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Easter message – 2008 Jesus Christ’s resurrection thrusts all of us into mission ow and then something happens which seems to freeze us in space and time, and everything N that happens after that event is more or less colored by it: Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, Friday, Nov. 22, 1963, Sept. 11, 2001.

These three dates are memorable because terrible things happened on those days. The first Easter Sunday was completely different, because something glorious happened on that day. All the family, friends and followers of Jesus were never to forget where they were when they first heard the news that Jesus had been raised from the dead - when it first dawned on them.

Their lives were never to be the same. Jesus, their teacher and healer, was indeed the Son of the living God. Jesus became the Way they chose what to say and do, the Truth they used to test all other truths and meanings, and the Life they shared with each other and hoped to share forever with him. The risen Jesus Christ

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was, as he claimed, the Light of the World, the light of their world, and they learned to see everything and everyone in their lives “in the light that is Christ.”

Being a Catholic is about following Jesus Christ in the Church he gave us to teach and guide us, and to bring us to holiness, to closer and closer living in him. Jesus Christ is not just about Church and what happens here.

He wants to be the Lord of everything about our lives, the Light of our entire world, not just a compartment labeled “religion” or “the spiritual.” Jesus is about the decisions we make at business and school.He’s about being honest and caring and concerned for others. He’s about chastity and fidelity. He’s about truth vs. lies and manipulation.

Jesus is about making relationships work, year in and year out. He’s about keeping one’s word. Jesus is about life, here and hereafter, for those who listen to him.

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From the beginning, the good news of the risen Jesus has made missionaries out of all of us, witnesses to the world around us. The first were the women at the tomb in Luke’s Gospel. They hear the good news from the angels and immediately tell it to Eleven apostles. Jesus Christ’s resurrection thrusts all of us into mission, into being sent: go, proclaim the good news, don’t keep it to yourselves, let this news be good and saving for others, by what you say and by the way you live.

What began with Genesis and reached its fulfillment on Calvary and on Easter Sunday, must now achieve its full effect daily in the lives of all of us, the Easter people of the Risen Jesus Christ.

Most Reverend George H. Niederauer Archbishop of San Francisco

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The LoveBugs – Jimmy Mason, kneeling left, Chris McMillan, Brian Holtvedt, and Reid Nonnenberg - channel Dion and the Belmonts with the long ago hit, “Why Must I Be a Teenager in Love?� Senior Tim Norton commissioned the group to serenade his mom, Kathy, who is not visible but standing just to her son’s right.

The sounds of the 50s and Doo Wop were alive and for sale for a very good cause at Sacred Heart Prep in Atherton on Valentine’s Day. Crooned by The LoveBugs – a breakout group from the school’s a cappella Singing Guys – the retro fundraiser brought in more than $900 for the work of the Leukemia Society in support of math teacher, academic dean and Singing Guys founder, Ken Thompson, who is battling the disease. “It is remarkable that these young men chose to spend their time and gifts to support a teacher,â€? said principal James Everitt. “For the LoveBugs, it was a labor of love.â€? Ken Thompson marks his 20th year at the school in 2009‌.Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School inducted eight former athletes and sports supporters into its Athletic Hall of Fame Feb. 2 in ceremonies at the school. SHCP is the legacy of three highly respected San Francisco high schools – Sacred Heart, St. Vincent and Cathedral – that have combined through the years, most recently in 1987, to become Sacred Heart Cathedral. The event celebrates the school’s “tradition of athletic excellence,â€? said

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The journey continued Feb. 10 for catechumens Bethany Heymann, left, Catherine Bursak, and Jennifer Heymann of St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo, when they signed the Book of the Elect, held by RCIA team member Marguerite Ott during rites at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Thanks to RCIA team member Sal Campagna for the good news and picture.

Sawson Zarour of the SHCP public relations team. Hats off to all inductees and let’s zero in on what I’d call the remarkable contribution of Sister Frances Meyer, a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul and known as “the #1 Fightin’ Irish fan.� Sister Frances, a religious for 50 years, has not missed an SHCP football game since 1987 and serves as scorekeeper at more than 125 home games in football, basketball and volleyball. In addition, she produces more than 1,000 awards and certificates recognizing members of the school’s 49 athletic squads.

And to think she’s also found time to teach math for the last 21 years. “Standing 4’ 10� tall, Sister Frances is a giant in Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep athletics,� said John

From left: John F. Scudder, principal, with SHCP Athletic Hall of Fame 2008 inductees, Sarah Richen ’98; Daughter of Charity Sister Frances Meyer; Pat Tarantino ’60; Paul Torrente ’51; Steve Franceschi; Vincentine Contrero accepting on behalf of his late sister, Monica Contrero ’52; Chris B. Callen ’68.

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Taking part in a recent preparatory meeting for World Youth Day were members of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s contingent, from left seated: Daniela Rivas, St. Bruno Parish, San Bruno; Penelope Rivas, Epiphany Parish, San Francisco; Mary Jansen, Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry; Carrie Agasid Marigmen, St. Andrew Parish, Daly City; Sergio Canjura, Epiphany; Andrew Lin, Stanford University Catholic community; from left standing: Hansel Tomaneng, St. Patrick’s Seminary; Donna Kashat, Stanford Catholic community; Jonathan Lin, Stanford; Robert Vallarino, St. Dominic Parish, San Francisco; Tony Sarboraria, St. Michael Parish, Oakland; Simon Hwang, Holy Spirit Newman Parish, Berkeley; Michelle Bortoli, St. Isabella Parish, San Rafael.

Other pilgrims include Teresita Santiago, Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame; Eileen Emerson, De Marillac Academy; Claire Hwang, Holy Spirit Newman Parish; and Laura Lemus, St. Lawrence O’Toole, Oakland.

Local pilgrims preparing for July’s World Youth Day Thirteen pilgrims from the Archdiocese of San Francisco will attend the World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia, July 8-22 along with Archbishop George Niederauer, said Mary Jansen, director of the Archdiocese’s Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry office.

It will be the ninth World Youth Day for one of the local participants, Sergio Canjura of Epiphany Parish in San Francisco who has attended the WYD events in Cologne, Germany (2005), Toronto, Canada (2002); Rome, Italy (2000); Paris, France (1997); Manila, Philippines (1995); Denver, Colorado

(1993); Czechstowa, Poland (1991); Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1989).

Two sets of siblings will be in the group, Jansen said: Claire and Simon Hwang and Andrew and Jonathan Lin. “We will be gathering in Sacramento in June for a retreat day with all the pilgrims,” including those from neighboring dioceses, Jansen said, adding, “Please keep us in your prayers.”

She said persons of the Archdiocese are welcome to e-mail prayers to her office “if they would like us to bring them to World Youth Day.” That e-mail address is jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org.

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Matthew Festing, an Englishman, is seen at a ceremony in Rome on the day of his election as the 79th grand master of the Knights of Malta March 11.The Knights of Malta are the world’s oldest chivalric order, founded in the 11th century. The order will be sponsoring a 1,700square-foot health clinic staffed by a doctor and nurse practitioner within the new Cathedral of Christ the Light campus in Oakland. Services will be free to the uninsured, according to the cathedral provost, Father Paul D. Minnihan.

Pope: Jesus’ power was love VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The power Jesus demonstrated was the power of love, which heals and reconciles, Pope Benedict XVI said. “He did not come as one who destroys. He did not come with the revolutionary’s sword. He came with the gift of healing,” the pope said March 16 as he celebrated Mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter’s Square. Along with the pope, more than 350 young people and more than 200 cardinals, bishops and priests processed through the square carrying palm and olive branches as they marked Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem before his arrest, passion and death.

KC sainthood cause takes step VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The sainthood cause of the founder of the Knights of Columbus has taken a major step forward. On March 15 Pope Benedict XVI approved a decree of “heroic virtues” for Father Michael McGivney, a U.S. priest who, after establishing the Knights of Columbus, worked as a

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A Tibetan shouts “Free Tibet” in Katmandu, Nepal, March 16. The Vatican said the pope is concerned about the situation in Tibet but has not issued an appeal due to lack of reliable information. Foreign media are barred from Tibet and there is no papal representative in the country.

pastor until his death at age 38. Father McGivney can be beatified if a miracle is attributed to his intercession.

Canonization — a declaration of sainthood — requires an additional miracle. Supporters of Father McGivney’s cause are hoping he will be the first U.S.-born priest to be canonized. Father McGivney founded the Knights of Columbus at St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Conn., in 1882. The fraternal order for Catholic men has become the largest lay Catholic organization in the world with more than 1.7 million members.

Encyclical: ‘Charity in Truth’ VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming encyclical is titled “Charity in Truth” and covers a wide range of issues related to globalization and social justice, said an Italian report. The text is still under revision and has yet to be translated, according to Church sources. A leading Vatican official said he doesn’t expect the encyclical to be published before summer.

To mark papal birthday in U.S. WASHINGTON (CNS) —The National Catholic Educational Association in Washington has issued an invitation to students in Catholic schools, parish religious education programs, colleges and seminarians around the country to do voluntary acts of service in honor of Pope Benedict XVI’s 81st birthday. The pope’s birthday is April 16, the second day of his six-day visit to the United States. The project is called “Birthday Blessings for Pope Benedict XVI: A Gift of Public Service From U.S. Catholic Youth and Students.” It includes service projects conducted between Feb. 25 and May 31. NCEA has established a Web site, http://ncea.catholic.org, to help schools, parishes and individuals learn more about the effort and to register their volunteer hours.

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New diocese in Puerto Rico VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI has established the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao, Puerto Rico, and named Father Eusebio Ramos Morales to be its first bishop. The new diocese, the sixth in Puerto Rico, was created with territory taken from the Archdiocese of San Juan and the Diocese of Caguas.

The Vatican announced the establishment of the new diocese and the appointment of the 55-year-old bishop March 11. Bishop-designate Ramos was born in Maunabo Dec. 15, 1952, and studied science and biology at the University of Puerto Rico. He was a high school teacher before entering the seminary. He studied philosophy and theology at Bayamon Central University in Puerto Rico, with the Jesuits in Mexico and at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Fla. He also earned a degree in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

Priest wins Templeton Prize WASHINGTON (CNS) — Father Michal Heller, 72, a Polish priest-cosmologist and a onetime associate of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, the future pope, was named March 12 as the winner of the Templeton Prize. The prize, the world’s largest annual monetary award given to an individual, is worth $1.65 million. The award is given for progress toward research or discoveries about spiritual realities. Father Heller, a philosophy professor at the Pontifical Academy of Theology in Krakow, Poland, was honored for 40-plus years of work developing “sharply focused and strikingly original concepts on the origin and cause of the universe,” according to the announcement on the prize. The priest, who for much of his life worked under the strictures of communism, is an international figure among cosmologists and physicists.

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Local Arab priest says death of archbishop part of trend

By Michael Vick

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Reacting to the kidnap and murder of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, Msgr. Labib Kobti, pastor of San Francisco’s St. Thomas More Parish, said the War in Iraq has put enormous stress on the already vulnerable Christian community in the Middle East.

“The War in Iraq has destroyed the Christian presence in Iraq,” Msgr. Kobti said. “We in America, as a Christian country, have destroyed the Christian presence there.

Ninety percent have left, and 10 percent have either been killed or are living in miserable conditions.”

Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1950, Msgr. Kobti was ordained at the Capuchin Cathedral there in 1975. In 1992, Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem sent him to California to minister to the Arab American Catholic community here.

Msgr. Kobti said the United States has a responsibility to protect the small Christian community in the Middle East, the last remaining presence of first century Christianity.

“The bishops of the Middle East are very frustrated by the attitude of America,” the priest said, adding that U.S. actions in Iraq have made both Americans and Christians in the Middle East less safe. “We have to keep the Christians of the Middle

Slain Chaldean Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq, left, is joined by Cardinal EmmanuelKarim Delly of Baghdad as he greets Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican. On March 17, the pope presided at a Mass in honor of the archbishop.

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Msgr. Kobti said the violence against Christians in Iraq is a natural outcome of the war waged by Americans there.

He said Americans are identified, rightly or wrongly, with Christianity. Since Arab Christians are among the most vulnerable minorities of the Middle East, they become easy scapegoats and targets for retribution.

Archbishop Rohho, leader of the Chaldean Catholic Archeparchy of Mosul, Iraq, talked about the threat of violence against Christians just three months before his death in an interview with Asia News of Italy.

“We, Christians of Mesopotamia, are used to religious persecution and pressures by those in power,” the archbishop said. “After Constantine, persecution ended only for Western Christians, whereas in the East threats continued.

Even today we continue to be a Church of martyrs.”

Gunmen kidnapped the archbishop Feb. 29 after he left Mass. The kidnappers killed his driver and two bodyguards. Their demands included the release of non-Iraqi Arab prisoners and a ballooning ransom payment that went from $1 million to $3 million as time progressed.

Local Church officials were concerned for the welfare of the archbishop because of unspecified health problems that they said required daily care. As ransom demands increased, some feared the archbishop was already dead and the kidnappers were trying to get as much as possible before this was discovered.

His body was finally recovered from a shallow grave just outside Mosul on March 13 after kidnappers told Church leaders where to look. Conflicting reports from police and medical examiners have made it unclear whether the archbishop died from his health condition or was shot.

Msgr. Kobti said his parish would offer prayers for the slain archbishop and his family on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

The priest said it is unfortunate that some Muslims have chosen to use the war with the United States as an excuse to attack Christians in the Middle East. He said Arab Christians and Arab Muslims are historical allies.

“Arab Christians stood with Muslims against the Byzantines. They stood with Muslims against the Crusades.

They stand with Muslims against the occupation [of Iraq].”

Msgr. Kobti said the violence in Iraq will only stop when Americans understand the violence will never lead to security.

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Pope steps up appeals for end to bloodbath in Iraq

By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI stepped up appeals for an end to the bloodbath and hatred tearing apart Iraq.

Mentioning the recent tragic death of an Iraqi archbishop and the fifth anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led campaign against Iraq, the pope issued “a loud and concerned outcry.”

“Enough with the bloodshed, enough with the violence, enough with the hatred in Iraq,” he said immediately before reciting his noonday Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square March 16.

He launched an appeal to all Iraqis, “who for the past five years have borne the consequences of a war that has caused the upheaval of civil and social life.”

“May reconciliation, forgiveness, justice and respect for the civil coexistence among tribes, ethnicities and religious groups” be the harmonious path the people take to achieve peace in God’s name, the pope said.

In his address, the pope recalled the “tragic loss” of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, 65, who was kidnapped Feb. 29 in an attack that left his driver and two bodyguards dead.

The archbishop had paid “beautiful witness of faithfulness to Christ, the Church and his people,” the pope said.

The archbishop’s body was recovered March 13 after the kidnappers told Catholic leaders in Iraq where he had been buried.

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Loaves & Fishes awards announced by CCCYO Levi Strauss & Co., philanthropist George M. Marcus, football great Ronnie Lott and the organization Lott founded to help children will be honored at this year’s Catholic Charities CYO Loaves & Fishes Awards Dinner and Gala, the Archdiocese’s social service and youth services agency announced.

San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer will present the awards at the April 11 event at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.

“Through their genuine concern for and effective action in improving the lives of those in need in our community and beyond, this year’s honorees epitomize the spirit of the faith traditions of charity and generosity,” Archbishop Niederauer said.

The corporate philanthropy award will go to Levi Strauss & Co. which was praised in a CCCYO press statement for its “commitment to help alleviate poverty among women and youth by strengthening worker’s rights, helping people build financial assets, and preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS both in the Bay Area and around the world.”

The clothing manufacturer was also lauded for helping “immigrant families save and invest in homes, businesses and education” and for its employee volunteer programs which have benefited the CCCYO Mission Day Care program as well as Holy Family Day Home.

The outstanding philanthropic works honor will go to George M. Marcus, founder and chairman of The Marcus & Millichap Co., a real estate investment firm. A CCCYO statement extolled his “concern for enhancing the overall lives of local children and the elderly” and his specific support for International Orthodox Christian Charities, Avenidas, and the John Burton Foundation for Children without Homes.

Board of Directors president, the Loaves & Fishes Awards Dinner has raised more than $8 million in support of CCCYO’s 30 programs.

Craig and Maureen Sullivan are the Loaves & Fishes event co-chairs.

CYO Golf Day May 5 Ronnie Lott George M. Marcus The award for outstanding community organization will go to All Stars Helping Kids, founded by Ronnie Lott.

“For 19 years, All Stars Helping Kids and founder Ronnie Lott have consistently responded to the needs of the most vulnerable in the Bay Area by generating critical funds for organizations that work to break the cycle of poverty through education, and also provide enriching opportunities for at-risk youth. Lott’s belief that everyone—from corporations to professional athletes and individuals—can transform the lives of underserved children, motivated him to start ASHK,” a CCCYO release stated.

Organizations helped by ASHK include KIPP Heartwood Academy, the BUILD entrepreneurial program for underserved youth, Eastside College Preparatory school in East Palo Alto, CYO Camp in Occidental and the San Francisco Food Bank.

Created by Cardinal William Levada, archbishop emeritus of San Francisco, and Clint Reilly, former CCCYO

The 49th Annual CYO Golf Day that generates funds and support for Catholic Charities Catholic Youth Organization “programs and scholarships for underserved youth” will be held Monday, May 5, at the Stanford Golf Course in Stanford and the Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club in Palo Alto, stated a CCCYO press release.

The event will begin with registration at 10 a.m. Teeoff is scheduled for noon.

Honorary chair of the tournament is San Francisco 49ers Head Coach Mike Nolan. Committee chair is former San Francisco 49er Bill Ring.

Entry fee is $500 which includes lunch, dinner, cocktails, tee prize and greens fees.

The day also includes a live auction and raffle featuring a grand prize trip for two to the Masters Tournament or $10,000.

For information, call (415) 972-1233 or visit www.cyogolfday.org.

According to CCCYO, the tournament is the longestrunning charitable golf tournament in the Bay Area.

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News reports in early March The church excommunicated alleged Pope Benedict XVI was Luther for preaching a philosodedicating a planned September An artist’s depiction of Pope John Paul II phy doubting the pope’s infallisymposium with former doctoral and reformer Martin Luther appears on a bility. students to re-evaluating Luther, sidewalk of a German street. In approving Luther emphasized the who was excommunicated and the Lutheran-Catholic “Joint Declaration on absolute primacy of God’s action condemned for heresy. the Doctrine of Justification” the Vatican in freeing people from sin and The story “does not have any said most Catholic condemnations of making them just, and the total foundation, insofar as no rehabilLutheran teaching about how people sufficiency of Christ’s death to itation of Luther is foreseen,” are justified and saved no longer apply. expiate the sins of all.

Father Lombardi told the Italian In 1983, Pope John Paul II news agency ANSA March 8.

Vatican officials said the topic of the pope’s annual sum- noted that studies by Lutheran and Catholic researchers mer gathering of former students this year has not yet been “have led to a more complete and more differentiated decided. Of the two topics under consideration, Luther is image of the personality of Luther” as well as the complicated historical factors surrounding his life. not one of them, one official told Catholic News Service.

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CYO Hall of Fame inducts first honorees Anecdotes, camaraderie, nostalgia, commitment and a cohesive faith community were the order of the evening March 7 when more than 250 parents, coaches, athletic directors, community leaders and Catholic Youth Organization supporters attended the inaugural CYO Hall of Fame Induction Dinner at the CYO Gym at St. Emydius Parish in San Francisco.

Hosted by nationally-known comedian and CYO coach Bob Sarlatte, the dinner “celebrated the diamond jubilee of San Francisco CYO Athletics’ legacy of leadership as it continues its tradition of providing healthy growth and development opportunities for Bay Area youth,” a Catholic Charities CYO spokesperson said.

During the evening three persons with long CYO histories were inducted as the 2008 Honorees into the new CYO Athletics Hall of Fame: Ben Legere, a CYO official for more than 40 years; Bob Drucker, a former CYO player and legendary coach who represents three generations of CYO athletes; San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne HayesWhite, who in 1974 was a part of the first generation of CYO female participation.

Guests included Archbishop George Niederauer, Auxiliary

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The event will be an annual event “to honor those who have helped to distinguish CYO and raise funds to meet the growing expenses of CYO,” the CCCYO spokesperson said.

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Thousands pay their last respects to Focolare founder, Chiara Lubich Pope Benedict called her “a messenger of hope and peace, founder of a vast spiritual family that embraces multiple fields of evangelization,” from spirituality for families to a project that encourages business owners to embrace an “economy of communion” or sharing.

The pope said he wanted to thank God “especially for the service Chiara gave to the Church: a silent and incisive service, always in harmony with the magisterium of the Church.”

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, presided over the funeral Mass, which was preceded by statements of thanks and praise from

Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran representatives as well as from the Jewish, Buddhist and Muslim communities with whom Lubich was in dialogue.

In his homily, Cardinal Bertone said that with her death “Chiara will meet the one whom she loved without seeing and, full of joy, can exclaim, ‘Yes, my Redeemer lives.’”

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ROME (CNS) — Thousands of people from dozens of nations, a variety of Christian denominations and several other religious traditions packed into Rome’s Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls to pay final respects to Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare movement.

In a message read at her March 18 funeral, Pope Benedict XVI told mourners, “Many are the reasons for giving thanks to the Lord for the gift he gave the Church in this woman of fearless faith.”

Lubich, 88, died March 14. The Focolare movement, which she founded in the 1940s, now involves more than 2 million people in 182 countries.

Chiara Lubich, the 88-year-old founder of the Focolare movement, died early March 14 in her room near the Focolare headquarters in Rocca di Papa, Italy.

Pope Benedict XVI to interact with as many New Yorkers as possible

By Mary Ann Poust NEW YORK (CNS) — Although security will be tight and tickets limited by the size of the venues that will host Pope Benedict XVI, careful arrangements have been made to allow him to interact with as many New Yorkers as possible during the visit, said Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York.

The cardinal made the comments in a recent hourlong interview with Catholic New York, the archdiocesan newspaper, at his residence.

The pope will be in Washington April 15-17 and in New York April 18-20.

One of those “close-up” opportunities with him will be at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where people will be on the steps awaiting his arrival April 19.

Cardinal Egan, New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and

cathedral rector Msgr. Robert T. Ritchie will greet the pontiff’s car and walk with him up the steps to the main bronze doors, where he likely will turn to wave and offer a blessing to the crowds gathered on nearby streets before entering the cathedral.

