March 14, 2008

Patriarch sends strong message to Palestinians

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Palestinian children hold candles during a March 10 protest in Gaza calling for the end of Israeli sanctions affecting the Gaza Strip.

JERUSALEM (CNS) — A Palestinian Christian must be prepared to witness to the faith by submitting to daily difficulties “or even by sacrificing his or her life,” said Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem in a pastoral letter marking the end of his patriarchal ministry.

In his most strongly worded comment to date on growing Palestinian Muslim extremism, the patriarch likened such an era of Christian martyrdom to that suffered by first-century Christians under the Roman Empire and said it would “purify life in all of society.”

“It would strengthen the believers in their faith and would again give a new face to all society,” the patriarch added in his letter, dated March 1 and released to the press March 6. On March 19, Patriarch Sabbah turns 75 and, according to canon law, must submit his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI. He has been patriarch for 20 years.

In the 40-page letter, Patriarch Sabbah noted good relations exist between Muslim civil and religious authorities, but the situation “becomes explosive” when issues of dogma and family are involved. Mediation is needed, he said.

“But it should also be said that relations between Muslims and Christians have not yet reached their perfect equiPATRIARCH, page 9

Local film festival brings films to life and life to film them or not becomes the focus of the film. Kidnapped by surviving Nazis and taken to South America against his will, he finds Josef Mengele alive. Mengele returns The Cinema Vita Film Festival, held at San with Rohm to Germany to stand trial, and the young Francisco’s Delancey Street Theatre March 7, showcased lawyer soon finds himself roped into defending the man films that celebrated both the mystery and sanctity of life. he has come to know so well.

Drawing independent films from as far away as The outcome of the trial raises issues of when, if North Dakota, Texas and Illinois, the festival featured ever, euthanasia is justified, whether potentially lethal both budding talent and a provocative feature film. medical experimentation on human beings should be “Every single report I have gotten back – from edone if those same patients are doomed anyway, and mails, written responses and our evaluation forms – has how a slippery slope of ethically dubious choices can been positive. Every single one,” said Vicki Evans, lead down the path to depravity. coordinator of the Respect Life Ministry for The most chilling aspect of the Mengele charthe Archdiocese. acter as portrayed by German actor Götz George “One thing people did suggest,” she said, The most chilling aspect of the Mengele is how sympathetic he becomes. After all, the “is that we expand the categories and invite audience is reminded, those men who civilized films longer than three to five minutes, per- character as portrayed by German actor society would proclaim as monsters are still men, haps 10 to 20 minutes.”

She said organizers agree they want to Götz George is how sympathetic he becomes. and there is no depth to which man can sink that he cannot find an excuse for digging further still. repeat the festival in 2009, tentatively targetGeorge, so moved by the script that he helped ing a May date.

Rohm remains conflicted, however, and has yet to finance the film to the tune of one million marks when other Evans said they have also received an inquiry from persons in Florida who are interested in producing a write a word. He still cannot answer the most important sources of funding dried up, portrays Mengele as coldquestions about Mengele: why would any human being hearted and unrepentant for sure. Still, it is the humanity he “Cinema Vita East,” to echo the local festival.

Sponsored jointly by the San Francisco take part in tortuous and ultimately fruitless medical brings to the role that leaves the viewer wondering if he or Archdiocese’s and Oakland Diocese’s Respect Life experimentation on helpless victims? What possible jus- she could make the moral choice given the circumstances.

Balancing Mengele’s calculated self-defense are Ministry offices, Marriage for Life and Ignatius press, tification could a doctor have for participating in the both Rohm’s tortured realization of the doctor’s sociothe festival kicked off with a thought-provoking and attempted extermination of an entire race?

Rohm, portrayed by Kai Wiesinger of Germany, pathic motives and prosecutor Heribert Vogt, played by award-winning film, “After the Truth.”

CINEMA, page 31 The German-made film, written by American finds answers to those questions. Whether he accepts

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screenwriters Christopher and Kathleen Riley, explores a fascinating hypothetical: what if the infamous Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele were found alive and brought to trial in modern-day Germany?

The film’s central plot revolves around lawyer Peter Rohm, a defense attorney from Günzburg, Bavaria, the city where Mengele was born. At turns both fascinated and repulsed by sharing a hometown with the Nazi doctor, Rohm is on the verge of writing a definitive biography of the man after years of painstaking research conducted in partnership with his wife.

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Executive director of Catholic Charities CYO to retire with CYO. Cahill also headed the City of San Francisco’s Department of Social and Deepening cooperation with parishes, a Health services, 1992-96.

While still executive director of the focus on “core mission� and keen awareCatholic Youth ness of God’s central role in its work are Archdiocese’s among key directives and direction that Organization, Cahill took the reigns of Brian Cahill hopes to leave in place at Catholic Charities as interim director in Catholic Charities CYO as he heads toward August 2000 amid a stormy time for the latter agency. News outlets had revealed retirement at the end of this year.

Cahill will have served nearly a decade extravagant and questionable spending as executive director of the Archdiocese of practices by Charities’ executive team. The San Francisco’s social service arm and previous executive director’s resignation youth service arm when his retirement was accepted in July 2000.

Cahill became permanent executive takes effect Jan. 2.

CCCYO made the announcement of the director and would oversee the eventual pending retirement on March 7. The agency merging of CYO and Charities in 2003. In oversees nearly 30 programs with a budget the first year alone, he said, the administrative savings were of $40 million. roughly “a half “It has been an million dollars.� absolute honor to ‘Brian brought great During his have been tenure, CCCYO CCCYO’s execu- integrity and stability to was awarded four tive director and to work alongside Catholic Charities CYO in stars from Charity Navigator for the such an extraordilast three consecunarily caring and the last nine years. We tive years, desigprofessional staff, a nating fiscal health dedicated board of and responsible directors and the have been blessed to have stewardship. many clients we The fusion has serve. My time his passion and wonderful provided more than here has truly been administrative sava labor of love,� leadership.’ ings, the San Cahill said.

He said he was – CCCYO Board Francisco native said, describing a deeply grateful that in his “last big job President Cecilia Herbert dovetailing of services to youth that of my career� he incorporate counwas able to “combine my work experience and my faith, and seling, athletics and other outreach which is I got to do it in San Francisco and the Bay frequently parish-based, such as the work we’re doing at St. Paul of the Shipwreck.

Area. This has been huge.�

Cahill’s social service career will have “We are very committed to serving our spanned 45 years – essentially starting and parishes through core programs such as ending “kind of in the same place,� he said. counseling, immigration and CYO athletHis first job out of the Marine Corps in ics,� he said.

Cahill underscored CCCYO’s efforts to March 1964 was with the San Francisco Boys Home of which he eventually became “stay far more connected to our parishes,� director. The organization later merged and praised the work of CCCYO Parish and

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Community Response Director Mary Schembri for her work in that regard. “She has done a tremendous job of working with pastors, pastoral associates and even parish secretaries,� he said. “Kids from homeless shelters, for example,� said Cahill, “are going to summer CYO camps, an experience they would have never had otherwise.�

Speaking on behalf of the CCCYO Board of Directors, President Cecilia Herbert remarked, “Brian brought great integrity and stability to Catholic Charities CYO in the last nine years. We have been blessed to have his passion and wonderful leadership. I am personally grateful for his service and his willingness to stay on through completion this year of several strategic initiatives.�

Although he is retiring, Cahill says he intends to remain active as a volunteer in

the social services field and as a consultant to the organization. Until his retirement date, Cahill will “continue his existing commitments and duties, and will be an integral part of the transition to a new agency executive director,� a CCCYO news release stated.

Cahill said the CCCYO board plans to begin a search process for his successor soon, adding, “I know they would love to have my replacement on board by this fall or by the end of the calendar year.�

The position requires “a level of passion and commitment to the people we serve, and a knowledge of the programs we offer,�

Cahill said. “It is also very important for the person to be a person of faith. The whole time I have been here I have prayed a lot.

Part of my prayer has been to remind God that ‘these are your programs and your clients and you better figure out how to take care of them.’�

Challenges are myriad, he admitted, listing predominant ones as “striking a balance between programs and finance,â€? “dealing with incredibly rapid change,â€? and “handling the tension that can arise at times between what our Church teaches ‌ and how we are expected to carry out our mission in this very pluralistic society in which we live and work.â€? “It is clear we have to be consistent with the teachings of our Church and at the same time be responsive to the needs of the people we serve,â€? he said.

The executive director is called upon to “interface� with multiple constituencies, he said, including the Archdiocese, governmental agencies, other service providers, volunteers, corporate foundations and individual donors. “This takes a good deal of attention,� he said.

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Iraqi archbishop shares concern about fate of kidnapped prelate LONDON (CNS) — An Iraqi archbishop has expressed increased the ransom for Archbishop Rahho’s release from concern that Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj $1 million to $2 million to $3 million.

“It leaves us with two possibilities,” he Rahho of Mosul, Iraq, who was kidnapped told the charity. “Either the archbishop is for ransom, is sick, injured or has been killed. sick or injured or he has been killed and the No one has heard from Archbishop kidnappers just want to get as much money Rahho since he was kidnapped Feb. 29 after as possible.” he finished leading the Way of the Cross in The Mosul archbishop reportedly is in Mosul, said Chaldean Catholic Archbishop poor health with a heart condition and Louis Sako of Kirkuk, Iraq, in an interview needs medication daily. with Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic Archbishop Sako, who said he thinks charity helping persecuted Christians. The the captors are organized, added: “Really, interview was released by the British this is a kind of mourning time. There is branch of the charity March 10. nothing from the archbishop — no sign. We Archbishop Rahho “was able to make a don’t know where we are heading with the call from the back of the car in which he process — the future is totally unknown.” was kidnapped but since then nothing,” said Archbishop Rahho had just left the Archbishop Sako. “The people in contact Archbishop Paulos Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul and was with the kidnappers have over several days Faraj Rahho in his car with his driver and two bodyasked to hear the archbishop’s voice, but guards when the kidnappers attacked. The three people they are constantly refused.”

Archbishop Sako said he was worried the captors have who were traveling with him were killed.

Pope says Catholics must guard against secularism in Church life

By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Priests, women religious and the Catholic faithful must guard against superficiality and egotism infiltrating Church life, Pope Benedict XVI said.

The hedonist and consumerist mentality dominant in today’s secular culture fosters, both in the lay faithful and men and women religious, “a tendency toward superficiality and egotism that harms ecclesial life,” he said.

The pope made his comments March 8 during an audience with participants attending the Pontifical Council for Culture’s plenary assembly.

The pope said the theme of the meeting, “The Church and the Challenge of Secularization,” was “a fundamental question for the future of humanity and the Church.”

Secularization, he explained, makes no reference to the transcendent and “invades every aspect of daily life” which then leads to a mentality that “God is in fact missing, entirely or partly, from human existence and conscience.”

Such secularization “is not only an outside threat for believers, but it has already appeared for some time now in the heart of the Church,” said the pope.

He said attitudes of secularization can distort the Christian faith and a Catholic’s lifestyle and everyday behavior.

Catholics living in a secularized world “are often marked if not conditioned by the culture of images, which imposes models and impulses” that are contradictory to the Christian vision. It can lead to thinking God is no longer necessary or that it is no longer essential “to think about him and return to him,” Pope Benedict said.

He said the so-called “death of God” and the present reign of “a sterile cult of the individual” mean believers can risk succumbing to “spiritual atrophy and an emptiness of heart” which manifest themselves in a vague spirituality or superficial belonging to a faith-based community.

Reminding people of life’s highest values such as dignity, freedom and the equality of all people, the meaning of life and death and the afterlife are all things that can give meaning to life and can satisfy the heart’s restless quest for happiness, he said.

Pope Benedict said the council also has the important task of fostering a fruitful dialogue between science and faith.

Such collaboration is “much longed-for by the church, but also by the scientific community”; both are called to serve all of humanity, he said.

Vatican official Global impact of ‘new sin’ needs attention

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In today’s globalized culture, the social effects of sin are greater than ever before and deserve the Church’s urgent attention, a Vatican official said.

New forms of sin have arisen in the area of biotechnology, economics and ecology, and many involve questions of individual rights and wider social effects, said Bishop Gianfranco Girotti.

Bishop Girotti is an official of the Apostolic Penitentiary, an office that deals with questions relating to penance and indulgences. He made the comments in an interview March 8 with the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

Bishop Girotti said the sense of sin in today’s world should be even more acute than before, since the effects of sin are often widespread. “If yesterday sin had a rather individualistic dimension, today it has an impact and resonance that is above all social, because of the great phenomenon of globalization,” he said.

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precisely because its consequences are more abundant and more destructive,” he said.

Among the “new sins” to emerge, he pointed to genetic experiments and manipulation that violate fundamental human rights and produce effects difficult to foresee and control.

He said other areas where sin has a social impact include drug abuse, which affects many young people; economic injustice, which has left the poor even poorer and the rich richer; and environmental irresponsibility.

Bishop Girotti was asked about public reaction to sin among the Church’s own members, a reference to priestly sex abuse.

“One cannot underrate the objective seriousness of a series of acts that have recently been reported and that carry with them the signs of the church’s human and institutional fragility,” he said.

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Woman shares challenges and joy of chastity

By Rick DelVecchio Dawn Eden is a young writer whose soul-damaging sex life as a spiritually floundering single woman led her to embrace Catholicism and chastity.

Today, Eden, is busy with a new career as a “professional chaste person.” She is on the road talking to college students about the positive virtues of sexual restraint.

As the former director of the Cardinal Newman Society’s Love and Responsibility Project, and now a freelance writer and editor. She travels the country responding to invitations from groups interested in her message that chastity is a healthy and creative approach to sexuality for young adults — a middle way between hedonism and abstinence, concerned with affection rather than arousal.

Eden, 39, grounds her message in Church teaching. She returned recently from England and Ireland where she was a panelist at a Diocese of Dublin conference on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body.

But mainly she speaks from experience.

She is a former rock n’ roll journalist whose wayward quest for intimacy in what she calls the singles jungle of New York City left her spiritually wasted. Believing God had forgotten her, she indulged in pleasure out of a sense of entitlement.

“The message I got from the culture is it’s possible to go through life on that pleasure,” she said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco.

She learned from how bad she felt that the culture must be wrong. Depressed that at the end of her sexual career she was further away from her goal of marriage than she had been when she started, she gave up the singles world and converted first to Protestantism and then, last Easter, to Catholicism.

The recovering hedonist, who was raised in a secular Jewish home, found strength in Catholic orthodoxy, in the lives of the saints and in expressing affection through friendship and prayer. She also found a new form of excitement in the possibility that her career of unmarried chastity would lead her to a marital vocation one day.

She went on to write a memoir, “The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On,” and became a vocally pro-life Christian blogger.

Eden made her first Newman Society trip to the West Coast September, drawing 60 people to a talk on the UC Berkeley campus.

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“Here’s a person who’s not some old lady who’s conservative and is not able to connect with young people,” Price said.

“She addressed young women at most risk of being used as objects.”

Eden’s overall message to students is that sexual pleasure is not for the taking. It is spiritually valuable only when it is given within a loving marital bond.

“Chastity according to the Catechism is the right ordering of sexual pleasure, which includes engaging in sex only in marriage,” Eden said. “But I see it as a plan for all of one’s relationships and for eventually going to heaven.”

The goal, she said, is “learning to see God in others rather than seeing others as objects.”

Unmarried chastity means exchanging sexual pleasure for spiritual joy.

“Unmarried chastity means living out all the graces you’ve been given,” Eden said.

“It means having a devotional life, not in terms of being in any way cloistered but in terms of seeking a strong union with God, because we all need union. It’s important to have a strong prayer life. It’s very important to have strong friendships.”

For Eden, conversion has not been easy.

“I’m still living the world and can get annoyed at the person sitting next to me on the subway,” she said. “I’m trying to be less superficial and to be deeper in my relationships and all my encounters with people.

What I do find is when I’m able to do that, I’m happier and more joyful.”

‘John Paul II said love is the opposite of use. Students really respond to that. They’re at the point where they’re discovering how others want them for their body and their attempts to want others for their body.’

She shared the spiritual rootlessness that left her without a moral foundation when she became sexually active. She spoke about how frustrating it was not to be able to unify her body and spirit even in a committed relationship.

