. Featured in the auditorium will be a Free Child ID Program, silent auction, and the Tiger’s Sports Bar. Grand Raffle drawing for a Vegas weekend for two and other prizes will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. All proceeds benefit Mission Dolores School, 3371-16th St. bet Church & Dolores in San Francisco. Visit www.missiondolores.org or call (415) 861-7673. Oct. 10, 11, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.: Annual Columbus Day Bazaar on Washington Square benefiting St. Peter and Paul Elementary School. Enjoy games, food and entertainment including salami toss, giant slide, 18=hole minigolf, face painting, pumpkin bowling and more. Foods available for purchase include Italian sausage, grilled chicken, hot dogs, cotton candy. Call (415) 421-0809 or visit www.stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us. Oct. 10, 7 p.m.: Fiesta Filipina at St. Anne of the Sunset’s Moriarty Hall, Funston at Judah in San Francisco. Evening includes entertainment and dancing. Tickets are $35 for adults and $12 for children 6 – 12. Call Cely Zapanta at (415) 753-5154. Calling all rock stars: Serra High School presents “Rock of Ages,” the school’s annual benefit auction, from 5:30 to 11 p.m. Nov. 7. Come and enjoy a silent auction, hosted bar, dinner, dancing, raffle and live auction. Tickets are $100 per person; concert attire is optional or come as your favorite musician! For more information, e-mail tstoye@serrahs.com.
Support Resources Relevant to the Economy Edgewood Works: An employment support group, meets Mondays 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. and 4th Thursdays from 7 – 9 p.m. in Merry Room at St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Rd. in Redwood City There is no cost to attend. Drop-ins welcome. Call (650) 906-8836 or e-mail edgewoodworksstm@gmail.com for more information. Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.: Stress Management Group - Benefit from relaxation techniques, mind and body awareness practices, group support. Takes place at Catholic Charities CYO, 36 West 37th Avenue, San Mateo. Cost is $15 per sessionEnroll by calling Catholic Charities CYO at (650) 295-2160, ex.199. Pamela Eaken, MFTI, and Natasha Wiegand, MFTI, facilitate the sessions. The program is supervised by David Ross, Ph.D.
Taize/Chanted Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For information contact mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113.
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Pope urges Czechs . . . ■ Continued from page 18 Moravian diocese of Brno, some 140 miles southeast of Prague. Local organizers said 120,000 people attended the event, making it the largest Mass ever celebrated in the Czech Republic. Gathered on a mowed hayfield at the airport, the jubilant crowd waved flags and cheered when the pope’s plane landed. Some pilgrims wore colorful traditional dress, while others sported backpacks and pedaled bicycles to get to the event.
Three authors . . . ■ Continued from page 20 Terry Taylor, author of “A Spirituality for Brokenness,” is executive director of International Paths for Peace, an organization focusing on interfaith dialogue. Having experienced “brokenness,” or a sense of limitation and vulnerability at mid-life, the author attempts to offer spiritual
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The pope’s homily focused on hope and how “the only certain and reliable hope is founded on God.” “History has demonstrated the absurdities to which man descends when he excludes God from the horizon of his choices and actions, and how hard it is to build a society inspired by the values of goodness, justice and fraternity” he said. The country is free of oppression, but people still need to be freed “from the evils that afflict the spirit,” and saved from the poverty of isolation, despair, and egoism, he said. During a vespers service Sept. 26 in Prague’s St. Vitus
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practices suitable for persons of all religions in dealing with inner division, conflict and helplessness. Taylor suggests seven steps, among which are the Sabbath practice of withdrawing from the ordinary schedule, the Buddhist pursuit of developing compassion for oneself and others, and a form of Lectio Divina consisting of writing and reading one’s personal story. The book amalgamates practices of the major religions and capitalizes on their insights, but at the cost of both
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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Say prayers 3 days. C.O.
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Help Wanted We are looking for full or part time
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RNs, LVNs, CNAs, Caregivers
CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO
In-home care in San Francisco, Marin County, peninsula Nursing care for children in San Francisco schools
Vocation
If you are generous, honest, compassionate, respectful, and want to make a difference, send us your resume:
Seeking mature, healthy, sincere, honest, single woman for a live-in companion. Free room and private bath. For more information, please call (415) 921-8337
Desire Priesthood? Religious Life? Lay Ministries? Superb Sabbatical? Jesuit Retreats? 800-645-5347 – 24/7 gonzaga.edu/ministryinstitute
Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Fax: 415-435-0421 Email: info@sncsllc.com Voice: 415-435-1262
Shared Rental
Travel Rental
(415) 584-5307
Live-In Companion Needed
Mature, trustworthy female, for shared home with retired couple. Newer home, kitchen privileges, laundry facilities, large yard, non-smoker. Refs required, $700/mo. Call (415) 468-8178, or cell (415) 519-2210
Room For Rent
LAKE TAHOE RENTAL
Richmond district in SF, $625/mo., female, non-smoker, no pets, references required. Leave msg. at (415) 387-1061 or (415) 728-5387
Vacation Rental Condo in South Lake Tahoe.
heaven can’t wait
Call 925-933-1095
Serra for Priestly Vocations
Please return form with check or money order for $26 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109
St. Jude Novena
Room For Rent
Catholic San Francisco
Please call Archdiocese of San Francisco Fr. Tom Daly (415) 614-5683
Sleeps 8, near Heavenly Valley and Casinos.
Schola Gregorianum, formerly the music ministers of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, is available to provide music for weddings, funerals, and other liturgical rites. The quartet is especially trained in Gregorian chant as well as other early sacred music of the Catholic Church. For rates and more information, contact For rates and more information, contact schola Joseph Murphy Murphy scholamanager, manager, Joseph atat (415) (415)468-1810 468-1810or orvisit visitwww.sfschola.net. www.sfschola.net.
OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE VISIT US AT 2,000 to CATHOLIC-SF.ORG Approximately 10,000 square feet first floor See it at RentMyCondo.com#657
Rolheiser Retreat FR. RON ROLHEISER, OMI “Creating Sabbath Space In Our Lives” 10-part DVD for group or personal retreats. Perfect for private priest retreats. $
Music
39.99
800-233-4629 www.videoswithvalues.org
Chimney Cleaning
office space available (additional space available if needed) at One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco (between Gough & Franklin), is being offered for lease to a non-profit entity. Space available includes enclosed offices, open work area with several cubicles, large work room, and storage rooms on the lower level of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chancery/Pastoral Center. We also have mail and copy services available, as well as meeting rooms (based on availability). Reception services available. Space has access to kitchen area and restroom facilities. Parking spaces negotiable. Ready for immediate occupancy with competitive terms. Come view the space. For more information, contact
Katie Haley, (415) 614-5556 email haleyk@sfarchdiocese.org.
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Catholic San Francisco
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