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U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada receives his ring from Pope Benedict XVI during a special Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican March 25. The rings symbolizes the cardinal's spousal relationship with the church. At left, Cardinal Levada takes possesion as Cardinal Deacon of his titular church, Santa Maria in Domnica.

Former San Francisco Archbishop Levada elevated to Cardinal at ceremony

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Former San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada was the first among the 15 new members inducted into the College of Cardinals

by Pope Benedict XVI, who called on them to be even stronger witnesses of God’s love for the world and their own love for the church.

At the March 24 Mass and ceremony in St. Peter’s Square, in which prelates from 11 countries became cardinals, the pope prayed that the red garments they now wear would inspire them to an even more “passionate love for Christ, for his church and for all humanity.”

Giving them rings during a March 25 Mass, he told them they are called to serve the church “with the love of a spouse.”

At both services, Cardinal William J. Levada, now prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and former Archbishop of San Francisco, was the first of the new cardinals to approach the pope. The man who led the Archdiocese of San Francisco from 1995 to 2005 addressed the pope on behalf of the new cardinals March 24.

More Cardinal photos PAGES 12 – 13 In accepting their new status, Cardinal Levada said, the new cardinals renewed their commitment of “total love and unconditional fidelity to Christ the Lord and to the Christian people.”

“This love for Jesus Christ and his church, this

fidelity to humanity which has a burning thirst for truth, we want to place into your hands,” he told the pope.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston also was among the 15 to join the College of Cardinals in the first consistory of Pope Benedict’s pontificate.

At the March 24 prayer service, Pope Benedict told the entire College of Cardinals, which now numbers 193 members, that he counted on them “to proclaim to the world that God is love.”

“Ensure that the principle of love will spread far and wide and will give new life to the church,” he said.

At Mass the next day, the pope slipped a ring on the CARDINAL, page 4

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Make me smile was the rallying cry of St. Elizabeth Elementary School students Adrian Mercado, left, JustinOrtiz and Jasmine Ortega. All were winners in the San Francisco Dental Society’s Annual Children’s Poster Contest.

Serra High School’s Commonwealth Club was represented in the audience for a talk by now-famed author Sister Helen Prejean. On hand for the Dead Man Walking dialogue were Ferris Salameh, back left, Troy Talmadge, J.D. Smiley, Sister Helen, Garrett Scafani, Adam Markovich, Charles Gemora. T. J. Watterson, front left, Eric Cromosini, Anthony Heimuli.

Trying on the mantle of emissary were Star of the Sea 6th graders Alisha Desai, Frank Kaniewski, and Kassandra Lastimosa. The future adults recently spent a week in the nation’s capital as student ambassadors with the People to People World Leadership Conference.

The trio also toured Gettysburg and dined at the Saudi Embassy….Hats off to Julia Padreddii who was honored March 2nd by Daly City for her volunteer work at Holy Angels Church where she is a longtime parishioner. “For those of us who know Julia, we see a very humble person who has shown us the meaning of Christian womanhood,” said her longtime friend Bianca Caserza….Celebrating 65 years of marriage are Lorraine and Dermot Sullivan longtime parishioners of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish. “We thank God for the grace bestowed on them and their children all these years and ask that they continue to be blessed with good health now and in years to come,” a recent bulletin said. …St. Charles Elementary School leads a hats off to Dominican Sister Celestine Bancal principal and recently elected Mother General of her congregation, the Dominican Sisters of the Holy

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By Catholic News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Saying that the current immigration situation in the U.S. serves neither immigrants nor the general public, California’s Catholic bishops asked for immigration reform that protects human dignity and fosters the common good.

They asked for bipartisan political efforts “to create a new immigration system which respects our common humanity.”

The two-page statement was issued March 21 by the California Catholic Conference in Sacramento. It is the public policy arm of the 12 California dioceses.

The California bishops’ statement called for legislation that includes “earned legalization for the undocumented and their families.”

They supported “reform that does not include sanctions for those who provide humanitarian aid for the undocumented.”

They also favored a temporary worker program; timely family reunification policies; and assistance to poor countries to help them address the “root causes” of poverty so their citizens “can remain in their home countries and support themselves and their families.”

“We understand the polarization and frustration over this issue because the status quo serves neither the immigrant nor the citizenry well,” they said.

“We call for an answer that is humane, realistic and responsible while also serving our nation’s economic and security interests,” said the bishops.

In California large numbers of immigrants are already integrated into society, they said. “Their families go to our churches. They are our neighbors.”

Many immigrants are owners of businesses “creating employment and opportunities for others,” they said.

The bishops added that Jesus gave Catholics the example of the need to welcome the stranger “who was looked upon as an unholy outcast and foreigner.”

The day after the California Catholic bishops

released their statement, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles defended his decision to instruct his priests to disobey any future law that would criminally penalize them for aiding illegal immigrants.

“I stand by my statement,” he said in a March 22 opinion piece in The New York Times.

But this does not mean he supports illegal immigration, he said.

“Illegal immigration serves neither the migrant nor the common good,” said the cardinal. “What the church supports is an overhaul of the immigration system so that legal status and legal channels for migration replace illegal status and illegal immigration.”

In newspaper interviews, the cardinal said that he would instruct his priests to continue providing services to illegal immigrants even if such aid were declared illegal.

Cardinal Mahony’s article specifically criticized a bill passed in December by the U.S. House of Representatives which stresses enforcement of laws against illegal immigration and stricter border controls.

Enforcement-only legislation “will not deter migrants who are desperate to survive and support their families,” said the cardinal.

“It will only drive them further into the shadows, encourage the creation of more elaborate smuggling networks and cause hardship and suffering,” he said.

Regarding possible criminal penalties for aiding illegal immigrants, the cardinal said that “providing humanitarian assistance to those in need should not be made a crime.”

He noted that “current law does not require social service agencies to obtain evidence of legal status before rendering aid, nor should it.”

The “unspoken truth” of the immigration situation is that “our nation benefits economically” from the work of illegal immigrants, yet “we turn a blind eye when they are exploited by employers,” he said.

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Immigration reform must protect human dignity, say California bishops

Thousands of demonstrators in Los Angeles March 25 protest a punitive House-passed immigration bill calling for tougher border protection and stiff penalties for undocumented workers and those who help them.

Setting the stage for a showdown on immigration, the Senate’s Judiciary Committee March 27 approved a bill lacking the House version’s harsh measures, but providing a way for the 12 million undocumented immigrants now in the country illegally to become citizens and creates a guest worker program for future immigrants.

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Adoptions to same sex-couples by Archdiocese’s Catholic Charities under review

By Catholic News Service SAN FRANCISCO – In a mid-March statement in response to press inquiries, the Archdiocese of San Francisco said that in light of its convictions regarding Catholic doctrine on marriage and family life, the archdiocese would review its adoption programs to determine how it could “continue to best serve children who are so much in need of a home.”

The issue of gay adoptions has been heating up in San Francisco since the Boston Archdiocese announced earlier this month that it would no longer facilitate any adoptions because of regulations in Massachusetts that would prohibit discrimination against same-sex couples who seek to adopt. On March 10, the Boston Catholic Charities board agreed to end its adoption services in light of the conflict between the state law and Catholic teaching.

San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer’s predecessor, Cardinal William J. Levada, in a March 9 statement, reaffirmed a 2003 document from the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which he now heads. That document said placing adoptive children in same-sex households would be “gravely immoral.”

“Allowing children to be adopted by persons living in such unions would actually mean doing violence to these children, in the sense that their condition of dependency would be used to place them in an environment that is not conducive to their full development,” the document said.

Cardinal Levada said March 9 that “Catholic agencies should not place children for adoption in homosexual households.”

Since 2000, Catholic Charities has arranged five adoptions to same-sex couples out of a total of 136 adoptions in this time. About two or more years into the current administration, Catholic Charities informed then Archbishop Levada that the agency had arranged three adoptions to gay couples. He has not informed about the two subsequent adoptions to same-sex couples arranged by the agency.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously March 21 in favor of a nonbinding resolution condemning Cardinal-designate Levada and urging Archbishop Niederauer to repudiate his views.

“It is an insult to all San Franciscans when a foreign country, like the Vatican, meddles with and attempts to negatively influence this great city’s existing and established customs and traditions, such as the right of same-sex couples to adopt and care for children in need,” the resolution said.

Supervisor Tom Ammiano, who introduced the resolution and describes himself as gay and Catholic, said the board would “take the necessary steps to defund Catholic Charities if this dispute cannot be resolved.”

In a letter to the editor in the San Francisco Chronicle March 27, Maurice Healy, director of Communications for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said, “Lost amid vitriolic comments by politicians and others is the fact that the Catholic Church is not trying to block adoptions by samesex couples. It simply is saying that in light of Catholic Church teaching on marriage and family life, a Catholic agency should not be the instrument of such adoptions.”

Healy said, “Vicious and intolerant attacks on the Catholic Church cannot be justified by the simple desire of the archdioce-

For new cardinals, a ceremony full of symbols

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The main elements in the ceremonies surrounding the creation of new cardinals are red, hat, church and ring.

When Pope Benedict XVI elevated 15 new members into the College of Cardinals March 24, they already were dressed in their new red cassocks.

