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Breaking ground with children for Holy Family Day Home’s new school building are (from foreground) Levi Strauss CEO Phil Marineau; Holy Family Congregation President, Sister Sharon Flannigan; Day Home Board Member Marie Hurabiell; and Board Chairman Tom Bonomi (standing toward back).

Holy Family Day Home breaks ground on new school building Children and their families at Holy Family Day Home, the oldest early education facility in the City of San Francisco, joined civic officials, teachers, neighbors and donors to celebrate the ground-breaking of a new building to serve primarily working and low-income families at 16th and Dolores Streets in the Mission District.

Holy Family Day Home was founded in 1900 by the Bay Area’s homegrown congregation, the Sisters of the Holy Family. Since that time, the home has cared for over 14,000 children. Today, Holy Family Day Home is administered by a lay board and staff, while still being sponsored and inspired by the Holy Family Sisters. Among those on hand for the groundbreaking was Congregation President Sister Sharon Flannigan who gave a blessing and remarks. The Day Home’s mission according to Executive Director Donna Cahill is to provide affordable, high quality early educational child care in a stable and nurturing environment, thereby offering the children of working families a foundation for lifelong development and a love of learning.

The Day Home suffered a major setback in 1989 when the Loma-Prieta Earthquake rendered HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME, page 5 its historic building at 16th and Dolores Streets un-useable.

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Issues rather than names are focus of Election Day 2005

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although a few well-known names will be on state ballots during the off-year elections in 2005, the hot-button issues of same-sex marriage, parental notification before a minor’s abortion and budget cuts promise to generate more interest on the national level.

When Americans go to the polls Nov. 8, they will elect mayors in 490 cities, including New York and Detroit, where incumbents Michael Bloomberg and Kwame Kilpatrick are seeking re-election. New Jersey and Virginia voters will elect governors.

But in seven states, voters will consider 38 ballot propositions on topics ranging from smoking in public places to medical malpractice to the use of union dues for political purposes and transportation bonds. And as they do in most elections, Catholic leaders are offering guidance on how some of those issues should be decided by voters who follow church teaching.

“Reading the signs of our times in the light of the Gospel, the church speaks with centuries of reflection on our common social life, guided by the Holy Spirit,” said the Catholic bishops of Florida in a statement on efforts to amend the state constitution to prohibit the funding of embryonic stem-cell research.

Other measures that have drawn comment from church leaders: — California voters will decide whether to amend the state constitution to require parental notification and a 48-hour waiting period before a minor’s abortion.

— In Texas, a proposed amendment would define marriage as the union of a man and a woman, while Maine voters are being asked to repeal legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. In an April 5 election, voters in Kansas approved by a 70-to-30 margin an amendment that defined marriage as solely between a man and a woman.

— Two referendum questions in Colorado would call a five-year, temporary moratorium on state-mandated spending limits, eliminate expected tax cuts and authorize $2.1 billion in state bonds to pay for education, roads, fire and police pensions, health care for low-income families and other essential services.

The ballot in California’s Nov. 8 special election has eight propositions in all, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s controversial plan to limit state spending. The California Catholic Conference, representing the state’s bishops, offered reflections from Catholic teaching on each of the propositions, but took a ELECTION DAY, page 5

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION News-in-brief . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Sisters of the Sacred Side . . 7

Catholic Extension celebrates 100 years ~ Pages 10-11 ~

Aging and dementia . . . . . . 8 Editorial and letters . . . . . 12 ‘Opus Dei’ book review . . . 15 Pope’s first communion . . . 17

Hurricane Stan ~ Page 3 ~ October 21, 2005

‘Wallace and Gromit’ review ~ Page 18 ~ SIXTY CENTS

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September’s Spaghetti Bingo Night at St. Elizabeth Elementary School welcomed Don Aperwhite, a New Orleans resident displaced by recent storms who has come to live with family here including cousin and St. Elizabeth’s 1st grader, Kymber Gastinell.

From left: Don, Kymber, and Kymber’s dad, Lorenzo. Not available for the photo were Kymber’s mom, Kim, and younger siblings Nia and Travis.

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A Student Council-run “free dress” fundraising drive at Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School raised $700 for Hurricane Katrina relief. Front from left: Jordan Lee, Lucas Hapin, Zachariah Ho-Seher, Spencer Wong. Back from left: Summer Yeramian, Glenn Downing, Gabriella Bravo, Lisa Ng, Fiona Murphy, Brando Dimapasoc, Allison Woo.

Happy 66 years married September 16th to longtime St. Stephen’s parishioners, Dorothy and Al Maggio, and while we’re at it, a happy 90th birthday to Dorothy, September 30th. “A family celebration was held at the Olympic Club on Sept 25,” said the couple’s daughter, Nancy Green, who attended with her husband, Art. Also in attendance were Dorothy and Al’s, son, Al Jr., with his wife, Karen, and daughter, Linda Austin, with her husband, Ken. Not to be missed were the family’s younger generation including 7 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren. “It was a wonderful celebration for a truly remarkable couple,” Nancy said. Well known for their volunteer work, Al is still active in the Serra Club and the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre where he is a former officer. Dorothy, a founding member of the Auxiliary of St. Anne’s Home, continues as a board member with the Little Sisters of the Poor and remains active in Little Children’s Aid…. Congratulations to Eleanor Giannini McArdle Jean who celebrated 75 years as a graduate of San Domenico Schools with 200 fellow - though younger - alumnae September 24th on the San Anselmo campus.

Eleanor attends the reunions every year, her alma mater said, as does class of ’31 grad, Catherine Jordan Knopf of San Rafael. “At 93, Eleanor is an 85 year resident of Marin and former owner of Buon Gusto Villa Restaurant,” said her daughter, Paula Rolleri. “Eleanor lives in St. Sebastian Parish and is a charter member of

Fifth graders at St. Raphael Elementary School raised $900 for the victims of Hurricane Katrina with a cookie sale. Among the fundraisers were, from left, Alison Aulakh, Alicia Meyers and Evora Bon-Acosta.

Court St. Agnes Catholic Daughters from St. Rita Parish in Fairfax.” Eleanor and Catherine both attended Dominican Convent School in San Rafael before the high school moved its campus to Sleepy Hollow in 1965….

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and Dan Casey and Cathy and Pete Kardum. Joining the fun were school principal, Sharon McCarthy Allen and, pastor, Father Joe Walsh, who led prayer…. Junipero Serra High School welcomed 11 freshman whose dads also matriculated there. They join a group of alumni sons now totaling 68 said admissions director, Randy Vogel.

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By Jill Replogle NAHUALATE, Guatemala (CNS) – “Here we need help. Affected area” read a sign held by a group of men and children along the side of a highway in southern Guatemala, but on the other side of the road, trucks lined up for nearly a mile, waiting for a major bridge to open.

This dirt-road neighborhood in the town of Nahualate was affected when the Nahualate River overflowed its banks, filling houses with water and burying cars, homes and crops under several feet of silt. The river, swollen with rain left by Hurricane Stan, also took out the Bailey Bridge connecting the southwestern Guatemalan coast to the rest of the country.

More than a week after the flood, relief workers were still struggling to get food, clothing and medicine to needy communities. Though many of those forced into shelters by the storm had returned home, experts said recovery would be a long process, as most of the victims already lived in precarious situations.

“We can intervene in the short term, but these people will take one, two, even five years to recuperate,” said Odet Abascal, who heads Catholic Relief Services’ emergency team in the department of Suchitepequez, where Nahualate is located. CRS is the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency.

Large sections of western Guatemala had been cut off from food, fuel and other basic needs for more than a week, as authorities struggled to repair bridges wiped out by rivers and roads blocked by landslides.

“The food is all gone in the stores and supermarkets,” said Abascal, referring to the departmental capital of Mazatenango.

Parts of San Marcos department, one of the worst-hit areas, still had not received food or medical aid.

After more than a week, the death toll stood at 1,400 with another 600 missing. Many of

the fatalities were caused by landslides, mostly in the Guatemalan highlands, while others were victims of floods and storm-related accidents. Medical workers worry that deaths could increase, especially if disease sets in.

Many residents and church workers said this was the worst natural disaster they’ve ever experienced.

“This storm was much more serious than Hurricane Mitch,” said Bishop Pablo Vizcaino Prado of SuchitepequezRetalhuleu, vice president of the Guatemalan bishops’ conference. Hurricane Mitch, which hit Central America in 1998, affected some 750,000 people in Guatemala. More than 3 million Guatemalans are estimated to have been affected by Hurricane Stan.

Many of the displaced were daunted by the idea of going back to their vulnerable homes.

“We’re scared of returning because the river is still threatening to overflow,” said Elsa Marina Gonzalez, a 27-year old Nahualate resident with four children.

Others have little to go back to.

One woman said her tin-roof, scrap-wood house frequently flooded, even before Stan.

“I’m not going to say it’s because of the hurricane; that’s the way my house has always been — I need help,” she said.

At a shelter in Chicacao, near Nahualate, she and other, mostly single women said they hoped that the disaster would bring some attention to the basic needs they had even before the storm damaged their homes.

“God willing, the government will help us with a little food and clothing,” said Vilma Gomez Estrada, a widow with five children.

The youngest was 10 days old when the flood forced them to flee their home.

Gomez Estrada said she earns around $2 per day washing clothes; half of that money goes for her rent.

Hurricane Stan hit the Mexican state of Veracruz and in early October, but dissipated into a tropical storm. In the following

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In parts of flooded Guatemala, aid workers see long recovery

A Guatemalan indigenous woman holds her baby inside a Catholic church housing villagers left homeless by deadly mudslides in Panabaj, Guatemala, Oct. 11. An estimated 1,400 people were killed.

A rescue worker carries the body of a young mudslide victim in the Maya village of Panabaj, Guatemala.

The mudslide was caused after Hurricane Stan unleashed heavy rains throughout much of Central America.

week, flooding and mudslides damaged homes, roadways, bridges and electric and phone systems.

The heaviest damage occurred in Guatemala and El Salvador, but Mexico, Honduras and Nicaragua also were hit by the storm. Millions of dollars in international aid have been pledged by the United States and other countries to help relieve the crisis.

In Malacatan, Guatemala, about 20 miles from Tapachula, Mexico, Maryknoll Sister Rae Ann O’Neill wrote that she was without electricity for four days after Hurricane Stan.

The biggest problem now, she told Maryknoll officials is the lack of bridges over many of the region’s flooded rivers.

“We here in Malacatan are cut off,” she said. “We could go north, but it means crossing the (flooded) rivers by foot.”

The Cabuz River, one of the biggest, has a large bridge that was damaged during Hurricane Mitch in 1998.

“This time the entire bridge was twisted,” she said, adding that the “government is not even estimating how long it will take to repair it.”

Sister O’Neill said she and the other nuns have been busy preparing food for the people who are staying in shelters. She noted that everyone has been working together in the recovery efforts.

