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By Dennis Sadowski PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CNS) – With words of praise to God in a melodic song that carried over the din of thousands of people, Dolce Rochelle let it be known to anyone who cared that no matter the challenge, she was doing just fine. One of an estimated 50,000 people living in makeshift shelters of sheets, blankets and plastic tarps on what was once a golf course at the Petionville Club, Rochelle passes her days singing and selling goods for a friend out of her tent. “I like to praise God,” she said, a smile gracing her face. Rochelle, her husband and daughter lost everything – their home in the Delmas neighborhood, their few possessions, and their way of life – Jan. 12 during a magnitude 7 earthquake. “I’ve got hope because in what happened, my family and I didn’t die,” she said in an interview with Catholic News Service. In a world where the future remains uncertain, Rochelle and many others camped out at the Petionville Club expressed a great deal of hope that God will help them survive. The U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services has worked with the United Nations and the U.S. military to turn the informal gathering of people into a formal camp. A two-week supply of food was delivered recently, and 40,000 shelter kits were to be delivered this week (Feb. 1-5), said Lane Harthill, CRS spokesman in Port-au-Prince. The effort, among the largest in the agency’s history, has kept most people from going hungry. Such an enormous undertaking has not gone unnoticed by Haitians in the camp. Because food and water supplies remain steady, camp residents are able to focus on other needs: raising income, education and recreation. Ernsot Dormeil has been at the camp almost since people started claiming spots on the golf course – far from the danger of still-teetering structures – only hours after the earthquake. A civil engineer by profession, Dormeil, 29, is spending his HAITIAN TENT CAMP, page 9
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People walk among tents at the makeshift camp on the Petionville Club golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. An estimated 50,000 people were living at the camp after the Jan. 12 earthquake that left up to 1 million homeless.
Church has right to bring Gospel values to public debate, pope says By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Catholic teaching and the truths of the Gospel have a right to be heard in public debate, especially in a country where so many people claim to be Christian, Pope Benedict XVI told the bishops of England and Wales. However, the Church must recognize dissent within its own ranks and not accept it as being part of a balanced discussion, he said Feb. 1 in an address to bishops. Referring to the Equality Bill under debate in Britain’s Parliament, the pope said some legislation designed to guarantee equal opportunity for all people actually would impose “unjust limitations on the freedom of religious communities to act in accordance with their beliefs.”
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Catholic bishops have said the bill means churches could be sued by anyone who was turned away as a candidate for the priesthood on grounds of gender or sexual lifestyle. A recent vote in Britain’s House of Lords, however, supported an amendment that protected the existing rights of churches to insist that clergy and high-profile lay employees live in a manner consistent with Christian moral teaching. Pope Benedict urged the bishops to continue defending Church teaching in the public realm, adding that they have a right “to participate in national debate through respectful dialogue with other elements in society.” By being vocal participants in public discussion, the bishops are maintaining Britain’s long-standing tradition of freedom of expression and are giving voice to the
similar beliefs held by many people who are unable to express them, he said. “When so many of the population claim to be Christian, how could anyone dispute the Gospel’s right to be heard?” the pope asked. “Fidelity to the Gospel in no way restricts the freedom of others – on the contrary, it serves their freedom by offering them the truth,” he said. To bring a coherent, convincing message to the people, the church must ensure the Catholic community speaks with one voice, he added. In a culture that encourages the expression of a wide variety of opinions, the pope said, “it is important to recognize dissent for what it is, and not to mistake it for a mature contribution to a balanced and wide-ranging debate.”
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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke With the scent of pine not yet gone from the air, and mistletoe still hanging somewhere, congrats to Potrero Hill’s St. Teresa Parish and its successful Christmas Gala. “It was a night filled with great company, delicious food, fabulous door prizes and entertainment,” Anarose Flores Schelstrate, said in a note to this column. “A great time was had by all!”… Catholic school students are busy raising money for the people of Haiti. The sixth grade class at St. Thomas More School raised $340 and sent it by way of Catholic Relief Services for relief work in Haiti. “They all made Rice Krispy treats and sold them at recess,” their teacher Julianne Beach told me. “I am very proud of the way they worked together to make a difference.” All Souls Elementary School had a “dress down day and raised $1301 for the Haiti Earthquake Appeal,” Vincent Riener, principal, let us know. “I am so proud of the school community in raising so much in one day,” he said. The good news continues from Megan Furth Catholic Academy. “After seeing news reports about the situation in Haiti, the students decided to put their faith into action,” the school’s Chris Unruh said. “They launched a fund-raising drive, led Tim Rea by the 6th grade that included students, parents, faculty, and staff members. In one week they raised $1,093, which surpassed their goal of $1,000.”… San Rafael’s St. Raphael Parish recently held a Fair Trade Faire that made available for purchase “all kinds of wonderful products made by artisans, farmers, and craftspeople from 20 developing countries,” Deacon Gene Smith told me. The inventory included scarves, jewelry, hand-woven baskets as well as coffee, tea, chocolates and olive oil. Gene said the good will bazaar – the products are distributed by Catholic Relief Services – helps people who, with their families, “struggle each day to survive.” Last year Fair Trade sales amounted
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Peace, Justice and Service Committee members at St. Raphael Parish include, top from left, Barbara Beaulieu, Sue Brown, Ann Huseman, Peggy Bernardoni, with, bottom from left, Nina Smith, Helen Bernardoni, Maria Ferrera Hancock, Peigin Barrett. Unavailable for the photo were Beth Harran, Margarita Barajas, Cathy Lidl, Tina Clinton, Keenny Aguilar, Meg Wallhagen, Bill Strawbridge, and Deacon Gene Smith.
to more than $4 billion worldwide.. Gene said members of the parish Peace, Justice and Service Committee are available to talk about the nuts and bolts of a Fair Trade Faire at (415) 454-8141. “By purchasing Fair Trade goods, we are assisting workers who deserve a just wage for very fine products,” Father Paul Rossi, pastor, said. “Our fair, held twice a year, teaches the importance of people earning a just wage for their work. This gathering is also a fun and effective way for parishioners to socialize. I look forward to the fair every time it happens.” Fair Trade goods are available regularly at St. Raphael Mission Gift Shop…. It’s `welcome aboard’ at Archbishop Riordan High School for new board of trustees member, Tim Rea. “Tim
Christmas Gala Committee members at St. Teresa Parish included, from left, Doug Aikins, Judy Warnock, Deacon Chuck Allen, Anne Gallagher, Stephani Sheehan, Carmen Castro, Jim Schelstrate, Anarose Schelstrate; Father Paul Warren, pastor; Valentine Wolff Baines, Deb Aikins, and Sister Maureen O’Brien, BVM. Unavailable for the photo were Anna Oates and Marie Caracciolo.
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Stronger relations urged between Catholic college presidents, bishops By Chaz Muth
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WASHINGTON (CNS) – After a year of public clashes between bishops and some Catholic colleges, U.S. Catholic university presidents were urged to forge stronger relationships with their local bishop. During his plenary address Jan. 31 at the annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities in Washington, Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick told college presidents they should reach out to their bishops for more than just good will. The 79-year-old retired archbishop of Washington – a former college president himself – told the presidents they would get better cooperation from their dioceses and experience less friction with the hierarchy if they welcomed their local bishops onto campus and included them in the academic fold of their institutions. Though he never mentioned the 2009 controversy over the commencement address by President Barack Obama at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Cardinal McCarrick alluded to it in his address. He said it is “naive” for college presidents to believe they can invite to campus speakers who advocate divisive positions on abortion and same-sex marriage contrary to church teaching and expect a productive debate. The decision of Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of Notre Dame, to invite Obama to deliver the May commencement speech and present him with an honorary law degree set off a firestorm of criticism by at least 70 U.S. bishops, and ignited a national debate on the university’s status as a Catholic institution. Critics said Obama’s support of legal abortion and embryonic stem-cell research made him an inappropriate choice to be commencement speaker at a Catholic university. Bishop John M. D’Arcy, the recently retired bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., the diocese which includes Notre Dame, boycotted the commencement. It was the only one he missed during his long tenure as leader of the diocese. Other public disputes between a bishop and Catholic college included criticism by now-retired Bishop Joseph F. Martino of Scranton of Misericordia University’s
Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame talks with Catholic News Service Jan. 31 in Washington.
decision to invite a gay rights advocate to speak on campus. Also, the University of San Francisco angered some Catholics by giving Irish President Mary McAleese an honorary degree. She has publicly supported gay rights and women’s ordination in the Catholic Church. Cardinal McCarrick said the nation currently has a polarized “partisan society.” But the U.S. bishops should be optimistic about Catholic higher education, he said, and if they are not, they “don’t know what is going on” academically or spiritually on the campuses. But he also said the college presidents should be making an effort to include the local bishops in the campus community. They would find the bishops to be formidable advocates if they felt like they belonged, he said. Father Jenkins told Catholic News Service Jan. 31 that Cardinal McCarrick was absolutely right on this point and set the “right tone” with the college presidents. The priest said he was laying the foundation for a solid relationship with newly installed Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend. “Our bishop is coming to campus Feb. 8 and 9 – it was the earliest date we could get him – and we’re going to have a Mass at the basilica with our Holy Cross community and I will speak with him at that time,” he said. “I think we will make every
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Flaminia Giovanelli, the newly appointed undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, is pictured outside the headquarters of the council at the Vatican Jan. 29. Her appointment marks the first time in more than 20 years a woman has served as undersecretary of a pontifical council.
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SAN FRANCISCO – Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside at a Mass commemorating World Day of the Sick, Feb. 6, 9:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. All are welcome. The Mass is in honor of Our Lady of Lourdes and sponsored by the Order of Malta, known for their dedication to the sick and their regular pilgrimages to the healing waters of Lourdes. Elements of the Mass include anointing of the sick, and blessing of caregivers’ hands.
Archbishop asks help For ‘Gabriel Project’ SAN FRANCISCO – In a Jan. 22 letter to all pastors of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Archbishop George Niederauer encouraged support for the “Gabriel Project,” a parish-based program that helps pregnant women. Following a Gabriel Project Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral last fall, the Archdiocese included The Gabriel Project among the ministries of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. Archbishop Niederauer noted that the U.S, Conference of Catholic Bishops, in their “Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities,” stated that one of the objectives of a parish prolife activity should be to “develop or adopt a parish-based
‘Mosaic’ TV program airs Feb. 7, KPIX-Channel 5 Mercy Sister Sheila Devereaux and Eileen Pressing discuss the Mercy Volunteer Corps with host Tom Burke on the television program “Mosaic” Feb. 7 at 5 a .m. on KPIXChannel 5. Pressing is a nurse and New Jersey resident who came across the country to Sacramento to take part in the program that asks volunteers for one-year service commitments in works helping the poor. A widow and not shy to admit she is of retirement age, Pressing said being part of the volunteer corps has “changed my life” and exhorts others to take part. Mercy Volunteer Corps is open to adult men and women with, at least, a high school diploma. Sister Sheila serves as a coordinator of the Philadelphia-area based ministry with workers around the United States and the world. Visit www.mercyvolunteers.org.
ministry to pregnant women and their children.” The Gabriel Project answers this call and embodies the practical support that the bishops promise pregnant women, said Archbishop Niederauer. For information about The Gabriel Project, visit http://sfgabrielproject.wordpress.com.
Pro-life ad on Super Bowl NEW YORK (CNS) – An ad scheduled to air on CBS during the network’s broadcast of the Feb. 7 Super Bowl has generated criticism from groups such as the National Organization for Women because of its pro-life message. The 30-second spot will feature recent University of Florida graduate Tim Tebow, the Gators’ star quarterback who graduated in December. The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner led his team to victory in the Sugar Bowl Jan. 1. Sponsored by Focus on the Family, a Christian advocacy group based in Colorado Springs, Colo., the ad highlights Tebow’s mother, Pam, who decided against medical advice not to abort him. Pam suffered from a dangerous infection during a mission trip to the Philippines, and doctors recommended that she terminate her pregnancy, fearing she might die in childbirth or the child might be stillborn. A spokesman for the organization said the theme of the ad is “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life.”