“I knew, and my partner knew, that each of us had an easy out, so I had to hold back just a little in case it didn’t work out, which was really damaging,” she said.

Eden’s talk was sponsored by the Lepanto League, a Catholic student group, and the St. Anthony of Padua Foundation, an association of lay Catholics in the Diocese of Oakland.

“Our apostolate is education for the new evangelization, and the evangelization of culture requires that some new appreciation of chastity is essential,” said Cliff Price, a foundation board member.

The group invited Eden because members felt she could be an effective teacher of young people.

In her work with college students Eden refers to church teachings, especially the 129 general audiences John Paul II gave on sex and the body from 1979 to 1984. The compendium is known as the Theology of the Body.

“John Paul II said love is the opposite of use,” Eden said. “Students really respond to that. They’re at the point where they’re discovering how others want them for their body and their attempts to want others for their body.”

Eden said she hears from students who say they are resisting sex as a materialistic item. They are open to new approaches, she said.

“A lot of them are children of divorce,” Eden said. “They’ve gotten very cynical about marriage because they’ve seen a lot of them fail.”

At Seton Hall University in New Jersey, Eden said she received a note from a woman in the audience after one of her

talks. “The note said she was a virgin and that my talk gave her strength and showed she was not alone,” she said.

At the Newman Society, Eden was working on a Theology of the Body curriculum for college study groups. She sees it as a way to put chastity at the core of a healthy spirituality for students.

“It has a completely different approach than students might have in an abstinenceonly course,” she said. “It’s not even really abstinence per se or about other issues with regard to sexuality. It’s really about the dignity of the human person.

“Students who came up in a Catholic environment have not been introduced to

these kinds of issues,” she said. “They have not been taught the positive issues that underlie the negative.”

Now working independently, Eden continues her busy speaking schedule as she collaborates on a book project for the Family Research Council.

Ed Hopfner, who is finishing his master’s in theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, leads a Theology of the Body Study group at the school. He said the value of the teaching is that it grounds Catholic morality in experience.

“Kids want a challenge but they want a challenge that makes sense, and that’s what this offers,” he said. “It puts a structure to something they kind of know but don’t have words for.

“What people are telling me is there’s got to be more to it than this,” he said.

“There’s a relationship aspect to it that’s not emphasized by our culture.”

That experience resonated with Melissa Hyatt, 26, and was the basis for her conversion from the Protestantism to Catholicism. At the time she and her future husband were living together and she was on the pill.

“I never really liked being on the pill,” said Hyatt, who heard Eden speak in Berkeley. “My husband was always uneasy.

I felt he wouldn’t touch me unless he knew I was quote-unquote safe.

“We were not on the same page because we were not able to fully give ourselves to each other,” she said, “not only because of the pill but because we weren’t married. It was great to hear that being proclaimed to me.

“People have such a lack of hope that they don’t even believe something can be as good as it should be,” she said.

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National prayer day for men The National Fellowship of Catholic Men has called for a national day of prayer March 15. The group, founded 10 years ago after meetings among lay leaders and U.S. bishops, has sent letters to all U.S. dioceses seeking support to promote the event.

Dan Spencer, founder of The St. Joseph Center of Kansas City and member of the NFCM, proposed the idea as “an activity that would serve to bring men from every state together in a deeper personal and collective commitment to Jesus Christ and his Church,” said the NFCM website.

Divine Mercy Congress in Oakland Bishop Ignatius Wang, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will be among the celebrants at the annual Divine Mercy Congress March 14-16. Hosted by the Divine Mercy Eucharistic Society at the Oakland Convention Center, the conference will feature Mass and music all three days, as well as healing and confessional services.

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President Mahmoud Abbas about the violence in the Gaza Strip. Both letters were signed by Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem, Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theofilos III, Armenian Patriarch Torkom II and Franciscan Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, who heads the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, on behalf of all the heads of churches and patriarchs in the Holy Land.

Joey Peacock, 13, prepares to shoot a free throw during a basketball game at Briggs Chaney Middle School in Silver Spring, Md., March 4. When he was 5, doctors determined Joey had scoliosis. His parents, John and Lisa Peacock, decided to pray to Pier re Toussaint, declared venerable in 1997, for his intercession to help their son.

Later X-rays showed the boy’s condition seemed to have disappeared. Doctors had no medical explanation. The case has been submitted to the Vatican for Toussaint’s sainthood cause. Toussaint, pictured in an undated file photo, died June 30, 1853, at age 87. On Dec. 5, 1989, New York Cardinal John J. O’Connor launched the canonization cause for the Haitian-born former slave who performed works of charity in New York City during the 19th century.

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JERUSALEM (CNS) — In two separate letters March 7, the patriarchs and heads of churches in the Holy Land expressed their condolences to the Israeli and Palestinian families of the victims of the most recent round of violence plaguing the region. In a March 7 letter addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, the Christian leaders reaffirmed their “determination to work for peace and the end of all violence,” calling the shooting of eight Jewish seminary students in Jerusalem March 6 “sad and tragic.” They also wrote to Palestinian

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Catholic groups weigh in on same-sex marriage

By Rick DelVecchio The California Catholic Conference, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America are joining in a written brief urging the California Supreme Court to uphold the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

The brief, written by Pepperdine University law school dean Kenneth Starr, is one of 50 friend-of-the-court briefs the court will review as it weighs claims by the City of San Francisco and same-sex couples who want the state to recognize their longterm relationships. The plaintiffs argue that California’s exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage is unconstitutional.

In a 2000 initiative, California voters overwhelmingly endorsed marriage as defined by a union of one man and one woman.

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the marriage between one man and one woman, a covenant that Catholic people believe has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament,� the conference states in its introduction to the brief.

The introduction cites Gaudium et Spes, a Second Vatican Council teaching promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1965. The Council document states that God created matrimony and endowed the institution with certain benefits and purposes that have a decisive bearing on the dignity, stability, peace and prosperity of individuals, families and society.

Marriage, the conference states in its submission to the court, is “the bedrock upon which a just and moral human culture is built. To this end, the conference is vitally interested in the outcome of these proceedings.�

In their general discussion of the definition of marriage, the three faith organizations quote from a 1976 California Supreme Court ruling stating that the structure of society itself largely depends upon marriage. “This court understood ‘marriage’ to be the union of a man and a woman,� the organizations state in their brief. “It under-

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stood that marriage is a social ‘institution,’ not merely a private arrangement between two people.�

In a separate brief, the Knights of Columbus maintains that the marriage exclusion does not discriminate. The exclusion does not treat men and women differently but merely prohibits them from marrying someone of the same gender, according to the argument. Thus, the brief states, women and men are treated the same under the law and there is no discrimination on the basis of sex.

Bill May, chairman of Catholics for the Common Good, observed the three-and-a-half-hour hearing and concluded that the court was closely divided. He said he could not predict which way the decision would fall.

May said he felt advocates for same-sex marriage were unconvincing when they argued that a 1948 California Supreme Court ruling striking down laws incorporating race as an element defining legal marriage set a precedent for extending marriage to all couples.

However, May noted examples where lawyers defending the exclusion were hard-pressed to make their point. “There are so many laws on the books that are undermining marriage and family that the state had little room to make an argument in support of marriage without saying things that don’t conflict with existing law,� he said.

In one instance, one justice challenged a lawyer who argued that marriage is about procreation. The justice noted that the court had already established the legality of same-sex parenting. “The judge made a logical leap to concluding that procreation equals parenthood, which are two separate issues,� May said, adding that there was no further discussion of the question.

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Patriarch . . . librium. This is a matter of a long and slow path that must be perfected every day,” he said.

Moderate Muslims and Christians must work together to counter the increasingly rigid worldview of Islamic political extremism, he said. He admonished Christians not to give up on their faith even if dialogue proves to be futile and to continue to demand their rights as citizens and proclaim their Christian faith.

It is vital, however, to look at why such extremism is increasing, he said, noting that it tends to be a reaction to poverty and injustice within Arab and Muslim society as well as an invasion of Western values and morality.

“These religious tendencies will end up by imposing themselves, if the policies within the Arab countries do not succeed in creating more just and secure societies, and if Islam does not succeed in renewing itself from within so as to respond to the religious need of the believers and to prevent the extremists from transforming religion into fanaticism and a source of violence, and if world politics do not end the various ways in which peoples are colonized,” he said.

Patriarch Sabbah urged Christians in the Holy Land not to remain spectators in the Israeli-Palestinian arena, but to take an active, nonviolent role in leading them toward peace in light of their Christian beliefs.

“To find freedom again, to pay the price and to resist, all that is certainly an obligation, but we also believe in the commandment to love,” he said. He urged “a nonviolent resistance, but one that is capable of leading the two peoples to enjoy in equal ways their freedom, their sovereignty and their security.”

The patriarch condemned the use of violence as a form of resistance. “The history that human beings make here with blood and hatred or with dialogue and collaboration is made ... under the watchful eyes of God, the master of history, who gave this land a particular sanctity,” he said. “In a land belonging to God, only the ways of God will lead to a resolution of the conflict.”

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Israeli soldiers clean the barrel on a tank at an army base near Kibbutz Kissufim just outside the Gaza Strip March 10. Israel and Hamas, the Islamic group that controls the Gaza Strip, had been holding their fire as Egypt tried to mediate a truce.

He called on Christians to follow in the footsteps of Jesus and see the face of God in every human. “It is God whom we love in the friend or the enemy. When we love, we are imitating God in his love for all creatures,” he said.

“Such love is stronger than violence ... it can drive back the hostility and end the oppression that is exerted over him.”

Christian catechesis must give a clear message that “the other is not the enemy,” he said.

Addressing the small local Christian community, Patriarch Sabbah noted that Jesus and his followers also remained small in numbers.

“To be small in this land is simply to live as Jesus lived here. That does not mean having a diminished life on the margins or a life made up of fear and perplexity,” he said. “We

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That reality, he said, can make finding time for strategic planning thorny in the midst of “addressing the day-to-day operations, which is why the board approved a strategic plan in 2005.”

“I also think the next executive director really needs to be a fundraiser and to be able to strike a balance between programs and finance,” Cahill said, adding that the

CCCYO board has been clear on creating “a sustainable budget, which will require a significant increase in fundraising efforts.”

In addition to being available to CCCYO as needed after retirement, Cahill would like to increase the time he is able to volunteer at San Quentin Prison. “I feel kind of called to do that,” he said. “Every time I am over there – at a Mass or a meeting with the guys – I feel that God is very much present — very, very tangible.”

He will also lend a hand on public policy and advocacy at Holy Family Day Home where his wife, Donna, is executive director.

“I just want to be able to go to Mass in the morning and maybe go to the gym, and do a lot more reading and writing than I have been able to do, and maybe get out onto the golf course a little bit, and just not be running all over the place all the time,” he laughed.

Father Faustine Mosha, who works in the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Mission Office as moderator of the Holy Childhood Association, led a Lenten reflection for 30 employees of the Archdiocese at the Pastoral Center on March 7. He discussed his work among the people of Tanzania, his native country.

As a pastor in Arusha City in northern Tanzania, he said he invested significant time and energy in promoting healthier lifestyles among his countrymen.

HIV/AIDS has reached crisis levels there, he said.

Father Mosha worked among the Maasai Tribe of northern Tanzania. The Maasai are strongly patriarFather Faustine Mosha chal and practice polygamy and polyandry. These practices, along with taboos about the discussion of AIDS, have had a devastating impact, he said.

Father Mosha says the Maasai are not alone in Tanzania in unhealthy sexual practices. Complicating the AIDS crisis in the country is a deep-seated cultural stigma associated with the disease. This leads to a silence on the issue that stunts efforts to prevent transmission of the virus. Last year’s figures put the infection rate at roughly seven percent of Tanzanians aged 15 to 49.

The priest, who was born at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, says he plans to return to Tanzania in one year.

He hopes to gather a group of Americans to join him there to raise awareness in the West of the plight of Tanzania.

The priest is in the United States on a full scholarship to the University of San Francisco, where he is completing graduate studies in social justice.

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March 14, 2008

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What is ‘recipe’ for determining date of Easter?

By Brother John M. Samaha, S.M. People often puzzle over the different dates on which Easter is celebrated. The different dates are determined by the different calendars used for reckoning Easter.

In the Old Testament, the Jews celebrated the feast of Passover, or Pasch, in remembrance of their deliverance from Egypt. The Book of Exodus, chapter 12, tells the story.

Thereafter the celebration of Passover was begun on the 14th day of Nisan (Abib), the Paschal full moon following the spring equinox (Lev. 23:5-8; Deut. 16:1-8). The Spring equinox is when day and night are equal.

The Jewish calendar, however, since it was a lunar calendar consisting of 12 or 13 months per year, caused difficulties in determining the day of the spring equinox.

Consequently, Passover celebrations would begin on the full moon of either March or April of the Julian calendar.

The Gospel of St. John explicitly states that the death of Jesus coincided with the Paschal celebrations of the Jewish people (John 13:1; 19:31).

The Christians in Asia Minor, Caesarea, Syria, and Mesopotamia observed Easter on the first day of the Jewish Passover. But the Christians in Rome and Egypt celebrated Easter on the Sunday after the Jewish Passover.

Pope St. Anicetus (155-166) supported the celebration of Easter on the Sunday after the Jewish Pasch. Pope St. Victor (189-198) upheld this practice.

Controversy ensued, and Pope St. Sylvester I resolved the matter at the first ecumenical council at Nicaea, Asia Minor, in 325. The general council decreed that Easter be celebrated on the first Sunday following the Paschal full moon after the spring equinox.

From that time for 1,247 years Easter was celebrated on the same Sunday in the entire Christian Church — East and West. According to the Julian calendar, March 21 was considered the day of the spring equinox in the Roman Empire.

Eventually the inaccuracies of the Julian calendar witnessed Christians in the 16th century celebrating

Gregorian calendar: Italy, France, Poland, Spain, and Portugal.

Easter on different Sundays.

In 46 B.C. Julius Caesar had originated the Julian calendar. The Protestant countries — Germany, England (including North America), Denmark, The astronomers of his time calculated the solar year to have 365 days and six hours. Every fourth year became a leap year Sweden, Norway — adopted it about 200 years later. The nonwith 366 days. This was remarkably close, but each year was Christian countries of Japan, China, Siam (Thailand), Turkey, too long by 11 minutes and 14 seconds. This small difference Egypt, etc., accepted it about 350 years later. The Orthodox countries — Greece, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, and the patriaraccumulated to one day in 128 years. chates of Constantinople, Antioch, In addition the astronomers figured that the moon cycle of and Alexandria — adopted it in the 19 years was exact, that is, that the full moon returned to the 12th century in civil and historic identical day and hour after 19 years. However, the matters only. They still observe cycle was too long by one hour and 8 religious feasts (Christmas, 29 minutes. This differ2 0 0FRIDAY SATURDAY Easter, Pentecost, etc.) accordence amounted to one H 1 C NESDAY THURSDAY R ing to the Julian calendar. This day in 308 years. By the A ED W M TUESDAY divergence can place the cele16th century astronomers 8 MONDAY 7 SUNDAY brations of Easter as much as were alarmed that the 6 15 5 five weeks apart.

Julian calendar was out of 4 1 4 13 3 In determining the date of congruence with the seasons 2 2 2 1 2 21 11 Easter the discrepancy of the years by 10 days, and 20 10 between the Julian and with the cycles of the moon 29 19 9 28 18 Gregorian calendars grows by four days.

27 17 26 16 each year.

In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII 25 24 asked the leading astronomers Easter is early this 23 R to correct these inaccuracies, year.

Actually it can be EASTE 31 30 and he proclaimed some changes one day earlier, March in the Julian calendar. Regarding 22; but that rarely happens. This the solar year, 10 days were year is the earliest Easter we will experience in dropped from the calendar, and our lifetime. that year Oct. 5 became Oct. 15. In The next time Easter will be this early, March 23, will be in the future, three leap years would be omitted every 400 years. 2228. The last time it was this early was 1913.

To rectify the moon cycle the calendar full moon was drawn The next time Easter falls a day earlier, March 22, will be in back four days. In the future the calendar full moons were to be 2285. The last time it was celebrated on March 22 was in 1818. drawn back one day eight times in 25 centuries. With these But what is really important is that Christ is risen. He is truly reforms the Julian calendar was brought very close to the astro- risen. nomical solar year and the astronomical moon cycle.

