March 16, 2007

Pope issues exhortation on Eucharist, practice of faith and the liturgy

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Sign of peace, Latin use, state of grace for Communion among letter’s topics

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potential risk to children – for example, a weapon charge, drug offense, citation for driving under influence of alcohol or drugs, or domestic violence.

“We are not finding child abusers so much as finding other things of concern,” said Tom Hoffman of the Human Resources Office.

Of that small group, he said, about 20 have been disqualified to work with youth. A report on the others is provided pastors who are given discretion to make pastoral judgment on a person’s continued youth work.

“This also opens up a pastoral opportunity” to reach out to persons with troubled lives, Hoffman said.

He also pointed out the background checks and fingerprinting “are not just snapshots in time.” The process includes ongoing reports from the screening provider of future charges or arrests.

More than nine of ten certified by the Shield the Vulnerable training have done it via the Internet, taking a user-friendly course on-line in Spanish or English. Course materials are also available in Chinese. The course itself has two options. One is designed for “mandatory reporters,” persons who by law are required to report suspicions of child abuse and who have “regular contact with children.”

A shorter training option is available for those who are

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholics must believe in the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, celebrate the liturgy with devotion and live in a way that demonstrates their faith, Pope Benedict XVI said in a 131-page apostolic exhortation released on Tuesday, March 13.

“The celebration and worship of the Eucharist enable us to draw near to God’s love and to persevere in that love,” the pope said in the document, “Sacramentum Caritatis” (“The Sacrament of Charity”).

The papal reflection was in response to discussions and suggestions made during the 2005 world Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist, Vatican officials said.

When Jesus instituted the Eucharist at the Last Supper, he did not simply thank God for the ways he had acted throughout history to save people, the pope said. Rather, Jesus revealed that he himself was the sacrifice that would bring salvation to fulfillment.

“The institution of the Eucharist demonstrates how Jesus’ death, for all its violence and absurdity, became in him a supreme act of love and mankind’s definitive deliverance from evil,” Pope Benedict wrote.

Celebrating the Eucharist, he said, “the Church is able to celebrate and adore the mystery of Christ” who is present in the bread and wine through the power of the Holy Spirit.

In addition to offering a spiritual reflection on the meaning of the Eucharist, the liturgy and eucharistic adoration, Pope Benedict made several suggestions for further study and for celebrating the Mass in the Latin rite: ● While he encouraged wider knowledge and use of the Mass prayers in Latin and of Gregorian chant, he also repeated the synod’s affirmation of the “beneficial influence” of the liturgical changes made by the Second Vatican Council on the life of the Church. ● However, he also endorsed the synod’s suggestion that at Masses with a large, international congregation, the liturgy be celebrated in Latin “with the exception of the readings, the homily and the prayer of the faithful.” ● He encouraged bishops’ conferences, in collaboration with the Vatican, to examine their practices for the order and timing of the sacraments of Christian initiation: baptism, confirmation and Eucharist.

The three sacraments are administered together for infants and adults in many of the Eastern Churches and for adults joining the Latin rite, while children in the Latin rite usually are baptized as infants, receive first Communion around the age of 7 and are confirmed several years later.

“It needs to be seen which practice better enables the faithful to put the sacrament of the Eucharist at the center, as the goal of the whole process of initiation,” the pope said. ● In expressing his concern for the number of Catholics unable to receive Communion because of irregular marital

Former San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester (left) was installed as ninth bishop of Salt Lake City March 14 at the Cathedral of the Madeleine where, above, he and San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer review ceremony details with Gregory Glenn, cathedral liturgy director.

‘Shield the Vulnerable’ Training, screening: child abuse deterrent

By Dan Morris-Young SAN FRANCISCO – The broadly required screening and training of volunteers and employees of the Archdiocese of San Francisco who work with the young could well be acting as a strong deterrent to potential abusers, according to officials overseeing implementation of the program.

More than 6,000 priests, educators, catechists, coaches and a myriad of volunteers who work with youth and youth programs of the Archdiocese have taken the training mandated last October by Archbishop George H. Niederauer, the officials told Catholic San Francisco.

Part of the Archdiocese’s “Protecting God’s Children” pastoral outreach, the curriculum focuses how to recognize, report and prevent child abuse. Titled “Shield the Vulnerable,” it was developed by archdiocesan human resources, pastoral ministry, and legal offices in cooperation with an independent vendor, LawRoom.

Nearly 90 percent who have taken the training have been fingerprinted or undergone background checks now requisite of employees and volunteers who have “regular contact” with the young.

According to the archdiocesan Human Resources Office and Barbara Elordi, pastoral outreach coordinator, fewer than one percent of those screened have been found to possess backgrounds which might indicate a

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Congrats – make that double congrats - to new parents Paula Staszkow, youth minister at Redwood City’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, and Kevin Staszkow, youth minister and RCIA director across town at St. Pius Parish. They welcomed twin daughters, Rachel Marie (5lb 4oz) and Sarah Louise (4lb 9oz) to the family on Feb. 7.

Danielle Paya, a 2005 graduate of Notre Dame High School returned to the Belmont campus while home from the United States Air Force Academy. Among those on the Welcome Wagon was Notre Dame president, Rita Gleason. Danielle’s proud folks are Peggy and Daniel.

Hats off to Paulist Father Charles Kullmann, pastor, Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, for his on-target yet totally entertaining take on Lenten penance. I came across the eloquent turn in his “Father Chuck’s Column” that appears weekly in the OSM parish bulletin. After wading through the regular “give-ups” like candy and fattening foods, Father Chuck recommends some “additional works of penance” including “cleaning up after yourself” as you leave your pew on Sunday; “showing up for Mass on time,” and “moving to the center of the pew” – a “radical step not for the weak or faint-hearted.” I laughed outloud and, at the same time, realized his advice is something I should take to heart. I’ve often invoked the “Mass doesn’t really start till the Gospel” myth to accommodate my late arrivals. I usually leave a bulletin in the pew because I’ve stolen peeks at it during the liturgy. I cannot remember when I last sat anywhere but at the end of the pew. Later, I had a chance to speak with Father Kullmann about maybe taking his exhortations even to encouraging us Catholics to sit in the front pews. “That’s a big one to take on,” he said with a laugh. “When you go to the theater or a baseball game or football game seats up front cost more

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money. Maybe people think the seats are more expensive up “Kids for Kids” was the program they chose to raise money to front in church, too. But they’re not. It’s a great deal.” Father buy goats – a vital source of milk for the children of Darfur. So Chuck, ordained May 18, 1978, celebrates his 29th year as a far, the kids have raised enough money to buy 32 goats. At $24 priest in 2007…. Mercy High School in Burlingame wel- per goat, that’s some pretty good fundraising. “With all the varcomed Archbishop George Niederauer in January for the ious stories to write about this is a story of children taking notice school’s 75th of things that are happenanniversary Mass. In ing in the world, I think it remarks after the liturwould make a wonderful gy, Archbishop article in the paper,” said Niederauer granted a Donna Nathanson, “special holiday” to whom I thank for the the school resulting in good news. You’re right, what a press release Donna! Donna’s son, called “much cheering Alexander, is a member from both students and of the class. Lonny is his faculty.”…

While dad. Teachers helping there may be with the effort are Diane “udder” ways to raise Archbishop George H. Niederauer with Ali Gilmartin, left, Raquel Jones, Barbara money, students at Cecchin and Marie Colom, Jessica Allison and Meredith Callan after Mercy High Immaculate Gahn.

Mercy Sister School, Burlingame’s 75th anniversary Mass in January.

Conception Academy Pauline Borghello is didn’t need ‘em as they raised $1,200 in their annual Coins for principal at St. Gabe’s. Father John Ryan is pastor Cows campaign. The dough goes to Heifer International, a ….Remember this is an empty space without ya’!! The egroup that provides food and income-producing animals to poor mail address for Street is burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Mailed nations. Among the organizers of the good-will effort were class items should be sent to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF officers, Katheryn Romero, Beverly Sackrider, Madeline 94109. Pix should be hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 dpi.

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Domestic violence to be addressed at March 17 event

By Tom Burke Archbishop George H. Niederauer will be among presenters at a workshop addressing domestic violence, “Building Healthier Family Relationships,” at St. Augustine Church, 3700 Callan, South San Francisco, on March 17 from 1 – 4 p.m.

Sponsored by Catholic Charities CYO, the event is in response to the national bishops’ conference request to help eradicate domestic violence — and has been tailored largely for the Filipino community, organizers said.

Lloyd LaCuesta of KTVU (Channel 2) will serve as master of ceremonies with television actor, Giovannie Pico.

A similar meeting for Latino families took place on Sept. 30. More than 200 people attended. Success of that presentation spurred CCCYO to offer the information to other ethnic constituencies, said Christopher Martinez, CCCYO director of Refugee and Immigrant Services.

“This event is designed for the Filipino community,” Martinez said, “to also bring awareness and services to them. It is also designed to educate the community on the

Organizers gather at the residence of the Philippine Consul General during a planning session for the March 17 free seminar on domestic violence; from left: (seated) Msgr. Floro Arcamo, Cherie Querol Moreno, Diana Otero, Consul General Rowena Mendoza Sanchez, and Christopher Martinez; (standing) Edmund Mangubat, Eloy Balawag, Wilma Bautista, Erlinda Galeon, Myrna Bulos and Edwin Cusi.

position of the Church on domestic violence — that no one is expected to stay in an abusive relationship.”

“As in many immigrant communities, there is a stigma to admitting that there are problems in the home or family,” Martinez said. “Our hope would be, as we embark on the educational campaign armed with the Church’s position on domestic violence, to bring these services to all communities.”

Martinez said the free event will be in English and Tagalog, the major Filipino dialect.

“We are expecting numerous potential survivors of violence, as well as family, friends, and advocates,” he said. “There will be several presentations, including the Church’s position on domestic violence, ending the cycle of violence, effects on children and parenting, and the benefits available to immigrant survivors. We will have resource tables where domestic violence service providers will distribute information.”

While the majority of victims are women, the event is open to men who have been victims, Martinez said. “We are also DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, page 5

More than 300 expected at ‘MyFaith Youth Rally’ March 24

By Tom Burke More than 300 high school youth are expected to attend “MyFaith: Youth Rally 2007” on March 24 at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School, San Francisco.

Sponsored by the archdiocesan Religious Education and Youth Ministry Office, the event “is a time for young people to network and get to know other Catholics in the community” at the same time “we hope to help youth on the road to integrating their faith into all aspects of their life,” said Megan Pryor Lorentz, associate director for youth ministry.

