November 30, 2007

Pontiff to release encyclical on hope

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By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI will sign his second encyclical, a meditation on Christian hope, Nov. 30 and the document will be released the same day, the Vatican announced.

The encyclical, titled Spe Salvi (“Saved by Hope”), will be presented at a Vatican press conference by Cardinal Georges Cottier, the retired theologian of the papal household, and Cardinal Albert Vanhoye, a retired professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute.

Sources have said the encyclical, about 65 pages long, explores the theme of salvation and the hope offered by Christianity in light of modern philosophy and contemporary culture.

The title comes from St. Paul’s letter to the Romans, in which he said: “For in hope we have been saved.” The text will be published initially in Latin, Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Polish, the Vatican said.

The pope worked on the encyclical over the summer, during his stays in northern Italy and at his villa outside Rome. At the same time, he has been working on a third encyclical that deals with social themes, according to Vatican officials.

The pope’s first encyclical in 2006, Deus Caritas Est (“God Is Love”), called for a deeper understanding of love as a gift from God to be shared in a self-sacrificial way.

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Two young resident students of Hogar Rosa Duarte orphanage and school in the Dominican Republic clown for the camera as Catholic San Francisco Assistant Editor Rick DelVecchio snaps their photo.

Dominican Republic: Day One ‘God has always been present and always provides’ Catholic San Francisco Assistant Editor Rick DelVecchio is in the Dominican Republic on a pilgrimage with Food for the Poor, a relief organization which supports schools and economic projects to relieve poverty in the Caribbean nation. See the Catholic San Francisco website for additional reports: www.catholic-sf.org.

By Rick DelVecchio

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onday, Nov. 26, the pilgrimage visited a girls’ orphanage, Hogar Rosa Duarte, and boys’ boarding school, Hogar Santo Domingo Savio, both in Santa Domingo. Both institutions receive partial support from the government but depend on outside financial contributions and volunteer help to survive.

It was just after dark in the courtyard of Hogar Rosa Duarte and the end of a long school day for the 120 live-

in residents — girls ages 6 to 14. Some of the girls jumped rope in the sultry heat as the director, Sister Julia Del Moral, a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, told visitors about the role orphanages play in raising children in the impoverished nation.

A child comes to be part of Sister Julia’s flock in any of several ways: premature parental death due to AIDs or other disease, parental mental illness due to the stresses of poverty, or abandonment by parents who feel they lack the resources to care for their girl.

The residents of Hogar Rosa Duarte include two groups of sisters whose fathers killed their mothers, Sister Julia said. The fathers went to jail.

Sister Julia’s orphanage is not a stereotypical holding pen for kids nobody wants but something more like a highly disciplined parochial school.

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Local immigration experts back state bishops’ statement

By Michael Vick The text of the California Catholic bishops’ Nov. 25 statement on immigration is carried on Page 14.

Local Catholic leaders are standing behind the recent call from the Catholic bishops of California for compassionate immigration reform. In a statement released Nov. 25, the bishops called on Congress to work for more temporary visas, fair rules and requirements regarding applications for legal residence status and citizenship, and the reunification of families.

Brian Cahill, Archdiocese of San Francisco Catholic Charities CYO executive director, said the issue comes down to basic tenets of Catholicism.

“We live in a complex society and our elected officials are struggling to develop public policy that catches up with the complexity,” Cahill said. “But when you strip it away, as Catholics we are either committed to justice and charity or we are not.”

Cahill said recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in San Rafael meant children in the care of CCCYO came home to empty houses, something he finds intolerable.

“How can we ignore the needs of those children?

How can we ignore the needs of their parents and call ourselves Catholics?”

Christopher Martinez, CCCYO’s director of Refugee and Immigrant Services, said the bishops’ statement reflects Christ’s admonition in the Golden Rule.

“All persons deserve to be treated with dignity and respect,” Martinez said. “As communities of faith we need to unite and continue to mobilize in support of a broad legalization program and comprehensive immigration reform.”

Martinez added that immigrants are a vital part of the economy, echoing the bishops’ warning that mass deporIMMIGRATION, page 8

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From left: Peter Paychev, Garcelle Vierra; world renowned singer, Frederica von Stade, Father Albert Vucinovich, pastor; concert chair, Ada Regan, Sacred Side Sister Antonella Manca, principal; concert committee member, Jean DiSalvo and Eric Nague at St. Catherine of Sienna Parish and school Nov. 8.

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by Tom Burke Born within a week of each other a hundred Novembers ago were now-and-for-the-last eight decades San Rafael Dominican Sisters Antonius Tucci and Claire Maher. The two religious were honored on the occasion of their centennial birthdays – Nov. 7 and 15 - at the congregation’s Our Lady of Lourdes Convent in San Rafael where they both reside.

Sister Antonius was born in Italy and fostered a vocation from her earliest years. She came to America through Livermore at age 12. Sister taught elementary school for more than 50 years and was a rosary-maker – she often used the decades as a counting aid for children - from her time as a novice until sight difficulty caused her to quit the ministry in her nineties. Sister Claire has served as teacher and principal at Catholic schools throughout California. The epitome of Dominican graciousness and hospitality, Sister Claire served as alumnae director moderator for the congregation’s San Domenico schools in San Anselmo well after retiring from the classroom. Thank you, hats off and happy birthday to both…. Moving but continuing in the Daughters of Charity family is Patsy Vincent, most recently development director at San Francisco’s Mount St. Joseph- St Elizabeth and now taking on the role at Seton Institute in Daly City. “This is an amazing opportunity to engage people in support of healthcare in developing countries,” Patsy told me. Seton Institute funds 50

projects a year “bringing health and hope” to people in need in the poorest countries of the world Patsy said…. Getting to know his way around the Peninsula is Hernan Bucheli new vice-president for enrollment management at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont. “We feel privileged to that Hernan has chosen to work with us and expect that he will soon feel the sense of pride we share in belonging the university community,’ said Judith Maxwell Grieg, school provost…. I am a fan so it’s a pleasure and a treat to report the return of Frederica von Stade to St. Catherine of Siena Parish November 8. The trip was to celebrate a concert the famed mezzo-soprano performed in 2002 at St. Catherine’s that has brought more than $25,000 to the St. Catherine of Siena Children’s Music program. “The church was packed

Nicholas Leon Michael Watkins was baptized recently at St. Mark Church in Belmont where his mom, Jill is Youth Minister and where dad, Rich, volunteers.

Enjoying and taking part in the rite were Nicholas’ folks, Richard and Jill Leyte-Vidal Watkins, left, Kelly, Ryann and Todd Leyte-Vidal; and grandparents, Janet and Mike Leyte-Vidal. Holy Ghost Father Al Furtado, pastor, presided.

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for the concert,” said Ada Regan a longtime parishioner of St. Catherine’s and friend of the singer whom she refers to fondly as “Flicka,” a nickname many of us have heard her called in televised performances and reviews. “Many are grateful that Flicka lent her talent to us for the day,” Ada noted. “The children are now enjoying the music program that is now in place.”

The monies so far have taken students to the opera and brought music appreciation and teaching programs to the school…

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St. Cecilia Elementary School students held bright red kites they made in memory of a classmate, who died four years ago, to underscore the value of stem cell therapies during a Nov. 15 gathering on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to launch a drive to establish an umbilical cord blood bank for northern California.

Joanne Pang, a St. Cecilia fourth-grader who died of leukemia in 2003 at the age of nine, might have benefited from umbilical cord stem cell therapy if it had been available.

Dr. Jordan Wilbur, a pediatric oncologist, told those gathered to begin the $2.5 million campaign to establish the Northern California Umbilical Cord Blood Bank that a quarter of children with leukemia cannot be cured because suitable bone-marrow transplants cannot be found.

The new umbilical cord blood bank would provide stem cells for transplantation into cancer patients as an alternative to bone-marrow transplants, which are in limited supply.

With umbilical cord blood donated by mothers, “We now have the potential to cure all patients,” Dr. Wilbur said.

State Senator Carole Migden, who sponsored legislation to create a cord blood collection program in the state, hailed cord blood stem cells as a medical advance that circumvents religious objections to human embryonic stem cells. The San Francisco cord blood bank, which is sponsored by the Joanne Pang Foundation, will be seeking donations from mothers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds.

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Umbilical cord blood holds huge promise, say new ‘bank’ backers

St. Cecilia Elementary School students hold kites they made in memory of Joanne Pang, a St. Cecilia fourthgrader who died of leukemia in 2003 at the age of nine. Dr. Jordan Wilbur (above), a pediatric oncologist, was among those to address a Nov. 15 gathering at San Francisco City Hall announcing a campaign to establish a northern California umbilical cord blood bank.

To be housed at UCSF Children’s Hospital, the bank is expected to begin taking umbilical cord blood donations by early 2009. The goal is to have 5,000 or more banked cord

blood units within five years, with an emphasis on extensive genetic diversity. For more information, visit the foundation’s website at www.joannepang.org.

Pandemic flu plan developed by Catholic School Department

By Michael Vick The Department of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco has released a preparedness plan for pandemic influenza in response to concerns and recommendations of local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control. The plan is the culmination of work that began last school year, said Superintendent Maureen Huntington.

In the event of a serious flu outbreak, the plan calls on principals and teachers to practice safe hygiene techniques including frequent hand washing and to encourage students to do the same.

Phones, door handles, hall passes and other surfaces are to be cleaned regularly.

The directives further

call for strict monitoring of students for symptoms of the flu prior to an outbreak. In the event of an outbreak or pandemic, schools are to implement more intense surveillance, with findings reported to the local health department.

At all levels of infection, infected children and staff are to stay home. If the level of infection rises above 30 percent of a school’s population, the plan calls on principals

to close the school and cancel all non-academic events.

Part of the plan includes a series of letters to be distributed to parents at various stages of a hypothetical pandemic. These letters are meant to calm fears and give instructions as the outbreak runs its course.

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Homelessness ‘global pandemic’ VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Homelessness is “a global pandemic” that demands a Christian response and government intervention, a Vatican official said during the Vatican’s first international conference addressing the pastoral needs of the homeless.

Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, said more than one billion people are homeless or lack adequate shelter, and that number is on the rise. Some 50,000 people, mostly women and children, die every day because they lack decent shelter, clean water and proper sanitation, he said in a Nov. 26 address. In the United States alone, 3.5 million people are estimated to be homeless with up to 1.4 million of them children, he said.

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th Anniversary Mass 1857 – 2007 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2007 2 PM

Principal Celebrant: Archbishop George Niederauer, DD, PhD Mass commemorating the founding of St. Mary’s Hospital by the Sisters of Mercy, Burlingame Regional Community. Reception to follow.

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Charities mail fraud seen ALEXANDRIA, VA — Catholic Charities USA has recently learned of several types of fraudulent e-mail messages that have misappropriated the name of Catholic Charities USA and its affiliates to extract money or personal information from unsuspecting recipients, the organization has reported.

“This kind of fraud is typically designed to deceive recipients into revealing personal information such as home address, telephone number, and credit card, Social Security, and bank account numbers to identity thieves,” a CCUSA news release stated, adding,”Often the message claims that the recipient has been chosen to receive a cash grant or donation.”

Bishop Patrick McGrath of the San Jose Diocese receives the Daughters of Charity Affiliate Award from Sister Margaret Keaveney, Visitatrix of the Daughters of Charity, Province of the West which includes California, Utah, Alaska, New Mexico, Arizona and Interprovincial Ministries in Haiti, the Pacific Islands and Siberia.

Police reopen Mexico City cathedral MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Church officials reopened Mexico City’s Metropolitan Cathedral with the support of nearly 50 police officers after services were suspended when protesters interrupted a Mass and kicked over pews. A statement issued by the Mexico City Archdiocese Nov. 26 said it trusted the city police department would protect the church and worshippers with a contingent of officers stationed there permanently.

Leftist leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost the 2006 presidential race by a razor-thin margin, was leading a protest in the plaza adjoining the cathedral.

Lopez Obrador claims the election was rigged and calls himself Mexico’s “legitimate president.” The ringing of the church bells during one of the rally speeches angered demonstrators.

Pope endorses peace talks VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI said he hoped the U.S.-sponsored peace conference in Annapolis, Md., would help Palestinians and Israelis reach a “just and definitive solution.”The pope endorsed the U.S. bishops’ call for prayers for the success of the conference, saying prayers were needed so that negotiators will have the “wisdom and courage” to take real steps toward peace. He said the Palestinian-Israeli conflict “for 60 years has been bloodying the Holy Land,” causing “so many tears and so much suffering among the two peoples.” The pope made the remarks Nov. 25 at the end of a Mass that he concelebrated with 23 new cardinals.