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Canadian bishops hit trafficking OTTAWA – Members of the Canadian bishops’ justice and peace commission have called for prayers for victims of human trafficking, noting that they expect it to be a problem at the Feb. 12-28 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. A pastoral letter issued Jan. 26 said major sporting events often see “systems put in place to satisfy the demand for paid sex.” “As pastors of the Catholic Church in Canada, we denounce human trafficking in all its forms, whether it is intended for forced labor (domestic, farm or factory work) or for sexual exploitation (whether it be prostitution, pornography, forced marriages, strip clubs, or other),” the bishops wrote. “We invite the faithful to become aware of this NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5 Bilingual Staff Information and Referrals ● Care Coordination
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Priests and nuns attend an evening prayer service led by Pope Benedict XVI Feb. 2 in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican, marking the World Day for Consecrated Life.
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violation of human rights and the trivialization of concerns about prostitution.� The bishops urged Catholics to become aware of human trafficking, so “we can share in the suffering of the victims and change the behaviors and mentalities that foster institutionalized violence in this new form of slavery.�
Desire for sacraments not enough reason for annulment, pope says VATICAN CITY – True pastoral charity and concern can never lead the church to grant an annulment to a Catholic whose marriage is valid according to church law, Pope Benedict XVI said. “One must shun pseudo-pastoral claims� that look only at the desire of divorced Catholics to return to the sacraments, the pope said Jan. 29 in his annual speech to officials of the Roman Rota, a tribunal that mainly deals with appeals filed in marriage annulment cases. The pope said helping Catholics be able to go to confession and receive the Eucharist is important, but it cannot be done without taking into account the truth about
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Pope honors Catholic religious VATICAN CITY – Catholics enter religious orders or consecrate themselves as virgins because the love of God is so great that it is worth giving everything for, Pope Benedict XVI said. Adoring the Eucharist and celebrating evening prayer with religious Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple, the pope told them that they are witnesses for others of the realness of God’s love and mercy. The church celebrates World Day for Consecrated Life each year on the feast day. The pope told the religious that each one of them had drawn near to Christ “as the source of pure and faithful love, a love so great and beautiful that it deserves everything or, rather, more than our all, because an entire life would not be enough to repay that which Christ is and has done for us.� Beyond the thousand things religious do in the church and in the world, he said, “consecrated life is important precisely as a sign of selflessness and love.� Pope Benedict offered special encouragement to religious who feel the weight of never being thanked, those who are aged or infirm and those experiencing difficulties.
their church marriage. The church cannot act charitably toward its faithful without upholding justice and truth, he said. Charity without justice is “only a forgery because charity requires that objectivity that is typical of justice and which must not be confused with inhumane coldness,� the pope said. For the Catholic Church, he said, a marriage celebrated with the full consent of the couple and following the correct form is always presumed to be valid, and a valid marriage is indissoluble. Pastors and those who work in church tribunals must beware of “the widespread and deeply rooted tendency� to see justice and charity as totally competing values, the pope said.
University wraps up filming for virtual tour of St. Peter’s Basilica VATICAN CITY – In the enormous interior of Christianity’s largest church, a tiny black camera perched on a tall tripod was quietly whirring, mapping bit by bit almost every detail inside St. Peter’s Basilica. While thou-
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sands of tourists streamed through the basilica Jan. 27, a special team from Villanova University was cordoned off from the crowds, wrapping up the last day of shooting images for one of several virtual tour projects they have been producing for the Vatican. “As the camera goes around it’s taking at each angle setting 30 pictures, then it’ll tilt down and take another 30 pictures,� explained Robert Beck, chairman of the department of computer sciences and one of many Villanova staff members and students involved in the virtual tour project. “To take the pictures is reasonably quick,� said Frank Klassner, Villanova professor of computing sciences, who provided technical assistance in the development of the virtual tours. “To stitch them together, to put them on the Web takes much longer,� he said. It takes from one to two weeks to process, color-correct and adjust distortions from the lens in the hundreds of photo images that are shot in one location, “so everything has crisp, clear lines, so you can zoom in to high-quality� photographic images of the basilica’s interior, he said.
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Volunteer shop with a big heart ends a long and fruitful run The Primrose House of Values in Burlingame will be closing its doors Feb. 15, after a long run of 40 years. The facility has been a work of the Catholic Social Service Auxiliary of San Mateo County, now Catholic Charities Auxiliary, since 1969. The auxiliary celebrated its 55th year in 2009. Money earned at the Primrose site has benefitted programs of Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Primrose House of Values in Burlingame will end operations Feb. 15.
“These volunteer efforts represent a lifetime of service that has enriched the lives of thousands of our brothers and sisters in San Mateo County,” said Catholic Charities CYO Executive Director, Jeff Bialik. “The San Mateo auxiliary has changed lives in the community.” Bialik on his own behalf and on behalf of San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer, thanked the auxiliary members “for their service, impact and faith-filled support.” Since their founding, the auxiliary has donated more than $750,000 to CCCYO as well as “hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours” from its “hundreds of members,” CCCYO said. The San Mateo Auxiliary’s early fundraisers included activities such as the Christmas Boutique, luncheons and card parties. The auxiliary’s spiritual counselor and advisor, Father Edwin Baker, worked with the first president, Mrs. Joseph Spiler, to open Primrose House so that it could act as a project to raise funds for the programs on an ongoing basis. “When I think about the shop I always remember a group of ambitious and dedicated ladies who were members of Catholic Social Services Auxiliary,” said Marina Messinger, a former auxiliary
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Testimony concludes in same-sex marriage trial in San Francisco By Rick DelVecchio The “rule of opposites” has been a virtually unwavering principle of marriage throughout human history, an expert witness defending California’s ban on same-sex marriage testified in federal court in San Francisco Jan. 27, bringing testimony in the case came to an end. “There are no or almost no exceptions to this principle that marriage is between a man and a woman,” David Blankenhorn, founder and president of the Institute for American Values, said in the final day of testimony in a trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the 2008 voter initiative that defined statesanctioned marriage as limited to a man and a woman. Blankenhorn defended the historical basis of that definition as he underwent close cross-examination by David Boies, an attorney for same-sex couples who sued to have Prop 8 overturned as discriminatory. Asked if he knows of any exceptions to his view on the opposite-sex foundation of marriage, Blankenhorn said he is aware of only one described in the scholarly literature. In that case, men and boys in an African warrior society would form relationships that some scholars have described as marriage, Blankenhorn said. But he said the relationships were ceremonial and that the boy tended to outgrow the role after an initiatory period and often would leave to marry a woman. The other bedrock principles of marriage are a bond between two people and a sexual relationship, Blankenhorn said. Boies asked the witness to explain passages in Blankenhorn’s 2007 book, “The Future of Marriage.” “You write, ‘If adopting same-sex marriage is likely to be part of large societal shift, or if it seems likely that adopting same-sex marriage would not significantly undermine efforts to renew wider marriage culture, I’m confident most advocates would favor adoption. But if same-sex marriage would impede that larger goal, I would be against it.’”
The lawyer then asked, “What you are saying is you believe rights of gays and lesbians should take second place to the needs of existing social institutions?” Blankenhorn answered, “The answer to your question is yes. I would only point out I was saying I understand and accept the validity of the argument of those who disagree with me.” He added, “I’m one of those who doesn’t believe this is a case of good vs. bad. I believe there are valid arguments on both sides of the issue.” Boies concluded his second day of questioning Blankenhorn by asking the witness if he agrees that marriage is constantly evolving and always changing, and that there is no single definition of marriage. “I wrote those words,” Blankenhorn answered. Questioned by pro-Prop 8 attorney Charles Cooper, Blankenhorn underlined his view that “goods in conflict” can co-exist harmoniously. Cooper submitted as evidence a New York Times essay where Blankenhorn and a co-writer argued for strong foundations for marriage and for domestic partnership as a way to peaceably resolve the culture war over the definition of marriage. Blankenhorn, testifying the previous day as the principal expert witness for the Prop 8 defense, said the social foundation of marriage is greater than the legal issues surrounding it. He described marriage and domestic partnership as separate institutions. He said marriage predates law and “is not a creature of law.” “The marital institution is differently purposed, is specifically purposed,” he said. “The purpose is to bring together the biological male and biological female to make it as likely as possible that they are the social and legal parents of the child. That’s the lodestar, that’s the distinctive and core contribution of the institution of marriage.” Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker, presiding at the
non-jury trial, said he will set a date for closing arguments after at least a 30-day hiatus to review the evidence. “Obviously a fascinating case,” Walker said as he adjourned the courtroom. “Extremely well presented on both sides.” In a statement released to the media, attorney Andrew Pugno, lead counsel for the Proposition 8 defense team, said “Today concluded the presentation of evidence in the federal trial, Perry v. Schwarzenegger, challenging Prop 8’s definition of marriage as only between a man and a woman.” He said that the burden of proof to invalidate Prop 8 lies squarely with the plaintiffs. “They cannot win unless they prove that the voters were ‘irrational’ when they chose to preserve the traditional definition of marriage in our state,” said Pugno. “The outcome of this case does not depend on whether the Prop 8 sponsors can prove that homosexual marriage will harm traditional marriage. The controlling legal issue is not whether homosexual marriage is good or bad, but rather whether the people have the right to decide what is best,” he said. “The plaintiffs simply did not carry that burden.” Pugno added. Pugno said that limiting marriage to its longstanding definition is rational because marriage benefits children, not just adults. “Whenever possible, it is best for a child to have both a mother and a father. And man-woman marriage is the only human relationship that can biologically serve that distinctive purpose. A same-sex relationship can never offer a child both a mother and father. It’s that simple,” he said. Pugno said the plaintiffs called many expert witnesses to testify that allowing homosexual marriage would: help local governments raise more tax revenues, help gay and lesbian couples to accumulate greater wealth, and improve the selfesteem of homosexuals. But he said, “Those are political arguments for society to consider, not legal support for the claim that the U.S. Constitution contains the right to homosexual marriage.”
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Dr. Edgar A. Gamboa, a trauma specialist from Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, treats patient Jean Marie Danielle, 19, outside St. Francis de Sales Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 30. Danielle was paralyzed from the waist down from injuries she suffered in the Jan. 12 earthquake.
system was reaching the saturation point had been misunderstood. Working in cooperation with Haitian colleagues, Gamboa was looking for a private donor to fly Danielle and Bernaud to an American hospital in Florida or elsewhere. “We don’t have the resources here to stabilize her (back) fracture,” Gamboa said. “We don’t even have the resources to rehabilitate her quickly, even get her up or moving. If she stays like this (without moving in bed) it almost guarantees she’ll develop pneumonia or a urinary infection. Or she’ll develop bedsores and she’ll die from sepsis,” a severe illness in which the bloodstream is overwhelmed by bacteria. “She may not recover neurologically, but if we can get her out of here we can stabilize her and she can survive,” said Gamboa, who belongs to Queen of Angels Parish in Alpine, Calif., and St. Mary’s Parish in El Centro, Calif. Bernaud, a civil engineering student, lies on his stomach around the clock, only able to move his head from side to side and move his arms. An infection has developed in a large lower back wound caused when a chunk of concrete fell on him as he tried to escape his home. The infection could spread to his spinal cord, dooming him, Gamboa said.