“All the churches are collaborating,” she said. “It is really wonderful to see — the police, the soldiers, the youth. People really respond to a crisis.”

Maryknoll Sister Mary Ann Duffy, writing from San Marcos, Guatemala, also noted that people had banded together to respond to the crisis.

“There is hope for the future,” she said, “but right now it is hard to begin again.”

Carol Zimmermann contributed to this story.

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SAN FRANCISCO — The Archdiocese of San Francisco confirmed Oct. 13 that it and its insurance carrier had agreed to settle lawsuits brought by two brothers who said Patrick O’Shea, a former priest, had sexually abused them in the 1970s.

The two settlements, each amounting to $1.3 million, were agreed to by all parties in lieu of a civil trial, which was set to begin this month. The settlements represent the last of six lawsuits involving O’Shea that had been filed against the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Archdiocese did not dispute that the two individuals were abused by O’Shea when he was a priest. Bishop John C. Wester, administrator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said, “Our sorrow is heartfelt for the pain and suffering that has come to abuse victims and their families, and we join in prayer to God for the healing of all.”

The Archdiocese is continuing to seek settlement in other lawsuits, most of which allege abuse decades ago.

California Province head named Jesuit Conference president WASHINGTON — Jesuit Father Thomas H. Smolich, who is completing a six-year term as provincial of the Jesuits of the California Province, has been named the next president of the Jesuit Conference. The conference, based in Washington, is the national liaison office coordinating the work of 10 Jesuit provinces in the United States. Its president is appointed by the Jesuit superior general in Rome. Father Smolich, who is expected to take office next June, will replace Jesuit Father Bradley M. Schaeffer.

Eighty percent of New Orleans’ Catholic school students enrolled PHILADELPHIA — Within 40 days after Hurricane Katrina hit, 80 percent of the nearly 60,000 students previously enrolled in Catholic grade and high schools in the New Orleans Archdiocese were back in Catholic schools, Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes said Oct. 14. “Forty-five percent of our schools are back in operation. Sixty percent of our stu-

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Archdiocese settles two lawsuits

Kurdish women vote in the northern city of Kirkuk, Iraq, on the constitutional referendum Oct. 15. Vote counts appear to indicate that the new constitution will be accepted, despite opposition from Sunni Muslims.

dents are in Catholic schools in the archdiocese. And we estimate that 20 percent more are in Catholic schools in other dioceses,” the New Orleans archbishop told a national gathering of Catholic lay and church leaders in Philadelphia. He said the neighboring Diocese of Baton Rouge, La., alone had taken in nearly10 percent of the Catholic students from New Orleans.

Vocations campaign focus: inviting men to priesthood WASHINGTON — A new vocations campaign is being launched by the U.S. bishops with the idea that more men simply need to be invited to become priests by priests who are happy with their lives. Announced in Washington Oct.14, the program, called Priestly Life and Vocation Summit: Fishers of Men, is based on having dioceses and religious orders convene priests to discuss their vocations, emphasizing the positive aspects, and then encouraging them to invite other men to consider following them. Father Edward Burns, director of the Secretariat for Vocations and Priestly Formation at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, cited a survey of the 2003 U.S. ordination

class in which 78 percent of the men about to be ordained said a priest had invited them to consider the priesthood.

Pope offers prayers for poor, urges governments to act VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI offered special prayers for poor people “fighting courageously to live in dignity and care for their families.” At his Oct. 16 Angelus address, the pope spoke about the Oct. 17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, asking Christians to increase their solidarity and calling on government leaders “to hear the cry of the poor.” The pope said recognizing the value of human life requires efforts to defend human dignity from the threats of hunger and poverty. Pope Benedict, in a written message to the Food and Agriculture Organization, said hunger and malnutrition are among “the most serious scandals that still affect the life of the human family.” In figures released for the 2005 observance, the FAO said some 850 million people in the world live with hunger and malnutrition.

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Election day . . .

■ Continued from cover formal position only in favor of Proposition 73, called the Parents’ Right to Know initiative.

“We hold that both the young woman’s welfare and society’s common good are best served when family communication is promoted in public policy,” the bishops said.

“Society’s common good is enhanced when family integrity is honored and parental responsibility is respected.”

The proposed amendment would allow waiver of the notification and waiting period by a judge or in cases of medical emergency.

Texas’ same-sex marriage ban, if passed, would make it the 18th state to define marriage or declare same-sex marriages invalid in its constitution. In 2004, voters in 11 states approved measures defining marriage as a union of a man and a woman.

The Texas Catholic bishops said limiting marriage to a man and a woman does not imply any animosity toward or discrimination against homosexuals.

“Homosexual persons are to be treated with respect and compassion. Our respect for them means we condemn all forms of unjust discrimination, harassment or abuse,” the Texas bishops said in a statement.

But it is not a “moral contradiction,” they added, to also view marriage as “a faithful, exclusive and lifelong union

between one man and one woman, joined as husband and wife in an intimate partnership of life and love.”

Maine voters face a different question: “Do you want to reject the new law that would protect people from discrimination in employment, housing, education, public accommodations and credit based on their sexual orientation?”

Bishop Richard J. Malone of Portland did not endorse the legislation when it was under consideration by the Maine Legislature in March.

“If support for anti-discrimination legislation, primarily intended to protect fundamental human rights, ... serves to advance societal mores into acceptance of a false premise that homosexual unions are the moral equivalent to the union of a man and a woman in marriage, then the legislation is misguided,” the bishop said.

He said “believers and people of good will can come to different conclusions” about the ballot question, but expressed “serious concerns about (its) possible future impact ... on society’s views on marriage, family and sexual morality.”

Colorado’s bishops endorsed the two spending measures on the ballot, noting that if they fail the state faces another $500 million in budget cuts over the next two years.

“Most of these cuts will again have to be borne by the ‘least among us,’” they said. “Catholics of good faith can reasonably disagree and seek other methods of easing the state’s budget situation,” the bishops said, but urged support of the measures “for the sake of our communities and the future of Colorado.”

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Sisters of the Presentation recently celebrated the opening of a "green" building, which is a welcome and dining facility at Presentation Center near Los Gatos. The new building was constructed using environmentally sensitive materials and serves as a model for environment-friendly construction methods.

■ Continued from cover Care for approximately 100 children, ages 2 through 6, currently takes place at a building adjacent to the site of the original home. In addition, 21 infants and toddlers are cared for at the Home’s Minna Street location.

The new building will allow for the care of an additional 50 children with particular attention to the needs of economically vulnerable families. “When we open the doors of our new building we will make a difference in the lives of fifty additional children who deserve the same opportunities as children from privileged backgrounds,” said Cahill. “Today marks the beginning of another century of service for the Day Home,” she said at groundbreaking ceremonies.

The new building is scheduled to open in Fall 2006.

It will replace the Willis Polk designed building, which originally opened in 1912. It will consist of three floors and include five classrooms, social service areas, toy and book libraries, play therapy areas and administrative offices. The expected square feet will be over fifteen thousand. The school will include community spaces to extend programming into evenings and weekends.

The Day Home is currently engaged in a public capital campaign to raise the estimated $7.1 million needed to rebuild the school building. Already $2.1 million has been raised from private donors, including a $300,000 leadership gift from the Sisters of the Holy Family.

Donna Cahill is particularly thankful to the Levi Strauss Foundation which “provided technical assistance and helped us build up the infrastructure needed to get to a capital campaign.” The Foundation along with the Day Home’s Board Members “were primarily the reason it happened,” Cahill said. Levi Strauss CEO Phil Marineau and his wife Sue are also capital campaign leaders and strong supporters of the Day Home.

Holy Family Day Home is one of the very few San Francisco early education providers to be fully accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Cahill said. The accreditation places the quality of the Day Home’s program among the top one percent of child care centers in the nation.

Providing that kind of quality care while keeping it affordable for the community it serves involves continuous fundraising. Each year, the Day Home must raise $500,000 from private donors to support its programs.

Another $500,000 comes from government sources.

For information on how to support Holy Family Day Home’s capital campaign or to support their ongoing programs, visit website www.holyfamilydayhome.org.

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World Mission Sunday 2005 My dear Friends in Christ, With the devastation wrought by last month's Hurricane Katrina still fresh in our minds, we prepare in this local church to celebrate World Mission Sunday on October 23rd - to celebrate our commitment to bringing to the world the sustaining and uplifting message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

As all of us here at home reached out in prayer and generosity to the suffering in our country, especially to those in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf States, the people of the Missions prayed and sent help as well, even those in areas ravaged by the Tsunami of December 2004. From Sri Lanka came monetary help. From India came an outpouring of prayers. And in Ghana, the bishops there appealed for contributions at special September Sunday collections to support the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

In times of tragedy - natural disaster, war, and persecution, our mission family looks to the Church and her missionaries for help and hope. World Mission Sunday celebrates our unity as a human family and provides an opportunity to support the life-giving presence of missionaries and of the Church among the suffering and the poor of the Missions.

On World Mission Sunday, we unite with Catholics throughout the world - all of us gathered at the Eucharist - in special commitment to the missionary task. We should pray for the Church's missionary work and offer our personal sacrifices - our own sufferings, our cares and concerns in union with the sufferings of Christ on the Cross for the salvation of the world. We should also provide financial help through the Society for the Propagation of the Faith for the Church's work in more than 1,150 dioceses throughout the Missions.

The missionary work of the Church depends on each one of us. As I ask you to keep your brothers and sisters in the Developing World in your prayers, and to be as generous as you are able on World Mission Sunday, I ask your continuing prayers as well for the people in our own country who are in need, especially in the Gulf States. Pray also that all of us in the Archdiocese of San Francisco may be eager and effective witnesses to God, our loving Father, and to His only son, Jesus Christ.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend John C. Wester Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco Apostolic Administrator

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Sisters mark three decades at St. Catherine of Siena School

By Tom Burke Summoned from Italy in 1975 to help keep the Catholic faith strong at St. Catherine of Siena Elementary School in Burlingame, the Sisters of the Sacred Side say they are glad and proud to continue the holy work at the Peninsula school today.

“We came here because they asked us,” said Sister Alessandra Lentino, local superior of the Sisters of the Sacred Side and now in her thirteenth year at St. Catherine’s. “Our reasons are very simple. We like to teach about God. We came here to help.”

Also serving at St. Catherine’s are Sister Corinna Catalano and Sister Amelita Adao. Sister Alessandra teaches kindergarten. Sister Corinna teaches second grade. Sister Amelita is a kindergarten aide and assists in the parish Religious Education program.

Sister Alessandra said, “We want to teach the children the love of God and how much God loves them. This is what we really strive for – to teach about God and be an example to them.”

Father Al Vucinovich, pastor of St. Catherine’s since 1998, said the Sisters bring the faith alive everyday in the school and parish.

“The Sisters take a walk every evening and it’s not uncommon for them to be met along the way by former students and parishioners with smiles and hugs,” Father Vucinovich said. “The Sisters live their faith day by day through kindness and good example.”

