November 16, 2007 by Catholic San Francisco

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“Duality” by Nathaniel Villegas

Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

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Archbishop’s Thanksgiving message: Listen to Apostle Paul’s call to return God’s love for us

n recent years we’ve been treated over and over again to certain truisms, such as “Real estate is location, location, location.” Another is, “All politics is local.” That latter statement is true not only of politics. In a real sense, all thanksqivinq is local. All gratitude is local. Yes, all of us are thankful for blue sky, deep clear lakes, flowers in a myriad of colors, fall leaves turning, the oceans sparkling, mountains looming in black and green and white. But we are most thankful for this sky, this lake, these flowers and leaves, this ocean.

The first Americans to celebrate Thanksgiving more than 385 years ago gave thanks to God for the gift of freedom in their new land, and for their survival in that first year. Their gratitude was local as well. But their gratitude was not insular. They reached out to the natives of that place, and there was God-given diversity at that first Thanksgiving feast. In our own century, and certainly for the last 40 years, “local” gratitude to God has had a new meaning, ever since we human beings first glimpsed our blue and white globe from the vantage of the heavens, and realized that the concept “local” could apply to an entire planet, to all its oceans and continents and languages and peoples. Within the boundless pageant of the galaxies, our earth is “local” indeed. We are grateful for all the gifts God has given, and certainly this land and its free-

dom and prosperity figure greatly in our thankfulness. With those first American thanks-givers, we know all of us owe our very existence, our lives, to our Creator God, and that all life comes from his loving care. We know the answer to the Apostle Paul’s question in his First Letter to the Corinthians: “What do you have that you have not received?” “Nothing!” We are most grateful of all, though, for the human gifts God has given us, the gifts he gives us in and through one another. We begin with the most familiar, the dearest gifts: parents and children, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, grandparents and grandchildren — grateful for one another, grateful to God for loving each of them, in part, through one another. We are grateful also for God’s gifts of artistry, imagination and creativity; his gifts of dedication, fidelity and perseverance; his

gifts of strength, acumen and skill. But gratitude is not gratuitous, Thankfulness has a cost. It is not free. There is a test which the truly thankful pass, and others do not. Think of crystal: if it is genuine, it rings. We may claim that a glass is as lovely as crystal, that it shines like crystal, but if it doesn’t “ring true,” it is ordinary glass. That is true of thankfulness. The only “true ring” of gratitude is . . . generosity. We are grateful if we give, if we share what we have been given. “Giving back” to God in gratitude by giving generously does not mean slavish reciprocation, a $10 item for a $10 item. Our gratitude to others for their gifts of themselves to us expresses itself in the gift of ourselves in return. Don’t take my word for it. Once again, listen to the Apostle Paul, in his Letter to the Colossians: “Because you are God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, clothe yourselves with heartfelt mercy, with kindness, humility, meekness and patience. Bear with one another; forgive whatever grievances you have against one another. Forgive as the Lord has forgiven you. Over all these virtues put on love, which binds the rest together and makes them perfect. Dedicate yourselves to thankfulness.” It is not sufficient, then, to recite a perfunctory “thanks” to God, for form’s sake,

and then get right on with a life centered in self. That’s not merely insufficient, it is spiritually destructive, soul-destroying. God doesn’t want our thank-you cards. He wants our very selves, surrendered to his transforming love. God is Love, and he wants us to love him back. We love him back most genuinely when we let him make of us what he wills, when we answer his call to be merciful, kind, humble, patient, forgiving agents of his will in our world. Happy Thanksgiving!

Most Rev. George H. Niederauer, Ph.D., D.O. Archbishop of San Francisco

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Too big for the ATM but just the right size for programs at Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary School is this check for $8,000 raised by the school’s annual golf tournament in October. Laughing all the way to the bank is principal Sandra Larragoiti. Among those at the helm of the event were Angela Peters and Julie Christoforidis.

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Peter Wise, left, and Chris Cody outgoing and incoming executive directors of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco.

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Farewells and hellos of the finest grade are filling the halls of the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco as staff and Vincentians citywide are welcoming new Executive Director Chris Cody, and soon missing, former Executive Eirector Peter Wise. Chris, a retired attorney and longtime member with his wife, Marybeth, of Holy Name of Jesus Parish, has served on the SVDP board for three years and is a former president of the Holy Name SVDP conference. “This is a critical time for how this city helps the poor and prevents homelessness,” Chris said. “Our city has built a good system to shelter and feed those who are homeless, but we need to improve the safety net that prevents people from becoming homeless. I want Elaine and Cleo Fitzgerald of St. Peter Parish in Pacifica celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with family and friends on Oct. 13. Their wedding day is Nov. 23. Thanks to the couple’s daughter, Cece Barros, for the good news.

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learned about it on retreat. “I thought this would be a great service project for the entire school,” she said. “This project was a good opportunity for the students to connect with more global issues; it gave them a sense of their own ability to help others,” said ICA campus minister Sara Schulte…. The annual Walk for Fitness at St. Philip Elementary School in October included advice on diet and the St. Vincent de Paul Society to take a leadership role in exercise as well as the namesake mile-long stroll around strengthening this city’s homelessness prevention Noe Valley. Students taking part included Finn McCarthy, resources.” Peter Wise, who leaves to care for aging parents Loretta Bonifacio, Raquel Soto, Naomi Huson, in Ohio, said the difficult choice to leave the St. Vincent de Charlene Commer, Thomas Watterson. Principal is Paul Society was eased by his confidence in his Remy Everett. Pastor is Father Tony LaTorre… Tom successor. “Chris DiLuzio, a parishCody has a deep ioner of Star of the understanding of Sea and a graduate this complex organof Archbishop ization, our values Riordan High and the important School, is proud to issues we face. I am announce the birth leaving the leaderof his granddaughship of the St. ter, Emma Joyce Vincent de Paul Russo. Emma, the Society in extraordaughter of Tom’s dinarily good daughter, Christina hands.” Stan DiLuzio Russo, Raggio, SVDP and her husband board president, Matt, was born said, “Peter’s selfOct. 19, and is a less dedication and sixth generation passion to the cause San Francisco have been nothing Catholic. Tom said short of exemplary. his kin have been in His hard work and the City since 1870. long hours are leg- “Yes, yes” was response of Juvi Anne Bartolome, left, Dominican Sister Christina is a gradendary. I speak on Mary Ybarra, Andrea Argouarch, Aiofe O’Leary and Maria Ocon, mem- uate of St. James bers of “no-no”- making team at Immaculate Conception Academy. behalf of so many Elementary and people in acknowlSacred Heart edging the tremendous contribution that Peter made to the Cathedral Preparatory. Matt is also an SHCP grad…. Society during his three year tenure.” … Students at Remember: there is no CSF next week. Happy Immaculate Conception Academy went beyond their Thanksgiving!… This is an empty space without ya’!! own needs to assist in the care of very young children who The e-mail address for Street is have undergone corrective facial surgeries. The young burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Mailed items should be sent women made 130 elbow coverings that prevent the young- to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Pix should sters from touching the surgery site. The colorful garments be hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 dpi. Don’t forget to are called - appropriately enough - “no-nos.” ICA senior include a follow-up phone number. Call me at (415) 614Jamie Chan was the instigator of the mercy work, having 5634 and I’ll walk you through it.

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Our Lady of Guadalupe focus of Nov. 25 Day of Reflection at St. Mary’s Cathedral is and the harm it does to women, men and families,” she added. “Through this conference, we hope to begin to As many as 2,000 people are expected to gather in St. remedy this.” Mary’s Cathedral Sunday, Nov. 25, for the first annual Day Our Lady of Guadalupe was accepted as the patroness of Reflection dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe. of New Spain in 1746 and as patroness of the Americas in The event, which will 1946. Pope John Paul II have a pro-life theme, is proclaimed her Protectress sponsored by the of the Unborn. Archdiocese in collaboration The purpose of both the with its Respect Life Office. Day of Reflection and the The conference will pilgrimage, which will take begin with Mass at 1 p.m. It place on Saturday, Dec. 1, will be followed by a presis simply to appeal to the entation at 3 p.m. on the Blessed Mother’s grace, the history of the Blessed Garcias said. Mother’s appearance in “It is Mary, Mother of 1531 to the peasant Juan God,” Marta said. “She is Diego at Tepeyac, a hill everything for us.” near Mexico City, as the The Dec. 1 pilgrimage Christian neophyte was will begin at 5:30 a.m. rushing to Mass. with a welcome by Father At 4:30 p.m. a workshop John Balleza, the chaplain will be held on the topic of to the pilgrimage and pasOur Lady of Guadalupe and tor of Our Lady of Mt. immigration. Following 6 Carmel, Redwood City, p.m. dinner, a closing and Father Agnel De prayer will be held at 7 p.m. Heredia, pastor at All The free program will be Souls. Father De Heredia in Spanish, with a simultawill pray the first mystery neous English translation. of the rosary at 5:40 a.m., A keynote speaker will and Father William be Msgr. Pedro Agustín The Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine at St. Mary’s Cathedral Justice, the archdiocesan Rivera Díaz, rector of the Vicar for Clergy, will say as seen during the recent first annual Cathedral Festival Old Basilica of Our Lady the message to the saint. of Flowers. Designers were Roberto Ponce and Ramon Guadalupe in the Anyone planning to Ponce of Americana Flower Brokers, Inc. Archdiocese of Mexico City. attend the Nov. 25 Day of The monsignor accepted Reflection is asked to call an invitation to the event from Marta and Pedro Garcia, (415) 614-5572 and leave a name and phone number. parishioners of St. Mary’s Cathedral and participants in the annual Guadalupana Cruzade pilgrimage from All Souls Parish in South San Francisco to the Cathedral. The Garcias visit the basilica annually and met the monGET HOME BEFORE DARK! signor during their most recent trip. They told him about the pilgrimage and the large number of believers who par4 p.m. Saturday Vigil ticipate every year. He suggested holding a seminar before Mass in San Francisco! the pilgrimage and offered to take part, Marta Garcia said. Both Garcias said they are strong believers in the 1531 T MYDIUS miracle and Our Lady’s continuing power to protect life. Christians believe that when Our Lady first appeared to ATHOLIC HURCH Diego, she made a request to the local bishop that a church 286 Ashton Avenue, San Francisco be built on the site. When the bishop asked for a sign, (one block from Ocean Ave.) according to the faithful, she left a miraculous image of herself on Diego’s cactus-cloth garment. Serving the Ingleside community of San Francisco, The image shows the Blessed Mother pregnant with the since 1913, St. Emydius is a multi-cultural, Christ child. This is a living message, she said, that “peomulti-racial, all inclusive faith-sharing community. ple must take care of the babies.” Daily Mass At 8:30 am Pedro Garcia, who said the Virgin Mary watched over 4:00 pm Saturday Vigil Mass him during recovery from a near-fatal heart attack in 1996, said the power of the Guadalupe virgin continues to grow. 8:30 am Sunday Mass “It’s not only in Mexico now, it’s all over the world,” he 10:30 am Sunday Mass said. “She does miracles wherever it’s needed. All she asks To reach us from 19th Ave., take Holloway Ave., is we actually ask her to please help us.” (near S.F. State, heading East), to Ashton Ave., “The Hispanic community is inherently pro-life,” said left on Ashton to De Montfort Ave. Vicki Evans, the archdiocesan Respect Life coordinator. To reach us from 280 S. (at City College) exit Ocean Ave. going “Devotion to family is instilled deep in the culture.” West, turn left on Ashton to De Montfort Ave., (1/ block up). “What we have failed to provide our Hispanic comYOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO JOIN US! munity is education — in Spanish —about what abortion

