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Demonstrators pro and con Proposition 22, which excludes state same-sex marriage, gathered outside the state Supreme Court building in San Francisco March 4. Above, Luke Otterstad of Placerville (left) exchanges views with men who oppose Proposition 22, including Kerry Coles (center) and Luis Ituril. Below, Dick Otterstad of Garden City told police both his pickup’s back tires were slashed.

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Archbishop: Do you believe Jesus is the Resurrection? Following is the advance text of the homily which Archbishop George H. Niederauer plans to deliver this Sunday, March 9, the fifth Sunday of Lent, at the 11 a.m. Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco. In the Gospel reading today the Church draws us into the last two weeks of the life of Jesus. The Lord is in Galilee. He tells his disciples that Lazarus, their close friend, has been very ill, and that now he has died. Jesus then says that he will go to Bethany, the town where Lazarus lived with his two sisters, Martha and Mary. This was a deadly dangerous trip for Jesus to make. By now he had become a wanted man, almost an outlaw, because of his opposition to the Pharisees. Bethany was only a few miles from Jerusalem, the capital of their power and they would seek to arrest him and put him to death. The raising of Lazarus from the dead is the last sign Jesus works in St. John’s Gospel. Indeed, John’s narrative of the Last Supper starts one chapter later, followed immediately by the story of the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus. The raising of Lazarus from the dead is the final, precipitating cause of the events of Holy Week: the Pharisees say to each other, “We must kill him!” It’s hard to understand that kind of hardened evil: This man raised someone from the dead, therefore he must die. But we are not unfamiliar with such evil in our lifetime. Under the Nazis, the penalty for hiding and protecting Jews was death; missionaries who feed children and run medical clinics in Central America are targets for right-

“Raising of Lazarus,” a painting by Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337).

wing gunmen: they are not political or revolutionaries, but for them to help the poor is enough to deserve death. No one is indifferent to this story of the raising of Lazarus, because very few human beings are indifferent to death. In one sense, Jesus’s raising of Lazarus is a “holding action.” After all, eventually Lazarus died again, of some cause, and that second time his body

stayed in the tomb. In this sense, all of Jesus’s miracles of healing were temporary in their effect: the reversal of blindness, deafness, paralysis or death itself. But Jesus Christ was not a “walking clinic”; he was the Savior, the Messiah of God. Jesus worked his signs mainly to strengthen faith and to give glory to his heavenly Father, our heavenly Father. Like the other miraculous signs, the raising of Lazarus is a promise: Jesus asks you to believe, to trust in his promise to you that even though you die, he will raise you up to life, the eternal life of love in the Father who raised him up. What looked final with Lazarus was not, and what looks final for us, is not. That is the meaning. Human death can be a “dead-end” (pun intended) if the world around us (and what it offers) is what you and I make our ultimate value: when life ends for us, everything ends for us, because we made it our everything. We can make a cave out of this life, and it ends at the tomb. If we choose Jesus Christ and his kingdom as our ultimate value, then this life is a veil through which we pass, and the continuity between this life, which ends in death, and eternal life is the Spirit of Christ. St. Paul says that if you live merely in the flesh, you cannot please God, but if the Spirit dwells in you, you have Christ in you. Then, even if the body is dead because of sin, the spirit lives because of Christ: “If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, then he who raised Christ from the dead will bring your mortal bodies to life also RESURRECTION, page 16

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On The Where You Live by Tom Burke I’m a little late but the class of ’47 from St. Cecilia Elementary School was right on time with memories and more at their 60th reunion late last year. Almost two dozen of the original 68 students attended the affair at Caesar’s Restaurant in the City along with their spouses and Holy Names Sister Mary Herbert who taught the gang in fifth and sixth grade. “Sister Mary Herbert spoke brilliantly,” said member of the class, Jerry Heckert, noting she had not lost her sense of humor, declining to discuss her age and pooh-poohing one of her former student’s requests to change a grade on his 63-year-old report card, which he just happened to bring along. The next day the classmates sailed the San Francisco Bay as the Fleet Week air show passed overhead. Members of the class John Lally and Floyd Stuart are both Annapolis graduates and retired Air Force Colonels – John from a career as a pilot and Floyd as commander of Onizuka Air Force Station not far from Moffett Field. Congrats and thanks to Sister Mary Herbert who celebrated 70 years as a religious in 2006. Today, she lives at Holy Names High School, 4660 Harbord Dr., Oakland 94618…. Before any snappy farewells are inscribed on the crisp new pages of high school yearbooks thousands of hours of hard work go into getting the cherished annuals ready for the cursive onslaught. Kudos of the highest order, then, for the 2007 yearbook staff of Notre Dame High School in Belmont who have been recognized with a Gold Medalist Award from Columbia Scholastic Press. “I’m so incredibly proud of this group who were all new to yearbook last year,” said Peggy Brady, yearbook Holy Names Sister Mary Herbert, standing right, was guest of honor at the reunion of the class of ’47 from St. Cecilia Elementary School. Joining her at table were, from left, Claudette Heckert, Diane Hastings Murphy, Honorene Phillips and Donna Boyd.

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USCCB: ‘Virtually all’ dioceses ‘compliant’ with Charter WASHINGTON—“Virtually all U.S. dioceses and eparchies are compliant” with the U.S. bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” according to a news release from the United States Conference of Catholic bishops on audits of U.S. dioceses and eparchies in 2007. The audit also pointed to significant outreach to victims and their families by (arch)diocesan responses, the news release said. The audit results appear in the 2007 Annual Report on the Implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People. The report is produced under the direction of the National Review Board, chaired by Judge Michael Merz. It includes audit results of 190 of the 195 dioceses and eparchies in the United States as well as data collected for calendar year 2007 by the Georgetown University-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) in its Annual Survey of Allegations and Costs. The report was scheduled for release today, March 7. “In general,” it said, “healing initiatives focus on psychological/therapeutic counseling and spiritual care.” The report also said that “recognizing that healing can take many forms and the needs of victims can take many forms, dioceses/eparchies are offering outreach in the form of rent, transportation, no interest loans and employment counseling.” Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said child protection is a priority for the bishops. “Roman Catholic bishops and Eastern Rite eparchs have continued to work diligently to implement the Charter,” he said. He described it as “a covenant they made in 2002 with their people, their priests and with the public at large.” More than 96 percent of people required to participate in safe environment training did so, despite the challenges posed by “the sheer number of individuals in each category to receive safe environment training” and turnover in parish membership, the report said. It noted that 5,683,940 or 96.6 percent of minors and those working with them received safe environment training by 2007, and 1,307,973 or 97.8 percent underwent background checks. The CARA survey, to which 194 of the 195 dioceses responded, found five credible accusations of abuse occurring in 2007 to a minor. Overall, CARA reported, in 2007 more old cases came to light as 689 victims made 691 allegations against 491 offenders. Most incidents took place decades ago, most frequently in the 1970-79 period. Most victims were male and more than half between the ages of 10 and 14 when the abuse began.

Nearly 80 percent of the offenders identified in 2007 are deceased, already removed from ministry, already laicized or missing. About 60 percent of those identified as alleged offenders had been identified in previous allegations. Abuse settlement costs increased dramatically. “The total allegation-related expenditures by dioceses, eparchies, and clerical and mixed religious institutes increased by 54 percent between 2006 and 2007,” CARA reported. There was “a near-doubling in the amount paid for settlements in 2007,” CARA reported. Dioceses paid $420,385,135 in settlements and religious orders paid another $105,841,148. According to a USCCB spokesperson, the $420 million figure included only that part of the Los Angeles Archdiocese’s high-profile $660 million dollar settlement which was paid during the first half of 2007. Part of the L.A. monies were also paid by religious orders and insurers. Audits were conducted by The Gavin Group. Inc., a Boston-based firm founded by former FBI agent William Gavin and overseen by the USCCB Secretariat for the

Protection of Children and Young People, created in 2002 by the bishops to address the clergy sexual abuse crisis. Eleven (arch) dioceses and one eparchy were non-compliant with one or more of the Charter articles at the time of the audit. One of the 10 to fall short in Article 12 was the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Article 12 spells out conditions for training clergy, staff and volunteers. The Archdiocese was also asked to improve reporting of background checks to be in full compliance with Article 13, which stipulates that clergy and certain staff and volunteers must have backgrounds evaluated. “I would emphasize that the Archdiocese of San Francisco is only non-compliant with parts of two articles out of 17, and that it is doing a very good job in a number of areas. These two areas simply need to be strengthened,” the executive director of the USCCB Office of Child and Youth Protection, Teresa M. Kettlekamp, told Catholic San Francisco. Kettlekamp visited the Archdiocese in December and met with Archbishop George H. Niederauer, Deacon John Norris and others involved with the bishops’ Charter implementation. In November Archbishop Niederauer appointed Deacon Norris to head a newly created Office of Children and Youth Protection. The audit period covered Oct. 16, 2005 to June 30, 2007. The audit itself was conducted Oct. 15-19. “I liked what I saw in terms of efforts of the Archdiocese, and I have no doubt they will be fully compliant,” Kettlekamp said, adding, “I like the fact that the Archbishop immediately addressed the areas of non-compliance. He is not an archbishop who is going to sit back at all. He took immediate action, and I think that speaks volumes.” “I do not think there should be any concern at all that children are at risk,” Kettlekamp said. “The audit did just what it is supposed to do — identify areas where the Archdiocese could improve. And the Archbishop responded immediately. I do not know what more people could ask.” She complimented establishment of the archdiocesan Office of Children and Youth Protection and said she “found Deacon Norris to be a very honest, and very aggressive in addressing the issues.” The new office has consolidated efforts and aspects of the Charter that had been dispersed among various offices of the Pastoral Center. The Archdiocese was fully compliant in the 2005 audit. CHARTER, page 9

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Pope appeals for peace after kidnap of Iraqi archbishop By Carol Glatz

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI appealed for peace and security in Iraq after kidnappers abducted Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq, and killed the three people who were traveling with him. “May those who hold in their hands the fate of the Iraqi people increase their efforts so that through the commitment and wisdom of everyone, (Iraqis) may regain peace and security and not be denied the future that is rightfully theirs,” the pope said to people gathered for his noonday Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square March 2. Archbishop Rahho was kidnapped late Feb. 29 after he finished leading the Way of the Cross, Chaldean Bishop Rabban al Qas

News in brief . . . ■ Continued from page 4 Feb. 27 general audience, the pope spoke of his “personal devotion and recognition before a figure to whom I feel very closely tied because of the part he played in my life as a theologian, priest and pastor.” In addition, the pope said both his 2006 encyclical, Deus Caritas Est (“God Is Love”), and his 2007 encyclical, Spe Salvi (on Christian hope), were influenced heavily by the work of St. Augustine.