Dr. Thomas Scalea, a Catholic, heads the University of Maryland Medical Center’s shock trauma unit, the busiest in the U.S. He led a team to aid earthquake victims in China in 2008 and told CNS as he made rounds at St. Francis de Sales that his team is limited by a lack of supplies and trained medical staff. His team’s presence was part of a joint initiative by the University of Maryland and the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services to lay the groundwork for a long-term emergency response at the hospital. CRS has a history of working at St. Francis de Sales because the hospital has been used by the AIDSRelief consortium – of which CRS is a member – to treat patients with HIV. Since the earthquake not all news at the hospital has been bad. Jean Louis Joseph, 44, suffered a crushed right foot. Working in primitive conditions, doctors amputated part of his foot and expect him to make a full recovery. Letour Kadner Jean, 38, a computer systems manager at a local bank, suffered a crushed right leg. Although the wounds he sustained will take a long time to heal, Gamboa said he will be fine.
Catholic Relief Services in Haiti Many of the ongoing CRS programs in Haiti focus on the country's most vulnerable groups, including orphans and people living with HIV. BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE
1954 First year of CRS work in Haiti 315 CRS staff in Haiti on a regular basis $28 million Invested into Haiti’s programs in the most recent fiscal year AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
$30-$40 million To be spent by Dec. 31, 2010 $100 million Estimated to be spent by CRS for earthquake disaster
34 Additional temporary staff sent to Haiti There are 12 additional workers in the Domican Republic.
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Haiti and the Theodicy Question By Father Ron Rolheiser Where is God in the countless tragedies that happen in our world? Where is God when bad things happen to good people? Where was God during the Holocaust? These are timeless questions and, taken together, constitute what is often called the theodicy question, the question of God and human suffering. Every so often this question hits us with a particular poignancy, as it did recently with the earthquake in Haiti. Somewhere between a quarter of a million and half a million people are dead, thousands are injured, hundreds of thousands are homeless, thousands more now face the possibility of disease from lack of proper water, food, housing, and hygiene, its capital city has been almost completely destroyed, and virtually everyone in the country has lost loved ones. And all of this happened to one of the poorest nations in the world - and to a people who have a deep faith in God. Where is God in all this? How does one find a faith perspective within which to understand this? Not easily. When we search scripture for answers, we find that neither the Jewish scriptures nor Jesus try to tackle the question philosophically, namely, in the type of way that Christian and Jewish apologetic writers have tried to answer it. Scripture and Jesus, instead, do two things: First, they place suffering and tragedy into a larger perspective within which God is understood more as redeeming suffering rather than as rescuing us from it. Second, they assure us that God is with us, a fellow-sufferer, in any tragedy. For example, anyone who follows the daily readings for
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days organizing others to begin classes for the youngsters living in the camp. He said he has five others interesting in teaching so the kids will not lose a full school year of education. “All of the kids are losing their school and the opportunity to learn,” he told Catholic News Service this week. “I want to create that opportunity.” Like so many others at the camp, the largest in the Haitian capital, Dormeil lived in the Delmas neighborhood, which borders the club to the north. Children, the focus of Dormeil’s attention, engaged in games of their own creation. Some could be seen pulling small cars built
the Church’s liturgy, cannot not have noticed, that on the very day after the earthquake, there was a haunting parallel between what happened in Haiti and what was described in that day’s Epistle taken from the Book of Samuel. Here is an excerpt from the Epistle for the liturgy the day after the earthquake: “So the people went to Shiloh, and brought with them the arc of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the Ark of the Covenant. When the ark of the covenant of the Lord was brought into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the whole earth resounded. ... [And with that faith and confidence, Israel marched into battle, but] ... Israel was defeated, and everyone fled, each to his own house. There was a great slaughter and thirty thousand of her foot-soldiers fell. The arc of the covenant was captured; and the two sons of Eli died.” One doesn’t have to strain the imagination to write a haunting parallel: So the people Haiti practiced their Christian faith with piety and confidence. They went to their churches, received the Eucharist, and lit vigil candles to their God. And they trusted that their God would protect them. But there came a great earthquake. Hundreds of thousands of its people died, its great buildings were all leveled, all its churches were destroyed, its beloved cathedral fell to the ground, and the Archbishop was killed. So where was God in all of this? The Book of Samuel doesn’t try to write an apologetics to explain what happened that day when a people who had just celebrated its faith and confidence in God were utterly crushed in battle. It doesn’t try to explain where God was when this
happened. It simply continues to tell its story and, eventually, we see how God redeems a tragedy from which he didn’t rescue its victims. It also makes clear that God was with the people of Israel, even as they were being routed. Jesus gives us essentially the same perspective: When his friend, Lazarus, lay dying, he didn’t rush to his side to rescue him. He waited until Lazarus was dead and only then went to his home. He was met there by the sisters of Lazarus, Martha and Mary, who each asked him the painful question: Where were you when our brother was dying? Why didn’t you come and cure him? Jesus, for his part, doesn’t meet their question head-on. Instead he simply asks: “Where have you put him?” They answer: “Come, we’ll show you!” They take him to the grave and when Jesus sees the tomb and drinks in their grief, he sits down and begins to cry. He enters and shares their grief. Only afterwards does he raise up the body of his dead friend. Where was God when the earthquake hit Haiti? He was weeping with its people, grieving outside its mass graves, sitting in sadness beside its collapsed buildings. He was there, though he provided no Hollywood or Superman-type rescue. Moreover we can be sure he will redeem what was lost. In God’s time, eventually, not a single life or single dream that died in Haiti will remain unredeemed. In the end, all will be well and all will be well and every manner of being will be well.
from scavenged plastic bottles, bottle caps and pieces of wood or metal, all held together by short pieces of string. Girls jumped rope. Above the tents, small kites made of plastic sheeting and scrap paper or cloth poked into the breezy, humid air. Numerous adults returned to – or started – their own businesses in the camp. From selling necessities such as fruit and preparing food to offering goods such as hair extensions and plastic jewelry, people are making the most of their plight. Fifteen-year-old Jean Bernard Thomas has opened an outdoor barber shop of sorts. His tool: a straight-edge razor. Another woman recovered some of the equipment from her beauty shop and reopened her business in a tent at the intersection of two busy paths. Among other services, she offered manicures and pedicures, permanents and haircuts. She had three customers late the morning of Jan. 31.
Nearby, inside a shelter with a vinyl covering where the temperature seems almost unbearable in the mid-day sun, Elouise Marseille, another Delmas resident, ran a small cell phonecharging business. For $4 (US 50 cents), Marseille charges cell phones. On Jan. 31, seven cell phones could be seen on a table outside of his shelter. A generator nearby provided the power to two dry-cell batteries next to his bed. He keeps a list of customers – with cell phone numbers, of course – to call them to remind them to keep their phones fully charged. Marseille said he makes little money from the service, mostly because he charges phones for family members for free. He wondered, though, what he would do when the last half-gallon of fuel he had was gone. But, he said, “With God, everything is possible.”
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“I pray the angels and saints go before me” Priest finds his calling in bringing the Christ’s presence to wounded soldiers
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o watch Capuchin Father James Stump at work is to see a Christ-centered “ministry of presence” in action as a matter of daily routine. A chaplain at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Father Stump makes his rounds with one purpose in mind: to invite sick and wounded veterans to encounter the living Christ. Story by Rick DelVecchio Photos by Jose Luis Aguirre Father Stump is quick in his step and quick with a joke as he goes about his work. Watch the speed limit, he jokes to a wheelchair-bound Marine on the move in the hallway. They chat about the Marine’s spinal reconstruction surgery. But in a moment, without a break in the informality, the priest is praying over the patient and asking that Jesus “show his face to you, have mercy on you.” And as the two part, the priest, simply says: “Heal up.” Father Stump does all he can to put the veterans at ease and in a good mood. In doing so he creates an environment where the presence of Christ can become a part of almost any encounter he initiates. “Just the way we enter a room is important: being a little upbeat, wanting to be there,” Father Stump said. The Kansas-born Father Stump came to the priesthood late in life. He was a corporate lawyer until he was about 40 years old. He yearned for more meaningful work, gravitated toward the priesthood and joined the Capuchin community at St. Francis Friary in Burlingame. The Capuchins assigned Father Stump to the VA chaplaincy to succeed an older priest. He wasn’t sure how he would take to hospital work, but it would turn out to be an opportunity that would lead to the opening up of his gift for the one-to-one encounter. “If that’s a gift, it’s a gift of the spirit,” Father Stump said. “I feel at ease...I just feel very comfortable being a priest.” Hospital chaplaincy is a ministry that could easily become as heavy as the illness and death that surround it. But Father Stump strives to be consistently open and welcoming. “I sometimes pray that the angels and saints go before me to take care of any problem,” he said. Father Stump is a member of the VA Palo Alto Health Care System’s interfaith chaplaincy team. The group includes three other Catholic priests: Father John Coleman, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the chief of chaplain services; Capuchin Father Richard Lopes, and Father Augustine Koilparampil, who works at the hospital system’s Livermore site. Other Catholic chaplains include Sister Margaret Keeler, a Franciscan Sister of Penance and Christian Charity; Maryknoll Brother Duane Crockett, and Deacon Louis Charles Dixon. The team is supported by many volunteers, some of whom serve as Eucharistic ministers. “It’s a great group of folks who are very cohesive, who make people like me feel welcome and warm,” said Paul Jordan, recently a patient in the hospital’s blind center.
Father Stump blesses Jim Grochowski, 65, a Vietnam veteran suffering from chronic lung disease. Grochowski served from 1965-67 as a truck driver delivering the defoliant Agent Orange. He has been hospitalized two to three times a year since 1988 and recently spent 19 days in the ICU with respiratory failure and pneumonia. Father Stump served the Eucharistic sacrament to Grochowski, saying, “We pray, Jim, this is Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.”
Jordan visited with Father Stump every Sunday during his recent long hospital stay. “His message each week is one that is more down to earth, real life, versus back in the dark ages,” he said. “It’s important to refer to that, but it’s more important to refer to today’s perspective.” Father Stump’s daily role includes celebrating Mass in the hospital chapel. After Mass, he sets out to greet patients in the hospice and ICU wards, working from a list of Catholic patients. When he finds a door open to a Catholic patient’s room, he announces his presence. If he is invited in, he is prepared to offer whatever the patient might be looking for, including prayer and the sacraments of Eucharist and Anointing of the Sick. The sacraments are at the heart of Father Stump’s ministry, because it is through them that he feels the power of Christ at its most intense. In administering Eucharist, Father Stump sometimes recites the Our Father and adds as he dispenses the host: “‘This is Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. This is Jesus, who loves us, heals us, forgives us and blesses us with his peace. Happy are we who are called to this holy sacrament.” In the sacrament of anointing, Father Stump recites James 5: “He should call for the priests of the church, and they should pray over him and anoint him in the name of teh Lord, and the prayuer of faith will save the sick person, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed any sins, he will be forgiven.” Father Stump has met many inspirational people through his ministry, but perhaps none more than Gregory Peters. Peters was a high-school All-American football player who was drafted to serve in Vietnam and led a combat squad. “He was captured twice, and he escaped one time and another time he was rescued,” Father Stump said. “He had this mantra prayer when he was being beaten, ‘Be still and know that I am God.’ We had a banner made and put in our chapel because of that.” Peters spent much of the rest of his life in and out of the VA hospital. “He always wanted to get better, well enough to help around the chapel,” Father Stump said. “He’d pedal his wheelchair over from the nursing unit to the chapel. He was always close to the Lord and had a great love of the Eucharist and the Mass.” The wounded soldier was instrumental in his roommate’s conversion to Catholicism, Father Stump said. “You just think about your little trials and tribulations you go through during the day and what somebody like him went through,” he said. “He maintained this great faith in God and love of the Eucharist. It kind of gives you inspiration.”
Father Stump visits with Valentino Juanitas, a patient in the acute-care ward. “Tell your daughter hello for me,” the priest said. “God bless you.”