The Sisters of the Sacred Side were founded in Italy in 1908. Their 2,000 members are active in education, parish work and hospitals in the Americas and abroad.

They will be honored and prayed for at a Mass of Thanksgiving Oct. 23 at St. Catherine. Bishop John Wester will preside.

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U.S. faces crisis in care for aging population with dementia

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) — With an aging population increasingly affected by dementia and a shrinking corps of available caregivers, the United States is facing “the perfect demographic storm in about six years,” according to a Catholic member of the President’s Council on Bioethics.

But, unlike some hurricanes whose impact can be less than predicted, this storm “is unlikely to veer off harmlessly,” said Mary Ann Glendon, a law professor at Harvard University. “Its worst effects can be muted, but only if we start planning now, as a society and in our families.”

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“To meet the challenges of our aging society, we need first to face up to their existence,” the report says. “It is time for public acknowledgment, at the national level, of the seriousness of the challenge.”

Dr. Leon R. Kass, outgoing council chairman, said the approaching “unprecedented mass geriatric society” in the United States was the result of a confluence of demographic and social factors, including health improvements and longer lives for the elderly, smaller family sizes and a decline in births, greater geographical mobility and a societal disdain for professional caregivers, whom he called “underpaid and underappreciated.”

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■ Continued from page 8 Kass said studies show that 40 percent of all Americans experience a “period of prolonged dwindling, enfeeblement and dementia” before death.

Because U.S. society believes that the primary responsibility for caring for the elderly rests with their family members, many married couples will care for two or more of their parents and “only one family in 40 will escape this problem altogether,” he added.

The report said euthanasia and assisted suicide “should always be opposed” for those with disabilities, in part because those making decisions about patient care “cannot

think wholeheartedly about how best to care for the life the patient now has if ending his or her life becomes, for us, always an eligible treatment option.”

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Kass and Dresser both said no document can replace an in-depth discussion among family members about how they would like decisions about their care to be made. With written directives, Dresser said, “it can be difficult to interpret what the author really meant” by such general statements as “I don’t want heroic measures if I’m dying.”

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Spreading the Faith across every frontier Catholic Extension Society celebrates 100 years

“Religious instruction is the crying need in this state,” a missionary in New Mexico pleaded to Father Kelley in the 1920s. “If this is not attended to, the Catholic Faith will be little more than a memory to these people.”

So, from the start, Catholic Extension tried to ensure that those living in out-of-the-way places had access to religious instruction.

Often the construction of a church or chapel was just the first step. From a handful of Catholics, the new building attracted others who may have stopped practicing the Faith or those who may have been encountering the Good News for the first time.

Salary subsidies to religious sisters made it possible for a parish or mission to provide catechetical instruction, too.

And Catholic Extension provided many grants to purchase books and other supplies and cover training costs to make countless evangelization programs possible.

Since 1905, the organization has provided more than $110 million - more than a quarter of its allocations - for evangelization and religious education.

Investing in people

Catholic Extension commissioned three railroad chapel cars to bring the sacraments to Catholics in far-flung regions. The chapel car’s interior featured an altar, pews, a confessional and sleeping quarters for the traveling priests. hen newly ordained Father Francis Clement Kelley, burning with idealism, arrived at his first pastorate in rural Lapeer, Mich., in the mid-1890s, he was in for a rude awakening.

On the ride home from that organizational meeting, Father Kelley met his first donor. A Instead of a fine house of worship, the young native of Prince Edward Island, Canada, found newsboy on the train recognized the priest from a newspaper account of the meeting and a “drygoods box with a cross on it” for the church, set almost apologetically at the edge of town. pressed a $1 bill into his hand. The “newsboy’s dollar” is framed and still hangs on the wall He immediately made plans to build a more fitting chapel nearer to the center of town of Catholic Extension’s office in Chicago. even though the parish had nothing in savings.

Support for the new organization grew slowly as word of its goals spread through Father To help his poor farming parishioners raise money, Father Kelley enlisted as a chaplain Kelley’s continued lecture tours and through the pages of EXTENSION Magazine. in the Spanish-American War and later traveled far and wide on the national lecture circuit Catholic Extension’s leaders knew that approval from the Vatican would provide the legitito earn fees for tales of his war exploits. macy that the fledgling national organization required. Archbishop Quigley, Catholic Extension’s Though he eventually succeeded in paying off the parish debt, Father Kelley’s vision was first chancellor, asked Pope Pius X for his support, and the future saint granted it in 1907. widened in the process not only for the benefit of the new church in Lapeer but for an organThree years later, the Pope officially declared Catholic Extension a pontifical mission society and ization that would become instrumental in extending the Catholic Faith across America. gave it his blessing to raise funds on behalf of the missions in the United States and its protectorates.

In town after town in the West and South, he was shocked Many missionaries in the field began writing to Father to find disheartened Catholic pioneers without a church or a Kelley, and it became apparent that the priest in Kansas wasn’t priest to bring them the sacraments. “With no one to assist, an isolated case. Many priests and religious working in remote [their] religious longings are usually soon given up, and all mission outposts were just “scraping by” and needed help in hope of building a church is deferred until other Catholic setcovering day-to-day expenses. That realization was the impetlers arrive. But no one else comes because there is no church.” tus for one of Catholic Extension’s earliest fund-raising efforts: But it was a visit on one of his speaking tours to a the “Dollar Club,” which encouraged donors to send $1 a year Kansas pastor who was too ashamed to have the priest-lec- a goodly sum in those days - to sustain a missionary for a day. turer stay in his squalid rectory that spurred Father Kelley to The result of that first appeal for Father Kelley’s “Dollar action. The memory of that malaria-ridden shack haunted Club” was the collection of enough funds to subsidize the Father Kelley on his train trip home to Lapeer, and he wrote salaries of more than 50 missionaries. an article describing the enormous need for Catholics in the big cities of the East to support areas of the country that lacked the resources to spread and sustain the Faith.

The First American Missionary Congress in 1908, If it didn’t act immediately, the Church risked losing milorganized by Catholic Extension, was a wake-up call to lions of discouraged Catholic pioneers who had settled in rural many Catholics. It reported that nine out of 10 small America without hope of ever practicing their beloved faith.

Father Francis Clement Kelley in his office. towns in rural America had no Catholic church.

Father Kelley’s stirring story of the “little shanty in the So it’s not surprising that the first few decades of West” proposed an organization patterned after Protestant “church extensions,” whose members Catholic Extension’s existence were devoted largely to church building. supported the growth of thousands of their own churches in rural areas. Father Kelley’s idea was By 1920, Father Kelley’s young organization lent a hand to the construction of more than simple: financially blessed Catholics would share what they had to help the Body of Christ grow half of the 3,258 new churches built in the U.S. during the period: from Indian reservations and thrive in every part of the country - if they only could be told about what was needed. in the Southwest to mining towns in the East.

On October 18, 1905, Father Kelley and 18 other priests, bishops and laymen convened at Since 1905, more than 12,000 churches, rectories, catechetical centers and other structures the residence of Most Reverend James Quigley, Archbishop of Chicago, to establish an organthat have been built or repaired with Catholic Extension’s help in every state in the Union. ization to do that - the Catholic Church Extension Society.

“Extension was a teacher as well as a beggar,” remarked Father Kelley in the silver jubilee issue of EXTENSION Magazine. One hundred years since its founding, the organization’s In Father Kelley’s time, advances in transportation and the expansion of the country left goals, while reflecting the times, remain surprisingly evergreen. scattered Catholics without ready access to Mass and the sacraments. Without a strong Father Kelley’s legacy is an organization that has shaped and supported the Catholic Catholic presence, the Church ran the risk of losing these individuals to other faiths.

Church throughout the U.S., not only with bricks and mortar but also with funding for reliA Georgia bishop recounted meeting an Irish businessman whose grandfather, a Catholic, had gious education, tuition assistance for seminarians, and even with basic day-to-day living come to South Carolina to work on the railroad. Because no Catholic church existed in their homeexpenses for missionaries in remote places. town, the businessman, and his nine siblings, went to the Methodist church.

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mention of the railroad chapel car idea, for instance, to “plug a hole” in one of his columns drew the pledge of a generous donor to help underwrite the cost of the first car. The power of the press!

In the late 1960s, the magazine was redesigned to refocus on the work of the missions. It is currently sent to more than 80,000 supporters of Catholic Extension across the country.

Catholic Extension is celebrating another anniversary this year - the 85th anniversary of the introduction of its calendar in 1920. Originally mailed individually to parishioners’ homes, the product would eventually be distributed through parishes. The calendars’ purpose was twofold: to keep the mission society’s work before Catholics across the U.S., and to help bring in revenue.

Today more than 7,000 parishes around the country are using Catholic Extension calendars.

‘When I was hungry’ Much of Catholic Extension’s work is carried out in impoverished areas where the Church is thinly represented or even non-existent.

In these areas, one way that Catholic missionaries are able to start an apostolate is through care for physical as well as spiritual needs - what’s sometimes called “pre-evangelization.”

Brother John Hotstream, SC, for example, stretches a small Catholic Extension subsidy for his work on the Navajo Indian Reservation in Arizona, sharing what he has to provide food, shelter and transportation to needy families.

Sister Mary Joseph Ritter, of the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy, helps run a multi-tasking outreach service center on Johns Island, S.C., that provides basic dental care, parenting classes and GED preparation to families living in poverty.

Prison ministry also is carried out in many mission dioceses with Catholic Extension’s help. Scripture study and counseling for the incarcerated has helped turn countless lives around.

These programs and others like them have been on the receiving end of Catholic Extension donations to assist people in need and to help establish a Church presence.

The importance of assisting young men with their seminary studies was also an early goal. In 1908 the Board of Governors suggested that $2,000 be set aside for the education of young men for the priesthood. Catholic Extension would help pay for the education of those students recommended by their bishops.

And bishops took them up on it. In 1919 the Bishop of Lead (now Rapid City), S.D., requested funds to cover the board and tuition for 10 students. Catholic Extension sent a grant of $1,500.

In 1939 George Cardinal Mundelein wrote to the American Board of Catholic Missions, "I have requested the Catholic Church Extension At the height of its popularity in the Society to divert as much as possible of its income to [seminarian edu1950s, EXTENSION magazine cation]. They have helped build the churches. Now the greater work is had 625,000 subscribers. to man these churches and others too, at home, and perhaps abroad."

In its 100 years in operation, Catholic Extension’s appeals for assistance with seminarian education have been among its most successful. Generous donors have The basic needs that led to Catholic Extension’s formation 100 years ago continue to provided more than $35 million to help young men pay for their seminary studies, which, at curchallenge the Church today. That was the consensus of mission bishops who met in Chicago rent figures, can average $25,000 a year for tuition, room and board. last fall to discuss the future of the American missions in the 21st century.

Father Kelley would recognize many of the bishops’ suggestions for Catholic Extension Through the 1960s and beyond, Catholic Extension continued to focus on keeping young aid, though most came with modern twists. people active and involved in the church.

