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Hundreds of thousands of people fill St. Peter's Square during the funeral Mass for Pope John Paul II at the Vatican April 8.

The poor and the powerful of the world attended the service to say their last goodbye to the pope, who died April 2 at age 84.

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Electing a Pope. . . . . . . . . . 4 Catholic Lobby Day . . . . . . 6 News-in-brief . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Below St. Peter’s . . . . . 10-11 Scripture and reflection . . . 14 Datebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When cardinals gather to vote for a new pope, the attention of the world will once again focus on the Sistine Chapel, a setting resplendent with art and full of history.

From the outside, the only sign of the conclave proceedings will emerge from the smokestack on top of the chapel’s roof. Barely visible from St. Peter’s Square, it is kept in the viewfinder of telephoto lenses until a new pope is elected and white smoke pours out.

Inside, the cardinals will be surrounded by visual reminders of humanity’s destiny and the church’s history.

The cardinals file into the Sistine Chapel, passing beneath Michelangelo’s frescoed interpretation of the beginnings of salvation history: creation, the fall of Adam and Eve and the flood.

They will be flanked by paintings of God’s attempts to win back his people and save them: on one wall, the life of Moses; on the other, the life of Christ, including a painting of him handing over the keys of heaven and earth to St. Peter, the first pope.

Past the table where the cardinals will deposit their ballots and behind the main altar rises Michelangelo’s massive reminder of how each person will end his or her days: “The Last Judgment.”

In his 2003 book of poems, “Roman Triptych,” Pope John Paul II wrote about participating in the two 1978 conclaves in the Sistine Chapel.

Aware of God’s love and human frailty, the pope wrote, the cardinals must let themselves be led by God in their deliberations for a new pope.

“He (God) will point him out,” he said.

Even after the Sistine Chapel was built and its decoration completed by Michelangelo in 1541, not all papal elections were held in the chapel.

Pope Pius VII was elected in Venice, Italy, in 1800.

The four conclaves that followed (from 1823 to 1846) were all held in Rome’s Quirinal Palace, once the summer home of the popes and now the residence of the president of Italy.

While the art and fame of the Sistine Chapel make it almost unthinkable that a conclave would be held anywhere else, the chapel presents two small problems.

The first is space. At the 1978 conclaves that elected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II, some of the 111 participating cardinals complained that their seats were so close together they barely had room to breathe, let alone write a secret ballot.

While the chapel has about 5,600 square feet of floor space, the room is divided by a marble and iron screen, halving the space for setting up tables and chairs in a way that allows all the electors to see each other and the altar.

The smoke signal — the only form of communication between the electors and the outside world — also proved problematic in 1978.

A special stove and chimney were installed in the chapel in the middle of the 18th century.

The black smoke, which signals a ballot without a definitive outcome, was produced by burning the ballots with wet straw or, later, by adding chemicals. The white smoke that tells the world a new pope has been elected is produced by burning the ballots alone.

But weather, atmospheric conditions and pollution all make the signal difficult to decipher. Most people in the past have relied on confirmation by Vatican Radio before looking for a good spot in St. Peter’s Square to see the newly elected pope when he appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.

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Electing the new Pope The conclave to elect a successor to Pope John Paul II will begin April 18. Jesuit Father Thomas Reese, editor of America Magazine, a publication of the Society of Jesus, has prepared a long series of questions on the history and process of electing a new Pope. Following are excerpts from a much larger treatment which can be found at www.americamagazine.org.

WHEN AND WHERE IS THE CONCLAVE HELD? Unless circumstances prevent it, the conclave takes place inside Vatican City and begins 15 days after death of the pope. For serious reasons, the cardinals can defer the beginning of the conclave, but it must begin within 20 days of the pope’s death. The exact date and time are set by the college of cardinals. The election takes place in the Sistine Chapel, with the cardinals living in the five-story Domus Sanctae Marthae, a Vatican residence with 105 two-room suites and 26 single rooms built in 1996, which is vacated by its usual residents during a conclave. The rooms are assigned by lot.

WHERE DOES THE WORD “CONCLAVE” COME FROM? In the 13th century the papacy was vacant for a year-anda-half before the election of Innocent IV and for three-anda-half years before the installation of Gregory X. In the first case the election was finally forced by the senate and people of Rome, who locked up the cardinals until a pope was chosen in 1243. In the second case, the people of Viterbo in 1271 not only locked the cardinals in, but tore off the roof of the building and put the cardinals on a diet of bread and water. The word “conclave” comes from the Latin, “with a key,” as in locked with a key. Today the cardinals are locked in to ensure secrecy and to protect them from outside influence. Before the conclave begins, all telephones, cell phones, radios, televisions and Internet connections are removed. No letters or newspapers are permitted. All the rooms are swept for electronic bugs by trained technicians.

WHO IS PERMITTED IN THE CONCLAVE? All cardinals who are under 80 years of age when the pope dies have the right to vote for the next pope, unless they have been canonically deposed or, with the permission of the pope, have renounced the cardinalate. Even an excommunicated cardinal can attend.

Also permitted in the conclave are nurses for infirm cardinals, two medical doctors, religious priests who can hear confessions in various languages, the secretary of the College of Cardinals, the master of papal liturgical celebrations with two masters of ceremonies and two religious attached to the papal sacristy, and an assistant chosen by the cardinal dean. Also permitted are a suitable number of persons for preparing and serving meals and for housekeeping.

They must swear absolute and perpetual secrecy concerning anything they learn concerning the election of the pope.

WHO ARE THE CARDINAL ELECTORS? Currently there are 117 cardinal electors, all but three appointed by John Paul II. The average age of the electors is 71.7 years of age.

About 49.6% are from Europe—17.1% from Italy; 22.2% from the rest of Western Europe; 10.3% from Eastern Europe. About 37.3% are from the Third World. Asia and Africa have 9.4% each; Latin America 17.9%; Oceania, 1.7%. The United States has 9.4%.

The maximum number of cardinals was set at 70 by Sixtus V in 1586. John XXIII ignored this limit, and the college grew to over 80 cardinals. In 1970 Paul VI reformed the college of cardinals by increasing the number of electors to 120, not counting those 80 years of age and over who were excluded as electors. John Paul II exceeded this limit by two in 1998 and by 15 in 2001 and 2003.

HOW HAS JOHN PAUL II CHANGED THE MAKEUP OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS? John Paul II has made the college less Italian and more Eastern European. At the death of Paul VI in 1978, 23.7%

of the college was Italian and 5.3% was from Eastern Europe; today, 17.1% is Italian and 10.3% is Eastern European. There are also slightly more Latin Americans: today 17.9% versus 16.7% in 1978. The percent from Africa (9.4% versus 10.5%) are Asia (9.4% versus 8.8%) are almost exactly the same. The percent from the United States is 9.4% today versus 10.5% in 1978.

HAS THE POPE ALWAYS BEEN ELECTED BY THE CARDINALS? Although the college of cardinals elects the pope today, this was not the rule until the 11th century. A few early popes, including St. Peter, may have appointed their successors, but this method did not gain acceptance. In the early church, popes were usually chosen by the clergy and people of Rome in the same way that bishops in other dioceses were elected. The one elected was then ordained by the bishops of the surrounding towns. This democratic process worked well when the church was small and united. But disagreements led to factions who fought over the papacy. As early as 217 the Christians of Rome were so divided over an election that fighting broke out. Pagan soldiers broke up the fight and exiled both men to the Sardinian tin mines. In 366, mobs and hired thugs from opposing factions invaded churches and killed opponents by the hundreds.

Roman nobles, emperors and kings began interfering in papal elections as the church became rich and powerful.

After the eighth century, the papal electors were limited to the clergy of the Diocese of Rome. This followed the pattern of other dioceses where the clergy elected the bishop. The man elected pope was normally a priest or deacon.

No bishop was elected pope until 891 (Formosus), because it was considered improper for a bishop to leave the diocese for which he had originally been ordained a bishop. A bishop was considered “married” to his diocese.

Nicholas II (1059-61) proposed a system whereby the cardinal bishops would meet to nominate a candidate and then invite in the cardinal priests to vote on him. Alexander III modified this system by including all the cardinals in the election process from the beginning. Since 1179, only cardinals have voted for the pope except for the election in 1417 that ended the Western Schism.

The cardinals are divided into three orders or categories: cardinal deacons, cardinal priests and cardinal bishops. The cardinal priests were the pastors of major churches in Rome, and the cardinal deacons were important administrators in the diocese, often of what we would now call charities or social services. The cardinal bishops were the bishops of the six dioceses surrounding Rome. In the 11th century popes began appointing prelates in distant lands as cardinals. Sometimes laymen were also appointed cardinals, but it was normally expected that they would receive at least minor orders. John XXIII decreed that all the cardinals should be bishops, although he kept the three orders.

WHAT HAPPENS ON THE FIRST DAY OF THE CONCLAVE? On the morning the conclave begins, the cardinal electors celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at 10 a.m. In the afternoon they gather in the Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace and solemnly process to the Sistine Chapel at 4:30 p.m. The cardinals take an oath to observe the rules laid down in Universi Dominici Gregis, especially those enjoining secrecy. They also swear not to support interference in the election by any secular authorities or “any group of people or individuals who might wish to intervene in the election of the Roman pontiff.” Finally, the electors swear that whoever is elected will carry out the “munus Petrinum of pastor of the universal church” and will “affirm and defend strenuously the spiritual and temporal rights and liberty of the Holy See.” Another section of the constitution says that the new pope is not bound by any oaths or promises made prior to his election.

After the oath is taken, everyone not connected with the conclave is ordered out with the Latin words “Extra

omnes,” “Everybody out!” The Sistine Chapel and the Domus Sanctae Marthae are then closed to unauthorized persons by the camerlengo.

After everyone else leaves, an ecclesiastic chosen earlier by the college of cardinals gives a meditation “concerning the grave duty incumbent on them and thus on the need to act with right intention for the good of the universal church, solum Deum prae oculis habentes [having only God before your eyes].” When he finishes, he leaves the Sistine Chapel with the master of papal liturgical ceremony so that only the cardinal electors remain. The time in the chapel is for prayer and voting in silence, not campaign speeches. Negotiations and arguments are to take place outside the chapel. If they wish, the cardinals can immediately begin the election process and hold one ballot on the afternoon of the first day. If no one receives the required two-thirds vote in the balloting on the afternoon of the first day, the cardinals meet again the next morning.

HOW DOES THE BALLOTING TAKE PLACE? The regulations for balloting are very detailed to eliminate any suspicion of electoral fraud. Three “scrutineers” (vote counters) are chosen by lot from the electors, with the least senior cardinal deacon drawing the names. He draws three additional names of cardinals (called infirmarii) who will collect the ballots of any cardinals in the conclave who are too sick to come to the Sistine Chapel. A final three names are drawn by lot to act as revisers, who review the work done by the scrutineers. Each morning and afternoon, new scrutineers, infirmarii and revisers are chosen by lot.

