November 3, 2006 by Catholic San Francisco

Conference seeks to mobilize U.S. Catholic community in efforts to end global poverty

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Cardinal Renato Martino addresses the Point 7 Now conference held at St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral in San Francisco, California on Friday October 27, 2006. The goal of the Point 7 Now conference is to reduce global poverty by mobilizing Catholics to influence U.S. policy toward the developing nations.

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SAN FRANCISCO —- In a world where half of the population is poor and more than one billion people endure a poverty so harsh that their very survival is at risk daily, the notion of eliminating extreme poverty from the world in our lifetime may seem utopian. But Columbia Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, author of “The End of Poverty” and keynote speaker at the “Point 7 Now” national conference on global poverty, Oct-2728, at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco, said with only a little more help from the United States and other developed nations, the lives of the world’s poorest people could be dramatically improved. America and other nations simply need to live up to the development assistance promises they made six years ago, he said. The “Point 7 Now” conference title refers to goals adopted by the nations of the world in September 2000 at the United Nations Millennium Summit, aimed at reducing extreme poverty and improving the lives of those living in the world’s poorest countries by the year 2015. Governments of most of the developed countries agreed to increase their aid to the poorest countries – pledging the equivalent of 0.7 of one percent of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) each year for development assistance. As part of the Millennium Development Declaration, the nations of the world specifically pledged to achieve eight goals, which include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal access to primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, and ensuring environmental sustainability. While a-half dozen countries have reached the “Point 7” assistance goal, the United States remains near the bottom of the list when aid by developed countries is measured as a percent of GDP. This lackluster performance is the reason for the subtitle of the “Point 7 Now” conference: “Keeping America’s promise to make poverty history.” The San Francisco conference aimed at building awareness and support for the Millennium Development Goals and the Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty — an effort led by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services – which encourages citizens to advocate for policies that increase development aid, offer debt relief to poor countries and ensure that trade agreements benefit more than the wealthy. Nearly one thousand people registered for the two-day conference, which drew church leaders, economists and international development experts from around the world, and leaders from academia, business and labor, activists, lay leaders and diocesan officials from across the country. Archbishop George H. Niederauer, leader of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which was co-sponsored the CONFERENCE, page 5

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The 2006 Court of Queen Isabella, back from left: Queen Mother Esther Bermani Schaukowitch, ladies in waiting Briana San Paolo, Melissa Nave, Brittany Cords-Page, Rachel Amato, Jessica Soracco, Robin Monfredini, Lianna Piccetti, Queen Isabella 2005 Leslie Soracco. Front from left: Duchess Dana Peretto, Duchess Sarah Toschi Leight, Princess Cristiana Giannini, Queen Isabella 2006 Daniela Maria Romani, Duchess Michaella Armanino and Duchess Marie Reginato. Kneeling: Crown Bearer Gina Guglielmoni.

San Francisco’s Italian Heritage Parade was complete with the Court of Queen Isabella with her majesty being portrayed by Daniela Maria Romani, a Sacred Heart Cathedral alum now studying at University of San Francisco. “The Archdiocese of San Francisco was strongly represented,” said Karen Guglielmoni, President of the Columbus Day goings-on and a parishioner of St, Veronica’s in South San Francisco. “The Italian Heritage Parade - formerly the Columbus Day Parade - has proudly marched through the streets of San Francisco since 1869 and is the oldest continuous civic celebration of its kind in the United States.” Don’t forget, Karen pointed out, that the day always begins with Mass at St. Peter and Paul Church. Karen and her husband Jim celebrated 11 years of marriage August 19. Their daughter, Gina, a 5th grader at Buri Buri Elementary School was this year’s crown bearer in the royal entourage….San Francisco’s St. Anthony Foundation does some turnaround every year by honoring others who have dabbled or more in compassionate works. The awards are named for late Franciscan Father Alfred Boeddeker who began the very thoughtful mission of St. Anthony’s 56 years ago. St. Anthony’s Dining Room

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served its 33 millionth meal – say that three times fast – Qutami, Meredith Callan, Victoria Ramirez and Jessica just a few weeks ago. Congrats to this year’s Boeddeker Allison. Ready to assist at Notre Dame are Sam Rollandi, Award winners, San Francisco Community Clinic Jordan MacDonald, Kelsey Guntren, Miranda Scully, Consortium and KQED Public Broadcasting, each rec- Carolyn Giannini and Sarah Martinez. Also at Notre ognized for “their work to Dame, congrats to seniors, restore health, hope and Angelica Juarez and human dignity in San Elizabeth Vilchez, who Francisco,” Lisa said…. have been honored by the Happy 51st birthday National Hispanic October 6th to Father Recognition Program for Roberto Andrey, pastor, St. their academic achievement. Peter Parish in Pacifica. Also recognized were sen“We hope this Jubilee year iors, Rose Friedland and has many blessings for Kelsey Hayes, recipients of him,” the parish community this year’s acknowledgesaid in a recent bulletin. And Sacred Heart preschoolers Jack and Huck Barry head into ment for writing by the for those of us askin’ “What National Council of Mass with grandmas Lorna Barry, left, and Kathy Berra, Jubilee?” St. Peter’s is in the and mom, Elaine, and dad, Dave, as part of Grandparents’ Teachers of English…. midst of celebrations mark- Day at the Atherton school on September 24th. Grandmom Remember this is an ing its 50th anniverempty space without ya’!! Berra is a Sacred Heart alum as is the lads’ mom. sary…..As we anticipate The email address for Street trips to the polls to place those we hope are best for posts is burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Mailed items should be sent in Sacramento, Washington, D.C. and more local sites, hats to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Pix should off to new Student Body Officers at Mercy High School, be hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 dpi. Don’t forget to Burlingame, and Notre Dame High School in Belmont. include a follow-up phone number. Call me at (415) 614Helping lead the way at Mercy are Raquel Colom, Heba 5634 and I’ll walk you through it.

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By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — As the nature of war and conflict changes, so do the ethical challenges faced by members of the military, said the head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, whose flock includes all U.S. Catholic military and their families, was one of the speakers at an Oct. 23-27 Vatican conference for military ordinaries, the bishops in charge of the spiritual care of their nations’ armed forces. While a Catholic military chaplain’s ministry always will center on celebrating the sacraments — in a base chapel or a field tent — he also is called to be “an ethicist, helping form and guide” the approach of his unit and the concrete behavior of individuals, Archbishop O’Brien said. Like other speakers at the Vatican conference, Archbishop O’Brien said modern shifts in when a nation feels called to deploy troops raise new ethical questions. Ethical guidelines for a “just war” — including the principles that actions are proportionate and civilians are not targeted — were developed in the light of conventional wars between two countries or clearly identified groups. Now, he said, ethicists are scrambling to deal with “asymmetrical war,” a conflict such as terrorism where the two sides are not clearly identified, similar entities and where the battlefield can be anywhere. Archbishop O’Brien said, “The Holy See is not happy with ‘preventative war,’” the term the United States and its allies have used to describe their invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq to prevent what was seen as a growing threat, but the chaplains believe there still must be a discussion about ethical military action in such situations.

The challenge faced by chaplains trying to instill high ethical standards in their units is complicated by the modern cultural crisis of values, he said. “If there is no absolute right and wrong, what do you do in war?” he said. Archbishop O’Brien told Catholic News Service he also encouraged the military ordinaries and the Vatican to support a philosophical and ethical discussion about women in the military. “We have lost 65 women in Iraq and Afghanistan,” he said, even though U.S. law says that military women are not to be assigned combat roles. While admitting the topic could set off a controversy and charges of chauvinism, Archbishop O’Brien said women in the U.S. military have proven their leadership skills and their ability to handle themselves and their weapons in tense situations. The questions, he said, are whether there are solid philosophical and theological reasons to bar women from direct combat and why do so many men in mixed units feel a special need to protect their female comrades. The military ordinaries’ conference also focused on the importance of specialized ministry to young adults, who make up the majority of members of the armed forces. Archbishop O’Brien said the way a soldier reacts in a situation of conflict depends a great deal on his or her motivation for entering the armed forces. Prospects are good when the motivation “is service and self-giving. I can’t tell you how many young people I met after 9/11,” who entered the military to serve their country and protect innocent people from further terrorist attacks. “They are there not to kill but to protect,” he said.

