December 9, 2005

Salvadorans and Americans recall slayings in 1980 of missionaries

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NONHUALCO, El Salvador (CNS) — As the yellow American school buses made the turn off the old San Salvador-airport road, the U.S. passengers fell silent, reflecting on the final moments of four American missionaries killed in 1980.

More than 100 delegates, including priests and nuns, tried to imagine what is was like as Maryknoll Sisters Maura Clarke and Ita Ford, Ursuline Sister Dorothy Kazel and lay missioner Jean Donovan were waylaid by members of the Salvadoran military at a roadblock just outside the country’s primary airport.

“When the soldiers with them turned their van down this dirt road, these women had to have known they were facing their last few minutes on earth. It was so very moving,” said Sister Marie Lucey, a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia and associate director for social mission with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious.

The four missionaries, working mostly with poor peasants in war-torn El Salvador at the beginning of a 12-year conflict that would result in the deaths of more than 75,000, were tortured, raped and murdered at a remote rural enclave surrounded by cornfields and small farms. The site is now one of the country’s holiest sites and has become the focal point of annual pilgrimages for those remembering their service to the disenfranchised people of this tiny Central American nation.

The SHARE Foundation, an ecumenical organization that promotes twinning between U.S. and Salvadoran faith organizations, was one of about a dozen North American groups in El Salvador to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the women’s deaths.

Dozens of Salvadorans greeted and prayed with the North Americans under a tarp that added to the shade of the small grove where a chapel and a concrete monument mark the place where the women were killed and subsequently buried the night of Dec. 2, 1980.

“I was most moved by the people of El Salvador who were there to greet us, who told us about their memories of Ita, Dorothy, Maura and Jean, how they influenced their lives and how they were devastated when they learned they had been killed,” Sister Lucey said.

“I had last been to the site in December 1990 at a commemoration then,” Sister Lucey said.

“But we weren’t allowed to visit the site by the EL SALVADOR, page 6

(CNS PHOTO BY LINDA PANETTA)

By Dennis P. O’Connor

Salvadorans process into the San Salvador Cathedral for a commemorative Mass Dec. 2 for four U.S. missionary women who were murdered by members of the Salvadoran military in 1980.

At City Hall, Bishop John Wester joins in call for moratorium on death penalty

By Jack Smith As the number of persons executed since the 1976 reinstatement of the death penalty approached one thousand last week, Bishop John C. Wester, Apostolic Administrator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, joined anti-death penalty advocates at a City Hall rally in calling for a moratorium on what he called “a deeply flawed” practice.

The San Francisco rally Nov. 30 brought together disparate groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, United Farm Workers, representatives of major faith traditions, as well as a large con-

tingent of “Save Tookie” activists. Stanley “Tookie” Williams, a convicted quadruple-murderer, and cofounder of the Los Angeles based Crips gang is scheduled to be executed Dec.13 at San Quentin.

Bishop Wester addressed the crowd representing the sentiments of California’s Catholic Bishops. The bishops, he said, strongly support “an end to the death penalty,” and call on all Californians to reflect on “what good comes from state-sanctioned killing.”

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by Tom Burke Catchin’ up on 40 years since then was the class of ’65 from St. Gabriel Elementary School who celebrated the four decades in September. Special guests included St. Gabe’s principal, Mercy Sister Pauline Borghello and pastor, Father John Ryan. On the planning detail were Susan Gallagher Stuteville, Casey Campbell Scott, Cathy Carroll, Don Chesterman, Fran Gausardo Veal, John Bisordi, Mike O’Leary, John Martinez, Michele Delaney Vasser. “The committee had such a great time assembling the reunion that we have decided to continue gathering as renewed friends,” said Mike O’Leary, who is not only a St. Gabe’s alum but also a new-digs colleague and associate director of development for the Archdiocese….Shopping for schools were families of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart Elementary in Atherton. School scrip raised almost $17,000 to benefit school programs. At work on the project were Amy Hsieh, Melissa Gordon, Montye Rogers, Charlene Golding, Diane Flynn, Maryan Ackley, Diana Hewitt, Cee Salberg, Dee Armstrong, and St. Joe’s principal, Karen Eshoo….All hats off at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish for Carolyn Fichter, a teacher at the parish’s Laura Vicuna Pre-Kindergarten, who died November 6th.

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Carolyn is survived by her husband, Rick, and their daughter, Angela, a junior at Mercy High School, San Francisco….Congrats to shutterbugs at Notre Dame High School in Belmont who took top spots for their flash work in an October Photography Contest. A Zoom Salute to Jackie

St. Timothy Elementary School sponsored a food drive that helped the stockpiles of the parish St. Vincent de Paul Conference. Helping put the bounty to good use are, front from left, Luke Beck-Fridell, Anne Marie Totah, and Sabrina Eshaghi. Back from left: 6th grade teacher, Megan Mulcahy, Angel Jaurigui, Catherine Traceski, Rona Navales, Gabrielle DeFriese, Caitlin Reidy, 2nd grade teacher, Christie Costa, and Kuleen Nimkar.

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Elena Buckley Cahill, ’65, left, Dan Cahill, ’64, and Janice Walcott Ayers, ’65, enjoyed old times and new with classmates from St. Gabriel School in September.

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Religious leaders urge protection of poor in trade negotiations breakthrough on Doha in the next few months, it will be years before we make progress on trade.”

WASHINGTON (CNS) – Looking ahead Bishop Mark Hanson, presiding bishop to the Dec. 13-18 World Trade Organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in conference in Hong Kong, American reliAmerica, said it was historic to have such a gious leaders raised concerns with U.S. offibroad range of religious leaders come cials that trade agreements take into account together to advocate on such an issue. the effects of globalization on the poor.

“This is about religious conviction,” said Washington Cardinal Theodore E. Sayyid M. Syeed, general secretary of the McCarrick met with President George Bush Islamic Society of North America. He noted at the White House Dec 1, and later joined that many Islamic countries are functioning an interfaith delegation of religious leaders at below the poverty level and said it will who spoke with Secretary of State take mobilizing the resources of many instiCondoleeza Rice at the State Department. tutions to meet that challenge.

In brief comments after his White House H. Eric Schockman, president of Mazon, meeting, Cardinal McCarrick said he a Jewish hunger-fighting organization, said encouraged the president to protect the interthe meeting with Rice emphasized “equalizests of the poor around the world who have ing globalization.” too little access to the negotiating table.

For Jews and for other faiths represented, Of particular concern as the WTO “without social action, we are nothing,” said Ministerial Conference on trade approached Schockman. “My colleagues may quote was the emphasis on agricultural policies in Luke and I may quote Isaiah, but we come to that part of the Doha Round of negotiations. the same conclusion.”

The ongoing round of trade talks carries the Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick of Washington and U.S. President George W. Bush In his statement after the White House name of the site of the original meeting in talk with the media in the Oval Office of the White House Dec. 1. Cardinal McCarrick meeting, Cardinal McCarrick said the fight Doha, Qatar, in November 2001. urged the president to ensure that trade negotiations taking place this month against poverty “is vital to establishing soli“President Bush has proposed major in Hong Kong protect the interests of the poor around the world. darity among peoples and nations. Global changes in the U.S. agricultural policies that trade rules, when framed from the perspecare important for establishing a more just global trading system,” Cardinal McCarrick said, adding that it world is not the West,” and the United States must recognize tive of the ‘least among us,’ can lead to more equity, prosperity was “a courageous and necessary step in the right direction.” that “some countries need extra help,” particularly as globaliza- and stability in a world where growing inequality and instability are very often dangerous realities.”

However, he added, the U.S. bishops’ conference would tion expands. seek to work with the administration and Congress to see that Cardinal McCarrick also participated the same afternoon in reforms in the next U.S. agriculture funding bill “substantially the State Department meeting, at which a dozen other interfaith reduce, if not eliminate, trade-distorting federal subsidies while religious leaders encouraged Rice to push for trade agreements protecting small and medium-sized farms in the United States.” that will reduce hunger and poverty in the developing world.

Cardinal McCarrick also raised the bishops’ concerns about The Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the THE SERRA PRESCHOOL the war in Iraq and about proposals for immigration law and World, a Christian anti-hunger lobby which organized the State policy.

Department meeting, said the group emphasized that all the in the Presidio Cardinal McCarrick said after the meeting that he urged the faiths represented by the meeting’s participants see trade negoCreative play-based A comprehensive preschool president to go beyond previous commitments toward debt tiations as a justice issue. curriculum. Roman program with transitional relief, to increase foreign aid and to help develop infrastructure “It’s not a matter of handing people assistance, but of Catholic framework. kindergarten, extended in poor countries so that they can provide health care, especial- removing obstacles” to participation in the global marketplace, Highly-skilled teaching care and summer session. ly for the poor. so that people can better support themselves, he said.

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Hundreds of Hong Kong Catholics join march for universal suffrage According to the proposed legislation, the number of members on the election committee for Hong Kong’s HONG KONG — Hundreds of Catholics of all ages sang chief executive will be doubled from 800 to 1,600 and the hymns, chanted prayers and carried banners as they joined a legislature will be expanded from 60 to 70, with half of pro-democracy march of more than 100,000 people Dec. 4 call- the 10 new seats directly elected. However, there is not a ing for more autonomy in Hong Kong elections which they say timetable for universal suffrage. The proposal is now under consideration in the legislature. is missing from the government’s proposed political changes.

Many participants Hong Kong, which in the prayer session came under Chinese took part in the march control in 1997, has afterward, but Bishop been given only partial Zen departed to attend freedom to govern to church matters. itself. Currently, citizens The march, organof Hong Kong do not ized by “pan-democratic have universal suffrage legislators” and the Civil — the chief executive is Human Rights Front, a picked by a Chineselocal pro-democracy backed committee and civil organization, called only half the legislature for the withdrawal of the is directly elected. proposal and for a Just before the march timetable or road map began, Bishop Joseph for universal suffrage.

Zen Ze-kiun of Hong The Catholic marchers Kong and a Protestant interspersed these pastor led about 800 demands with prayers Christians in a prayer Protesters carry a black banner that reads “People Power” at and hymns. session. The bishop, an a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong Dec. 4. Tens of thousands During a press conoutspoken democracy marched in Hong Kong for the right to directly elect their ference after the march, advocate, also addressed political leaders and to protest a package of electoral Hong Kong Chief the Christians. reforms pushed by the city's chief executive and Beijing.