“This is a gathering of youth from throughout the Archdiocese,” she said, adding that in years past the event has taken

place outside Lent and would have probably been “more raucous.”

“Because it’s in the heart of Lent this year,” she said, “the tone is different and much more like a day’s retreat that addresses young people’s stresses and how they can invite God into those.”

Half-joking that it should be a secret, Lorentz said the theme “MyFaith” is a play on the popular on-line community MySpace.

“The outline for the day was culled from information gathered from youth constituencies in the Archdiocese,” she noted.

“The whole purpose of this rally was to have it come from them,” Lorentz said. “The theme came completely from them and the needs we are addressing came completely from them. They will have lots of opportunity to craft the experience that they need.”

CONCERT / WORKSHOP ST. CLARE CATHOLIC CHURCH TO HOST WORLD RENOWNED COMPOSERS Marty Haugen and Tony Alonso, both worldrenowned composers of religious music will present a concert at 7 PM April 20, and an all-day workshop, from 9AM to 4PM on Saturday, April 21, 2007 at St. Clare Catholic Church, Roseville.

Mr. Haugen has presented workshops and concerts for the past 25 years throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. He has over 30 recordings, more than 400 sepaMARTY HAUGEN rate printed editions.

TONY ALONSO Tony Alonso is dubbed “the voice of a new generation in church music.” Tony’s music appears in several compilations and hymnals throughout North America.

The morning sessions of the workshop are entitled, “Our Life in Worship-Our Life in the World” and “To Serve as Jesus Did-An Inclusive and Ministerial Model of Community Worship”. Both sessions will be conducted by Mr. Haugen and Mr. Alonso. In the afternoon Mr. Haugen will conduct a workshop entitled “Musical Leadership, Music Ensembles and Liturgical Renewal”. Mr. Alonso will direct his workshop to youth leaders. The title of his workshop is “Building Bridges: Youth and Liturgy”.

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The day will offer 11 breakout sessions on topics from spirituality to social justice.

Cost is $30 per person and can be paid in advance by check to the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco 94109. Tickets will also be available at the door. Lorentz emphasized that anyone for whom money is an obstacle should contact her at (415) 614-5654. Tickets include lunch and a commemorative T-shirt.

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director of religious education and youth ministry, “will lead some listening sessions that will give our young folks a chance to vent,” Lorentz smiled. “In addition, prayer spaces and the sacrament of reconciliation will be available all day.”

Jesuit Father Donal Godfrey will preside at a Mass ending the day at St. Mary’s Cathedral across the street from the Sacred Heart campus.

More information on the MyFaith rally is available on the office’s Web site: sforeym.googlepages.com.

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CRS collection March 17-18 WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Catholic Relief Services collection, which funds five Catholic social ministry agencies, is planned for March 17-18 in parishes across the United States including those in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The agencies sponsor programs involving emergency relief, refugee resettlement, immigration, peacemaking, pastoral care and advocacy for justice projects.

National Cord Blood Inventory which would enable doctors to match patients with compatible donors through a centralized computer data bank.

Although the 2005 law authorizes $15 million per year from 2007 through 2010, Congress has to approve the funding each year. For fiscal year 2008, which begins in October, the Bush administration budget proposes $2 million in funding.

Blood is collected from the umbilical cord and the placenta discharged by the mother during childbirth. Stem cells are basic cells capable of reproducing as stem cells or as other types of specialized cells, offering hope for cures for numerous diseases.

Hanke of Eichstaett, who compared the situation of Palestinians in Ramallah with that of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland during World War II. Bishop Walter Mixa of Augsburg described the IsraelPalestinian situation as “almost racism.”

The bishops were on a pilgrimage, which ended March 4 with a visit to Ramallah in the West Bank. The bishops toured Israel and met with Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, as well as with Rabbi Yona Metzger, the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, and local bishops and priests.

According to news reports, Bishop Hanke said: “In the morning (we saw) pictures of the inhumane Warsaw ghetto at Yad Vashem,” the Jewish Holocaust museum in Jerusalem, “and in the evening we travel to the ghetto in Ramallah. You can only hit the roof.”

Charlotte Knobloch, head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, said Bishop Hanke had “either demonstrated an alarming lack of knowledge about history, or he was trying to make the Holocaust victims and the children into the guilty parties and turn himself into their therapist.”

Violence against women rises NEW YORK (CNS) — Violence against women, both in the United States and around the world, is on the rise and must be addressed with a combination of social, legal and economic remedies, said a panel of speakers Feb. 27 in New York.

“Addressing Violence Against Women” was the topic at the Church of the Holy Family and sponsored by the Holy See Mission to the United Nations, the Path to Peace Foundation and the Vincentian Center for Church and Society at St. John’s University.

“It seems ironic that, at a time when the sensitivity for women’s issues appears stronger than ever, the world is now obliged to confront new forms of violence and slavery directed especially at women,” said Archbishop Celestino Migliore, papal nuncio to the United Nations.

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UN women’s work ‘incomplete’ UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — While lauding the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women for adopting resolutions on ending female genital mutilation and addressing forced and early marriage, its work is not complete until it also addresses “the important issues of prenatal sex selection, infanticide and son preference,” said Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the U.N.

Pa. ‘Choose Life’ plates ok’d PHILADELPHIA (CNS) — Pennsylvania has become the 16th and latest state to approve use of a “Choose Life” specialty license plate. The plates were approved last November and became available for purchase in January.

Cost per plate is $40. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation receives $20, and the other $20 is an annual membership fee in Pennsylvania Choose Life.

In states such as Florida, where the plates have become popular, monthly revenues generated by plate sales can be as high as $65,000. In two years, more than $2.5 million has been raised for adoption services there.

Remarks stir Jewish reaction COLOGNE, Germany (CNS) — Remarks made by German bishops during a recent West Bank visit caused a storm of reaction from Jewish leaders in Germany. The Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Israeli Embassy responded angrily to comments by Bishop Gregor

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church was willed by God to ensure unity in faith, Pope Benedict XVI said.

The Church “is not a place of confusion or anarchy where each person can do what he wants at the moment,” the pope said March 7 at his weekly general audience.

The pope’s speech marked the beginning of a new series of audience talks on the “apostolic fathers,” the first and second generation of Church leaders after the Twelve Apostles.

‘Remove terrorism causes’ BURLINGAME — “Bombs wreak only more hatred.

The solution to terrorism is to remove the causes,” Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, 85, a grand statesman of the anti-war and peace movements, told a crowd of 250 at Mercy Center here on March 6.

“All the world’s problems concern every one of us. Now weapons can reach every spot on earth.

We have globalization of our problems. We must have globalization of solutions with our country Father Daniel Berrigan, SJ playing a central role.”

The evening, one of a series of talks at Mercy Center, was co-sponsored by the Pacific Life Community, a group founded in 1974 in San Jose to raise awareness of nuclear weapons’ danger.

Umbilical blood collection urged WASHINGTON (CNS) — Lack of federal funding could jeopardize therapeutic advances made in using umbilical cord blood for curing diseases, said Richard Doerflinger, deputy director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities.

Doerflinger told Catholic News Service the bishops supported the 2005 law which authorized funds for collecting and storing cord blood and for the establishment of a

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Christians tempted to set aside belief in Christ as the only savior in order to promote dialogue with others are being tempted by the Antichrist, retired Italian Cardinal Giacomo Biffi told Pope Benedict XVI. Cardinal Biffi, who had been leading a Feb. 25-March 3 retreat for the pope and top Vatican officials, cited as “prophetic” a warning about the modern guises of the Antichrist presented in the work of Vladimir Solovyev, a 19th-century Russian philosopher.

In one of the philosopher’s works, Cardinal Biffi told the pope, “the Antichrist presents himself as a pacifist, ecologist and ecumenist. He convokes an ecumenical council and seeks the consensus of all the Christian confessions, conceding something to each one.”

“Today we run the risk of having a Christianity that puts Jesus with his cross and resurrection into parentheses,” he said.

Priest’s re-hiring ordered WASHINGTON (CNS) — A Jesuit priest is to be reinstated as a chaplain at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center after a federal board ruled he was fired because of religious discrimination.

Father Henry Heffernan, 76, was ordered to be reinstated at the NIH clinic in Bethesda, Md., by the Merit Systems Protection Board, a federal agency that hears personnel disputes. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled Father Heffernan was wrongly suspended and fired in 2004. The merit systems board, a quasi-judicial entity, upheld the decision in a Feb. 23 order.

The EEOC said Father Heffernan was fired because he raised concerns about the way the spiritual ministry director at the center insisted upon a multifaith chaplaincy that Father Heffernan believed did not accommodate Catholic patients.

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USF prexy: bypass ‘rhetoric’ on immigration debate article on the ethics of migration policy by Bill O’Neill, grants into parish life. He related the story of a young Father Privett told his audience that “after the command to mother from Zaire who felt like an unwanted outsider because of language barriers when she Look past the “inflammatory rhetoric” of the immigra- worship the one God, no command is tried to find fellow Catholics with whom tion debate to the root of the issue, urged University of San more frequently repeated in the Hebrew to worship. Feeling this type of cultural Francisco President Father Stephen Privett, SJ, in a Feb. 27 Bible than the reminder to care for the rejection, said Father Privett, can lead stranger or resident alien in our midst.” lecture at St. Rita Parish in Fairfax. new immigrants to leave the Church This, coupled with the experience of “We will never resolve the issue of immigration if we do altogether. not address its underlying cause – poverty,” said Father Jesus when he and his family had to flee Father Privett encouraged his audiPrivett, the second speaker in a parish Lenten series based to Egypt and the parable of the Good ence of more than 100 to treat the poor, on Pope Paul VI’s 1967 encyclical Populorum Progressio. Samaritan, provide Father Privett with the hungry and the sick as if they were While the encyclical “does not offer us a specific set of what he said is clear evidence Christians Christ. Quoting Catholic Worker founder guidelines” for dealing with immigration challenges, he have an obligation to care for the less Dorothy Day, he said Catholics should said, it does “lay down some central principles and funda- fortunate. help “not because these people remind us Father Privett reminded his audience mental considerations that should guide our deliberations of Christ ... but because they are Christ.” conveniences of modern life are out of and discussions.”

