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By Tom Burke and Dan Morris-Young The “pastoral experience, generous heart and wise judgment” of Bishopelect William J. Justice were underscored

by San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer as announcement of the appointment of the Archdiocese’s next auxiliary bishop was made last week in Rome and San Francisco.

Pope Benedict XVI appointed Father Justice as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and titular bishop of Matara di Proconsolare early April 10. The priest’s episcopal ordination has been scheduled for Wednesday, May 28, at 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco.

In an English and Spanish statement released April 10 and read by the bishopelect to employees of the Archdiocese’s Pastoral Center that morning, Father Justice expressed his “genuine humility and profound respect” as well as “sincere gratitude to His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI.” “I am overwhelmed at the enormous challenge he has entrusted to me to be of service to Archbishop George Niederauer in his pastorship of the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” he said.

In his April 10 statement, Archbishop Niederauer said, “While every bishop serves in a local Church, he also serves the universal Church as a member of the Apostolic College of Bishops. Bishop-

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elect Justice will also take his place as a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.”

The bishop-elect succeeded thenAuxiliary Bishop John Wester as vicar for clergy on March 1, 2007, and will continue in that post and to reside at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Now bishop of the Salt Lake City Diocese, Bishop Wester will be a coconsecrator at the May 28 rite along with Bishop Randolph Calvo of Reno.

Archbishop Niederauer will be principal consecrator.

“The news of Father Bill Justice’s appointment as auxiliary bishop of San Francisco is absolutely wonderful,” Bishop Wester said in a communication from Salt Lake.

Lauding the bishop-elect’s “unfailing concern for others, his effective outreach to a multicultural Church and his deep spirituality and fidelity to Christ the Priest,” Bishop Wester said his successor would “bring his considerable abilities to the service of unity, which underscores the bishop’s ministry as envisioned in the Second Vatican Council.”

Archbishop Niederauer’s and Bishop Wester’s commendations of Bishop-elect Justice were echoed by other priests who also praised his leadership skills, forthrightness and spiritual depth.

“Bill is a very committed priest and a wonderful choice,” said Father Mario Farana, pastor of St. Paul Parish, San NEW AUXILIARY BISHOP, page 14

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New auxiliary bishop’s heart, wisdom, experience praised

Bishop-elect William J. Justice will be ordained auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Archbishop George H. Niederauer at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Wednesday, May 28, at 2 p.m.

Pope hopes to heal U.S. sex abuse wounds

By John Thavis ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO THE U.S. (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI said he hoped to help heal the wounds of priestly sex abuse during his visit to the United States and promised steps to ensure that such acts do not happen again.

The pope made his remarks to reporters aboard his chartered Alitalia jet April 15, about an hour after taking off from Rome for his April 15-20 visit to Washington and New York City.

The pope stood at the front of the coach class of the plane and answered four questions chosen in advance, touching on topics of immigration, churchstate relations and the United Nations.

Asked what he would have to say about the clerical sex-abuse scandal in the U.S., the pope said the Church

should work for justice and help the victims as much as possible.

“Really, it is a great suffering for the Church in the United States and for the Church in general and for me personally that this could happen,” he said.

“If I read the histories of these victims, it’s difficult for me to understand how it was possible that priests betrayed in this way their mission to give healing, to give the love of God to these children,” he said.

“We are deeply ashamed and will do all possible that this cannot happen in the future,” he said.

The pope cited new norms approved

by U.S. Church leaders for dealing with sexual abuse, and he noted a recent visitation of all U.S. seminaries.

Seminaries today are being much more careful about making sure that “only really sound persons” are admitted

to the priesthood, because the Church recognizes that “it’s more important to have good priests than to have many priests,” he said.

He drew a distinction between homosexual priests and those who commit sexual abuse.

“I will not speak in this moment about homosexuality but about pedophilia, which is another thing. We will absolutely exclude pedophiles from the sacred ministry. This is absolutely incompatible,” he said.

The pope said the entire Church should be involved in the process of healing, assistance and reconciliation.

“This is a big pastoral engagement, and I know all the bishops and priests and all the Catholic people of the United States will do what is necessary to help, to assist and to heal and to see that in the POPE HOPES TO HEAL, page 14

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Local Catholic youth give pope birthday blessing Elementary and secondary schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco have gathered thousands of prayers, Masses and hours of service as a gift to Pope Benedict XVI for his 81st birthday, April 16, the second day of his trip to the United States.

The effort is part of a national campaign led by the National Catholic Educational Association titled “Birthday Blessings for Pope Benedict XVI: A Gift of Public Service from U.S. Catholic Youth and Students.” As of late March more than 500,000 community service hours had been pledged by U.S. Catholic school students and other Catholic youths in honor of the pope’s birthday.

Among schools in the Archdiocese reporting pledges are: All Souls Elementary School, South San Francisco: Principal, Vincent Reiner.

Students: 276. All of the school’s students volunteered 500 hours to collect food for

the poor distributed through the St. Vincent de Paul Society. Overseeing the work was Karen Johanson and the student council.

“The birthday blessings project was a great initiative as it was a practical way for the school to assist the poor in our community as well as talk with students about social justice and options for the poor,” said Reiner.

St. Anne Elementary School, San Francisco: Principal, Thomas C. White.

Students: 489. Daily prayer was the gift to the pope from this school’s almost 500 students, according to White. Each of the school’s teachers had a hand in organizing the rituals.

St. Pius Elementary School, Redwood City: Principal, Rita Carroll. Students: 293. “Daily prayer for the intentions of the Holy Father and school service activities connected to Earth Day and protecting the

St. Francis of Assisi relic en route to San Francisco

By Rick DelVecchio A rock authenticated as having been used

by St. Francis of Assisi in 1206 in the construction of the Porziuncola, the stone chapel that would become the birthplace of the Franciscan order, is scheduled to be carried to San Francisco next week and presented as a gift to the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Franciscan Fathers Gianpaolo Masotti and Antonio Mirko Sellitto of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi will formally present the relic April 22 at an arrival reception at San Francisco International Airport. The invitation-only reception will be hosted by Mayor Gavin Newsom, Archbishop George Niederauer and the San Francisco-Assisi Sister City Committee.

On April 24, the 2.2-pound pink granite boulder will be displayed at a reception at the De Young Museum, hosted by Archbishop

Niederauer, Mayor Newsom and former San Francisco Supervisor Angela Alioto. To register for the event, call (415) 614-5551 or e-mail shrinesf@sfarchdiocese.org. Tickets for the VIP reception at 6:30 p.m. are $250. Tickets for general reception from 7:30 to 9 are $100.

The relic will be permanently installed on the altar of a replica of the Porziuncola that is under construction at the National Shrine of St. Francis in North Beach.

