November 12, 2010

Pope urges Europe to return to the cross, freedom’s “guiding star”

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BARCELONA, Spain (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI warned countries of the danger of no longer being at the loving service of their citizens as he urged the faithful to bring Christ’s message of hope to all people.

During a two-day journey to a once-staunchly Catholic Spain, the pope sought to bolster and renew people’s faith in God and convince an increasingly secular society that the church wants dialogue, not confrontation.

The pope’s Nov. 6-7 visit, his 18th trip abroad, brought him first to one of Catholicism’s most popular and ancient pilgrimage sites, Santiago de Compostela, and then Barcelona, where he consecrated the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia.

During the Nov. 7 Mass in which he blessed and anointed the altar of the church dedicated to the Holy Family of Nazareth, he said Christians must resist every attack on human life and promote the natural institution of the family.

Under the government of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who came to power in 2004, Spain has relaxed its divorce laws, eased restrictions on abortion, legalized same-sex marriage and allowed gay couples to adopt.

In his homily, the pope praised the technical, social and cultural progress made over the years. However, he said, a country must also advance morally.

He asked that courts, legislative bodies and society respect and defend the sacred and inviolable life of the child from the moment of conception.

“For this reason, the church resists every form of denial of human life and gives its support to everything that would promote the natural order in the sphere of the institution of the family” based on marriage between a man and a woman, he said.

The church, begun in 1882 and expected to be finished by 2026, is the masterpiece of Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, a Catholic whose beatification cause is under way.

The minor basilica is a splendid example of the natural synthesis of tradition and novelty as well as of faith and art, the pope said in response to journalists’ questions aboard the papal plane from Rome Nov. 6.

The “certain dissonance” between the world of art and religion “hurts both art and faith,” he said. Art “GUIDING STAR”, page 6

Social justice agenda in jeopardy in U.S.

By George Raine The sharp right turn that Americans took at the polls on Nov. 2 created a Congress that will likely have good news-bad news results for Catholic concerns, analysts believe.

First the bad news: The loss of moderate, pro-life Democrats may well apply the brakes on a social justice agenda that two years ago seemed to have POST-ELECTION, page 3

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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates a Mass to consecrate the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 7.

Living memories of Mexico’s anti-Catholic war

By Dana Perrigan While Mexico is not a country that many would associate with religious persecution, there was a time when it was not only against the law, but dangerous for Catholics to practice their faith there.

It was a time when priests – many of whom were tortured and executed – risked their lives to celebrate Mass in secluded “Manuelito” grottoes, when nuns disguised themselves as lay women to escape arrest, and when Catholics took up arms and – with cries of “Viva

Cristo Rey!” and “Viva La Virgin de Guadalupe!” – rose up in rebellion.

“People were not permitted to attend Mass,” says Rosa Dallardo, “It was dangerous – especially for the priests.

Soldiers were everywhere.”

A parishioner at St. Peter Church in San Francisco, Dallardo remembers the stories her parents and grandparents, who lived in Jalisco, told her of the persecution and war that took place when President Plutarco Elias Calles sought to eradicate Catholicism from Mexico during the 1920s.

The bloody anti-Catholic era Dallardo’s grandparents lived through is portrayed in “Cristiada,” a movie about IN 1920S MEXICO, page 17

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■ Continued from cover traction. Now the good news: A significant number of pro-life legislators will be sworn in with, many of them believe, encouragement to rally against abortion and around marriage.

The dramatic change in the political landscape – with Republicans taking control of the House of Representatives, and the loss of some 60 Democrats, many of them moderate members, as well as GOP gains in the Senate – at the very least opens the curtain on a stage starring advocates for family values with little interest in championing social issues, particularly immigration reform.

“I worry that what we’re seeing is a further polarizing of the two political parties in ways that don’t play out well for actually passing legislation that advances Catholic policy concerns,” said Stephen Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic University of America. “I hope I’m wrong.”

Catholic voters, who favored Democratic over Republican candidates by double-digit margins in the last two congressional elections, swung to the GOP in 2010, noted the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. Fifty-four percent favored Republicans while 44 percent voted Democratic. That compares with 55 percent of Catholic voters voting Democratic and 42 percent Republican in 2008; 55 percent Democratic and 44 percent Republican in 2006, and 49 percent Democratic and 50 percent Republican in 2004.

Pro-life Catholic Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, will be the new speaker of the House, replacing Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat who is also Catholic.

George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said that while the dynamics of the new Congress are not yet clear, “It appears that substantial changes can be made to the health care legislation to restrict the use of federal dollars for abortions.”

He added, “It will be challenging, how-

ever, with this Congress to move toward a reasonable immigration reform since so much negative and distorted rhetoric was expended during the campaigns about undocumented people. Also challenging will be to allocate more financial aid for the poorest of the world’s poor due to the severe economic circumstances that our country now faces.”

California, meantime, remained a solid blue state, as voters elected Attorney General Jerry Brown as governor; San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who had championed same-sex marriage, as lieutenant governor, and returned Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, for a fourth term. Brown declined to defend Proposition 8 which defines marriage as between one man and one woman.

concern of the people to protect the environment for the health and well being of people, especially our children. Regardless of how one voted, the moral imperative remains for us to care for God’s creation as good stewards.”

In the congressional races, at least 17 prolife Catholics will be added as members of Congress, while approximately 26 Catholics supportive of abortion rights will be departing, Deal Hudson, conservative analyst and former director of Catholic outreach for President George W. Bush, wrote in The American Spectator.

And yet the “slaughter of moderate, pro-life Democrats” as the tide shifted, said Schneck, is troubling.

The Catholic swing voting population seems to be a group that feels more frustrated and alienated by the corrosive political climate.

– Stephen Schneck Two California Catholic bishops, acting independently, this year offered “reflections” – not pronouncements per se – on two key propositions and voters sided with them.

Of Proposition 19, the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of the Diocese of Oakland wrote that “the ingestion of brainaltering chemicals – legal or illegal – cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.” Bishop Stephen Blaire of the Diocese of Stockton had asked Catholics to reflect “on the common good” when considering Proposition 23, which would have suspended implementation of the state’s air pollution law. Bishop Blaire said in a statement to Catholic San Francisco on Friday, “The defeat of Proposition 23 indicates a

“Many both opposed abortion and were strongly supportive of the Church’s positions on providing for the poor, welcoming the immigrant, and being pro-active stewards for creation,” he said. “The upshot is that after Tuesday the Democrats in Congress are now more reflective of that party’s left wing and there’s less chance for Democratic support for progress against abortion,” he added.

“And, to complicate things further, many of the new GOP members are coming into office beholden to a movement that by all accounts wants to axe government ‘dogooding’ on things like immigration. So, weighing all this complication, I don’t see a net gain for Church concerns,” he said.

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states. “But, lots of Catholics who voted for (President Barack) Obama in 2008 went for the GOP in 2010 and this especially seems true in the battleground states of the upper Midwest and Middle Atlantic states,” said Schneck.

“No doubt Catholics are reflecting the same concerns as other voters regarding the economy,” he said. “I’d also say, though, that the Catholic swing voting population seems to be a group that feels more frustrated and alienated by the corrosive political climate.

They want change.”

Schneck said that pro-life Catholic conservatives were among the most “fired-up groups that made the GOP so dynamic in this election.” He noted that they were among the forces that defeated three justices of the Iowa Supreme Court who in a ruling had allowed same-sex couples to marry – making Iowa the first Midwestern state to sanction same-sex unions.

Iowa’s seven justices, in 2009, found that a law barring same-sex marriage violated the constitution’s equal protection rights of gay and lesbian couples intending to marry.

Three justices up for re-election were targeted, and they were turned down in an effort launched by Bob Vander Plaats, a Republican Sioux City attorney who had lost his party’s nomination for governor and created a group called “Iowa for Freedom,” backed by out-ofstate conservative and religious groups, bent on unseating the justices. The groups assailed what they called “blatant judicial activism by the Iowa Supreme Court.”

The three justices said in a statement Thursday, “Throughout our judicial service, we have endeavored to fulfill our duty to Iowans by always adhering to the rule of law, making decisions fairly and impartially according to law, and faithfully upholding the constitution.”

In Washington, Schneck said, “The Iowa ‘recall’ will definitely have legs. We’re going to see the judicial recall movement now as one of the most effective tools, not only for groups opposing same-sex marriage but for all groups working on so-called ‘values’ issues where state courts are at odds with voter sentiment.”

Valerie Schmalz contributed to this story.

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By Doreen Abi Raad BEIRUT (CNS) – Despite terrorist warnings that all Christians in the Middle East are “legitimate targets,” the faithful in the region say they have placed their trust in God. An al-Qaida group in Iraq made the threat in an Internet statement in early November. The same group was responsible for the Oct. 31 siege in the Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad that ended in a rescue drama that killed 58 people, including 46 Catholics who were in the church.

“When I hear about people dying for their faith, it pushes me to believe even more and to be a better Christian,” said Patty Barbara, a 40-year-old Melkite Catholic from Beirut. “It’s as if someone is telling me, ‘Wake up and be a better Christian!’“ Barbara said attacks such as the one in Iraq and threats to Christians “make the people who are lukewarm in their faith to boil for Christ.”

While the Christian presence in Lebanon – about 33 percent of the population – has been steadily dwindling due to emigration, Barbara said she is determined to stay in the land of her birth.

“I am planted in this country,” she said, adding that she will encourage her three children to stay in Lebanon. “This is our mission, to be a witness to Christ here.”

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A worker walks past the head of a giant statue of Jesus in Swiebodzin, Poland, Nov. 6. Father Sylwester Zawadzki, the 78-year-old priest who created the statue, said it rises 108 feet, or 33 meters, one meter for every year that Jesus lived.

“We’re treating this monument as a sign of faith – an external manifestation that religious belief is still alive here,” said Father Andrzej Sapieha, spokesman for Poland’s Zielona Gora-Gorzow diocese.

“While we are called to live a Christian life, faith also demands material proofs through the figures and crosses adorning our churches. This statue very much reflects this logic.”

John Fahed, a 26-year-old Maronite Catholic from Beirut, told Catholic News Service, “I am not afraid to be in Lebanon because I feel the Lord has called me to stay here, and he will protect me.”

“I didn’t expect it,” he said of the announced threat, “but I’m not really surprised. We are living in a place where everything is possible.”

Fahed said that, growing up in Beirut, he experienced the horrors of the 1975-1990 civil war.

“We had bombs and shells exploding in our house, yet God kept me and my family safe from danger,” he said. During the Israel-Hezbollah war in the summer of 2006, he continued with his daily routine, going to work every day.

“I pray daily. I’ve been brought up to do that,” he said. “God hears my prayers.”

As for the terrorist group making the threats, he said: “I can’t respond to their hatred by hating them back. Instead, I pray for them that their eyes will be open to the truth. I think the best thing we can do is to pray for them, to love them.”

Jocelyn Cherfan, 45, a Maronite Catholic from Beirut, said, “Without Christians, Lebanon would not be Lebanon,” pointing out that the country would become like another Saudi Arabia without its Christian presence.

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Five Anglican bishops request to join church VATICAN CITY – Five Anglican bishops have decided to join the Catholic Church and step down from their current positions with the Church of England.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, confirmed a statement issued Nov. 8 by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales welcoming the five bishops. He said that a “constitution” that would govern the entry of former bishops of the Anglican Communion was being studied.

One year ago, Pope Benedict XVI established a special structure for Anglicans who want to be in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church while preserving aspects

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Sex abuse, religious freedom on agenda of cardinals’ meeting VATICAN CITY– Pope Benedict XVI has convened a meeting of the world’s cardinals to discuss a wide range of topics, including clerical sex abuse and religious freedom around the world.

The “day of reflection and prayer” will take place at the Vatican’s synod hall Nov. 19, the day before the pope presides over a consistory to create 24 new cardinals, a Vatican statement said Nov. 8.

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Would-be pro golfer aimed for wealth and fame, found Christ instead

By Patricia Coll Freeman ANCHORAGE, Alaska – It’s easy to imagine a six-foot, tanned, 32-year-old Peter Hannah on a golf course in Monterey, in textbook form, languidly driving balls 300 yards.

But instead of an Izod shirt and khaki pants, he’s wearing the long, white habit of a Dominican friar – and he’s heading into winter in Alaska. He arrived in August from St. Albert’s Priory in Oakland for a year’s work at Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage, as part of seminary training.