The Gregorian calendar took its name from Pope Gregory A retired educator, Marianist Brother John Samaha resides at the Marianist Care Center in Cupertino, XIII, who proclaimed it to the world.

The Catholic countries of Europe quickly accepted the new Calif., and has been a religious for 58 years.

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Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday

March 16, 2008

12:15 PM

Holy Thursday

March 20, 2008

7:00 PM

Good Friday

March 21, 2008:

® Holy Saturday, March 22 : 9:00 a.m. — Morning Prayer 8:00 p.m. — Easter Vigil Mass ® Easter Sunday, March 23 : 7:30 a.m. — Easter Mass 9:00 a.m. — Easter Mass 10:30 a.m. — Easter Mass with our Parish Choir 12:00 p.m. — Easter Mass with our Children’s Choir

HOLY THURSDAY, March 20 8:30 a.m. Morning Prayer/Lauds 7:30 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 12 Midnight GOOD FRIDAY, March 21 8:30 a.m. Morning Prayer/Lauds 12 noon The Seven Last Words (Reflections) 1:30 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 3:00-4:00 p.m. & 6:30-7:30 p.m. Confessions 7:30 p.m. Community Stations of the Cross (led by Parish Youth Group) HOLY SATURDAY, March 22 8:45 a.m. Morning Prayer (Sung) 9:15-10:00 a.m. Confessions EASTER VIGIL at 8 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, March 23 7:30, 9:00 & 10:30 (Family Mass) a.m. Sung Masses (English) 12 Noon in Cantonese DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY, March 30 7:30, 9:00 & 10:30 a.m. Masses and 12 Noon in Cantonese 2:00 p.m. Devotion to the Divine Mercy (Adoration, Confessions, Chaplet & Benediction)

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5 Elmwood Drive, Daly City ® Holy Thursday, March 20 : 9:00 a.m. — Morning Prayer 7:30 p.m. — Mass of the Lord’s Supper 8:30 to 10:00 p.m. — Eucharistic Adoration

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Saturday, Mar 15 5 pm Palm Sunday Vigil Mass Palm Sunday, Mar 16 8 am & 10 am Palm Sunday Mass Holy Thursday, Mar 20 7:30 pm Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Adoration following) Good Friday, Mar 21 Noon – 3 pm Church will be open for private devotion 7:30 pm The Lord’s Passion Holy Saturday, Mar 22 8 pm Easter Vigil (Reception following) Easter Sunday, Mar 23 8 am & 10 am Easter Sunday Mass (Reception following)

ST. ANNE OF THE SUNSET

12:00—3:00 PM

Marian Stations of the Cross

12:00—12:30 PM

Rosary Sorrowful Mysteries

12:30—1:00 PM

Reflection on the 7 Last Words

1:00—2:00 PM

Veneration of the Holy Cross

2:00—2:30 PM

Holy Communion

2:30—3:00 PM

Evening Stations of the Cross

5:30 PM

Holy Saturday

March 22, 2008

8:00 PM

Easter Sunday

March 23, 2008

12:15 PM

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Chrism Mass: a little oil goes a very long way Anyone who has spent a little time in a kitchen knows that a little bit of oil goes a long way, whether in a pan or on your fingers or (yikes!) on the floor!

Now imagine this: a few drops of the Oil of Sacred Chrism (a consecrated olive oil with a sweet perfume) are signed on the forehead of every baptized Catholic. The priest or deacon says, “[Christ] now anoints you with the chrism of salvation, so that, united with his people, you may remain for ever a member of Christ who is Priest, Prophet, and King.”

In confirmation, that person is anointed again, now sealed with the Holy Spirit. How many lives does this anointed person, filled with grace, touch and effect? Or, imagine this: the hands of every ordained priest are anointed with a few drops of the Oil of Sacred Chrism.

How many times will he use those hands in giving absolution? In praying for healing? In greeting a new parishioner? In signing the cross as a blessing? In feeding the hungry with the Living Bread of the Eucharist?

Within the Church, a little oil – a little anointing – goes a long way.

“Christ” (in Greek, Christos) means “Anointed.” In baptism, the anointing with chrism is one of the symbols drawing us into the life of the anointed One, Jesus the Christ. Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit, as are all the baptized, to do the works of God: “to bring glad tidings to the poor; ... to proclaim liberty to

(CNS FILE PHOTO BY DON BLAKE, THE DIALOG)

By Patrick Vallez-Kelly

The reflection of three priests is seen in a decanter filled with oil prior to the celebration of a Chrism Mass. Three oils are blessed by local bishops each year during Holy Week at the Chrism Mass.

The first is used in baptismal anointing, confirmation, priestly and episcopal ordinations, and during the dedication of churches. The other holy oils are used in the anointing of the sick and for catechumens. In addition, priests renew their ordination commitment during the Chrism Mass and receive the prayers and support of the faithful.

EASTER LITURGIES A Parish that Welcomes & Reaches Out A Parish that Prays & Worships Together A Parish that Celebrates & Reconciles

Holy Week 2008

601 Eucalyptus Drive @ 23rd Avenue (near Stonestown) www.saintstephenSF.org

Palm Sunday Vigil Mass, Saturday 4:30 pm Palm Sunday Masses 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm Daily Weekday Masses during Lent 8:00 am & 12:10 pm Holy Thursday (No morning Mass) Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 pm

415.681.2444

Saint Stephen Catholic Church

captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord” (Luke 4:18-19).

In part, this is what we celebrate at the annual Chrism Mass, when we pray: “Father, by the power of the Holy Spirit you anointed your only Son Messiah and Lord of creation; you have given us a share in his consecration to priestly service in your Church. Help us to be faithful witnesses in the world to the salvation Christ won for all.”

Anticipating the Triduum celebrations of Christ’s priestly sacrifice made in his death and resurrection, the Chrism Mass takes place during Holy Week to celebrate his high priesthood. It is filled with symbols and rites that illuminate the activity of Christ’s priesthood in his Church: in the Archbishop as the high priest of our local Church, in the order of priests who are Christ’s ministers, and in the anointed, priestly People of God. (Have you ever offered a spiritual sacrifice or considered yourself “priestly”?)

The consecration of the Sacred

Patrick Vallez-Kelly directs the archdiocesan Office of Worship.

ST. IGNATIUS CHURCH

650 Parker Avenue • San Francisco GOOD FRIDAY • MARCH 21, 2008 “Seeing Our Salvation” • Noon – 2 pm Father John A. Coleman, S.J., Presider This service envisions the Passion of Christ through images painted by Rubens, Caravaggio, Piero della Francesca and Grünewald. Accompanied by music, the presentation intends to deepen our reflection on Scripture and lead to heartfelt prayer on this day when we celebrate our justification.

John A. Coleman, S.J. is the Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, and did post-doctoral studies in theological ethics at the University of Chicago. Father Coleman has a long-standing interest in the history of European art.

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion • 2 pm Stations of the Cross • 7 pm

ST. BRENDAN THE NAVIGATOR H OLY W EEK S CHEDULE

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Good Friday (No morning Mass) Good Friday Services, 12 noon-3:00 pm Prayer around the Cross, 7:30 pm

Easter

Holy Saturday (No morning/afternoon Mass) Reconciliation, 3:30-4:30 pm Easter Vigil, 7:30 pm Easter Sunday Mass 8:00, 9:30, 11:30 am & 6:45 pm

Chrism and the blessing of the Oils of the Sick and of Catechumens at this liturgy are crucial preparatory rites for the sacraments, flowing to this priestly people through the ordained ministry of priests.

Like that well-used cruet of oil in your kitchen, the Chrism Mass might be a little hard to grasp at first try! Not so much slippery as it is lush, it’s rich with symbols and ritual that are much better experienced than described. If you want to pray for your parish priest(s) as they renew their ordination promises, this liturgy is for you. If you would like to be at the point where, by the blessing and consecration of the Oils, they begin their journey to the sick, the catechumens, the confirmandi and the ordinandi, in fact, to all the baptized, this liturgy is for you. All of the faithful in the Archdiocese of San Francisco are invited to this year’s Chrism Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Tuesday, March 18, at 5:30 p.m.

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RECONCILIATION (CONFESSIONS) Saturdays: Wednesdays:

4:00 PM 7:15 PM

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4:45 PM 7:45 PM

HOLY THURSDAY, MARCH 20 Mass of the Lord’s Supper: Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, March 16th Saturday Vigil Mass - 5:00 p.m. ; Sunday Masses - 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m. (Palms will be blessed at the beginning of every Mass.)

Holy Thursday, March 20th 7:30 p.m. – Mass of the Lord’s Supper with Mandatum and Eucharistic Exposition until 11:00 p.m.

Good Friday, March 21st 12:00-1:00 p.m.

12:00-1:30 p.m.

– –

1:45-3:00 p.m.

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Sacrament of Penance (Confession) “Behold: See How I Make All Things New.” – Reflections

by Fr. Vito Perrone Solemn Liturgy – Msgr. Michael Harriman (The Passion will be chanted and performed by junior high students, Holy Communion and Veneration of the Cross)

Holy Saturday, March 22nd 8:00 p.m. – Easter Vigil Mass – Msgr. Michael Harriman (with Choir and Orchestra)

7:00 PM

GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 21 Stations of the Cross: Seven Last words: Liturgical Services:

11:00 AM 12:00 Noon 2:00 PM

HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 22 Easter Vigil Mass:

8:00 PM

EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 23 Schedule of Masses:

7:00 8:00 9:30 11:30

AM AM AM AM

Easter Sunday, March 23rd 7:30 a.m. – Msgr. Michael Harriman 9:30 a.m. – Msgr. Michael Harriman (Family Mass) 11:30 a.m. – Fr. Joe Landi (with Choir and Orchestra)

29 ROCKAWAY AVENUE, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94127 TEL. NO. (415) 681-4225

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‘Way of the Cross’ to wind through North Beach

By Michael Vick The San Francisco community of Communion and Liberation will hold its ninth annual “Way of the Cross” procession on Good Friday, March 21. Expected to draw at least 100 participants, the “Way of the Cross” commemorates Jesus’ walk from the site of his condemnation by Pilate to Golgotha, the hill on which he was crucified.

Martin Ford, one of the organizers of the procession, said the event transcends the political stances and divisions that often come between the diverse people of San Francisco.

“For me, it was a wonderful experience, and very powerful, being able to walk in prayer,” Ford said of last year’s commemoration. “It was amazing seeing people watching us, seeing their gestures. Some would make the sign of the cross.

Some would bow. It was simply an act of prayer. No one saw anything but beauty.”

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, wrote Feb. 19 that the pope extends his blessing to the procession.

“It is [the pope’s] hope that by accompanying the Redeemer along the path leading to Calvary, they will draw ever closer to him in his loving obedience to the Father’s will and his redemptive solidarity with suffering humanity,” wrote Cardinal Bertone of the participants in the San Francisco procession, as well as those holding similar events around the world.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer also extended his blessing, calling on participants to “bear witness to the WAY OF THE CROSS, page 14

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Father Labib Kobti, second from left, pastor of St. Thomas More Parish in San Francisco, was among those to walk through San Francisco’s historic North Beach in last year’s Way of the Cross procession. Accompanying the priest were Cathleen Gilles of San Francisco’s St. Teresa of Avila parish (at left) and Damian Kowalewski of Cupertino’s St. Joseph Parish (at right, in glasses). The unidentified young man carrying the cross volunteered that day. Police estimates put the crowd in the hundreds.

St. Raymond Church 1100 Santa Cruz Avenue Menlo Park, CA 650-323-1755

2008 Holy Week Schedule Palm Sunday Sunday, March 16 at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.

St. Matthew Catholic Church One Notre Dame Avenue San Mateo, CA (650) 344-7622

Mass of the Lord’s Supper Thursday, March 20th at 7:30 p.m.

HOLY THURSDAY - March 20 Masses: 12:05 p.m.

7:00 p.m.Tri-Lingual Mass of the Last Supper Procession to the Altar of Repose Adoration until Midnight

Celebration of Good Friday Friday, March 21st 12:00-3:00 p.m.

12:00 Quiet Meditation 12:30 Instrumental Meditation 1:00 Stations of the Cross 1:30 Liturgy of Good Friday

GOOD FRIDAY - March 21 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. “Seven Last Words” 1:30 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (English) 7:00 p.m. Liturgy of Good Friday (Spanish)

Easter Vigil Mass Saturday, March 22nd at 8:00 p.m.

HOLY SATURDAY - March 22 7:00 p.m. Bilingual Celebration of Easter Vigil EASTER SUNDAY - March 23 5:45 a.m. In front of Church, Salubong: Meeting of Jesus and Mary Masses: 6:30, 7:30, 9:00 (Spanish), 10:30 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.

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Easter Sunday Mass Sunday March 23rd at 8:00 and 10:00 a.m.

ANGELS CHURCH

1721 Hillside Drive, Burlingame Capuchin Franciscans

2008 Holy Week Schedule Holy Thursday Good Friday

7:30 p.m. Mass of Lord’s Supper Adoration until Midnight 12:15 p.m.

Mary’s Way of the Cross

Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 1:15 1:45 2:30 7:30 Easter Vigil Easter Sunday Masses

p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.

Liturgy of the Word Veneration of the Cross Communion Service Stations of the Cross

8:00 p.m.

We gather to worship in the Easter Season: EASTER VIGIL:

March 22nd, Saturday, 7:30pm

EASTER MORNING:

March 23rd, Sunday, 8:00, 9:30, 11:15am (No 5:30pm Mass)

Saint Agnes Parish Welcomes You!

P.O. Box 6166

San Rafael, California 94903

(415) 479-1560

March 16

Vigil Mass: 5:00 p.m.

Sunday Masses: 7:30, 9, 11 a.m. & 5 p.m.

Holy Thrusday: March 20

No morning services

Mass of the Last Supper: 7:30 p.m.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10 p.m.

March 21

No morning services 12 Noon – 3 p.m.

Good Friday:

Corner of Crystal Springs and Alameda de las Pulgas San Mateo, Ca. 94402 (650) 347-0701 www.barts.org stbartss@barts.org

Wednesday, March 19, 9am - 7pm - All Day Reconciliation

2008 SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Palm Sunday:

ST. BARTHOLOMEW PARISH COMMUNITY

7:00, 8:30, 10:00 a.m. and 12 noon

Church of St. Isabella One Trinity Way

Celebrate Easter with us at

3 – 5 p.m.

8 p.m.

Holy Saturday:

March 22

2:30 – 4:30 p.m.

8 p.m.

Easter Sunday:

March 23

Masses:

Stations of the Cross, Devotions, Liturgical Service with Holy Communion, Confessions His Incredible Love – Live Stations of the Cross presented by our Parish Youth Council Confessions Mass of the Easter Vigil 7:30, 9, 11 a.m.

No Evening Masses

Various Confessors will be available throughout the day for those wishing to celebrate this Sacrament.

Holy Thursday, March 20 Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30pm with strings & woodwinds

Good Friday, March 21 Stations of the Cross: Noon - Outdoors along Haight Street and 2:00pm in the Church Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion, 7:30pm with choir, woodwinds and timpani

Saturday, March 22 Great Vigil of Easter, 8:00 pm (no 4pm Liturgy) with choir, brass & woodwinds

Easter Sunday, March 23 Liturgies 8:30am & 10:30am (no 6pm Liturgy) with choir, brass & woodwinds

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Parishes celebrate Filipino Easter tradition At Holy Angels, parish school children dressed as angels will sing the Alleluia. The children will march in procession to statues of Christ and Mary on the church grounds. One child will lift the veil placed over Mary’s face.

Salubong, the Filipino Easter sunrise tradition symbolizing the reunion of the risen Christ with the Blessed Mother, will be celebrated March 23 at three churches in the Archdiocese: St. Augustine in South San Francisco, Holy Angels in Colma and St. Emydius in San Francisco.

Mass will begin at 5 a.m. at St. Augustine, 6 a.m. at Holy Angels and 6:30 a.m. at St. Emydius.

Salubong, which means encounter, re-enacts the traditional belief that the first person the risen Lord met was his mother. It signifies the lifting of the Blessed Mother’s sorrow over the crucifixion.