“I think that one could argue from the Father Privett acknowledged the debate is heated, but reach for much of the global population: Catholic perspective,” the priest summasaid Catholics should remember their faith must take into “If you keep your food in a fridge, your rized, “that immigrants are not ‘the account scriptural insistence on the “radical interconnect- clothes in a closet and have a roof over problem,’ rather they are the objects of your head and sleep in bed, you are edness” of human beings. special concern. The ‘problem’ is poverThis “central theme of Scripture in its repeated affirma- wealthier than 75 percent of the world.”

Father Stephen Privett, SJ ty and those other cataclysmic events – The perception that immigrants tions that we are all ‘one body in Christ’,” he said, should refocus the dialogue from one geared toward legal or come to this country for handouts fails to grasp the larger war, famine, natural disaster – that forcibly dislocate peopicture of systemic poverty ple. Or, the ‘problem’ is the appropriate regulation of bornational security issues to in developing countries, he ders. More unsettling, the ‘problem’ may well be those of one viewed “through the ‘… the “problem” may well be us who are not able to see ourselves in the least of our continued. lens of human need.”

“Imagine 2.8 billion peo- brothers and sisters and, therefore, unable to construct “When we celebrate ple for whom tonight’s sim- appropriately humane and compassionate policies.”

Eucharist – one bread, one those of us who are not able to see Franciscan Sister Maria Elena Martinez, former provinple dinner would be a bancup – we anticipate in sign quet of unimaginable ele- cial minister of her congregation, will speak at St. Rita on and sacrament a world where ourselves in the least of our gance. People whose only March 20 at 7 p.m. A 6 p.m. soup meal precedes the address all are welcomed at the same dream, whose single hope is which is titled “Waging Peace in Chiapas and Populorum table,” the educator said. brothers and sisters….’ something to eat,” said Progressio.” For more information, call (415) 456-4815.

In addition to Populorum The lecture series is being sponsored by the parish in Father Privett, alluding to a Progressio and the sacracooperation with the archdiocesan Department of Catholic ments, the Bible provides ample guidance on how the meal of soup for participants which preceded the lecture.

An important step, he emphasized, is to welcome immi- Schools and Catholic Charities CYO. Church should address immigration, he added. Citing an

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■ Continued from page 3 hoping to have many young people in attendance, as we are outreaching to high schools.”

“The Archdiocese of San Francisco is sponsoring this family conference to continue to reach out to each ethnic and cultural community with the Lord’s call for family harmony and love, and against domestic abuse,” Archbishop Niederauer said. “The Catholic Church continues to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in every time and place, and to all peoples.

Jesus teaches that marriage is a sacred covenant of husband and wife before God, and St. Paul urges husbands and wives to love one another even as Christ loves the Church.”

The Archbishop quoted Ephesians 5:28, “Husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.”

Interest in the issue brought several offices – religious and public - together on the event. Msgr. Floro Arcamo,

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Child abuse prevention training deadline March 31 Parishes, schools, athletic programs and other organizations involved in work with youth are being urged by archdiocesan officials to make sure their staffs and volunteers have completed required training for recognizing, reporting and preventing child abuse as a March 31 deadline for that training approaches.

More than 6,000 persons have already taken the “Shield the Vulnerable” training either on the Internet or in a classroom setting. The Internet training modules can be accessed in English at www.shieldthevulnerable.org/signup.asp and in Spanish at www.shieldthevulnerable.org/default.asp.

In a letter to priests of the Archdiocese last September, Archbishop George H. Niederauer said the Archdiocese had taken “great strides in establishing safe-environment policies and programs to keep our children safe” and

announced the mandatory training curriculum.

“I require all pastors and principals to put into place as soon as possible appropriate plans at your sites to ensure that this mandatory training program is provided to all employees and volunteers who have regular contact with children,” the Archbishop wrote Sept. 25.

More than nine of ten certified by the Shield the Vulnerable training have done it via the Internet, taking a user-friendly course on-line in Spanish or English. Course materials are also available in Chinese.

The archdiocesan Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry sent a memo to parish catechetical leaders on March 8 exhorting them to ensure the training as well as background checks – or fingerprinting if they were in supervisory or paid positions – are completed by the March 31 deadline.

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the training’s feedback form. “I found this to be the best format to share and make this information as interactive as possible.”

Wrote another: “Before I did this, I really had no clue what child abuse was. After I did this, I know. There was some really good info in there that I had no clue that even was in existence.”

“This really helped me to brush up in this area,” responded a nurse.

“I especially liked the encouragement to overcome doubts and report reasonable suspicion,” stated one user.

The training and screening programs trace their genesis to the U.S. bishops’ 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, ” a response to the priest sexual abuse crisis. In 2005, the bishops re-affirmed their commitment to “do everything we could to ensure that the children in our parish and school communities would be safe,” wrote Archbishop George H. Neiderauer in a letter to priests last September which set forth requirements for the “Shield the Vulnerable” training.

■ Continued from page cover only “ethical reporters.” Officials have asked, however, that persons take the mandatory reporting course if they have any doubt of their status.

In addition, courses have been offered in a classroom format in English, Spanish and Chinese for persons without computer access or facing other obstacles to Internet instruction.

Other Catholic dioceses are also using Shield the Vulnerable training, including Oakland. The Web address for the training is www.shieldthevulnerable.org/signup.asp for English and www.shieldthevulnerable.org/default.asp for Spanish.

According to Patrick Schmidt of the Human Resources Office, feedback on the Internet training has been positive – on its content, presentation and clarity.

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Founder and still director of the Center for the Study Christianity from the Crusades,” an internationally of Islam at the University of known Muslim scholar told her Glasgow in Scotland, Siddiqui audience after delivering a intrioutlined the Muslim concepts of cate lecture on Islam at the human dignity largely as definUniversity of San Francisco on able from the Quran, the sacred Feb. 26. book of Islam, during her lecture.

“To see Islam through the Like Christianity, she said, example” of suicide bombers, Islam views humankind as said Professor Mona Siddiqui, assigned stewardship and dominPh.D., “is so very negative and so ion of the earth by God. Both relitoxic, and it does Islam a great gions also point to the creation of injustice.” humans in a special way by God Atonement Father Elias as underscoring the dignity of Mallon, also a well-known scholhumankind. ar on Islam who had provided a However, she observed, the formal response to Professor faiths differ in their understandSiddiqui’s earlier presentation, ing of God. In Islam, she said, a agreed. The most positive route to “tension between knowability and dialogue between faiths, he said, unknowability remains.” “is to bring the best of ours and She quoted Muslim scholar the best of yours.”

Ismsit Faruqui as stating, “Islam However, he added, “the tempProfessor Mona Siddiqui does not equate the Quran with tation is to focus on the worst of the nature or essence of God. It is mine and the worst of yours” because the more positive approach can too often “be the Word of God, the commandment of God, the will of God. But God does not reveal himself to anyone. boring”.

The scholars’ comments followed Siddiqui’s deliv- Christians talk of the revelation of God himself — by ery of the 28th Annual Paul Wattson Lecture at the cam- God of God — but that is the great difference between pus of the University of San Francisco. The prestigious Christianity and Islam... You may not have complete event is co-sponsored by the university and the transcendence and self-revelation at the same time.”

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In broad terms, she proposed, Christians’ fundamental view of God is anchored in the Incarnation of Jesus, God becoming man, while for Muslims God remains “completely transcendent, absolute and one, all of which forms the fundamental core of Islamic monotheism. However near God may be to man, there is an essential difference between God and man and which affirms the unknowability of God.” “Nowhere in the Quran,” she pointed out, “is there any specific mention of man being created in the image of God” as does the Christian Bible.

Meanwhile, she added, “God in Christ, humanity in divinity and divinity in humanity forms the central basis of Christian faith. The Christian God is intimately bound with the lives of his creatures and their suffering is his suffering.”

The first Muslim woman to be appointed head of the theology and religious studies department at Glasgow University, Siddiqui noted that “a frequent criticism” of Islam generated by some verses in the Quran is that God “draws near to man only when man draws near to him.

This is often contrasted with ideas of Christian grace and a God who loved and loves unconditionally.”

However, she emphasized, the Quran repeatedly stresses God’s love “is not the love of a suffering God but a merciful God who is aware of the suffering of his people. The overriding image of the God in the Quran is contained in that single epithet which has come down in Muslim intellectual and popular tradition as God’s most widely used invocation, al-Rahman (the Merciful), cited 57 times in the Quran. It is God’s act of mercy by which creation came into being, by which man, the pinnacle of creation, is endowed with intelligence and freedom so that he can know God.” WATTSON LECTURE, page 8

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him. Thus, obedience should not be equated with servility, rather an enhanced awareness” of humankind’s place in “God’s eyes” and “the respect and dignity ■ Continued from page 7 which must form the basis of relations with fellow Father Gerard O’Rourke, chair of the Archdiocesan beings.”

Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs Commission, “In its simplest definition, however,” she said, praised Siddiqui and Father Mallon. “Between the two “Shariah is not law as we understand law in the modof them,” he said, “they created a great context for ern world — a set of imposed rules and regulations.” developing dialogue between Catholics or Christians Rather, the Pakistani native indicated, Shariah sets and the Muslim faith.” forth principles for Muslims upon which civil and He was impressed by Siddiqui’s “obvious solid social behaviors should be based. foundation in biblical Too often, she said, and Christian theology,” specific laws or penal and especially appreciat- Too often . . . penal codes of codes of some Islamic ed her explanations of governments violate “the the emphasis on inherent teaching of the some Islamic governments monotheism in Islam in Quran itself which neicontrast to the Christian’s ther states any punishunderstanding of one violate ‘the inherent teaching ment and which insists God. on giving absolute freeTurning to Shariah, or of the Quran itself’ dom of religion to the Islamic law, Siddiqui individual.” said in her lecture, Many scholars, she “Obedience to God is understood on several levels in said, claim “the non-coercive directive of the Quran Islam. Prostration in ritual prayer is a physical reflec- has been eclipsed by the established and still pervasive tion of humility but acts of worship … are not confined rules of the medieval jurists.” to obeying ritual and observing the law.”

“This issue is further complicated by the fact,” she While “worship develops man’s sense of himself added, “the Quran mentions those who follow other and his love for God,” she said, it “is also about height- religions, notably Jews and Christians, as people who ened awareness of the bond he has with those around also enjoy God’s favor.”

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Many scholars, she continued, “make the claim the Quran contains an inherent pluralism, the egalitarian spirit of which has been lost” in judicial application.