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■ Continued from page 4 The afternoon session will hear three reports. Cardinal-designate Angelo Amato, head of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, will speak on the 10th anniversary of “Dominus Iesus,” the doctrinal congregation’s 2000 statement that underscored the unique and universal salvation offered by Christ through his church.

Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, will then address the topic, “The response of the church to cases of clerical sex abuse.” In the wake of new disclosures of sex abuse by clergy, particularly in Europe, Pope Benedict has called for the church to undergo a period of penitence, humility and “sincerity” to restore trust.

Pope calls on laity to evangelize for justice VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said that lay Catholics have a responsibility to promote social justice and charity in a globalized world often marked by injustice and inequality.

Addressing the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, the pope called for “renewed evan-

“My first reaction to being assigned to Anchorage was, ‘Wow, that’s a long ways away from California,” Brother Peter Junipero Hannah told the Catholic Anchor.

But the would-be professional golfer, former college fraternity brother and convert to Catholicism already has traveled a long distance. He has passed through the spiritual “desert” of pride, ambition and materialism to what he calls “freedom of heart.”

The son of church-going Texas Presbyterians, Brother Hannah never fell away from the faith but instead, in high school, fell

into the game of golf. “I didn’t really want to do anything else,” he said.

In 1995, the “naturally ambitious” young man entered the University of California at San Diego, where he majored in American history and played on the golf team. He aimed for a lucrative, professional sports career.

“I wanted to have a good life, I wanted to be successful,” Brother Hannah said.

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By junior year, the “pagan pastimes” were gnawing on his conscience, as was the impermanence of his academic, social and athletic accomplishments.

His goals were “not bad things in themselves,” Brother Hannah said. “But when perfect performance did not emerge, and was made less and less perfect by the increasing mental haze attending fraternity life, a deep sense of anxiety developed within me.”

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gelization of the church’s social doctrine.” Lay people, the pope said, as “free and responsible citizens,” are invested with “the immediate task of working for a just social order.”

The pope made his remarks in a message to Cardinal Peter Turkson, the council president, as he welcomed council members at the beginning of their plenary meeting at the Vatican Nov. 4-5. He praised the council for promoting the formation of the laity through the “Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church” and Pope Benedict’s own “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”), the 2009 encyclical that addressed social justice issues.

But lay Catholics cannot carry out the church’s message alone, the pope said.

“They must find priests and bishops able to offer untiring support for purification of the conscience, as well as indispensable support for the coherent witness of the social doctrine of the church.”

Victims of injustice and inequality expect “words of hope” from the church and signs that God “can save humanity from its radical evils,” the pope said.

bishops inaugurated the San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary Nov. 3, the country’s first major church-related construction in the half century since the revolution led by Fidel Castro.

Joined by Cuba’s bishops and representatives of the Vatican and of the Catholic Church in the United States, Mexico, Italy and the Bahamas, Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino noted that the late Pope John Paul II blessed the first stone of the new seminary at a Mass during his January 1998 visit to the island.

At that point, then-President Fidel Castro pledged his support for the project, the cardinal said.

“That promise has been faithfully completed,” he said, adding his thanks to the Castros, “that this work was completed properly with the help of the state.”

Honus Wagner, it appears, didn’t want his image used to promote tobacco. That’s the story of how a 1909 American Tobacco Company baseball card, featuring the Pittsburgh shortstop, became the most valuable trading card in history. The cards were withdrawn, and only around 50 exist.

This week, though, Wagner’s card was put to a nobler purpose: an order of sisters raised $220,000 by auctioning one.

Heritage Auction Galleries, which handled the online sale, recounted that one of the Baltimorebased School Sisters of Notre Dame had received the card from her brother. Although the card was not in perfect condition, he said, its value “should increase exponentially throughout the (21st) century.”

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■ Continued from cover and faith need to be brought back together again and be in dialogue, he said, because truth is expressed in beauty and in beauty one finds the truth.

He told reporters that in Spain the trend toward “anticlericalism and secularism” was especially marked in the 1930s, which created “a clash between society and faith that also exists today.”

During an outdoor Mass celebrated in front of the 12th-century cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Nov. 6, the pope said when societies and governments are no longer at the loving service of all people, then arrogance and exploitation risk snuffing out true human development and fulfillment.

Only by loving and serving others like Jesus did, even with the simplest of gestures, will humanity regain a sense of happiness and hope, he said.

For the past century, a growing belief has taken hold of Europe suggesting that God is an “antagonist and enemy” of human freedom, he said in his homily.

Human dignity is threatened because it has been stripped of its “essential values and riches” and “the weakest and poorest” in the world are marginalized and left to die, he said.

Even Jesus knew that when the rulers of

nations no longer serve the best interests of others, “there arise forms of arrogance and exploitation that leave no room for an authentic integral human promotion,” the pope said.

Of the Church in Europe, the pope said that “her contribution is centered on a simple and decisive reality: God exists and he has given us life.

“He alone is absolute, faithful and unfailing love, that infinite goal that is glimpsed behind the good, the true and the beautiful things of this world, admirable indeed, but insufficient for the human heart,” he said.

Looking to the most recent chapters in European history in which God has become excluded, Benedict XVI asked, “How can what is most decisive in life be confined to the purely private sphere or banished to the shadows?”

“We cannot live in darkness, without seeing the light of the sun. How is it then that God, who is the light of every mind, the power of every will and the magnet of every heart, be denied the right to propose the light that dissipates all darkness?

“This,” he explained, “is why we need to hear God once again under the skies of Europe; may this holy word not be spoken in vain, and may it not be put at the service of purposes other than its own. It needs to be spoken in a holy way” and heard “in this way in ordinary life,” he said.

“Europe must open itself to God,” the pope said. To do so he offered the cross,

“God alone suffices” Following is an excerpt from Pope Benedict XVI’s homily at Santiago de Compostela: From this place, as a messenger of the Gospel sealed by the blood of Peter and James, I raise my eyes to the Europe that came in pilgrimage to Compostela. What are its great needs, fears and hopes? What is the specific and fundamental contribution of the Church to that Europe which for half a century has been moving toward new forms and projects? Her contribution is centered on a simple and decisive reality: God exists and he has given us life.

He alone is absolute, faithful and unfailing love, that infinite goal that is glimpsed behind the good, the true and the beautiful things of this world, admirable indeed, but insufficient for the human heart.

St. Teresa of Jesus understood this when she wrote: “God alone suffices.”

Tragically, above all in nineteenth century

Europe, the conviction grew that God is somehow man’s antagonist and an enemy of his freedom. As a result, there was an attempt to obscure the true biblical faith in the God who sent into the world his Son Jesus Christ, so that no one should perish but that all might have eternal life.

The author of the Book of Wisdom, faced with a paganism in which God envied or despised humans, puts it clearly: how could God have created all things if he did not love them, he who in his infinite fullness, has need of nothing? Why would he have revealed himself to human beings if he did not wish to take care of them?

God is the origin of our being and the foundation and apex of our freedom, not its opponent. How can mortal man build a firm foundation and how can the sinner be reconciled with himself? How can it be that there is public silence with regard to the first and essential reality of human

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“the supreme sign of love,” as a “guiding star in the night of time.

“The cross and love, the cross and light have been synonymous in our history because Christ allowed himself to hang there in order to give us the supreme witness of his love, to invite us to forgiveness and reconciliation, to teach us how to overcome evil with good.

“So,” he said to the people, “do not fail to learn the lessons of that Christ whom we encounter at the crossroads of our journey and our whole life, in whom God comes forth to meet us as our friend, father and guide.

“Blessed Cross, shine always upon the lands of Europe!” he exclaimed.

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life? How can what is most decisive in life be confined to the purely private sphere or banished to the shadows? We cannot live in darkness, without seeing the light of the sun. How is it then that God, who is the light of every mind, the power of every will and the magnet of every heart, be denied the right to propose the light that dissipates all darkness? This is why we need to hear God once again under the skies of Europe; may this holy word not be spoken in vain, and may it not be put at the service of purposes other than its own. It needs to be spoken in a holy way. And we must hear it in this way in ordinary life, in the silence of work, in brotherly love and in the difficulties that years bring on.

Europe must open itself to God, must come to meet him without fear, and work with his grace for that human dignity which was discerned by her best traditions: not only the biblical, at the basis of this order, but also the classical, the medieval and the modern, the matrix from

which the great philosophical, literary, cultural and social masterpieces of Europe were born.

This God and this man were concretely and historically manifested in Christ. It is this Christ whom we can find all along the way to Compostela for, at every juncture, there is a cross which welcomes and points the way. The cross, which is the supreme sign of love brought to its extreme and hence both gift and pardon, must be our guiding star in the night of time. The cross and love, the cross and light have been synonymous in our history because Christ allowed himself to hang there in order to give us the supreme witness of his love, to invite us to forgiveness and reconciliation, to teach us how to overcome evil with good. So do not fail to learn the lessons of that Christ whom we encounter at the crossroads of our journey and our whole life, in whom God comes forth to meet us as our friend, father and guide. Blessed Cross, shine always upon the lands of Europe!

Golfer found Christ . . .

that he shouldn’t be ashamed by a conscience that was bothered by such habits.

Soon, he began to question all his sacrifice just for a lower score on the links. By graduation, he had left his “religion” of golf.

In graduate school in Maryland, Brother Hannah discovered Jesus in the Eucharist at a nearby Catholic parish. “I was overcome,” he recalled when considering that Christ himself would manifest himself in “his very flesh and blood.”

In a short time, he formally joined the Catholic Church and soon discerned a religious vocation.

He then entered the Dominicans and began the road to the priesthood.

In 2007, Brother Hannah made his first religious vow – obedience. As one who was accustomed to making his own way, he considers it the hardest.

“The vow of obedience goes straight to our free will and our desire to have certain situations the way we want them,” he said.

Obedience is the answer to the “mistake of pride of taking my own desires, will, wants, needs and not being willing to see them in a wider context of other peoples’ needs and of the needs of the world and the needs of my neighbor,” he explained.

Paradoxically, “the thing I’ve gained is freedom of heart,” he observed. “There is an almost indescribable freedom in giving yourself to Christ alone, in a single-minded way.”

Reprinted with permission from the Catholic Anchor, Diocese of Anchorage.

■ Continued from page 5 “I knew deep within my soul that things were not quite right,” he observed.

In quiet moments, he acknowledged, “‘There’s something really wrong about the messages I’m getting. There’s an emptiness in my soul that needs to be answered, filled somehow.’”

Then, the summer before senior year, his father encouraged him to become an official member of their hometown Presbyterian church.

“Like a lot of young people today,” he told his father that he wanted to “study other religions first.” For Christianity, his dad recommended the book “Mere Christianity.”

So after a round of golf, Brother Hannah went to a bookstore and walked out with a copy of the C.S. Lewis classic – and the autobiography of Jack Nicklaus.

Lewis’s book turned out “like water in the desert for me,” Brother Hannah recalled.

“It was like, ‘Wow, Christianity does have some things to say!’” and those things, he observed, “protect order in society, protect human dignity” in “wonderful ways.”

Although he had “never tried to live intentionally in a non-Christian way,” Brother Hannah said he hadn’t thought much about what living in a Christian way looked like. He began to realize that, however unwittingly, he had been acquiring “a lot of the habits that many people in the world acquire.”

Finally, Brother Hannah acknowledged

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By Valerie Schmalz Thousands of school children skipped class to pack the sidelines and Civic Center for the Giants historic ticker tape parade down Market Street to City Hall – and a lot of Catholic school kids were among them.

More photos on Page 13 Fifty students from St. Thomas More School won the school lottery and went to the parade on a chartered bus. Another 60 kids didn’t show up at school, said Sister Patricia Rogers, vice principal, who said the rest watched in the gym. “We treated them to popcorn.”

That was the story around the Archdiocese of San Francisco, as adults and children missed school and work to cheer returning sports heroes. The Giants last won the series in 1954 in New York.

They moved to San Francisco in 1958.

The Giants lost the Series in 1962, 1989 and 2002.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Principal Ken Hogarty released the 1,200 high schoolers at 11 a.m. so they could walk down the hill to Civic Center.

The victory was sweet vindication for

Hogarty who recalled the Giants’ Game 7 loss of 1-0 to the Yankees in 1962 on a caught line drive off the bat of Willie McCovey. “I can still remember, as a freshman at the then-Sacred Heart, gathering with teachers and other students to watch the last outs of the 1962 World Series in a classroom on the third floor of our old building. I am gratified that this student body has enjoyed a much better outcome,” Hogarty told the students in an e-mail.

