October 22, 2004

National Review Board gets new chair, five new members

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Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, celebrates the opening Mass of the International Convention of Priests at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Valletta, Malta, Oct. 18. More than 900 priests and bishops gathered for the convention.

WASHINGTON — The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has appointed a new chairman and five new members on the National Review Board, which was established in 2002 as part of the U.S. Bishops’ Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, USCCB president, named Nicholas P. Cafardi, dean of the law school of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a charter member of the twoyear-old board, as chairman. He will serve through the conclusion of his term on the board in June 2005.

The new members, all appointed to three-year terms that will end Oct. 31, 2007, are: ● Patricia O’Donnell Ewers, an educational consultant who was president of Pace University in New York from 1990 to 2000. ● Dr. Angelo P. Giardino, vice president for clinical affairs at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. ● Ralph I. Lancaster Jr., an attorney at the Pierce Atwood law firm in Portland, Maine. ● Judge Michael R. Merz, a federal magistrate of the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of Ohio, in Dayton, Ohio. ● Joseph P. Russoniello, dean of the San Francisco Law School and senior counsel and resident in the San Francisco office of the law firm Cooley Godward LLP. Cafardi, who has degrees in both civil law and canon law, succeeds the board’s founding chairman, former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating, and Justice Anne M. Burke of the Illinois Court of Appeals, who served as interim chair from June 2003, when Keating left, until her departure from the board this fall.

The new members replace Keating; Burke; Robert S. Bennett, an attorney in Washington, D.C.; William R. Burleigh, board chairman and former CEO of the Scripps Co.; and Leon E. Panetta, director of the Leon & Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy in Monterey Bay, Calif., and a former White House chief of staff under President Clinton.

Bishop Gregory said the board has been “vitally important in assisting the bishops of the United States in dealing with the crisis of the sexual abuse of minors within the church.”

The all-lay board was established by the U.S. bishops at their landmark June 2002 meeting in Dallas to provide an independent review and critique how well U.S. Catholic dioceses were dealing with sexually abusive priests and their victims and what policies, personnel and programs the bishops were establishing to create a safe environment for children throughout the church.

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All the Pope’s Men Proposition 72 . . . . . . . . . . 8 Editorial and columns. . 12-13

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October 22, 2004

On The Where You Live

by Tom Burke

Lisa Collins, manager of the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Homeless Help Center in South San Francisco has been honored with the People who Care Award by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors and San Mateo County’s Commission on Disabilities. Lisa has shown “outstanding contributions as a professional on behalf of people with disabilities in San Mateo County,” judges said. The People Who Care Awards Dinner took place Oct. 1. Family and fellow Vincentians joined her for the occasion. From left: Tony Rouse, Arlene Elliott, Richard Collins, Lisa and her husband, Ron Pantoja, Cathy Collins, Lorraine Moriarty, Linda Cordell, Tom Cordell.

Students from Woodside Priory School offered kittens, rodents and more for blessing on the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi at the Portola Valley campus. A brief prayer service with Benedictine Father Maurus Nemeth presiding opened the rite.

Among the animals blessed was Lucky LeChat, a kitten rescued by the Benedictine community, and corn snake, Starfire, seen here with William Strickfaden, a Priory sixth grader.

Let me lead this with an apology to the Sitzmann family of St. Sebastian Parish who a coupla’ weeks ago were identified here as the Fitzmanns. I even had my glasses on when I wrote up the item…. I’m on my way to a few pounds lighter and reunions in Philly and the Jersey Shore next month. Thanks to my Mount Carmel mentors Hugh Loveless and John Brownfield for their encouragement and good exercise advice when we meet up in the work-out room at the Redwood City Elks. I like losing the weight and have found that effort almost a walk in the park compared to pushing around what’s left to where I want it to be…. St. Kevin’s, San Francisco

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says “thank you’ to the late Guido Borgis who remembered the Bernal Heights parish in his will. “We are always grateful,” the parish said in a recent bulletin….

It’s 51 years married September 15th for Ellen and Humphrey O’Leary of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish.

“They have been an inspiration to many couples in the community and we thank God for them,” the parish said…. It’s tradition continued at St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish, Sausalito. The now late Mary and Captain Stanley Janislawski were the original donors of the church Sanctuary Lamp in 1959 and until their deaths

also donated candles for use in it. The family’s generosity is continued today by the couple’s daughter, Mimi Janislawski who now lives away from the parish but still “supplies the candles in memory of her parents and their great love for Star of the Sea,” the parish said….Congrats to Bob Bartoli, on being named Grand Council Man of the Year at the annual convention of the Young Men’s Institute in June. Bob is a longtime All Souls parishioner and member of YMI Council #32. “Bob was honored for his many hours of work in the YMI,” said Harold Boyd, of St. Mark Parish in Belmont, who was elected Grand Secretary at the meetings. Also chosen to serve as officers were Grand President Philip Oberst, Holy Angels Parish, Colma; Grand Treasurer Jack Albrecht, Good Shepherd Parish, Pacifica; and Grand Director Richard Guaraldi, All Souls…. It only takes a moment to let us know about a birthday, anniversary, special achievement, or special happening in your life. Just jot down the basics and send with a follow-up phone number to On the Street Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109.

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Open space for Eucharist, prayer — God will do rest, Vatican says

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — National, diocesan or parish initiatives for celebrating the Year of the Eucharist simply need to open a space for prayer, reflection and celebration, and God will do the rest, said the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.

“The initiatives do not need to be anything other than open paths because grace, offered always by the Spirit of God, will flow with abundance,” the congregation said in a note on celebrating the eucharistic year.

“The Year of the Eucharist: Suggestions and Proposals,” signed by the congregation’s head, Cardinal Francis Arinze, was released in Italian Oct. 14 in anticipation of the Oct. 17 formal opening of the yearlong celebration.

The 33-page document, filled with suggestions for celebrating Mass, promoting eucharistic adoration, educating the faithful and encouraging the production of new art, said that in the end a positive result will depend on “the profundity of prayer.”

“We are called to celebrate the Eucharist, to receive it and adore it with the faith of the saints,” the note said.

The congregation said that even if the only things a parish did to promote the Year of the Eucharist were to take more care in how it celebrated Sunday Mass and encourage eucharistic adoration the year would be a success.

But it also suggested that parishes put a special focus in the coming year on developing “a more intense catechesis about the Eucharist,” using Scripture, the writings of early Christian theologians, the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” and stories about the lives of saints who were particularly devoted to the Eucharist.

A guided visit to one’s parish church with an explanation of the symbolism and the history of the altar, ambo, tabernacle and art would be another occasion to educate parishioners on the centrality of the Mass and of the Eucharist in the Catholic faith, it said.

One suggestion contained in the document was that each parish hold a special Mass in the coming year on the anniversary of the dedication of the parish church.

The congregation asked parishes to make special efforts during the year to ensure that the sick and the homebound receive Communion and that those who take the Eucharist to them do so with an attitude of dignity and prayer.

As a clear sign that everything the church believes and does flows from the Eucharist, the document encouraged every diocesan office and ministry to hold at least one special eucharistic event during the year.

In celebrating the Eucharist, the suggestions emphasized the need for moments of silence, but also a true climate of celebration and communion among members of the congregation.

“The joy of the eucharistic celebration reverberates on Sunday, teaching us to rejoice in the Lord always; to taste the joy of a fraternal encounter and of friendship; and to share the joy received as (a) gift,” it said.

While Christian joy does not deny the presence of suffering and pain, “it would be a countersign for one participating in the Eucharist to let himself be dominated by sadness,” it said.

The document also called for a greater awareness of what postures communicate in relation to the Eucharist.

Standing is a profession of “the filial freedom given to us by the paschal Christ, who raised us out of the slavery to sin; sitting expresses the cordial receptivity of Mary, who sat at the feet of Jesus and listened to his words; kneeling or bowing deeply says that we make ourselves small before the most high, before the Lord.”

Genuflecting when one enters a church and when one passes the tabernacle, it said, “expresses faith in the real presence of the Lord Jesus in the sacrament of the altar.”

Catholics also must be reminded that “the Eucharist is the sacrament of the paschal sacrifice of Christ” and that just as Jesus offered himself totally to the Father each Christian is called to offer his or her life to God, it said.

While the sacrament of penance should not be celebrated within the context of a Mass, the Eucharist also is a stimulus “to conversion and the purification of a penitent heart,” it said.

‘Great deal’ done to protect children from abuse, says Archbishop Flynn

By Agostino Bono Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Children are safer in the church now because of sex abuse prevention policies adopted by the U.S. bishops two years ago, said Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of St. Paul-Minneapolis, chairman of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse, which is supervising a two-year review of the sex abuse prevention policies contained in the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” adopted in 2002.

The review is called for in the charter and the bishops are expected to begin the review at their Nov. 15-18 general meet-

ing and conclude it at their June 2005 meeting.

“A great deal has been done to protect our children and young people,” the archbishop said. “My hope is that any modifications will be simply fine-tuning,” he added.

“It would be good for other organizations to look at what we have done and the recommendations we have made and to try to do likewise so that more children will be protected,” he added.

Aspects of the charter he listed as helping improve child safety include: — Regular independent audits of diocesan compliance with policies.

— Formation of a lay National Review Board to oversee compliance.

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— Diocesan review boards to advise the bishop on how to respond to allegations.

— Having a person available in each diocese to handle incoming complaints about child sex abuse.

— Background checks on church employees and volunteers who work with children.

Archbishop Flynn said rebuilding confidence in the church involves making the church’s prevention policies better known publicly.

“We need to get out more information to our people on what we do step by step by step when an accusation comes forward ... so people could expect any bishop to respond in kind throughout the United States,” he said.

Among the issues that need “fine tuning” is ensuring equal protection for the young and for anyone who is accused of abuse but whose case has not been resolved, he said.

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WASHINGTON — With proposed state constitutional amendments defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman on the ballot in at least 11 states Nov. 2, same-sex marriage is among the list of ballot issues of interest to Catholic voters this fall. In their support for those proposals, Catholic leaders have expressed themes similar to those stated by the Ohio bishops. “Marriage did not originate from either the church or state, but from God,” they said. “Therefore, we believe, neither church nor state ought to alter the nature and structure of marriage.” In Michigan, Catholic bishops said that “the values of marriage, family and children are at stake” in the state’s proposed Marriage Protection Amendment. In addition to Ohio and Michigan, amendments related to same-sex marriage are on the ballot in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon and Utah. Voters in Missouri (in August) and Louisiana (in September) have already approved similar proposals this year.