Drawing provides insight into Bay Area poverty “Duality” is a drawing by Nathaniel Villegas submitted for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development’s 2006-07 youth art contest. A senior at Archbishop Riordan High School at the time of the entry, Villegas then wrote, “The conflicting experiences my work porNathaniel Villegas trays are between the beauty and unforgettable symbols of San Francisco and the chronic problem of homelessness, which many choose to ignore and forget.” “My drawing furthers the mission of CCHD because it forces us to remember the poverty-stricken who live among us in the Bay Area and inspires us to take action in the lives that are usually invisible to us. The work is meant to show that poverty should not be overshadowed but recognized despite the largeness of the community.” Today the Riordan valedictorian is studying microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at UCLA and told Catholic San Francisco, “I hope to make contributions in the medical field in terms of AIDS and cancer.” The CCHD collection will be taken at Nov. 18 Masses in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. For information on the local CCHD youth art contest, persons may e-mail Via Vigil at vigilv@sfarchdiocese.org.

Free Dining Hall asks turkey donations St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Free Dining Room in San Rafael has requested donations of turkey and other meats for its 26th annual Thanksgiving and Christmas meals program for the elderly, disabled and homeless. The program served 25,000 meals last year, and expects to serve more this year, officials reported. “Rising food and gasoline prices are having a profound effect on our low-income neighbors,” said Suzanne Walker, the society’s Marin County office manager. “People are going without food or heat, just to afford to drive to work. We’re asking the public to help create a nice holiday for a lot of people experiencing real hardship this year.” Volunteers are accepting donations at 820 B St. in San Rafael from 6:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. seven days a week. For more information about food donations, call (415) 4543303, ext. 12.

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‘Avoid military action’ WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although “the prospect of Iran developing nuclear weapons is unacceptable,” the U.S. government must exhaust every option before considering military action to resolve the situation, the chairman of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Committee on International Policy told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. “The use of force must always be a last resort,” Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla., said in a letter to Rice made public Nov. 9.

NFP given recognition ST. LOUIS (CNS) — The medical coding system used by the government, insurance companies, medical clinics and health care providers now includes two codes specifically for natural family planning. Behind the push for the new codes was the American Academy of FertilityCare Professionals, a national organization that promotes the use of the Creighton Model FertilityCare System, which is used for natural family planning and women’s health and infertility issues while upholding Catholic teaching.

Asks Holy Land compromise UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — Not working to bring an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through negotiation and compromise is to perpetuate continued injustice, said the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations. Archbishop Celestino Migliore said the Vatican “remains convinced that the two-state solution has the best chance to settle the crisis.” However, he said, it is up to Israelis, Palestinians and neighboring states to “set aside the pretense of peacemaking and start full negotiations on the two-state solution.”

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of 77. In a telegram of condolence to the Diocese of Yokohama, where he had served as bishop for almost 20 years, Pope Benedict XVI praised the cardinal for his “devoted witness to the Gospel, his lively concern for the poor and his generous service to the universal church.”

Priest charged with stalking BOSTON (CNS) — Father David Ajemian, a Boston Catholic priest arrested on charges of stalking late-night NBC talk-show host Conan O’Brien, has been put on leave by the Boston Archdiocese and “is no longer able to exercise public ministry.” The 46-year-old priest was arrested Nov. 2 in New York City while trying to enter a taping of “Late Night With Conan O’Brien,” despite warnings by NBC security personnel he should stay away. He was arraigned on stalking and aggravated harassment charges and ordered held for psychiatric evaluation. According to court documents, Father Ajemian described himself in a letter to O’Brien as the “priest stalker” and has allegedly been sending O’Brien threatening letters since last year and also wrote to the TV personality’s parents.

Voters reject stem-cell bonds WASHINGTON (CNS) — Voters in New Jersey defeated a proposal that would have authorized $450 million in bonds for stem-cell research projects, but an effort in Utah to repeal a

schools voucher program was successful. The ballot questions were among 34 initiatives or referendums held in six states Nov. 6 during off-year elections. The Catholic bishops in five New Jersey dioceses had urged rejection of Public Question 2 and launched an educational campaign to help Catholic voters distinguish between adult stem-cell research, which the Church supports, and stem-cell research involving the destruction of human embryos, which the Church strongly opposes.

D.C. schools reconfigure WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Archdiocese of Washington has finalized its decision to reconfigure its current 12-school center-city consortium. Four schools will make up a new smaller consortium. Seven schools will be converted into charter schools and one will become a parish-run school. The Center City Consortium began in 1997 to help schools facing decreasing enrollment, budget deficits, deteriorating buildings and the threat of closure. Through the consortium, schools pooled their resources and have been assisted by consortium staff with development, fundraising and purchasing. The finalized plans for Washington’s urban schools, announced Nov. 5, was developed in response to several crises facing the consortium, including a $7 million shortfall this school year, a projected $56 million deficit over the next five years, a 19 percent decline in enrollment and an increase in the number of the city’s tuition-free public charter schools.

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$2 million gift to St. Mary’s Chinese Schools and Center St. Mary’s Chinese Schools and Center has received a $2 million gift from Sinclair and May Louie, wellknown San Francisco merchants and philanthropists, who used the occasion of their 60th wedding anniversary to reveal the donation. In making the announcement Oct. 18 during a traditional Chinese banquet attended by more than 350 guests at the Empress of China Restaurant, Paulist Father Daniel E. McCotter said it was the couple’s “hope that the announcement of the $2 million gift to St. Mary’s will inspire others in the greater Bay Area to support non-profit organizations such as St. Mary’s, especially those who serve the Chinese community.” According to Father McCotter, the pastor/director of Holy Family Chinese Mission, the donation will help fund construction of a new school and center at the site of the former I-Hotel in Chinatown. “(Mr. and Mrs. Louie) have been pillars of the Chinatown business community for many decades,” the Paulist said during the gift announcement. “We are indeed blessed by their generosity. … We are all most grateful. Be assured of our prayers for good health,

happiness and prosperity for you and your family.” St. Mary’s Chinese Mission was inaugurated in 1903. St. Mary’s Elementary and Chinese Social Center was founded in 1921 while the Holy Family Chinese Mission began in 1927. St. Mary’s was also the recent recipient of an anonymous $1 million charitable remainder trust, Father McCotter told Catholic San Francisco. The capital campaign has now raised more than $15 million, and the first phase of the construction is targeted for beginning during 2008, he said.

Paulist Father Daniel E. McCotter, center, thanked May (left) and Sinclair Louie (seated) for the couple’s $2 million gift to St. Mary’s Chinese Schools and Center, announced at their 60th wedding anniversary Oct. 18. Standing next to Father McCotter is Dr. Collin P. Quock, general chair of St. Mary’s capital campaign for a new school and center.

Jesus Vasquez and Rebecca Borja pose in front of a student-made altar at De Marillac Academy’s recent Día De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) party sponsored by the La Raza Law Students Association of UC Hastings College of the Law. The Nov. 1 holiday has been popularized in Mexico and throughout the United States as a ritual to honor deceased family members and friends. De Marillac students, 70 percent of whom are Latino, spent a week decorating altars as part of an art project sponsored by the Hastings La Raza group. More than 100 De Marillac and Hastings students displayed the altars in a holiday-themed atmosphere.

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More than 400 guests from a diverse mix of social service programs, civic life and the history of Catholic Charities CYO took part in the Nov. 1 “SharesSF Centennial Civic Luncheon” at the San Francisco’s Westin St. Francis Hotel – an event that honored CCCYO’s 100-year history and raised more than $112,000 for its future. Keynote speaker California Attorney General Jerry Brown spoke on the partnership between faith-based nonprofits, government and community institutions in meeting the needs of the poor and the marginalized, particularly women and children. Prior to the address, Archbishop George H. Niederauer, chairman of the Board of Catholic Charities CYO, presented a Centennial Service Award to Clint Reilly, immediate past president of the CCCYO Board of Directors, for leadership and dedication to enhancing the quality of life for the less fortunate. Television journalist Emerald Yeh was mistress of ceremonies of the event which also publicly recognized the work of several other faith-based social service agencies, including Little Sisters of the Poor / St. Anne’s Home, Cameron House, Episcopal Community Services, Gum Moon Residence Hall / Asian Women’s Resource Center, Holy Family Day Home, Irish Immigration Pastoral Center, Jewish Family & Children’s Services, Lutheran Social Services of Northern California, Northern California Presbyterian Homes & Services, Raphael House, Salvation Army, St. Anthony Foundation, St. Francis Center, St. Vincent de Paul Society, and Zen Hospice Project. The cornerstone of CCCYO’s centennial celebration, the luncheon also honored the founders of Catholic Charities CYO. One table included descendants of families of five of the agency’s founders — Mrs. Georges DeLatour, Mrs. Oliver Olson, Mrs. Charles Mohun, Mrs. John Kingwell and Mrs. Perry Eyre. Luncheon event chairs were Tinker Murphy, Claudette Nicolai and Sara Stephens. Dignataries in attendance included Hector Peralta, Consul General of Mexico; Fiona Ma, California Assemblywoman; Phil Ting, San Francisco assessor recorder; Trent Rhorer, executive director of the San Francisco Department of Human Services; Anne Wilson, director of the United Way; Maureen Huntington, super-

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CCCYO event honors past, looks to the future

During the Nov. 1 “SharesSF Centennial Civic Luncheon,” Archbishop George H. Niederauer visits with descendants of CCCYO founding families, from left: Harriet Coyne, James Coyne, Sheila Doyle Kiernan, Victoria Fox, Barbara Bentley and Joan Danforth.