Every day Father Stump offers the presence of Jesus, through the Mass, conversation, prayer and the sacraments, to patients in the hospice and intensive care wards. “I sometimes pray that the angels and saints go before me to take care of any problem,” he said.
Father Stump meets with Paul Jordan, 73, an Army veteran suffering from a condition that has diminished his vision. “You meet so many wonderful people under so many different circumstances that you would never have the opportunity to enjoy if you never (went) through something as terrible as going blind,” said Jordan, a parishioner at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Valencia. “There are a lot of good things that happen when bad things happen.”
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Priests serve gladly but not without criticism By Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan Remember the time when some of his parishioners in the village of Ars went to their Curé with a problem? They reported to St. John Vianney that, sad as it was to tell him, there was a petition to the bishop being circulated in Ars claiming that he, their pastor, was incompetent, lazy, ineffective, driving people away and unpopular—and thus should be removed. “Show me the petition,” John Vianney asked them. When they brought it in to him, he read it—and, to their utter amazement, took a pen and signed his name to it! “They’re right,” he commented, as he grabbed his cloak and left the rectory for his daily rounds of visiting his sick parishioners. So much for the petition to remove as pastor the man who would become the patron saint of parish priests! The whole Church seems to have turned into Ars these days, as priests are at times beat up by the media, the people, the public, even their parishioners. Not that they seem to be feeling sorry for themselves—recent studies demonstrate
Prayer for Priests Dear Lord, We pray that the Blessed Mother wrap her mantle around your priests and through her intercession strengthen them for their ministry. We pray that Mary will guide your priests to follow her own words, “Do whatever He tells you” Jn 2:5). May your priests have the heart of St. Joseph, Mary’s most chaste spouse. May the Blessed Mother’s own pierced heart inspire them to embrace all who suffer at the foot of the cross. May your priests be holy, filled with the fire of your love seeking nothing but your greater glory and the salvation of souls. Amen. St. John Vianney, pray for us.
that priests in the United States have never been happier, with 92 percent of priests saying they’d do it all over again, a rate higher than any other profession. But it still can be a burden to have to face unrelenting criticism, as priests do today. Not long ago, I got a letter from a group of people in a parish saying that they had decided that their pastor had to go. Why? Because “sometimes he curses.” I felt like replying, “Big damn deal. He’s staying.” Once, during a visit to a parish, a group cornered me to complain that their pastor was “too conservative,” preached too long and “couldn’t connect with them.” Another parish down the road had a letter-writing campaign because their pastor was “too liberal” and told them to hold hands at the Our Father. Of course, he had to go, they told me. Priests can’t seem to win. Either too liberal or too conservative... It almost seems “open season” on priests. Always has been, I suppose, as St. John Vianney, or, for that matter, Jesus Himself, the Eternal High Priest, would assure us. But the volume seems turned up today. Why? For one, the clergy sex abuse crisis has unfairly damaged every priest, as we are all sadly painted with the same wide brush. Two, in a fractured Church, both sides blast the parish clergy. The far left dismisses them as relics of a patriarchal, oppressive, medieval Church, while the far right castigates priests for selling out to modernism. Priests might as well hang a bull’s eye on their clergy shirt! After the scandal, every fault is magnified. I sometimes wonder if the ancient heresy of Donatism—the belief that the validity of the sacraments depends on the virtue of the priest—is making a comeback! Three, many have noted a spirit of congregationalism growing in the Church. In its errant form, it leads to people defining the Church by their own narrow, local needs. No pope, no bishop, no “priest from outside” is really necessary, thank you. We’re “the Church” and we’ll take care of our own business. You priests just show up and do what we want. If we don’t like you, we’ll get rid of you. If we like you, we will not let you go, even if the bishop tells you to. Finally, many admit that, in the laudable and proper emphasis given by the Second Vatican Council on the “priesthood of all believers,” with ministry, leadership and service flowing from the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist, maybe the unique charism, vocation and identity of the sacrament of Holy Orders—also firmly taught by the council—was unintentionally de-emphasized. A balance is so necessary.
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Health care reform still needed in U.S. The election of Scott Brown in Massachusetts was not a rejection of health care reform. In the 2008 campaign both presidential candidates called for reform. Americans believe that the nation needs to reform health care. The message of the Massachusetts election for President Obama, Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Reid is to reach across the aisle. A credible plan to make health care and insurance more affordable and available must include patient centered options that preserve choice: vouchers, portability, group purchases, interstate sales, medical savings accounts, subsidies for pre-existing conditions, and rules that protect life; in the womb, and among the aged, disabled and terminally ill.
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Any plan to reduce costs will not be credible to the American people if it does not include reform of the excessive malpractice lawsuits that force defensive medicine and add to health costs. America does not need or want intrusive government health care. Canada and the European Union have it, yet every year thousands come to the United States for health treatments that are delayed, restricted and denied in these countries. Mike DeNunzio San Francisco
Defending the truth Thanks to Archbishop Niederauer for teaching and defending the truth in regards to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s claim that her pro-abortion agenda is compatible with the Catholic faith. Her comments cause confusion in the minds and hearts of the un-catechized and lead the flock astray, especially when church leaders do nothing to correct them. We need more courageous leaders who are not afraid to shepherd. The Eucharist also needs to be protected. Public figures making such bold claims and living contrary to the commandments in mortal sin should be denied communion. Leaders who speak up to defend the truth will only inspire laypeople to learn and live out their faith and in return strengthen the church. Stacie Martinez Somerville, NJ
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What are priests to do? Well, for one, we put it in perspective. We realize with gratitude that the overwhelming majority of our people love their priests. Are they aware of our flaws? They sure are, but they love their priests all the same. Two, priests admit that sometimes the complaints, especially when civilly and constructively expressed, have merit, especially when they’re about our homilies or occasional crabbiness! If the “open season on priests” fosters a sense of humility in us, I guess it’s worth it! Three, an effective antidote can be working hard with the splendid lay leadership we are blessed to have in each of our parishes. God’s people overwhelmingly encourage us. Finally, when it does get us down, priests can read the “Life of the Curé of Ars” by Trochu, or, better yet, the Passion from the Gospels by one of the four evangelists. Priests have been through it before! I bring this up as we continue the Year for Priests in the Church. As you may recall, our Holy Father has asked us to celebrate this special year through June, 2010. So many of you are already doing it—keep it up, please! We priests need it! The Church needs it! Thanks! This commentary by Archbishop of New York Timothy M. Dolan was published Jan. 15 in Catholic New York, the newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York.
the well-written article by Archbishop Niederauer on free will and conscience in response to Ms. Pelosi’s comment in a recent interview. I’m just a guy in Texas trying to follow my Catholic faith and I really appreciate the time and effort taken by the Archbishop to write that column. It says everything so succinctly. I just pray that Ms. Pelosi and the other Catholics in our government will have a change of heart regarding abortion. Thanks for the article. Rick Dennis Crosby, TX
Time to wake up? Well, fellow Catholics, have you had enough of a president who promised hope, but now eradicates all hope for the unborn? Are you still comfortable with a man who silences health care workers who won’t kill babies and takes away religious rights? Many have been deceived. Even Catholic academics, bishops and priests have been misled. Surely, it is time to wake up! Justine Nunan San Bruno
‘Personhood’ proposals
the California Constitution defining the term “person” as applying to all living human organisms from the beginning of their “biological development.” While the U.S. Bishops agree with the objective of the personhood proposals–-to give full legal recognition of the right to life of every unborn child–-no state Catholic Bishops’ conference has supported this type of legislation. The bishops’ decisions have been based on the following considerations: A state constitution or statute cannot define words used in the federal constitution or dictate how those words should be interpreted. The authority to interpret the Constitution rests with the judiciary. There is no reason to believe the Supreme Court can be persuaded to revisit its “personhood” holding in Roe. There is also no reason to believe that there are five Supreme Court Justices who would be willing to review, much less overturn, Roe and restore to the states their authority to prohibit abortion. An unsuccessful frontal assault on Roe v. Wade would more deeply entrench it as precedent. A more prudent course would be to pursue incremental measures that add to existing protections in law and help change hearts and minds. Through efforts advocating parental involvement, clinic regulation, informed consent, partial-birth abortion bans, requirements for an ultrasound before an abortion, and funding for pregnancy support services, progress in protecting life can be made and the public can be educated. As the Florida Catholic Conference of Bishops points out, differing views over strategy should not overshadow our common heartfelt support for building a culture of life. Vicki Evans Respect Life Coordinator Archdiocese of San Francisco
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“Personhood” initiatives and statutes have been introduced in various states around the country over the past several years. These proposals are intended to pose a challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision by arguing that all human beings are due equal protection under the law regardless of their manner of conception or stage of development. The California Human Rights Amendment, for which signatures are being collected in an attempt to qualify for California’s 2010 election, is such a proposal. The initiative is a proposed amendment to
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Rediscovering the sounds of silence We‘re surrounded by noise. At Miami International Airport recently, I counted five sources of noise – TSA announcements, airline announcements, airport announcements, Muzak, and the ubiquitous CNN-Airport channel. And that’s before we get to squawking children, loud conversations, and passengers who address their cell phones the way Hitler “talked” to the Nuremberg rallies. Stores and restaurants are full of canned music; an NBA or NHL game is an exercise in noise-pain management; there is virtually no public space, outside art museums and courtrooms, where our aural senses are not under assault. Churches should be different. To enter the body of a Catholic Church should be to experience a change in location: to cross a portal into a different kind of space than the space in which we live our daily lives. Yet as I get around the country I can’t help but notice that the contemporary American noise culture has invaded and distorted what used to be understood as space in which we sometimes listened to God speaking in the sounds of silence. Chatter, if low-key, is constant, not simply in the narthex or vestibule (which is fine), but in the body of the church before Mass. Immediately after the recessional hymn is sung, the chatter breaks out again, often louder – despite many a choir’s noble efforts to sing a choral postlude. The exchange of peace is another opportunity, rarely spurned, for the chatter to recommence. And then there are the kids. The idea that crying babies or fussing children should not interfere with the celebration of Mass
seems to have been lost on an entire generation of parents – and this, despite the (expensive) efforts of many churches to build cry-rooms. Pastors who point out that fractious children really don’t belong in church during services are accused of callousness or (gasp!) insensitivity; parents have been known to leave congregations because the pastor, in the kindest possible way, reminded them that the cry-room was built for a purpose. So here’s a suggestion for Lent, just around the corner: rediscover the sounds of silence in church. Refrain from chattering with friends when you leave the narthex (I almost said “gathering space”!), and remind yourself that to cross the threshold between the vestibule and the body of the church is to pass one of those permeable borders between the natural and the supernatural that constitute the physical texture of Catholicism’s sacramental imagination: that way-of-seeing-things that teaches us that the extraordinary lies just on the far side of the ordinary. Don’t begin chattering with neighbors as soon as the recessional hymn ends; preserve a dignified silence as you leave the church, as a reminder that we’re about to return to “the world,” as a gesture of courtesy to fellow-Catholics who wish to offer prayers of thanksgiving after communion, and as an act of respect to the choir singing (or the organist playing) the postlude. Parents with small children: use the cry-room, if your parish has one; take the squawking kids out of the body of the church when they start caterwauling, if there’s no cry-room; or consider leaving small, fractious children at
home, with the parents attending different Masses – a sacrifice, I know, but a kindness to others and a way to ensure that you actually get a chance to pray yourself. Liturgists and organGeorge Weigel ists: there is no need to fill every second of Mass with vocalized prayers, songs, or organ solos. The Roman Rite has always made room for silence; silence after communion is particularly appropriate. It doesn’t have to be all noise, all the time. Recovering a sense of sacred space is as important as rediscovering sacred time in the renewal of the liturgy. All the more reason then, to welcome a splendid new book by Denis R. McNamara of the Liturgical Institute of the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary: Catholic Church Architecture and the Spirit of the Liturgy (Hillenbrand Books) Full of both insight and illustrations, McNamara’s new study is a reminder of what sacred space is, and why it ought to nourish an attentive listening to the sounds of silence. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
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Finding the real Mary With the demise of the global apparition craze so prevalent several decades ago, the search for the Blessed Mother is once again available to us in the non-confusing, Church approved shrines offering peace instead of subjective hysteria. This is the time of year when we celebrate one of the most beautiful days honoring our Blessed Mother, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes (Feb. 11). Idealistic images of the Blessed Mother have always ignored the many petty variables that form human personality and behavior. But several decades ago, this venerable treatment of the holy Mother of God was shattered by a brash, chameleonic figure of “Mary offering a mix of “messages” ranging from apocalyptic warnings not recommended for the faint hearted to banalities that were often more cloying than pious. Recognizing that problems arise when people try to find the Blessed Mother within the narrow limits of “visions” and “messages,” the Church cautions against extremes that must be avoided in Marian piety. Vatican II’s Lumen Pentium not only warns Catholics about the tendency of excessive devotion to beliefs that aren’t founded upon Revelation, but also states emphatically “the Council fervently exhorts theologians and preachers of the
Divine Word to carefully abstain from any false exaggerations… in considering the singular dignity of the Mother of God.” An understanding of Mary’s advocacy is also safely preserved in the writings of saints and mystics. St. Louis de Montfort’s treatise, “True Devotion to Mary,” for example, lovingly shows us the honorable Mother who leads us to God. Saint Maxmilian Kolbe, whose whole life was centered on reverence for this lovely Mother, gives her equal tribute. Fortunately, the spiritual sources of pure and true devotion to the Mother of God also remain undefiled in Sacred Scripture. She spoke only seven times in the Scriptures. Her final words were simply, “Do whatever He tells you” (John 2:5) The Blessed Virgin is present to Roman Catholics in the litanies and mysteries of the rosary where, like a gentle Mother with children on her lap, she lovingly shares the family album of pictures that mirror the joys and sorrows of her life. The Mary of Scripture and saints and the Holy See, is the Mary some 5,500,000 pilgrims from all over the world annually come to venerate at the Shrine of Lourdes. They come because the water of Lourdes heals both the sickness of soul and body. Aside from personal requests for ourselves or our
loved ones, ardent prayers to Our Lady of Lourdes for global healing is more than ever necessary for this sick and wounded era in which we live, where abortion, euthanasia, and relativistic values are prevalent. Yet armed with Jane L. Sears the fragile chain of the most powerful prayer to our Mother, the holy rosary, the help we need is easily accessible for even the most difficult and discouraging situations. Who then is the real Mary? She is Our Lady of Lourdes, clearly recognizable; a Mother worthy of all praise who stands ready to cure all of our ills. She is the morning star, the comforter of the afflicted, and the refuge of sinners. She is the real Mary. Jane L. Sears is a freelance writer and a parishioner at Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame.