Religious seek to make face of human trafficking more visible BALTIMORE — Giving names and faces to the victims of human trafficking around the world “makes this human harm visible,” a senior State Department adviser said Oct. 16 at a daylong conference on recognizing the signs of trafficking. Laura Lederer, the State Department’s senior adviser on trafficking, was commenting on the conference’s opening talk, delivered by Peter Landesman, a New York Times Magazine investigative journalist who wrote a cover story on human trafficking. His wife, photojournalist Kimberlee Acquaro, also addressed the conference at Baltimore’s College of Notre Dame of Maryland, sponsored by the college, the Baltimore province of the School Sisters of Notre Dame and a variety of religious, social justice and community organizations. Landesman, whose investigation focused on human trafficking for sexual servitude, said many see the sex trade as something that takes place in Asian countries. But, he said, the situation in the United States “is as bad if not worse than any other countries we’ve heard of.” He added, “Sex trafficking is invisible but it is everywhere. It is not only not rare, it is alive and well and burgeoning.”

Ten Commandments, religious rights before Supreme Court WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will consider three cases this term that have implications for religious practices and displays. The court this month agreed to hear at the same time two cases over whether it violates the Constitution to display the Ten Commandments on the grounds of the Texas Capitol and in Kentucky courthouses. The court also accepted a case over the constitutionality of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, known as RLUIPA. The case questions whether the law violates prisoners’ rights to deny them access to religious materials and services. The court did not accept a third Ten Commandments case, in which the American Civil Liberties Union challenged such displays in Kentucky public schools. The cases it accepted are Van Orden vs. Perry and McCreary County vs. ACLU. The prisoners’ rights case is Cutter vs. Wilkinson. All the cases will be heard after the first of the year.

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A police officer inspects graves desecrated by vandals with Nazi swastikas and graffiti in a Jewish cemetery in Lyon, France, in this Aug. 10 file photo. During the conclusion of an Oct. 17-19 dialogue meeting, representatives of the Vatican and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel said that Jewish, Christian and Muslim authorities must protest publicly when any religious person, symbol or sacred place is the object of disrespect.

Synod charts Sacramento Diocese’s course for the future

Pope asks governments to do more to fight child abuse, exploitation

YUBA CITY, Calif. — Planning for the future takes prayer, reflection, discussion and lots of hard work. That’s what more than 400 Catholics from across the Diocese of Sacramento found out Oct. 11-13 when they came together in Yuba City for the first diocesan synod in 75 years. The historic three-day meeting, with the theme “Journeying Together in Christ: The Universal Call to Holiness,” brought together clergy, religious, and laity from the 99 parishes in the 20 counties of the diocese. The synod, only the third in the diocese’s 118-year history, culminated a three-year planning process, at the end of which a set of goals and objectives will be developed to chart a course for the diocese through 2010.

VATICAN CITY — Governments must do more to fight the abuse and exploitation of children within their borders and beyond, Pope John Paul II said. “No one can be silent or remain indifferent when innocent children suffer or are marginalized and wounded in their dignity as human persons,” the pope said Oct. 18 during a meeting with participants in an international conference of women legislators. The Oct. 17-18 conference, sponsored by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, brought together about 200 female legislators from 107 countries to focus on efforts to protect children and adolescents. Welcoming the legislators to the Vatican, Pope John Paul praised them for focusing their joint efforts on protecting the young. “I encourage you to continue on this path in the awareness that children and adolescents are the future and hope of humanity,” he said.

Catholic, Jewish leaders: Religions must protest signs of disrespect Experts say politics, science not VATICAN CITY — Jewish, Christian and Muslim authorities must protest publicly when any religious person, symbol or enough to solve world’s water woes sacred place is the object of disrespect, said representatives of the Vatican and of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. “We call on them to educate their communities to behave with respect and dignity toward people and toward their attachment to their faith,” said a statement issued at the end of the Oct. 17-19 meeting of the dialogue committee sponsored by the Vatican’s Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel. “We call on religious authorities to protest publicly when actions of disrespect toward religious persons, symbols and holy sites are committed,” said the statement issued after the meeting in Grottaferrata, near Rome.

Participants in the dialogue, which was established in 2002, said, “There is not wide enough awareness in our respective communities of the momentous change that has taken place in the relationship between Catholics and Jews.” They said it was important that Catholics and Jews know “we are not enemies, but unequivocal partners in articulating the essential moral values for the survival and welfare of human society.”

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Ruling expected on release of documents in abuse lawsuits

By Maurice Healy Alameda County Superior Court Judge Ronald M. Sabraw is expected to issue a final ruling in the next few days on whether or not to release the personnel records of about 40 Catholic priests, diocesan and religious, who are the subject of sexual abuse lawsuits brought against eight northern California dioceses in a consolidated judicial process.

The proceedings in Alameda County Superior Court, known as Clergy III, cover approximately 150 lawsuits involving claims by about 200 plaintiffs against the Dioceses of Fresno, Monterey, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Stockton, and the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco is working with claims brought by about 75 plaintiffs involving 34 clergy and five lay employees. Some of the cases involve allegations dating back 50 years or more.

Last week Judge Sabraw issued a tentative order saying defendants’ employment records should be made public. Several media organizations, including the San Francisco Chronicle, had filed requests for release of the documents.

Judge Sabraw heard arguments on the tentative order at a hearing in Alameda Superior Court Oct. 13.

Diocesan attorneys said personnel files of Roman Catholic priests should be made public only if they are introduced as evidence at a trial after having passed a judicial test of relevance. The files should remain confidential during the discovery process in which attorneys for the dioceses and plaintiffs exchange information, said attorney James F. Sweeney, representing the Diocese of Sacramento.

Sweeney also asked Judge Sabraw to delay implementation of the final order, if it remains unchanged from the tentative order, so the dioceses may consider filing an appeal of the ruling.

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■ Continued from page 3 one has been accused in a particular situation; and then, if that accusation is found to be false, equal amount of effort must be put into restoring that person’s good name,” he said.

Archbishop Flynn defended the “zero tolerance” policy, which says that any cleric who admits to or is proven to have sexually abused a child is permanently removed from ministry.

He also defended the need to continue the annual independent compliance audits, but said that there is room to modify them to make them more effective.

“We do audits for finance and it seems to me that the

Under Judge Sabraw’s Oct. 12 tentative order, financial, medical, and psychiatric records of priests and alleged victims would remain confidential, as would the employment records of plaintiffs, church documents “concerning religious doctrine” and the names of witnesses or other so-called non-parties, such as health care professionals.

Sabraw tentatively ruled that the names of the alleged victims and the priests accused of molesting them should be made public. However, lawyers for some alleged victims voiced concern about this planned disclosure.

Attorney Paul Gaspari, representing the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said the church had been “very mindful” of the desire of plaintiffs who wanted their identities kept confidential. “We have done our best to respect that,” Gaspari said.

Speaking of the tentative order, Gaspari said such action would be to disclose private information – otherwise not admissible in court – before it is tested by the court for relevance in the matter.

“Many of the documents would never be admissible in court,” Gaspari said. “They easily could be taken out of context and misused, thereby causing prejudice to the defense.”

Gaspari said he thought there was an over-estimation as to what is in the documents. The lawsuits involving the Archdiocese of San Francisco, he said, either involve cases that have been in the public realm for several years or involve cases in which the documents do not reflect any prior knowledge of abuse.

The lawsuits arise from a law passed in 2002 by the California Legislature which suspended the statute of limitations and allowed claims to be filed regardless of when the child sexual abuse was alleged to have occurred. Under the law, sponsored by State Senator John Burton and drafted by trial attorneys, plaintiffs had until Dec. 31, 2003 to file a lawsuit — not against

the alleged perpetrator but against employers.

While legislators claim that the law does not target the Catholic Church, all but a few of the lawsuits filed under the “Burton law” involve claims against the Catholic dioceses of California.

Because of the large number of cases, they have been brought together on a regional basis for judicial efficiency. In Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Haley Fromholz oversees Clergy I, which involves approximately 550 cases against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Diocese of Orange, and Clergy II, which involves 140 cases from the Diocese of San Bernardino and the Diocese of San Diego.

Legal experts expect that most, if not all, of the lawsuits will end in settlement. Plaintiff attorneys have pursued strategies designed to maximize the amount of settlements, of which they customarily receive 33 to 40 percent.

Since 1950, the total amount of payments made by the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s insurance carriers and self insurance program for therapy and counseling for victims, legal settlements and legal defense expenses currently is $14.5 million. More than 90 percent of this amount was for legal settlements.

Catholic San Francisco reported earlier this year that the majority of known incidents of sexual abuse of a minor by a priest in ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. More than 85 percent of the alleged incidents occurred prior to 1980. Only a handful of allegations pertain to conduct after 1990.

Meanwhile, the adoption by U.S. Bishops of “The Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People” in June 2002 has led to expanded programs for the protection of children and youth within the Church, outreach and support for abuse victims, and education for parents and children.

youth are more important than money,” Archbishop Flynn said.

A new audit item this year asks for the number of new accusations received by a diocese since the previous audit, he said.

Up for discussion is whether future audits should ask for information on the yearly costs to dioceses of sex abuse case settlements, he said.

Another issue being considered by the bishops is whether the church should develop a national data bank of clerics and church employees who have not passed background checks, he said.

The charter also has expanded active lay participation in the church to the “very important area of protection for the young,” he said.

He cited the National Review Board and the lay-

staffed bishops’ Office of Child and Youth Protection that were set up to help dioceses comply with the charter. Both are mandated by the charter.

He said that there is no time limit on the existence of either organization and he expected they would remain in place as long as needed.

Overall, lay monitoring of church sex abuse policies has not produced problems for bishops because they were already used to working with lay boards on other issues, said Archbishop Flynn.

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October 22, 2004

Parish’s ‘Souls for Christ’ group takes church’s message door to door

By Patrick Butler Catholic News Service

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CHICAGO — Move over Jehovah’s Witnesses. Members of St. Gerald Parish, in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, are also going door to door to talk to people about God. In a five-month period, between 30 and 35 members of a parish committee called “Souls for Christ” rang an estimated 1,800 doorbells.