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During Nov. 5 ceremonies at St. Anthony High School College Preparatory in Long Beach, San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer was inducted into the high school alumni’s Hall of Fame, an honor roll whose graduates include prominent figures in business, government, education, the arts and the Church. Among Church leaders previously inducted is the Archbishop’s Class of 1954 classmate and predecessor as Archbishop of San Francisco, Cardinal William Levada, now prefect for the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. A congratulatory letter from Cardinal Levada was included in the event program. It recalled when “our paths first crossed there when we were freshmen so many years ago.” “I consider it a great grace that our journey together continued as we progressed through the junior seminary in San Fernando and St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, leading us to the priesthood and service to the Church and God’s people,” the cardinal wrote. A Mass in the school gym preceded the “2007 Community of Saints Prayer Breakfast” ceremony. Concelebrants included Auxiliary Bishop Alexander Salazar of the Los Angeles Archdiocese’s San Pedro Region and Auxiliary Bishop Gerald Wilkerson of the Los Angeles San Fernando Region who was homilist and is a 1957 St. Anthony graduate. Principal of the 88-year-old school is Lori Barr. President is Gina Rushing. Nearly 300 guests took part in the event.

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Belgian cardinal reflects on understanding, experiencing the liturgy ‘It is God’s feast. We attend by invitation’ WASHINGTON (CNS) — Understanding the liturgy begins with experiencing and living it, said a Belgian cardinal who also underscored, “The liturgy is first God’s work on us, before it is our work on God.” “Understanding the liturgy is far more than a cognitive exercise. It is a loving ‘entering in,’” said Cardinal Godfried Danneels of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, in a talk on liturgical renewal Oct. 25 at The Catholic University of America. His lecture was delivered two days after an address he had given at St. Rita Parish in Fairfax, Calif., in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which capped the parish’s lecture series marking the 40th anniversary of Pope Paul VI’s 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio. In his Washington appearance, the cardinal said “the uniqueness of the liturgy is that it gives pride of place to experience. ... First experience, first live the liturgy, then reflect and explain it.” As a young theologian and liturgical expert in the 1960s, the cardinal was involved in drafting the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. He said those who did not experience the liturgy before the council must have difficulty now imagining how much it has changed in less than half a century, emphasizing that one major change has been the “the relationship between the minister and the people.” Even previous church architecture, with the Communion rail separating priest and people, emphasized a distance between the two before the reforms, he said. The separation was so great that the liturgy often consisted of two parallel celebrations — the priest celebrating the “official liturgy” in Latin while the people “set about their personal devotions,” he added. “The active involvement of the people in the liturgy is an unparalleled gift of the council to the people of God,” he said. While endorsing that participation, he also cautioned there can be “a shadow side” to it. “Participation and mutual celebration can lead to a subtle form of manipulation. ... Those who serve the liturgy, both priests and laity, become its owners” instead of its servants, he said. This can lead to trivializing the liturgy, eliminating the sacred and turning it from the worship it is supposed to be into a mere social event, he added. Cardinal Danneels said the trend he was describing is not universal, but it would be wrong to ignore in attempts to evaluate the state of liturgical practice some 40 years after the council. “The acting subject of the liturgy is the risen Christ,” he said, adding that the liturgy is “the continuation of his incarnation, crucifixion and resurrection.” “We attend the liturgy at God’s invitation,” he said. “The liturgy is not a feast we laid out for ourselves according to our own personal preferences. It is God’s feast. We attend by invitation.” This does not exclude creativity in the celebration of the liturgy, and “creativity is actually called for,” he said. “The problem lies with the boundaries of our intervention. One cannot simply transform and rearrange the whole thing. Changes have to be made with intelligence.” He called a deepening understanding of the liturgy by the celebrating community one of the primary concerns of Vatican II — and of the Church since then. Cardinal Danneels said it is important to see what sort of understanding should be sought. “If the liturgy is the epiphany of God’s dealings with his Church, then the deepest core or heart of the liturgy will never be completely open to our grasp,” he said. “There is indeed a hard core in the liturgy — the mystery — which is ungraspable. One can only enter into it in faith.” The liturgy “is not an object of knowledge in the commonplace sense of the word,” he said. “It is not an object of knowledge at all. Rather, it is a source of knowledge, a source of understanding. ... Profound realities only gradually yield their full significance.” He said reaching this kind of understanding involves lived experience, repetition, silence, ritual, “letting the liturgy speak for itself.” “The liturgy needs time to deliver its riches. It has nothing to do with physical or clock time but with the spiritual time of the soul,” he said. Catechesis has an important role in understanding the liturgy, he said, but emphasized that the liturgy itself is not the place for it. That should come afterward, reflecting and building on the lived experience of the liturgy itself through the senses, symbols, hearing the proclaimed word, ritual immersion in the Christian mysteries. Cardinal Danneels’ talk was sponsored by Catholic University’s School of Canon Law as the inaugural Msgr. Frederick R. McManus Lecture, a new series honoring one of the leading figures in Catholic liturgical renewal in the English-speaking world in the second half of the 20th century.

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By Jerry Filteau

Cardinal Godfried Danneels (left) of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, and San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer check text notes prior to the cardinal’s Oct. 23 address at St. Rita Parish, Fairfax.

Interreligious dialogue, rekindling the sacred said among challenges facing the Church said, which teaches that “anything authentically human should not be neglected.” One of the fronts for that work, he underscored, “has SAN FRANCISCO - Interreligious dialogue and confronting widespread indifference toward God and reli- to be in the centers of intelligence, in the universities” gion are significant external challenges for the universal and other forums where “culture and science are develChurch, says a cardinal whose name was among those oping so rapidly.” Pope Benedict himself made that point in a Nov. 9 talk mentioned frequently as papal material during the 2005 to a group of Catholic students at the Vatican. Being a enclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI. Catholic and sharpening At the same time, withone’s intellect through in its own ranks the higher education are not Church must address mutually exclusive, he rekindling a sense of myssaid. In fact, it is in the tery and the sacred as well search for greater knowlas nurture a balance edge and truth that the between broadly based doors are opened to faith, decision making and the he said in an address to unity engendered by the representatives of the Petrine office, said Italian Catholic University Cardinal Godfried Federation. Danneels of MechelenWhile interreligious Brussels, Belgium, during conversations with the an Oct. 14 interview. Jewish community within En route to Washington Belgium as well as globalD.C. and then Cleveland ly are on solid ground, the where he would deliver cardinal said, significant major addresses on the challenges exist in establiturgy of the Church, the lishing fruitful dialogue cardinal was in the Bay with Islam. Noting that the Area briefly to provide the Muslim presence in final lecture in a series Belgium is “massive,” marking the 40th anniverCardinal Danneels indicatsary of Pope Paul VI’s ed that separation of 1967 encyclical church and state is an area Populorum Progressio at needing much attention. St. Rita Parish in Fairfax. Problems arise, he said, “One of the biggest when persons “want to challenges facing the completely unite the state, Church today,” he told the economic, the military, Catholic San Francisco, and religion.” “is the confrontation with This dialogue, he said, secularization and atheism Father Ken Weare (left), pastor of St. Rita Parish, “is absolutely necessary — no, not atheism so Fairfax, clarifies a question for Cardinal Godfried and not a challenge just to much as indifference the Church to but society” toward God and religion. Danneels during the question-and-answer period For many people these following the cardinal’s Oct. 23 lecture at the parish on at large. For interreligious diathings simply do not mat- Populorum Progressio, Pope Paul VI’s 1967 encyclical. logue to be effective, he ter. They can easily live emphasized, those taking without them, without part “must not loose their identity, or true dialogue will God. They are very comfortable without him.” Noting that the relationship of faith and reason is a not be possible.” “There is a tendency (among some) to think that all frequent theme for Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Danneels said the Church should work hard to help the religions are the same,” he said, “and this is not true. faithful achieve “a full humanness where everything is in There are very big differences, such as the incarnation. its place – the body, the soul, the spirit, the human cul- We (Christians) are the only ones who say that God became man, for example, and that is a profound differture, economics, politics, everything.” That theme is reflected in Populorum Progressio, he ence.”

By Dan Morris-Young

Catholic San Francisco

November 16, 2007

Iraq, new leaders, restructure, sex abuse on bishops’ agenda (Ed. Note: for updates on the U.S. bishops’ fall meeting in Baltimore, visit Catholic San Francisco’s website: www.catholic-sf.org.)

BALTIMORE (CNS) — The U.S. bishops took the final steps to formalize the new structure of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 13 and approved a $147.7 million budget for 2008 and a 16 percent reduction in the diocesan assessment to fund the USCCB. In a series of votes on the second day of their Nov. 12-15 fall general meeting in Baltimore, the bishops accepted recommendations of the USCCB Committee on Priorities and Plans for interim plans of conference offices and committees, the mandates of 15 permanent subcommittees and the establishment of a permanent subcommittee on Hispanic liturgy and a temporary subcommittee on Africa. The bishops also: ● Elected Cardinal Francis E. George, archbishop of Chicago for the past decade, as USCCB president, and Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz. as vice president; ● Heard preliminary findings of an ongoing study of the “causes and contexts” of the sexual abuse crisis in the Church; ● Continued discussion on a draft statement about the war in Iraq that decries what it describes as an alarming political stalemate in the nation’s capital. Noting the bishops have called for bipartisan action for almost two years on the war in Iraq, the draft said the current situation in Iraq “remains unacceptable and unsustainable.” “Our country needs a new direction to reduce the war’s deadly toll and to bring our people together to deal with the conflict’s moral and human dimensions,” said the draft. “Our nation needs a new bipartisan approach to Iraq policy based on honest and civil dialogue.”