As French Cardinal Albert Vanhoye, one of the 15, told Vatican Radio: “Red is the color of love, of fire, and it is also the color of the Passion. It is said that the cardinals must be ready even to shed their blood” for Christ and his church.

One by one, the new cardinals approached Pope Benedict and knelt before him so he could place the fourcornered red hat, called a biretta, on their heads.

Next, each cardinal was given a scroll testifying to his new office and containing the name of his titular church in Rome.

By receiving the “title” to a Rome church, each cardinal formally became part of the clergy of Rome. The status connects the modern tradition of the College of Cardinals electing a new pope to the early church practice by which the bishop of Rome was elected by the clergy of Rome.

Over the coming months, the new cardinals will “take possession” of their titular churches in a brief ceremony, although their official responsibilities to the churches do not go beyond affection and prayerful concern.

U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was assigned the church of St. Mary in Domnica; the 16th-century building is a restoration of a ninth-century church built on the foundations of one of the earliest churches in Rome.

Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston was given the title to Santa Maria della Vittoria, a 17th-century church particularly famous as the home of Gianlorenzo Bernini’s statue of “St. Teresa in Ecstasy.”

The cardinal’s new status and new relationship with the pope were to be sealed with a ring at a March 25 Mass.

The Vatican press office explained the rite is a “sign of dignity, of pastoral concern and of the most solid communion with the see of Peter.”

When handing out the rings, Pope Benedict was to say to each cardinal: “Receive the ring from the hand of Peter and know that with the love of the prince of the apostles your love for the church will be reinforced.”

ses of Boston and San Francisco to be in accord with the universal church and Catholic teaching on marriage and family life.”

Brian Cahill, executive director of Catholic Charities CYO, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he hopes to avoid a “Boston solution.” A statement from the agency, which is the social service arm of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said it “will continue to serve the best interests of vulnerable children who need loving homes – either the way we have been – or in a new creative way.”

Catholic Charities of San Francisco, which has placed five children with same-sex couples since 2000, receives an estimated $7 million annually from the city for its services in the areas of children’s mental health, care for people with AIDS and low-income housing.

Catholic San Francisco contributed to this report.

STATEMENT BY THE CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO Released in March 2006 We fully accept and faithfully teach what the Catholic Church teaches on marriage and family life. In light of these convictions, we currently are reviewing our adoption programs to determine concretely how we can continue to best serve children who are so much in need of a home. We realize there are people in our community, some working sideby-side with us to serve the needy in society, who do not share our beliefs, and we recognize and respect that fact.

Cardinal . . .

■ Continued from cover finger of each cardinal saying, “Receive the ring from the hand of Peter and know that with the love of the prince of the apostles your love for the church will be reinforced.”

After the ring Mass, Pope Benedict hosted a lunch for the new cardinals and the 140 other members of the College of Cardinals who came to the Vatican for a March 23 meeting with the pope and for the two days of ceremonies for their new peers.

During the consistory, all of the new cardinals were supported by groups of family, friends and the faithful, who cheered and waved flags when their cardinal went forward to kneel at the pope’s feet.

A large contingent of clergy, religious and laity represented the Archdiocese of San Francisco, led by San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer and San Francisco Auxiliary Bishops John C. Wester and Ignatius C. Wang.

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Sacred Heart Cathedral women win state basketball championship

By Evelyn Zappia This year’s Sacred Heart Cathedral Varsity Women’s Basketball team will always be remembered as the Irish who did have their day, after winning the state championship on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17.

The Irish captured the Division IV girls’ state crown in an overtime thriller against Windward-Los Angeles (66-56) in Sacramento’s Arco Arena.

The triumphant road to the State’s capitol began six months ago under the coaching of Brian Harrigan, who has an impressive school record of 504 wins against 168 defeats.

“You couldn’t ask for a more cooperative bunch of players,” said Sarah Richen, assistant coach, who believes “the girls” are the heart of the team. She also does not underestimate their special camaraderie that creates a united force of skill and talent on the court.

“They come from several different backgrounds, thoroughly enjoy each other’s company, and have a lot of dedication,” said Richen.

Back in September, their dedication was tested when they were introduced to Harrigan’s tough conditioning regimen where none of the players touched a basketball for a month. Instead, they worked out, and then they worked out some more. They also ran a great deal, according to Richen.

Faihza Hill, who plays guard, admitted it was tough working out six days a week for two hours each day, but the junior said she kept in the forefront of her mind what all the hard work was for - the games, the post season, and state championship. The discipline also taught her patience.

“Our conditioning is very physical but every team member realizes to win games we need to be in better shape than the next team,” said forward, Monique Garrett. The senior added, “If it will make the team better then I’m willing to do any kind of training.”

Sophomore guard Rosslyn Beard said it was their coach’s rigorous training and discipline that enabled them to win the State title. “He was able to bring 13 good basketball players together to make one team, not individuals,” she said.

With all the challenges of maintaining a varsity posi-

Front Row: (l-r) Melissa Koike, Mone Peoples, Monique Garrett, Faihza Hill, Ki-ki Moore, Noelani Gi, Rosslyn Beard. Back Row (l-r) Coach Sarah Richen, Coach Tim Burke, Lauren Bell Jaszmine Jackson, Ashley Boggs, Monique Calvello, Tierra Rogers, Monica Kelly, Trainer Oscar Melero, Coach Renee Demirdjian, Coach Brian Harrigan

tion on the basketball team “the girls” never neglected homework. Collectively, the team boasts of a 3.6 GPA. “They’re very bright girls,” said Richen.

So what was it like to win a state basketball championship? For Beard it was “awesome;” for Garrett it was “the cherry on top”, and for Hill “an unbelievable experience – almost a fairytale.”

Yet with all the fanfare “the girls” placed their relationship with their teammates on the top of the list. “We got so close we help each other on and off the court,” said Beard.

The state championship was Sacred Heart’s first since 1998, and second under Brian Harrigan.

Women’s basketball teams at other schools also recorded exceptional years. The San Francisco Chronicle Top 20 ‘Girls” ranking included eight Catholic schools, including teams from Sacred Heart Cathedral, St, Ignatius, Marin Catholic and Mercy-San Francisco.

The Chronicle’s Top 20 “Boys” final ranking included teams from eight local Catholic high schools including Serra in San Mateo and Sacred Heart Cathedral in San Francisco.

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Pre-publication sales booming for Compendium of Catechism WASHINGTON — Pre-publication sales of more than 40,000 put the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a 200-page synthesis of the 1992 catechism, well on its way to major success, according to USCCB Publishing, the publishing office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The figure includes both the paperback version of the compendium, available March 31, and a hardcover edition to be published later this spring.

Each version is to be published in English and Spanish.

Patrick Markey, associate director of marketing, sales and inventory at USCCB Publishing, said a publishing rule of thumb is that pre-publication sales amount to one-third of the first-year sales. At that pace, the compendium is expected to sell between 120,000 and 200,000 copies in its first year, he said. The compendium is made up of 598 questions and answers. It may be ordered online at: www.usccbpublishing.org, or by phone at: (800) 235-8722.

Opus Dei spirituality seen as daily living of the Catholic faith WASHINGTON — Opus Dei, a church-approved organization with more than 87,000 members around the world, asks all its members to adhere to a substantial daily spiritual program that is designed to help them see their faith as permeating every aspect of their lives. Russell Shaw, a Catholic journalist in Washington, described himself in an interview as “a fairly mediocre Catholic” before he joined Opus Dei in 1980. Asked by Catholic News Service to describe his routine of spiritual exercises now, he said it includes daily Mass and Communion, a daily period of reading Scripture and some spiritual reading, daily rosary and two daily periods of mental prayer. Shaw said he also attends a yearly Opus Dei retreat and weekly meetings of about 45 minutes to an hour with a small group of other Opus Dei members, for prayer and self-reflection. He meets with a spiritual director “every two weeks or so,” he

said. He estimated the time he devotes to spiritual practices runs “about two to two and a quarter hours” on the average day. “Once you become accustomed to it, it’s quite satisfying,” he said.

Vatican representative says interreligious dialogue brings respect, understanding BOSTON — By bringing mutual respect and understanding, interreligious dialogue can contribute to peace, the former president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue said at a two-day symposium in Boston. Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, newly named Vatican ambassador to Egypt and the Arab League, delivered keynote talks at Brandeis University and Boston College. The two schools were co-hosts of the March 1617 event that commemorated the 40th anniversary of “Nostra Aetate,” the Second Vatican Council’s Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to NonChristian Religions. In an opening talk at Brandeis March 16 on what the church has learned from interreligious dialogue, Archbishop Fitzgerald said that at the time of the council the church had some experience in ecumenical dialogue but almost none in developing relations with people of non-Christian religions. “In the field of interreligious dialogue the church as a whole had almost everything to learn,” he said.