And there are perhaps 5,000 more homes to

visit, said Marcy Colantone, one of the volunteers.

Colantone and her husband, Mike, have talked to at least 100 people, both active and inactive Catholics as well as non-Catholics.

“Most were surprised at who we were,” she told The Catholic New World, newspaper of the Chicago Archdiocese.

They also were surprised at what the couple was doing, since Catholics generally do not do that sort of thing.

St. Mary’s Cathedral honored ministry and charity at its annual Assumpta Award Dinner held in the Cathedral’s lower halls October 7. Christian Brother Christopher Brady was recognized with the Cathedral’s Assumpta Award.

Receiving the newly instituted Patrons Award were San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White, Mary Hehir and Scott Moyer. All have demonstrated “devoted leadership in many areas of the Church’s life” and “have sought to follow Christ in all things,” according to the evening’s program.

Archbishop William J. Levada presented the awards and led prayer before an audience of more than 300 people. He later joined current and previous Assumpta Award winners for a photo. From left, Christian Brother Christopher Brady, Joseph P. Russoniello, Frank and Lenore Heffernan, Archbishop Levada, Antonio and Lucille Sanchez-Corea, Richard Dunn.

The idea for the outreach came about during a parish meeting last year about how to boost parish membership in an area where there has been an influx of Poles and Hispanics, as well as African-Americans and people of Middle Eastern descent, said committee chair Leonard DeClue.

The campaign, DeClue said, is also a follow-up to an earlier call by St. Gerald pastor Father Richard LoBianco that the parish implement the Archdiocese of Chicago’s evangelization plan called “Spreading the Holy Fire.”

Franciscan Father Joe Kruszynski, archdiocesan director of evangelization, said parish programs vary. Some are conducted door to door, as St. Gerald is doing. Others use different methods to spread the faith.

Father LoBianco said that although his parishioners are doing something new to them it is not necessarily innovative, but simply the responsibility of every believer to “build up the body of Christ (and) share the good news of Jesus that forms us.”

So far, the “heralds for Gerald” — and the pamphlets they distribute listing the parish’s services as well as some of the more commonly asked questions about the church as it is today — have been surprisingly well-received, DeClue and Colantone agreed.

“I can’t believe the openness I see in people,” said DeClue, who normally begins the conversation by asking people if they are Catholic, which he said “opens the door to start talking.”

Father LoBianco said that some people “are surprised to see the Catholic Church, and our parish in particular, involved in a door-to-door approach extending the invitation to be part of our faith community.”

He said people have said they never expected Catholics to be involved in this kind of out-

reach. But, as he sees it, “we cannot afford to not be involved in new approaches to evangelize our parishes.”

The priest said today’s Catholics “need to be creative to engage the imagination of our faith communities.” But more importantly, he said, they need to “bring the healing power of Christ to so many among us who are hurting, in need of reconciliation and union with God.” Many inactive Catholics are often unaware of changes the church has undergone since they have been away, Colantone said. “People were grateful. Some just needed to be asked back.”

“There are so many hungry souls who don’t know where to turn for guidance. A lot of (divorced) Catholics are confused about their status in the church,” DeClue said.

Everyone knows there has been a drop in church attendance in recent years, said the 55year-old DeClue, who remembers growing up at St. Gerald back when “every Mass was filled.

People would be standing in the aisles. The crowds would spill outside.”

The outreach also gives non-Catholics a chance to connect with the church, said Colantone. She recalled how one St. Gerald committee member talked with a Protestant woman who credited the Virgin Mary with curing her cancer and now wanted to join the Catholic Church.

Whatever their situation, everyone the St. Gerald evangelizers talk to is referred to the appropriate parish program — anything from a senior citizen group to one of the regularly scheduled hospitality events, said DeClue.

He noted that this ministry of evangelization is “something you learn as you do it,” and added that he was a little skeptical at first about knocking on doors.

“But after I got past the first block, it got a whole lot better,” said DeClue.

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By John Thavis Catholic News Service

The National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi commemorated the feast and spirit of its patron at a formal affair held September 30 on the streets surrounding the North Beach church. Also marking the occasion was the presentation of the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi Award by Archbishop William J. Levada to former San Francisco Supervisor Angela Alioto (in photo) and Conventual Franciscan Brother George Cherrie.

The two were honored because of their “deep love for Saint Francis and exemplifying his values in their daily lives.� Entertainment for the nearly 300 guests included a concert by the shrine’s acclaimed choir, Schola Cantorum.

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The Pennsylvania native was 90 years old. She had entered religious life in 1939. “At the time of her death she was the senior member of the Sisters of Social Service,� said Sister Patricia McGowan, also a member of the congregation. “She was loved by all who knew her.�

Sister Dorothy served at San Francisco’s St. Dominic Parish in the mid-70s and earlier at St. Cecilia Parish in the Parkside District. She additionally served in ministry in San Diego and Los Angeles.

A funeral Mass was celebrated October 14, at the Sisters of Social Service Motherhouse on Figueroa Way in Los Angeles. Interment was in nearby Calvary Cemetery.

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VATICAN CITY — The bombing of five more churches in Baghdad, Iraq, has prompted new Vatican concern about the fate of Iraqi Christian communities.

The rudimentary but powerful bombs exploded within an hour and a half of each other beginning at 4 a.m. Oct. 16.

No one was injured or killed, but heavy damage was reported to several of the churches.

At the Chaldean Church of St. Joseph, which was gutted by the bomb blast and a subsequent fire, Sunday Mass was celebrated Oct.17 following an all-night cleanup effort.

Other churches that suffered damage were identified as the Latin-rite Church of Rome, the Orthodox churches of St. Jacob and St. George, and the Syrian Orthodox Church of St. Thomas.

Last August, car bombs at five Catholic churches killed 11 people and sparked an exodus of at least 10,000 Iraqi Christians into neighboring Syria and Jordan, church officials said.

Syrian Catholic Archbishop Basile Georges Casmoussa of Mosul, Iraq, who was in Bangkok, Thailand, at the time of the latest bombing, expressed shock and sorrow at the news. One of the churches bombed in August was in Mosul.

The terrorist groups that carry out such attacks “hope that many, many more Christians will go,� Archbishop Casmoussa told Catholic News Service. “Their strategy is to create fear among the Christians and push them out of Iraq,� he said.

Following the latest bombings, the Vatican’s missionary news agency, Fides, published a dossier of information ask-

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ing: “What future lies ahead for Christians in Iraq if this massacre continues?�

It published what it called a “list of horrors,� the names of 88 Iraqi Christians and the dates they were killed, almost all of them during the last nine months. The latest was a 14year-old girl, a Chaldean Catholic, kidnapped by an Islamic group for ransom and killed “in cold blood� Oct. 14, it said.

Vatican officials have confirmed that acts of violence and intimidation against Iraqi Christians are increasing, as Muslim extremists consolidate their influence in Iraqi society.

Fides quoted an unnamed Iraqi nun from Mosul, who said Christians even in the once-safe northern part of Iraq were living a “nightmare of being attacked in their homes, kidnapped and killed by groups of radical Islamic terrorists.� “The fact is that there is no presence of police or civilian authority to govern this situation of anarchy. Many members of these extremist militias are well-known, but no one does anything,� she said.

Chaldean Patriarch Emmanuel-Karim Delly of Baghdad said the recent church bombings were clearly designed to frighten Christians. The important thing was that no one was killed or injured, he told the Italian-based Catholic news agency, Asianews. “These are inhuman acts. In the name of Iraqi Christians I ask everyone to pray that God may enlighten the minds of the people who are carrying them out,� the patriarch said.

Patriarch Delly said only prayer would stop these kinds of attacks.

Iraq has about 700,000 Christians in a population of more than 25 million.

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Archbishop’s letter to the faithful in support of Proposition 72 Dear Friends in Christ, As a religious leader in California, I am deeply concerned about the 6 million people in our state who have no health insurance. Eighty percent of these uninsured are part of working families, who live with the worry and insecurity over their family’s health care. The crisis in our health system is well known: over the last three years health care premiums have increased by 70 percent; hospitals and clinics are closing because of the number of uninsured who cannot pay rising costs; and the taxpayers and our state budget bear the weight of health care for those who work but have no affordable access to health care. We know that those who are denied access to health care live with more illness and die younger, their children do more poorly in school, and they live in fear of losing their jobs due to illness or living under crushing debt due to medical bills.

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of the poor and uninsured. With tens of millions of Americans lacking basic health insurance, we support measures to ensure that decent health care is available to all as a moral imperative.”

I strongly support the passage of Proposition 72 as a major step forward in addressing the health care crisis in our state. Proposition 72 will provide private health insurance to 1.3 million uninsured workers and their families (an estimated 300,000 children will be covered) and will make more secure the health insurance of the 19 million who are presently insured through their employers by setting a “minimum standard” for health care. This proposition will exempt small businesses, but will require that medium and large businesses provide prescription drug, preventive health care and major medical to their employees.

I strongly urge everyone to educate themselves on the issues this November, to participate in the political process as part of our moral obligation and vote “Yes” on Proposition 72.

Sincerely yours in Christ,

Most Reverend William J. Levada Archbishop of San Francisco

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Local religious attend convocation with focus on fidelity to Christ Holy Cross Brother Paul Bednarczyk, executive director of the National Religious Vocations Conference, said the conference was a “major success” and attendees departed “with their hearts burning within them.”

One of the keynote speakers, Sister Mary Maher, a School Sister of Notre Dame, offered reflections on the importance of peeling back millennia of beliefs to better understand the historical Jesus.

Sister Maher is a theologian who has taught at Villanova University and Washington Theological Union. She has written and lectured extensively on the relationship between postmodern culture and religious life, and now is her congregation’s leader.

The other keynote speaker, Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe, was master general of his order from 1992-2001.

He took as his text the call of Jesus to Peter to leave the boat and walk on the water.

That’s similar to the situation many vocation directors find themselves in now, Brother Bednarczyk said.

“We need to get out of the boat and take that risk,” he said, in a time when the numbers of vowed religious have been in decline.

He said the way to encourage people to consider

Members of women and men religious orders in the San Francisco Bay Area joined more than 500 vocation ministers and religious community members from throughout the United States for the National Religious Vocation Conference’s biennial convocation held last month in Chicago, Illinois.