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A world of despair As I was thinking about this column, there was a part of me that knew I had to write about Haiti and there was another part that simply wanted to ignore it. On one hand, we are faced with a humanitarian disaster in Porte-au-Prince that cannot be ignored. An estimated 200,000 people have died. Thousands have been traumatically injured, and many of them will die of their injuries or disease. These people are not just statistics, they are men and women and children with faces and names and feelings. Those who survive will be living in a ruined country without hospitals, utilities or housing. Finding water and food is a daily struggle. Haiti was a basket case before the earthquake and now there is not even a basket. On the other hand, I want to ignore Haiti. I am suffering from what has been called compassion fatigue. Or maybe it is simply despair. The economy of the world is in the toilet. Unemployment in the U.S. will stay around 10 percent for the rest of the year. Wars are going on in Iraq, Afghanistan and all over Africa. There are millions of refugees around the world. Because of global warming, humanity is heading pall mall toward an ecological cataclysm that will make the Haitian disaster pale to insignificance. And partisan politics has created gridlock in Washington making it impossible to deal with any of these crises. As a political scientist, journalist and priest, I have followed and commented on the tragedies of the world for the past 30 years, and I am tired and ready to despair. Living in a global village sucks. The problems are too big and we appear powerless to do anything about them. St. John of the Cross would call this
the “Dark Night of the Soul.” I think it is what Jesus experienced in the agony of the Garden. How do we get out of this dark night, how do we get out of this despair? The Scriptures help by showing us the compassion of God. When confronted with the suffering of the refugees returning to a destroyed Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity, God said through Isaiah, “For Zion’s sake I will not be silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet.” Updating that for today would be: “For Haiti’s sake I will not be silent, for Porte-au-Prince’s sake I will not be quiet.” God is not indifferent to human disaster. He cries out with the suffering of his people. If God cries out, how can we be silent? God promises that they will be vindicated. “No more will men call you ‘Forsaken,’ or your land ‘Desolate,’ but you shall be called ‘My Delight,’ and your land ‘Espoused.’” This is what God wants for Haiti. Ministers who talk about God punishing Haiti are blasphemous. In the Gospels, Jesus also shows the compassionate face of God to the sick, the disenfranchised, the outcasts. He wept over Jerusalem and now he weeps over Porte-au-Prince. If Christians are truly the body of Christ, then we too must weep over Jerusalem and Porte-au-Prince. The people of Haiti know that God has not abandoned them, he weeps with them. There is a story that I am sure many of you have heard before which also gives me hope. It is about a man walking down a beach after a storm has cast millions of starfish high up on the
shore where they are dying because they cannot get back to the water. He sees a little girl picking up starfish, one at a time, and carrying them back to the sea. He asks her why she bothers since she will not be able to make any difference when there are Father Thomas so many. And as she drops J. Reese, S.J. a starfish in the sea, she responds, “Well, I made a difference for that one.” This story reminds us to do what we can. You can make a difference with the people you touch even if you cannot save everyone. You try and do the best you can. This story also reminds us old guys that there are children out there who care, young people with energy and compassion who will make a difference. This new generation also gives me hope. Two organizations making a difference in Haiti are Catholic Relief Services and Jesuit Refugee Services. They were in Haiti before the disaster and they will be there after the cameras go home. Jesuit Father Thomas J. Reese is a Senior Fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University.
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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH IS 6:1-2A, 3-8; In the year King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne, with the train of his garment filling the temple. Seraphim were stationed above. They cried one to the other, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts! All the earth is filled with his glory!” At the sound of that cry, the frame of the door shook and the house was filled with smoke. Then I said, “Woe is me, I am doomed! For I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” Then one of the seraphim flew to me, holding an ember that he had taken with tongs from the altar. He touched my mouth with it, and said, “See, now that this has touched your lips, your wickedness is removed, your sin purged.” Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?” “Here I am,” I said; “send me!” RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 138:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8 R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with all my heart, for you have heard the words of my mouth; in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise; I will worship at your holy temple and give thanks to your name. R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. Because of your kindness and your truth; for you have made great above all things your name and your promise.
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Isaiah 6:1-2a, 3-8; Psalm 138:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8; Corinthians 15:3-8, 11; Luke 5:1-11 When I called, you answered me; you built up strength within me. R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. All the kings of the earth shall give thanks to you, O Lord, when they hear the words of your mouth; and they shall sing of the ways of the Lord: “Great is the glory of the Lord.” R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. Your right hand saves me. The Lord will complete what he has done for me; your kindness, O Lord, endures forever; forsake not the work of your hands. R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 15:3-8, 11 Brothers and sisters, I handed on to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the
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Scriptures; that he was buried; that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures; that he appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred brothers at once, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. After that he appeared to James, then to all
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The ‘un-worthiness’ escape clause less, impulsive, foolhardy, and brash as he was to be brilliant, thoughtful, self-reflective and humble…what would our faith history be like if that Rock had removed himself from the building because he “just wasn’t good enough” for the job.
folk of the pre-modern era, a penchant that we thoroughly enlightened third millennium folks are above, we shouldn’t kid ourselves. We are as likely to cite “humility” as the motivation for our fascination with comfort, stasis and self-protection as were any of our ancestors. We do ourselves, our communities, our churches a disservice when, in a well intentioned effort to be “humble,” we deny the inherent, God-given amazingness that lies, simultaneously, at the depth of our admittedly flawed and foibled cores. Why do we do this? What first comes to mind is that we deny our amazingness because it makes our lives easier! Think of it: If we say, when asked to volunteer for some project “Thanks, but there are other people much better qualified than I to do that...” we might think that we are simply being humble. But, if we look a bit deeper, might we just as likely be denying our ability to stretch, to learn, holding on instead to the comfort of self protection…resistance to change…and contentment with keeping a safe distance from challenge? What we can easily assign to humility and an appropriate picture of our earthbound limitations can also be a twisted (CNS ILLUSTRATION/LUCAS TURNBLOOM, THE SOUTHERN CROSS)
t the risk of confessing a plebian pleasure not typically owned up to by scriptural commentators, each of today’s readings reminds me of a scene from the 1992 wacky film “Wayne’s World.” The heroes Wayne and Garth, charmingly clueless slackers/heavy metal rocker wannabees, find themselves in the presence of their idol, Alice Cooper, and, after some seconds of fumbling introductions, spontaneously fall to the ground in homage, crying out in unison, “We’re not worthy! We’re not worthy!” In our readings from Isaiah, Paul, and Luke, we have three similar examples of folks second-guessing their inherent worthiness in the eyes of God. Isaiah, recounting the heavenly vision that jettisoned his prophetic calling, bemoans his unworthiness, proclaiming himself “a man of unclean lips.” Paul, recalling his early life as a Hebrew Zealot who persecuted Christians, cites himself as “one not fit to be called a disciple.” And our dear Simon Peter, the first Pope in training, who, witnessing the miraculous catch of fish on his Sea of Galilee, declares, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” At first glance, such protestations of unworthiness might be seen as utterly appropriate demonstrations of humility. After all, God is God and man is man—and we all know who wins that contest. Every saint we honor, every “holy person” we know is marked by that quality of deference and respect for “those above.” Or, are we sure about that? Would Isaiah have grown to be the feisty, fire-tongued visionary we know if he’d stayed at this initial self-deprecating place of awe and humility and had not moved on to daringly answer God’s “who shall I send?” query with his own bold and brazen “Send ME!” And Paul, had he dwelt only on his infamous past, would he have moved on to preach to nearly every corner of the Adriatic and Mediterranean world, facilitating in his 30-odd years of tireless missioning a revolution in global consciousness? Not to forget Peter, as likely to be clue-
the apostles. Last of all, as to one abnormally born, he appeared to me. Therefore, whether it be I or they, so we preach and so you believed.
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Lest we think that the temptation to call up the un-worthiness escape clause is something peculiar to the unconscious
A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 5:1-11 While the crowd was pressing in on Jesus and listening to the word of God, he was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret. He saw two boats there alongside the lake; the fishermen had disembarked and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, he asked him to put out a short distance from the shore. Then he sat down and taught the crowds from the boat. After he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water and lower your nets for a catch.” Simon said in reply, “Master, we have worked hard all night and have caught nothing, but at your command I will lower the nets.” When they had done this, they caught a great number of fish and their nets were tearing. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come to help them. They came and filled both boats so that the boats were in danger of sinking. When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at the knees of Jesus and said, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man.” For astonishment at the catch of fish they had made seized him and all those with him, and likewise James and John, the sons of Zebedee, who were partners of Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.” When they brought their boats to the shore, they left everything and followed him.
avoidance mechanism that allows us to live in and move from a place not of love and possibility, but a place of fear and self-protection. What are we afraid of? Are we afraid of failing? Perhaps that is part of the experience, but celebrated writer Marianne Williamson takes a quite different tack, and offers another challenge: “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.” Isaiah, Jeremiah, Jesus, Paul, Luke and his fellow Evangelists, the blessed mystics, the holy men and women throughout our history, all have called us to live in the light, a light not hidden under a basket, but bravely displayed for all its beauty, and its imperfections. Will these last weeks before Lent find us, like Isaiah, Paul and Peter, willing to admit our foibles, but not let that acknowledgment stop us from claiming our amazingness? From experiencing the brilliance that comes from study and practice, from knowing the personal and communal progress that comes from hard work and dreamy optimism, and from enjoying the freedom that comes with revealing who we truly are in all our beauty and ugliness? Will we celebrate the palpable talents and accomplishments of those around us not with a judgment that they are “showing off” or “one-upping us,” but as inspiration and challenge for us to claim OUR gifts and use them in service? And, will these weeks find us ever more aware of our penchant for calling up the “unworthiness” escape clause as an excuse for disengagement in the affairs of this world so in need of our deep, and imperfect, investment? Rob Grant, a 30-year veteran of parish ministry in San Francisco, currently serves as Director of Music at Corpus Christi Church, and cantor/accompanist at St. Gabriel, Notre Dame des Victoires and St. Denis. He holds a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Ministry from Holy Names University.