Executive Donald Asserting that the Tsang Yam-kuen insistChinese-approved Basic Law, Hong Kong’s miniconstitution, permits discus- ed the proposed changes were “a result of a prolonged consion of the issue of universal suffrage in the selection of the sultation in Hong Kong.” The proposal, he said, shows “an chief executive in 2007 and all legislative seats in 2008, advancement and a step forward toward universal suffrage.”

Responding to the question of a timetable for uniBishop Zen criticized the government for “not respecting versal suffrage, the chief executive said the matter is the Basic Law” by denying universal suffrage.

The bishop encouraged the Catholics to “march for the now under consideration in the Commission on Strategic Development, a government advisory body on benefit of ourselves and our next generation.”

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The Mass and a reception at the Presentation Motherhouse brought to a close a year-long celebration of the Presentation Sisters’ 150 years of service in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Jesuit Father Stephen Privett, who was taught by the Presentation Sisters and now is president of the University of San Francisco, provided the homily. He said: “The Gospel is a clear call for us to get involved with the world and put our faith into practice. Having read the biography of Nano Nagle [who founded the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Order], I am convinced that she was one of God’s great risk-takers; and so were the handful of women who left Ireland to bring the Presentation ministry to California; and so are you sisters and associates who continue that work today.”

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By Doreen Abi Raad BEIRUT, Lebanon(CNS) — Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East denounced terrorism and called upon the international community to put an end to the “human drama” in Iraq.

The patriarchs addressed a number of issues affecting the region in their 15th annual congress Nov. 28-Dec. 2 in Amman, Jordan, where Nov. 9 terrorist attacks left 60 people dead.

In a concluding statement, the patriarchs said that they prayed for Iraq and deplored its insecurity and assassinations on the national level, as well as its insecurity on religious, social and moral levels.

“The people of the Middle East region are suffering from repression, hunger, unemployment, occupation, exploitation and a lack of human rights. They also face the threat of losing their national identity in the face of foreign political, military and economic aggression,” the patriarchs said.

They called upon the international community to help Iraq “put an end to this human drama by giving back to this country its sovereignty, its unity and its dignity.”

Referring to the overall state of the Middle East, the patriarchs said: “Our people suffer from an absence of peace. They are sometimes deprived of the most elementary conditions and a dignified existence.

“Our people have waited for solutions from their governments or political leaders,” they said. When leaders fail to offer solutions, and with the ensuing accumulation of crises, “religious extremists resort to acts of terrorism, which have spread in the East as well as in the West.”

The patriarchs said “there is absolutely no justification” for terrorism, but at the same time they pointed out that they are looking into its underlying causes: the exploitation of the weak by the powerful, the absence of democracy and human rights, and the misunderstanding of basic principles of all the religions.

They pointed to “the blood shed in Iraq and in the Holy Land” and deplored the various conflicts in most of the Arab world. They also condemned the violence in tourist sites such as the recent attacks in Jordan.

The patriarchs called for a “definitive end to the cycle of violence” for Palestinians. They also called for an end to: military operations in Palestinian areas, the execution and imprisonment of Palestinians, destruction of housing, and the construction of the Israeli security wall that encloses Palestinians.

Christians must respect the pluralism of their churches and cooperate with organizations in civil society that demonstrate positive objectives, they said.

They called upon Catholic youths to initiate programs involving Christians in the region by organizing committees for justice and peace.

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■ Continued from cover who have lost loved ones to violence,” Bishop Wester said, “nothing can undo what was done – even taking the life of the convicted killer.”

Bishop Wester said the Catholic Church teaches “the Gospel vision of a ‘Culture of Life.’” The view of man created in God’s image “obligates us to preach that the use of the death penalty does not protect human life nor promote human dignity,” he said.

Bishop Wester called for a moratorium on state executions and a time of evaluation for Californians to discern “whether the death penalty serves the common good and safeguards the dignity of human life.”

The number of executions nationwide rose this month when double-murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd was executed in North Carolina Dec. 2, and soon after, Shawn Paul Humphries was executed in South Carolina.

Of the 1,002 executions in the United States since 1976, 835 have been by lethal injection, with other methods involving electrocution, lethal gas, hanging and firing squad.

Texas has had the largest number of executions with 355 completed and seven scheduled in the next few months. Sixteen states have had fewer than 10 executions and twelve states, along with the District of Columbia, have no death penalty. California has executed 11 people since the death penalty was reinstated and has three executions scheduled in the next few months.

California has the largest number of

people on “death row” however, with 637 of the country’s approximately 3,300 condemned prisoners. Most are housed in solitary confinement at San Quentin State Prison. Death row prisoners require special security and recreation provisions and are segregated from other prisoners.

In addition to moral concerns, and the charge that the death penalty is imposed unfairly and unevenly among race classifications, death penalty opponents point to the possibility of wrongful conviction as justification for an immediate moratorium.

More than 115 people have been released from death rows since reinstatement because of wrongful conviction. In 2003 alone, 10 people were released according to Amnesty International.

In 2000, Illinois Governor George Ryan declared a moratorium on executions in his state after 13 people sentenced to die had been released because of wrongful conviction.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to consider clemency for Stanley “Tookie” Williams on Dec. 8.

George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, sent a letter Dec. 2 to the Governor requesting clemency based on “the dignity of each human life, regardless of how flawed or unworthy in our human eyes.”

Wesolek specifically acknowledged the pain and sorrow of the families and friends of those murdered by Mr. Williams Albert Owens, Yen-I Yang, Tsai-Shai Yang and Yee-Chen Lin. He said the state had a right to “require punishment for heinous

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acts” and to protect the community from further violence.

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military because the war was still going on. I truly was looking forward to this visit.”

Members of numerous groups on hand for the anniversary said they were impressed with the number of people from the United States who traveled to El Salvador.

“It’s a very human thing to honor the memory of those who have made a difference in our lives on memorable anniversaries,” said Jesuit Father Mike McNulty, justice and peace director for the Conference of Major Superiors of Men, one of the co-sponsors of the SHARE Foundation pilgrimage.

Father McNulty, who since 1994 has taught, off and on, at the University of Central America in San Salvador, said there still is an important need to remember those who lost their lives in El Salvador during the violent years of 1980 through 1992 “because much of what was happening then is still happening now. There are still death threats against people who work for peace,” including El Salvador’s human rights ombudswoman, Beatrice de Carrillo.

The priest said death squads like those lurking throughout the countryside during the civil war still

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exist, “although now they target youths who are suspected of being members of the Salvadoran gangs.”

The Rev. Robert Edgar, a Methodist and general secretary of the National Council of Churches in the United States, is a former congressman from Pennsylvania who was part of a congressional delegation traveling to Central American in 1981 to investigate the women’s deaths. He told pilgrimage participants that “these four women, by the way they lived and the way they died, are models for us all.”

Rev. Edgar said he remembered being angered and frustrated as he learned the details of the women’s abduction and murders.

“But today, it is possible to think of Jean and Ita and Maura and Dorothy with a smile and a celebration of the gifts they gave us. Their lives and their deaths are a reminder, so badly needed in our turbulent times, that a witness for truth and justice cannot be crushed, that Jesus will not desert us when our confrontation with evil must result in death, and that men and women united in faith by a common Lord are indomitable,” he said.

San Salvador Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle celebrated a memorial Mass for the slain missionaries Dec. 2 at San Salvador Cathedral. Hundreds of Salvadorans attended the Mass and took part in other commemoration activities.

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Firefighter John Voelker Mr. John Voelker, the San Francisco firefighter who for years headed the San Francisco Firefighters’ Toy Program, died December 4 in San Francisco. He was 49.

Voelker was a San Francisco native and Riordan High School graduate. Following in his father’s footsteps, he joined the San Francisco Fire Department in 1978. He won two meritorious service awards in his 27 years of service.

Voelker was a loyal member of Firefighters’ Union Local 798 and Visitacion parish in San Francisco.

The toy program has given away 250,000 toys to poor children at Christmas since its inception and has also donated toys to children who were victims of natural disasters.

Voelker headed the program for 11 years.

St. Monica pastor and San Francisco Fire Department Chaplain Father John Greene was a long time friend of Mr. Voelker’s. “I knew him both as a friend and as a member of the firemen’s motorcycle club, Wind and Fire,” Fr. Greene said. While Voelker’s work with the toy program was well known, Fr. Greene said Voelker’s charity extended in many directions including volunteer work for burn victims at the Alisa Ann Ruch burn camp near Fresno and the Bothin Burn Center at St. Francis Hospital.

Mr. Voelker was riding his Harley Davidson last January when he crashed into a truck which turned in front of him.

He had been in a coma ever since. Fr. Greene added the petitions of his parish to those of Mr. Voelker’s family throughout the time of Voelker’s coma, but he never recovered. Fr. Greene remembers Voelker, who had a large frame, “As a big man with a bigger heart.”

Mr. Voelker is survived by sisters Denise and Lisa of Novato, and brothers Joe of Concord and Mark of San Francisco.

Rosary is December 9 at 7:00 p.m. Funeral Mass is on December 10 at 10:00 a.m. Both are at St. Monica’s. Family requests toys be brought to the services in Voelker’s memory.

Sister Frances Charlton, SNDdeN Notre Dame de Namur Sister Frances Charlton died on Nov. 29 at Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland at the age of 89. She formerly was known as Sister Francis Marie.

Sister Frances served as a teacher and an administrator in several elementary schools and high schools founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in California and Hawaii.

She began her teaching career at Mission Dolores Elementary School in San Francisco in 1939. She was a teacher at Notre Dame High School in Belmont in the early 1950’s and returned as principal in 1970. She stayed at Notre Dame High School until 1983, working in several other capacities, including teaching and development work. After retiring as an educator in schools, she ministered as a parish pastoral associate for eight years.

Sister Frances had great concern for members of her community in California serving in Africa and in Central America, and regularly communicated with them. She devoted time and attention to issues of peace and justice, particularly nuclear disarmament and an

end to war. She had a love for nature and was an avid photographer. In her earlier years she was fond of bikeriding, and in her last years, she enjoyed taking walks and meeting young children and their parents. She delighted in hearing and telling their stories and was faithful to her special ministry of praying for their needs, hopes and wellbeing.