Pope says in midst of military, promote peace VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While the ideal that modern armies exist only for defense, security and freedom is not yet a reality, Catholic military chaplains must help members of the armed forces focus on peacemaking, Pope Benedict XVI said. “The church is missionary by its nature and its first task is evangelization, which aims at proclaiming and witnessing to Christ and promoting his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture,” the pope said at a Vatican conference for bishops in chaplain service. In the midst of the military, as in any sector of social life, the church is called to teach and witness in a way that encourages “mentalities and structures” to focus on establishing peace so that all people may reach their potential and everyone’s basic rights would be guaranteed, the pope said. Official church teaching on the theme of peace is an “essential aspect” of its teaching on social issues, the pope said. While it has ancient biblical roots, the teaching deepened and became more insistent with the Second

Vatican Council and in the ministry of Popes John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II, he said. “This insistent call to peace has influenced Western culture, promoting the ideal that armed forces are to be at the exclusive service of defense, security and the freedom of peoples,” Pope Benedict said. “Unfortunately, sometimes other interests — economic and political — fostered by international tensions, have raised obstacles and delayed this constructive tendency,” he said. But the Catholic Church will not stop proclaiming the need for everyone to make a concerted effort to increase peace and justice in the world, the pope said. The church, he said, is “certain that the word of God, generously sown and courageously accompanied by the service of charity and truth, will produce fruit in its time.” He joined the bishops in praying for young men willing “to place their lives at the service of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of love, justice and peace” through military chaplaincy.

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“If they see a conflict between who they are as people of faith and carrying a weapon, there will be problems,” the archbishop said. “They have to know the weapon is only for protection.” Archbishop O’Brien said that as U.S. public support for a military presence in Iraq wanes, morale among the troops declines, even though the majority of those stationed in

Iraq still experience their role as being primarily one of reconstruction and not of combat. “The news only shows cars being blown up,” he said. “But the soldiers see hospitals being built and schools opening. “Right now the sense is that they are doing good and necessary work,” the archbishop said. But that could change by doubts at home, he said.

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SAN FRANCISCO — The annual St. Luke’s Mass of the San Francisco Guild of the Catholic Medical Association took place at St. Cecilia Church Oct. 21, where San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer was the principal celebrant and homilist. He spoke of the example of Christ for those working in medical and health professions. Following the Mass, more than fifty people attended a banquet at Msgr. Collins Hall. Guild President Dr. George Maloof presented Dr. Carol Braga with the St. Luke Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to Catholic medical ethics and practice.

N.J. bishops pledge to protect heterosexual marriage after ruling TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey’s bishops have pledged to work with state lawmakers in drafting same-sex union legislation that protects the concept of marriage “as the union of one man and one woman” and promotes “child well-being in our state.” The pledge came after New Jersey’s highest court ruled Oct. 25 that same-sex couples are due the same rights and benefits as married couples under the state constitution’s equal protection clause. But the State Supreme Court in its 43 decision said that the state Legislature must decide whether to grant this equality through marriage or another form of civil partnership. It gave the Legislature 180 days to modify current laws or draft a new one. The bishops’ Oct. 25 statement, signed by Newark Archbishop John J. Myers, conference president, said the Legislature is where the discussion of marriage “rightly belongs.” “For the sake of constitutional democracy as well as for the sake of marriage itself, the proper place for such discussion must rest with the elected representatives of the people of this state,” said Archbishop Myers.

Advocates demand better pay, conditions for farm workers ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — Consumers should pay more attention to the origins of the food they purchase, said the executive director of the St. Louis-based National Farm Worker Ministry. “I think for the average consumer it’s really easy to forget. Out of sight, out of mind. It’s easy not to pay attention” to how food gets to the consumer, Virginia Nesmith said. She said it is essential that consumers remember the estimated 2.5 million farm workers in the

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nation who harvest by hand about 85 percent of fruits and vegetables. She said a farm worker’s annual wages range between $10,000 and $12,000, barely above the federal government’s poverty level of $9,800 for an individual. Farm workers who get paid per bushel get no reimbursement for sick days, a rainy day or a bad crop.

UNITED NATIONS — If oil and coal are to continue to be major fuel sources, countries must upgrade their technologies to limit the impact of pollution produced by air and sea transport, said a Vatican diplomat. “The time is now ripe for major investment in cleaner air and sea transport technologies before the ecological balance is tipped by culpable neglect,” said Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s nuncio to the United Nations in New York. The archbishop spoke Oct. 25 to a U.N. committee examining the relationship of environmental issues to economic development. The Vatican has observer status at the United Nations, which allows it to address U.N. bodies but not to vote. Many countries seem to have made a pragmatic decision to continue to use fossil fuels, he said. Such a decision requires “serious public investment in clean air technologies” to improve the outdated technology currently in use, he added.

Patriarch hopes papal trip helps Orthodox minority ROME — Global interest in Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming trip to Turkey has focused on relations with Muslims, especially after the pope’s recent remarks on Islam and the controversy that followed. But the Nov. 28-Dec. 1 visit also will highlight the tiny but historic Greek Orthodox community in Turkey and its struggle for religious freedom. In fact, it was Istanbul-based Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew who first invited the pope to visit as a demonstration of ongoing dialogue between the Christians of East and West — an aspect overshadowed by the latest controversy with Islam. In an apparent desire to put ecumenical relations and Christian issues back on the map, Patriarch Bartholomew recently held meetings with reporters, outlining his expectations for the papal trip. “We are awaiting the pope’s visit with fraternal love and great anticipation. It will be very important for our country and for Catholic-Orthodox relations,” the patriarch said in late September.

Official says Nepal’s peace process U.S. Bishops plan for fall meeting prompts displaced to return home WASHINGTON — When the U.S. bishops meet in midNovember, they will debate and vote on statements about Catholic teaching on marriage and family planning, who is worthy to receive Communion and the pastoral care of those who are homosexually oriented. They also will decide on a directory on liturgical music. Also on the agenda are the texts of liturgical readings for Advent, proposals for restructuring and downsizing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and a funding proposal for research on the causes and context of clergy sexual abuse of minors. For the first time since 1989, the USCCB will hold its fall general assembly outside Washington. The bishops will meet Nov. 13-16 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel overlooking that city’s Inner Harbor. They will gather in Baltimore Nov. 12 to celebrate Sunday evening Mass together at the newly restored Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

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VATICAN CITY — Positive steps in Nepal’s peace process have prompted many of the country’s internally displaced to return to their villages, said the head of Caritas Nepal. But, Father Silas Bogati said, despite the progress of negotiations between Maoist rebels and the government, most people are still hesitant about heading back to the countryside where a 10year insurgency led by the rebels was the most violent. “Just recently we have been able to repatriate about 1,000 people back to their villages,” he told Catholic News Service Oct. 26. However, people “are cautiously waiting and watching how the peace process will progress,” he added. The Nepalese priest spoke to CNS during the Oct. 24-26 executive committee meeting of Caritas Internationalis, the church’s international network of Catholic aid agencies. If the cease-fire holds and talks result in a stable, interim government, then “there will be more work to repatriate and resettle” the displaced, he said.

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Conference . . . ■ Continued from cover conference with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and a handful of other Catholic institutions, said “We have a responsibility to address the moral scandal of global poverty. We come together to raise awareness, mobilize resources, and reflect on how putting faith into action can build a more just world.” Opening the conference, speakers from India, Kenya and Brazil provided insights into the poverty situation in Asia, Africa and South America, where the vast majority of the world’s poorest peoples live. Sunithra Krishnan, founder and director of Prajwala, an organization in India that works in prevention, rescue and rehabilitation of children ravaged by human trafficking, said in India there are 350 million people living below the poverty line. She said one tragic result of extreme poverty is a thriving “flesh” industry in which two million children are sold each year in the name of adoption — with many ending up exploited and brutalized by individuals engaged in sex trafficking. Peter Kimeu, a Catholic Relief Services director in Kenya, struck one of the themes that emerged from the conference: relationships. While noting that 55 percent of Kenya’s population lives in poverty, he said people need to go beyond mere statistics. Giving voice to the poor of the world, he said, “I beg you don’t think of me as a number, but as a brother or a sister with a face and a name. Call us by name in true witness to being brothers and sisters in Christ.” Another speaker, Jesuit Father John Donahue, echoed this theme. He told Catholic San Francisco, “It is important to know these people not as victims but human beings who have the same aspirations and desires for the knowledge of God and love of neighbor as we have. A biblical scholar and author, Father Donahue spoke to conference attendees about the call to help the poor that is rooted in the Old and New Testaments. Speaking to the conference via live video, Professor Sachs said the Millennium