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A funeral Mass was celebrated Feb. 2 at St. Paul Church in San Francisco for Msgr. John Heaney who died Jan. 29 at Nazareth House in San Rafael, where he had lived in recent years. He was 82 years of age and a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for 57 years. Interment was at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma. A native San Franciscan, Msgr. Heaney attended Noe Valley’s St. Paul Elementary School and entered St. Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View as a high school freshman. He was ordained by Archbishop John J. Mitty from St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park on Jan. 24, 1953. Classmates included retired Oakland Bishop John Cummins, and retired Archdiocese of San Francisco priests, Father Ray Zohlen, Father Tom Madden and Father Frank Murray. Msgr. Heaney served as director of San Francisco’s Apostleship of the Sea for almost 30 years before retiring in 1997. His duties included visiting ships docking in San Francisco, evangelizing seafarers, celebrating Mass, hosting MSGR. JOHN HEANEY, page 17
A memorial Mass was celebrated for Notre Dame Sister Catherine of the Sacred Heart Arnoldy at Sisters of Notre Dame Province Center Chapel in Belmont Jan. 22. Sister Catherine, who marked her 100th birthday Dec. 17, died Jan. 16. She lived for the last 10 years at the Holy Names Sisters’ Convent Care Center in Los Gatos where she was prayed for on Jan. 21. Interment was at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma. Sister Catherine was a graduate of Notre Dame High School in Marysville and earned a graduate degree in education and administration from the University of San Francisco. “Sister Catherine was known for her generous spirit, friendly and positive attitude, and exemplary classroom skills,” the Sisters of Notre Dame said in an announcement of her death. “She served as teacher and administrator in Notre Dame elementary and secondary schools in California and Oregon, including Alameda, Redwood City, Portland, Salinas, Sacramento and Chico. Thousands of students and families were influenced by Sister Catherine, and many still comment on the profound difference she made in their lives. Former co-workers appreciated her calm, gentle ways.” At age 67, the late religious began 20 years of volunteering at Notre Dame High School in Belmont where,
the Sisters said, “she was known for her respect, fairness and personal care toward students as she took daily calls in the NDHS Attendance Office.” A side benefit, they said, was going occasionally with principal, Rita Gleason, to San Francisco ‘49er games, and meeting her favorite player, Jerry Rice.” “Sister Catherine was well respected and well loved by many of her former students,” said Notre Dame Sister Louise O’Reilly of the congregation’s Provincial Leadership Team. “Her warmth, welcoming smile and interest in others were clearly expressed right up to her 100th birthday in December.” Sister Louise also expressed thanks to the Sisters of the Holy Names who cared for Sister Catherine so lovingly during her last decade of life. Survivors include nieces and nephews as well as the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, 1520 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, or online via www.snddenCA.org.
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Endangered children under the wing of a woman of faith who cleaned up the town
Haiti Journal: On the migration trail
BOCA CHICA, Dominican Republic – Junior Luis has a busy daily schedule with school, attendance at a homework center, his job shining shoes downtown and helping his mother take care of his younger siblings. Junior is 12. Junior may sound like a schoolboy with too many demands on his time. In fact, it’s the opposite. In this beach resort east of the capital of Santo Domingo, lots of structure keeps poor children like Junior safe and moving forward. Boca Chica is one of the Caribbean’s most notorious destinations for international sex tourism, which hit the town unprepared two decades ago after the sugar mills closed and depressed the economy. The children of the poor suffered the most. Unsupervised, fending for themselves, many were lured into abusive interactions with pedophiles and pornographers known locally as “bad tourists.” It got so bad 15 years ago that a disgusted Denisse Pachardo Rodriguez decided to act. Rodriguez, a secular woman religious in the Nuestra Señora de Altagracia order, started a shelter for street kids called the Caminante Educational Project. She would expand the project to include schooling, vocational education, psychological counseling and disease prevention. But Rodriguez didn’t stop there. When the authorities couldn’t, or wouldn’t, do it, she took charge in investigating suspicious activity that children began reporting as they learned to stand up for their rights. Her work shook the national authorities, who were concerned not only with sex tourism but also with the corruption that had grown up around it. They dispatched a young lawyer, Marleni Guante, to serve in Boca Chica as a prosecutor. The Dominican Republic has strong laws to protect children from being victimized, but enforcement is weak. “There’s a disconnect all over the country between law and action,” Guante said. However, in Boca Chica the young prosecutor and the crusading woman religious have done much to clean up the town. Last year, for example, Rodriguez took the lead in investigating a 65-year-old American who was found with illicit photos of seven children. He was convicted under a tough 2003 law. And although the pedophile didn’t spend much time in jail and may have paid for leniency, he skipped town and seems to be gone from Boca Chica for good. Rodriguez counts that as a definite victory for justice. “There was no one to take on the case,” she said, “so I took it it on.” The case of the U.S. pedophile is far from the worst Rodriguez has seen. “A lot of very ugly stories,” she said. “A lot of kids who have been very marked by the situation.” In 2005, United National human rights watchers estimated that 25,000 minors in the Dominican Republic were being exploited for prostitution, pornography, pedophilia and sex tourism, with another 45,000 Dominican and Haitian children being abused for domestic work. The observers urged the government to enforce the laws in place to protect these children.
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Denisse Pachardo Rodriquez has helped clean up Boca Chica, a beach town notorious for international sex tourism. Her work has benefitted hundreds of children, including 12-year-old Junior Luis. Pictured above, Junior, at lower right, enjoys a learning game at a homework center. Below, Junior walks from the homework center on his usual route to his home in an abandoned hotel and his job shining shoes downtown.
In 2008, U.N. observers expressed concern about reports of Haitian children being trafficked into the Dominican Republican to provide cheap labor in the sugar cane, construction and tourism industries. No one expected an overly vigorous response to such disclosures. The government, Rodriguez said flatly in Boca Chica, “doesn’t do anything.” But she added that “there are many (children) who have been able to get out and find peace.” Those who have been able to evade the threat include the 600 children, ranging from eight to 18 years old, who are off the street because of Caminante. Junior is one of them. Junior’s typical day includes a walk across town to attend one of Caminante’s eight homework centers. There, he may learn about St. Rafael, Boca Chica’s patron saint, or have a lesson about self-esteem, or discover what Halloween is all about. He learns a little English on Fridays. But mostly he goes to the homework center to catch up on his basic skills so that he may have a chance to advance his education and qualify for a career someday. Most of the children who go to the center with Luis are behind on reading and writing. Many are working children from poor families, and some of their families have not been able to send them to regular school. For children of Haitian descent, like Junior, a typical problem is that the parents lack birth certificates and are not able to establish documentation for themselves, let alone for their children. The number of Boca Chica children who aren’t in school would fill another school. Whether Haitian or Dominican, the children of Boca Chica
are vulnerable to running unsupervised on the street in order to make money for their families. This can lead them into dead-end jobs like picking up trash, or into prostitution if they get caught up with the bad tourists around the beach hotels. Between the homework center and downtown is an abandoned hotel surrounded by a fence. This is Junior’s home, his fifth in the last year. He lives with his mother, four siblings and a step-father who works nights driving a taxi bike. His father is deceased. His 7-year-old sister serves as head of the household. When Junior walked past the building one day in October, he stopped at the fence and shouted a greeting. Seconds later, his siblings came scrambling out to meet him. Their mother had gone on an errand to buy charcoal for cooking. Junior had a bottle of soda and passed it through the fence so his brothers and sisters could take a sip. Junior shares everything he acquires. He shines shoes in the park downtown as part of his Caminante supervision, and if he earns $6, he keeps $1.50 for himself and gives the rest to his mother. “Everything just goes back to my house,” Junior said.
Msgr. John Heaney . . .
In addition, he is a former pastor of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax, parochial vicar at St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco; chaplain and member of the faculty at Sacred Heart High School, now Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep; and member of the faculty at Marin Catholic High School. He was named a Prelate of Honor with the title Monsignor by Pope John Paul II in 1989. Msgr. Heaney was predeceased by siblings, Sister Gerarda Heaney, BVM; Ann Dennis, Frances Carberry, and Joseph Heaney. A sister, Mary Waldman, survives. Remembrances may be made to the Priests Retirement fund of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Msgr. Heaney’s niece is receiving notes of condolence at 1841 Gateway Drive, Oakley 94561.
■ Continued from page 16 luncheons, offering counseling to the men in port, overseeing an Alcoholics Anonymous program on the premises of the Apostleship, and filling requests from shipping lines for chaplains in good standing for their vessels. Msgr. Heaney served as a chaplain to the San Francisco Police Department from 1968 until 2003. His work included visiting precinct houses, and helping police officers and their spouses deal with the stress-related difficulties associated with their work.
Catholic San Francisco Assistant Editor Rick DelVecchio visited Haiti and the Dominican Republic in October, 2009 to report on migrants and refugees, whose vulnerability as they cross national borders in search of a better life is a growing humanitarian concern for the Church and for civil authorities worldwide. The trip was organized by Catholic Relief Services. This is the last installment in a five-part series. See catholic-sf.org for the full series.
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Lenten Opportunities Beginning Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17, and subsequent Wednesdays through March 24, noon – 1 p.m.: The St. Thomas More Society offers study sessions of Parables found in the Gospels. Jesus often instructed his disciples by parables - stories. In their original form the parables of Jesus are generally believed to be historically accurate. Being instructed by these parables is like sitting before Jesus and listening to him. Don Carroll, a former President of the St. Thomas More Society will open the parables for us. Don has had an interest in Scripture since his seminary days. All are invited. Membership in the St. Thomas More Society is not necessary. Admission is free. The talks take place at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, Grant and California in San Francisco, Room 6, across from Hecker Hall. Visit www.stthomasmore-sf.org for more information. March 6: The Diocese of Stockton announces its annual Ministry Day at St. Mary’s High School in Stockton. The event includes more than 60 workshops in English and Spanish. Stockton Bishop Stephen Blaire will preside at the day’s Mass and also deliver the keynote address. Check out new resources with more than 30 vendors. Program and registration form are at www.stocktondiocese.org and the Shepherd the Word link. March 24: “Spirituality of the Priesthood” with Sulpician Father Jim McKearney, president and rector of St. Patrick’s, and a priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford, CT. Tickets are $10. Seating is limited. Register on-line at www.stpatricksseminary.org under Speaker Series. Register by mail with payment to: Speaker Series, St. Patrick’s Seminary and University, 320 Middlefield Road Menlo Park 94025. Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life 815 Eddy St. – Planned Parenthood – in San Francisco.