A liturgy honoring Sr. Frances’ life was celebrated at the Notre Dame Province Center in Belmont on December 2. Sister Catherine McGrath, her life-long friend with whom she grew up in Santa Barbara, praised Sister Frances for her gift of wisdom with which she discovered God in everyday life. Father Steven Howell, pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Belmont, knew Sister Frances as a colleague when they were both principals at the neighboring high schools of Junipero Serra and Notre Dame. He remembered her as always very kind and gentle.

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After 40 years, Vatican II continues to resound throughout church

By John Thavis

Pope John XXIII signs the bull convoking the Second Vatican Council Dec. 25, 1961. The document said modern society was advancing with technological and scientific progress for which there was no corresponding advance in morality. He wrote that he would convene the council so that the church would contribute positively to the solution of modern problems.

The pope also has emphasized that implementation of the council is an ongoing task in the church, not just something that happened 40 years ago. One goal is to make sure Vatican II is not viewed as ancient history by young generations of Catholics.

“Younger Catholics may not be as intellectually aware of the council, but they are continually experiencing its effects,” said Alberto Melloni, a church historian of the Vatican II period.

“Thanks to the council, young people have been taught to see the world not simply as a threat to Christian life, but as an opportunity to announce the Gospel,” Melloni said.

Vatican II is sometimes described as a revolution, but it did not appear out of the blue.

There had been 20 previous ecumenical councils in the church’s history, including the First Vatican Council in 1869-70. Vatican I defined the dogmas of papal infallibility and the primacy of papal jurisdiction, but the council was

Father Joseph Ratzinger is seen with French Dominican Father Yves Congar during the Second Vatican Council in 1962.

Father Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI, gained a reputation as a progressive theologian during Vatican II.

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Jesuit Fathers John Courtney Murray and Henri de Lubac (above), along with Dominican Father Yves Congar, were theologians silenced by the Vatican in the 1950s, but re-emerged to become important voices of the Second Vatican Council. Council Fathers Lubac and Congar were named cardinals late in life.

suspended when war broke out in Europe, and it never resumed.

The theological ferment of the mid-20th century helped lay the groundwork for Vatican II. Pioneering theologians like Dominican Father Yves Congar and Jesuit Fathers John Courtney Murray and Henri de Lubac were trying to build bridges between Christianity’s ancient truths and the contemporary world.

All three were silenced in some fashion by the Vatican during the 1950s, but re-emerged to become important voices of the council.

Pope John XXIII surprised almost everyone when, after only three months as pontiff, he announced he was convening the council.

The pope spoke of the need to update the church and promote Christian unity; above all, he said, he wanted to show the modern world that the church had been transformed and intellectually reinvigorated.

Pope John said the world was marked by spiritual poverty and needed the church’s

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VATICAN CITY — Forty years after the close of the Second Vatican Council, the deep transformation it set in motion continues to resound through the church at every level, from the halls of the Vatican to the pews of local parishes.

The council’s four sessions from 1962 to 1965 and its 16 landmark documents modernized the liturgy, renewed the priesthood and religious life, enhanced the role of lay Catholics, opened dialogue with other churches and non-Christians, and identified the church as the “people of God” attuned to the problems and hopes of the world. Dec. 8 marked the anniversary of the close of the council in 1965.

Although the council defined no new dogma, Catholics who lived through the Vatican II era will never forget the changes — some of them abrupt — that visited their church communities in the mid-1960s.

Altars were turned around so that priests faced the people. The Mass in Latin gave way to Mass in the vernacular. Sacraments were updated and simplified. Men and women religious adopted a more modern form of dress.

Not all the changes were immediate, however. Church leaders began a long and sometimes contentious process of revising nearly every area of pastoral life, from the teaching of religion to lay ministries.

“The council represented a Copernican revolution for the church, which challenged itself by asking how it could reopen a dialogue with the modern world,” said Father Dario Vitali, who teaches church history at Rome’s Gregorian University.

“Through the council, the church drew closer to contemporary men and women and made the Gospel meaningful to them. If there had been no Vatican II, I think the church today would be a small minority, closed off in rites incomprehensible to the modern mentality,” Father Vitali said.

However, not everyone in the church sees the council in such a positive light. Some Catholics are still nostalgic for the old ways of worship, and at times some church officials — including several in Rome — have criticized the way Vatican II has been understood and implemented. In many cases, the ongoing debate reflects issues that were argued heatedly on the floor of the council.

Pope Benedict XVI participated in the council as a theological expert. He attended all four sessions as theological advisor to German Cardinal Joseph Frings of Cologne. Recently, he has been speaking briefly about the documents of Vatican II at his Sunday Angelus appearances. Although he has criticized some postconciliar changes in the past, the pope has made it clear that Vatican II will be the “compass” of his papacy.

vitality. But, as he later told the council, the church wanted to offer the modern world the “medicine of mercy” and not severe condemnations.

Preparation for the council took almost three years, and Pope John, already diagnosed with cancer when it began, presided over only the first of four annual autumn sessions in 1962. The invitation to Protestants, Orthodox and other non-Catholics to attend had already made Vatican II a historic event.

Pope Paul VI guided the completion of the council’s work, presiding over the other three sessions and directing the important follow-up work in areas of liturgy, ecumenism, religious life and evangelization.

Between 2,000 and 2,500 bishops attended each Vatican II session, and participants have said the debates ranged from free-wheeling to finely tuned, with verbal skirmishes not uncommon. To give just one example, when the first draft of the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (“Lumen Gentium”) was presented, it was roundly criticized as triumphal, clerical and legalistic; the document was adopted two years and many amendments later.

From the beginning, bishops recognized that their task was not just updating church practices but also a process of “ressourcement,” or going back to the sources of the faith.

There was a sense among participants that they were indeed making history, said Bishop Frank Fernando of Chilaw, Sri Lanka, one of a handful of still-active bishops to have participated in a session of the council.

“The debate was very systematic, with a great exchange of ideas. The documents would come back again and again with amendments, which the bishops would study.

That’s why these are very polished documents — it was not just a matter of bringing them in one day and passing them the next,” Bishop Fernando said.

In the end, the council issued four constitutions: on the liturgy, the church’s structure and nature, on the church in the modern world and on divine revelation. It produced nine decrees: on the church and the media, ecumenism, Eastern Catholic churches, bishops, priestly formation, religious life, the laity, priestly ministry and missionary activity. It issued three declarations: on non-Christian religions, Christian education and religious freedom.

Most experts list the council’s biggest achievement as a new way of understanding the church — as the “people of God” and not simply a hierarchical structure, and as a “sacrament” to the world with an active mission in all sectors of human society.

“Lumen Gentium” presented the church as a mystery and a communion of baptized believers moving toward heaven as one body that is holy, yet imperfect while on earth.

Pope Paul VI is pictured in a portrait from 1969. Following the death of Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul guided the completion of the Second Vatican Council.

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Documents of the Second Vatican Council ➢ Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium) ordered an extensive revision of worship so that people would have a clearer sense of their own involvement in the Mass and other rites.

➢ Decree on the Instruments of Social Communication (Inter Mirifica) called on members of the church, especially the laity, to instill “a human and Christian spirit” into newspapers, magazines, books, films, radio and television.

➢ Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) presented the church as a mystery, as a communion of baptized believers, as the people of God, as the body of Christ and as a pilgrim moving toward fulfillment in heaven but marked on earth with “a sanctity that is real, although imperfect.”

➢ Decree on Ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio) said that ecumenism should be everyone’s concern and that genuine ecumenism involves a continual personal and institutional renewal.

➢ Decree on Eastern Catholic Churches (Orientalium Ecclesiarum) stated that variety within the church does not harm its unity and that Eastern Catholic churches should retain their own traditions.

➢ Decree on the Bishops’ Pastoral Office in the Church (Christus Dominus) said each bishop has full ordinary power in his own diocese and is expected to present Christian doctrine in ways adapted to the times. It urged conferences of bishops to exercise pastoral direction jointly.

➢ Decree on Priestly Formation (Optatam Totius) recommended that seminaries pay attention to the spiritual, intellectual and disciplinary formation necessary to prepare priesthood students to become good pastors.

➢ Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life (Perfectae Caritatis) provided guidelines for the personal and institutional renewal of the lives of nuns, brothers and priests belonging to religious orders.

➢ Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions

Although organized hierarchically, the church as a communion is a living body whose individual members are called to holiness and who each have specific roles, rights and responsibilities, the document said.

The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (“Gaudium et Spes”) was written more for the average reader and was approved in 1965, during the council’s last vote.

Bishop Fernando remembers the moment well, and he said he considers “Gaudium et Spes” the most important thing to come out of the council. He said many bishops thought the council had spoken in previous documents primarily to experts and specialists and wanted this document to communicate a message to the whole world.

“Gaudium et Spes” called on the church to engage in dialogue with contemporary society and its problems, bringing church teaching and moral values to bear on a world too often torn by hatred, war and injustice. The document acknowledged that science and culture have things to teach the church, but also said the church has a mission to sanctify the world around it.

In the years after its close, the renewal outlined by the council was refined and codified in a number of decrees, norms and changes in canon law. The church witnessed countless changes: — The new Roman Missal was issued in 1970, with a new cycle of readings designed to offer a richer selection of Scripture. The liturgical calendar was simplified. The rites for sacraments were revised, emphasizing the communal aspects of their celebration. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults was revived and reformed. As the changes took places, active liturgical participation increased dramatically in many local church communities.

— Lay ministries multiplied. Lay readers and lay ministers of Communion appeared during Mass. Laity were represented on parish councils and diocesan boards, and lay men and women, many with theology degrees, replaced clerics in a number of administrative church positions.

— Throughout the church, there was a renewed attention to Scriptures, in liturgy and in individual spirituality.

— Eastern Catholic churches were encouraged to return to their own traditions, ending a period of Latinization and opening a new

appreciation of variety within the universal church.

— Ecumenism flourished, in formal dialogue between Catholic officials and other Christian churches, and in prayer and fellowship encounters at the local level.

— After the council acknowledged the possibility of salvation for non-Christians, dialogue also began with other religions.

— Religious life changed dramatically, as religious orders adopted Vatican norms and rewrote their own constitutions, taking a new look at issues of authority, community and identity.