“It’s celebrated in the early morning hours after the Easter vigil, so the joy of Easter has already begun,” said Nellie Hizon, a parishioner at St. Stephen in San Francisco and a member of the archdiocesan pastoral council.

“It is a procession of light, triumph and joy. It is a reenactment of an important element of our faith,” Hizon said.

The celebration, which is traditionally part of the first Easter morning Mass, centers on the lifting of Mary’s veil.

In some folk re-enactments, an angel removes the veil; in others, a dove lifts the covering, which participants in turn tie to a balloon and release to the wind.

A statue of the Virgin Mary is carried during a Salubong procession in the Philippines.

Way of the Cross . . .

■ Continued from page 13 truth that Christ still walks in our midst.”

The procession begins at 8:45 a.m. at Coit Tower in San Francisco and winds through North Beach to the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. The final station of the cross will be observed at the shrine at 10:15 a.m. For more information, visit www.sfcommongood.com, call (415) 3335442 or e-mail info@SFCommonGood.com.

St. Thomas More Church 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd.

EASTER LITURGIES ST. PAUL OF THE SHIPWRECK CATHOLIC CHURCH 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco (415) 468-3434

2008 HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE Palm Sunday - March 16 Same as all Sundays: 8:45AM Spanish, 10:30AM Gospel Mass Holy Thursday - March 20 Mass of the Last Supper 7:30PM followed by Adoration Good Friday - March 21 Good Friday Service at Noon (English) Servicio de Viernes Santo a las 7:00PM Easter Vigil at 8PM 8:45PM Spanish, 10:30AM Gospel Mass

ST. PHILIP

THE APOSTLE CHURCH 725 Diamond St. @ 24th St., 415-282-0141

Cordially invites you to join us for . . .

Holy Week Services 2008 Retreat Day – March 15: Themes of this day long retreat include: Institution of the Eucharist; Agony in the Garden; Death on the Cross; Resurrection, Eucharist, the Real Presence. Mass will be celebrated. Lunch provided. 9:00 to 3:45. Call for reservations (415-282-0141).

Palm Sunday – March 16: The blessing of the palms (outside) before the 10:30 a.m. Mass, with procession into the church. (Masses: Saturday 5:00 p.m., Sunday 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.) Palms distributed at all Masses.

Holy Thursday – March 20: Soup Supper 6:00 in the hall. Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 p.m., concludes with Eucharistic Procession and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.

Good Friday – March 21: Good Friday service begins at Noon, which includes Good Friday Liturgical celebration of the Lord’s Passion.

Holy Saturday – March 22: The Easter Vigil begins at 8:00 p.m. with the blessing of the Easter fire and lighting of the Easter Candle. The Vigil Mass also includes the blessing of the Easter Water, the celebration of the adult baptisms and the renewal of baptismal promises.

Easter Sunday – March 23: Masses are 8:00 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

at Brotherhood & Thomas More Ways

The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption

San Francisco (415) 452-9634 www.stmchurch.com

1111 Gough St., San Francisco, California

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER TRIDUUM SCHEDULE 2008 PALM SUNDAY

OF THE

LORD’S PASSION

Vigil Mass Saturday, March 15 5:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 16 7:30 am, 9:00 a.m, 11:00 a.m., Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant 1:00 p.m. en Español

PASCHAL TRIDUUM Holy Thursday (March 20th) 7:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper (English) 9:00 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper (Arabic)

Good Friday (March 21st) 12 Noon Way of the Cross 1:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’ Passion (English) 9:00 PM Liturgy of the Lord’ Passion (Arabic)

Holy Saturday March 22nd) 7:00 PM Easter Vigil (English) 10:00 PM Easter Vigil (Arabic)

CHRISM MASS Tuesday, March 18 5:30 p.m.

(Annual Archdiocesan Celebration of Renewal of Priestly Ministry by the Clergy, Blessing of Oils of Catechumens, Sick and Sacred Chrism by the Archbishop) Lent ends at Sundown on Holy Thursday and begins the Celebration of the

Easter Triduum

HOLY THURSDAY March 20 7:30 p.m.

Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Washing of Feet, followed by Vigiling and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Francis Hall (Lower Level) until 11:45 p.m.

11:45 p.m. - Night Prayer in St. Francis Hall

GOOD FRIDAY We continue our Vigiling....

March 21 12:00 p.m.

Stations of the Cross led by the students of Our Lady of Perpetual Help School, Daly City, CA 12:30 p.m.

Music in the Cathedral 1:00 p.m.

Liturgy of the Passion and Death of the Lord Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Reconciliation (confession) 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

7:00 p.m.

Via Crucis/Stations of the Cross in Spanish

HOLY SATURDAY Our Paschal Vigil continues throughout the day and night...

March 22 The Easter Vigil 8:00 p.m.

Archbishop George Niederauer, principal celebrant Blessing of the New Fire and Paschal Candle, Liturgy of the Word, The Celebration of the Baptism, Confirmation and First Communion of our Elect.

EASTER SUNDAY March 23 Masses 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.

1:00 p.m. en Español

COME AND JOIN US FOR EASTER

3:30 p.m. Easter Concert Organ Recital

The Priests and Parish Community of Saint Philip the Apostle Parish Wish you a Happy and Blessed Easter!

4:15 p.m. Easter Vespers and conclusion of the Easter Triduum

EASTER SUNDAY (March 23rd) 8:00 AM Brazilian Mass 10:00 AM English Mass for all people followed by children’s Easter Egg Hunt by the Peace Statue on Brotherhood Way* 8:00 PM Mass (English)

*Parents must accompany their children. **No Arabic Mass on Easter Sunday

H OLY NAME OF JESUS 39 Ave. & Lawton St., San Francisco, CA th

2008 HOLY WEEK SERVICES Saturday, March 15 Confessions – 4:30-5:00 PM March 17, 18 & 19 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 7:30 & 9:00 AM Masses in the Chapel Wednesday, March 19 Tenebrae Service of Light in the Church – 8:00 PM Holy Thursday, March 20 7:30 PM Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the Church 9:00-11:00 PM Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Chapel Good Friday, March 21 No morning Service 12:00 to 1:00 PM Meditations on the Seven Last Words 1:15 to 2:00 PM Stations of the Cross Performed by the 8th graders of Holy Name School 2:00 PM Solemn Liturgical Service includes Veneration of the Cross and Communion Good Friday Service in Vietnamese 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Holy Saturday, March 22 No morning service.

4:00-5:00 PM – Confessions (No 5:00 PM Mass) 8:15 PM Solemn Easter Vigil Mass Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults

Easter Sunday, March 23 Masses in the Church 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:30 AM, 5:15 PM Vietnamese

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Holy Week and Easter telecasts from Rome, beginning with Pope Benedict XVI celebrating the Mass of Palm Sunday, March 16 at 1:30 a.m., with an encore telecast at 5 p.m. have been announced by Eternal Word Television Network.

Programming resumes on Holy Thursday, March 20, when Pope Benedict celebrates the Chrism Mass at 1:30 a.m. and the Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 9:30 a.m., with the latter encoring at 9 p.m.

On Good Friday the pontiff will preside at the celebration of the Lord’s Passion, March 21 at 9 a.m., with an encore at 9 p.m. Viewers also will see the pope presiding over the Solemn Way of the Cross, March 21 at 5 p.m. Holy Saturday programming will focus on the pope offering the Easter Vigil Mass, March 22 at 1 p.m., with an encore at 9 p.m.

Easter telecasts will show the pope celebrating the Mass of the Resurrection, March 23 at 2:30 a.m., with an encore at 9 a.m. EWTN also will air Pope Benedict’s Urbi et Orbi Easter Message and Blessing to the World, March 23 at 4 a.m., with encores March 23 at 10:30 a.m. and March 24 at 7 a.m.

EWTN will provide live coverage from the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. of choral meditations and the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, March 20 at 2:30 p.m.,and the Easter Vigil Mass, March 22 at 5 p.m.

EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast Digital Channel 229; Astound Channel 80; San Bruno Cable Channel 143; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 370. Comcast airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County. Visit www.ewtn.com for more program information and any updates in coverage.

(CNS PHOTO/DANILO SCHIAVELLA, REUTERS)

Easter and Holy Week broadcasts set by EWTN

Pope Benedict XVI lies on the floor of St. Peter’s Basilica during last year’s Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion service. The Good Friday rite with the pontiff presiding will be carried on ETWN at two times – 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on March 21.

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CHURCH

EASTER LITURGIES

1425 Bay Road, East Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: (650) 322-2152; FAX (650) 322-7319 Email: sfofassisi@sbcglobal.net

ST. EMYDIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH

HOLY THURSDAY, MARCH 20 Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:30 PM Bi-Lingual Adoration until 12:00 Midnight

GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 21 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. Three Hours – English 2:00 p.m. Solemn Liturgy – English 5:30 p.m. Stations of the Cross – Spanish 7:00 p.m. Solemn Liturgy – Spanish

HOLY SATURDAY, MARCH 22 8:00 PM Easter Vigil – English 10:00 PM 1st Mass of Easter – Spanish

EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 23 7:30 AM – English 9:30 AM – Spanish 12:30 PM – Bi-lingual

286 Ashton Ave. / 415-587-7066

(DeMonfort Ave. / 1 Block from Ocean Ave.)

THE TRIDUUM

1133 BROADWAY, MILLBRAE HOLY WEEK 2008 PALM SUNDAY 5:00 p.m. Saturday Palm Sunday Masses: 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 5:00 p.m.

Blessing of palms at all masses.

HOLY THURSDAY 8:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer 7:00 p.m.

Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper with washing of feet.

Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament until 11:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY 8:00 a.m.

12:30 p.m.

1:00 p.m.

2:00 p.m.

Morning Prayer Stations of the Cross Seven Last Words Solemn Liturgy and Holy Communion with dramatization of the Passion by our eighth grade students.

4:00-5:00 p.m.Confessions CONCLUSION OF ALL COMMUNAL LITURGIES HOLY SATURDAY 8:00 a.m.

Morning Prayer 11:00-Noon Confessions 3:30-5:00 p.m.Confessions EASTER VIGIL 8:00 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY MASSES 7:00 a.m., 8:30 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 11:30 a.m. NO 5:00 p.m. Mass.

Geary Boulevard at 23rd Avenue, San Francisco

Easter 2008 Holy Week Schedule

Thursday, March 20 ◆ Holy Thursday Dinner in the O’Reilly Center 6:00 p.m.

Mass of the Lord’s Supper 7:00 p.m.

Adoration until midnight

PALM SUNDAY, March 16 Saturday Evening Vigil - 5:00 p.m.

Sunday - 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m. (Choir) (Palms will be blessed and distributed at all Masses) 4:00 p.m. Evening Prayer & Benediction

Friday, March 21 Morning Prayer 8:30 a.m.

Liturgical Service 1:00 p.m.

HOLY THURSDAY, March 20 Mass of the Lord’s Supper; Procession and stripping of the altars - 7:30 p.m.

(Veneration of the Blessed Sacrament until 10:00 p.m.)

(Liturgy of the Word, Veneration of the Cross, and Communion) This service is preceeded by quiet prayer, 12 noon to 1:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 22 Morning Prayer Easter Vigil

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Holy Saturday 8:30 a.m.

8:00 p.m.

Sunday, March 23 ◆ Easter Sunday Salubong Mass 6:30 a.m.

Masses 8: 30 & 10:30 a.m.

The Triduum ends with Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday.

S T . G ABRIEL

2559 40th Ave. SF, CA 415-731-6161

ST. DUNSTAN CHURCH

ST.MONICA PARISH

HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19 - 7:00 PM SATURDAY, MARCH 22 - 3:30 PM

HOLY THURSDAY - MARCH 20 6:30 PM PARISH SOUP SUPPER - BEDFORD HALL 8:00 PM MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the School Library until 10:00 PM

GOOD FRIDAY - MARCH 21 NOON - 12:45 PM Stations of the Cross (Presented by St. Gabriel School Students) 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM - Good Friday Reflections 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion ******************* 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM - Celebration of the Lord’s Passion

HOLY SATURDAY - MARCH 22 3:30 PM - SACRAMENT OF PENANCE 8:00 PM - CELEBRATION OF THE EASTER VIGIL

EASTER SUNDAY - MARCH 23

EASTER SUNDAY MASSES 7:00 AM, 8:30 AM, 10:00 AM, 10:05 AM - (BEDFORD HALL) 11:30 AM & 5:30 PM

THERE WILL BE A 5:30 PM MASS ON EASTER SUNDAY

GOOD FRIDAY, March 21 Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion 12:00 noon Confessions - 1:30 to 3:00 p.m.

Prayer Around the Cross - 7:30 p.m.

HOLY SATURDAY, March 22 Confessions - 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. – No 5:00 p.m. Mass The Great Vigil of Easter Mass - 7:30 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, March 23 Sunday - 8:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. (Cantonese) 10:30 a.m. (Choir) 12:00 noon No Evening Mass

Mater Dolorosa Church

307 Willow Avenue, South San Francisco, CA 94080

EASTER SCHEDULE EASTER CONFESSIONS Individual Confessions: Saturday March 15 & 22, from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

PALM SUNDAY: MARCH 16 Vigil Mass: Saturday, March 15 at 5:00 p.m.

Sunday Masses at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 12 Noon & 5:00 p.m. Palms will be distributed after all Masses.

MONDAY, TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY OF HOLY WEEK Mass at 8:00 a.m. Wednesday Evening at 7:30 p.m.

HOLY THURSDAY, MARCH 20: Pot Luck Dinner in the Hall at 6:00 p.m.

Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7:30 p.m.

Visit the Blessed Sacrament in the Convent Chapel until 10:00 p.m.

GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 21: Stations of the Cross at 1:30 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Liturgical Service at 2:00 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.

EASTER SUNDAY, MARCH 23: Vigil Mass: Holy Saturday, March 22 at 8:00 p.m.

SUNDAY MASSES: Salubong Mass in Tagalog at 6:00 a.m.

8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m. (Easter Egg Hunt for all the Children after 10:00 a.m. Mass), & 12 Noon. (No Evening Mass)

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Homes washed away...

After their homes were washed away in a flash flood, the people of Cabaret, Haiti face an uncertain future.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

I like Weigel It seems that every week someone is complaining about Mr. Weigel. I just want to say that I enjoy his column and read it every week.

Thank you.

Alice Foster San Bruno

Half right, dead wrong

Behind the survey results In this media dominated 21st century, we often find ourselves awash in information that has been gathered, selected, processed and interpreted by others – sometimes to the great disadvantage of truth and clarity. A good deal of the information we receive has been bleached of its significance, providing as many intellectual nutrients as bleached flour provides to our physical wellbeing. At other times, information of real importance and meaning may be channeled – knowingly or not – by the presenter into a predisposed set of assumptions or attitudes.

These thoughts came to mind in reviewing the summary of the recent survey on the landscape of religion in America conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, which was released Feb. 25. Based on interviews conducted in English and Spanish with a nationally representative sample of more than 35,000 adults, the survey provides estimates of the size of religious groups that are as small as three-tenths of 1 percent of the adult population. The report also describes changes in religious affiliation and analyzes the relationship between religious affiliation and various demographic factors, including age, ethnicity, educational and income levels, gender, family composition and regional distribution.

Many secular media outlets followed the lead of the authors of the Pew Forum survey summary in suggesting a picture of religion in decline in America. The Pew survey authors darkly pointed to a decline in the number of Protestants; loss of cradle Catholics; movement of the population between faiths; and growth in the percentage of the population that self identify as “unaffiliated” with any religion.

The Pew Forum director noted that follow-up research would consider whether the U.S. population is headed toward the European model of massive disengagement from organized religion.

However, the Pew report authors glossed over the fact that nearly 84 percent of the people surveyed in the study identified themselves as affiliated with an organized religion. This includes well over 78 percent who identified themselves as Christian. And among the 16 percent of respondents who said they were unaffiliated with any particular faith, more than a third (six percent) said religion was, nonetheless, somewhat or very important in their lives. So the real picture that emerges is one that shows more than 90 percent of Americans have an active engagement or positive disposition toward religion – that is, a relationship with God and with their fellow human beings.