The privately funded replica, said to be the only Porziuncola reproduction in the world, is scheduled to be dedicated Sept. 27 by Cardinal William Levada, prefect for the Congregation of the Faith and Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco.

The rock is said to have been among the building stones gathered by St. Francis when he repaired three chapels outside Assisi in the summer of 1206.

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environment added up to almost 300 hours from our students,” said Carroll. Peggy Zappelli oversaw the campaign.

St. Cecilia Elementary School, San Francisco: Principal, Holy Names Sister Marilyn Miller. Students: 585. “Students and parents offered 1,500 Masses and donated $8,500 for the pope,” said Sister Miller. “The money was given in Pope Benedict’s name to the Sisters of the Holy Names for their ministry to orphans at Little Flower Primary

School in Lesotho, Africa.” In addition, junior high students contributed 1,856 hours in community outreach projects.

Corpus Christi School, San Francisco: Principal, Salesian Sister Martina Ponce.

Students: 222. “The students have prayed for the Holy Father. The teachers did a religion lesson on who the pope is and his responsibilities. The parents were told of the project, ‘Blessings for Pope Benedict.’

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Survey assesses Catholics’ beliefs WASHINGTON (CNS) – As the U.S. Catholic Church prepared to welcome Pope Benedict XVI, a new survey found big differences among Catholics of different generations about the importance of the sacraments in their lives. Asked which sacrament was most meaningful in their lives, 39 percent of respondents named baptism, 26 percent said marriage and 25 percent named the Eucharist. Among those who said they attended Mass weekly or more often, 52 percent said the Eucharist was most meaningful in their lives. The study also divided respondents into four generations in relation to the Second Vatican Council: pre-Vatican II, comprised of those born before 1943; Vatican II, born between 1943 and 1960; post-Vatican II, born 1961 to 1981; and millennial Catholics, born after 1981.

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in the number of priests serving in parishes, few of the men said they have considered becoming a priest and less than a third of all respondents said they would encourage their own child to pursue a religious vocation. Those were among the results of a survey of 1,007 self-identified adult Catholics conducted by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University in Washington. The margin of error for the survey was plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Studies vocation attitudes WASHINGTON (CNS) – Although three-quarters of U.S. Catholic respondents in a new survey have noticed a decline

Pope: slash military spending (CNS PHOTO/DAMIAN DOUARGANES)

Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada, retired archbishop of Mexico City, died April 10 in Mexico City at the age of 88.

Cardinal Corripio, who retired in 1994, had suffered from diabetes. He is pictured in a photo dated 1991.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI urged nations to slash military spending and funnel savings into peaceful development projects around the world. He also called on nations to halt the spread of handguns and other small-caliber weapons “that fuel local wars and urban violence and unfortunately kill too many people across the world every day.” The pope made his comments in a written message presented to participants gathered for an April 11-12 seminar sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

tions unless more is done to support Catholic schools, said the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land.

Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, whose order maintains most of the Christian biblical sites in the Holy Land, said the religious identity of Christians had grown extremely fragile as more migrated abroad for a better life. He told an April 11 press conference in London that the main challenge for the Christians, who form 1 percent of the population of Israel and the Palestinian territories, was how to remain united.

Workers remove a figure of Christ from a 14-foot-tall cross suspended above the altar at St. Mark Church in Hyattsville, Md., April 10. The figure, or corpus, was to be reattached to the cross, and the crucifix was scheduled to be part of the backdrop for the Mass Pope Benedict XVI was to celebrate at Nationals Park in Washington April 17.

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Church use of slave labor during WWII addressed

$2.5 million to former slave laborers as well as another $2.5 million for reconciliation projects.

The Church denied claims that some laborers were mistreated at Catholic institutions, noting many priests were punished for violating Nazi laws when they insisted on treating slave laborers the same as German workers.

Cardinal Lehmann said the Church had decided, despite criticisms, to run its own compensation fund in 2000, fearing some laborers at Catholic institutions could be ineligible for support under separate federal government and business plans. “Next year, two decades will have passed since the Iron Curtain fell, yet the wounds are not yet healed,� the cardinal said. “Our Church has always worked to repair sufferings and wrongs done to others, and to ensure, by taking responsibility and promoting an historical discussion of past guilts and sorrows, that crime and desolation do not have the last word.�

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MAINZ, Germany (CNS) – A German cardinal said a report detailing how the Church used slave laborers during World War II was an “important building blockâ€? for reconciliation. “The Church’s memory was blind for too long to the fate and sorrows of men, women, youngsters and children who were brought from all over Europe as slave laborers to Germany,â€? said Cardinal Karl Lehmann of Mainz, former president of the German bishops’ conference. “This documentation, scientifically examining a forgotten chapter of contemporary Church history, cannot and should not be understood as a final reckoning‌.

It is rather an important building block on the way to a future of reconciliation for the Christians of Germany and Europe.�

After eight years of research by a special commission, the 703-page report called “The Catholic Church and Forced Labor 1939-1945� was presented in Mainz April 8. Karl-Joseph Hummel and Christoph Koesters headed the commission of historians that prepared the report.

Approximately 8.43 million civil workers and 4.57 million prisoners of war were sent to work for farms, factories, heavy industry and prison camps in the German Reich. The workers were mostly from occupied territories in Eastern Europe.

About half the Catholic Church’s schools, hospitals, convents, abbeys and charitable institutions were confiscated by the German government during the war, the report said. But more than 4,800 civil laborers and nearly 1,100 prisoners of war – mostly from Poland, Ukraine and Russia – were put to work at more than 770 Catholic institutions, such as farms or cemeteries, that remained in Church hands. Slave labor was used in all 27 Catholic dioceses. “Although the numbers involved were relatively small, they nevertheless remain an historic burden and a challenge to our Church,� said the cardinal, whose statement was published on the bishops’ conference website. “There is certainly no collective guilt. But as Christians and as a Church, we are aware of the responsibility emerging from the weight of the historic past.�

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ECO-FRIENDLY GUIDE Ecology pioneer advocates spiritual

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By Rick DelVecchio

Mercy Sister Patricia Ryan experimented with living off the land during the smallis-beautiful 1970s, drove a Prius before hybrids were the rage and helped organize Mercy Center’s 2002 eco-spirituality conference. Another ecology conference, “Beyond EarthDay: a Future Full of Hope,” will be held April 27 at Mercy Center in Burlingame.

Civilization has reached an economic dead-end and the next breakthrough must of necessity be a spiritual one.

So says Mercy Sister Patricia Ryan, a retired high-school teacher who is passionately concerned about the fate of the planet. A member of the Sisters of Mercy Motherhouse community in Burlingame, Sister Ryan embraces a perspective known as eco-spirituality. Ranging over Christian spiritual sources, Eastern and traditional wisdom, science and philosophy, Einstein and new-age poets, she reads, writes, teaches, meditates and organizes, contributing her small share to the planetary shift in thought she calls conscious evolution.