Development Goals commitment by developed countries was not a matter of the rich giving to the poor, “but a relationship of one human being to another in solidarity.” What may surprise many, Sachs said, is that “eliminating extreme poverty does not require the world to be turned upside down, nor does it require a revolution.” “What we are talking about is less than one percent of our income, seventy cents out of each one hundred dollars in GDP,” he stated. “It is the bargain of our generation, of our world,” said Sachs. The poor of the world, he said, need a little practical help. “But so far, we have shunned the bargain,” he said. To those who might argue that the poor nations ought to help themselves, Sachs said, “No one ever got out of extreme poverty by themselves, without some help.” Sachs, a professor at Harvard for 20 years before joining Columbia University in New York, is director of the UN Millennium Project and an advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. In his remarks at the “Point 7 Now” conference, Sachs stressed the themes of practicality, accountability and responsibility. As one example, he said research had identified an estimated 300 million sleeping sites in Africa, which could be made malaria free by the introduction of a bed mat costing $5 each at the factory. “So $1.5 billion – or about one day of Pentagon spending – we could provide malarial protection for all of Africa.” He asked, “How can we not make this choice?” He said such enlightened approaches to alleviating the suffering of global poverty “is the only route to justice and the only route to peace.” In response to a question about the use of assistance funds by poor nations, Sachs said, “Corruption is everywhere, even Washington. That is why it is important to focus on practical things that can be accounted for – how many clinics have been built, how many nurses have been trained, how many sacks of fertilizer have been delivered to farmers.” CONFERENCE, page 7

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Father Joseph M. Hanly, CSP Paulist Father Joseph Martin Hanly died peacefully at St. Francis Hospital, Oct. 23, at the age of 80. Father Hanley had been a priest for four decades when, in 1994, he was assigned to San Francisco’s Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, assisting the parish and Holy Family Chinese Mission. “He loved his priesthood and celebrating the sacraments,” said Paulist Father Daniel McCotter. “He especially loved the Paulist charism, and preaching the Gospel.” For the past 12 years, he was dedicated to adult religious education, especially Marriage Preparation. Father Hanley was born in Bellevue, New Jersey in 1926, the son of the late Martin Joseph Hanly and Margaret Therese Oakes. Father Hanly was received in the Paulist Fathers Sept. 8, 1947, and was ordained a priest May 1, 1953 at St. Paul the Apostle Church in New York by the late Cardinal Francis Joseph Spellman.

His first assignment was parochial vicar at St. Philip Neri Church in Portland, OR. From 1957 to 1967 he served on the Paulist Mission Band in San Francisco, Chicago and New York. After serving on the Mission Band, he was assigned to the Information Center at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Los Angeles. “It was in Los Angeles he became great friends with Hollywood legends, Jane Wyman and Loretta Young who were Catholic,” said Father McCotter. “Father Joe was very dedicated to the priesthood. He was great at encouraging young men into the Paulist life,” said Father McCotter. Remembrances may be sent to Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Restoration Fund, 660 California Street, San Francisco CA 94109.

Father Anthony Lee Father Anthony Lee died peacefully at St. Anne’s Home October 26. He was 90 years old. “His love for the Eucharist, and his love for Our Lady, was very strong,” said Little Sister of the Poor Caroline who took care of Father Lee for the past year. “Father always had his rosary in his hands,” she said. “Although he was very fail, he loved to sing Latin hymns for us, and he never forgot a word,” Sister said. Father Lee was born in Canton, China and ordained in 1941 for what was at the time the Vicariate Apostolic of Canton, (Guangzhou) China. In 1955, after ministering in several parish assignments, he was imprisoned by the communists in Canton, China for 14 years, and released to a farm commune in 1969. In 1990, Father Lee left China to take up residence in

the United States. His application for asylum in this country was filed through the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and expedited by Archbishop John R. Quinn. He was assigned as a parochial vicar of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in San Francisco. In1992, Father Lee moved to Serra Clergy House, and in 1997, he took up residence at St. Anne’s Home in San Francisco. Letters of condolence may be sent to his brother and sister-in-law, John and Millie Lee, 7239 Spicer Drive, Citrus Heights, CA 95621.

‘Mosaic’ TV program airs Sunday, Nov. 5 Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, is interviewed on “Mosaic” Sunday, Nov. 5 on KPIX-Channel 5 at 5 a.m. He will discuss the Nov. 7 ballot measures, which California bishops have endorsed: Proposition 85, the parental notification initiative; Proposition 86, tax on cigarettes; and Proposition 1-C, housing and emergency shelter.

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Bishop cites persecution of Christians in Iraq WASHINGTON (CNS) — Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Policy, has asked U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to “take several specific measures” to reverse the growing persecution of Christians and other minorities in Iraq. In a letter to Rice, Bishop Wenski said the bishops feel “deep concern and growing alarm at the rapidly deteriorating situation of Christians and other religious minorities in Iraq.” Among steps he urged the U.S. government to consider are the creation of a new administrative region in the Plain of Nineveh area, where many Iraqi Christians live, and the adoption of a “more generous refugee and asylum policy” to assist displaced Iraqi Christians. “The growing and deliberate targeting of Christians is an ominous sign of the breakdown in Iraqi society of civil order and interreligious respect and represents a grave violation of human rights and religious liberty,” Bishop Wenski wrote. Because of violence and the threat of violence, he said, “Christians continue to decline from a prewar population of over 1.2 million to a current estimate of about 600,000.” “The recent beheading of a Syriac Orthodox priest in Mosul, the crucifixion of a Christian teenager in Albasra, the frequent kidnappings for ransom of Christians including four priests — one of whom was the secretary of (Chaldean Catholic) Patriarch (Emmanuel III) Delly — the rape of Christian women and teenage girls, and the bombings of churches are all indicators that the situation has reached a crisis point,” he wrote. Bishop Wenski noted that while Christians represent only 4 percent of Iraq’s population, according to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, 44 percent of Iraqi refugees are Christian. “The vulnerability of Christians and other religious minorities is dramatic evidence of the growing security challenges facing the entire nation of Iraq,” he said. In calling for a separate administrative region in the area of the Plain of Nineveh, Bishop Wenski reflected the views of a number of analysts who believe such a solution would offer Christians a more secure framework. He also urged the U.S. government to work with Kurdish authorities who control areas of northern Iraq where many Christians are fleeing. He asked Rice to work with the governments of Turkey, Jordan and Syria to assist Iraqi Christians who have fled to those countries.

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Conference . . . He said, “Keep your eye on real practicalities” He added, “Nothing can be done when a country is ruled by thugs.” But Sachs said there are many countries that are governed by good people, democracies with elected officials. “It is here that we must be ready to do our part,” Sachs said. Cardinal Renato Martino, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican and permanent observer of the Holy See at the United Nations, also was a featured speaker at the San Francisco global poverty conference. He noted the rich heritage of Catholic social teaching regarding the poor and said an essential basis for sustained development must be the recognition of human dignity. “Human dignity recognition leads to human rights, which lead to justice and peace,” Cardinal Martino said. Father J. Bryan Hehir, a well-known

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Catholic figure and professor at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, concurred with this view. He said, “The most urgent moral problem of the day is building a world that respects each individual.” San Francisco Msgr. Robert W. McElroy, in moderating questions for Professor Sachs

Sunitha Krishnan, founder of Prajwala, an organization dedicated to ending human trafficking.

and Father Hehir, noted, “Elements of faith are absolutely essential in this endeavor.” Other speakers at the conference included Professor David O’Brien, College of the Holy Cross, and Margaret O’Brien Steinfels, co-director of the Fordham Center on Religion and Culture. In the afternoon of the second day, confer-

ence participants formed working groups to explore specific ways that parishes, schools, diocesan offices, religious communities, lay organizations, institutions, labor and business communities could help mobilize the Catholic community as a whole to support the Millennium Development Goals and the Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty.

What are the Millennium Development Goals? At the Millennium Summit in September 2000, the largest gathering of world leaders in history adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration. Leaders of the world’s wealthiest countries committed their nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty — setting out a series of time-bound targets aimed at reaching specific Millennium Development Goals by the year 2015. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger 2. Achieve universal primary education 3. Promote gender equality and empower women 4. Reduce child mortality 5. Improve maternal health 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases 7. Ensure environmental sustainability 8. Develop a global partnership for development The world has made significant progress in achieving many of the Goals. Between 1990 and 2002 average overall incomes increased by approximately 21 percent. The number of people in extreme poverty declined by an estimated 130 million 1. Child mortality rates fell from 103 deaths per 1,000 live births a year to 88. Life

expectancy rose from 63 years to nearly 65 years. An additional 8 percent of the developing world’s people received access to water. And an additional 15 percent acquired access to improved sanitation services. But progress has been far from uniform across the world. There are huge disparities across and within countries. Within countries, poverty is greatest for rural areas, though urban poverty is also extensive and growing. Sub-Saharan Africa is the epicenter of crisis, with continuing food insecurity, a rise of extreme poverty, stunningly high child and maternal mortality, and large numbers of people living in slums, and a widespread shortfall for most of the MDGs. Asia is the region with the fastest progress, but even there hundreds of millions of people remain in extreme poverty, and even fast-growing countries fail to achieve some of the nonincome MDGss. Other regions have mixed records, notably Latin America, the transition economies, and the Middle East and North Africa, often with slow or no progress on some of the Goals and persistent inequalities undermining progress on others. From the U.N. Millennium Project, commissioned by the U.N. Secretary General and supported by the U.N. Development Group. See www.millenniumproject.org/goals.