Irish priest shortage looms DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) — New figures on vocations published in the 2008 Irish Catholic Directory indicate how quickly the country is headed toward a major shortage of priests. According to the directory, the country lost 160 priests last year — mostly because of death in old age — and had only nine new ordinations. Currently there are about 4,750 priests in Ireland but, if current trends continue, by 2028 Ireland will have fewer than 1,500 priests. “It’s a trend that priests would have known about for some time,”

of Arbil told the Rome-based missionary news service AsiaNews. The Mosul archbishop had just left the Church of the Holy Spirit in Mosul and was in his car with his driver and two bodyguards when the kidnappers attacked. “The bishop is in the hands of terrorists,” Bishop Qas told AsiaNews Feb 29. “But we don’t know what physical condition (the archbishop is in); the three men who were with him in the car, including his driver, were killed,” he explained. “It’s a terrible time for our church; pray for us.” The kidnappers reportedly have communicated their demands, which were not made public. Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, Iraq, told Vatican Radio

March 2 violence against Christians “destroys the trust and brotherhood” between Iraqis. But he said numerous Muslim leaders have made appeals and are working for the archbishop’s release. Archbishop Sako said the archbishop was abducted by “a criminal group, it is not a group that claims an ideology,” which suggests the kidnappers may only be looking to receive ransom money for the prelate’s return. Archbishop Sako said the pope’s appeal resonates throughout all of Iraq “because when he speaks it is balanced,” which is noticed and appreciated by Muslims leaders there. The incident comes less than a year after a Chaldean Catholic priest and three subdeacons were gunned down outside the same Mosul church.

said Father Eamonn Bourke, Dublin diocesan vocations director. “But many laypeople are only beginning to become aware of the implications and the dramatic effect that the fall in vocations will have. It will mean parish amalgamations, it will mean some parishes not having daily Masses and it will probably mean some parishes not having a Mass every Sunday,” he told Catholic News Service.

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HONG KONG (CNS) — Observers of the Catholic Church in China said a recently published photo of Chinese President Hu Jintao shaking hands with the vice chairman of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association is strange. A priest in northern China, who requested anonymity, told the Asian church news agency UCA News that Chinese communists always have seen religion as “a closed area and a controversial subject,” regardless of whether conservatives or liberals in the government were gaining ground. He described the photo as “unusual.” The photo first appeared on the front page of the Jan. 2 issue of the official Chinese-language People’s Daily. The caption explained that Hu was greeting people from various sectors but did not name Anthony Liu Bainian, vice chairman of the Beijing-based patriotic association. The patriotic association acts as a liaison between registered Catholics and the Chinese government.

DAVAO, Philippines (CNS) — The struggle to control the abundant natural resources of the southern Philippine island of Mindanao inevitably results in violence directed at the poor, said a prominent Church leader. “For a long time, business people have been coming into Mindanao using the government and military structures to get when they want, but the people, inspired by the official teachings of the Church about what is just and what is unjust, get organized and protest against the mining companies and illegal logging and other activities,” said Archbishop Fernando Capalla of Davao. “And many people have died because the military has been paid just to get rid of the people.” The prelate was particularly critical of Growth with Equity in Mindanao, a U.S. government-funded program

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By Dan Morris-Young It is time for Christians to amplify efforts for unity well beyond events like the annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and make prayer for cohesion â&#x20AC;&#x153;a daily exercise, even a spiritual discipline,â&#x20AC;? charged the minister general of the Catholic religious order which champions ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This prayer for unity must now become an integrated part of our spirituality,â&#x20AC;? said Atonement Father James F. Puglisi near the end of the 29th Annual Paul Wattson Lecture on Feb. 25 at the University of San Francisco. While the â&#x20AC;&#x153;ecumenical pilgrimageâ&#x20AC;? has reached a â&#x20AC;&#x153;critical point,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;what we do not need at this time are new methods or strategies, not new paradigms and so forth. What is needed is a new spiritual impetus.â&#x20AC;? During his address, the priest traced developments and milestones of the last century and a half by various Christian denominations to establish prayer efforts for the unification of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; followers. Among these, he said, the Second Vatican Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s explicit call for Catholics to â&#x20AC;&#x153;join in prayer with their separated brethrenâ&#x20AC;? for unity was pivotal in advancing ecumenism. In less than a century, he noted, the Catholic Church had gone from forbidding the faithful from having anything to do with the Association for the Promotion of the Unity of Christendom to encouraging Catholics to pray for â&#x20AC;&#x153;the unity of Christians for the sake of the mission of the one Church of Christâ&#x20AC;? in the Vatican II

Decree on Ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio). The nature and focus of prayers and labors for Christian unity have, thus, evolved over the past century, said the scholar, who also directs the Centro Pro Unione (Center for Unity) in Rome where he resides. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The mindset has changed from a praying for conversion from one flock to another to praying for a deeper conversion to Christ, the true shepherd of the whole flock,â&#x20AC;? Father Puglisi said, adding that the focal point had also shifted from â&#x20AC;&#x153;unity within a certain denominational or confessional bodyâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;a call for return to the mother churchâ&#x20AC;? to a broader embracing of â&#x20AC;&#x153;a common prayer for full unity.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we have learned in this last half of a century,â&#x20AC;? he explained, â&#x20AC;&#x153;is that each of the churches has received gifts from God and that the ecumenical movement has become a movement where we learn to share the gifts that each has received. This means that as we go forward we need to seek deeper ways of sharing these gifts, of discerning the spirits that have been given not for the tearing down but for the building up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The aim of the ecumenical movement is not to find the lowest common denominator but rather it is to find the spiritual enrichment that God has gifted each church,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through the ecumenical dialogue the Spirit leads us into the whole truth. He heals the wounds of our divisions and bestows us with full catholicity.â&#x20AC;? At one point Father Puglisi asked the audience to view todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s splintered Christian communities in the context of the

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Pictured following the Feb. 25 Paul Wattson Lecture at the University of San Francisco are, from left: Father Gerard Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rourke, director emeritus of the Archdiocese of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ecumenical and interreligious office; Atonement Father James Puglisi, lecturer; Jesuit Father Stephen Privett, USF president; and Atonement Father John Keane, lecture moderator and predecessor to Father Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rourke in the Archdioceseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ecumenical and interreligious work.

Apostlesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time when they had to â&#x20AC;&#x153;confront the first major crisis of whether or not nonJews could, indeed, become Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s followers without accepting all of the prescriptions of Judaism.â&#x20AC;? Referring to the 15th chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They came up with a solution, a way forward which has been cited more recently in our ecumenical discussions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; of placing no burden greater than what the Gospel requires.â&#x20AC;? A member of the Vatican Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Father Puglisi asked, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t it time then that we, like those

first Apostles and elders, had a serious discussion on what are burdens â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;greater than the Gospel requiresâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;?â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;This can only be done,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the context of prayer for unity. For just as those Apostles realized their solution together with the Holy Spirit, together we must discern what it is that the Gospel requires of us in and through the Holy Spirit who prays through us.â&#x20AC;? In a formal response to the lecture, Brenda Schildgen, Ph.D. generally concurred. The expert in Biblical and Medieval CHRISTIAN UNITY, page 9

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U.S. officials: Vatican statement clarifies baptism validity Father Tiso said the Feb. 29 Vatican clarification simply says that a person has to be rebaptized if the original baptism was WASHINGTON (CNS) — Doctrinal and not administered in such a manner. ecumenical officials at the U.S. Conference of The only real change he can predict from Catholic Bishops said the release of a Vatican the Vatican’s most recent clarification is that statement addressing the validity of baptisms some Christian leaders would be concerned was to answer bishops’ questions and to proover recognizing their own local congregavide consistency in the Church’s practice. tions’ decisions and autonomy over the for“I think if you are over the age of 45 to mula they use at baptisms. Because many 50 you have nothing to fear” regarding the non-Catholic denominations do not have a validity of baptisms, said Father Tom hierarchical structure like the Catholic Weinandy, a Capuchin Franciscan who is Church, many decisions on such matters are executive director of the U.S. bishops’ determined by local congregations. Secretariat of Doctrine. Those in the But, he said, the Vatican’s statement younger generation shouldn’t “have a huge will “help ecumenical leaders make the amount of fear” either, he added. case to local leaders to follow the biblical According to the statement released by formulas” and that this decision will have a the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine broader impact. of the Faith Feb. 29, a baptism administered Father Tiso said he currently is working “in the name of the Creator, and of the on a document with four of the Reformed Redeemer and of the Sanctifier” or formulas churches, which should be finalized in midthat do not say “in the name of the Father, March. The document includes an affirmaand of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” is not a baptism at all. If the baptism is invalid, so Pope Benedict XVI pours water on the head of an infant during a baptism ceremony in tion for baptisms to be mutually accepted are the other sacraments the person may the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican Jan. 13. In the Catholic rite the minister uses the invo- by the Catholic and Reformed churches cation “I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.” that include the use of water and the biblihave received, such as matrimony. cal formula “Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” “If you are not validly baptized,” and Paulist Father Ronald Roberson, whose work focuses on thus not validly married, “a person needs to get rebaptized la for baptisms, especially for Catholics,” said Patrick VallezKelly. “ The Church’s ‘General Introduction on Christian relations with the Orthodox churches said “there’s no disand remarried,” explained Father Weinandy. agreement whatsoever with the Orthodox churches” on the However, unless a witness at the baptism knows that an Initiation’ is very clear about the formula to be used.” Father Francis Tiso, associate director of the U.S. bish- subject of the formula and validity of baptisms. incorrect formula was used, “it is assumed they used the right formula,” he said. “The presumption is the obvious ops’ Secretariat of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, referred to a 1993 document issued by the Pontifical truth that the baptism is valid.” The Vatican’s statement was released “because of the Council for Promoting Christian Unity that addressed a abuse (by priests and Protestant ministers at baptisms) and similar issue. Retreats and The “Directory for the Application of Principles and the questions that have come from it,” said Father Spirituality Norms on Ecumenism” says: “Baptism is conferred with Weinandy. Programs The Vatican “wants to make sure the formula is the water and with a formula which clearly indicates that baptism is done in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. proper formula,” he told Catholic News Service Feb. 29. Conferences “It is therefore of the utmost importance for all the disInstances in which a baptism has been considered invalid and Meetings ciples of Christ that baptism be administered in this manhave been “very, very, very few and far between,” he said. MARCH 14-16, 2008 The director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Office ner by all and that the various churches and ecclesial com“Encircled By God’s Love: a Retreat for Gay & Lesbian Catholics” of Worship agreed. “It’s worth reiterating Father Weinandy’s munities arrive as closely as possible at an agreement about Led by Fr. Jim Schexnayder $195 Single; $175/person Shared Room Gay and Lesbian Christians are called into the sacred circle that is the point that the Church presumes the use of the correct formu- its significance and celebration,” it states.

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Film festival opens tonight By Michael Vick Entries from as far away as North Dakota and Missouri have been received for the Cinema Vita Film Festival which will be held this evening, March 7, from 6-10 p.m. at the Delancey Street Theatre, 600 Embarcadero in San Francisco, said Vicki Evans, director of the Archdiocese’s Respect Life Ministry. Her office is co-sponsoring the event with the Oakland Diocese’s Respect Life Ministry, Marriage for Life and Ignatius Press. The festival will feature films “exploring life’s deep significance,” organizers said. “We’ve been thrilled with quality of the films,” Evans said. “We’ve chosen the final three winners, but the decisions have not been easy.” The festival will begin with a wine and cheese reception, followed by the feature presentation of “After the Truth,” an internationally acclaimed film that depicts the fictional trial of Dr. Josef Mengele, the “angel of death” at Auschwitz. Other films submitted include such wide-ranging topics as the homeless, the Iraq war, street gangs, abortion, the elderly and the disabled. The night will conclude with a panel discussion including audience participation. Tickets are $15, or $10 for high school and college students and seniors over 65. For more information, visit www.cinemavita.org or call (415) 387-2324.