During an interview at Mercy Center this week, Sister Ryan, a former chemistry teacher who tutors at Mercy High School in San Francisco twice weekly, discussed her philosophy and invited the public to attend the center’s April 27 ecological conference, “Beyond Earth Day: a Future Full of Hope.”

The event will showcase sustainable agriculturist James Stark, co-founder of Waste Free Now, West Marin Growers Group and the Permaculture Institute of Northern California.

For Sister Ryan, Stark is inspirational because he values conservation and interconnectedness, as opposed to consumption and individual gain. Such ideas were popular in the small-is-beautiful movement in the 1970s, when prophesies of economic collapse were in the air and people experimented with dropping out of modernity to live off the land.

The sense of planetary fragility is even more urgent today, but the global economy that has arisen since the 1970s means local measures

can only go so far. Sister Ryan mentions pollution in Lake Tahoe by way of example, noting that even if everyone in California rallied to keep the lake blue, India and China would have to respond by limiting the fossil fuel consumption that adds to the pollution.

Eco-spirituality, therefore, argues for changing the system globally. The change, Sister Ryan believes, is fundamentally one of attitude.

‘We have this wonderful knowledge, these great powers, but we don’t have the soul yet to handle it.’

– Sister Patricia Ryan A Burlingame native who joined the Sisters of Mercy in 1955, Sister Ryan has immersed herself in the principles of eco-spirituality through the work of such writers as cosmologist Brian Swimme and spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle. She helps lead a monthly discussion group at Mercy Center. Swimme’s “The Powers of the Universe” is the current topic.

“The segment we’re doing this week is on interrelatedness,” she said. “It’s asking the fundamental question, ‘Who are we called to be as humans and what is our role in the universe?’

“It’s getting to the point where it’s not

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Mercy Sister Patricia Ryan holds open an anthology that contains some of her poetry.

“Homelessness” concerns the alienation of the human heart from the nurturing Earth.

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just you and me, it’s all of us,” she said. “And it’s not just we humans, it’s the animals and the plants. We’re at a really crucial time. For centuries we had evolution of consciousness but we’re saying we have conscious evolution, because we humans have a role in what is happening. We can think and help the environment.”

Sister Ryan is also reading Tolle’s “A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.”

“It’s really hopeful and inspiring, and it’s helping people to be more peaceful and conscious in the best sense,” she said. “He has had life experiences that have taught him to not get all caught up in the ego. What people think of as themselves is all about the ego and is not who they really are. That brings in the spiritual dimension. We don’t just have this life. There’s more to it than we’ve even begun to imagine. We’re not at the end here at all. We’re at a critical point, but something more wonderful is to come later on.”

Sister Ryan is fond of paraphrasing Einstein on the challenge facing a humankind that has mastered the economic realm but not the meaning of it all: “We have this wonderful knowledge, these great powers, but we don’t have the soul yet to handle it.”

For more information: • Download the flyer for the April 27 conference at http://mercy-center.org/Flyers_ 2008_27beyond_earth/beyond.htm • From July 10-13, Sisters of Earth will hold their biennial conference at Presentation Center, 19480 Bear Creek Road, Los Gatos.

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Vatican seminar on global change becomes heated VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Despite being held in a cool, climate-controlled conference room, some early discussions at a Vatican-sponsored seminar on global warming and climate change got pretty heated just about a year ago this time.

The rifts and tensions still dividing the global debate on the causes of and remedies for drastic climatic shifts were gently simmering in the small microcosm of the two-day Vatican meeting.

The seminar, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, gathered some 80 experts representing the scientific, political, economic and spiritual sides of the climate-change debate at the Vatican April 26-27, 2007 to discuss “Climate Change and Development.”

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“I have to commend the planners,” said Lucia Silecchia, a professor of environmental law at The Catholic University of America in Washington, because “nobody can accuse them of bringing in a group of people who will agree with each other.”

Disagreements even spilled out into the corridor during the closed-door seminar’s first morning break when a Vatican official had to use his pastoral prowess to calm one participant.

“The scientific community has been so divided and so bitter” over the climate-change debate that experts who disagree with each other don’t talk to each other, Silecchia told Catholic News Service.

But by bringing the opposing sides together under the This is a computer-generated rendition of what the giant rooftop garden of solar panels will look like on the neutral roof of the Vatican, she said, the Church is helpVatican’s Paul VI audience hall. The solar energy project will take place this year and, when completed, ing give a fresh approach to an issue mired in conflict, will create enough electricity to heat, cool and light the entire building year-round. confusion and, often, inaction.

The Vatican is reminding people the environment and development cannot be helped by economics, science or Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the justice and teaching, Cardinal Martino said. politics alone, “that there are moral, ethical consider- peace council, said the Church’s concern for the enviThe Church does not want to curb sustainable develations” to take into account, said Silecchia. ronment and creation dates to the Book of Genesis. In opment, especially in impoverished nations, nor does it She said policymakers have to avoid falling into the the two stories of creation, God gave humankind the see population control as a way to conserve dwindling extremes that either see “the human almost as evil and mandate to subdue and have dominion over the earth, resources. There is a middle ground, many Church destroying a beautiful planet” or consider development but he also expected humanity “to cultivate and care for leaders say, that sees sustainable economic growth, the and technology as saviors of the world. it,” he said. environment and human development as partners, not John Carr, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Humanity’s dominion over creation “does not have to enemies. secretary for social develbe despotic” nor should it But when 5 percent of the world’s population gobbles opment and world peace, be used for purely selfish up 20 percent of the earth’s resources, lifestyle changes said Christian values seen The Catholic Church is ‘not the and economic needs, he are important, said Cardinal Martino and Pope Benedict in “the virtue of prudence, said. Hurting the envi- XVI. the pursuit of the common ronment is a sin, he told In a papal telegram to seminar participants, the pope good and the protection Sierra Club at prayer.’ reporters, as it “is an said he hoped the conference would foster the “research of the poor” are important offense not only against and promotion of lifestyles and models of production and – John Carr of USCCB yourself, but against all consumption that respect creation and the real demands contributions to the climate-change debate and others” whose lives depend of sustainable progress of peoples.” should be at the heart of on its resources.

While Cardinal Martino said the seminar’s purpose policies aimed at addressing global warming.