The survey results indicate that the total percentage of the U.S. population that identifies as being Catholic – about 24 percent — has held steady for many decades. The survey authors express surprise at the number of Catholics who were born in the faith, but do not identify themselves as Catholic. The real-life observation that “former” Catholics constitute a large segment seems to come as an epiphany to the Pew researchers. Where Catholics go also is instructive: about half of those who leave the Catholic Church become affiliated with Protestant faiths, primarily Evangelical; while half become unaffiliated.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life is a project of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit subsidiary of the Pew Charitable Trusts, originally founded in 1948 by descendents of the founder of Sun Oil Company.

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life was launched in 2001 and its literature states that it “seeks to promote a deeper understanding of issues at the intersection of religion and public affairs.” The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life focuses on bioethics, death penalty, gay marriage, and religion and public schools, social welfare, law and world affairs. It has partnered on many studies with the Brookings Institution.

Comments by Jesuit Father Allen Deck, an official with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Mark Gray, a research analyst at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University, were included in the Catholic News Service story (Catholic San Francisco, March 7) on the Pew survey results.

Gray noted that the Catholic Church retention rate for Catholics born in the faith lags only slightly behind that of Mormon, Orthodox and Jewish faiths. Since the Catholic Church is the largest single Christian “denomination,” the total numbers of Catholics who left the Church are large, but nearly seven in ten Catholics who were raised in the faith continue to claim the faith. Still Father Deck rightly described the Pew report as “more than a gentle wake-up call” for the U.S. Catholic Church.

In fulfilling the mission entrusted to us of proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we can be helped – rather than held hostage — by research such as that in the recent landscape survey of religion in America as well as other studies. Indeed, the interpretation of data found in the Pew survey and CARA studies should help us to be alert, honest and discerning in understanding and meeting the challenges of presenting the Word of God in our time.

MEH

Your Feb. 15 article on the stem cell research conference held at Dominican University noted that bioethicist Mary Devereaux stated: “There should be reverence for life at every stage,” but then qualified her position by saying, “My personal view is we develop as human beings not just as biological organisms but as moral persons and the blastocyst is at such an early stage of development, it cannot see, it cannot feel, it is not self-conscious.”

It is true that our “biological organisms” continue to develop after we are conceived in our mothers’ wombs- or even in a petri dish for that matter. However, we are “fully human persons” from our moment of conception and being such, our lives must be equally revered, protected and defended from that moment on to our natural deaths.

Catholics of this Archdiocese deserve to be protected from fatally flawed opinions such as: if one of us “cannot see,” “cannot feel,” or “is not self-conscious,” his or her life is of less value than those of other human persons. Catholic San Francisco articles that present a “personal view” which conflicts with authentic Catholic teaching should be immediately followed by a clear presentation of such teaching, especially when in matters like this, there is no legitimate diversity.

We must defend all unborn children, including embryos, from the moment of conception by emphasizing their personhood and God-given right to life. No matter how small, a person is a person. As Catholics, fellow human persons and former embryos, we must unite in our defense of each and every one of us.

Fredi D’Alessio Sausalito

the Communion and Liberation movement and the visit of Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete to San Francisco. For your readers’ information, there are small CL groups present throughout the San Francisco Archdiocese and Province.

For more information, feel they can contact our national website at www.clonline.us.

Damian Bacich Responsible, California Region Communion and Liberation San Francisco

Poor source selection Last week, concerned San Francisco Catholics took the staff of Catholic San Francisco to task over slipshod coverage of the stem-cell conference at Dominican University. Not only were there significant omissions in the coverage, but the story attempted an amoral neutrality on an issue the Church teaches is “non-negotiable.”

This week, it’s more of the same. The lead website story was the California Supreme Court’s hearing of the case seeking to legalize same-sex “marriage” in California. And who did Catholic San Francisco trot out as a primary authority? Hastings University Professor Beth Hillman—a speaker at San Francisco’s 2006 Lavender Law Conference, “the sharpest legal minds dedicated to the LGBT community,” and panelist at the Harvard Law School’s 2007 Gay and Lesbian Legal Advocacy Conference.

Is it asking too much from a publication called Catholic San Francisco that it find experts who will articulate Catholic teaching on issues the Church teaches are “non-negotiable”?

Gibbons J. Cooney San Francisco (Ed. note: See related story, page 8)

L E T T E R S

Poignant commentary Jane Sears’ poignant article of Feb. 29, “ Can a Dog Teach us Trust in God ?” was so personally provocative, it led me to respond to her message. Her article reminds us of the unconditional love that we are continually receiving from God and that we often forget to reflect on his loving grace and forgiveness. A dog’s unquestioning devotion to its provider demonstrates our need to accept God’s guidance and that we are continually wrapped in his loving arms.

Your choice in publishing Ms. Spears’ commentaries is to be commended.

Donna Wright Hillsborough

Coverage lauded Thank you for your excellent article on

Letters welcome Catholic San Francisco welcomes letters from its readers. Please:

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Dental floss?

It was with great interest and delight I read the article about the replica of the Porziuncula chapel in Assisi being planned for San Francisco.

However, the closing paragraphs were questionable and disturbing.

First, entering the chapel without permission: surely there must have been available, reliable requests for admission.

Second, taking measurements with dental floss and, if apprehended, the delegation was to say they were saying the rosary: 20th century friars must know the difference between measuring tape and a rosary.

Finally, the reward of two rocks alleged to have been touched by the saint seems to send a message that persistence is rewarded no matter the method.

Barbara Ballarin San Francisco

Support initiative Bay Area Catholics have a opportunity over the next two months to help in a campaign to preserve marriage in California between one man and one woman. An initiative is being circulated by pro-marriage Christian organizations that would go on the November ballot and would amend the state constitution to limit marriage to between one man and one woman.

This initiative is necessary because the California Supreme Court will soon be ruling on the issue of the legality of same-sex marriage and a ruling in favor of such would violate the voters’ will expressed back in 2000 to keep marriage between one man and one woman and would destroy the institution of marriage as we know it. There is also the possibility of some other court in the future doing the same thing.

Amending the state constitution to limit marriage between one man and one woman, therefore, is the only way to guarantee that the sacred institution of marriage is maintained as we have known and supported it.

If you agree and want to help with this effort, please visit either the web site ProtectMarriage.com or VoteYesMarriage.com for more information.

Frank Sullivan San Francisco

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Spirituality for Life

On Jesus, justice and building bridges Jesus and justice - rarely do we bring them together as the Gospels do.

Somehow we find it hard to bring together the Jesus who is so uncompromising in the area of private prayer and integrity, who says we delude ourselves if we think we are following him but are not praying or keeping the commandments, with the Jesus who tells us unequivocally that at the last judgment there will only be one test as to whether we will go to heaven or not, namely, how we responded to the poor during our lifetime. The Jesus who invites us into personal piety and Church doctrine is the same Jesus who tells us that nobody will get to heaven without a letter of reference from the poor.

But we have always had some special mentors who helped show us how this might be done. Dorothy Day comes to mind, as do a number of others: Martin Luther King, Jr., Desmond Tutu, Mother Teresa, Jean Vanier, William Stringfellow.

Dorothy Day perhaps best exemplifies this; she was equally comfortable leading the rosary or leading a peace march.

A person who as been a special mentor to me, since I never had the privilege of meeting Dorothy Day, is Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners - a magazine, a peace movement, and a spirituality. Wallis, a lay man, is an evangelical with deep

Catholic and ecumenical sympathies who, as a young man in the 1960s, got kicked out of his own white evangelical church for standing up for justice during the race-riots in Detroit.

In the 40 years since, he has lost neither his idealism nor his commitment to Jesus. Moreover, like Dorothy Day, he resists the temptation to bracket half of the Gospel and opt for either private morality or social justice. For him, it is always both and that is why you find him leading both peace rallies and prayer rallies. Just in the past year I have heard him speak at a Roman Catholic religious education convention and seen him lead a nationally-televised debate between the leading presidential candidates running for the 2008 election.

Four years ago, he wrote a remarkable book, “God’s Politics - Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn’t Get It.” Sensing that a number of things have shifted since, he has just published a new book, “The Great Awakening: Reviving Faith and Politics in a Post-Religious-Right America.” His new book is very hope-filled. In his view, what has changed, and changed for the better, are two things. The left has awoken more to Jesus, even as the right, particularly the Evangelical right, has awoken more to justice. As a result, we are beginning to find more common ground because both sides are moving to higher ground.

That is a very hopeful development which, after the deep political and ecclesial divisions of the past years, is opening up some wonderful new possibilities. What possibilities? Let me have Wallis speak for himself: Father “Given these new Ron Rolheiser developments, how both the left and right have awoken more deeply to a new reality .... It is possible to call for personal responsibility and social responsibility at the same time. It is possible to preserve the environment and turn back the threats against our fragile planet while also promoting the kind of economic growth that can lift people out of poverty. It is possible to love one’s country while admitting its mistakes, holding it to higher standards, and insisting that God’s blessings are not only bestowed on one nation. It is possible to take the reality of evil ROLHEISER, page 23

The Catholic Difference

Some questions for new Jesuit General Last month, the 35th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus elected Father Adolfo Nicolas, a Spaniard, as General of the order. A few days later, Father Nicolas gently chided Roman journalists for running some “not so helpful” stories about alleged problems between the Jesuits and Pope Benedict XVI. Any notion of a rift with the Vatican, he said, was “an artificial tension” created by outsiders unaware that “the Society of Jesus from the very beginning has always been in communion with the Holy Father...” The Jesuits “want to collaborate with the Holy See and to obey the Holy Father,” Father Nicolas averred. “That has not changed and it will not change.”

About which, some questions: What will Father Nicolas do about Jesuits who are manifestly not obedient to the pope or to the teaching authority of the Church? Take, for example, the case of Father James Keenan, SJ, of Boston College. Several years ago, Father Keenan testified before the Massachusetts Legislature, arguing that the principles of Catholic social doctrine did not merely tolerate “gay marriage,” they demanded it. That position is manifestly not “in communion” with the teaching of popes past and present on the nature of marriage; now what?

Father Nicolas cannot be unaware of Jesuit colleges and universities whose Catholicism – measured by curriculum, faculty and mode-of-life on campus – is vestigial at best. Does he think it appropriate for Jesuit institutions to honor Jesuits who taught the precise opposite of what the popes have taught about abortion, and distorted the meaning of papal teaching in

counseling others? Georgetown University’s Law School has an endowed chair in international human rights law named after the late Father Robert Drinan, S.J., who did more than anyone else to convince Catholic legislators that the settled teaching of the Church on the grave immorality of abortion had no bearing on their legislative work. Father Drinan gave Catholic legislators a pass on the great civil rights issue of our time, yet a Jesuit university hosts a human rights chair named for him. How does this square with the Society’s commitment to social justice and with the obedient fidelity St. Ignatius bade his followers to observe in their relationship to the Church’s magisterium and to the Bishop of Rome?

Then there is the third-rail issue in religious orders today: homosexuality. In a letter to the General Congregation, Pope Benedict suggested there were serious problems with how some Jesuits undertook the pastoral care of persons with homosexual desires. He could have gone further and addressed this problem within the Society of Jesus itself. It was not that long ago, after all, that the Web site of the Jesuits’ California Province featured photos of “Pretty Boy” and “Jabba the Slut” in gay drag at a novices’ party. Will Father Nicolas demand that Jesuits observe their vows of chastity, whatever their sexual preferences? Will there be consequences for those who violate those vows, or cover for those who do? Will Jesuit vocations offices and novitiates obey the 2005 Vatican instruction which states that “those who practice homosexuality, present deep-seat-

ed homosexual tendencies, or support the socalled ‘gay culture’” must not be admitted to seminaries or to holy orders?

A fourth point: the tendency among some Jesuit theologians to miniGeorge Weigel mize the unique salvific role of Christ. That problem is most apparent in Asia, where Father Nicolas has lived for decades. The Holy See has addressed it in recent disciplinary actions against Jesuit theologians. Does Ignatian communion with the pope still require Jesuits to affirm the Nicene Creed, the Council of Chalcedon’s teaching on the hypostatic union, and the teaching of Dominus Iesus on Christ as unique savior of the world?

The Long Lent of 2002, which revealed the disastrous consequences of sexual corruption and malfeasant leadership in the Church, should have hammered home to every Catholic the dangers of euphemism, and of winking-andnodding. When the future of a great religious congregation is at stake, there is no room for anything but the unvarnished truth. I pray that Father Nicolas provides it.

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

Guest Commentary

Attack on Jesuits out of place (Ed. note: Following is a letter to the Archdiocese of Denver in regard to a column by George Weigel carried in the Feb. 20 Denver Catholic Register. Written by University of San Francisco President Jesuit Father Stephen A. Privett, the letter was forwarded to Catholic San Francisco in anticipation of the newspaper carrying the Weigel column on this page.)

I write in response to George Weigel’s column attacking the Society of Jesus and to register my disappointment that the Archdiocese of Denver saw fit to publish this piece [Feb. 20] and offer it for syndication.

It is difficult for me to understand how the Church is well served by such a mean-spirited assault on a religious order that has served the Church, not perfectly but well, for almost 500 years. The blood of Jesuit martyrs seeded Christianity in the Americas and Asia and more recently witnessed to the Church’s preferential love for the poor in El Salvador. We Jesuits have been the subject of malicious attacks for our entire history, but rarely in an official archdiocesan newspaper. We deserve better.

Let me address some specific concerns I have regarding the accuracy of this column.

Mr. Weigel falsely claims that Father James Keenan, SJ testified in 2003 before the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Commission on the Judiciary that Catholic social thought “demanded” gay marriage. He did not do so. Father Keenan testified against unjust discrimination against gay couples. He did not testify in support of gay marriage or approve homosexual activity. Mr. Weigel is free to argue with Father Keenan’s

position, but he is not free to put false words in his mouth.

Mr. Weigel’s stunningly sweeping statement that Jesuit Father Robert Drinan “did more than anyone else to convince Catholic legislators” on the issue of abortion lacks any supporting evidence. Further, attacks on Father Drinan, who has been out of Congress for more than 25 years and dead for two, strike me as singularly unfair, much like similar attacks on Pope Pius XII or Father Marcel Maciel, neither of whom are alive to defend themselves. Judgments on such complicated persons and situations are best left to qualified historians and only after a thorough review of all relevant archival materials, not to 700word columns by opinionated pundits. The Church would be better served if we all followed the Catholic adage, dic nihil nisi bonum de mortuis (of the dead speak kindly or not at all).

On a more philosophical point, I disagree with Mr. Weigel’s reduction of abortion to a “civil rights” issue. It is that, but only by extension and secondarily. The right to life is not simply a “civil right” conferred by the 13th or 14th amendments to our Constitution or by any civil authority; it is a God-given right constitutive of the dignity of every human being at every stage of life. Mr. Weigel would seem to minimize the importance of abortion by mischaracterizing it as “the great civil rights struggle” rather than “the pivotal moral issue” of our time.

Mr. Weigel’s reference to Jesuit novices in “gay drag” refers to a photo taken at a Halloween party seven years ago at the novitiate. The novices were in costumes that Mr. Weigel chose to characterize as “gay drag” while disingenuously imply-

ing some sort of sybaritic happening. (I hope no one unearths the fifth grade photo of me dressed as a nun in the 1952 All Saints Day parade at St. Mary Magdalen Grammar School in Los Angeles!)

The photo in question of Father Stephen two novices was never A. Privett, S.J. “featured” by the California Province website; it was mistakenly put on-line and immediately taken off for fear it would be malevolently misinterpreted by the likes of Mr. Weigel.

“Will Father Nicolas demand that Jesuits observe their vows of chastity…” This is a classic “When did you stop beating your spouse?” question. I am not a literalist, but I saw no evidence whatsoever from Weigel that Jesuits do not observe their vow of chastity. Mr. Weigel has apparently not read the document on chastity published in 1995 by General Congregation 34 which thoroughly discusses the significance of the vow of Chastity in Jesuit life. Mr. Weigel asks, “Are there no consequences for those who violate those vows?” without producing a shred of evidence that Jesuit superiors do not hold members accountable for fidelity to their vows. They do.