“Religious pluralism for the Shariah,” she charged, “is not simply a matter of accommodating competing claims to religious truth in the private domain of individual faith. It was and remains inherently a matter … which a Muslim government must acknowledge and protect — the divinely ordained right of each person to determine his or her spiritual destiny without coercion.

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Balthasar ‘critic’ sets Lenten talk A young theologian who has drawn international attention for her work on Church doctrine regarding Christ’s descent into hell will deliver a Lenten lecture at St. Dominic Parish Hall, 2390 Bush St., San Francisco, from 7:309 p.m. on March 21.

Alyssa Pitstick, S.T.D., has generated much notice in the wake of recent exchanges on the work of the late, renowned Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar in First Things magazine.

“She is… helping the magisterium of the Church to clarify a hotly disputed question of doctrine,” wrote well-known scholar Father John Richard Neuhaus early last month on a First Things Internet site. “A very distinguished and indisputably orthodox theologian of my acquaintance said after reading an advance copy of her book that he didn’t know whether to be more impressed by Balthasar’s scholarship or by Pitstick’s critique of his scholarship.

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The work of Balthasar has been praised by Pope Benedict XVI.

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The Irish Experience in San Francisco Irish immigrants in San Francisco prospered, and in turn so has the Church

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Mass of Thanksgiving marks beginning of St. Pat’s Day events

Ten years ago the Stanford Band greeted the visiting Notre Dame football team and its fans with a mock tableaux making fun of the Irish and more specifically the Irish potato famine. While intending to provide their usual irreverent brand of humor, the band must have been startled by the torrent and the intensity of protests and complaints their “play” engendered. The band received a variety of penalties and reprisals.

As the episode points up, it is dangerous not to know history. The Great Famine that befell Ireland between 1846 and 1851 was a defining moment for most Irish and Irish Americans. During that six-year span more than one million Irish died of starvation or starvation related diseases in a population of less than nine million. Another two million emigrated during the same period, more than one million to the United States alone. More than one out of three Irish alive in 1845 either died or emigrated during the six years of the Great Hunger. The event haunted Irish society for generations.

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Archbishop Edward J. Hanna, Archbishop from 1915-35, stands with the Knights of St. Patrick in front of St. Patrick Church in San Francisco in 1921.

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The cause of the famine was a potato fungus that nearly wiped out the community prospered in San Francisco. Historian Timothy Meagher has potato crop. The potato, which was introduced to Ireland in the late 16th cenobserved, “Irish immigrants in San Francisco found one of the most hostury from the New World, had become the staple for the Irish peasant class. pitable places on earth for their people.”

The average Irish peasant existed on a diet of more than 10 pounds of potaThe Irish in San Francisco prospered and in turn so did the Catholic toes per day, a diet surprisingly considered more healthy than their prior diet.

Church. The Irish quickly became the largest Catholic ethnic group in the When the potato blight hit, no easy replacement was at hand. Historians have Archdiocese, and the Irish community provided substantial support for the debated the English role in the famine.

Church in terms of finance, property, Some argue England’s brutal colonial and especially in man and woman rule was responsible; others that power. Irish lay men and women England could have done more to such as John Sullivan, Abby Parrott, stem the worst effects of the famine.

James Phelan (whose son later served Whether the English could have done as mayor) and Peter Donahue to more can be debated, but from the name but a few, provided substantial point of view of many activist Irish, benefactions for the Church. particularly those in the United States, Irish working class men and England was culpable. The Irish were women gave from modest earnings to particularly incensed by the apparent pay for the construction of churches, callousness of the British. Typical was schools, hospitals, orphanages and the comment of the Duke of other institutions of charity. Historian Cambridge: “They all knew Irishmen R.A. Burchell wrote, “Once founded, could live upon anything and there Church institutions needed a continuwas plenty of grass in the fields, even ous injection of funds from the pious though the potato crops should fail.” to survive. By and large, the Irish proThe experience of the famine and vided them.” More poetic in his the ensuing migration forged an description of Irish beneficence was Irish identity that was avidly antiCardinal Herbert Vaughan of England British and aggressively Catholic. who stated in 1864, “The zeal of the Irish writer Sean O’Faolain once Archbishop [Alemany] and clergy and observed, “Catholicism is the most faithful Irish knew no limits; churches important element of the Irish persprang up in conspicuous eminences sonality.” Most of the Famine Irish of the City of San Francisco and in the settled along the Eastern seaboard, principal thoroughfares…As soon as Sister Frances McEnnis with one in six settling in New York the Holy See gave to San Francisco an City and Brooklyn. Their life in the urban east was initially one of grindarchbishop the zealous sons of St. Patrick determined to build him a catheing poverty, and recurring discrimination. Archbishop John Hughes of dral. The wages of the common hodman were two pounds, ten schillings a New York called the Irish “the poorest and most wretched population that day; nevertheless, while the Irish with one hand scrambled for wealth, with can be found in the world—the scattered debris of the Irish nation.” the other he freely gave to that which is always dearest to his heart.” The first For those fortunate enough to make it out West, life was much better.

Cathedral, St. Mary’s of the Immaculate Conception, now known as Old St. This was particularly true in San Francisco. While the Irish battled the Mary’s, was dedicated on Christmas Eve, 1854 on property donated by anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic Know Nothing Party in the 1850s, and Irishman John Sullivan.

The Irish also provided plenty of vocations to the priesthood and sisterthe American Protective Association in the 1890s, by and large the Irish

“Irish working class . . . gave from modest earnings to pay for construction of churches, schools, hospitals, orphanages and other institutions of charity,” writes history Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D. Above Mercy Sister Mary Ignatius Meehan (center) poses with nurses and infants at St. Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco, about 1914. hood. Though San Francisco’s first archbishop was Spanish-born, many of his top advisors were Irish: Fathers James Croke, Hugh Gallagher, and Eugene O’Connell (later Bishop of Grass Valley) to name but a few. A large percentage of priests in the Archdiocese were Irish: the Irish seminaries of All Hallows in Dublin, St. Patrick in Carlow and Thurles, St. Kieran’s in Kilkenny, and others provided a steady stream of clerics during the Archdiocese’s first century. So great was the Irish contribution that when the Archdiocese founded its own seminary, it was named St. Patrick’s. As Archbishop Patrick Riordan, the second archbishop of San Francisco noted, “I have placed this work under the patronage of a great apostle, St. Patrick. Not indeed for personal reasons, but because he is the patron saint of a great Catholic race, which has suffered more than any other for religion’s sake — the most devoted, the most generous, the most priest loving race within the fold of the Church of Christ.”

For years to come Irish surnames were in the majority at St. Patrick’s.

According to the historian of the seminary, James Gaffey, Irish seminarians were preferred by the city’s largely Irish clergy. Gaffey writes, “The American youth, they felt, were constitutionally and temperamentally too delicate to bear the rigors of seminary or priestly life. There was among these priests the suspicion that the California boy was congenitally weak, living in a warm and debilitating climate and often bred from parents who had sought the West for reasons of health….The best prospects, it was believed, were to be found in the Irish seminaries where the faith was deeper and the weather more invigorating.”

The Irish clergy’s suspicions may have been borne out — an early entry in the seminary rector’s diary noted that the faculty believed the faith of American youth was “less profound and vigorous than that found among the immigrant Irish who have arrived recently.” Irish clergy dominated the Archdiocese in the 19th century.

Irish women religious also made a significant contribution to the Church in San Francisco. The second order to arrive in the Archdiocese, the Daughters of Charity, though not of Irish origin, were led by Irish-born Sister Frances McEnnis. The Daughters quickly took over the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum and opened a school at St. Patrick Parish. In

1854, two Irish orders responded to the appeal of Father Hugh Gallagher to come to the Archdiocese. The Sisters of the Presentation and the Sisters of Mercy arrived from Ireland in 1854. By 1880 the Sisters of the Presentation were teaching close to one-third of Catholic students in the city, while the Sisters of Mercy were running St. Mary’s Hospital, a home for young, unemployed women and their children, a Magdalen asylum to care for prostitutes and other troubled young women, a home for the aged (that eventually became Our Lady’s Home in Oakland), an industrial school to teach young women a trade, and an employment bureau. The Sisters essentially provided a “safety net” for the poor in 19th century San Francisco. Many other Irish and Irish American Sisters in other orders have similarly served the Archdiocese in its 154-year history.

Though this brief treatment of the Irish contribution to the Church in San Francisco is in no ways comprehensive, it does suggest the tremendous role the Irish have played in the growth of the Church here. Though the memory of the Great Hunger lingered, the zealous sons and daughters of St. Patrick greeted their new life in San Francisco with remarkable generosity, openness and devotion. So this St. Patrick’s Day as you sing “Danny Boy” and drink your Guinness, raise a toast to the many Irish men and women who helped build the Church in San Francisco.

(Note: The Irish Literary and Historical Society recently published a book of fine essays on the Irish in the Bay Area: Donald Jordan and Timothy O’Keefe, editors, “The Irish in the San Francisco Bay Area: Essays on Good Fortune.”)

Archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Dr. Jeffrey Burns will be the featured speaker at the March 17 St. Patrick’s Day celebration at St. Francis of Assisi Parish Hall, 1425 Bay Rd., East Palo Alto. Cost for the noon to 4 p.m. event is $15 adults, $25 couples and $5 for children under 12. Irish music, dance, food and refreshments will be included along with enactment of the story of St. Patrick. Call (650) 322-2152 for information.

St. Patrick’s Day will commence with an annual Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Patrick Church, Fifth St. and Mission St. in San Francisco at 9 a.m. The March 17 Mass has been a prayerful prelude to the City’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade for 155 years.

Father Joseph Walsh, pastor of St. Stephen Parish, will preside.

Concelebrants will include Father Brendan McBride, chaplain to the Irish Catholic community, and Father John Ryan, pastor, St. Gabriel Parish.

Celine Kennelly of the Irish Immigration Pastoral Center will lead song with Tony McMahon on piano. Also assisting will be Napa vocalist Mary McKeever.

Several musical elements of the Mass, including the Psalm, Gospel Acclamation and Lord’s Prayer, “will be sung in Irish,” said Mary Dunleavy-Cassidy, past president of the United Irish Societies, which sponsor the Mass, and a native of County Mayo, Ireland. Recessional songs will be the Star Spangled Banner and the national anthem of Ireland, Amhran na bhFiann. “There will be Irish singers and soloists at the service,” DunleavyCassidy said.