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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien and Patricia Zapor

Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago smiles after being elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 13 in Baltimore.

On the opening day of their meeting, the bishops agreed to take up the statement, which would be issued in the name of Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash., the bishops’ conference outgoing president. A final version of the statement was to be reworked to incorporate suggestions from the floor of the meeting. The statement focuses on minimizing the loss of life, immunity for noncombatants, reasonable elements of responsible transition, the consequences of rapid withdrawal from Iraq and the financial and global consequences of continued war and occupation. The statement emphasizes sustained collaboration with other nations, including Syria and Iran, calling it “critically important for bringing some measure of stability to Iraq.” “Iraq’s future stability is related to the stability of the region,” it says. “This is why U.S. leadership to advance a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians is critical.”

Abuse study expected to reveal insights about societal effects By Patricia Zapor BALTIMORE (CNS) — An ongoing study of the “causes and contexts” of the sexual abuse crisis in the Church will touch on societal influences, the role of various aspects of seminary life and how Church leaders’ response was a factor, according to the staff of the New York-based John Jay College of Criminal Justice in a report to the U.S. bishops Nov. 12. In a briefing during the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ annual fall general meeting in Baltimore, researchers Karen Terry and Margaret Smith outlined the types of information being gathered since the bishops agreed at the same meeting a year ago to spend $335,000 to cover the first phases of the detailed study. Research falls into six categories, Terry explained: an historical overview of social and political events since 1950; recruitment and seminary training; leadership; victimization; a clinical analysis using data from three treatment centers; and a discussion of prevention and education tactics. Terry said early research indicates that patterns of sexual abuse within the Church are consistent with the experience of society as a whole. Among the “clusters of hypothetical factors being studied” to explain the incidence of sexual abuse are social changes of the 1960s and ‘70s, such as social movements, social stratification and changes in the Church after the Second Vatican Council and how those influenced priests’ attitudes and behavior, she said. Another cluster of possible factors is how seminaries recruited candidates and

trained them; job-related stresses for priests such as isolation, and structures of dioceses and Church leadership. A third cluster is the changes in parish activities, the growth of youth ministry and changes in the living situations and responsibilities of parish priests. She also said there is a cluster of structural and legal factors, including economic and statutory changes and law enforcement. Terry displayed a graph portraying how the major influences of different decades compare with the increase and decline in reported cases of sexual abuse. For instance, it targets peak years of abuse reports correlating to the major social changes and attention to gender and sexuality of the 1960s and 1970s. Data so far confirms findings of social scientists “that general social changes have had significant impact on the lives of those who are part of or closely associated with religious organizations,” she said. With regard to seminaries, Terry said research questions include whether the behavior of seminarians can be used to predict future incidents of abuse, and how changes in seminaries between 1970 and 1990 might relate to a decrease in reports of abuse among priests ordained after 1980. More than 25 percent of all priests accused of abuse were ordained between 1960 and 1969, she reported. Seventy percent of those accused were ordained before 1970. Another area of study asks how bishops and their staff members responded to abuse reports. The report by Terry and Smith is intended as an update. A more detailed release is planned for 2008.

The “dire situation of refugees, internally displaced persons, Christians and other vulnerable minorities” has been neglected, the statement says. “A staggering 2 million refugees have fled Iraq; another 2 million Iraqis are internally displaced,” it continues. “The U.S. should immediately make more substantial commitments to Iraqi refugees by expanding admissions, eliminating roadblocks to resettlement and supporting countries in the region burdened with war-related refugee populations.” In his election, Cardinal George, USCCB vice president for the past three years, received 188 votes, or 85 percent of the votes, on the first ballot. A member of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate and the order’s vicar general in Rome from 1974 to 1986, Cardinal George is widely traveled, has doctorates in philosophy and theology, is fluent in Spanish, French and Italian, and knows some German. He was made a cardinal in 1998, a year

after becoming Chicago’s archbishop, filling the vacancy left by the death of Chicago Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin. In late July 2006, he underwent surgery for bladder cancer. Pathology tests show that the cancer has not spread and his doctors called him a “cancer survivor.” Cardinal George first became a bishop when he was named to head the Diocese of Yakima, Wash., in 1990. In 1996 he was named archbishop of the Portland Archdiocese. Opposition to the cardinal’s being a USCCB presidential candidate came from the Voice of the Faithful, a group pushing for change in the Church, and Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, known as SNAP. They cited his failure to immediately remove a Chicago priest from his parish in 2005 despite abuse allegations. The cardinal has publicly apologized several times for how he dealt with the case of Father Daniel McCormack, who was arrested in 2006 and charged with molesting two boys. Chicago archdiocesan officials have said the priest was not initially removed because no formal allegations had been made against him by the boy or his family. The cardinal has since instituted a series of changes in procedures aimed at preventing similar situations. The 70-year-old Chicago native assumes the role of president a year after the bishops voted to sharply reduce the number of USCCB committees and downsize the national staff by eliminating about 70 jobs. In a report on the USCCB reorganization, Bishop Kicanas said the organizational structure formerly made up of 65 standing committees, subcommittees, ad hoc committees and task forces had been reduced to 16 programmatic committees, four managerial committees and 16 subcommittees. He said the USCCB staff had been reduced by about 70 people, with 310 staff members now “trying to do the work of 380.”

April Visit The tentative schedule of Pope Benedict XVI on his ﬁrst pastoral visit to the United States.

WASHINGTON Arrive in the nation’s capital.

April 15

Ofﬁcial welcome at the White House. Address to U.S. bishops at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Mass at the new Nationals baseball stadium. Visit to The Catholic University of America. Interfaith meeting at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center.

NEW YORK Address to the United Nations. Ecumenical meeting.

Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Meeting with youths and seminarians.

Visit to ground zero. Mass at Yankee Stadium.

Source: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

In a brief discussion period, several bishops asked about other organizations, such as schools, that might have done or plan similar studies of abuse by their personnel. Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., said if the research bears out that the Catholic Church differed little from other organizations in the incidence of abuse, he recommended offering the John Jay material to others to see if it benefits them.

He also noted that because of the broad acceptance of the notion that sexual abuse is a problem particularly tied to the Catholic Church it “will take some time to overcome the myth that has developed about the Church.” Smith said although there are no other studies she’s aware of that match the John Jay project in scope she thought there might be data available soon to compare the problem in the Church with that in public schools.

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November 16, 2007

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Vatican Letter Vatican ambassadors: Potpourri of insiders, politicians, scholars By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Many countries’ embassies to the Vatican have a priest on staff to help advise their ambassador on pontifical protocol and all things Catholic. But most of them could learn a few things from Mary Ann Glendon, the Harvard law professor President George W. Bush nominated as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. In 2004, Pope John Paul II named her president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, an advisory body chock full of experts in law, economics, sociology and other fields. She led the Vatican’s delegation to the 1995 U.N. Conference on Women in Beijing and to a follow-up meeting on the status of women in 2005. At first glance, it would seem that if the U.S. Senate confirms her nomination Glendon’s Vatican connections would make her a unique member of the diplomatic corps. But Poland’s ambassador to the Vatican, Hanna Suchocka, also is a member of the social sciences academy and, like Glendon, she is one of the original members appointed by Pope John Paul when he established the academy in 1994. Suchocka, again like Glendon, has a background in law. But the Polish ambassador also was deeply involved in partisan politics, elected to Poland’s legislature before serving as Poland’s prime minister, 1992-93. Mary Ann Glendon The Polish ambassador currently is one of 17 women in the 175-member group of diplomats accredited to the Vatican. While Glendon can be described as a Vatican “insider,” she has never been a salaried Vatican employee, like two other members of the diplomatic corps serving at the Vatican. Montenegro’s Ambassador Antun Sbutega is a former economics professor who spent almost 13 years working at the Society of St. Peter Apostle, one of four pontifical missionary societies under the jurisdiction of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Slovenia’s Ambassador Ivan Rebernik earned a doctorate in philosophy from Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University, then entered the library sciences program at The Catholic University of America in Washington. He returned to Rome, where he worked in the Gregorian library, 1964-88, then spent the next 16 years as the director of the prints catalogue at the Vatican Library. Many of the nations that have diplomatic relations with the Vatican always send a Catholic as ambassador, believing it gives their representatives a jump on the learning curve. But other countries believe that sending a non-Catholic ensures the objectivity and impartiality of their ambassadors, who are sent to the Vatican to represent their nation’s interests and not simply to explain Vatican policy to their foreign affairs departments. Francis Campbell, named Great Britain’s ambassador to the Vatican in 2005, was the first Catholic to hold the post since the Reformation. The government of Germany continues to have a policy of alternating a Catholic ambassador and a Protestant ambassador. Sbutega told Catholic News Service that he was named ambassador to the Vatican “because I know the Vatican better than any other citizen of Montenegro. If the Vatican is a mystery to most Romans, imagine how confusing it is to someone from Montenegro.” “In a technical sense, one can learn quickly how things work in the Vatican, but there is an underlying culture formed by faith that is more difficult to learn,” he said. Raymond Flynn, a Catholic who served as U.S. ambassador to the Vatican from 1993 to 1997 under President Bill Clinton, told CNS he thought Glendon would be “a great asset” to the United States in her new role. “She is so clever, so smart,” he said, that she should not have any problem explaining the Vatican’s views to the U.S. government and the government’s views to the Vatican. “Sometimes I was too outspoken, and I paid the price for it. I was reprimanded by the State Department,” said the former Boston mayor. “I was a politician, and that’s what you do: You talk.” But Glendon, he said, is a scholar and legal expert. He noted, “She isn’t looking for votes. She only deals with the facts.” While Flynn believes there still is “an undercurrent of anti-Catholicism” in Washington that needs to be handled with tact, he said, “You do your country a greater service by expressing your point of view.” And, he said, a coherently Catholic ambassador “gains credibility with the Vatican because they know you are not just another politician willing to sacrifice your core values for votes.” She would succeed Francis Rooney, a Catholic businessman who has held the post since October 2005. A date for Rooney’s departure has not been announced. “If confirmed, I would be especially pleased to follow in the footsteps of my fellow Bostonian, Ray Flynn, and all the other ambassadors who have so ably contributed to excellent relations between the United States and the Holy See,” Glendon said.