— The council restored the permanent diaconate as a ministry and allowed married men to be ordained deacons. Today, there are more than 29,000 permanent deacons around the world.

— The council’s teaching that the pope and bishops together form a single collegial body led to a new appreciation for bishops and bishops’ conferences. The Synod of Bishops was formed to meet regularly and advise the pope.

— Theology was revitalized, especially moral theology, which focused increasingly on biblical sources and the individual conscience, and less on church law or authority.

— The council underlined the church’s solidarity with humanity instead of its separation from the secular world, and this led to a mushrooming of social and charitable activities. Church leaders spoke frequently about the church’s identification with the poor and suffering, and the pope became a strong human rights advocate.

At the same time, the church experienced some worrisome developments, including a dramatic drop in vocations and an increase in the number of priests and religious seeking laicization. Mass attendance fell in some places, many Catholics abandoned the sacrament of penance, and dissent on certain teachings, such as birth control, was widespread.

All that has helped fuel a 40-year debate over the proper reading and realization of the council.

Pope Benedict has been a sometimes critical voice in this debate. But he always distinguished between the council and its implementation, saying that what hurt the church in the decade following Vatican II was “not the council but the refusal to accept it.”

Contributing to this story was Cindy Wooden.

(Nostra Aetate) said the Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in non-Christian religions, called for an end to anti-Semitism, and said any discrimination based on race, color, religion or condition of life is foreign to the mind of Christ.

➢ Declaration on Christian Education (Gravissimum Educationis) affirmed the right of parents to choose the type of education they want for their children, upheld the importance of Catholic schools and defended freedom of inquiry in Catholic colleges and universities.

➢ Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum) said the church depends on Scripture and tradition as the one deposit of God’s word and commended the use of modern scientific scholarship in studying Scripture.

➢ Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity (Apostolicam Actuositatem) said the laity should influence their surroundings with Christ’s teachings.

➢ Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae) said that religious liberty is a right found in the dignity of each person and that no one should be forced to act in a way contrary to his or her own beliefs.

➢ Decree on the Ministry and Life of Priests (Presbyterorum Ordinis) said the primary duty of priests is to proclaim the Gospel to all, approved and encouraged celibacy as a gift and recommended fair salaries.

➢ Decree on the Church’s Missionary Activity (Ad Gentes) said missionary activity should help the social and economic welfare of people and not force anyone to accept the faith.

➢ Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) It said the church must talk to atheists, a continual campaign must be waged for peace, nuclear war is unthinkable and aid to underdeveloped nations is urgent. It said marriage was not just for procreation and urged science to find anacceptable means of birth regulation.

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Bishops of the world line the main aisle of St. Peter's Basilica during the opening session of the Second Vatican Council in 1962.

Between 2,000 and 2,500 bishops attended each Vatican II session inside St. Peter's Basilica. The council produced 16 landmark documents that transformed the church.

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THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT Isaiah 61:1-2a. 10-11; Luke 1:4648, 49-50, 53-54; 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24; John 1:6-8, 19-28 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH (IS 61:1-2A, 10-11) The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, to announce a year of favor from the Lord and a day of vindication by our God. I rejoice heartily in the Lord, in my God is the joy of my soul; for he has clothed me with a robe of salvation and wrapped me in a mantle of justice, like a bridegroom adorned with a diadem, like a bride bedecked with her jewels.

As the earth brings forth its plants, and a garden makes its growth spring up, so will the Lord God make justice and praise spring up before all the nations.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (LK 1:46-48, 49-50, 53-54) R. My soul rejoices in my God. My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked upon his lowly servant.

From this day all generations will call me blessed: R. My soul rejoices in my God. the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his Name.

He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation.

R. My soul rejoices in my God. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty.

He has come to the help of his servant Israel for he has remembered his promise of mercy, R. My soul rejoices in my God.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS (1 THES 5:16-24) Brothers and sisters: Rejoice always.

Pray without ceasing. In all circumstances give thanks, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise prophetic utterances.

Test everything; retain what is good.

Refrain from every kind of evil.

May the God of peace make you perfectly holy and may you entirely, spirit, soul, and body, be preserved blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will also accomplish it.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 1:6-8, 19-28) A man named John was sent from God. He came for testimony, to testify to the light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to testify to the light.

And this is the testimony of John. When the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to him to ask him, “Who are you?”

He admitted and did not deny it, but admitted, “I am not the Christ.”

So they asked him, “What are you then?

Are you Elijah?” And he said, “I am not.”

“Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you, so we can give an answer to those who sent us?

What do you have to say for yourself?”

He said: “I am the voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.” Some Pharisees were also sent. They asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you are not the Christ or Elijah or the Prophet?” John answered them, “I baptize with water; but there is one among you whom you do not recognize, the one who is coming after me, whose sandal strap I am not worthy to untie.” This happened in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Scripture FATHER PAUL SCALIA

The humble voice St. John the Baptist would have felt more than a little out of place in the modern world. He spent his entire life humbling himself, stepping out of the way, and directing the crowds to someone else, so that another man could receive glory. His public life culminated with the sending of his own disciples to follow Christ. He pointed to our Lord and proclaimed, “He must increase, but I must decrease” (Jn 3:30).

Our culture, however, teaches us to exalt ourselves, to seek our own glory. Original sin’s lingering effects incline men of every time and places to self-aggrandizement.

But today’s society, from sports and entertainment to politics and advertising, rests on self-indulgence and self-promotion. Our culture, which crowds out the Lord with its own self-importance, reverses the Baptist’s words: “I must increase, but He must decrease.”

Perhaps because we live in the midst of such selfishness, or perhaps because it masquerades as “self-esteem” and “self-expression,” we forget how absolutely contrary it is to the Gospel. “Whoever exalts himself will be humbled; but whoever humbles himself will be exalted” (Mt 23:12). During Advent, therefore, as we prepare room for the Lord, the Church places before us the example of John the Baptist. By his humility, the forerunner of Christ displays what it means to be His follower.

The Baptist’s humility teaches first that the disciple of Christ does not promote himself. He must be Christ-assertive and therefore less self-assertive. For that reason John the Baptist deflects questions about himself. When the priests and Levites come to investigate, he proclaims not who he is, but who he is not: “I am not the Christ” (Jn 1:20). Neither is he Elijah or the Prophet.

But he gives no explanation of who he is.

In what must have been an exhausted tone, the investigators finally ask, “What do you have to say for yourself?” (Jn 1:22) Many of us would leap at the chance to talk about ourselves. In fact, many in the culture do so constantly, and in great depth. But John gives another elusive answer: “I am the voice of one crying out in the desert” (Jn 1:23). He is merely the voice. As St. Augustine observes, a voice only serves the purpose of communicating the word, and disappears once the word has been received. So also John disappears at the coming of Christ, the Eternal Word.

The confusion over John’s identity reveals another, perhaps less obvious, aspect of humility: it enables us to become like Christ.

Indeed, humility is the necessary foundation for our transformation in Christ. When we are full of ourselves, there is no room for Christ within us. But when we humbly empty ourselves, He fills our souls with His life: “Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (Mt 16:25). Putting aside all claims to individualism, self-expression and the modern “I gotta be me!” attitude, Christ’s disciples take on His mind, His will, His desires, and His life. They say with St. Paul, “I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me” (Gal 2:20).

It was precisely that point that John reached by the sure road of humility. He emptied himself completely and was in turn so filled with Christ’s life that people confused him for the Messiah. “I am not the Christ,” he had to clarify. Humility should enable the same growth of Christ in the soul of every Catholic, so that the prayer of Cardinal Newman will be fulfilled in each of us: “May they look up and see no longer me, but only Jesus.”

Fr. Paul Scalia is a columnist for the Arlington Catholic Herald.

Prayer to Our Lady of Guadalupe Patroness of all the Americas Feast Day - December 12

Baptism of Christ – Tintoretto, 1580.

Our Lady of Guadalupe, who blessed Mexico and all the Americas by your appearance to Juan Diego, intercede for the holy Church, protect the pope, and help everyone who invokes you in their necessities.

O mystical rose, hear our prayers and our petitions, especially for the particular one we are praying for at this moment (mention your request).

Since you are the ever Virgin Mary and Mother of the true God, obtain for us from your most holy Son the grace of keeping our faith, sweet hope in the midst of the bitterness of life, burning charity, and the precious gift of final perseverance.

Amen.

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Real Hard Cash The Path of the Man in Black The new biopic of Johnny Cash, Walk the Line, has been praised by secular and Christian critics alike for the extraordinary performances of Joaquin Phoenix (Cash) and Reese Witherspoon (June Carter). Most Christian reviewers have criticized the film for sidestepping the central redemptive role of Cash’s faith in Jesus Christ.

Jeffrey Overstreet, a film editor for Christianity Today wrote: “But as a telling of the story of Johnny Cash, Walk the Line is so misguided that it almost ignores the very thing that Cash himself says saved him from his weaknesses: the light of love and wisdom emanating not from June Carter, but from the Cross… the message and the promises that brought him out of the darkness and saved him from himself.”

On the occasion of the release of Walk the Line, Touchstone Magazine dedicated its December issue to reflections on Cash’s faith and influence. Touchstone is a Christian journal with Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox editors. Following is one of the reflections.

By Russell D. Moore There was an empty seat at this year’s MTV Music Video Awards. The late Johnny Cash wasn’t there. It’s not as though Cash frequented the Generation X/Y annual awards program. He was old enough to be the grandfather of the most seasoned performer on the platform. Still, two years ago, even while he was sick in a hospital, the Man in Black was there.

At the 2003 awards show, Cash’s video “Hurt” was nominated for an award—up against shallow bubblegum pop acts such as that of Justin Timberlake. Cash didn’t win.

But the showing of the video caused an almost palpable discomfort in the crowd.

The video to the song, which was originally performed by youth band Nine Inch Nails, features haunting images of his youthful glory days—complete with pictures of his friends and colleagues at the height of their fame, now dead.

As the camera pans Cash’s wizened, wrinkled face, he sings about the awful reality of death and the vanity of fame: “What have I become? My sweetest friend/ Everyone I know goes away in the end/ You could have it all/ My empire of dirt/ I will let you down, I will make you hurt.”