For instance, building chapels, parish halls and religious education classrooms is the In 1968 it established a scholarship program at Fordham University to provide grants-in“quintessential need that is filled only by Catholic Extension,” noted one of the bishops. The aid for students earning master’s degrees in religious education who were willing to commit assembly represented regions from Alaska to Puerto Rico. However, often multi-million dollar a year or more of service in mission dioceses. gifts are needed today to provide those buildings for a growing Church.

And it embraced efforts to reach out to young people who would not have the benefit of Other needs expressed by the bishops include: a Catholic education at the college level.

• Ongoing education of the people so they are deepened in their Catholic Faith, includThe Newman Movement, founded at the University of Wisconsin in 1883 to support the ing help with transportation costs both for students in training and ministers in the field. pastoral care and religious education of students in non-Catholic colleges and universities, • Outreach to Catholics no longer practicing their faith, especially 20- to 40-year-olds was starting to blossom in many parts of the country. perhaps using the internet or secular media.

In 1969 Catholic Extension approved the granting of approximately $250,000 annually • Supplementing salaries for priests and religious - but also providing fair wages for lay to help the college ministry. The “experimental” grant was to “pay the salaries of priests, nuns leaders raising families. and lay people working in campus ministry in missionary dioceses.”

• Help with the recruiting and formation of seminarians as well as other men and Since that time, the “experiment” has turned into a solid commitment. Catholic women in religious life - which now requires inculturation for foreign-born candidates.

Extension has provided nearly $30 million for campus ministry programs at state and private • Outreach to recent immigrants, who still are largely Catholic but now come more from colleges throughout the United States. Currently more than 90 campuses in 35 dioceses count south of the border rather than Europe. The doubling of the country’s Hispanic population since on these funds annually.

1980, in particular, requires more resources to avoid losing an entire generation of Catholics.

Other needs would be new to Catholic Extension’s founder - from the emergence of prison and campus ministries to the growing role of lay ecclesial ministers.

Countless people have become acquainted with the work of Catholic Extension through But in many ways, Catholic Extension has come full circle from Father Kelley’s era.

EXTENSION Magazine, which first rolled off the press in 1906.

A century later, it remains an organization that extends to Catholics the singular priviOriginally a quarterly, Father Kelley’s “little bulletin” became a monthly in 1907 and lege of sharing their most precious gift - the Catholic Faith.

To learn more about Catholic Extension Society, including its current project to aid included reports from missionaries in the field, editorials on world events, and short fictional parishes devastated by Hurricane Katrina, or to support its work, or receive a free subscription stories that illustrated how Catholics lived out their faith. to EXTENSION magazine visit website www.catholicextention.org or call 1-888-47-FAITH. It was Father Kelley’s own personal insights, however, that spurred many donations. A brief

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Guest commentary Charity, not reimbursement

By Father Peter J. Daly In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, many people have done extraordinary acts of generosity. Throughout the country churches have extended themselves to thousands of evacuees by providing housing, food, financial assistance and spiritual care.

For Christian churches this is not just a good deed. It is an essential part of our Gospel mission. Without this charity, we are not truly the followers of Jesus Christ and are not fulfilling his command to love our neighbor.

That is why I was distressed to read that FEMA was contemplating reimbursing churches and other faith-based groups for their charity to hurricane victims. This is a very bad idea, not only for the churches but for the government.

In the rush to redeem itself after its incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina, the federal government seems determined to throw money in every direction. But churches should not take this money for three reasons.

—First, it was charity, not a reimbursable government expense. Were we giving freely from our hearts and out of our substance, or were we giving with an eye toward getting reimbursed? If churches take federal dollars, these acts of kindness become a government program, not a sacrifice made in the Lord’s name and for the love of our brothers and sisters. When we do an act of charity, we should not look around for someone either to praise or reimburse us.

—Second, what happens next time? As sure as the sun rises in the morning there will be another natural disaster or humanitarian crisis. What then? Won’t people be skeptical about giving and cynical about our motives? If churches, Catholic or otherwise, go to their people for support, the people might say: “Why should I give? You are just going to turn around and ask the federal government for reimbursement.” Government reimbursement will be a short-term gain, but a long-term loss.

—Third, it is an inappropriate entanglement of government and religion. I really do believe in the separation of church and state, not so much because it is good for the state but because it is very good for religion.

In general I agree that “he who pays the piper calls the tune.” If the federal government pays the piper, it is only a matter of time before it will start calling the tune. Then in short order the Salvation Army will no longer be able to mention salvation. Very likely, Catholic Charities will no longer be Catholic.

If we accept federal money for charity to hurricane victims, what will be the restrictions? Are we allowed to put Bibles and rosaries on cots in the shelters? Are we allowed to offer a prayer before serving meals? Are we allowed to offer religious services and prayers in shelters paid for by federal money? Can there be a chapel?

Some churches argue that they have 20 years of wear and tear on their facilities after housing evacuees. Good. They should wear it proudly. Jesus would be happy to see that kind of wear and tear.

The whole church, everywhere, should be willing to join together to help individual congregations bear relief expenses. That’s how it should be done: church to church, not government to church. We should not kid ourselves. We are not rendering a sacrifice to God if we ask Caesar to pay our bills. Once we invite Caesar into our temples to pay for our “charity,” we may never get him out.

Father Peter J. Daly writes a column for Catholic News Service.

Ramadan and dialogue Conflict between peoples holding different religious beliefs has been a tragedy throughout the history of humankind. In light of this, the impetus of Vatican II for openings in interreligious dialogue is one of the many legacies of the council. Pope John Paul II made outreach to other religions of the world one of his hallmarks.

As Muslims prepare to celebrate the end of their monthlong Ramadan fast, the Vatican has assured them that the commitment of the Catholic Church to dialogue would continue under Pope Benedict XVI. The president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue sent written greetings to Muslims around the world about to celebrate the Nov. 3 feast of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan.

Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald said many Muslims joined Catholics in following news about Pope John Paul II’s illness and death. “Many had appreciated deeply the pope’s constant efforts on behalf of peace,” he said. “It was faith in God and confidence in humanity that impelled the late pope to engage in dialogue,” the archbishop said. “He constantly reached out to brothers and sisters of all religions with respect and a desire for collaboration.”

Archbishop Fitzgerald said the Catholic Church’s commitment to dialogue was encouraged by the Second Vatican Council, which concluded 40 years ago. In the light of the council’s teaching, he said, Pope John Paul’s efforts were “rooted in the Gospel, following the example of the Lord Jesus who showed his love and respect for each person, even for those who did not belong to his own people.”

MEH

Exempt from reason In taking a stand against Proposition 73, the San Francisco Chronicle has turned its back on the common sense axiom that parents do have rights and responsibilities when it comes to their minor children. Instead, the Chronicle looks at the extremes. They conclude that laws should be made for the few and not for the many, with provisions for the protection of the few.

There are not many parents who think that a secret surgical procedure performed on their daughters is none of their business. Why must abortion laws be exempt from reason?

Vicki Evans Larkspur

Gift of confession Confession, Reconciliation or Penance - such beautiful words. I understand the Sacrament can be called by all three names but they all have a purpose within the Confession of the Catholic faithful.

Everything has a purpose in the faith . . .everything is like music.

As a former Protestant Christian, who loved God - one who began each day with repentance - I was always walking, kneeling, confessing, talking with God and, as a believer, I was always calling out to God over and over and over. That calling out never ceased.

In all those many years, I never heard the words of Absolution which said, “You have told me and God has heard - I am now bringing you a message, I am now telling you for Him, for God Almighty, the Father, that He has forgiven you.” I heard those words in my first confession, kneeling in a little brown booth, in total darkness, at age 70 in 2003. That is when I made my first confession before entering into full communion with the Catholic Church.

That was one of the most beautiful moments of my life. That is one of the most beautiful moments of the Confession in the Catholic faith.

It may take a new Catholic to appreciate this wonderful thing called Absolution . . . which is followed, of course, by the prayer of Contrition.

Confession is like a symphony. The Holy Spirit is the Conductor. You bring the drama of the music and God creates melody and harmony for the symphony when your dark and dramatic sins are turned to pure white forgiveness.

You have a witness, in your dear Priest - a witness to what you have told God, and God, the Father, who needs no witness, is again as Christ, the Son, who humbled Himself to come to us. God now humbles Himself to come to us again at the point of our confession of sin. He does just that . . . He comes to us again. God, as the One who gives and gives and gives and gives of Himself, has chosen, in His mercy, in this Sacrament of Confession, to have a witness speak His words of

Absolution so He, who needs no witness, brings a witness for you, to know, that He, the Father, was really there.

It must be amazing to mouth the Words of God that offer such healing.

How awesome it is that God, the Creator of the Universe, wants you to know His forgiveness in a way that you can never deny His forgiveness has happened. It is finished.

Terry Fenwick Half Moon Bay

Wants some Latin Some years ago the Church mandated that all Masses be celebrated in the vernacular. For those Catholics who had grown up being very comfortable with the Latin Mass this decision by the Vatican was wrong. My understanding was that Catholics were no longer permitted to seek out a Latin Mass and must accept the decision of the Church in this matter. For those Catholics who had found comfort in familiar religious rites, this was a sad day and time has not lessened the degree of loss.

I suppose this decision was made in large part to enhance the understanding of the Mass by the congregation and thereby to have us more involved. This is not necessarily working any more. A few weeks ago my husband and I attended a noon Mass on the Peninsula and though the priest tried hard to make himself understood, neither my husband nor I understood what he was saying and we considered our effort a disaster.

With the declining numbers of vocations in this country the Church is going to become more and more dependent on priests from foreign countries and I think a step in the right direction is to give parishes the option of offering a Latin Mass to their congregations.

Perhaps the diocese should consider allowing certain parishes to celebrate the Latin Mass on a regular basis.

Mary Mendoza Millbrae Ed. Note – St. Patrick Parish in San Francisco celebrates a sung Mass in Latin each Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in San Francisco offers a Mass in Latin with Gregorian chant at 11:45 a.m. on the first Sunday of the month. Other parishes of the diocese incorporate Latin chants and motets into the English Mass, including St. Dominic’s, St. Mary’s Cathedral and the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi.

L E T T E R S

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Demean and dilute In her proposal that Catholic Eucharist be shared by all regardless of denomination, Louise Courpet (Letters – Oct. 14) argues that this would “give real meaning to the word catholic.” Not only does Canon 844.4 give strict provisions as to certain situations in which nonCatholics can receive the Eucharist, but to arbitrarily give Communion to all who are “present at the table of the Lord,” assumes that “all” understand the difference between Transubstantiation, during which Christ becomes present Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, and a wafer that merely symbolizes the Last Supper.

Allowing persons outside the Church easy access to the Eucharist discourages potential converts and demeans and dilutes the essence of our Faith.