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Charter . . . ■ Continued from page 3 The National Review Board made three overall recommendations: ● Simplify the audit process. ● Take all action possible to conduct background evaluations of international priests, and review with these priests the legal standards which define sexual abuse of minors in the civic jurisdiction as well as the specific diocesan standards of conduct. The focus on international priests stemmed from that fact that the audits, which covered up to

Christian unity . . . ■ Continued from page 6 literature at the University of California at Davis said the talk had made her “more hopeful” of the future of Christian unity. She said she was particularly appreciative of Father Puglisi’s descriptions of Christian unity as “reconceptualized since Vatican II,” and for an openness to seeing it “not as submission to the Chair of Peter,” but as gathering Christians around it.

a 22-month time span, found that six of the 12 credible allegations were made against international priests. The discrepancy between audit numbers and CARA numbers comes because the audit covered a longer period of time. ● Urge contributions to the Causes and Context Study, estimated to cost $2.6 million. Almost $1 million is still needed to fund the study being undertaken by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Judge Merz said the Board urged the continuation and expansion of the parish audits begun on a pilot basis in 2007. “Examination of parish implementation by the auditors can provide bishops with important management information as they work to implement the Charter,”

Judge Merz said in a letter to Cardinal George. He noted the challenges in providing safe environment training but highlighted the fact that millions have received it.“We believe the mobility of the population to be trained makes 100 percent compliance difficult, but note proudly that millions of American Catholics have received this training since 2002,” he said. One diocese and four eparchies did not participate in the audits. The 2007 Annual Report on the Implementation of the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People was scheduled to be posted on the USCCB website in the near future: www.usccb.org.

The Paul Wattson Lecture is co-sponsored by USF and the Franciscan Friars and Sisters of the Atonement. The religious community is celebrating its centennial jubilee, founded in 1908 in New York when Anglican priest Paul Wattson and his followers were received into the Catholic Church, forming the Atonement order. Interestingly, Father Puglisi said, “once the community of Wattson entered into full communion with the Church of Rome… a ‘unionist’ position quickly developed since this new community would be under suspicion both from the church that it left and from the church it joined.”

That has changed. During the Jan. 25 concluding prayer service for this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI was joined by the Rev. Samuel Kobia, a Methodist minister and general secretary of the World Council of Churches, and representatives of the Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches. The pope compared ecumenism to a ship, saying it would “never have left the port if it had not been moved by a broad current of prayer and pushed by the breeze of the Holy Spirit.”

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Scout medals presented during special liturgy The presentation of Catholic Scouting medals to Bay Area Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and adult volunteers took place in the context of Mass at St. Thomas More Church Feb. 24. Msgr. Labib Kobti, pastor, presided. “Catholic scouting is important because it supports the faith of our young people and integrates it into all of the activities of scouting,” said Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle, director of the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry, which oversees Catholic Scouting in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “As Scouts the oaths they take become visible in the work they do in the community. They learn discipleship. They become Christ’s presence to the world.” Robert Archer, the Catholic religious medals mentor for Boy Scout Troop 343 in San Francisco, puts the number of Catholic Scouts in the Archdiocese at 3,500. His and his wife, Marlene’s, sons, Michael, Brandon and Dominick are all active in Scouting. “Catholic Scouting marries two positive forces and provides opportunities for youth to enjoy many activities in a safe environment,” he said. “Scouts are mentored to become leaders and role models to their peers by living as examples of the commandments and scout laws and oaths.” Knights of Columbus from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Daly City provided an honor guard. Sister Celeste pointed out that “all of our troops are interfaith” and similar awards are given to Scouts of many faiths by their respective denominations. In light of that cooperation, Scoutmaster Ken Rose, whose rabbi was unable to attend, was presented with the Shofar Award, an acknowledgement of good work in Scouting given by the Jewish faith. For more information, call the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry at (415) 614-5652. GIRL SCOUT AWARDS Gold Award: Natalie Macia, Jessica Park, Nicole Ambeyac, Katlyn Dehn Roobian. Family of God: Josette Padilla. Rosary Eucharist Patches: Ashley Deinla, Josette Padilla.

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Local Catholic high schools’ March-April musical schedule MARCH MUSICALS: MUSICAL: Cinderella HIGH SCHOOL: Marin Catholic High School LOCATION: Marin Center Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael WHEN: March 13, 14. 8 p.m.; March 15,16. 2 p.m. TICKETS: $10 adults, $5 students INFORMATION: (415) 499-6800 STORY: Motherless girl meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother and a slipper. COMPOSER/LYRICIST/BOOK: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella is the name of a musical written for television by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II based upon the fairy tale, Cinderella. MUSICAL: Once On This Island HIGH SCHOOL: Serra, Mercy-Burlingame, Notre Dame-Belmont LOCATION: Gellert Auditorium at Serra High School, 451 West 20th Avenue, San Mateo. WHEN: March 7, 8, 14, 15. 7:30 p.m.; March 9. 2 p.m. TICKETS: $12 adults, $8 students and seniors INFORMATION: (650) 345-8207 Story: Tragic romantic love story set on a Caribbean island. COMPOSER/LYRICIST/BOOK: Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and music by Stephen Flaherty. MUSICAL: Bye Bye Birdie HIGH SCHOOL: Woodside Priory LOCATION: Priory Theatre, 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley WHEN: March 7. 7 p.m.; March 8. 1 and 7 p.m. TICKETS: $5 students, $7 adults sold at the door INFORMATION: (650) 851-8221 STORY: Conrad Birdie is the biggest rock & roll star of the 60’s ever to be drafted. Aspiring chemist and song writer Albert is convinced he can make his fortune and marry his girlfriend Rosie if he gets Conrad to kiss a high school girl goodbye on the Ed Sullivan Show. COMPOSER/LYRICIST/BOOK: Book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. APRIL MUSICALS: MUSICAL: Carnival HIGH SCHOOL: Archbishop Riordan High School LOCATION: Lindland Theatre, Riordan High, 175 Phelan Ave., across from City College of San Francisco, San Francisco WHEN: April 11, 12, 18, 19. 8 p.m.; April 20. 2 p.m. TICKETS: $10 adults, $7 students/seniors, $4 children 12 and under. INFORMATION: (415) 587-5866 STORY: Orphaned girl joins the circus and finds love and family. COMPOSER/LYRICIST/BOOK: Book by Michael Stewart, music and lyrics by Bob Merrill. MUSICAL: Fiddler on the Roof HIGH SCHOOL: Convent of the Sacred Heart and Stuart Hall High Schools, San Francisco. LOCATION: The Syufy Theatre, 2222 Broadway, between Fillmore and Webster. WHEN: March 13, 14. 7 p.m.; March 15. 2 p.m. TICKETS: $5 INFORMATION: www.sacredsf.org.

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STORY: Story centers around Tevye, father of five daughters and his attempts to maintain his family and Jewish religious traditions in Tsarist Russia. LYRICIST/COMPOSER: Music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and book by Joseph Stein. MUSICAL: 42nd Street HIGH SCHOOL: Mercy High School-San Francisco LOCATION: Mercy Theater, 3250 19th Ave. WHEN: April 11, 12, 18, 19. 7:30 p.m. TICKETS: April 11 Red Carpet Reception Benefit Performance – all tickets $15; April 12, 18 and 19 – $8 purchased in advance; $10 at the door INFORMATION: (415) 334-0525 Teresa Lucchese in Community Relations Office/website: mercyhs.org STORY: 1980 musical, based on the Depression-era 1930s Busby Berkeley movies; features popular hits such as “We’re in the Money,” “42nd Street” and “Lullaby of Broadway,” and has plenty of snappy dialogue and large tap dance numbers. COMPOSER/LYRICIST/BOOK: Book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, lyrics by Al Dubin, and music by Harry Warren MUSICAL: Guys and Dolls HIGH SCHOOL: Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco LOCATION: The De Paul Theatre at 1100 Ellis St. at Gough. WHEN: April 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19. 7:30 p.m. TICKETS: $10 adults, $5 students/seniors INFORMATION: (415) 775-6626, ext. 40 STORY: Revolves around Nathan Detroit, the organizer of the oldest floating crap game in New York, who bets fellow gambler Sky Masterson that he can’t make the next girl he sees fall in love with him. COMPOSER/LYRICIST/BOOK: Music and lyrics written by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. MUSICAL: Mame HIGH SCHOOL: St. Ignatius College Preparatory LOCATION: St. Ignatius theatre, 2001 37th Ave, San Francisco WHEN: April 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 26. 7 p.m. TICKETS: $12 students, $14 adults INFORMATION: www.siprep.org/performingarts/springMusical/ STORY: Auntie Mame becomes the guardian for her 10-year-old nephew, Patrick, during the height of the 1920s and continues to live life to the fullest. COMPOSER/LYRICIST/BOOK: Music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and book by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee MUSICAL: A Chorus Line HIGH SCHOOL: San Domenico School LOCATION: Hall of the Arts at San Domenico School, 1500 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo. WHEN: April 10, 11, 12. 7:30 p.m. TICKETS: $10 adults, $5 students/seniors INFORMATION: (415) 258-1989 STORY: A Chorus Line tells the story of a day in the life of musical performers and what they go through during an audition process to get cast in a Broadway show. COMPOSER/LYRICIST/BOOK: Book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban.

In a dance scene from Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep’s High School’s production of “Guys and Dolls,” are, from left: Chelsea Dowling, Monica DuPaix, Philip Jong, Danielle Flores, Molly Kelly and Eric Pagan.

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Cast members of Woodside Priory’s production of “Bye Bye Birdie” include, from left: Lani Wenger, Sean Wu and Elizabeth Thomas.

sings the lead of Mame in the Jesuit high school’s musical. “If you love acting, if you love singing, it’s a great fun time and way to be with your friends.” While most of the Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco are staging classics, a collaboration of three San Mateo Catholic high schools will present the 1990 “Once On This Island,” a Tony-nominated Broadway musical about a tragic and mythical love story set on a Caribbean island. Girls’ schools of Mercy-Burlingame and Notre Dame-Belmont continue an 18-year tradition of teaming up with Junípero Serra High School, a formal arrangement known as Mercy, Notre Dame, Serra TriSchool Productions, said Jay Jordan, a member of the musical’s directing team.