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Catholic giving rides crest of strong uptick in charitable donations By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — The concept of “donor fatigue” did not seem to afflict the United States’ largest endowments, nonprofits and charitable groups in 2005, with Catholic organizations seemingly benefiting from increased giving as much as most other major philanthropic groups, according to a survey conducted by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. In its annual study of the 400 largest philanthropic organizations, the average increase in private donations was 13.2 percent, but some Catholic organizations eclipsed even that strong showing. Results of the study were published in the Chronicle’s Oct. 26 issue. Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore registered a whopping 146.3 percent jump in donations, ranking 32nd

out of the top 100 organizations with $342.6 million in contributions. The Catholic Medical Mission Board, based in New York City, took in $196.74 million in donations, an increase of 60.4 percent. It was ranked 73rd. The other Catholic group in the top 100 — Catholic Charities USA, based in Alexandria, Va. — ranked 14th with support amounting to $646.19 million. Its contributions rose 11.2 percent. Ranked as the 11th-largest philanthropic group was Food for the Poor, a Christian relief organization in Deerfield Beach, Fla., that works to alleviate poverty in the Caribbean. Many U.S. Catholic parishes have participated in its projects and its pilgrimages to Haiti over the years. The organization saw its donations rise 36.7 percent., with private support totaling $732.54 million. Among the rankings between 201 and 300 was Catholic

Proposition 85 will allow parents to reclaim their rights and responsibilities by . . . * Mandating that except for medical emergency, no abortion could be performed on a minor unless the physician notifies her parent or guardian at least 48 hours before the procedure. * Allowing a minor girl access to juvenile court if she is bring coerced to have an abortion. * Requiring the filing of reports with the Department of Health Services by the physicians who perform abortions on minors. The California Catholic Bishops support Proposition 85, saying: “We believe that society’s common good is enhanced when family integrity is honored, parental responsibility is respected, and nascent human life is preserved.” Proposition 85, the Parents’ Right to Know and Child Protection Act, will be on the November 7, 2006 ballot.

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Healthcare West, headquartered in San Francisco, which placed 214th with $76.54 million in donations, up 19.8 percent. The big increase in giving “suggests to me this is part of a golden age of philanthropy,” said Frank Butler, the head of Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities. He said the numbers for 2006 will be fortified by the huge charitable gifts announced recently by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and by financier Warren Buffett. “Some of it is a bit exaggerated” for 2005 because there were so many disasters to which donors responded, Butler told Catholic News Service. But even if donations made in the wake of Hurricane Katrina or the Indian Ocean tsunami were taken out of the equation, “we’re still looking at a pretty good year.” Not every nonprofit is collecting money hand over fist. “It’s been a good year for larger charities, certainly. I don’t know if you could say that about smaller charities. It’s true that big charities are getting bigger and smaller charities are getting smaller,” Butler said. Many familiar names populate what The Chronicle of Philanthropy calls “The Philanthropy 400,” including charities, universities and research groups such as United Way of America, the Salvation Army, the American Red Cross, the American Cancer Society, the YMCA, Harvard University, Yale University, PBS, Toys for Tots, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, CARE and the Mayo Clinic. The 13.2 percent jump for 2005 was the largest singleyear increase since 1999 saw a rise of 13.4 percent in charitable giving. The total amount given to the nation’s largest nonprofits totaled $62.7 billion.

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St. Anthony Foundation begins construction of expanded facility to serve poor By Evelyn Zappia A large step in furthering the legacy of Franciscan Friar Alfred Boeddeker was taken Oct. 25 with the groundbreaking for St. Anthony Foundationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s future home with an expanded free medical clinic, employment program/learning center, and social work center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As much as this building is needed, let us never forget the garage across the street where Father Boeddeker started his ministry and where St. Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s began 56 years ago. That garage holds the heart of the mission of this Foundation,â&#x20AC;? said Father Mel Jurisich, Provincial of the Franciscans of the Province of Santa Barbara. San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer told the gathering, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As long as people are in need of food, clothing, shelter and medical care â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and as long as the people are in a restorative sense of hope, St. Anthony Foundation is committed to be here, and to walk along side the people in their journey.â&#x20AC;? As the number of hungry, sick, and homeless people looking for help at St. Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s has increased, the friars struggled to adapt to the growing crisis. The Foundation purchased a building at 150 Golden Gate Avenue for $3 million seven years ago, knowing that the next 50 years would require even bigger challenges. Today, Franciscan Father John Hardin, executive director of St. Anthony Foundation praises the partnership of generous foundations, corporations and individuals for making it possible for St. Anthony to help more people as the Foundation prepares to begin the $22 million construction program on the new building that is scheduled for completion in 2008. The Free Medical Clinic is designed to include an additional 12 dedicated exam rooms that will greatly improve the stretched to capacity condition of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clinic, where more than 200 people are turned away monthly. For the first time, the Clinic will provide dental care, serving over 300 people. It will also provide a new optometry clinic where nearly 500 clients will receive exams. These services have been greatly needed, and almost impossible for the patients to receive elsewhere. The expanded clinic will allow St. Anthonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to increase patient visits by 45 percent. The Employment Program/Learning Center helps to

At groundbreaking are (from left) Jim Buick, Deputy Director, San Francisco Department of Human Services; Dennis Okamura, HKI&T Architects; Franciscan Father John Hardin, Executive Director of St. Anthony Foundation; Archbishop George H. Niederauer; Hollis Pierce, St. Anthony Foundation Board Member; and Larry Nibbi of Nibbi Brothers Construction. At right, artist rendering of the new site.

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News Analysis Pope tells Irish bishops to find the truth, prevent priestly abuse By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI said priestly sexual abuse of minors was a “heart-rending” tragedy that requires an effort of purification by the church. Addressing Ireland’s bishops at the Vatican Oct. 28, the pope encouraged them to establish the truth of past sex abuse cases, take steps to prevent future crimes and bring healing to the victims. “The wounds caused by such acts run deep, and it is an urgent task to rebuild confidence and trust where these have been damaged,” the pope said. Irish church leaders have had to deal with hundreds of allegations of clerical sexual abuse, many of which came to light in recent years. The bishops set up an advisory committee and an independent, lay-led commission to study the problem, and earlier this year published “Our Children, Our Church,” a child protection policy that included new measures more consistent with state procedures. The pope’s remarks to the bishops, at the end of their “ad limina” visit to the Vatican, were his most extensive public comments on priestly sex abuse since his election in April 2005. The heads of dioceses are required to make “ad limina” visits every five years to report on the status of their dioceses. “In the exercise of your pastoral ministry, you have had to respond in recent years to many heart-rending cases of sexual abuse of minors. These are all the more tragic when the abuser is a cleric,” the pope said. “In your continuing efforts to deal effectively with this prob-

lem, it is important to establish the truth of what happened in the past, to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it from occurring again, to ensure that the principles of justice are fully respected and, above all, to bring healing to the victims and to all those affected by these egregious crimes,” he said. The pope said that by facing the problem in this way the church in Ireland would grow stronger and come to see the present moment as a “time of purification.” In their private talks with Vatican agencies, Irish bishops said they were encouraged to continue their efforts to deal with sexual abuse and to develop the policies expressed in “Our Children, Our Church.” When Pope Benedict met privately with Bishop Denis Brennan of Ferns, Ireland, where more than 100 allegations of clerical sex abuse were made between 1962 and 2002, the pope communicated his personal anguish and horror at the behavior of the clerical abusers, according to a spokesman for the Ferns Diocese. Speaking to the bishops as a group, the pope said it was also important that the good work of the majority of Irish priests not be overshadowed by the transgressions of some. “I am certain that the people understand this and continue to regard their clergy with affection and esteem,” he said. The pope said he was concerned about the sharply declining vocation rate in Ireland. He asked the bishops to offer young people an attractive vision of the ordained priesthood.

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Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful as he arrives at Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.