The U.S. conference and related meetings Nov. 26-28 included participants from Israel, the Palestinian territories, several Arab states as well as the Vatican.

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U.S. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of GalvestonHouston, center leaning forward, sits among other new cardinals at an audience with Pope Benedict XVI in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican Nov. 26. The pope elevated 23 prelates from around the world to the rank of cardinal in a ceremony the previous day.

‘Populorum Progressio’ update VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Forty years after Pope Paul VI’s groundbreaking encyclical on human development, “Populorum Progressio,” the Vatican is preparing a new series of conferences and publications on poverty, corruption, disarmament, prisons and the ethics of taxation.

The new proposals were discussed at the Nov. 20-21 plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, which examined the impact of the 1967 encyclical and the new challenges that have emerged since its publication.

In a statement, the council announced proposals for at least four major international conferences on themes related to justice and world peace. It said the topics will include “politics, democracy and values”; disarmament; Catholic social doctrine and the laity; and “ethics and taxation.”Future documents will address poverty and globalization; penal justice and the re-education of convicts; and the fight against corruption, it said.

BALTIMORE (CNS) — At the U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops’ Nov. 12-15 fall general meeting in Baltimore, the bishops: ➣ Received details of Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-20 visit to the United States. ➣ Authorized a new statement on Iraq that says some U.S. policymakers “seem to fail to recognize sufficiently the reality and failures in Iraq and the imperative for new directions.” The statement was issued in the name of the outgoing USCCB president, Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane, Wash. ➣ Elected Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago as their new president, and Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., as vice president. They had been USCCB vice president and secretary, respectively. ➣ Heard a briefing from staff of the New Yorkbased John Jay College of Criminal Justice on an ongoing study of the “causes and context” of clerical sexual abuse, with the early research suggesting that patterns of sexual abuse within the Church are consistent with the experience of society as a whole. ➣ Voted to draft a brief policy statement on embryonic stem-cell research and a pastoral document on reproductive technologies. ➣ Approved a $147.7 million budget for 2008 and a 16 percent reduction in the diocesan assessment which funds the USCCB. ➣ Issued the 2008 version of their quadrennial “Faithful Citizenship” election statement, which rejects politics based on “powerful interests, partisan attacks, sound bites and media hype” and calls instead for “a different kind of political engagement,” and approved a bulletin-ready insert summarizing its main points. ➣ Gave their approval by a 221-7 margin to legislation specifying when a bishop must get the consent of his diocesan finance council and college of consultors before making certain financial transactions or commitments. The legislation now awaits Vatican approval. ➣ Approved several liturgical agenda items: a document on liturgical music, 183-22, with three abstentions; an English-language version of a document on weekday celebrations of the Liturgy of the Word, 190-18, and a Spanish-language version, 188-16, with five abstentions; and revised readings during Lent, 199-6, with five abstentions.

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Fall meeting of bishops at a glance:

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Archbishop George H. Niederauer of San Francisco, left, and Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., respond to reporters’ question during a press conference at the U.S. bishops’ meeting in Baltimore. Bishop Kicanas was elected vice president of the conference.

➣ Unanimously OK’d a curriculum framework for developing catechetical materials for high school students. ➣ Approved an English-language version of a document on stewardship and teenagers, 198-6, and a Spanish-language version, 202-5. ➣ Approved a 21-page set of guidelines on catechetical instruction on chaste living for students from kindergarten through 12th grade, 212-3 with one abstention.

“There were a number of significant items on the agenda, but I think two very important ones for me,” said San Francisco Archbishop George Neiderauer, listing approval of “Faithful Citizenship” and election of new USCCB officers.

“The Faiful Citizenship document,” he said, “was very carefully worked on by several committees, went through a dozen or so drafts, and, for the first time, discussed and voted on by the entire body of bishops. This will help with balance, depth, nuance, and, especially, ownership of what is said by the members of the Conference.”

In addition, he praised “the election of Cardinal George and Bishop Kicanas as president and vice president, respectively. These are gifted and articulate men, with a deep devotion to the life of the Catholic Church in this country. Also they both have their roots in Chicago, and that can’t hurt!”

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Longtime SHCP teacher dies Nov. 26 Christian Brother Antonio Hael Gonzaga died Nov. 26 at his community’s Mont La Salle estate in Napa. He was 84 and a Christian Brother for 49 years.

Brother Antonio was born in the Philippines in 1928, coming to the United States to attend high school. He attended St. Mary’s College in Moraga and earned a graduate degree in theology from the Brothers’ La Salle University in Philadelphia. He took his final vows on June 20, 1964, at St. Mary’s College.

His life as a religious would take him to many locations as teacher and later volunteer.

“In 1962, Brother Antonio joined the faculty of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, where he taught Spanish, comparative religions, ethnic studies, Middle Eastern History, and World History,” the school said in an announcement of his death. “For more than 30 years he remained a part of the SHCP

community, traveling and serving in numerous capacities.”

SHCP President John F. Scudder, Jr., remarked, “Brother always had a special place in his heart for the Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory community. He touched the hearts of generations of students and will be missed by many. He has left his mark on the history of our school.”

In his later years he served as a volunteer with the Little Sisters of the Poor, St. Anthony’s Foundation, and San Francisco’s Family Service Agency.

In a note to Brother Antonio on hearing of his failing health, former student Celina Gomes, now a teacher at San Francisco’s De Marillac Academy said, “I try to live my life in keeping with the values you have passed on to me.

You and the Brothers inspired the path I am taking, and for that I will be forever grateful.”

Leo Hyde dies at age 78

By Paul Totah SAN FRANCISCO —Leo Hyde, a former vice principal at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, died Nov. 21 after suffering a heart attack. He was 78.

For SI grads from the 1970s to the present, Dean of Students Jesuit Father Douglas Draper is synonymous with discipline. But for those who attended SI in the 1960s, Father Hyde holds that distinction.

Leo Hyde’s SI history mirrors that of the Stanyan Street campus. He and his twin brother, Robert, were born at St. Mary’s Hospital on Oct. 16, 1929, across the street from SI’s fourth campus, which had just been vacated for the fifth campus on Stanyan Street. He was instrumental in supervising construction of and transfer to SI’s campus in the Sunset District.

As an SI student himself, Leo Hyde was a member of the Sanctuary Society, which Jesuit Father Harry Carlin (then a scholastic) moderated. Through that organization, he befriended Jesuits such as Fathers Ray Buckley and Charles Largan. Leo joined the Society of Jesus on graduation and was ordained in 1960. He returned in 1962 as prefect of discipline and assistant principal until 1970. He left the Society of Jesus in 1971 to wed. He and his wife, Gail, have two children,

Jennifer and Kimberly, and two grandsons.

“Students were a bit afraid of me when I came to SI,” Leo once noted.

1966 SI graduate Peter Devine, who has taught at SI since 1975, recalls his first day at SI. Leo Hyde “There was nothing more frightening than Father Hyde. He lined us all up in back of north schoolyard, military style. He walked down the line looking at each boy, shouting out his infraction: ‘Shirt!’ ‘Tie!’ ‘Haircut!’ Every so often, he would tell one boy to go to the office. He looked as if he were throwing someone out of school. We didn’t know it, but that boy was simply missing a medical form. To us, it looked like a random expulsion.”

Devine’s classmate, Fred Tocchini (now SI director of special projects), recalls that Leo “was a tough but fair Jesuit disciplinarian in the historical way people think of the Jesuits. He made us all adhere to the rules but had a big heart and was always in touch with his charges.”

At the famous Turkey Bowl game of 1967, when students

A funeral Mass will be celebrated Dec. 1 in the Mont La Salle Chapel, 4401 Redwood Rd. in Napa at 10 a.m. with a viewing beginning at 9 a.m. Interment will be in the Christian Brothers’ Cemetery.

Remembrances may be Brother Antonio Gonzaga, FSC made to the Lasallian Education Fund at the Mont La Salle address.

Brother Antonio’s life will be celebrated locally Tuesday, Dec.4, at the Victor C. Barulich Memorial Chapel of SHCP (sixth floor), 1055 Ellis St., San Francisco, at 7 p.m. began tearing down the goal post, Leo ran onto the field with two police officers and grabbed the first kid he saw. “I handed him to the officer and said, ‘As acting principal, I’m making a citizen’s arrest.’ That broke up the mayhem.”

During construction of the Sunset District campus, Leo would visit on Saturdays with plans in hand to inspect. “I knew all the contractors and all the architects. I had always been interested in construction and was in charge of all the maintenance at the Stanyan Street campus.”

Leo stayed on as assistant principal for one year when the school community moved to the Sunset District campus, and Brother Draper, who came to SI in 1966, succeeded him.

After leaving SI, Leo worked at the Provincial’s office for one year before deciding to leave the order. He went to work with classmate George Millay. He retired in 1992 after 21 years with the company and then worked as a volunteer for AARP and St. Clare Catholic Church in Canyon Country near his home in Santa Clarita.

Leo stayed active with a group of ex-Jesuits, The Compañeros. Robert R. Rahl, a member, recalls Leo was “a gentle, kind person who cared a lot more about people than he did about theory and ideas. Leo is survived by his wife of 35 years, Gail; by his daughters, and by his grandsons Liam Sorensen (born the day of his grandfather’s passing) and Nathan Stebleton.

Visitation took place Nov. 29 at St. Clare Church, followed by a rosary and funeral Mass. Burial was scheduled for Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma.

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Archbishop to confirmandi ‘Now it is your turn to proclaim the word of faith in Christ’ During the Nov. 18, 11 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 38 adults from 22 parishes received the sacrament of confirmation.

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Following is the text of Archbishop George H. Niederauer’s homily delivered Nov. 18 at St. Mary’s Cathedral during the 11 a.m. Mass at which 38 adults from 22 parishes of the Archdiocese received the sacrament of confirmation.

What if someone walked into St. Mary’s Cathedral here this morning and cried out: “These things you are looking at - the beautiful bronzes of the life of Our Lady, the glorious vaulted ceiling, the lovely stained glass windows, the marble altar will all be torn down; not one stone of this building will be left on top of another”? What would our reaction be? “What? All the work and donations and sacrifices that went into St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral — in ruins?” That is how shocking it was for the people of Jerusalem – for the disciples of Jesus – to hear what he said on that visit to the Temple.

In Chapter 21 of Luke’s Gospel, Jesus is approaching the end of his life. In the next chapters we will hear about the Last Supper, then his suffering, death and resurrection. Jesus looks ahead to the future, to the destiny of his followers, including us here this morning. He tells us what kinds of things are to come, and how to face them with faith in him.

The Catholic Church chooses this time of year to listen to words like these from Jesus. The Church’s year of worship is drawing to a close, building toward next week’s feast of Christ the King, and then, a week later, the Season of Advent and the beginning of the new year of worship. Advent combines our celebration of the first coming of Jesus Christ at Bethlehem with our preparation for his second coming as Risen Savior.

Today’s Gospel passage gives us a rich picture, but it is a complex one. It is an image on top of an image. Television and movie directors and photographers often do that; it suggests much, but it can be confusing and hard to understand.

Actually, there are four images combined in this morning’s Gospel. First, there is “The Day of the Lord,” an image from the Old Testament. We can see another example from our first reading. The teaching is that there are bad times now, but a “day of the Lord” will bring the terrible birth pains of a new age of God’s justice (the prophet Malachy foresees the “sun of justice with its healing rays”). Second, there is the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., which was an actual historical event; the revolt against Roman rule ended in terrible destruction for the Temple, the city and the people. Third, there is the image of the Second Coming of Christ, as Judge and Deliverer at the end of all time, to bring us to a full share of eternal life, which began for us in our baptism. Finally, there is the image of the persecution of the Church, what Christians would have to suffer for believing in Christ, just as he had suffered: “If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you.”

What are we to make of all this? For the godless, there is no hope, because any death and destruction are total. The end is unredeemable tragedy because all they can trust is what they grab hold of, and now that is all gone. For the believer, the love of God delivers not “pie in the sky when you die,” but the life of God in Christ, now and forever.