f you are looking for an old-fashioned musical theater experience, look no further than your nearest Catholic high school. From Archbishop Riordan High School’s reprise of the 1961 Broadway musical “Carnival” to St. Ignatius College Preparatory’s rendition of “Mame,” the spring musical is back in all its glory. Marin Catholic High School premieres Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” on March 13. In San Mateo County, Woodside Priory is producing “Bye Bye Birdie” which began yesterday, March 6. “Our goal is to teach these teens as much about professional theater production as possible, and to hear our audiences say they can’t believe the people on stage are in high school,” said Valerie O’Riordan, now in her eighth year as drama director at Riordan, the allboys’ Catholic high school in San Francisco, where more than 50 high school students are working with musical and circus professionals, learning trapeze flying, unicycle riding, juggling, stilt walking and puppetry for “Carnival”, the story of an orphan who joins the circus and finds love and family. A confluence of coin- Taking part in a recent “teaser performance” of “Once On This Island” at San Mateo’s Hillsdale cidences rather than any Mall are members of the three-school cast, from left: Notre Dame senior Kimberly Lauber, Serra collaboration between senior Alex Jordan, Mercy-San Francisco senior Janelle Alexander and Serra senior Addison Goss. the schools is bringing a Sixty-two students act, sing and dance in the story of class struggle between raft of old-time Broadway shows to the high school stages of the Archdiocese. the wealthy and peasants.“Very much Romeo and Julietish,” said Jordan, who “This was our time to do a big Broadway-style, old-fashioned musical,” said Ted has been helping oversee stage shows at Serra for 30 years. “It’s a bit of a Curry, drama director at St. Ignatius in San Francisco. SI rotates through the various tragedy, but it has an uplifting ending.” genres of serious traditional, contemporary and comedy every three to four years, and “One of the things that is important to us is to maximize the number of stu“Mame” is this year’s choice for a comedic musical, Curry said dents” in the production, said Pam Matthews, Jordan’s colleague and chair of After several years of “edgy” productions, Sacred Heart Cathedral the Visual and Performing Arts Department at Mercy-Burlingame, noting what Preparatory in San Francisco is staging “Guys and Dolls,” said drama director is a value for most if not all high school theatre departments. “We try hard to Francine Torres-Kelly. The light-hearted romance about gangsters and a floating make an experience for as many students as we possibly can.” crap game in New York features the measured cadence and Brooklyn accents of For that reason, Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton alternates its musiDamon Runyon, she noted. “I wanted the kids to understand genre and to undercals between fall and spring to allow students in various sports to do the plays stand comedy. We wanted to get back to basics,” Torres-Kelly said. as well, said John Loschmann, drama director at the Atherton Catholic high “It’s a great way to do what you love,” said Abigail Colyer, an SI senior, who

school. This year, Sacred Heart Prep staged “Bye Bye Birdie” in the fall, he said. For students, participating in a musical, whether as a lead, in the chorus or on stage crew, requires discipline and commitment to balance the hard work of the four to five day a week rehearsals with academics and other commitments, Matthews noted. Many students participate in a fall sport, but very few can manage to continue with a spring sport and the musical—and keep their grades up, Jordan said. “One of our shining stars is at UCLA as a theater major on a scholarship,” said the Serra drama director. “Brad Satterwhite (’07) was a varsity football player and he started dabbling in theater and really got the bug.” Riordan’s lead, Greg Schwartz, has been accepted to Columbia University for next year. Two of SHCP’s leads, Seamus Donohoe and Steven Arce, are auditioning but have not yet decided which college to attend as drama and music majors. Working on a musical is fun and an opportunity to sing and to act, said The cast of Archbishop Riordan High School’s Woodside Priory production of “Carnival” which opens April 11. sophomore Maia Thielen, who plays the female lead of Rosie Alvarez in her school’s vesion of “Bye Bye Birdie.” “I enjoy being here after school, working the scenes, being with people I wouldn’t normally get to know,” she said. Co-curricular programs such as drama and sports are integral to educating the whole person, noted Riordan Principal Kevin Asbra. “Drama teaches students how to express themselves, how to be up in front of a group of people,” he said, noting these are skills necessary for whatever career path a student takes. As a Marianist school, Riordan stresses family, Asbra added, and in musicals—as in other co-curricular activities—a sense of family is created, he said. “When students work in plays, because of the amount of time that they spend together, they cannot help but create that family atmosphere — by looking out for each other, working together and supporting each other.”

Catholic San Francisco

March 7, 2008

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Christ Be With Me May the strength of God pilot me, the power of God preserve me today. May the wisdom of God instruct me, the eye of God watch over me, The ear of God hear me, the word of God give me sweet talk, The hand of God defend me, the way of God guide me. Christ be with me, Christ before me. Christ after me, Christ in me. Christ under me, Christ over me. Christ on my right hand, Christ on my left hand. Christ on this side, Christ on that side. Christ at my back. Christ in the head of everyone to whom I speak. Christ in the mouth of every person who speaks to me. Christ in the eye of every person who looks at me. Christ in the ear of every person who hears me today. (From a hymn traditionally ascribed to St. Patrick)

The vision of St. Patrick By Father Charles Puthota The feast of St. Patrick, which falls inside the Lenten season, reminds us eloquently—-and irresistibly—-of the intense need for Christ-consciousness. In the course of the year, our awareness of the abiding presence of Christ may tend to waver and wither, growing at times dim and fragile, even though he is with us always, even to the end of time. Lent is a special season to rekindle within us a passionate desire for Christ. St. Patrick’s famous prayer “Christ Be with Me” celebrates this need for Christ, whose presence permeates everyone, everything and everywhere. The parades and pints, banquets and bagpipes, dances and drinks, family and friends, food and festivities, laughter and love, joy and jokes, pride and passion—-and the unending waves of green—-all of which mark St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, point unmistakably to the implicit vision: Christ-consciousness. St. Patrick upheld that vision; he lived for that vision. How can the Irish, the others who rejoice with them, and all Christians be not captivated by this central truth of St. Patrick’s life: to be joyfully aware of the person of Christ? St. Patrick rightly acknowledges God whose strength, power, wisdom, eye, ear, word, hand and way he longs for earnestly. Through these anthropomorphic images, God is not only felt but also imagined to be reaching out to us in protection, preservation and guidance. For more on the need for imagination, one could read our Archbishop George Niederauer’s book “Precious as Silver: Imagining Your Life with God.” Imagination is one of the best ways of encountering the “spirit and truth.” Our rational mind is too limited even to begin to scratch the outermost edges of the profound mystery of God. We have to employ the imagination to glimpse into our God who is love. St. Patrick is capable of imagining his life with God. That’s why he attributes personal qualities to God who is close to us. He wants, for instance, his “sweet talk” to spring from God’s word, not his own. Invoking Jesus Christ, St. Patrick speaks both implicitly and lucidly about how the Father is revealed most perfectly in his Son, our brother, friend and lord. Jesus is God’s face turned toward the world. In Jesus Christ, God speaks in ways that humans can see, hear, feel and touch the mystery of God (1 Jn. 1:1). Jesus is the word of God, the word made flesh. Therefore, St. Patrick is theologically and spiritually insightful when he sees Jesus Christ present everywhere, in and out. He wants Jesus to be with him, before him, after him, in him, under him, over him, on his right, on his left, this side and that, and behind him. It takes not only faith but also imagination to see deeply into the presence of Jesus with us. St. Patrick places Jesus in and around him in a comprehensive manner. What is more, he places the dynamic presence of Jesus in relationships. Jesus is present in the head of everyone St. Patrick speaks to, in the mouth of everyone who speaks to him, in the eye of everyone who looks at St. Patrick, and in the ear of everyone who hears him. In our interpersonal relationships, it is Jesus Christ who is the unseen guest and listener. We are at times unable to recognize him, as in the case of the disciples of Emmaus (Luke 24). Needless to say that Christ has to be known and recognized in such relationships as marriages, friendships, families, communities, governments and international cooperation. If we have the eyes to see Jesus in these relationships, imagine how these interactions will be transformed into those of love and sharing, of peace and justice! In St. Patrick, as in the other Irish saints, in the great Irish poets, playwrights and storytellers, in their musicians, dancers and singers, not to mention the Irish sensibility slanted toward an infectious sense of humor, God in Jesus Christ is touched and imagined. Jesus stands gently, looking at the Irish and all others who can tell a joke and laugh and imagine their life with God—- and smiles at them. Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is parochial vicar at St. Patrick Parish, San Francisco

Act befitting a king I applaud the secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments’ stand in regard to reconsidering Communion in the hand. The cause for the Latin Mass and not receiving Communion in the hand is one and the same. It comes down to three most important words: worship, humility and reverence. When we come before the Lord Jesus Christ to receive him in holy Communion, we worship our Lord and King by kneeling before him. By conscience we do so because of our humility before his greatness. It would also be improper to receive him in the hand because one could not touch anything precious – precious such as the body and blood of our Lord. That is an act of reverence properly befitting a king. Herein lies the crux of the Latin Mass. Virginia Enrico South San Francisco

The complete package I was thrilled to finally see Catholic San Francisco devote so much space (Feb. 29) to liturgical music and the difficult job of music ministry! For the last 25 years I have had the privilege of serving as music director and cantor at one of the great and undiscovered treasures of the San Francisco Archdiocese, St. Emydius. Here we have earned the trust of our very diverse congregation by offering the complete package: great pastor (Father Bill Brady), great priest in residence (Father Dave Pettingill), great lectors (who proclaim, not just read), great eucharistic ministers, great servers, beautiful environment and of course, great music ministers. Does everyone at Mass always exercise full active participation? I wish! However, I do think we do as well or maybe even better than most because our liturgies are seamless and user friendly.I hope you can tell that I love being able to brag about our parish whenever I can. We believe that it is up to all of us to do our best to role model the love of Christ both inside and outside the church building. Since I have seen this happen with my own eyes, I know it is true. Since I have heard this happen, all I can say is that it is music to my ears. Debbie McAuliffe Music director, St. Emydius Parish San Francisco

I really enjoy also Pedro’s band and choir during this Mass. It literally moves me. Angelo D’Angelo San Francisco

Draw the line In Catholic San Francisco’s Feb. 15 story on the stem cell research conference at Dominican University, UC bioethicist Mary Devereaux compares a five-day-old embryo to “big people who are here with diseases.” She uses the morally bankrupt “personhood” argument, which indexes the value of life based on a person’s level of “self-consciousness.” The unself-conscious would include the embryo, the profoundly disabled, those in a coma. This is exactly the kind of utilitarian thinking that underlies secular contemporary bioethical thinking. Utilitarianism says the moral good or evil of an act does not depend on what we do but on the good or evil that results. It’s OK if the strong take advantage of the weak, those without “self consciousness,” if there is a noble end in sight. Catholic teaching says the opposite. You, as a human individual, have a God-given dignity that does not depend on your age or condition. You are equally valuable when you are an embryo, a fetus, a teenager or when you are on your deathbed. We obviously relate more naturally to our brothers and sisters suffering from diseases than to a five-day old embryo in a petri dish. But this is a smokescreen to numb society to the callousness of the act being committed, the killing of the weak to benefit the strong. This is contrary to justice. As Catholics, we cannot be taken in by this emotional argument because it sounds logical. The embryo may have utility for scientific research. So do the prisoner on death row, the comatose patient, the severely handicapped child. Where do we draw the line when we start down this path? Vicki Evans Respect Life Coordinator Archdiocese of San Francisco

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Thanks for support The article on music in the liturgy in this week’s (Feb. 29) paper was very nice. I don’t think anyone has ever written that much about me in a public forum like that. Not only did you spell my name right, you also maintained the spirit of what I said! I also saw the listing about my music recital in Catholic San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Someone I knew said they saw it and also brought a friend to the concert. Thanks again, I appreciate your support and interest. Joseph Murphy Music director, National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, San Francisco

Pastor praised I would like to praise Father Gabriel Flores, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in San Francisco. He usually celebrates the 11 a.m. Mass in Spanish. I must admit I do not understand Spanish, but I recognize the strong, eloquent voice of a good speaker. He has the parishioners in the palm of his hand.