Nonetheless, he said, the Vatican is cautious about was merely “to educate,” a number of participants said Because real consensus among politicians and scien- what sort of pronouncements it makes about global the Vatican-sponsored event could have a significant tists is not around the corner, the Church can still band warming. impact on how the debate is shaped. divergent groups together under its universal umbrella Church leaders are aware scientific findings can someSilecchia said in some ways the environmental moveof Christian values. times be skewed by special-interest groups or overblown ment “has become its own new religion,” and this could The Catholic Church is “not the Sierra Club at prayer,” by an audience-hungry media. be offset by a wider recognition of the Church’s own traCarr told CNS. The Church embodies centuries of tradiThe Church, therefore, “seeks to draw fully from the dition of God asking people to be stewards of creation. tion of calling for “sacrifice, restraint, moderation,” pro- treasury” of all scientific knowledge and experience and Carr said the Church’s approach to the problem of moting the common good and the option for the poor. looks for “a true and balanced response” based on Church climate change is “from the bottom up” – having people’s basic needs shape the nature of policy.

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Nuncio addresses U.N. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, apostolic nuncio to the United Nations, talks about climate change in an address to the 62nd session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York Feb. 13. The underlying theme of the nuncio’s address was that concern for humanity, in particular for those most vulnerable to climate change, translates into a concern for the environment. Ongoing debate about climate change “has helped put into focus the inescapable responsibility of one and all to care for the environment,” he said.

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ECO-FRIENDLY GUIDE Vatican accepts donation to make it ‘carbon-neutral’

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by SolarWorld shows how solar panels will look on the roof of the Vatican’s audience hall when installed this year. Some 2,000 panels were donated to the Vatican

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Calling for “a new culture, new attitudes and new lifestyles that make people aware of their role as custodians” of the earth, Cardinal Paul Poupard accepted a donation last July designed to make the Vatican “the world’s first carbon-neutral sovereign state.”

The U.S.-based Planktos Inc. and its Hungarian partner, KlimaFa, will designate part of a reforestation project in Hungary as the Vatican Climate Forest.

Cardinal Poupard, president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, accepted the gift on behalf of the Vatican.

In the meantime, Pope Benedict XVI, who was vacationing in the northern Italian Alps, sent a message to Italian forest rangers celebrating the July 12 feast of St. John Gualberto, their patron saint.

“It is an appropriate occasion to express my appreciation and affection for forest rangers, certain that they want their work to be marked by a spirit of service, to be close to the people and to better safeguard natural resources, which are a gift of God for everyone,” said the papal message.

The size of the Vatican Climate Forest in Hungary and the number of trees to be planted will depend directly on the Vatican’s 2007 energy usage, said Planktos and KlimaFa. The companies said they will offset all of the Vatican’s 2007 emissions of carbon dioxide, or CO2.

The burning of fossil fuels, such as gasoline and heating oil, emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. It is one of the “greenhouse gases” that traps heat in the earth’s atmosphere

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By Cindy Wooden

and is seen as a prime cause of global warming.

Planktos and KlimaFa earn money by selling greenhouse-gas mitigation credits to individuals and businesses.

Whatever carbon dioxide emissions someone cannot eliminate can be offset by planting trees or buying the carbon mitigation credits of a company that plants trees or takes other action to eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

In his statement to executives from Planktos and KlimaFa, Cardinal Poupard thanked the companies for helping the Vatican “do its little part to contribute to eliminating polluting CO2 emissions that threaten the survival of the planet.”

God created the world and appointed people as its guard-

ians, telling them to make it fruitful, the cardinal said.

“Safeguarding the environment is not a political question that leaders of political parties must resolve, but an ethical, cultural question,” he said.

Msgr. Melchor Sanchez de Toca Alameda, an official at the council for culture, said the monetary value of the Planktos-KlimaFa gift “is clearly symbolic. They get free publicity and the Holy See is provided with a way to encourage Catholics to do more to safeguard the planet.”

“Vatican City State is trying to do its part,” he said, mentioning installation of solar panels on the Vatican audience hall to generate electricity.

Congress urged to consider climate change impact on poor WASHINGTON (CNS) – As Congress began to consider measures to address global warming last fall, lawmakers were urged to protect “those often missing from the debate – the vulnerable and often voiceless people at home and around the world” by the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ international policy committee and other religious leaders.

“We are convinced the real ‘inconvenient truth’ about climate change is that those who contribute least to the problem are likely to suffer the most,” said Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of Orlando, Fla. He made the comments during a teleconference with reporters. Other religious leaders who participated included the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, and the Rev. Michael Livingston, president of the National Council of Churches.

“For us, the moral measure of legislation is how it protects ‘the least among us’ ... in our nation and on the planet we share,” Bishop Wenski said.

On Nov. 1 a subcommittee of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 4-3 to send a bill to cap greenhouse gas emissions to the full committee, which is chaired by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Boxer.

The bill, called America’s Climate Security Act, is sponsored

by Sens. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn., and John Warner, R-Va. Among other things, the bill aims to reduce greenhouse

gas emissions by as much as 19 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and by as much as 63 percent by 2050. Also, polluters would be allowed to buy and sell emission credits.

“We are grateful that overdue and essential legislative deliberations are now moving forward and we appreciate the good faith and encouraging efforts under way,” Bishop Wenski said.

He added, “The Church’s voice and advocacy will focus primarily on reducing the unfair burdens and protecting the lives and dignity of those often missing from the debate, vulnerable and often voiceless people ... at home and around the world.”

Last year leaders of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment sent a letter to Congress saying they

understand “the daunting task Congress faces in crafting adequate responses” to global climate change.

But at the same time “we recognize that because of the magnitude of the climate issue, which will literally and likely affect all of humankind, our policy choices must be informed by and be consistent with the moral principles that bind us together,” they said.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is one of the four members of the partnership. The others are the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, the Evangelical Environmental Network and the National Council of Churches, which represents mainly Orthodox and mainline Protestant churches.

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April 18, 2008

Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 6:1-7; Psalm 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; 1 Peter 2:4-9; John 14:1-12 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 6:1-7 As the number of disciples continued to grow, the Hellenists complained against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.

So the Twelve called together the community of the disciples and said, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to serve at table. Brothers, select from among you seven reputable men, filled with the Spirit and wisdom, whom we shall appoint to this task, whereas we shall devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

The proposal was acceptable to the whole community, so they chose Stephen, a man filled with faith and the Holy Spirit, also Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, a convert to Judaism.

They presented these men to the apostles who prayed and laid hands on them.

The word of God continued to spread, and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem increased greatly; even a large group of priests were becoming obedient to the faith.

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A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PETER 1 PT 2:4-9 Beloved: Come to him, a living stone, rejected by human beings but chosen and precious in the sight of God, and, like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to

God through Jesus Christ. For it says in Scripture: Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, chosen and precious, and whoever believes in it shall not be put to shame.

Therefore, its value is for you who have faith, but for those without faith: The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone, and A stone that will make people stumble, and a rock that will make them fall.

They stumble by disobeying the word, as is their destiny. You are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises” of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

A READING ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL OF JOHN JN 14:1-12 Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not let your hearts be troubled.