“Even if Christian commitment is considered unfashionable in some circles, there is a real spiritual hunger and a generous desire to serve others among the young people of Ireland,” he said. The pope described the Irish as a people shaped by the Christian faith. He said modern changes in Irish society present challenges as well as opportunities, and people are looking to the bishops for leadership. “Help them to recognize the inability of the secular, materialist culture to bring true satisfaction and joy. Be bold in speaking to them of the joy that comes from following Christ and living according to his commandments,” he said. While the church sometimes must speak out against evils, he said, it must correct the impression that Catholicism is merely a “collection of prohibitions.” “So often the church’s countercultural witness is misunderstood as something backward and negative in today’s society. That is why it is important to emphasize the good news, the life-giving and life-enhancing message of the Gospel,” he said. He said one key was sound catechesis among young Catholics. He encouraged bishops to make sure catechetical programs are based on the Catechism of the Catholic Church and to avoid superficial presentations of Catholic teaching. The pope also said he hoped and prayed for reconciliation, particularly in regard to Northern Ireland, where he said

much progress has been made in recent times. In an address to the pope, Archbishop Sean Brady of Armagh, Northern Ireland, invited the pontiff to visit the country. “Should God’s will and your heavy responsibilities allow you to accept this invitation, you will discover in Ireland a country of warm welcome, but also of change,” Archbishop Brady said. He cited Ireland’s recent economic success and the accompanying “loss of Christian memory.” At a press conference Oct. 28, the Irish bishops said they were impressed with the sympathy and encouragement Pope Benedict showed in their meetings. The pope tended to do more listening than talking, said Bishop Michael Smith of Meath, Ireland. Bishop Patrick Walsh of Down and Connor, Northern Ireland, said the pope, in words and demeanor, was very positive. The pope “doesn’t go around slapping backs or anything like that,” but exudes a quiet, restrained joy that comes from faith, he said. Even as the pope points to threats to society and the Christian response, he takes care to point out that Christian values are in many ways shared by all humanity, Bishop Walsh said. “I think the Holy Father at the present moment seems to be right on the wavelength of giving a very positive message, in language people can understand,” he said.

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The Roberts court faces its first abortion challenge As the newly configured Roberts court takes up the constitutionality of the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act next week, Catholic hope once again is raised that the U.S. Supreme Court “justices” will accomplish justice. We have been here before. When I served President Ronald Reagan as his legal counsel, we asked the court five times to overturn “Roe v. Wade” in order to return the issue to the states. The court refused, but said in reaffirming “Roe” in 1992 that the states would retain a “critical and legitimate” role in protecting life from the moment of conception. In 2000, the state of Nebraska attempted to do just that by banning what all concede to be the most cruel of abortion procedures — beginning delivery in order to pierce the infant’s skull for the purpose of draining out all chance of life. Again the court dug in its judicial heals. Now it claimed Nebraska’s law was vague, might impede other abortion practices and lacked a health exception. There was nothing vague about Nebraska’s law. And it is just plain Orwellian to hold that a “health” exception is needed for something that overwhelming medical evidence indicates is never necessary to save a woman’s life and that, itself, presents significant health risks. Well, Congress is nothing if not resilient. The national legislature tightened up the definition of the banned procedure. A doctor must “deliberately and intentionally” set out to do the “overt act” that he “knows will kill the partially delivered living” child. No doctor can go to jail for accidental behavior or for undertaking other abortion procedures.

And on the issue of a health exception, Congress heard extensive medical testimony in four Congresses, finding the following: “The procedure [itself] poses serious risks to the health of a woman undergoing” it; “there is no credible evidence” that it is “safe or safer” than other procedures; and even the doctor who developed it concedes it “never to be medically necessary.” Of course, Planned Parenthood has doctors who say the opposite. But total medical consensus is not the legal standard. If it were, the objection of even a single doctor could defeat any state regulation. The standard created by the court is whether the ban creates “a significant health risk creating a substantial obstacle for women seeking abortion in a large fraction” of cases. No one has produced evidence of that. And even if one wants to credit the pro-abortion claims of risk, these hypotheticals pale against the vital interest of banning a practice bordering on infanticide. Surely the judicially invented abortion right does not mean Congress is entitled to no deference. Laws, after all, are supposed to be products of legislative deliberation. There is an even more basic point. When “Roe” was argued in the 1970s, one of the most liberal members of the bench, Thurgood Marshall, made clear that actions taken during the childbirth process could not be shielded by abortion. By definition, Marshall meant, an abortion “terminates a pregnancy,” and every common medical dictionary reveals that pregnancy ends with “the onset of the birth process.”

What then is the killing of a child in the birth process — a practice Texas law labeled “parturition”? Here is the transcript from “Roe.” Let it speak for itself: “Justice Marshall: What does that [parturiDouglas W. tion] statute mean? “Texas lawyer: Sir? Kmiec “Justice Marshall: What does it mean? “Justice Stewart: That it is an offense to kill a child in the process of childbirth? “Texas lawyer: Yes sir. It would be immediately before childbirth or right in the proximity of the child being born. “Justice Marshall: Which is not an abortion. “Texas Lawyer: Which is not — would not be an abortion, yes, sir. You’re correct, sir. It would be homicide.” What was a homicide Oct 11, 1972, when “Roe” was argued is a homicide in 2006. Let us pray the new court is honest enough to say so. Douglas Kmiec is dean of Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Family Life

The treadmill today’s parent treads I remember the day I jumped off the treadmill of young mommyhood — for an afternoon anyway. I pushed my double stroller, with 18-month-old Katherine in one seat, to David’s preschool. We had a half hour to get the four-year-old boy to speech therapy. After that, we had 45 minutes to make it to karate. And after he earned a green stripe for jumping jacks, we needed to rush home for Katherine’s physical therapy session at our house. I was taking antibiotics because my immune system couldn’t fight off chronic urinary tract infections that my doctor said could be stress related. No, really? But I’m not doing anything differently than the other moms at preschool, I thought to myself. Every one of my friends had her son or daughter in a type of therapy — speech, physical, occupational — and at least two afterschool activities. I was a slacker with only one. Maybe that’s the problem. A 2003 study of 649 college students by sociologists Heather Turner and Melissa Butler at the University of New Hampshire found that childhood stress was a significant factor in young-adult depression. According to a Ladies’ Home Journal report on the stressed-out American

family, therapists are worried that today’s overachieving and panicked children will become a generation of depressed and anxious adults. The surgeon general reported that 13 percent of children suffer from stress-related anxiety disorders. Several studies suggest that one-fourth of all children suffer from test-related anxiety severe enough to make them physically sick. In a 1999 poll of 724 adolescents conducted by Georgia Witkin, director of the stress program at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, close to onethird of all adolescents between 9 and 12 said they “worried a lot” about school, family and world events, and nearly half experienced difficulty sleeping because of stress. We were rushing to speech therapy that day when David begged me to stop so we could watch some men throw tree branches into a wood chipper. “David, we can come back and see it another time,” I said. “We won’t make it to speech in time if we stay and watch.” “But it won’t be here when we come back, Mom.” He flashed his baby blue eyes as he does at the most inopportune times, and I couldn’t deny him of this very boyish pleasure. I checked my watch. We couldn’t afford five minutes. Or two. But you know what? Who cares? I’ll

have my own speech session right here. “Where does the wood in the tipper go?” David asked. “Chipper, David. Can you say the ‘ch’ sound, like church?” I asked, pointing to the oTherese J. shaped mouth I made. Borchard We blew off speech that day and the weeks that followed. I decided I could do a better job teaching him the consonants on walks through the woods. I also nixed Katherine’s physical therapy. She’ll walk when she’ll walk. And no one needed the extra pressure of karate and its green belt, so that went out the window too. I’m still on the treadmill a fair amount of time like the rest of American society. But ever since the day in front of the wood chipper, my speed has slowed down. Therese J. Borchard is the author of “I love being a Mom” and the editor of “An imperfect Mom.”

Spirituality for Life

On healthy, constructive criticism Liberals and conservatives both pride themselves on speaking out for the truth, on thinking critically. But too often both are deluded as to what it means to be critical. Generally we think of a critic as someone who debunks what’s false, heretical, naive, inflated, or superficial. Partly that’s true, but it leaves too much room for us, liberals and conservatives alike, to criticize others according to our own image and likeness. What does it mean to be critical? The word comes from the Greek word kritus, which refers to a judge. A judge (a critic) is someone who hears the evidence and then tries to make a judgment concerning guilt or innocence. What’s important then is not to debunk, bash, or challenge, but to tease out the truth without pre-judging as to where it might lie and then to make sure that it gets a fair hearing. A good critic, therefore, is someone who agitates for fairness, objectivity, depth, wholeness, and aesthetics, without first self-defining himself or herself as belonging to one camp or the other. But this is difficult to do because too many things derail objectivity. Our minds and hearts simply have too many subjective crevices. This is one of the insights given us by many of the great minds of the recent past, Einstein, Heisenberg,

Durkheim, Freud, Jung, Lonergan, and Habbermas. All of these concur on the fact that virtually all of our judgments are shaped and colored by perspective, temperament, ideology, self-interest, and historical conditioning. It’s not easy to criticize something on anything other than self-interest. Most criticism is a form of autobiography. It tells us more about the critic than about the issue. Sadly, too, the same is often true too for much of what passes for research. Given the truth of that, it’s fair to ask whether it’s even possible to think a truly critical thought. Perhaps that’s overly skeptical, given that there is within our conscience a critical faculty that has a grounding in something beyond temperament and historical conditioning. Be that as it may. What all of this suggests is that we should be more humble, more careful, and more selfcritical in what we consider to be critical thought. Our criticism must be much more self-scrutinizing if it is to be based upon anything more than ideology and private likes and dislikes. True criticism starts with the admission that we, like everyone else, are far from objective. All of us think and feel through a certain software, a pre-ontology, a bias (in common language). It is never a question of “Are we biased?” but only a question of “What are our biases?”