Inside, the pope will walk up the center aisle to the sanctuary; he will walk along the side aisles for the processional and recessional of the Mass. The congregation will be made up of about 2,800 priests, deacons, religious from New York and around the country. Most of those in attendance will be from the New York Archdiocese, the cardinal said.

That afternoon the pope will greet about 50 people young people with disabilities and their caregivers in the Chapel of SS. Peter and Paul at St. Joseph’s Seminary in the Dunwoodie section of Yonkers.

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Then he will board his popemobile to make his way around the seminary building to the grounds at the rear where he will be greeted by a cheering crowd of more than 26,000 young people.

Besides the teenagers and young adults in archdiocesan schools and religious education, campus ministry and youth programs, the crowd will include seminarians from St. Joseph’s and others considering the priesthood.

After welcoming the pope, a group of young people will present him with gifts that include an “I Love New York” T-shirt, said Catherine T. Hickey, archdiocesan education secretary. “Then we will sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to him in German,” she added.

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‘Humanae Vitae’: two conferences to mark anniversary

By Rick DelVecchio “Humanae Vitae,� Pope Paul VI’s much-debated 1968 encyclical on marriage and procreation, is the focus of upcoming 40th anniversary conferences in the dioceses of San Bernardino and Oakland.

Sponsored by the California Association of Natural Family Planning, the San Bernardino event will be held April 11-12 at the diocesan pastoral center. It will be cohosted by the diocese’s Bishop Gerald Barnes and Auxiliary Bishop Rutilio Juan del Riego, organizers said.

The conference is expected to draw several hundred participants, including diocesan catechism teachers and respect life directors as well as lay Catholics, planners said.

On Aug. 9, the Diocese of Oakland and the St. Anthony of Padua Institute will co-host a conference at St. Mary’s College in Moraga. The conference is called “Humanae Vitae: Cornerstone of a Culture of Life.�

A featured speaker at both events will be Janet E. Smith, chair of Life Ethics and a professor of moral theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit and a noted scholar on Catholic sexual ethics.

In San Bernardino, Smith will give separate talks on contraception, on Humanae Vitae and Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, and on conscience formation. At the Diocese of Oakland conference, she will address the connection between contraception and abortion.

Currently serving a second term as a consultor to the Pontifical Council on the Family, Smith will be joined by three other speakers at the Diocese of Oakland conference: Archbishop Raymond Burke of St. Louis; Dr. Mary Davenport, an obstetrician in El Sobrante; and Dominican Father Brian Mullady.

Organizers said both conferences are concerned with the practical implications of Paul VI’s sexual ethics for women’s health, for couples and for families.

In Humanae Vitae, Paul VI predicted that artificial contraception would lead to infidelity, lower moral standards and a loss of respect for women. The resulting controversy divided the Church, which at the time was challenged by society’s growing demands for women’s sexual and economic freedom. “Many people know Humanae Vitae came out sometime in the past and prohibited artificial contraception,� said Cliff Price, a St. Anthony of Padua Institute board member. “What they haven’t known, because it hasn’t been taught, is the actual teaching of Paul VI. “Any consistent discourse about the culture of life has to take into account his teaching on contraception,� he said.

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“The other thing that is completely neglected is the positive celebration of marital sexuality. That’s what Paul VI articulated.�

Cardinal Carol Wojtyla – the future John Paul II – was an early and passionate defender of Paul VI’s encyclical.

Today, many Catholics know about Humanae Vitae through reading “Theology of the Body,� the collection of weekly papal audiences John Paul II delivered between 1979 and 1984. “The Church’s teaching is not just what the Church says but who we are,� Dominican Deacon James Moore said during a recent study group session on Theology of the Body at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley. “The laws are just reflective of who God wanted us to be. That is why now people are reading Humanae Vitae in light of this. I know people of our generation do this all the time.�

The San Bernardino conference will also feature the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2006 teaching document, “Married Love and the Gift of Life.�

Citing the “Catechism of the Catholic Church� and documents by popes Benedict XVI, John Paul II and Paul VI, it defines marriage as the complete giving of a man and woman to one another in the service of God’s creative power.

Behaviors that are out of order with the procreative basis of marriage take away from the power and intimacy of the covenant, the document states. Suppressing fertility by using contraception “denies part of the inherent meaning of married sexuality and does harm to the couple’s unity.�

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Sheila St. John, executive director of the California Association of Natural Family Planning, said the document makes Church teaching relevant and accessible for couples. “It breaks a bit of the Church’s silence on the issue,� she said. “It’s an issue the Church has struggled in the context of our society to really articulate because of the values that are just so foreign in our culture.�

She added, “We think this will save many couples from going down.�

St. John said the document and the conference are important steps in giving teachers and pastors ways to articulate Church sexual norms as beneficial to couples rather than feel they have to apologize for them.

That the Church condemns contraception “doesn’t mean the Church is against family planning,� she said.

She said natural family planning – forms of birth regulation that conform to Church teaching and do not involve the use of artificial means of contraception — is a more effective and safer approach to overcoming infertility than artificial technologies.

Susan McConneloug, a fertility practitioner who teaches engaged couples preparing for marriage at St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco, noted that couples are attracted to natural family planning because of the health benefits for women and because of the opportunity to improve communication in the relationship. “When you use contraception you’re separating love and life,� she said.

According to its website, the St. Anthony of Padua Institute was formed in July 2004 “to address the critical need for an authentically Catholic community of higher learning in the San Francisco Bay Area which is committed wholeheartedly to a Liberal Arts approach. The Institute will serve as an organizing agent for the purpose of establishing a Catholic, accredited, four-year college.

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In this city of 31,000, the only working X-ray

By Michael Vick machines belong to HHF. Franciscan Sister Maryann n the midst of a health fair hosted by Haitian Health Berard, HHF’s administrator, spoke to Catholic San Foundation, a non-profit Catholic group that works Francisco at the location of that X-ray, the Center of to provide health care to the impoverished Haitian Hope maternal foyer for at-risk mothers. Sister Berard, people, a barefoot man in blue walked into the crowd a registered nurse, said the local hospital has an X-ray pulling a stretcher behind him. He had traveled 100 machine, but it rarely functions. miles from the village of Te Noir to this remote location Established in 2002 to provide a waiting area for in the hinterland outside the city of Jérémie. expectant mothers to receive care, the Center of Hope On the stretcher was his wife, Minanch Estafil. She has one stationary machine and several mobile X-ray is 65, and she is dying. units it sends out in ambulances. In a country with one The doctor on the scene, Vincent Petno, said the obstetrician for every 400,000 people, the center is what woman suffered from low hemoglobin and severe dehyits name describes – safe harbor in a sea of despair. dration, saying her skin felt like tissue paper. Her husThe impetus for the center was the realization that so band said she had not been able to keep down food or many Haitian women were dying of pregnancy-related water for three months, and complained of a terrible complications. Remote villages have little or no access pain in her abdomen. to doctors. Prior to the introduction of ambulances in Petno gave her rehydrathe area, many women were tion packets, but explained physically carried to a hosthat without a complete ‘When you’re down there — and pital on makeshift stretchexamination, there was no ers. Many died in transit. way of knowing what was Those who gave birth in the killing her. Cancer, pancre- you walk with them, and you village could not expect atitis and simple malnutriadequate local medical tion were all possible, he hold their hand, and you hear treatment if complications said, but there was little he arose. could do in this remote loca- their appeals, and you smell In the United States, tion to determine the exact around eight women die cause. during childbirth for every their desperation — there’s no Petno, 66, who retired 100,000 live births. In 10 years ago, first came to switch to turn, no book to close.’

Haiti, that number is estiHaiti six years ago on a mated at 500 to 1,000 non-medical trip. A native Most die from – Dr. Jeremiah Lowney women. of Akron, Ohio, the physimassive hemorrhaging cian fell in love with the brought on by chronic high people of Haiti and has blood pressure. Others come back more than a dozen times. He combines become anemic or suffer from iron deficiency. medical visits with evangelization, using every opporUp to 800 women come to the center every month for tunity not only to share his medical skills, but also the prenatal visits. Depending on their risk factors, the Gospel. women are admitted to the center in the weeks before Unfortunately for the people of Haiti, there is only their delivery date. There they can be monitored prior to one Vincent Petno. Even the best physician can only do giving birth. so much. Petno told Catholic San Francisco of another The center has 25 beds in its maternity ward, with man who had carried his wife 30 miles to see him. additional beds scattered throughout the main complex.

Petno’s heart sank when he realized that even if the Once the women go into labor, they are transferred to woman were in the United States at that moment, she the hospital for the birth. Even there, medicine, blanwould still die. She was simply too malnourished to surkets, sterile gloves and other items are in short supply or vive. might not be available at all, so the center sends the Bette Gebrian-Magloire, HHF’s director of public women with these items. health, summed up the heartbreak of Haiti in an Should the need arise, however, the facility’s staff is overview presentation she gave to Catholic San fully trained in birthing procedures. Renate Schneider, Francisco. the center’s director, said the nurses there have deliv“I don’t know how anyone grows up here, fighting ered babies a handful of times in the six years since the facility opened.

The center’s work does not stop when the infant arrives. As soon as the mother and child can be moved from the hospital, they return to the facility for continued health care and nutrition. The facility operates under the mantra that a healthy mother means a healthy family, so the women are given balanced meals and education to encourage better eating and feeding habits after they return home.

For some children under the center’s care, additional steps are vital to survival. This is where the center’s Kwashiorkor facility comes in. The unit is named for a specific type of malnutrition that will prove deadly if untreated: protein deficiency.

Kwashiorkor often manifests in families with multiple small children because mothers have less food to go around. A lack of awareness about sources of protein, coupled with lack of access to those sources, means even children who seem to receive enough calories to survive can die because not enough of those calories come from protein.

Kwashiorkor can cause stunted growth, anemia, changes in skin and hair pigment, edema, immune deficiency and liver disease. It can also cause a distended stomach and prevent the digestion of food.

Depending on the severity of the deficiency, some children with Kwashiorkor must be tube fed because they have lost the ability to eat. Though they have more reason that most children to cry, some are so malnourished they can no longer produce tears.

Dr. Royneld Bourdeau, Haitian Health Rehabilitation is a long and complicated process, so Foundation medical director, says he Kwashiorkor children are housed in the center with their mothers, who learn about proper nutrition to help looks on his profession not just as a prevent relapse. job, but as a way to give back to One of the center’s recent success stories is fourhis community and to God. year-old Francia Pierre. Sheila Marshall, head of the

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Four-year-old Francia Pierre nearly succumbed to the nutritional disease Kwashiorkor, but is today recovering well thanks to the work of the Haitian Health Foundation.

Kwashiorkor facility, said when Francia arrived she appeared to be in relatively good health, but soon manifested signs of Kwashiorkor. After only days at the center, she had a seizure and was transferred to the hospital where she continued to seize for hours. She slipped into a coma and was near death.

Transferred back to the facility after her coma, Francia underwent intensive rehabilitation. Today she is well on the road to recovery.

HHF’s work in the Grand’Anse began in 1985.

Founder Dr. Jeremiah Lowney moved the organization from the nation’s capitol, Port-au-Prince, to the remote city of Jérémie at the request of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. There he and his organization could provide care to a particularly impoverished area, where most depend on subsistence farming or charcoal production and earn around $90 to $300 per year.