Louise Courpet ends her letter “on another note” with the prayer: “O God, may the official Church accept the vocations of women...as ordained priests” In Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, John Paul II wrote: “I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful.”

It sounds as the letter writer has struck several discordant notes that are not in tune with her Church.

Jane L. Sears Burlingame

October 21, 2005

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Family Life

Who’s your daddy?

Who are a child’s parents? It seems like a simple question — the kid’s mom and dad, right? The people who made the baby.

But for decades, legal and technological changes have been reshaping families, as reproductive techniques like sperm donation, egg donation, and surrogate motherhood become far more embedded in our culture than most of us realize.

Now we have kids with two moms, four moms, or none at all.

These technologies, and the legal tangles they create, have shifted us to an understanding of family that pretends bodies don’t matter, and denies children’s need for their own mother and father. Here are only a few examples of how what we might call “third-party reproduction” is reshaping our culture; hundreds such stories emerge every month.

On Sept. 7, an Ohio judge ruled that an egg donor had parental rights to the triplets she created with a surrogate mother and a 64-year-old single man. It should be obvious: She is the children’s parent. But egg and sperm donation are based on the fiction that her messy biological tie is trivial.

And so there’s no marriage here, no love between the three people claiming parentage; only contracts and legal disputes.

On Sept. 23, NBC’s fertility-clinic drama “Inconceivable” premiered. The show’s co-creators have both used surrogate mothers. One co-creator told USA Today that just as women once borrowed a cup of sugar from a neighbor, “Now they can borrow an egg or a uterus.”

In an ongoing case in California, Guadalupe Benitez’s case awaits oral argument. Benitez planned to conceive a child through donor insemination and raise the child with her female partner. The clinic where she was receiving infertility treatment refused to perform the insemination for religious reasons (and claims it also refused to inseminate heterosexual single women).

Benitez brought a lawsuit against the clinic for sexualorientation discrimination.

The longing for one’s own child is powerful and, in

itself, good. But using a surrogate mother or a sperm or egg donor brings a third parent into the picture (you could think of it as adultery-for-reproduction instead of adultery-forsex), leaving children at risk of “parental rights” disputes and filled with their own unacknowledged longings for biological fathers and mothers they will never know.

The weblog of the Institute for American Values, www.familyscholars.org, is a great resource, often featuring stories about the emotional struggles of the first generation of children of sperm and egg donors.

In my own case, my parents have been married all my life. Like most children, I needed an intuitive, obvious sense of my place in the world. It was in many ways important for me to realize that I took strongly after my mother in looks and my father in personality. That helped root me in my family, and in the world — especially necessary since I was in other respects a difficult and alienated child.

I know I’m the product of my parents’ love, the symbolic and literal result of their union. Every child deserves that sense of belonging. Every child, whenever possible, deserves her own mom and dad.

We need a serious debate about third-party donation and its effects on children and society. If we want to limit uses of this technology, there are many routes. For instance, egg and sperm donors could be held legally accountable the way other biological parents are; this rule alone would make the practice much less appealing to both donors and those who would use their services.

When a Pennsylvania woman went to court earlier this year to force her sperm donor to take legal responsibility for his child, the judge asked her lawyer, “What man in their right mind would agree to [donate sperm] if we decide this case in your favor? Nobody.”

Anonymous donation could be barred, giving children the right to know their biological parents. (Britain barred

anonymous donation last February.) This too would make the practice less attractive.

The President’s Council on Bioethics has issued a report calling for intensive study of third-party reproducEve Tushnet tion’s effects on both children and adult participants, and exploring other regulatory possibilities.

These reproductive strategies should in no way be further normalized in culture or in law. This is one reason to oppose same-sex “marriage”; as liberal philosophy professor J. David Velleman put it, “Marital rights generally go hand-in-hand with parental rights. … Equality between homosexual and heterosexual marriages may therefore require us to deny that donorconceived children have both a mother and a father, thereby expunging the children’s connection to half of their biological past. … My worry is that a purely affectional conception of marriage will tend to favor a purely affectional conception of parenthood. And I think that denying the importance of biological parenthood leads us to violate fundamental rights of children.”

Family ties will always be messy — hence the old proverb, “It’s a wise child who knows his own father” — but we shouldn’t capitulate to harmful trends. Children need to be able to answer the deceptively simple, profound question, “Who’s your daddy?”

Eve Tushnet is a policy analyst at the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy.

This article originally appeared in National Catholic Register. Reprinted with permission.

Guest Commentary

The jig-saw puzzle of life I was struggling with a jig-saw puzzle yesterday. You know, trying to make pieces that sure looked like they should fit together actually merge by tapping them ever so slightly with the back of a spoon.

All of a sudden I realized in a blinding epiphany of spiritual insight (I might have heard drum rolls augmented by thunder in the distance) that jig-saw puzzles are a most excellent metaphor for life and faith.

OK, not necessarily the jig-saws with only nine huge pieces or the sappy ones of cats sleeping on a country porch next to a rocking chair. Actually, the ones of huge clown faces like Emmett Kelly might work, but the really great religious stuff would be the ones of Alpine mountains or Gothic cathedrals or splendiferous seascapes. Ferris wheels might be good, too.

Just think of it. We are given all these pieces of life that seem like they should fit together, but when you throw them out onto the table of time you can’t tell what the heck they are supposed to be, much less how they fit together. So you start looking for the pieces that have straight edges in the hope they will at least create a border within which the other pieces can be corralled.

But you desperately need the picture on the box to give

you guidance. That’s our Catholic faith, see? We need the vision, the pattern, the goal, the picture, the end game, the guiding principle.

Think of the pieces with the straight edges as natural law. But we need more. We need that illustration on the box.

Without it, the puzzle (aka as “life”) is exponentially more difficult. We are left fiddling with puzzle pieces that tease and taunt but do not really belong together or even fit or even merge without whacking them with the soup spoon of life.

Pretty cool, eh? One can think of the illustration on the box as the catechism, or the teachings of the church, or the tradition of the church, or the Ten Commandments backed up by the Beatitudes, or your fourth grader teacher Sister Mary Bernadette O’Connor.

I ran my blinding epiphany of spiritual insight past my friend, Bud. He listened keenly, then nodded wisely. “I did a jig-saw puzzle once,” he told me.

“And?” I asked.

“It was a castle or a space ship. I forget. I did OK until I got to the sky part, and then all the pieces were the same blue. You couldn’t make them fit unless you fiddled with them, and fiddled with them, and fiddled with them.”

“Did you ever thump them with a spoon?”

“Thump them?”

“Never mind.”

“With a spoon?”

I came back to the vision. “So if you think of those little blue pieces as the myriad of Dan Morris little decisions we have to make in a day and how difficult that would be without the guidance of a moral sense, then don’t you think a jig-saw puzzle is just like life and that the picture on the box is like the moral compass of faith?”

“You lost me at ‘myriad,’” he smiled. “Besides, paintby-the-numbers would work better. Great simile stuff there, I’m sure.”

I thumped him with my spoon.

opposite is true. What prepares us for death, anoints us for it, in Christ’s phrase, is a deeper, more intimate, fuller entry into life. We get ready for death by beginning to live our lives as we should have been living them all along. How do we do that?

John Shea once suggested that the kingdom of heaven is open to all who are willing to sit down with all. That’s a one-line caption for discipleship. In essence, the single condition for going to heaven is to have the kind of heart and the kind of openness that makes it possible for us to sit down with absolutely anyone and to share life and a table with him or her. It that is true, then the best way we can prepare to die is to begin to stretch our hearts to love ever wider and wider, to begin to love in a way that takes us beyond the natural narrowness and discrimination that exists within our hearts because of temperament, wound, timidity, ignorance, selfishness, race, gender, religion, circumstance, and our place in history.

We prepare to die by pushing ourselves to love less narrowly. In that sense, readying ourselves for death is real-

ly an ever-widening entry into life.

John Powell, in his book, Unconditional Love, tells the story of a young student who was dying of cancer. In the final stages of his illness, he came to see Powell Father and said something to Ron Rolheiser this effect: “Father, you once told us something in class that has made it easier for me to die young. You said: ‘There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn’t one of them.

These are the two tragedies: If you go through life and don’t love and if you go through life and you don’t tell those whom you love that you love them.’

When the doctors told me that my cancer was termiROLHEISER, page 17

Dan Morris is former editor of Catholic San Francisco.

Spirituality

Life’s key question Several years ago, at retreat, an elderly monk shared with me about the ups and downs of 50 years of monastic life. At the end of this he said to me: “Give me some hints on how I should prepare to die! What should I do to make myself more ready for death?”

The heaviness of such a question is enough to intimidate a person with a spirituality deeper than my own, and when it’s asked by someone twice your age whose heart seems already deeply charitable, faith-filled, and wonderfully-mellowed through years of quiet prayer, then perhaps the best answer is silence. I wasn’t so naive as to offer him much by way of an answer, his trust in me notwithstanding.

But it’s a good question. How do we prepare to die?

How do we live so that death does not catch us unaware?

What do we do so that we don’t leave this world with too much unfinished business?

The first thing that needs to be said is that anything we do to prepare for death should not be morbid or be something that distances or separates us from life and each other.

We don’t prepare for death by withdrawing from life. The

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THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY

TIME

Exodus 22:20-26; Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51; 1 Thessalonians 1:5c-10; Matthew 22:34-40 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF EXODUS (EX 22:20-26) Thus says the Lord: “You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry. My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans.

“If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors among my people, you shall not act like an extortioner toward him by demanding interest from him. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset; for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for his body. What else has he to sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am compassionate.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51) R. I love you, Lord, my strength.

I love you, O Lord, my strength, O Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer.

R. I love you, Lord, my strength.

My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold!

Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies.

R. I love you, Lord, my strength.

The Lord lives and blessed be my rock!

Extolled be God my savior.

You who gave great victories to your king and showed kindness to your anointed.

R. I love you, Lord, my strength.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS (1 THES 1:5C-10) Brothers and sisters: You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit, so that you became a model for all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we have no need to say anything. For they themselves openly declare about us what sort of reception we had among you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God and to await his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (MT 22:34-40) When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He said to him, “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

The permanence of holy orders Q. Why then are Catholics excomAmong those policies today, determined municated and forbidden to receive the generally by canon law, is that a priest may Eucharist if they were legally married in be removed from active ministry, meaning the church, then divorce and remarry, that he cannot exercise his pastoral responsiwhen an ordained priest may leave the bilities. This removal may be on his own inipriesthood, receive the sacrament of tiative, which may sooner or later be acceptmarriage, is not excommunicated and is ed by the church (for example, by laicizapermitted to receive the sacraments? tion), or it may be on the initiative of the I believe the church had no objection to bishop or other responsible authority. divorce and remarriage prior to the 13th and In that sense, once a priest always a 14th centuries. (New York) priest. Even one who has left the priesthood A. First, married and perhaps entered a marriage retains until Catholics who death the ability in the divorce and remarry church to minister the another person outsacraments, though he side the church should may not lawfully exernot receive the sacraments cise that responsibility until their new marriage is except for people in validated in the church. critical emergencies or Contrary to what many still Father John Dietzen danger of death. believe, however, they are These exceptions are not formally excommunicated, are still provided since the church in such matters part of the church and are encouraged to has always held to the principle that the participate in its life in all other ways. good of souls, the spiritual needs of peoThe sacramental theology of marriage ple, come first. differs from that of holy orders. We believe The metaphor that a priest, particularly a that marriage is in itself a commitment for bishop, is “married” to the church, or to his life between the two spouses, that this is an diocese, is an ancient one in Christianity. ordinance of God, what he intended the But like all metaphors, it cannot be stretched marriage covenant to be. There’s plenty of beyond its intended meaning. biblical witness to that truth.