Notre Dame des Victoires School Principal Mary Ghisolfo said about 80 percent of her students left school for the parade. “The children were thrilled to be standing along the parade route which was just two blocks from NDV, and almost thrilled more that I would allow them to go,” she said. “It was a great day for us all!”

Ninety-five students called in absent for the Nov. 3 parade at St. Gabriel School. Eighth-grader Kaelan Daly was spotted by many of her classmates, marching in the parade with her father Patrick Daly, president of Archbishop Riordan High School, who walked with the Crusaders marching band. Riordan shortened the day to 10:30 a.m.

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Grammar school students from Ecole Notre Dame des Victoires walked from their downtown location to the parade.

Preparatory had the option of pulling their children out and “parents did just that for 350 kids,” said school communications director Paul Totah. Seventy went from Our Lady of Angels School in Burlingame, and 50 apiece from Our Lady of Mercy School and All Souls School in Daly City. Farther away from San Francisco, fewer students missed school: St. Rita School in Fairfax and Notre Dame

Elementary in Belmont both had 12 go; eight went from Nativity School in Menlo Park, while 37 went to the parade from Our Lady of Loretto School in Novato, and 20 went from Good Shepherd School in Pacifica. Twenty called in absent at Star of the Sea School in San Francisco, said Carol Slade, administrative assistant.

“Giants fever…next World’s Series we get the day off.”

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Mideast Christians . . .

to emigration, Barbara said she is determined to stay in the land of her birth.

“I am planted in this country,” she said, adding that she ■ Continued from page 4 will encourage her three children to stay in Lebanon. “This is our mission, to be a witness to Christ here.”

By Doreen Abi Raad John Fahed, a 26-year-old Maronite Catholic from Beirut, BEIRUT (CNS) – Despite terrorist warnings that all told Catholic News Service, “I am not afraid to be in Lebanon Christians in the Middle East are “legitimate targets,” the because I feel the Lord has called me to stay here, and he will faithful in the region say they have placed their trust in God. protect me.”

An al-Qaida group in “I didn’t expect it,” he said Iraq made the threat in of the announced threat, “but an Internet statement in We Arab Christians and Muslims I’m not really surprised. We early November. The same are living in a place where group was responsible for are living together here for everything is possible.” the Oct. 31 siege in the Fahed said that, growing Syrian Catholic cathedral up in Beirut, he experienced centuries. We are not afraid of in Baghdad that ended in the horrors of the 1975-1990 a rescue drama that killed civil war. anybody. This is our land, 58 people, including 46 “We had bombs and shells Catholics who were in the exploding in our house, yet our Middle East. church.

God kept me and my family “When I hear about people from danger,” he said.

– Father Faysal Hijazen, safe dying for their faith, it pushes During the Israel-Hezbollah me to believe even more and war in the summer of 2006, he to be a better Christian,” said Holy Family Parish in Ramallah continued with his daily rouPatty Barbara, a 40-year-old tine, going to work every day.

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“I pray daily. I’ve been “It’s as if someone is telling me, ‘Wake up and be a better brought up to do that,” he said. “God hears my prayers.”

Christian!’“ As for the terrorist group making the threats, he said: “I can’t Barbara said attacks such as the one in Iraq and threats respond to their hatred by hating them back. Instead, I pray for to Christians “make the people who are lukewarm in their them that their eyes will be open to the truth. I think the best faith to boil for Christ.” thing we can do is to pray for them, to love them.”

While the Christian presence in Lebanon – about 33 Jocelyn Cherfan, 45, a Maronite Catholic from Beirut, said, percent of the population – has been steadily dwindling due “Without Christians, Lebanon would not be Lebanon,” pointing out that the country would become like another Saudi Arabia without its Christian presence.

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Paulist President Father Michael McGarry, CSP, presided at a funeral Mass celebrated Nov. 6. Paulist Father Bob O’Donnell, a personal friend of Father Donovan, was homilist.

“The Paulist Fathers are stricken with sadness at Jim Donovan’s death,” Father McGarry told Catholic San Francisco. “He meant so much to us in so many ways: as a great priest, a delightful companion, a fine musician and Christ-like presence to the Chinese community of San Francisco. We will miss him very much.”

Father Donovan made his first promises as a Paulist in 1962 and was ordained in 1968.

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By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) – The God of Jesus Christ does not send people pain, tragedy and suffering, and people who are hurting need to know that, said Jesuit Father Richard Leonard.

The Australian Jesuit wrote the book, “Where the Hell is God?” after becoming convinced that his struggle and reflection in dealing with his own family’s suffering could help other people hold on to faith in God when tragedy hits their lives.

The title of the book comes from a question that his mother, a daily Massgoer, asked repeatedly in 1988 when her daughter, Tracey, was left a quadriplegic after a car accident.

In the book, published by Paulist Press, Father Leonard wrote that if he thought God was responsible for his sister’s accident, then he would have to leave “the priesthood, the Jesuits and the church.”

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When his mother asked him, “So where is God then?” he wrote that he replied, “I think God is as devastated as we are.”

Interviewed in Rome, where he is teaching a communications course at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Father Leonard said that after 20 years of thinking, praying and speaking about where God is in the midst of suffering, and ministering to people who were hurting or struggling to help others in pain, he decided to write the book.

“People walk away from faith over this stuff,” he said.

Christians talk and talk about a loving and compassionate God, he said. But when tragedy strikes, too many of them automatically believe they did something to deserve God’s wrath, or that God wants to test them or some other variation on the theme that God actively sent the tragedy, he said.

“I’ve come to believe that many people believe in God as a tyrant and that God’s presence in our lives is tyrannical,” he said. Those people pray and try to live good lives because they want “to survive the regime” of the tyrant-God. “In their quietest moments, they just want God to be kind to them,” he said.

Father Leonard said that while his book is informed by theology, Scripture studies and Catholic tradition, it is not an academic work, but a way to share a personal and pastoral approach to questions concerning God and human suffering.

“I want to hold on to an ancient theology of a God who is completely present to us, who doesn’t go to sleep, who is unchanging,” he said. The God of the earliest Christian tradition is the God who is love and gives life, he added.

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Father Donovan . . .

■ Continued from page 8 that. He believed that evangelization takes many forms and was a speaker on our Chinese radio program as well. He will be greatly missed not just for Chinese Ministry but also as a zealous priest who was true to his calling.”

“He just enjoyed the Chinese people; their warmth and their acceptance,” said Paulist Father Daniel E. McCotter, pastor of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral and Holy Family Mission. “He was fascinated by Chinese culture and obviously the language.”

The Chinese community loved him,” Father McCotter said, noting Father Donovan had visited Hong Kong just a few weeks before his death. “This is a big loss to me personally, to the Paulists, to the Chinese community and to the Archdiocese.”

“Father Donovan was a very dedicated priest and interested in people and their lives,” said Paulist Father Peter Shea, a parochial vicar at Old St. Mary’s. “He was a very warm person, even tempered and pleasant to live with.”

In an announcement of Father Donovan’s death, Bishop William J. Justice, vicar for clergy for the Archdiocese of San Francisco called him “a highly respected priest.”

“Father Donovan will be greatly missed by the Paulists at Old Saint Mary’s, the parishioners and students of Holy Family Chinese Mission and Saint Mary’s Chinese Schools, and the Chinese community of the Archdiocese,” Bishop Justice said.

“He was extremely funny and bright,” recalled Paulist Father Bernard J. Campbell, who entered the Paulist novitiate and was ordained with Father Donovan. “He had a wonderful capacity for listening, which is a quality not always prized.

That enabled him to reach people at a different level.”

Father Donovan has served in the Archdiocese of San Francisco for 16 years in several assignments. Since 2007, he has served the Chinese community at Holy Family Mission, St. Anne of the Sunset, St. Monica, and Holy Name of Jesus parishes.

Father Donovan additionally served in parishes in Minneapolis, Tucson and Chicago, and at Montreal’s McGill University and Boston University. He is also a former Superior of St. Paul’s College, the Major Seminary of the Paulist Fathers, in Washington, D.C. Father Donovan studied at the Chinese University in Hong Kong with the Maryknoll Fathers and was fluent in Cantonese.

He is survived by siblings Thomas, Martin, Edward and Frances. Interment will be in his home state of Rhode Island.

Remembrances may be made to St. Mary’s Building Fund, 910 Broadway, San Francisco 94133.

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By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) – George Lee “Sparky” Anderson, the Hall of Fame manager who managed three World Series-winning teams, died Nov. 4. He was 76.

Just two days before, his family issued a statement that Anderson, a Catholic, was in hospice care as he was suffering from the complications of dementia.

When he retired from managing following the 1995 season, he was third all-time in the number of wins he had managed, at 2,194.

Anderson scored a coup in getting Pope John Paul II to sign a baseball.

He was the first manager to guide teams to 100-win seasons in both the American and National leagues, first with the Cincinnati Reds in 1970, 1975 and 1976 and the Detroit Tigers in 1984.

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Anderson became a Catholic, he told Catholic News Service in a 1996 interview, so he could still get to church on the Sundays when he was playing ball.

“I was a Methodist. And the Methodist church (service) starts at 11 o’clock. And we always played doubleheaders on Sunday – in those days. Always. I never could go to church,” he recalled.

“But my roommates, it seemed like every roommate I had was Catholic. I would go to church with them. I’d just go to church with them. God, I did that for at least eight, nine years. And then when I was in Toronto, Father (Charles) Prance – I got the lessons from Father Prance. I’d go over in the evenings. And he baptized me in Toronto, in 1964,” his first year as a manager, Anderson said.

Born Feb. 22, 1934 in South Dakota, Anderson went to high school in Los Angeles. After graduation, he spent six years playing minor league baseball.

Anderson then spent just one year in the majors, as the starting second baseman for a poor Philadelphia Phillies team, hitting .218 with no home runs in 1959. But after being returned to the minors, he decided he would try his hand at managing.

He flourished as a minor league manager, got a job as a coach with the expansion San Diego Padres in 1969, then signed on to manage the Reds in 1970, taking them to the World Series in his first year.

Fired after nine seasons in Cincinnati, he was hired in June 1979 by the Tigers, promising to deliver a World Series to the city in five years. Exactly five years later, Anderson and the Tigers delivered.

One story told about the 1984 World Series is that Anderson stopped into St. Aloysius Church in downtown Detroit to light candles prior to Game Five of the World Series, which could clinch the championship for the Tigers.

Told that Dick Williams, manager of the rival San Diego Padres, had stopped in earlier to light candles, Anderson asked how many candles Williams had lit. When the answer came back that Williams had lit four, Anderson declared SPARKY ANDERSON, page 11

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The surgery was Sept. 27 at Seton Medical Center in Daly City. On Oct. 19, he was transferred to a care center in Oakland, where he was expected to spend four to six weeks recovering.

The problem valve had been causing weakness and physical problems for the archbishop.

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Father Moore added that because of Archbishop Hurley’s age, doctors anticipated that full recovery would “take some time. Please remember him in your prayers.”

In an e-mail update to friends and colleagues of Archbishop Hurley, his secretary, Joann White, said: “Archbishop Hurley is most grateful for the prayers and concern and asks that you continue to pray for him.”

In March, Archbishop Hurley marked the 40th anniversary of his episcopal ordination. Ordained a priest of the San Francisco Archdiocese in 1951, he was named auxiliary bishop of Alaska’s Juneau Diocese in 1970 and was ordained March 19, 1970. About a year later he was appointed to head the Juneau Diocese and was installed Sept. 8, 1971.

During his tenure in Juneau, he expanded Catholic ministry in the smaller and more remote communities of the diocese and helped implement the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, such as promoting more active roles for the laity.

He served as Juneau’s bishop until 1976 when he was named archbishop of Anchorage. He retired in March 2001.

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By Ana Rodriguez-Soto MIAMI (CNS) – With 1.3 million people still living in tents and the threat of cholera hovering over them, Haiti’s earthquake survivors seem to be living a crucifixion.

Where, in the midst of their suffering, is God? “We don’t hear him, but he is with us,” said Father Alphonse Quesnel, a Montfortian priest who serves as pastor of St. Louis Roi de France Parish in Portau-Prince, Haiti.