Whereas Nine Inch Nails delivered “Hurt” as straight nihilism, straight out of the grunge angst of the Pacific Northwest’s music scene, Cash gives it a twist—ending the video with scenes of the crucifixion of Jesus. For him, the cross is the only answer to the inevitability of suffering and pain.

it had to do with the “man in black” caricature he cultivated. Cash joked that fans would often say to him, “My father was in prison with you.” Of course, Cash never served any serious jail time at all, but he could never shake the image of a hardened criminal on the mend.

People really seemed to think that he had “shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.”

That’s probably because of just how authentic and evocative his songs of prison life were. “Folsom Prison Blues,” for instance, just seems to have been penned by someone lying on a jailhouse cot listening to a train whistle in the night: “There’s probably rich folks eating in a fancy dining car/ They’re probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars/ Well, I know I had it coming/ I know I can’t be free/ But those people keep a’movin’, and that’s what tortures me.”

The prison imagery seemed real to Cash because, for him, it was real. He knew what it was like to be enslaved, enslaved to celebrity, to power, to drugs, to liquor, and to the breaking of his marriage vows. He was subject to, and submissive to, all the temptations the recording industry can parade before a man. He was a prisoner indeed, but to a penitentiary of his own soul. There was no corpse in Reno, but there was the very real guilt of a lifetime of the self-destructive idolatry of the ego.

It was through the quiet friendships of men such as Billy Graham that Cash found an alternative to the vanity of shifting celebrity. He found freedom from guilt and the authenticity of the truth in a crucified and resurrected Christ. And he immediately identified with another self-obsessed celebrity of another era: Saul of Tarsus. He even authored a surprisingly good biography of the apostle, with the insight of one who knows what it is like to see the grace of Jesus through one’s own guilt as a “chief of sinners.”

FLEETING FAME “It’s all fleeting,” he told MTV News.

“As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting; the money, the clothes, the furniture.” This could not be in more marked contrast to the culture of the popular music industry (whatever the genre), a HE CONNECTED Even as a Christian, Cash was different. culture of superficiality, self-exaltation, and He sang at Billy Graham crusades and sexual libertinism.

Perhaps this is the reason Cash wrote for Evangelical audiences, but he remained—to the day of his death—a subject never quite fit the prevailing saccharine of almost morbid curiosity for a youth culture mood of pop Evangelicalism. Nor did he fit that knows nothing of “I Walk the Line.” At the trivialization of cultural Christianity so persistent in the 2003 the country awards m u s i c show, 22industry, as year-old Grand Old pop sensaOpry stars tion Justin effortlessly Timberlake, moved back beating and forth Cash for the between v i d e o songs about award, the glories demanded a of honkyrecount. t o n k Why would women and twentysongs about something the mercies hedonists of the Old revere an Rugged old Baptist Cross. country To be singer from s u r e , Arkansas?

Cash’s In one Cover of Cash’s 1968 hit album.

Christian sense, the t e s t i m o ny Cash mystique was nothing new. For the whole length of is a mixed bag. In his later years, he took his career, onlookers wondered what made him out an ad in an industry magazine, with a different from the rest of the photograph of himself extending a middle Hollywood/Nashville celebrity axis. Much of finger to music executives. And yet there

Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix star in ‘Walk the Line.’

is something in the Cash appeal to the youth generation that Christians would do well to emulate.

Other Christian celebrities tried—and failed—to reach youth culture by feigning teenage street language or aping pop culture trends. How successful, after all, was Pat Boone’s embarrassing attempt at heavy metal—complete with a leather outfit and a spiked dog collar?

Cash always seemed to connect. When other Christian celebrities tried to downplay sin and condemnation in favor of upbeat messages about how much better life is with Jesus, Cash sang about the tyranny of guilt and the certainty of coming judgment. An angst-ridden youth culture may not have fully comprehended guilt, but they understood pain. And, somehow, they sensed Cash was for real.

The face of Johnny Cash reminded this generation that he has tasted everything the MTV culture has to offer—and found there a way that leads to death. In a culture that idolizes the hormonal surges of youth, Cash reminds the young of what MTV doesn’t want them to know: “It is appointed to man once to die, and after this the judgment.”

His creviced face and blurring eyes remind them that there is not enough Botox in all of Hollywood to revive a corpse.

Cash wasn’t trying to be an evangelist— and his fellow Bible-belt Evangelicals knew it. But he was able to reach youth culture in a way the rest of us often can’t, precisely because he refused to sugarcoat or “market” the gospel in the “language” of today’s teenagers.

One of Cash’s final songs was also one of his best, an eerie tune based on the Book of Revelation. His haunting voice, filled with the tremors of approaching hoof-beats, sang the challenge: “The hairs on your arms will all stand up/ At the terror of each sip and each sup./ Will you partake of that last offered cup?/ Or disappear into the potter’s ground/ When the Man comes around?”

Cash’s young fans (and his old ones too) may not have known what he was talking

about, but they sensed that he did. They recognized in Cash a sinner like them, but a sinner who mourned the tragedy of his past and found peace in One who bore terrors that make Folsom Prison pale in comparison.

THE DARK SIDE Johnny Cash is dead, and there will never be another. But all around us there are empires of dirt, and billions of self-styled emperors marching toward judgment.

Perhaps if Christian churches modeled themselves more after Johnny Cash, and less after perky Christian celebrities such as Kathy Lee Gifford, we might find ourselves resonating more with the MTV generation.

Maybe if we stopped trying to be “cool,” and stopped hiring youth ministers who are little more than goateed game-show hosts, we might find a way to connect with a generation that understands pain and death more than we think.

Perhaps if we paid more attention to the dark side of life, a dark side addressed in divine revelation, we might find ourselves appealing to men and women in black. We might connect with men and women who know what it’s like to feel like fugitives from justice, even if they’ve never been to jail. We might offer them an authentic warning about what will happen when the Man comes around.

And, as we do this, we just might hear somewhere up in the cloud of witnesses a voice that once cried in the wilderness: “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.”

Russell D. Moore is Dean of the School of Theology and Senior Vice President for Academic Administration at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the author of The Kingdom of Christ: The New Evangelical Perspective (Crossway). He is a contributing editor for Touchstone.

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SISTERS OF ST. JOSEPH OF ORANGE 50 years Sister Anne Hennessy, CSJ, formerly known as Sister Anne Bernice, graduated from San Francisco’s Notre Dame des Victoires elementary and high school and later taught at the downtown school from 1966 – 70. Sister Anne has also served as Academic Dean of Loyola Marymount University/Orange Campus, and as Associate Professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Today, she is serving her Congregation as a General Councilor, General Secretary, Director of the Archives and Director of St. Joseph Library. She is also a member of the Editorial Council of the Orange County Catholic in the Diocese of Orange.

Sister Anne Hennessy, CSJ

THE SISTERS OF THE HOLY FAMILY, FREMONT

Sister M. Helena Boss, SHF

Sister M. Norinne Clifford, SHF

Sister M. Jeanne Creager, SHF

Sister M. Timothy Cronin, SHF,

Sister M. Georgette Roeder, SHF

Sister Marian Arroyo, SHF

Sister M. Carmen Baca, SHF

Sister Joan Litch, SHF

Sister Ann Maureen Murphy, SHF

Sister Kathleen Ann Garcia, SHF

70 years Sister M. Helena Boss, SHF, entered religious life from St. Kevin’s Church in San Francisco.

She is a graduate of Holy Family College in Fremont.. Sister Helena has served at Holy Name of Jesus and Our Lady of Guadalupe and Sacred Heart parishes. She is s a former volunteer for the California School for the Blind working with the children and taping for blind students. Today, she serves in Community Ministry at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family.

Sister M. Norinne Clifford, SHF, entered religious life from St. Paul Parish in San Francisco. She has served at parishes including St. James, St. Thomas the Apostle, St. Gabriel, Church of the Nativity, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Michael and Visitacion. Curently Sister Norinne serves in the Ministry of Prayer at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family.

60 years Sister M. Jeanne Creager, SHF, formerly Sister M. Thomas, has served at parishes including St. Finn Barr, and St. Francis of Assisi in San Francisco. Today, she serves in the Ministry of Prayer at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family.

Sister M. Timothy Cronin, SHF, is a graduate of Holy Family College in Fremont. She has served at parishes including St. Gabriel, Visitacion, St. Michael, St. Thomas More, St. James, Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Elizabeth in San Francisco. Todaym she serves in the Finance Department at the Motherhouse of the Sisters of the Holy Family.

Sister M. Georgette Roeder, SHF, is a native San Franciscan, who entered religious life from St. Rita Parish in Fairfax. She has served at parishes including St. Finn Barr in San Francisco.

She is now in Community Ministry at Holy Family Convent in Pleasant Hill.

50 years Sister Marian Arroyo, SHF, formerly known as Sister M. Lydia, is a graduate of Holy Family College in Fremont. She has served at parishes in San Francisco, Texas and Nevada. Today, she is in Volunteer Ministry in San Jose and Fremont.

Sister M. Carmen Baca, SHF, previously known as Sister M. Alfreda, attended Holy Family College in Fremont. She has served at St. Kevin and Our Lady of Guadalupe parishes in San Francisco. She is presently serving as Director of Seniors and the Needy, and Hispanic Ministry at Our Lady of the Snows in Reno, Nevada.

Sister Carol Reichert, SHF

50 years continued Sister Joan Litch, SHF, previously known as Sister M. Bonaventure, was born in San Francisco and entered religious life from St. James Parish. She attended Holy Family College in Fremont, California and the University of San Francisco. She currently serves in Volunteer Ministry for the Diocese of Fresno.

Sister Ann Maureen Murphy, SHF, was born in San Francisco and entered religious life from St. James Parish. She attended schools in Southern California and has served in San Francisco at Holy Family Day Home as well as St. James and Mission Dolores parishes. She currently serves as Development Director at Saint Vincent’s Day Home in Oakland.

40 years Sister Kathleen Ann Garcia, SHF, was born in Oakland and is a graduate of Holy Family College in Fremont and the University of Seattle. She has served at Holy Family Day Home in San Francisco and today is Director of Religious Education at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Reedley.

Sister Carol Reichert, SHF, previously as Sister Kenneth Marie, attended Holy Family College in Fremont and Regis College in Denver. She has served throughout California, Utah, Alaska and Kentucky where she is presently Transition Coordinator for the Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine, Kentucky.