Attendees from the Bay Area included Holy Names Sister Rosemary Everett, Dominicans of San Rafael Sister Patricia Farrell, Mission San Jose Dominican Sisters Helena Im and Beth Quire, Holy Family Sister Kathy Littrell, Marist Father John McEnhill, Dominican Father Mark Padrez, Marist Missionary Sister Avelina Raiwaleta, Daughters of Charity Sister Trang Truong, Augustinian Father Thomas Whelan, Franciscan Father Hung Nguyen, Oblates of Mary Father Jose Arong, and Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Sisters Marie Annette Burkart, Liane Belsuc, and Kathryn Keenan.

Under the theme, “Fidelity to Jesus: A Paradigm of Hope,” the convocation aimed at helping vocation ministers focus on their commitment to Jesus as the foundation of their ministry. The convocation presentations also sought to nourish within those gathered a sense of hope for the future of vocations to the religious life.

whether they have a vocation to the religious life is to serve as a beacon of hope in the world, something that can only be accomplished by focusing on Christ.

“Recommitting ourselves to Jesus Christ would bring a sense of hope to us and our faith,” Brother Bednarczyk said.

“We would take that sense of hope and be leaven to our communities, who would then be beacons of hope for the world,” he added. “We have as part of our mission now to be a hopeful presence in the world.”

The National Religious Vocation Conference is a professional organization of men and women committed to the fostering and discernment of vocations, particularly to the religious life. The organization provides support, resources, and in-service opportunities for those engaged in vocation ministry for religious orders of sisters, brothers, and priests.

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of the church, obedient to the bishop, and who bring people to the love of Jesus through the sacraments of the church.�

About 70 percent of priests credit their vocation to an invitation from a priest to explore the priesthood, Covington said. He urged priests to actively encourage young people in whom they may detect a possible vocation.

Parents and family members are crucial to the inviting and encouraging process as well, he said. “We need to help our children discern what their vocation may be, and be open to the possibility that it may be to the priesthood or religious life,� he said.

It’s important for vocation directors to visit parishes regularly, but one person can only do so much, Covington said.

Most dioceses that are seeing good results encourage parishes to form vocations committees “so it’s not just something that is talked about once and then forgotten,� he said.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNS) – The number of U.S. Catholic seminarians in postcollege studies dropped 4 percent in 2003, and the ratio of priests to laity continues to diminish. But the trend may be changing for the better, said Steven Covington, executive director of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors, who was in Anchorage for the conference’s annual convention Sept.

25-30. “We have seen an increased interest in the vocation to the priesthood — some dioceses are experiencing a significant increase,� Covington said. He bases his optimism about the future of the U.S. priesthood on encouraging trends he sees in his daily interactions with the 500 members of the National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors. “A lot of people would say it’s not so much a crisis of vocations — the vocations are there,� he said. “It’s more a problem of our inability to discern it and respond to it well.�

He is clearly excited about the success some dioceses are seeing in formation programs — places where a positive climate for vocations is “bearing fruit.�

Some examples are the Denver Archdiocese, which has 36 seminarians, according to the 2004 Official Catholic

Directory, as well as the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, which has 70, and the Diocese of Rockford, Ill., which has 45. St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park which serves primarily northern California dioceses has 86 seminarians.

Covington said there appear to be some common threads running through successful diocesan vocation programs.

The active participation of the bishop is key, he said.

Vocations thrive in places where bishops talk about vocations with youths and encourage pastors and parents to do the same, he added.

Seminarians placed in pastoral assignments during their summer break from classes also can have a positive effect on a diocese’s vocations effort because they “help other young men see that this is a very good, holy, happy, OK thing to do,� Covington said.

Role-model priests are exceptionally important, he said.

The young men who are drawn to the priesthood today are “actively choosing to be Catholic in every way,� Covington said. They are inspired by priests who are “loyal to the teachings

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PRIESTS FOR THE FUTURE You haven’t chosen me. I have chosen you.” “Tu no me has elegido. Yo te he elegido a ti.”

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God, our Father, In Your love and providence, You call each of us to a more holy and abundant life. We pray for our young people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Open their hearts and minds to know the vocation You have planned for them from all eternity.

If they are being invited to follow You as a priest, Brother, or Sister, give them a generous heart to respond to Your challenging call and the strength to follow wherever You lead them. May families desire to please You by encouraging and supporting vocations within their homes. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. Amen

Archdiocese of San Francisco Seminarians Ghislain C. Bazikila Ambrose A. Calonsag Paul B. Casey A. Durand Garcia

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Guest commentary ‘Act upon moral principle’ The United States never has had a Catholic president.

As a youngster, I worked alongside my father for John F. Kennedy’s election. When I was in college, Robert Kennedy’s ideals and aspirations, bidding the hope of “a newer world,” were hard to resist.

Historians frequently say that John Kennedy was required to distance himself from his Catholic faith to attain high office. Whether that sorry speculation is accurate or not, he did. In September 1960 Kennedy said he believed that in America “the separation of church and state is absolute.”

In constitutional terms, however, to say that church and state are not to be one means that no government has the authority to deny individual religious freedom by establishing a church or proscribing an individually chosen one.

The U.S. Constitution is rightly understood as keeping federal and state governments out of the faith business. But the converse isn’t true.

Nothing in the Constitution is intended to keep the church from assessing the morality of public decisions. An individual’s ability freely to reference faith as a measure of governmental action is a large part of why religious freedom is protected constitutionally.

Religious freedom shouldn’t be stood on its head. Kennedy wrongly asserted that church should not seek to influence (he used the pejorative “impose”) upon the “general populace.”

The policies of both George W. Bush and John Kerry are properly subject to Catholic scrutiny.

One can imagine it was awkward for the president to be reminded

by Pope John Paul II to restore order in Iraq as the president was awarding him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. To his credit, Bush seemed to accept this criticism with grace and an understanding of the church’s role as moral conscience.

Sen. Kerry is certainly genial, but troublingly he chastised as “an inappropriate violation of church and state” the pope’s call for Catholic politicians to fight gay marriage and stand up for human life.

Americans have aspired since the Declaration of Independence to safeguard inalienable civil rights, including the right to worship and speak freely. Catholics belong to a church that affirms these freedoms as a matter of human dignity. Properly understood, church and state are not antagonists but cooperators in furthering the common good.

Cooperation assumes an openness to listen and a willingness to act upon moral principle. Listening, an authentically Catholic president would: Hear the cry for peace — not at any price, but with a necessary sensitivity to re-evaluate peace prospects continuously. The decision on the Iraq intervention is past. The question now is which candidate better grasps the 21st century’s challenges.

New ways have been invented to terrorize entire nations and beyond. The catechism rightly asks who can — with prudence and proportionality — stop the damage inflicted by aggressors when their actions become “lasting, grave and certain.”

Understand that we strongly are enjoined to work in solidarity with the international community, but only upon principled terms. In the pope’s words, there are “universal principles that are prior to and superior to the internal law of states, and that take into account the unity and the common vocation of the human family.” A United Nations that equivocates year after year, not just on Saddam Hussein but even a human cloning ban, does not yet inspire great confidence.

Be committed to a genuine partnership with faith organizations to advance human good. This surely would include supporting school choice and not discriminating against religious entities in the evenhanded distribution of public resources.

Stand as a reliable proponent of human life’s sanctity, which at a minimum bans the abhorrent practice of partial-birth abortion.

Speak clearly to traditional marriage’s importance — being willing to protect it, by constitutional amendment if necessary, from judicially active judges ignorant of the inseparability of marriage’s unitive and procreative aspects.

Pursue economic policies that expand opportunity regardless of race or gender, and especially for the least advantaged — even for immigrants, whether one’s party agrees or not.

Bush or Kerry? The polls say the outcome will be close. Do Catholics honestly think it so?

Douglas W. Kmiec writes a column for Catholic News Service

World Mission Sunday 2004 As we celebrate World Mission Sunday, October 24, we are mindful of the responsibility given to us at our Baptism to be active participants in Christ’s mission to all peoples. Today, more than two-thirds of the world’s people have yet to hear the great “Good News” of Jesus Christ, their Savior, or to experience through the word and witness of missionaries the abiding love of His Father.

World Mission Sunday gives us the opportunity, within the context of the Eucharist, to offer our prayers and support for the mission of making Jesus known, even “to the ends of the earth.” As Pope John Paul II notes in his message for this year’s World Mission Sunday celebration, “When we take part in the Eucharistic Sacrifice we understand more profoundly the universality of redemption and, consequently, the urgency of the Church’s mission.”

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 also 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, in accord with our ability, offer financial help according to our ability through the Propagation of the Faith for the Church’s work in more than 1,100 dioceses throughout the Missions.

The missionary work of the Church depends on each one of us. Please be as generous as your means will allow this World Mission Sunday and continue to pray 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.

Most Reverend William J. Levada Archbishop of San Francisco

A different pulse Father Larry Lorenzoni (Letters, Oct. 15) reports that in March 2003, Pope John Paul II sent Cardinal Pio Laghi to advise president Bush that war with Iraq would bring “terrible consequences” and “unmanageable problems.”

According to Fr. Lorenzoni, the Vatican envoy offered President Bush the best intelligence available: “The Iraqi bishops have their hands on the pulse of the nation.” (They) ”are constantly in touch with the Nuncio in Baghdad, and he with the Vatican.” Yet, despite this advice, the Cardinal left the meeting sensing that Bush had already made the decision.

If Fr. Lorenzoni’s report is correct, it seems the Iraqi bishops, as “hands on” pastors, would have heard something about 300,000 murdered civilians in the 262 mass graves discovered since liberation. It also seems the Papal Nuncio in Baghdad would have learned that Iraqi children were being deprived of food and medicine because Saddam was misusing Oil for Food revenues to bribe U.N. officials, and purchase weapons and technology from the French, Russians, and Germans.

Today, 27 million Iraqis thank President Bush for deciding that a sociopath crime family should not be permitted to ignore 17 U.N. resolutions, destabilize the region, develop WMDs, harbor terrorists, reward suicide bombing, and plunder a nation. It is only because of President Bush that millions of Iraqi children are now in schools with nutrition and inoculation programs. They will grow to live free, as God created them.

Mike DeNunzio San Francisco

the same issue of Catholic San Francisco, i.e. “single issue” politics.