It helps to convey the idea that a comIt’s true that, according to Catholic the- mitment somewhat like marriage binds a ology and doctrine, an ordained priest priest to the church and to the people he remains an ordained priest for life. In a serves. The similarity does not, however, metaphor that attempts to articulate that define the nature and meaning of that truth, it often is said that ordination creates priestly commitment. an “indelible mark” on the individual, just It is not correct that the church once had as baptism creates an indelible character no objection to divorce. Its laws and pracon those who receive that sacrament. tices concerning when and how marriages The discipline with which the church take place, developed often through the cendetermines how and when and where the turies. For instance, it approved in particular priest will publicly exercise that sacrament, cases the dissolution of a marriage between however, was not established by Christ. The a Christian and a non-Christian. At no time, church has varied its regulations and policies however, did it not teach the lifetime charon this subject often through the centuries. acter of the marriage covenant.

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QUESTION CORNER

Scripture FATHER GERARD O’ROURKE

Living the greatest commandments It must have been a really startling truth is that very often, we humans do experience for the people, in the Gospel not love ourselves and accept ourselves reading for today, who were deliberately as beings who are loved by God. All you and I have to do is pay a visit trying to test and entrap Jesus. Once again, these people thought they had him to one of our mega-bookstores and just trapped and cornered. Then they got one take a look at the vast array of books of their scholars to ask the big question. about handling our problems with selfThat indeed was a tactical mistake. This acceptance. In fact, we can admit that scholar asked an authentic question and most of us at least from time to time have he put it in a direct, simple way: some real reservations about our capaci“Teacher, which commandment in the ty to accept ourselves as lovable human beings. law is the greatest?”

It is especially important for our Jesus clearly relished the power and the straightforward quality of the ques- young people to have love and respect tion. It is indeed the kind of question that for themselves in this age and culture seems to resonate with us in today’s that we live in. It is even crucially imporworld also. We in the secular culture that tant for our young men and teenage boys we live in like a direct, well formed to have a balanced love for themselves. question like the one proposed by the Otherwise it can often lead to catascholar. It allows us to look at the ques- strophic results like suicide. As people tion with interest and attention, even if of faith we must always be clear that it is the intention of God that we have a genwe don’t embrace or accept the answer. uine self love for ourThe response of selves on which we Jesus to the question is precise and com- ‘Jesus in giving us this can build our love for our neighbor. plete. It is also a In the first reading twofold answer. This commandment takes from the Book of question of the scholExodus we find some ar is repeated in dif- for granted that our tests and challenges ferent circumstances for us as we take on in the other Gospels. living our lives Jesus always love for our neighbor inspired by the two responds to it in the twofold manner is built on our love for great commandments to love God and to which we find in love our neighbor.

Matthew’s Gospel: ourselves. . . . very They read – respect “You shall love the alien; care for the the Lord, your God, often, we humans do poor especially if with all you heart, with all your soul, not love ourselves and they are widows and orphans; in financial and with all your matters be just, be mind. This is the fair, be honest, be greatest and the first accept ourselves as generous, be compascommandment. The sionate as God second is like it: You beings who are loved declares “I am comshall love your neighby God.’ passionate,” bor as yourself.”

Nothing much has I spell out the changed in our world answer of Jesus in his own words because his answer is so since those words from the Book of complete, so inclusive and so precise. Exodus were written over twenty-five We need to keep hearing it, listening to it hundred years ago. We still have our and embracing it into our lives, through- aliens, our poor, our homeless, our needy out our entire lives. Of course, the words mothers and children. Only today in our of the first commandment were taken world there are a lot more of us – over directly from the Old Testament. They six and a half billion of us.

You and I could very well be daunted were also a part of Jesus’ religious training from his earliest days as a Jewish by the magnitude of the challenges that child. The Book of Deuteronomy (6:4-7) flow to us from the two great commandtells us “Take to heart these words. Drill ments. However we must never forget them into your children.” We can be sure that we are a people of faith, that most that Mary and Joseph did indeed do just precious divine gift that empowers us to that as the good Jewish parents that they take great and noble actions in our lives.

In the second reading we find that St. were.

Jesus added the words “You shall love Paul challenged the people of your neighbor as yourself.” He did so Thessalonica to imitate him and Jesus. because he knew that his words would They, as people of faith, accepted the really test our commitment to fulfill the challenge. They turned “to the living and first commandment “to love God” as true God” and were and inspiration to all well as fulfill the intention of God that the people in the surrounding districts. we humans love one another with no one So too could we, in our time, if we accept the challenge of St. Paul and trust left out of our love.

It is vital for us to pay attention to the in our love “for the living and true God.” precise wording of the second commandment: You shall love your neighbor as Father Gerard O’Rourke is yourself.” We must notice that Jesus in Director Emeritus of the giving us this commandment takes for Office of Ecumenical and granted that our love for our neighbor is Interreligious Affairs for the built on our love for ourselves. He takes Archdiocese of San Francisco. this for granted! I note this because the

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Opus Dei – Out of the shadows OPUS DEI : AN OBJECTIVE LOOK BEHIND THE MYTHS AND REALITY OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL FORCE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, John L. Allen, Doubleday (2005), 416 pp., $24.95

Reviewed by Christopher Howse In 1987 Cardinal Hume wrote to the Archbishop of Seoul, who had asked if it was a good idea to let Opus Dei start up in his diocese. “I know that Opus Dei contains many good people and does good work,” he replied, “but – strictly between ourselves – I would always be cautious in their regard. I don’t like the secretiveness that seems to surround their activities, and I have suspicions about pressure that can at times be put on youths.” This previously unpublished detail on the late Cardinal’s thinking is typical of the spadework put in by John Allen, the Vatican correspondent of the National Catholic Reporter, in this determinedly unsensationalist but deeply intriguing study.

In my experience the most frequent reason given for disliking Opus Dei among bien- pensant English Catholics is that it is “right-wing” in ecclesiastical terms. John Allen does not see it that way. “It’s not quite right to call this a ‘traditional’ alternative to a more ‘liberal’ post-conciliar Catholicism, since from a historical point of view Opus Dei is not traditional at all.” Indeed, he goes so far as to say that its founder’s “insistence that the real work of bringing the gospel to the world is to be carried out by lay people through their secular occupation marks something of a Copernican shift for Catholicism”.

This worldwide organization (the Church’s only “personal prelature”) of 85,000 men and women was founded in Spain in 1928 by a 26year-old Aragonese priest, Jose-maría Escrivá.

He was canonized in 2002, 27 years after his death, though to his opponents this seemed indecent haste. John Allen gives a chapter each to what he calls “question marks” about Opus Dei: corporal mortification; attitudes to women, money, politics; “blind obedience”; recruiting; and the two items in his subtitle, secrecy and power in the Church.

In giving answers, John Allen’s 388 pages are so full of facts (mostly accurate, though he writes “teapot” on page 19 when he means “kettle”) that sometimes the shape of the wood is lost, though the trees are correctly identified.

He has tirelessly under-taken a string of interviews – in Africa, Peru, the United States and Rome. And here I am on page 288, “an exnumerary who reports that he was not traumatized by the process of leaving, which he elected to do in 1988”. (The weird-sounding category of member “numerary” refers to the unmarried minority in Opus Dei. The married majority are called “supernumeraries”. The terms were originally adopted from Spanish academic life as terms with ordinary and secular connotations, which they lack in English.)

On the authority of that bestselling shocker The Da Vinci Code, plenty of readers are left only with the impression that Opus Dei is a cult of pain. “Corporal mortification” to many non-Catholics now conjures up the image of the discipline, made of knotted cords, which most members of Opus Dei do not use, but some do. The use of the discipline might have been fine for Cardinal Newman, but it is unusually old-fashioned today. Yet interest in it is, I fear, largely prurient, and a red herring.

“Mortification” in Opus Dei usually means things like making generous use of one’s time, not gossiping and keeping one’s temper.

Opus Dei is criticized for its attitude both to women members who are married, and to those who are not. The married ones are expected to be good Catholic mothers, eschewing contraception and welcoming children. Some of the unmarried ones carry out cooking and cleaning at Opus Dei houses, and critics find this sexist and demeaning. On the other hand, women members receive highlevel theological training and some become experienced spiritual advisers. John Allen’s cautious conclusion is that “Women in Opus Dei do not, for the most part, feel like ‘secondclass citizens’.”

As for money and power, both political and ecclesiastical, the charge is that Opus Dei has too much. Its members, moreover, are said to do as they are told, and are too pushy in recruiting. Then, returning to the central question of secrecy, about which Cardinal Hume had doubts, people complain that Opus Dei does not publish a list of members, and they do not wear special uniforms. The fear is of unidentifiable influence.

The best-known recent example in Britain was the media dance around Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Education. She apparently did not want the equation to be made: “Opus Dei equals New Labour apparatchik”.

She did not volunteer information about her membership (though she admitted being influenced spiritually), so Opus Dei felt honourbound to refrain from comment on it.

It is one thing if poor Miss Kelly feels the weight of Opus Dei being judged by her. But there is a bigger argument, if a subtler one, for members not defining themselves by their membership, and it is to do with the essentially lay (lay, that is, as opposed to consecrated religious) but spiritual nature of their vocation.

Members’ secular work is something for which they are individually responsible, and for which Opus Dei is not. A greengrocer who is a member of Opus Dei might sell you a rotten apple, but there’s no point taking it back to Opus Dei headquarters in Bayswater.

Throughout, John Allen, the author of the critical biography Cardinal Ratzinger: the Vatican’s enforcer of the faith, is surprisingly sympathetic to his new subject. He has a striking chapter on “divine filiation”, the awareness of being children of God, a hallmark of Opus Dei. And at one point he is so puzzled by the disparity between hostile accounts of Opus Dei and friendly ones that he is reminded of Kurosawa’s Rashomon, a tale told differently by several narrators.

The method Allen follows is to take the case against Opus Dei and sift it. Thus, he takes an article published in the magazine America in 1995 which says the statutes of Opus Dei are secret. Next he interviews the article’s author. Then he finds that the statutes are all in a book printed by an Opus Dei affiliated publisher, and there is a translation on the internet too. He also quotes a prohibition of secrecy in the statutes of Opus Dei themselves, approved by the Vatican in 1982.