The electors use rectangular cards as ballots with “Eligo in summum pontificem” (“I elect as supreme pontiff”) printed at the top. When folded down the middle the ballot is only one inch wide. Each cardinal in secret prints or writes the name of his choice on the ballot in a way that disguises his handwriting. One at a time, in order of precedence, the cardinals approach the altar with their folded ballot held up so that it can be seen. On the altar there is a receptacle (traditionally a large chalice) covered by a small plate (paten).

After kneeling in prayer for a short time, the cardinal rises and swears, “I call as my witness Christ the Lord who will be my judge, that my vote is given to the one who before God I think should be elected.” He then places the ballot on the plate. Finally he picks up the plate and uses it to drop the ballot into the receptacle. The use of the plate makes it difficult for a cardinal to drop two ballots into the chalice.

The first scrutineer uses the plate as a cover when shaking the receptacle to mix the ballots. The last scrutineer counts the ballots before they are unfolded. If the number of ballots does not correspond to the number of electors, the ballots are burned without being counted and another vote is immediately taken. If the number of ballots does match the number of electors, the scrutineers, who are sitting at a table in front of the altar, begin counting the votes.

The first scrutineer unfolds the ballot, notes the name on a piece of paper and passes the ballot to the second scrutineer. He notes the name and passes the ballot to the third scrutineer, who reads it aloud for all the cardinals to hear.

The last scrutineer pierces each ballot with a threaded needle through the word “Eligo” and places it on the thread.

After all the ballots have been read, the ends of the thread are tied together and the ballots thus joined are placed in an empty receptacle. The scrutineers then add up the totals for each candidate. Finally, the three revisers check both the ballots and the notes of the scrutineers to make sure that they performed their task faithfully and exactly.

To be elected, two thirds of the votes are required, calculated on the basis of the total number of electors present.

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■ Continued from page 4 one additional vote is required. Thus if all the current 117 cardinal electors are present, 78 votes would be required to elect a new pope.

The ballots and notes (including those made by any cardinal) are then burned unless another vote is to take place immediately.

The ballots are burned by the scrutineers with the assistance of the secretary of the conclave and the master of ceremonies, who adds special chemicals to make the smoke white or black. Since 1903, white smoke has signaled the election of a pope; black smoke signals an inconclusive vote. The only written record of the voting permitted is a document prepared by the camerlengo and approved by the three cardinal assistants, which is prepared at the end of the election and gives the results of each session. This document is given to the new pope and then placed in the archives in a sealed envelope that may be opened by no one unless the pope gives permission.

HOW LONG CAN THE CONCLAVE LAST? The conclave lasts until a new pope is elected. The last conclave to go more than five days was in 1831: it lasted 54 days. In the 13th century the papacy was vacant for a year-anda-half before the election of Innocent IV and for three-and-a-half years before the installation of Gregory X. Since then 29 conclaves have lasted a month or more. Often wars or civil disturbances in Rome caused these lengthy interregnums. Sometimes delays were caused by the cardinals themselves, who enjoyed the power and financial rewards of running the papacy without a pope. These abuses led to rules governing an interregnum and requiring the speedy calling of a conclave.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE FIRST DAY? If no one receives the required two-thirds of the votes in the balloting on the afternoon of the first day, the cardinals meet again the next morning. If they are again unsuccessful, they immediately vote again. From then on, there can be two votes in the morning and two in the

afternoon. Each morning and afternoon, new scrutineers, infirmarii and revisers are chosen by lot. If a second vote takes place, the materials from two votes are burned at the same time.

Thus twice a day there will be black smoke from the stove until a pope is elected.

The tradition of white smoke for an election and black smoke for an inconclusive ballot only dates from the beginning of the 20th century.

After the death of John Paul II, the cardinals decided to add a new tradition—bells will also be rung to signal the election of the new pope.

If after three days the cardinals have still not elected anyone, the voting sessions can be suspended for one day for prayer and discussion among the electors. During this intermission, a brief spiritual exhortation is given by the senior cardinal deacon. Then another

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seven votes take place, followed by a suspension and an exhortation by the senior cardinal priest. Another seven votes take place, followed by a suspension and an exhortation by the senior cardinal bishop. Voting is then resumed for another seven ballots.

If no candidate receives a two-thirds vote after this balloting, the camerlengo invites the electors to express an opinion about the manner of proceeding. It is at this point that the dramatic changes occur introduced by John Paul II that allow an absolute majority (more than half) of the electors to waive the requirement of a two-thirds majority vote. Thus, an absolute majority of the electors can decide to elect the pope by an absolute majority. They can also decide to force a choice between the two candidates who in the preceding ballot received the greatest number of votes. In this second case also only an absolute majority is required.

As a consequence, if an absolute majority of the electors favored a candidate in the first ballot of the first day of the conclave, in theory they could hold firm for about 12 days through about 30 votes until they could change the rules and elect their candidate. In the past, the two-thirds requirement was an incentive for the electors to compromise or move to another candidate.

WHO CAN BE ELECTED? In theory, any man can be elected who is willing to be baptized and ordained a priest and bishop. He does not have to be at the conclave. The last noncardinal elected was Urban VI (1378). The last cardinal to be elected pope who was a priest but not a bishop was Gregory XVI (1831). Callistus III (Affonso Borgia 1455) was the last person to be elected who was not a priest. Most likely a cardinal elector will be elected, all of whom today are bishops.

WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE ELECTION? The cardinal dean asks the man, “Do you accept your canonical election as supreme pontiff?” Rarely does anyone say no. When offered the papacy at the conclave in Viterbo in 1271, St. Philip Benizi fled and hid until another candidate was chosen. Likewise St. NEW POPE, page 15

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Catholic Lobby Day set for April 26 Catholic San Francisco Staff Catholics from throughout California are invited to gather in Sacramento April 26 for the Seventh Annual Catholic Lobby Day. Participants will engage in a full day of prayer, direct lobbying and reflection upon issues in the public policy arena of concern to Catholics. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will join the delegation of parishioners, priests and religious from the Archdiocese this year.

“Participation in politics and the formation of laws is not only a right for Catholics, but an obligation stemming from baptism,” said George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Nearly 1000 bills are introduced into the California legislature each year. The bills that are politically viable generally are identified by mid-April Wesolek said. Catholics who participate in Lobby Day will be asked to speak with their representatives on broad issues of importance as well as specific bills which have clear relevance to Catholic social teaching.

The California Catholic Conference in consultation with local public policy offices has identified three statewide areas of importance and three specific bills as a focus of lobbying efforts on this year. Main themes include human dignity, support for families, and religious freedom.

Targeted bills deal with issues of euthanasia, maintaining support for the poor and naturalization services.

Assembly Bill 654 by Assembly Members Berg (D - Santa Rosa) and Levine (D -Van Nuys) would change California law by allowing doctors to provide a lethal prescription to patients found by their attending physician to be terminally ill. The California Catholic Conference has joined a coalition, Californians Against Assisted Suicide, to oppose this bill.

AB 696 by Assembly Member Chu (D - Monterey Park) would provide some relief for poor and indigent Californians dependent on Cal WORKS and food stamp programs from

Catholics walk to Capital Building during 2004 Lobby Day.

deep cuts mad in social services by the Governors budget.

The Catholic Conference supports this bill.

AB 930 by Assembly Member De La Torre (D - South Gate) is sponsored by Catholic Charities of California and supported by the Catholic Conference. The bill would require the Department of Community Services and Development to provide funding to local government and community based organizations for assistance in naturalization services.

Preparation for Lobby Day this year also included a local year long consultation with the Office of Public Policy and about 100 priests, lay people and religious throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco to develop and address issues of importance to local constituencies.

Sarah Silva of the Office of Public Policy told Catholic San Francisco she hopes “this model will connect statewide issues to

the real local experiences of our parishes and begin to shape public policy from the bottom up.” She said Catholics ought to be in a position to help form the dialogue on public policy and “not just react to it once a year.”

Lobby Day begins with registration at the Crest Theatre, 1013 K Street, Sacramento, and is followed by a welcome, reflections and Mass. Participants will march to the Capitol building beginning at 11:30 a.m. for a Noon rally followed by lunch and visits to legislators. Lobby Day organizers will schedule legislative visits ahead of time. The cost for registration is $8 which includes lunch and all materials.

Registration for those wishing to join a bus charter to the Capitol is $20. Those interested in participating are asked to register by April 18 by sending email to kortenkampt@sfarchdiocese.org or calling 415-614-5567.

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Annual Loaves and Fishes Awards Dinner raises record $1 Million About 400 participants raised a record $1 million at the 8th Annual Loaves and Fishes Awards Dinner March 19.

The annual fundraiser, which was established in 1998, recognizes extraordinary charitable efforts by individuals and organizations in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and raises funds for the programs of Catholic Charities CYO. “By honoring individuals and organizations dedicated to improving their communities, I hope to inspire a greater spirit of philanthropy, as well as energetic support for Catholic Charities CYO and all charitable organizations in the Bay Area,” said Archbishop William J. Levada.

The Archbishop presented awards to four honorees: Victoria and Joseph W. Cotchett, the San Francisco 49er’s and team owners Denise and John York, Richard J. Dunn of the Order of Malta, and St. Joseph’s Health Support Alliance.

A leader in the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a religious order dedicated to caring for the sick and the poor, Mr. Dunn, was named a Knight of the Papal Order of St. Gregory. In 2004, he was the first Knight in the United States and South America to become a Bailiff Grand Cross of Honor and Devotion in Obedience.

Mr. and Mrs. Cotchett known for their outstanding philanthropic works established the Cotchett Family Foundation that provides funds to non-profit organizations supporting children, women and animal welfare.

Denise DeBartolo York and John York established The 49er’s Foundation as the team’s non-profit community outreach extension dedicated to meeting the educational, social and cultural needs of individuals, families and youth in the community.

For the past 20 years, St. Joseph’s Health Support Alliance provided Catholic Charities CYO nearly $2 mil-

Archbishop William J. Levada with honorees Dr. John York (left) and Richard J. Dunn, Knight of Malta (right).

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Jury in San Francisco civil trial returns award verdict SAN FRANCISCO — Jurors in the trial of a civil lawsuit against the Archdiocese of San Francisco voted March 24 to award $437,000 to a plaintiff who had been molested as a teenager in the early 1970s by a priest serving in San Jose. The same jury, on March 18, voted 10-2 that the Archdiocese of San Francisco should have known that Father Joseph Pritchard, who died in 1988, had been molesting victims at St. Martin of Tours parish where the priest was pastor in the 1970s. The trial represents one of more than 75 lawsuits filed against the Archdiocese of San Francisco under a 2002 state law, which removed for one year the statute of limitations for seeking civil damages against employers of alleged perpetrators of sexual abuse.

Lawsuits against northern California Catholic dioceses are the subject of ongoing settlement talks.

Bishop Weigand and liver donor recover from surgery SACRAMENTO — Bishop William K. Weigand of Sacramento and Dan Haverty, the El Dorado Hills parishioner who donated two-thirds of his liver to the bishop, are recuperating from successful liver transplant surgery performed April 1 at the University of California Medical

Center in San Francisco. The bishop was moved out of the intensive care unit to a room on the post-transplant floor the evening of April 2. Both Bishop Weigand and Haverty were in fair condition as of April 7 and following the usual postoperative course, said Lynette Magnino, director of communications for the Sacramento Diocese. “There were no surprises in the surgery and no complications,” she said.

