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75th St. Jude Novena Nearly 4,000 people attended the 75th Novena to St. Jude at the Shrine of St. Jude Thaddeus at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco.

The novena to the patron saint of difficult and desperate cases concluded Oct. 28 with a Mass celebrated by Archbishop George Niederauer, at right with San Jose Bishop Patrick McGrath. At left, Dominican Brother Simon Kim in the procession into the church.

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Haitian survivor’s story of hope and resilience Buried alive for eight hours in the collapse of a supermarket in Port-au-Prince, clutching her sons by her side, it made sense to Magalie Rigaud that, since she was not dead, God did not intend for her to die that day. It was but a matter of time when they would be rescued, she figured.

“I believe that God does not do things halfway,” said Rigaud, telling her story of surviving the Jan. 12 earthquake that devastated Haiti as the guest speaker Oct. 30 at Parish Global Poverty Day at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. “He started by protecting me and I knew that he would not do so if he wanted me to stay down there.”

Sure enough, Rigaud, a Catholic Relief Services manager in Haiti, and her twin 12-year-old sons, MarcEdwin and Carl-Edwin, were pulled from the rubble in the early hours of the following day, when the reality of the calamity began to become clearer: There would be 230,000 dead, more than 300,000 injured, doctors would perform 35,000 amputations and some 1.5 million people would be made homeless. Rebuilding the poorest nation in the Northern Hemisphere, where 80 percent of the people are Catholic, may take 10 years.

The boys were unhurt, as was Rigaud’s daughter, Naiki, 19, at home. There was a cut on Rigaud’s head but it was nothing, she decided. She was at work the next day, helping to manage Catholic Relief Services warehouses as workers took in and distributed tons of food and supplies arriving in Haiti from around the world.

The disaster has slipped from the front page, but

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Erla Jeannot sells food at a stand outside one of the 1,300 tent camps scattered around Port-au-Prince, Haiti. With no clear plan for resettling earthquake survivors, the camps are becoming part of the city’s fabric. the challenges remain, said Rigaud, who at the event, sponsored by Office of Public Policy & Social Concerns of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, asked members of parishes to consider how they might mark the one-year anniversary of the Haitian earthquake.

Indeed, U.S. Catholics have been generous, contributing HAITI SURVIVOR, page 8

Bioethical issues are real for this generation of high school students.

Some of them were conceived using in-vitro fertilization technology and others have had abortions before they leave high school, said Marin Catholic High School religion teacher Ryan Mayer.

Girls are using artificial contraceptives without realizing how they work, said Ryan Martin-Spencer, religious studies chair at Notre Dame High School in Belmont.

“Our technical expertise is surpassing our moral understanding,” said Marin Catholic senior Virginia Yoham, 17.

The San Francisco Bay Area is a world center for artificial reproduction, with numerous IVF clinics.

In the United States, about 240,000 babies are born each year using IVF, with as many as 4 million newborns created via IVF since the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in 1978, experts estimate.

Proposition 71, approved by California voters in 2005, created the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The institute is authorized to float $3 billion in state bonds to fund stem cell research, with a special mandate to fund embryonic stem cell science – a technology the Catholic Church opposes because it violates the principle of dignity of life from conception through natural death.

California teens may obtain an abortion without parental notification and pay for it with Medi-Cal funding.

Both Mayer and Notre Dame’s Martin-Spencer teach bioethics courses at their high schools, presenting Church teaching and the reason behind tough issues such as its absolute stands against HS BIOETHICS, page 6

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Worldly man’s ageless lesson: have the courage to hear God’s call Following is Archbishop George Niederauer’s homily for Oct. 31, 2010, the 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Jesus claims at the end of the Gospel passage today: “The Son of Man has come to search out and save what was lost.” This word “lost” is interesting, and essential to our understanding: it does not mean damned, or doomed or vanished; it means out of its own place, in the wrong place. That’s what we mean most of the time when we say we’ve lost our car keys.

A man or woman is lost spiritually when he or she has wandered away from God. We can find our way to the wrong places in life, the wrong paths, the wrong directions, or no direction at all.

We are found when we once again take our rightful place as loved, obedient children in the household and family of our heavenly Father. Again, this is what Jesus says when he speaks of himself as the Good Shepherd, leaving the 99 and going in search of the one sheep that is lost.

Jesus responds to Zacchaeus as a lost sheep of the House of Israel, one of Abraham’s sons. Zacchaeus was very wealthy, hated and despised: a tax-collector for the Romans in an occupied country. Certainly an extortionist and exploiter, since he received taxes on commission. He was rich but he wasn’t happy; Zacchaeus was an outcast, who had heard of this wandering teacher, Jesus, who was rumored to be kind and forgiving toward tax collectors and all kinds of sinners.

Zacchaeus is determined to see this Jesus he has heard about, but he is short of stature (or, “vertically challenged,” as we say in this politically correct age) – he can’t see over the crowd around Jesus – and his neighbors are not making room for the likes of him! But Zacchaeus didn’t get rich by giving up easily and not having an alternate plan: he climbs a tree! It’s along the road down which Jesus will walk. It may be curiosity, it may be worldly, but it is the beginning of grace. You might say that Zacchaeus, up in that tree, is ripe for the picking!

And Jesus picks him! Jesus comes to the tree, looks up, and says: “Zacchaeus, hurry down. I mean to stay at your house today.”

Jesus invites himself into Zacchaeus’ house, into his life. And notice the irony: just as Jesus calls Zacchaeus to come back to his rightful place in God’s family, the crowd jumps to the conclusion that Jesus, not Zacchaeus, is in the wrong place. They murmur: “He has gone to a sinner’s house as a guest.”

It’s worth noting that, nearly 2,000 years later, the Church Jesus founded is still exercising the same bad taste in people that its founder did; people still murmur about Jesus’ Church: that it spends too much of its time and attention and treasure on the poor, on the homeless, on the oppressed, on immigrants, on criminals in prison and even on death row; that it condemns convenient, useful actions like abortion and euthanasia, that the Church condemns too easily and too often what people feel like choosing, and forgives too easily people whom others feel like despising and condemning.

So Jesus reaches up and plucks down Zacchaeus with gracemuch to the crowd’s distaste. But now it is Zacchaeus’ move: Zacchaeus must let grace change him, and change is painful.

That’s why all of us are tempted to resist God’s grace so often. But Zacchaeus does let the grace of Jesus change him: he takes steps to show Jesus and all the community that he is a changed man.

Zacchaeus is famous for and defined by his money: very well, he will use what he owns to show what he has now become – he will give half his belongings to the poor; he will pay back anyone he cheated four times over. Jesus is very proud of him; Jesus always calls a sinner to a change of life, not just a change of words or sentiments. It is not enough for Zacchaeus to merely admire or yearn for a different path, back to the right place in the heavenly Father’s kingdom-he has to change paths, change directions, as Jesus has called him to do. When he does so, Jesus says, approvingly: “Today salvation has come to this house, for this is what it means to be a son of Abraham.”

This is what St. Paul means in that second reading about Jesus being glorified in the Christian and the Christian being glorified in Jesus: true of parents and children; true of students and teachers.

True of Zacchaeus in the Gospel today. True of us as well.

We can be “lost” or “out of place” or “in the wrong place” in any number of ways: we get lost by means of a temptation or sin we refuse to Archbishop take a step against; help we refuse to ask for, from George H. God and from others, Niederauer because we are afraid or proud; reconciling or forgiving we are afraid to step toward, because we are afraid or proud or angry or bitter, or any combination thereof; minds we have made up about others, or hearts we have closed toward this person or that, this group or that; obsessions with this idea or that (like the Thessalonians with their fear and anxiety about the Second Coming of Christ – they can’t focus on anything else!)

Perhaps we know we are out of place, or lost, a bit or a lot.

We’ve gone so far as to wish for a different path, a change of direction, but we are still “up in the tree.” Well, we are in Jesus’ house right now; his word of reconciliation has been proclaimed to us; within minutes we will receive his body and blood in Holy Communion. He says to each of us, calling us by name: “Hurry down. I mean to stay at your house today.” That is the invitation of grace: Jesus invites himself inside you, inside the “house,” the dwelling of His Holy Spirit – your mind and heart. Now it is your move, as it was Zacchaeus’: maybe you and I can’t help losing our car keys, but we can help losing our souls –with Jesus’ grace, they don’t have to end up in wrong places, on wrong paths, “lost.” Jesus says that he has come to search us out and save us.

Each of us needs to take courage from the story of Zacchaeus, to hear Jesus call, to know what exactly “hurry down” involves in our own case, and then, of course, we need to hurry down to our right place, at the Savior’s side.

Holy Cross Cemetery Veterans Day service Nov. 11 The annual Veterans Day Service at Holy Cross Cemetery, celebrating Americans’ freedoms and the service and commitment of the men and women of the Armed Forces, will be held outdoors Nov. 11 at 11 a.m. in front of the flag display in the Star of the Sea section of the Colma cemetery.

More Veterans Day news, Page 13 Msgr. Michael Padazinski, chancellor and judicial vicar of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and a 22-year veteran of the U.S. Air

Force Reserve, will preside over the memorial prayer service.

“The theme is a remembrance of those who have given their lives so that we might enjoy the freedoms – the freedoms that we all enjoy as Americans,” said Msgr. Padazinski, a colonel and chaplain in the Air Force Reserve. Of men and women in the service, he added, “It really is a Christ-like way to live one’s life in the service of others.”

The Veterans Day program has been conducted for some 10 years at Holy Cross Cemetery. Two priests in particular – Msgr.

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Edward McTaggart, a U.S. Army chaplain, and the late Father Albert Vucinovich, a U.S. Navy chaplain – were instrumental in creating what is now a tradition.

A military honor guard from Travis Air Force Base will join the service, executing a 21-gun salute, and a bugler will play “Taps.”

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The Veterans Day event typically attracts from 200 to 300 people, said Katherine Atkinson, director of cemeteries for the Archdiocese. She said an invitation is extended to all veterans and their families.

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By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Oct. 31 terrorist siege that left at least 58 people dead inside Baghdad’s Syrian Catholic cathedral was a “savage” act of “absurd violence,” Pope Benedict XVI said.

The pope urged international and national authorities and all people of good will to work together to end the “heinous episodes of violence that continue to ravage the people of the Middle East.”

The attack came less than three weeks after the pope, in his opening homily at the Middle Eastern Synod of Bishops in Rome, condemned terrorism as one of the “false gods” besetting the modern world.

“In a very grave attack on the Syrian Catholic cathedral of Baghdad, dozens of people were killed and injured, among them two priests and a group of faithful gathered for Sunday Mass,” the pope said after the incident.