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Dominican University should be ashamed of itself! Is it trying to serve two masters? At one end of the campus it is busily engaged in planning the renovation of the former site of the Garden School to create a Catholic chapel. This is meant to increase donations from its alumni and Catholic donors. At the other end of the campus, it seems to be encouraging embryonic stem cell research while ignoring the inherent dignity and worth of all human life. This is intended to increase its reputation as a center of scientific enquiry. True success might be better achieved by realizing that science, like all human endeavors, becomes corrupted when divorced from its religious and spiritual dimensions. Mary Ann Haeuser San Rafael

Where money goes Catholic San Francisco (Feb. 1) reported on the 2008 Lenten message of Pope Benedict XVI — a message on almsgiving. In presenting this message at a Vatican City press conference, Cardinal Paul Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, the Vatican advised the faithful to “…be aware of how much of their contribution goes to the intended project and how much goes to cover overhead and administrative costs. Better transparency is needed…since some nonprofit charitable organizations have ‘surprisingly high’ overhead costs.” Implementing this sage admonition is facilitated nowadays by readily available and huge databases (such as Charity Navigator or BBB Wise Giving Alliance), which provide dollar breakdowns of program costs, administrative expenses, fund raising expenses, executive salaries and reserves for a large number of non-profit organizations that solicit funds on a nationwide basis. It seems strange, then, that in the same issue of Catholic San Francisco, the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal is launched LETTERS, page 19

March 7, 2008

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Spirituality for Life

Of artists, freedom, reticence and sanctity Nobel Prize winning novelist, Doris Lessing, once suggested that George Eliot could have been a better writer if she hadn’t been so moral. That highlights a painful and interesting paradox. Sometimes depth and sensitivity are in tension with creativity and freedom. When I was child, our Catholic catechism told us that after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit “their minds were darkened.” But that isn’t exactly what Scripture says. It tells us “their eyes were opened.” Lessing’s comment highlights what is at stake here. Allow me an example: Some years ago a friend of mine was dying of cancer. She was a woman, still in her forties, who had both a faith and depth that made her stand out in a spiritual crowd. In the last months before she died she did a remarkable thing. She wrote a long, personal letter to each of her close friends within which she pointed out their gifts and blessed them. I received one of those letters and, beyond blessing me, she asked me to come and visit her before she died. She said simply: “Come and see

me, I want to breathe some of my spirit into you before I die!” I did visit her, but our visit didn’t exactly fit the picture described in Scripture when the dying Elijah breathes his spirit into Elisha. Ours was a more mundane and domestic conversation. We reminisced, talked of mutual friends, her family, her illness, her tiredness, and about cooking, one of her great loves. Before I left she served me a cake she’d baked for me. Then, as our conversation was nearly at an end, she spoke of the sadness of dying and ended by saying: “It’s sad to die young and, for me, it’s hard too because sometimes I wonder how fully I’ve really lived. I’ve always lived so safely and was never able to abandon myself in some ways. Sometimes I feel like I have been the most uptight person who ever lived!” There was a truth in what she said, but not the obvious one. Her reticence wasn’t psychological, but moral. She was a moral artist, with all that brings in terms of being free and being uptight.

Artists are often characterized by their freedom, their willingness to push edges, break taboos, and feel themselves free from the psychological and moral restraints that hold the rest of us. But Father that is only half of the Ron Rolheiser picture. In another area, aesthetics, where their sensitivities are the most keen, they are anything but free. In their own way, artists are also very uptight. For example, a true artist is incapable of defacing a beautiful artifact and feels hurt when someone else, in callousness, destroys something beautiful. A real artist would be congenitally incapable of drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa, ROLHEISER, page 22

Twenty Something

To Marthas: ‘There is need of only one thing’ In preparation for my first TV interview, I hit the Mall of America. I had a mission: to find a top. The Top. A TV top like the anchors wear. I always experience sensory overload at MOA. It is a lot to process. Caricatures and characters. Mohawks and midriffs. Runny noses and roller coasters. So I when I slipped into a fitting room. I was ready to soak up a little silence. And yet, as soon as I closed my door, I heard the woman in the next stall talking on her cell phone. Something about her husband’s retirement. I focused my attention on the shirts at hand, until an “It’s a Small World” ringtone pierced the air, and the woman to my other side began describing her outfit, evidently intended for Friday. That’s when it struck me. Our most private places are eroding. Before cell phones entered our purses and pockets, a fitting room was a personal space. Sure, its halls hosted heated debates between moms and daughters, with friends waiting in the wings. But what happened inside a stall’s cramped quarters was a private exchange, an unflinching showdown between woman and mirror, birthing hard-toswallow epiphanies like “I have gained weight” and “This looked better on the hanger.” These days the fitting room is yet another place where

busy women can be accessed. Rather than protest, we answer the call, half naked, elbow in shirt, hobbling. Young adults have been raised on the notion we can do and have it all – walk on the moon, become president, cure cancer and get weekly massages. The key, we learn, is to multi-task. If you’re doing more than one thing, you’ll advance much more quickly. And if you want to be an All-Star multi-tasker, buy an iPhone. Lofty as our ambitions are, we often feel crummy about their outcome. A friend reminded me of this in a recent e-mail. “Life has been crazy and stressful,” she wrote. “Just trying to juggle work, family, friends and myself. Dropping a lot of balls.” Her e-mail arrived on a night when I was keenly aware of my own dropped balls. I felt as if I was attempting a lot but excelling at little. Worse yet, I was so preoccupied preparing to catch the next ball that I wasn’t really enjoying the one in hand. Being present to the moment is harder than ever for young Catholics today. It defies our cultural training and dismisses our high-tech aids. Our faith calls us to slow down and attend to each moment, “to be still and know that I am God.” The essence of spirituality, quite simply, is being awake. Jesus was the ultimate single-tasker. Despite the

weight of his earthly mission – to save humankind – he focused on the here and now. As a result, he touched countless souls. When he encountered multi-tasking Martha, who was Christina peeved by her singleCapecchi minded sister, he gently rebuked her. “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things,” Jesus said. “There is need of only one thing.” Profound wisdom is packed in that short sentence. We may covet or expect or demand many things, but we need only one. It is a pointed statement, a trumping of quality over quantity. Chasing “many things,” Jesus implies, distracts us from the heart of the matter. There is need of only one thing: to attend to the giver of each grace-filled moment. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. E-mail her at christinacap@gmail.com.

The Catholic Difference

Saying something nice about the West In his book, “Without Roots,” Pope Benedict XVI deplored the addiction to historical self-deprecation rampant at the higher altitudes of European cultural and intellectual life: a tendency to see in the history of the West only “the despicable and the destructive.” The same problem exists on this side of the Atlantic. In our universities and among our cultural taste-makers, the healthy Western habit of moral, cultural and political self-critique can dissipate into forms of self-loathing. Perhaps a civilization can afford to think of its past as pathology when it has no competitors. That is manifestly not the case today, when the West is being challenged by radical Islamist jihadism and by the new and market-improved authoritarianism of China. So, a question: What’s right about the West, about this unique civilizational enterprise formed by the fruitful interaction of Jerusalem, Athens and Rome – biblical religion, rationality, and the idea of a law-governed polity? 1) Openness. Thanks to its belief in the power of reason, and its commitment to a search for truth unconstrained by political power, taboo, or the whims of false gods, the West has evolved the most open civilization in human history. As British philosopher Roger Scruton neatly put it, life in the West is an open book; it’s too often a closed ledger elsewhere. 2) Freedom. Over many centuries, the West thought its way through to the idea of the inalienable dignity and worth of every human life. That commitment to the dignity of the individual gave birth, in turn, to Western ideas of freedom

– freedom of belief, freedom of expression, freedom’s defense as the primary function of government. The world now swears allegiance to the idea of “human rights;” that idea was born in the West. So was the idea that slavery – an ancient human institution – is an abomination. So was the idea that women enjoy full political and legal equality with men. 3) Knowledge: The Bible gave the West the idea of a God who imprinted his reason onto his creation. The Greeks gave the West the idea of the unflinching quest for truth. Put the two together and you get other great Western inventions: universities, libraries, research institutes and schools open to all. The West’s thirst for knowledge, coupled with its commitment to openness and freedom of discussion, produced the scientific method and the scientific revolution. Thus virtually every major invention of the past half-millennium has come from the West. If we live longer, healthier, less painful lives today than human beings did a thousand years ago, we can thank the West’s scientific and technological creativity, which is a function of Western culture. 4) Generosity. In addition to ending the slave trade, abolishing slavery and enfranchising women, the West has produced virtually every major humanitarian initiative in modern history, from the Red Cross to Doctors Without Borders, from the green revolution to the eradication of river blindness, from care for the mentally and physically handicapped to the abrogation of forced marriage. The modern human rights movement has taken root in many

cultures, but it is motored primarily by the West – which is also the source of the overwhelming proportion of development aid for the world’s poor. 5) Beauty. Many cultures produce beautiGeorge Weigel ful things; only the West has produced Mozart, Bach, Michelangelo, Dante, Rembrandt and Shakespeare. Absent a humanistic culture, you’re just not going to find the intensity of human grandeur and human weakness found, for example, in a Caravaggio painting or a Bernini sculpture. 6) Humor. The West is singularly capable of making fun of itself – sometimes, to be sure, in vulgar ways. Still, that impulse to mock pretension and false piety, to cut the mighty down to size with a joke, is a sound one. Humor keeps things open, keeps things human, and nurtures in the West a capacity for healthy self-criticism. That the world’s migration patterns tend to work in one direction – from the rest to the West – is not an accident. Six reasons why have been noted here. More could be added. So, have you said something nice about your civilization today? George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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March 7, 2008

Drop in number of U.S. Catholics offset by new immigrants, study says

Resurrection . . . ■ Continued from cover through his Spirit dwelling in you.” We have divine connections, but only if we want them, and only if we choose them over and over again. We need to stay connected to Christ and his Spirit. How do we stay connected? If our focus and center is on God, in Christ, not on ourselves and on being self-absorbed, we become Christ-centered and Spirit-driven. Christ is the way to others, and others are the way to Christ. We meet God in each other in his Church, in his Son, in prayer. Or we are too busy with other things to meet him all the time. We set aside our earthbound, self-centered selves, and reach toward Christ; we rise from pettiness and mean-spiritedness to a real and full life in Christ. Your resurrection and my resurrection do not start sometime in the future or at the mortuary. They are going on now, if they are going to go on at all. Resurrection goes on throughout our lives and culminates in eternal life.

Catholics Across the U.S. Massachusetts and Connecticut with Rhode Island have the greatest portion of Catholics when compared with other states. Arkansas has the least.

Wash.

Mont.

N.D.

Ore. Idaho

Vt.

Minn.

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Wis.

Wyo.

Mich.

Nev.

Iowa

Neb.

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Ind. Ohio

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Colo.

Calif.

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Ark.

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Texas

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5-10% 11-20% 21-30%

Fla.

31-40% 41-43%

43%

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Tenn.

Okla.

N.M.

Ky.

N.H. Mass. R.I. Conn. N.J. Del. Md.

Source: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life U.S. Religious Landscape Survey

U.S. Catholics Select demographics from a recent survey on religion in America RACE/ETHNICITY

AGE Hispanic 29%

White (nonHispanic)

18%

16%

Asian 2% Black 2% Other 2%

65%

18-29 30-49 41%

65+ 50-64 24%

54% Female 46% Male MARITAL STATUS

Married 58%

10%

Divorced or separated

17% 8%

Widowed

NUMBER OF CHILDREN AT HOME none — 61%

Never married

27%

Living with partner or more

11%

Based on the responses of 8,054 self-identified Catholics from a larger survey of more than 35,000 randomly-selected adults conducted May 8-Aug. 13, 2007. For the Catholic group, the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 1.5 percentage points. Source: Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life U.S. Religious Landscape Survey

Here are demographics picked from a recent survey on religion in America.