“We usually fill the Church,” Dunleavy-Cassidy said. “People from all over the Archdiocese are in attendance. The Mass is a valuable experience for those present to gather as a community as we thank God for our current blessings, especially the gift of our immigrant faith, and to remember those who have gone before us.”

The parade begins at 11:30 a.m. at Second and Market St., ending at Civic Center Plaza. Labor leader and activist Mike Casey is grand marshall. Visit www.sfstpatricksdayparade.com for more information.

Broadcasts set on the Irish, JPII and KCs Upcoming Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) telecasts will include a St. Patrick’s Day program, “Dana Sings: Ireland’s Classic Melodies,” March 17 at 1 p.m. The one-hour broadcast blends scenery of Ireland with melodies that celebrate the land, the Irish people, and their faith.

Another EWTN program, “Witness to Hope,” will document the life and times of Pope John Paul II on March 24 at 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. and March 29 at 10 a.m. (two hours.)

In addition, the Knights of Columbus’ 125th Anniversary Commemoration Mass will be telecast live from St. Mary Church in New Haven, Conn., where Father Michael J. McGivney founded the Knights in Father Michael 1882. The two-hour special will J. McGivney air March 29 at 2 p.m.

(Ed. note: EWTN in the Bay Area: Channel 229; RCN Channel 80; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 422.

Comcast airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County. Visit Web site www.ewtn.com for more programming notes.)

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Communicators urged to underscore Jesus’ love and mercy Following is the text of the homily by Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, delivered at the March 5 Mass for the Council’s opening plenary meeting at the Vatican.

My brothers and sisters in Christ: It has been a year since we have last met, and I very much appreciate your prayers not only for our continuing work but also for me personally during this period when I was recovering from major surgery to remove a cancerous kidney and also undergoing less serious surgery on my right eye. You have been most thoughtful and solicitous, and I appreciate your support and your prayers.

As those charged by our Holy Father with special responsibility in the field of communications, I think we can all identify with the refrain of the responsorial psalm in today’s Mass: “Lord, do not deal with us as our sins deserve.”

We have all sinned, not just as all men and women sin, but also in the field of communications — especially through sins of omission but also through sins of commission.

We have been guilty of sins or at least faults of omission by not using the “mirifica” — the wonderful things which God has made possible for humans to discover — to communicate in the best possible way his love and goodness to the world.

Those who seek to sell products have used the communications media very successfully to sell soap and automobiles and clothing and vacation experiences, while we — who have the responsibility to proclaim the most important message in the history of the human race — have often lacked the imagination and the dedication to use the media well in making known the good news of Jesus Christ and the good news for all men and women about his love and about our destiny.

I myself, as president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, examine my conscience daily not only to become aware of what I have done wrong in the service of the Lord but especially what I have not done to make my Lord better known and loved throughout the world.

We have also sometimes been guilty of sins or at least faults of commission in resorting more often to condemnation than to commendation in our use of the media. our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI has justly counseled us not to be seen as always saying “no,” but to reflect — and to be seen to reflect — in our use of the media the love, the mercy and the compassion of Jesus Christ.

In the Gospel according to St. Luke read in today’s Mass, we heard our Savior say to his disciplies — and, therefore, to us: “Be compassionate, as your father is compassionate. Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Pardon, and you shall be pardoned. Give, and it shall be given to you.”

Certainly it is necessary to identify the evils in society and to warn people against them, but our major effort should be in proclaiming the knowledge and love of our merciful Savior, Jesus Christ, and the good which is done in the world in his name.

How many “good news” stories there are which are never reported — often because we do not make them known!

Almost everybody already knows that the Catholic Church - - reflecting the teaching of Christ — does not approve of sexual activity outside of marriage, whether that activity be heterosexual or homosexual — but how many know about the many residences and services for pregnant and unmarried women, for children without parents or for victims of AIDS provided by the Church throughout the world in the name of Christ?

We know Catholic leaders have been consistent in condemning violence and war, but too few people know that the world’s largest and perhaps most effective organizations for the care of the hungry and homeless are under the direction of the Catholic Church — in the name of Jesus Christ.

“Be compassionate as your father is compassionate ... Do not judge, and you will not be judged.”

Use the communications media to make known the message of our merciful and loving Savior, but may we also be perceived as being loving and merciful, following his example and indeed his mandate.

There used to be a popular song, “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” What the world needs now is certainly love, and what we need is to communicate that most fundamental love of God and to be seen to exemplify the mercy, forgiveness and compassion of our loving Savior.

At the end of our Council’s 1989 document, “Pornography and Violence in the Communications Media: A Pastoral Response,” we cited Romans 1:20, “Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” That should certainly be our password for our own work in communications.

St. Francis prayed: “Make me an instrument of your peace.” May we help to make of the instruments of communication instruments of peace, of justice and of love, and may we personally live — and be seen to live — the compassion, forgiveness and love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Ill-tempered attack George Weigel’s ill-tempered attack (Catholic San Francisco, March 2) upon the reputation of the late Father Robert Drinan, SJ, can be easily explained. Father Drinan was a well educated man with liberal views.

George Weigel appears to be the opposite.

Jerome F. Downs San Francisco

Disgraceful Your coverage of Father Robert Drinan, SJ, was a disgrace. He was one of the most outstanding priests we ever had.

I am enclosing some information from the National Catholic Reporter to help you amend your omission. The Catholic Church is not based on abortion and gay marriage, etc. How about Catholic social justice – Pope Leo XIII, for example?

Luise Maier Palo Alto

are seriously attracted to government today because they rightly think that this is their stock in trade.”

But that was before the pope barred clerics from public office.

Father Larry N. Lorenzoni, SDB San Francisco

OLPH grads located Thanks very much for the nice item about Our Lady of Perpetual Help and me in the March 2 edition. That was really very nice of you. I’ve already been contacted by four people who read the article. One of the women only attended OLPH in the third through fifth grades, 1938-40. There is no way I would have found her without your article. She is now on the mailing list with four back issues of “The Perpetual Light” in the mail to her. God bless you.

Ed Mahoney OLPH Development Daly City

PJ Day inspires young

Father Drinan recalled George Weigel’s column “Demythologizing Father Drinan” in the March 2 Catholic San Francisco was featured also in the Los Angeles Tidings. The LA Catholic weekly, however, balanced Weigel’s mostly negative column by running right next to it a more positive “Remembering Father Drinan” column by Father Richard P. McBrien, the Crowley-O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

I enjoyed in particular Father McBrien’s recalling how Father Drinan accepted the papal directive to resign from Congress “with such docility and with such a strong affirmation of his priesthood and his commitment to the Society of Jesus, that effectively pulled the rug from under the feet of those who have vilified him for years and have characterized him in such an un-Christian manner. Bob Drinan acted in the end as he is and always was: a priest of complete integrity and a Catholic Christian of unchallengeable commitment and dedication to the Gospel and the mission of the Church.”

Friends think I tend to favor Father Mc’Brien’s judgment because his mother is Italian. Be that as it may, I just read in the London international Catholic weekly The Tablet that it was on an evening in May 1980 that Father Robert A. Hagen, SJ, was present when then Jesuit Superior General Father General Pedro Arrupe insisted on speaking personally to Father Drinan, instead of passing the pope’s order on to the American provincial and letting him handle it.

Father Hagen could tell the call weighed heavily on Father Arrupe “who both before and after the call was serious to the point of being grim, without any of his usual buoyancy.”

Father Arrupe was not the only Catholic silently questioning at the time whether that papal decision was wise. While a good Catholic must sincerely believe that it is the Spirit that guides the Church through human means, and that what the pope decrees today must be God’s expressed will for us at this present moment, one may prudently consider whether a time-limited decision such as this may be wise for all time.

I am reminded of a statement by the president of Notre Dame University that I thought made very good sense 30 years ago. At a New Orleans press conference he was being asked about Father Drinan’s holding public office. Father Theodore Hesburgh answered that “many political issues today are in reality true moral issues: think of hunger, human rights, poverty, education... Because of that I think religious, priests, ministers and rabbis

I would like to assure D. Brady (Letters, Feb. 23) that careful thought and planning take place before allowing students to come to school for “Pajama Day” during our Catholic Schools Week celebration.

Theme days are sponsored by our student council and are often tied with charitable events. Notices are sent home specifically outlining appropriate dress for each of our theme days. Students are never allowed to wear revealing or suggestive clothing in any form.

Our students participate regularly in our once-a-month “Charity Free Dress” where they each donate $1 to a designated charity for the privilege to come to school in appropriate free dress. The charities we donate to include: Habitat for Humanity, St. Vincent de Paul Society, Pennies for Patients, and the Make-a-Wish Foundation to name a few.

Our free dress events are intended not to lower our standards by bowing to popular culture, but are used as a means of promoting and teaching lessons of social responsibility.

By taking a few days out of our school year to allow students to wear free dress for the sake of charity, we build a sense of Christian community by following our Catholic practice of reaching out to those in need. Our students and parents actively and generously participate in our school sponsored charitable events. For this reason, a few exceptions in our normally strict dress code make it all worthwhile.

Patrick Bell Math/science/technology St. Stephen School, San Francisco

L E T T E R S

Letters welcome Catholic San Francisco welcomes letters from its readers.

Please send your letters to: Catholic San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109 Fax: (415) 614-5641 E-mail: morrisyoungd@sfarchdiocese.org

War costly and tragic I appreciate Mr. Fernando Lavin’s March 2 response to my earlier letter (“Pelosi on target,” Feb. 16), but must protest his interpreting what I meant. I hold Mr. Bush responsible for the war in Iraq because he’s the one who made the decision to invade, chose which advisors to trust, and which inspectors to ignore — and we all know how that has turned out.

I and other “liberals” are very clear on our opposition to the war. We don’t need others to speak for us. There were many who voted against this invasion, and many ‘liberals” (let’s remember Jesus would be judged by many as a “liberal,” so I appreciate the label). Mr. Lavin, like Bush, fails to define “victory” in Iraq, or explain how more U.S. and Iraqi dead will change the mess Iraq is now. I write in support of the 60,000-200,000 dead Iraqi civilians, more than 3,000 U.S. dead, and more than 30,000 U.S. wounded; $450 billion has now found us in the middle of a civil war.

That’s the source of my outrage. This is a matter of conscience, like those who support right to life or pro-choice advocates. And since Mr. Weigel continues to criticize Father Robert Drinan (now deceased and unable to respond), a Catholic, I share the same right. Father Drinan, not Mr. Weigel, remains a hero to me.