Father Quesnel is certainly sharing that crucifixion with his people. His church and his rectory were destroyed. A fellow priest, 10 parishioners and 10 seminarians were killed on the grounds. Father Quesnel survived. About 300 people are still living amid the rubble of the parish buildings – rubble that Father Quesnel has used to build a brick wall inscribed with the names of those who perished.

Now the timid, soft-spoken priest wants to turn that suffering into spiritual lessons – both for himself and for his people.

Father Quesnel visited Miami recently to show Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski the catechesis he has put together: a CD with several recorded reflections, a songbook and a catechetical book with more reflections and prayers.

Father Quesnel calls it an “earthquake catechesis,” to give people “something

spiritual so that they can go beyond what happened.”

The songbook, a collection of hymns already known to the people, draws its theme from survival. Its title is “Songs of Love to Get Through Times of Trial” (“Chants d’Amour pour Traverser les Preuves de la Vie”).

The message of the catechesis is this, Father Quesnel said: “During the hard moments of life, do not think that God is absent. In his silence, he holds us in his gaze.”

Father Quesnel harks back to Jesus’ crucifixion, when Jesus cried out for God, and there was only silence. But three days later, Jesus was raised from the dead.

In fact, the catechesis includes the testimony of several people who were buried in the rubble, and rescued after three days.

“We can give meaning to suffering,” Father Quesnel said.

And the lessons are not just for survivors of literal earthquakes.

“There is an earthquake in our lives also every day – not only Jan. 12,” he said. “Through that ‘fault’ in our lives, the light enters.”

Father Quesnel said he developed the catechesis not just for his people but for himself as well.

“It’s for me, above all, a response of thanksgiving to God for having survived,” he said. “It is my contribution to the rebuilding of the country, but at the level of the spiritual and the human.”

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■ Continued from page 10 that he was going to light twice as many candles.

The final score of Game Five: Tigers 8, Padres 4; each team scored as many runs as their respective managers had lit candles.

In 1987, Anderson gained AL Manager of the Year honors for the second time when he took an overachieving Tigers team to the AL playoffs. Two weeks before the end of that season, he and Tigers first-base coach Dick Tracewski got up early, as did tens of thousands of other Catholics, and met Pope John Paul II during the pontiff’s Detroit stop on his U.S. pastoral visit.

In the early 1990s, Anderson scored a coup in getting Pope John Paul II to sign a baseball.

Anderson was a big believer in helping charities. At a 2002 fundraising banquet in Connecticut to benefit the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, he said, “Always be nice to people. Because when it’s all over, you will have a wonderful feeling for what you did.”

He added that everyone should remember just how much God has given. “He gave me so much; I feel I must give five times back,” Anderson said.

Archbishop Hurley . . .

■ Continued from page 10 he delivered the homily at a memorial Mass for the late U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska and later delivered an address at the senator’s nationally televised funeral.

In recent years, Archbishop Hurley has participated in the interreligious “Engaging Muslims” project sponsored by the Cardinal Newman chair of Catholic theology at Alaska Pacific University.

He had planned to travel to Magadan, Russia, for the 20th anniversary celebration

Sparky Anderson

While in Detroit in 1987, Anderson founded CATCH, an acronym for Caring Athletes Team for Children’s and Henry Ford Hospitals, appearing at all sort of benefits for the charity over the past two decades.

The family announced that, at Anderson’s request, no memorial service was planned, and that in lieu of flowers, people could contribute to the charity of their choice or to CATCH. of the establishment of the Church of the Nativity, a mission parish of the Archdiocese of Anchorage. Archbishop Hurley helped establish the mission in the eastern Siberian port city of Magadan in 1990, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union. The city is a four-hour plane ride across the Bering Sea from Anchorage.

Over the years, Archbishop Hurley has made regular trips back to his native San Francisco Bay Area, where members of his family still live.

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Help for those whose memory fails – and for those who love them

By Valerie Schmalz The heartbreak of realizing that when your husband reads the newspaper, he might not remember what he read yesterday is compounded by the stress of making sure he doesn’t take off for a walk and get lost when you inadvertently doze off in the armchair next to him.

The life of a family caregiver is a challenging one – one that can be emotionally draining and discouraging but there are also many rewards, said Nancy Keegan, senior program director at San Carlos Day Services, a program of Catholic Charities CYO. One in four households helps care for an older family member, friend or neighbor, according to a 1997 study by the National Alliance for Caregiving.

“My mom cared for my grandparents for about 13 years.

They lived with us,” said Keegan, who came to the San Carlos service 11 years ago as a Jesuit Volunteer and stayed to take a full-time job. “My grandparents were just a big inspiration to me as well as my parents –watching them go through it. It’s a gift you know. I would much rather have had my grandparents living with us those 13 years rather than in a nursing home,” Keegan said, but added she wishes that her mother had the support of an adult day services program. Eventually, for some families, a nursing home becomes the best choice, she acknowledged.

San Carlos Adult Day Services this year marks its 35th year of providing daytime supervision and warm, stimulating oversight of those suffering memory loss and cognitive function decline, from causes including dementia, Parkinson’s and stroke. Nationally the Alzheimer’s Association estimated that 5.5 million Americans suffered from Alzheimer’s or some other form of memory and cognitive disorder, with nearly 11 million relatives and friends providing 12.5 billion hours of care in 2009.

San Carlos Adult Day Services provides supervision and enrichment for adults with memory loss to provide relief and support for family caregivers.

The San Carlos program, by helping participants live as an independent a life as they can, also helps those who love and care for them, Keegan said. “Typically, it’s short term memory loss. So they have a lot to contribute,” said Keegan.

“We try to work with what they can still contribute, focusing on what they can remember and try to help them maintain their independence as much as possible.”

“Our goal is to keep the participants in the program active and engaged throughout the day so they will go home and be tired and rest,” said Keegan.

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The fun . . .

■ Continued from page 12 when she first retired? Obviously the time to do some of those things has passed. She won’t be touring Europe. She may not be up to attending plays at the local college. The challenge, then, is to find another way for your care-receiver to continue to enjoy what has interested her.

– Gently encourage and help. If Dad used to love to go to museums, find out

what art books and videos are available at the library. Keep an eye out for television programs that are going to feature an artist whose work he especially admires. If it’s going to be broadcast at an inconvenient time, record it.

– Do it together. Go through the book or watch the tape with your loved one. This is especially important. The point is not for you to hand her a book or put in a DVD and then disappear. The point is for the two of you to talk about what you see. For that 30 minutes or hour, your care-receiver once

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An aerial view of Archbishop Riordan High School’s marching band.

again can become an amateur art critic. She can enjoy a pastime that gave her so much pleasure when she was younger. And she can share that with you.

– Be creative. If your husband loved to read murder mysteries, read one out loud to him for 15 or 20 minutes several times throughout the day. If he was an avid sports fan, make a point of being there with him to watch some games on television. (“Go” to the Super Bowl together.) Make a friendly wager. If his diet will allow it, serve a halftime meal of hot dogs and beer. Decorating the room with sports paraphernalia will add to the experience.

– Do it often. Put fun on the schedule.

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St. Ignatius College Preparatory students at the parade. From left, sophomores Francesca Blanch and Tatyana Diaz with a tightly wrapped Giants fan.

Finding something enjoyable you two can do together on a daily or weekly basis, and then sticking to a schedule, will give your loved one something to look forward to.

– Yes, it’s corny, but don’t let that get in the way of your fun. A lot of what ends up being fun can seem corny in the beginning. It might be silly, but it could also be just what you and your care-receiver need to forget about those worries and demands for a time and simply enjoy each other’s company.

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Peace in Sudan?

By Ken Hackett “When the massacre in Rwanda happened, you said no one had told you, no one had warned you. We are here now telling you what could happen in Sudan, we are warning you.”

Bishop Paride Taban, emeritus bishop of the Torit diocese in South Sudan delivered that message to a delegation at the United Nations recently.

He was trying to express how crucial it is that a referendum on the future of South Sudan, scheduled for January 9, comes off peacefully and with integrity, its results respected by all.

If it does Sudan could enter into a time of peace and prosperity unlike any in its half century of independence. Many are working hard to make that happen and the Catholic Church in an ecumenical partnership is at the center of those efforts. Bishops speak out. Clergy on the ground build bridges between divided communities. While the entire Sudanese Church is in the midst of 101 Days of Prayer for Peace in Sudan, a daily devotional that goes until January 1.

If the results of the referendum are disputed or the desires expressed by the people are not respected, no one knows what will happen. But history can give us a clue and the picture that emerges is not pretty. Before the world turned its attention to Darfur, there was a greater catastrophe in the south of Sudan. Millions died in fighting between the north and south and in violent conflict among different southern groups. Millions more were displaced.

A treaty – the Comprehensive Peace Agreement – signed in 2005 ended that fighting. The centerpiece of the CPA is the upcoming referendum when southerners can vote to remain part of Sudan or form their own country.

Many fear understandably that if that referendum is not conducted freely and fairly – and preparations are woefully behind schedule – then, as Bishop Taban says, the world could have another Rwanda on its hands.

For us here in the U.S., Sudan seems very far away and we have our own problems here at home. Yet these people are our brothers and sisters. They merit our concern particularly in this time of both opportunity and danger.

This is not because the people in the South are Christians. The shorthand description of the conflict there – an Islamic north vs. a Christian south – is not really accurate. There are plenty of Muslims in the south, and many Christians in the north. What the CPA recognized is that southern Sudanese deserve the right to choose their own future.

We take no position on how southern Sudanese should vote in the referendum. That’s for them to decide. Our only endorsement is for peace.

But we know that peace will come to Sudan only if southern Sudanese are able to live in dignity. A crucial part of that is that they have the ability to determine their own future.

The faith of the people is critical to this process. During the years of devastation, churches, Catholic and Protestant, were in many cases the only institutions – civil or religious – that remained in the lives of southern Sudanese, whether they were Christian, Muslim or Animist. They trust the church. They look to it with hope for their future. The Catholic Church has worked for peace throughout the decades and we need to support it as seeks peace now. We can do this through Catholic Relief Services which is working closely with the church in Sudan.

Bishop Taban is an example of this. He came to the United States in 1991, doing exactly what he is doing now – trying to get the world to support peace in his country. When he took emeritus status, Bishop Taban founded a community of peace in the south of Sudan, a place where Sudanese of varied ethnicities and beliefs all live together. That’s where he lives now.

But he still sees his role as giving voice to the voiceless. “They say it is the grass that suffers when the elephants fight,” he said during this visit.

“We are here representing the grass, the people on the ground who are suffering.”

Let us join with the people of Sudan, praying with them during the 101 Days of Prayer, urging that the United States, the United Nations, that all of us stay focused on this referendum. Let’s help the voiceless of Sudan speak with a deafening roar that the whole world can hear.

Ken Hackett is president of Catholic Relief Services, the official overseas humanitarian organization of the Catholic community in the United States.

Recalling father’s awe for carver Sam Berger When I read the article on master carver, Sam Berger, (CSF, Oct. 29) I was overcome by seeing a picture of my father, Ferdinand Terheyden, in the photo with Sam and Bishop Guilfoyle at Mission Dolores Basilica. Ferdinand collaborated with Sam on decorating many churches in the Archdiocese, including Mission Dolores, St. Cecilia’s and Star of the Sea, with Sam doing the carving and Ferdinand supervising the painting. Ferdinand was in awe of Sam’s artistic talent, and always mentioned what a humble and decent man he was.

William F. Terheyden San Francisco

Genesis article was wrong and insulting Father Catoir’s article in CSF, Oct. 29, is wrong in many respects and also insulting to thinking adult Catholics.

First, it is unfortunate that his correspondent and her “atheist” brother were not instructed in Bible reading in their formative years. Adam and Eve, like many myths, is a story with some basic ancient truth that undergoes change with each retelling. Myth attempts to make sense of important observations with current knowledge of the time. Two of these observations in the Adam and Eve story are origins of humanity, and the sinful tendency of humans. The latter is a present definition of original sin. Salvation of Jesus Christ is in showing us how to overcome original sin, so defined, and be forgiven. Hence salvation does not depend on the specific story of the myth.

(The command, “Increase, multiply and fill the face of the earth!” is part of the same myth, but that is not part of the present discussion.)

Second, a parable is not a myth.

A parable is clearly intended to be fiction with a message that is difficult to miss, even for one who is not of the same culture as the story teller. Often, the message is a surprise.

Third, Father. Catoir treats his correspondent, and all readers, as children. Childish faith is all right, when not challenged by adult knowledge and reasoning ability. Not just this one priest, but general Church attitude often denies people in the pews an adult approach to difficult, incidental, concepts.