“I pray for the victims of this absurd violence, which is even more savage because it struck defenseless people, gathered in God’s house, which is a house of love and reconciliation,” he said after praying the Angelus with pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square Nov. 1, the feast of All Saints.

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He expressed his closeness to Iraqi Christians, who have suffered another attack in their homeland, and he encouraged the nation’s priests and lay faithful “to be strong and steady in hope.”

Pope Benedict renewed his urgent call for peace in the Middle East.

While peace may be a gift of God, “it is also the result of efforts by people of good will and national and international institutions,” he said.

“May everyone unite their efforts so as to end all violence,” he said.

Armed militants wearing explosives stormed the cathedral while an estimated 100 faithful were celebrating evening Mass, news reports said.

The terrorists first set off a car bomb across the street in front of the Baghdad Stock Exchange, which left at least two people dead. Then they stormed the church, killing another two people, according to reports.

The militants, who said they were part of the Islamic State of Iraq – a group with suspected ties to al-Qaida – held parishioners and priests hostage in the hopes of leveraging the release of prisoners from their network.

Rep. Joseph Cao, a Louisiana Republican, said one villager died after repeated police beatings by police and two women suffered miscarriages.

Skyrocketing property values have prompted the government to lay claim to many properties, citing the communist principle that land is under the people’s ownership and is managed by the state. In practice the land is often seized and sold to developers, VietCatholic News reported.

1,200 minors dead in drug wars Congressman calls conviction of six Viet Catholics “sham” HANOI, Vietnam – After being arrested in a clash with police in a church-state property dispute, six Catholic villagers in Vietnam were convicted Oct. 27 in a what one U.S. congressman called a “sham court.”

Sentences for the six villagers ranged from 12 months to a nine-month suspended sentence, Catholic News Agency reported.

The six villagers were among the 59 people arrested after clashes between 500 Catholics and government agents at the parish cemetery of Con Dau May 4. Catholics had conducted a funeral procession for an 82-year-old woman and tried to bury her in the cemetery, which had been seized by the local government to build a tourist resort.

MEXICO CITY – Drug violence in Mexico has claimed the lives of 1,200 boys, girls and teens since 2006, non-governmental agencies announced at a news conference.

The dead include 27 minors, most of them young, killed in recent massacres at a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez and a drug rehab center in Tijuana.

More than 28,000 people have died since President Felipe Calderon declared war on Mexico’s drug cartels in December 2006, the Latin American Herald Tribune reported.

The non-governmental groups called on Mexico’s leader to adopt a new security strategy based on human rights and the rule of law.

Sex abuse survivors hold vigil near Vatican About 60 victims of clerical sex abuse gathered in Rome Oct. 31 to mark what they called “Reformation Day.”

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Men mourn outside the Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 1.

They demanded prisoners linked to al-Qaida be set free from detention in Iraq and Egypt and threatened to blow up the church if military forces tried to break the siege, according to Italian state media RAI. Iraqi security forces ringed the church and U.S. military flew overhead in helicopters.

After a standoff that lasted hours, Iraqi forces stormed the cathedral and the ensuing firefight and a series of explosions left at least 58 people dead – including two priests – and 75 injured.

BAGHDAD ATTACK, page 5 The number was a far cry from the 50,000 that organizers had predicted back in April when the event was first announced, CNA/EWTN News reported.

Yet members of the group, Survivors’ Voice, many clad in white shirts with “Enough!” written across the chest, took part in a series of events throughout the afternoon and evening to raise awareness about the issue.

Bernie McDaid, co-founder of Survivor’s Voice, expressed hope before the event that “the world may finally be ready to act.”

Their demonstration concluded with a candlelight procession to St. Peter’s Square. Before the half-mile walk up the street from where they were gathered at the monument of Castel Sant’Angelo, they observed a minute of silence and inaugurated “The Year of the Survivor.”

The Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, came out to greet the group. But reaction to his appearance seemed to be met with mixed emotions.

Because the group was not given permission to carry out the protest in St. Peter’s Square, when it came time for the procession, only two members were allowed by Italian authorities to proceed into the square. The two took with them 75-100 letters written by victims addressed to the Vatican and Pope Benedict XVI.

Claim: Oregon residents doctorshop for help with suicide MANCHESTER, England – A British think tank said a U.S. assisted-suicide law might have created a phenomenon of “doctor-shopping” for physicians willing to ignore safeguards to help healthy people kill themselves.

A report claims that the 1997 Oregon Death With Dignity Act is being abused – with the help of some physicians – by people who do not fulfill the criteria of being terminally ill, mentally competent and able to make a free choice.

Called “What is Happening in Oregon?” the report by Living and Dying Well, a group of prominent British medical and legal experts, was sent to British members of Parliament Oct. 25 to counter claims by assisted-suicide campaigners NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5

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■ Continued from page 4 that the Oregon law is a model of effective regulation that should be adopted in the United Kingdom.

The report’s author, Dr. David Jeffrey, a senior lecturer in palliative medicine at Scotland’s Edinburgh University, and researcher Madeleine Teahan, Survivors rest on a fallen tree trunk in a village examined 12 annual reports in west Sumatra, Indonesia, Oct. 29. from the Oregon Public Health Division on the working of the act since 1998.

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“Could this be a consequence of ‘doctor The disasters – a magnitude 7.7 undersea shopping’ – namely that a physician who earthquake Oct. 25 that triggered a tsunami is prepared to process an application for that swamped coastal villages in the remote physician-assisted suicide might perhaps Mentawai Islands off of the west coast of be less inclined than others to regard such a Sumatra and the eruption of a volcano on request as a pointer to possible psychological Java beginning Oct. 26 – claimed more than disorder or depression?” asked the report.

400 lives and displaced thousands of people.

“If that is so it would not be surprising Authorities reported the tsunami killed that as the number of physician-assisted 408 people and that at least 400 people suicide cases has increased, referrals for remained missing Oct. 29, four days after psychiatric counseling have fallen,” the 10-foot waves washed away homes and other report said. structures up to 2,000 feet inland.

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Giants fan’s “very special year” “My favorite time of year is the baseball season,” said Father Jim MacDonald, pastor, St. Pius Parish in Redwood City and Giants season- ticket holder.

“Following the Giants at AT&T Park or by television/radio is one of my main interests. Wins are better than losses. This year has been exciting and sometimes painful, yet this has been a very special year.” The Giants beat the Texas Rangers in Game 5 for their first World Series win since 1954.

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Baghdad attack . . .

■ Continued from page 4 Syrian Catholic Patriarch Ignace Joseph III Younan was in Canada when the blasts occurred. In an e-mail to Catholic News Service Nov. 1 while he was en route to Baghdad, he criticized the lack of security for Christian places of worship and called on “Iraqi parties to overcome their personal and confessional interests and look for the good of the Iraqi people who have elected them.”

“There are a few churches and Christian institutions left in Baghdad, not so great a number that it is not unreasonable for them to be protected, security-wise,” he said, noting that the security being provided by the government is “far less than what we have hoped for and requested.”

“Christians are slaughtered in Iraq, in their homes and churches, and the so-called ‘free’ world is watching in complete indifference, interested only in responding in a way that is politically correct and economically opportune, but in reality is hypocritical,” said the patriarch, who served as bishop of the New Jersey-based Syrian-rite diocese in the United States and Canada from 1995 until his election as patriarch in 2009.

The patriarch demanded “that the U.S. Congress, the United Nations, the International Commission for Civil Rights and the League of Arabic States” condemn the actions at the church and “take the appropriate action to defend innocent Christians brutally singled out because of their religion, in Iraq and some other Middle Eastern countries.”

Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad told Vatican Radio Oct. 31 that at least one child was killed in the incident.

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During the siege, he asked people to pray that God would give the hostage-takers the grace to take into consideration the women, children and all the innocent who were threatened by their actions.

Vatican spokesman Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi told reporters at the time of the siege that “it’s a very sad situation, which confirms the difficult situation in which Christians live in the country.”

“Christians live with great insecurity and we express our solidarity with them,” he said.

Iraqi bishops had just participated in a special Synod of Bishops Oct. 10-24 with the pope at the Vatican; the synod drew attention to the challenges facing Christians in the Middle East.

During the synod, Iraqi bishops said kidnappings for ransom, bombings of churches and other Christian buildings and a general lack of security have made life so precarious for the vulnerable Christian community that about half have left their homeland for safer destinations in the past seven years.

At least one bishop raised the question of systematic attacks as part of a “plan” to drive all Christians from the Middle East.

On Tuesday, the Feast of All Souls, hundreds of Catholics and non Catholics gathered at the Church of St Joseph in central Baghdad to bury the dead.

“This attack has been condemned by the whole Iraqi community,” said Corbishop Philip Najem, procurator for the Chaldean Catholic Church. “It is not a matter of faith.

Certainly, the intention is to create chaos.

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Cheering their team in the World Series, students at St. Pius School in Redwood City donned Giants colors to form the team’s logo.

HS bioethics . . .

■ Continued from cover abortion and artificial reproduction technology, including embryonic stem cell science and IVF. Last year a student at the all-girls high school “very courageously revealed she was an IVF baby,” said Martin-Spencer.

“That added a level of reality to the course.”

The class also examined the emergency contraceptive “Ella,” approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in August for prescription only and touted as a way to prevent pregnancy up to five days after sexual intercourse. “Do you realize it has the potential to terminate a pregnancy?” Martin-Spencer said he asked the girls. “They were honestly shocked. They had no idea based on the commercials they saw.”

At Woodside Priory School, Redemptorist Father Benjamin Owens last year revived a bioethics elective for juniors and

Teens from St. Andrew Parish in South San Francisco were among 200 from the Archdiocese – and among 3,400 from nine North California and Nevada dioceses – who attended the ON FIRE NorCal Jam Oct. 16 at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo.

Students at Good Shepherd School in Pacifica planted “Pinwheels for Peace” by the school’s courtyard.

They crafted the pinwheels after discussions about what a peace-filled world would be like and how “whirled peace” might be found.

seniors. Because of demand the course grew to three sections this year, he said. The class draws on material from the National Catholic Bioethics Center, which advises the U.S. bishops, for information about stem cell ethics and science, Father Owens said. “We try to present what the mind of the Church is on critical issues, realizing that the Church is in that value-focused dialogue and sometimes struggles with other viewpoints,” said the Portola Valley school theology teacher.

At some other schools in the Archdiocese, bioethics is covered as part of mandatory theology courses.

Archbishop Riordan High School freshmen “read and discuss a section in the Catholic Faith Handbook called ‘Respecting Sexuality’ that addresses issues like contraception, in vitro fertilization, and artificial insemination,” said Dean of Academics Colleen Eagleson, with the topics coming up again at the boys’ high school in junior religion in three units, “Culture of Life,” “Culture of Death,” and “Respect for Sexuality,” and again in senior year as part of a course on ethics and marriage and family.