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SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

Sister Mary St Julian Flaherty, BVM

Sister Mary Marius Mei, BVM

Sister Ellen Murphy, BVM

Sister Ann Regina Dobel, BVM

Sister Frances Dolan, BVM

Sister Charlotte Ann Esch, BVM

Sister (St.) Eileen Gallen, BVM

Sister Agnes Loretta McElligott, BVM

Sister Jean Margaret Black, BVM

Sister Dorothy Feehan, BVM

Sister Mary John Agnes Smith, BVM

Sister Julie O’Neill, BVM

Sister Joan Maga, BVM

Sister Kathleen McGrath, BVM

Sister Kathleen Morrissey, BVM

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Sister Mary St Julian Flaherty, BVM taught in San Francisco at St. Paul Elementary; St. Brigid and St. Paul High School. She has also been a high school principal and teacher in Petaluma as well as at schools in Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska. She now lives in retirement at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.

Sister Agnes Loretta McElligott, BVM taught at Most Holy Redeemer, San Francisco. She has also been an educator in North Hollywood, San José, and Los Gatos and at schools in Illinois and Missouri.. She now lives in retirement at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.

75 years

60 years

Sister Mary Marius Mei, BVM entered religious life from St. Brigid Parish, San Francisco, where she also attended Presentation Elementary School and St. Brigid High School. She taught in San Francisco at Most Holy Redeemer and St. Thomas More where she was also principal. She is a former Mission moderator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Diocese of San José. She currently lives in retirement at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.

Sister Ellen Murphy, BVM (Teressetta) taught at St. Thomas More, San Francisco. She also taught at schools in Sacramento, Nebraska, Montana and Washington. She now lives in retirement at Marian Hall, Dubuque, Iowa.

Sister Jean Margaret Black, BVM taught at St. Thomas More and St. Philip in San Francisco. She also taught in Petaluma, Calif.; Iowa, Montana and Nebraska. She is now retired at the Mount Carmel Motherhouse, Dubuque, Iowa.

Sister Dorothy Feehan, BVM (Agnes Cecile) served as a BVM regional representative, based at St. Thomas More convent for seven years. She has been an educator in Iowa, Illinois and Montana, and done parish ministry in Colorado. She currently does spiritual direction in Missoula, Mont.

Sister Mary John Agnes Smith, BVM taught at St. Paul Elementary in San Francisco. She has also been an educator in Nebraska, Illinois, Colorado and Iowa, and director of an adult day care center in Iowa. She is now retired at the Motherhouse, Dubuque, Iowa.

70 years Sister Ann Regina Dobel, BVM was principal at St. Paul High School, San Francisco. She also was an educator in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Colorado and a regional representative of the BVM congregation. She currently lives in retirement at the Motherhouse, Dubuque, Iowa.

Sister Frances Dolan, BVM (Franciscus) taught music at St. Paul High School, San Francisco. She also taught music in Pasadena, Glendale, and Santa Barbara as well as in Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Illinois. She is a former associate professor of music at Loyola University, Chicago and is currently a music/liturgy coordinator at Wright Hall, Chicago.

Sister Charlotte Ann Esch, BVM taught at Most Holy Redeemer, St. Paul Elementary and St. Philip. She also served in parish ministry at Most Holy Redeemer and was a teacher aide at St. Paul Intermediate. She now lives in retirement at Caritas Center, Dubuque, Iowa.

Sister (St.) Eileen Gallen, BVM entered religious life from St. Paul Parish, San Francisco, where she graduated from St. Paul Elementary and High School. She taught at St. Philip and St. Brigid. She has also been an educator in Petaluma, Calif.; Iowa, Illinois, Hawaii, Kansas and Arizona. She is currently a library assistant at Xavier College Prep, Phoenix, Ariz.

55 years Sister Julie O’Neill, BVM is a San Francisco native who entered the BVM congregation from St. Paul Parish. She attended St. Anthony and St. Paul Grade School and graduated from St. Paul High School. She taught at St. Thomas More and is the recently retired coordinator of religious education at St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco. She has also been an educator in North Hollywood, Carlsbad, Tujunga, Santa Rosa, Santa Ana and Petaluma.

50 years Sister Joan Maga, BVM (Joanice) taught at St. Brigid in San Francisco. She has also been an educator in Illinois and Montana. She is currently a teacher/vice-principal in Los Angeles.

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SISTERS OF CHARITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY CONTINUED

Sister Mary E. Waddell, BVM

Sister Karen M. Conover, BVM

Sister Loretta Hubl, BVM

Sister Anne Marie McKenna, BVM

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40 years

Sister Kathleen McGrath, BVM (Johnine) is a San Francisco native who entered religious life from Epiphany Parish, San Francisco. She graduated from St. Paul High School. She has been in food services /nutrition ministry, and is currently Program Director for Catholic Charities Center in Santa Rosa.

Sister Kathleen Morrissey, BVM (Rosalima) taught at St. Philip in San Francisco and has been an educator in Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Glendale. She is currently a school principal in Momence, Ill. Sister Mary E. Waddell, BVM (Valerie) taught at St. Paul High School in San Francisco. She was also an educator in Petaluma and Iowa and has been in pastoral ministry and nursing in Arizona and Quito, Ecuador. She is currently administrator at Clinica Maxena, Santo Tomas La Union, Guatemala.

Sister Karen M. Conover, BVM was a teacher and administrator at St. Paul High School in San Francisco for 14 years. She currently on the faculty at Holy Names High School, Oakland, Calif.

Previously, she taught in Missouri.

Sister Loretta Hubl, BVM taught and was on the business staff at St. Paul School and Parish in San Francisco. She has ministered in Burbank, Tujunga, Los Angeles and Glendale as well as in Iowa. She currently ministers in finance at inner city Catholic schools in Southern California.

Sister Anne Marie McKenna, BVM entered the BVM congregation from St. Paul Parish, San Francisco, after attending St. Paul Elementary and St. Paul High School. She taught at St. Paul Elementary. She has served as Liturgy Director at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Palo Alto and is currently Liturgy Director at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Burlingame.

SISTERS OF MERCY BURLINGAME REGIONAL COMMUNITY

Sister Maureen Culleton, RSM

Sister M. LaSalette Trevillyan, RSM,

Sister Margaret Gallagher, RSM

Sister Sharon Krenn, RSM

Sister Virginia Gillis, RSM

70 years Sister Maureen Culleton, RSM, graduated from St. Mary’s School of Nursing and earned an undergraduate degree from the San Francisco College for Women. She has served as nursing supervisor at St Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco and at Mercy Hospitals in San Diego and Bakersfield, St. Mary’s Modesto and St Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. She retired in 1989 and lives at Marian Care Center in Burlingame.

60 years Sister M. LaSalette Trevillyan, RSM, attended schools in Southern California as well as San Jose State University. She has taught at the elementary and high school level and served as mistress of postulants and director of the novitiate at the Motherhouse in Burlingame. She is also a former Secretary General of her congregation. She lives today in retirement at Marian Care Center in Burlingame.

Sister Margaret Gallagher, RSM, is a graduate of Our Lady of Angels Elementary School and Mercy High School in Burlingame. She has taught at Our Lady of Angels as well as San Francisco’s Holy Name elementary and St Gabriel elementary. She is known as an accomplished pianist and organist and today lives retirement at Marian Care Center in Burlingame.

50 years Sister Sharon Krenn, RSM, is a graduate of Notre Dame High School, San Francisco, and has taught at St. Catherine Elementary School in Burlingame, as well as Holy Name, St. Gabriel and St Peter elementary schools in San Francisco. She has also served in various forms of pastoral care including as a grief counselor and AIDS bereavement group counselor. During her retirement at Marian Care she has tutored girls from Mount St. Joseph/ St Elizabeth’s in San Francisco. She lives today at Marian Care Center in Burlingame.

Sister Charlene Marie Dazols, RSM

50 years continued Sister Virginia Gillis, RSM, attended schools in Southern California and has taught locally at St. Peter, St. Gabriel and Our Lady of Angels elementary schools. later the University of San Francisco, United States International University in San Diego. She has also served as coordinator of Elementary Education for the schools operated by the Sisters of Mercy. She holds a postgraduate degree in Human Behavior Pepperdine University and today is Vicar for Religious in the Diocese of Savannah, GA.

25 years Sister Charlene Marie Dazols, RSM, attended Abraham Lincoln High School, San Francisco State University and earned a graduate degree in Pastoral Counseling from Santa Clara University. Past ministries have included: teaching, parish work, spiritual direction and counseling. She is currently a supervisor for individuals in pastoral ministries and assists in support work and projects for the Burlingame Regional Community.

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Guest Commentary

Why spare the life of “Tookie” Williams?

Stanley “Tookie” Williams is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at California’s San Quentin State Prison on Dec. 13. While he has always maintained his innocence, he was convicted of the shotgun murders of four people in the Los Angeles area in 1979.

The first murder victim was Albert Owens, a clerk at a Whittier 7-Eleven. Owens was ordered to lie face down and was then shot twice in the back at close range with a 12-guage shotgun. Accomplices and friends said that Williams bragged about this shooting and imitated the noises Owens made as he died.

Twelve days later, the owners of the Brookhaven Motel, Yen-I Yang, and Tsai-Shai Yang, and their daughter Yee-Chen Lin were murdered. One hundred dollars was stolen.

Along with Raymond Washington, Williams formed the vicious Los Angeles Crips gang in 1970. This gang is now active throughout the United States and other countries around the world. Los Angeles District Attorney wrote that “this gang is responsible for the regular commission of crimes such as murder, rape, robbery and drug sales.”

On Death Row, Williams has co-authored with Barbara Becnel ten books, many of them aimed at children, laying out the evils of gangs. He has spoken by phone at anti-violence summits, and has given his name to an internet peace project that links disadvantaged youths around the world.

His first series of books was published in 1996. A year later, he launched the www.tookie.com website.

In 1998 he published “Life in Prison,” and in 2000 began the internet Project for Street Peace. His autobiography, “Redemption,” was made into a movie and released in 2004 staring Jamie Foxx.

His books have been used in a number of classrooms around the country and elsewhere. His autobiography is used in twenty-five Chicago public schools with at-risk students. His “Tookie Speaks Out” series is

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aimed at elementary school children and uses language and glossaries explaining gang words such as homeboy (friend/partner), mobbing (large numbers of kids pushing to get what they want), and enemy (someone who wants to hurt you).