Certainly it is wrong for Father Catoir to confabulate an unsupported answer by insulting the field of logic in which he has no strength.

Fourth, logic is not at fault, if the starting positions are faulty. However, faulty logic leads to erroneous conclusions with serious effects as in the case of the brother priest turned atheist.

Finally, Father Catoir could have explored the real essentials of Catholic faith and why they are not contradicted by logic, science or history. That may not help an atheist brother, but it would help in recovering and defending an adult faith. Many scientists, including myself, have reconciled our training with our faith. Understanding the limitations, and searching for the message, of ancient writings, even inspired ancient writings, has to be part of how we believe.

Alex M. Saunders, MD San Carlos

Adam and Eve not a myth but a teachable account of the Fall Concerning “An encouraging reply to a letter of distress from a ‘dear sister in Christ,”’

by Father John Catoir, I’m puzzled that he didn’t acquaint this dear sister with the fact that the first account of creation in Genesis conforms with the same creation sequence of evolutionary theory: First God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures (creation started in the waters) and let birds fly above the earth (gradually moving outward). Then he said, “Let the earth produce vegetation, seedbearing plants and fruit trees bearing fruit with their seed inside, on the earth. And so it was.

Then God said, “Let the earth produce every kind of living creature, cattle, reptiles and every kind of wild beast. Finally, God said, “Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild beasts and all the reptiles that crawl upon the earth. (Excerpts from the Jerusalem Bible) As recorded in Genesis, since man comes at the end of the evolutionary sequence, this conforms with the same creation sequence of evolutionary theory. Therefore, this should “increase” the faith of the dear sister’s brother rather than lead him to atheism. As a former priest, he should also have been aware that the account of Adam and Eve is to teach a “principle” in images that we mortals can understand. That doesn’t make it a myth. It makes it a teachable explanation of the Fall.

Mary Pecci San Francisco

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Amazed by confluence of Genesis and science

I read Father Catoir’s column on the letter he had received from a sister of an atheist who was a former priest with great interest.

Evolutionary science, which initially seemed to completely destroy the Judeo Christian Genesis story, now amazingly seems to provide the context in which the ancient narrative could have been rooted.

Science is discovering fascinating information about the beginnings of the universe (Big Bang) and the origins of the human race. It is amazing that the ancient Jewish myth that is contained in Genesis is in many ways such an accurate overview of the current scientific understanding.

The Garden of Eden? I don’t think so literally, but once again, that ancient Hebrew myth is amazingly accurate as to the overall outline of the facts that science is now presenting.

I am decidedly not a creationist or one who literally interprets Scripture. However over the thousands of years that man has speculated about his origins and in the face of what was commonly accepted as “truth”, the Bible has had incredibly accurate overview of what science now tells us is fact.

Nick Scales San Francisco

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When crisis strikes, survivors can face a fork in the road. While some find a path to rebuilding healthy, fulfilling, productive lives, others may begin down a path to clinical depression, suicidal ideation, substance abuse, domestic violence, job loss, school failure, family breakup and criminal activity.

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Spirituality for Life

Subtle forms of idolatry In my more reflective moments, I am sometimes forced to ask myself: Am I really interested in God or am I only interested in things about God? Am I more interested in teaching, speaking, and writing about God than I am in actually meeting God, one to one, in prayer and silence? Am I more interested in dealing with things about God and religion than I am in being hidden and silent in God’s presence?

The answers to those questions should be easier and more obvious than they are. On the surface, clearly, it would seem that I am interested in God: I try to pray regularly. I’m a priest who celebrates the Eucharist daily. I’m a theologian and writer who speaks and writes about God all the time.

My entire life is spent dealing with the things of God; but, all of that notwithstanding, God isn’t necessarily the actual focus of these activities. The focus can easily be elsewhere.

We might all ask ourselves this question: In our explicit religious activities are we really interested in having a relationship with God and with Jesus, or, if we are honest, are we more interested in good liturgy, good theology, good spirituality, good religious experience, good prayer-quests, good pastoral practices, successful church programs, important moral causes, vital justice issues, and in helping to facilitate religious practice? It’s not that these things aren’t good, they are, but paradoxically they can be the very means by which we avoid having to face the deeper call for an intimate personal relationship with God. C.S. Lewis is fond of describing our struggle here and he names it for what it often is: idolatry, a giving of ourselves over to something that is merely godly as opposed to a giving of ourselves over to God himself. Here’s how he describes this: In his book, “The Great Divorce,” Lewis imagines

ten scenes within which someone who has died is met on the other side by an “angel” who tries to coax the newly deceased person to let himself or herself be taken by the hand and led into heaven. The condition for entry into heaven in every instance is singular and simple: You simply have to trust the angel and let yourself be led!

In one of these scenes, Lewis pictures a conversation between one of these angels and a famous artist who has just died. The angel tries to convince the artist to come to heaven, describing to him the stunning beauty of heaven.

Initially the artist is excited and eager, contemplating the great paintings he will be able to make, but he grows resistance and angry when he learns that there will be no need for him to paint this beauty once he is in heaven. Instead he will be meant simply to be inside of it and enjoy it. So he refuses to go to heaven, opting instead to remain where he can paint heaven rather than be inside it. He objects to the angel, protesting that, as an artist, art itself is an end, “paint for its own sake.” The angel replies: Ink and catgut and paint were necessary down there (during your earthly life), but they are also dangerous stimulants. Every poet and musician and artist, but for the grace of God, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells, to love of telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him. And ... it doesn’t stop at being interested in paint, you know. They sink lower-become interested in their own personalities and then nothing but their own reputations.

What this angel says about poets and musicians and artists needs also to be said about theologians, spiritual writers, priests, bishops, ministers, deacons, liturgists, pastoral workers, social justice advocates, moral protesters of all kinds,

retreat directors, spiritual directors, prayer group leaders, and even about those who are actively and eagerly seeking depth of experience in prayer.

The danger is always that, like the artist who prefers Father and needs to paint beauty rather than simply become Ron Rolheiser one with it, we too will make the religious activity we are doing an end in itself rather than keeping our real interest and focus on God. And the irony is that religious activity, like art, can constitute one of the greater dangers for this kind of idolatry.

It’s the gifted preacher, the great theologian, the brilliant liturgist, the hugely popular minister, and the marvelously skilled bishop or administrator who will have the biggest struggle. As Lewis puts it: It’s not out of bad mice or bad fleas you make demons, but out of bad archangels. The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of motherlove or patriotism or art; but lust is less likely to be made into religion.

Every time we go to pray, go to minister, or go do to anything religious, it’s good to ask ourselves: Who and what, really, is this about?

Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. He can be reached through his website at ronrolheiser.com.

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Thoughts at the Alamo On a recent visit to San Antonio to help support an exciting new project, John Paul II Catholic High School, I had the opportunity to re-visit the Alamo, one of my favorite American historical sites, and San Fernando Cathedral, a masterpiece of Hispanic Catholic architecture and decoration. The shrine of Texas liberty and the cathedral church of the archdiocese of San Antonio are a few blocks from each other; their proximity prompts a reflection on the paradoxes of Catholic history in the New World, and the contemporary challenges facing Catholicism on both sides of the Rio Grande.

The war for Texas independence in 1835-36 and the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the United States in 1845 were preludes to the Mexican-American War of 184648 — and the latter, I think most historians now agree, was a war of conquest. Yes, various corrupt Mexican governments hadn’t done much to develop the upper one-third of the country. But the circumstances under which President James Knox Polk contrived to wring a declaration of war out of Congress were murky at best, and both young statesmen like Abraham Lincoln (who vigorously opposed Polk’s policy) and young soldiers like Ulysses S. Grant (who distinguished himself in combat in Mexico but declared the war an unjust one in his memoirs) knew that the American cause was not without blemish, to put it mildly.

It was also, from one point of view, a war by what was a sometimes-militantly Protestant country against what had long been a deeply Catholic country. And then there was the aftermath: the argument over how to digest America’s new

southwestern territories widened the breach between North and South, such that, in his history of the Civil War, “Battle Cry of Freedom,” James McPherson argues persuasively that the Mexican-American War’s results made the great bloodletting of 1861-1865 virtually inevitable.

Yet the men who died at the Alamo (including Protestants and Lodge members like William Barret Travis, Davy Crockett, and Jim Bowie) fought and died next to Catholic Tejanos — and in so doing, made it possible for the Catholic Church in San Antonio, embodied by the magnificence of San Fernando Cathedral, to live a life of faith and service today that is at least as well-developed as any in Mexico. Some of those who fought the Texas war of independence and the Mexican-American War may have thought that they were displacing a decadent Catholic culture and making space for an energetic, freedom-loving Protestantism; it seems inconceivable that any of the victors of 1836 and 1848 imagined they were securing the conditions for vibrant Catholicism in the American southwest.

But over time, that is precisely what they accomplished.

In another turn of the historical wheel, the favor is now being returned, so to speak. A man born in Mexico will become archbishop of Los Angeles next February. Another native Mexican has been appointed archbishop of San Antonio. Catholicism throughout the United States is being reinvigorated by its Hispanic members. Meanwhile, the Church in Mexico (and throughout Latin America) continues to struggle with poverty, political corruption, and the chal-

lenge of an evangelical Protestantism that seems, in some respects, better equipped to inculcate the human virtues that make better material conditions of life possible.

Catholicism has been George Weigel a powerful cultural force in Mexico for almost five centuries. Today, despite a vicious 20th century persecution by secularists and Marxists that gave the Church new martyrs like St. Cristobal Magallanes and Blessed Miguel Pro, Mexico remains a profoundly Catholic nation. Yet Mexico in 2010 is also perilously close to becoming a failed state, its northern provinces rendered almost ungovernable by a catastrophic failure of public authority in the face of drug cartels and their wars against each other and the government.

Can an increasingly Hispanic Church in the United States challenge its brethren south of the Rio Grande to stop blaming their problems on “El Norte” and to become the protagonists of their own history — and aid in that transformation? The answer to that question is the next act in the drama symbolized by the Alamo and San Fernando Cathedral.

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Boniface and myself for all the press you have given us regarding our magnificent gallery organ and the on-going Thursday 1 p.m. organ concerts.

As a result of this, attendance to the weekly series is climbing and we are thankfully receiving donations to the organ refurbishment fund drive by cash and checks.

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■ Continued from page 14 live about forty days without food, about three days without water, and about eight minutes without air, but not one second without hope.”

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Bullying’s heavy price Hardly a day goes by that I do not hear of another young person taking their life due to their self perception or bullying because they are gay or lesbian. We need to emphasize the love of God for these kids and stop being judgmental.

Bob Nelson Daly City

Thanks to coverage, more enjoy St. Boniface organ This missive is to express thanks on behalf of St.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

CSF provides a forum to share and learn Thank you all for this wonderful newspaper. I read it cover to cover each week. And although I don’t always agree with every person contributing, I appreciate that the paper presents a forum where all feel free to express themselves and we learn from them.

Thank you again. Keep up the good work!

God bless all of you.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF MALACHI MAL 3:19-20A Lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire, leaving them neither root nor branch, says the Lord of hosts. But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 98:5-6, 7-8, 9 R. The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.

Sing praise to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and melodious song.

With trumpets and the sound of the horn sing joyfully before the King, the Lord.

R. The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.

Let the sea and what fills it resound, the world and those who dwell in it; let the rivers clap their hands, the mountains shout with them for joy.

R. The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.

Before the Lord, for he comes, for he comes to rule the earth, He will rule the world with justice

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THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Malachi 3:19-20a; Psalm 98:5-6, 7-8, 9; 2 Thesselonians 3:7-12; Luke 21:5-19 and the peoples with equity.

R. The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice.

A READING FROM THE SECOND LETTER OF PAUL TO THE THESSELONIANS 2 THES 3:7-12 Brothers and sisters: You know how one must imitate us. For we did not act in a disorderly way among you, nor did we eat food received free from anyone. On the contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked, so as not to burden any of you. Not that we do not have the right. Rather, we wanted to present ourselves as a model for you, so that you might imitate us.