U.S. Catholics age 70 and older and account for nearly half of all Catholics ages 18-29. “There is no question that there has been a transition in the Catholic Church for few decades,” Father Deck told CNS. He said the U.S. Catholic Church has been “moving from a base that is primarily European to a Latin American and Asian base” and needs to be able to minister to these groups that have different

We can all identify with Martha in this story; her words to Jesus are half-reproach, half act-of-faith, and that’s how you and I can feel toward God at the death of a loved one: “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would never have died. Even now, I am sure that God will give you whatever you ask of him”. Jesus moves her on to the life and the resurrection, which matter most: “I am the resurrection and the life: whoever believes in me, though he should die, will come to life; and whoever is alive and believes in me will never die.” Jesus is resurrection now for us spiritually. Consider the prophet Ezechiel, in our first reading, speaking to the Israelites, “as good as dead” in exile in Babylon: “I will open your graves and have you rise from them, says the Lord.” There are all kinds of daily “deadness” — an insensitive person, dead to the feelings of others; a lying, deceitful person, dead to honesty and fairness; a depressed, even despairing person, dead to hope. The difference between “the living dead” and “the living living” in this life is a pale hint of the differences in eternal life, after death in this life. Jesus is

issues and different ways of doing things. “There is a tremendous amount of work to be done, not that we haven’t made progress,” he said. He called the increased number of Hispanics joining the U.S. Catholic Church a “blessing,” but added, “We need to continue to adequately integrate new groups in the Church, creating a Church with a new feel, a new rhythm.”

the Resurrection at the end of earthly life, too. One more hint: how tricky is human memory, that is, who gets remembered, and for how long, and for what? What is the meaning of “immortality”? Political power is chancy; the arts are very powerful. Few remember King George II, but everyone knows about Shakespeare. What of the divine “memory” or consciousness? Remember the words of Jesus to the Sadducees, who denied the resurrection of the dead: “You are very much mistaken. God is not the God of the dead but of the living. All are alive for him.” Jesus says to you today, as he said to Martha: “I am the resurrection and the life. Do you believe this?” You and I say, “Yes, Lord.” We will say that in a moment in the Profession of Faith, which concludes with our faith in “the resurrection of the body and life everlasting.” If writing a great poem or a great novel can keep someone alive for hundreds or thousands of years, will not Jesus Christ, the Lord of love, God’s Son, keep his promise to be Resurrection and Life forever for those who believe, who trust in his promise, who live their lives as if they meant it?

(CNS GRAPHICS/EMILY THOMPSON)

said Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, during the teleWASHINGTON (CNS) — According to conference. a new study on the religious affiliation of “It is a very competitive marketplace U.S. adults, 28 percent of Americans have and if you rest on your laurels, you’re going either changed religious affiliations or to be history,” he added. claim no formal religion at all. The survey, conducted through phone The study also shows the Catholic Church interviews from May to August 2007, asked has been hardest hit by these shifts, but that respondents more than 40 questions, includthe influx of Catholic immigrants has offset ing what faith they were raised in and what the loss. So, the percentage of the adult popu- they currently practice. According to the lation that identifies itself as Catholic has held responses, 78.4 percent of Americans are fairly steady at around 25 percent, it says. Christians, about 5 percent belong to other The 148-page study, “U.S. Religious faith traditions and 16.1 percent are unaffilLandscape Survey,” was conducted by the Pew iated with any religion, which the survey Forum on Religion & Public Life and based on described as the fastest-growing category. interviews with 35,000 adults last year. Respondents who said they were not Its findings, released Feb. 25, show that affiliated with any particular faith today are roughly 10 percent of all Americans are more than double the number who said they former Catholics. Almost half of these for- weren’t affiliated with any particular relimer Catholics joined Protestant denomina- gion as children. Among Americans ages tions, while about half do not have a reli- 18-29, one-quarter say they are not currentgious affiliation and a small percentage ly affiliated with any particular religion. chose other faiths. The survey’s “If everyone researchers said the raised Catholic ‘If everyone raised study also confirms stayed (with their that the United States religious affilia- Catholic stayed (with is “on the verge of tion), Catholics becoming a minority would be one-third their religious Protestant country.” of the population,” Although roughsaid John Green, a ly 51 percent of senior research fel- affiliation), Catholics Americans said they low and a principal are members of author of the study. would be one-third of the Protestant denomiJesuit Father nations, the study Allan Figueroa population.’ points to “significant Deck, executive internal diversity director of the U.S. – John Green, principal and fragmentation” bishops’ Secretariat among Protestants of Cultural Diversity author of new Pew study where “hundreds of in the Church, said different denominahe was hardly surtions (are) loosely prised by the report, which he described as grouped around three fairly distinct religious “more than a gentle wake-up call.” traditions — evangelical Protestant churches, He told Catholic News Service Feb. 27 that mainline Protestant churches and historically the trend of adult Catholics leaving the Church black Protestant churches.” points to the “lack of a more vigorous engageMark Gray, a research associate at the ment” with the Church’s diverse membership. Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate “We can’t sit on our laurels,” he said, stressing at Georgetown University, called the Pew the need to promote lay leaders, encourage report a “great study” but said much of the vocations and also think of creative ways to media coverage of it could be misleading. evangelize and reach out to members. For example, he told CNS, one aspect of The margin of error for the total sample sur- the study that has been overlooked is that, veyed is plus or minus 0.6 percentage points. despite the number of adults leaving, the In a Feb. 25 teleconference with reporters, Catholic Church continues to have a 68 perGreen attributed the shifts in religious affilia- cent retention rate of members who have tion to “lifecycle effects,” or the changes been Catholic since childhood. young people make when they are on their He said that rate puts the Church just own. He also said the changes in religious behind the Mormon, Orthodox and Jewish affiliation could be explained in part by the traditions, which have a 70 percent retendiversity of today’s American society where tion rate. Hindus top the list with an 84 perthere are “a greater number of options.” cent retention rate. These figures can get The Catholic Church was not the only lost because the Catholic Church is such a religious affiliation to lose members. Study large religious group and “everything is researchers said they found an overall fluid- proportional,” Gray added. ity of religious affiliation. In examining the data for the Catholic Baptists experienced a net loss of 3.7 Church, the researchers said the increase in percent and Methodists lost 2.1 percent. Latin American members projects not only Figures relating to the Catholic Church a future trend for the makeup of American show that 31.4 percent of adults in the Catholicism, but for the United States as a United States said they were raised whole. Catholic while only 23.9 percent of them According to the survey, Latinos already identify with the Catholic Church today, account for roughly one in three adult giving the Church a net loss of 7.5 percent. Catholics overall and may account for an even “Everybody in this country is losing larger share of U.S. Catholics in the future. It members; everybody is gaining members,” said Latinos represent roughly one in eight

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FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Ezekiel 37:12-14; Psalm 130:1-2, 3-4 5-6, 7-8; Romans 8:8-11; John 11:3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45 sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that he was ill, he remained for two days in the place where he was. Then after this He said to his disciples, Let us go back to Judea.” When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb for four days. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” Martha said, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.” Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” She said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.” He became perturbed and deeply troubled, and said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Sir, come and see.” And Jesus wept. So the Jews said, “See how he loved him.” But some of them said, “Could not the one who opened the eyes of the blind man have done something so that this man would not have died?” So Jesus, perturbed again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay across it. Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the dead man’s sister, said to him, “Lord, by now there will be a stench; he has been dead for four days.” Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believe you will see the glory of God?” So they took away the stone. And Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me; but because of the crowd here I have said this, that they may believe that you sent me.” And when he had said this, He cried out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” The dead man came out, tied hand and foot with burial bands, and his face was wrapped in a cloth. So Jesus said to them, “Untie him and let him go.” Now many of the Jews who had come to Mary and seen what he had done began to believe in him.

A READING FROM THE PROPHET EZEKIEL Thus says the Lord God: O my people, I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and have you rise from them, O my people! I will put my spirit in you that you may live, and I will settle you upon your land; thus you shall know that I am the Lord. I have promised, and I will do it, says the Lord. RESPONSORIAL PSALM R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication. R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption. If you, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand? But with you is forgiveness, that you may be revered. R. With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption. I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in his word. More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord. A READING FROM PAUL’S LETTER TO THE ROMANS Brothers and sisters: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness. If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit dwelling in you. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN The sisters of Lazarus sent word to Jesus, saying, “Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this he said, “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her

SCRIPTURE SEARCH By Patricia Kasten

Gospel for March 9, 2008 John 11:1-45 Following is a word search based on the Gospel reading for the Fifth Sunday of Lent, Cycle A: the death and raising of Lazarus of Bethany. The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle. ILLNESS MARTHA JUDEA YOU ASK NEVER DIE STONE HEAR ME

DEATH LAZARUS ARRIVED WILL RISE BLIND MAN TAKE AWAY A CLOTH

GLORY TWO DAYS THE TOMB LAST DAY A CAVE STENCH LET HIM GO

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Scripture reflection DEACON FAIVA PO’OI FAVIA

Lazarus’ raising foreshadows ‘plenteous redemption’ of Jesus The key to understanding the story of the raising of Lazarus is to be found in the following words: “This illness is not to end in death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it” (Jn 11:4). The significant point in the story is the revelation of who Jesus is, the Son of God. The drama of the story emerges from the misunderstandings manifested by every character in the story except Jesus. We know how difficult and frustrating it can be to try to get a point across to someone, perhaps at work, or a teacher to students, or a parent to children, and they still don’t get it. Think of how Jesus felt in this Sunday’s Gospel. First, the disciples misunderstood that Lazarus was really dead and gone, and not just sleeping. Then Thomas mistakenly thought that Jesus was calling them to go to Jerusalem to be stoned and die a martyr’s death. Martha, at first, could not transcend her understanding that Jesus was just another miracle worker rather than grasp the revelation that Jesus is the miracle himself. But she expressed confidence in Jesus and went on to repeat the current Pharisaic belief about a future resurrection. And yet she still stated her full confession that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. Mary on the other hand, appeared to understand Jesus on a deeper level, but then she succumbed to aligning herself with the Jews who were weeping over Lazarus’ death and failed to understand who Jesus is. All these contributed to why Jesus was so perturbed and troubled. He even wept in frustration. Perhaps, he was agitated over his friends’ and the disciples’ inability to comprehend and have faith in him and recognize him for who he really is. Even his weeping was misunderstood. By failing to recognize that Jesus is the Son of God, we have failed to see the glory of God. Jesus’ purpose of coming to earth was to save us and reveal the glory of God the Father. Now, he will do it in a very powerful and miraculous manner; he will resuscitate Lazarus. Jesus’ frustration and anger was apparent as he approached the tomb and prayed aloud so all could hear him. He confronts death head-on by commanding loudly into the tomb, “Lazarus

come out!” Lazarus did, indeed, come out, but he was still bound up in the burial clothes. The resuscitation was not complete until Jesus gave the command to untie him and let him go. The Scripture tells us that the Jews who saw this began to believe in him as the Son of God. He is the resurrection and the life, not Lazarus. As amazing as the raising of Lazarus was, the full extent of Jesus’ power over death would be revealed only in his resurrection and in ours. The life that Jesus promised us is an everlasting life in which we never die at all. Resurrection, then, is not merely returning to live this life again as Lazarus did; it is a gift of life that is “plenteous redemption” (responsorial Psalm), and it comes from “the Spirit of God the Father who raised Jesus from the dead and dwells in us” (second reading). The story of Lazarus takes us into the Easter mystery in which we share in Jesus’ resurrection and life, a life that is eternal. The long relationship that Mary and Martha shared with Jesus brought them to believe him. It must be wonderful and comforting for us to know that their belief was still not perfect, nor is ours. And, like Mary and Martha, our belief is strengthened by our encounter with Jesus. His very presence in our lives empowers and leads us in our faith journey to see with the eyes and the heart of our resurrected Lord. Every Sunday at Mass, we profess in the Creed, “We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.” The basis of this belief is what we have heard and learned in today’s Gospel and what we will celebrate at Easter. One obvious way to encounter Jesus is at Mass, not only among our brothers and sisters, but also in the Scriptures, the priest and the Holy Eucharist. This Eucharist is a sign, a sacrament, in which Jesus is calling you and me to deeper faith and glory. Deacon Faiva Po’oi Faiva serves at St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo, and is also the archdiocesan liaison to the Tongan community. His ministry includes religious instruction, preaching, marriage preparation and social justice.