Jesus not only promises persecution (living like him will lead where it led him) but also promises grace in the midst of persecution: there will be persecutions, trials, imprisonment, betrayal, but, Jesus says, “I will be with you, within you, among you,” and “I will give you words and wisdom.”

Many years ago the Protestant theologian, John MacMurray, wrote: “The maxim of illusory religion runs: ‘Fear not: trust in God and he will see that none of the things you fear will happen to you.’ That of real religion, on the contrary, is ‘Fear not, the things you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.’”

But how then are we to live each day as followers of Jesus, believers and sharers in his life? In a life of faith and peace.

For all the fearsome words in today’s lessons, each one of our three readings says something like that at the end: 1) Malachy: “but for those who fear his name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays;” 2) Paul’s Second Letter to Thessalonians: some converts were out of control in their expectation of the end of the world any day now. (Some things never change!) St. Paul accuses them of “playing truant” and tells them to stop gossiping, acting like busybodies, spreading frightening rumors, and to go back to work. He says: “We urge them strongly in the Lord Jesus Christ to earn the food they eat by working quietly”. 3) Jesus says in Luke: “By patient endurance you will save your lives.”

How are we to understand Christ’s teaching about how to live his life in the midst of challenging circumstances? First of all, every generation (not just the end of the world) sees all those signs: wars, earthquakes, injustice, persecutions, plagues, famines. As one writer has said, “Each day is the last. Each time is the end time. Each human being faces the end of the world in the span of a life, whether it reaches eight minutes or 80 years. The world, its opportunities and losses, passes away for us each night. Every sunset announces the closing of a day that will never come again.” That’s the truth of earthly life.

But there is another, deeper truth, over, above, within and beyond that first truth. In the words of another writer: “Our life on earth is not a rehearsal for heaven…this is the real thing: as baptized Christians we are already participating in the reign of God. We are told to look today where real life is. For baptized Christians every day is a little ‘Day of the Lord.’”

When the great day of God’s salvation comes, we will be ready though we will not have rehearsed it all. We will have gone about our work quietly and content in the knowledge that we already have a share in the eternal life won in Jesus’ death and resurrection, and celebrated this Sunday around this altar at this Eucharist.

In the second reading we hear about the first persecution the Christian Church experienced, right in Jerusalem where Jesus had died and risen from the dead. The Christians were scattered, yet wherever they went they preached the good news of life in Christ. For three centuries Christians were persecuted throughout the Roman Empire, but they continued to proclaim the Gospel. Missionaries came to all parts of that world, following the faithful and bringing the faith. The Apostles imposed hands on their successors and

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This growth in the faith and this deepening of life in Christ is happening among us today, through the successors of the Apostles. Now it is your turn to have hands imposed on you, to be anointed with the Spirit, to receive this deepening of life in Christ from a successor of those first apostles. Now it is your turn to proclaim the word of faith in Christ.

What does that mean, “to proclaim Christ”? We get a clue from a saying of our patron saint for this city and for the Archdiocese, St. Francis of Assisi, San Francisco. St. Francis said, “Always preach the Gospel. When necessary, use words.”

You witness to Jesus Christ most of all, and most powerfully, when you let the Spirit of Christ guide your choices, your priorities, your values, your reactions. Daily living with daily challenges make up your life in the kingdom until Jesus comes again.

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Immigration . . .

■ Continued from cover

More than 500 persons participated in a Nov. 25 “Day of Recollection Dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe as the Protector of Life” at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Msgr. Pedro Agustin Rivera Diaz (right), rector of the Old Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Archdiocese of Mexico City, stressed the significance of Our Lady of Guadalupe as a role model for nurturing life as she appeared as a pregnant Madonna. The priest will also help lead the Dec. 1 Guadalupana Pilgrimage from All Souls Church in South San Francisco to the Cathedral. Above, he holds a pilgrimage t-shirt with Guadalupana organizer Pedro Garcia as Cathedral Parish Council member Ramon Ponce describes the upcoming event. For information on the pilgrimage, call (415) 333-4868.

Dominican Republic . . .

■ Continued from cover The girls often arrive with emotional scars, so the first thing Sister Julia does is let each girl know she has purpose.

She tells each she is not an accident, not a mistake. God has a purpose for her.

“I’m learning to control myself,” said resident Yamira Abreu, 12, “and become a more tolerant and patient person.”

The girls rise at 6 a.m. and are in class by 8, joined by 80 other girls who live outside but attend school under Sister Julia. Daily studies end at 4:30 p.m. The girls take vocational training and are prepared to work as cooks, seamstresses or artisans when they leave the orphanage.

Sister Julia is working with a group of volunteers to raise scholarship money to continue the girls’ education through their late teens.

Government covers the school’s basic needs, but 85 percent of Hogar Rosa Duarte’s funds come from outside sources such as Food for the Poor. Charitable giving is essential for improving buildings and grounds and for books, furniture and extra food.

“God has always been present,” Sister Julia said, “and God has always provided.”

In another part of the city Salesian Father Luis Duran Duran led prayers before dinner for the 170 orphaned boys in his charge. Adult watchers hovered amid the tables. The boys of Hogar Santo Domingo Savio are a restless lot, many of them having been abused and a handful clinically schizo-

phrenic. “The children are never left alone,” Father Luis said.

The fate of the 53-year-old school has been in question this year as the Salesians, who are influential in the Dominican Republic, battle a national government that temporarily withdrew support. “This has been a very difficult year because for five months in 2007 the school received no financial aid,” Father Luis said.

The government relented after the Salesians took the story to the press. Now Father Luis’s strategy is to strengthen his outside sources of funding in a bid to expand and modernize the school — the only exclusively boys’ boarding school in the country — and put it beyond any political threat.

The gregarious Father Luis rattled off a list of projects the school could accomplish if it had the funds — new classrooms, a new dormitory and more iron beds. It needs $50,000 for a new fence. It needs volunteers, too, including someone willing to serve as school nurse for a year and a development person in charge of bringing projects to fruition.

Father Luis wants to gradually move the center of the school’s campus onto open land and further from a new freeway that brushes the school on one side. The freeway causes all kinds of problems, including pollution and falling shell casings from violent hijackings of trucks.

Father Luis said the boys are amazed by the amount of space at the school. Most of them come from cramped conditions in the northern barrios of Santo Domingo.

Monday night, two boys played ball in a large open field as Father Luis expounded for visitors. He said he believes that if the school grows large enough it could even support its own seminary.

tations would be harmful and potentially disastrous for California.

“It is time for us to dispel the myths and speak the truth,” said Martinez. “Immigrants do pay taxes. They don’t come here to take welfare. They are not a drain on the U.S. economy. They do want to learn English and become Americans, and they want to be a part of our communities.”

Father Anthony McGuire, pastor of St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo, said the bishops were right to include mention of the security implications of immigration reform.

“One important dimension of the issue is the development of scare tactics by opponents of undocumented immigrants,” said Father McGuire, former executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Office for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees. “These opponents link immigrant workers with terrorists and have caused a great deal of fear throughout the country. The bishops point out ‘the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants to America are not criminals.’”

The bishops released the statement to coincide with local diocesan programs running between Christ the King Sunday, Nov. 25, and Migration of Refugees Week, the second week of January 2008.

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Archbishop George H. Niederauer visits with composer William Hawley (left), Simon Berry, music director of St. Dominic Church, and Dominican Father Xavier Lavagetto, pastor, in St. Dominic Church sacristy before an All Souls Mass unveiling Hawley’s newest works Nov. 2. The musical movements included a setting for Psalm 85 – Bow down your ear and hear me, O Lord – as well as pieces accompanying the presentation of the gifts and the distribution of Communion. Archbishop Niederauer was principal celebrant of the Mass, which featured St. Dominic’s Solemn Mass Choir with Berry conducting.

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Bishop experiences challenge and vastness of Mongolia (Following is a report written by San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang on his recent fact-finding trip to Mongolia, a nation whose population is nearly 99 percent Buddhist.)

By Bishop Ignatius Wang One of the first thoughts to cross my mind on my return from a memorable visit to Mongolia was St. Francis Xavier. I wondered: What was the first thing he did when he arrived at a pier in India, Japan or China? How long did he linger on the pier before he could find a friendly person?

How did he succeed with his sign language to find lodging?

The saint’s situation on arrival was obviously a far cry from what a modern missionary encounters. One would be met at the airport, escorted to a rectory/convent where he/she could find basic needs addressed.

When the members of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM) embarked on their mission in Mongolia 15 years ago, they landed in a country without a single Catholic. These Missionhurst priests were merely following the injunction of the Risen Christ: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations.” This command of the Master applies especially to nations where his name has hardly, if ever, been heard, such as Mongolia.

It came as a surprise to friends that I would want to venture into Mongolia during my vacation last September. It was a golden opportunity I could not pass up. My friends Bob and Jenny Theleen, former residents of Bay Area, were enthusiastic about joining me on this adventure.

Unfortunately, Bob’s connecting flight was delayed and he missed the flight with us to Mongolia. Thus, on Thursday Sept. 20, Jenny and I flew from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Bator), about a two-hour comfortable flight. We landed at Genghis Khan International, an airport small in size by international standards, though equipped with modern amenities. We were pleasantly surprised to find the immigration and baggage handled efficiently.

Mulan, our tour guide, was proficient and obliging. Our driver, Aqui, had a four-wheel-drive, with two spare tires!

(We needed only one.)

Ulaanbaatar, a modern city of more than one million people, is home to half of Mongolia’s population. Like most major cities, it greets you with traffic jams, international cuisine and good hotels. Our first meal was Mongolian BBQ, which was actually invented in Taiwan, not unlike our own California Beef Noodle, which came from Beijing.

I asked Mulan about the Catholic Church, assuming she might know little if anything about it, because it was brought to her nation no more than 15 years ago. “Yes,” she said to my surprise. “Would you like to go there now?”

Nice offer, I thought, and grabbed the opportunity.

She took us to a large, circular building with no cross or any other exterior signs of a church or Christianity. Driving around this property, Jenny and I both agreed it could not be a Catholic Church.

Mulan apologized for having mistaken that place for a Catholic church, but she would not give up. While we were visiting other places of interest, she used her cell phone for the Internet and GPS connection, a technology I did not imagine Mongolia would possess.

We continued our tour. On our way back, having checked her electronic devices, she confirmed that the earlier place was indeed a Catholic church. She turned out to be right. On our return, we met with the pastor. The first time around when we saw him, we had taken him for being perhaps a Mormon preacher and not taken the trouble to make contact.

He explained why the building did not resemble a church. To get the mission off to a start in a manner of prudence and caution, they decided to avoid the trappings of westernization. The building is structured in the shape of a

Bishop Ignatius Wang on the “mountain” where tradition says Genghis Khan was born.

ger (Mongolian tent). A cross and other outside signs would easily be added in due time. Right now, the whole Diocese Prefecture Apostolic of Ulaanbaatar (like a diocese) exists almost entirely on that single property consisting of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, which is also the only parish church, and an industrial school run by the Salesian Sisters from Korea and the Philippines.

There is also Good Shepherd Parish, which started in March 2003. It is actually the first floor of a two-story building, with a commercial bakery below in the basement and several families living on the floor above. The parish recently obtained land in hope of eventually constructing a simple church building and facilities of its own.

A priest each from Africa, China, the Philippines, and Sacramento, Calif., are the pioneer priests on this promising missionary frontier. These priests, members of CICM, live and collaborate as one family. Besides Mongolian, they all speak fluent English. Many smiling young students around the church make one feel welcome. Most of them are not Catholic and yet feel quite at home around the church. They all speak English well. In the city most people seem to have a working knowledge of English.

It was a Sunday afternoon. The pastor, Father Patrick, from Cameroon, told me that the bishop had just left that morning for Germany on a fundraising tour. Had I recognized the church on our first visit, I would have met him.

Before I asked to say Mass, the pastor made the offer: “We don’t usually have Mass Sunday afternoons, but we can certainly arrange for you to celebrate Mass. Incidentally, a tour company called yesterday to say that a Catholic group would be visiting this afternoon. I promised to say Mass for them at 3 p.m. Would you celebrate the Mass instead?” I was delighted. There were 15 visitors —- all from Detroit area —- 12 of them Catholic and three Lutheran. They were all related to one another.

For my Mass, they replaced the Mongolian liturgical books with English ones. During the Mass, I gave the American visitors as much information as I knew about the cathedral and the diocese: One bishop, four priests, 12 Sisters and 410 lay people. Imagine, 15 years ago there were none! I did what a pastor would do: ask for money! It was Sunday, and we should take up a collection, and be generous to assist this young diocese. I noticed Father Lee in the back of the Church, and he readily agreed to be the usher.