War-torn diocese opened eyes of new Philippine cardinal MANILA, Philippines — An appointment to a war-torn area of the Philippines opened the eyes of Philippine Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales. In 1982, after serving as Manila auxiliary bishop since 1974, the cardinal was appointed to war-torn Malaybalay, Philippines. “I heard charges of cannibalism, rape and armed religious fanaticism. ... Sometimes I couldn’t believe I was really there; it seemed like some kind of nightmare,” he said about the region in a 1985 interview with UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand. “It was, to say the least, a big change from the seminary.” Since then, the 73-

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Jazz musician and composer Dave Brubeck is pictured in a 1996 file photo. The University of Notre Dame announced that he will receive its Laetare Medal.

The medal has been awarded annually to a Catholic “whose genius has ennobled the arts and sciences, illustrated the ideals of the church and enriched the heritage of humanity.”

year-old cardinal has become a champion for those marginalized by economic and political instability, though he claims that he is not a politician. In December, he told UCA News he does not like making political statements, but, in his role as a religious leader, he will repeat what God teaches “whenever there are immoralities or gross offenses.”

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Rahman reportedly became a Christian several years ago, after working for a Christian aid agency in Pakistan. The Afghan Supreme Court had said Rahman could face the death penalty unless he reverted to Islam, prompting a worldwide outcry.

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Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful after celebrating Mass at the modernistic Church of God the Merciful Father in Rome March 26. The pope quoted from a sermon his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, prepared shortly before his death in which he worried that the world was succumbing to selfishness, fear and the power of evil.

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‘Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace’

By Archbishop George H. Niederauer The following homily was delivered by Archbishop George H. Niederauer on the third Sunday of Lent, March 19, at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Perhaps the single strangest picture of Jesus in the gospels is this story about driving the money-changers and animal sellers out of the Temple. Other moments are certainly wondrous: healing the sick, raising the dead to life. But here is Jesus Christ caught in an act of physical violence. To be sure, it is violence against property, not against persons, but still it is in great contrast with the rest of our images of the Savior.

It helps to know that those money-changers and animal sellers in the Temple were extortionists, whose special prey was the very poor. The people who wanted to pay the temple tax had to use special coins that they could obtain only inside the Temple, and the moneychangers extorted huge amounts for exchanging ordinary money for those coins. Also, anyone who wanted to offer a sacrifice could not bring animals from home or from a marketplace in the city, because those in charge of the sacrifices would not approve those animals. So the people were forced to buy animals within the Temple, again for exorbitant prices. It was a racket and a scam, and it was going on in God’s house.

In our first reading we heard to Ten Commandments, and Jesus certainly had these in mind as he entered the Temple and looked around him: “You shall not have other gods besides me. You shall not carve idols for yourselves in the shape of anything in the sky above or on the earth below . . . you shall not bow down before them or worship them.” So here were these scam artists “worshiping” their coins and extracting them from poor people in the very Temple of the Lord their God! Certainly Jesus had as much provocation as those Frenchmen who stormed the Bastille, or our colonial forefathers who conducted that Tea Party in Boston.

Still, Jesus does not intend what he is doing in the Temple merely as an act of civil disobedience. It is much, much more. Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and his coming among us is meant to bring temple sacrifice to an end. When the powers that be ask Jesus by what authority he is acting this way, Jesus answers: “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.”

The author of the Gospel tells us that Jesus is not speaking about the building in Jerusalem, but about his own body, the body that he will offer on the Cross for the

sins of all, and that his Father will raise up to life on Easter Sunday. In today’s gospel story Jesus is foretelling the Resurrection just as surely as last Sunday’s story of the Transfiguration vision looked forward to Easter as well.

After that first Easter and Pentecost, the apostles proclaimed the good news of the new Christian faith: “The life, death and resurrection of Jesus has fulfilled all the promises of the prophets of old; the kingdom of God is here; repent and believe the good news; change your lives, and prepare for the coming of Jesus again.”

All women and men are invited to receive the Holy Spirit, to become temples of God’s life in Christ Jesus.

As St. Paul claims in today’s second reading, Jesus is the power and wisdom of God, greater than any worldly power for which Israel was looking, and greater than any worldly wisdom which the Greeks and other peoples pursued. What looks to people like God’s “foolishness” in the teaching and actions of Jesus is wiser than men, and what looks like God’s “weakness” in the Crucified Savior is more powerful than men.

Jesus didn’t look like the Savior people were expecting, but he was the Savior God sent. Thus John tells us in our gospel reading that Jesus did “not trust himself to them because he knew them all.” Jesus knew about human nature because he shared it, and he knew what was in the human heart. Jesus did not want the instant followers and the easy popularity of a worldly conqueror, because he knew that he was to be the crucified and risen Lord of true believers.

But we Catholic Christians are not allowed to watch and listen to this story of Jesus in the Temple from the sidelines. This incident challenges us as well. We believe that the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation make each of us a temple of the Holy Spirit, filled with God’s life, nourished from this altar with the body and blood of Jesus in this Eucharist, finding the heart of our life’s meaning in the truth of God’s love for us, reconciled by the forgiveness of ours sins in Penance, and called to praise God in prayer and worship, and to serve him in our brothers and sisters.

Listen to what St. Paul says to us later in that same letter to the Corinthians: “Are you not aware that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, and you are that temple.” (1 Cor 3:16-17) So, let’s imagine Jesus coming right now into the temple that is each of us.

Exhibit shows Swiss Guard’s 500-year history VATICAN CITY (CNS) — A special exhibit has opened at the Vatican documenting the 500-year history of the Swiss Guard, the smallest and oldest military corps in the world.

From March 29 to July 30, visitors to the Braccio di Carlomagno near St. Peter’s Basilica can get a glimpse of artwork, objects and armor spanning the past half-millennium of what is also the most photographed army in history. The commander of the Guard, Col. Elmar Mader, said at a March 28 press conference that the exhibit, “The Papal Swiss Guard: 500 Years of History, Art and Life,” aims to give visitors a taste of what has motivated generations of Swiss men to guard the life and safety of the pope — even at the risk of their own lives. The special exhibit was also a chance for the Guard to “be in contact with the public, so we will have about ten former Swiss Guards manning the halls,” providing security and public relations, he added.

What does he find in your temple or in my temple this morning? Does he find your heart or mine to be a space centered in love of him, where all that we cherish fits in with and fulfills our identity as “Christian”—where all that we choose to do fits in with following Jesus as our Lord?

A different scene is possible: my heart or yours could be filled with tables piled high with coins like those of the money-changers. Not literal coins, probably: each man’s or woman’s “coin” can be a bit different. Your “coin” is the measure of ultimate value for you, the value for which you are willing to trade everything else.

Your “coin” can be the approval of others, popularity, ambition, financial success, comfort, security, pleasure.

Your personal “coin” can even be competition, or getting even, or getting your own way as often as possible.

Can we imagine Jesus coming into our temple, catching sight of our tables piled high with our coins, and can we then imagine him walking up to us, and beginning to flip those tables over, to scatter those coins, and to cleanse our life within? Could Jesus rightly say to us of our minds and hearts, “Stop turning my Father’s house into a marketplace!”

Most of us are probably somewhere in between those two scenarios: partly centered in Jesus as our Way and our Truth and our Life, and partly collecting those particular “coins” we most yearn for. In this season of Lent Jesus challenges us to “clean house” in our minds and hearts and lives. It’s a kind of “spring cleaning” that sorts out values and behaviors based on one question only: does this yearning or this action come to me from Jesus, and does it lead me back to him? Our prayer and fasting and generosity this Lent are all directed toward our becoming more completely a temple of life in Christ, centered in him and full of his love. May God bless our “spring cleaning” in he Holy Spirit, as we journey toward Easter life and glory.

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Monsignor John J. Sweeny Maryknoll Sister Marilyn Norris Msgr. John J. Sweeny, known for bringing the Blessed Mother to the area surrounding Santa Clara amusement park, Great America, died March 7. The retired pastor of Our Lady of Peace Parish in Santa Clara, Msgr. Sweeny was 81 years of age and had served in the Diocese of San Jose since its founding in 1981. Ordained in 1948, he is a former parochial vicar at parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco including St. Elizabeth, St. Anne of the Sunset, St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Francis of Assisi in East Palo Alto.

Father Larry Goode, current pastor of St. Francis of Assisi, served with the late priest at Our Lady of Peace.

“We kept in contact during all the years since,” Father Goode said, noting that Msgr. Sweeny had lived in retirement at St. Francis from 2004 – 2005. “He was a visionary in dealing with people. He’d spend time with anyone who came to the door. He could tap into their dream. Msgr.

Sweeny was kind to the extreme as well as real and one who said what was on his mind.”

Msgr. Sweeny was instrumental in establishing a branch of the Opportunity Industrialization Center on the West Coast, Father Goode said. “It was a job program for the poor and served as a feeder program for companies including Hewlett – Packard and Philco,” Father Goode said. “He remembered his dad being unemployed during the Depression and didn’t want that to happen to others.”

The 30-foot statue of Our Lady built by Msgr. Sweeny has become a focal point of Marian devotion in the Bay Area and the state. “He said it would bring passers-by to God,” Father Goode said.

A priest for nearly 58 years, Msgr. Sweeny’s first assignment was St. James Parish in his native San Francisco. He also served as director of the Apostleship of Prayer, spiritual director of the Legion of Mary and diocesan coordinator for the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He was named Prelate of Honor by Pope John Paul II in 2002 A funeral Mass was celebrated at Our Lady of Peace Church March 15 with interment at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos. Remembrances may be made to the Msgr. John J. Sweeny Family Learning Center at Our Lady of Peace Church.