He spoke out against a war many considered immoral, while the Church held its tongue. He put himself on the line when it counted.

Peter Mandell San Francisco

March 16, 2007

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Spirituality for Life

The world as a phone-booth For Christmas last year, I was given a cell-phone. I’d always resisted buying one for a couple of reasons.

First off, I’m already too accessible, as are most of us. The poet, Rumi, once said: “I have lived too long where I can be reached!” Wonderfully put. We can no longer go out for dinner, have a family outing, take a day off, or go on vacation without life intruding on us. The opportunity for instant and constant distance-communication has, no doubt, made our lives more efficient, but it has also made them more demanding and has robbed most of us of the precious few chances we still have to get away from the pressures of life. We are too accessible.

Beyond that, I have been perennially irritated by the over-use, misuse, and useless-use of cell-phones. It is no longer possible to be in almost any public place and not be within earshot of someone talking on a cell-phone. I glance around public places sometimes - airports, parks, coffee bars, public squares - and notice that virtually everyone is either speaking on one, punching information into one, or at least holding one. They’re omnipresent.

With that being said, I do admit they are a marvelous invention and have saved lives. They’re also a wonderful convenience. In the two months that I’ve had mine, it has already twice bailed me out while driving and getting lost, allowed me to reschedule a flight while stranded in a storm, facilitated airport pick-ups on several occasions, and given me instant access from anywhere to colleagues, family and friends.

Still, I’m hardly a convert. Cell-phones still too often irritate me. Why? More superficially, I get the impression that too many of us still think that being engaged in a cell-phone conversation in a public place makes us look important. I may be wrong, but the near universality of the phenomenon should soon enough erase any such illusions.

More seriously, I’m concerned about how cell-phones are changing the way we relate and deforming us somewhat both in our capacity for attention and in our propriety. Let me explain: First, regarding our capacity for attention: I agree with Thomas Friedman (“The World is Flat”) when he suggests that mobile phones, text-messaging, e-mails, and other such media are making us so accessible to everybody that paradoxically we are becoming accessible to nobody. We are communicating all the time and, strangely, becoming lonelier in the process, more isolated from each other. Studies show that today, inside of this instant and continuous communication, we in fact have fewer close friends and family life is being strained by technology, not enhanced by it.

Technology is dividing us perhaps more than uniting us.

Beyond this, our excessive preoccupation with technological communication is producing in us something Friedman calls continuous partial attention disorder. We are becoming the antithesis of a contemplative. How do you stay in touch with your deep center when you are constantly pulled in all directions?

Recently in an airport, I sat beside a young man who was listening to an i-pod, working on his lap-top, and speaking on his cell-phone all at the same time. I suspect he would protest that he is now part of a generation that can “multi-task”. Perhaps there’s some worth in that since the capacity to walk and chew gum at the same time is indeed a virtue. But I would be wary of his contemplative capacities, just I would of his manners. Too often the capacity to “multi-task” is also the capacity to be impolite and inattentive to more than one person at the same time.

Then there is also what cell-phones are doing to us in terms of public propriety, etiquette and manners.

In essence, we have turned the whole world into a phone-booth. Is that a bad thing?

Efficiency-wise, no; but propriety-wise, yes.

Phone-booths were invented for a good reason, as were living Father rooms, offices, bedRon Rolheiser rooms, parks, living rooms, restaurants, dining rooms, theaters, and churches. We sit in public places today and we over-hear conversations that have to do with business, family life, intimacy, and trivia which propriety and manners suggest would be better conducted precisely inside of offices, living rooms, bedrooms, and parks - or at least in the relative privacy of a phone-booth.

But the whole world is now becoming a phone-booth, just as it is also becoming a business office, a living room, a bedroom, and a venue for endless chatter in public about trivia that is best talked about in private. Cell-phones have not made for good hygiene, psychic or social.

In the end, cell-phones are a good thing. Sadly though our common sense and manners haven’t kept pace with the technology.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.. He can be contacted through his Web site: www.ronrolheiser.com.

Guest Commentary

I dare the young to take Lent seriously Do you remember, ages and ages ago, when you were just a little kid, and you’d be dared to do something?

“Dare you to climb up to the top of that tree!’’

“Dare you to eat that worm!’’

“Dare you to throw a spit wad at Mrs. Blunderbuss!’’

“Oh, yeah? Well I triple dare you to steal home!’’

Do you remember how a dare made you feel?

If you were a normal kid, it probably made you feel as if you just had to run out and do whatever that dare was about.

It didn’t matter what it was. You’d been challenged, and you weren’t about to back down. Right?

OK, how about this? It’s Lent. I dare you to take it seriously.

Double dare you, in fact.

Giving up candy bars and cutting down to one soda a day was fine and dandy when you were a little kid, but you’re older now. Don’t you think you’re ready for a more grown-up approach?

I dare you to take a few minutes out of your life and reflect on what Lent is really all about. Dare you to confront that whole issue of ``giving things up’’ as an adult.

Maybe do it this way: Ponder the whole concept of “sacrifice.’’ Think about how many important things in life require sacrifice.

Being a good athlete requires you to sacrifice time and

comfort. Two-hour practices on the field, wearing yourself out in the gym, and getting up early Saturday morning for a two-hour run aren’t exactly pleasurable experiences. But you’ve got the goal, so you sacrifice.

Doing your absolute best in school, using the brain God gave you to explore this fantastic world, requires its own kind of sacrifices, too. So do relationships. Being happy in your relationships with friends and family requires the sacrifice of ego and pride, and the willingness to give.

And it’s just like that with God. Being close to God and living within God’s comfort and peace requires sacrifice, too.

We have to examine our lives closely, all the time, for the things that keep us from God. Sometimes those things are sinful, and sometimes they’re just a waste of precious time, energy and focus.

So what we do during Lent is try to put a microscope to the stuff in our lives that is keeping us from being closer to God. For some of us it’s alcohol or sexual sin that’s working at destroying our best selves. For some it’s the hours we spend in front of mindless entertainment. For some it’s just plain, shut-the-door-in-everyone’s-face selfishness.

So, I dare you. Dare you to haul out that microscope and take a look. Dare you to think about Jesus and how much he loves you.

Dare you to clear your life of junk this Lent: junk rela-

tionships, junk entertainment, junk pastimes.

—Dare you to open the door to your room and face the rest of your family as though they’re human beings, not impositions Amy Welborn on your freedom.

—Dare you to go to Mass every single Sunday during Lent, open your heart to God and pray, really pray this time.

—Dare you take 15 minutes a day and in silence read God’s word and listen to him.

—Dare you to rest your eyes on Jesus on the cross and not look away after two seconds.

—Dare you to reflect on the pain he suffered out of love for you.

Dare you.

Double dare you.

Amy Welborn is a regular contributor to Catholic News Service.

The Catholic Difference About nine months ago, a reporter from the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire called and asked whether the rash of “atheist books” being published in the U.S. suggested a new trend in American culture. I replied that I didn’t think so. Publishing was a bit like hemlines and tie widths, I suggested: there are fashions, and the fashions are often defined (and slavishly followed) by bearers of little brain, of which the publishing industry is, alas, replete. (An observation, I note, that was made long before the latest O.J. fiasco!)

In any event, I wish I’d given a more thoughtful answer. For, on further reflection, Richard Dawkins’s “The God Delusion,” Daniel Dennett’s “Breaking the Spell,” and Sam Harris’s “Letter to a Christian Nation” do embody an interesting trend: not about American culture as a whole, but about its atheist mini-minority. Reading these books, one gets the distinct impression contemporary atheism is getting angrier and dumber, even as it becomes more profitable for publishers and authors alike.

One root of the new atheist campaign is, of course,

political: Bush Derangement Syndrome has persuaded at least some atheists that the cowboy-evangelical apocalypse is just around the corner. The usual snobberies are also involved: the new atheism reflects the disdain of the academic guilds and chattering classes for those they imagine to be their social inferiors. In the 19th century, it was thought that an atheist couldn’t be a gentleman; today, the atheists argue that religious conviction is for slobs and morons.

But as Sam Schulman recently pointed out in a perceptive Wall Street Journal essay, what’s really striking about the new atheism is its tone. In a word, it’s angry; or, as Schulman writes, “Belief, in their eyes, is not just misguided but contemptible...Today’s atheists are particularly disgusted by the religious training of young people – which Dr. Dawkins calls ‘a form of child abuse.’”

This is, in part, the aforementioned snobbery; as Schulman nicely puts it, the new atheists imagine that “believing in God is a form of stupidity, which sets off their own intelligence.” But the anger is such that it warps what-

ever cleverness might be at work in the likes of Dawkins, Dennett and Harris. The agnostic H.L. Mencken (a vociferous critic of what he regarded as the absurdities of popular religiosity during the George Weigel Roaring Twenties) was one of the few commentators who could do brilliant social satire while writing “at the top of his voice,” as one biographer put it. The angers of Dawkins, Dennett and Harris render their writing merely shrill.

And dumb. Read the atheist trinity, and you’ll be amazed at their self-regard – which is based, in part, on a Captain Reynaud-like wonder (“I’m shocked, shocked...”) at discovering the obvious: that the Bible is neither geoloWEIGEL, page 17

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FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT Joshua 5:9a, 10-12; Psalm 34:2-2, 4-5, 6-7; 2 Corinthians 5:17-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 A READING FROM BOOK OF JOSHUA (JOS 5:9A, 10-12) The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have removed the reproach of Egypt from you.”

While the Israelites were encamped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth of the month.

On the day after the Passover, they ate of the produce of the land in the form of unleavened cakes and parched grain. On that same day after the Passover, on which they ate of the produce of the land, the manna ceased.

No longer was there manna for the Israelites, who that year ate of the yield of the land of Canaan.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth.

Let my soul glory in the LORD; the lowly will hear me and be glad.

R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Glorify the LORD with me, let us together extol his name.

I sought the LORD, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

Look to him that you may be radiant with joy, and your faces may not blush with shame.

When the poor one called out, the LORD heard, and from all his distress he saved him.

R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

A READING FROM THE SECOND LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 2 COR 5:17-21 Brothers and sisters: Whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away; behold, new things have come. And all this is from God, who has reconciled us to himself through Christ and given us the ministry of Reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.