And that is true for everyone. But this doesn’t mean we can’t attain truth. The task of being critical is not to rid oneself of all bias (an impossibility, even if it were desirable). The Father task of critical thought Ron Rolheiser is instead to have the correct bias, to think and feel through the right software. But what is the correct bias? What kind of thinking makes for true criticism? Jesus tells us “the pure of heart will see God”, that there is a certain internal attitude that will make us see straight. What constitutes this attitude? I like the answer given by the medieval philosopher and mystic, Hugo of St. Victor. His axiom for objectivity was: “Love is the eye!” For Hugo, we see things properly and objectively only when we see them through the eyes of love because then we see them the way God sees them. ROLHEISER, page 15

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Scripture FATHER EDWARD J. KELLY, C.S.SP.

Deuteronomy 6:2-6; Psalm 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51; Hebrews 7:23-28; Matthew 12:28b-34 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY (DT 6:2-6) Moses spoke to the people, saying: “Fear the Lord, your God, and keep, throughout the days of your lives, all his statutes and commandments which I enjoin on you, and thus have long life. Hear then, Israel, and be careful to observe them, that you may grow and prosper the more, in keeping with the promise of the LORD, the God of your fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey. “Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the LORD alone! Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength. Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today.”

vented by death from remaining in office, but Jesus, because he remains forever, has a priesthood that does not pass away. Therefore, he is always able to save those who approach God through him, since he lives forever to make intercession for them. It was fitting that we should have such a high priest: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, higher than the heavens. He has no need, as did the high priests, to offer sacrifice day after day, first for his own sins and then for those of the people; he did that once for all when he offered himself. For the law appoints men subject to weakness to be high priests, but the word of the oath, which was taken after the law, appoints a son, who has been made perfect forever.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 18:2-3, 3-4, 47, 51) R. I love you, Lord, my strength. I love you, O Lord, my strength, O Lord, my rock, my fortress, my deliverer. R. I love you, Lord, my strength. My God, my rock of refuge, my shield, the horn of my salvation, my stronghold! Praised be the Lord, I exclaim, and I am safe from my enemies. R. I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord lives! And blessed be my rock! Extolled be God my savior. You who gave great victories to your king and showed kindness to your anointed. R. I love you, Lord, my strength.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK (MK 12:28B-34) One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?” Jesus replied, “The first is this: Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these.” The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher. You are right in saying, ‘He is One and there is no other than he.’ And ‘to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself’ is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when Jesus saw that he answered with understanding, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to ask him any more questions.

A READING FROM THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS (HEB 7:23-28) Brothers and sisters: The levitical priests were many because they were pre-

Christ — pure and simple Once again Scripture brings us to the very core of Christianity: You shall love God, and you shall love your neighbor. That’s it. That’s all. That is Christianity pure and simple. There is the whole of religion reduced to its absolute, stark simplicity. That is, the whole Bible, all of God’s revelation, all the different things it teaches, all the different things it commands, all the laws and the rules and regulations of the church, all the doctrines and definitions of the catechism, all the explanations and interpretations of philosophy and theology - all of it, everything, is pared away and reduced down to loving God and loving our neighbor. And then even these two commandments are further reduced to only one because, as Jesus tells us, they are intimately connected, so united, that they are but two aspects of the one same reality, just like the two sides of the one coin. Love of God and the love of neighbor cannot be separated. One cannot exist without the other. We cannot love God on the one hand in church worship and religious practices, and love our neighbor on the other hand in secular action in the world, as if these were two different things, as if we could decide to do one or the other, as if we could move back and forth from one to the other. God cannot be loved alone or apart. We cannot love just God, only God, up in heaven, or in church, or in the Eucharist, or in any individual, private religious practice or prayer or holiness in the interior confines of our own soul. We cannot love God aside from or separate from people and events of our reality in the world. Because the only way we can love God - the only way - is to love our neighbor; and it is only right in the actual loving

of our neighbor that we love God. St. John put it all so simply, so clearly, so strongly when he wrote: Those who say, “My love is fixed on God,” and yet do not love their brother or sister, they are liars. They who have no love for their brother or sister whom they see, cannot love God whom they do not see. This, Jesus is telling us, is the meaning of our Christian religion, the measure of our Christian action — all gathered together in one, single, unified pattern of life: love of God, found only in love of neighbor, only in the Lord, different realities of human life, only in this in down-to-earth world just as we know it here and now. The love of God is not a matter of trying to like everyone; nor is it a matter of having some kind of a warm, emotional feeling stirring in our hearts, like romantic love; but it is the strong, committed determination to act rightly and justly and compassionately with all people, especially those with the greatest need. Do you see how tangible, how concrete, how close, how immediate the love of God really is? Father Edward J. Kelly was a Holy Ghost Father for nearly sixty years until his death in 2000. The Congregation of The Holy Spirit and Immaculate Heart of Mary (known more simply as the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, or in Latin, Congregatio Sancti Spiritus, C.S.Sp.) is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests, lay brothers, and since Vatican II, lay associates. Congregation members are known as Spiritans on Continental Europe, and as the Holy Ghost Fathers in Englishspeaking countries, although even there, they are becoming known as Spiritans. A Spiritan priest or brother has the abbreviation ‘C.S.Sp.’ after his name.

The great newness of Christianity By Pope John Paul II Following are comments by Pope John Paul II at a general audience at the Vatican Oct. 20, 1999 Dear Brothers and Sisters, 1. “If any one says, “I love God’, and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also” (1 Jn 4: 20-21). The theological virtue of charity is expressed in two dimensions: love of God and love of neighbor. In both these dimensions it is the fruit of the dynamism of Trinitarian life within us. Indeed, love has its source in the Father; it is fully revealed in the Passover of the crucified and risen Son, and is infused in us by the Holy Spirit. Through it God lets us share in his own love. If we truly love with the love of God we will also love our brothers or sisters as God loves them. This is the great newness of Christianity: one cannot love God if one does not love one’s brethren, creating a deep and lasting communion of love with them. 2. In this regard, the teaching of Sacred Scripture is unequivocal. The Israelites were already encouraged to

love one another: “You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Lv 19: 18). At first this commandment seems restricted to the Israelites, but it nonetheless gradually takes on an ever broader sense to include the strangers who sojourn among them, in remembrance that Israel too was a stranger in the land of Egypt. In the New Testament this love becomes a command in a clearly universal sense: it presupposes a concept of neighbor that knows no bounds (cf. Lk 10: 29-37) and is even extended to enemies (cf. Mt 5: 43-47). It is important to note that love of neighbor is seen as an imitation and extension of the merciful goodness of the heavenly Father who provides for the needs of all without distinction. However it remains linked to love of God: indeed the two commandments of love are the synthesis and epitome of the law and the prophets (cf. Mt 22: 40). Only those who fulfill both these commandments are close to the kingdom of God, as Jesus himself stresses in answer to a scribe who had questioned him (cf. Mk 12: 28-34). 3. Abiding by these guidelines which link love of neighbor with love of God and both of these to God’s life in us, we can easily understand how love is presented in the New Testament

as a fruit of the Spirit, indeed, as the first of the many gifts listed by St Paul in his Letter to the Galatians: “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Gal 5: 22). 4. In this regard, it says in the Letter to the Colossians: “Above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony” (3: 14). The hymn to love contained in the First Letter to the Corinthians (cf. 1 Cor 13) celebrates this primacy of love over all the other gifts, and even over faith and hope. The Apostle Paul says of it: “Love never ends.” Love of neighbor has a Christological connotation, since it must conform to Christ’s gift of his own life: “By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren” (1 Jn 3: 16). Insofar as it is measured by Christ’s love, it can be called a “new commandment” by which the true disciples may be recognized: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another” (Jn 13: 34-35). The Christological meaning of love of neighbor will shine forth at the second coming of Christ. Indeed at that very moment, it will be

seen that the measure by which to judge adherence to Christ is precisely the daily demonstration of love for our neediest brothers and sisters: “I was hungry and you gave me food ...” (cf. Mt 25: 31-46). Only those who are involved with their neighbor and his needs concretely show their love for Jesus. Being closed and indifferent to the “other” means being closed to the Holy Spirit, forgetting Christ and denying the Father’s universal love.