Camille Cosby gives $2 million to Catholic school in Baltimore BALTIMORE — Calling St. Frances Academy in East Baltimore an outstanding institution that deserves more recognition, the wife of actor-comedian Bill Cosby donated $2 million to help the 330-student high school establish 16 annual full-tuition scholarships. “If we are looking for solutions to the failure of our schools to educate our children, we would be well served by studying and replicating what St. Frances Academy is doing,” said Camille O. Cosby, who made the gift April 4. “Given the magnitude of problems such as skyrocketing high school dropout rates, our society can no longer afford that this institution remains a best-kept secret,” she said. St. Frances Academy was founded 176 years ago by the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first religious order for African-American women. Located in one of the toughest sections of the city, the school stands in the shadow of the Baltimore City Detention Center at the Maryland State Penitentiary.

President, Democratic senator Praise late pope in radio talks WASHINGTON — Pope John Paul II “brought the Gospel’s message of hope and love and freedom to the far corners of the earth,” President George W. Bush said April 9 in his weekly radio address to the nation. U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., had similar praise for the late pope in the Democratic response to the address, saying, “Our world lost a great spiritual leader of conscience and a statesman.”

The president also spoke at length about Pope John Paul

and about the experience of attending the April 8 funeral Mass. “It’s such an honor to represent our country at a ceremony honoring a truly great man who is and will always be a great historical figure,” Bush said in the interview.

“This will be one of the highlights of my presidency, to have been at this great ceremony.”

Cardinals pray at pope’s tomb before it opens to public VATICAN CITY — The world’s cardinals prayed at the tomb of Pope John Paul II April 12, the evening before the grotto under St. Peter’s Basilica opened to the public.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said the cardinals would visit the tomb after the evening’s celebration of a memorial Mass for the pope. The grotto was to open to the public at 7 a.m. April 13, the spokesman said, and was expected to remain open 7 a.m.-6 p.m. daily. The Vatican was gearing up for long lines of visitors to the tomb. Some 2 million people, many of them pilgrims from the pontiff’s native Poland, came to pay their respects to Pope John Paul when his body was laid out in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Universal church says goodbye VATICAN CITY — The Catholic Church never felt so universal as when it said goodbye to Pope John Paul II. The flags of nations waved across St. Peter's Square, and leaders from around the world came to pay homage to the late pontiff. Cardinals from more than 50 countries concelebrated the funeral Mass April 8. But it was among the ordinary people -- in the square and the surrounding streets that could not contain the crowd -- that the long reach of Pope John Paul's papacy was most tangible.

"This pope was a father for the world. He was no longer the pope for Catholics but the pope for everybody," said Nigerian Sister Austin Osugi, whose bright blue habit stood out among a background of red Polish banners. "He went beyond the boundaries of Catholicism and touched the world," she said.

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San Francisco seminarian studying with Boston’s Deaf Apostolate BOSTON — A seminarian from the Archdiocese of San Francisco is studying with the Deaf Apostolate in the Archdiocese of Boston during his pastoral year. Paul Zirimenya, who is deaf, studied with Father Michael Medas, director of the apostolate, helping with reconciliation, baptism, anointing of the sick, marriage preparation and funeral preparation. “My life really revolves around the sacramental life of the Church,� he said with Father Medas as interpreter. “That ministry gives me a picture of my calling.�

The experience he received will help him connect third and forth year theology studies with concrete experiences when he heads back to San Francisco in the fall, the seminarian said.

Zirimenya, who has understandable speech, lived at Holy Family Parish in Concord and communicated with hearing parishioners there. This experience helped him to become a better verbal reader and gave him practical experience with being “a bridge between the hearing and deaf communities,� he said.

Father Tom Daly, Vocations Director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, called Zirimenya’s opportunity to study in Boston “providential.� “We could not provide the variety of experience,�

Father Daly said, noting that Zirimenya’s experience will help him to enrich the San Francisco Archdiocese when he returns. “It’s a commitment Boston and San Francisco have made to serve the deaf community in a very pastoral way,� he added. “He certainly has given a lot to us,� added Father Medas.

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By Msgr. Steven Otellini This January I was called to Rome for a consulters meeting of chaplains for the Knights of Malta. Because I came the greatest distance, I planned to arrive a few days early to recover and to make the long trip worthwhile. It was the same week that the Holy Father was taken to the hospital. Little did I know that, in God’s providence, the absence of the Sovereign Pontiff would allow me an unparalleled convergence of life experiences.

Wednesday is the usual day for Papal Audiences.

Because the Holy Father was at the Gemelli Clinic, the scheduled audience for that day was cancelled.

Consequently, because there are no tours offered in the Vatican on Wednesday mornings, the “Scavi,” the excavations under St. Peter’s, are closed. My friend, Paolo, the director of the office invited me to come for a look-see at my old haunts, through which for nine years I guided pilgrims in the most literally “apostolic” work I have ever done.

Crossing the Tiber one is drawn to recall the happy phrase which described the happier event of converts joining the Church of Rome, or “popeing” as it is less happily expressed. With the looming view of Michelangelo’s dome, I also recall the quip of Ronald Knox regarding Rome and ardent Catholics: “If you tend to get seasick, it is best not to go into the engine room”. But we remember that it was in the “engine room” that the two young English dilettantes nobles in the sixteenth century who came to scoff at Roman enormities were so moved by the sight of the holy Pius V in a Eucharistic procession that they joined the Church of their derision and died heroes at Lepanto fighting beneath a banner blessed by the saintly mendicant who saved Europe.

I approached the looming basilica, always larger than one recalls it, and catalogue the ciphers of genius it presents: Bramante, Raphael, Michelangelo, Fontana, Bernini, Maderno. Its price was the Reformation as realists like to point out; but it is also the locus where T.S. Elliot inexpli-

cably fell to his knees, leading later, more inexplicably, to his entering the Church of England.

Paolo is a wonderfully diminutive man who has worked his whole life in the Vatican, most of that time in the Scavi Office. He has escorted kings, patriarchs, diplomats, presidents, prelates, movie stars and an occasional cretin into the necropolis. Most significantly this is the man who literally holds the keys of St. Peter.

The excavations were begun in 1939 when, preparing for the burial of Pius XI, a discovery was made of some ancient masonry below the floor level of the previous Constantinian Basilica. This led to excavations which continued for ten years uncovering the original Roman necropolis from the first century AD This was built over the cemetery in which Roman slaves were buried, and the Jewish fisherman named Simon whose father was Jonah.

Much work is being done to stabilize the delicate climate and to preserve the ruins. The necropolis is remarkable in the variety and quality of structures it preserves, possibly the best in Italy. Magnificent frescoes and mosaics of vivid depiction adorn these resting places of prosperous Roman merchants. Paolo indicated, with a stalker’s enthusiasm, the appearance of pheasants, peacocks, partridges, doves and a phoenix where cleaning had revealed their capture in a perpetual vibrancy. We lingered in the Valerian mausoleum where monochromatic stucco reliefs of fine reserve still preserve the physiognomy of its long-dead inhabitants. Here, in this mausoleum, are graffiti, from the time of Constantine, invoking the intercession of Peter for Christians who were hastily buried beneath the gigantic rising artificial plateau which would support the first basilica.

Paolo and I ascended one level to that floor height of the fourth century church. We skirted around to the north side of the “confessio,” which is below the present papal altar.

Here, in a tiny niche, are the pitifully few bone fragments which are believed to be those of Peter. They are spread on a white cushion in a glass box no larger than a shoe box and about two inches thick. Paolo removed the box from the

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■ Continued from page 10 holding the relics of St. Peter which probably not even the popes have done”. What struck me as I looked at the chalky remains was that the only distinguishable part (at least to my untrained eye) was a tiny fragment of the right mandible with a partial tooth attached. This was the mouth that pronounced the divinely revealed words at Caesarea Philippi, the mouth that denied the Savior, the mouth that received the first Eucharist, which ate the fish cooked by the Risen Christ, and finally, in humble penitence, spoke the triple confession of love.

Paolo dusted the box, and I replaced it in its millennial encasement. The exterior facing of the wall is covered with graffiti dating from the latter part of the second century (when it was constructed) to the beginning of the third when Constantine enclosed everything in a giant marble reliquary.

The inscriptions are difficult to read for they have been repeatedly over-inscribed; but there are clearly visible symbols of keys turned into Latin “P’s” or even Greek “Rho’s” with a “Chi” added. These are clever efforts of the ancient faithful to merge Christ with Peter and the charge he received from his Lord. In a striking coincidence, the same cryptographic graffiti is found at the “house of Peter” discovered at Capernaum.

Upon exiting the area of the excavations we passed the tomb of Pius XI which started this momentous discovery.

Paolo and I climbed to the main floor level of the current basilica where he led me to the first elevator ever installed in Rome (still frighteningly in operation!). We ascended through one of the massive pylons that support one of the lesser domes of the church. Upon reaching the roof level, we emerged into a very spacious and beautifully bricked beehive shaped room. This was Michelangelo’s work room when he was acting as the architect for St. Peter’s. It is now the archives for the basilica.

It holds not only all the documents going back to Bramante’s original work, but also such curiosities as the ropes that were used to re-erect the obelisk in St. Peter’s Square.

I looked down from the formidable height that makes of the patterned marble floor a kind of petrified carpet. Pilgrims were coming and going in the quiet afternoon. The distance gave a perspective which crept from the spatial dimension to the temporal. It is said that the Coliseum can hold about 50,000 people.

It is estimated that the Circus Maximus could accommodate about twice that. The circus of Nero where Peter was crucified was about the same size as the Circus Maximus. So by reasonable historical hypothesis maybe 100,000 Romans witnessed the games that Tacitus tells us occurred in 64 AD, after the fire of Rome, when the Christians were made scapegoats for the disaster, and Peter was crucified up-side-down. At the interment of Peter a few Christians were present for the miserable burial in a pauper’s grave on the open hillside of the Vatican.

The centuries pass and a kind of reverse historical process occurs. Unlike the great imperial monuments of the capital “Urbs”, such as Hadrian’s Tomb, which start out as magnificent memorials and then decay; the very opposite happens here. This pauper’s grave cut directly into the earth and covered with a few tile grows over the centuries into the splendid memorial of universal recognition. Where once the mad imperial power hoped to exterminate a bothersome sect, that religion now finds its very living center.

I think of the vibrant 58 year old Pope John Paul II I saw only eight months after his election. We had all been accus-

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tomed to a pope more the age of our grandfather; here was a man more like our father. I think of the early visits to Mexico and Poland which drew historic crowds. I think of the attempt to remove this “troublesome cleric” who threatened to free half of Europe. The bullet failed to halt the process; it did proffer the occasion of an incredible act of forgiveness for the man who fired the bullet. We all remember the visits to the United States, in particular the sight of the confident Pontiff at the Golden Gate with the ocean winds furling his robes. The final glimpses of this The tomb of Pope John Paul II, seen April 9, is located in a grotto “Christ-Bearer” show us a below the main level of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. man confined to a chair who could not speak; but whose silent testimony was more eloquent than any previous tory, and I wander in my mind to those bones, which I held in my gesture, whose hands rose in blessing for a final act of love. hands, of the fisherman turned vicarious shepherd. The words of I watch the incalculable crowds who swirl in the streets, num- God addressed to Ezekiel come to mind: “Son of man, can these bers which have never been seen before at any funeral rite in his- bones live?” The answer seems clear in the blinding surge of life.