Dr. Lowney, an American orthodontist, began HHF with the goal of providing much-needed dental care to the Haitians of Port-au-Prince. The group blossomed into a multifaceted health and development organization to meet the enormous need he and colleagues found.

“We all see these stick babies on TV,” Dr. Lowney said in a promotional video on the HHF website, http://www.haitianhealthfoundation.org. “You look at it, you see it in a magazine, and you say, ‘This is 2008!

This is 90 miles from Miami, one of the wealthiest places in the United States. These children are dying and somebody should do something.’ When you’re down there — and you walk with them, and you hold their hand, and you hear their appeals, and you smell their desperation – there’s no switch to turn, no book to close.”

HHF Administrator Sister Berard echoed Lowney’s sentiments when she spoke to Catholic San Francisco at the Center of Hope. Sister Berard, who has been with HHF for 18 years, recalls when their facilities in Jérémie were nothing but piles of sand and rock at a construction site.

“The people who come to us keep us motivated,” Sister Berard said. “If we’re not here to take care of the poor, we shouldn’t be here.”

She said the group had to expand during the 1990s when the political and economic realities of Haiti sent the country down a spiral of calamity from which it has yet to recover.

Haiti has a long history of instability dating to the colonial period. The product of the only successful slave rebellion in the New World, Haiti nevertheless bears scars that have worsened over time. The dictatorship of Dr. François Duvalier from 1957 until 1971, followed by the inept kleptocracy of his son Jean-Claude from 1971 to 1986, left the country brutalized and bankrupt.

Led by a series of provisional governments that established a new, democratic constitution, the country held its first free election in 1990. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a charismatic former Catholic priest, won with 67 percent of the vote.

Expelled from the Salesian order in 1988 for preaching liberation theology, Aristide earned the hatred of the Haitian elite through populist policies and the mass support he won among the nation’s poor majority.

A military coup in 1991 sent Aristide into exile, first in Venezuela and later in the United States. Under international pressure, particularly from the U.S. and thenPresident Bill Clinton, the military backed down and Aristide returned in 1994 to complete his term.

Aristide’s period of exile exacerbated Haiti’s already tenuous economic situation. Sanctions against the country imposed during the period of military rule led to a dangerous depletion of staple goods and served to cement the power of the military. Only the threat of American military action dislodged the junta, but the damage had been done.

During this period of uncertainty and hardship groups like HHF stepped in to fill the gap for the nation’s poor. HHF now has inpatient and outpatient clinics in Jérémie, rural clinics in 104 villages and near-

ly 200 full-time employees who serve more than 200,000 people. In addition to medical work, HHF runs a school in Jérémie with more than 400 students and has development projects that include home building, sanitary latrine construction and provision of goats and pigs to rural villagers.

The group even has mills that produce Akamil, a nutritiously balanced meal that has become a staple in the Haitian diet wherever it has been introduced.

Akamil is created by grinding rice or corn with beans, with additional items like tomatoes, vegetable oil and edible leaves added for taste.

Roxeanne Dimanche, who runs HHF’s mills, said a sweet variety made with rice, coconuts and fruit is much loved but is in short supply.

The resulting meal, when combined with water and fortified with vitamins, iron and iodine, is balanced and filling. It has the consistency of oatmeal and tastes like soup. HHF serves Akamil at its health fairs and purchases the raw ingredients locally to support farmers.

One of HHF’s chief benefactors is Cross International Catholic Outreach. Founded in Southern Florida in 2001 by James Cavnar, the group began its work focused on the Caribbean and principally on Haiti.

In a phone interview, Cavnar said Haiti continues to be a major focus for Cross International Catholic Outreach, accounting for about 25 percent of its aid budget in 2007.

“We started close to home,” Cavnar said. “Haiti is so poor, even to this day. We’ve expanded into 39 countries, but Haiti continues to be a large proportion of our work.”

Cavnar said the relief organization funds 16 projects in Haiti and donates medical supplies to an additional 16 groups. HHF was among the early recipients, and its relationship with Cross International has grown over time.

Cavnar said his organization develops trust with local organizations over the long haul. He said many donors are attracted to building projects. However, it is the day-to-day operational costs of aid work – salaries, maintenance and rent for office space, for example – that are the largest and least met obligations, he said.

Dr. Royneld Bourdeau, HHF’s medical director, said the close relationship between his group and Cross International has allowed HHF to thrive without fear of losing funding or cutting services.

Dr. Bourdeau said the complicated nature of international aid often entails much time filling out forms and jumping through hoops to prove that an expense is justified. Because Cross International has worked with

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Pontiff appeals to global community for support of Haiti

By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI appealed to the world community to “continue and increase its support of the Haitian people” and help them be able to build a better future for themselves.

He also asked that leaders of the Caribbean island-nation be given “the courage to promote change and reconciliation” so that citizens can live in more “dignified conditions” and benefit from “the riches of the earth.”

The pope made his remarks during a March 13 audience with bishops from Haiti who were in Rome on their “ad limina” visit to report on the status of their dioceses.

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with an estimated 80 percent of its population living below the poverty line, and a per-capita annual income of about $440. An estimated 70 percent of the workforce is unemployed.

During his meeting with Haitian bishops, Pope Benedict recalled that many Haitians have been forced to emigrate to fulfill basic human needs.

The pope also called on bishops from other countries to offer experts and educators who live “an exemplary priestly life” to work in Haitian seminaries and help guide new priests throughout “the various steps in their human, moral, spiritual and pastoral formation.”

“The future of the Church in Haiti depends on” adequately preparing the young men there for the priesthood, he said.

HHF for so long and developed confidence in its track record, no such red tape exists.

“I know things are not always easy for Cross, but I love that they always make things easy on us,” Dr. Bourdeau said through an interpreter.

A native Haitian from the Grand’Anse, Dr. Bourdeau said he looks on his profession not just as a job, but as a way to give back to his community and to God. “This was my first and only job, and it’s not just me.

Most people who work here are that way,” he said.

“There is no such thing as weekends or overtime. We don’t watch the clock to see what time to go home.

Because of our strong faith, it doesn’t look like work. It looks like our obligation to serve the Lord.”

Haitian women sing and dance about infant nutrition at the Haitian Health Foundation health fair in a remote village outside Jérémie. Bette Gebrian-Magloire, HHF’s director of public health, said the women create musical routines as educational tools without prompting from HHF.

(PHOTOS BY MICHAEL VICK/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

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Chrism Mass homily Every vocation challenges the generosity of the one called (Following is the text of the homily delivered at the Chrism Mass on Tuesday evening at St. Mary’s Cathedral by Archbishop George H. Niederauer.)

For a moment, let’s suppose that a very savvy, modern, up-to-date market research analyst had wandered into the Cathedral this evening. What might his or her reaction be? Maybe something like this: “Well, to begin with that first reading has to go. It isn’t really very attractively written, is it? And it’s not the fault of the translation, and certainly not the reader’s fault. It’s the ideas that put people off so. There are no manageable, bite-size goals and there’s no appeal to self-interest as a sure motivation for getting people to sign on to a project for the long haul. However, we shouldn’t fault the Old Testament prophet either; Isaiah did the best he could, deprived as he was of so many of our keen, modern insights. And besides, many centuries later the Galilean carpenter, in the third reading, quotes Isaiah with approval. Still, he probably was expressing himself as well as he could, living as he did so many generations before the advantages of test-marketing and focus groups.”

“Perhaps we could consult one of the millionaire authors of the self-help books which are so popular today. What kind of ‘face lift’ would such a writer give to this passage from Isaiah, chapter 61? Would it come out sounding more like this: ‘The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring congratulations to the powerful, to encourage the self-confident, to proclaim success to the winners in life, and to befriend the ones who come out on top.’ Now that’s a P.R. campaign with a future!”

And yet. And yet, for 20 centuries countless women and men have lived and died for that Galilean and for the life and kingdom he preached. And, as we are beginning the 21st century of Jesus Christ’s “campaign” of evangelization, there aren’t lots of signs of a let-up in response.

The Spirit Jesus and his Father send today is as fresh and new and powerful as it was on that very different Pentecost in Jerusalem.

In the Gospel reading from Luke Chapter 4, Jesus is

in the synagogue in his hometown of Nazareth at the symbol. That would be only part of our story. We are very beginning of his public ministry. The eyes of all the deeply convinced that we must live our daily lives in the hometown folks are on him as he reads that passage from power of those rites: we believe that we are called and the prophet Isaiah, and then makes the breathtaking committed to loving service to God and to one another. claim: “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” We are anointed, yes, for holy oils matter; but we are Literally, Jesus says, “I am the savior these words anointed for loving, self-sacrificing service. Listen again describe.” to that promise in Isaiah: “You yourselves shall be We Catholics believe him. We believe Jesus Christ is named priests of the Lord, ministers of our God you shall Lord and Messiah, and that he continues to teach us and be called. All who see you shall acknowledge you as a make us holy and shepherd us in his Catholic Church, race the Lord has blessed.” The brokenhearted, the pristhrough the service of his ministers and the power of his oners, and those who mourn still wait for Jesus to minissacraments. We gather this evening from around the ter to them through us, as he said they would.

Archdiocese of San In our sacraments, Francisco as a priestly then, we Catholics celepeople in the service of The Spirit Jesus and his Father brate that God chooses us the Lord. As Catholics in Jesus Christ. In our we deeply value ritual send today is as fresh and new and daily lives, by the way we and symbol. This live, again and again, we Cathedral and our cele- powerful as it was on that very choose the One who has bration here testify richchosen us. The Eucharist ly to those values. and the sacraments are Sometimes others criti- different Pentecost in Jerusalem. not distractions from our cize us for our statues lives of self-giving. They and our windows and are sources of that life. our rosaries and our crosses. (As an aside, one reason More than 40 years ago a Catholic bishop in England I’ve never had much patience with this particular criti- pointed out the necessary connections between the sacracism is that many of those same critics have pictures of ments that Catholics celebrate and the call to committheir grandchildren in their wallets and of their grand- ment and service to which Catholics must respond. He parents on the mantel at home, yet they don’t seem to said that if we baptize children, we must care about their confuse the photographs with the actual relatives.) welfare, their health and their safety from abuse; if we So we Catholic Christians value the things of this confirm young Christians, we must care about their eduearth as means of praising and serving God and one cation and their growth in faith and virtue; if we celeanother. And so did Jesus. He used bread and wine to brate Eucharist, we must care that everyone has enough fashion the memorial of his sacrifice; he used earth and to eat, a community of faith to belong to, and a resolve spittle and his own breath to heal the sick; he told stories to lead a life of sacrifice and service; if we join couples of his Father’s kingdom in terms of sheep and coins and in marriage, we must care about jobs, housing and a spirfig trees and weeds and wheat. Last week we heard a ituality of chastity and fidelity; if we ordain to sacred Gospel passage about Jesus weeping at the grave of his orders, we must ensure that leadership is service; if we friend Lazarus, and then shouting out to bring him back celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation, we must purto life. sue justice and peace, and we must fearlessly teach that However, our Catholic life is not just about ritual and CHRISM MASS HOMLIY, page 23

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Fine kettle of wish What has happened to that great Jesuit educational experience? If Father Stephen Privett (“Attacks on Jesuits out of place,” March 14) thinks George Weigel’s column was an attack piece, I would hate to see his reaction to a real hit piece. I think Mr. Weigel’s column was quite mild.