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Letter . . . ■ Continued from page 14 with little or no obeisance to this practical counsel of Cardinal Cordes. In my opinion, diocesan contributors should not be forced to swallow the cardinal’s rationale that “…church-based organizations almost always can keep administrative costs low.” While the cardinal pleads for “better transparency,” the folks in the pews are given nothing more than a sophomoric pie chart that tells us who is getting the money, accompanied by a tabulation of who is footing the bill (i.e. parish assessments). The presentation by the Archdiocese assumes a rather naïve constituency that reflexively forks over funds just because asked to do so by the Archdiocese. Substitute indulgences for any of the itemized recipient programs and one has Johann Tetzel redux. John A. Vaillancourt San Francisco (Exec. Ed. Note: The comments by Cardinal Cordes were published in a Catholic San Francisco front-page story on Pope Benedict’s Lenten message regarding prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Information on the uses of funds collected in the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal for Parish and School Ministry; Archdiocesan Direct Ministry; Centralized Services; Clergy Support; and Support of the Universal Church is presented in the interior pages of the Feb. 1 Annual Appeal Supplement. The budget for the Archdiocese of San Francisco is reviewed and monitored by the Archdiocesan Finance Council, which is com-

posed largely of lay people. The Archdiocese also makes its independently audited financial statements available to parishioners and the public (see the fiscal year statements at www.sfarchdiocese.org). Cardinal Cordes observation that “… church-based organizations almost always can keep administrative costs low” arises from his direct experience and observation of people working in the mission of the Catholic Church.)

Holy truths Paul Padilla’s Feb. 8 letter expresses concern about lies being told about Sen. Barack Obama’s faith. Perhaps, Mr. Padilla should be worried regarding some of the truths about Sen. Obama, one of the most pro-abortion senators in the U. S. Senate. As an Illinois legislator, Senator Obama voted against the Induced Infant Liability Act which was enacted to protect babies who survived late-term abortions. Sen. Obama does not recognize the humanity of the unborn child. If Senator Obama is a committed Christian, how can he support the culture of death? Abortion is an intrinsic evil, never justified under any circumstances. We are all called to respect the natural moral law and protect the unborn from the moment of conception whether we are Catholic, Christian, agnostic or atheist. “Whatever you did for the least of my people, you did for me.” (Matt. 25: 40) The right to life is a civil right – guaranteed to everyone under our Constitution. Let us choose wisely the man or woman we vote into the highest office in our land. When they take the sacred oath of office on the holy Bible, may they be always mindful of their

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Weigel review off In reviewing Archbishop Piero Marini’s new book on reforming the liturgy, George Weigel (Feb. 15) says “those seeking insight into the ideas that shaped...the Church’s post-Vatican II liturgy will have to look elsewhere.” That’s hardly the conclusion of Timothy Radcliffe, former master general of the Dominicans, who calls the book a “penetrating analysis of... liturgical renewal (which) offers fascinating insights into how the Vatican works.” Archbishop John R. Quinn calls the book “a work of considerable merit and importance...carried out with the kind of organizational skill and discipline which marks the highest kind of scholarship.” And Godfried Cardinal Daneels, Archbishop of Malines-Bruxelles, says Marini “offers wisdom and an informed perspective...therefore I am grateful to Archbishop Marini for what he offers us in these pages. I hope that many, through the reading of this book, will discover the inspiration that drove the liturgists in their work.” Weigel concludes that Marini’s volume is a “cowboys-and-Indians, Vatican-style” account. Which leads me to join others of your correspondents in asking once again why Catholic San Francisco cannot offer readers a more balanced “op-ed” page. Ted Weber, Jr. San Francisco

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Said it well The Feb. 15 letter of Thomas F. Jordan (“Not a fan of Weigel”) regarding George Weigel was expressed perfectly. Weigel tries to express himself as such an intellect, but comes off otherwise. Ruth F. Becker Daly City

Rest of the story The Feb. 8 Catholic San Francisco contained a photo of Father Marciel Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legion of Christ saying Mass, above a single-sentence announcement of his death on Jan. 30. Inadvertently or not, this combination suggests that Father Maciel died as a priest in good standing. This is not true. He had been confined to a life of prayer and penance and forbidden to say Mass in public by Pope Benedict XVI because of evidence that he had sexually abused young seminarians years ago. Why is this important? Maciel founded an organization that has a $650 million annual budget, claims 700 priests and 50,000 lay members and operates the only three high school seminaries in the U.S. It owns the National Catholic Register newspaper. Despite credible evidence of Maciel’s abuse history, he was defended by a host of Catholic luminaries including Father Richard John Neuhaus, George Weigel, Mary Ann Glendon and William Donohue. The pressure to keep the lid on this story is significant. Robert M. Rowden San Rafael

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Personal stories of World War II flesh out horrors “PRIESTBLOCK 25487: A MEMOIR OF DACHAU,” by Jean Bernard. Translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider. Zaccheus Press (Bethesda, Md., 2007). 196 pp. $14.95. “DIARY OF A WITNESS, 1940-1943,” by Raymond-Raoul Lambert. Translated by Isabel Best. Ivan R. Dee (Chicago, 2007). 288 pp. $27.50.

Reviewed by Rachelle Linner To understand a period as complex as World War II and the Holocaust we need to read both trained historians and ordinary men and women. Historians provide a broad overview and understanding of context, but it is only individuals who can communicate the intimate details of what it is like to endure the suffering of mind, body and soul that is the reality of war. The two books under consideration, while not among the central Holocaust narratives, are important in fleshing out our knowledge of those terrible years.

Luxembourgian Father Jean Bernard (1907-1994) was a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp from May 1941 to August 1942. “Priestblock 25487” was originally published in a newspaper series in 1945 and was loosely adapted into the acclaimed 2004 German film, “The Ninth Day.” Father Bernard’s narrative is direct and explicit. It gives a brutally honest recitation of what it was like to endure the clergy barracks of Dachau: physical and emotional torture, starvation, disease, unceasing cold, hard physical labor and merciless guards. Father Bernard offers scant theological reflections on his experience but in a luminous passage he describes participating in his first Mass at Dachau. “‘Hoc est corpus meum.’ I look at the two bits of bread in my hand, and as the one for whom we are suffering all this comes into our midst, as in their hearts hundreds of priests join their offering with that of the Savior, tears roll down my cheeks. It becomes a single offering that certainly creates new ties between heaven and earth.”

These are the covers of “Priestblock 25487: A Memoir of Dachau” by Father Jean Bernard, and “Diary of a Witness, 1940-1943” by Raymond-Raoul Lambert.

It is because of his suffering that Father Bernard has the right to call on us not to forget, but to forgive. “We must forgive while remaining conscious of the full horror of what occurred, not only because nothing constructive can be built on a foundation of hatred ... but above all for the sake of him who commands and urges us to forgive, and before whom we, victims and executioners alike, are all poor debtors in need of mercy.” Raymond-Raoul Lambert’s “Diary of a Witness,” published in association with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, offers an opportunity to understand the thoughts and struggles of a controversial leader of France’s Jewish community. From 1941 until his arrest in August 1943 Lambert directed the General Union of the Jews of France, an organization established by the Vichy government. Lambert’s role was fraught with difficulty, requiring work with both French and German officials.

Although an essential document for students of Vichy France, “Diary of a Witness” is a difficult book for the general reader. Many of Lambert’s entries seem arcane. Many references to political and literary figures are without salience. Some problems are ameliorated by the excellent notes and clarifying introduction of its editor, Richard I. Cohen, a professor of French Jewry studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In a July 1941 entry Lambert describes conditions in an internment camp for foreigners in France, more than half of whom are Jewish: “In the midst of the catastrophe shaking the world, how many individual tragedies there are, what vast undeserved suffering!” His struggle to reconcile his Jewish and French identities deserves to be included in the reservoir of suffering that was Nazi Europe. Linner, a freelance writer and reviewer, lives in Boston.

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Lenten Opportunities Tuesdays, 12:30 p.m.: Noontime concerts at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant in San Francisco. The 45-minute program follows the 12:05 p.m. Mass. Visit www.noontimeconcerts.org for schedule of performers. Wednesdays through March 19, 7:30 p.m.: Scripture Faith Sharing/Lectio Divina at Motherhouse of Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, 43326 Mission Blvd. in Fremont. Contact Sister Beth Quire at (510) 657-2468 or beth@msjdominicans.org. Tuesdays of Lent, 7:30 p.m.: The Psalms: Model and Guide to Prayer, a Lenten Series with Franciscan Father Michael Guinan, retired professor from the Franciscan Graduate School of Theology in Berkeley at St. Emydius Church, Ashton and Demontfort St. in San Francisco. Cost is $25. Contact Peggy and Joe Koman at (415) 585-8260. Tuesdays of Lent: Join the St. Rita community for, “The Call of the Prophets,” exploring the unique nature of the prophetic voice found in Hosea and Amos, Micah, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Daniel. Each evening will begin with a soup supper at 6:15 p.m.in the Hall followed by lecture and discussion at 7 p.m.. Presenters are Father Kenneth Weare, Ph.D. and Noele Kostelic, M.A. For more information, contact St. Rita at 415-456-4815. Tuesdays of Lent: St. Raphael Church in San Rafael will be sponsoring a series of soup suppers. Theme is “Building a Community of Faith.” Prayer service takes place at 6:30 p.m. followed by supper and discussion. Call (415) 454-8141. March 8, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.: Lenten Day of Prayer sponsored by Contemplative Outreach of San Francisco and including several sessions of centering prayer, plus sacred music, poetry, self-reflection and films featuring Thomas Keating and Richard Rohr, exploring “The Contemplative Vision: Awakening to Beauty, Truth and Goodness.” St. Gregory of Nyssa Church on Potrero Hill, 500 DeHaro St. Bring lunch. Freewill offering. For information, call Mary at (415) 431-8590. March 8, 9: Soli Deo Gloria will present the U.S. premiere of Canadian composer Allan Bevan’s Nou Goth Sonne Wode – a meditation on Christ’s crucifixion - Saturday at St. Mark Lutheran Church, 1111 O’Farrell, San Francisco at 5 p.m. and Sunday at St. Joseph Basilica, 1109 Chestnut St. in Alameda at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 and $20 student/senior and will be available at the door. Discounted advance tickets are available online at www.sdgloria.org. March 12, 7 p.m.: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough St. and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco, a talk for parents, teachers and all concerned Catholics by Gil Bailie, a nationally known Catholic lecturer and author: “Why did it take the Resurrection to save us?” Presentation combines theology and anthropology for unique insights into the faith. For more information, call (415) 651-4171, or visit www.ccgaction.org. Tuesdays through April 1, 7:30 p.m.: Catholic Studies Series: Understanding the Creed with Mark Brumley, publisher/CEO Ignatius Press. Cost: $60. Takes place at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St., two blocks south of Monterey Blvd near I-280, Glen Park BART and City College. Contact Nellie Hizon at nelliehizon@yahoo.com or at (415) 699-7927, or Mary McCurry at McCurryM@sbcglobal.net or (650) 738-2571. Soup suppers with presentations on social topics of local and global interest at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco at 6:30 p.m. - March 7: Homelessness in San Francisco, Dominican Sister Anne Bertain of St. Dominic’s Lima Center and Jeff Faes of Larkin Street Youth Services. March 14: Human Trafficking, Norma Hotaling, Standing Against Exploitation. Call (415) 567-7824. March 7, 4:30 p.m.: Outdoor Stations of the Cross at St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St. in San Francisco with Lenten supper of soup, bread, cheese and fruit following. Respond to (415) 751-6510. March 13, 7 p.m.: Pauline Books and Media, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City, will present “Praying with Icons: Windows into Heaven” with Father James Graham. The Melkite Greek Catholic priest and Dr.