You haven’t chosen me. I have chosen you.”

“Tu no me has elegido. Yo te he elegido a ti.”

John 15:16

God, our Father, In Your love and providence, You call each of us to a more holy and abundant life. We pray for our young people in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Open their hearts and minds to know the vocation You have planned for them from all eternity. If they are being invited to follow You as a priest, Brother, or Sister, give them a generous heart to respond to Your challenging call and the strength to follow wherever You lead them. May families desire to please You by encouraging and supporting vocations within their homes. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Good Shepherd. Amen

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The following homily was given by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Dean of the College of Cardinals, at the funeral Mass for Pope John Paul II April 8 “Follow me.” The Risen Lord says these words to Peter. They are his last words to this disciple, chosen to shepherd his flock. “Follow me” – this lapidary saying of Christ can be taken as the key to understanding the message which comes to us from the life of our late beloved Pope John Paul II. Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality – our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.

These are the sentiments that inspire us, brothers and sisters in Christ, present here in Saint Peter’s Square, in neighbouring streets and in various other locations within the city of Rome, where an immense crowd, silently praying, has gathered over the last few days. I greet all of you from my heart. In the name of the College of Cardinals, I also wish to express my respects to heads of state, heads of government and the delegations from various countries. I greet the Authorities and official representatives of other Churches and Christian Communities, and likewise those of different religions. Next I greet the Archbishops, Bishops, priests, religious men and women and the faithful who have come here from every Continent; especially the young, whom John Paul II liked to call the future and the hope of the Church. My greeting is extended, moreover, to all those throughout the world who are united with us through radio and television in this solemn celebration of our beloved Holy Father’s funeral.

Follow me — As a young student Karol Wojtyla was thrilled by literature, the theatre, and poetry. Working in a chemical plant, surrounded and threatened by the Nazi terror, he heard the voice of the Lord: Follow me! In this extraordinary setting he began to read books of philosophy and theology, and then entered the clandestine seminary established by Cardinal Sapieha. After the war he was able to complete his studies in the faculty of theology of the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. How often, in his letters to priests and in his autobiographical books has he spoken to us about his priesthood, to which he was ordained on November 1, 1946. In these texts he interprets his priesthood with particular reference to three sayings of the Lord.

First: “You did not choose me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last” (John 15:16). The second saying is: “The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (John 10:11). And then: “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love” (John 15:9). In these three sayings we see the heart and soul of our Holy Father. He really went everywhere, untiringly, in order to bear fruit, fruit that lasts. “Rise, Let us be on our Way!” is the title of his next-to-last book.

“Rise, let us be on our way!” — With these words he roused us from a lethargic faith, from the sleep of the disciples of both yesterday and today. “Rise, let us be on our way!” he continues to say to us even today. The Holy Father was a priest to the last, for he offered his life to God for his flock and for the entire human family, in a daily selfoblation for the service of the Church, especially amid the sufferings of his final months. And in this way he became one with Christ, the Good Shepherd who loves his sheep.

Finally, “abide in my love:” the Pope who tried to meet everyone, who had an ability to forgive and to open his heart to all, tells us once again today, with these words of the Lord, that by abiding in the love of Christ we learn, at the school of Christ, the art of true love.

Follow me! In July 1958 the young priest Karol Wojtyla began a new stage in his journey with the Lord and in the footsteps of the Lord. Karol had gone to the Masuri lakes for his usual vacation, along with a group of young people who loved canoeing. But he brought with him a letter inviting him to call on the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Wyszynski. He could guess the purpose of the meeting: He was to be appointed as the auxiliary Bishop of Kraków.

Leaving the academic world, leaving this challenging engagement with young people, leaving the great intellectual endeavour of striving to understand and interpret the mystery of that creature which is man and of communicating to today’s world the Christian interpretation of our being – all this must have seemed to him like losing his very self, losing what had become the very human identity of this young priest. Follow me – Karol Wojtyla accepted the appointment, for he heard in the Church’s call the voice of Christ. And then he realized how true are the Lord’s words: “Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it” (Luke 17:33). Our Pope – and we all know this – never wanted to make his own life secure, to keep it for himself; he wanted to give of himself unreservedly, to the very last moment, for Christ and thus also for us. And thus he came to experience how everything which he had given over into the Lord’s hands came back to him in a new way. His love of words, of poetry, of literature, became an essential part of his pastoral mission and gave new vitality, new urgency, new attractiveness to the preaching of the Gospel, even when it is a sign of contradiction.

Follow me! In October 1978 Cardinal Wojtyla once again heard the voice of the Lord. Once more there took

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Homily from the funeral of Pope John Paul II

German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger censes the casket of Pope John Paul II during his funeral Mass in St Peter's Square at the Vatican April 8. A cypress casket marked with a simple cross and an "M" for Mary bore the body of the Polish pontiff, who died April 2 at age 84.

Pilgrims hold a banner that translates as "sainthood immediately" during the funeral Mass for Pope John Paul II. Thousands of the faithful began chanting the pope's name in Italian during the funeral and calling for his immediate canonization.

place that dialogue with Peter reported in the Gospel of this Mass: “Simon, son of John, do you love me? Feed my sheep!” To the Lord’s question, “Karol, do you love me?,” the Archbishop of Krakow answered from the depths of his heart: “Lord you know everything; you know that I love you.” The love of Christ was the dominant force in the life of our beloved Holy Father. Anyone who ever saw him pray, who ever heard him preach, knows that. Thanks to his being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities: that of being the shepherd of Christ’s flock, his universal Church.

This is not the time to speak of the specific content of this rich pontificate. I would like only to read two passages of today’s liturgy which reflect central elements of his message. In the first reading, Saint Peter says – and with Saint Peter, the Pope himself – “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. You know the message he sent to the people of Israel, preaching peace

by Jesus Christ - he is Lord of all” (Acts 10:34-36). And in the second reading, Saint Paul – and with Saint Paul, our late Pope – exhorts us, crying out: “My brothers and sisters, whom I love and long for, my joy and my crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, my beloved” (Philippians 4:1).

Follow me! Together with the command to feed his flock, Christ proclaimed to Peter that he would die a martyr’s death. With those words, which conclude and sum up the dialogue on love and on the mandate of the universal shepherd, the Lord recalls another dialogue, which took place during the Last Supper. There Jesus had said: “Where I am going, you cannot come.” Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus replied: “Where I am going, you cannot follow me now; but you will follow me afterward.” (John 13:33,36). Jesus from the Supper went towards the cross, went towards his resurrection – he entered into the paschal mystery; and Peter could not yet follow him. Now – after the resurrection – comes the time, comes this “afterward.” By shepherding the flock of Christ, Peter enters into the paschal mystery, he goes towards the cross and the resurrection. The Lord says this in these words: “... when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone

else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go” (John 21:18). In the first years of his pontificate, still young and full of energy, the Holy Father went to the very ends of the earth, guided by Christ. But afterwards, he increasingly entered into the communion of Christ’s sufferings; increasingly he understood the truth of the words: “Someone else will fasten a belt around you.”

And in this very communion with the suffering Lord, tirelessly and with renewed intensity, he proclaimed the Gospel, the mystery of that love which goes to the end (cf.

John 13:1).

He interpreted for us the paschal mystery as a mystery of divine mercy. In his last book, he wrote: The limit imposed upon evil “is ultimately Divine Mercy” (Memory and Identity, Page 60-61). And reflecting on the assassination attempt, he said: “In sacrificing himself for us all, Christ gave a new meaning to suffering, opening up a new dimension, a new order: the order of love ... It is this suffering which burns and consumes evil with the flame of love and draws forth even from sin a great flowering of good” (Page 189-190). Impelled by this vision, the Pope suffered and loved in communion with Christ, and that is why the message of his suffering and his silence proved so eloquent and so fruitful.

Divine Mercy: The Holy Father found the purest reflection of God’s mercy in the Mother of God. He, who at an early age had lost his own mother, loved his divine mother all the more. He heard the words of the crucified Lord as addressed personally to him: “Behold your Mother.” And so he did as the beloved disciple did: He took her into his own home” (John 19:27) – Totus tuus.

And from the mother he learned to conform himself to Christ.

None of us can ever forget how in that last Easter Sunday of his life, the Holy Father, marked by suffering, came once more to the window of the Apostolic Palace and one last time gave his blessing urbi et orbi. We can be sure that our beloved Pope is standing today at the window of the Father’s house, that he sees us and blesses us. Yes, bless us, Holy Father. We entrust your dear soul to the Mother of God, your Mother, who guided you each day and who will guide you now to the eternal glory of her Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Legacy of Pope John Paul II

By Father Eugene Hemrick No doubt anyone who experienced the presence of Pope John Paul II remembers something extraordinary about him.

Among the pope’s many awesome feats, he journeyed to Poland and solidified his people by reminding them to have faith in themselves and in Jesus Christ. This so united them that it helped bring down the communist regime in his homeland.

He journeyed to Israel and apologized to the Jews for the many centuries when Christians were not Christian in the way they treated them. This act of humility helped to create a new understanding between Christians and Jews.

When it came to facing the truth, he didn’t flinch. We never will know how many hardened hearts he united with Christ.

Throughout his journeys, a constant theme of his was: Do not be afraid! In other words, don’t let anything within you divide you. Be united with Christ, and he will unite all that is in you.

Some years back, Cardinal Carlo Martini of Milan, Italy, asked what it was that gave St. Paul his strength amid so much opposition. His secret? He knew his charism. He knew what Christ meant to him and what he was about.

John Paul II, like St. Paul, did not have smooth sailing. Some considered him too conservative and determined. During his pontificate there were numerous rumors that the Catholic Church was on the brink of a schism.

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington said that once when with the pope, the pope knelt down to pray. Cardinal McCarrick was so struck by his prayerfulness that he moved away and stood behind a pillar, admitting later that never in his life had he experienced such sacredness in a person.

It is said that Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, the late primate of Poland, once remarked that John Paul II was too much of a poet to make a successful leader.

The word “poet” in Greek signifies someone who can envision life in its very depths. Poets cut into the realities of life as no one else can. When they speak, their words often carry the weight of a mystic. And when their voice is heard, more often than not it creates revolutions.

Pope John Paul II was more than a pope, theologian, political scientist, a healer of divisions, a champion of the faith and traveler of the world. He was a man of prayer, which gave him the power to envision life at its depths and to speak the language of a poet — words that strike to the very heart of us. His greatest strength was derived from those moments when he shut out the world and was all there for God. In placing himself in the presence of God, he brought God’s presence more fully to us.

When we look for the ultimate beauty in Pope John Paul II, we first are turned toward God, and only then do we see a humble man in relation to God. This is his greatest legacy!