Marin Catholic’s Mayer, who recently obtained his certificate in bioethics from the National Catholic Bioethics Center, includes bioethics modules in the senior religion course and teaches bioethics within the senior elective Christian Literature. Martin-Spencer teaches bioethics as a spring senior elective.

The Church teaches that IVF and embryonic stem cell science are wrong because they remove conception from the marital act and treat a baby as a product to be manipulated, violating the child’s integrity as a human being with an immortal soul from the moment of conception. Additionally, embryonic stem cell science and often IVF destroy embryos in research or medical procedures. The issue was addressed by the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in “Donum Vitae” published in 1987, and “Dignitas Personae” issued in 2008.

Martin-Spencer’s course includes end-of-life issues such as physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, the death penalty, IVF, human experimentation, abortion, contraception and genetic engineering. “We teach from the Catholic perspective and the students have a lot of questions about it,” Martin-Spencer said.

“The way we approach it is very sensitively because these are very personal issues, especially in Marin, because some students have been conceived through IVF” and statistics show a high number of young women have had abortions, Marin Catholic’s Mayer said. “These are issues the students are dealing with.”

“It’s going to be up to us to make these moral decisions,” said Marin Catholic senior Alonzo Page, 18, who attended an Oct. 9 seminar sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, “Rediscovering the Family in a Technological Age: Bioethical Considerations.” Because he knows several classmates were conceived using IVF, Page said he was glad that the Catholic Church teaches every life is sacred. “There is nothing wrong with the person.” Page said. “All children are good.”

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Spanish-speaking Catholics adopt plan to expand archdiocesan ministries

By Dana Perrigan Gazing out upon several hundred Hispanic Catholics packed into the auditorium of Mission Dolores Church one recent Saturday morning, Auxiliary Bishop William Justice opened the annual meeting of El Consejo Pastoral Hispano by saying in Spanish: “We must go forward – not backward: That is what we must remember to do.”

When the meeting of Catholic lay leaders

and clergy – representing 33 parishes throughout the Archdiocese – was over, the bishop’s words had been heeded: A detailed plan to serve the needs of the Hispanic community, which is the single largest ethnic group in the Archdiocese, had been set in motion.

“We have a lot of lay people from different parishes,” said Cecilia Arias, “and they were waiting for a green light. We came out with a structure of organization – that’s the new thing.”

(PHOTO BY MARCEL VIENS)

Archbishop visits high school alma mater Archbishop George Niederauer dedicated the St. Anthony’s Mural for the 90th anniversary of his alma mater, St. Anthony High School in Long Beach, on Oct. 23.

With the archbishop in the entry of Shea Hall are Bill Gilbertson, a senior and Jessica Zanatta, a sophomore. The San Francisco archbishop graduated in 1954 from the co-ed high school founded by Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1920.

The director of the Office of Hispanic Ministry, Arias said the plan – which began two years ago at a meeting at St. Mary’s Cathedral – calls for lay people and clergy to work closely together. It is based upon the precepts outlined in Vatican II, in which all Catholics are called to holiness and to serve God by serving others.

“We are all community,” said Sister Estela Martinez, from St. James Church. During her presentation at the meeting on the vocation and mission of lay Catholics in the Church, Sister Estela reminded the audience that “Our God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit – is community. Church is community. We need to work together.”

As temples of the Holy Spirit on earth and incorporated into the body of Christ by baptism, said Sister Estela, all Catholics are called upon to participate in the sanctification of the world by being – as expressed by Jesus in the New Testament – the salt and light of the world.

Father Moises Agudo, the new archdiocesan Vicar for Spanish-speaking, identified seven areas of ministry in which lay people and clergy can work together to serve the community. The ministries, which Father Agudo referred to as “pastorales,” include family, youth, social justice, catechesis, liturgy, vocation and communication.

According to the plan, there will be a group of trained lay people to work in each area of ministry. The services of these groups will be offered to every church in the Archdiocese, whether to train others to work in specific areas, or work directly in the parish. The success of the plan relies upon developing and maintaining relationships with pastors throughout the Archdiocese.

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Haiti survivor . . . some $149 million to Catholic Relief Services for Haitian relief. The includes $3.3 million from Bay Area Catholics of which $1.2 million came from parishes within the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said Joe Hastings, a CRS executive from Seattle.

“Mesi anpil” (thank you very much).

Rigaud said in Creole. “Mesi anpil for what you have done and mesi anpil for what you are going to do.”

Spending is piecemeal, because disaster relief, recovery and rebuilding, particularly in regions in which poverty is rampant, is a longterm endeavor, said Hastings. Only $30 million of the $149 million in Catholic contribution to Haiti has been spent, largely on emergency services, while more money over time will be earmarked for farming equipment to restore agriculture, hospitals, microfinance loans for

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Prayer during Mass outside the quake-devastated cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Oct. 31.

U.S. bishops seeking “Asian Pacific pastoral agents”

By George Raine In the nearly 10 years since a U.S. Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter encouraging Asian Pacific people to take active leadership roles at every level of Church life was issued, some progress is noted but more is needed, particularly in developing parish ministries, a cultural diversity specialist for the bishops said during a visit to San Francisco.

There is already considerable enthusiasm for serving the Church, among Asian and Pacific people. But what is missing is a template or study guide for marshalling that energy and forming what is being called “Asian Pacific pastoral agents” at dioceses across the country, said Cecile Motus, the assistant director of the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

That will be her priority in 2011, the 10th anniversary of the 2001 pastoral letter, titled “Asian and Pacific Presence: Harmony in Faith,” along with an assessment of Asian Pacific ministries nationwide, and how the pastoral letter’s recommendations are being met.

The first among them was this: “That dioceses and parishes make every effort to welcome and to evangelize Asian and Pacific people and to share with them the Good News of Jesus Christ and the Catholic faith.”

The pastoral letter was written after Bishop John Cummins, the retired bishop of the Diocese of Oakland, in 1997 made two observations – that there is continuing growth in Asian Pacific communities in the U.S. and the Church but hardly anything had been written about the presence of the group and “the gifts they bring,” said Motus. Second, Bishop Cummins noted that many Asian and Pacific people are active in parishes but there is little recognition of it.

Bishop Cummins’ insights were formed as a delegate to the Asian Bishops Conference, which he attended from 1982 to 2004. In addition, he twice addressed the USCCB on what he considered inadequate recognition of the role of Asian and Pacific people in the Church.

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small shop operators and other programs that help wean recipients from food distribution and allow them to return to their normal patterns of earning and buying, said Hastings.

As of September, said Hastings and Rigaud, CRS contributions in Haiti include: providing food to 900,000 people; helping 256,365 people with emergency shelter; building 300 transitional shelters; helping to provide 997 surgeries; installing 680 water and sanitation units; creating child-friendly spaces where 1,863 children regularly gather, and employing 10,000 people in a cash-for-work program to clear rubble, clean out drainage canals and build temporary shelters.

Remaining challenges are enormous, said Rigaud. Consider, she said, that in a span of only 35 seconds, the earthquake reduced much of the capital of Port-au-Prince to rubble, destroying seven of 12 government buildings, wrecking 188,000 homes and damaging 4,922 schools – 80 percent of Haiti’s schools.

Riguad had worked the day of the earthquake. She left about 4:30 p.m. and picked up her boys to head home. While en route, her daughter sent a text message: Don’t forget to stop and get the cat food – Alley Cat Food, she insisted; the only food the cat will eat.

Rigaud drove to the Caribbean Market in Port-au-Prince.

Alas, there was no Alley Cat Food on the shelf. She telephoned her daughter to say the cat would have to do with something else. Then, at 4:53 p.m., as Rigaud and the boys stood in the pet food aisle, the earth shook.

“I saw the back of the supermarket start to collapse and stuff was coming toward me,” said Rigaud, who with her boys clutched to her side, was transported down the aisle to the dog food section where, incredibly, they were saved.

Rigaud and the boys found themselves covered by bags of dry dog food, insulating them from the supermarket roof and debris from the multi-story building. A kind of cave was created, although there was no room in which to move, where mother and sons lived for eight hours, often praying and singing songs about Jesus in Creole.

Two men around them cried, one of them believing he was dead. Rigaud knew better. “I said, ‘You’re not dead, you are speaking. You should be praying because God did not want you to die. Otherwise you wouldn’t be crying like a baby.’”

Soon, one of the men found a flashlight and then a bottle of apple juice. “This is a sign of God,” Rigaud said aloud.

“We have life and now we have juice.” She assured the crying man that these were signs and that rescuers would follow. “He said that maybe he could start believing in God,” said Rigaud.

Another Bay Area priest, Father Anthony McGuire, was a major force behind the drive to have the pastoral letter published. In 1999, Father McGuire, now pastor of St. Matthew Church in San Mateo, was director of pastoral care for migrants and refugees in the USCCB Office of Migration, and he assigned Motus to begin drafting the letter.

In that year, there were no Asian Pacific U.S. bishops.

Now there are five: Bishop Ignatius Wang, retired auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; Bishop Randolph Calvo, of the Diocese of Reno; Bishop Dominic Luong, auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Orange; Bishop Oscar Solis, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and Bishop Jacob Angadiath, bishop of the SyroMalabar Catholic Diocese (Eastern rite) of Chicago.

Motus said Asian and Pacific Catholics are being encouraged to take leadership roles, “but that is being played by ear, and we are learning on the ground.” She wants more structure to helping develop vocations among Asian Pacific people as well as lay ministers.

The number of Asian and Pacific priests in the U.S. is steadily growing, she noted. In 2009, 13 percent of the ordained priests in diocesan seminaries were Asian and Pacific, compared with 9 percent in 1999. The majority of Vietnamese, followed by Filipino, Korean and Chinese, Motus said.

Motus said the Vietnamese have an active youth society with 30,000 members nationwide and operate their own seminary, in Missouri. The growth in Vietnamese vocations, she said, is a reflection of “persecution of the church (in the country) and how it deepens the love for Jesus and following the holiness of his life, so that is a source of inspiration, a source of comfort.”

In addition to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Motus is holding meetings with officials in the Diocese of Oakland, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Fresno and Sacramento, as well as other regions in the country, to coordinate observances of the pastoral letter’s anniversary.

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“The faith of the simple knocks down false gods” This is an abridged version of an unscripted homily that the Holy Father gave in Rome Oct. 11 at the start of the Synod of Bishops for the Middle East. The pope describes the centrality of Mary in the Incarnation, the ensuing birth of the Mother Church and the role of Christian witness – as crucial now as it was in the emerging Church – to unmask “false gods,” of which he names government oppression, terrorism and drugs. Read the full transcript at chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it. Scott Richert, who calls the homily a defining moment in Benedict’s pontificate, has commentary on his catholicism. about.com blog. ... Aristotelian philosophy tells us that between God and man there exists only a non-reciprocal relationship. Man exists in reference to God, but God, the Eternal, is in himself, he does not change: he cannot have this kind of relationship today and another kind tomorrow. He remains in himself, he does not have a relationship “ad extra,” he does not have a relationship with me. It is a very logical reflection, but it is a reflection that makes us despair.