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Addressing the moral scandal of global poverty By Archbishop George H. Niederauer It’s easy to forget that more than a billion people survive on a $1 a day when we live in the world’s richest country. Whether in the fields of Africa, the factories of Asia or the streets of our own cities, we often pay scant attention to the abject poverty that degrades our fellow human beings. Ending global poverty is one of the great challenges of our time that requires urgent political will and solidarity with our brothers and sisters around the world. Catholic leaders, economists, international development experts and activists from several countries met in San Francisco Oct. 27-28 to explore strategies for addressing the moral scandal that is global poverty. We came together to raise awareness, mobilize resources, and reflect on how putting faith into action can build a more just world. As Catholics, we pray that we can embrace the hungry, the sick and the suffering as Jesus called us to do with compassion and love. As citizens, we understand that foreign policy and budgets are moral endeavors that reflect our values and we call on our leaders to do more to help the world’s poor. The “Point 7 Now” Conference will help build national momentum for the Catholic Campaign Against Global Poverty, an effort led by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services that engages citizens to advocate for policies that increase development aid, offer debt relief to poor countries and ensure that trade agreements benefit more than the wealthy. Guided by Catholic social tradition that teaches us to have a “preferential option for the poor,” we know that upholding the dignity of all human life does not end at our borders. When our neighbors in other countries suffer, we too are diminished. What we do to the least among us, we do to Christ himself.

Rolheiser . . . ■ Continued from page 13 This is the critical eye: We see straight, objectively, when we look out at the world with the eyes of love. When we see things with sufficient compassion then, and only then, are we good judges, critics in the best sense. John of the Cross says essentially the same thing when he suggests that we attain purity of heart when our motivation is the same as Christ’s, when our reasons for interacting with others and the world issue from a real desire to help bring about a permanent community of life among all people and all things. When we think and feel like that, which is how Jesus felt, then our thoughts and actions are genuinely critical and we will criticize the status quo or try to conserve it on the basis of whether or not it is aiding or hindering this community of life, and not on the basis of temperament, personal neuroses, or the adolescent urge to “kill the king”.

In the San Francisco Bay Area, the Catholic community strives through its social service agencies to relieve the suffering of local poverty, and funds international antipoverty and development programs through Catholic Relief Services. Local Catholic priests, nuns and lay people are working in some of the poorest countries in the world to ease the burden of extreme poverty. We also work with people of other faiths in efforts to increase awareness and understanding about global poverty and to encourage our legislators to make greater efforts to address this crucial problem. In 2000, the United States and other nations signed the U.N. “Millennium Development Goals” to halve extreme poverty, increase development aid to 0.7 percent of gross national income, stop the spread of HIV/AIDS and provide universal primary education by 2015. The United States still falls near the bottom of the list when aid by developed countries is measured as a percent of gross national product. Some ask why we should care about starvation or disease in remote corners of the globe. Along with being the right thing to do, retreating from this cause is also not practical. The forces of globalization have made nations, and their destinies, more interconnected than ever before. As the world’s largest economy, the United States has considerable influence to galvanize resources for the poor, push to end curable diseases in Africa, and be a model for other countries when it comes to development. Each year, governments spend billions of dollars on sophisticated weapons. The technological creativity and energy it takes to build these systems should be matched by the best of our minds and hearts in fighting the enemy of poverty that kills 50,000 people every day, far more True criticism, unlike so much of what tries to pass itself off as criticism today, is, first of all, marked by a deep compassion. Beyond this, it is recognized by its openness, its respect for those with whom it disagrees, its self-criticism, and its keen sense of the importance of aesthetics and enjoyment. True criticism does not radiate panic, pompousness, elitism, dogmatism, or cynicism, but rather charity, joy, peace, patience, goodness, longsuffering, fidelity, faith, mildness, and chastity - and, not least, a good sense of humor. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author. PACIFIC I’NTL TRAVEL AGENCY FOR ALL YOUR TRAVEL NEEDS SPECIALIZING IN

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“Catch a Fire” is a notable and intelligent film, a truth-based suspense drama set against the dark days of South Africa’s apartheid policy. The film’s sparkling pedigree includes Australian director Phillip Noyce, who demonstrated versatility directing bigbudget action films such as “Clear and Present Danger” as well as smaller dramas including “The Quiet American.” The film features a remarkable real-life story, solid cast and past Oscar-winners in producer Anthony Minghella (“The English Patient”) and executive producer Sydney Pollack (“Out of Africa”). Derek Luke plays husband and father Patrick Chamusso, a foreman at a vital South African oil refinery. When not working, the resolutely apolitical Chamusso coaches a children’s soccer team and takes classes at night to better the life of his family. Of Luke’s acting, Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times notes, “The young American actor gives such an intense, passionate performance that he just about dares you not to be involved with the tale he is telling.” While on an overnight trip with the team, he sneaks off to visit a woman with whom he fathered a child years earlier, putting him in a difficult position when he is arrested later in connection with a sabotage attack on the refinery that occurred on the same evening. Fearing for his job and marriage, Chamusso, though innocent, remains silent about his alibi, drawing the suspicions of quietly menacing police colonel Nic Vos (Tim Robbins). In trying to coerce Chamusso into confessing, the authorities arrest and torture his wife, Precious (Bonnie Henna). They are both released, but the injustices spark a fire in him to take action. Leaving his family behind, he joins the outlawed African National Congress, or ANC, as a rebel fighter in its militant “MK” wing. Using his inside knowledge, he eventually masterminds a plot to blow up the entire plant where he once worked, setting himself on a collision course with Vos. Luke (“Antwone Fisher”) continues to establish himself as one of the best young actors today. Robbins turns in a low-key performance as an emotionally restrained man in a confined culture. However, he manages to humanize Vos beyond a one-

dimensional villain. Vos — also shown as a caring family man — doesn’t see himself as cruel but believes he is preserving order in his country. The film’s taut pacing is energized by Ron Fortunato’s cinematography, which contrasts the oppressive poverty of the shantytown where Chamusso lives with the comfort of the blithely oblivious white communities. Turan also notes that this story, set in South Africa a quarter of a century ago, has some pointed parallels to the world situation today: “The use and value of questionable interrogation techniques, the arrogance of those in power and how those elements combine to politicize innocents and create opposition where none existed before are all touched on here.” Objectionable content includes scattered four-letter words and some dramatically justified brutality, but even that is handled with restraint. Working from a screenplay by South African Shawn Slovo — daughter of Joe Slovo, who headed the MK when Chamusso was a member — Noyce, in exploring themes of race and social justice, raises the timely issue of using violence as a means of political protest. The film’s final word on the matter should resonate with Catholic viewers in its renouncing of violence. A brief, but poignant, epilogue shows the real Chamusso — who served 10 years of a 24-year sentence imprisoned on Robben Island with future South African president Nelson Mandela and now runs an orphanage — advocating forgiveness as imperative in healing his country’s deep wounds. The film contains some violence, images of torture, an instance of rough language and a few crude expressions. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. David DiCerto of the USCCB Office of Film and Broadcasting contributed to this review. More reviews are available online at www.usccb.org/movies.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information about any event listed here. 1st Fri.: Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament after the 8:00 a.m. Mass Friday and continuing throughout the day and night until 7:45 a.m. Saturday with Morning Prayer and Benediction. (Exposition is suspended during scheduled Masses at 12:10 noon, 7:00 p.m. and 6:45 a.m. according to liturgical norms.) Join us as we pray for world peace, a culture of life, priests and the special intentions commended to our prayers. For more information or to volunteer please call (415) 567-2020 x224. November 18: Archbishop George Niederauer will host a Day of Recollection entitled “Come, Follow Me”. It builds on last year’s Day of Recollection to mark the end of the Year of the Eucharist and will again be led by Michael McDevitt of Mystical Humanity of Christ.. Attendees will have a choice of English or Spanish, and lunch will be provided. Call (415) 614-5505 for more information. Cathedral Autumn Group: All people 55 and over are cordially invited. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. Reservations Required to (415) 567-2020 ext. 218. Nov. 16: Pre-Advent Morning of Recollection. Dec. 21: Christmas Luncheon at O’Reilly’s Holy Grail Restairant, 1233 Polk between Bush and Sutter.

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yourself and grow in your faith. Join us at 7 p.m. for an engaging speaker, delicious food, and in-depth discussion at St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd, Redwood City. For more information call (650) 3650140 or email Kevin@pius.org. Nov. 28: The Stem Cell Issue with Father Gerald Coleman. Lights, Camera, Faith! Who says the movies have nothing to do with your faith? Join us at 7p.m at St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd, Redwood City for a current movie and discussion focused on the 10 Commandments. For more information call (650) 3650140 or email Kevin@pius.org. Nov. 21: Bruce Almighty. Come pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Scriptural Rosary, and special intentions before the Blessed Sacrament at the beautiful Monastery of Perpetual Adoration. Saturdays 10:00 to 11:15 am, 771 Ashbury Street at Waller in San Francisco. Some parking available adjacent to the monastery. Contact Steve at (415) 290-5598. Saturdays: Prayer meeting at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, at 9:30 a.m. Father James Tarantino, presiding. Hospitality follows. All are welcome. Call Moriah at (415) 756-5505 Saturdays: Bible Study at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. All are welcome. Call Moriah (415) 756-5505.