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Women and JPII

Lack of respect

Our members mourn the loss of our Holy Father Pope John Paul II who was a spiritual guide and moral compass for all people. His fearless advocacy for the sanctity of life and human dignity was both an affirmation and a challenge for the National Council of Catholic Women.

By word and example, he affirmed our efforts to advocate for protection of the unborn and the elderly and to assist women in crisis, homeless women and children, and families displaced by civil unrest or natural disasters.

His teachings on the dignity of women and the gifts women bring to the Church and society have helped our members to take their places as lay leaders in their parishes and dioceses.

At the same time, his obvious love for the whole human family challenged us to reach beyond traditional programs to see our global connections and our responsibility to address world-wide needs such as environmental justice, the abuse of children, trafficking of women, and domestic violence. His support for the United Nations’ role in bringing the world together gave us another avenue for action.

The women of NCCW remember Pope John Paul’s love, constantly demonstrated by example - love of God, of Christ our Savior and his Church, of Mary his Mother, of the world-wide family of God, and of this earthly home God made.

Margaret Gray President, NCCW Arlington, VA

The following letter was sent as an email to San Francisco City officials by Mr. George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese.

On Tuesday evening, April 5th, 3,500 people jammed into cavernous St. Mary of the Assumption Cathedral to honor and remember Pope John Paul II. Archbishop Levada, Archbishop Quinn, Bishop Wester, priests and lay Catholics were joined by members of the Orthodox, Jewish, Protestant, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist faiths and the Consul Generals of 20 nations.

Although specifically invited by phone and fax, no elected City officials were present - not the Mayor , not one member of the Board of Supervisors. None sent staff to represent them. Only Mayor Newsom and Supervisor Peskin bothered to send regrets.

The Board of Supervisors, which adopts resolutions with alacrity over a myriad of issues and in memory of a great number of individuals, uttered not a single public word of condolence or memoriam of John Paul II. The blood, sweat and tears of Catholics over generations have been central to the City of Saint Francis. Catholics are still central in taking care of the poor and the sick through our social service agencies and healthcare institutions. Our educational system from kindergarten through University educates thousands of students.

While the billion strong worldwide Roman Catholic Community mourns a great man, while the 425,000 Catholics in the Archdiocese remembers him with love, our City could not find the simple courtesy of a response of sympathy.

I hope that this lack of response, and, quite frankly, this lack of respect is not indicative of an aggressively hostile unwritten policy by City officials to turn a biased and even bigoted eye toward the Catholic Church and Catholic fellow citizens.

The respect and love that Catholics have for Pope John Paul II is grounded in his holiness and the fact that he pursued dialogue and peace with others throughout our diverse world. Hopefully, we can continue that fine tradition here in the City of St. Francis.

George Wesolek Director, Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns Archdiocese of San Francisco

A moment of grace

L E T T E R S

Watching the funeral of Pope John Paul II, I could not help but think that in all the past 2000 years we have never seen so many millions receive the Body and Blood of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Would this event bring the peace, justice, harmony and forgiveness of Our Lord to the human race? May this be a turning point away from strife, hunger, terrorism, abortion and war. I ask in hope that by this unity, this communion, we may renew the face of this Earth. I pray the grace of this most Spirit filled moment in history will not be lost.

Agnes De Patta San Rafael

A really good show I have just watched the burial of Pope John Paul II and was impressed by the Latin Mass, music and beautiful ceremony.

It painfully brought to mind how much I miss the Latin Mass. When the Church wants to put on a show, it goes all out.

I really do not believe we have accomplished much by the elimination of this grand and glorious part of our past.

T.J. Arnold San Mateo

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Respect all around This morning, ending at about 4:00 a.m. local time, the beautiful and impressive funeral of the late Pope John Paul II was given ABC News coverage through America Online. If there is any doubt of the tremendous value of Internet as a medium of communication, that presentation completely contradicts any such doubts.

The crowd of 300,000 people in St. Peter’s Square and every detail of the funeral was reverently and thoughtfully observed. No news narration was made during the actual sacred liturgy. Translation of Cardinal Ratzinger’s homily was accurate in every respect. There is no doubt that the coverage was in every respect Catholic. Many heads of state, priests and bishops were shown to be in the square, and in no way was any disorder apparent to any observer. If you missed that coverage, you missed a beautiful opportunity to witness the tremendous impact of the Internet and the beautiful tribute given to a wonderful and saintly man insulted and criticized without cause in and by the city of San Francisco for many years. Rome is one way, and San Francisco is the opposite and certainly not a city of peace.

David K. Eberly San Francisco

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FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 2:14a, 36-41; Psalm 23:13a, 3ba, 3b4, 5, 6; 1 Peter 2:20b-25; John 10-1-10 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (ACTS 2:14A, 36-41) Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed: “Let the whole house of Israel know for certain that God has made both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, “What are we to do, my brothers?”

Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.” He testified with many other arguments, and was exhorting them, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.” Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PETER (1 PT 2:20B-25) Beloved: If you are patient when you suffer for doing what is good, this is a grace before God. For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his footsteps.

He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in his mouth.

When he was insulted, he returned no insult; when he suffered, he did not threaten; instead, he handed himself over to the one who judges justly. He himself bore our sins in his body upon the cross, so that, free from sin, we might live for righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed. For you had gone astray like sheep, but you have now returned to the shepherd and guardian of your souls.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 23: 13A, 3B4, 5, 6) R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. or: R. Alleluia.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

In verdant pastures he gives me repose; beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul.

R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake.

Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my side with your rod and your staff that give me courage.

R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

You spread the table before me in the sight of my foes; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.

R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

Only goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come.

R. The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 10:1-10) Jesus said: “Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate but climbs over elsewhere is a thief and a robber. But whoever enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. The gatekeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice, as the shepherd calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has driven out all his own, he walks ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they recognize his voice. But they will not follow a stranger; they will run away from him, because they do not recognize the voice of strangers.” Although Jesus used this figure of speech, the Pharisees did not realize what he was trying to tell them.

So Jesus said again, “Amen, amen, I say to you, I am the gate for the sheep.

All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture. A thief comes only to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly.”

Saint Peter Preaching – Masolino da Panicale, 1427.

Scripture FATHER CHARLES IRVIN

Christ is revealed as the Good Shepherd In discussions about religion, one of the most frequently asked questions is: Who is Jesus Christ? Indeed, when He was about to be put to death the question, “Who are you?” was put to Jesus several times. Jesus’ answer caused Him to be put to death on the cross. The answer is central to Christianity and to all who call themselves Christian.

Any number of times I have been asked: Did Jesus ever declare He was God? For those who want a simple answer, the answer is unsatisfying. Faith and scientific proof, as well as legal proof, cannot coexist in the same person at the same time. It’s like asking someone to prove they love you. All they can do is ask that you believe they do and then live in such a way that you are moved to love them. The heart has its reasons the mind does not comprehend.

So, the answer to the question: “Did Jesus ever declare He was God?” is both “yes” and “no.”

No, He didn’t declare it directly; Yes, He told us He was God. To delve into His answer we must go all the way back to the Old Testament’s Book of Exodus. There we find God telling Moses that he was to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and into freedom.

“But,” said Moses to God, “when I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ if they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what am I to tell them?” God replied, “I am who am.” Then he added, “This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you” (Exodus 3:13-14).

The Hebrew word for “I Am” is, therefore, God’s name. Down to this very day the word is so holy that no observant Jew will speak it aloud, or even write it.

Now let’s fast forward to today and ask once again: Did Jesus ever declare He was God? For the answer, consider the following quotes taken from the teachings of Jesus: I am the living bread; I am the light of the world; I am the gate for the sheep; I am in the Father; I am the resurrection and the life; I am the way and the truth and the life; I am the true vine; before Abraham came to be, I am; and finally, I am the good shepherd.

Who is speaking here to us? I AM is speaking. God is speaking.

Now, turning to today’s Gospel account, we find Jesus identifying Himself as the good shepherd. If you think that is just a nice literary device, that being the good shepherd is simply a lovely image, then you’re missing the point.

Back to the Old Testament again.

Throughout the Old Testament there were a number of roles that would identify the expected Messiah. The greatest and most important of them all was that he would be the Shepherd of Israel.

They even sang songs about it. We just heard one a few moments ago when we sang, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. In verdant pastures he gives me repose; beside restful waters he leads me; he refreshes my soul. He guides me in right paths for his name’s sake. Even though I walk in the dark valley I fear no evil; for you are at my

side with your rod and your staff that give me courage.”

The Israelites suffered a lot, a whole lot. Their history is a history of pain, loss, subjugation, and victimhood. Their treasured and comforting image of God was that He would shepherd them. He was their shepherd and they were His sheep. God loved them with a shepherd’s love.

To get into that image we need to recall that back in those days, in the Middle East, a shepherd would lead his flock to places where they would find grass to eat. He would also lead them to places where they could drink water.

Also, he would guard and protect them from predators, even to the point of putting his life on the line for them.

Shepherds constructed pens in which their sheep would sleep at night. They gathered large rocks, branches of trees, and other materials, constructing a large circular pen with them. They left open one small space the gate through which the sheep entered and left their protective pen. At night the shepherd would lie down with his body lying across that opening so that should a wolf or other predator attempt to enter it would have to cross over the shepherd’s body.

Rising, he would drive off the wolf. If it attacked him, he would defend his sheep with his very life.

Now you feel the impact of the words you just heard in today’s Gospel account. In it you heard Jesus declare: “I am the gate of the sheepfold. All others who have come are thieves and brigands; but the sheep took no notice them.

I am the gate. Anyone who enters through me will be safe: he will go freely in and out and be sure of finding pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it to the full.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd is one who lays down his life for his sheep.”

Back to the Old Testament once again. God Himself pledges to be the Shepherd of Israel. The Israelites acknowledged that He would be their True Shepherd.

When Jesus declares that He is the good shepherd, was He openly declaring He was God? We know the answer.

Why didn’t He make this clearly understood earlier in His ministry? I can only surmise that it was because He knew the religious and civil authorities would bring His life to a swift end. After all, wasn’t that why they crucified Him? So, in order to buy time — teaching time — He did not declare His divinity directly. Only at the very end, while standing before Caiaphas the high priest, do we hear Jesus say, “You will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

What cruel irony it is that the One who came among us to be our Good Shepherd was put to death for being so.

The only question that remains is: Who do you say Jesus is?

Fr. Charles Irvin is a retired priest of the Diocese of Lansing, Michigan. He is a contributor to FAITH magazine.

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Year of the Eucharist

“In Communion With …”

The prayers of millions of Catholics and the attention of the world are directed toward Rome as the cardinals gather to elect a successor to Pope John Paul. The airwaves and newspapers are filled with speculations on possible candidates, future directions for the Church and discussions about the structure and organization of the Catholic hierarchy.

As this “Year of the Eucharist” was our late Holy Father’s idea, it is appropriate to reflect on the role of the Pope in the Church in connection with the Eucharist. The Catechism teaches that the whole Church is united with the offering of Christ, and then states: “Since he has the ministry of Peter in the Church, the Pope is associated with every celebration of the Eucharist, wherein he is named as the sign and servant of the unity of the universal Church.” (CCC 1369) This is a truth of fundamental importance, because it emphasizes that the unity of the Catholic Church is not primarily organizational or jurisdictional, it is sacramental.