You have faith in God; have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back again and take you to myself, so that where I am you also may be. Where I am going you know the way.”

Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?”

Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father.

From now on you do know him and have seen him.”

Philip said to him, “Master, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on my own. The Father who dwells in me is doing his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else, believe because of the works themselves. Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever believes in me will do the works that I do, and will do greater ones than these, because I am going to the Father.”

Scripture reflection FATHER BILL NICHOLAS

Doubts to questions. Questions to answers. Answers to faith…

Three weeks ago, on the Second Sunday Church did as they grappled with questions and of Easter, the Gospel reading told the story of sought to articulate our faith to teach it more Thomas the Apostles and his obstinate doubt correctly and more clearly. This is what another in Christ’s resurrection. Because of this he has St. Thomas did, named Aquinas, whose answers been known through the centuries as “Doubting fill a 17-volume tour-de-force, the Summa Thomas,” or “Thomas the Doubter.” However, Theologica.

I wonder if we have been a little too hard on the Every now and then someone consults man, overlooking the fruits of Christ’s response me regarding doubts they are having in their to the doubts and questions he and other faith. While still faithful in the practice of apostles raised while Jesus was with them. that faith, they are nonetheless uneasy and We hear from Thomas again this week somewhat discouraged that they are expealong with Philip, whose questions (particu- riencing doubt. Some even worry that such larly Philip’s) appear to test Jesus’ patience: doubt constitutes a sin. To this I answer “I have been with you all this time and still simply: Doubt leads to questions. Questions you do not know me?” This, along with the lead to answers. Answers lead to a deepening familiar story of Thomas, seems to further of faith. If it was good enough for Thomas enforce the idea of Thomas being a doubter, and Philip, for St. Paul, the Church Fathers, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas; if it was until one reads further.

In the familiar story of his doubt Thomas even good enough for our Lord’s Blessed raises an important issue: how are we to know Mother who “pondered these things in her that Jesus is truly risen if we have not seen heart,” then it is good enough for us. him? Jesus responds in a way that deepens our So let’s give Thomas a break, (and understanding of our relationship with him: Philip,too,while we’re at it). Perhaps he is “Blessed are those who have not seen, but still not Thomas the Doubter, but Thomas the believe.” In the Gospel for this 5th Sunday of Theologian. Perhaps Philip is not so slow, but Easter, Thomas again raises a question: “We knew how to ask Jesus the right questions, even do not know where you are going. How can if they did annoy Jesus a bit. Let us not get too we know the way?” In response, Jesus gives discouraged by doubts we might have regardanother of many well-known and beloved say- ing our faith. If these doubts lead us to ask ings: “I am the way, the truth and the life….” questions (rather than pull us away from the In the same way, Philip raises a question that faith), and if we look to the right places for our appears to annoy Jesus: “Show us the Father….” answers, then our doubts will be a tremendous To this, Jesus again gives a familiar response: grace as we come to a deeper understanding of our faith, our Church, our tradition and our “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.”

The questions raised by both these apostles relationship with Christ and his Father. result in a response that further deepens our Thomas and Philip got their answers from understanding of Jesus, his relationship with Christ and it prepared them to become the the Father and our belief in his resurrection. So great apostles they were. The early fathers are these apostles doubters? Are they slow to received their answers from their study and understand? Or perhaps, are Thomas and Philip the blessings of inspiration, and it prepared among the first Christian theologians, whose them to be the great Doctors of our Church. questions, and even doubts, lead to a deeper We get our answers from the wealth of our understanding of faith? predecessors in faith, and it prepares us for This is what theologians have done through- the awesome task of teaching and passing on out our Church’s history. St. Paul did this that faith to yet another generation. throughout his career as Apostle to the Gentiles. Father Bill Nicholas is parochial vicar at The results are the inspired epistles in which Paul and other apostolic writers spell out their deep Our Lady of Loretto, Novato, and author understanding of the mystery of Christ. This was of “I Saw the World End: An Introduction done by the early Church fathers, whose writings to the Bible’s Apocalyptic Literature.” have contributed greatly to the Church’s understanding and Are your systems and your data giving you teaching of our faith. This is “the business” what the great Doctors of the Instead of helping your business?

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By Carol Glatz VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Grandparents are a precious resource for families, the Church and society, Pope Benedict XVI said.

“So-called new models of the family and rampant relativism” have weakened the core values of traditional families and such societal ills need an urgent response, the pope said.

In order to overcome the crises and threats today’s families are facing, people could start by turning to “the presence and witness of their grandparents” whose visions and values have more solid foundations, he said.

The pope made his comments April 5 during an audience with participants in the plenary assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family.

The April 3-5 meeting discussed “Grandparents: Their Testimony and Presence in the Family.”

The pope said current economic and social conditions

have relegated the elderly to the sidelines, when in the past grandparents played a more important role in the life and growth of the family, including sharing their memories and wisdom with others.

Grandparents can provide ‘a past full of meaningful experience and spiritual and moral points of reference’ – Pope Benedict XVI But today, many elderly find themselves left in a sort of “parking lot,” he said, while others may feel they are too much of a burden for their families and so choose to

live alone or in a nursing home.

For some, the “culture of death” threatens to use euthanasia as a means of dealing with “certain difficult situations,” he said.

People must band together to prevent the alienation of the elderly and to help them be more integrated in society and the family, he said, because if people really do believe grandparents are a precious resource, then more must be done to better show their worth.

The pope asked that “grandparents continue to be witnesses of unity (and) values based on loyalty to a single love that generates faith and the joy of life.”

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Senior Living Seton’s primary stroke program earns ‘gold seal’ DALY CITY – Seton Medical Center has earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ from the Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Centers after a site review of the hospital’s facilities and stroke treatment and follow-up care programs, hospital officials report. “We are pleased to be recognized by the Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Centers for adopting best practices and providing our team of specialists with tools and resources that improve the quality of care and longterm outcomes of our stroke patients,â€? said Bernadette M. Smith, president and CEO of Seton Medical Center/Seton Coastside. “This recognition is a testament to the pioneering history of this institution toward the expansion of cardiovascular care over the past two decades and the team-work and quality patient care provided by our physicians and associates.â€?

Stroke is a leading cause of serious, longterm disability in the United States, with about 4.7 million stroke survivors alive today. Each year about 700,000 people experience a new or recurrent stroke, which is the nation’s third leading cause of death.