With the Incarnation, this has changed radically, because God has drawn us into himself, and God in himself is relationship and makes us participate in his interior relationship. So we are in his being Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we are inside his being in relationship, we are in relationship with him, and he has really created a relationship with us. …

In that moment, God wanted to be born of a woman while still remaining himself: this is the great event. And so we can understand the profundity of Pope (John XXIII’s) action when he entrusted the conciliar, synodal assembly (Second Vatican Council) to the central mystery, to the Mother of God who is drawn by the Lord into himself, and so all of us with her.

The council began with the icon of the “Theotókos” (the Greek title of Mary – literally, “God-bearer.”) At the end, Pope Paul VI acknowledged the Virgin Mary with the title “Mater Ecclesiae.” And these two icons, which begin and conclude the council, are intrinsically connected, they are, in the end, a single icon. ... Christ was not born as an individual among others. He was born to create a body for himself: he was born – as John says in Chapter 12 of his Gospel – to draw all things to him and in him. He was born – as the letters to the Colossians and to the Ephesians say – to recapitulate all the world, he was born as the first-born of many brothers, he was born to reunite the cosmos in himself, such that he is the head of a great body. Where Christ is born, there begins the movement of recapitulation, the moment of the calling, of the construction of his body, of the holy Church... The

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Even today, the only Son of God must be born for the world with the downfall of the gods, with suffering, the martyrdom of the witnesses.

Mother of “Theós,” the Mother of God, is Mother of the Church, because she is Mother of the one who came to reunite all in his risen body.

Birth in Bethlehem, birth in the cenacle. Birth of the Child Jesus, birth of the body of Christ, of the Church. They are two events, or one single event. But between the two really stand the cross and the resurrection. And only through the cross does the journey toward the totality of Christ take place, toward his risen body, toward the universalization of his being in the unity of the Church. And so, keeping in

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mind that it is only from the grain that falls to the ground that the great harvest comes, from the Lord pierced on the cross comes the universality of his disciples gathered into his body, put to death and risen...

So, at this moment, we can take a look at the second psalm of this midday hour, Psalm 81, where a part of this process can be seen. God stands among the gods, still considered as gods in Israel. In this psalm, in a great act of concentration, in a prophetic vision, the gods are seen to be stripped of their power. What appeared to be gods are not gods, and they lose the divine character, they fall to the ground. ...

This process, which took place over Israel’s long journey of faith, and is summed up here in a remarkable vision, is a true process of the history of religion: the downfall of the gods. And so the transformation of the world, the knowledge of the true God, the weakening of the forces that dominate the earth, is a process of suffering. In the history of Israel, we see how this liberation from polytheism, this recognition – “only he is God” – takes place amid much suffering, beginning with the journey of Abraham, the exile, the Maccabees, up until Christ. And it continues in history, this

process of weakening spoken of in Chapter 12 of Revelation; this speaks of the fall of the angels that are not angels, are not divinities on the earth. And it is truly realized precisely in the time of the emerging Church, where we see how with the blood of the martyrs there is a weakening of the divinities, all these divinities, beginning with the divine emperor. It is the blood of the martyrs, the suffering, the cry of the Mother Church that knocks them down and so transforms the world.

This downfall is not only the knowledge that these are not God. It is the process of the transformation of the world, which costs blood, costs the suffering of the witnesses to Christ. And, if we look closely, we see that this process is never finished. Even today, in this moment, in which Christ, the only Son of God, must be born for the world with the downfall of the gods, with suffering, the martyrdom of the witnesses.

We think of the great powers of today’s history, we think of the anonymous capitals that enslave man, that are no longer something belonging to man, but are an anonymous power that men serve, and by which men are tormented and even slaughtered. They are a destructive power that threatens the world. And then the power of the terrorist ideologies. Violence is done apparently in the name of God, but this is not God: these are false divinities that must be unmasked, that are not God. And then drugs, this power that, like a ravenous beast, stretches its hands over all parts of the earth and destroys: it is a divinity, but a false divinity, which must fall. Or even the way of life promoted by public opinion: today it’s done this way, marriage doesn’t matter anymore, chastity is no longer a virtue, and so on.

These ideologies that are so dominant that they impose themselves by force are divinities. And in the suffering of the saints, in the suffering of believers, of the Mother Church of which we are part, these divinities must fall, what is written in the letters to the Colossians and Ephesians must come true: the dominations and powers fall and become subjects of the one Lord Jesus Christ. …

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Please send your letters to: Catholic San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109 Fax: (415) 614-5641 E-mail: delvecchior@sfarchdiocese.org, include “Letters” in the subject line.

The Angelus: portrait of a prayer Brother John M. Samaha, SM The Angelus is a prayer practice rich in doctrine and devotion. This prayer honors the Annunciation of the Lord and commemorates the mystery of the Incarnation, the Son of God becoming the Son of Mary for our salvation, the union of the divine nature with human nature.

The Angelus takes its name from its first word in the Latin version of the prayer.

Praying the Angelus recalls the dialog between the Archangel Gabriel and Mary by reciting three versicles and responses with a Hail Mary after each set, another versicle and response, and then a concluding prayer. Traditionally, this was done while the local church bell tolled at 6 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. Older people will recall this experience.

The Angelus traces its beginnings to the 13th century. In that era bells were often inscribed with the Angelic Salutation. Before the Second Vatican Council’s liturgical renewal, the concluding prayer was the Postcommunion Prayer for Masses of Our Lady in Advent; but now it is the Opening Prayer for the Fourth Sunday of Advent.

Although the origin of the Angelus is obscure, it is certain that the morning, midday, and evening practice of praying the Angelus did not develop simultaneously.

By the 16th century, the various customs were unified.

The morning prayer was recited to commemorate Christ’s resurrection; at noon, Christ’s passion; and in the evening, to recall the Incarnation, since St. Bonaventure taught that Gabriel’s visit to Mary came at evening.

Since the 15th century to the present day, the Angelus prayer has been recommended by many popes.

In our time, Blessed John XXIII began to recite the Angelus each Sunday at noon as a Christian family prayer with the pilgrims and Romans gathered below his residence window in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. Pope Paul VI expounded at some length on the value of the Angelus in the last section of his apostolic exhortation on proper devotion to Mary, “Marialis Cultus” (1974).

Even before I began school, I remember our parish church bell – St. James in San Francisco’s Mission District – recalling the angel Gabriel’s Annunciation to

“The Angelus,” Jean-François-Millet

Mary of the Incarnation. In those years, unlike today, most parishes tolled the Angelus daily. Then, in the third grade, Sister M. Benvenuta, OP, taught us to pray PRAYER, page 14

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CSF interview: Father Moises Agudo CSF: There is a tremendous demographic shift underway in the Catholic laity in the US, especially in the West. According to the Pew Forum (2008), 54 percent of Catholics in the West were Hispanic, vs. 38 percent white.

What are the implications of this shift for the Church in the US and this Archdiocese?

FATHER AGUDO: More than an implication it is a challenge for the Archdiocese to confront the reality of growth in the Hispanic population. And this challenge is to achieve the cultural integration of Hispanics into the Anglo world and vice versa – a process that could be achieved through joint pastoral and liturgical celebrations.

CSF: Vocations from prospective priests from Spanishspeaking countries are relatively few, considering that many of our parishes are predominantly Latino. What’s going on here? Why aren’t more Latino men stepping up?

What more could be done to encourage them to consider the priesthood?

FATHER AGUDO: There aren’t few Latino men willing to enter the seminary, there are many but the problem is that they are not legally here. A legal status is implicit for admission into the seminary – it’s not a matter of how few there are but what restrictions are in place at seminaries that hinder their admission. Those who cannot be allowed in are not unwilling but unable. If we could create a legislative path through which we could formalize the way Latino men are let in we would have more vocations.

It is a double edge sword because many would use it to legalize their status. There are many vocations but they are inhibited from following their vocation. There are so many legal obstacles in the U.S. Another reason is that in the world that we live in today materialistic forces permeate the youth – before everything was more conducive to hear the vocational call – you were not as contaminated by the world and its pretenses. We need to fight against that which is presented to the youth – to propose something that is attractive. The challenge is to know that what we are offering – they can attain. What was not attainable back home is an open door here. They abandon Church and vocation because what we are proposing is easy. We need to enable an encounter of the youth with Christ through a vocation in this world. We as a Church are falling short – we don’t know how to reach out to the youth and foment a vocation from inside the family – the bosom of vocations.

CSF: This may be part of your answer: Spanish-speaking young people tend to abandon the Church when they reach adulthood. Maybe they do not leave at a greater rate than European-born Catholics, but still it is a factor to be considered. What can we do to reach out to Spanish-speaking youth and young adults?

FATHER AGUDO: It depends. The family plays a fundamental role in education and formation...the youth wants to be autonomous. But it is then that we need to work with the youth presenting them with something that anchors them to the parish. For example, in St. Charles Borromeo we have children preparing for First Communion for one or two years. Then they move on to prepare for Confirmation. We have got to do something to keep them around, so we created another class called Devotions to the Sacred Heart. Two more years of Good News Bible classes, another year of Disciples of Christ, a year of preparation ahead of confirmation. During those years we are filling in the vacuum. It could keep them and their parents in the Church... Let’s help both of them to stay in.

CSF: The Spanish-speaking community is not a community – that’s a fiction. Native Spanish speakers make up a range of communities depending on nationality, economic level and other factors. How does the Vicar for

The Church needs to create a new way to help the pagan world. The antidote is the announcement of the Gospel with strength, truth and courage.

– Father Moises Agudo

Spanish-speaking manage this diversity? What are the common threads? What are the differences that make the task difficult?

FATHER AGUDO: In the diversity of the culture... the economy...the nationalities as Constantine united his empire by means of religion... it was a divided empire and he knew how to unify through the Catholic religion...unify this diversity with the same legal system...the Spanish, through the language used to celebrate the liturgies in the Church...we could unify all Latinos. We could unify these realities ... this diversity has a unity in the language... that’s how one could forge unity among Latinos.

The challenge lies in the unity of celebration in the diversity of cultures. What is difficult is to know how to conjugate all the festivities, the celebrations in one moment ... Virgin of Guadalupe, Savior of the World, the Immaculate Conception, the Divine Child. How does one form these national feast days into a liturgy with the same language? If we succeed in unifying we will create a tremendous unity among Latinos.