In fact, when we were with you, we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat. We hear that some are conducting themselves among you in a disorderly way, by not keeping busy but minding the business of others. Such people we instruct and urge in the Lord Jesus Christ to work quietly and to eat their own food.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 21:5-19 While some people were speaking about how the temple was adorned with costly stones and votive offerings, Jesus said, “All that you see here — the days will come when there will

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ne week from today, on November 19, Harry Potter fans everywhere, having overloaded Fandango with advance ticket orders, will line up around the block to see the first part of the last installment of the saga of a boy wizard and his epic battle against the powers of darkness. People, young and old, have been anticipating this film, and its conclusion this summer, ever since the book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” was published and released a little more than three years ago.

To the “non-fan” this might seem a rather foolish exercise. To begin with, the trailers, previews and images of the film already indicate a rather intense, dramatic and even scary story. With the knowledge that the second half is to be released this summer, the intensity and drama of part one will include some tragedy and will more than likely end in a cliffhanger.

Second, there will hardly be a moviegoer, especially during that first weekend of the movie’s release, who has not read the book and, therefore, already knows how the story ends. Still, already knowing the outcome of the story, the excitement and anticipation has reached fever pitch as fans eagerly await the movie.

Not long ago I asked a group of children why they would be willing to sit through such a scary film, with all its apparent drama, tragedy (some beloved characters obviously die), and intensity, when they already know that good will triumph in the end. What is the point in enduring such a long, frightening movie, the last two of a series of films, when there will be absolutely no surprise, whatsoever, as to the ultimate triumph of good over evil?

Their answer was simple, but somewhat profound. They wanted to see how it would

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To witness the triumph be portrayed. Knowing the ultimate outcome, they are willing to endure the intensity and the scariness in order to witness, as it were, the final triumph. Having simply read about it in books, does not compare to the anticipation of actually watching it take place, on screen, portrayed in a movie, with all the scariness and suspense leading up to it. Even children are willing to risk nightmares to see the final triumph of good, which they know will come in the end.

With the dawning of the new millennium, great anticipation arose among various religious circles regarding the end times and the final tribulation before the coming of Christ.

Such exaggerated concerns have since waned, now that we are a good 10 years beyond the millennial threshold. Still, annually, as the liturgical year draws to a close and a new one begins, themes regarding the tribulations and the end time are read during the Sunday

New missal will include prayers for 17 more saints from all eras

By Mary Elizabeth Sperry When parishes start using the third edition of the Roman Missal, the texts of the prayers won’t be the only changes Catholics in the pews see. The new missal will include 17 additions to the Proper of Saints, the part of the missal that includes prayers for the observances of saints’ days. The Proper of Saints follows a calendar established by the Vatican and modified by the bishops of each country to include Saints of local importance. Any changes to a national or diocesan calendar require the consent of the Vatican.

The new missal will be the first time these saints’ prayer texts have been available in the printed book. Other added saints appeared on the liturgical calendar until 1969, when the calendar was simplified and many saints’ observances were removed. Also restored to the calendar are observances for the Most Holy Name of Jesus and the Most Holy Name of Mary. Still others saints and observances added to the missal highlight important teachings of the Church such as

This is one in an occasional series of news and opinion articles on revisions to the Roman Missal. “The Roman Missal, Third Edition,” the ritual text containing prayers and instructions for the celebration of the Mass, has been approved for U.S. dioceses by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The first use of the new text will be on the First Sunday of Advent, Nov. 27, 2011. the teaching on Mary (Our Lady of Fatima) and on the Eucharist as the Sacrament of Christ’s love (as promoted by St. Peter Julian Eymard).

By canonizing these holy men and women, the Church presents them as models of Christian living. The added saints come from all eras and areas of the Church’s life – from the 4th century to the 20th century and from Europe, Africa, NEW MISSAL, page 19

liturgies. In this Sunday’s reading from the Gospel of Luke, Jesus warns of trying times for the Church before the coming of the end.

He tells of earthly disasters, the destruction of the great Temple, wars, insurrections, false prophets leading people astray, families and friends betraying one another to persecution, some loosing heart, others being put to death; and all this only the beginning.

These readings have little resemblance to the Gospel of comfort, love and peace that our modern progressive culture has come to expect (in some circles, demand) of Christianity and its message. Indeed many seek to overlook such teachings and biblical images lest it frighten people away, or — at the very least — turn people off.

And yet, this has been, in essence, at the very heart of the Christian experience. The Temple was destroyed, our Church has expe-

not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.” Then they asked him, “Teacher, when will this happen? And what sign will there be when all these things are about to happen?” He answered, “See that you not be deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and ‘The time has come.’ Do not follow them! When you hear of wars and insurrections, do not be terrified; for such things must happen first, but it will not immediately be the end.” Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

There will be powerful earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and mighty signs will come from the sky. Before all this happens, however, they will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name. It will lead to your giving testimony. Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand, for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute. You will even be handed over by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your lives.” rienced, and continues to experience, persecutions, rejection even betrayal by family and friends. The Church has endured great disasters (the Black Death of late medieval Europe comes to mind) and has had to face the fruits of proverbial false prophets, both within the Church and from outside, who have led people astray, victimized the vulnerable, persecuted the Church, as well as led it into periods of corruption and degradation.

And yet, we are still here. Nothing has led either to the end of the Church, nor have they ushered in of the final end of the world.

All experiences, both the good we perpetuate and the corruption and tribulations we have endured, bring us closer to the day when Jesus will come again, and make us stronger for being His followers as we endure to see that great day.

This is because, as a people of salvation, we know how the story will end. We know that Christ has already won the victory by his death and resurrection. We know that such tribulations and trials, either the result of human frailty or by proverbial “acts of God” which bring destruction and upheaval, are merely temporary, are not the end, but may only be the beginning. We endure it, with all its intensity, scariness and drama, because we know how it will end, and we want to endure in order to see it unfold before our eyes. For as the prophet, Daniel, reminds us, “Blessed is the one who has patience, and perseveres...” (Dn 12:12).

Father William Nicholas is parochial vicar at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato. Visit his website at www.frwcnicholas.com.

New saints and observances in the revised Roman Missal January 3 – Most Holy Name of Jesus – This is part of the Church’s celebration of Christmas, recognizing that God “bestowed on [Jesus] the name that is above every name” (Phil 2:9).

February 8 – St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin – Born in Darfur, Josephine survived kidnapping and slavery to become a nun who embraced and lived hope as a redeemed child of God. April 23 – St. Adalbert, bishop and martyr – Martyred near the end of the first millennium, Adalbert was a missionary in the countries of central Europe, striving to bring unity to God’s people.

April 28 – St. Louis Mary de Montfort, priest – This French priest is best known for his devotion to Mary, encouraging the faithful to approach Jesus through his mother.

May 13 – Our Lady of Fatima –The Virgin Mary appeared to three children in the Portuguese town of Fatima in 1917.

During these apparitions, she encouraged penance and praying the rosary.

May 21 – Sts. Christopher Magallanes, priest and martyr, & Companions, martyrs – Martyred in 1927, this Mexican priest was noted for his care of the native peoples of Mexico and for his work to support vocations to the priesthood.

May 22 – St. Rita of Cascia, religious – A wife, mother, widow, and nun, Saint Rita was known for her patience and humility in spite of many hardships. Conforming herself to the crucified Christ, she bore a wound on her forehead similar to one inflicted by a crown of thorns.

July 9 – Sts. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and martyr, & Companions, martyrs – Canonized with 119 other Chinese martyrs, Augustine began his career as a soldier.

Inspired by the martyrs, he was baptized and eventually became a priest and martyr himself.

July 20 – St. Apollinaris, bishop and NEW SAINTS, page 18

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In 1920s Mexico, persecuted Catholics cried “Viva La Virgin de Guadalupe!” the Cristeros War which was recently shot on location in Mexico. Scheduled to be released next year, the film follows the lives of the military and political leaders involved in the war, which took place from 1926 to 1929.

“Mother Purisima used to tell us some stories,” says Sister Mary de la Eucaristia, a nun with the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in San Francisco. “She used to say that they lived in constant fear of being arrested.

Sometimes soldiers would surround the monastery and come in and search it. They had to hide.”

The monastery of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration was then located in Guadalajara, Jalisco. At the beginning of the persecution, an archbishop suggested the nuns protect themselves by opening a lay school at the monastery. But later, when the danger became too great, Mother Gertrude dismissed the novices and sent them home. The remaining nuns made wigs for themselves and, disguised as lay women, fled the monastery in small groups.

One nun, said Sister Mary, wrapped a wooden statuette of baby Jesus in blankets and left the monastery cradling it in her arms. The soldiers allowed her to pass without inspecting her “baby.”

“We call him ‘Manuelito,’” says Sister Mary who, with another nun, proudly displays the statuette carried from Mexico to San Francisco during the 1920s, when, with the help of a Jesuit priest at the University of San Francisco, Father Dionisio Kavanaugh, SJ, established the monastery on Haight Street. A second group of sisters reformed in El Paso, Texas.

The Carmelite Monastery on Fulton Street was also established by a group of nuns fleeing persecution in Mexico.

Sister Mary opens an old book with yellowing pages from the monastery library titled “Los Martires Mexicanos.” Written

by Jesuit Father Joaquin Cardoso, the book describes, in intimate detail, the victims of religious persecution during the Cristero War. “Some of us were reading it last night,” says Sister Mary. “But we had to stop – it was too horrible and cruel.”

A parishioner at St. Matthew’s in San Mateo, who asked not to be identified, said that his grandparents lived through the persecution. They told him that government soldiers used to hang Cristeros – rebel Catholic soldiers – from trees alongside roads to discourage others from joining or aiding the rebel army.

“Their entire village was persecuted,”

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Sister Mary de la Eucaristia of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration monastery in San Francisco cradles “Manuelito,” a wooden statuette of baby Jesus in blankets.

A relic of the anti-Catholic wars in 1920s Mexico, the wooden infant helped a Sister pass a military checkpoint and flee to safety.

he said. “A nun performing clandestine baptisms was dragged from her home and bayoneted by soldiers.”

While there were several anti-clerical provisions in the Mexican Constitution of 1917, there had been what one historian called an

Image from “Los Martires Mexicanos,” a book documenting the victims of religious persecution during the Cristero War in 1920s Mexico. “Some of us were reading it last night,” said Sister Mary de la Eucaristia of the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration monastery in San Francisco. “But we had to stop – it was too horrible and cruel.”

“uneasy truce” between the Mexican government and the Catholic Church. That truce ended in 1924 with the election of Plutarco Elias Calles as president. A zealous atheist, Calles brutally enforced the anti-clerical provisions and instituted more repressive ones of

his own. He seized Church property, expelled foreign priests and closed all monasteries, convents and religious schools. Religious services were banned.

In the movie “Cristiada,” directed by Dean Wright, Calles is portrayed by actor Ruben Blades. Andy Garcia plays Gen. Enrique Gorostieta Velarde, the charismatic leader who organizes the rebel army. Eva Longoria plays his wife, Elena. The cast of the $8 million production also includes Peter O’Toole, Catalina Sandino and Bruce Greenwood.

Following several peaceful protests – including an economic boycott that collapsed when wealthy Catholics stopped supporting it – many Catholic villagers took up arms and organized themselves into small fighting units. Initially, the rebels fared poorly. Greatly outnumbered, their leaders – including two priests, Father Aristeo Pedroza and Father Jose Reyes Vega – decided to adopt guerilla tactics.

Eventually, the rebel army numbered about 50,000 soldiers. A female brigade, which started with 17 women, grew to the thousands by the end of the war. The Cristeros won several major victories and actually held the upper hand when an official peace was finally brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow.

According to official estimates, approximately 30,000 Cristeros and nearly 60,000 government troops – along with many civilians – died in the war. Forty priests were killed between 1926 and 1934. At the beginning of the war, there had been 4,500 priests in Mexico. At war’s end, only 334 remained. The majority had been expelled from the country.

Unofficially, and in opposition to the terms of the truce, the government in several parts of the country continued to hunt down and kill hundreds of Cristero leaders and Cristeros – many of whom were reportedly shot in their homes in front of their families. Peace was not reached until the election of Catholic President Manuel Avila Comacho in 1940.

In May of 2001, Pope John Paul II canonized 25 saints and martyrs arising from the Cristero War. While several lay Catholics were among them, the majority were priests who had been executed. None had taken up arms during the war.

“After 1917, Mexico was led by antiCatholic Freemasons who tried to evoke the anti-clerical spirit of popular indigenous President Benito Juarez of the 1880s,” Mexican President Vicente Fox said recently.

“But the military dictators of the 1920s were a lot more savage than Juarez.”