On the basis of his books, Williams has been nominated five times since 2000 for the Nobel Peace Prize.

UCLA professor Jorja Leap supports such a recognition: “He is a role model for people who are thinking about leaving the gang life. He has credibility because he lived that life. The books are a building block in their survival.” Alfonso Valdez, an expert on California gangs agrees, “Kids consider him a demigod, a very high-ranking gang member. That means they listen to him.” One college professor said, “I like the fact that he has made a change. My goal is to keep kids in education and on the straight track.” At this writing, Williams is pleading for clemency due to his efforts to keep young people from following him into gang life.

A round-the-clock vigil began December 4 at the gates of San Quentin.

Should Williams’ life be spared? Albert Owens’ daughter says no: “I don’t think it’s fair that he gets to breathe and walk around and my father, whose only crime was showing up for work, can’t do these things.”

The case has caught high-profile attention that is calling for clemency, Jesse Jackson, rapper Snoop Dogg, Jamie Foxx, Bianca Jagger and the NAACP. For them, Williams’ life has value for what he has accomplished.

I believe that both of these positions are misguided.

A person’s life does not have value because of what he has accomplished or how many youths he has positively influenced. A person does not lose his inherent value on account of his crimes and their aftermath.

This type of thinking leads to a moralism that places value on a human life due to one’s abilities, awareness and creativity.

A person has value because he or she is made in God’s image.

Nothing the person does or accomplishes gives or takes this away. The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that Father Gerald the cases for execuD. Coleman tion today “are very rare, if not practically non-existent” (no.

2267). This position is not a mere pragmatic one. John Paul II made it clear in Evangelium Vitae (no. 56): punishment ought not to go to the extreme of executing the offender.

Why? Because of his high-profile supporters?

Because of his books and films? Because of his accomplishments? No. Williams should not be killed because he is God’s son created in God’s image. All other reasons for pardoning him are secondary to this one.

Sulpician Father Gerald D. Coleman is former rector/president of St. Patrick Seminary.

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Advent Opportunities Fridays: Sacrament of Reconciliation, 5 – 6 p.m., at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Drive in Burlingame. Call (650) 347-7768.

Dec. 10: Christmas with the Choirs of Church of the Epiphany, 827 Vienna St. near Geneva in San Francisco at 7 p.m. Features voices of the parish’s six choirs singing songs of the season in English, Spanish and Tagalog. Mario Balestrieri will conduct and accompany the songfest assisted by Guillermo Guillen. Donation requested is $10 adults and $5 children. Call (415) 350-6399, 244-4784 or 336-1132.

Dec. 10: Advent Morning of Prayer, Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, 9:30-11:30 a.m. A time of prayer and reflection, continuing the series, “To Live in Hope in Today’s World.” Notre Dame Sister. Phil D’Anna, will facilitate. Contact www.SistersofNotreDameCA.org or 650.593.2045 ext. 277.

Dec. 10, 11: The Combined Choirs from the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, under the direction of Teri Marconi, proudly present “The Heart of Christmas” Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in IHM Church,1040 Alameda de las Pulgas at Ralston in Belmont. Free admission.

Dec. 15 - 23: Simbang Gabi, a Filipino tradition of the Advent season commences at St. Gregory Church, 28th Ave. and Hacienda in San Mateo at 7 p.m. Bishop John C. Wester will preside at the Dec. 15th opening Mass. Masses continue daily at the same time through Dec. 23rd. A collaborative effort of St. Gregory, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Mark and St. Timothy parishes.

Dec. 16: ‘Twas the week before Christmas! St. Charles Parish, 880 Tamarack Ave. in San Carlos, presents its 4th Annual Christmas Concert at 7:30 p.m. Featuring the Adult and Children’s Choirs, the concert will celebrate the rich heritage of Advent and Christmas music - carols both old and new, some for singing and some for listening. Claire Giovannetti conducts. Admission is free. An offering will be taken for the support of the music programs.

St. Mary’s Cathedral Choir will perform Handel’s “Messiah”, Part I, December 7, at 7:30 p.m. in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary in San Francisco, with a repeat performance on Sunday, December 11, at 3 p.m. in St. Raphael’s Church, 5th Ave and A St, San Rafael. Tickets will be available at the door for $15 for general admission and $10 for seniors and students. Call (415) 567-2020, ext.

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St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco needs your help at its Help Desk. Service includes sorting donations and helping clients. If anyone would like to volunteer - also small groups of volunteers one Saturday a month - they should call (415) 202-9955.”

St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County needs Spanish/English-speaking volunteers to answer phones in 2 – 3 hour shifts between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. at their offices, 50 No. B St., San Mateo. Volunteers do intake of clients’ requests, log the call and enter into Access.

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Dec. 10, 11: The Combined Choirs from the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, under the direction of Teri Marconi, proudly present “The Heart of Christmas” Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in IHM Church, 1040 Alameda de las Pulgas at Ralston in Belmont. Free admission.

Come be a valuable part of a team assisting employees to further the mission and values of the Sisters of Mercy. A variety of volunteer opportunities are available on their spacious and beautiful campus in Burlingame. Please call the HR/Volunteer Coordinator at (650) 340-7417 or email: cmoore@mercyburl.org for more information.

The National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi 610 Vallejo Street, (415) 983-0405 ext. 14 ~ www.ScholaSF.org Dec. 11, 18: Christmas in the City at 4 p.m. Annual Carol Concert by Schola Cantorum ~ Early seating is recommended.

Dec. 24: Festival of Lessons and Carols at 4 p.m. with 11.30 p.m. Vigil followed by Midnight Mass of Christmas.

Dec. 25: Christmas Day Mass at 12: 15 p.m.

Dec. 31: Organ Recital by John Renke at10.15 p.m. followed by Sung Mass at 11.00 p.m. and Blessing of the City at Midnight.

Jan. 1: Feast of Mary the Mother of God with Mass at 12.15 p.m.

Jan. 8: The Epiphany of the Lord with Mass at 12:15 p.m. and Solemn Vespers at 3:15 p.m. and Epiphany Carol Service at 4 p.m.

Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Check out our Web site for a list of events around the Bay Area and download our Newsletter at www.sfyam.org. We publish a quarterly newsletter to connect college students and young adults to the Catholic Church.

Dec. 21: Our Lady of Mercy Young Adult Christmas Party at Our Lady of Mercy Parish Center, 15 Elmwood Drive, Daly City., 7: 30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Contact Danny O’Regan, at (650) 756-8684 .

Shows/Entertainment 1st and 3rd Tues.: Noontime Concerts – 12:30 p.m.

- at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, SF. $5 donation requested. Call (415) 288-3800.

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admission free. December 11: Richard Riley, tenor. December 18: Christoph Tietze, Organist; December 25: NO RECITAL; January 1: NO RECITAL.

Reunions Dec. 27, 28, 29: California Classic basketball tournament co-hosted by Mercy High School, Burlingame and Mercy, San Francisco! All schools in the country affiliated with the Sisters of Mercy have been invited.

Schools from Kentucky, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Ohio, Maryland, and Pennsylvania will be represented. Tournament features a Welcome Reception and Mass, a gift exchange, and14 games in the Mercy, SF’s McAuley Pavilion. “Celebrate the Circle of Mercy through Basketball.” Call (415) 334-0525.

Single, Divorced, Separated Dec. 17: Annual Potluck Christmas and Ornament Exchange at St. Mary’s Cathedral Conference Center, Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. Call Vonnie at (650) 873-4236.

Separated and Divorced support group meets 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452. Group also meets 1st and 3rd Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Parish in Pacifica. Call (650) 359-6313 for location.

Saturdays: Prayer Group, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at St. Hilary Church 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon, (415) 7565505. Father James Tarantino, presides. Call (415) 756-5505. Also at St. Hilary’s, Bible Study beginning Sept. 3. Sign-ups begin August 1st.

Consolation Ministry Grief Groups meet at the following parishes.

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San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-5581015; St. Dunstan, Millbrae. Call Barbara Cappel at 650-291-628;. Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sr. Carol Fleitz at 650-355-2593; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. Call Barbara Cantwell at 650-755-0478; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call Parish

Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, call (415) 4532342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, (415) 664-8590.

San Mateo County: St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Sylvia Miles at (650) 355-6650, Jerry Trecroci at (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher at (650) 355-4355; St. Matthew, San Mateo. Jim Shea at (650) 344-7622.

Meetings 2nd Wed.: Men’s Evening of Reflection: Being Catholic in the Modern World at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF beginning at 7 p.m. Call (415) 983-0405.

Courage, a Catholic support group for persons with same-sex attraction, meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Call Father Lawrence Goode at (650) 322-2152.

Taize Prayer Wednesdays in January: Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St., between Stockton and Grant, at 6 p.m. followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. “We especially invite persons in the financial district and others to use this time in the middle of the week to help them stay focused on their relationship with God,” the parish said.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225.

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‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ Reviewed by David DiCerto It’s taken more than 50 years for a live-action version of Christian author C.S. Lewis’ beloved children’s fantasy, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” to finally make it to the big screen. And after viewing Disney’s captivating $150 million adaptation, it’s safe to say it was well worth the wait.

First published in 1950, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” — the first in a seven-volume series known as “The Chronicles of Narnia” — has had several previous renderings, including a stage production, two British television series and an Emmy Award-winning animated feature that aired on American TV in 1979.

Produced in partnership with faith-friendly Walden Media, the movie not only stays reverently true to the story and spiritual subtext of Lewis’ tale, but is a cinematic work of extraordinary beauty that, much like the title’s enchanted armoire, transports viewers to a wondrous world of adventure, heroism and religious symbolism.

It also proves what Lewis believed about literature — that anything worth reading when you are 5 is worth reading when you are 50 — is equally valid for film, though Lewis himself had strong reservations about translating his Narnia books into live-action movies.

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Narnia . . .

■ Continued from page 17 — fans of the book will know that they are in sure hands with director Andrew Adamson, who never allows spectacle to overshadow the story’s emotional core.

He also captures both the childlike wonder and indefinable, melancholic nostalgia for a world beyond our own that underscores all seven books.