So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were Appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ,be reconciled to God. For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, o that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 15:1-3, 11-32) Tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the Pharisees and scribes began to complain, saying,“This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

So to them Jesus addressed this parable: “A man had two sons, and the younger son said to his father,‘Father give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’

So the father divided the property between them. After a few days, the younger son collected all his belongings and set off to a distant country where he squandered his inheritance on a life of dissipation.

Scripture Reflection FATHER PHILLIP BLOOM

The ‘reproach of Egypt’

“The return of the prodigal son” – Rembrandt, c. 1662, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

When he had freely spent everything, a severe famine struck that country, and he found himself in dire need.

So he hired himself out to one of the local citizens who sent him to his farm to tend the swine. And he longed to eat his fill of the pods on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any.

Coming to his senses he thought,‘How many of my father’s hired workers have more than enough food to eat, but here am I, dying from hunger. I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.

I no longer deserve to be called your son; treat me as you would treat one of your hired workers.”’ So he got up and went back to his father.

While he was still a long way off, his father caught sight of him, and was filled with compassion. He ran to his son, embraced him and kissed him. His son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you; I no longer deserve to be called your son.’

But his father ordered his servants, ‘Quickly bring the finest robe and put it on him; put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Take the fattened calf and slaughter it. Then let us celebrate with a feast, because this son of mine was dead, and has come to life again; he was lost, and has been found.’ Then the celebration began.

Now the older son had been out in the field and, on his way back, as he neared the house, he heard the sound of music and dancing. He called one of the servants and asked what this might mean. The servant said to him, ‘Your brother has returned and your father has slaughtered the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’

He became angry, and when he refused to enter the house, his father came out and pleaded with him. He said to his father in reply, ‘Look, all these years I served you and not once did I disobey your orders; yet you never gave me even a young goat to feast on with my friends. But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’

He said to him, ‘My son, you are here with me always; everything I have is yours.But now we must celebrate and rejoice, because your brother was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.’”

During a Lenten retreat a priest friend talked about times he was spat upon. About 35 years ago he returned from Vietnam wearing his Green Beret uniform. An anti-war protestor saw him and spit on him. More recently, at the height of the clergy sex abuse scandal, he was in an airport. Recognizing him as a priest, someone came up and spit at him.

It is terrible to be an object of reproach.

After 40 years of wandering in the desert, the Israelites still felt the “reproach of Egypt” upon them. We do not know exactly in what it consisted, but it caused a horrible sense of unworthiness.

Perhaps it involved feeling estranged from their true homeland after so many years of enslavement. With God’s help they had broken free, yet for 40 years, the sensual pleasures of Egypt continued to strongly attract them (Ex 16:3). They had gotten out of Egypt, but Egypt had not gotten out of them.

A person struggling with a drug or sex addic-

tion can know an experience akin to this.

Jesus tells about a young man who felt a similar reproach, an estrangement from his father who loved him dearly. By his own poor choice he had gone far from his home. He would have remained sunk in self-pity and misery if an act of grace had not picked him.

The grace was this: Jesus, who had no sin, made himself sin for our sake (2 Cor 7:21).

And what finally removed the reproach?

For the Israelites it was a Passover meal. After eating it, they re-entered their true homeland.

For the prodigal son it was also a meal, a most sumptuous one. You and I are used to eating meat, almost whenever we desire it. It was not so back then. Killing a fatted calf meant a very joyous feast. The missing son had finally come home.

The reproach of Egypt was removed.

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to us in the lowliness of the sacramental signs.” ● As for Church architecture, Pope Benedict encouraged parishes to ensure their facilities are fully accessible to people with disabilities and that the tabernacle containing the Blessed Sacrament is “readily visible to everyone entering the Church.”

“In Churches which do not have a Blessed Sacrament chapel and where the high altar with its tabernacle is still in place, it is appropriate to continue to use this structure for the reservation and adoration of the Eucharist,” he said.

However, the pope said, the “final judgment on these matters belongs to the diocesan bishop.”

Pope Benedict also formally reaffirmed the obligation of celibacy for priests in the Latin rite and the fact that, in most cases, Catholics and other Christians should not share the Eucharist, which is a sign of full unity in faith.

He reminded Catholics of the obligation to be in a “state of grace,” free from serious sin, before receiving Communion, and of the fact that by receiving Communion they are publicly proclaiming their unity with the teaching of the Church.

“Respect for human life, its defense from conception to natural death, the family built upon marriage between a man and a woman, the freedom to educate one’s children and the promotion of the common good in all its forms ... are not negotiable,” he said.

Politicians and lawmakers must introduce and support laws inspired by those values, the pope said.

Pope Benedict said, “Bishops are bound to reaffirm constantly these values as part of their responsibility to the flock entrusted to them.”

But the pope did not mention his position on whether or not bishops should declare publicly that they would withhold Communion from a politician who did not fully accept Church teaching.

At the Vatican press conference presenting the document, Italian Cardinal Angelo Scola of Venice was asked what the papal position was.

“He does not want to say that which he does not say,” the cardinal responded.

The pope reminded bishops that they must call all Catholics, particularly politicians, to coherence of faith and action, “but he cannot substitute himself for the pastoral prudence of the bishop,” the cardinal said.

(Ed. Note: The complete text of the apostolic exhortation can be found at: www.vatican.va/ holy_father/benedict_xvi/apost_exhortations/d ocuments/hf_ben-xvi_exh_20070222_sacramentum-caritatis_en.html).

■ Continued from page cover situations, Pope Benedict confirmed Church teaching that those who have been divorced and civilly remarried without having obtained an annulment are not to receive Communion.

However, the pope encouraged bishops to ensure they have fully trained and staffed marriage tribunals to deal with annulment requests “in an expeditious manner.” ● Pope Benedict said the sign of peace at Mass “has great value,” especially in demonstrating the Church’s responsibility to pray for peace and unity in a world too often troubled by division, violence and hatred.

While Catholics at Mass should exchange a sign of peace with those near them, he also called for “greater restraint” to ensure the moment does not distract.

The pope said, “I have asked the competent curial offices to study the possibility of moving the sign of peace to another place (in the Mass), such as before the presentation of the gifts at the altar. To do so would also serve as a significant reminder of the Lord’s insistence that we be reconciled with others before presenting our gifts to God.” ● The pope also said the Church should consider providing new texts for the rite of dismissal at the end of Mass so that Catholics would understand better the connection between what they have just celebrated and the fact they are sent out in a mission to bring God’s love and truth to the world. ● Pope Benedict said several Vatican offices are preparing a compendium of texts, prayers and explanations of the Church teaching on the Eucharist and the eucharistic prayers at Mass to help Catholics “believe, celebrate and live ever more fully the mystery of the Eucharist.” ● He called for improvement in the quality of homilies and said bishops have a particular responsibility to ensure the liturgies provide an example for the whole diocese of a liturgy celebrated with dignity, beauty and fidelity to the approved rites. ● The pope asked Catholics to pay more attention to how their postures and gestures at Mass communicate their faith in the Eucharist, particularly by “kneeling during the central moments of the eucharistic prayer.”

“Amid the legitimate diversity of signs used in the context of different cultures, everyone should be able to experience and express the awareness that at each celebration we stand before the infinite majesty of God, who comes

Father Phil Bloom is pastor of Holy Family Parish in Seattle, Washington.

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Sister M. Norrine Clifford, SHF Sister M. Norinne Clifford, 90, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family for 72 years and a resident at the Motherhouse in Fremont, died at the Motherhouse on Feb. 16.

Born on Jan. 8, 1917, the San Francisco native entered the Holy Family Sisters in July1935 and ministered as a religious education coordinator for many years in parishes throughout California, Nevada, Texas and Hawaii.

Sister also served as director at St. Vincent’s Day Home in Oakland for several years as well as the former St. Francis Day Home, San Francisco. In

By Patricia Kasten

Gospel for March 18, 2007 Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading for Fourth Sunday of Lent, Cycle C: the story about two sons and their father. The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle.

more recent years, Sister Norinne’s work continued at the Motherhouse through her ministry of prayer.

Sister Norinne is survived by her sisters, Margaret Kotlanger of San Francisco, Mrs. Fred Vitorelo (Ellen) of Santa Rosa, and several nieces and nephews. Her sisters, Sister Mary Dorita, BVM, Sister Mary Jane Therese, BVM, Sister Mary Eva Sheehan, BVM and her brothers, John and Dan, are deceased.

A memorial Mass was celebrated at the Motherhouse Chapel of the Sisters of the Holy Family, Fremont, on Feb. 22. Remembrances may be made to the works of the Sisters of the Holy Family.

Sister M. Norrine

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assignment was the apostolate of prayer, effective in 2002.

Funeral Mass was celebrated March 6 at the Dominican Sisters’ Chapel in Fremont.

Burial was March 7 in the order’s cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Dominican Sisters’ Retirement Fund, the Mother Pia Backes Education Fund, or the Vision of Hope Fund, 43326 Mission Blvd., Fremont, CA, 94539.

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Sister Gabriel McCarthy dies March 3 Dominican Sister Gabriel McCarthy, 92, died March 3 at the Dominican Sisters’ Motherhouse in Fremont.

A Dominican for 74 years, Sister Gabriel taught and administered at several Catholic schools on the West Coast including San Francisco’s St. James School and Immaculate Conception Elementary.

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Lenten Opportunities March 21: “Why We Gather Around The Table” with Sister Pam Chiesa, part of Deepen Your Faith Speaker Series. Starts at 7 p.m. and includes an engaging speaker, delicious food, and in-depth discussion at St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City. For more information, call (650) 3650140 or e-mail Kevin@pius.org.

March 21: Benedictine Father Stanley Jaki will speak on “Science, Creation and Christ” at 7 p.m. at Woodside Priory School assembly hall at 7 p.m.

Father Jaki is a co-founder of the Priory and an expert in physics. Evening is free and includes a dessert reception. Reservations are required. Call Pat Reed at (650) 851-8221 or e-mail preed@woodsidepriory.com.

March 24: Day of recollection, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the Green Room of St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. and Vicente St., San Francisco; $35 fee includes light breakfast and lunch. Richard Sonnenstein, Ph.D., will speak on “The DaVinci Code.” Father Mark Taheny will facilitate and preside at Mass. Call George Maloof at (415) 219-8719.

March 24: “Called to the Center,” a centering prayer workshop with Mercy Sisters Marguerite Buchanan and Suzanne Toolan at Marin Catholic High School, 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield, from 9:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Catherine Regan, Ph.D., will be the workshop presenter. Call Vicki Bornstein at (415) 435-1122. Cost is $20 per person. Sponsored

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March 26: “Catholics and Religious Freedom” with Father Jim MacDonald at 7 p.m.; part of lecture series on faith and Church history at St. Pius Parish, 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City. For more information, contact Kevin Staszkow (650) 365-0140, or e-mail kevin@pius.org, or www.pius.org.