The Mongolian tents (gers) where Bishop Ignatius Wang and his traveling party stayed near the site of Genghis Khan’s birth.

In front of the only Catholic church in Mongolia, from left: Missionhurst FatherLee, Bishop Ignatius Wang, and Missionhurst Father Serge Patrick Mondomobe, pastor.

I also mentioned in the homily that Holy Father Pope John Paul II had intended to visit Mongolia. To demonstrate their seriousness, the Church in Mongolia started making preparations for the event. They even installed a new elevator to spare the ailing pope from having to climb up the many steps to the church. The pontiff’s intended mission did not materialize, however, largely because of politics. Remember, Mongolia is landlocked between Russia and China. Also, the late pope’s fragile health did not help. Some people might ask: Why would the Holy Father want to visit a country with a mere 410 Catholics? Would he not have more important things to do?

Could he not instead visit hundreds of thousands of people elsewhere? But the pope was only intending to follow his Master’s wish: “Go into the whole world and proclaim the good news to all creation” — Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

When we drove into the countryside, I came to understand a little bit more clearly how St. Francis Xavier might have proceeded on his missionary activity upon arrival in a strange land.

Mongolia is a nation with an area of 604,500 square miles (about three and a half times larger than California) inhabited by fewer than three million people. As I mentioned before, half live in Ulaanbaatar. We traveled for about three MONGOLIA, page 22

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150th anniversary Mercy Sisters remain ‘force’ at St. Mary’s Medical Center was elected Secretary General of Sisters of Mercy community in Burlingame. Both felt bereft, but Sisters followed orders. As A black-and-white photo of Mercy Sister Mary Joanne De top administrator, Sister Mary Joanne continued what former Vincenti shows her in habit, smiling from the driver’s seat of staff member Dr. Joseph Presti calls “the palace revolution” a bulldozer. The publicity shot was taken for a groundbreak- which Sister Elizabeth had begun. “Sister Philippa was a oneing ceremony for St. Mary’s Medical Center in 1971, but it woman show,” said Dr. Presti, who retired in 1990.“She was shows Sister Mary Joanne’s spunk. The truth is, as the hospi- the one who gave privileges to doctors to practice [at the hostal’s top administrator, she figuratively drove the heavy equip- pital]. Toward end of the 1960s, staff demanded a more demoment needed to make the hospital thrive from 1965 to 1977. cratic approach. With Sister Mary Joanne’s blessing, Dr. Frank The daughter of an Italian Solomon, Dr. Lloyd Milburn immigrant cobbler, she was and I got new by-laws put in the first in the Mercy complace. She saw the handwritmunity to earn a degree in ing was on the wall as the staff hospital administration. became more democratic. She Although she entered the gave us her full support.”

Sisters of Mercy with the Hospital departments were intent of doing bedside nursborn. The chief of each departing, she ended up spearheadment formed the Executive ing construction of the presCommittee which controlled ent St. Mary’s hospital buildhospital privileges and brought ing, raising millions of dolin new doctors. Exciting new lars, and then ran it when it practices began, and “firsts” was bursting at the seams. included the first hip replace“In those days it was so ment in the city and the first crowded, “ she said, “I put up angioplasty. The medical edua sign for the doctors, ‘You get cation program grew. Sister them out. We’ll get them in.’”

Mary Joanne was particularly She flashed her trademark interested in the establishment smile that she has shared with of the first pastoral care departcountless patients, staff and ment in the state. the occasional politicians over It wasn’t all success. the past 45 years.

“There were times when there This year St. Mary’s was no money,” said Sister Medical Center celebrates its Mary Joanne, her tone harden150th anniversary which will ing. “One day the bookkeeper be highlighted during a specame to me, sat down in my cial Mass at San Francisco’s office and said, ‘We have no St. Mary’s Cathedral on Dec. money to pay for milk.’ I said, 8. For the first 124 years, St ‘Don’t you ever tell me there Mary’s powerful top adminis no money. Tell me we have istrator was always a woman no money and this is how we — a Sister appointed by the are going to pay the bills.’ You Three former chief administrators of St. Mary’s Sisters of Mercy Mother call the milk company and say.

Medical Center convened for a photo in conjunction General. She was expected ‘I have these sick people who with the hospital’s 150th anniversary, from left, to be highly competent, charneed milk.’ Work it out.”

Mercy Sisters Elizabeth Marie Mee, Terese itable and faithful. She The force of her will helped Marie Perry and Mary Joanne De Vincenti reported not to a central her out of tight spots, “God was office of a large hospital there,” she said. “He never let organization, but to that Mother Superior. Former adminis- me down.” But there were traditions. “We didn’t ask for money,” trators Sisters Elizabeth Marie Mee, Terese Marie Perry and she said. “To hire a development director was unthinkable.

Mary Joanne are still living. Sister Elizabeth is retired with People were grateful and gave in their wills, as they had paid bills many volunteer duties, and Sister Terese is a lawyer with years before with eggs and vegetables. It was expected.”

Catholic Healthcare West. Sister Mary Joanne still works at In actuality the hospital did have to ask for money — her beloved hospital in a small office on the sixth floor. $37.7 million to build the new 555-bed, 11-story wing.

As coordinator of guest relations, Sister Mary Joanne Sister Mary Joanne was an effective, personable fundraiser. works three days a week visiting patients. She pays special She worked with other local hospitals to pressure state govattention to friends of the hospital and to those who might ernment for funds. She made presentations to Governor be interested in helping support St. Mary’s.

Ronald Regan and became friendly with State Director of In 1963 her life had a quicker rhythm. Fresh out of St. Finance Caspar Weinberger when she was in search of HillLouis University where the Mother Superior had sent her Burton monies. He called her directly when the governor for a master’s degree in hospital administration, Sister signed the bill allocating funds for building.

Mary Joanne was assigned to St. Mary’s as assistant to Sister Elizabeth, the head of the hospital and the only woman administrator among San Francisco’s 17 hospitals.

The charismatic Sister Mary Philippa Fayne had died suddenly, leaving Sister Elizabeth, who had come to St Mary’s in 1940 as a medical secretary, in charge. Skilled and at ease with the entire staff, Sister Elizabeth had learned on the job as Sister Mary Philippa’s assistant.

Sister Mary Joanne was eager to join her. “Together we were a team and a half,” said Sister Mary Joanne. “And we had the doctors eating out of our hands.”

The team was divided in 1965 when Sister Elizabeth Marie

By Liz Dossa

Mass to commemorate hospital’s 150th anniversary A Mass marking the 150th anniversary of the founding of St. Mary’s Medical Center by the Sisters of Mercy will be celebrated Dec. 8 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside at the 2 p.m. liturgy which commemorates the work of the longest continually operating hospital in San Francisco. A reception will follow.

Mercy Sister Mary Joanne De Vincenti jockeys a bulldozer for a 1971 publicity photo at the groundbreaking ceremony for St. Mary’s Medical Center.

“She succeeded because of her willingness to listen to people who were knowledgeable,” said Dr. Presti. An advisory board from all walks of life brought an openness new to the hospital. Sister Mary Joanne also relied on Chris Matthews, an MIT engineer and associate administrator.

Matthews helped her through the challenges of building the new wing including dealing with neighbors, land acquisition, fundraising and relationships with City Hall.

To her disappointment, Sister Mary Joanne was assigned to Mercy Hospital in San Diego in 1977, but once there, she immediately became involved in another building program. As soon as she could, though, she returned to St Mary’s. She had learned how important financial development was to maintain the hospital, and her next role was head of the hospital foundation in 1984.

“There were different challenges then,” said Sister Terese Marie who succeeded Sister Mary Joanne. “Now hospitals are highly regulated, more restrictive. We have changed our structure today. The hospitals have become leaner, and the administrative staff is at the corporate level.”

And during the eras of the three Sisters, changes had opened up the hospital to lay leadership. “It was inspiring to deal with a board that had lay people appointed only a year before for the first time, “ said Sister Terese Marie. “They took a real interest in quality of care and the hospital.”

However, Margine Sako, director of the St Mary’s Medical Center Foundation, points out that the Sisters on the hospital staff are still the driving force behind the mission to compassionately serve the community: Sister Mary Lois Corporandy serves as board member and medical technician; Sister Mary Kilgariff directs community outreach; Sister Mary Timothy Gallagher, Sister Marcia Kinces, Sister Freda Milke, Sister Gloria Marie Miller minister in nursing. Sister Barbara Henry works in community benefits and is chair of the Sisters Council.

“St Mary’s is a survivor as the only Catholic hospital in San Francisco,” said Sako. “It can be traced back to Sisters’ foresight in the foundation that they built and the vision they had of where healthcare was going.”

Liz Dossa is director of communications for the Sisters of Mercy Burlingame Region.

Ground was broken in 1965 for the Sister Mary Philippa Fayne Clinic at St. Mary’s Medical Center, named for the late hospital administrator. From left: (in the background) Sister Mary Concepta; unknown nurse with shovel; Father Ray Smith (in surplice), hospital chaplain for many years; unidentified priest; Father Tim O’Brien, then head of Catholic Charities; and Mercy Sister Mary Joanne De Vincenti.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

California bishops: ‘Love our neighbor so as to encounter God’ Following is the text of “Immigration Statement of the Catholic Bishops of California” released Nov. 25.

Each of us wants and needs to belong — to family, to community or to country. As Catholics we are privileged to belong to the body of Christ — his Church. The teachings of the Catholic Church, rooted in Scripture and over 2,000 years of rich tradition, guide us to the knowledge that part of belonging to the Body of Christ is to love and to help each other — our family and our neighbors.

Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, in his encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, drawing on Jesus’ parable of the Good Samaritan, reminds us that: “Anyone who needs me, and whom I can help, is my neighbor…that love of neighbor is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and that closing our eyes to our neighbor also blinds us to God.” Reflecting on both the teachings of our Church about helping our neighbor and the reasons for the current “immigration problem,” we have several observations.

From our experience, the overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants to America are not criminals. They migrate in order to find work to support themselves and their families. They perform work in industries important to California and the nation — such as agriculture, service and construction. Our current immigration system is outmoded because it does not contain sufficient work visas for temporary migrant workers to enter the country in a safe, legal and orderly manner.

As Catholic bishops, we acknowledge the right and the necessity of our country to maintain our borders and enforce our laws. However, we caution that while so doing, our government must respect human rights and dignity and minimize the separation of families. We have consistently held that a restructuring of policy so as to address all aspects of immigration is the right way to secure our country, make our communities safe, and effectively solve the problem of unauthorized migration to our country.

We make the following suggestions of elements which ought to be considered in a restructuring of immigration policy: ● Easily available temporary visas for those willing to work. ● Improved border security and enhanced humanitarian training for border guards. ● Fair and equitable rules and reasonable time frames for processing applications to become legal permanent residents. ● Compassionate rules and practical time frames for family reunification for legal resident aliens and naturalized citizens. ● Reasonable requirements for legal residents to become citizens. ● Recognition of the impact of globalization and free trade on patterns of migration.

There are estimates of millions of people living in the United States without proper documentation. Many live in fear of deportation or in mourning for family members who have been deported. It is important to recognize that California’s economy would be weakened — if not severely harmed — with a deportation of undocumented workers. In our view, they should be given the opportunity to adjust their legal status and to earn the right to remain in the country permanently and legally. We ought not to benefit from the fruits of their labor, on one hand, and relegate them to an underclass on the other.

We understand that many Californians are troubled by the presence of a large number of undocumented immigrants in our state. We acknowledge and share that concern. Illegal immigration is good neither for society nor for the person migrating. However, we urge Catholics — and all Californians — to reject attacks on these immigrants and to work constructively toward a human resolution of the problem of illegal immigration.

As Catholics we are enjoined by our Holy Father to love our neighbor so as to encounter God. As people of good will, we entreat Congress to immediately return to consideration of a restructured immigration policy.

And as bishops, we call upon Catholics and all people of good will — recalling our nation’s history — to treat each other with dignity and respect and to work together constructively to ensure a positive outcome to this vital national debate. We hold all concerned in our prayers.

Exclusive inclusiveness?

In an Oct. 19 article concerning the Archbishop’s encounter with two Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at Most Holy Redeemer parish, Father John Malloy is quoted as saying: “You can’t keep people out of church, but you can keep people away from the Eucharist and you can advise them and talk to them.”