Maryknoll Sister Marilyn Norris died Feb. 24, in Nairobi, Kenya, after a brief illness.

She was 72 years of age and had been a religious for 48 years.

Sister Marilyn was a graduate of San Francisco’s St. Brigid Elementary and High School and Stanford University. She served as a Pediatric Nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital in the late 1950s.

In 1958, she entered the Maryknoll Sisters Novitiate and 1961 pronounced her First Vows receiving the name of Sister Mary Deirdre. After language study in Hong Kong she worked at the Maryknoll Hospital until 1966 when she moved to Kowloontsai in a settlement area for refugees fleeing Communist China. She pronounced her final vows in 1967 in Hong Kong. CARITAS began an ecumenical project for Community Nursing for patients requiring nursing care in their homes, and she also worked in this project.

Marilyn returned to the Maryknoll Sisters Center and worked in Mission Projects from 1974-79.

Maryknoll Sisters were asked to work in the Sudan, and in1980 Marilyn joined other Maryknoll Sisters in Juba, Sudan, to do administrative work for a Leprosy Control Program funded by the German Leprosy Association, and helped nearby refugee colonies obtain food and a clean water supply. Because of political instability the Maryknoll Sisters had to leave Juba and they went to Kworijik, Sudan, where she ran a dispensary in a parish Church from 1983-1992 while also helping with pastoral duties. The Sisters moved to Loa, Sudan, where she founded a clinic. For the past 12 years, she worked in a clinic and helped refugees.

A wake for Sister Marilyn was held at the Maryknoll Sisters World Section House in Nairobi, Kenya and a funeral service was held in the local parish church on Feb. 27. At the Maryknoll Sisters Center, Maryknoll, NY, a Vespers Service was held on March 13. In April, two of the Maryknoll Sisters from Nairobi will travel to the USA with the cremated remains of Sister Marilyn. A Memorial Mass will then be held at the Maryknoll Sisters Center with burial in the Sisters

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Cardinal William J. Levada receives a scroll from Pope Benedict XVI attesting to his membership in the College of Cardinals during his installation at the Vatican March 24. Last May, Pope Benedict chose Cardinal Levada, former archbishop of San Francisco, to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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Italian Cardinal Agostino Vallini chats with U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada before their elevation to the College of Cardinals during a ceremony at the Vatican March 24.

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Ethnic Ministries Group from the Archdiocese of San Francisco getting ready to board a plane for Rome.

Father Steven Lopes, Father Tran, Cardinal Levada and Father Gerlad Brown at the Apostaolic Palace.

Bishop Ignatius Wang with North Beach Restaurant owner Lorenzo Petroni.

San Jose Bishop Patrick J. McGrath, Monsignor Harry Schlitt and Bishop John C. Wester.

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Reno Bishop Randy Calvo, Bishop Wester, Archbishop Niederauer and Father Bill Justice at the Apostolic Palace.

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Interfaith delegation includes (from left): Father Michael Pappas representing Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco; Rabbi Douglas Khan, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council; Cardinal Levada; Reverend Charles Gibbs, Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative; Iftekhar Hai of the United Muslims of America; Rita Semel, Executive Vice- Chair of the San Francisco Interfaith Council; Rt. Rev. William Swing, Episcopal Bishop of San Francisco; Rev. James DeLange, Chair of the San Francisco Interfaith Council; and Mary Swing.

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By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) — As hundreds of thousands of people marched in cities across the country in support of comprehensive immigration reform, Catholic bishops in various states joined the chorus of voices calling on Congress to do more than crack down on illegal immigrants.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved a sweeping reform to immigration law March 27, under pressure to act by Majority Leader Bill Frist, RTenn., who urged that a completed bill be quickly turned over to the full Senate.

As committee and floor votes neared, immigrants, church activists, union members and others who are pressing for change led rallies and marches in Washington, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Chicago, Denver and other cities. The Saturday before the Senate returned from a weeklong break to consider the bill, more than half a million people marched in downtown Los Angeles.

Bishops from Georgia, Arizona, New York, California, Pennsylvania and Colorado are among those who have issued pastoral letters or public statements in recent months about immigration and what they would like legislation to address.

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles called the people of his archdiocese to consider how Lenten fasting, prayers and almsgiving could help them “relate to the complex reality of immigration, especially in the face of increasing hostility toward immigrants.” He also said that if a House-passed version of legislation passed he would instruct the priests of his diocese to ignore its provisions that would criminalize providing assistance to illegal immigrants.

In general, the bishops’ statements echo many of the points in documents of the U.S. bishops as a whole, including a 2003 pastoral letter, “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope,” issued jointly with the Mexican bishops’ conference.

In July 2005, Bishop Gerald R. Barnes of San Bernardino, Calif., chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Migration, announced the committee’s support for a version of immigration reform legislation sponsored by Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., known as the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops also has endorsed an interfaith statement calling for a comprehensive approach to immigration law.

Among the key principles endorsed by the bishops are: — That any legislation provide a way for people who are already in the country illegally to “come out of the shadows, regularize their status upon satisfaction of reasonable criteria and, over time, pursue an option to become lawful permanent residents and eventually” U.S. citizens.

— That the system of immigration for family reunification be revamped to significantly reduce waiting times, which now run many years for some categories of relatives of legal U.S. residents. The backlog is considered to be a factor in why some people try to enter the country illegally and in the breakup of families.

— That any system for “guest workers” to fill jobs in the United States includes legal avenues for workers and their families who wish to remain in the country to do so.

— That border enforcement policies respect individuals and protect human rights, while allowing the government to identify terrorists and dangerous criminals and prevent their entry.

Bishop Barnes on behalf of the migration committee in December criticized H.R. 4437, legislation passed by the House and sponsored by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. Among his objections were: — It would expand the process known as expedited removal, further curtailing the already limited rights people have in seeking to avoid deportation.

— It would require that anyone caught attempting to enter the United States illegally be put in detention. Currently, thousands of illegal immigrants are simply returned across the Mexican border or are released on their own recognizance pending further legal action.

— It would change the act of being in the country illegally from a violation of civil law to a criminal violation, which would have long-term implications for future efforts for people to become legal residents.

— It would criminalize the act of aiding people who are in the country illegally, including offering humanitarian assistance such as that provided by many church-sponsored organizations.

— It would prohibit refugees and asylum seekers from obtaining legal permanent residence and citizenship if they commit relatively minor crimes.

Perhaps the common themes of Catholic statements on immigration legislation can be summed up in signs that were carried at a rally in Washington March 27. “We are all God’s children” read some signs. Others said, “No second-class citizens,” “I am not a criminal,” “Welcome the stranger” and “God’s love has no borders.”

Ed. Note: Further information about the USCCB’s immigration campaign is available online at www.justiceforimmigrants.org.

CCHD’s gratitude On behalf of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), I write to thank Archbishop George H. Niederauer and the parishioners in the Archdiocese of San Francisco for the generous contribution of $84,183 from your 2005 CCHD collection.

Last year, the incidence of poverty in our country rose for the fourth consecutive year, with most of the increases occurring among the working poor. Without the safety net provided by safe and adequate housing, reliable transportation, functioning schools, steady employment and dependable health care, even more people will slip into an intolerable existence. Through the support of parishioners in dioceses across the country, we were able to make grants for anti-poverty and social justice projects in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. CCHD takes the risk of investing in the dignity of poor and lowincome people. Your partnership with us helps break the cycle of poverty. So, in the name of those who will be helped by the generosity of your people, I say thank you too.

Timothy F. Collins Executive Director Catholic Campaign for Human Development Washington DC

America’s cathedral

sermons each morning about the Christian life and applied those principles to the well being of the Baltimore Community. I found out later that he old prelate was none other than Cardinal Archbishop Keeler.

My last day in Baltimore, one of the ushers invited me to join a guided tour of the Basilica. The tour was a blend of the history of the edifice, the architecture, and historical events over two centuries of American Catholicism that occurred within the walls where this 21st century pilgrim was standing. Afterward, the guide took our group out the side door to show us the final resting places of Archbishop Carroll, Cardinal Gibbon and other notable figures.

I recommend a visit to the Basilica. Going to Baltimore from Washington, DC is as convenient as going from San Francisco to San Jose. The drive is well worth the effort.

Mike McAdoo San Francisco

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George Weigel’s column “Reclaiming America’s Cathedral” (March 3, 2006) brought back memories about a visit to the Basilica of the Assumption I made in the year 2000.

I was in Baltimore for a week and was staying at a hotel across the street from the Basilica. After having finished my morning constitutional, I would enter the Basilica for the daily Mass. I was especially fond of an old priest who gave

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Health insurance bill

Our Church leaders need to speak up for State Senator Sheila Kuehl’s bill, SB 840 to provide health insurance for all Californians. The League of Women Voters, the California Nurses Association, Consumers Report, Dolores Huerta, social workers and many physicians actively support SB840.

All other modern nations have life-long health care as a normal provision along with schools, roads, armies, police and firefighters. With royalists among them, all socially advanced nations – Sweden, Britain, Japan, France, Italy, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, etc. – are healthier than we are.