“Holy Communion” unites us to Christ, the Head of the Church, and also to the visible community of the Catholic Church throughout the world.

There is a simple but beautiful gesture in the Mass of the Roman Rite which calls to mind this sacramental unity. When the priest breaks the consecrated Bread just before the distribution of Communion, he places a particle of the Host into the chalice. This custom began in

Rome many centuries ago. Since the Pope could not be present in all the parish churches for their Eucharistic celebrations, he sent a piece of the Eucharistic Bread from his altar to the other communities, who placed it in their chalice to symbolize the Eucharistic unity of the Church of Rome around her bishop. Every local church (diocese) is a communion of smaller communities gathered around their bishop, and the worldwide Church is a communion of local churches gathered around the successor of St. Peter. This is why we commemorate the Pope and our own bishop in the Eucharistic Prayer: they are visible images of the local and universal Church. As long as the See of Peter is vacant, only the name of the local bishop is mentioned.

We believe that the Pope is the successor of St. Peter, and that the bishops are the successors of twelve Apostles.

What is the relationship between Peter and the rest of the twelve Apostles, between the Pope and the other bishops?

Both Peter and the Twelve as a group received their authority from Christ Himself: the other apostles were not Peter’s deputies, nor was Peter the honorary leader of the Twelve. Both Peter as an individual and the group of Apostles with Peter were the leaders of the Church.

Similarly, the Pope and all the bishops in communion with him have responsibility for leading the whole Church. The tension between one leader and a group of leaders can create tensions, but it reflects something of the mystery of the

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was the name of a pagan god. Another pope in 983 took the name John XIV because his given name was Peter.

Reverence for the first pope precluded his becoming Peter II. At the end of the first millennium a couple of non-Italian popes changed their names to ones that the Romans could more easily pronounce. The custom of changing one’s name became common around the year 1009. The last pope to keep his own name was Marcellus II, elected in 1555.

The cardinals then approach the new pope and make an act of homage and obedience. A prayer of thanksgiving is then said, and the senior cardinal deacon informs the people in St. Peters Square that the election has taken place and announces the name of the new pope. The pope then may speak to the crowd and grant his first solemn blessing “urbi et orbi,” to the city and the world. John Paul I and John Paul II prolonged the conclave until the following morning so that they could meet and dine with the cardinals.

■ Continued from page 5 Charles Borromeo, one of the few cardinals to be canonized, turned down the papacy. When Cardinal Giovanni Colombo, the 76-year-old archbishop of Milan, began receiving votes during the conclave in October 1978, he made it clear that he would refuse the papacy if elected. If the man says yes, then he becomes pope immediately if he is already a bishop. The rest is simply ceremony. If he is not already a bishop, he is to be ordained one immediately by the cardinal dean and becomes pope as soon as this has been done. The dean in ancient times was the bishop of Ostia, a nearby town.

He is then asked by what name he wants to be called.

The first pope to change his name was John II in 533. His given name, Mercury, was considered inappropriate since it

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The funeral of the Holy Father and the election of a new Pope are events surrounded by customs and traditions which have developed over two millennia. The papacy is the oldest institution in the western world, and even many non-Catholics find the ceremonies of this historic procedure fascinating. In light of the Year of the Eucharist we would do well to remember that the unity of the Catholic Church is to be found, finally, not in these ceremonies or organizational structures, but in the Eucharistic sharing which builds up and sustains the Church as the Body of Christ.

At the beginning of the second century, St. Ignatius of Antioch described the Church of Rome as “presiding in charity” over the worldwide communion of churches.

(CCC 834) Of all the titles history has bestowed on the Bishop of Rome, a favorite is that used by Pope Gregory the Great: “Servant of the Servants of God”. As we watch the panoply surrounding the papal election, let us not lose sight of how the new Pope will begin his pontificate: by celebrating the Eucharist. And, as the priest in our parish places a particle of the Host into the chalice, let us recall how closely we are united with the Pope in the Eucharist – and say a prayer for him as he assumes his ministry of servant charity.

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

April 21: Cathedral Autumn Group’s International Luncheon. All people 55 and over are cordially invited.

Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. Takes place in Parish Hall at 1:00 p.m. Reservations required to (415) 567-2020 ext. 218.

April 15, 2005 Oct. 29: Class of ’55, Immaculate Conception Academy at Embassy Suites in Burlingame. Contact Anne Nolan Dowd at (650) 359-2601 or andown@aol.com.

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Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Exploring the Eucharist, A Special Series Celebrating the Year of the Eucharist. The Church calls the Eucharist the source and summit of our faith.Yet it’s easy for us to just go through the motions, never really experiencing it fully. Come discover the deeper meaning of everything we do at our Eucharist, and explore ways of experiencing it more deeply. This series is open to people of all ages and is offered Tuesday Evenings, April 5th-May 3rd, 7:30-9 p.m.; and Thursdays April 7thMay 5th, 2:30-4 p.m. at. St. Dominic Church, Bush and Steiner St., SF. Contact Scott Moyer, 415-674-0422, scott@stdominics.org.

April 24 – 28: Busy Person’s Retreat at Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. An opportunity for individuals to deepen their own spiritual practice in the midst of busy schedules through daily prayer and individually scheduled spiritual direction.

Pre-registration is required and is due by Monday, April 11. To request a registration form or for additional information, contact Sister Marie Annette at (650) 593-2045 ext.253 or Marieannette.Murkart@SNDdeN.org.

Food & Fun April 16: Annual International Food Festival benefiting St. Dunstan Elementary School in Millbrae.

Enjoy fare from Greece, Ireland, Mexico, Asia and other lands. Entertainment, children’s activities, silent auction and raffle, too. Tickets $35 adults/$20 seniors/$15 children 5 – 14. Call Catherine Miller at (650) 359-1574.

April 16: Garage Sale benefiting the Little Sisters of the Poor and St. Anne’s Home – the happiest address on Lake Street. 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

April 16: Plant and Garden Sale at the Mount Carmel Shop, 45 Lovell Ave., Mill Valley, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Garden books, tools, vases, pots and more.

Tomato plants including some only available the sale are featured. Call (415) 388-4332.

April 16, 17, 23: St. Mary’s Medical Center offers Free health screenings at the 2005 Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Free Blood Pressure Checks, Diabetes Testing, Cholesterol Check, Bone Density & much more.

Look for our medical van on Post at Laguna Street.

April 23: Monopola, annual dinner dance and auction benefiting Our Lady of Angels Parish and school at the Olympic Club, Lakeside featuring guest auctioneer, Diane Dwyer, Burlingame native and weekend anchor of NBC – 11 News. Starts with cocktails and silent auction at 5:30 p.m. Music by House Party. Tickets are $100 per person till April 13th, $120 after. Call Lisa Larratt 650-342-7011. For raffle tickets at $100 each and a chance at $20,000, call Sarita Ahern at (650) 343-5314, Jennifer Morse at (650) 697-3552, Theresa Stoye at (65) 375-1946.

April 30: Cabana Club, annual auction and dinner dance benefiting St. Brendan Elementary School Evening takes place in Sister Diane Erbacher Parish Center, named for Dominican Sister Diane Erbacher principal for the last 40 years and retiring in June.

Begins at 6 p.m. with complimentary Margaritas and silent auction with dinner at 8 p.m. and live auction at 9 p.m. Dance from 10 – midnight. Resort attire.

Tickets are $85 per person. For reservations and more information, call Theresa at (415) 564-8372.

April 30: Good Shepherd Guild’s Spring Luncheon/Fashion Show at Olympic Club, Lakeside, benefiting the Good Shepherd’s Sisters’ Gracenter with social hour at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $60 per person. Call Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5374.

May 7: 10th Annual Whale of a Sale benefiting St. Sebastian Parish in Greenbrae. Now taking reservations for vendors at $35 per space earlybird of

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Getting the word out about St. Paul Parish’s 125th anniversary is the Noe Valley faith community’s public relations committee. An anniversary Mass will be celebrated April 24th at 12:15 p.m. A parish “Birthday Party” is scheduled for May 1st at the nearby Pritikin Mansion on Chenery Street. The music of Denise Perrier, the cooking of Mansion Chef John and the home’s $10 million art collection are featured. Call (415) 648-7538 for ticket information. Father Mario Farana, pastor, and parishioner, Gerry Mannion, hold the occasion’s commemorative plate that is available for sale. Back from left, Deacon Jim Myers, Marilyn Highlander Pool, Maureen Barry, Mary Richardson, Anne O’Shea, Joan Russo, Monica Curran, Jonathan Wetmore, Hilda Solis, Amy Bruce. $40 after April 1st. Sell your crafts or household items and keep all proceeds. Call Kathie Meyer at (415) 461-4133 or whaleofasale@comcast .net.

Shows/Entertainment April 15, 16, 17: Sparks fly in Broadway’s Damn Yankees at Archbishop Riordan High School’s Lindland Theater, 175 Phelan Ave., SF across from City College.

Show features players from Riordan, St. Ignatius, Immaculate Conception Academy, Mercy High School, Burlingame, Notre Dame High School, Belmont and other area schools. Call (415) 586 – 5866 for curtain times and ticket prices. “A baseball lovin’ hit for the entire family,” said Valerie O’Riordan, director.

April 17: Ragazzi Boys Chorus in concert at St. Cecilia Church, 17th Ave. at Vicente, SF at 7 p.m. Evening features premiere of Rupert Lang’s Magnificat and mezzosoprano Elspeth Franks. Chorus will sing selections including Ave Maria and Sing Me to Heaven. Admission is free. Donations welcome. Call (650) 342-8785.

April 23: Sister is back. Late Nite Catechism II comes to St. Stephen Parish, Eucalyptus Dr. and 23rd Ave. at 7pm. Tickets are $35.00. “It’s the sequel to Late Nite Catechism and very funny. It’s awesome.” For more information call JR at (415) 681.2444, ext. 26.

April 24: Benefit concert 2-4 p.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Nicasio. Dennis McNeil and Friends perform a variety of musical styles from opera to Irish, blues and jazz.The acoustics of the small, wood framed church guarantee an amazing event. Advanced tickets are $50 per person. Seating is limited. Call Spike or Kathy Drady at (415) 662-2057. Wine and cheese will be served after the event, weather permitting. Proceeds benefit St. Mary’s Church. Dennis McNeil has sung with the New York City Opera as well as Bruce Hornsby, The Grateful Dead, San Francisco Opera, New Orleans Opera and Los Angeles Opera.

Reunions Class of ’65, Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City, reunion.

“We are in the process of planning our 40th reunion and are looking for lost classmates,” said Michael Thompson. The reunion will be in September 2005.

Contact info Pat Lucido Davisson. Her phone is (415) 457-6544. Email is patdavisson@ctt.com.

Class of ’75 from St. John Ursuline High School is planning a 30th reunion for this fall!

Classmates should contact Kathy Grimley at (650) 342-7633 or kathygbnp@aol.com.