According to Dr. Edgardo Alicaway, Stroke Program medical director at Seton Medical Center, “We anticipate providing the range of primary stroke treatment and follow-up care for 300 area residents each year. This number will increase over time as more and more people learn to recognize stroke symptoms at their onset and get to the emergency department as quickly as possible.�

Members of Seton Medical Center’s Primary Stroke Program respond to stroke at a moment’s notice. They include, left to right: Liz Choy, R.N., Emergency Department; David Goldschmid, M.D., medical director, Emergency Department; Louis Manila, R.N., manager of the San Francisco Heart and Vascular Institute; Stephen Abedon, M.D., assistant medical director, Primary Stroke Program; Edgardo Alicaway, M.D., medical director, Primary Stroke Program; and Lilia Santiago, R.N., Interventional Radiology.

The most effective treatment for stoke victims is to convey them as quickly as possible to a primary stoke center where they can receive rapid diagnosis and appropriate treatment. One of the most effective treatments is administering tissue-type plasminogen (t-PA), a well regarded blood clot dissolving medication, within three hours of a stroke onset, according to a hospital news release which also said SMC is implementing a program “to educate the public about how to effectively recognize and react to a stroke onset.�

Seton’s Stroke Program “has put in place procedures that include intense training and education for emergency room physicians, neurologist, nurses, x-ray technicians, laboratory technicians, and support staff,� the release stated.

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Aging numbers pose new set of challenges VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The world’s rapidly aging population poses a whole new set of challenges, in particular the pastoral care of elderly sick people, Vatican officials said. “This is the most important stage of life, because from here humanity opens itself to eternal life,� said Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan. “Giving pastoral care to the sick in this phase means opening the door for them in the name of the Lord.�

Cardinal Lozano, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers, spoke at a recent Vatican press conference. The council was sponsoring a conference on pastoral care of the elderly sick, with international participants from health, scientific and religious fields.

When “elderly� is defined as 60 or over, the global elderly population today is 650 million and will reach 2 billion by 2050, according to the World Health Organization.

While longer life is generally a good sign, the increasing numbers of the elderly are susceptible to disease as well as physical and mental trials, said Roberto Bernabei, an aging specialist at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.

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Senior Living DAYTON, Ohio (CNS) – Most people looking at a block of wood or stone see ... a block of wood or stone. But Precious Blood Sister Eileen Tomlinson apparently thinks like the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo.

According to legend, Michelangelo said that when he looked at a block of marble he saw the figure within, waiting to be released.

Last winter, Sister Eileen looked at a large log of walnut wood and saw more than what met the eye. She saw Mother Maria Anna Brunner, the Swiss-born foundress of the Sisters of the Precious Blood. And she soon went to work to free her.

In their 174-year history, the Daytonbased Sisters of the Precious Blood have had no shortage of talented women, artists who work in almost every medium. But Sister Eileen’s talents range across an incredibly wide artistic spectrum: oil, acrylic and watercolor painting, pen-and-ink illustration, calligraphy, sculpture and woodcarving.

Trained as an artist, Sister Eileen was an art teacher for many years in Ohio and California before she “retired” to the motherhouse, called Salem Heights, in 1997.

Since then she has been the unofficial artist-in-residence at the motherhouse, in constant demand for her work. Among her most recent creations were illustrations for a commemorative booklet prepared to honor the 2007 Sister jubilarians, and illustrations in the report of the congregation’s general council presented at its assembly last June.

The newest statue of Mother Brunner is just one in a long line of smaller versions. For several years now, Sister Eileen’s statuettes of the foundress, in different sizes, have graced displays at congregational events and have been given as gifts to sisters for special occasions.

Because of the demand for the statues, it was impossible for Sister Eileen to keep making them herself. From her original sculpture, resin copies were made, but even now that they’re commercially produced, Sister Eileen still adds her personal touch: she lovingly hand-colors each.

When Sister Eileen heard the congregation’s Maria Stein Center was looking for a statue of Mother Brunner but was short of the funds estimated for a large piece, she volunteered to help. She knew she couldn’t make a carving large enough for the shrine’s outdoor statue garden, but felt a smaller statue for indoors was manageable.

The time commitment and sheer physical labor involved in transforming a large piece of wood into a finished statue is considerable. Wielding a heavy carver’s mallet and carving tools is a challenge at any age – and Sister Eileen celebrated her 90th birthday last year. But she was undeterred in beginning this labor of love.

“I guess I am just so fond of Mother Brunner that I felt I wanted to help out,” she explained.

A donor provided the large walnut log.

Almost 3 feet tall and 17 inches in diameter, the log weighed 70 pounds.

Unfortunately, the log was greenwood, or “wet.” Normally it takes seven years to dry wood sufficiently to work with it for a sculpture. But the sister-artist didn’t have the luxury of that time; the Maria Stein Center was hoping for its Mother Brunner statue soon.

After the log’s arrival in December 2006, it was set aside to dry for a month. Randy Siler, a motherhouse groundskeeper, used a chain saw to remove the bark and outer layer of wood to allow Sister Eileen to work on it, and lugged it up to her fourth-floor art studio.

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Surrounded by woodworking tools, Precious Blood Sister Eileen Tomlinson works on a 70-pound walnut log in Dayton, Ohio, defining the basic form of a statue of her order’s foundress, Mother Maria Anna Brunner. The 90-year-old artist spent up to two hours a day for four months on the carving.

She devoted up to two hours a day on the carving, from mid-January through most of April 2007.

The wood had some cracks and split badly in places, so Sister Eileen consulted an experienced woodworker who told her how to fill the cracks. That done, she touched up the filled areas and finally rubbed the finished piece with a good coating of paste wax.

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wood’s cracks and imperfections add a special beauty to the work. This rustic Mother Brunner, complete with her Swiss bonnet, lace apron and shoulder sack of bread, has a mature look about her, weathered by life’s pain and grace.

Last fall, the carving of the foundress was blessed and enshrined in a place of honor at the Maria Stein Center. There, Sister Eileen’s labor of love is now enjoyed by many pilgrims.

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Senior Living Sister Eleanor Burkeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kindness, compassion recalled Sister Eleanor from alumnae social events,â&#x20AC;? Tortorelli said . â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was someone with a sweet smile and someone you Sister Eleanor Burke, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin wanted to walk up and talk to.â&#x20AC;?

Mary and an alumna of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s St. Paul High School, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister Eleanor was a great lady,â&#x20AC;? said Father John Cloherty, died April 11 at her congregationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retirement pastor of St. Paul from 1983-1990 and now facility, Caritas Center, in Dubuque, Iowa. living in retirement at St. Anne of the Sunset Sister Burke entered religious life in 1941 Parish. Father Cloherty remembered as many professing first vows in 1944 and final vows as 50 Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin in 1949. Sister Burke had been known previMary living in St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s then two convents. ously as Sister Anna Martine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Sisters always invited me for dinner and Born in San Francisco Nov. 8, 1919, were very welcoming. They are really terrific.