Whether to enter Iraq was a question for debate a year and a half ago. The rectitude of the decision to do so may be debated today, but it is most certainly not the only issue in this year’s presidential and senatorial elections. Nor is it the most important.

Who will be the nominees for the United States Supreme Court for openings most certainly to occur shortly after the election? Will they use the Constitution as a sword against the unborn and elderly, or as a shield to protect the rights of the unborn and elderly? The person who occupies the office of the presidency will be under heavy pressure on this subject as soon as the election is over.

One’s decision on whom to vote for should not be made without careful consideration of the consequences as to abortion and euthanasia.

Paul Hupf Daly City

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More pressing issues Father Lorenzoni’s letter of October 15 is an example of exactly what the Summary of the Bishops’ Administrative Committee cautions against on page 15 of

Letters welcome Catholic San Francisco welcomes letters from its readers.

Please send your letters to: Catholic San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109 Fax: (415) 614-5641 E-mail: healym@sfarchdiocese.org

Praise for Street Thanks a million for the wonderful piece (On The Street, Oct. 8) about my family in CSF! Tom Burke is a prince, and I certainly appreciate his kindness.

My sister, Millie, was so thrilled that she telephoned me as soon as the paper arrived in her mailbox. Some relatives and friends were also very responsive. Your kindness and thoughtfulness are much appreciated.

Bro. John Samaha, S.M. San Francisco

Last Weare letter The arrival of yesterday’s paper with another letter commenting on Fr. Kenneth Weare’s article, “A Catholic Perspective on Free Trade,” (CSF, Sept. 3), led me to reread the original text together with all the subsequent letters (Sept. 10, 17, 24).

Fr. Weare’s work is one of the most intellectual presentations that have ever reached the pages of Catholic San Francisco. His analysis is clear and articulate. His alternative is positive and challenging. His moral evaluation is fully consistent with Catholic social teaching including that of Pope John Paul II and the U.S. Catholic Bishops. Most importantly, his focus is the focus of Jesus Christ; the plight of the poor and the voiceless.

If the negative letter writers are unable to set aside their seeming prejudices to re-read Fr. Weare’s article with an open mind, then maybe they should start by re-reading the Gospels.

Jennifer Caputo Daly City

October 22, 2004

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The Catholic Difference Pope Leo XIII led the Catholic Church for some twenty-five years before he died in 1903 at age 93. A few years before his death, Leo received a much younger American bishop on his ad limina visit to Rome. Shortly before he left, the bishop said to the nonagenarian Pope, “Holy Father, I expect this is the last time we will meet on this earth.” Leo reached over, took the American prelate by the hand, and said, “My dear man, you didn’t tell me you were feeling poorly.”

Things are different, this time.

As the whole world understood during John Paul II’s August pilgrimage to Lourdes, this pope is not leading the Church from his office, with witticisms. This pope is leading the Church from the cross. With pain and difficulty, but without embarrassment or complaint, Karol Wojtyla is spending out his life in witness to the truth on which he has staked his life. That truth – the “law of the gift,” as he once called it in a philosophical essay – is most powerfully revealed on the cross: our human and Christian vocation is to make our lives the gift to others that our own lives are to us – and to do so, not by relying on our own skill, or strength, or cleverness, or virtue, but on God. Without reservation.

So New Zealand Bishop Patrick Dunn, recently in Rome for his ad limina visit, was onto something important when he told ZENIT news service that John Paul II might well “be living out the greatest days of his extraordinary

pontificate,” as he marks the twenty-sixth anniversary of his election on October 16.

In his message to the New Zealanders, the Pope had challenged the bishops to proclaim “the splendor of Christ’s truth.” The “splendor of truth” is, of course, the title of one of the Pope’s most important encyclicals, on the nature of the moral life and the renewal of Catholic moral theology.

Yet, as he demonstrates again in his new book, Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way (Warner Books), John Paul understands that the proclamation of the truth is always linked to love – to radical, self-giving love. Reflecting on his experience of more than four decades as a bishop, the Holy Father tells story after story illustrating how the truth of Catholic faith is best communicated by love: whether that be the love of friendship, the love involved in teaching and counseling, the love involved in charity and service, or the love involved in a bishop’s simply being present to his people.

Canonizing Edith Stein in 1998, John Paul II commended the new St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross to the entire Church in these memorable words: “She says to us all: Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love. And do not accept anything as love which lacks truth. One without the other becomes a destructive lie.” We live surrounded by such lies; we probably don’t notice them, just as a fish doesn’t notice that it’s in “water.” That is why the Pope stresses in his new book that the heart of the bishop’s office is its witness to truth. As Archbishop of Cracow, Karol

Wojtyla had to shoulder his share of diocesan management and planning. But his memoir of those days confirms what I discovered when writing Witness to Hope: Cardinal Wojtyla didn’t George Weigel spend most of his time as a bishop in meetings.

Rather, he spent himself, and his time, in teaching, preaching, and celebrating the sacraments with his people.

Which is to say, he spent his time living the truth in love.

That is what John Paul II has been doing on the world stage for twenty-six years. Now, far closer to the end of the pilgrimage than to the beginning, his pontificate ever more visibly embodies the truth of a prophetic sermon he gave in Rome, just before his election, when he reflected on the terrifying question Jesus posed to Peter on the lakeside in John 21: “Do you love me more than these?”

Why terrifying? Because Peter was being challenged to a more complete emptying of himself – to be ever more the instrument of God’s purposes, not his own.

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

Guest Commentary

Domestic violence: A real nightmare for women I used to think domestic violence only happened behind closed doors in inner cities and Third-World countries. It certainly didn’t happen to intelligent women who chose compatible life partners. It didn’t happen to educated, successful women who graduated summa cum laude from prestigious universities.

Then I began to meet them and hear their stories. One was my college roommate’s close friend. She divorced the guy after lying to herself for years that they somehow would work it out. Another was a family member who is now living apart from the batterer but has resumed communication.

But by far the saddest story to date came via e-mail from a friend.

A woman with whom she went to school, Bree Schuette, met her future husband, Mikhail, while studying for her Ph.D. in economics from Boston University. Their first child, Veronika, was born in January 2000. A few months later they traveled to Russia to introduce Veronika to her paternal grandparents.

In her Web site (http://veronika65.tripod.com/index.html), Bree tells of the events that then unfolded. She reports that Mikhail refused to allow her and Veronika to return to the United States, and he forbade her to communicate with friends and family back home.

This smart, capable woman felt trapped in a violently abusive marriage. She reports suffering broken fingers, ribs, wrists and four concussions. When she was taken to

the hospital after the most severe injuries, Mikhail refused to pay for recommended medical treatment. As is the case with many victims of domestic violence, she was cut off from any support system, and she was ashamed of what was happening.

In February 2001, their son Valerij was born. Bree reports that when Valerij was 16 months old he was abused to death by his father, who forced her to watch a gruesome video recording of it. Somehow in between life threats and bloody assaults, Bree found the strength to attempt numerous escapes from Russia with Veronika. Finally, with the help of the American consulate, she successfully fled — but without her daughter.

Knowing that if she were dead she couldn’t help her daughter, she made “Sophie’s Choice” and returned home, to Minneapolis, Minn., with only the clothes on her back and eight photos of her children. There she recovered from her injuries and with her parents’ help started a domestic violence awareness campaign to plead her case for her daughter’s safe return.

Risking her own safety again, she returned to St. Petersburg in late August to press charges against her estranged husband for abuse of her and the murder of their son, and with the hope of bringing Veronika home at the end of the trial.

On her Web site Bree chronicles her horrific story, posts press releases and other information about domestic violence, and provides the addresses for Russian

officials to whom readers may write petitions online or otherwise on her behalf.

Bree’s parents, Linda and Gary Schuette, also are coordinating outreach efforts in the United Therese J. States. They are availBochard able to speak about domestic abuse and may be reached at bringveronikahome@yahoo.com.

Today one out of every three women experiences at least one physical assault by a partner during adulthood, according to a 1996 study by the American Psychological Association.

A new survey by the Center for the Advancement of Women indicates that 92 percent of American women rank domestic and sexual violence as one of their top priorities.

It happens so regularly that it rarely makes headlines anymore, which is why it is so important to write and talk and do something about it.

Therese J. Borchard writes the column “Our Turn” for Catholic News Service.

Spirituality

Binding and loosing Gabriel Marcel once said: “To love someone is to say to that person, you at least will not die!”

He’s right. To cherish another person is to give him or her a meaning and permanence that accident and death cannot take away. But there’s a deeper meaning too: To love someone is to hold a place in heaven for him or her. What’s meant by that? It sounds fanciful.

This idea is present inside the Christian scriptures, but it’s also something we intuit in our hearts. Like Job, without the benefit of a belief in life after death but still knowing in his gut that ultimately love triumphs, we too know in the recesses of our hearts that love’s bonds are salvific. In the end, we won’t be separated from our loved ones, even if we walk different paths in life, except if the other positively chooses to be separated. We make places for each other in heaven through love.

What does this mean?

Jesus said: “Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Too often we understand this simplistically,

taking it to mean that Jesus placed special power inside scripture, the sacraments, and the institutional church.

True. But there’s more.

At another level, in saying that we can bind and loose, Jesus is saying what Gabriel Marcel is saying, namely, that to love another person is to assure him or her a place (if he or she wants it) in heaven. How does this work?

When Jesus walked the roads of Palestine for three years, a wondrous grace came to all who touched him. To touch Jesus, in love and sincerity, was to be healed, converted, made to walk upright, made to hear, and made to praise God. It also gave that person a place inside the community of life. To touch Jesus or to be touched by him was salvation.

But Jesus didn’t take this grace away when he ascended. He left it with the community of believers, the community of the sincere, which is now his body on earth, In fact he promised that we, his body, could do “even greater things” than he did.

And his body is not just the historical church in its

scriptures, sacraments, church gatherings, institutional structures, and hierarchy. Rather, all of us together, and each one of us individually, make up the body of Christ on earth.

Therefore when we Father touch someone or Ron Rolheiser someone touches us in love and sincerity, if we are in inside the community of faith and sincerity, that other person is touching the body of Christ just as surely as people at the time of Jesus were able to touch him.