As for Father Drinan, he was the embodiment of the “I am personally opposed to abortion but” defense of those politicians who used this to defend their pro-abortion votes while the babies continued to die. Anyone who followed Father Drinan’s career cannot dispute the facts that Mr. Weigel stated. The attempt of Father Privett to equate the statement of these facts with the 50-year, vicious attacks on a great pope, Pope Pius XXII, is ludicrous. Better that Father Privett say nothing than to think the readers of Catholic San Francisco are stupid and ignorant.

He then attacks Mr. Weigel for reducing abortion to a civil rights issue instead of being a God-given right. He does this while attacking Mr. Weigel for criticizing

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Father Drinan on abortion. Talk about the pot trying to call the kettle black.

Father Privett’s reasoning that because the Jesuits have been a great order for much of their history is irrelevant regarding Mr. Weigel’s column. Me thinks Father Privett doth protest too much.

Stephen Firenze San Mateo

Legacy tarnished I wanted to write regarding Father Stephen Privett’s guest commentary in last week’s Catholic San Francisco.

It is with great sadness that I point out that under Father Privett’s tenure the University of San Francisco has degraded into an unapologetic promoter of the homosexual culture within the Catholic Church. The list of grievances is long, but two examples are: 1) The Lane Center, which Father Privett mentions in his article as an example of USF’s promotion of Catholic teaching, sponsored the 2006 Queer Perspectives. (Full texts can be found on the USF website by searching on “Queer Perspectives”.) Each talk focused in some way on how to bring the Church around to embracing the homosexual culture. Especially egregious was the talk of Vincent Pizzuto, Ph.D, a self-decribed gay man and a professor of theology in the USF theology and religious studies department.

2) USF hosts an LBGTQ “Queer Alliance” club, which a club member asserted during “Queer Perspectives” has full and open support of Father Privett himself.

It seems Father Privett, not George Weigel, is the person who should be apologizing for the denigration of the legacy

of heroic virtue passed down to him by the Jesuit martyrs.

Karen Hodel San Francisco

Forum for insult In the eight years I have lived in San Francisco, I have worked hard to support the work of the Archdiocese and Catholic San Francisco. However, I have come to the point where I can no longer support your publication.

I have tolerated and at times ignored the uncharitable and pompous writings of Mr. George Weigel, who reminds one of Winston Churchill’s estimation of Clement Atlee – “A modest little person, with much to be modest about.”

Your publication of Mr. Weigel’s assault on the Society of Jesus (March 14) constitutes an insult to the entire Ignatian family. This is more than I can support, tolerate or ignore. Mr. Weigel’s hateful assault on the Jesuits does not serve the “unvarnished truth” he claims to seek. By printing it, you mislead your trusted readers. You give legitimacy to rumor and scandal. You demean and devalue the noble work of countless profoundly loving, generous and deeply Christ-like men.

It is hard to determine who is more at fault here: Mr. Weigel for penning this uncharitable defamation, or your editorial staff for having the extremely poor moral judgment to give a forum to his libel.

Chad Evans San Francisco

you want to win this debate. A myriad of cultures have had marriage defined in different ways, monogamous and polygamous, for status not love, for the sake of power not family, and between individuals of the same sex as well as the opposite sex.

If the Church wants to get involved in civil marriage law, outside its purview in a nation which prides itself on the separation of church and state, then there must be a stronger argument with fewer flaws and inaccuracies. If the argument against gay civil marriage will hold any weight in a sound court (separate from allowing gay marriage in the Church), it should not need to blur the truth about other cultures. As is said, the truth shall set you free.

A couple of resources: “TwoSpirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality” edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang; “One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love” by David Halperin.

Daniel Roddick San Bruno

L E T T E R S

Culture and marriage A source in the March 14 article, “Catholic groups weigh in on same-sex marriage,” incorrectly stated that “all cultures throughout history have recognized marriage as the union of a man and a woman.”

This is a big hole in the argument against gay civil marriage and needs to be closed if

Support magisterium

I congratulate you on your three-part series on “Marriage and the family” by Executive Editor Maury Healy in the Catholic San Francisco. You make a strong case for the validity and key societal importance of marriage between one man and one woman, basing it on the Church’s teaching authority and its recent reaffirmation by Pope Benedict and the U.S. bishops.

I believe that one of the reasons some Catholics in San Francisco, and in particular Mayor Gavin Newsom, a graduate of Santa Clara U, disagree with you on the marriage issue is the lack of full support of the Church’s magisterium by our Catholic universities. This has been a concern of LETTERS, page 17

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Guest Commentary

A warm coat for Christ Fortified by our post-symphony Irish coffee, the four of us walked in twosomes up Van Ness Avenue to where we’d parked the car. It had been a lovely winter evening with good friends sharing the stirring swells of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto. A red light stopped us at the corner where we huddled against a bonechilling wind coming off the Bay. The man sitting on the sidewalk with his back against a storefront was a common sight in San Francisco. Like many of the city’s homeless, his clothes were ragged, his demeanor one of quiet despair. His bearded face was partially hidden by the newspaper he held against his shoulders for warmth, and the shallow box holding some coins lay forgotten beside him, as if he had neither the strength nor desire to beg.

In the moment it took me to open my purse for a bill, something truly extraordinary happened. The light turned green and without breaking her stride, in one fluid movement one of the women ahead of me slipped out of her coat and placed it over the man’s shoulders and chest. No one else noticed. I did, and the bill I dropped into his basket,

which had seemed generous enough to me, paled in comparison to the very personal sacrifice of an expensive wool coat given to warm a beggar on a cold winter night.

I said nothing to the gift giver, nor have I ever mentioned it to our two other friends.Small things done with great love are precious to our Lord. But something done with great love, and in secret, has to be much more meaningful as it is done not just for Christ, but to Christ.

In her book “Suffering into Joy,” Blessed Mother Teresa tells us that in regarding the poorest of the poor, we should know, “They are Jesus. Everyone is Jesus in a distressing disguise.” In thinking about my friend’s gift of a warm coat for Christ, I realized it not only would not have occurred to me to do such a thing, but if it had I would have summarily dismissed it as excessive. Too often we convince ourselves that money for the poor will suffice. It eases our conscience to write a check to St. Vincent de Paul or the Salvation Army or the St. Anthony Foundation. Besides we can use the deductions at tax time. Yet, the most generous financial contribution to the immediate plight of someone poor and homeless

would not have warmed the flesh of Christ on that cold winter night.

The next time we see a homeless person, perhaps we should invite him to join us for a sandwich, or bring him a doughnut and cofJane L. Sears fee.By so doing, we can look directly at him and talk with him. This way we gift him with what he most desires — the recognition that he is a human being made in the image and likeness of God, and as such warrants not just a handout, but our love, our interest, and most importantly our respect for his inherent, human dignity.

Jane L. Sears is a freelance writer and member of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame.

Spirituality for Life

A great priest — Joseph Champlin, 1930-2008 Our faith community has lost a fine priest and dear friend. Last month, after a long battle with cancer, Joseph Champlin , died in Syracuse, New York.

It is no exaggeration to say he was one of the great pastoral theologians of our time. His person and writings touched millions. He authored 50 books that sold more than 20 million copies. His book on marriage, “Together for Life,” has over nine million copies in circulation. He helped guide the souls of millions, but especially he helped guide their pastors.

It was as a guide of pastors that he was at his best. He exemplified what a good pastor should be: wise, practical, compassionate, balanced, witty, imaginative, hospitable, warm, attractive, humble and full of faith and love for the Church. He was that idealized pastor that movies like “Going My Way” fantasize about, except that he was for real, the pastor you order from the catalogue.

I had him for a class in pastoral theology just after my ordination and the experience branded me for life. As a young, idealistic priest searching for mentors, I was immediately drawn to him. I left his class wanting to set the world on fire, but wanting also to not drive people out of the Church with my own particular brand of fire. We kept up a connection for more than 30 years. Four weeks before he died we had a last supper together, talked evangelization and books, and I had the chance to tell him how deeply I admired him. I felt his visit as a rare blessing. He knew he was dying but was still excited about the work he was doing. He had that kind of faith and perspective.

What he modeled for us, among other things, was that

tricky, hard-to-walk line between being too hard and being too soft inside of pastoral situations. Like Jesus, and all those who have big hearts, he had torn loyalties. He knew that truth, no matter how hard to swallow, is the only thing that ultimately sets us free. He knew, too, that the truth is not a sledge-hammer, that it must be adjudicated with compassion, understanding and imagination. Like Jesus, dealing with the Syro-Phoenician woman, he was both a “Son of David” who because of his religious loyalties respected the boundaries of religion, even as he was also “Lord,” God’s universal instrument of salvation to all — beyond the particularized rules of religion. He was always loyal to the Church, loyal to its teachings, and loyal to the promises he made at his ordination, but he knew also that love and loyalty do not make you an ecclesial robot and that God and your bishop expect you to act with ingenuity, compassion and imagination. We can learn from that, liberals and conservatives alike.

He knew his sheep and he knew his shepherd and he was simply an intelligent, classy and compassionate man. Had he not been a priest, he would have, I am sure, been wonderfully successful as a writer, a literary and movie critic, and a husband and father. His obituary describes him as one of the most beloved priests in the history of the diocese. Not an exaggeration. He helped a lot of people and he was loved by them. Those who knew him drew strength from him even in his death.

And, inside all off this, he bruised easily. In a recent book he shares how, after giving a series of talks to some priests, he looked at the evaluations before driving home. Of the 118 priests present, 116 gave him a positive rating, but

there were two negative comments.

“Which evaluations,” he asked, “do you think I thought about, driving home?”

Most of us, I suspect, can relate to that.

Pastoral theology today is too often a bitFather ter battlefield, with libRon Rolheiser erals and conservatives each going to the wall for the truth as they see it. The instincts are noble, but too often the ensuing spirit is mean, petty and devoid of warmth, humor and charity.

Joseph Champlin is a model for both sides.

He’s gone. The temptation is to say we will never see his like again. But we will. Not because he wasn’t exceptional, but because God raises up great people and saints in every generation. Some young priest today will come along and be a pastoral model for the next generation. But, you can be sure, when he does, you will see in him those precise qualities - charity, warmth, imagination and class - that made Joseph Champlin such an exceptional pastor.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher and award-winning author can be contacted through his website www.ronrolheiser.com.

The Catholic Difference

‘Global citizens’ and U.S. politics A Canadian friend recently alerted me to an international petition being organized by Avaaz.org, a “community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today.” (According to the organization’s polyglots, “‘avaaz’...means ‘voice’ or ‘song’ in...Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian.”)

The petition asks “global citizens” around the world to participate in the 2008 U.S. presidential election by signing a petition to the remaining American presidential candidates, urging them to repudiate recent American foreign policy, which has “devastated the world’s respect for the United States as a global leader.”

Truth to tell, casting the U.S. as the Evil Empire of the early 21st century (with George W. Bush as wicked Emperor Palpatine) has been made easier by American incompetence in public diplomacy: explaining what it is America is doing, and why, to people around the world who must otherwise depend on the distortions of the BBC and CNN for international news.

This incompetence has had a cumulative effect since 9/11; the most lurid (and false) tales of American beastliness are now taken-as-read around the world, as are the most draconian analyses of American intentions. Yet the problem is not simply media-driven; it’s worse.