Though we are not a community we are united because we are all immigrants ... to create a pastoral for the immigrant is the unity.

CSF: There is a major problem in financing our parochial schools, especially those in the city, to serve a new generation of immigrants. Those new immigrants are predominantly Spanish-speaking. We know from the Pew survey that Hispanic Catholics, as a group, have far lower incomes and education levels than Caucasians. This makes for some very difficult economic issues that are rooted in even more difficult cultural issues. Parishes are having a difficult time paying for these schools, even though tuition costs are often quite low. It seems to be very difficult for many immigrant families to pay. What can be done about this?

FATHER AGUDO: The Latino community is less likely to enter a Catholic school due to an economic problem. There is also a cultural problem whereby many think that private schools are very costly. Their income is minimal ... and they could never provide a private education for their children.

What to do? It is a social problem that needs to be resolved by the government because making a good education available is to help a society ... Private schools should be subsidized by the government like in Australia. It will be very difficult for the government to subsidize schools so we need to find benefactors that will assist these families with access to schools. St. Charles Borromeo consists of 70 percent Hispanics and they have difficulty in paying tuition. We are trying to find benefactors to be able to help 100 children. The tuition for each student is $4,000 a year. These children will contribute greatly to society in education and labor. We are trying to find benefactors to help these children.

The school is an entity, as the diocese, a very impersonal building. We should get rid of this entity and show their faces to the benefactors so that they can see who they are helping. Instead of telling them to help the school, let’s tell them to help the children that study in the school; don’t help the school but the children.

CSF: If Spanish-speaking Catholics of means value Catholic education, why aren’t we seeing them step up as philanthropists? (Don’t we see here a reflection of the horrific divisions in most Latin American countries – a handful of rich owning everything, hardly any middle class and massive numbers of poor – and no solidarity between rich and poor? We’re the Church – solidarity is crucial, so how can we cultivate this?)

FATHER AGUDO: Because we live in the U.S. and we think that we have everything, that poverty does not exist here and we advocate for the poor in Asia, in Haiti; we advocate for those abroad when there are millions of poor people here. Here the reality is the same. We should turn our faces toward the U.S. so that we can see the reality in this country. We have collections for other countries. The parishes that are capable could sponsor a poor school here.

(PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Father Moises Agudo, pastor at St. Charles Borromeo in San Francisco and recently appointed Vicar for Spanish-speaking for the Archdiocese, in conversation with Catholic San Francisco. Interview conducted in Spanish

by Jose Luis Aguirre and translated by Marta Rebagliati.

Why send the money abroad if I can help here? There is a problem with the ability to see. We intercede for those outside and we don’t realize that poverty is here, that a family has six people in a room and we pretend we don’t see this. Here in the diocese we have a serious reality of poverty. If we could have the rich parishes sponsor the poor schools we could help solve the problem. These solvent parishes could sponsor the schools.

CSF: A large number of Spanish-speaking Catholics favor the participatory, expressive charismatic form of celebration. How do you see this energizing the Church as a whole?

FATHER AGUDO: Latinos are by far more expressive than other ethnic groups, and each group has a way of expressing the liturgy but all this energy and strength needs to be channeled and directed to celebrate God’s greatness.

Latinos tend to speak more with a corporal language than with words and that can be used to benefit the liturgy trying of course to find a balance that is conducive to the liturgy.

CSF: It seems that whenever Hispanic Catholics are spoken of, immigration is mentioned in the same breath. And because the nation – and Catholics, though not Catholic teaching – are divided on how to treat undocumented people living here, there’s a built-in tension when we talk about Spanish-speaking Catholics. How can Catholics on both sides of the question better understand each other?

What could the Archdiocese do to bring these two sides together?

FATHER AGUDO: The tension exists between what’s legal and illegal. As a diocese we need to look not only at the legal or illegal side of immigration but we need to look at the person. Our efforts to help the person independently of their immigration status. It is important to begin to humanize the issue because the person is above the regulations and the norms.

CSF: The Catholic Church seems to be fighting a losing battle in Latin America against the encroachment of abortion rights and same-sex marriage. What is going on here?

Why is secularization able to move so aggressively in countries that have been Catholic for 500 years?

FATHER AGUDO: Because secularization is like water, it enters wherever there is room and adapts to any object.

Secularization enters wherever new forms emerge and the Church is faced with a huge battle in the U.S., Latin America and Europe. The Church needs to create a new way to help the pagan world. The antidote is the announcement of the Gospel with strength, with truth and with courage.

CSF: What is your immediate plan as Vicar for the Spanishspeaking?

FATHER AGUDO: I have resolved – in whatever measure is possible – to visit parishes that have a pastoral for Hispanic ministry or that celebrate Mass in Spanish to be able to celebrate together. My objective is to make them a visible face for the Archdiocese and the archbishop. One of the tasks I was entrusted with was to carry the love of the bishop for Hispanics and the best way to do it is not only by being present for the celebration of the Mass but also to create a pastoral ministry dedicated to those who speak Spanish.

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A READING FROM THE SECOND BOOK OF MACCABEES 2 MC 7:1-2, 9-14 It happened that seven brothers with their mother were arrested and tortured with whips and scourges by the king, to force them to eat pork in violation of God’s law. One of the brothers, speaking for the others, said: “What do you expect to achieve by questioning us?

We are ready to die rather than transgress the laws of our ancestors.” At the point of death he said: “You accursed fiend, you are depriving us of this present life, but the King of the world will raise us up to live again forever. It is for his laws that we are dying.” After him the third suffered their cruel sport. He put out his tongue at once when told to do so, and bravely held out his hands, as he spoke these noble words: “It was from Heaven that I received these; for the sake of his laws I disdain them; from him I hope to receive them again.” Even the king and his attendants marveled at the young man’s courage, because he regarded his sufferings as nothing. After he had died, they tortured and maltreated the fourth brother in the same way. When he was near death, he said, “It is my choice to die at the hands of men with the hope God gives of being raised up by him; but for you, there will be no resurrection to life.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15 R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

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Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14; Psalm 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15; 2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5; Luke 20:27-38 Hear, O Lord, a just suit; attend to my outcry; hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.

R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

My steps have been steadfast in your paths, my feet have not faltered.

I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my word.

R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

Keep me as the apple of your eye, hide me in the shadow of your wings.

But I in justice shall behold your face; on waking I shall be content in your presence.

R. Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will be full.

A READING FROM THE SECOND LETTER OF PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS 2 THES 2:16-3:5 Brothers and sisters: May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting encouragement and good hope through his grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good deed and word. Finally, brothers and sisters, pray for us, so that the word of the Lord may speed forward and be glorified, as it did among you, and that we may be delivered from perverse and wicked people, for not all have faith. But the Lord is faithful; he will strengthen you and guard you from the evil one. We are confident of

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s we wade through the insult-strewn media battlefields of the Rachel Maddows and Glenn Becks, the suicide-bombed wreckage of Sunni and Shia city squares, or even the tension-filled conversations of progressive and conservative Catholics, we might think that our age is a uniquely contentious one.

Luke’s Gospel this week might prove us wrong.

In our Sunday’s Chapter 20, we see Jesus again up to his ears in frustration with the religious authorities of his time – and again at his “your clever ‘gotcha’ tactics aren’t going to work on me, guys...” best as he attempts to bring those leaders (and us!) to a more authentic understanding of just what truly lies at the heart of the Kingdom that he is always talking about.

Earlier this week, in the All Saint’s Day Gospel drawing from Matthew instead of the regular C-Cycle Luke, we heard the Beatitudes, gleaning from them not only a re-ordering of the conventional notions of “kingdom,” but a re-imagining of the basic concepts of what it means to be happy and blessed.

This week, we’re offered a Kingdomdefining scenario where Jesus is doing what any good Jew would do on a typical Saturday night. No it’s not noshing on latkes and kugel.

It’s reveling in the ancient intellectual equivalent of the WWF smackdowns (only using brains instead of brawn) where rivaling factions among the Jewish rabbis would gather on temple grounds to spar – without too much concern for the drawing of psychological blood – about controversial biblical and theological issues.

This night’s juicy topic is the question of an afterlife beyond the physical world.

The Sadducees, those teachers who held that ONLY the books of Moses (the Pentateuch

Scripture reflection ROB GRANT

In God’s Kingdom, be careful what you wish for of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) are to be the source of Jewish faith, are in hot contention with the more progressive Pharisees (with whom Jesus would find himself aligned) who hold that the word of God is revealed not only through the (then) 1,500-year old writings of Moses, but through on-going prophecy, lived experience, and oral tradition. The Sadducees are certain that there is no resurrection, because Moses never spoke of it. The Pharisees contend that oral tradition and prophetic voice speak of resurrection.

So, when the Sadducees offer Jesus the rather ridiculous hypothetical case of a barren woman who has married – and gone on to successively bury – seven childless brothers, they ask him: “In the resurrection, whose wife will that widow be?”

Jesus challenges the Sadducees (and we modern day pragmatists) to think of the coming age not as just a “new and improved” version of this earthly experience, only with puffy clouds and cool winged creatures playing Baroque music on harps. Rather, harkening back to his paradigm-shifting Beatitudes, he slates the Kingdom as a place where even the most elemental ancient (and still persistent) assumptions about life and social order are to be revisioned. In this encounter, Jesus elevates the conversation about marriage from the typically pragmatic view of it being a contract to protect paternal, familial and property interests, to its status as a heavenly calling that presages the age to come when gender dominance, social standing and property will yield to the fully generative power of love.

you in the Lord that what we instruct you, you are doing and will continue to do. May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the endurance of Christ.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 20:27-38 Some Sadducees, those who deny that there is a resurrection, came forward and put this question to Jesus, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us, if someone’s brother dies leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife and raise up descendants for his brother. Now there were seven brothers; the first married a woman but died childless.

Then the second and the third married her, and likewise all the seven died childless.

Finally the woman also died. Now at the resurrection whose wife will that woman be?

For all seven had been married to her.” Jesus said to them, “The children of this age marry and remarry; but those who are deemed worthy to attain to the coming age and to the resurrection of the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage. They can no longer die, for they are like angels; and they are the children of God because they are the ones who will rise. That the dead will rise even Moses made known in the passage about the bush, when he called out ‘Lord, ‘ the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and he is not God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”

Next week’s readings continue to remind us of what will happen as the Kingdom is made manifest. Jesus knows human nature— so he tells us that, while we slowly learn as a species to move ever closer to that Kingdom, there will be wars, famines, plagues. Are these signs from God? God doesn’t need to “make” wars happen – we humans do that quite well on our own. Famine? We are brilliant enough to know how to feed every man woman and child on the planet – but our fear of our own future need and our propensity toward greed keep food controlled by those in power. Plagues? There is medicine enough for every ailment imaginable – but our reverence for getting fair market value keeps healing as a commodity to be sold, not a grace to be offered.