April 17: Alumni moms of Archbishop Riordan High School announces its first Alumni Mother Event including buffet brunch and VIP seating to Damn Yankees, the school’s Spring Musical.

Reservations required to (415) 586-8200, ext. 217.

Tickets at $50 benefit Lindland Theatre Renovation.

May 14: Class of ’51 Our Lady of Perpetual Help elementary, Daly City. Looking for classmates! Call Janet Cirimele at (650) 579-7458.

June 11: Class of ’85, Star of the Sea Academy in Star of the Sea elementary school auditorium, 360 9th Ave., SF at 7 p.m. Contact Debra Stashuk at ssa_classof85@yahoo.com.

June 25: The St. Agnes School All-Class Reunion will be held at 5:30pm in St. Agnes Gym, 1563 Page Street, SF. The evening includes Hors d’ Oeuvres and Desserts. Tickets $35 per person before May 15, $40 before June 15, $45 before June 24 and $50 at the door, pending availability. No refunds. For more information, please contact Sam Coffey at (415) 398-6390 or coffey@eesclaw.com Sept. 17: St. Paul’s Grammar School reunion for class of 1960, 6 p.m. at Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco.

Call Liz Hinds Hannan at (650) 342-1759.

Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org.

Check out our Web site for a list of events around the Bay Area and download our Newsletter at www.sfyam.org. We publish a quarterly newsletter to connect college students and young adults to the Catholic Church.

April 26: Catholic Lobby Day. Calling young adults to participate in Catholic Lobby Day 2005. Take the day off work and join 900 Catholics in Sacramento to pray, listen and advocate on behalf of the poor and disenfranchised of our society. We will carpool or take a bus from SF at 7am for the 9am - 4pm gathering. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org.

April 29 & 30: 15th Annual Hispanic Youth & Young Adult Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. “Youth, Come and Adore Him.” Friday 5:009:30pm for a Musical Concert. Saturday, 8:00am8:00pm for workshops, prayer, sharing, dance and much more. Liturgy with Bishop Wester at 10:30am.

Registration is $10-12 and includes lunch, refreshments and materials. In Spanish. Contact David Bibiano 415.424.0122, Alan Solano 650.201.2203. Sponsored by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Equipo de Pastoral Juvenil Latinoamericana.

Single, Divorced, Separated April 23: Potluck Supper at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral conference center. Sponsored by Divorced and Separated Ministry of the Archdiocese. Call Vonnie at (650) 873-4236.

Separated and Divorced support group meets 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

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Tanzania Trot, a 4-mile walk/run around Lake Merced, benefiting work of Sisters of St. Therese with AIDS orphans. Sponsored by St. Ignatius, Archbishop Riordan and Mercy, SF, high schools.

Contact Annie Lee at allee@siprep.org or Mary Ahlbach at mahlbach@siprep.org. The effort hopes to raise $30,000. “The money will allow the sisters to finish phase one for a center with administrative offices, classrooms, storage, and clinic,” said Mary Ahlbach, moderator of the Tanzanian Orphans Project at SI. “The sisters work with 1500 AIDS Orphans teaching them in areas including job skills.

They want the orphans to remain in their villages, but to be able to come to the center for education and whatever else they need.”

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San Francisco native and educator Sister school. She earned a post graduate degree Dorita Clifford, BVM, 90, died March 23, in history from St. Louis University and 2005 at Marian Hall in Dubuque. A gradu- also studied at Stanford University. ate of San Francisco’s St. Paul High School, Her sisters, Holy Family Sister Norinne she entered the Sisters of Charity of the Clifford of Fremont, Sister Eva Sheehan, Blessed Virgin Mary September 8, 1932.

BVM, of Dubuque, and late siblings Sister In San Francisco, Sister Jane Therese Clifford, BVM, Dorita taught primarily Sister Pauline Clifford, BVM, Asian history at the Fromm and Jesuit Father Daniel Institute at the University of Clifford shared her vocation San Francisco, 1990-2004. to religious life. A brother, Earlier, she taught at St. John Clifford is also deceased.

Brigid Elementary School, Siblings Margaret 1937-38, and St. Philip Kotlanger of San Francisco; Elementary School, 1938-46.

Ellen Vitorello of Santa For almost 30 years, Rosa and many nieces and Sister Dorita was a college nephews, including Patti and university professor of Lazzaretto and Jesuit Father history at Clarke College, Michael Kotlanger of San Dubuque, Iowa; Sophia Francisco also survive her.

University, Tokyo, Japan; Remembrances may be Sister Dorita Clifford and the University of sent to the Sisters of Charity, Maryland in northern and western Japan, BVM Retirement Fund, 1100 Carmel Okinawa and Guam.

Drive, Dubuque, Iowa 52003.

She also taught in Iowa, Hawaii, and A funeral Mass was celebrated in Montana, and is a former principal of St. Dubuque March 30, with interment in the Leo school in San Jose.

Mount Carmel cemetery. A memorial Mass Sister Dorita was born Oct. 29, 1914 to for Sister Dorita will be celebrated April 16 Patrick and Mary Jane Sheehan Clifford at 11 a.m. at St. Paul Church, 29th and and attended St. Paul elementary and high Church St., in San Francisco.

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Born Into Brothels This Academy Award winner for Best Documentary is in limited release. Visit www.thinkfilmcompany/brothels or the movie section of sfgate.com for showtimes.

Review by Steven D. Greydanus Ten-year-old Manik loves his kites. His sister Shanti, one year older, complains that he beats her if she touches them.

Sometimes he flies a kite on the roof of the Calcutta brothel that is their home, where it soars high above the squalor of the Sonagachi red-light district that he and his peers seem unlikely to escape. “When our mother works in a room, we go up and play on the roof,” he explains.

You can see a flicker of pride in 11-year-old Avijit’s face as he recalls the man his father used to be. He was a very good man once, Avijit insists, fat and robust enough to beat up two men at once. Even today, mention of his name commands respect in the marketplace. Yet now Avijit’s father is a shell of that man, aware of little more than his hashish addiction. “I try to love him a little,” Avijit concludes.

“The men who come to our building are not so good,” says Suchitra, a tall, quiet 14-year-old from three generations of prostitutes. “They drink and they swear… The women ask me, when will you join the line?” When photojournalist Zana Briski, who moved into the red-light district with the intention of understanding and documenting brothel life before finding herself and the children mutually drawn to one another, asks Suchitra if she sees any solution, the girl pauses and ponders, making the inevitable negative answer all the more heartbreaking.

If Born Into Brothels merely recorded the marginal lives of these beautiful, all but doomed children, it would probably be nearly unbearable, though potentially still worthwhile. But Briski, who has a master’s in theology and religious studies from Cambridge, doesn’t merely document the children’s milieu. Instead, she does something revolutionary: She empowers them to document it for themselves, putting cameras in their hands and teaching them to use them.

The results are arresting. The kids take to photography with alacrity, learning composition, depth of field, point of view. The results aren’t always inspired; thirteen-year-old Gour is chagrined to realize that he shot two rolls of film one night and for-

got to use a flash, and Shanti again incurs her brother’s anger by somehow getting her fingers in front of his lens just as he’s taking a shot.

But sometimes the kids’ pictures have real power and verve (visit kids-with-cameras.org to see — or purchase — samples of their work). Sassy Puja, 11, goes boldly into the Sonagachi streets with her camera, her self-assurance giving her immunity from the natural hostility to photographers that pervades the red-light district. Others, like Suchitra, take pictures from the rooftops or indoors, capturing images of children or animals, or still lifes in architecture or ordinary objects.

Several of the kids show promise, but one in particular has a special gift. “Whose pictures do you think are better, yours or your brother’s?” Briski asks Shanti, but Shanti knows who takes the best pictures: Avijit, whose eye for creative composition and flair for dramatic lighting make his pictures stand out even among the best of his peers’ work.

Before long, “Zana Auntie” (as the kids take to calling her) has the kids commenting knowledgeably on one another’s work as well as their own. “I want to show in pictures how people live in this city,” says Gaur. “I want to put across the behavior of man.” And Avijit comments that even pictures of difficult or unpleasant subjects bear scrutiny, “because they are the truth.”

The gift of photography offers Briski’s voiceless, powerless students the power to speak across oceans and language barriers. With Briski’s help, the pictures are brought to the world.

There’s a New York gallery show. An auction at Sotheby’s, proceeds for which will help pay for educations for the young photographers, their only hope for escaping the cycle of destitution and dissolution. Back in Calcutta, gathered around a television set, the children watch in delight and fascination as wine-andcheese New Yorkers peruse and purchase their work.

Later, there is another exhibit in their own country, and the children get dressed up for the crowds and television cameras. To Manik and Shanti’s delight, the invitations to the show feature Manik’s “spoiled” photo with Shanti’s fingers, and at the gallery Shanti proudly displays the now-famous digits for the crowd: Yes, these are the very fingertips gracing all those invitations!

Questioned by reporters, Avijit talks about his hopes for the future: “I used to want to be a doctor, then I wanted to be an artist. Now I want to be a photographer.” And Shanti enthusias-

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650-244-9255 Spells Wally 650-740-7505 Cell Phone All Mfg. Warranty: Rebates and Special Dealer Finacing goes to Registered Owner/s P.O. Box 214 San Bruno, CA 94066

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St. Robert’s Parish San Bruno

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Your Message Mailed To 90,000 Households Call 415-614-5642 *One year agreement

Real Estate Purchase

John Holtz

SOUND SYSTEMS Intelligent Sound and Communications Solutions Since 1985

KANSORA COMMUNICATIONS

CHURCHES – SCHOOLS – THEATRES COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS – SPORTS FACILITIES ●

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Sound Systems Digital Carillons / Bells

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Intercoms / Paging Systems Cable TV & Data Systems

415-453-2898

WWW.KANSORA.COM CA LICN # 747210

Ca. Lic 391053 General Contractor Since 1980

• Refinance • Cash Out

homebuyer’s guide and consultation:

1-866-422-9225 x376 Joel L. McCarthy Mortgage Consultant

Contractor inspection reports and pre-purchase consulting

Phone: 415.468.1877 Fax: 415.468.1875

MIKE TEIJEIRO Realtor (650) 523-5815 m.teijeiro@remax.net

Today

Barbara Elordi, MFT Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist.

Offers individual, couple + family and group counseling.

The Peninsula Men’s Group, now in it’s 7th year, is a support group which provides affordable counseling in a safe and nurturing setting. Interested candidates may call for a free brochure.