In December, I spent two days with German social democrats, discussing how assertive religious conviction shapes great world issues today. It soon became clear that my German col-

leagues and I were looking at the same thing but seeing something quite different. At the end, I felt obliged to tell my hosts a hard truth: “Everything you’ve deplored in this conference will be on the desk of the next president of the United States when he or she walks into the Oval Office for the first time in January 2009. That’s not a hangover from the Bush administration; that’s reality. History has put some unavoidable problems on the global agenda, whether we acknowledge them or not. And if we don’t acknowledge them, we’re in serious trouble.”

What problems?

The problem, for example, of jihadists who strap explosives onto women with Down syndrome and then, from a safe distance, create mass murder by detonating the explosives (and the women) in two Baghdad markets. Americans and Europeans who see the world through a post-Freudian fog imagine that people who perpetrate such atrocities have bizarre personality dysfunctions, exacerbated by American foreign policy. That instinctive reach for the psychiatric ignores the fact that, by their own testimony, jihadists do what they do because they believe God commands them to advance God’s cause by any means – even detonating women. The marriage of a stringent, politicized Islam to a nihilistic cult of death poses a grave threat, both to Muslims with a different idea of their faith’s demands and to the rest of us. That fact isn’t going to change when the American presidency changes hands.

Classic Catholic thought on world politics was resolutely realistic. It asked statesmen to see things as they are, even as

it insisted that things need not remain what they are.

Indeed, a classic Catholic optic on world politics would insist that the only way to move the world in a more humane direction is to describe the obstacles George Weigel to that progress accurately.

The 20th century ought to have reinforced this basic truth of international public life. Nazism and communism, after all, were not defeated because some people hid behind the soothingly therapeutic notion that Hitler and Stalin could be appeased.

There is, I fear, a sad moral shallowness to Avaaz.org and similar enterprises: a politics of noble intentions detached from the politics of responsibility. Avowed commitments to peace and human rights, however heartfelt, give no one a pass from reality.

And they certainly do not confer a claim to the moral high ground. In a world in which the wicked try to impose their will by terror and claim God’s blessing in doing so, naming threats correctly and understanding their origins is the beginning of wisdom, prudence, the defense of decency, and the pursuit of peace.

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

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EASTER SUNDAY: THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD

Scripture reflection

Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-9 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 10:34A, 37-43 Peter proceeded to speak and said:“You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power.

He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.

He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed

by God as judge of the living and the dead.

To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.

Let the house of Israel say, “His mercy endures forever.”

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

“The right hand of the Lord has struck with power; the right hand of the Lord is exalted.

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.”

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

By the Lord has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes.

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS COL 3:1-4 Brothers and sisters: If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 20:1-9 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.”

So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.

Easter letter from jail Finding hope in the unconditional love of God The former pastor of St. Boniface Parish, San Francisco (1992-2005), Franciscan Father Louis Vitale was released from Imperial County Jail in El Centro, Calif. on March 14.

By Father Louie Vitale, OFM Greetings from the Imperial County Jail, where I am serving a five-month sentence for a nonviolent witness at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. against torture, along with Steve Kelly, S.J. Human experience convinces us of great joys in life — from the happiness of a child’s birth to the testimonies of each of our own lives. But we humans have also been aware of suffering and loss, as great now as perhaps ever in history.

We are caught up in a war in Iraq in which a million or more may have died, with hundreds of thousands of casualties and millions of refugees.

In addition, we are horrified to find ourselves committing torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere.

At home, people worry about losing their houses, jobs, health care and ability to educate their children as trillions are misspent on war. While locked up, I see firsthand the waste of lives in our country’s jails and prisons, where we lock up one percent of our population at a cost of $50 billion dollars a year. On a larger scale we despair about the impact of global climate change.

Are we losing hope?

Pope Benedict XVI, aware of our anguish, addressed the issue of hope in a recent encyclical, Spe Salvi. He challenges the progress of science and technology. Is it really human progress? Many claim we have moved from faith in the Kingdom of God to faith in technological progress. But

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Christ now lives in us United Methodist Bishop Donald Harvey Tippett asserts: “If Easter means anything to modern man, it is that eternal truth is eternal.

You may nail it to the tree, wrap it up in grave clothes, and seal it in a tomb; but ‘truth crushed to earth shall rise again.’ Truth does not perish; it cannot be destroyed. It may be distorted; it has been silenced temporarily; it has been compelled to carry its cross to Calvary’s brow or to drink the cup of poisoned hemlock in a Grecian jail, but with an inevitable certainty after every Black Friday dawns truth’s Easter morn.”

Jesus has risen! Easter truth has refused to be suppressed. It cannot die. It cannot be confined in a tomb. This truth is not an abstract idea or ideology. It is Jesus himself, in flesh and blood, who has overcome evil, suffering and death —-and entered the glory of new life. Seeing this reality, John believes. The empty tomb startles him into the truth. John now understands Jesus’ words: “I am the resurrection and the life…

I am the truth.”

On Easter morning, the powers of darkness were exorcised. In our lives, too, power and position have been redefined.

Success and glamour have been reconfigured. Prestige and honor have been reconsidered. Possessions and prosperity have been reassessed. Setting aside those we think indispensable, Jesus shows us the way. Simplicity, detachment, humility, sacrifice, love, dependence, suffering—-and the cross—-will spur us on to victory. In fact, these are the only means of our glory.

The risen Christ gently chides us: “O foolish men, … was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?”(Lk 24:25).

In the resurrection of Jesus, we have everything new: our life, hope, vision, faith, optimism, joy, energy, reason to live and love. God in Jesus elevates us to transcendence. Paul in Colossians calls it thinking and seeking what is above. While the incarnation brings God into the world, the resurrection of Jesus takes the world to God. This is the earthward-and-heavenward dialectical movement, a symphony, a dance: from God to us and from us to God. We are both earth

technological progress has only moved the doomsday clock logo of the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” closer to that midnight of global annihilation through nuclear holocaust.

Pope Benedict is not surprised at this. In Spe Salvi he posits hope. The Creator has not abandoned the Creation.

In fact, we of Christian faith insist that Christ’s presence in our world is an insistence that compassionate love is the very energy at the source of all that exists. Even Einstein, whose equation E=mc2 describes a physical force that can destroy all creation, also posited a spiritual energy that can exceed even that immense physical force, and which comes through intense compassionate acts of unconditional love.

The Great Hope we all seek is clearly in the Creator who promises through the word that came into our world a “new heaven and a new earth.”

Easter resurrection assures Christians of a second coming, a fulfillment, that will “set all things right and wipe away every tear.” It need not be through an Armageddon. We can respond to Grace, and through nonviolent acts of compassion achieve the peaceable kingdom of Isaiah - “the lion will lie down with a lamb and a child with an adder.” God wills it so.

How do we get there? Even the Apostles asked that. They saw Jesus’ rising as another chance to raise an army and drive out an empire. Mary Magdalen, Jesus’ mother and the other faithful women looked for nothing more. Jesus was the very substance of life, joy and ecstasy which Magdalen reached out to embrace — but not yet. Yes, there is an in-between time, and we are in it! We remain very fallible. We use our greatest gifts in ways that threaten our very existence.

And so we look desperately for interim signs of hope. Spe Salvi points to those who overcame their fallen humanness

and heaven-bound. In the resurrection of Jesus, we are conferred immortality and eternity. We are made spiritual and timeless.

Jesus—-the incarnate and the risen Christ— -stands at the core of this process.

No matter how many Da Vinci codes and “the lost tombs of Jesus” might be unleashed, the Jesus-truth cannot be silenced. However much one might try to entomb Jesus, he keeps rising irrepressibly.

The risen Christ is too brilliant to be hidden.

The disciples of Jesus felt the warmth and light of the resurrection. Initially, it was too good to be true; at first they were stunned into non-recognition of Jesus, but gradually they became enlightened and empowered.

Like Peter in the Acts, they became unflinching witnesses of the Risen Christ, courageous enough to sacrifice everything for him. The risen Christ was indeed worth living for and worth dying for.

Dying-rising is a process at work everywhere. The seed dies and comes back to abundant life. The night makes way for the day. In the spiritual realm, too, we die and rise. At the end of our lives, we will die to our death itself because Jesus rose from the dead. However, here and now, dying and rising goes on, transforming us into an Easter people, thanks to the resurrection of Jesus.

Each of us may have things to die to: self-centeredness, addictions, pride, hatred, biases, self-pity, depression, indifference, individualism. The risen Christ will slay a thousand such things in the caves and tombs of our lives. Dying to self, we rise with Christ. It is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us. (Gal 2:20).

Gerard Manley Hopkins says, “Let him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east,…” Let Jesus’ “eastering” in us brighten our dimness, painting a magnificent sunrise on the horizon of our life. May the power and glory and beauty of the risen Christ captivate our hearts and fascinate our imagination forever.

Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D. is parochial vicar at St. Patrick Parish, San Francisco.

such as Francis of Assisi. As with many of us, his desire for fame, honor and wealth led him to a war of bloodletting, capture, torture and imprisonment. Yet it also brought him to suffering, solitude, the kiss of a leper, the discovery of God, a begging bowl shared with the poor, faith, sharing with the Sultan and welcoming companions — brothers, sisters, even lay married couples. Spe Salvi acknowledges Francis and other saints and martyrs who were touched by Great Hope, enabling them to sacrifice for others, as sparks of hope. Pope Benedict insists that “the true measure of humanity is especially determined by our relating to suffering and to the sufferers - both for the individual and for society. This is the compassionate love that transmits hope and brings us to the fullness of life.”

How much in this age of great self-indulgence do we admire those who have sacrificed their lives as martyrs? Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, the sisters and associates who followed in his path, the Jesuits massacred at their university in San Salvador and Sister Dorothy Stang, who supported the workers in Brazil’s forests in keeping their land until a hired hit-men shot her. What incredible witnesses these martyrs are for us to the Great Hope of the unconditional love of God that awaits us.

While here in my jail cell, I received word of the beatification of Franz Jaggerstatter, a lay follower of St. Francis who refused to serve in Hitler’s army and was beheaded.

He heard Jesus’ words of compassion even for those coming to bring Jesus to execution — “Put down the sword... those who bear the sword will perish by it” - and he had the courage and Great Hope to submit to martyrdom.

May our celebration of Easter this year encourage us all to strive for an end to all war and toward the Beloved Community — a world with truth, justice and a true peace.

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■ Continued from page 14 Pope John Paul as expressed in his Ex Corde Ecclesiae – “On Catholic Universities” (1990) — in which he called on Catholic universities to pledge “fidelity to the Christian message as it comes to us through the Church”.

A related discussion of the Church’s teaching authority is contained in an article by George Weigel on a recent meeting between Pope Benedict and the new General of the Society of Jesus which included discussions on the teaching authority of the Church. I found it in the Denver Catholic Register and have enclosed a copy of it. I have not seen it in the Catholic San Francisco.

John J. Taylor Palo Alto (Ed. note: The George Weigel column was carried in the March 14 edition, page 19. This letter was received after the newspaper went to press.)

Pray for Anastas Family The plight of Claire Anastas and her family encircled in the apartheid wall erected by Israel to prevent Palestinian intrusion has touched me deeply. (See Catholic San Francisco, Dec. 14, page 3.)