Pauline Books and Media Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City (650) 369-4230 - Visit www.pauline.org Second Wednesday of the Month, 7 p.m.: Catholic Fiction Book Club. Delve into some of the greatest Catholic novels of our times and times past. Discover the beauty of the written word and the power of literature to nourish faith. Discuss various works of Catholic literature and how their timeless themes relate to our own lives.
Taize/Sung Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For information contact mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd in Fremont. Contact Maria Shao at (408) 839-2068 or maria49830@aol.com
Arts and Entertainment Feb. 7: Lolek, a play depicting the early years of “Venerable Pope John Paul II” in war torn Poland at Our Lady of Peace Family Learning Center, 2800 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara. Authentic Polish dinner at 6:30 p.m. and play at 7:30 p.m. Featured on EWTN, the play offers profound insights into the pontiff’s heart and soul ending with his ordination to the priesthood. Tickets at $20 for adults, $15 for students or $50 per family are available at Paypal at www.ccwf.org. For information, e-mail info@ccwf. org or call Michele at (650) 814-1995 or Suzanne at (408) 530-9848.
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First Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Lectio Divina– Pray with Sacred Scripture and share your Faith with others. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information. Fourth Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament –Silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.
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Serra Clubs Feb. 20: Annual “All you can eat” crab feed. 6:30 P.M. social hour; 7:30 dinner att Moriarty Hall of St. Anne of the Sunset church at Judah and 14th Ave. in San Francisco (enter on Funston). Cost $45 Reservations by Feb.15. Make checks payable to Serra Club of S.F. and mail to Diana Heafey, 489 Dellbrook, San Francisco, 94131. Contact: Joan Higgins (415) 3332422 or e-mail jhigg2390@aol.com.
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Challenged by teacher, Donna McMorrow, fifth graders at Our Lady of Angels Elementary School including from left, Jack Cauchi, Danny Holland, Jack Kennedy, Andrew Bailard, Eoin Goyette, Sean Privitera and Michael Liebes, have performed more than 140 hours community service for those in need. This picture shows the volunteers at Call Primrose Center in Burlingame that distributes more than 1,500 bags of groceries every month. Backing the kids up are the facility’s executive director, Mary Watt, and representatives from the Burlingame Police Department.
Support Resources Relevant to the Economy Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.: Stress Management Group - Benefit from relaxation techniques, mind and body awareness practices, group support. Takes place at Catholic Charities CYO, 36 West 37th Avenue, San Mateo. Cost is $15 per sessionEnroll by calling Catholic Charities CYO at (650) 295-2160, ex.199. Pamela Eaken, MFTI, and Natasha Wiegand, MFTI, facilitate the sessions. The program is supervised by David Ross, Ph.D.
Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life Feb. 6, 9:30 a.m.: Day of Recollection sponsored by Young Ladies Institute #7 at St. Cecilia Church, lower hall, 17th Ave. at Vicente in San Francisco. Father Dan Carter, pastor, Our Lady of Lourdes Church n San Francisco, will facilitate. Tickets are $10 per person. Bring your own lunch. Beverages and dessert provided. Call Kathleen Manning at (415) 664-0828. Feb. 6, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Healing – Mind, Body and Soul, a walk and retreat with Dominican Fathers Martin Walsh, Dominic Briese, and Xavier Lavagetto at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco. A day for Grace and wholeness for yourself, an ill friend or a dear one unable to attend. Please register at www.stjude-shrine.org or call (415) 931-5919. Survivor of the Rwandan genocide Immaculee Ilibagiza, whose story is described in Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, will speak April 16, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. All proceeds benefit Catholic Charities programs for children and families. Tickets available at www.littlechildrensaid.com .
Reunions Feb. 20, 2010, 6 p.m.: Annual dinner of combined alumni of Mission Dolores and Notre Dame elementary
schools. This year’s theme is A Night at the Races, a fun evening of horse racing, good food, and old friends. Cheer on your favorite horse as you watch the race from “Dolores Downs” (Mission Dolores Auditorium). $40 event ticket includes a delicious dinner prepared by “A Black Tie Affair” caterers. Reservations must be received no later than Feb. 10. Call Katie at (415) 282-6588 or e-mail nuttydames@aol.com. March 27, noon – 4 p.m.: St. John Ursuline High School, class of ’73. The event is a potluck affair at the Oakland home of a classmate. Contact Darlene Dinius Solem at (916) 681-0249. April 29: Luncheon reunion for class of 1950 from St. Cecilia Elementary School. Contact Doris at (415) 664-2247 or amadoris@sbcglobal.net Class of ’60 from Notre Dame High School in Belmont is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Bettina Igoa McCall at Mcbett@comcast.net or (510) 851-2344. St. Paul High School, San Francisco, class of ’80 planning a reunion sometime in June 2010 to coincide with graduation day of May 31 1980. E-mail Maria Rinaldi Vincent at vncntmtvincent@aol.com or call (650) 349-1642.
Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 Feb. 6, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Souls Mausoleum.
Special Liturgies Third Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Manifest Mysteries Rosary Prayer – Examine how the mysteries of the rosary are manifested in daily life using short film and the Dominican Rosary prayer. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.
Feb. 28, 5:30 p.m.: Columban Fathers Annual Dinner and Raffle at Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Honoree is Catherine Doherty. Tickets are $40 per person. No-host cocktails at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. Contact Pam Naughton at (415) 566-1936; Peg Cooney at (650) 878-8260 or Anne Quilter at (415) 586-8017. March 17, 11 a.m.: Annual Luncheon benefiting St. Vincent de Paul Society Desk in San Rafael and the work of the SVDP Conference at St. Anthony Parish in Novato at Marin Country Club, 500 Country Club Dr. in Novato. Tickets are $40 per person. Afternoon includes bridge, dominoes and raffle. No-host cocktails and silent auction begin at 11 a.m. For reservations and information, contact Gwen Johnson at (415) 883-3055. St. Anne Parish Festival: A three-day event featuring entertainment, two dozen carnival and food booths, bingo, raffles and fun for the whole family. Moriarty Hall entrance on Funston Avenue between Judah and Irving St. Fri: 3 - 9 p.m., Sat: 11:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. and Sun: 11:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Free parking in the school yard. A complete schedule of events can be found at www. stanne-sf.org. For more information, call Fanny Szeto, (415) 244-2207. March 5, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.; March 6, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Annual Rummage Sale at Church of the Visitacion Parish Hall, 701 Sunnydale Ave. at Rutland in San Francisco. Choose among clothes, furniture, books, jewelry and w New Items Booth. Call (415) 494-5517 for more information. Muni buses 8, 9, 56, as well as the T line will get you there.
St. Thomas More Society Club is oldest fellowship of Catholic lawyers, law students, paralegals and judges in the West. For more information about the Society contact Bob Zaletel at rzaletel@littler.com or (415) 288-6343. You may also visit www.stthomasmore-sf.org. Feb. 25, noon: Lunch at the Family Club, corner of Bush and Powell Streets, San Francisco. Guest speaker is William Regan, chair of the Western Region of the Knights of Malta (from Colorado to Hawaii). Tickets are $45 for those with over 10 years in practice, $38 for those with 10 years or less in practice, and $20 for law students and clergy. For reservation, contact Bob Zaletel at (415) 288-6343 or e-mail rzaletel@litller.com.
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Ethnic Ministry celebrates the rich diversity of cultures, languages and races through programs and gatherings geared toward intercultural education, dialogue, communication and understanding. Ethnic Ministry provides support for 22 different ethnic communities including African-American, Chinese, Filipino, Hispanic and others. They also sponsor multicultural celebrations, collaborate with other Archdiocesan offices in developing the multicultural component of programs and works to integrate the different communities into the church of the Archdiocese.
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Dear Friends in Christ, Each of us is touched by the light of Christ. His love reaches into the darkest corner and helps us find our way to Him. We rely on Jesus’ loving care for us in all the challenges we face. There is safety and security in knowing that He is there for us. We need to be able to see clearly or we might “...run into the brush, crash into the rocks, or go over the falls!” (Hebrews 2:1-4) Christ, the Light of the World, shows us the way. Together, we are stronger and can reach out and help others less fortunate, as we meet Christ in them. In doing so we help ourselves; our generosity strengthens us. Through our generosity, each of us can be the spark to help others in need: by educating children; supporting cultural diversity; deepening marriage and family life; sustaining the Deaconate; advancing Catholic communications and many other ministries and activities that serve our community. God shows us the way to be better people for Him, for ourselves and for others. Jesus includes all of us as his friends and family, as the theme for the 2010 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal affirms: “You are the Light of the World”. (Matthew 5:14) Your past generosity has been outstanding; and it is genuinely appreciated. From the beginning the gospel has proclaimed Jesus Christ as light and life: “What came to be through Him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” (John 1:1-18) God has always been with us and continues to be with us today. With my gratitude for your continued support of the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal and my prayerful best wishes, I am Sincerely yours in Christ,
Most Reverend George Niederauer Archbishop of San Francisco
The purpose of the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is to assist in funding the overall budget of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and to maintain awareness of needs in the Church beyond each parish. Along with other funding sources, the Annual Appeal enables the Archbishop to provide ministries, programs and services that benefit all parishes and people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The total budget of the Archdiocese of San Francisco is about $10.2 million. This amount includes a projected expenditure of $7.4 million for ministries and services. The Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is the method used to help fund these expenditures for ministries and services. The Archbishop’s Stewardship Council, which includes 11 pastors of the Archdiocese - one from each of the 11 deaneries, oversees the process and recommends individual parish assessments for the Annual Appeal. The pastors of the Archdiocese have agreed that 16.85 percent of the aggregate ordinary income of the parishes will be provided to fund ministries and programs that support the work of all the parishes. The assessment process takes a wide-range of factors into consideration, and assessments for individual parishes may be above or below the aggregate average. The process also includes the approval of the Archbishop and an opportunity for appeal. The total contribution from parishes to the 2010 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is $5.7 million. This amount represents over half of the total budget of the Archdiocese, money required to support the ministries and programs of the parishes, Archdiocesan direct ministry, and centralized administrative services that benefit parishes. The Annual Appeal supports ministries provided through the parish and provides direct ministry when the scope is too large or complex for any one parish. It also maintains centralized services and support for all parishes and schools, and provides for support of clergy and support of the Universal Church. (See “HOW YOUR GIFTS ARE SHARED” on page A3 and A4.)
The Office of Public Policy & Social Concerns embodies the teachings found within the parable of the Good Samaritan by seeing injustice as a personal call to action, and making a commitment to relieving the needs of the suffering person. This Office provides education and advocacy on behalf of the unborn, the poor, the elderly, the imprisoned, the homeless, the disabled and the marginalized in our society. It conducts numerous programs including Respect Life, Restorative Justice, Catholic Campaign for Human Development, Advocacy Training and Parish Organizing. In collaboration with the California Catholic Conference and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, it provides representation to local and national government officials and civic leaders. Every April the Office participates in Catholic Lobby Day with (arch)dioceses from across the state of California to lobby for current legislative issues that are of great importance to all Catholics, due to their moral implications. Metropolitan Tribunal & Canonical Affairs serves as a resource to the Archbishop of San Francisco and the Catholic community as they strive to maintain and uphold the universal and particular laws of the Church. The Tribunal also assists individuals seeking to reconcile with the Church by evaluating the status of individual marriages, as the Church understands that bond. It seeks to protect the rights of the faithful, including the right to a good reputation, while mindful of the obligations inherent with being a member of the Roman Catholic Church. The Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry envisions, creates and advocates for married and single Catholics in their late teens, 20s and 30s to become full and active members in the Church communities on college campuses and in parishes. The Office provides a daily calendar of events and resources for young adults, training sessions for young adult leaders, parish ministers and staff, and a pilgrimage to World Youth Day, the international gather of Young Adults with the Holy Father. Visit them on the web at www.sfyam.org. The Office of Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs represents the Archbishop and the Archdiocese of San Francisco in our relationships with approximately 70 other Christian and non-Christian spiritual communities – within the Christian church – Episcopal, Evangelicals and others; and outside Christianity (inter-religious) – Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, and others. The influence and work of the office go beyond the boundaries of the Archdiocese – regional in California, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii; national in Washington D.C.; and international in Rome. Office of Hispanic Ministry supports small Christian communities and other groups who, along with the bishop, are effective instruments of evangelization for the Latino community. Affirms and empowers the laity in their baptismal vocation of service by providing regular and organized programs of adult faith formation to develop leadership and the enrichment of spiritual life. Recognizes and empowers Hispanic youth and young adults to put their gifts in service to others. Develops teamwork and collaboration among pastoral ministry offices in serving parishes in their pastoral needs for the Latino community. The Office for Women Religious serves as a liaison between the Archbishop and Women Religious of the Archdiocese and between women religious and both the clergy and the Faithful In consultation with the Archbishop, this Office arranges for annual gatherings/meetings of the Archbishop with the Women Religious of the Archdiocese. The Director of this office represents the Archbishop at meetings or functions of congregations, visits religious houses, is present for congregation elections and professions of Vows, and evaluates and provides guidance to new religious communities. Marriage and Family Life supports the Catholic Family through Marriage Preparation training and instruction in Natural Family Planning (NFP), Marriage Encounter, Retrouvaille, and Divorced and Separated programs. Marriage and Family Life also oversees the FOCCUS program (a marriage compatibility inventory administered as part of the marriage preparation process).