Comparisons will inevitably be made to Peter Jackson’s superior “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Both productions involved added pressure of a fan base rabidly protective of the source material. Both films also use fairy-tale and mythic motifs to explore larger themes of good and evil, sin and redemption, and death and resurrection, far more overt here. This is best illustrated by the clearly allegorical Christ-figure of Aslan,

“a willing victim ... killed in a traitor’s stead” only to come back to life in glorified form.

(Though gentle at times, Aslan is not “tame,” but a wild and dangerous lion of Judah.)

Told with symbolic strokes, the deeply poignant sequence unmistakably traces Christ’s passion from Gethsemane to his dying on Calvary, here a stone table upon which Aslan is ritualistically slain. (Adults may even feel their tear ducts swelling.)

Those first to witness the “resurrected” Aslan are women, and afterward Aslan “breathes” a new spirit of life into those Narnians turned to stone by the White Witch’s magic, echoing both Pentecost and the harrowing of hell.

While “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” lacks the character development and narrative depth, as well as the grander scale, of “Rings” (written by Lewis’ close friend, J.R.R. Tolkien), its simple, self-contained story works to its advantage as a film.

Though a few of the processed shots are obvious, overall the special effects are impressive, including a majestic — and amazingly realistic — computer-rendered Aslan.

The climactic battle may be too intense for young children, as may be scenes involving a pack of vicious wolves serving as Jadis’ henchmen. Hardest of all to watch is Aslan’s atoning death, surrounded by hellish legions seemingly conjured from a Hieronymus Bosch painting. His apparent “defeat” is trumpeted by Jadis’ victory cry, “So much for love.” Some parents may feel it inappropriately upsetting for a “family film,” but Lewis himself argued that it was proper not to shield children from knowledge that they are “born into a world of death, violence, wounds, adventure, heroism and cowardice, good and evil.”

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Unlike Lucy at the end, moviegoers won’t be left wondering if they’ll ever find passage back into Narnia; with six more movies planned, the door is, thankfully, left ajar!

The film contains some battlefield violence, intense scenes of child peril and menace, and several frightening sequences.

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May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

Never known to fail.

You may publish.

E.A.S.

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Catholic San Francisco

Classifieds

For Information Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

Organist ORGANIST WEDDINGS • FUNERALS Worship Services, Catholic Experience Marie DuMabeiller 415-441-3069, Page: 823-3664 VISA, MASTERCARD Accepted Please confirm your event before contracting music!

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Experienced caregiver available, excellent references, 12 yrs. nursing experience, available day and evenings. Please Call (415) 374-1834.

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY

SAN MATEO COUNTY

WILLIAM L. GALLAGHER, D.D.S.

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Crowns Bridges Dentures Bonding New Patients Welcome

FAMILY DENTISTRY

Evenings & Weekend Appointments Most Insurance Accepted

2345 Noriega Street

REY P. JOVES, DMS

(415) 731-0816

WEST PORTAL FAMILY DENTISTRY

6879 Mission St., Daly City

(650) 756-8400

FAMILY DENTISTRY Smiles are a gift in any language.

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and comfort come together

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(415) 563-2717

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MONTEREY DENTAL OFFICE

DENTAL OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE

Cosmetic & Family Dentistry Modern, State-of-the-Art Office Special Discounts for Seniors, Low Income Families & Students

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San Francisco, CA 94127 (415) 239-9140

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South San Francisco, CA First Floor space available

Call Charley Haggarty (650) 344-3044

DENTISTS: Reach over 215,000 readers of Catholic San Francisco in our monthly Dental Directory.

Call Mary Podesta (415) 614-5644 or e-mail: podestam@sfarchdiocese.org

Visiting Angels is looking for reliable and dependable caregivers to assists elderly. ●

Must have 2 years of experience working directly with elderly

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Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

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Catholic San Francisco

The Board of Director at Notre Dame High School, a Catholic independent school sponsored by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur and serving 730 young women in grades 9 through 12, invites candidates who are practicing Roman Catholics to apply for the position of Principal. The school is inaugurating the President/Principal model of Administration effective July 1, 2006.

The Principal is the Chief Operating Officer and, as such, has the general charge of the day to day operation of the school. The Principal reports to the President who is responsible to the Board of Directors. The ideal candidate will have a strong record of accomplishment as both an enthusiastic educator and an academic leader with a belief in the value of single-gender education. Discover more about the school at www.ndhsb.org.

Position qualifications include an advanced degree, administrative certification, five years of successful educational experience in teaching and in administration in a Catholic secondary school, collaborative leadership style, superior communication and interpersonal skills, and a demonstrated commitment to women’s education in the tradition of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

ADDRESS

ALL INQUIRIES, LETTERS OF INTENT,

AND REQUESTS FOR APPLICATION TO:

Notre Dame Principal Search Robert F. Shea, President Shea Consulting Services, LLC 7601 Churchill Way, Suite 1116, Dallas, TX 75251 972-458-7755 Robert@sheaconsulting.com

– CAMPUS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR –

Help Wanted

The Sisters of Mercy Burlingame Regional Congregation is looking for an individual to be responsible for the administration, management and strategic planning for the multi-purpose Campus in a manner consistent with the mission of the Sisters of Mercy and goals of the organization. The candidate must have a Bachelors degree in Business Administration or related field. A Masters Degree is preferred in the same filed or a Non Profit Administration. Minimum of 5 years experience in executive management with strong operations background required. Previous experience in managing / coordinating multiple budgets / departments required. Previous experience in a not-for-profit and/or religious organization preferred. This is a full-time, benefited position with a competitive salary rate.

Qualified applicants may send their resumes on or before December 23, 2005 to: Sisters of Mercy, Attn: HR Department, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010, or fax to (650) 373-4509, or e-mail cthibodeaux@mercyburl.org.

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Catholic San Francisco

December 9, 2005

Catholic Studies Institute

Winter & Spring Courses 2006

The Catholic Studies Institute is a program of adult faith formation and lay ministry training of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The curriculum leading to a certificate in either Theological Studies or Theology and Lay Ministry consists of a three-year cycle of courses. During the first two years all students follow the same course of study. In the third year students choose to concentrate in either theological studies or lay ministry.

During this 2005-06 school year our course offerings have focused upon laying the theological foundations of the program: Catholic Doctrine, Liturgy and Sacraments, and Catholic Moral Teaching. During the 2006-07 school year we will add the biblical foundations courses, as well as courses for the certificate concentrations.

Our school year is thirty-six weeks long and divided into three semesters –– Fall, Winter and Spring. (running September to July). Most courses are in 12-week or 18-week formats that meet once a week.

Classes are held in the evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in San Mateo, San Francisco, and Kentfield in Marin County. Though our Fall semester ends in December, our Winter courses begin in mid-January. ***[Note: Students may begin the program during any semester – Fall, Winter, or Spring.]*** Tuition is $100 for 12-week course, and $150 for 18-week course (note: $90 for 11-week course and $140 for 17-week course). For more information, visit our website at www.catholicstudies.org, or contact our office at 415-614-5547/5546.

SAN FRANCISCO 2006

MARIN COUNTY 2006

Tuesdays 7:30-9:30 pm

Wednesdays 7:30-9:30 pm

Thursdays 7:30-9:30 pm

Junipero Serra High School 451 W. 20th Ave. San Mateo, CA 94403

Collins Center (at St. Cecilia Church) 2560 18th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94116

Marin Catholic High School 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

Kentfield, CA 94904

Winter 2006

Winter 2006

Winter 2006

SAN MATEO 2006

Liturgy & Sacraments (12 wks) Dates: Jan 17, 24, 31; Feb 7, 14, 21, 28; March 7, 14, 21, 28; April 4 Dr. Charles James

Liturgy & Sacraments (12 wks) Dates: Jan 18, 25; Feb 1, 8, 15, 22; March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; April 5 Dr. Michael Torre

Spring 2006 Catholic Moral Teaching (11 wks) Dates: April 25; May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; June 6, 13, 20, 27; July 11 Dr. Charles James

Spring 2006

Spring 2006 Catholic Moral Teaching (12 wks) Dates: April 26; May 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; June 7, 14, 21, 28; July 5, 12 Dr. Michael Torre

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Liturgy and Sacraments (12 wks) In this course students will study the foundational principles of Catholic liturgy and sacramental theology. Each of the seven sacraments will be treated: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Holy Orders, Matrimony, Reconciliation, and the Anointing of the Sick.

TEACHERS CHARLES JAMES: Served as an Episcopal priest in the East Bay area for twelve years, and was later received into full communion with the Catholic Church in 2001. He holds a Sacred Theology Doctorate from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. He has taught as an adjunct professor of philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, and is currently an associate professor of philosophy at St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park. He has taught on a broad range of subject areas over the years, including theology, philosophy, Scripture and apologetics.

Catholic Moral Teaching (12 wks) [Note: 5/1 and 5/8 will be Monday classes, rather than Thursdays] Dates: April 27; May 1, 8, 18, 25; June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; July 6, 13 Mr. Mark Brumley

REGISTRATION FORM Complete this form and mail it with check or money order (payable to “Archdiocese of San Francisco”) to: Catholic Studies Institute Archdiocese of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

Catholic Moral Teaching (12 wks) This course will overview Catholic moral teaching. Topics to include: conversion, the life of grace, the human person, natural moral law, the Ten Commandments, the nature of sin, the formation of conscience, virtue and some contemporary issues. The role of divine grace and the power of the Holy Spirit for Christian living will be emphasized.

Liturgy & Sacraments (12 wks) Dates: Jan 19, 26; Feb 2, 9, 16, 23; March 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; April 6 Mr. Mark Brumley

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MICHAEL TORRE: Holds a PhD in Systematic and Philosophical Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He has taught at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, the University of Santa Clara, and is an associate professor at the University of San Francisco where he has taught philosophy for many years. For the last five years, he has also taught a number of courses in our program in areas such as doctrine, moral theology and Christian prayer.

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MARK BRUMLEY: Holds a Master of Theology Degree from the University of Dallas and is the president of Ignatius Press in San Francisco. He is a widely known author, editor and conference speaker in the areas of theology, apologetics and evangelization. He also teaches theology for the Institute of Pastoral Theology of Ave Maria University, headquartered in Naples, Florida.

He has taught in our program for several years, and brings a broad range of experience to the classroom.

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Kentfield