St. Peter parishioner Rosa Dallardo remembers the stories her parents and grandparents, who lived in Jalisco, told her of the persecution that took place when President Plutarco Elias Calles sought to eradicate Catholicism from Mexico during the 1920s.

A bishop reflects on the “generous blood” of Mexico’s enduring Christian witness Bishop José de Jesus Manriquez y Zarate, bishop of Huejutla (Hidalgo State) from 1922 to 1939, was the most intransigent opponent of the anti-religious policy of President Calles. In May 1926, a few months before the outbreak of the Cristeros civil war, he was arrested and placed under house-arrest because of his criticism of the anti-clerical Constitution which came into effect in 1917. Later he was forced into exile with all the other Mexican

bishops. The government imposed this exile as a condition for the pacification of the country, which was arrived at in June 1929. The Bishop returned to the country, but was exiled again in 1932. He died in 1951. On Oct. 30, 1927, in Laredo, Texas, on the Feast of Christ the King, he had this to say: “The Great Sacrifice is no longer offered on the altars, the churches are deserted, consecrated women in tears and

priests silently weep or endure the bitterness of exile; many of Mexico’s children have been barbarously sacrificed, others are in prison and a huge multitude has gone to foreign lands in search of refuge and bread.

And how has Mexico responded to all these wrongs? By proclaiming before the world the kingship of Christ; by praising and blessing Christ and kneeling before the Holy One of the Lord, to ask mercy and

forgiveness. Mexico has had the very high honor of proclaiming Christ the King on the battlefields in the heart of the twentieth century, and, before the admiring gaze of other nations, she has vigorously defended her faith, not only with prayers, not only with reparation, but by pouring out her generous blood in torrents.”

From Pope John Paul II’s “Ecumenical Commemoration of Witnesses to the Faith in the Twentieth Century,” May 7, 2000

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■ Continued from page 16 martyr – Martyred in the second century, Apollinaris was the Bishop of Ravenna in Italy. He was known as a great preacher and miracle worker.

July 24 – St. Sharbel Makhluf, priest – A Maronite priest in Lebanon, St. Sharbel spent much of his life as a hermit in the desert, living a life of extreme penance.

August 2 – St. Peter Julian Eymard, priest – Founder of the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament, Saint Peter devoted his life to promoting First Communions and devotion to the Eucharist as the sacrament of Christ’s love.

August 9 – St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, virgin and martyr – Born of Jewish parents as Edith Stein, she received academic renown as a philosopher. After her conversion to Catholicism, she became a Carmelite nun.

She died in Auschwitz in 1942.

September 12 – Most Holy Name of Mary – After beginning in Spain in 1513, this celebration became a universal feast in the seventeenth century. A companion to the Memorial of The Most Holy Name of Jesus, it follows the Feast of the Nativity of Mary.

September 23 – St. Pio of Pietrelcina, priest – Padre Pio was known throughout Italy and the world for his patient hearing of confessions and for his spiritual guidance. In poor health for much of his life, he conformed his sufferings to those of Christ.

By Pope Benedict XVI Praying for those who have gone before us drew our thinking to the communion of the saints and the spiritual exchange of gifts.

Then you will ask: What will this mean, then?

This question became sharper, as I remember, because one spoke in fact of the treasury of the Church, which consisted of the good deeds of the saints. What is that supposed to mean?

Must not every man be responsible for himself. What use should the possible good works of another be for me? So we ask because we still live in the narrow individualism of modern times, despite all socialist ideas. In fact, however, no man is closed in on himself. We all live interdependently, not only materially but also spiritually, and morally. First let us make that clear negatively. There are men who not only destroy themselves but also corrupt others with them and leave behind powers of destruction that drive whole generations into

Caravaggio’s “Saint Catherine of Alexandria.” The new missal will add prayers and observances for Catherine and 16 other saints.

September 28 – Sts. Lawrence Ruiz & Companions, martyrs – Saint Lawrence and his companions spread the Gospel in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Japan. Saint Lawrence was born in Manila and was a husband and father, November 24 – Sts. Andrew Dung-Lac, priest and martyr, & Companions, martyrs

– Saint Andrew and his 107 companions, both priests and laity, were martyred in Vietnam in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.

Through their preaching, lives of faith, and witness unto death, they strengthened the Church in Vietnam.

November 25 – St. Catherine of

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There are people who leave behind, so to speak, a surplus of love, of perseverance in suffering, of honor and truth that captures others and sustains them. In the innermost recesses of existence, there really is such a thing as taking another’s place. The entire mystery of Christ rests on this. … In the spiritual realm everything belongs to everyone.

There is no private property. The good of another becomes mine, and mine becomes his.

Everything comes from Christ, but because we belong to him, what is ours becomes his and attains healing power. This is what is meant by talk of the treasury of the Church: the good deeds of the saints. To pray for an indulgence means to enter into this spiritual communion of gifts and to put oneself at its disposal.

Alexandria, virgin and martyr – Martyred in the early part of the fourth century, Catherine was known for her intelligence, her deep faith, and the power of her intercession.

Editor’s note: Use of the new English translation of the Roman Missal in the United States will start the First Sunday of Advent 2011.

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Mother Cabrini, patron saint of immigrants Francesca Cabrini, who would become the first U.S. citizen to become a saint, was born two months prematurely, on July 15, 1850, in the village of Saint’Angelo Lodigiano, Italy, the tenth of 11 brothers and sisters. She was so tiny and fragile at birth that she was immediately carried to a church for baptism.

No one could have predicted then that she would live to be 67, would found St. Frances Xavier Cabrini’s the Missionary Sisters of feast day is Nov. 13. the Sacred Heart of Jesus to care for poor children in schools and hospitals and, at the time of her death in 1917, would preside over some 70 orphanages, schools and hospitals in eight countries in Europe, North, South and Central America.

In 1946, she was elevated to sainthood by Pope Pius XII. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini – she added the name Xavier to honor the Jesuit, Francis Xavier, who evangelized the Orient – is the patron of immigrants. Her feast day is Nov. 13.

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By George Raine

Mother Cabrini, who made her profession of religious vows at the age of 27, in 1877, landed in New York on March 31, 1889, with six other nuns. Their mission was to give comfort to Italian immigrants who had come in search of the American ideal but who were flummoxed by the prejudices of nativeborn Americans and immigrants who had arrived earlier, largely Irish and German people. They were miserable and assimilating poorly.

Mother Cabrini and the other nuns went to the streets of Manhattan’s Little Italy, asking for donations for food, clothing and money for the unhappy immigrants.

She returned to Europe later that year, had an audience with Pope Leo XIII, and headed back to New York to open a dormitory on the banks of the Hudson River for children from the city’s slums. Then she was off to Nicaragua to open a school for girls – and on and on with a punishing schedule over the years.

In Seattle, in 1909, at 59, Mother Cabrini took the oath of allegiance to the United States. She considered retirement, but her agenda was too full. She continued working, continually crossing the Atlantic and the U.S., until 1917 when, in Chicago, she fell ill. While preparing for a children’s Christmas party in a hospital, on Dec. 22, she died a heart attack.

It was not surprising, as was noted in “Lives of Saints,� that almost at once “Catholics in widely separated places began saying to each other. ‘Surely she was a saint.’�

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New Missal . . . â– Continued from page 16 Asia and the Americas. They include priests, religious women and such martyrs as St. Catherine of Alexandria, known for her deep faith the power of her intercession. The new missal also includes a married woman and missionaries.

Whether or not Catholics hear about these saints at their local parishes will depend on the priest. With the exception of the memorials of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (better known as Edith Stein) and St. Pio of Pietrelcina (better known as Padre Pio), all of the new observances are optional memorials. That means the decision about whether or not to celebrate them at a particular Mass rests with the celebrating priest. While a priest may not add the observance of a saint or blessed not on the approved calendar, he is free to decide which, if any, optional memorials he will celebrate. In choosing among the possible observances, priests might highlight saints who offer a particular example to their people.

These new additions are not the final word about saints on the calendar. The Church will continue to canonize new saints as models for the faithful. Some of these saints will be celebrated in those parts of the world where they served. Others will be placed on the general calendar, celebrated by the Universal Church to unite the liturgy of heaven with that of earth.

Mary Elizabeth Sperry holds a master’s in liturgical studies from the Catholic University of America.

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Marriage: thoughtful research, practical tips “MORE PERFECT UNIONS: THE AMERICAN SEARCH FOR MARITAL BLISS,” by Rebecca L. Davis. Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2010). 259 pp., $29.95.

“WHAT I WISH SOMEONE HAD TOLD ME ABOUT THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF MARRIAGE,” by Roy Petitfils. St. Anthony Messenger Press (Cincinnati, 2010). 103 pp., $12.95

Reviewed by Nancy L. Roberts (CNS) – Each year millions of American couples seek counseling to save their marriages. Their reasons go far beyond a desire for personal fulfillment; they see this institution as the very glue that holds society together. In “More Perfect Unions,” an intriguing and thoughtful study, Rebecca L. Davis traces the evolution of Americans’ intense commitment to heterosexual marriage.

“Americans care deeply about marriages — their own and other people’s — because they have made enormous investments of time, money and emotion in trying to improve their own relationships, because they idealize what a good marriage can offer, and because they believe that the stakes extend far beyond their personal decisions about whom to marry or whether to divorce,” she writes.

Davis, an assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware, has written a deeply researched and readable work.

She demonstrates how, during the 1930s, a small but powerful group of reformers introduced the concept of marriage counseling and guidance. They emphasized strong marriages as the bedrock of individual and societal health.

Consequently, over the course of the 20th century, Americans’ attitudes about what makes a successful marriage changed. It wasn’t enough simply to avoid the “failure” that divorce represented; now couples aimed to achieve “mutually beneficial emotional, financial and sexual gratification.”

Leading in this evolution of attitudes were many religious institutions, including the Catholic Church, which Davis discusses in some detail. Assuming the mission of strengthening their congregants’ marriages gave clergy a newfound relevance in the 20th century. For Catholics, of course, marriage is a sacrament, a visible sign of grace. In the 1940s and 1950s, Catholic leaders and theologians devoted increasing attention to the sacramental nature of matrimony.

When the first major Catholic marriage counseling center opened in 1952 at The Catholic University of America, it aimed to provide a thoroughly Catholic alternative to more secular marriage guidance that might emphasize, for instance, artificial birth

control. In 1953, Davis notes, the center provided guidance to more than 1,000 couples and trained 500 clergy and laypeople as marriage counselors.

“More Perfect Unions” offers plentiful historical context. For instance, we learn that the theological weight given to Catholic marriage developed just when Catholic families were moving out of their ethnic, inner-city parishes into the suburbs. From about 1920 to 1960, Davis writes, “marriage loomed larger in American Catholic life as suburbanization removed Catholic families from the thick kinship networks of their urban parishes and transformed religious communities into dispersed nuclear units.”

In “What I Wish Someone Had Told Me About the First Five Years of Marriage,” Roy Petitfils offers succinct, practical tips aimed especially toward the newly married. The Catholic counselor at St. Cecilia School in Broussard, La., and at Pax Renewal Center in Lafayette draws from his own marriage experiences and those of his clients and friends. “The first five years of marriage,” he writes, “should be the first of many years together.”

Squarely grounded in contemporary Catholic thought, Petitfils asserts that “a joy-filled life together is not only possible but it is in fact what God intended for marriage.” To get there, he suggests a combination of prayer, scriptural reflection, communication and action.

The book emphasizes that essential ingredients in a successful marriage are the partners’ respect for each other, common values, the ability to talk openly about what happens between each other, the ability to compromise and a readiness to forgive.

Roberts directs the journalism program at the State University of New York at Albany. Her books include “Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker.”

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a series of little incidents realistically, yet with an infectious sense of joy marvellously conveyed by an anonymous cast of monks from a Roman monastery. Subtitles.

Monsieur Vincent (1947) Lucid, moving account of St. Vincent de Paul’s work among the poor and the oppressed in 17th-century France, from his first labors in a plague-ravaged village and his appeals to the

Film: “The Calling” This absorbing documentary focuses on the struggles involved in responding to a religious vocation as it follows a young male novice and a mother superior, both of whom belong to a small community called the Family of Jesus the Healer. When the group’s founder relocates them from Tampa, Fla., to Peru to serve that country’s poor, both the newcomer and the veteran find it increasingly difficult to balance their calling with family ties and obligations back home.