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A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 21:1-11 When Jesus and the disciples drew near Jerusalem and came to Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately you will find an ass tethered, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them here to me. And if anyone should say anything to you, reply, ‘The master has need of them.’

Then he will send them at once.”

This happened so that what had been spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled: Say to daughter Zion, “Behold, your king comes to you, meek and riding on an ass, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.”

The disciples went and did as Jesus had ordered them. They brought the ass and the colt and laid their cloaks over them, and he sat upon them. The very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and strewed them on the road. The crowds preceding him and those following kept crying out and saying: “Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is the he who comes in the name of the Lord; hosanna in the highest.”

And when he entered Jerusalem the whole city was shaken and asked, “Who is this?” And the crowds replied, “This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee.”

A READING FROM THE PROPHET ISAIAH IS 50:4-7 The Lord God has given me a welltrained tongue, that I might know how to speak to the weary a word that will rouse them. Morning after morning he opens my ear that I may hear; and I have not rebelled, have not turned back. I gave my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who plucked my beard; my face I did not shield from buffets and spitting.

The Lord God is my help, therefore I am not disgraced; I have set my face like flint, knowing that I shall not be put to shame.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

All who see me scoff at me; they mock me with parted lips, they wag their heads: “He relied on the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, if he loves him.”

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

Indeed, many dogs surround me, a pack of evildoers closes in upon me; They have pierced my hands and my feet; I can count all my bones.

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

They divide my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.

But you, O Lord, be not far from me; O my help, hasten to aid me.

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

On this Passion Sunday we are reminded of the prophetic voice of both our Messiah and his Church in the words of Isaiah. Paul briefly theologizes about the mystery and ultimate purpose of the incarnation. Then everything comes together with the reading of the Passion according to Matthew, whose telling of the death of Christ includes such particulars as the suicide of Judas, Pilate’s hand washing, foreboding dreams and warnings by Pilate’s wife, threats of riots and a final earthquake as Jesus breathes his last (the only Gospel to include these details) – an appropriate beginning to the busiest and most spiritually charged week of the year!

Many events of the Passion According to Matthew are repeated or celebrated during the course of the week that follows. As we enter the holiest week of our liturgical year, all the liturgical celebrations of the next six days are anticipated in Palm Sunday’s reading of the Passion.

On Tuesday, in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, priests, deacons and laity gather with the Archbishop, our shepherd, as he blesses the holy oils to be used for this Easter Vigil’s rites of initiation and for

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PALM SUNDAY OF THE LORD’S PASSION Matthew 21:1-11; Isaiah 50:4-7; Psalm 22:8-9, 17-18, 19, 20, 23-24; Philippians 2:8-9; Matthew 27:11-54

I will proclaim your name to my brethren; in the midst of the assembly I will praise you: “You who fear the Lord, praise him; all you descendants of Jacob, give glory to him; revere him, all you descendants of Israel!”

R. My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE PHILIPPIANS PHIL 2:6-11 Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Mt 27:11-54 Jesus stood before the governor, Pontius Pilate, who questioned him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”

Jesus said, “You say so.” And when he was accused by the chief priests and eld-

ers, he made no nswer.

Then Pilate said to him, “Do you not hear how many things they are testifying against you?” But he did not answer him one word, so that the governor was greatly amazed. Now on the occasion of the feast the governor was accustomed to release to the crowd one prisoner whom they wished. And at that time they had a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had assembled, Pilate said to them, “Which one do you want me to release to you, Barabbas, or Jesus called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had handed him over. While he was still seated on the bench, his wife sent him a message, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man. I suffered much in a dream today because of him.”

The chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas but to destroy Jesus. The governor said to them in reply, “Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” They answered, “Barabbas!”

Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Jesus called Christ?”

They all said, “Let him be crucified!”

But he said, “Why? What evil has he done?”

They only shouted the louder, “Let him be crucified!”

When Pilate saw that he was not succeeding at all, but that a riot was breaking out instead, he took water and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. Look to it yourselves.”

And the whole people said in reply, “His blood be upon us and upon our children.”

Scripture reflection FATHER BILL NICHOLAS

Holy Week: Beginning with a Passion sacramental anointing throughout the coming year. The priests from around our Archdiocese gather to concelebrate the Mass, manifesting our communion with our Archbishop, and to renew our commitment to priestly service.

Wednesday’s Gospel revisits Judas’ plot

to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver.

On Thursday we come together in our parishes for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper (read as part of this Sunday’s Gospel) celebrating the institution of the Holy Eucharist and Jesus’ final gathering with his disciples before being lead off to be crucified. At the

Then he released Barabbas to them, but after he had Jesus scourged, he handed him over to be crucified. Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus inside the praetorium and gathered the whole cohort around him. They stripped off his clothes and threw a scarlet military cloak about him.

Weaving a crown out of thorns, they placed it on his head, and a reed in his right hand. And kneeling before him, they mocked him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” They spat upon him and took the reed and kept striking him on the head. And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the cloak, dressed him in his own clothes, and led him off to crucify him.

As they were going out, they met a Cyrenian named Simon; this man they pressed into service to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha — which means Place of the Skull —, they gave Jesus wine to drink mixed with gall. But when he had tasted it, he refused to drink.

After they had crucified him, they divided his garments by casting lots; then they sat down and kept watch over him there. And they placed over his head the written charge against him: This is Jesus, the King of the Jews. Two revolutionaries were crucified with him, one on his right and the other on his left.

Those passing by reviled him, shaking their heads and saying, “You who would destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days, save yourself, if you are the Son of God, and come down from the cross!”

Likewise the chief priests with the scribes and elders mocked him and said, “He saved others; he cannot save himself. So he is the king of Israel! Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him. He trusted in God; let him deliver him now if he wants him. For he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” The revolutionaries who were crucified with him also kept abusing him in the same way.

From noon onward, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

And about three o’clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?”which means, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Some of the bystanders who heard it said, “This one is calling for Elijah.”

Immediately one of them ran to get a sponge; he soaked it in wine, and putting it on a reed, gave it to him to drink.

But the rest said, ‘Wait, let us see if Elijah comes to save him.”

But Jesus cried out again in a loud voice, and gave up his spirit.

Here all kneel and pause for a short time.

And behold, the veil of the sanctuary was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth quaked, rocks were split, tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep were raised.

And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection, they entered the holy city and appeared to many. The centurion and the men with him who were keeping watch over Jesus feared greatly when they saw the earthquake and all that was happening, and they said, “Truly, this was the Son of God!” end of the Mass the Eucharist vacates our parish churches, removed to another location, leaving them devoid of the eucharistic presence of Christ for the following two days. At the altar where the Eucharist is reposed, parishioners attend in prayer on into Holy Thursday Night. (At such time, appropriate reading could be the 13th through 17th chapters of St. John’s Gospel.)

On Good Friday, the one day of the year when Mass is not celebrated, we again participate in an extended Gospel reading, recalling Christ’s death and burial in the Passion According to John. The Eucharist returns briefly as we conclude our celebration of Christ’s death on the Cross by receiving Communion consecrated on Holy Thursday. Many gather in prayer and song, in liturgy and devotion, before the Church throughout the world takes one final day of rest.

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St. Patrick’s Day Father Peter C. Yorke — and the Irish Memory (PHOTO COURTESY OF ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ARCHIVES)

accepted Father Yorke’s resignation as editor of The Monitor in 1898, as well as from his other positions of power. Though Archbishop Riordan Of all the Irish greats who have roamed would ultimately make Father Yorke a pastor in the streets of San Francisco, none has been 1903 (St. Anthony in Oakland), and again in more fondly remembered by the San 1913 (St. Peter in San Francisco) the priest Francisco Irish than Father Peter C. Yorke. remained a thorn in the Archbishop’s side.

Priest, educator, editor, crusader, labor priest, In 1902, Father Yorke began his own newsliturgist, author and Irish patriot, Yorke paper, The Leader, to promote, among other touched all the bases dear to the Irish heart. things, the cause of labor and the Irish free Born in Galway in 1864, he was ordained state. The Leader proved to be a continual for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in source of tension between its editor and the 1887. Shortly thereafter, he enrolled at the Archbishop. In 1906, when the Archbishop new Catholic University of America as one was encouraged by prominent citizens and of its first students. Father Yorke returned to clerics to remove Father Yorke as editor of The San Francisco in 1891 and was promoted Leader, Archbishop Riordan lamented: “I am rapidly. In 1894, he was appointed chancelpowerless to stop him. If I did, we would have lor and secretary to Archbishop Patrick W. worse trouble on our hands than McGlynn Riordan, as well as the editor of the archcaused in New York.” (Edward McGlynn was diocesan newspaper, The Monitor. a radical New York City priest of the late 19th Father Yorke’s appointment was propicentury who inspired major public protests.) tiously timed as the newly formed antiIn 1909 a high-ranking Vatican official regCatholic American Protective Association Father Peter Yorke’s gravesite at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, continues to be istered his concern about Father Yorke’s publi(APA) was just beginning to flex its muscle the site of an annual memorial Mass, although not drawing the numbers cation.

Archbishop Riordan responded that he in San Francisco. Father Yorke emerged as it did in the years immediately following his death on Palm Sunday, 1925. had done everything but issue an edict banning the great defender of Catholic interests, pubThis year’s 10:30 a.m. 83rd Palm Sunday, March 16, memorial Mass will take his priests from “editing or publishing newslishing a series of exposes on members of place in the cemetery’s All Saints Mausoleum. Capuchin Father Donal Burke papers and periodicals without the consent of the APA and engaging its leaders in highly will preside. Above, President of Ireland Eamon de Valera (center, dark suit) the Ordinary. I have been of the opinion that publicized debates in the local press. pays one of his many visits to Father Yorke’s grave in the 1930s. this latter method is the only one that will have In Irish memory the priest “vanquished” the any effect and I doubt then it will have the APA; or “routed” and “crushed” them, depending on to whom you talked. The Honorable Richard Tobin gathered for a memorial Mass at St. Peter Church in San desired effect…I almost despair of having him stopped should wrote of the APA in 1931, “One of the most insidious and mis- Francisco followed by an auto pilgrimage to Holy Cross he wish to go on with his publication.” Finally, Archbishop chievous conspiracies that this community has ever known, Cemetery in Colma culminating in a procession to the priest’s Riordan did succeed in getting Father Yorke to step down as which had for its purpose the destruction of the civil rights and grave, where songs, orations and recitations abounded. This editor in 1909. Unofficially, however, Father Yorke continued social standing of Catholics, was crushed almost by the unaid- became one of the City’s greatest Irish and labor gatherings. to guide the publication until his death in 1925.

By the early 1930s the event was attracting more than 5,000 In one of the ironies of history, when the Archdiocese ed genius of this indomitable champion.”

Father Yorke’s reputation as the Catholic champion grew participants, and featured such notables as Governor James decided to obtain a new Chancery building for its administraimmensely during the brutal Teamster’s strike of 1901. During “Sunny Jim” Rolph, Mayor Angelo Rossi, and other civic, labor tive offices a few years ago, a building on Peter Yorke Way that strike he placed the Church in San Francisco firmly on the and religious dignitaries. President of Ireland Eamon de Valera was selected. A bronze plaque now graces the entry to the side of labor. He became the spiritual adviser of Teamster attended on several occasions. The year following his death, Pastoral Center celebrating Yorke’s achievement as “Priest, leader Michael Casey, and became the union’s most popular eulogist Father John Cullen of Sacred Heart Parish opined that pastor, educator, editor, defender of the faith, defender of publicist. Father Yorke argued that his defense of labor was Yorke should be “linked with the names of the great galaxy of labor, promoter of Catholic education.” Old difficulties faded, based on papal teaching as articulated in the famous social Irish missionaries that have carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Father Yorke once again reigns as the unquestioned to the ends of the earth.” And in champion of Irish Catholicism in San Francisco. encyclical Rerum Novarum, issued 1931, Tobin concluded his remarks in 1891, a claim which was supDeacon Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D., is archivist on Father Yorke: “As long as virtue ported by Archbishop Riordan. is esteemed, as long as liberty is The strike turned into a bloody of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. loved, as long as justice is veneratstruggle. Five workers were killed ed, his name and his deeds will conand another 336 injured. In tinue to be revered.” response to declining worker High praise came in a poem by morale, Father Yorke rallied workDaniel E. Doran, “Rest, Warrior ers with an electrifying speech at RESIDENTS CLAIMING IRISH ANCESTRY Priest,” which was recited annually the Metropolitan Temple in San 12% at the Yorke gathering: “O Priest Francisco on Aug. 8. The Irishman 36 million with the heart of a warrior bold/ affirmed the justice of the workers’ Rest now, for the battle is ended!/ claims and queried his audience, 24% No more shall thy voice move our “Shall men for whom Christ died hosts of old/ No more the just to teach them that they were free cause, undefended/ Find these as a men, with free men’s rights, be champion, valorous, brave,/ crushed beneath the foot of the U.S. Massachusetts Undaunted by danger or peril,/ least bright of all the angels that With strong arm to strike at the fell from heaven, Mammon, the PERCENT OF IRISH-AMERICANS dastard or knave/Or shelter the spirit of Greed?”

WHO WORK IN... friendless and stranger.”

Later, Father Yorke put the In the Irish memory, Yorke choice simply to the workers, 38% had become all good things.

“Workingmen of San Francisco, management, professional However, the real Father Yorke which will you heed, Mayor James was more complex. The real man Duval Phelan (who supported the 28% was not always totally virtuous or strikebreakers) or Pope Leo XIII?” sales, offi ce jobs loved. Inklings of this are found in He gave a second speech on Sept. the San Francisco Call’s obituary, 21; 15,000 pressed in to hear him 9% Father Peter C. Yorke “He could love fiercely and hate speak. To those who questioned a construction, extraction, maintenance fiercely.” And “Tact was not a priest’s involvement in the labor struggle, he later answered, “As a priest my duty is with major virtue in the eyes of Father Yorke.” Indeed, the cleric’s workingmen, who are struggling for their rights because that pen could be sharp and acerbic, and his willingness to make U.S. YEARLY PRODUCTION OF TWO is the historical position of the priesthood and because that is enemies was legendary. During the 1901 strike, according to ST. PATRICK’S DAY FAVORITES: James Walsh, Father Yorke dubbed Mayor Phelan “Jimmy the the Lord’s command.”

The APA controversy and the 1901 strike catapulted Rag” because he was “as useful to labor as a dishcloth on top Beef: 42.1 billion pounds Father Yorke to stardom among the City’s Irish. As historian of a pole.” Or he called him “Jimmie the Least.” More damnCabbage: 2.6 billion pounds James P. Walsh put it, “Yorke was undeniably one of their ing Yorke began referring to the mayor as “Clubber Phelan”; own and they gloried in his attack on employers and religious after a meeting between the mayor and himself, Father Yorke bigots. They liked his style. He was a fighter and they could claimed the mayor had told him, “If they [the workers] don’t Source: U.S. Census Bureau ©2008 CNS want to get clubbed, let them go back to work.” Walsh also vicariously share in his victories over the respectables.”

Father Yorke’s star intensified over the years. By the points out, “Yorke descended to barnyard Gaelic, referring to Twelve percent of Americans claim to have Irish time he died, he was more than legendary. Some saw it fit- Phelan as ‘Seamus a hocka.’ From then on Phelan remained ancestry. St. Patrick’s Day is March 17. This year it falls ting that he died on Palm Sunday 1925, thereby cementing first on Yorke’s hocka list.” When critics complained that his rhetoric was not appropriate for a priest, Father Yorke justified during Holy Week, so in some parts of the country liturhis ties with Catholicism’s holiest week.

Upon his death, the priest was lionized by the Catholic his efforts with the simple quip: “The horsewhip is the only gical celebrations and civic parades to mark it will take place another day, including the Archdiocese of San Press. In 1973, his biography, “Consecrated Thunderbolt,” corrective for such abuses.”

In addition to his blunt style, Father Yorke often found him- Francisco where the solemnity of St. Patrick, co-patron written by Jesuit Joseph Brusher, contained nary a discouragof the Archdiocese, has been transferred to today, ing word. The popular canonization of the Father Yorke self at odds with his Archbishop, Patrick W. Riordan. In 1900, March 14, and the San Francisco St. Patrick’s Day began immediately following his death. In 1926, a tradition Father Yorke returned from a trip to Ireland to find no parish began that grew over the years. The friends of Father Yorke appointment forthcoming. Archbishop Riordan had willingly Parade will take place tomorrow, March 15.