Though struck by the “startling ferocity” of criticisms by a proportion of former members, Allen concludes that Opus Dei is no Gothic horror. One of the funniest passages comes when he investigates what he has been told by a hostile ex-member is the “Opus Gulag”, housing “mad numeraries” on the notorious fourth floor of a clinic at the Opus Dei-run University of Navarre. Instead, the author finds a mild-mannered psychiatrist of international standing who shows him round and tells him that of the 25 men and women presently being treated at his clinic, none is in Opus Dei. Allen’s findings are generally deflationary.

Opus Dei’s membership is only equivalent to the diocese of Hobart, he notes; it has only 39 bishops out of the 4,564 in the world; its presence in the Vatican is limited, with only 20 members working in the Curia. None of its priests, he thinks it worth saying, has been accused in the US child abuse scandal. Allen does not see Opus Dei expanding as fast as tales of relentless recruitment suggest, since by his calculations it gained only 650 members a year in the past four years.

As for money, in a chapter analyzing the picture in the United States, he puts its assets at $344 million, compared with an annual revenue for the Catholic Church in the United States of $102 billion. By comparison, General Motors has assets of $455 billion. The worldwide revenue of Opus Dei, he says, equals that of a mid-sized American diocese.

All this is fairly interesting on the level of debunking Da Vinci Code images of Opus Dei as scarcely human in its depravity, but it is beside the main point. The real question remains: is Opus Dei, as it behaves now, an element in the Catholic Church that should be encouraged? In answer John Allen makes two distinctions, first between the institution and its message, then between the philosophy of Opus Dei and its sociology. He argues that

“whatever one makes of the fact that a minority of Opus Dei members wear a barbed chain called a cilice around their thigh for two hours a day”, still at its core “the message of Opus Dei is that the redemption of the world will come in large part through lay women and men sanctifying their daily work, transforming secularity from within”.

While its philosophy, he says, is a secular one that forms no group policy (on tax policy, say, or the war on terror), its sociology is aligned with the sort of people who think that abortion and homosexual acts are wrong. I’m not sure how useful these distinctions are, since an institution’s ideas and standards are contained in its very structure. In the sociological examples he gives, of attitudes to abortion and homosexuality, he assumes that they hold else-where the political significance that they do in America. In British politics those issues do not loom large.

In conclusion, Allen judges that Opus Dei is “not especially secretive”, is “not rich” and does have a social conscience, with “the bulk of Opus Dei’s corporate works designed to

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Food & Fun Oct. 22, 23: Craft Fair at St. veronica Parish Center, 434 Alida Way off El Camino Real in South San Francisco. Sat. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sun. 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Snacks and raffle, too. Sponsored by the Father Serra Circle.

Oct. 26: Octoberfest benefiting the work of the Good Shepherd Sisters and Guild at the Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco with social hour at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:30 p.m. $40 per person. Call Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5374.

Oct. 28: Archbishop Riordan High School’s Philippine-American Coalition club will celebrate its 20th Anniversary with a Dinner-Dance in the school’s Chaminade Hall. Philippine Consul General Rowena Sanchez will be our honored guest. Tickets are $20 individual, and $30 couple. For further information, contact Flor Buenafe-Oliva at (415) 6063493 or email: arhspaac@yahoo.com.

Oct. 29: Halloween Bunco Luncheon benefiting work of Dolores #7, YLI, in St. Cecilia’s Lower Church, 17th Ave. at Vicente in San Francisco. $20 per person. Plenty of parking. Costumes encouraged. Call Claire at (415) 751-5875.

Oct. 29: A “Great Happening” in the Bayview Hunters Point Community. The SF Giants and St. Mary’s Medical Center are teaming up again this year to help strike out disease and illness. The 3rd Annual Faith-based, Interfaith, Community Health Fair takes place at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Catholic Church, 3rd and Jamestown and The Arthur H. Coleman Medical Center, 6301 3rd St. at Ingerson. All Services are Free and everyone is welcome! Continental Breakfast at 9:30 a.m. followed by workshops and lunch. Take advantage, too, of multiple health screenings, “Ask the Doctor Booths”, fitness and wellness programs, insurance enrollment, and other services for all ages until 3 p.m. For more information, call (415) 750-5683.

November 5: St. Paul’s Annual Dinner Dance and Auction, “Les rues de Paris.” Please be sure to attend this year’s event at the United Irish Cultural Center.

The silent auction and cocktails begin at 6:00 p.m., with dinner, live auction and dancing to follow. Cost is $65/person and benefits the St. Paul Preservation Fund, established to reduce the debt for the building of St. Paul’s School and the retrofit of the stunning St. Paul Parish Church. Tickets are available by calling St. Paul’s Rectory at 415-648-7538.

Nov. 5, 6: Annual St. Ignatius Fashion Show benefiting St. Ignatius College Preparatory. Saturdays’ event is High Roller gala and the Sunday soiree is a Luck Be a Lady Luncheon. Call the school, at (415) 731-7500.

Nov. 12: Oldies but Goodies Dance at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, 1122Jamestown at 3rd St. in San Francisco from 8 p.m. – midnight. Tickets $30 per person in advance only. No tix sold at door. 21 and over please. Call (415) 468-3434. Proceeds benefit parish youth programs.

Nov. 12: Fundraising Hawaiian Dinner Dance sponsored by St. Emydius Church Fil-Am Unity Club.

Dinner 6:30 -8:00pm. Dance till midnight. Father O’Reilly Center, 255 Jules Ave., San Francisco.

Donation $25.00. Ticket must be paid by October 31st to reserve seat. Call Jose or Bea Delgadillo - (415) 239-0632 or Cora Cabal – (415) 469-0311.

Nov. 12, 13: 2nd Annual Holiday Crafts Sale at St. John of God Church Hall, 1290 5th Ave. at Irving St., San Francisco. Sat: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sun.: 10:30 a.m.

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November 19: Holiday Boutique benefiting Mercy High School, San Francisco beginning at 10 a.m. in Mercy’s Catherine McAuley Pavilion. Day includes many vendors selling beautiful, handmade crafts plus a silent auction and raffle with tickets at only $1 each.

Admission is free. Holiday Beverages will also be available with complimentary sweets to nibble on and lots more to pique your interest. If you would like to be a vendor, call the school for an application. (415) 3340525. 585-9085.

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Taking home Father Alfred Boeddeker Awards Sept. 14th were the Stitchers and the San Francisco law firm of HellerEhrman, both longtime assistants in the work of the St. Anthony Foundation. For 20 years, the Stitchers have supplied clothes and other knitted and weaved goods - numbered now in the tens of thousands - to St. Anthony’s Clothing and Furniture Program. HellerEhrman, which has been serving the foundation since 1998 and the Franciscan Friars for more than a century, donated services last year alone valued at more than $40,000. From left: Franciscan Father John Hardin, Executive Director; Brian Brosnahan, Margaret Conti, Parker Klee and Franciscan Father Melvin Jurisich. The awards are named for St. Anthony Foundation founder, Franciscan Father Alfred Boeddeker, who died in 2004.

Francisco. Donation is $15.00. For information call: Loy Banez (650) 878-5149 or Delia Valencia (415) 239-8185.

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admission free. October 23: David Hatt, Organist. Vierne, Pieces de Fantaisie; October 30: David Hatt, Organist. Vierne, Symphony No. 6. November 6: Raymond Garner, Organist.

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Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free.

Social Justice/Family Life www.sflifeandjustice.org For several months the Office of Public Policy has worked to increase involvement in the area of peace and justice. The office’s new Web site will assist in this effort. It will seek to: 1. Solidify community outreach.

2. Provide information on the themes of Catholic Social Teaching including: ● Homelessness ● Community Organizing ● CCHD ● Abortion ● Capital Punishment ● Landmines ● International Debt ● Environmental Stewardship ● Interfaith Prayer ● Many more areas of social concern 3. Serve as place for listing related parish activities.

Please see the home page or calendar for the latest events and alerts. This will be especially important as the November election draws near. Contact Tim Kortenkamp at (415) 614 – 5570.

Are you in a troubled marriage? Retrouvaille, a program for couples with serious marital problems, might help. For information, call Tony and Pat Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.

Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 614-5680.

Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 5683018.

The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month. Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care.

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Reunions Oct. 22: Archbishop Riordan High School - Alumni Homecoming. $15 per person includes lunch and admission to the game. For information email vrassam@riordanhs.org Oct. 29: Class of ’55, Immaculate Conception Academy at Embassy Suites in Burlingame. Contact Anne Nolan Dowd at (650) 359-2601 or andown@aol.com.

Oct. 29: Class of ’45, St. Paul High School, San Francisco, United Irish Cultural Center. Call Lillian Carter at (415) 584-3938.

Nov. 5: Class of ’85, Mercy High School, San Francisco, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd, San Francisco. Tickets are $40 per person. Please contact mercyhs85@yahoo.com or call (510) 845-5728 for tickets.

Nov. 5: Class of ’60, All Souls Elementary School.

Call Nancy Eli-Galli at (650) 593-5334.

Nov. 4, 5, 6: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Reunion Weekend 2005. Friday, Nov. 4 begins the festivities with Back to School Day. Saturday, Nov. 5, enjoy the reunion dinner featuring cuisine from the various diverse neighborhoods of San Francisco.

Sunday, Nov. 6, attend Alumni Mass and Brunch.

For more information, contact Gregg Franceschi, Director of Alumni Relations at 415.775.6626 ext.

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Nov. 6: Graduates and former students of St. Peter schools now and in earlier times are invited to an annual Memorial Mass at 10:30 a.m. in the parish church, 1200 Florida St. in San Francisco.

Buffet brunch follows. Tickets $15 adults/$5 children. Parking in schoolyard and lot. Call Sylvia Rodriguez at (650) 992-5122 or Irma Vargas at (415) 846-5966. Special honorees include classes of ’55 and ’80.

Nov. 12: Class of ’65 from St. Emydius Elementary School at the United Irish Cultural Center at 2700 45th Ave., San Francisco.For reservations, please contact one of the following people: Christine Terry (Hutson) at (408) 298-7676; Dennis Warde at (510) 208-4811 or Emmet Monahan at (415) 586-4588.

Nov. 12: Classes of ’64 and ’65 from Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School at SSF Conference Center, 235 So. Airport Blvd. Tickets are $70 per person. Evening includes dinner and dancing.

Begins with no-host cocktails at 6 p.m. Contact Helen Sigmund Fisicaro, ’65, at (650) 994-6724 or Andi Laber Heintz, ’64, at (650) 888-1400 Nov. 18: Archbishop Riordan High School’s Annual Downtown Luncheon at Sir Francis Drake Hotel. $60 per person. Guest Speaker: Football’s Ronnie Lott. For information email vrassam@riordanhs.org Nov. 19: Class of ’80, Presentation High School, San Francisco at Caesar’s Italian Restaurant, Bay and Powell, SF. Contact Bernadette Sallaberry Hurley at (650) 359-8218 or jbjnhurley@aol.com.