So the questions these weeks before the Feast of Christ the King are “Just what kind of kingdom is Christ the King of…and do we really want that kingdom?” The kingdom of unequivocal peace-making, untiring justicemaking, unqualified mercy-showing? And do we really want a king who asks us to relinquish the unearned benefits that come with our gender, our social standing, our affluence?

Do we really want the Kingdom to come?

Rob Grant is a 30-year veteran of parish ministry in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Diocese of Oakland. In addition to Liturgical Ministry, he teaches Pastoral Ministry at the Dominican School of Theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He can be reached at robbieness@aol.com.

Be still, and know that I am God

By Ginny Kubitz Moyer In the corner of my bedroom stands a desk. Pushed up against the window, it holds a candle, some family photos, and an icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, which belonged to my grandmother. I’ve arranged several books on the desk: a Bible, prayer guides, a children’s book by one of my favorite illustrators.

For the first two years I had this desk, I used it sporadically.

Because it’s mere feet from our bed, it’s often a dumping ground for clothes that Scott and I are too tired to put away.

But lately, I’ve been spending more and more time there. After the boys are in bed, I sit down and light the candle. I look at the photos – the boys in their matching Tigger sleepers, an engagement photo of Scott and

me in Golden Gate Park. I read a Bible verse or meditation. I lose myself watching the white candle in its glass tray, the flame wavering; it looks wintry and hot at the same time.

And, most of all, I notice that God is with me.

It’s easy to bump quiet time with God off of my to-do list.

Most days, prayer feels a lot less urgent than grading essays or bathing children. But it hit me several weeks ago that there was a restless place inside me that nothing else, not even exercise or writing, was able to reach. It was like the shelf way up high that never gets dusted because you need to drag over a chair in order to do so. I realized I’d need to make a certain effort to sweep the cobwebs off of my prayer life.

I’m not going to beat myself up for this (even though, as a Catholic and a mom, I’m a gold-medalist in guilt). I think one of the root problems was a lack of conviction that the prayer routine would do anything. What is the tangible result of half an hour’s meditation, staring at a wavering flame? I’m so focused on being productive that it is easy to sacrifice something that takes a conscious effort and yields no instant, measurable result.

But there was a definite hunger that drove me to that little

desk. I love the psalm that says, “Be still, and know that I am God.” My prayer corner is the one place where both halves of that verse are true. I can be still on the couch in front of the TV, but I don’t feel God when I’m there, simply because I’m not conscious of him. When I’m sitting quietly at my little desk, with no other purpose than to pray, I do know that God is there.

And that awareness keeps me going back.

Some nights, I’m rewarded with an epiphany, a little jewel of insight about my life, my goals. Some nights, I literally fall asleep. Some nights, it’s nothing more than a pause, a deep, candlelit breath in the middle of a frantic evening.

But it’s a pause that I’m sharing with someone who knows me completely and loves me anyway.

And that’s always worth the effort.

Ginny Kubitz Moyer is the author of “Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God.” She and her family are parishioners at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco. You can contact Moyer through her blog at blog.maryandme.org.

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Pacifica Military Moms supports sons and daughters in harm’s way

By Tom Burke Since now-U.S. Army Sgt. Joe Quirarte graduated from Pacifica’s Terra Nova High School in 2004, his mom, Debbie Smyser, has seen him off to deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq and now, again, Afghanistan.

“Joe told me his freshman year of high school that he wanted to join the military,” Smyser, a parishioner of St. Peter’s in Pacifica, told Catholic San Francisco. “He came home one day during his senior year telling me it was time to start contacting recruiters. I was praying he would change his mind and forget about the military.”

Veterans Day is Nov. 11 Parent Smyser and others with relatives in the military have joined together as Pacifica Military Moms, a support group formed in 2004 for families with members serving in the armed forces.

“We’ve grown to 60 members including moms, dads, aunts, grandparents and siblings who have relatives in the military,” Smyser said, noting that more than a dozen members are St. Peter families.

“We decided to start packing care packages for the troops in our group who were deployed and now we send them to anyone we can get a name and APO address for who is serving overseas,” she said.

Sgt. Quirarte, who serves in the Military Police, calls the relief packs “invaluable,” Smyser said.

“Some troops have written to us through U.S. mail or through our e-mail address – pacificamilitarymoms@ yahoo.com – telling us how these care packages boost the morale of each member in their group,” she said. “It is so rewarding to receive these messages knowing that we’ve put a smile on their faces.”

Smyser’s mom, Dot Bolton, has helped with much of the outreach at St. Peter.

“My mom has asked parishioners for the names of their relatives who are serving in the military so that we can pray for each and every one of them,” Smyser said. “We have a special poster at the church which proudly displays their pictures for everyone to see. An American flag stands proudly next to the poster.”

St. Peter members have helped pack the goodie boxes on several occasions.

“Joe is my grandson and the reason that my husband, Mel, and I spend so much of our retired time helping out,” Bolton said.

The couple helps unload tubs in Pacifica for “the public to put stuff into” and “takes boxes to the post office for Debbie if she gets a call from someone that they need certain things between our packing days.”

The two also help welcome local troops home and send them off.

“We have people sign cards at the ‘Fogfest’ in Pacifica, that are included in the packages with hellos from home, prayers, and thank you notes for serving our country,” Bolton said.

Facebook and AOL Instant Messenger have kept Sgt. Quirarte and his mom in touch “whenever he has time to log on,” Smyser said. “Everyone I work with is more than

Pacifica’s Army Sgt. Joe Quirarte with an Afghan child he’s helping protect.

happy to leave my office at Genentech when I say ‘There’s Joe’ to allow me time to talk to my son.”

She said her son never mentions his work.

“I think it’s because he wants to shield me from worry,” she said. “He’ll tell me he’s having a great day, when deep inside I know that it could have been the worst day of his life.

“The constant communication is a Godsend to the fami-

lies here at home,” she said. “Joe will be home on his twoweek ‘R and R’ (rest and relaxation) during the holidays and insists on joining us at Mass while he is home.”

Smyser’s son is now two years into a five-year reenlistment.

“We’re not sure if Joe will make a career out of the military,” Smyser said. “We’ll cross that path when we get there.”

One soldier’s thank-you note from over there Letters such as the following are a regular response to the efforts of Pacifica Military Moms. View more letters, pictures and information about the group at www.pacificamilitarymoms.com.

Hello!

My name is Private First Class J. I received three of the packages you sent me and they are great! I have so much stuff I have started giving it out to the guys around me because it won’t all fit in my bags. We really appreciate the candy, too. It really means a lot to me and everyone else that there are people here who care enough to send us things.

In some places we can’t survive without people like you because there isn’t a store on base. I don’t know if you guys put out a list of things you request to be donated, but if you do, please add the little packets of Crystal Light, Gatorade or Kool Aid to the list. All we really have out here to drink (all we should be drinking) is water, but after the tenth or twelfth bottle of water in a day after three weeks of nothing but water, we long for variety. If we can’t get it that’s fine; it’s only a creature comfort and not a necessity. I don’t want to sound ungrateful either; my fellow soldiers and I greatly appreciate every package, every toothbrush and every pair of socks that comes in and we know that you don’t have to do this, but you do out of the goodness of your heart. Anyway, thank you again from all of us in the 57th!

Guest Commentary

Let us remember: Serra High’s Wall of Honor When I was around nine months old, I went with my family to Central Park in San Mateo to welcome back the men of Alpha Company, 1/ 327 Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. We have a picture of my brothers and me at the event. As an adult I learned that San Mateo was the only city in the United States to hold a homecoming parade honoring returnA Veterans Day service ing veterans. I felt such in 2009 in New York sorrow that veterans could be treated in such a way.

Today I continue to honor them and all others who served.

The latest chapter in my effort is a memorial at Junipero Serra High School, the school that I attended and where I now teach. With the country entrenched in the War on Terror and the first Serra alumni in their 70s, the timing seemed right to honor those who served from my school in a concrete way.

After garnering the administration’s support, in January 2007 I canvassed the Serra community via the Internet. In March 2007 the word was put out again by including a piece in the alumni magazine, Traditions. I invited my U.S. history and theology students to ask neighbors and relatives who are graduates if the project applied to them. I also used the

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By Christian Clifford

1983 and 2004 Alumni Directories, with the help of my dad, James O. Clifford, Sr. (Riordan High School, Class of 1956 and Navy veteran) to contact those who noted being military.

Some alumni gave me names to track down. Padres serving around the world contacted me providing updates of where they were and what they were doing. Beaming parents wrote to me to tell about their sons’ accomplishments. I researched further alumni whose names I came across in archived alumni newsletters who were listed in current alumni records as deceased. For the first time this long-time history teacher felt like a historian. The best, though, was when an alumnus wrote to make sure his classmate was remembered by the community. His classmate lost his life in the Vietnam War. It was then that I realized that what I affectionately referred to as the Veterans’ Project was something much more special.

The following is an excerpt that I read in November 2007 to more than 1,000 students, faculty, staff, administrators and guests. The administration and Development Office felt it appropriate to unveil the Wall of Honor around Thanksgiving.

“The names submitted (341 to date) show a community of select graduates who have served our country honorably, and, in many cases, heroically, in the areas of strategic, tactical, service, training and administrative operations. They are soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, guardsmen, and coastguardsmen. Some Padre brothers have remembered their classmates who are now deceased by submitting their names to the project, reminding me of the truth behind the saying, ‘Once a Padre, always a Padre!’ “… today is about giving thanks for the many forms of

service that Padres do. But being a man or woman of service in the military takes a different type of person. He or she learns the value of the Constitution firsthand. His or her sacrifices are many. By its very nature, the military man or woman’s life is restricted. Sacrifice is not something one talks about, it is shown everyday. I remember missing Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day with family and friends because I was at sea. I remember shipmates missing the births of their children. I recall having to miss Mass because priests are not assigned to submarines. I remember hearing who won the Super Bowl a week after it took place. We didn’t even have a medical doctor on the boat. I remember the smell of fresh air for the first time after 75 days at sea. But I consider myself one of the lucky ones, because I wasn’t getting shot at.

“This project was bittersweet, however. In the process I came across the names of five graduates who gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country, their lives.

“Let us remember in a moment of silence those Padres who are not with us today and not forgotten by their fellow Padre brothers.”

I read aloud the following: SGT John Raymond Driscoll III ARMY Class of 1957 LTJG James Patrick Shea NAVY Class of 1958 PFC Philip Jeremiah Smith USMC Class of 1963 SPC Richard Alden Vinal ARMY Class of 1963 PFC James Matthew Wandro USMC Class of 1968 For the first time in my seven years of teaching at Serra, LET US REMEMBER, page 15

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Prayer . . .