Irish in the U.S.

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Privett . . .

To refer to Catholicism as “vestigial at best� on Catholic college campuses indicates an animosity toward and ignorance of Catholic universities. Just one example: USF has a Catholic Studies program; a Catholic focused-curriculum in the Theology and Religious Studies Department; a Master’s Program in Catholic Theology for which those who teach in Catholic schools receive a 50 percent tuition reduction; the Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought; a Catholic theology emphasis; an endowed faculty chair in Catholic thought; the McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good; a graduate Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership that has prepared countless Catholic school administrators across the country; a residential student learning community, the St. Ignatius Institute, whose common curriculum is comprised of classic texts from Augustine and Aquinas to John Paul II; a partnership with the Archdiocese of San Francisco to support Catholic grammar schools in the Mission; USF has honored Cardinal Levada and Archbishop Niederauer with honorary doctoral degrees and both archbishops have lectured on campus and met with University trustees; USF has a flourishing university ministry program with retreats, liturgies, lectures and prayer groups; USF students participate in international papal youth day.

Pope Benedict XVI expressed his feelings for the Society of Jesus in an address [the entire talk is worth reading] to members of the current General Congregation when he said to the assembled Jesuits, “The Church needs you, counts on you, and continues to turn to you with confidence, particularly to reach the geographical and spiritual places where others do not reach or find it difficult to reach.� The pope asked that Jesuits “make the face of the Lord known to so many for whom it remains hidden or unrecognizable.�

Mr. Weigel began his column by citing Father General Nicolas’ chiding of those who “create rifts and an artificial tension� between the pope and the Society of Jesus. It appears that Mr. Weigel himself has authored a “not so helpful� piece that appears to question Pope Benedict’s confidence in the Society of Jesus. The readership of Catholic diocesan newspapers deserve more civil, balanced and professional fare than that served-up and passed around by the Denver Catholic Register. One cannot build-up the Body of Christ by tearing down its members.

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The steering committee for the April 5 domestic violence seminar at St. Timothy Parish in San Francisco included, standing from left: Philippines Deputy Consul General Antonio Morales, consular officers Wilma Bautista and Ruby Balanban, Catholic Charities CYO’s Diana Otero, and Assistance to Nationals Officer Jaime Calano; seated: CORA community outreach coordinator Cherie Querol Moreno (left) and CORA Kumares president Erlinda Galeon.

Domestic violence seminar scheduled April 5 The Archdiocese of San Francisco, Catholic Charities CYO, the Philippine Consulate General and CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse) have announced a second annual free educational seminar aimed at ending domestic violence in the Filipino community. “Pamilya Natin: Malusog! Mapayapa! Matatag!� (Our Family: Healthy! Peaceful! Solid!), will take place on Saturday, April 5, from 2-5 p.m., at the gymnasium of St. Timothy Church, 1515 Dolan Ave., San Mateo.

Archbishop George Niederauer, Philippine Consul General Marciano Paynor Jr., Vicar for Filipinos Msgr. Floro Arcamo, CORA Executive Director Melissa Lukin, KGO TV traffic reporter Frances Dinglasan and television and film actor Giovannie Pico will be lead speakers at the event.

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Lenten Opportunities Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m.: Noontime Concerts at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant in San Francisco. The 45-minute program follows the 12:05 p.m. Mass. Visit www.noontimeconcerts.org for schedule of performers.

Wednesdays through March 19, 7:30 p.m.: Scripture Faith Sharing/Lectio Divina at Motherhouse of Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 43326 Mission Blvd. in Fremont. Contact Sister Beth Quire at (510) 657-2468 or beth@msjdominicans.org. March 20, 7:30 p.m.: Two wellknown local poets – Lindsey Crittenden and Rachel Howard — will read from their published work, discuss work in progress and share literary scene experiences at a free presentation of Notre Dame de Namur University’s Creative Writers’ Series 2007-2008. A reception will follow. To be held at Wiegand Gallery on campus, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Tuesdays through April 1, 7:30 p.m.: Catholic Studies Series: Understanding the Creed with Mark Brumley, publisher/CEO Ignatius Press.

Cost: $60. Takes place at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St., just two blocks south of Monterey Blvd near I-280, Glen Park BART and City College.

Contact Nellie Hizon at nelliehizon@yahoo.com or at (415) 699-7927 or Mary McCurry at McCurryM@sbcglobal.net or (650) 738-2571.

March 15, 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Day of Recollection sponsored by San Francisco Guild of the Catholic Medical Association at St. Mary’s Hospital chapel and cafeteria, 2250 Hayes St., 6th floor, San Francisco. Donation is $35. Lunch and light breakfast included. Presenters are Father John Jimenez and Nello Prato on the rosary. Father Mark Taheny, chaplain, will preside at Mass. Call (415) 219-8719.

March 15, 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.: The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences stages “Twenty Years after the New View From Rome: Pope John Paul II On Science and Religion,” a conference featuring Father George Coyne, Ph.D., former director of the Vatican Observatory. Held at the Graduate Theological Union Board Room, 2400 Ridge Rd, Berkeley. Registration: $45 or $35 for seniors/students. Seating is limited. For more information, see www.ctns.org/jkr_fellow.html or call (510) 848-8152.

March 16, 2:30 p.m.: “Song of the Shadows,” a Holy Week cantata featuring choir members from St. Matthew, St. Robert, St. Bartholomew, St. Catherine parishes as well as 1st Congregational Church at St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Place, San Mateo. Call (650) 344-7622. Admission free.

March 18, 7 – 9 p.m.: The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences public lecture, “The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Did God Do It?” by Jesuit Father George Coyne, Ph.D, former director of the Vatican Observatory. Held at Gesu Chapel, 1735 Le Roy Ave., Berkeley. Free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.ctns.org/jkr_fellow.html or contact CTNS at (510) 848-8152.

March 18: Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology, San Domenico School’s Spring Spirituality Evening featuring Mary Evelyn Tucker, a scholar, author and lecturer on religion and ecology. She is co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology and is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Evening begins with dessert reception at 7 p.m. and talk at 7:30 p.m. at San Domenico School, Hall of the Arts, 1500 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo. Contact Beth O’Hara at (415) 258-1931. Reservations necessary.

Tickets at $35 include dessert.

March 21 - 30: Divine Mercy Novena at Star of the Sea Church, 8th Ave. and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 751-0450 for times and details.

March 28, 29: “Essential Skills for Catechetical Leaders,” a presentation by Ed Gorton, former president of the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership, at St. Charles Church, 880 Tamarack Ave. in San Carlos, Friday 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. The workshop includes instruction in developing a catechetical team, recruiting, mentoring and retaining catechists, ethical and legal issues pertinent to catechetical leadership today. Fee is $60 for both sessions. Register

by March 20. Call Nancy Farrant at (650) 591-7349, ext. 27.

April 3, May 1, 7:30 p.m.: Bioethics Seminars on Advance Health Directives at Heart of Mary Center, 2580 McAllister St. in San Francisco. Donation is $30. Refreshments served. Professor Raymond Dennehy will facilitate. Call (415) 219-8719.

Taize/Chanted 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 available. For information contact, mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net.

1st Friday at 7:30 p.m.: Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113.

2nd Friday at 8 p.m.: Our Lady of the Pillar, 400 Church St. in Half Moon Bay. Call Cheryl Fuller at (650) 726-2249.

3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Contact Benedictine Father Martin at (650) 851-6133 for directions or information.

1st Tuesday at 7 p.m.: National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, San Francisco. Call (415) 983-0405 or visit www.shrineSF.org.

Sundays: Gregorian Chant at the National Shrine of Saint Francis, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco, 12:15 p.m. Mass. For more information, call (415) 983-0405.

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

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

Arts & Entertainment Through April 30, 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.: Travers Flynn’s time lapse color photography at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeine Dr. in Burlingame. Call (650) 340-7474 or visit www.mercy-center.org.

Reunions St. Emydius Class of 1958 will have its 50th reunion this year! We are looking for classmates and have a website at www.stemydius58.com. You can enter your information, post pictures and help us plan the event, now scheduled for spring 2008.

We are hoping to go to Duggan’s ranch, where we had our 8th grade picnic, with some of us riding up in a Facciola meat truck! It will be much fun - contact Bill Duggan at (415) 239-2278, Duggan341@aol.com, or Irene Hogan Deem, (707) 869-3751, irenedeem@comcast.net.

Star of the Sea Elementary School will mark its hundredth year in 2009. Graduates, former students and friends of Star of the Sea grade school and its now closed sister-school, Star of the Sea Academy, are asked to visit www.staroftheseasf.com or email alumni@staroftheseasf.com.

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

April 12, 11 a.m.: 50th reunion for class of ’58 from Presentation High School, San Francisco at Kokkari Restaurant, 200 Jackson St. in San Francisco. Call Nora Kelly at (650) 340-8277.

Roughing it for a few days this month were eighth grade students from St. John Elementary School in San Francisco who took their class retreat at a camp in Occidental. Guiding the 31 soon-to-be-graduates were Ursuline Sister Lillian Repak, eighth grade teacher at the school, and Kenneth Willers, principal.

Eighth grade parents and former students of the school chaperoned. “We the St. John’s Class of 2008 would like to thank Sister Lillian, Mr. Willers, leaders and parents for a memorable overnight retreat experience,” the class said in a note. “Not only did it bring us closer to ourselves, but also closer to God!”

St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information.

Thursdays through April 17, 7:30 p.m.: “Shedding Light on the Study of God: A Guided Reading of St. Thomas Aquinas.” Series explores The Treatise on the Divine Nature, Part 1 of St. Thomas’ Summa Theologiæ. Each session will reflect independently on one of the Twelve Questions of the reading;. Participants are welcome to attend as many or few as sessions as they wish.

‘The series is free, and led by Stephen C. Córdova, who teaches philosophy at the University of San Francisco and Dominican University. Contact Cordova at cordova@usfca.edu for details. No meeting March 20.

April 9, May 14: 7 p.m.: Talk for parents, teachers and concerned Catholics by Gil Bailie, a nationally known Catholic lecturer and author, “Why Did It Take the Crucifixion to Save Us?” A series of presentations combining theology and anthropology for unique insights into faith. For information, call (415) 651-4171, or visit www.ccgaction.org.

Docent tours of the Cathedral are available Saturdays for student groups and others. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 20.

Sundays: Concerts at 3:30 p.m. followed by vespers. Open to the public. Admission free. March 16: Russell Hancock, pianist. March 23: David Hatt, organist. Schedule subject to change or cancellation. For information, contact Chris Tietze at (415) 567-2020, ext. (213)

April 6, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Marketplace at the Mission, a flea market in the European town square tradition benefiting St. Raphael Parish Pre-School, 1100 Fifth Ave. in San Rafael. Now in its late planning stage, space is still available for vendors. The event also features food, entertainment and a children’s activity area. Call Caryn Lentz at (415) 6402245 or Jeanne Orellana at (415) 827-2453.

April 11, 12: Mother’s Club Garage Sale in Visitacion Church Hall, 655 Sunnydale Ave. in San Francisco, Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Choose from clothes, jewelry, purses, furniture, toys and more.

April 19, noon: “Spring into Fashion,” a spaghetti lunch, fashion show and silent auction, benefiting St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish. Tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door - $12/adults, $5 for ages 5 to 16, under 5 free.The event takes place in the Shipwreck gym at the corners of Third Street and Jamestown. Call the church office for details: (415) 468-3434.

Serra Club March 27, noon: Luncheon meeting of Serra Club of San Francisco at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia St. in San Francisco. Guest speaker is seminarian Joseph Previtali, who will be ordained next year, and speaking on the path to holiness. Tickets are $20. Non-members welcome. Call Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224.

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Food & Fun March 16, noon – 4 p.m.: 52nd annual St. Patrick’s Day BBQ and Fundraiser benefiting Sacred Heart Parish in Olema at Dance Palace Community Center, 5th and B St. in Pt. Reyes Station. Tickets are $15 adults/$7 children and include barbecued chicken, pasta, salad, rolls and milk, tea or coffee. Entertainment, too! Desserts and libations will be available for purchase. Call (415) 663-1139.

March 17: Hibernian Newman Club St. Patrick’s Day lunch at Hilton Hotel, 333 O’Farrell St. in San Francisco beginning with no-host reception at 11 a.m. and lunch at noon. Enjoy Irish music and entertainment. Brian Murphy of KNBR-Sports Radio is keynote speaker. Bill Henneberry of 1951 USF Dons football team is honoree. Tickets are $80. Call (415) 386-3434.

March 26 – fourth Wednesday in deference to Holy Week: Immaculate Conception Chapel spaghetti and meatball lunch is served for $8 usually each third Wednesday of the month. The feast begins at noon. The popular family style lunches consist of salad, bread, pasta and terrific homemade meatballs. Beverages are available for purchase. The meal is served in the church hall, beneath the chapel. Call (415) 824-1762.

March 29, 6 p.m.: “Bella Notte,” a fundraising evening benefiting the Community Spirit Scholarship Fund at Notre Dame de Namur University at the school’s Walter Gleason Center, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Enjoy dinner, dancing and entertainment as well as silent and live auctions. Alumna, Marie Gallo, class of ’57 is honoree.

Tickets are $175. Call (650) 508-4161 or email msazo@ndnu.edu.

An interview with Archbishop George Niederauer airs on the Catholic Channel band of Sirius Satellite Radio March 28 at 10 a.m. PT; March 29 at noon; and March 30 at 8 p.m. The host is Rob Astorino, station manager and program director for the Catholic Channel. Some 8.5 million people subscribe to Sirius.

Three free “get acquainted” days of Sirius Satellite Radio are available by visiting www.Sirius.com/3forfree.

Sunday, 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

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Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese.

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

Ongoing support groups for the divorced and separated take place at St. Bartholomew Parish, 300 Columbia Drive at Alameda de las Pulgas, first and third Tuedays of the months at 7 p.m in parish Media Center and first and third Wednesdays of the month at St. Stephen parish hall, Eucalyptus and 23rd Ave. in San Francisco next to Stonestown Mall at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail at (650) 591-8452 or Joanne at (650) 347-0701.

Sunday evenings, 7 p.m., beginning March 30: Divorce Recovery Course sponsored by Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Bay Area, in Spirituality Center of St. Bartholomew Parish, 300 Columbia Dr. at Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo. A chance to better understand the journey begun with loss heal from its pain. Cost of $45 covers book and materials. Call Vonnie at (650) 8734236 or Toni at (650) 367-9335.

Thursday, 5:30 p.m.: Catholic Singles Club – 50s, 60s, 70s: Join us at Starbucks at corner of Jackson and Davis Streets for chat and possible plans for weekend activities. Come to table with CSC sign. More information: Maria (415) 391-8579.

May 2 – 4: Widowed, Separated and Divorced weekend at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 350 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. For information and brochure contact LaVerne at (650) 355-3978 or Ward at (415) 821-3390 or email sanjosebe@att.net.

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

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

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: Tiburon, St. Hilary: Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775. Ross, St. Anselm: (415) 453-2342.

Greenbrae, St. Sebastian: Jean Mariani (415) 4617060. Mill Valley, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel: Rick Dullea (415) 388-4190. Sausalito, St. Mary Star of the Sea: Lloyd Dulbecco (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, Michael Adams (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, Lee Gallery (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus (415) 664-8590; St. Paul of the Shipwreck, Deacon Larry Chatmon and Loretta Chatmon (415) 468-3434.

San Mateo County: San Mateo — St. Bartholomew: Donna Salinas (650) 347-0701, ext.

14; St. Matthew: Deacon Jim Shea (650) 344-7622.

Burlingame — St. Catherine of Siena: Silvia Chiesa (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels: Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter (650) 375-8023. Pacifica, St. Peter: Sylvia Miles (650) 355-6650, Jerry Trecroci (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher (650) 355-4355.

Half Moon Bay, Our Lady of the Pillar: Meghan (650) 726-4337.

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

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

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Essay contest deadline March 31 March 31 is the final date for entries in the Archdiocese’s Respect Life Ministry’s annual essay contest, said Vicki Evans who coordinates the office.