Sister Burke was a loyal alumna of St. It is a time to remember all that the BVM Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. She served at the school, which Sisters have done for St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.â&#x20AC;? closed in 1994, as teacher, librarian, vice Sister Burke is survived by a sister, Sister principal and registrar from 1968 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 1991.

Veronica (Jackie) Burke, BVM, and was â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody loved her,â&#x20AC;? said Katy predeceased by her parents Mary Ann and Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea, a 1948 St. Paul High School graduMartin, and brothers, Martin, who died at age ate and now director of the St. Paul Parish two during a flu epidemic, and Timothy. capital campaign. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The minute we started â&#x20AC;&#x153;St. Paul Parish was the center for this fundraising, Sister Eleanor pitched right in. Sister Eleanor Burke, BVM Irish family while the grade school and high She was a dear lady with a warm personality school became their learning blocks,â&#x20AC;? Sister and was always very helpful.â&#x20AC;?

Joan Stritesky, BVM, told those gathered at the funeral Ruth Tortorelli is administrative assistant at St. Paul Mass April 15.

Parish and a 1964 alumna of St. Paul High School. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I knew â&#x20AC;&#x153;El and Jackieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vocations were nourished and manifested

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$1 million in grants support aging religious WASHINGTON (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Religious orders will share $1 million in grants approved in early February by the board of Support Our Aging Religious.

Awards range from $5,500 to $25,000 and will go to 58 orders in 23 states. SOAR has distributed nearly 800 grants totaling $9 million to orders in 43 states and Puerto Rico since its founding in 1986. To date SOAR has received requests for three times as much money as it has been able to distribute, officials said.

Among the grants made was $15,000 to the Presentation Sisters in San Francisco to replace a 40-year-old boiler in their motherhouse with an efficient heating system that will save

money. The median age of the 32 Sisters at the motherhouse is 85.

SOAR raises money through newsletters, videos, direct mailings, the sale of the CD â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sisters in Songâ&#x20AC;? and gala dinners in Washington, New York and Southern California.

Despite the financial help, the problems of underfunded retirement liability for U.S. religious orders persists. The total underfunded retirement liability is estimated at more than $7.5 billion.

More information about SOAR is available on the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website, www.soar-usa.org.

while at St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.â&#x20AC;?

Sister Maureen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien. BVM, a longtime principal of St. Paul High School and now a pastoral associate at St. Teresa Parish on Potrero Hill, flew to Dubuque for the funeral Mass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;El was one of the most wonderful people God ever put on the face of the earth,â&#x20AC;? Sister Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien said from Dubuque. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the 45 years I knew her I never heard her say an unkind word. Her kindness and compassion were without limit.â&#x20AC;?

Interment was in the Sistersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mount Carmel Cemetery.

Remembrances may be sent to Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Retirement Fund, 1100 Carmel Dr., Dubuque, Iowa 52003.

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Senior Living Canossian Sisters celebrating 200th jubilee

By Sister Catherine Cappello, FdCC The Canossian Daughters of Charity, commonly known as Canossian Sisters, are celebrating this year their 200th anniversary of foundation. Their foundress, St. Magdalene of Canossa, received the official approval of the Church for the Institute on May 8, 1808.

The Canossian Sisters have been in the San Francisco Archdiocese since 1984, and today serve here at Holy Name and St. Brendan parishes. In addition, one of their members, Canossian Sister Maria Hsu, directs the Archdiocese’s Office of Ethnic Ministry.

St. Magdalene of Canossa was born March 1, 1774 into the Marquis Canossa Family in Verona, Italy. With much suffering, struggle and prayer she discerned God’ s call in her life to launch a new form of religious life as it responded to the needs of the time.

She formed a group of women who were simultaneously contemplative at heart and yet totally dedicated to evangelization, education, pastoral care of the sick, formation of pastoral agents, and retreat work. They were to live in community, but not in a cloister, with the purpose of being Sisters walking together with all brothers and sisters in the world – making Jesus known.

A woman deeply in love with Christ, St. Magdalene desired to be one with him on the cross. She became a woman deeply in love with humanity, totally dedicated to show the love of Christ in serving as he does, giving all without measure, to her brothers and sisters

St. Magdalene of Conossa is portrayed among the poor she personally fed in Italy in a 20th century painting by G.B. Conti.

– especially those most in most need.

This is the charism she passed on to her congregation.

At the time of her death on April 10, 1835, the Canossian Institute had opened five houses in Italy: Verona (1808), Venice (1812), Milan (1816), Bergamo (1820) and Trent (1824).The community continued to spread in Italy and later extended to England, Portugal, France, Poland, Ukraine and Albania.

In 1860 the Canossians sent their first missionary expedition to Hong Kong. Canossian works flourished in Asia despite much suffering. The ministry spread from Hong Kong to

Canossians’ jubilee Mass May 10 A Mass commemorating the 200th jubilee of the founding of the Canossian Daughters of Charity will be celebrated Saturday, May 10, at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside at the 10 a.m. rite. A reception will follow in Patrons Hall.

Canossian Sisters began ministry in the Archdiocese in 1984 and today serve at St. Brendan and Holy Name parishes in San Francisco. Canossian Sister Maria Hsu directs the archdiocesan Office of Ethnic Ministry.

Macao and eventually to the interior provinces of China (which were later lost to communist power in the 1940s). From China the Institute moved on to India, Singapore, Malaysia, Timor, Indonesia, The Philippines and Japan – and later to Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Home of the famous Canossian saint, St. Josephine Bakhita, Africa today is a great field of Canossian missionary work – in the Congo, Angola, Kenya, Malawi, St Tome, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Sudan and Egypt.

The Canossian Sisters established themselves in the Americas in 1932 and eventually came to work in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Mexico, Canada and the United States.

The Canossian Sisters came to the U.S. in 1961, invited and encouraged by a pastor who asked them to found a new parochial school in Albuquerque, N.M. In 1969 they arrived in California, invited by Bishop Alden J. Bell to open a catechetical center in Amador County in the Diocese of Sacramento.

One of the characteristics of the Canossian

charism is adaptability. St Magdalene of Canossa wanted her Sisters to be attentive to the needs of people in different times and different places. She probably never heard the word enculturation, but she lived it fully, and she passed it on. This is a value fully present in the Institute today witnessed in the well integrated, multi cultural communities of the Sisters, the involvement in old and new ministries with ease and competence, and the great spirit of collaboration with clergy and laity and, in a special way, with the Canossian laity.

A member of the North American Canossian Province, Sister Catherine Cappello was a member of the initial group of her community to begin ministry in the U.S. in 1961, in 1969 in California, and in 1991 in Chihuahua, Mexico. She is community superior at St. Brendan Parish, San Francisco.