Datebook Topics important and pertinent to women of all ages, especially breast cancer, were the focus of a Breast Health Workshop at Mercy High School, San Francisco, Jan. 28. Sponsored by the school’s Alumnae Council, it “was a great opportunity to promote sisterhood through sharing information and providing support within the Mercy community,” the school said. Colleen Vignati is Alumnae Council president. Brigid Miralda, a nurse practitioner with the Breast Health Center at UCSF, and a member of Mercy’s class of ’92, was principal presenter. Among those attending were Liz Belonogoff, left, Marguerite Rodriquez, Carole Tuoye, and Teresa Lucchese. Ruth Ohm, professor at St. Patrick’s Seminary will lead participants toward a greater understanding and appreciation for sacred icons, explain how they are visual images of the religious faith they embody, and speak to the heart of the believer. Call (650) 369-4230. March 14 – 16: Divine Mercy Congress with adult and youth tracks, Oakland Convention Center, 1001 Broadway, featuring speakers including Oakland Bishop Allen Vigneron, San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang. Pre-registration recommended. Visit www.divinemercywestcoast.org. March 15, 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Day of Recollection sponsored by San Francisco Guild of the Catholic Medical Association at St. Mary’s Hospital chapel and cafeteria, 2250 Hayes St., 6th floor, San Francisco. Donation is $35. Lunch and light breakfast included. Presenters are Father John Jimenez and Nello Prato on the rosary. Father Mark Taheny, chaplain, will preside at Mass. Call (415) 219-8719. March 15, 9:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m.: The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences stages “Twenty Years after the New View From Rome: Pope John Paul II On Science and Religion,” a conference featuring Dr. George Coyne, S.J., former director of the Vatican Observatory. Held at the Graduate Theological Union Board Room, 2400 Ridge Rd, Berkeley. Registration: $45 or $35 for seniors/students. Seating is limited. For more information, see www.ctns.org/jkr_fellow.html or call (510) 848-8152. March 16, 2:30 p.m.: “Song of the Shadows,” a Holy Week cantata featuring choir members from St. Matthew, St. Robert, St. Bartholomew and St. Catherine parishes as well as 1st Congregational Church at St. Matthew Church, One Notre Dame Place, San Mateo. Call (650) 344-7622. Admission free. March 18, 7 – 9 p.m.: The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences offers a public lecture, “The Dance of the Fertile Universe: Did God Do It?” by Dr. George Coyne, S.J., former director of the Vatican Observatory. Held at Gesu Chapel, 1735 Le Roy Ave., Berkeley. Free and open to the public. For more information, see www.ctns.org/jkr_fellow.html or contact CTNS at (510) 848-8152. March 18: Emerging Alliance of Religion and Ecology, San Domenico School’s Spring Spirituality Evening featuring Mary Evelyn Tucker, a scholar, author and lecturer on religion and ecology. She is the cofounder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and

Ecology and is a member of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). Evening begins with dessert reception at 7 p.m. and talk at 7:30 p.m. at San Domenico School, Hall of the Arts, 1500 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo. Contact Beth O’Hara at (415) 258-1931. Reservations necessary. Tickets at $35 include dessert. April 3, May 1, 7:30 p.m.: Bioethics seminars on advance health directives at Heart of Mary Center, 2580 McAllister St. in San Francisco. Donation is $30. Refreshments served. Professor Raymond Dennehy will facilitate. Call (415) 219-8719.

Taize/Chanted Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Young Adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking available. For information contact, mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. 1st Friday at 7:30 p.m.: Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. March 12, 10:30 a.m.: A free grief support workshop, “Taking Care of Yourself in Grief and Loss” in the Cathedral Event Center, in the Msgr. Bowe Room with Barbara Elordi, MFT, director of Archdiocesan Grief Care Ministry. For further details, call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. Sundays: Concerts at 3:30 p.m. followed by vespers. Open to the public. Admission free. March 9: David Hatt, organist; March 16, Russell Hancock, piano. Schedule subject to change or cancellation. For information, contact Chris Tietze at (415) 567-2020, ext. 213.

glassware, tools, collectibles and more with 45 vendors. Takes place in Cantwell Hall, Wayland and Goettingen St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 244-0506. March 15: St. Patrick’s Day Dinner benefiting St. Matthew School, El Camino at 9th Ave. in San Mateo at 6 p.m. Features all-you-can-eat buffet of corned beef and cabbage, chicken and accompaniments. Tickets are $15 (kids under 12 are $7.50) with a bingo session from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Beverages available for sale. Contact CJadallah@merchante-solutions.com. March 15: St. Patrick’s Day Dinner at Our Lady of the Pillar’s new hall in Half Moon Bay with no-host cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 adults/$12 children under 12. Music by Peninsula Scottish Fiddlers. Take a chance on a trip to Ireland. Call Brian at (650) 799-0011 or Earl at (650) 7266646 or e-mail knightscouncil7534@yahoo.com. Sponsored by Knights of Columbus Council 7534: knightscouncil7534@yahoo.com. March 15, 5:30 p.m.: 8th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Dinner benefiting Star of the Sea Church, 8th Ave. and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Features corned beef and cabbage dinner and dancing to live music by The Bankrupt Sugar Daddies. Early-bird tickets before March 9 are $20 adults/children under 12$10; tickets are $5 more at the door. Call (415) 7510450 for reservations and information. Free parking. March 15, 11 a.m.: Mass of Thanksgiving and luncheon commemorating 120th anniversary of Council Dolores #7 of the Young Ladies Institute in the lower church of St. Cecilia Parish, 17th Ave. and Vicente St. in San Francisco. Lunch tickets are $25. Call Claire Kendall at (415) 751-5875. March 15, 6 – 9 p.m.: All Souls International Affair in parish church hall, 315 Walnut Ave. at Spruce in South San Francisco, featuring buffet dinner with dishes from around the world plus dancing and a raffle. Visit www.ssfallsoulsschool.org or call (650) 873-9451 for ticket information. March 16, noon – 4 p.m.: 52nd annual St. Patrick’s Day BBQ and Fundraiser benefiting Sacred Heart Parish in Olema at Dance Palace Community Center, 5th and B St. in Pt. Reyes Station. Tickets are $15 adults/$7 children and include barbecued chicken, pasta, salad, rolls and milk, tea or coffee. Entertainment, too! Desserts and libations will be available for purchase. Call (415) 663-1139. March 17: Hibernian Newman Club St. Patrick’s Day lunch at Hilton Hotel, 333 O’Farrell St. in San Francisco beginning with no-host reception at 11 a.m. and lunch at noon. Enjoy Irish music and entertainment. Brian Murphy of KNBR-Sports Radio is keynote speaker. Bill Henneberry of 1951 USF Dons football team is honoree. Tickets are $80. Call (415) 386-3434.

Serra Club March 13, noon: Annual St. Patrick’s Day luncheon and meeting of Serra Club of San Francisco at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia St. in San Francisco. Guest speaker is Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D., archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and noted historian. Dr. Burns will talk about Father Peter Yorke and Mayor James Phelan, two prominent Irish Catholics much attached to local history. Tickets are $20. Guests and non-members welcome. Call Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224.

Food & Fun March 8, 9: Estate sale benefiting works of St. Elizabeth Parish Women’s Club, Saturday, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Sunday, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Shop for art, jewelry,

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Rolheiser . . . ■ Continued from page 15 even while someone less sensitive could do this casually, thoughtlessly, and perhaps even as a joke. Sensitivity can make you uptight in a healthy way, just as lack of it can make you free in an unhealthy way. That was the case for my friend. She was a moral artist, congenitally incapable of defacing anything morally beautiful, herself or anyone around her. In the deepest areas of her life she was incapable of drawing a moustache on the Mona Lisa, even as she watched others do this casually and thoughtlessly. Her moral sensitivity made her uptight and sometimes this nearly suffocated her. I thought of her and her struggle a couple of years ago while I was teaching a course at a secular university. The students came from every kind of religious and moral background. As one of their assignments, I made them read a book by Christopher de Vinck, “Only the Heart Knows How to Find Them: Precious Memories for a Faithless Time.” The book is a series of warm essays that

tell stories of his own marriage, his home, his children, and his struggle to be faithful so as to carry his solitude at a high level. One of the students in the class came to my office one day with de Vinck’s book in hand and told me, “Father, I come from a non-religious background and my life has been very different from what this man describes. I’ve had a pretty experiential past. I’ve slept my way through a couple of states, and I don’t have a lot of guilt about that. But reading this book made me realize something. What I really want is what this man has, that kind of fidelity, that kind of home!” She had tears in her eyes when she said this. There was a moral artist inside of her, too, and a saint, both just awakening. There is a moral artist and a saint inside each of us, and, whether we are awake to that or not. Sometimes it can make us feel wonderfully free and sometimes it can make us feel like we are the most uptight persons in the whole world.

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Catholic San Francisco

March 7, 2008

St. Patrick’s Day – Saturday, March 15th, 2008

parade

celebrate

COMMENCES: 11:30 am

CIVIC CENTER PLAZA

at 2nd & Market Streets

ROUTE: Market Street to Civic Center Plaza via McAllister Street

10:00 am – 5:00 pm

March 15th ST. PATRICK CHURCH Special Mass

FREE ADMISSION to music, arts, food, fun, community, activities

756 Mission St. at 9:00 am

th March 9 ALMA VIA 1 Brotherhood Way Irish Entertainment 2:00 – 4:00 pm

TRADITIONAL IRISH ARTS & CRAFTS IRISH ORGANIZATION DISPLAYS GREAT FOOD & BEVERAGES

th March 9 LAGUNA HONDA

stage performances 11:00–12:00 1:30-2:15 2:30-3:30 4:00-5:00

Bob Savages Jerry Hanon Band The Gasmen The Hooks

Irish Entertainment 2:00 – 4:00 pm

CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES

SUPPORTING SPONSOR/PARTNERS PRESENTATIONS GREAT RAFFLE PRIZES

Alternative Transportation: Take BART to the Civic Center Plaza l Parking: At the Civic Center Garage