Father Malloy, meet Ross Foti. Ross Foti is a 73-year-old pro-life activist who in September was banned from his parish of 18 years, St. Matthew’s in San Mateo.

Did Mr. Foti disrupt Mass? No. Was he living a publicly scandalous life? No. Was he teaching heresy? No. Mr. Foti’s offense was declining to agree to all of the conditions that other parishioners placed on his continued attendance at the parish. Mr. Foti had already agreed with the pastor that he would cover the graphic pictures of aborted babies that are on the truck that he parked on public property near the church. (The signs were on the truck that he drives five days a week to protest abortion at Planned Parenthood.)

But that wasn’t good enough for these parishioners. He had to agree to cover all of his signs, his entire pro-life message, while in the vicinity of the church, as well as to stay away from one of the regularly scheduled weekday masses. When Mr. Foti balked at the conditions the parishioners sought, Father McGuire sent him a letter saying that henceforth he would be treated as a trespasser and if he came on church property, the police would be called. So the next time a pro-abortion politician or one of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence is welcomed at a church, and a priest tells you the Catholic Church is about inclusiveness and not turning anyone away, ask him, “What about Ross Foti?”

Mary E. Wynne Atherton

Neo-con con

L E T T E R S

Ah, Mr. Weigel, there he goes again (Nov. 9). Acting as judge and juror toward political candidates who live their personal life of faith while refusing to force those same beliefs on society. Mr. Weigel never fails to chant the same diatribe: stem cell research (see life-saving medical research), abortion and euthanasia. His blind spots continue to be pre-emptive invasion and immoral war in Iraq, the Bush administration trampling of rights, torture of prisoners and a failure to address the ballooning world population and affordable health care for all those unplanned pregnancies.

Like many right-wing theocrats, he never attempts to address institutional homophobia, or the Church’s failure to address many other burning questions.

Like Bush neo-cons and other selfappointed religious leaders on TV, Weigel finds it easier to blame societal

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woes on progressive, liberal or even moderate politicians who do not believe in theocracies. In this light, Mr. Weigel should remember Christ questioned the Pharisees because of their self righteous rule over others. Where is Mr. Weigel and his ilk on caring for the unwanted pregnancies once born, to do anything to improve the quality of life of those subject to terminal disease? Easy to argue for the unborn as long as you do nothing to really affect the “quality of life.”

Mr. Weigel, who argued that the war in Iraq was just (the same war condemned by Rome), fails to understand a founding principle of this country — avoiding persecution by the self righteous in England. And here they fought to establish the separation of church and state, all for a good reason. Perhaps Mr. Weigel would find Afghanistan and rule of the Taliban more to his liking. Now there is a society where political leaders rule by “religious principles.”

Peter Mandell San Francisco

Truly a saint

Mother Teresa of Calcutta is truly a saint. Recently, people have spoken out against her sainthood because she revealed in her writings feelings in her life of darkness, separation and doubt. The fact people speak their views is all right. So, also, is it all right for Mother Teresa to have experienced spiritual doubts. This is part of being human.

One must realize the more holier a person becomes, the more human; so besides having feelings of joy, happiness, peace and faith, one can also experience sorrow, unhappiness, discontent and darkness (or lack of faith). These experiences make us no less holy, or saintly. It is what we do with these that matters.

We can come to realize, as St. Teresa of Avila did, that: “All things are passing, God never changes.” She and St. John of the Cross were two great saints who experienced darkness of the soul. The Little Flower, St. Therese, also experienced aloneness and abandonment. To these great saints, we add Mother Teresa, and of course our Lord, Jesus, who cried out, “My God, why have you abandoned me?”

Faith is tested not only in good times, but also in bad. The real question is: “Does a person cling to God even when times are dark, when they feel alone, when they suffer, or feel abandoned?” Spiritual growth is a mystery, and unique in each soul. The real fruit of the labor of faith is love. How much love did the saints, moreover, Mother Teresa of Calcutta have for others? What did she accomplish in her life for God? Has she taught us to love and have compassion for others? I dare say the answer is “yes”.

This great saint of our times laid down her life for her friends. Is there no greater love?

Marguerite A. Mueller San Rafael

Prayers sought Last year an article by well-known author Scott Hahn stated that the second largest religious group in America is non-practicing Catholics. With deep concern and after much discussion, our Knights of Columbus Council 839 embarked upon a prayer campaign for the return of those who have left us.

Armed with this prayer: “Please Lord, bring back into your fold all of our non-practicing brothers and sisters, all of those who have left and given up on your Church. May the Holy Spirit enlighten them to return.”

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The Catholic Difference

What might next social encyclical address?

Doomsday-mongering is a staple feature of the fauxintellectual life, occasionally influential and sometimes quite lucrative. The Club of Rome’s dire certainties about the “limits to growth” shaped Carter Administration thinking and policy. Paul Ehrlich’s tediously repetitious predictions that “over-population” would cause mass starvation and other global catastrophes were rewarded by a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant, irrespective of the fact that none of Ehrlich’s alarums ever panned out.

The nuclear freeze movement was whipped up by eminently-forgettable potboilers like the 1983 TV movie, “The Day After;” the Great Satan of that moment was Ronald Reagan (whom many of his erstwhile critics now praise in preference to the archfiend Bush). Green doomsday-mongering is currently the fashion and just won Al Gore the Nobel Peace Prize – the Norwegian Nobel Committee thus reducing that once-distinguished award to the equivalent of an Oscar.

Catholic social thought has not always been immune to certain kinds of doomsday-mongering. The 1968 encyclical, Populorum Progressio [The Development of Peoples], was influenced by some of the convictions that led the Club of Rome to criticize what we now call “globalization.” Rumors of a new social encyclical to mark the 40th anniversary of Populorum Progressio have been circulating in the past few months. Should such an encyclical be in the works, its drafters would do well to cast a critical

eye on the economic, anti-natalist and environmental doomsday-mongering of recent decades.

For, according to a recent U.N. “State of the Future” Report, the happy news is that the human condition is improving, rapidly and exponentially: “People around the world are becoming healthier, wealthier, better educated, more peaceful, more connected, and...are living longer.” Global illiteracy is now down to 18 percent, having been cut in half over the past two generations. The boy or girl born today will likely live 50 percent longer than a child born in the mid-1950s. More people are living in political freedom than ever before.

And poverty has been dramatically reduced. In 1981, 40 percent of the world’s population scraped out a life on less than $1/day; today, that percentage is down to 25 percent. That is completely unacceptable. It is also a major improvement, most of which can be attributed to free trade (about which Populorum Progressio was skeptical).

As John Paul II taught in the 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, poverty today is caused by exclusion, and the cure is inclusion: exclusion from the networks of productivity and exchanges that generate wealth must be remedied by empowerment strategies that give ever more people the skills to get into the game.

The real problem in the 21st century, according to Oxford economist Paul Collier, is the “bottom billion.”

There are six billion people in the world, of whom one billion are rich and four billion are on track to get rich, if at

different rates. The top five billion are linked to, and work within, those networks of productivity and exchange discussed

by John Paul II; the “bottom billion” aren’t.

Rather, according to George Weigel Collier, they’re caught in various “traps,” including the trap of corrupt government, the trap of ethnic/tribal/religious conflict, the resources trap, and the trap of bad neighbors. Thus a rebel leader in Zaire boasted that you could do a successful coup d’etat with a cell phone and $10,000: the money to raise an army from impoverished tribesmen and the cell phone to make deals to sell natural resources to the likes of China.

For the first time in human history, no one has to be poor. No one has to go to bed hungry or, worse, starve. The social teaching of the Church, which rightly gives priority to the poor, best serves the global dispossessed when it accurately identifies how billions of people have gotten unpoor. If the U.N. can figure that out, the Catholic Church certainly can.

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

Spirituality for Life

Sorting out ‘justice’ from revenge Recently after a lecture, I was confronted by an angry man who accused me of being soft on God’s judgment and justice. Though angry, he was a good man, someone who had given his life in duty to family, Church, country and God. “I cannot accept what you say,” he muttered bitterly.

“There’s so much evil in the world and so many people are suffering from other peoples’ sins that there must be retribution, some justice. Don’t tell me the people who are doing these things - from molesting children to ignoring all morality - are going to be in heaven when we get there!

What would that say about God’s justice?”

I don’t deny the existence of hell, nor of the importance of God’s judgment, but the itch to see other people suffer retribution reveals, I believe, things about ourselves we might not want to admit.

We are in good company. The prophet Isaiah was no different. For him it was not enough that the Messiah should usher in heaven for good people. Along with rewards for the good, he felt, there needed to be a “day of vengeance” on the bad. (Is. 61: 2). In a curious omission, when Jesus quotes this text to define his own ministry, he leaves out the part about vengeance. (Luke 4: 18).

Too many of us, conservatives and liberals alike, have

a need to see punishment befall the wicked. It is not enough that eventually the good be rewarded. The bad must also be punished. Liberals and conservatives might disagree on what constitutes sin and wickedness, but they tend to agree it must be punished To my mind, this desire for “justice” (as we call it) is not always healthy and can speak volumes about a certain frustration and bitterness in our own lives. All that worry that somebody might be getting away with something and all that anxiety that God might not be an exacting judge, suggest that we, like the older brother of the prodigal son, might be doing a lot of things right, but are missing something important inside ourselves. We are dutiful and moral, but bitter underneath. We are unable to enter the circle of celebration and the dance. Everything about us is right, except for the lack of real warmth in our hearts.

Julian of Norwich once described God this way: “Completely relaxed and courteous, he himself was the happiness and peace of his dear friends, his beautiful face radiating measureless love like a marvelous symphony.”

That is one of the better descriptions of God written, but it can make for a painful meditation. Too often, for too many of us, far from basking in gratitude in the beautiful

symphony of relaxed, measureless love and infinite forgiveness that make up heaven, we feel instead the prodigal son’s brother’s bitterness, self-pity, anger and incapacity to let go.

We are inside the banFather quet room, amongst all Ron Rolheiser the radiance and joy, but we are unhappy, pouting, waiting for the Father to come and try to coax us beyond our sense of having been cheated. We protest our right to despair, to be unhappy, and demand that a reckoning justice one day give us our due by punishing the bad.

Alice Miller, the famous Swiss psychologist, suggests the primary spiritual task of the second half of life is dealing with this. We need to grieve, she says, or the bitterness and anger that come from our wounds, disappointments, bad choices, and broken dreams will overwhelm us with the ROLHEISER, page 17

Twenty Something

What might Mary’s Christmas letter say?

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, raw pride nipping on your prose. Stunning feats being sung in a card and kids dressed up like dynamos.

The Christmas Song we compose in the annual family letter can sound awfully sour compared with the lyrics Nat King Cole crooned.

In our modern rendition, the “eyes all aglow” belong to proud parents, not tiny tots. And those reindeer really know how to fly; they made the Honor Roll.

I’m guilty, too. We roll our eyes at the boastful letters, then we roll up our sleeves, racking our brains for the year’s most impressive accomplishments. We wrap them in muscular language, trying to recall the active verbs of resume rhetoric like “execute” and “implement.”

Whenever possible, we reference ranks: Captain, Senior Consultant, Most Valuable, Best in Class. To back it up, we quote from a panel of experts: the teacher, the coach, the priest, the principal, the boss.

Then we quantify: first place in soccer, a 33 on the ACT, two minutes off a run, a 10-day trip to seven countries, overseeing 20 employees.

In the end, our attempt to update friends reads more like a request for a job promotion.

Of course, it’s hard to avoid some of these techniques.

They help us fill a blank page. But on a deeper level, this

holiday custom provides us with a unique opportunity for self inventory. How we sum up a year can be incredibly telling – if you read between the lines?

When my mom asked me to write my portion of our family Christmas letter, I made note of the notables. Easy enough. Then I read through it, surprised to discover that the entire paragraph pertained to my education and career.

The lingering questions being: Do I have friends? Hobbies?

A life outside work?

It was a reality check. I’m reworking the paragraph – and the lifestyle.

Our achievement-centric society takes hold at a young age. By the time you finish your schooling, there’s pressure to not just begin a career, but to excel at it, to quickly earn the kind of accolades for which Christmas letters are notorious.

But the measurements we find handy and acceptable are often faulty. The feats we deem admirable and important are often meaningless. In the scheme of things, that is.