A challenge Thank you for the beautiful coverage of the recent grand opening of Holy Family Day Home’s new facility. It truly was an historic occasion. A little history: After being founded in 1900, the 1906 earthquake and fires forced the Sisters of the Holy Family to move their childcare program into tents in Golden Gate Park and other parks around the city. In 1911, Virginia (Birdie) Fair, later Vanderbilt, donated the construction of a new facility for the children in partnership with Willis Polk, at 16th and Dolores Streets across the intersection from Mission Dolores. Then in 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake forced us to immediately vacate the building; install two temporary mobile modulars; say goodbye to 50 children since we could only then serve 100; and began to make plans to rebuild. After 18 years of much struggle, planning and hard work on the part of the Day Home’s Board of Directors, we’ve been able to complete construction on a new facility and open the doors of this nationally accredited, highest quality childcare program once again to 150 very blessed young people! But we’re not completely done yet. The “Building Their Future Capital Campaign” has to date raised $5 million of the total $7.1 million needed. We recently received a challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation which will award us $550,000, but only if we raise another $1.1 million before the end date of the campaign which is June 30, 2008. It is our hope someone will read this and be inspired to assist us to successfully meet Kresge’s challenge. Again, thank you for acknowledging so well the special moment that happened on Oct. 13 at the intersection of the birthplace of the city of St. Francis — a new beginning for so many children in need of high quality childcare while their parents are at work or school. Donna M. Cahill Executive Director Holy Family Day Home

deliver the funds directly where needed through trusted intermediaries who are made accountable for them. Redwood City’s Our Lady of Mt. Carmel’s mosquito netting project against malaria is an example. Arrangements are being made to have the mosquito netting — purchased to combat malaria — delivered directly to needy villages from the Tanzanian supplier. The letter writers should realize that properly administered foreign aid does not “put money into the hands of despots who aggrandize their own lifestyle and terrorize their own poor and Christians.” Of course there have been misappropriations, but that does not mean our fortunate country escapes its responsibility to participate in the First World’s moral imperative to assist the less fortunate ones with as much wisdom and generosity as possible. The Call to Action, the Campaign for Human Development, or Catholic Relief Services are not supposed to be “solutions,” merely strategies. We “seek the Kingdom of God” not merely by praying for it but acting for it as these programs do. Even from a selfish point of view, alleviating poverty and disease is a powerful antidote to the temptation to violent solutions proposed by fanatics. Our international image as partners rather than conquerors will be enhanced and peaceful solutions promoted. Peggy Saunders San Carlos

L E T T E R S

Point: aid needed! I was shocked at the Nov. 9 letters which attacked the U.N.’s Point7! Millennium initiative and HR1302 Global Poverty Act. Such ignorance seems to indicate our parishes are falling short of their responsibility to educate adults in Catholic social justice teaching, which, as our popes repeatedly insist, has universal implications. If the writers had attended a Point7! conference, they would have learned that rather than spreading dollars to needy countries “only resulting in the speedy transfer of funds to the ruling class,” the organizations Point7! supports take particular care to place funds into hands that

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Judge not that … Thank you, Father Richard Bain (Letters, Oct. 19), for reminding me that no one has the right to judge another, and none of us knows what is in another’s heart, now or in the future. That is God’s work. Diane Palacio San Francisco

What about his family? I read with interest your Nov. 2 article on the beatification and martyrdom of Franz Jagerstatter. He was beheaded for refusing to serve in Hitler’s army. A number of years prior to this he stood before God’s altar and pledged to love, honor and cherish the woman who stood beside him. The duty of his state in life was to support and care for her and their children. Instead, by his refusal to serve in the German army, he abandoned them to the tender mercies of the Third Reich. I’m sure the widow and children of a man who refused to serve in the army were treated magnanimously. They, the widow and children, would appear to be the real martyrs in this matter. There is nothing intrinsically evil in military service. I believe Pope John XXIII served in the Italian army, although not in WWII. The Austrian hierarchy can honor this man if they want. I just wonder why. Robert J. Theis Daly City

Include women, please Pope Benedict has twice spoken about the need “to offer more space, more positions of responsibility to women (March 2006).” I hope our bishops include the following in their preparations for the 2008 Synod, “The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church”: Invite women biblical experts. (No women theologians were included in the 2005 Synod.) Devote more pastoral attention to Jesus’ and St. Paul’s inclusion of women leaders. Expand opportunities for women preachers. Restore biblical women leaders to lectionary readings in which their witness was diminished or deleted. Susan Fox San Francisco

November 16, 2007

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Deeper Water

Dorothy Day: loneliness as a catalyst Many years ago, when I was teaching fifth grade in a Catholic school, a priest came to speak with our class about vocations. During the question period, one boy blurted out, “Do you ever get lonely?” Without missing a beat, the priest responded, “Sure I do—but everyone gets lonely sometimes.” Turning to me, he said, “Isn’t that true, Mrs. McCarty? Don’t even married people get lonely?” Frankly, I hadn’t given it much thought, but I found myself agreeing with him aloud. Who was I to contradict a priest, especially in front of the children? Several years after that, I became intrigued with the title of Dorothy Day’s autobiography, “The Long Loneliness.” How could the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, someone so involved in social activism on behalf of the poor and oppressed, be lonely? In her young adult life, Dorothy experienced five long months of loneliness when she first moved to New York City. “In all that great city of seven millions,” she wrote, “I found no friends. I had no work. I was separated from my fellows.” Not having been raised in any particular religious denomination, Dorothy led a wild lifestyle in her early adult years, perhaps akin to the wild youth of St. Francis of Assisi or St. Augustine. Dorothy conceived a child out of wedlock. Because the child’s father threatened to leave her if she didn’t get an abortion, she aborted her baby, something she would deeply regret for the rest of her life. Her lover abandoned

her anyway, leaving her with a double loss. A couple of relationships later, Dorothy was happy to discover that once again she was carrying the miracle of life within her. At the same time, she was growing more and more interested in the Catholic faith, and wanted to have her baby baptized. Again the man she loved threatened to leave her unless she got an abortion. This time Dorothy found the inner courage to have her baby, a little girl named Tamar, despite her lover’s threats and the stigma of being an unwed mother. As a result, the man she loved left her—but she gained a daughter and the two were baptized Catholic. Loneliness was woven like a thread through Dorothy’s life even after becoming Catholic. Living in a time when unwed motherhood was considered scandalous, some people criticized her way of life. In those days, few people understood the challenges single parents face in juggling the demands of work, parenting, church, prayer and service to others. Additionally, Dorothy received criticism about her moral positions and even spent time in jail more than once for taking a stand. Despite the unpleasantness of loneliness, it can become a catalyst for reaching out to others who suffer, just as Dorothy Day did again and again. We can build community or “family” in new places. Loneliness is also an opportunity to deepen our reliance upon God’s love and mercy. When we feel lonely, abandoned, or rejected, we can take heart that Jesus, too, knew these experiences. Surely he felt loneliness when his family thought him crazy (Mark 3:21), his

friend was in the tomb (John 11:35), people rejected his teachings about Eucharist (John 6:66), or his home town tried to kill him (Luke 4:29). On the night before Jesus died, when he most wanted companionship, Julie McCarty his friends fell asleep. On the cross, he cried out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” In Chapter 14 of John’s Gospel, Jesus promises us that loneliness is not a permanent condition: “Do not let your hearts be troubled. . . . In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. . . . I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be.” In heaven, sorrow and loneliness will cease, for all will be embraced in the loving arms of God. Reflection questions: Which people in my life might be experiencing loneliness? How might I reach out to them? When I feel lonely, what positive things might I do? Are there other times when Jesus might have felt lonely? Julie McCarty is a syndicated columnist and author of “The Pearl of Great Price: Gospel Wisdom for Christian Marriage” (Liturgical Press). Her website is www.juliemccarty.com .

Spirituality for Life

When blessing others is a blessing itself At workshop recently, as we were discussing the tension that often exists today between younger and older clergy, a middle-aged priest said: “I’d like to bless the younger priests, but they don’t want my blessing! They see me as a burnt-out, middle-aged ideologue and everything in their attitude and body language tells me that they simply want me to disappear and give them space!” Many is the parent who feels exactly that way as they stand before a 16-year-old, the mother before her own adolescent daughter; the father before his teenage son. That’s also true for many others: the teacher before her adolescent students, the priest or minister in the face of a less-thanappreciative congregation, the coach before his players, and the policeman before a paranoid and belligerent young man. It’s not easy to bless someone who, seemingly, does not want your blessing, before whom it would seem a flatout lie to say what God said to Jesus at his baptism: “In you I take delight!”

It would seem many of the young do not want our blessing. But is this so? Not really. We must distinguish between the various levels at which we want something. On the surface, clearly, young persons often do not want the blessing of their parents, elders, teachers and clergy. But that is the surface; they have deeper wants and needs. Someone once said that a true missionary is someone who goes where he or she is not wanted, but is needed; and leaves when he or she is wanted, but not needed. That is true too for parenting, teaching, coaching and ministry. We should not identify what someone wants at the surface of his or her life with what they need and want at a deeper level. Young people may not overtly want the blessing of their elders, but they desperately need it. Later on, after they have matured, they will want that blessing but, paradoxically, they will no longer need it to the same extent.