Billions of our taxes are bloodsoaked in war, and shot to Mars, while the corporate insurance industry controls medical decisions. Our Congress and presidents insure themselves with “government” health care, paid by us for them.

SB 840 would insure us. But the Church hierarchy has not fought for this act of social justice.

S. M. Verdino San Carlos

Truth in advertising Catholics for Free Choice, which is known to be not Catholic, has ads at some San Francisco MUNI locations promoting condom use among Catholics. It is bad enough that that organization calls itself Catholic. Now it seeks to misrepresent and deceive believers and non believers alike. It seeks to plant doubt and confusion among those who are unfamiliar with this pro-abortion group. Contact MUNI to remove the lies and call for truth in advertising.

Nancy Nakai San Francisco

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MAY

Elected pope on the 19th.

Waives 5-year waiting period for John Paul II’s sainthood cause. Appoints Archbishop Levada to head doctrinal congregation.

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JUNE Denounces gay marriage, cohabitation, birth control. Meets with world Jewish leaders. Releases Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

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Visits Cologne, Germany for World Youth Day. Approves document barring ordination of men with “deepseated” homosexual tendencies.

Presides over Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist.

Says human rights must be respected even in war. Calls for proper application of Vatican II.

NOVEMBER Says created world is “intelligent project” reflecting divine origin.

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At baptism service, calls on Christians to resist “culture of death.” Publishes first encyclical, “God Is Love.”

Presides over discussion on reconciliation with Lefebvrites. Names 15 new cardinals. Condemns religious violence in Iraq and Nigeria.

Visits Vatican Radio and receives an iPod nano.

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The Catholic Difference A thought exercise: It’s 1964, and Congress is debating the Civil Rights Act. For years, the Catholic bishops of the United States have taught that segregation is an offense against the moral law. For years, Americans of various religious and philosophical persuasions have argued that segregation violates the Constitution’s promise of equal justice for all. A sizable number of Catholic members of Congress, squirming under the bishops’ pressure, have tried to counter the integrationists’ arguments by appeals to the “primacy of conscience” in relating moral principle to public policy.

Now, prior to a vote on the Civil Rights Act, a group of Catholic members of Congress issues a public statement.

They “agree with the Catholic Church about the value of human life” and the “undesirability” of segregation. They pledge themselves to advance policies that encourage justice, including racial comity. “As legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives,” they aver, “we work every day to advance respect for life and the dignity of every human being.” They believe, as the bishops believe and the Church teaches, that “government has moral purpose,” and they claim to “seek the Church’s guidance and assistance.”

Then eighty percent of the signatories of this statement go out on the House floor and vote against the Civil Rights Act. What we would say about that? That these were politicians trying to have it both ways? That, whatever their assertions, those who voted against recognizing the full legal and political rights of African-Americans clearly did not believe that segre-

gation constituted a fundamental injustice? That, their protestations notwithstanding, these legislators took neither the teaching of the Church nor the logic of justice seriously?

I think that’s what reasonable people would say. And I think that’s what ought to be said about the latest attempt to finesses the abortion issue, which came in the form of a statement signed by 55 House Democrats, all Catholics, which was released on February 28 by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.). The citations above are all taken from the DeLauro statement – which also pledges the members to some good things, like “promoting alternatives to abortion, such as adoption, and improving access to children’s health care and child care, as well as policies that encourage paternal and maternal responsibility.”

But here’s the rub, or, better, the rubs.

Thirty-three of the fifty-five signatories of the DeLauro statement (including Rep. DeLauro) voted to support the legality of partial-birth abortion. Forty-one of the signatories (again including Rep. DeLauro) voted to make abortion legal in Defense Department clinics and hospitals abroad. Thirty-seven of the signatories (including – you guessed it – Rep. DeLauro) voted against efforts to constrain the courts from compelling hospitals and doctors to perform abortions. How do any of these votes square with the signatories’ statement that they “agree with the Catholic Church about the value of human life and the undesirability of abortion – we do not celebrate its practice”?

This is the same old same old – “I’m personally opposed, but...” – tarted up in new vesture. One cannot speak

credibly about the “undesirability of abortion” and then vote to protect and expand the abortion license. One cannot credibly claim to believe what the Catholic Church believes “about the value of human life” and then George Weigel ignore the central question posed by Roe v. Wade: is the willful taking of innocent human life compatible with a free and virtuous society? One cannot appeal to the “primacy of conscience” to defend the unconscionable – any more than one could make that appeal in denying full legal and political rights to Americans of African descent.

It’s the bishops’ prerogative responsibility to decide what is to be done, within the Church’s discipline, about Catholic legislators whose votes support the willful taking of innocent human lives. That’s a matter internal to the Church’s life, to be addressed by the Church’s pastoral authorities. What everyone, irrespective of creed, ought to find disturbing is the obtuseness of the DeLauro statement.

Legislators who, having vowed their respect for African Americans and their distaste for segregation, then voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act would be thought duplicitous – at least. The same conclusion applies here.

choices make her life — and the lives of those around her — very hard.

Cassian has some advice for all of us, no matter where it is that we tend to go a little overboard. He uses, as an example, someone who eats very little (who goes without food as a form of penance) and someone who eats a lot (who never met an unlikable calorie): “Excess of fasting and gluttony come to the same thing,” he explains. Why? Because if we eat too little, we get too weak to accomplish anything. And if we eat too much, we become too ill to accomplish anything. In a sense, whether we head out clockwise or counterclockwise, we end up at the same place.

That’s a good point to consider during Lent. A sacrifice, a penance, has to have some bite to it, but it can have such sharp teeth it quickly does us in. Moderation in eating and drinking, in computer time and TV time, in time alone and time with others, in work and play, lead not only to a happier life for us but for our family too.

What about the second monk? Anthony of Egypt (d.

356) advised his disciples that a wise person is a temperate person because “the more a man uses moderation in his life,

the more he is at peace, for he is not full of care for many things — servants, hired laborers and acquisition of cattle.”

And “when we cling to such things,” he added, “we become liable to vexations arisBill and Monica ing from them and are Dodds led to murmur against God.” Twenty-first-century translation: We complicate our lives and then get mad at God because our lives are complicated!

Ask the Doctor (of the Church): St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) on “Moderation”: – “Moderation is always good in all exercises, except in that of loving God.” – “This is the height of virtue: to correct immoderation moderately.”

Family Life

Going to extremes Odds are two monks of the early church would have a thing or two to say about some recent reality television.

Perhaps you’ve seen one of the programs that features two women — moms and wives — who “switch” households for a couple of weeks.

Needless to say, with a little prodding from the show’s producers, tension and tears rein.

What gives the show its zip are the women chosen for a particular episode. Each is always a person who firmly believes in whatever it is she believes in. Whether it’s keeping a spotless house or allowing dozens of pets to roam the household, sleeping in until noon or always rising long before dawn, working long hours to support a family business or (apparently) having no concern other than herself, the chosen candidate is – in a word – extreme.

Each week it’s oil and water mixing it up.

So what would two monks — and theologians — have to say about the show? Let’s start with John Cassian (d. 433). He notes: “There is an old saying — “akrothes isothtes,” i.e., extremes meet.” No matter which end of the spectrum the woman may be on, her

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Helping Simon of Cyrene carry Jesus’ Cross “It seems as though through purely earthly accidents we are made responsible for what is heavenly and divine.”

Karl Rahner wrote those words to describe what happened to Saint Joseph when he was asked by an angel to be the husband to Mary and support her in the birth and raising of Jesus: “Take the child to yourself.” Something of God was entrusted into his care, not because he wanted it, planned it, or because he himself was central to the event. He was asked to do something simply because of circumstance, because he was engaged to someone inside a great drama. Moreover, what he was asked to do radically reshaped his life in a way not according to his own choosing.

Rahner’s words are just as accurate when applied to Simon of Cyrene, the man conscripted to help Jesus carry his cross. The Passion accounts tell us that, when Jesus was too weak and wearied to carry the cross, a passer-by, Simon of Cyrene was forced to help him carry it.

We aren’t given any details as to how this happened other than that Simon was someone who was incidentally there, a “passer-by”, a victim of circumstance. This was not something for which he had planned or volunteered. He was merely at the wrong place at the wrong time. No doubt too, being conscripted to help carry the cross was an irritation and something humbling and shameful for him.

Yet, ironically, this would be the most significant thing he would do in his whole life, earning him a place in history and folklore that can only be envied by the most famous of athletes, entertainers, politicians, writers, and religious fig-

ures. Simon of Cyrene will forever be famous. Thousands of years from now his name will still be remembered - and for the right reason, he helped carry the cross of Jesus.

There’s a wonderful mystical image here, namely, the picture of a man or woman being victimized by circumstance so that he or she, simply by being at a given place at a given time, is conscripted to do a task that is unwanted, unplanned for, humbling, disruptive of his or her own agenda and dreams, and yet this unwanted thing becomes, in the end, the most important thing he or she will ever do.

How does that happen to you? How do you become a Simon of Cyrene, helping Jesus carry his cross?