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Single, Divorced, Separated Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester is guest of honor November 17th at this year’s Brennan Award Dinner, a principal fundraiser of the St. Vincent De Paul Society of San Francisco. The Brennan Award is presented annually to individuals who have distinguished themselves in their commitment to serving the needy, said information promoting the event. Tickets are $150 per person and proceeds benefit the works of St. Vincent De Paul Society. The evening includes cocktails at 6 p.m. followed by a silent auction and dinner. All takes place at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary Blvd. Call Laura Hare at (415) 977-1270 or lhare@svdp-sf.org Going over the details with Bishop Wester are Maryanne Murray, left, Sharon McCarthy Allen and Joanne Murphy. Bal de Paris 2006: Café des Artistes: Notre Dame des Victoires Elementary school will celebrate French culture at its 56th Bal de Paris - “Café des Artistes” on Saturday, November 18th at San Francisco’s Grand Hyatt Union Square. The Bal will pay tribute to the 150th Anniversary of Eglise Notre Dame des Victoires’ service to the community. For tickets, information and information on how to donate, call (415) 421-0069; (415)929-0675

Catholic Charismatic Renewal The Catholic Charismatic Renewal plans events throughout the year. Information about the group’s activities can usually be found here in Datebook and always at their Web site www.sfspirit.com. First Fridays of the month are commemorated with rosary and Mass at selected churches throughout the Archdiocese usually beginning at 7 p.m. For more information, contact John Murphy at exmorte@aol.com. Nov 3: First Friday Mass at Church of the Visitacion, San Francisco, at 7:30 PM. Rosary at 7:00 PM.

Shows/Entertainment/Auditions Nov. 11: A Choral Odyssey featuring the voices of the Philippine Saringimig Singers at St. Gregory Church, 2715 hacienda St. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m.Tickets are $20 per person. Contact Merle Talens at (650) 7031415. Sponsored by Filipino Communities of Deanery 10 and the Filipino Ministry of St. Gregory Parish.

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San Francisco.We welcome any other St. Emydius graduates, perhaps brothers, sisters, cousins or any others who may have attended St. Emydius or the Doran Club to join us in this celebration. Please contact: Joy (Joylene Boito) at joy.walsh@sbcglobal.net, 408-996-3162 or Jack Sutcliffe at jaksut@aol.com, 408-257-4671. Nov. 5: St. Peter Alumni Family and Friends are invited to the 26th Memorial Mass and Brunch at St. Peter Churh, 24th and Alabama St. in San Francisco. Adults $15 and $5 per child. Call Irma Vargas at (415) 846-5966. Nov. 10: Class of ’57, St. Paul High School, San Francisco is looking for members of the class. Call Carol Kennedy Toomey at (650) 756-4586 or ctoomey@ci.millbrae.ca.us. Nov. 11: Class of ’47, St. Paul High School. “Join your classmates at the annual Alumnae Mass at 11 a.m. and lunch after,” said Mary Loughran O’Keefe. Call (650) 588-6873. St. Stephen Parish is honoring the class of 1956, the first class to graduate from St. Stephen School. The Parish will recognize its Golden Anniversary graduates at 4:30 p.m. Mass on Saturday, January 20, 2007 and host a party in their honor in the school library. If you are a member of this class and wish to attend, please contact Nancy Crowley at (415) 664-7164 or e-mail at nancycinsf@aol.com. Holy Angels Elementary School, class of ’57, is looking to hold a reunion in the spring. Members of the class should contact Susan Terry at (650) 348-2306 or susan5t@comcast.net or holyangelscolma.com.

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Nov. 4: St. James Elementary School, class of ’76 12:30 – 4 p.m. at the school, 321 Fair Okas St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 647-8972. Nov 4: St. Emydius Class of ’56 at noon at McCormick & Kuleto’s Seafood Restaurant in Ghirardelli Square in

Nov. 4: 1st Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma in All Saints Mausoleum at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060. Deepen Your Faith Speaker Series. Challenge

Separated and Divorced support group meets 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452 or Vonnie at (650) 873-4236. Catholic Adult Singles Assoc of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.

Consolation Ministry Grief Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information. San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-558-1015; St. Dunstan, Millbrae. Call Barbara Cappel at 650-6927543;. Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at 650-355-2593; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. Call Barbara Cantwell at 650-755-0478; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call Parish at 650-366-3802; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call Sister Patricia at 650-589-2800. Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo. Call Brenda MacLean at 415-454-7650; St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at 415-472-5732; Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at 415-897-2171. San Francisco: St. Dominic. Call Sister Anne at 415-567-7824; St. Finn Barr (Bilingual). Call Carmen Solis at 415-584-0823; St. Gabriel. Call Elaine Khalaf at 415-564-7882. Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at 415-614-5506. Ministry to Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-558-1015. Information regarding grief ministry in general call Barbara Elordi at 415-614-5506.

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Nov. 4, 5: Annual Christmas Boutique benefiting St. Andrew Parish, 1571 Southgate Ave. in Daly City. Sat.: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Sun: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Refreshments available at Mrs. Santa Shop. Call (650) 756-3223. Nov. 4: Sail Away with St. Paul’s! – St. Paul’s Annual Dinner Dance and Auction to benefit St. Paul’s Preservation Fund at Patio Espanol. Silent auction and drinks sail at 1800 hours, and dinner will be served at 2000 hours with dancing until midnight. Contact Katy O’Shea at St. Paul’s Rectory (648-7538) for tickets and more information. Nov. 4: Moonlight Over Monte Carlo Auction 2006, an evening benefiting St. Gregory Elementary School at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Burlingame, beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $75 per person and includes $5 gaming chip. Call (415) 345-8506. November 11: St. Stephen Women’s Guild will present “Designing Women” Fall Fashion Show, benefiting St. Stephen School. The day begins at 11 a.m. at the Olympic Club Lakeside with no-host tails and a silent auction, and luncheon at noon. Tickets are available at $70 each or $700 for a table of 10. Raffle tickets are also available for purchase at $5 per ticket or six tickets for $25. Raffle prizes include a $500 Stonestown Galleria Shopping Spree. For more information, please contact Julie Keith at (415) 664-1031 or e-mail at icejules2002@yahoo.com. Nov. 11: St. Emydius Fil-Am Unity Club will hold its annual semi-formal fundraising dinner and dance at the Clarion Hotel, Millbrae. Dinner will be at 7:30 p.m. Donation is $50 per person. Proceeds benefit parish and works of Fil-Am club. Music by George Elizalde. Contact Estele Oloresisimo at (415) 5959248 or Edna Casteel at (415) 370-0862 Nov. 11, 12: St. Peter Parish Women’s Guild Holiday Boutique, 8:30 a.m. – 3 p.m. both days. Pix with Santa 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Sat. and 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Sun. More than 25 vendors will showcase a wide variety of handcrafted gifts. Snack Bar is complete with soup, sandwiches, hot dogs, hamburgers and desserts. At the parish, 700 Oddstad Blvd. in Pacifica. Nov. 17, 18: Sisters of Mercy Holiday Boutique at Marian Care Center, 2300 Adeline Drive in Burlingame, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. both days. “Retired Sisters of Mercy have lovingly prepared gifts for you to give,” said information promoting the event. Choose from delicious homemade jams and jellies, baked goods, handmade blankets and cards, gift baskets, candies and fudge. For information please call Debbie Halleran (650) 340-7426

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Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, colma

Veterans’ Day Memorial Services ~ No Mass ~

Please join with us on Saturday, November 11, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. to honor our men and women in uniform.... past, present and future Chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco in uniform will conduct the memorial ceremony along with the Travis Air Force Base Military Honor Guard with Taps.

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The Origin of Veterans’ Day

n 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in the eleventh month, the world rejoiced and celebrated. After four years of bitter war, the allied powers signed a ceasefire agreement (an armistice) with Germany at Rethondes, France on November 11, 1918, bringing World War I to a close. The “war to end all wars” was over. November 11, 1919 was set aside as Armistice Day in the United States, to remember the sacrifices that men and women made during World War I in order to ensure a lasting peace. On Armistice Day soldiers who survived the war marched in a parade through their home towns. Politicians and veteran officers gave speeches and held ceremonies of thanks for the peace they had won.

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A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.