100 North Hill Drive, Unit 18 • Brisbane, CA 94005

(650) 591-3784

Lic. No. 390254

974 Ralston Ave. #6, Belmont, CA 94002

HOLLAND Plumbing Works San Francisco ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND CA LIC #817607

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• Relationships • Addictions

Dr. Daniel J. Kugler Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Over 25 years experience

Expert Plumbing Repairs

NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

When Life Hurts It Helps To Talk • Family • Work • Depression • Anxiety

BONDED & INSURED

415-205-1235

Call (650) 757-1946 Cell (650) 517-5977

Confidential • Compassionate • Practical (415) 921-1619 1537 Franklin Street • San Francisco, CA 94109

General Repairs Clean Drains & Sewers Water Heaters ●

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SANTI PLUMBING & HEATING

Christian Family Counselor

24 HR

LILA CAFFERY, MA, CCHT

SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

•Induviduals, Couples, Family •Addictions; Food, Chemical, Love •Enneagram Personality Work •Spiritual Direction• Sliding Scale

FAMILY OWNED

415-661-3707

Lic. # 663641

St. Dominic’s Parishioner

Healing Your Inner Child

415-239-8491 not a licensed contractor

415-337-9474 • 650-888-2873 www.innerchildhealing.com

CONSTRUCTION

Lic #: 778332

* Parishioner of St. Gregory’s Church, San Mateo

COUNSELING

John Bianchi

Painting, roof repair, fence (repair/ build) demolition, carpenter, gutter (clean/ repair), skylight repairs, landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, janitorial. All purpose.

– Senior Discount –

If I can be of service to you, or if you know of anyone who is interested in buying or selling a home, please do not hesitate to call me . . .

•Interiors •Exteriors •Kitchens •Baths

Plumbing • Fire Protection • Certified Backflow

Handyman

Leaks, Dryrot, Decks Mike: (650) 355-8858

SPECIALIZING IN SAN MATEO COUNTY REAL ESTATE

Painting & Remodeling

PLUMBING

Contractors State License Board 800-321-2752

REPAIRS & PRESSURE WASHING

REAL ESTATE

(650) 355-4926

Call for a free

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The law also state that contractors performing work totaling $500 or more must be statelicensed. Advertisments appearing in this newspaper without a license number indicate that the contractor is not licensed.

For more information, contact:

Carpentry, Cabinetry, Painting,Refinishing Floors and Furniture, Door & Window Instal.,Cement Work.

Se habla Español & Tagalog.

Serving also the East Bay, Contra Costa,&Marin Counties

Steven D. Greydanus writes movie reviews for CatholicExchange.com and National Catholic Register.

Painting & Remodeling

NOTICE TO READERS

HANDYMAN

tically credits their mentor’s teaching skills: “Zana Auntie teaches us so well that everything goes into our brain! We like doing photography so much that we forget to do our work!”

A doctor or a photographer? Lofty ambitions for a child of a Sonagachi brothel. Briski’s efforts have given Avijit and his peers reason to hope — though as his story unfolds Avijit starts to become disaffected and sullen, at one point bleakly observing, “There is nothing called ‘hope’ in my future.” It isn’t only her photography lessons; Briski increasingly becomes the children’s advocate, petitioning local boarding schools to take them out of the brothels, fighting with bureaucrats to get records and papers, even taking them for HIV testing required by one school.

The closing titles, in which we learn which children have or haven’t managed to break out of the invisible bars of deprivation and depravation, temper hope with heartbreak, idealism with reality. Appalling decisions are made, sometimes by the children, sometimes by perverse guardians. Despite this, Born into Brothels both illustrates and exemplifies the power of art and artists to make a difference. It’s one of the most constructive and inspiring takes on the relationship of art and responsibility, of the artist and the world, that I’ve ever seen. Next to Briski’s enacted prayers, what prayers I might offer today for these children half a world away seem woefully inadequate.

Home Loans

DRE lic#01468807

AUTO SALES

This photographs maker, 11 year old Puja, is featured in Born Into Brothels.

You Can Reach 90,000 Catholic Households with this Ad!

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415-614-5642

PAULA B. HOLT, LCSW, ACSW Adult, Family, Couple Psychotherapy, LCS 18043 Divorce resolution, Grief resolution, Supportive consultation.

Substance abuse counseling, Post trauma resolution, Family Consultation.

Support and help a phone call away!

415-289-6990

4000 Geary Blvd., Suite 201, San Francisco, CA 94118

April 15, 2005 CSF

Classifieds For Advertising Information Please Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: jpena@catholic-sf.org

Organist ORGANIST WEDDINGS • FUNERALS Worship Services, Catholic Experience Marie DuMabeiller 415-441-3069, Page: 823-3664 VISA, MASTERCARD Accepted Please confirm your event before contracting music!

Clothing Alterations CLOTHING ALTERATION AND REPAIR. Hemming pants, skirts and jackets.

CALL MARIA (415)643-5826

communion photos First Communion photo at South San Francisco (650) 588-8456 www.nicephoto.us

Nurse/ Caregiver Male Nurse/Giver seeks job F/T, P/T as private aid.

Well experienced. References with CDL & CPR card.

Trustworthy, educated, speaks Italian, available now.

Call 650-372-9056 or 650-787-2023.

HUGE YEARLY SALE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SATURDAY APRIL 16 9 A.M. – 3 P.M. 300 LAKE ST. SAN FRANCISCO TH

Estate and vintage items, jewelry, china, clothing, art, furniture, kitchenware, collectibles.

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DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATION ST. ANTHONY FOUNDATION St. Anthony Foundation is a social service agency with a 54-year history of serving the poor and homeless in San Francisco. Our mission is to “feed, heal, shelter, clothe, lift the spirits of those in need and create a society in which all persons flourish.”

We are looking for a Director of Development & Communications who is creative, hardworking, and passionate about social justice. The Development & Communications Director will oversee our overall fundraising efforts including our major donor, planned giving, and grants programs, along with special events, and all of our communication and marketing efforts.

If you are interested in joining our Executive Management team, please send your cover letter, resume & salary requirements to:

HR-DC St. Anthony Foundation 121 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco, CA 94102

Special Needs Nursing, Inc. RNs or LVNs We are looking for you.

Work FULL or PART time while your children are in school.

Nurses are needed to provide specialized nursing care for children in the San Francisco Public School setting.

Generous benefit packages for generous nurses.

40 racks of clothing, 15 tables of books Caregiver Needed Personal care companion.

Help with daily activities; driving, grocery shopping, doctor appts. Required: many years experience, honest, reliable, excellent refs, bonded

Call Ori 415-713-1366

PUBLISH A NOVENA Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

Cost $25

If you wish to publish a Novena in the Catholic San Francisco You may use the form below or call 415-614-5640

TheArtofPerú.com Gifts from Perú and around the world

Help Wanted ADVERTISING SALES For The Largest Publisher of Catholic Church Bulletins

This is a Career Opportunity!

• Generous Commissions • Minimal Travel • Excellent Benefit Package • Stong Office Support • Work in Your Community

Call 1-800-675-5051, Fax resume: 707-258-1195

Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

Special Needs Companion Services We are looking for you.

• Honest • Generous • Compassionate • Make a Difference • Respectful

Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

Your prayer will be published in our newspaper

PASTORAL ASSOCIATE

Name Adress Phone MC/VISA # Exp. Select One Prayer: ❑ St. Jude Novena to SH ❑ Prayer to St. Jude

❑ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin ❑ Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Please return form with check or money order for $25 Payable to: Catholic San Francisco Advertising Dept., Catholic San Francisco 1 Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted. R.C.F.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days. R.C.F.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

G.K.

Prayer to St. Jude Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked.

Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

R.C.F.

St. Albert the Great Church, a dynamic and stable Roman Catholic Parish in Reno, Nevada is looking to replace our retiring Pastoral Associate. Duties include, but are not limited to, working directly with the parish Priest(s), administrative and financial supervision of the Parish, Child Development Center, and School (grades K-8).

Position is open on July 1, 2005.

References Required. Salary is DOE. Please call (775) 747-0722 for an information packet.

–– FOOD SERVICE WORKER –– An on-call Food Service Worker is urgently needed for our Campus Food Services Dept. Duties include dishwashing, cleaning the kitchen and dining area, setting tables and food, assisting in food preparation and general sanitation maintenance. At least 1 yr. prior work experience and HS education preferred.

Apply in person or send resume to: Sisters of Mercy, Attn: Human Resources 2300 Adeline Drive Burlingame CA 94010 E-mail: cricafrente@mercyburl.org Fax: (650) 347-2550

DIRECTOR, VINCENTIAN SUPPORT SERVICES – FULL TIME EXEMPT SUMMARY: The Director, Vincentian Support Services (VSS) is responsible for maintaining and enlivening the network of parish-based conferences of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in San Francisco. The VSS will be responsible for recruiting, training and supporting conference members and officers, and for promoting the network between conferences and the special works programs of the Society. The VSS must possess strong written and verbal communication skills. Knowledge of Spanish is helpful. The position will work to foster and increase the spiritual values of the Society in a Catholic context, especially as related to works of charity and justice.

There is needed flexibility for weekend and some evening commitment.

QUALIFICATIONS: ● Strong planning, organizational and administrative experience. ● Excellent public (oral and written) communication skills. ● Experience in volunteer coordination, recruitment and retention. ● Proficience in Microsoft Office Applications. ● Catholic faith based, spiritually centered community organizing experience desirable.

Minimum Bachelors Degree in Theology or Social Services or equivalent experience.

Compensation commensurate with experience; benefits provided.

Refer to: www.execsearches.com (search word: SVDP) Resume to ajw003@sbcglobal.net

THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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Catholic San Francisco

April 15, 2005

Giving Through Estate Planning The Archdiocese of San Francisco has been the recipient of bequests from the estates of many of its deceased friends.

Such gifts have made a positive difference for thousands of people and we will need similar gifts as we move into the future.

As you work with your attorney or financial planner to create or revise your will or trust, please remember the needs of the Church and the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Your estate gift will help us serve future generations.

TYPES

OF

BEQUESTS

It may be useful to you to know some of the estate options. For example, you can make an unrestricted gift. This will allow the Archdiocese to use your bequest where it is most needed.

Another type of bequest allows you to designate or restrict the gift to specific purposes. As an example, you could direct your gift to Saint Mary’s Cathedral, Saint Patrick’s Seminary, the Shrine of Saint Francis or any specific parish or school.You could earmark your gift for a specific ministry or program or to pay for capital improvements on certain buildings. You may stipulate that the money become an endowment with only the income being used while the principal is kept intact.

You might even use a combination of both of these types of gift.

METHODS

OF

MAKING BEQUESTS

Once you’ve decided on the type of bequest, you’ll want to determine exactly what you plan to leave to

the Church. You can specify a particular property, a given amount of money, or a percentage of your total estate. You might even make the Archdiocese a contingent beneficiary for some portion of your estate that would have gone to someone else had that person been living at the time the estate was settled.

As you think through these and other options, you’ll want to consult a professional financial planner or attorney.The Archdiocese Office of Development can assist with general information such as the legal name of the Archdiocese or language to make the various types of gifts, but you would be well-advised to seek the help of a professional.

Estate planning may reduce taxes and the cost of settling the estate, leaving more for your loved ones.

We’ll appreciate your consideration and would like to know about any bequest decisions that might affect us. That way we can thank you and honor you in advance.

Please use the request form below to order our free Estate Planning kit.You can also receive one by calling (415) 614-5580.

Please forward a free Estate Planning kit to: NAME: ADDRESS: CITY: TELEPHONE:

STATE:

ZIP:

EMAIL:

Mail this form to Archdiocese of San Francisco, Office of Development, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109.

You may also call (415) 614-5580 or email olearym@sfarchdiocese.org.