This year’s theme is “As soon as Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant in her womb leaped for joy.”

“Our hope is that students will contemplate and grasp the humanity of the unborn, thus building a solid foundation for a lifelong respect for the sanctity of every human life at every stage of development,” Evans wrote in a letter to pastors, Catholic school

principals, parish religious education leaders and home-schooling families.

There are six entry groups defined by school grade level: grades 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 78, 9-10, 11-12.

“Over the past few years we have been overwhelmed by the positive response to this contest,” Evans said.

For entry forms and contest details, visit the website of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at www.sflifeandjustice.org; click on “Respect Life.”

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Sirius Radio interviews Archbishop Niederauer

By Tom Burke An interview with Archbishop George Niederauer is scheduled to air on the Catholic Channel band of Sirius Satellite Radio March 28 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, and again on March 29 at noon and March 30 at 8 p.m. The host is Rob Astorino, station manager and program director for the Catholic Channel.

In his hour-long conversation with Astorino – taped in San Francisco in the studios of KCBS Radio - Archbishop Niederauer addresses topics including his early life in Los Angeles, his vocation to the priesthood, his appointment to the episcopate, and English Literature, a field of study in which he holds a post-graduate degree.

“Archbishop Niederauer is such an interesting man,” Astorino told Catholic San Francisco, stealing a few moments away from planning Catholic Channel coverage and programming of Pope Benedict XVI’x visit to New York in April. “He’s down to earth with a great sense of humor.”

Astorino met Archbishop Niederauer at a recent meet-

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Patrick Cathedral and hope one day “I’ve been fortunate to have had to air Mass from San Francisco’s the opportunity to interview many St. Mary’s Cathedral,” Astorino cardinals, archbishops and bishops said, noting the Catholic Channel in our country,” Astorino said. is “breaking the mold of what peo“The interviews allow our listeners ple expect religious radio to be a chance to get to know the hierarwhile still enjoying being proudly chy of the Church in a more perCatholic.” sonal way.”

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Paddy to Jimmy: Book traces evolution of Irish-Americans “LOOKING FOR JIMMY: A SEARCH FOR IRISH AMERICA,” by Peter Quinn. Overlook Press (New York, 2007). 283 pp., $26.95.

Reviewed by John H. Carroll Once again another courageous IrishAmerican has entered the fray to relate the story of his people in the United States. In “Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America,” Peter Quinn has a novel approach.

He traces the evolution of Paddy, the Irish spalpeen and refugee from the potato famine, into the modern urban Irish-American.

The author refers to him as Jimmy. His type is exemplified by actor Jimmy Cagney and popular post-World War I mayor of New York Jimmy Walker. These descendants of downtrodden Paddy came into their own on the sidewalks of New York and other American urban centers. Quinn tells this history with a flourish. He also develops certain aspects of this transformation that have been largely forgotten or neglected in the folk memory.

The author views the potato famine as one of the greatest disasters to ever strike Europe. The indifference of an alien administration only added to the suffering of the

Passion . . .

■ Continued from page 20 darkness, broken only by the light of the Paschal Candle. We are reminded through multiple readings of God’s ongoing process toward the redemption of his people. For the first time since Ash Wednesday the Church sings acclamations set aside during our 40 days of penance. For the first time since Holy Thursday Mass is celebrated, and Christ’s eucharistic presence returns to tabernacles throughout the world – but not before new members are welcomed into the Catholic community through the waters of baptism and the anointing of confirmation.

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poor tenant class, who died by the thousands from hunger and disease. The ancient clan system was shattered and the Gaelic language, perhaps the oldest vernacular in Europe, was abandoned. The only secure institution for the survivors was their Church.

In the middle of the 19th century, thousands of Irish began their great escape to America. Many were young single people.

They tended to settle in the large eastern coastal cities, mainly New York and Boston.

Quinn bases much of this narrative on his own family’s stories.

He admits that information about their lives in Ireland is sketchy. This situation is typical.

However, one elderly family member said his prayers in Gaelic until he died. Another at an advanced age said he would return to Ireland if the landlords were finally evicted.

The author is on really secure ground when he writes about his immediate family in the Bronx. They were well established in one of the three great tribes of that borough: the Irish, the Italians and the Jews. His father was active in politics and served as a U.S. congressman representing a Bronx district.

Quinn’s book provides provocative insights into ethnic machine politics. of these liturgical celebrations are anticipated, and we enter the holiest week of our liturgical year almost as if the Church can barely contain its passion for the Resurrection. We celebrate Passion/Palm Sunday with shouts of “Hosanna to the Son of David!” We get a head start on the celebrations of the week in the solemn reading of Matthew’s account of the Passion. We prepare for our holiest week by joining in the proclamation of the Lord’s death on the cross amid songs of praise and thanksgiving – a suitable finale to our 40 days of Lent and an appropriate prelude to our 50-day celebration of Easter!

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Although there was corruption, there also was a personal bond between the party bosses and the people they served, unlike the impersonal political style in vogue today.

The story of the Irish in America during the early 19th century is closely associated with the life of Archbishop John Hughes, a quintessential Paddy. He was an Ulster Catholic born in County Tyrone, where memories of the sectarian ravages of the 1798 rebellion were very much alive. He came to the States as a young man and worked as a laborer, a spalpeen, but eventually became a priest and bishop of New York. Quinn comments: “It’s no exaggeration to say that this was a perfect marriage of the man and the moment.”

Archbishop Hughes was “more Irish chieftain than Christian churchman,” the author says. The bishop went on to lay the foundations for the Archdiocese of New York. He rallied his parishioners to become involved in public life and resist the bigotry.

He set up parochial schools and Catholic social services and made plans for the construction of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Much of what Jimmy inherited from Paddy was as a result of the bishop’s work in a difficult time.

Quinn has some comments about relations between the Irish in the old sod and their American cousins. As a student in Ireland he detected some antagonistic feelings in Irish academic circles against IrishAmericans. However, impartial observers may note that as surely as Paddy evolved into Jimmy and now works on Wall Street and lives on Long Island, his cousin Paddy in the ancestral homeland has evolved into Padraic, works for the EU in Dublin and lives on the coast in County Wicklow.

“Looking for Jimmy” is a good read and should bring back memories to anyone who grew up in an Irish parish.

Carroll is a retired civil servant and writes frequently about Ireland and IrishAmericans.

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Development Department: The mission of the Office of Development and Alumni Relations is to further the school’s mission by pursuing philanthropic support from individuals, foundations and corporations. The department is currently seeking to broaden its fundraising and community programs by engaging our constituents more fully in the school’s activities, through comprehensive fund and friend raising programs. A capital campaign is under preparation with a goal of launching the private phase in late 2008 or early 2009.

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Responsibilities: 1. Write and oversee the implementation of the annual development plan and budget to meet the overall goals of the school.

2. Work with the President, Business Manager and other key leaders to develop strategic plans, timelines and budgets for meeting the current and future needs of the school.

3. Provide staff support to the Development Committee of the Board.

4. Develop strategies and timelines for building a comprehensive, sustainable major gifts program to support the capital campaign and future fundraising initiatives.

5. Provide guidance and direction to the Director of Planned Giving, to assure integration of all planned giving and other special project fundraising into the overall development plan.

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40,000 attend LA religious ed congress ANAHEIM, Calif. (CNS) — More than 40,000 participants at the Los Angeles archdiocesan Religious Education Congress in Anaheim Feb. 28-March 2 were encouraged in numerous workshops and multicultural liturgies to raise their sights and spirits toward envisioning a Christ-centered future of hope and possibilities.

The theme for the four-day gathering — which included a youth day Feb. 28 — was “Lift Your Gaze ... See Anew!”

The theme was addressed during the opening of the congress itself Feb. 29 by Sister Edith Prendergast, a Religious Sister of Charity and director of the Office of Religious Education, sponsor of the congress.

This year’s motif, she said, “is an invitation to open wide not only our physical eyes, but the eyes of our hearts, and the eyes of memory and the eyes of blessing — and to see beyond and to see beneath and to see whole panoramas of goodness and beauty, and to recognize the sacred at the heart of all of reality.”

Among religious educators of the San Francisco Archdiocese to attend the recent religious education congress in Anaheim were, from left, Our Lady of the Pillar Parish’s Claudia Lopez, Mayra Contreras, Claudia Mirmantes and Sister Mary Rafaela Aguilar, and Redwood City’s Our Lady of Mt. Carmel’s Sister Noberta Villasenor.

“Today we are called to wake up to the lantern within us, to the light that’s already there and to recognize that and to affirm that,” continued Sister Prendergast. “God invites us to be wide-eyed, open and visionary.”

Father Robert Barron, in his March 1 keynote on “The Religious Educator as Evangelizer,” urged congress participants to be “dynamite to change the world” by becoming good at “telling the great five-act Christian story of the grace of creation, the fall, the formation of a people Israel, the coming of the Messiah and the age of the Church.”

Religious education leaders Marguerite Ott, left, and Kathy Lange of San Francisco’s St. Gregory Parish attended the religious education congress in Anaheim.

we turn away from that richness. We must stop dumbing down our tradition if we’re going to make this story compelling.”

Throughout the weekend, congress participants spoke about the challenges the Church is facing, both broadly and in their parishes.

They sought out new ideas, wisdom and fellowship from congress participants and workshop speakers.

Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown, concelebrated the March 2 morning liturgy with Monterey Bishop Richard J. Garcia and retired Monterey Bishop Sylvester D. Ryan.

“The entire universe has been loved into existence,” said Father Barron, a Chicago archdiocesan priest who teaches at the University of St. Mary of the LakeMundelein Seminary in Illinois. “Find the place right now in you where you are being loved into existence, spoken into existence.”

Father Barron challenged religious educators to tell the world the great story of the church.

“The Catholic tradition is a very smart tradition, intellectually profound, rich,” he said.

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Holy Angels School, Colma, St. Patrick School, Larkspur, and St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco, were three of 22 Catholic schools of the Archdiocese to field choirs at the annual choral festival Feb. 28.

More than 1,000 voices join at annual choral festival More than 1,000 singers from Catholic elementary and junior high school choirs from Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties came together in song Feb. 28 at the campus of Archbishop Riordan High School for the 20th Annual Archdiocesan Choral Festival..

“The Archdiocesan Choral Festival has been a wonderful event that has helped students, parents and faculty to appreciate and enjoy music programs from schools throughout the Archdiocese,” said Pamela Carey, music director at St. Hilary School, Tiburon. Carey also served as the festival co-chair with Michael Lauricella of St. Thomas the Apostle School, San Francisco.

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Schools, the day featured choirs from 22 schools led by Tom Blount, music director at Riordan High School who has served for several years as the festival’s master of ceremonies. The festival theme was “The Universal Language of Music” and the day’s music “centered around music that bridges cultural divides and promotes peace and tolerance,” a festival spokesperson said.

After choirs’ individual performances, they joined as one grand choral group to sing the finale, “Let There Be Peace.”

Pam Matthews of Mercy High School, Burlingame, and Brandon Adams listened to the performances and gave constructive comments.

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During the festival the Department of Catholic Schools honored Barbara Varian Barrett, the music teacher who founded the annual event and coordinated it for 12 years.

Barrett was also the recipient of the National Music Educator of the Year Award at the 30th Annual National Association of Pastoral Musicians Conference in Indiana.

She was selected for this award for the “Outstanding Leadership in Catholic Music Education.”

Choral Festival singers represented the following schools: St. Thomas the Apostle, Sts. Peter and Paul, St. Monica, St. Gabriel, St. Brigid, St. Philip, St. Mary’s Chinese Day School, Mission Dolores, Notre Dame des Victoires, and St. John, all in San Francisco; St. Patrick, Larkspur; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; St. Rita, Fairfax; St. Timothy, San Mateo; St. Robert, San Bruno; Holy Angels, Colma; St. Anselm, Ross; Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Daly City; St. Hilary,,Tiburon; Good Shepherd, Pacifica; St. Matthew, San Mateo, and Our Lady of Loretto, Novato.

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Cinema . . .

Peter Roggisch. Vogt channels all the righteous rage of Mengele’s victims into an impassioned plea for justice in the face of his horrific crimes.

German-born Dominican Father Anselm Ramelow, who took part in a panel discussion following the festival, examined the moral issues raised by “After the Truth.”.

“Euthanasia is a taboo in Germany precisely because of the history [of Nazism],” the priest said, adding that the topic is nevertheless one of vital importance. “It starts with small things where we cross certain boundaries and can lead to scenarios like concentration camps.”

Father Ramelow pointed to modern parallels in Central Europe, like the Swiss group Dignitas, an organization that helps patients with incurable diseases commit suicide.

The priest explained that the earliest Nazi propaganda films on the subject had nothing to do with race or eugenics, but rather with “compassionate mercy killings” of suffering patients. Father Ramelow said these films were the subtle first step that laid the groundwork for later Nazi atrocities.

The festival’s other films highlighted similar issues regarding the importance of human life, even in the midst of suffering.

In the high school category, winner Nathaniel Sharpe used a documentary technique in his film, “Wrinkles in Time,” to delve into the life of his ailing grandmother, Louise Carlson.

Carlson suffers from both macular degeneration and Parkinson’s Disease. In spite of these setbacks, she remains as active.

She paints, she goes to church and she interacts with family as much as possible.

“I don’t have a lot of control over my body in certain things,” Carlson said in the film. “I’ve had to deal with that, and cope with it, and thank the Lord for it.”

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Moderator Steven Kasch, left, questions Mike Campo of Grassroots Films, Dominican Father Anselm Ramelow and high school filmmaker Nathaniel Sharpe about the meaning of life.

Throughout the film, Sharpe juxtaposes his grandmother’s uncontrolled movement with the seemingly uncontrollable movement of her great grandson, baby Louis Carlson.

Sharpe traveled from Bathgate, N.D. to be a part of the festival’s panel discussion.

He said he has been making films for several years, but has never shown one in public before. Even this film, he said, was experimental.

The final two films of the night, “The Poet,” and “Mad World,” shared similar themes but had radically different outcomes. In the first, a young American soldier dies in Iraq and leaves his baby boy in the care of his sisters. At first, they seem reluctant to take on such a difficult task, but later come to realize they are honoring their brother’s sacrifice by raising his son.

The filmmaker, who won in the college category, was Eric Hinojosa of Universal City, Texas. The film was semi-autobiographical; Hinojosa’s brother died in Iraq.

“Mad World” stood in sharp contrast, and showed

the consequences of treating life like a throwaway commodity. The film features two young people dealing with the aftermath of premarital sex. The young girl is pregnant and the young man wants nothing to do with the child.

What the young man does next makes this story different than millions of similar stories. Instead of simply leaving his girlfriend to fend for herself, he slips crushed abortifascient Ru486 into her coffee. She loses the baby and her boyfriend loses his freedom.

The film is based on the story of Daniel Riase, who just a year ago was charged with planting a crushed pill in his girlfriend Shari Best’s drink, causing her to miscarry. Riase is in a Virginia jail awaiting trial on felony charges.

The winning films, along with those that received an honorable mention, can be viewed on the Cinema Vita website: http://www.ignatius.com/cinemavita/. At the festival, Ignatius Press announced it had acquired the rights to film “After the Truth,” which will be released this year on DVD for the first time in North America.

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Slain advocate for Brazil’s poor to be honored

by NDNU Notre Dame de Namur University will celebrate the life of slain Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang March 19 with the dedication a new center in her honor.

The Dorothy Stang Center for Social Justice and Community Engagement will be dedicated in a 6-9 p.m. ceremony at the Ralston Hall Mansion on the NDNU campus, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont.

Hired gunmen killed Sister Stang, a 1964 NDNU alumSister Dorothy na, in the state of Stang, SNDdeN Para, Brazil in 2005.

She had worked there 39 years as a missionary among the poor and was also a strong advocate for preservation of the Amazon rainforest.

The dedication ceremony will feature readings about Sister Stang’s life, poetry and music. The university will also present the Rev. Glenda Hope with its Guardian of Justice Award. Rev. Hope, a Presbyterian minister and founder of San Francisco’s Network Ministries, works among the poor and homeless in the Tenderloin.

For more information, contact Dr. Don Stannard-Friel at (650) 508-3770 or don@ndnu.edu.

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