Marin Catholic High School announces upcoming reunions for class of ’65, Nov. 5; ’95, Nov. 26.

Contact LeAnn Tarrant at (415) 464-3843 or ltarrant@marincatholic.org.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Oct. 24, 25, 26, 27: St. Matthias Church presents a four day mission entitled Come Find Yourself, a spiritual program designed to illustrate how people might best find themselves by finding God. Deacons John Sequeira and Jim Myers speak at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The mission will be introduced at weekend Masses Oct. 22 and 23. Envelopes will be distributed for free will offerings. Hospitality will be served.

St. Matthias Church is located at 1685 Cordilleras in Redwood City. For more information, call Laurie Coulter at 366-7085, ext. 12 Oct. 29: St. Luke Mass and Banquet sponsored

by SF Guild of the Catholic Medical Association at St. Cecilia Parish, 17th Ave. and Vicente, SF beginning with Mass at 5 p.m. Contact George Maloof, MD, at (415) 219-8719.or gemaloof2003@yahoo.com.

Oct. 28: Reveling in God’s Presence, a time of reflection, exploration and practice of living led by Notre Dame Sister Phil D’Anna, a student of Zen meditation. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. - Bring a bag lunch - at Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont Pre-register: 650-593-2045 X 277 or Barbara.cunningham@SNDdeN.org.

Nov. 15: Do you Have What the Job Market Wants? With Jonathan Ogden White, Executive Search Consultant, as part of Notre Dame de Namur University’s Distinguished Speaker Series at 7:30 p.m. in Ralston Hall Mansion located on the NDNU campus at 1500 Ralston Avenue in Belmont.

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Confession is necessary “only in the case of grave sin,� he explained. “But it is very useful to go to confession regularly to cultivate cleanliness and beauty of soul, and to mature little by little in life.�

To Giulia, who asked what she should do if her parents do not go to Mass on Sunday, he responded that she should speak to them “with great love, with great respect.� “Tell them,� he said, “‘Dear mommy, dear daddy, do you know that there is something very important for all of us, and even for you?

We will meet with Jesus.’�

Before the Pope arrived, around 6 p.m., the children participated in a music festival, in which Amii Stewart, among others, took part.

The meeting ended with adoration and Benediction with the Eucharist.

because, at this moment, I am truly tasting life. It’s easier to die when one has been, even for a moment, fully alive.�

What makes it difficult for us to die, beyond all the congenital instincts inside of us that want us to live, is not so much fear of the afterlife or even fear that their might not be an afterlife. What makes it hard to die is that we have so much life yet to finish and we finish it by loving more deeply and expressing our love more freely.

Had that old monk cornered Jesus and asked him the same question he asked me, I suspect, Jesus might have said: Prepare for death by living more fully now. Work at loving more deeply, less discriminately, more affectionately, and more gratefully.

Tell those close to you that you love them and death will never catch you like a thief in the night.�

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VATICAN CITY (Zenit.org) Anticipating the imminent end of the Year of the Eucharist, Benedict XVI gathered some 100,000 young communicants for a meeting entitled “Bread of Heaven.�

Last June the Pope extended an invitation to all children who were receiving their first Communion this year. At that time they were invited to St. Peter’s Square to confirm the essential role that the sacrament of the Eucharist has in the formation and spiritual growth of children.

The invitation was addressed to children of the Diocese of Rome and neighboring dioceses. However, children from all over Italy, and from Spain, France and elsewhere, arrived in buses in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday, overflowing the plaza.

The highlight of the day was their conversation with Benedict XVI who answered questions from seven of the children.

One of the girls, Andrea, asked the Holy Father about his first Communion.

It was “a beautiful Sunday in March 1935,� he said, “69 years ago.� “It was a sunny day, the church was very beautiful, there was music,� said the Pontiff with a broad smile. “I promised the Lord, in the measure possible: ‘I want to be always with you’ and I said to him: ‘But you must always be with me.’�

Regular confession Another of the first communicants, Livia, asked him why she should go to confession before going to Communion when she always commits the same sins. The Pope laughed when he heard the question. “It’s true, in general our sins are always the same, but we clean our house, our room, at least every week, although the dirt is always the same,� he said.

nal, I realized how much I’ve been loved.

I’ve been able to tell my family and others how much they mean to me. I’ve expressed love. People ask me: ‘What’s it like being 24 years old and dying?’ I tell them: ‘It’s not so bad. It beats being 50 years old and having no values!’�

We prepare ourselves for death by loving deeply and by expressing love, appreciation, and gratitude to each other. Jesus says as much. When the woman at Bethany poured an entire bottle of expensive ointment on his feet and dried his feet with her hair, he commented on her lavish expression of affection and gratitude by saying: “She has anointed me for my impending death.� What he meant should not be piously misinterpreted. He wasn’t saying: “Since I’m soon to die, let her waste this ointment!� He was saying rather: “When I come to die, it’s going to be easier

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Opus Dei . . . ■Continued from page 15 The biggest negative he asserts is that “a substantial number of ex-members of Opus Dei, enough to suggest that this is something more than isolated cases, report feeling damaged by their experience.� That, I think, is chiefly because they once saw member-ship as a vocation, and vocations are not changed like clothes.

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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit Reviewed by David DiCerto NEW YORK (CNS) — In 1989 British animator Nick Park received an Academy Award nomination for his claymation short, “A Grand Day Out,” about a fanciful flight to the moon, which first introduced us to the darling duo of cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his faithful pooch, Gromit. He repeated the feat in 1993 with “The Wrong Trousers” and again in 1995 with “A Close Shave” (winning Oscars for both).

Park — and his puppet pals — seamlessly make the jump to featurelength films in the frolicsome and visually delightful “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” (DreamWorks).

And while the early odds-on favorite to win “Best Animated Feature” may be Tim Burton’s recent “Corpse Bride” — which also uses stop-motion animation — Park’s film (co-directed with Steve Box) is captivating fun.

Billed as a “the world’s first vegetarian horror movie,” “Curse of the Were-Rabbit” finds the twosome running a pest control business (“Anti-Pesto”) in a northern English town where the residents are obsessed with growing oversized veggies.

With the annual “Giant Vegetable

Competition” swiftly approaching, Wallace (voiced, as usual, by Peter Sallis) and Gromit find themselves in a “hare-y” situation, as the town is infested with rabbits feasting on the jumbo harvest.

After an experiment to break the critters of their binging goes awry, a monstrous “wererabbit” begins to ravage neighborhood gardens, despoiling them of their prize produce.

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Wallace and Gromit are hired by Lady Tottington (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter), a batty blueblood with a soft spot for bunnies, to catch the floppy-eared fiend before it jeopardizes the big contest.

Rounding out the voice talent are Ralph Fiennes as Victor Quartermaine, Tottington’s glory-seeking suitor who sets out to kill the creature; and Nicholas Smith

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The film incorporates elements of classic Universal monster movies like “The Wolfman” and “Frankenstein,” with comic nods to “King Kong” and “Watership Down” as well.

The characters and miniature sets are lovingly rendered down to the smallest detail, giving the film a disarming “handmade” charm, rather than the sterile slickness of more recent animation. (If you look close enough, you can see the artists’ fingerprints on the clay figures.)

Apart from a few “naughty” jokes that will probably go over the heads of most children, “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” is recommendable family entertainment.

The film contains some double entendres and a brief, mildly irreligious sight gag. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-I — general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is G — general audiences.

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Catholic San Francisco

October 21, 2005

New school principals take their seats A diverse group of educators began assignments as principal at schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco this school year.

Judith Borelli, St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School, was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of Corpus Christi elementary, St. John High School, and the San Francisco College for Women.

Bruce Colville, St, Dunstan Elementary School, has spent 25 years in Catholic education in the Archdiocese. He is a former principal of St. Paul School in Noe Valley.

Jaime A. Dominguez, Stuart Hall for Boys, is a 1993 graduate of Princeton University and has completed graduate studies at Michigan State University. He previously taught in New York City schools and was a member of the faculty at London’s American School for eight years.

Diane Elkins, Epiphany Elementary School, has been part of elementary education for 28 years – all but one at Epiphany. She is a graduate of St. Gregory Elementary School in San Mateo, Mercy High School, Burlingame and has completed undergraduate and graduate studies at San Francisco State University.

Carol Grewal, principal at St. Brendan Elementary School, completed her undergraduate work at St. Patrick’s College of Education in Ireland in 1986 later earning a graduate degree from the University of San Francisco.

She taught in Ireland for eight years and is a

former principal of Star of the Sea Elementary School in San Francisco.

Arleen Guaraglia, St. Paul Elementary School, has served 30 years serving in the Archdiocese. She is a former principal of St. John’s Elementary School and has taught at Notre Dame des Victoires school.

Terry Hanley, Star of the Sea Elementary School, is a native San Franciscan and graduate of the Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School, Sacred Heart High School and the University of San Francisco. He is a former principal of St. Emydius and St. Charles schools.

Ofelia Madriaga, interim principal, Mater Dolorosa Elementary School, completed undergraduate studies in the Philippines and studied in graduate programs at the University of Hawaii, San Francisco State, and Notre Dame de Namur University. She has served as vice-principal at Mater Dolorosa for 19 years.

Dora Arredondo-Marron, Woodside Priory Middle School, is a 1995 Priory alumna. She is a graduate of Santa Clara University. The new principal also chairs the Social Studies department and coaches girls’ volleyball.

Mary Ng, St. Mary’s Chinese Day School, has served as Director of Religious Education and Vice Principal for the past two years at the school and neighboring Holy Family Parish.

She holds a graduate degree from St. Mary’s College in Moraga and is a former member of the faculty at Notre Dame des Victoires.

New Catholic school principals met recently with Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Schools. Back from left: John Omernik, Terry Hanley, Diane Elkins, Ms. Huntington, Arleen Guaraglia. Front from left: Judy Borelli, Mary Ng, Ofelia Madriaga, Ann Stovall.

John Omernik, De Marillac Middle School has worked in elementary education since 1994 and has served at DeMarillac since 2001.

A former member of the faculty at St. Dominic and St. Brigid schools, he worked as a CPA and consultant prior to teaching. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and has an MBA from the University of San Francisco.

Lorraine Welch Paul, St. Gregory Elementary School in San Mateo, returns to the school where she as principal from 198289. Her 27 years in Catholic education include 11 years at Junipero Serra High School.

Tekakwitha Pernambuco, San Domenico Upper School, holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University and completed gradu-

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Ann Stovall, Our Lady of Angels Elementary School, began her career in education more than 30 years ago. She has been a classroom teacher, a high school counselor, a director of a private school, a home study instructor in a residential treatment center, and a school administrator.

Janet McCormack Suzio, St. Charles Elementary School in San Carlos, has more than 30 years of experience in Catholic education. She has served at schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco since 1985.

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