March 28: The Holy Name Society at Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. at Eighth Ave, is sponsoring a showing of “The Passion of Christ” in the school auditorium at 7 p.m. as a preparation for Holy Week. There will be a freewill collection to cover costs and to benefit a new pre-school. Free parking. For more information call (415) 751-0450.

March 31: “Come to the Table,” a healing retreat from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Mater Dolorosa Parish, 307 Willow Dr., South San Francisco. An opportunity to prepare for Easter and experience spiritual healing.

Free admission and free lunch. Pre-registration required. Call (650) 583-4131 or e-mail lidwellf@mdssf.org.

Taize/Chanted Prayer 3rd Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.: Sisters of Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 277 or visit www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

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

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

Tuesdays at 6:30 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., Half Moon Bay. Call Cheryl Fuller at (650) 726-2249.

Sundays: Gregorian Chant at the National Shrine of Saint Francis at 12:15 p.m. Mass. All are welcome to worship at this intimate historical treasure in the heart of North Beach; 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus Ave.. For more information, call (415) 983-0405.

Food & Fun May 12: St. Sebastian Parish is taking reservations for its annual “Whale of a Sale” to be held May 12, from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Spaces are $35 early bird, $50 after April 15. Reserve early to guarantee a space. Participants sell crafts or household items and keep all proceeds. Benefits the St. Vincent DePaul Conference. Take a space and raise money for your group or club. For information or reservations contact Kathie Meier, (415) 4614133 or e-mail whaleofasale@comcast.net or visit http://www.sswhaleofasale.com.

March 17: St. Patrick’s Day dinner benefiting St. Matthew Elementary School, now in its 75th year.

March 16, 2007 March 29: Classes of ’39 to ’45, Star of the Sea Academy at 11:30 a.m. at Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco. Call Marie at (415) 564-2603 or Dorothy at (415) 681-1493.

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Prayer/Lectures/Trainings March 20, April 17, May 15: Bioethics Seminar on Double Effect Reasoning at Heart of Mary Center, 2580 McAllister St., San Francisco, at 7:30 p.m. Donation $30. Refreshments served. Presenter is USF Professor Thomas Cavanaugh. Call George Maloof at (415) 219-8719.

March 24: Training for new lectors, offered by the Office of Worship, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at St. Charles Church, San Carlos; $15 fee. Pre-register at (415) 614-5585 or e-mail vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org.

March 20: “Radiology and Beyond” presented by Dr. Richard Breiman, 7 - 8:45 p.m. at UCSF Medical Sciences Building, 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco; $15. Call (415) 476-2557 or visit www.lifelonglearning.ucsf.edu.

March 24: “Eye Care and Diabetes,” presented by Dr. Daniel Schainholz, and “Computer-Based Training in Older Adults with Memory Complaints” presented by Deborah Barnes, PhD., 9 am – noon, $20, at the Jewish Community Center, 3200 California St., San Francisco. Call (415) 476-2557 or visit www.lifelonglearning.ucsf.edu.

Single, Divorced, Separated April 27 – 29: “Weekend for Widowed, Separated, Divorced” at El Retiro, Los Altos. For more information, call La Verne (650) 355-3978, Helen (415) 3889651, or Donna (408) 371-0865, or visit www.beginningexperience.org.

Separated and divorced support group meets first and third Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, San Francisco; call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

St. Veronica Elementary School honored teachers, Janet Burke, left, on 30 years in Catholic education, and Margaret Murphy on her 25 years in Catholic schools.

“Mrs. Burke is a distinguished teacher who makes everyone’s world light up with joy,” said 8th grader Caitlyn Ciardella. “Mrs. Murphy is a teacher who cares and loves everyone,” said 8th grader Cheyenne Westerman. “As she spreads her love, she is loved by the people around her.” The school said, “Both Mrs. Burke and Mrs. Murphy are blessings to St. Veronica’s and to the world of education.”

All starts at 6 p.m. in school auditorium, Ninth Ave. at El Camino Real in San Mateo. Tickets are $15 per adult, $5 per child. Menu includes corned beef and cabbage plus entertainment and children’s bingo. Email Charliejad@yahoo.com to make reservations or call (650) 628-6848 March 18: 51st Annual St. Patrick’s Day Barbecue and Fundraiser benefiting Sacred Heart Parish in Olema, noon – 4 p.m. at Dance Palace Community Center in Point Reyes Station . Call (415) 663-1139. A banquet of barbecued chicken, pasta, salad, rolls, and milk, tea or coffee will be served. Meals are $15 for adults and $7 for children. The cake booth will offer desserts for purchase. A cash bar will be serving drinks for those who desire a little “Irish” in their coffee or other libations!

Music will be provided.

March 24: St. Stephen Women’s Guild’s Silent Auction Dinner Dance at 6 p.m. at San Francisco City Hall. The event honors parishioners Joan Leehane and John Celedon. Tickets are available through chairperson Fionnuala McElligott, (650) 296-9519 or e-mail fionnuala@spinaldiagnostics.com. Raffle tickets are also available ($20 each/3 for $50) for grand prizes up to $4,200; need not be present to win; free drawing ticket available at school office upon request.

March 24: The Alumnae Council of Mercy High School, San Francisco, presents “Eggstravaganza!”

— Easter fun for children ages 2 - 12, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. on Mercy’s campus, 3250 19th Ave. The event will feature an egg hunt, games, arts and crafts and an appearance by the Easter Bunny! Tickets are $5 per child and adults are free. For more information, contact Nilsa Lennig at (415) 334-0525, ext. 228, or e-mail nlennig@mercyhs.org.

March 24: Cruise with the St. Cecilia Parish Mothers’ Club at its annual fundraiser, “A Nautical Night” aboard the SS Durocher. The Durocher Pavilion will be transformed into a virtual cruise ship.

“A Nautical Night” includes a bon-voyage reception with music, live and silent auctions, dancing and dining, and a $10,000 raffle prize. E-mail Susie Buckley at buckleysm@comcast.net or call (415) 731-8400. Visit www.scfundraiser.com.

Social Justice/Family Life

March 24: The San Rafael Knights of Columbus #1292 invite interested parties to an informational meeting at 6 p.m. at Knights Hall, 167 Tunstead, San Anselmo - $5 dinner/$1 drinks. Call Joe Tassone at (415) 215-8571.

March 24: Networking Luncheon/Planning Meeting of Kappa Gamma Pi, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at Holy Names University, 3500 Mountain Blvd., Oakland. Tickets $5.50 per person. Call Betty at (925) 284-2028.

March 24: First Annual Crab Feed benefiting St. Finn Barr Parish, 415 Edna St. at Hearst in San Francisco beginning with no-host bar at 5:30 p.m.

Tickets are $45 per person in advance/$50 at door.

Evening includes dancing until midnight. Call (415) 585-4524 or (415) 333-3627.

Arts & Entertainment March 21: Nuccia Focile in concert at 7:30 p.m., Herbst Theater. The eminent Italian soprano’s performance will benefit the San Francisco Cultural Center and Project HOPE. $35/$100 seating available through City Box office: (415) 392-5225. For $500/$1000 VIP tickets receive invitation to receptions with artist. Call (415) 775-0717 or (415) 6211400.

March 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31 at 7:30 p.m.; March 24, 31 at 2 p.m.: The Broadway musical, “Chicago,” at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School, Ellis between Gough and Franklin in San Francisco. All performances will be held in the DePaul Auditorium, 1100 Ellis St. Tickets are $5 for students and seniors; $10 for adults Call the SHCP box office at (415) 775-6626, ext. 715.

Reunions March 18: 75th Anniversary Mass for St. Matthew Elementary School in San Mateo at 10:30 a.m. with Archbishop George H. Niederauer presiding. Many other events coming up. Alumni should be in touch with Nancy Carroll at (650) 372-9536.

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April 21: Life, Camera, Action! Myths and the Media: 6th Annual Celebrate Life Conference Reveals Common Misconceptions. Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, one of the member schools of California Students for Life, hosts renowned speakers, useful workshops and networking opportunities. Free and open to the public, starting at 10 a.m. Please register (free) online at http://www.stanford.edu/group/ssfl/clc07.html. Email CelebrateLifeConference@gmail.com for more information.

Interested in St. Vincent de Paul? Tour our facilities in San Francisco, where we serve 1000 of the city’s most needy every day. Tours are scheduled the first Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. and second Saturday at 11 a.m. every month. Phone (415) 927-1270 x3003 to reserve a spot.

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

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

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

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 5683018.

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In a wide-ranging interview to be aired March 18 at 5:30 a.m. on KRON-TV (Channel 4), San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang (right) comments on issues from complex Vatican-Beijing tensions over state interference in Church administration in China to his own background – being born in China, oppressed by the communist regime, and eventually arriving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1974. Archdiocesan Director of Communications Maury Healy (left) hosts the half-hour program, “For Heaven’s Sake.” The program is a production of the Archdiocese’s Office of Communications and KRON.

Weigel . . .

■ Continued from page 13 gy text nor critical biography; that, over the centuries, Christian hagiographers have embellished the stories they tell about saintly people; that some uncritically examined beliefs are, in fact, superstitious. Oh, really?

Moreover, as Schulman writes, “The faith that the new atheists describe is a simple-minded parody. It is impossible to see within it what might have preoccupied great artists and thinkers like Homer, Milton, Michelangelo, Newton and Spinoza – let alone Aquinas, Dr. Johnson, Kierkegaard, Goya, Cardinal Newman, Reinhold Niebuhr or, for that matter, Albert Einstein. But to pass over this deeper faith – the kind that engaged the great minds of Western history – is to

diminish the loss of faith, too. The new atheists are separated from the old by their shallowness.”

Which is to say, again, they’re dumber as well as angrier. Indeed, were I back teaching and a graduate student handed me an ill-informed screed like Harris’s “Letter to a Christian Nation,” I’d gently inform the aspiring scholar that there were two options available: an “F,” or a return to the drawing board for some serious thought – the kind of thought that begins with empathetic curiosity and an open mind, not with contempt and intellectual rigidity.

Contemporary believers deserve a better class of critics than this. As Sam Schulman laments, where are Matthew Arnold and George Eliot when you need them?

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

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