We should not be put off by the surface of things, where youth, naturally, push elders away and give the impression we have nothing to offer them. They desperately need our blessing. Father And what does it Ron Rolheiser mean to bless someone? We see the prototype for blessing at the beginning of both the Old and New Testaments. The Bible opens with the creation story and, there, we see that at the end of each day God looks at the world and pronounces it as good. Jesus’ ministry begins with his ROLHEISER, page 19

The Catholic Difference

Muslim dialogue invitation raises questions On Oct. 11, at the end of Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, 138 Muslims from around the world addressed a letter to Pope Benedict XVI and numerous other Christian leaders. Titled “A Common Word Between Us and You,” the letter was released in a media-savvy rollout in several world capitals and was welcomed with enthusiasm by one of the addressees, Canterbury’s Rowan Williams. Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, president of the reconstituted Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, was cordial but cautious, suggesting that while there were certainly things to talk about based on a shared commitment to the two Great Commandments of love of God and love of neighbor, there were also many difficulties. Something else struck me about “A Common Word” and the media commentary on it: both the letter’s signatories and the reporters writing about it seemed unaware of the proposal for framing a new dialogue between Christianity and Islam made by the Holy Father last December, in his Christmas address to the Roman Curia. There, Benedict XVI proposed that the dialogue focus on the question of how religious traditions assimilate the positive achievements of the Enlightenment. Those achievements include the victory of the idea of religious freedom as an inalienable human right – a human right that, acknowledged in law and thus erected into a civil right, leads to distinctions between religious and political authority in a just state. Catholicism, the pope reminded the Curia, had spent the better part of two centuries trying to find solutions to the questions of faith, freedom and governance posed by the Enlightenment,

a process that bore fruit at the Second Vatican Council. Might there be something in this Catholic experience of retrieval-andrenewal for a Christian-Islamic dialogue to ponder? These do seem to be the most urgent questions. For unless Islam can find within its own spiritual resources a way to legitimate religious freedom and the distinction between religious and political authority, the relationship between two billion Christians and a billion Muslims is going to remain fraught with tension. “A Common Word” speaks at length about the two Great Commandments. It says nothing about their applicability to issues of faith, freedom and the governance of society — issues posed, for example, by the death threats visited upon Muslims who convert to Christianity and by the refusal to allow Christian public worship in Saudi Arabia. Knowledgeable analysts of Islamic affairs have also raised questions about the composition of the “138,” which includes a considerable number of government functionaries as well as figures with connections to Wahhabism, the fanatic sect whose teachings and financial influence inflame so much Islamist agitation around the world. Be that as it may – and it’s not an insignificant thing – I would suggest the better approach would be to ask the people who put “A Common Word” together why the pope’s invitation of last December was not addressed. Do these 138 Muslims agree or disagree that religious freedom and the distinction between religious and political authority are the issues at the heart of today’s tensions between Islam and the West – indeed, Islam and the rest?

Would it not be more useful to concentrate on these urgent issues of practical reason (which bear on the organization of 21st century societies) than to frame the dialogue in terms of a generGeorge Weigel ic exploration of the two Great Commandments (which risks leading to an exchange of banalities)? Why not get down to cases? It is of the utmost importance for the human future that a genuine interreligious dialogue unfold between Islam and Christianity (and Judaism, which is largely ignored in “A Common Word”). Genuine dialogue requires a precise focus, and a commitment by the dialogue partners to condemn by name those members of their communities who murder in the name of God. It is unfortunate that “A Common Word” took us no closer to cementing either of these building blocks of genuine dialogue into place. George Weigel, a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., will address a Nov. 27 meeting of the San Francisco chapter of Legatus, an organization of Catholic CEOs, corporate presidents, managing partners and their spouses who seek to live their faith in their businesses, communities and families. For information on Legatus, call Paul Blewett at (661) 822-8887 or e-mail him at pblewett@legatus.org; Legatus’ website is www.legatus.org.

Catholic San Francisco

November 16, 2007

THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Malachi 3:19-20a; Psalm 98:5-6, 7-8, 9; 2 Thessalonians 3:7-12; Luke 21:28 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.

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 RESPONSORIAL PSALM stones and votive offerings, Jesus said, “All PS 98:5-6, 7-8, 9 R. The Lord comes to rule the earth with that you see here — the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon justice. another stone that will not be thrown Sing praise to the Lord with the harp, down.” with the harp and melodious song. Then they asked him, “Teacher, when With trumpets and the sound of the horn sing joyfully before the King, the Lord. will this happen? And what sign will there R. The Lord comes to rule the earth with be when all these things are about to happen?” justice He answered, “See that you not be Let the sea and what fills it resound, deceived, for many will the world and those come in my name, saywho dwell in it let the ing, ‘I am he,’ and ‘The rivers clap their hands, ‘You will be hated time has come.’ Do not the mountains shout follow them! When you with them for joy. by all because of hear of wars and insurR. The Lord comes to do not be terrirule the earth with my name, but not a rections, fied; for such things must justice. happen first, but it will Before the Lord, for hair on your head not immediately be the he comes, end.” for he comes to rule Then he said to them, the earth, will be destroyed.’ “Nation will rise against He will rule the world nation, and kingdom with justice against kingdom. There will be powerful and the peoples with equity. R. The Lord comes to rule the earth with earthquakes, famines, and plagues from place to place; and awesome sights and justice. mighty signs will come from the sky. “Before all this happens, however, they A READING FROM THE will seize and persecute you, they will SECOND LETTER OF PAUL hand you over to the synagogues and to TO THE THESSALONIANS prisons, and they will have you led before 2 THES 3:7-12 kings and governors because of my name. Brothers and sisters: You know how one must imitate us. For It will lead to your giving testimony. we did not act in a disorderly way among Remember, you are not to prepare your you, nor did we eat food received free from defense beforehand, for I myself shall anyone. On the contrary, in toil and drudg- give you a wisdom in speaking that all ery, night and day we worked, so as not to your adversaries will be powerless to burden any of you. Not that we do not have resist or refute. You will even be handed the right. Rather, we wanted to present our- over by parents, brothers, relatives and selves as a model for you, so that you might friends, and they will put some of you to imitate us. In fact, when we were with you, death. You will be hated by all because of we instructed you that if anyone was my name, but not a hair on your head will unwilling to work, neither should that one be destroyed. By your perseverance you eat. We hear that some are conducting will secure your lives.”

Scripture reflection FATHER BILL NICHOLAS

Holding on until the end One of the fascinating characteristics of epic fantasy stories, in which there is a heroic battle between good and evil, is that the reader always knows in the end good will ultimately triumph – yet they endure the story anyway! Shortly after the release of the fourth Harry Potter novel (and the first movie) I asked a group of children why they were so anxious for the next three novels to come out. After all, the stories can be rather scary and intense, and we know in the end good will ultimately triumph over evil. Why do we even need the other stories? Their answer was simple, but profound – we want to see how the good side wins! Not knowing how the story will pan out, they were willing to endure the scariness and suspense so that they could experience the triumphant ending. Last summer (in case you had not heard) the last of the Harry Potter novels was released and readers everywhere were finally rewarded for their faithfulness to the franchise and their perseverance in sticking with the story until the final resolution in which (spoiler alert!) good did indeed triumph over evil. Despite the intensity, and often scariness of the story, and the length of the last few books, readers endured to see how it would end. The Gospel reading for this Sunday is one that can be a little disturbing to hear – particularly if (with a little added moxie) it is read with all the vigor of an Old Testament prophet. It is not a Gospel of peace and comfort, but of judgment and dismay. We hear of persecution, even by family and friends. We do not hear of rest, but of labor to the point of exhaustion. We do not hear of a Messiah and King, but of false leaders seeking to trap us by telling us what we want to hear, or frightening us into following their spurious direction. As people of faith we are assured of Christ’s immanent triumph manifested in the final ushering in of the kingdom. However, if our Gospel reading were the mission statement of Christianity, it is unlikely very many would follow in this age of feel-good religion and the building up of self-esteem. How many of us would sign up for such things, much less introduce them to our children? How many would be

willing to endure such trials so as to see the salvation promised by Christ? Yet, such may be the feelings of those who suffer extreme or terminal illness, who are tempted to end it all prematurely by euthanasia. Such may be the feeling of our brothers and sisters in faith who suffer persecution throughout the world, the very persecution Christ promises in the Gospel, tempted to deny their faith to save their or their family’s lives. Such may be the feeling of children whose families are facing divorce or tragedy, tempted to doubt even a loving God when the stability they once had at home falls apart. Such were the fears and uncertainties felt by the disciples of Christ at sunset on Good Friday – their faith no doubt challenged by such a disgraceful downfall. Christ promises trials and tribulations, not at the end of the world, but here and now as part of being his followers. He also promises that at the proper time we will be given what we need to endure; words and wisdom that will enable us to bear such trials with a patient resolve, grace to resist the temptation to cower and hide in the face of fear, grace to endure the trials and struggles that will come. Jesus promised that he has overcome the world and we believe that his death and resurrection have brought us salvation. In that faith, Gospels such as today’s and the trials they promise do not discourage, but rather encourage us – to pray for the grace to endure, to eagerly hold on to the end, and so see the salvation promised us by Christ whereby our souls are saved. It is that endurance that will help us to see salvation; if only we don’t give up but rather hold on to the end; if only we face our trials willingly, with full confidence God’s goodness will triumph, and with eager anticipation and unrelenting excitement to see just how God will bring that salvation about. Father William C. Nicholas is parochial vicar of St. Cecilia Parish, San Francisco, and author of “I Saw the World End: An Introduction to the Bible’s Apocalyptic Literature,” recently released by Paulist Press ($18.95 paperback).

Advent Wreath: Let’s really do the blessed thing this year By Bob Zyskowski This Advent, let’s not just put an Advent Wreath out as a decoration. Let’s use the blessed thing. Let’s do Advent. Let’s gather family or friends each week of the Advent season and pray that beautiful ritual together. Really, we can do this. And we don’t have to be embarrassed about it, either. Let’s pick a day of the week and a time that works for the folks we’d like to join us. We might have to say something like, “Hey, remember praying around the Advent Wreath when we were kids? Let’s do that again this year.” Let’s invite friends, neighbors, co-workers, grandparents, children, grandchildren – even that person with whom we never see eye to eye. Our Advent Wreath ceremony doesn’t have to be a major production – 10, 15 minutes max. Short and sweet. That’s not too much to ask.

And it’s pretty simple, really. Catholic San Francisco is making it easy by publishing an Advent Wreath ritual each of the four weeks of the Advent season. Clip it out of the paper and make all the copies you need. And why? Because it will be the first step in observing, living and celebrating the new Church year. Because it will get us started remembering our call to holiness. And just think: If we do Advent right – if we prepare the way of the Lord in our own lives, in our own households, in our own communities – Christmas this year might just be less about presents and more about the gift that we all received with the birth of the Child Jesus. Bob Zyskowski is associate publisher of The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and president of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.