The cross of Jesus appears in many forms: Whenever you are the one who has to take care of an aging parent because circumstance arranges that you are the one who happens to be living close by; whenever you are the parent of a handicapped child and are asked to do things ordinary parents aren’t asked to do; whenever you are the one to whom the emotionally needy person at work chooses to reach out; whenever you are the one whose gentle nature makes it difficult to say no and people take advantage of you; whenever you are the one who is the first at the scene of an accident; whenever you are the one whom the drunk accosts on the sidewalk; whenever you are the one who forever finds herself caught up in duties not of your own choosing that always have you around when the less-glamorous work needs to be done; whenever you are the one whose plans and dreams can be sacrificed because every-

one else’s are deemed more important; whenever you’re the one whose life is disrupted by unwanted circumstance, you are Simon of Cyrene, helping Jesus carry the cross.

Simon of Cyrene Father was not central to the Ron Rolheiser drama or meaning of Jesus’ passion and death. He was an unimportant figure who happened to be standing at the edges of things when the drama accidentally enfolded him and forced him to play an un-glamorous, self-effacing, but needed, role. His own agenda and plans had to be sacrificed and his response was, no doubt, less than fully enthusiastic.

Yet this unplanned for, conscripted, humble service became the most important thing he ever did, his signature piece, and gave him a place in history beyond the thousands and millions whose place in the drama of life was deemed important.

There’s a lesson here: Henri Nouwen once wrote “I used to get upset about all the interruptions to my work until one day I realized that the interruptions were my real work.”

Pure earthily accidents often do make us responsible for what is divine and they conscript us to our real work.

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FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Jeremiah 31:31-41; Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15; Hebrews 5:7-9; John 12:20-33 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH (JER 31:31-34) The days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; for they broke my covenant, and I had to show myself their master, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord.

I will place my law within them and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer will they have need to teach their friends and relatives how to know the Lord. All, from least to greatest, shall know me, says the Lord, for I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sin no more.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 51:3-4, 12-13, 14-15) R. Create a clean heart in me, O God. Have mercy on me, O God, in your goodness; in the greatness of your compassion wipe out my offense.

Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me.

R. Create a clean heart in me, O God. A clean heart create for me, O God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me.

Cast me not out from your presence, and your Holy Spirit take not from me.

R. Create a clean heart in me, O God. Give me back the joy of your salvation, and a willing spirit sustain in me.

I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners shall return to you.

R. Create a clean heart in me, O God.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE HEBREWS (HEB 5:7-9) In the days when Christ Jesus was in the flesh, he offered prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence. Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 12:20-33) Some Greeks who had come to worship at the Passover Feast came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and asked him, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. Jesus answered them, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Amen, amen, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains just a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit.

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves me.

“I am troubled now. Yet what should I say?

‘Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour.

Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again.” The crowd there heard it and said it was thunder; but others said, “An angel has spoken to him.” Jesus answered and said, “This voice did not come for my sake but for yours. Now is the time of judgment on this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself.” He said this indicating the kind of death he would die.

The Crucifixion of St. Philip – Nuremberg Chronicle, 1488.

Scripture FATHER WILLIAM NICHOLAS

The Time Has Come!

The Gospel according to John is divided into two main parts – The Book of Signs and The Book of Glory (not including the Prologue and Epilogue, both of which are brief). Many on this Fifth Sunday of Lent will be hearing the portion of John’s Gospel in which Lazarus is raised from the dead (Year A). This is done in conjunction with the Scrutinies of the RCIA. However, for those who hear the readings from Year B (Jn 12:20-30), today’s Gospel reading marks the virtual halfway point in the Gospel of John.

By this point in John’s Gospel the disciples have been called, the Cana Wedding has been celebrated, and the Temple has been cleansed. The Centurion’s Son has been cured and the Woman Caught in Adultery has been spared. Jesus has had conversations with both Nicodemus and the Woman at the Well, has Multiplied the Loaves and Fishes, Walked on Water, and given His discourse on the Bread of Life. The Paralytic and the Man Born Blind have both been cured and given their respective testimonies following the miracles. Finally, Lazarus has been raised and his sister Mary has anointed Jesus’ feet in preparation for His burial.

As the Book of Signs wraps up and the Gospel of John flows into the Book of Glory, Jesus now sets His sights on preparing for His glorification. In what appears to be a bold proclamation indicating a pivotal moment He declares repeatedly the importance of His “hour.” — “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified,” “…what should I say – Father save me from this hour?” and “it was for this that I came to this hour.” After eleven chapters of Jesus revealing Himself to His disciples, He is now preparing for His final glorification as the Son of God. And what does this glorification entail?

Jesus again gives the answer: He will be glorified in His Death; “unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies…”

Jesus, however, does not preach just His Death. He also begins to preach on what it truly means to follow in His footsteps and be His follower: “Whoever loves his life looses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Whoever serves me must follow me…”

Up until now in the Gospel of John the followers of Jesus, both disciples and detractors, were drawn to Jesus because of the Signs He was performing. They were directed by His forerunner John the Baptist, mystified by His changing Water to Wine, and intrigued by His analogies as Shepherd, Light and Life. They were fired up by His Cleansing of the Temple, scandalized by His Sabbath Cures, moved to shame by His treatment of the Woman Caught in Adultery and emotionally touched by His weeping at the tomb of Lazarus. He inspired the Woman at the Well to bring her fellow townspeople for a look-see, drew Nicodemus to a clandestine tête-à-tête, and drove away all but Twelve of His followers

by His strange insinuation that His Flesh and Blood were somehow Food and Drink.

Now Jesus declares that His time has come when He will give the one great example of His Glory and what it means to be His disciple. From this point on, all of His actions and words are directed towards His Death and Resurrection, and the call of His disciples to follow in His footsteps. He will Wash His disciples Feet, showing them that they must be dedicated to a life of self-effacing servitude (13:1-17). He will prepare them for His departure, assuring them of His purpose in leaving them (14:3-28). He will declare true love as being true to His word (14:23) and laying down one’s life for

one’s friends, (15:13-14) and He will command His followers to love as He has loved them (15:17). Even after His Resurrection, He will indicate “the sort of death by which Peter [is] to glorify God” (21:19) as He commissions Peter to “feed [His] sheep.”

On this Fifth Sunday of Lent we enter into the final phase of our Lenten journey, indicated by the declaration we hear in the Gospel. Next Sunday we will enter Holy Week, and eventually continue with John’s account of the final stage of Christ’s ministry as we hear of the Washing of the Feet on Holy Thursday and the Passion according to John on Good Friday. As we celebrate our Sunday Eucharist this week, we enter into the last two weeks of Lent as we make final preparations for the celebration of Christ’s Resurrection at Easter, 2006. Jesus declares that “the hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified,” and we prepare to celebrate the unfolding of that glorification in which Jesus conquered Sin and Death. Jesus will later refer back to that declaration when He acknowledges Judas as His betrayer and commands him to “be quick about what you are to do” (Jn 13:28). It is upon Judas’ departure, with the wheels now set in motion, that Jesus will again raise His eyes to heaven declaring: “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him” (Jn 13:31).

Just as Lent has been for us a period of preparation for Easter, let the coming Fifth Week of Lent be a time of preparation for Holy Week when our Church enters into its highest holy days. In this week before Holy Week let us resolve to truly celebrate Jesus coming to His hour and His glorification for our salvation. Let us perhaps resolve to join our parishes in celebrating the Triduum Liturgies of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil, even though such liturgies may occur at awkward hours, be of particular lengths, and not be obligatory (as if we Catholics need imposed obligations before we engage in holy celebrations). Let us resolve to spend those three days, and the better part of Holy Week in prayer as our Lenten sacrifices and observances come to their finale.

It is the custom of many to spend time before the Blessed Sacrament following the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, as the Sacrament rests on the altar of repose having been removed from the Church.

Perhaps an appropriate meditation for such time would be to read the portion of John’s Gospel known as “The Last Discourse” (Jn 14-17) in which Jesus offers His final words to His Apostles before He is Crucified.

These passages follow directly upon Jesus Washing of the Feet, which is heard at Holy Thursday Mass, and immediately precedes John’s account of the Passion, which is read the next day on Good Friday.

In the Gospel reading Jesus declares, “The hour has come.” Let us in these final days of Lent enter into that hour, as we will hear it in our Scriptures and celebrate it in our liturgies.

Let us not see Lent as just another season, or Holy Week as just another week, or Easter as just another Sunday, or Easter 2006 as just another Easter. Let us join Christ as he enters into that “hour.” Let us truly celebrate the events of Easter as true people of faith who rejoice in our salvation in Christ. Let us prepare to gather together as one people to raise our prayers to God in our highest holy days, joining Christ in our Scripture in declaring: The time has come! “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him.”

Father William Nicolas is a parochial vicar at St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco.

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EWTN special programs on life of Pope John Paul II A year after the death of Pope John Paul II, the 24 hour Catholic TV network EWTN will broadcast three specials recalling his holy and momentous life.

On April 1 at 4:00 p.m., the 2005 telecast of his Solemn Funeral Mass at St. Peter’s Square in Rome will be rebroadcast. A new documentary, “John Paul the Great: A Pope Who Made History,” will

air at 7:00 p.m. on April 2 and again on April 5. The program chronicles notable moments in the life of Pope John Paul II, from his birth in Poland to his death in Vatican City.