The Department of Catholic Schools provides educational programs that prepare students for a Christian life by providing policies and programs for religious and general education in elementary and secondary schools, support for 63 elementary and middle schools (17,092 students in kindergarten through Eighth grade) and 14 high schools (8,094 students) and more than 1900 full-time and part-time teachers, administrators, counselors, librarians, and support personnel. The cost per student is $5,600 (elementary school) versus approximately $8,000 in public schools. The Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry nurtures the life-long faith formation of people by animating leadership training in a holistic approach to their ministry. OREYM provides Catechist and Youth Ministry formation, enrichment and guidance, basic and master catechist certification, classes in Sacramental preparation and Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RICA). This ministry also provides adult faith and youth leadership formation and classes for special needs individuals for sacraments and catechesis. The Office of Worship provides the Archbishop, parishes, and other diocesan agencies with liturgical resources and services in an effort to foster worthy celebration of the Roman Rite. They prepare special liturgies throughout the year for major celebrations. They offer presentations on liturgical spirituality, theology and ministries (i.e. training of extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion and lectors and catechesis on the Roman Rites). The Office can assist parishes in placement of qualified liturgical personnel. With the Archdiocesan Worship Commission, the Office consults on church art & architecture, formation and work of liturgy committees, etc. The Office of Evangelization supports the evangelization efforts in parishes through small Christian communities as well as the Engaged Church model. The Office provides opportunities for leadership development as well as small group facilitator training in English and Spanish. For more information, contact Mary Jansen, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org, 415-614-5596.
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The Office of Human Resources strives to ensure archdiocesan personnel policies & programs are understood by all and display the appropriate degree of consistency throughout the organization. As a strategic partner in the Department of Administration we strive to meet the human resources challenges that our local church faces consistent with the USCCB’s document “Co-Workers in the Vineyard of the Lord”. We support over 4,300 employees with a comprehensive HR framework . We provide and support a cutting edge competitive array of benefits including health, dental & vision insurance, a pension plan, 403(b) retirement savings plan, long-term disability insurance, and an employee assistance program to name a few. We facilitate numerous training programs and coaching on Employment Laws, Performance Management, Wage and Hour regulations, Sexual Harassment Prevention, and Salary Administration (e.g. Parish Pay Guidelines). Acts to protect the interests of those serving the Archdiocese by ensuring that all personnel policies and programs comply with applicable federal, state & local laws. Real Estate and Property Services assists with acquisitions and sales of real estate, manages all the leases of the Archdiocese as well as on-going maintenance issues and construction projects. In addition, this Office resolves all personal property issues when a parish is closed or sold, and handles Property Tax Exemptions for the Archdiocese. The Finance Office maintains financial records for the Pastoral Center programs and administrative activities, prepares the Archdiocesan Financial Accounting and Reporting Systems used by parishes and schools in their own financial administration, coordinates the various banking relationships, and assists all Archdiocesan operating entities with their financial administration activities where needed.formation and work of liturgy committees, etc. The Office of Development manages the fundraising efforts of the Archdiocese and assists parishes, schools and other Catholic agencies in stewardship programs, capital campaigns and increased planned giving through the use of Estate Planning Seminars. The Vallombrosa Retreat Facility, the Archives Office and the Department of Cemeteries are also Centralized Functions.
The mission of the Office of the Vicar for the Clergy is to provide an ongoing source of support to priests, deacons, and seminarians, and to assist them in their ministry to the people of this Archdiocese. The Vicar for Clergy oversees the work of the Priest Personnel Board, the Retirement Board and the Ongoing Formation of Priests Board, and works with the Director of Vocations, the Director of Ongoing Formation of Priests, the Director of Diaconate Formation, the Director of Permanent Diaconate, the Vicar for Spanish-speaking, and the Vicar for the Filipino Community. The Annual Appeal assists in this work by providing the funding for clergy formation and ongoing studies, clergy retreats and days of recollection, clergy sabbaticals, and supplemental retirement needs. The Office of the Vicar for Religious serves as a liaison between the Archbishop and Consecrated men and women Religious of the Archdiocese, and between Consecrated Religious and both the clergy and the Faithful. In consultation with the Archbishop, this Office provides information to/from the Consecrated Religious and represents the Archbishop at meetings or functions of congregations. The Office also disseminates information from Rome to Consecrated Persons within the Archdiocese, visits religious houses, officiates congregation elections; presides at Professions of Vows, and evaluates and provides guidance to new religious communities. The Vicar for Religious handles concerns of/about Consecrated persons and arranges Indults with Dispensations with Rome as needed The Office of Vocations helps to foster and support a Vocations Culture in the parishes, Catholic schools and religious education programs of the Archdiocese. Responding to Jesus’ mandate: “The harvest is rich, but the laborers are few, so ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his field”, (MT. 9:37), the office places special emphasis on prayer resources and discernment materials that help candidates discover their individual calling in life. In addition to the promotion of vocations to the diocesan priesthood and religious life, the office collaborates with the various seminaries and houses of formation that educate the priestly candidates of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Office of Permanent Diaconate supports the ministry and lives of the deacons and their wives who serve the Archdiocese. This Office addresses concerns relating to the ministry assignments and the on-going education of deacons giving attention to the spiritual, financial and health concerns of the deacons & their families. It arranges annual retreats and social events, supports 20 parishes in San Francisco with 30 deacons, 24 parishes in San Mateo with 41 deacons and 8 parishes in Marin with 11 deacons, and assists with screening and admission of candidates for the five-year program of formation of new deacons.
General - The Archdiocese of San Francisco supports the ministry of California Conference of Bishops, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the Holy See through financial contributions and via the bishops and staff serving on committees of all three groups. Archdiocesan Office of Communications responsibilities include internal communications to pastors, clergy, religious and laity, and external communications such as media relations, public relations, public information and special projects. The office produces two newspapers: Catholic San Francisco, which is mailed 40 times a year to approximately 85,000 households in the Archdiocese, and El Heraldo Catolico, which is distributed monthly to approximately 35 parishes in the Archdiocese. Television and radio programs include “Mosaic” on KPIX-Channel 5 and “The Archbishop’s Hour” on Immaculate Heart Radio. The Office of Communications also is responsible for the websites http://www.sfarchdiocese.org/ and http://www.catholic-sf.org/ and for the Official Directory of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Income-producing activities of the Office of Communications (newspaper and directory advertising, publication sales, direct contributions and other sources of revenue) fund approximately one half of its total expenses.
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SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY ID#
PARISH
ASSESSMENT $
54,000
ID# 141
PARISH Old St. Mary Church
ASSESSMENT
101
Cathedral of St. Mary
$
30,000
103
St. Agnes Church
67,600
143
St. Michael Korean Church
45,000
105
St. Anne of Sunset Church
55,000
144
Mission Dolores Basilica
28,000
107
St. Anthony of Padua Church
29,200
145
St. Monica Church
47,000
109
St. Boniface Church
18,000
147
Most Holy Redeemer Church
52,800
111
St. Brendan Church
128,500
148
Church of the Na vity
15,200
113
St. Cecilia Church
118,900
149
Notre Dame Des Victoires
43,300
115
St. Charles of Borromeo Church
20,200
152
Our Lady of Lourdes Church
16,700
116
Corpus Chris Church
45,700
153
St. Patrick Church
52,100
117
St. Dominic Church
186,300
155
St. Paul Church
59,000
120
St. Elizabeth Church
32,700
156
St. Paul of the Shipwreck
18,900
121
St. Emydius Church
47,500
157
St. Peter Church
21,500
123
Church of the Epiphany
81,800
159
Saints Peter and Paul Church
60,600
124
St. Finn Barr Church
27,900
160
St. Philip the Apostle Church
43,600
127
St. Benedict Parish
5,000
163
Star of the Sea Church
34,400
128
St. Gabriel Church
95,400
164
St. Stephen Church
68,700
131
Holy Family Mission
5,400
165
St. Teresa Church
30,300
132
Holy Name of Jesus Church
133
St. Igna us Church
136
St. James Church
20,000
169
St. Vincent de Paul Church
137
St. John the Evangelist Church
32,300
171
Church of the Visitacion
138
St. John of God Church
24,800
173
Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission
140
St. Kevin Church
31,300
53,500
167
St. Thomas the Apostle Church
25,600
162,100
168
St. Thomas More Church
56,600 117,000 33,000 3,600
MARIN COUNTY 201
St. Rita Church
203
St. Sebas an Church
205
St. Cecilia Church
5,600
207
St. Mary Nicasio Church
5,000
209
St. Patrick Church
68,500
233
St. Isabella Church
99,000
211
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
64,100
235
St. Hillary Church
116,300
88,900
237
Church of the Assump on of Mary
8,400
103,500
241
St. Helen Mission
2,100
212
St. Anthony of Padua Church
213
Our Lady of Lore o Church
$
38,800
215
Sacred Heart Church
60,600
219
St. Anselm Church
$
90,000
22,000
221
St. Raphael Church
123,700
231
St. Mary Star of the Sea Church
33,100
S A N M AT E O CO U N T Y 301
Immaculate Heart of Mary
$
87,700
331
St. Dunstan Church
$
85,600
302
St. Mark Church
45,900
333
Church of the Good Shepherd
49,900
303
St. Catherine of Siena Church
123,200
335
St. Peter Church
71,000
305
Our Lady of Angels Church
170,500
341
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
62,900
307
Holy Angels Church
63,600
343
St. Ma hias Church
64,900
308
St. Andrew Church
52,900
345
St. Pius Church
309
Our Lady of Mercy Church
73,300
347
St. Bruno Church
311
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
29,800
349
St. Robert Church
96,000
313
St. Francis of Assisi Church
26,850
351
St. Charles Church
119,000
314
St. Luke Church
65,900
353
St. Bartholomew Church
160,350
315
Our Lady of the Pillar Church
58,400
355
St. Gregory Church
111,600
319
St. Anthony Mission (Pescadero)
3,300
359
St. Ma ew Church
111,000
321
Our Lady of Refuge Mission (La Honda)
2,600
361
St. Timothy Church
47,700
323
St. Anthony Church
48,400
363
All Souls Church
53,200
325
St. Denis Church
82,100
364
St. Augus ne Church
99,000
327
Church of the Na vity
329
St. Raymond Church
114,500 33,900
118,300
365
Mater Dolorosa Church
45,500
65,100
367
St. Veronica Church
59,100