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Federal legislators chided for no-shows in archdiocesan letter By Rick DelVecchio George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, has written Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and three other Bay Area federal representatives to voice “deep disappointment” that none of the six lawmakers attended the Oct. 27 Point7Now! Action Conference on global poverty. “On behalf of the over 500 participants at the event, I can say that there was deep disappointment because of your lack of participation,” Wesolek wrote Reps. Tom Lantos, Anna Eshoo and Lynn Woolsey. “Perhaps, this lack of participation is a brief glimpse into why congressional job approval is at an all-time low.” Ending the with “Sincerely Yours on behalf of the Point7Now! Steering Committee,” Wesolek wrote similar letters with slightly different phrasing to Pelosi and the two senators. Despite the strong language, Wesolek closed the letters with a new invitation. “An interfaith delegation of clergy and constituents would like to meet with you to find ways that we can work together toward keeping America’s promise to make poverty history for the 1.1 billion of the poorest inhabitants of the planet,” he wrote. The conference, held at St. Mary’s Cathedral, was designed to urge lawmakers to support legislation aimed at implementing a U.N. mandate to reduce the more dire poverty in the world by 2015. The event focused on foreign aid, trade reforms and a debt-relief measure – all subjects of bills pending in the current congressional session and requiring urgent action, according to speakers at the conference. They said the legislation would have an immediate impact on the extreme poor by boosting spending on health and education, which they said would lessen suffering from preventable diseases such as malaria and HIV/AIDs. The speakers and conference organizers said the legislative goals are steps in a long-term campaign to dramatically increase U.S. spending on anti-poverty measures overseas. The United States must spend seven-tenths of 1 percent of its national gross product (GNP) to relieve the most severe poverty in the developing world, up from the current two-tenths of 1 percent, they said. The higher spending is needed to meet all eight Millennium Development Goals set by the United States and 190 other U.N. member states in 2000. The goals, if

A copy of this photo with empty chairs reserved for federal legislators invited to the Oct. 27 Point7Now! Action Conference was being included in letters to them expressing concerns about their absence, said George Wesolek, director of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, who authored the letter.

implemented as planned by 2015, would have their greatest impact on the 1.1 billion people who suffer the world’s most extreme poverty because they live on less than a dollar a day. “We intend to keep our commitment to the poorest of the poor of the world” and to continue to work toward a commitment of seven-tenths of 1 percent of U.S. economic output to combat global poverty, Wesolek told Catholic San Francisco. The legislative conference was organized by an interfaith delegation led by Archbishop George Neiderauer; Marc Andrus, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California; and Rabbi Stephen Pearce, senior rabbi at Congregation Emanu-El in San Francisco. Wesolek, in his letters to the lawmakers, noted that invitations to the conference were extended not only by the three faith leaders but also by the legislators’ constituents. “I can only surmise that elimination of global poverty is not a priority with you,” he wrote Lantos, Eshoo and Woolsey. Catholic San Francisco sought responses from the three by phone and e-mail Tuesday but had received no comments by the newspaper’s deadline later in the day. Wesolek acknowledged that Pelosi sent a representative, Phil De Andrade. “While his attendance was greatly appreciated,” he wrote, we found that his responses were not as pertinent to the legislation regarding global poverty as we would have liked.” Pelosi’s press office sent the following response to Catholic San Francisco:

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“Speaker Pelosi has devoted her career in Congress to the fight against poverty and disease in the developing world. She is proud that one of the first acts of her speakership was for Congress to provide $4.9 billion for global AIDS, TB and malaria initiatives. The Congress followed up on that investment with an additional $6.9 billion commitment for the coming year — the highest funding level ever provided by the United States.” Wesolek noted that Feinstein could not attend because of scheduling problems and the Southern California wildfires, but wrote that it was unfortunate she did not send a representative. Feinstein’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Wesolek said he was going to include in the letters a copy of a Nov. 2 Catholic San Francisco photo showing five empty chairs with legislators’ names on them along with De Andrade seated in the chair reserved for Pelosi. Michael Vick contributed to this story.

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This is not a bandwagon ploy, but the proper exercise of a vocation: “Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth.” We see a small girl on her way to school, carrying in her backpack a book about our planet, its wonders and how it came to be. The poet contrasts the book’s tale of innocent growth with the reality of the world as we know it: “Topsoil: going fast. Rivers: dammed and fouled./ Cod: about fished out.” Two points of reference join Lucretius and us: the older poet’s own time of political unrest and military aggression, and his awareness of the world’s beginnings in formless chaos of dead matter. Where are we going now? We have “a dream of restoration” but will it be fulfilled? Poetry, a beauty ever ancient, ever new, poses the question and we must find the answer.

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Advent – and sooner Opportunities Nov. 16, 17, 18, 8 p.m.: The Winifred Baker Chorale and Orchestra of Dominican University of California will perform Handel’s Messiah and the Hallelujah Chorus Nov. 16 at St. Raphael Church, 1104 5th Ave. in San Rafael; Nov. 17 at St. Paul Church, 29th and Church St. in San Francisco; and Nov. 18 at Dominican University’s Angelica Hall. Tickets are $10/ $5 students and seniors/12 and under free. Call (415) 482-3579. Nov. 18, 7 p.m.: A slide presentation and book signing at St. Stephen Church, Eucalyptus Drive at 23rd Ave., San Francisco. Join author S. T. Georgiou for a walk along “Mystic Street” as he shares spiritual and contemplative experiences that reveal the power of grace in everyday life. Visit www.saintstephenSF.org or call (415) 6612444. Parking available in Stonestown Mall Lot “J”. Light refreshments follow. Nov. 20, 7 p.m.: An evening of reflection on the recently released “Spiritual Journal of Mother Teresa: Come be my Light” at the Pauline Book & Media center, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City. Father Kevin Kennedy, local priest, hospital chaplain and spiritual director will share insights drawn from Mother Teresa’s life and writings, as well as from the masters of the spiritual life and his own familiarity with the various stages of the interior life. Reception follows. Nov. 24, 3 p.m.: Concert featuring David Dehner, organist, at Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th and Dolores St. in San Francisco. Admission free. Free will donation to benefit charity. Contact David Dehner at djdehner@yahoo.com. Nov. 26, Dec. 3: “Coping With the Holidays”— Grief group sessions 6 - 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan St., San Francisco Level C, Mercy Conference Room. Registration and information: (415) 750-5718 . Nov. 26, 27, 28: Jesuit Father Tom Allender leads a “Life’s Journey” mission at St. Stephen Parish, 451 Eucalyptus in San Francisco. Father Allender, who grew up in St. Stephen Parish and whose mom, Genie, is still a parishioner there, will speak after the 8 a.m. Mass and again at 7 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday tackling a theme of “From Anger to Forgiveness.” He will preach at all Masses the weekend of Nov. 24, 25. Father Allender has been giving Missions for more than 20 years. Call (415) 681-2444 for more information. Nov. 27, 7 p.m.: “Strangers No More: An Evening of Reflection, Education and Dialogue on Immigration” at St. John of God Parish Hall, 1290 Fifth Ave., (at Irving), San Francisco. Call Judy at (415) 334-4770. Nov. 29, 7:30 – 9 p.m.: “Shedding Light on the Study of God: a Guided Reading of St. Thomas Aquinas” with Stephen Cordova, a philosophy instructor at the University of San Francisco. Takes place at St. Mary’s Cathedral Event Center, Hall C, Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Admission is free. For additional information, the titles or availability of texts used, contact the presenter at cordova@usfca.edu Nov. 29, 7 p.m.: Young adults, married and single, in their 20s and 30s, invited to St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco for a Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Archbishop George Niederauer will be the presider and homilist. A reception will follow in the lower level conference rooms of the Cathedral until 9 p.m. RSVP via website, www.sfyam.org. For more information, contact Mary Jansen at (415) 6145596 or jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Nov. 29, 7 p.m.: New Catholic Fiction Book Club commencing at Pauline Books & Media. Meets the last Thursday of each month, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City. For more information, call Sister Domenica at (650) 369-4230. Nov. 30 – Dec. 2, 1 – 7 p.m.: “Follow the Star,” a display of more than 180 Nativity scenes from around the world at St. Bartholomew Parish auditorium, 600 Columbia Dr. in San Mateo. Call (650) 347-0701. Dec. 1, 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.: “Prepare the Way,” an Advent retreat at St. Mark Church, 325 MarineView in Belmont; $10 donation includes lunch. Call (650) 614-5650. Dec. 9, 4 p.m.: “Lessons and Carols,” an Advent celebration at St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. and Vicente St. in San Francisco; Russell Ferreira, conductor/music director, Justin Kielty, organist. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays: Noontime concerts – 12:30 p.m. - at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, San Francisco; $5 donation requested. Nov. 20: Classical works for piano, violin and cello. Call (415) 288-3800. Sundays at 3:30 p.m.: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral followed by Vespers. Nov. 18: Angela Kraft Cross, organist. Works by Langlais; Nov. 25: Vincent de Pol (Germany), organist. Call (415) 567-2020.

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Nov. 18, 1 – 4 p.m.: “Home for the Holidays,” an afternoon benefiting the restoration of Ralston Hall Mansion at Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Includes light lunch, desserts, spirits of the season, boutique, fashions, holiday decorations, entertainment. Tickets are $40; ages 11 – 17 are $20. Call (650) 598-3645. Nov. 30, Dec. 1, 8 p.m.: The University of San Francisco Performing Arts Department presents the USF Dance Ensemble in “Choreographing Change: An Evening of Dance as Social Action.” Performances will take place at Lone Mountain campus in the Studio Theater on the first floor (2800 Turk Blvd., at Parker);$10 general admission. For more information, visit www.usfperformances.com or call (415) 422-3888. Dec. 1: Crab Bash Family Dinner at Holy Name of Jesus Ryan Hall, 1560 40th Ave. at Lawton in San Francisco. Doors open at 6 p.m.; dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $35; tables of eight for $260. Children’s tickets, ages 6 – 12, are $10. Evening includes marinated Dungeness crab, salad, pasta, cheesecake, wine, beer or punch. Call (415) 664-8590. Dec. 1, 2: “Alpine Christmas,” a holiday boutique benefiting St. Brendan Elementary in the parish hall, 234 Ulloa St. at Laguna Honda Blvd., San Francisco; Saturday, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Choose from a selection of handcrafted Christmas gifts, ornaments, decorations and more. Day also features children’s games, raffles and food courts. Free admission. Call (415) 731-2665.