We are the body of Christ on earth and, like Jesus, have the power to bind and loose. Among other things, this means that when our loved ones (spouses, children, family, ROLHEISER, page 15

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THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18; Psalm 34:2-3,17-18, 19, 23; 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18; Luke 18:9-14 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF SIRACH (SIR 35:12-14, 16-18) The LORD is a God of justice, who knows no favorites.

Though not unduly partial toward the weak, yet he hears the cry of the oppressed.

The Lord is not deaf to the wail of the orphan, nor to the widow when she pours out her complaint.

The one who serves God willingly is heard; his petition reaches the heavens.

The prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds; it does not rest till it reaches its goal, nor will it withdraw till the Most High responds, judges justly and affirms the right, and the Lord will not delay.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23) R. The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth.

Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear me and be glad.

R. The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

The Lord confronts the evildoers, to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.

When the just cry out, the Lord hears them, and from all their distress he rescues them.

R. The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.

The Lord redeems the lives of his servants; no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him.

R. The Lord hears the cry of the poor.

A READING FROM THE SECOND LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO TIMOTHY (2 TM 4:6-8, 16-18) Beloved: I am already being poured out like a libation, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith. From now on the crown of righteousness awaits me, which the Lord, the just judge, will award to me on that day, and not only to me, but to all who have longed for his appearance.

At my first defense no one appeared on my behalf, but everyone deserted me.

May it not be held against them! But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the proclamation might be completed and all the Gentiles might hear it. And I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me from every evil threat and will bring me safe to his heavenly kingdom. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 18:9-14) Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else. “Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, ‘O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity— greedy, dishonest, adulterous—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week, and I pay tithes on my whole income.’ But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’ I tell you, the latter went home justified, not the former; for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Scripture DR. CHARLES JAMES

Onward Christian soldiers It’s remarkable how many times St. Paul refers to the Christian life as a battle or a strenuous race. To him the Christian life is a daily conflict. To him Christian ministry is a battleground not a playground. And yet in the midst of the fight Paul keeps his eye on the victory laid up for him as a faithful soldier. As he sees the end of his life approaching he rests in the peace of a battle well fought, a race completed.

What a contrast to the Church of today!

Where are our spiritual soldiers? Granted, Paul’s language of warfare and soldiering is hopelessly politically incorrect. Yet, his emphasis on the conflict of the spiritual life is good for us in a day when the moral soul of our country and our Church is at stake. If there ever was a day for spiritual warriors it is now. What the Church calls intrinsic moral evils have become the sacred cows of public discourse (unnatural sexual unions, partial-birth abortion, destruction of human embryos for the purposes of research). These are hardly even discussed, even in the church! We all-too-quickly talk about everything else under the sun such as liturgy, systematic theology and canon law when right before us “sin is crouching at the door” (Gen. 4:7).

Let us remember the virtue of intellectual martyrdom. When everyone else seems hell bent on keeping the “peace of the community” someone drums up the spiritual fortitude to scream. It’s not a primal scream, but a prophetic scream. A scream the tone of which is the bringing down of established mediocrity and moral blindness. Apparently this charism is given only to a precious few who would rather sacrifice the consensus than crucify the truth.

Why do the vast majority of us remain silent in the presence of these moral cancers that eat away at the nerve center of our Faith?

It is time for Catholics to stand up and act like soldiers. The ambiguity of some of our moral theologians is not intellectual profundity,

but simple timidity. Theories do not produce soldiers. The studied fuzziness many of us endure in the Sunday homily doesn’t create communal peace. It only anesthetizes wounded soldiers that they may die comfortably. In our pastors we want to see commanding officers who can teach their troops the skills of spiritual battle. What we need in our Bishops, is the visceral tenacity to take a stand on the side of the moral order. And let’s remember, the moral order of our culture is what is at stake today.

This moral order, providentially developed through civilization and written down for us in Holy Scripture, is worth dying for.

Our Lord once looked out on his world and saw his sheep without a Shepard. In the light of St. Paul’s statement to Timothy we may say that today the Lord’s people are soldiers without a commander. Yes, Christ himself is our Captain, yet he always works through human lieutenants. The soldiers sense a battle coming, but they require training, discipline and strategy.

They know very well the face of the enemy even if they care not to mention his name. They are committed and willing to fight. And they will follow a leader who stands at the head of his troops as warrior and moral guide. But without clear direction and strong, martyr-like conviction the enemy will overwhelm us. In times like these the faithful prayer of the people of God is vital. The mind steeped in Scripture is the antidote to so much that we hear and read.

But in the end a soldier acts like a soldier. He or she is ready to be poured out in battle so that he or she can say, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” (2 Tim 4:7). There are situations in which the time for prayer has passed. Sometimes the Lord asks us to cease our prayers, stand up and do battle (Joshua 7:10). We are living in such a time.

Charles James is associate professor of philosophy at St. Patrick’s Seminary.

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Rediscovering the Eucharist The blessed Eucharist is called the “bread of Sacrament, which is a great blessing, a very great help angels,” but you don’t have to be an angel to draw in prayer and meditation, in fact a quite indescribable strength from this heavenly food. What you have to be, privilege. The people who dilute the idea of the real however, is a true believer in the real presence of the presence, it seems to me, are the ones who have forrisen Christ under the appearances of bread and wine. gotten the meaning of prayer” (The Tablet of London, Many Catholics are losing their faith in this holy December 1968). sacrament. Like the secularists all around them, they Pope John Paul II said that “every commitment to reason falsely that faith itself no longer needs an actu- holiness, every activity aimed at carrying out the al theological object in order to church’s mission, every work of be personally useful. They go pastoral planning, must draw the so far as to claim that we don’t To me the idea that you can strength it needs from the need a personal Savior or a eucharistic mystery.... Were we belief system in order to be cut the branch off the vine to disregard the Eucharist, how spiritually alive. To me the idea could we overcome our deficienthat you can cut the branch off and still hope to produce cy?” (“Ecclesia de Eucharistia”). the vine and still hope to proSt. Paul saw the Eucharist’s duce grapes makes no sense. meaning so clearly: “In him we grapes makes no sense. live and breathe and have our Many Catholics who being.” The sacrament of the receive holy Communion weekly do not have a clear conviction that the risen Jesus is church confirms God’s immanence. With Christ’s presence truly present in the Eucharist. They don’t seem to con- among us, we learn that the Eucharist is infinitely more nect with him on the level of true faith. They miss so than a pious symbol; it is truly the body and blood of Christ under the appearances of bread and wine. Jesus shares his much.

In one of Trappist Father Thomas Merton’s final very life with us in a most intimate, life-giving way.

The fathers of the Second Vatican Council back in the letters, written before his journey to the Orient from which he never returned, he expressed his views on the 1960s consisted of about 2,000 bishops from all over the world. In union with Pope Paul VI they proclaimed the Eucharist this way: “As for the topic of the real presence, I am living Eucharist as “the source and summit of the Christian life in a hermitage where I now have the Blessed (“Lumen Gentium”).

The section of Pope John Paul II’s new encyclical on the Eucharist that really appealed to me was when he said, “It is also a source of joy to note that Catholic ministers, in certain particular Father cases, are able to John Catoir administer the sacrament of the Eucharist, penance and the anointing of the sick to Christians who are not in full communion with the Catholic Church but who greatly desire to receive these sacraments and freely request them and manifest the faith which the Catholic Church professes.”

We are a truly privileged people. Let us be on guard to profess with courage our true faith in this precious gift.

Jesus Christ helps us to produce rich and abundant good fruit. The next time you receive the holy Eucharist, make a deep act of faith in his real presence, and as you bow before him, love him with your whole heart, mind and soul.

Act as though he came to earth that day just for you.

Father Catoir is former president of The Christophers and writes from New Jersey.

October 22, 2004

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Pope’s new letter on Eucharist is ‘explosive’ stuff shares his outlook. The result is that some of his fiercest critics work just down the Last Friday, I was sitting in front of the hall.

Vatican press office reading Pope John Paul A senior Vatican official recently put it II’s new apostolic letter, Mane Nobiscum to me this way: “When I look at John Paul, Domine, when a friend of mine who works I very much see a man of Vatican II. From in the Holy See spotted me and stopped by. my point of view, that’s not entirely a good “You know, someday that letter will be thing.” on the Index,” he said. The reference, for Mane Nobiscum Domine, as my friend those too young to remember such things, intimated, contains a couple of these vinwas to the “index of forbidden books” once tage Wojtyla touches. Under the heading of maintained by the Holy Office (today’s fostering a eucharistic culture, for example, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), the pope seems to rebuff anyone who would until it was abolished by Paul VI. use spiritual authority to try to impose I was taken aback, since the letter, pre- political or social programs: senting the “Eucharistic Year” John Paul “The ‘culture of the Eucharist’ promotes has declared to run through next October’s a culture of dialogue, which finds in it synod on the Eucharist, didn’t strike me as strength and sustenance. It would be a misparticularly revolutionary. take to believe that public reference to the “What do you mean?” I asked. faith could undercut the just autonomy of “I’m a Wojtyliano, and I will continue to the state or civil institutions, or that it could say so even after this pope is gone,” he said. encourage attitudes of intolerance. If histor“But those guys,” gesturing towards the ically errors in this regard have not been offices of the Roman Curia, “are exactly lacking even among believers, as I had like they were before.” occasion to acknowledge during the The comment reveals one of the funda- Jubilee, this is to be attributed not to the mental complexities in trying to assess the ‘Christian roots,’ but to the inconsistency of pontificate of John Paul II. Measured Christians with respect to those roots. against the expectations unleashed in some Whoever learns to say ‘thanks’ in the manquarters by the reforming thrust of the ner of the crucified Christ can be a martyr, Second Vatican Council (1962-65), John but never a petty dictator.”