Because the “scheme” is incredibly broad, spanning back to a baby born two millennia ago. His arrival did not involve a new Lexus or an upscale B&B. Just a bumpy donkey ride and a dusty manger. He did not go on to be voted Most Popular. Truth is, he was kind of a loner, befriending lepers and defending an adulteress.

Jesus didn’t see the Pharisees for their status and power; he saw their hypocrisy. He never paraded virtue.

He prayed in private. He took no stock in society’s arbitrary metrics and he made that Christina known. St. Peter wrote, Capecchi “With the Lord, one day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like one day.”

Our only true judge couldn’t care less about our rung on the corporate ladder. Rather, he asks us to be good and faithful servants, to feed the hungry and welcome the stranger in our midst.

This December, as bonuses are awarded and progress is chronicled on holly berry stationery, remember this: What really counts cannot be counted.

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. E-mail her at christinacap@gmail.com.

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FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:37-44 A READING FROM THE PROPHET ISAIAH IS 2:1-5 This is what Isaiah, son of Amoz, saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised above the hills. All nations shall stream toward it; many peoples shall come and say: “Come, let us climb the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.”

For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

He shall judge between the nations, and impose terms on many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; one nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 122: 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 R. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

I rejoiced because they said to me, “We will go up to the house of the Lord.”

And now we have set foot within your gates, O Jerusalem.

R. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

Jerusalem, built as a city with compact unity.

To it the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord.

R. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

According to the decree for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord.

In it are set up judgment seats, seats for the house of David.

R. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!

May those who love you prosper!

May peace be within your walls, prosperity in your buildings.

R. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

Because of my brothers and friends I will say, “Peace be within you!”

Because of the house of the Lord, our God, I will pray for your good.

R. Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS ROM 13:11-14 Brothers and sisters: You know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed; the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us then throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves properly as in the day, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and lust, not in rivalry and jealousy.

But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 24:37-44 Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. In those days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day that Noah entered the ark. They did not know until the flood came and carried them all away. So will it be also at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be out in the field; one will be taken, and one will be left.

Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left.

Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”

Advent Week 1 The time is coming when all will walk in light of the Lord The following Advent Wreath prayer is intended to help busy households make Advent a prayerful time during the rush of Christmas preparations. The language is fairly simple to be used by groups of adults or adults with children. Sharing the task of proclaiming the readings will allow for participation by a variety of members of the household.

Leader: Today begins a special time of year for us. This week we begin the season of Advent – that period of preparation and waiting before Christmas. In order to help each of us prepare our own hearts for the birth of Christ, we take these few moments each week to pray together.

Light first candle on the Advent Wreath Read aloud: Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24: 37-44 Leader: Did you hear the siren? Did the alarm go off for you? The readings that the Church has chosen for this First Sunday of Advent are clear as a bell. It’s a message that has been the same for centuries: You’d better get ready if you know what’s good for you!

The Prophet Isaiah lets the Israelites know that change is coming, and they are going to like it, because it is going to be a time of peace, a time

when all will walk in the light of the Lord. The evangelist Paul sounds the alarm, too. Paul tells the people of his day they’d better wake up and start acting right if they want to walk in the light of Christ. Matthew’s Gospel brings us that message, too. “Stay awake,” he quotes Jesus, and you’d better have your life in order because you don’t know when your time will be up and you will be judged for how you lived.

Closing prayer: (Leader may read all, or others in the household may each read a segment) 1) Dear God, help us to be ready to walk in your light. This first week of Advent, help us prepare our minds and our hearts to follow the teachings of your son, Jesus.

2) Holy Spirit, guide the choices we make throughout this week so that we choose to do what honors our creator and what shows our love of others.

3) Father in heaven, we offer thanks to you for the many reminders you send us to prepare our lives so that we are able to spend eternity with you in heaven.

4) Come Lord Jesus. Come into our hearts, so that when the time comes, we will be prepared to join you in everlasting joy.

Scripture reflection FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

Advent: time to embrace peace T.S. Eliot concludes the poem “The Waste Land,” a major cultural and literary watershed of the 20th century, by invoking a famous Hindu prayer in Sanskrit, “Shantih, Shantih, Shantih,” which means peace. By borrowing it from another religious tradition, the poet appeals symbolically to diverse cultures and religions to embrace peace, not war.

The wasteland he mourns is the Europe of World War I, which suffered unspeakable tragedy and unthinkable destruction.

Contemplating the panorama of the desolate land and despondent lives, Eliot makes bold to hope and pray for peace.

Isaiah, a poet and prophet of another period and culture, surveys the wasteland rendered by Assyrian and Babylonian invasions resulting in the exile of Israelites, and he, too, thirsts for peace.

The prophet calls “all nations” and “many peoples” to Jerusalem that the Lord “may instruct us in his ways and we may walk in his paths.” He is convinced the Lord “shall judge” and “impose terms on many peoples,” which are to forge the precious gift of peace. God’s “instruction” and “paths” all converge on peace. Such a basic—-yet scarce—-gift calls for nothing short of poetic imagination because unless we are capable of imagining the splendor and sacredness of peace, we will not be able to move toward it. Hence, the imagery of the prophet: “They shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; one nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again.”

As we begin Advent with the mournful and haunting poetic prayer “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel,” the Word of God calls us to dwell on peace, challenging us to take concrete steps toward a world of harmony. Given

the present wars, violence and distrust, the urgent need for peace cannot but be uppermost in our minds and hearts.

Prophet Isaiah dreams of destroying weapons of war and turning them into tools of agriculture. He desires that hatred and greed that fuel wars should be turned into love and sharing. Instead of blood shedding, let there be fruits dropping from trees. Instead of tears, let there be wines of joy overflowing. The hands holding guns and bombs, let them hold books of poetry and science; let them hold brushes creating beautiful paintings; let them hold instruments pouring forth melodious music.

Hasn’t the world seen enough of war?

If all nations abolished defense budgets and invested those vast resources for the happiness and health of people, what would the world look like? That is the world the prophet dreams of. That is the world God wants for us. That is the world God created in the first place, which we have distorted.

Using the war term “armor,” Paul, too, calls for peace: “Throw off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light….

Put on the Lord Jesus Christ.” He implies that we need peace in our body, soul and relationships. Filled with the spirit of Jesus, the light of the world, we can work together to throw away the yoke of conflicts and wars at the micro and macro levels and embrace peace.

Peace, however, is so much more than absence of conflict. In the biblical sense, it is a positive reality, a comprehensive gift of an overflow of God’s abundant blessings for happiness and welfare of everyone in society. We cannot possibly prepare ourselves for the Lord’s coming this Advent without exploring avenues for God’s overarching blessing—-peace.

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prayer cards to date. Also, at the state convention this past spring the Knights of Columbus passed a resolution embracing this prayer campaign.

I humbly ask your readers to keep in their prayers all of those who no longer attend Mass or receive the sacraments.

May they be enlightened to return to the faith.

R. M. Ciechanowski, chairman Committee on Non-practicing Catholics LaCrosse Council 839 Knights of Columbus

sense of life’s unfairness. Her formula for health is simple: Life is unfair. Don’t try to protect yourself from its hurts. You’ve already been hurt. Accept that, grieve it, and move on to rejoin the dance.

In the end, it’s mostly because we are wounded and bitter that we worry about God’s justice, that it might be too lenient, that the bad will not be fully punished. But we should worry less about that and more about our own incapacity to forgive, to let go of our hurts, to take delight in life, to give others the gaze of admiration, to celebrate, and to join in the dance. To be fit for heaven we must let go of bitterness.

Unchanging Church The Santa Rosa Diocese paid $5 million to 10 victims of sexual assault. Earlier this year the Los Angeles Archdiocese paid $660 million to 608 alleged sexual abuse victims. It’s not inconceivable that the Catholic Church will have paid in excess of $1 billion for sexual abuse throughout the United States.

Perhaps thousands of Catholics have left the Church because of the sexual abuse scandals. It’s possible these disgraceful actions can become a means for strengthening our faith in Christ and his Church.

Christ did not guarantee perfection when he founded his Church. The only promise Christ made was that the gates of hell would not prevail against it. For

2,000 years Satan has been working every devious angle he can think of in an attempt to destroy the Catholic Church from within. He has tried everything from corrupt popes, to the Inquisition, to the current sex scandals. 0ne hundred years from now it will be something else. Satan never sleeps.

To have Satan spend so much of his time and energy trying, unsuccessfully, to destroy Catholicism should be all the proof we need that the Catholic Church is indeed the true Church; 2,000 years have passed since Jesus Christ said, “Upon this rock I will build my Church and the gates of hell will not prevail against it,” and they never will. No matter how hard he tries, Satan is no match for Christ and his Church.

Bill Gillen Novato

Puthota . . .

■ Continued from page 16 The Prince of Peace shakes us up to be alert, awake and ready for his coming.

At his resurrection, too, he would give his gift repeatedly: “Peace be with you…. Peace I give you.” His peace is not as the world gives; it goes beyond human understanding. Poised between Jesus’ first coming and the second, and oscillating between the already and the not-yet, we are to prepare for his coming into our lives here and now. As Noah was prepared while everyone else was dis-

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Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and awardwinning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. His website is www.ronrolheiser.com.

tracted, and as the householder would be prepared if he knew when the thief would break in, Jesus says we must be ready for “the coming of the Son of Man.” All those who yearn for peace can recognize him, accept him, and share him as the embodiment of God’s peace with one another, even as we share the Eucharist.

May this Advent season be memorable for the peace Jesus brings into our individual lives, families, churches, nations and the world.

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Seven new members named to CCCYO Board of Directors and management experience in financial services, he has held positions with Wells Fargo and Chemical Bank. Knight is a graduate of Queens College in New York and Mount St. Mary’s College in Los Angeles. He has also dedicated time and leadership to Westside Community Mental Health Center, Laguna Honda Hospital Foundation, Regents Council at St. Mary’s College and the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

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Morris is a private investor and former managing director and general partner for Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was the head of global investment research in New York, European investment research in London and telecommunications research. He has been a general partner at Montgomery Securities and worked for Wells Fargo Investment Advisors in San Francisco. A former chairman of the board of trustees of San Francisco University High School, he is a member of the board of trustees for the Schools of the Sacred Heart and Marymount School in New York. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of New Mexico and has

Archbishop George H. Niederauer has appointed seven new members to the Catholic Charities CYO Board of Directors — Carlos Alvarez, Gloria Carlos, John A. Knight, James McCabe, Stephen Molinelli, Robert Morris and Father Kenneth Weare.

The 29-member board oversees the organization which supports more than 30 programs with a $39-million budget. CCCYO provides services to families, children, the aging and disabled, and runs CYO Camp and CYO athletic programs.

Archbishop Niederauer remarked, “These seven new members bring an abundance of experience and unique resources to Catholic Charities CYO, and will strengthen the agency’s work in serving and advocating for the Bay Area’s most vulnerable. We are blessed to have them join Board President Cecilia Herbert and the other distinguished members in steering Catholic Charities CYO into its second century of service.”

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Carlos is a human resources executive with extensive experience in high technology and financial services industries. Currently vice president of human resources and administration at Renesas Technology America in San Jose, she is a graduate of St. Scholastica’s College in the Philippines and the New School for Social Research in New York and has previously held senior positions with Imagicast, Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Hitachi America, Ltd. Knight is a director at UBS Financial Services and is the former senior vice president and division manager at Union Bank of California. With more than 25 years of sales

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Our Lady of Guadalupe Events Dec. 12, 5 a.m.: Mananitas Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th St. at Dolores in San Francisco beginning with procession from parish school. Mariachi band will provide music. Father Arturo Albano, pastor, will preside with concelebrants including former pastor, Father Bill Justice, Vicar for Clergy. Tamale breakfast follows. Parking in schoolyard. Call (415) 239-9107.

Dec. 8, 6 p.m.: Mass and celebration honoring Our Lady at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 40th Ave. at Balboa in San Francisco with Mariachi music and delicious food after the liturgy. Call (415) 386-6475.

Advent Opportunities Dec. 5, 12, 19, 7:30 p.m.: Interfaith prayer service with guest presiders and speakers at Most Holy Redeemer Church, 100 Diamond St. in San Francisco. Among those leading prayer are David Differding and Ora Prochovnick, Dec. 5; Ray O’Connor, Victoria McDonald, Dec. 12; Nanette Miller, Gina Hens Piazza, Dec. 19. Cal (415) 8636259 or visit www.mhr.org.