I have often purchased the beautiful olive wood carvings similar to those her family crafts but is no longer able to sell because her shop is now sealed off from clientele and tourists. The 25-foot wall has also nearly ended the once thriving auto mechanic business of her hus-

band, Johnny. It is just a tiny section of the 400mile wall, but it has forced Claire, Johnny and their four children to live in virtual darkness as the wall surrounds their home on three sides, suffocating them, depriving them of sun. Claire says it is hardest on her children who live in this depressing atmosphere of isolation. The wall has cut them off from friends; there is no place to play, no room to run, no light to engage their imagination or bring joy. Her children have said they feel as if they are living in a tomb, a prison.

In the home of Christ’s birth, the population of Palestinian Christians has dropped from 40 percent to only two percent, and those few left are caught in the struggle between Jews, Muslims, Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs. It is my hope and prayer that with awareness of the pain and suffering endured by so many of God’s children in this sacred place, they can learn to live together with God and in God. The Feast of Divine Mercy is but one week away. This image of Our Lord’s unfailing love is never far from Claire’s heart. I suggest all of us who are devoted to the Divine Mercy and who will be gathering on March 30 offer a special prayer and petition for Claire, her family and all others living in the Holy Land for peace, forgiveness and a spirit of compromise. There is a bumper sticker which expresses my faith-filled sentiments: “God bless everyone. No exceptions.”

St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Burlingame will be celebrating the Feast of Divine Mercy on Sunday the 30th beginning at 2:30 p.m. with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy followed by Mass. Please join us.

Judy Miller Burlingame

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Deacon Hernandez Former Marin served St. Peter’s teacher dies Deacon Roger March 1 in Conn.

Hernandez died March 14. He was 76 year of age. A funeral Mass was celebrated March 18 at St. Peter Church in San Francisco where Deacon Hernandez had Deacon Roger served for almost 30 Hernandez years including the last 16 years commuting from his home in Pittsburg in the Diocese of Oakland.

Born in Nicaragua, Deacon Hernendez moved to the United States in 1956. A year later, his wife, Haydee, joined him. At the time of his death, Deacon Hernandez and Haydee had been married 53 years. He was ordained a permanent deacon for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1979.

Throughout his life, Deacon Hernandez was involved with social justice issues. He advocated on behalf of the United Farm Workers union and marched with the late activist Cesar Chavez.

Survivors include Mrs. Hernandez and the couple’s five children.

Interment was at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma. Remembrances may be sent to Haydee Hernandez, 2217 Oak Hill Dr., Pittsburg, 94565.

A funeral Mass was celebrated March 5 in Putnam, Conn., for Holy Spirit Sister Jeannette Berube.

Sister Berube, who taught biology at Marin Catholic High School from 1965 – 71, was 89 Sister Jeannette Berube, SHS years old and a religious for 72 years. Sister Berube held a graduate degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. The Connecticut native died March 1.

Sister Berube professed vows at her congregation’s motherhouse in France on Aug. 23, 1940 as Sister Claire Philomene and remained in Europe as a music and English teacher for several years.

Upon her return to the United States, she began a teaching career that would take her to schools in Vermont, Massachusetts and her home state as well as Marin Catholic.

Among survivors is Sister Berube’s sister, Holy Spirit Sister Doris Berube.

Remembrances may be sent to Holy Spirit Provincial House, 72 Church St., Putnam, Conn., 06260.

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Reviewed by Mary Breslin In a charged environment where early presidential primary hopefuls such as Mitt Romney, a Mormon, and Mike Huckabee, an ordained Baptist minister, acknowledged their religious beliefs while at the same time making it plain that for them church and state are sacred but separate entities, Randall Balmer’s book, “God in the White House: A History�— an examination of U.S. presidents’ responses and reactions to religion from 1960 to 2004 — is a timely release.

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here’s a suggestion: Begin with the 50 pages that make up the appendix and read the seven speeches from Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. The challenge will be to sort through the spin of a good speechwriter and search for a sense of heartfelt sincerity on the part of the men who delivered the words. The section is pivotal, providing authentic historical context and stimulating the reader’s interest at the same time.

Referring to himself as “an evangelical Christian,� Balmer is a prolific writer and far from a novice on the topic; he is a professor of American religious history at New York’s Columbia University.

Balmer sets out to “trace the transition�

Televised Easter Mass this Sunday and Rita Howe of St. Ignatius Msgr. Harry Schlitt, vicar Parish assist with the profor administration for the cessing of viewers’ mail.

Archdiocese of San Extraordinary ministers of Francisco, will preside at the the Mass have included televised Easter Sunday Mass Claudette and Jim Main of March 23 at 6 a.m. on KTSF Our Lady of Angels Parish in channel 26 and KBWB chanBurlingame; Barbara nel 20; and at 5:30 a.m. on Davison, Michael Coffey, KTXL channel 40.

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Doris Atkinson of Mission Dolores Parish Marta Rebagliati manages the production.

between 1960, when Kennedy made an obviously convincing plea for voters to disregard his faith affiliation, to 2004, when candidates for the highest office in the country were called upon by voters to “fully disclose their religious views.�

Balmer theorizes that “voices of faith� should be involved in the political process, but “faith loses its prophetic voice� if aligned too closely with a particular movement or party.

Many authors might be tempted to race to deadline, seeking to hitchhike on this subject as the months close in toward the November elections. But the reader will find a winner in this text. It is organized, well written, carefully researched and meticulously documented.

The development of the “religious right� and its powerful influence in Washington, the number of professed born-again Christians who sat behind the desk in the Oval Office,

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Taize/Chanted Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Young Adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking available. For information contact, mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net.

1st Friday at 7:30 p.m.: Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m.

Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

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

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

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

March 27, 7:30 p.m.: St. Raphael Church, 1104 Fifth Ave. in San Rafael by Marin Pax Christi commemorating the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq and pray for its end. Call (415) 454-8141.

St. Agnes Spiritual Life Center 1611 Oak St. at St. Agnes Parish, San Francisco – (415) 487-8560 or e-mail rosemary@saintagnessf.com.

April 7, 8, 7 p.m.: Stations of the Resurrection with Catherine Kelly. The prayers over two nights share the post-resurrection experience of the first believers. Each session stands alone. The evening involves walking and stair-climbing so if special accommodations are needed, contact Rosemary Robinson at rosemary@stagnessf.com.

Trainings/Lectures Tuesdays, April 1 through 29, 7:30 p.m.: “The Easter Light of the Passion Narratives,” with Father David Pettingill at St. Emydius Church, Ashton and DeMontfort, in San Francisco. Cost for series of talks is $25 per person. Contact Joe or Peggy Koman at (415) 585-8260.

March 25 and April 1, 7:30 p.m.: Catholic Studies Series: Understanding the Creed with Mark Brumley, publisher/CEO Ignatius Press.

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

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

March 28, 29: “Essential Skills for Catechetical Leaders,” a presentation by Ed Gorton, former president of the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership, at St. Charles Church, 880 Tamarack Ave. in San Carlos, Friday 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. The workshop includes instruction in areas such as developing a catechetical team, recruiting, mentoring and retaining catechists, ethical and legal issues pertinent to catechetical leadership today. Fee is $60 for both sessions. Call Nancy Farrant at (650) 591-7349, ext. 27.

April 3, May 1, 7:30 p.m.: Bioethics Seminars on Advance Health Directives at Heart of Mary Center, 2580 McAllister St. in San Francisco.

Donation is $30. Refreshments served. Professor Raymond Dennehy will facilitate. Call (415) 2198719.

April 7, 6 p.m.: “The Catholic Conscience, Bioethics, and the Public Square,” a talk by Edmund D. Pellegrino, chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics and professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics at Georgetown University, in de Saisset Museum of Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara. Free admission. This lecture, sponsored by the Edmund D. Markkula Center for Pellegrino Applied Ethics at SCU, is made possible in part by a gift from New York Life Insurance Co. in honor of William Regan III. It is part of Science and Health Horizons, a series of events designed to enrich student, faculty, and community understanding of modern health care topics. For more information, contact David DeCosse, ddecosse@scu.edu or 408-554-5715 or visit http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/events/lecture/2008/pellegrino.html.

Food & Fun March 23: Easter egg hunt following 9:30 a.m.

Mass at Rolf Nichols Park behind St. Stephen Parish, Eucalyptus and 23rd Ave. in San Francisco. Bring an Easter basket. Call Renee Wallis at (650) 994-9212.

March 26: fourth Wednesday in deference to Holy Week: The fun continues at Immaculate Conception Chapel where a spaghetti and meatball lunch is served $8 per person – usually each third Wednesday of the month. Begins at noon.

The family style lunches consist of salad, bread, pasta and homemade meatballs. Beverages are available for purchase. The meal is served in the church hall, beneath the chapel. Call (415) 8241762.

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St. Gabriel; call Elaine Khalaf at (415) 564-7882.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo; call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Ministry to Parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame; call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 5581015.

Information regarding grief ministry in general: call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Returning Catholics

Class of ’61 from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School in Daly City gathered to celebrate their 60th birthdays. From left: Marianne Lewis Hill, Margie Muela Eriksson, Carol Perotti Duffy, Linda Molini Parini, Judy Pearlman Shelver, Robert Brouwers, Diane Gugino Ross, Dona Pesino Edlund, Jerry Senkir, John Quezada, Mike Shea, Gerry Nolan, Ed Mahoney, Mary Kay Hartl Radley. The school is actively in pursuit of alumni from all classes. Visit www.olphdc.org or e-mail Ed Mahoney at Emah1965@aol.com.

March 29, 6 p.m.: “Bella Notte,” a fundraising evening benefiting the Community Spirit Scholarship Fund at Notre Dame de Namur University at the school’s Walter Gleason Center, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Enjoy dinner, dancing and entertainment as well as silent and live auctions. Alumna, Marie Gallo, class of ’57 is honoree. Tickets are $175 per person. Call (650) 508-4161 or e-mail msazo@ndnu.edu.

March 29, 6:30 p.m.: Dinner dance fundraiser benefiting Filipino Ministry at St. Gregory Parish in parish’s Vanos Gym, 2715 Hacienda Ave. in San Mateo. Call Merle at (650) 703-1415 or email David at dinnerdance@davidbeltran.com.

April 4 and 26: Preview and gala of “Discarded to Divine,” a fundraiser benefiting St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco, featuring highend fashion made from recycled materials. Bay Area designers and students from Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising participate. Professional models show the clothes. For ticket and venue information, call (415) 977-1270 or visit www.discardedtodivine.org.

April 6, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Marketplace at the Mission, a flea market in the European town square tradition benefiting St. Raphael Parish Pre-School, 1100 Fifth Ave. in San Rafael. Space is still available for vendors. The event features food, entertainment and a children’s activity area. Call Caryn Lentz at (415) 640-2245 or Jeanne Orellana at (415) 827-2453.

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

April 12: Spring luncheon benefiting works of Good Shepherd Guild at Lake Merced Golf Club, 2300 Junipero Sera Blvd. in Daly City with social hour at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:30 p.m.

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April 12, 6:30 p.m.: Gala celebration marking 60th anniversary of St. Gabriel Parish in San Francisco’s Sunset District. Father John Ryan, pastor, will be in attendance with former pastors, retired Sacramento Bishop Francis Quinn, Father David Pettingill and Msgr. Harry Schlitt. Evening includes appetizers, desserts, gifts glasses, and a cappella entertainment by Johnny B and the Speedshifters. Beverages available for purchase.