Paul could perhaps be considered a restoraAgain, while asking that Catholics make tionist. He said a definitive “no” to a special point of reaching out to the poor women’s ordination, he has reasserted a of the developing world during this wide range of traditional devotions and eucharistic year, John Paul writes: practices that not so long ago seemed “We mustn’t deceive ourselves: it’s from superannuated, and he has refused to recon- our reciprocal love and, in particular, from sider the traditional disciplines of the the concern we have for those in need that priestly life, to take just three examples. we will be recognized as true disciples of Measured against previous papacies, on Christ (Jn 13:35; Mt 25:31-46). This is the the other hand, criterion on the John Paul can basis of which the only be styled an His vision is unabashedly authenticity of innovator. His our Eucharistic vision is evangelical rather than celebrations will unabashedly be confirmed.” evangelical rather institutional, he employs In terms of than institutional papal speech, (including the concepts of human rights this is fairly admission of explosive stuff. gross historical and personalism that John Paul is sugerrors on the part gesting that the of the church), he previous popes once “authenticity” of employs concepts the Eucharist, a of human rights excoriated, he’s word historically and personalism reserved to propthat previous unembarrassed to preach er execution of popes once excothe rubrics, acturiated, he’s unem- the gospel using rock-starally refers to how barrassed to worship transpreach the gospel style trips and media events, lates into social using rock-starconcern. (By the style trips and and he is remarkably “lay” way, it’s not that media events, and the pope is a he is remarkably in his embrace of the sloppy celebrant; “lay” in his he calls on embrace of the legitimate autonomy of the priests to perlegitimate autonform the rites omy of the secu- secular sphere. with fidelity in lar sphere. his letter. The Hence while point, however, it’s “John Paul who rolled the clock back on is that following rules is not enough to Vatican II” who arouses the indignation of make the Eucharistic celebration “authenthe church’s liberal wing and most secular tic” in the deepest sense). critics, it’s “John Paul of the avante garde” Whether such thoughts will one day who trips wires among traditionalists. end up on the index - indeed, whether Moreover, because John Paul II has never there will ever again be an index - is anytaken a direct personal interest in ecclesias- one’s guess. But the persistence of resertical governance, he’s not bothered in 26 vations about the Wojtyla approach at years to ensure that everyone in the Vatican senior levels of church government cre-

Rolheiser . . .

■ Continued from page 13 friends, colleagues) no longer walk the path of explicit faith and church with us, we can connect them to the faith, the church, the body of Christ, and heaven itself simply by remaining bonded with them in love and community. By being connected with us, they are connected to the church (since we are the church). Moreover, when we forgive them anything, including their non-church going, they are forgiven by the church and forgiven too, Jesus assures us, in heaven.

One of the marvels of the incarnation is that, if we want, our heaven will include our loved ones. In 1995,

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Pope John Paul II presides over a celebration for the opening of the Year of the Eucharist in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Oct. 17.

ates some very interesting questions about the future. ***** Much of the content of Mane Nobiscum Domine reflects the pope’s April 2003 encyclical on the Eucharist, Ecclesia da Eucaristia. In the apostolic letter, however, the pope adds some specific suggestions for observance of the eucharistic year, always cautioning that it is not his intention to disrupt pastoral programs already in place.

John Paul said the year will accomplish its purposes if two things happen: a revitalization of the Sunday liturgy, and a recovery of eucharistic adoration outside the Mass.

At an Oct. 8 press conference, Archbishop Piero Marini, the pope’s chief liturgist, summed up the various ways the pope calls the church to an examination of conscience about how the Eucharist is celebrated: • Is the Sunday Mass a celebration of the entire parochial community (including all movements and sub-groups)?

• Is the proclamation of the Word of God, and especially the homily, truly effective in opening up the Scriptures? (The pope makes a special point of calling for care in the preparation and delivery of homilies).

• Are the reformed liturgical texts, and especially the Roman Missal, being applied in their integrity?

• Are the tone of voice, the gestures, the movements, the sense of respect, the moments of silence, the whole constellation of modes of acting consistent with the dignity of the Eucharist?

• Are people being educated in prayer, especially in the Liturgy of the Hours?

• Are communities engaging in genuine Christian witness outside the liturgy, acting upon the commission at the end of the Mass?

Not a bad check-up list, perhaps, for a parish community. ***** On Thursday, Oct. 14, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments released a document titled “Year of the Eucharist: Suggestions and Proposals.” It is intended to offer guidelines for reflection, along with concrete suggestions for pastoral action.

In building a spirituality of the

when Quebec was holding a referendum to decide whether or not to remain part of Canada, a popular slogan across Canada read: “My Canada includes Quebec!” We can say the same thing about our loved ones, even when they don’t go to church with us: “My heaven includes my children, my spouse, this particular friend!” Heaven will back that up. That’s Jesus’ promise.

Partly this is mystical, partly it’s simply the dynamics of love and family. What binds us together as family is much deeper and wider than simply who is at table with us on a given Sunday.

That’s one side of equation, the church side, but this also works the other way: Sometimes we, the church-goers (with our own moral and spiritual blind spots), are held inside the body of Christ, the community of the sincere, by

Eucharist, the document treats the following themes: • Hearing the Word • Conversion • Memory • Sacrifice • Thanksgiving • Presence of Christ • Communion and charity • Silence • Adoration • Joy • Mission It’s striking that the document avoids reductionist tendencies of both the traditionalist and avante garde sort, insisting on uniting the communal and sacrificial elements of the Eucharist.

Under the heading of pastoral suggestions, the document calls upon bishops’ conferences to put out their own documents presenting the Eucharistic Year, addressing specific local problems (examples given: “lack of priests, weariness among priests regarding the importance of daily Mass, disaffection with Sunday Mass, abandonment of eucharistic adoration”). It also asks bishops to review the Masses broadcast on television or radio in their countries, ensuring that “questionable practices” aren’t being transmitted and that there isn’t an “excessive emphasis on show business.” It also suggests that bishops promote national Eucharistic congresses.

Parishes are encouraged to give particular attention to places where the Eucharist is reserved, meaning tabernacles and Blessed Sacrament chapels. Liturgy committees should be revived or expanded, with special attention to music. Special catechesis should be offered on what it means to be in church, including basics like genuflecting before the Blessed Sacrament (rather than generically in the direction of the altar). Communities should also educate their people about their own parish, reflecting on the art in the parish, the design of the ambo and tabernacle and sanctuary, the look of liturgical books, and other “visible signs that lead to the invisible.” Finally, parishes are asked to promote eucharistic adoration.

John Allen is Vatican correspondent for National Catholic Reporter. His latest book, All the Pope’s Men: The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks, is reviewed on page 17.

Reprinted with permission.

those who love us (and don’t go to church with us), but who are at God’s table in some areas where we are not.

This idea is so wild and wonderful that it’s hard to believe. It’s always been this way. It’s not easy to believe that heaven is as accessible as the nearest water tap, or the nearest friend. When Pope Pius XII was giving the instruction for his Encyclical on the Body of Christ, Mystici Corporis, he told educators and preachers: “When you are teaching about the Body of Christ, don’t be afraid to exaggerate, because it is impossible to exaggerate so great a mystery!” What an apt description of the incarnation!

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Oct. 22, 23, 24: St. Dunstan Parish Festival, 1133 Broadway in Millbrae. Mega bingo, silent auction, roast beef dinner, rides, games, raffles. Kick-off Dance Fri. 7 – 10 p.m. featuring music of Hightop Posse. Fri. 5 – 10 p.m.; Sat. noon – 10 p.m.; Sun. noon – 8 p.m. Call (650) 697-4730.

Oct. 24, 30: Good times abound at St. Finn Barr Parish with an International Food Fair Oct. 24 and Halloween Dinner Dance Oct. 30. Foods from around the world served 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. plus games and entertainment. Los Ramblers play for the Halloween event taking place 7 – midnight. Call (415) 333-3627.

Oct. 27: Octoberfest Luncheon and Bingo benefiting Sisters of the Good Shepherd and Gracenter at Basque Cultural Center, 599 Railroad Ave., South San Francisco. Social hour at 11:30 a.m. with lunch at 12:30 p.m. Tickets $45 per person. Call Elizabeth Pinelli at (415) 585-1766.

Oct. 29: Award winning composer, John Michael Talbot, performs at 7 p.m. at St. Raphael Church in San Rafael.The singer “blends music, Christian witness, and teaching to minister to audiences in a special way,” the parish said. $20 is suggested donation for tickets. Call (415) 454-8141, ext. 42.

Oct. 30: Crab Bash benefiting St. AnthonyImmaculate Conception School. Tickets are now on sale! “It’s an evening of delightful food and fun,” the school said. Call (415) 648-2008.

Nov. 5: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers for Mass and special presentation. It’s the group’s official 10th anniversary celebration with Yakima Bishop Carlos Sevilla, who was the Breakfast Club’s first speaker a decade ago. Dec. 3 you can hear Dominican Sister Gervaise Valpey who will speak on Catholic Education and Women Today. The morning begins with Mass at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. Breakfast and presentation follow in parish hall. Reservations required to Sugaremy@aol.com or (415) 461-0704 daily. Members $7, others $10. Dues $20 per year.

Nov. 6: A Winter Masquerade Ball, annual Dinner Dance and Auction at Irish Cultural Center, benefiting St. Paul Parish Preservation Fund. “A fun event including cocktails, dinner, dancing, silent and live auctions,” the parish said. Call Katy O’Shea at (415) 648-7538.

Annual Interfaith Community Health fair Nov. 6th at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, Jamestown and 3rd St., SF, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., and Nov. 20 at St. Dominic Church, Bush and Steiner St., SF, 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Morning workshops will look at the impact of “violence on personal and community health.” Afternoon is dedicated to health screenings and advice from Ask the Doctor booths, social service and health insurance professionals. Call (415) 750-5683.

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Golden Gate Boys Choir and Bellringers recently completed a performance tour of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Germany. The final days of the stay were spent at the Pueri Cantores Congress in Cologne, Germany, an international boys choir festival involving 200 choirs and 5,000 singers from around the world. Not to be missed was Legoland-Deutschland. Boys age 7 and older are invited to audition. Call (415) 431-1137 or contact GGBCBR@aol.com.

Nov. 6: Bal de Paris, annual fundraiser benefiting Notre Dame des Victoires school. The evening’s theme, Clair de Lune a Paris, will commemorate the school’s 80th anniversary and honor Marist Father Etienne Siffert, who shepherded the downtown parish for almost two decades. Tickets include cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, dinner, dancing and other entertainments. Call (415) 421-0069 or Bal2004@ndvsf.org.

Nov. 6, 7: Soiree Incredible, a 35th annual Fashion Show benefiting St. Ignatius College Preparatory and taking place at the Sunset District School. It’s a Here’s Looking at You Kid Opening Night Gala at $150 per person Saturday and a Play It Again Sam Encore Luncheon at $85 per person Sunday. Call Joni Amaroli at (650) 344-9705.