On April 3, Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate a Solemn Memorial Mass for Pope John Paul II. The Mass will air live at 8:30 a.m. from St. Peter’s Square, with

a repeat telecast later the same day at 6:00 p.m.

EWTN is carried on Comcast Digital Channel 229; RCN Channel 80; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 422. Comcast Airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County.

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Lenten Opportunities March 31: Lenten Music and Meditations by the Choir of St. Charles Church, San Carlos following Stations of the Cross at 7:00p.m. Please join us for a quiet time of music and contemplation. Call Claire Giovannetti at 650-591-7349 ex 32.

April 1: 1st Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma in All Saints Mausoleum at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060.

April 4: The Gospel of Life, a talk by Richard Sonnenheim in the Serra Room of St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. and Vicente in San Francisco at 7 p.m. Parking in schoolyard. Call (415) 664-3570.

April 7: First Friday Mass for San Francisco Catholic Charismatic Renewal at St. John the Evangelist Church, St. Mary’s Ave. off San Jose Ave. in San Francisco. Rosary at 7 p.m. and Mass at 7:30 p.m. Call Letty Ramos at (415) 469-0560.

April 9: Palm Sunday Brunch at the Druids Hall in Nicasio benefiting the town’s St. Mary Church from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Raffle and Silent Auction too. Adults $15/Children $5. Call (415) 662-2077.

Fridays: Star of the Sea Church, 4420 Geary Blvd. & 8th Avenue, announces “Lenten Soup and Scripture Agape” except on Good Friday. A simple meal of meatless soup and bread begins at 6 p.m. in the school auditorium, accompanied by reading of passages from Sacred Scripture. Stations of the Cross follow in the Church concluding with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Parking in the lot is free. Children are welcome. Call (415) 751-0450 for more information.

Wednesdays: Christian Meditation in Siena Room at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. The silent rite is based on the teachings of late Benedictine Father John Main who believed the contemplative experience creates community for ordinary people. More information available at www.christianmeditation.us.

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March 31, April 1, 2: Applause, the musical version of famed film, All About Eve, at Archbishop Riordan High School’s Lindland Theater, 175 Phelan Ave., San Francisco across from City College. Call (415) 587-5866 for curtain times and prices. Nolan I. Miranda, left, Alanna Pinell and Ali Pinell are members of the cast.

Wed. at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. between Stockton and Grant, San Francisco. Call (415) 397-0113.

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

1st Fri. at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

2nd Fri. at 8 p.m.: Our Lady of the Pillar Church, 400 Church St., Half Moon Bay. Contact the church at 726-4674 or Cheryl at 650-726-2249.

April 16: The Chinese American Association of Star of the Sea Church says, “Hop on over” for their annual sale of “homemade goodies” following the 8 a.m. Mass and continuing till about 1:30 p.m. Call (415) 751-0450.

April 28: Under the Big Top, annual Luncheon and Games Day benefiting work of Rosalie House Conference of St. Vincent de Paul with cocktails at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at noon at the Olympic Club Lakeside. Tickets are $50 per person. Call Marie Mahoney at (415) 333-9348.

May 13: Moriarty Hall Gala, 6 p.m. – midnight at St. Anne of the Sunset, 850 Judah St. at Funston.

Archbishop George Niederauer is scheduled to formally bless the new building as a prelude to the event. Atirre is semi-formal. Tickets are $100 per person. Call (415) 665-1600, ext. 21.

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The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information about any event listed here.

April 7: Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament every First Friday after the 8:00 a.m. Mass Friday and continuing throughout the day and night until 7:45 a.m. Saturday with Morning Prayer and Benediction.

(Exposition is suspended during scheduled Masses at 12:10 noon, 7:00 p.m. and 6:45 a.m. according to liturgical norms.) Join us as we pray for world peace, a culture of life, priests and the special intentions commended to our prayers. For more information or to volunteer please call (415) 567-2020 x224.

March 31 and April 1, 6, 7, 8: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory presents West Side Story in DePaul Auditorium, 1100 Ellis St. at Gough in San Francisco. Curtain at 7:30 p.m. all performances. Call Sue Elvander at (415) 775-6626, ext. 715 for tickets.

April 7, 8: Dominican Winifred Baker Chorale and Orchestra in concert at 8 p.m. Friday at Angelico Hall on the college campus, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael and Saturday at St. Paul Church 221 Valley St. at Church near 29th St. in San Francisco. Tickets $5 per person/$10 per family. Call (415) 479-9542.

April 7 – 30: Fringe of Marin festival at Dominican University of California in San rafael. Call (415) 6733131 for curtain times, prices and plays being performed.

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

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

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admission free.

Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free.

Food & Fun April 7: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers for Mass at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. Breakfast and presentation follow in parish hall. Today’s speaker is Paul Schwarzbart, Holocaust Survivor and Author Members Breakfast: $7. Visitors Breakfast: $10 . Call 461-0704 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. or contact Sugaremy@aol.com.

April 8: Auction and Dinner Dance benefiting Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish and School at San Mateo Marriott beginning at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 7:30 p.m. and dancing to Jack Aces till 1 a.m. More than 500 items up for bid.Tickets are $100 per person. Call Gail at (650) 593-6157.

Cavanaugh, Ph.D. and Dr. Stephen McPhee will facilitate the evening. Donation $15. Call (415) 219-8719.

April 7: First Friday Mass for San Francisco Catholic Charismatic Renewal at St. John the Evangelist Church, St. Mary’s Ave. off San Jose Ave. in San Francisco. Rosary at 7 p.m. and Mass at 7:30 p.m. Call Letty Ramos at (415) 469-0560.

Come pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Scriptural Rosary, and special intentions before the Blessed Sacrament at the beautiful Monastery of Perpetual Adoration. Saturdays 10:00 to 11:15 am, 771 Ashbury Street at Waller in San Francisco. Some parking available adjacent to the monastery.

Contact Steve at (415) 290-5598.

Divine Mercy Sunday will be commemorated April 23rd at St. Isabella Church, One Trinity Way, San Rafael beginning with confessions at 2 p.m. Call (415) 479-9137.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

Reunions April 22: Mass and Luncheon for alumnae of Notre Dame High School at Mission Dolores Basilica and the Irish Cultural Center beginning at 10 a.m.

Special guests are Golden Belles of ’56, Silver Belles of ’81 and 70 year anniversary class of ’36.

Call Debbie Calgaro at (650) 583-1102. If you are a member of the Class of ‘56 and haven’t been contacted call Rose Doonan O’Leary at (415) 821-6512.

April 29: Class of ’56 from Holy Angels Elementary School, at Bertoluuci’s Restaurant, South San Francisco.

Call Brent Smith at (925) 838-7743 or (65) 755-0220.

April 29: Immaculate Conception Academy, class of ’66 at El Rancho Inn in Millbrae. Contact Donna Ricci McMorrow at (650) 589-7276 or Mimi Calcagno Shea at (408) 578-1802.

June 10: Presentation High School, class of ’51 at Basque Cultiral Center in South San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. Contact Yvonne Irick at (650) 941-1294 or Audrey Trees at (650) 592-0273.

July 8: Class of ’56 from Notre Dame des Victoires High School. Call Marilyn Donnelly at (650) 365-5192.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings April 1: 1st Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma in All Saints Mausoleum at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060.

April 8: Day of Recollection, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., at St. Cecilia Church, Green Room, 17th Ave. and Vicente in San Francisco. Carol Braga speaks on the last days in the life of Pope John Paul II from records published by the Vatican. Sponsored by SF Guild of the Catholic Medical Association. Donation of $35 per person is appreciated. Call (415) 219-8719.

April 14: Passion Play and Stations of the Cross at Mission Dolores Basilica, 16th St. at Dolores in San Francisco noon – 3 p.m. parking in schoolyard.

Call (415) 621-8203 or 239-9107.

April 17, May 15: The Art of Dying Well, a Bioethics Seminar by the SF Guild of the Catholic Medical Association at Heart of Mary Center, 2580 McAllister St. in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. Thomas

Grief Groups meet at the following parishes.

Please call numbers shown for more information.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-558-1015; St. Dunstan, Millbrae. Call Barbara Cappel at 650-6927543;. Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sr. Carol Fleitz at 650-355-2593; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. Call Barbara Cantwell at 650-755-0478; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call Parish at 650-366-3802; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call Sr. 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 Sr. Jeanette at 415-897-2171.

San Francisco: St. Dominic. Call Sr. Anne at 415567-7824; St. Finn Barr(Bilingual). Call Carmen Solis at 415-584-0823; 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 650-558-1015.

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

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

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

San Mateo County: St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter at (650) 375-8023; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Sylvia Miles at (650) 355-6650, Jerry Trecroci at (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher at (650) 355-4355; St. Matthew, San Mateo. Jim Shea at (650) 344-7622.