For Tampa native Orlando Castillo, a young man from a prosperous background who wishes to “live simply,” and who seeks spiritual formation from community founder Father Philip Scott as he discerns a vocation to the priesthood, this move adds a further strain to an already difficult situation. As frank interviews with them show, Castillo’s parents — his father in particular — have serious reservations about the life their son is embracing.

Also feeling the strain of separation is Mother Mary-Elizabeth, the parent of two grown daughters who entered religious life after the annulment of her marriage. Although she is Father Scott’s closest collaborator in supervising the life of the Family of Jesus the Healer, she finds the increased isolation from her children and grandchildren difficult to accept, and her daughters are vocal in expressing their aggrieved sense of loss.

Filmmaker David Ranghelli’s moving study of sacred aspirations and of the courageous commitment required to fulfill them is all the more effective for not glossing over the emotional cost a generous answer to God’s summons can sometimes exact. While the ultimate decisions made by the people Ranghelli chronicles vary, this remains both an uplifting story for a general audience and an excellent tool for realistic vocations work.

The film is rated suitable for adults and adolescents.

There is a brief discussion regarding chastity.

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conscience of the aristocracy to the founding of an order devoted to charitable works and his death in 1660. Director Maurice Cloche portrays the poverty of the times and the cruelty of the regime in starkly convincing fashion, providing a solid historical framework within which Pierre Fresnay’s performance in the title role shines with a warm compassion and spiritual intensity which most viewers will find irresistibly compelling. Subtitles.

High on the list of great religious movies.

Source: The Vatican’s list of the 45 greatest movies, compiled in 1995 to mark the 100th anniversary of film.

For the full list, see nccbuscc.org/movies/vaticanfilms.shtml.

BOXES Lifting the Lid on an American Life

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Everyone has a collection – stamps, receipts, seashells, pictures, figurines. These objects, when gathered together, imbue more meaning than each has on its own. For the author, the varied containers crowded on top of her dresser became not just a collection on boxes to hold her jewelry, but a link to people in her life who made major contributions to who she is today – a successful businesswoman with a wide array of friends and connections around the world.

Each one of these boxes contains a rich story of transformation that, when woven together, becomes a unique memoir. This collection of influences and experiences, changes and challenges is responsible.

In Boxes: Lifting the Lid on an American Life, readers will witness vivid, often hilarious, recollections of a life that began in awkward self-doubt and blossomed into the discovery of true love and the challenges and triumphs of motherhood and career. Through this journey, readers will learn as she has that the pain of life folds into the many-faceted depths of becoming.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral – Celebrating its 40th year Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco (415) 567-2020. Visit www.stmarycathedralsf.org Cathedral Viewing Times. Open every day from the first Mass until 5 p.m. Touring is not allowed during Mass times. Docents are on duty in the Cathedral from April through October, Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon, and Sunday after the 11 a.m. Mass. The Docent Program also offers special tours and a school program. Schedule a tour at (415) 567-2020, ext. 220.

Mass Times Monday – Saturday 6:45 a.m. – Chapel of Our Lady 8:00 a.m. – Chapel of Our Lady 12:10 p.m. – Main Cathedral Saturday Evening 5:30 p.m. (Vigil Mass) – Organ and Cantor Sunday 7:30 a.m. – Organ and Cantor 9 a.m.

(Gregorian Chant) – Schola Cantorum 11a.m.

Cathedral Choir 1 p.m. (Español) – Coro Hispano

Arts and Entertainment Nov. 18, 19, 8 p.m.: “Music of the Italian Baroque” featuring the voices of the Choirs of Notre Dame des Victoires Parish, 566 Bush St. at Grant in San Francisco. Steven Olbash will conduct. Suggested donation is $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Call (415) 397-0113.

Sundays, Oct. 17 – Jan. 9, 2 – 5 p.m.: Sacred Synergies: paintings and Jewish ceremonial objects by Tobi Kahn at the Manresa Gallery of St. Ignatius Church, Parker at Fulton in San Francisco at USF. “It is the gallery’s hope that this exhibition will provide a platform to engage in interfaith dialogue by way of the arts,” said Tamara Lowenstein, gallery manager. Visit www. manresagallery.org.

Social Justice / Lectures / Respect Life St. Anthony Foundation will be accepting donations of clean clothing and dried and canned foods at its annual St. Anthony’s Curbside Drive during the week before Thanksgiving and the week before Christmas. Donations accepted Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Volunteers will be on site in red jackets at 105 Golden Gate Ave. at Jones in San Francisco. Call (415) 592-2700 or visit www. stanthonysf.org Jan. 16, 2011, 1:45 p.m.: “An Old and New Invitation: How do we as believers deal with challenges facing us about belonging to this family of faith called the Catholic Church?” Answer this question with Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, a professor of Biblical Studies at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and at Santa Clara University, who also practices law. Sister Eloise has authored books and written articles on Scripture, conducted retreats

Nov. 17, 7:15 p.m.: Remembrance Mass in memory of friends and relatives of the San Francisco Irish Community at St. Philip Church, 725 Diamond St. at 24th. Father Brendan McBride, chaplain to the Irish community, will preside. Names of those to be remembered will be announced during the Mass and candles lit in their memory.

Refreshments follow in the Parish Hall. If you wish to have someone remembered at the Mass, call Natasha at (415) 752-6006, or e-mail admin@sfiipc.org.

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Sundays, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction at Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. between Stockton and Grant in San Francisco. Convenient parking is available across Bush Street in StocktonSutter garage. Call 397-0113.

Taize Sung Prayer: 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For more information, e-mail mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont.

For further information, please contact Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.

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National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi La Porziuncola Nuova Columbus at Vallejo in San Francisco’s North Beach The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Visit www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com The Shrine church is open every day 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. with Mass Monday through Saturday at 12:15 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Call (415) 986-4557 or www.shrinesf.org or e-mail info@shrinesf.org or herbertj@shrinesf.org.

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Nov. 19, 20, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: “Annual Holiday Boutique by the Sisters of Mercy” at Marian Oaks, 2300 Adeline Dr., Building D in Burlingame. Numerous holiday items for sale including the Sisters’ legendary home-made jams, handcrafted blankets and crafts, all-occasion handmade cards, baked goods, and fudge. Follow Lower Road on Mercy Campus to Marian Oaks. For information please call Debbie Halleran (650) 340-7426 or dhalleran@mercywmw.org. Mercy Sisters Regina Sutton and Joanne DeVincenzi show off the jams, Christmas ornaments, and other hand crafted goods which will be on sale. and written for Catholic San Francisco newspaper.

Takes place at Notre Dames des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. at Grant in San Francisco. Reasonably priced parking is available across Bush at Stockton Sutter Garage. Admission is free. For more information, call (415) 397-0113.

Saturdays through Dec. 18, 9 a.m. – 11 a.m.: Scripture Study at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave. off Grand in South San Francisco. $15 covers materials. Contact Gloria Flores at matergf@ aol.com.

Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership.

Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 5721468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life 815 Eddy St. – Planned Parenthood – in San Francisco.

Food & Fun Nov. 14, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Picnic at San Bruno City Park, Crystal Springs Road. and City Parkway in San Bruno coordinated by Mothers Clubs from across the Peninsula. Food and beverages available for purchase as well as games, a silent auction, bake sale, t-shirts and other items for purchase. Children’s entertainment throughout the day, including music, magic, arts and crafts and face painting. Admission is free with sale proceeds benefiting services to those affected by the recent San Bruno explosion.

Nov. 17, 18, 19: “Holiday Boutique” benefiting the work of St. Mary’s Medical Center especially cancer services. Event takes place in hospital’s main lobby. Wednesday is preview night from 4 – 7 p.m. with refreshments and a ticket price of $10 that includes free parking. Shop on Thursday from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Raffle and silent auction are also part of the fun. Event is sponsored by St. Mary’s Medical Center Auxiliary.

Call (415) 750-5646.

Nov. 20, 11 a.m.: “Earth, Wind and Fashion,” St. Stephen’s Women’s Guild Fashion Show & Luncheon at Olympic Club Lakeside. Table sponsorship, seats

and raffle tickets available. Contact Renee Wallis at reneewallis@aol.com or (650) 994-9212.

Nov. 20, 21, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.: “Craft Fair and Breakfast with Santa” at All Souls Parish, 315 Walnut Ave. in South San Francisco. Special Breakfast with Santa is after 9 a.m. Mass on Sunday. Clothes, ornaments, ceramics and other items will be available for purchase. Free face painting! Call (650) 588-0810.

TV/Radio Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Fridays and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. - e-mail info@sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. 1260 AM also offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

Harry Schlitt presiding.

Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on The Filipino Channel (TFC) (Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese.

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

EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www.ewtn.com

Prayer/Special Liturgies Nov. 14, 11:45 a.m.: Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul Church honors St. Francesca Saveria Cabrini. The Mass will include an honor guard of the Knights of Columbus, the Knights of Malta, and the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher. Music will be by the St. Cecilia Choral Society of Sts. Peter and Paul. Sts. Peter and Paul Church is located at 666 Filbert Street in San Francisco, between Powell and Stockton. For more information, call (415) 421-0809.

Nov. 14: Memorial Mass for deceased alumni at St. Charles Borromeo, 713 South Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94110. All alumni, families and friends are invited. E-mail amaher@ sfstcharles.org Nov. 19: Class of ’45, St. Ignatius College Preparatory at Italian American Club, 25 Russia St. in San Francisco. Door prizes and performances from SI Chamber Singers are all part of the event.

Call (650) 583-1882.

Nov. 20, 4 – 8 p.m.: Class of ’60, Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School in San Francisco on school campus at 40th Ave. and Lawton. Contact Dennis Norton at (415) 454-3184 or danort@ comcast.net.

Consolation Ministry Grief support groups meet at the following parishes: San Mateo County: Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call parish at (650) 7552727. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 366-3802. St. Bartholomew, San Mateo; Barbara Syme (650) 343-6156. St. Peter, Pacifica; call parish at (650) 359-6313. St. Pius, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 361-0655. St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sr. Patricia O’Sullivan at (650) 589-0104.

Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo; call Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650. St. Anthony, Novato; call parish (415) 883-2177. St. Hilary, Tiburon; call Helen Kelly at (415) 388-9651. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato; call Sr. Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco County: St. Dominic; call Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824. St. Gabriel; call Monica Williams at (650) 756-2060. St. Mary’s Cathedral; call Sister Esther McEgan at (415) 5672020 ext. 218. Alma Via; contact Mercy Feeney at (650) 756-4500.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo; call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Ministry to Grieving Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; call Ina Potter at (650) 3476971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

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Junípero Serra High School in San Mateo is much more than an outstanding Catholic college preparatory for young men. It is a place where teachers become mentors. Classmates become brothers. Ordinary moments become extraordinary experiences.

JUNIPERO SERRA HIGH SCHOOL erra High School is located in the heart of the Peninsula between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Students take advantage of all that the Bay Area has to offer. Teachers help students to explore their talents and achieve success in a variety of areas—academics, the arts, athletics, clubs and service learning experiences—all in the context of Serra’s core values of Faith, Wisdom, Service, Community and Leadership.

Students form bonds that are strengthened everyday—in the classrooms, on the athletic fields, at retreats and on the performing arts stage. These bonds ultimately transform into a brotherhood that lasts a lifetime. curriculum: Serra prepares students not only for the rigors of university, but also for the challenges of the 21st century. Classes are taught using specific strategies that motivate young men to learn.

Serra offers an outstanding college preparatory curriculum. Ninety-nine percent of Serra graduates go on to college and are accepted to the top colleges and universities nationwide. Serra students’ AP pass rate is 82.7 percent. transportation: Serra provides morning transportation for students from outlying areas. Shuttle service locations include: St. Rose Hospital in Hayward, the Millbrae BART station and the Third Avenue CalTrain station in San Mateo.

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Serra’s New Center for the Arts and Sciences and Aquatics Facilities OPENING FALL 2011 Serra’s new Center for the Arts and Sciences will be completed in the fall of 2011. It will include a full renovation and major expansion of the aquatics facilities. The Center will feature the latest instructional technology to maximize student learning.

Classrooms will be equipped with Smart Board and digital camera technology, student laptops and wireless computer connectivity. In addition to the second floor science wing, the first floor will provide expanded facilities for the fine and performing arts, including a music rehearsal hall and two large art rooms. Serra’s Academic Resource Center will be expanded to include more classroom space, a meeting room to accommodate family conferences and a small-group tutoring/collaborative study area.