Tickets are $30 per person and should be reserved by March 28. Call (415) 566-0314 or visit www.stgabrielsf.com.

Sundays at 3:30 p.m.: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral followed by Vespers. Call (415) 5672020.

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

April 11, 11 a.m.: Event honoring graduates of Sacred Heart, St. Vincent and St. Peter high schools in St. Teresan Piro, DC, Student Life Center, 1055 Ellis St. between Gough and Franklin in San Francisco. Tickets are $35. Visit www.shcp.edu.

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

Social Justice/ Family Life 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 are available. Call (415) 614-5680.

Courage is a Catholic support group for persons with same-sex attraction. They meet in San Francisco Thursdays at 7:45 p.m. Call Father Anselm Ramelow at (415) 567-7824 or Father Mark Taheny at (650) 588-1455 or www.couragerc.net.

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

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

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

Sunday evenings, 7 p.m., beginning March 30: Divorce Recovery Course sponsored by Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Bay Area, in Spirituality Center of St. Bartholomew Parish, 300 Columbia Dr. at Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo. A chance to better understand the journey begun with loss heal from its pain. Cost of $45 covers book and materials. Call Vonnie at (650) 873-4236 or Toni at (650) 3679335.

Thursday, 5:30 p.m.: Catholic Singles Club – 50s, 60s, 70s: Join us at Starbucks at corner of Jackson and Davis Streets for chat and possible plans for weekend activities. Come to table with CSC sign. More information: Maria (415) 3918579.

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

2nd and 4th Wednesday in Spanish at St. Anthony Church, 3500 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Toni Martinez at (650) 7763795.

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

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April 4, 5, 11, 12, 7:30 p.m.; April 13, 2 p.m.: “Children of Eden, the Hardest Part of Love is Letting Go,” at the Theater of Notre Dame High School, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Features music by Stephen Schwartz, composer of “Pippin” and “Godspell.” Tickets are $20, students/seniors $10. Call (650) 508-3729.

April 6, 2 p.m.: The Handel opera, “Xerxes,” in concert in Ralston Hall Mansion of Notre Dame de Namur University, 1500 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. Features narration by Donald Pippin with music by the Pocket Philharmonic. Tickets are $34 to $37, seniors $31 to $34, students rush $20. Call (415) 972-8930.

1st and 3rd Tuesdays: Noontime Concerts – 12:30 p.m. - at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, SF. $5 donation requested. Call (415) 288-3800.

Grief support groups meet at the following parishes.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 5581015. St. Dunstan, Millbrae; call Barbara Cappel at (650) 692-7543. Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-0478. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 366-3802. St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sister Patricia at (650) 589-2800.

Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo; call Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650. St. Isabella, San Rafael; call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato; call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco: St. Dominic; call Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824; St. Finn Barr

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Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: Tiburon, St. Hilary: Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775. Ross, St. Anselm: (415) 453-2342. Greenbrae, St. Sebastian: Jean Mariani (415) 461-7060. Mill Valley, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel: Rick Dullea (415) 388-4190.

Sausalito, St. Mary Star of the Sea: Lloyd Dulbecco (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, Michael Adams (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, Lee Gallery (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus (415) 6648590; St. Paul of the Shipwreck, Deacon Larry Chatmon and Loretta Chatmon (415) 468-3434.

San Mateo County: San Mateo — St. Bartholomew: Donna Salinas (650) 347-0701, ext. 14; St. Matthew: Deacon Jim Shea (650) 344-7622. Burlingame — St. Catherine of Siena: Silvia Chiesa (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels: Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter (650) 3758023. Pacifica, St. Peter: Sylvia Miles (650) 3556650, Jerry Trecroci (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher (650) 355-4355. Half Moon Bay, Our Lady of the Pillar: Meghan (650) 726-4337.

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

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

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

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

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Chrism Mass Homily . . .

■ Continued from page 14 sin is sin; if we anoint the sick, we must seek dependable health care for all.

In a special way this evening, we celebrate at this Chrism Mass both the priestliness of all baptized Catholics and the ordained ministry of deacons, priests and bishops. There is no competition among laity, religious and the ordained. All the baptized are part of that “royal nation of priests” described in the second reading. These two priesthoods differ, but they are intimately related: think of the uses of the most sacred of the oils we bless this evening, for our sacraments throughout this coming year: the oil of Chrism. We use Chrism to anoint all the baptized; to seal all those who are confirmed; to anoint the priest’s hands and the bishop’s head; to anoint altars and churches when they are consecrated. Ordained priests are drawn from among the baptized for their service. This universality is characteristic of the other oils as well: all those preparing for baptism are anointed with the oil of catechumens; the Church seeks the healing of all her daughters and sons who are sick with the oil specially blessed for that purpose.

In the kingdom, every one of the faithful is sacred, consecrated, set apart, from baptism onward, until eternal life. This evening is not merely a celebration of the bishop and the

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It’s true that this Mass is assigned to Holy Thursday and is very dear to the ordained deacons, priests and bishops, who hear in the words, “Do this in remembrance of me,” one of the origins of the sacrament of orders. However, about this matter of vocations, we in the Church today must be sure to think and to talk and to pray in “both/and” terms and not in terms of “either/or.” We need to proclaim and to defend the central value of marriage and family life as the vocation for most Catholics. Still, we also need to pray for, respect and encourage God’s call to some Catholics to priesthood, to religious life, as well as to the single life.

Every vocation challenges the generosity of the one called, and the generosity of the community of faith that should support that vocation. We can resist and impede any vocation; for example, we can make happy, holy family life more difficult by the way we talk and behave. We need holy, happy, effective priests and religious, and we have them! Nevertheless, we need many more, and new generations of them.

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Jesus calls out to future priests: “Come, follow me.” Are we still hearing and amplifying that call? Are we letting Jesus call to others through us, his people? Consider this: We receive Christ in the Eucharist, but then we need to share the love of this Christ we have become; otherwise, Eucharist is frustrated, incomplete. In the same way, it is not enough for us to prepare and bless this oil of Chrism for anointing. We must also pray for, call forth and support the candidates to be anointed with that Chrism in their ordination. That is the “both/and” of our Catholic faith as applied to the sacrament of holy orders. Calling forth Church vocations is the task of each of us in the Church: each priest, each religious, each laywoman and layman. Please take that to heart in a moment when our priests stand to rededicate themselves to the life of the Catholic Church in this archdiocese; take it all to heart all year long, and in all the years to come. If you do so, we will not need that market-research analyst I described as I began.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of February David Giulio Marcelli Rosalinda Dumlao Purificacion M. Suguitan HOLY CROSS Anita Marriscolo Edith R. Farrell Kathryn Swanson John Martinez, Jr. Lillian Fazio Mary Ann Tenent COLMA Jennie T. Mascarello Lorraine M. Fitzgerald Stella J. Tognoli Hilda M. Adriasola Juan Antonio Aleman Felicidad D. Aniel Irene Annala Florencia E. Arguelles Pete Y. Balingit Lauree Ann (Muller) Bates Friar Anthony Baumann, O.F.M. Otto M. Berg Ildefonso S. Bernardo Gloria Mae Bini Bettylee D. Bolfango Bob Bordin Angela Borgen Philip K. Boyle Robert L. Butt Marie T. Byrne Juliana F. Cabreros Gary A. Calica Marie D. Camoriani Angelina H. Canuto Jimmy Cardenas Evelyn Carignani Samuel M. Carpenter Margaret P. Casey Colette M. Casslo Consorcia Ocaba Ceniza Blanche M. Cerles Enrique Chavez Elvira Cenci Civarolo Gloria Jean Cole Luisa Conde Josephine F. Cordova Humberto Corea Bernice Corrasa Evelyn Corritore Ignacio Cortez Clare Cotter Bertha M. Cruz Ava Madison Cruz Eugene Michael Stephen Dawydiak Marita Dean Michael Jon Debow Innocenza DeGennaro Thelma L. DeMartini Teresa V. Devlin Anita A. D’Olivo John J. Downes

Marie K. Fleischman Vivian L. Fodrini Camille M. Fontanel Rina Fontanella Mario Bacani Fontanilla Adriano Ryan De Souza Franco Angela Fregosi Hoin Ying Fung William A. Galeno Amalio Garriga Sr. Bernadette Giles, PBVM Josephine C. Giordano Isabel J. Gonzalez Maria Gonzalez Maria Luz Gross Josephine A. Guardino Frances S. Gustafson Claire Marie Gustafson Virginia Langley Hall Kathleen Hallinan Marie C. Hallyburton Cecilia Han Jane B. Hanlon Johanna F. Hansen Mary Elise Heagerty Helen J. Herschin Elizabeth T. Hohenrieder Richard A. Ippolito, Sr. Damiana A. Irag Sofia F. Jacalne Eddy Jackson Jonathan Raynor Johnson Michele Kunard Margaret T. Lamb Joan B. Langlois Eleanor J. Lazzari Mary Agnes Leahy Fui Leon Olga Londono Sr. M. Eunice Malloy, SHF Amanda Del Carmen Maltez Assunta Mangiante Flora Marlene Manzanares Barbara A. Mar Emil J. Marcelli

Joe M. Matkovich Alicia Matsumoto Dorothy R. Mazella Arthur F. McIntyre Kathryn L. McLaughlin Kate C. Milani Olga M. Montenegro Lida Mary Moore Carmen Morera Chris B. Morgan Amasi Joseph Moschini Jean M. Mullikin Maria Victoria Munguia Enoch Olivas Dominic J. Oliveri John P. O’Malley Eileen M. O’Neill Beatrice F. Ortiz Carleton Oyster Norberto Quero Padua Juanita M. Penate Pia Petri Margaret Porras Jessie R. Preciado Harry Pryor Jack T. Ramos Marcelina A. Ramsey Helen Green Reader Jose A. Mendoza Reynoso Michael Rjaile Edith R. Romero Carmen Romero Blanca S. Rugilo Isabel F. Samaniego Suzanne C. Say Ethel L. Scharfen Michele Sciancalepore Mark A. Sheehy Edith A. Simpson Grace De Michele Sinclair Gilda Siu Michael Emmett Smith Gerard Marcell Sonnier Donald E. Spencer Rose P. Stagner Barbara Ertassi Street

Frank John Tognotti Fidelia A. Toruno Miguel Prado Totanes Alonzo V. Trono Villa A. Tucker Nola Marie Van Randall Mamerta L. Velonza Shirley Vernale Mary T. Vigil Mary Walsh Ruth E. Welch Irene Wilhelm Mary A. Williams Francis Win Elenora M. Zipp

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Doris Cook Pierre Hondagneu Phillipe Jarret Marion Kessler Edouard Louis Saubolle William Dalrymple Smythe Primo “Tim” Strada

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Maria Elena Barajas Patricia Marie Estes Agnes M. Geramoni Lawrence T. LaBruzzi Louis P. Lenzi Elena M. McCain Patricia A. McCullough William Scott Murphy Leonel Ochoa Elda Van Note Marcelle J. Weber

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA FIRST SATURDAY MASS All Saints Mausoleum Chapel Saturday, April 5, 2008 – 11:00 a.m.

Rev. Bill Brady, Celebrant – St. Emydius Parish St. Emydius Parish Music Ministry

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.