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Books on Pope John Paul II, contemporary values, and spirituality

“POPE JOHN PAUL II: A LIFE IN PICTURES,� text by Henri Tincq, edited by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac. Power House Books, 256 pp., $45. “JOHN PAUL THE GREAT: MAKER OF THE POST-CONCILIAR CHURCH,� edited by William Oddie. Ignatius Press, 190 pp., $19.95. “FROM POPE JOHN PAUL II TO BENEDICT XV,� edited by Sister Mary Ann Walsh, RSM, Sheed and Ward, 212 pp., $21.95.

Reviewed by Rachelle Linner “Pope John Paul II: A Life in Pictures� is a stunning collection that gains cohesion from an incisive introductory essay by French religion writer Henri Tincq.

The photographs begin with Karol Wojtyla’s childhood, adolescence and young adulthood, images that convey his early personal suffering and the harshness of the war years, but also happier portraits of the student, actor, young teacher and outdoor enthusiast.

The pope, Tincq reminds us, “is above all a priest, that is, a shepherd of souls� and so it is not surprising that, although Pope John Paul labored on a vastly larger stage, he retained his “unending respect� for St. John Vianney. A good way to view these photographs is to see them as a visual representation of Karol Wojtyla’s pastoral heart. International travels were one expression of his shepherd’s zeal and the photographs of enthusiastic crowds greeting the pope offer undeniable testimony to the true universality of the Catholic Church.

The essays that comprise “John Paul the Great: Maker of the Post-Conciliar Church,� edited by William Oddie, were originally presentations made during a one-day conference on his pontificate, organized by the Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture and held in Oxford, England, in October 2001. The book’s tenor — respectful and appreciative with only rare lapses into hagiography — is appropriate for its purpose, which is to illustrate (as Tracey Rowland contends in an excellent essay) that Pope John Paul was “the authentic interpreter of Vatican II.�

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Articles by Catholic News Service reporters recall the intensity of one pope’s death and the election and installation of another. The chronological chapters, which include numerous quotes from both ordinary citizens and civic and church dignitaries, are interspersed with personal reflections by seven U.S. cardinals and Bishop William S. Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

The book concludes with two interesting essays on media coverage of the papal transition and the pope’s relationship with reporters. CNS Rome bureau chief John Thavis notes that, after the pope lost his ability to walk, he “had to be lifted and heaved ... in undignified fashion.� Some reporters, “moved by these scenes, ... often chose not to write about them. The ailing pope probably would not have minded reading the details of his decline, however. He seemed to trust reporters, and journalists covering the Vatican cannot remember him ever complaining about a story or about his treatment in the press.�

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“OUR ENDANGERED VALUES: AMERICA’S MORAL CRISIS,� by Jimmy Carter. Simon & Schuster, 212 pp., $25. “IT TAKES A FAMILY: CONSERVATISM AND THE COMMON GOOD,� by Rick Santorum. ISI Books, 449 pp., $25.

Reviewed by Owen Phelps The titles of new books by Jimmy Carter and Rick Santorum suggest they have much in common. But Santorum’s “It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good� and Carter’s “Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis� offer a study in contrasts, beginning with the authors themselves.

Carter is the fading star, a Democratic former U.S. president. Santorum is the rising star, a Republican U.S. senator from Pennsylvania with apparent presidential aspirations.

Consider, too, the focus of their books. Carter’s concern is with the global implications of America’s moral perspective. Santorum is concerned with the domestic implications of our moral outlook — what happens in families and neighborhoods.

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■ Continued from page 20 To know about the plight of unwed mothers and their children in the United States, see Santorum’s book. To know about Pakistani children as young as 8 whom we have imprisoned in the war on terrorism, check out Carter’s.

Both want to speak to audiences broader than their ordinary consistencies, so both begin with transcendent biographical notes.

The Democrat is an active Christian Bible study leader and former military officer and businessman. The Republican references his humble roots and his start in politics representing the interests of the poor.

Santorum gives us a thick tome that is likely the basis for a presidential bid. He rallies the troops with a constant harangue against “liberals” and “village elders” — a not-too-subtle riposte to a book by Hillary Rodham Clinton, a possible opponent in the 2008 presidential election.

But candidates for national office must appear to stand above the partisan fray, so Santorum’s book describes a number of innovative and apparently successful programs for social reform that he has been able to launch in partnership with some of the Senate’s most liberal members.

Candidates also need to be of sound character, and here Santorum is at his best. He projects the image of a conscientious Catholic husband and father who understands and embraces the responsibilities inherent in each role and, yet, who is humble enough to admit he has difficulty balancing those roles with the burdens of the Senate.

Without a political purpose, his book would be much better and briefer. Beneath the incessant scolding one finds a thoughtful and important discussion about the connection between strong families and a safe, healthy, humane society. Santorum also presents a serious argument for subsidiarity, a Catholic principle which says problems should be dealt with at the most proximate level possible.

Late in the book, Santorum touches on the truly ironic: “When it comes to children and the family, there are opportunities to find common ground — as long as we can find a way to avoid polarization that we too often find ourselves stumbling into,” he writes. Regrettably, his book is likely to foster more polarization.

If Santorum’s book is marred by being too partisan, Carter’s is marred by the fact that he gets some very basic things wrong.

At one point he speaks of the “worship of

Mary.” (Christians do not worship Mary.)

Discussing Terri Schiavo, he says judges refused to “extend her life artificially.”

(Shiavo had a feeding tube, but was not on artificial life support.) Referencing the Vatican’s rejection of liberation theology, he says that this “and other Vatican policies have resulted in a massive shift of Catholics to Protestant congregations.” (Statistical data clearly show there’s been no massive change.)

Both authors offer eloquent defenses of some basic American tenets, and for that reason alone both books are worth a critical read.

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Wright’s lucid commentary situates Houselander (“a stunning example of the vitality of English Catholicism on the eve of Vatican II”) within the theological currents of the Catholic revival — the liturgical movement, renewed attention to Scripture, mystical body theology, more serious attention to the lay vocation, and a spirituality of redemptive suffering.

These rich themes informed Houselander’s writing, in particular her eloquent first book, “This War Is the Passion.” She wrote, “We can face that war in his spirit, not glad of suffering for suffering’s sake but glad that, since suffer we must, we can carry our share of the cross as a loving work for each other to help our common redemption.”

Houselander’s profoundly Christocentric spirituality was nourished by a strong devotion to Mary. This collection includes excerpts from her Marian writings, “The Reed of God,” and prayers she contributed to “The Essential Rosary” (written by Maisie Ward with Fra Angelico illustrations).

Houselander’s authority, as writer, spiritual director and therapist “who could love ... sufferers back into life,” derived from three remarkable mystical experiences that culminated in a vision on a crowded train where she saw “Christ in all men.” She wrote, “I saw that it was the will of Christ’s love to be put into the hands of sinners, to trust himself to men, that he may be their gift to one another, that they may comfort him in each other, give him to each other.”

Wright sees the mystic Houselander as “heir to the legacy of the medieval tradition of Julian of Norwich, Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Avila, women ... who likewise experienced intimacy with the divine in highly visual ways.”

A gifted spiritual director, Houselander also led a disciplined spiritual life that included prayer, penance, active charity and regular participation in the sacraments. “Nothing helps

me more to love other people than doing penance for them,” she wrote. “If it is an individual for whom I have any bitterness it is a sure cure, but since I took to praying and offering penance daily for all sinners I have found my love of people growing in proportion.”

Houselander was trained as an artist, and the book is enhanced by reproductions of her work and thoughts on the vocation of craftsman. More than edited, this book is itself crafted, at once both delicate and robust, and a worthy reflection of the woman who toiled with such fidelity to “live the Christ-life: to bring Christ’s life into the world.”

In “Incandescence: 365 Readings With Women Mystics,” Carmen Acevedo Butcher weaves excerpts from 17 medieval women mystics into the glorious tapestry of an “unapologetically feminine view of a tender, nurturing, forgiving God.” In crafting this daily devotional, Acevedo Butcher, a medievalist, has modernized the ancient translations. The book is enhanced by 17 succinct biographical sketches and a bibliography.

Some daily entries are breathtaking in the lush, sensual imagery that describes the soul’s exquisite intimacy with God, while others offer practical advice about strong emotions or sensitivity in human relationships. There are also comforting, almost homely metaphors, like the conclusion of Hildegard of Bingen’s reflection on Psalm 18: “I also place my hope in God because his grace covers me like a good piece of clothing.”

St. Catherine of Siena explains: “God looked into his heart long ago and fell so much in love with us that he created us out of sheer love.” It is impossible to read these mystics, “risk takers in love,” without being dazzled by the light they reflect. At once jubilant and comforting, they “midwife spiritual nourishment” and give us the courage to draw near to “experience the unfathomable serenity of God’s supreme love.”

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of February HOLY CROSS COLMA Lisa Agnone Jerome R. Alden Edward William Allen Candida G. Andaya Angelo Asaro Nilda C. Bacal Anita F. Backes Alda M. Baptista Evelyn C. Barca Maria Elena Barraza Marcia M. Barros John J. Barry Rosemarie Bartell Michel J. Berube Patricia D. Bloch Mary Annette Borenave Sr. M. Helena Boss Josephine A. Bozio Lucia K. Briones Jesson Cadiz Edna M. Cain Micaela Cantero Frank Cernusco Bruno J. Cervelli

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