■ Continued from page 10 the Angelus. From that time I listened carefully to the ringing of the church bell for the Angelus – three tolls for each of the invocations and nine for the concluding prayer.

Later in my education, I was introduced to the renowned painting by Jean-François Millet entitled “The Angelus.” The famous painting depicts a young man and a young woman standing in a field. They are farmers. He holds his cap reverently as he stands with head bowed.

She, in a white cap and long blue apron over her dress, clasps her hands as a prayerful look sets her face. They pause in prayer near the end of the workday.

At the woman’s feet is a basket of potatoes, and at her far side rests a wheelbarrow full of empty sacks. At the side of the man is a pitchfork spiked upright in the ground. The breaking clouds are blushed with light as birds flit in the twilight. The viewer can almost hear the bells ringing from the spire of the church in the distant right of the painting.

The artist was born in 1814 in Grunchy, a hamlet 10 miles west of Cherbourg in northwest France. This inland area off the rugged coast was a countryside of undulating downs beyond the moors.

Jean-Louis, the painter’s father, possessed real artistic talent, though all his life was spent tilling the fields. He loved music and directed the village choir; he studied the forms of trees and plants; he made clay models when time permitted.

Jean-François absorbed his father’s appreciation for beauty and art. In his father he found an exemplar to

emulate. Jean-François also was impressed by his parents’ piety and devotion.

As a boy, Jean-François traced prints from the family Bible and then tried freehand. From the beginning his parents and the parish priests recognized that he was extraordinary. The priests were careful to educate him the best they could in mythology, Greek, Latin, as well as in translation. He became familiar with the work of William Shakespeare, John Milton and Robert Burns.

All this time Jean-François was at home working on the family farm. He became a man of culture with the heart of a peasant. Later, he declared of himself, “A peasant I was born and a peasant I will die.”

His parents and the villagers commented favorably on his work. His father realized that he must go to Cherbourg to study art. It was at this point that Jean-François’ lifelong work as an artist began. Later, in Paris, he fine-tuned his painting skills for 12 years.

Because he disliked Paris and city life, he was delighted to return to the country. Barbizon became his home until the time of his death in 1875.

It was in 1859 that Jean-François Millet painted “The Angelus.” Vivid were his memories of the Angelus bell ringing while peasants were still working at twilight.

Often he had seen his father standing, bareheaded, cap in hand, and his mother, with bowed head and folded hands, at the sound of the evening Angelus bell.

Millet recorded that impression to show the quiet peace of twilight, the rosy glow of sunset engulfing the fields, the church bells filling the evening air and the devout attitude of the peasants. Surely he succeeded.

When his agent, Sensier, first saw the picture on Millet’s easel, the painter turned to him and asked, “Well, what do you think of it?”

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“It is the Angelus, “replied Sensier.

“Yes,” Millet said with satisfaction. “Can you hear the bells?”

Millet believed he had painted a great picture, but his genius was not recognized and acknowledged until after his death. In 1889, 14 years after his death, Millet’s painting of “The Angelus” was put up for auction, after the person who had bought the painting from Millet had died.

Prior to the auction the French government asked Antonin Proust, Director of Fine Arts, to buy the painting to keep it in France. Bidding was frantic in the crowded gallery the morning of the auction, mainly between Proust and two American dealers. When the sale was almost settled, two more Americans arrived and new bidding continued.

Finally, Proust offered 533,000 francs – about $94,000.

A pause occurred in the bidding. Then the gavel fell, and “The Angelus” was declared the property of France.

The people in attendance were elated.

However, the French government declined to ratify the purchase for so large a sum. “The Angelus” went to the next highest bidder, an American agent. Customhouse officials made the duty exorbitant, almost $12,000.

But they agreed to waive the claim on condition that the picture remain only six month in America. Another Frenchman, M. Chauchard, bought the painting upon its return to France.

Eventually, “The Angelus” found its way into the Louvre Museum in Paris. Today, we can still enjoy JeanFrançois Millet’s masterpiece in the Louvre. There the story of “The Angelus” by Millet concludes.

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■ Continued from page 13 the student body was totally quiet. Two more names would later be added.

1st Lt Stephen Scott USMC Class of 1972 Capt Steven Begehr USMC Class of 1985 A poignant blessing was then asked for by Jesuit priest and Cmdr. Michael C. Barber, USNR regimental chaplain, 23rd Marines, reminding those present to pray for those graduates who “have shown what you called ‘the greatest love there is,’ and have laid down their lives for others.”

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The care packages must be shipped by Nov. 13 in order to arrive in Afghanistan by Christmas.

The city’s bond to Alpha Company dates to Dec. 18, 1967, when a young soldier serving in Vietnam, Sgt. Joe Artavia, was concerned about the lack of mail his unit was receiving. He wrote his sister, Linda Patterson, asking her to work toward getting a city to adopt his unit.

On March 4, 1968, the City Council adopted Alpha Company with the purpose of improving troop morale with messages of love and support from home.

Sgt. Artavia was killed in action less than three weeks later but had learned of the adoption prior to his death and had written his sister that the response had a powerful impact on troop morale.

San Mateo welcomed Alpha Company with a homecoming parade in January 1972 – reputedly the only city in the nation to have honored returning Vietnam troops with such a celebration.

San Mateo’s relationship with Alpha Company is memorialized in a permanent display on the third floor of the city’s main library.

Gomez keeps close ties with the unit and recently visited with the troops at company headquarters at Fort Campbell, Ky. “They’re all so young,” she said.

Supporters of the city of San Mateo’s Adopted Sons of Alpha Company, 1/327 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, gathered in 2008 to mark the 40th anniversary of the unit’s adoption.

On the wall in the background is a photo of Sgt. Joe Artavia, who was a young soldier serving in Vietnam when he wrote his sister, Linda Patterson, asking her to work toward getting a city to adopt his unit. Sgt. Artavia was killed in action three weeks later but lived long enough to learn that his request had been answered.

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Christian Clifford has been a teacher for 14 years in the Archdiocese of San Francisco – four at St. Monica School and 10 at Serra High. He is married to Iris and they have a son, John Paul.

They live in San Mateo and are parishioners at St. Matthew. He served in the Navy from 1992-1996.

Christmas in Afghanistan: letters, care packages wanted to cheer San Mateo’s Adopted Sons The city of San Mateo’s Adopted Sons of Alpha Company, 1/327 Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, were deployed to Afghanistan earlier this year after having served three deployments in Iraq.

They will be away from home this holiday season and would welcome a card or letter, or a care package containing items one might pack for an extended camping trip: toiletries; high-energy, compact foods such as protein bars, beef jerky and canned tuna; pillows, bath towels and twin-size sheets; paperback books, music CDs and crossword puzzles; disposable cameras, playing cards and movie DVDs; and much more.

Do not send chocolate or anything containing pork, and bag anything that has a scent, advises City Clerk Norma Gomez, who is the city’s contact to Alpha Company and is organizing the holiday outreach.

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One book on Nazism offers in-depth history, the other merely polemics “CATHOLICISM & THE ROOTS OF NAZISM: RELIGIOUS IDENTITY & NATIONAL SOCIALISM,” by Derek Hastings. Oxford University Press (New York, 2010). 290 pp., $29.95.

“SIX MILLION CRUCIFIXIONS: HOW CHRISTIAN TEACHING ABOUT JEWS PAVED THE ROAD TO THE HOLOCUAST,” by Gabriel Wilensky.

QWERTY Publishers (San Diego, 2010). 390 pp., $27.95.

Reviewed by Eugene J. Fisher (CNS) Derek Hastings’ book, “Catholicism & the Roots of Nazism,” should be read by anyone interested in the history of the Christian churches, Nazism and the Shoah. Hastings studies in depth the events, movements and personalities in Bavaria, and especially Munich, from 1919 to the Beerhall Putsch of 1923, and the radical change in Nazi ideology that followed it.

While most readers will be aware of the antagonistic relationship between the Catholic Church and Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich, the early Nazi movement was formed in a city and region that was largely Catholic, with both the supporters and opponents of National Socialism identifying themselves as Catholics.

Hastings begins his study by evoking the “peculiarities” of Munich’s Catholic tradition. Unlike in the rest of Germany, the Catholic community in Munich was the large majority, giving it a relative openness to interconfessional cooperation and a certain distance from the way the Catholic Center Party and its local branch, the Bavarian Volks Party, operated.

Also, while Catholics in the rest of Germany, and indeed throughout Europe, had looked since the early 19th century increasingly to the pope, who lived “ultra montes” (over the mountains) in Italy, to resist efforts of secular state regimes to control religious affairs, there was a resistance to ultramontanism in Munich among Catholics who felt they did not need such “foreign” assistance or guidance.

In Munich, the German Volkische chauvinism, with its antiultramontanism implications, extended itself to “foreign” Jews,

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establishing a fertile ground for what would become core to the ideology of the nascent Social Democratic (Nazi) Party. The sense of Nordic-Aryan superiority and imagery was blended with explicitly Catholic images and themes.

The racial theories of Houston Chamberlain and Arthur de Gobineau were popularly accepted, laying the groundwork for the racial anti-Semitism that would ultimately rationalize the Holocaust.

Catholics, including a number of priests, were originally attracted to and involved in these developments. Hitler, in this period, actively cultivated Catholics and made (as it turned out a cynical) show of being one.

This ended at the time of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, which ended in violence. Hitler came out of prison feeling he was the apocalyptic leader of a new world order and joined with other movements, many of which were vocally anti-Catholic. The bishops of Bavaria banned participation by Catholics in the movement, with Cardinal Michael von Faulhaber of Munich issuing a stern condemnation of anti-Semitism. Ironically, Hastings concludes, the only thing Catholic to remain in Nazism as it took power in Germany was the sense of sacred (in Nazism’s case, of course, pagan) ceremony, illustrated in the famous Leni Riefenstahl film, “Triumph of the Will.”

Though I agree with the subtitle of Gabriel Wilensky’s book, “Six Million Crucifixions: How Christian Teaching about Jews Paved the Road to the Holocaust,” and with his major thesis that Christians in general and Catholics in particular need to come fully to grips with the fact that the Christian teaching of contempt for Jews and Judaism over the centuries prepared the ground and laid the seeds for Nazi racial genocide, I cannot recommend his well-intentioned but deeply flawed book.

Wilensky presents what has been called by Jewish scholars a lachrymose view of Jewish-Christian history, emphasizing the negatives and ignoring or writing off the positive aspects of our two-millennium-long encounter. Where shades of gray are called for, he sees only black.

He states, for example, that “just the Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles combined have approximately 450 explicit

anti-Semitic verses” (p. 130). There are, of course, problematic texts in the New Testament that later Christian polemicists used, or rather misused, to indict the Jews collectively of the death of Jesus. But at the time of their writing, few of these can be called anti-Judaic, much less anti-Semitic.