Nov.10: Monthly breakfast meeting of the Catholic Professional & Business Club. New members are always welcome! Join us on our new day and in our new location, SF City Club at 155 Sansome (at Bush).Today, hear Ray Flynn, author, former Ambassador to the Vatican, former Mayor of Boston. Monthly meetings include a full breakfast beginning at 7:00 a.m. Speaker program begins at 7:30 a.m. Cost is $20 for members, $27 for non-members. Membership dues are $45 annually. Call (415) 614-5579, or visit the website at www.cpbc-sf.org for more information.

Nov. 13: Festa Italiano, a dinner dance with raffles and prizes at Our Lady of Loretto Church Hall, 1806 Novato Blvd., Novato. Sponsored by parish council of Knights of Columbus. Music by Tom and the Cats.

Tickets are $30 per person. Call (415) 892-9989.

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Nov. 13: Oldies But Goodies Dance benefiting Youth Program and scholarship fund of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, 3rd St. at Jamestown, SF, 8 p.m. – midnight. Tickets $30 per person. No tickets will be sold at the door. 21 and over please. Call (415) 468-3434.

Nov. 13: Club 451, annual evening-out benefiting Junipero Serra High School. The gala is set “in the Supper Club scene of the 1940s.” Tickets for the benefit are $75 per person. Top raffle prize is 2004 Cadillac

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Respect Life/ Family Life Nov. 5, 6, 7: Are you in a troubled marriage?

Retrouvaille, a program for couples with serious marital problems, is holding a weekend. For information, call Tony and Pat Fernandez at (415) 8931005.

Reunions Oct. 29, 30, 31: Reunion Weekend 2004 at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, SF. Classes of ’54, ’59, ’64, ’69, ’74, ’79, ’84, ’89, ’94, ’99 are invited. Back to School Day is Friday. Reunion Celebration and cocktail party is Saturday. Alumni Mass and Brunch is Sunday.

Frank Rollo, ’58 and Joan Langston-Nelson, ’48 will receive the 2004 Lasallian/Vincentian Award. Call Rosie Lawlor Horan at (415) 775-6626, ext. 681 or Gregg Franceschi at ext. 636. You may also contact rose.horan@shcp.edu or gregg.franceschi@shcp.edu.

Nov. 13: Class of ’74, Lowell High School, SF at Delancey Street Restaurant. $89 per person.

Contact Lisa Coughlin Clay at Lisa.Clay@sfport.com or Connie D’Aura at daura@ccwear.com. If without Internet access, call (415) 664-0164.

Nov. 20: “Calling all alumni of St. Monica Elementary School, San Francisco,’ says principal, Bret Allen. The 2nd Annual Alumni Reunion begins with Mass at 10: 30 a.m. followed by a reception and school tours. Tickets $25 per person. Contact Bret at (415) 751-9564 or allen@stmonicasf.org.

Dec. 12: Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame Region invite all members, former members, and associates of the community to events celebrating the Mercy Sisters’ 150 years in California. Contact Sally O’Connell at (650) 3407437 or soconnell @mercyburl.org.

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Nov. 20: Annual Mass of Thanksgiving at Xavier Chapel at USF at 4 p.m. Reception follows. Call Susan at (415) 752-1308.

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Top Vatican reporter on curial culture ALL THE POPE’S MEN: THE INSIDE STORY OF HOW THE VATICAN REALLY THINKS, by John L. Allen Jr. Doubleday (New York, 2004). 392 pp., $24.95.

Reviewed by Fr. John Jay Hughes “Those who live for a time in Rome experience the church’s age, but also its youth. They experience the church’s breadth and diversity, its religious and human wealth, but also the limits and weaknesses of its representatives and members.�

So writes the widely respected German theologian, the Rev. Hermann Josef Pottmeyer, in his book Towards a Papacy in Communion (Crossroad, 1998). This book

by John Allen, Rome correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter since 2000, is a notable confirmation of Pottmeyer’s statement.

It was not always thus with Allen. In his first book, on Cardinal Ratzinger (2000), Allen was out of his depth. Reviewing the book in Commonweal, the Rev. Joseph Komonchak, a professor at Catholic University of America, criticized Allen’s simplistic treatment of a major theologian.

In his recent Common Ground Lecture, Allen confessed, with admirable humility, that Komonchak had been right. Allen hoped that in the intervening years he had come to appreciate better the complexity of his subjects.

This book, Allen’s third, shows that his hope was well founded. His aim is “to engage in an act of translation, so that both the Holy See and the American Catholic community can understand what the other party is trying to say.� Allen does this by “identifying the core values and experiences that underlie specific Vatican choices.� He thus does for the Vatican what Luigi Barzini did, brilliantly and most amusingly, for a whole people in his 1964 classic, The Italians (still in print after 40 years).

After an opening chapter on Vatican structures, Allen demolishes five widespread myths about the institution. In reality the Vatican is “a bureaucracy, not an organism.� It reflects, albeit imperfectly, the diversity of the wider Catholic world.

Given the distaste of the present pope for administration, no single person is really in charge. As in all bureaucracies, turf wars are frequent. Despite its reputation for secrecy, the Vatican is actually a great deal less secretive than other centers of global power. Its supposed wealth is a myth. The Vatican’s annual budget is substantially less than that of the University of Notre Dame.

Its art treasures cost so much to maintain and restore that they amount to a net drain on the Holy See’s budget. Curial careerism, though palpable, is not the rule; and where it exists it is less overt than in secular bureaucracies.

Allen’s chapter on Vatican psychology describes the dominant values of those who

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run the place. Prominent among them is the importance attached to preserving appearances, bella figura. One example: Rome never had any intention of approving the extra-canonical norms on sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy that were approved in Dallas in June 2002 by American bishops traumatized by six months of unrelenting media and victim attacks. To avoid embarrassing the bishops, however, the Holy See created a mixed Roman-American episcopal commission to bring the norms into some conformity with church law.

The chapter on Vatican sociology explains that the top jobs are awarded not on the basis of expertise but of loyalty and “connections.� To illustrate this Allen makes good use of Luigi Barzini’s explanation of a quintessentially Italian personnel policy. The important chapter on Vatican theology closes with a brief section on “A spirituality for the curia,� as described by the 81-year-old Argentine cardinal Jorge Meija, former prefect of the Vatican Library. Service in the Curia, Meija told Allen, teaches a man patience, humility, pleasure in the success of others and anonymity: “It is amazing what you can accomplish in the Vatican if you have no interest in claiming the credit,� Meija says.

The happiest people he has met during his years of Vatican service are “those least interested in the consequences of their service for their own careers.� I am going to remember that.

That not all curial officials do remember is clear from the anecdote that Allen shares about the embittered monsignor who blamed his failure to receive a bishop’s mitre on Archbishop Giovanni Benelli, Paul VI’s tough-as-nails sostituto. When

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Benelli died as cardinal archbishop of Florence in 1982, the monsignor and a fellow victim of Benelli’s wrath drank a champagne toast to the death of their nemesis and journeyed to Florence for the funeral, “to make sure the bastard was really dead.�

All the Pope’s Men concludes with two chapters chronicling in detail the Vatican’s treatment of the American sexual abuse crisis and its reaction to the war in Iraq. By turns enlightening and highly amusing, the book deserves a wide readership. I could scarcely put it down.

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■ Continued from cover The board’s formation was part of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People that the bishops adopted in response to what was then a stillburgeoning crisis over the number of priests across the country who had molested children and especially the number of them who had been left in ministry or returned to ministry after church officials learned of their actions.

In its tumultuous first two years the board assisted in establishment of the bishops’ national Office of Child and Youth Protection.

It interviewed scores of experts with a wide range of perspectives on the nature of child sexual abuse and the factors that may have contributed to priests engaging in such abuse. Last February it issued a 150-page report on its findings, sharply criticizing many past practices in the church and what it saw as continuing problems in many areas.

It also reviewed and approved the diocese-by-diocese reports of teams of outside compliance auditors who visited nearly every diocese in 2003 to conduct an independent assessment of its policies, programs and practices for child protection and for dealing with allegations of clerical sexual abuse, the priests accused and the alleged victims.

The board also objected vigorously to a decision last spring by the bishops’ Administrative Committee that would have postponed a second round of diocesan audits until 2005. The charter calls for annual reports on diocesan compliance to be reviewed and approved by the board, and the board said new audits were needed in 2004 for the mandated 2004 report. The board’s objections led the bishops to address the issue at a national gathering in June and decide the second round of audits would be conducted in 2004.

More recently, when board members received a list of nominees to replace the outgoing members, they objected to the appearance of the name of a nun on the list. Although the charter does not exclude priests or nuns from board membership, board members felt the board’s reputation for independence was at stake.

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San Francisco attorney named to National Review Board

By Catholic San Francisco Staff San Francisco attorney Joseph Russoniello sees his appointment as a member of the U.S. Bishops’ National Review Board as a “great opportunity and honor.”

In a phone interview with Catholic San Francisco, Russoniello said, “I think yeoman’s work has been done by the first group (of Review Board members).

They have set the pace, and what we need to do now is to make sure the momentum is carried forward and there is follow through on the work done thus far.”

Russoniello said he told Bishop Wilton Gregory, president of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference, that the Church’s extraordinary efforts to deal effectively and all-inclusively with the abuse issue can serve as a tem-

plate for other entities in American society where there is interaction between adults and children or youth.

Mr. Russoniello is senior counsel and resident in the San Francisco office of Cooley Godward LLP, a law firm with headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. He is also dean of the San Francisco Law School.

As U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California, 1982-90, he handled several high profile criminal and civil cases including the prosecution of Larry Layton of the Peoples Temple for his part in the 1978 murder of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, DCalif., in Jonestown, Guyana.

Russoniello also prosecuted the Mitsubishi and Hitachi corporations for theft of IBM secrets and a wide range of other white collar crimes. During that

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Since 2001 he has chaired the northern California committee that screens federal judicial candidates. In his current practice he specializes in representing clients facing criminal investigations and charges for alleged white-collar crimes.

Russoniello graduated in 1963 from Jesuit-run Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn. He earned his law degree from New York University in 1966.

He was an FBI special agent and an assistant district attorney for the city and county of San Francisco before he joined Cooley Godward in 1975.

Catholic News Service contributed to this story.

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