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’s Church, 325 MarineView in Belmont. $10 donation includes lunch. Call (650) 614-5650.

Dec. 2, 7 p.m.: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Visual and Performing Arts Department presents a Nativity Christmas concert at Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th St and Dolores St. in San Francisco.

Tickets, $5 students/seniors and $10 adults, are available at www.shcp.edu and at the door.

Dec. 7: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets for prayer at 7 a.m. and discussion and breakfast afterward at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Greenbrae.

Archbishop George H, Niederauer is guest speaker. The Marin Archbishop George Catholic High School Jazz Choir will enterH, Niederauer tain. Those attending are asked to bring a non-perishable food item for the St. Vincent de Paul Pantry. Breakfast tickets for members are $7/ non-members $10. Call (415) 4610704 or contact Sugaremy@aol.com.

Dec. 7, 8, 7:30 p.m.: Amahl and the Night Visitors and Concert Choir of Notre Dame de Namur University at the school’s Cunningham Chapel, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Tickets $20/$10 seniors and students. Call (650) 508-3729 or contact concerts@ndnu.edu.

Dec. 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16: “A Christmas Carol,” the musical, at Notre Dame de Namur Theater, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Gala performance tickets for Dec. 7 are $40 each. Admission to other dates is free. For tickets and curtain times contact boxoffice@ndnu.edu or call (650) 508-3456.

Dec. 8th, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.: Come join us at Pauline Books & Media for a daylong Family Christmas Celebration. Games, music, entertainment, picture taking with Baby Jesus, refreshments and fun are guaranteed. All takes place at 2640 Broadway in Redwood City. Call (650) 369-4230.

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.

Dec. 15, 2 p.m.: Annual Tenderloin Christmas, a musical story about the birth of Christ, at St. Boniface Theater 175 Golden Gate Ave. in San Francisco The event will be a benefit for the St. Francis Living Room (www.sflivingroom.org), a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization providing for elderly seniors in the Tenderloin Neighborhood. Show features Litz Plummer, The Opera Lady known for singing outdoors along Maiden Lane to the delight of many locals and tourists. Santa Claus will hand out toys and goodies for the kids. Admission is free Visit www.LivingMiracleProductions.com.

Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m.: St. Charles Parish, 880 Tamarack Ave. in San Carlos presents its annual Christmas Concert under the direction of Claire Giovannetti accompanied by Jim Stevens and Chris Candelaria.

Performance features Adult and Children’s Choirs with music of Advent and Christmas. Free-will offering benefits parish music ministries. Call (650) 591-7349, ext. 32.

Datebook Dec. 9, 16: The internationally renowned Mission Dolores Basilica Choir presents its 16th Annual Candlelight Christmas Concerts at Mission Dolores, 16th and Dolores St. in San Francisco, Dec. 16, 5 p.m. and St. Catherine of Siena Church, Bayswater and El Camino Real Burlingame, Dec. 9 at 4 p.m.

Tickets $12 to $25. Visit www.missiondolores.org or call (415) 621.8203.

Dec. 15: 190th anniversary celebration, Mission San Rafael Arcangel. Features Native American exhibits, 4-5 p.m.; Mass at 5 p.m. with retired Sacramento Bishop Francis A. Quinn presiding; reception from 6:30-8 p.m. hosted by Mission San Rafael Arcangel Preservation Foundation. For information, contact Theresa Brunner McDonald at (415) 454-8141, ext. 12, or tbrunner@saintraphael.com.

Dec. 16-24, 6 a.m., Simbang Gabi at St. Stephen: Now in its 11th year and with 8 parishes participating: St. Anne of the Sunset, St. Brendan, St. Cecilia, St. Emydius, St. Finn Barr, St. Gabriel, St. Stephen, and Star of the Sea. Liturgies will include scenes from the Gospel reading of the day. A parish community hosts each day. As in the homeland, we share a light breakfast daily before we go off “to the fields.” Archbishop George Niederauer will celebrate Mass on December 24 followed by a “Pasko sa Baryo” potluck Christmas party with cultural dances, music and parol festival.

Contact Nellie Hizon (415) 699-7927.

1st and 3rd Tuesdays: Noontime Concerts – 12:30 p.m. - at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, SF. $5 donation requested. Call (415) 288-3800.

Sundays at 3:30 p.m.: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral followed by Vespers. Call (415) 567-2020.

Pauline Books and Media Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City (650) 369-4230 Dec. 6, 7 p.m.: New Lives of the Saints Book Club commencing. Meets the first Thursday of each month. For more information call (650) 369-4230.

Dec. 7: Daughters of St. Paul to host Annual Advent/Christmas Book and Gift Fair at St. Patrick Parish 756 Mission St., San Francisco (call Sr. Susan for information; (650) 703-1106).

Dec. 8th, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.: Come join us at Pauline Books & Media for a daylong Family Christmas Celebration. Games, music, entertainment, picture taking with Baby Jesus, refreshments and fun are guaranteed. All takes place at 2640 Broadway in Redwood City. Call (650) 369-4230.

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.

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.

Food & Fun Dec. 1: Crab Bash Family Dinner at Holy Name of Jesus Ryan Hall, 1560 40th Ave. at Lawton in San Francisco. Doors open 6 p.m. Dinner at 6:30 p.m.

Tickets are $35 each, tables of eight for $260.

Children’s tickets, ages 6 – 12, are $10 each. 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 School in the parish hall, 234 Ulloa St. at Laguna Honda Blvd.

Saturday, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Choose from a vast 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.

Dec. 2, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.: St. Stephen Women’s Guild Christmas Boutique featuring unique hand-crafted items as holiday gifts or for yourself at parish hall, 23rd Ave. and Eucalyptus in San Francisco. Take in the holiday cheer and shop jewelry, photography, hand-loomed and knit items, original artwork, and much more.

Admission is free. For more information, contact Laura Parnell at laurasparnell@aol.com or 415/587-8756.

Dec. 8: 53rd Noel Ball benefiting De Paul Youth Club of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in San Francisco.

Evening takes place at Fairmont Hotel, Mason and California St. in San Francisco. Sponsored by club’s auxiliary. For ticket information, - $175 per person contact (415) 921-6732.

Dec. 9, 10:30 a.m.: Pancake Breakfast with Santa at St. Stephen Parish, 23rd Ave. and Eucalyptus Dr. in San Francisco. Adults: $8; Students: $5, children under 5: $3. Bring a toy to help SF Firefighters Christmas Program. Call Sean White at (415) 260-7559.

Catholic Charismatic Renewal Dec. 7: First Friday Mass at St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way in South San Francisco with rosary at 7 p.m. and Mass at 7:30 p.m.

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

Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available. Call (415) 614-5680.

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

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 568-3018.

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.

3rd Sunday, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: “For Heaven’s Sake,” featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.

2008 Reunions Jan. 19: Notre Dame des Victoires Elementary School, class of 1982, NDV Church Hall, $45 includes drinks, dinner and more. Contact Mary Vlahos at Marygv68@comcast.net if you would like to help or have questions.

Feb. 23: Class of ’53 from Jefferson High School at Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco.

Contact Ario Gregori at (650) 343-7009.

March 29: Class of ’58 from Notre Dame High School, San Francisco. Contact Patricia Cassidy Hendricks at (415) 822-1549.

Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen at (415) 614-5596, or e-mail jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Check Web site for Bay Area events, or download quarterly newsletter at www.sfyam.org.

July 6-22, 2008: World Youth Day Pilgrimage to Christ Church, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia with Archbishop George Niederauer.

1st and 3rd Sundays: Young Adults from Old St. Mary’s Parish and neighboring Holy Family meet after 11 a.m. Mass in OSM Bookstore, Rm. 2 at corner of California and Grant in San Francisco.

Contact Paulist Father Ivan Tou at itou@paulist.org or call (415) 288-3874.

2nd Sunday: Catholics in their 20s meet at various San Mateo locations for friendship and to discuss the Gospel and become active members of the Church. Contact: Catholic_20s@yahoogroups.com.

“On Sept. 23, nearly half of the Mercy San Francisco Class of 1957 gathered for lunch at the Marriott Hotel in Burlingame to celebrate the 50 years since they were ‘Mercy Girls,’” said classmate Marge Riley Summerville.

The revelers returned to the 19th Avenue campus Sept. 24 to celebrate Mercy Day with liturgy, school tours, and a reception hosted by the Mercy Alumnae Association Board.

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Friday at 7:30p .m.: Most Holy Redeemer young adults meet at 18th and Diamond Streets, San Francisco Contact yag@mhr.org or visit www.mhr.org/yag.html.

Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.: St. Dominic young adults meet in parish hall at Bush and Steiner, San Francisco; e-mail youngadults@stdominics.org. or visit www.stdominics.org/youngadults; rosary precedes meeting at 7 p.m.

St.Thomas More Church and Catholic Campus Ministry sponsor liturgy on Sundays at 8 p.m. and the third Tuesday of month on the SFSU campus. St. Thomas More is located at 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd at Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. E-mail newman@stmchurch.com or visit www.stmchurch.com/newman/ 2nd and 4th Monday: St. Vincent de Paul Young Adult Group meets. Meetings take place at SVDP, Steiner and Green, San Francisco, at 7:30 p.m.

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs are available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 422-6698.

Separated and divorced support groups: 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, San Francisco; call Gail at (650) 591-8452 or Vonnie at (650) 873-4236. 1st and 3rd Thursday at St. Peter Parish Religious Education Building, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. Call Diana Patrito or Joe Brunato at (650) 359-6313.

2nd and 4th Wednesday in Spanish at St. Anthony Church, 3500 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Toni Martinez at (650) 776-3795.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639 for information.

St. Thomas More Legal Society Visit http://www.stthomasmore-sf.org for more information about these and other St. Thomas More events or contact Hugh A. Donohoe (415) 972-6320 hdonohoe@ropers.com.

Dec. 6: Christmas Luncheon and Essay Award, Noon at Bankers Club, 555 California Street, 52nd Floor.

Tickets are $45 per person/$20 law students. Call Stacy Stecher at (415) 772-9642 or sstecher@tobinlaw.com.

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) 558-1015.

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) 4617060. 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) 664-8590; 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) 344-7622.

Burlingame — St. Catherine of Siena: Silvia Chiesa (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels: Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter (650) 375-8023. 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.

Datebook is a free listing for parishes, schools and non-profit groups. Please include event name, time, date, place, address and an information phone number. Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired.

Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633.

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‘Googling God’ author: ‘Millennials’ don’t want luke-warm religion “GOOGLING GOD: THE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE OF PEOPLE IN THEIR 20S AND 30S,” by Mike Hayes. BustedHalo Books/Paulist Press (New York 2007) 208 pp., $16.95 paperback.

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Their stance, Hayes argued, is largely a result of an insecure environment marked not only by 9/11 but also by the Columbine shootings, Hurricane Katrina, the Indian Ocean tsunami and the Virginia Tech massacre.

“The guy in your algebra class could shoot you,” Hayes said. “People could

By Rick DelVecchio fly planes into buildings, and you possiThe 9/11 terror attacks and other man- bly see yourself on the plane or in the building. Or your life made and natural disascould be taken away by ters are the defining natural disaster. What do events for today’s young all those events have in adults, and as a result common? There’s not a people born after 1980 positive event among are showing a trait they them, and this really likely did not pick up solidified the approach to from their skeptical parreligion for millenials.” ents: an eagerness to “They want stability,” make faith part of their said Hayes, who colives, Catholic author founded BustedHalo.com Mike Hayes says. in 2001 with Paulist The post-1980 generaTom Hayes Father Brett Hoover and tion, dubbed “Millennials,” wants nothing of luke- serves as the website’s managing editor. warm spirituality and is ready to consid- “Chaos seems to be reigning around er the answers that traditional religion them.”

Hayes is not the only one to note has to offer, Hayes told a discussion group at Old St. Mary’s bookstore in San young adults have a taste for faith unfilFrancisco Oct. 26. The Archdiocese of tered. An article in the Washington Times San Francisco’s Office of Young Adult recently pointed to rising interest by Ministry and Campus Ministry spon- young adults in the Tridentine Mass. The article quotes one pastor as saying that sored the discussion.

But these 20-somethings of the post- for some young people Gregorian chant 9/11 era are highly discriminating in how is a refreshing change from rap.