The books of the New Testament were written by Jews to be read by other Jews and were arguing, as Jews to this day do, about what it means to be Jewish. It was only when these passages were misinterpreted by Gentile Christians over the centuries, who had their own agenda in mind, that the basic, anti-Jewish and ultimately anti-Semitic interpretations of them became dominant in the thinking of Christians, so much so that no ecumenical council before the Second Vatican Council took a fresh look at the texts themselves to see what their authors actually intended to communicate.

Wilensky’s book is an indictment of the churches, particularly the Catholic Church and Popes Pius XI and XII, both of whom he calls, without sufficient evidence, anti-Semites. That is not scholarship. It is polemic.

Fisher is retired associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Two books, two angles, on evangelizing Catholic youth “ALMOST CHRISTIAN: WHAT THE FAITH OF OUR TEENAGERS IS TELLING THE AMERICAN CHURCH,” by Kenda Creasy Dean. Oxford University Press (New York, 2010). 254 pp., $24.95.

“WIN IT ALL: THE WAY TO HEAVEN FOR CATHOLIC TEENS,” by Justin Fatica. Ave Maria Press (Notre Dame, Ind., 2010). 141 pp., $11.95.

Reviewed by Daniel S. Mulhall (CNS) These two books sit at opposite ends of the youth ministry spectrum. One is a passionate appeal to young people.

The other, a must-read for anyone interested in youth and religion, is a scholarly reflection on what the U.S. church can do to bring young people to Christ.

“Win It All” author Justin Fatica, known for his Hard as Nails youth retreats, offers eight steps that young people can take to become disciples. Stories and lives of saints illustrate

his “muscular” vision of Christianity. The book is organized as a discipleship guide, with each chapter ending with reflection questions and activities.

Fatica writes with the energy one would expect in a live event, but whether young people will find the book as moving as the live ministry questionable.

American young people are fine with faith but feel it is unimportant to them, The National Study on Youth and Religion found in 2003-05. Kenda Dean was one of the researchers and revisits the work in “Almost Christian.”

She examines what she terms an undemanding “moralistic, therapeutic, deism” and suggests what the church can do to counter this feel-good “theology.”

She says the problem is with the church and not with young people and advises the church to focus on parents and the faith community rather than on the teens. Churches need to become spirit-filled communities that exist to share the Gospel message, and parents need to be living examples of the faith.

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The art of painter Marco Sassone is now on exhibit at The Nuova Porziuncola. Sassone’s work will be at the Porziuncola through Oct. 31.

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St. Paul High School Class of 1960 joined for their 50th reunion in September.

Thirty-eight members of the class were able to attend. Lil Carter, Jann Phillips, Denise Brand, Nancy Wade, Mag Melton, Barbara Lawrence,Mag Ragusin, Lucy Stasiowski and Mary Joyce were principal coordinators of the get-together.

Nov. 13, 2-4 p.m.: Introductory meeting of the Maryknoll Affiliates at St. Mary Star of the Sea Church, 180 Harrison Ave. in Sausalito. A lay group, Maryknoll Affiliates, while continuing to pursue their own life’s journey, commit themselves to the mission goals of Maryknoll in the context of Chapters that gather for prayer, reflection and action. Maryknoll Affiliates challenge one another to witness to mission as a way of life by going beyond borders, locally and globally, walking with the poor and excluded, and striving for peace and justice for all of God’s creation. All are welcome. Contact Bob or Nancy McFarland at rnmcfar1938@yahoo.com

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Nov. 12, 6 p.m.: “14th Annual Vincenzo Wine Tasting & Auction” benefiting Catholic Charities CYO Children and Youth Programming. Takes place at City Hall in San Francisco. Guests will enjoy an enchanting evening complete with exclusive tastings from premier wineries, a gourmet gala dinner by Dan McCall and a festive live auction featuring rare wines and unique travel packages. Tickets are $225 per person.

For information visit www.vincenzo.org, phone 415-972-1213 or email aayala@cccyo.org. Event chairs include U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, Jeff Fenton and Heather Rodriguez, Nov. 13, 6 p.m.: “An Evening at Casbah St. Paul’s”, annual dinner dance and auction benefiting St. Paul Church in San Francisco. Always a fun evening, it takes place at Patio Espanol on Alemany Blvd. and includes cocktails and silent auction then dinner and dancing. All proceeds benefit St. Paul’s Preservation Fund. Tickets are $65 per person, and available at St. Paul’s Rectory. Contact Katy O’Shea (415-648-7538) for more information.

Nov. 13: Annual St. Luke’s Mass and Banquet for men and women of the medical profession begins with Mass at 5 p.m. at St. Thomas More Church, Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. Dinner follows at neighboring Alma Via Residence. Dinner tickets are $25 per person/$10 for clergy, religious and students. Call George Maloof, MD at (415) 305-2408 or e-mail gemaloof2003@yahoo.com Nov. 19, 20, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.: “Annual Holiday Boutique by the Sisters of Mercy” at Marian Oaks, 2300 Adeline Dr., Bldg. D, Burlingame. Numerous holiday items for sale including the Sisters’ legendary home-made jams, handcrafted blankets & crafts, all-occasion handmade cards, baked goods, and fudge. Follow Lower Road on Mercy Campus to Marian Oaks. For information please call Debbie Halleran (650) 340-7426 or dhalleran@ mercywmw.org.

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Nov. 6, 6:45 p.m.: An action packed evening of fun and excitement with horse races at St. Finn Barr School with exciting commentary and close finishes. Donation of $5 covers all food (21 and over only). Cash Bar will feature beer and wine

Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Fridays and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays

Social Justice / Lectures / Respect Life Nov. 8, 9, 10: Jesuit Father Tom Allender brings “Answering Our Call to Transform the World through God’s Love” to St. Bartholomew Parish, Alameda de las Pulgas and Crystal Springs Rd. in San Mateo. The well-known San Francisco-born priest will preach at all Masses Nov. 6 and 7 and offer talks Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 – 10 a.m. and 7 – 8 p.m. Call (650) 347-0701, ext 18 or e-mail barby@barts.org.

Jan. 16, 2011, 1:45 p.m.: “An Old and New Invitation: How do we as believers deal with challenges facing us about belonging to this family of faith called the Catholic Church?” Answer this question with Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt, a Professor of Biblical Studies at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and at Santa Clara University, who also practices law. Sister Eloise has authored books and written articles on Scripture, conducted retreats and written for Catholic San Francisco newspaper. Takes place at Notre Dames des Victoires Chuch, 566 Bush St. at Grant in San Francisco. Reasonably priced parking is available across Bush at Stockton Sutter Garage. Admission is free. For more information, call (415) 397-0113.

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spiritual growth, and becoming involved in volunteer activities that will benefit our parishes, our community, and one another. We welcome those who would share in this with us.” For information, call Bob at (415) 897-0639.

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

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

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Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding.

S u n d a y, 7 a . m . : T V M a s s o n T h e Filipino Channel (TFC) (Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese.

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

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

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

Nov. 13, 5:30 p.m.: Annual Thanksgiving Mass for divorced, separated and widowed of the Archdiocese of San Francisco at St. John of God, 5th Avenue & Irving Street in San Francisco. A reception will follow. For information, contact Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 422-6698, Gail Castro, (650) 591-8452 or Susan Fox, (415) 752-1308.

Would you like support while you travel the road through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers support for the journey.

The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (SDCASF) now have two ongoing support groups in the 1st and 3rd weeks of each month - St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Dr, San Mateo, on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the spirituality center, and in O’Reilly hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown, San Francisco, on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail (650) 5918452, or Joanne at St. Bart’s, (650) 347-0701 for more information.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin County: “We are Catholics, single or single again, who are interested in making new friends, taking part in social activities, sharing opportunities for

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

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

Taize Sung Prayer: 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For more information, e-mail mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. For further information, please contact Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.

Reunion Nov. 7, 2 p.m.: Annual Memorial Mass for graduates and friends of St. Peter School, 24th and Florida St. in San Francisco. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Robert W. McElroy will preside. Reception follows the Mass in the parish hall. Parking in school lot. Call (415) 647-8662.

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

Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 Nov. 6, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints Mausoleum..Father Brian Costello, pastor, Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco will preside.

Returning Catholics Landings Program for inactive Catholics, a 10-week program in a small group setting, where practicing Catholics speak with honesty about their own spiritual journeys, and listen with compassion to inactive Catholics exploring returning to the church. Held twice a year in fall and winter sessions.

No cost. For more information, visit St. Dominic’s Church website, www.stdominics.org, or call Ms. Lee Gallery, volunteer coordinator, 415-221-1288, leelgallery@sbcglobal.net.

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Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance.

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

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Prayer to the Holy Spirit 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. G.A.E.

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

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The Congregational office of the Sisters of the Presentation seeks a Director of Communications to coordinate community and media communication and public relations, and assist the organization in maintaining a positive identity with its publics through media coverage, publications, and internet presence.

Successful candidates will have a bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field, graduate degree preferred; 3-5 years of successful communication and public relations experience; ability to work independently and as part of a team; willingness to learn and commit to the culture and mission of the Sisters of the Presentation and work within its values; and demonstrate the ability to manage priorities and tasks simultaneously.

Interested candidates should forward a resume, including a cover letter and salary history, to:

Human Resources Sisters of the Presentation 281 Masonic Avenue San Francisco, CA 94118 or fax to 415 422 5026.

MISSION HOSPITAL in Laguna Beach and in Mission Viejo, CA, a member of the St. Joseph Health System, is conducting a Leadership Search for the position of Director, Spiritual Care & Ethics. The Director works in collaboration with the Vice President, Mission Integration and Director of Mission Services and is responsible for the strategic development of all spiritual care programs that support and integrate the spiritual needs of patients, families and employees and the mission of Mission Hospital and the St. Joseph Health System.

Additional programs are based on the needs of patients, families and co-ministers surrounding ethical issues. The Director will also provide leadership to Chaplains and other staff and will foster personal growth, teamwork, and professional development. Minimum position qualifications include board certification from either NACC; or APC, a Masters in Divinity, theology or related field, 5 years experience as a hospital chaplain, 3 years experience as a leader/ manager and experience in leading ethics consultations and systemic ethics performance improvement within Catholic healthcare. The deadline for applications is Monday November 22, 2010.

For more information, please contact John Reid, Search Consultant – The Reid Group at JReid@TheReidGroup.biz or 1-800-916-3472.

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Rev. Msgr. C. Michael Padazinski, JCD (Chaplain C. Michael Padazinski, Colonel USAF) will conduct the memorial ceremony with chaplains from the Archdiocese of San Francisco in uniform along with Military Honor Guard and Taps