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Nov. 28, 5 – 9 p.m.: More than 55 vendors will display holiday treasures, jewelry, clothing and decorations at the Mercy High School Alumnae Association’s annual Holiday Boutique at the Kohl Mansion on the campus of Mercy High School, 2750 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. There will also be two docent tours of the historic mansion, at 6:30 and 8 p.m. A $7 donation is appreciated. For more information, call Carol Fraher or the Alumnae Relations Department at (650) 762-1190. Enjoying last year’s boutique are Kelly Hendon Malloy (left), ’89, president of the alumnae group’s board, and board secretary Kathleen Lama, ’87. Sundays: Gregorian Chant at the National Shrine of Saint Francis, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco, 12:15 p.m. Mass. For more information, call (415) 983-0405.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Nov. 26, 5:45 p.m.: The USF Center for the Pacific Rim presents “Intel in Asia: Creating Digital Revolutions in China, India, and Vietnam,” a conversation with USF graduate Paul Otellini, president and CEO of Intel Corp.in Fromm Hall, 2467 Golden Gate Ave. (corner of Golden Gate and Parker Avenue); free and open to the public, but reservations are encouraged. To reserve a seat, call (415) 422-6828. For more information, visit www.pacificrim.usfca.edu Nov. 27: Symposium observing 75th anniversary of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley. Day features talks on Dominican education and how it is relevant today. Call Ciel Mahoney at (510) 883-2085. Nov. 30, 2-3:30 p.m.: Father Donal Godfrey, SJ, will discuss his recent book, “Gays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish,” at the University of San Francisco faculty dining room of the University Center; sponsored by the Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought. For information: (415) 422-5200 or www.usfca.edu/lanecenter. Msgr. Robert W, McElroy, Ph.D., will address “Morality of War and Peace in Iraq” as part of Notre Dame de Namur University’s Catholic Scholar Series on Nov. 27 at 7 p.m. in the Taube Conference Center on campus, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. The lecture by the pastor of San Mateo’s St. Gregory Parish is free and open to the public. The priest holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, and a doctorate in international relations from Stanford. He is author of “Morality and American Foreign Policy: The Role of Ethics in International Affairs.”

Taize/Chanted Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. 2nd Friday at 8 p.m.: Our Lady of the Pillar, 400 Church St. in Half Moon Bay. Call Cheryl Fuller at (650) 726-2249. 1st Tuesday at 7 p.m.: National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco. Call (415) 983-0405 or visit www.shrineSF.org.

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TV/Radio Sunday, 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. 1st Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. Nov. 18, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: “For Heaven’s Sake,” featuring conversation with Father Gerry O’Rourke on forgiveness.

Food & Fun Nov. 17, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Sisters of Mercy at Marian Convent 2007 Annual Holiday Boutique. Holiday items for sale include themed gift baskets,

handcrafted blankets, all occasion handmade cards, homemade jams and jellies, baked goods, candies and fudge. Marian Convent, 2300 Adeline Dr., Bldg. D, Burlingame. Follow Lower Road on Mercy Campus to Marian Convent. For information, call Debbie Halleran at (650) 340-7426. Nov. 17, 7 – 10 p.m.: “Rock the Parish Hall,” two evenings of dancing to classic rock and blues by Marin band, “Girls Nite Out,” at St. Hilary Parish Hall, 761 Hilary Dr., Tiburon. Tickets are $20, available at the door and include appetizers. Wine and beer will be available for purchase. Call (415) 4351122 or e-mail richardsmckinley@comcast.net. Nov. 17, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Boutique de Noel, a holiday fundraiser benefiting the work of The Little Sisters of the Poor at St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St. in San Francisco. Afternoon features silent auction, raffle and a chance to purchase from holiday gifts including gourmet baskets and homemade foods. Lunch is available at $45. Reservations required. Sponsored by the Auxiliary of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Call Denise Monfredini at (415) 681-5948 or Jean Terheyden at (415) 922-3797. Free admission and valet parking. Nov. 17: “Cougars On Broadway,” a fall fashion show benefiting St. Stephen School, begins at 11 a.m. at the Olympic Club Lakeside with nohost cocktails and a silent auction, and luncheon at noon. Tickets are $70. Raffle tickets are $5 per ticket or six tickets for $25. Raffle prizes include $500 Stonestown Galleria shopping spree and $150 gift certificate to Zuni’s Restaurant. For more information, contact Kimberley Collins at (415) 990-1620 or kimberleycollins@sbcglobal.net. Nov. 17, 18, 10:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.: Holiday Boutique sponsored by St. Peter Parish Women’s Guild, 700 Oddstad Blvd. in Pacifica. More than 25 vendors showcase a wide variety of hand-crafted items and gifts. Snack bar, too. Call Darlene Doyle at (650) 359-4535. Nov. 17, 18, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Holiday Boutique benefiting Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose at the congregation’s motherhouse, 43326 Mission Blvd. in Fremont. Items include famous olive oil from trees on Sisters’ estate, homemade fruitcakes, oil paintings and hand-made afghans. Call (510) 657-2468. Nov. 17: Holiday Boutique benefiting Immaculate Conception Academy, 24th and Guerrero St. in San Francisco, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.; features hand-made, one-of-a-kind gifts including baked goods, refreshments and an early visit with Santa. Call (650) 355-4095 Nov. 17, 18: “Noel Notions” at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel auditorium, 17 Buena Vista Ave. at East Blithedale in Mill Valley, Saturday 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. – noon. . Enjoy raffle, arts and crafts, homemade baked goods, Santa’s toy booth. Call (415) 388-4332. Nov. 18, 2 – 8 p.m.: San Francisco Croatian Festival at Croatian American Cultural Center, 60 Onondaga Ave. in San Francisco. Bring the whole family. Celebrate the150th anniversary of Croatian culture in San Francisco. There will be performances, dancing, singing and food. Performers include Sinovi of Chicago, Dalmacijo Singers, Novi Stari Tamburasi, Slavonian Traveling Band, Sidro and Koraci Croatian Dance Ensemble. $10 donation. Children free. Visit www.CroatianAmericanWeb.org. or call (510) 649-0941.

Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs are available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 422-6698. The annual Thanksgiving Mass for the divorced and separated of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will take place Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. at St. John of God Church, 5th Avenue and Irving Street in San Francisco. A reception will follow. For information, contact Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 422-6698 or Susan Fox, (415) 752-1308.

Consolation Ministry Grief support groups meet at the following parishes. San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 5581015. St. Dunstan, Millbrae; call Barbara Cappel at (650) 692-7543. Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-0478. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 366-3802. St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sister Patricia at (650) 589-2800. Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo; call Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650. St. Isabella, San Rafael; call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato; call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171. San Francisco: St. Dominic; call Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824; St. Finn Barr (bilingual); call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823. St. Gabriel; call Elaine Khalaf at (415) 564-7882. Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo; call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506. Ministry to Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 5581015. Information regarding grief ministry in general: call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: Tiburon, St. Hilary: Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775. Ross, St. Anselm: (415) 453-2342. Greenbrae, St. Sebastian: Jean Mariani (415) 461-7060. Mill Valley, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel: Rick Dullea (415) 388-4190. Sausalito, St. Mary Star of the Sea: Lloyd Dulbecco (415) 331-7949. San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, Michael Adams (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, Lee Gallery (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus (415) 6648590; St. Paul of the Shipwreck, Deacon Larry Chatmon and Loretta Chatmon (415) 468-3434. San Mateo County: San Mateo — St. Bartholomew: Donna Salinas (650) 347-0701, ext. 14; St. Matthew: Deacon Jim Shea (650) 3447622. Burlingame — St. Catherine of Siena: Silvia Chiesa (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels: Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter (650) 3758023. Millbrae, St. Dunstan: Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952. Pacifica, St. Peter: Sylvia Miles (650) 355-6650, Jerry Trecroci (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher (650) 355-4355. Half Moon Bay, Our Lady of the Pillar: Meghan (650) 726-4337.

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November 16, 2007

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A chunk of cement nearly the size of a basketball was used to smash colored designer windows and framing of side-entrance doors of St. Rita Church in Fairfax early the morning of Nov. 10. Police preliminarily discounted the vandalism as a hate crime, said Father Ken Weare, pastor, who reported damage estimates were “upwards of $3,000.” “While it appears that the perpetrator or perpetrators entered the vestibule of the church and may have entered the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, no items in the church vestibule and Blessed Sacrament chapel were stolen or damaged,” Father Weare said. “All other doors were locked and undisturbed.”

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of October HOLY CROSS COLMA

Barbara A. Casey Michael Joseph Casey, Sr. Blanche M. Chicca Mai Hwa Chow Don Chu Robert Clark Sr. Julia Clayton, SNDdeN Mary A. Coudures Aldo De Cesari Joseph R. Debono Eileen R. DeMartini Teresa M. Dollard Violet Embrey Esperanza Mesias Esber Edward E. Fabian Marino Bruno Fanucchi Issa A. Flaifel Connie C. Galaviz Rafael Garban, Jr. Lawrence C. Geraldi Lolita Goltiao Jane R. Gomez Marian J. Graeber Michael J. Guinasso Oscar De Guia Guzman Elsie M. Harris Jose A. Jasmin Jerome Joseph Keyer

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HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Harold J. Clerkin Margherita B. Gado Eugenia Marie Sheehan Kelly Margaret Kennedy Pinkerton Dilber Uygur

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Domenico L. Caldarazzo John W. Colwell Carlos Alfredo Laguan John “Jack” Loughran Dorothy M. Mariani Ted Needham George Pompeii Vincent J. Scotto Diane Elaine Silva

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA 1st Saturday Mass – Saturday, December 1, 2007 11:00 a.m. – All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Rev. Tony LaTorre, Celebrant – St. Philip Parish

Christmas Remembrance Service

(Not Mass)

Saturday, December 15, 2007 11:00 a.m. – All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Rev. John Talesfore, Officiating – Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.