The Millennials generally like their they exercise their faith, said Hayes, whose book follows the spiritual jour- Generation X parents, Hayes said. As a neys of 12 young adults. They are look- result, they are ready to believe that ing for a traditional message to embrace, authority has their best interests at heart.

They are the most-watched generation but want to find it on their own rather than joining traditional communities of in history, the first to wear bike helmets and the beneficiaries of parents who faith.

doted on their security. The Gen X’ers, in contrast, grew up in relatively uneventful times but were the children of divorce and inherited a suspicion of authority from their Baby Boomer parents.

“Because of this inherent loneliness they faced, community is their central longing,” Hayes said.

The Millennials have more of a personal spirituality and want to spread it to others, he said, citing his research on a woman who was the lone Millennial in a Jesuit Volunteer Corps house.

All members of the house had to organize spiritual nights. Most wanted to take a walk, but the Millennial wanted to dig into tradition. Hayes quoted her reasoning: “The reason I did this job was because Jesus told me to, and if he hadn’t I probably wouldn’t do it.”

Ministering to Millennials poses a challenge for religious organizations. They are individualistic and want to learn as they go. They communicate and commune through the Internet. They want the truth and will range far for it – certainly far from their neighborhood parish.

“Generation X is OK with ambiguity,” Hayes said. “The Millennials have a big problem with that. What they really want to know is why this makes sense. Can you tell me unambiguously why I should be bothered?”

But could Millennials, as they mature and learn to accept ambiguity, bring new

life to parishes? Hayes held out that possibility.

“The Millennials are some of the people who are going to save your parish,” he said. “That’s the main thing: if you can convince them you have something important to say, if you become the trusted authority they go to get answers.”

Creatures of cell phones and the Web, Millennials obtain their news in bits and pieces and from many sources.

Thus, Internet outreach is vital for parishes trying to connect with them, Hayes said. For them, if a parish is not online “it doesn’t exist,” he said.

What’s more, Millennials prefer to pray alone. Websites such as Sacred Space, an Irish Jesuit ministry, are effective with this group, he said. He also mentioned Creighton University’s online retreats.

Catherine Mifsud, associate director of the university ministry at the University of San Francisco, said she does all her publicity on Facebook. “I want to go where they are,” she said. “I know they’re in their rooms. I know they’re checking their e-mail.”

Naomi Cordell, 25, an elementary school teacher who worships at a parish in Oakland, was the lone Millennial in the St. Mary’s discussion group.

“Millenials want their truth with a capital ‘T’,” she said after the event, “and want things in sound bites – wanting to go deep or go nowhere.”

Book addresses stalemate between creationism and Darwinism “CHANCE OR PURPOSE: CREATION, EVOLUTION AND A RATIONAL FAITH,” by Cardinal Christoph Schonborn. Ignatius Press (2007) 184 pp., $15.95 paperback.

By Rick DelVecchio Some neo-Darwinists took Pope John Paul II’s 1996 statement that evolution was “more than a just a hypothesis” to mean that the Church was coming around to their view that the universe evolves without purpose.

Cardinal Christoph Schonborn, the archbishop of Vienna, responded two years ago in a controversial essay in The New York Times: not only are evolutionary biologists wrong about what the Holy Father meant, he said, but they are ignoring their own scientific evidence when they say change is purposeless.

The evidence for purpose and design is overwhelming, Cardinal Schonborn wrote,

and it is ironic that the Church at the beginning of the 21st century finds itself having to defend these facts against scientists who have uncovered them but choose to explain them away.

Now, the co-editor of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church” answers the neoDarwinists in full and proposes a new narrative of human origins to replace the tired stalemate between creationism and Darwinism.

God is not a designer who molds precious forms, Cardinal Schonborn writes.

The material world is far more varied, more chaotic and indeed more destructive and scarier than it would be if the creator were a divine watchmaker.

Rather, Cardinal Schonborn proposes, the creator works continuously and on a grander scale.

God is the original source that upholds all things. He is not apt to use his power to intervene miraculously but always works relentlessly to sustain onrushing life, whose imperfect forms in turn are shaped by laws such as natural selection.

Mystery of Magi’s gift solved in new play Marin Catholic High School will host the play “Sister’s Christmas Catechism, The Mystery of the Magi’s Gold” on Dec. 2. The light-hearted play seeks to answer the age-old question: what ever happened to the gold the wise men gave to Jesus?

The production will involve audience participation and will include traditional musical favorites of the Christmas season.

The play will be held at the Marin Catholic Gymnasium at 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Kentfield at 3 p.m. Tickets cost $35, with proceeds going to the Wildcat Alumni Scholarship Fund, which provides the children of Marin Catholic alumni with financial aid to attend the school. To purchase tickets online visit www.wildcatalumnifund.org.

“God is the cause that maintains all ence. Faith is concerned not with material activity and makes it possible,” Cardinal things but with the two qualities that are the Schonborn writes. “That is how we may essence and structure of all things: logos understand that powerful saying from the and agape, the Word and love.

These elements must have been brought Letter to the Hebrews: ‘He upholds the universe by his word of power’ – everything into being when the universe was created in the Big Bang, and they must infuse every that exists and everything that is active.”

The longtime friend of Pope Benedict inanimate and living thing in it, Cardinal XVI reasons the existence of a ceaselessly Schonborn proposes, echoing an increasingly popular scicreative God this entific theory, way: a creator who called panpsyworks continuously chism, that conmust be real because sciousness is presonly a force that ent throughout the relies on nothing else universe. for support can hold These observaup all the transient tions, Schonborn material things in believes, can bring Darwin’s “ladder of faith and science creation.” together in a diaC a r d i n a l log of reason.

Schonborn cannot “Logos and prove that continuCardinal Christoph Schonborn agape are the ous creation is a scimaterial from entific reality and indeed argues that no such proof is which the world was made, of which it condemanded. Science is but one way to per- sists, and with which it is being perfected,” ceive reality and tangible things are only he writes. “It is well worth living in this conviction – and dying in it. For what kind one measure of what exists.

Faith sees reality not in opposition to of evolution would it be if evolution and science but as more fundamental than sci- eternal life were not its ultimate goal?”

Mission San Rafael to be ‘Mosaic’ topic on Sunday The history and future of. Mission San Rafael Arcangel in San Rafael will be the focus of this Sunday’s “Mosaic” telecast. “Mosaic,” which airs at 5 a.m., is a co-production of KPIX-TV and the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office

of Communications.

St. Raphael Parish will celebrate the 190th anniversary of the founding of the mission on Dec. 15. Retired Sacramento Bishop Francis Quinn will preside at the Mass that day.

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Author behind ‘Golden Compass’ criticized as anti-Christian

By Denis Grasska

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SAN DIEGO (CNS) — To critics who denounced the “Harry Potter” series as a subversive effort to lure unsuspecting children into the occult, Baylor University professor Perry Glanzer warns: Quit crying wolf.

In a commentary appearing in the Austin American-Statesman daily newspaper, Glanzer noted that while social critics have blasted J.K. Rowling’s tales of Harry Potter and his seven years at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, they have uttered nary a word about British writer Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials,” which Glanzer and others charge is an overtly antiChristian trilogy of fantasy novels for young adults.

The trilogy includes “The Golden Compass,” “The Subtle Knife” and “The Amber Spyglass.”

“I think that as long as people are agitated about whether Harry Potter makes you into a satanist, they’re not going to be very bothered with me,” Pullman said in an interview with Amazon.com. “So, I’m happy to (take) shelter under the great umbrella of Harry Potter.”

A film adaptation of “The Golden Compass,” starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, is set to debut in theaters Dec. 7. The Aug. 24 issue of Entertainment Weekly reported that the film will make no direct references to the Catholic Church.

The article also quoted Kidman, who recently reconnected with her Catholic faith, as saying, “The Catholic Church is part of my essence. I wouldn’t be able to do this film if I thought it were at all anti-Catholic.”

The Academy Award-winning actress also said that the material “has been watered down a little” in the transition from page to screen.

Critics of Pullman include the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which said its position is not “that the movie will strike Christian parents as troubling,” noting that it is based “on the least offensive of the three books.”

But, the league said in an Oct. 9 statement, viewers of the film “may very well find it engaging and then buy Pullman’s books for Christmas. That’s the problem.”

Glanzer also pointed out that Pullman told The Washington Post that through his work, “I’m trying to undermine the basis of Christian belief.” But those who praise his work say he is not attacking Christianity itself, but criticizing dogmatism and how religion is used to oppress people.

“His Dark Materials” recounts the adventures of Lyra Belacqua, a 12-year-old girl in an alternate universe that resembles our own.

Nicole Kidman and Dakota Blue Richards star in a scene from the movie “The Golden Compass,” set to debut in theaters Dec. 7

With the assistance of several other characters, she sets out to overthrow the Authority. The novels depict him as a weak, false god and, in the final book in the trilogy, he actually dies.

Also, an angel informs one of the main characters that “God, the Creator, the Lord, Yahweh, El, Adonai, the King, the Father, the Almighty” are really all just names the first angel gave himself in an attempt to set himself up as a divine being.

The novels also take a harsh view of the church, which is called the Magisterium and is depicted as an oppressive institution that appears to have fallen for the Authority’s ruse.

The church’s minions are the books’ principal villains, who are obsessed with a substance called Dust, which is connected to original sin. They are not above kidnapping and performing experiments on innocent children.

One character states that, since its beginning, the church has “tried to suppress and control every natural impulse,” and that all churches share the same fundamental goals: to “control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.”

“His Dark Materials” has amassed a collection of prestigious awards, including the 1995 Carnegie Medal for children’s literature in the United Kingdom, which he earned for “Northern Lights” (published in the United States as “The Golden Compass”), and the 2001 Whitbread Book of the Year award for “The Amber Spyglass.”

British columnist Peter Hitchens has dubbed him “the most dangerous author in Britain.”

“In his worlds, the church is wicked, cruel

‘Mother Teresa’ tops book list Following is the Catholic Best-Sellers List for December 2007, according to the Catholic Book Publishers Association: HARDCOVER 1. “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light.” Mother Teresa with Brian Kolodiejchuk. (Doubleday) 2. “Jesus of Nazareth.” Pope Benedict XVI (Doubleday) 3. “Soul Provider.” Edward Beck (Doubleday) 4. “Celebration of Discipline” 25th Anniversary Edition. Richard Foster (HarperOne) 5. “The Dream Manager.” Matthew Kelly (Beacon/Hyperion) 6. Catechism of the Catholic Church.

(Doubleday/Our Sunday Visitor/ USCCB) 7. “Simply Christian.” N.T. Wright (HarperOne) 8. “The Apostles.” Pope Benedict XVI (Our Sunday Visitor) 9. “Mother Angelica’s Little Book of Life Lessons and Everyday Spirituality.”

Raymond Arroyo (Doubleday) 10. “The Rhythm of Life.” Matthew Kelly (Beacon/Fireside) PAPERBACK 1. “The Screwtape Letters.” C.S. Lewis (HarperOne) 2. Catechism of the Catholic Church.

(Doubleday/Our Sunday Visitor/ USCCB) 3. “Mere Christianity.” C.S. Lewis (HarperOne) 4. “The Great Divorce.” C.S. Lewis | (HarperOne) 5. “Why Forgive?” Johann Christoph Arnold (Orbis) 6. U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults.

(USCCB) 7. “Prayer.” Joyce Rupp (Orbis) 8. “Reconciliation.” Robert Morneau (Orbis) 9. Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Libreria Editrice Vaticana (USCCB) 10. “Return of the Prodigal Son.” Henri J.M. Nouwen (Doubleday)

and child-hating; priests are sinister, murderous or drunk,” Hitchens wrote for the Daily Mail newspaper in January 2002. “Political correctness creeps in leadenly. There is a brave African king and a pair of apparently homosexual angels. The one religious character who turns out to be benevolent is that liberal favorite, an ex-nun who has renounced her vows and lost her faith.”

In an interview with Third Way Magazine, a Christian publication, Pullman said he agreed with his character Mary Malone, who states in “The Amber Spyglass” that Christianity is “a very powerful and convincing mistake,” and he rejected the “ugly vision” presented by C.S. Lewis’ “The Chronicles of Narnia,” a popular Christian fantasy series.

Contributing to this story was Julie Asher in Washington.

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In contrast, pandemic flu occurs less frequently, generally only once every few decades. Pandemic flu is a radically new strain for which little or no immunity exists in the general population, often owing to the crossover from ani-

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Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

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