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Senior Living Scribes present pontiff volume of illustrated Bible

By Carol Glatz (CNS PHOTOS /COURTESY OF LITURGICAL PRESS)

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – It’s being called the Sistine Chapel of calligraphy. The St. John’s Bible will be the first handwritten and illuminated Bible penned with ancient methods since the invention of the printing press, according to its creators.

This biblical work of art will contain some 160 illuminations woven into text covering 1,100 pages of calfskin vellum sheets.

A team of scribes led by a master calligrapher, Donald Jackson, has spent the last 10 years silently scratching out biblical verses with turkey, goose and swan quills dipped in handmade inks. They and other artists also use handground pigments and gold and silver leaf to illustrate and add contrasting colors to the texts.

Vatican Letter The huge manuscripts will be bound into seven volumes that measure two feet tall and, when open, three feet wide.

Five of those volumes are now complete.

U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington and president of the U.S.-based Papal Foundation, called the project “one of those special moments in the life of biblical art.”

He was part of a delegation that met with Pope Benedict XVI April 4 to present him with a high-quality, rare reproduction of the first volume of The St. John’s Bible.

The pope, a great lover of books and sacred Scripture, was awed – his eyes glistening “with great joy” as he said, “’This is a great work of art,’” the cardinal said at a press conference soon after.

Jackson said the pope told him, “This is a work for eternity,” to which the artist said he replied, “It certainly feels like it sometimes.”

At the press conference, Jackson asked the question most people might pose: “Why do it? I mean it’s a crazy idea to turn the clock back 500 years” in this day and age of computers and laser-jet printers.

But he said the tools of the old medieval scribes “enable you to write the words of God from the heart.”

And by creating such a hefty, richly illustrated book whose pages look and even feel special, the reader is being told to “slow down, set this volume down carefully” and meditate over each and every word; it is not something to flip through casually, Jackson said.

In fact, one of the aims of this project, commissioned in 1998 by the Benedictine monks of St. John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minn., is to glorify the word of God. Jackson said modern technology has “solved the problem of dissemination. Every hotel room has a choice of one, if not two, Bibles in the nightstand.”

Master calligrapher Donald Jackson looks over an edition of The St. John’s Bible.

An undated photo shows a worker stretching calfskin to be used in The St. John’s Bible.

But often mass-produced Bibles are printed with small, cramped type on cheap “onion-skin” thin paper and put what should be thought-provoking passages of God’s word “in a straitjacket,” he said.

The Bible needs to also reach out to the human senses, not just the intellect, he said.

The St. John’s Bible, with its large pages and creatively arranged text, “invites one to linger over phrases, words and even letters” and “presents the word of God as something special,” said one of the project’s many press releases.

Even the artwork, which ranges from Byzantine icons to modern styles and botanically correct renderings of insects and plants, is meant to invite the reader toward greater reflection.

Jackson said he and his scribes have had “to let go of modern conceptions of perfection” and of creating a flawlessly copied text. They cannot, after all, hit the delete button or use correction fluid to cover mistakes.

Small errors can be scraped away with a sharp knifeedge, he said, but a more common “occupational hazard” of accidentally omitting a line is not so simply corrected.

But with the help of their artists they have been able to turn “what was a disaster into something charming,” Jackson said.

For example, an artist has drawn a small bird grasping a rope that holds a banner upon which is written the missing

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A limited number of high-quality, full-size, fine art reproductions have been produced for special benefactors. The pope’s rare copy was a gift from St. John’s University and Abbey purchased on behalf of a trustee from the U.S.-based Papal Foundation.

While most people will not be able to afford the minimum $115,000 price tag of the special-edition sets, more affordable smaller, hardbound copies are for sale through www.litpress.org, or by clicking “gift shop” at: www.saintjohnsbible.org.

The St. John’s Bible uses the New Revised Standard Version.The finished original manuscript crafted by Jackson and his team will reside at a special museum on the St. John’s University campus.

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Senior Living Living well with Parkinson’s can be done

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By Lisa M. Petsche

Pope John Paul II, walking stick in hand, strolls near the Dolomite Alps in northern Italy in the summer of 1996. He was 76 then. The pontiff continued to persevere to the limits of his personal strength, despite having been diagnosed with the disease.

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive disorder involving damage to nerve cells in the brain that control muscle movement.

According to the National Parkinson Foundation, 1.5 million Americans currently have the disease and approximately 60,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. The majority of cases develop after age 60.

The main symptoms of PD are shaking (known as tremors), slow movements, rigidity and balance problems. Other symptoms can include low energy, loss of coordination, loss of facial expression, difficulty initiating or continuing movement (“freezing”), stooped posture, a shuffling walk, decreased speech volume and depression. Early symptoms are subtle and might be difficult to detect.

While no cure exists, medications are available that alleviate the symptoms. In cases where medication doesn’t work, surgery may be considered. Lifestyle modifications are an important part of any treatment plan.

Upon diagnosis of a degenerative condition such as PD, patients typically experience shock or disbelief. Once they accept the reality of the disease, they can focus on taking control of their situation. If you’ve been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, here are ways to empower yourself.

MENTAL WELL-BEING • Learn all you can about PD, and educate others.

• Find role models: people who are living well with PD, from whom you can draw inspiration.

• Accept that how you feel and what you can do will fluctuate, and be flexible with plans.

• Be open to learning new ways of doing things.

• Keep a positive attitude. Concentrate on what you can rather than can’t do. Don’t let your disease define you.

• Enjoy life’s many simple pleasures.

• Allow yourself plenty of time to adjust to your situation.

• Stay connected to people who care. Let them know how you wish to be treated and keep the lines of communication open.

• Find an outlet for expressing your thoughts and feelings.

Consider attending a support group.

• See your primary physician if you continually feel sad, angry, overwhelmed or unmotivated.

• Set aside quiet time each day to nurture your spirituality.

• Do things that provide you with meaning and purpose, such as helping others.

• Turn to your faith for comfort. Pray for the strength to face challenges with courage and grace.

TIPS FOR DAILY LIVING Because PD is incurable, the goal, from a medical perspective, is to achieve the highest possible level of functioning and prevent or minimize complications. The following are some strategies that can help.

• Find a neurologist with PD expertise, whom you respect and trust.

• Follow the prescribed management plan, which might include medication, diet changes, exercise, rest, adaptive aids, stress management techniques and regular check-ups. Because treatment (especially medication dosing and scheduling) is individualized, it may involve trial and error, so be patient.

• Join an exercise class for people with PD. To locate one in your area, call the American Parkinson Disease Association at 1-800-223-2732.

• Use a cane or walker when recommended, to minimize the risk of falls. If mobility issues prevent you from getting around in the community, rent or buy a scooter or wheelchair.

• Set up a record-keeping system to organize your health information. Ready-made products can be found at bookstores.

• Do as much for yourself as possible. Set priorities, simplify tasks and learn to settle for less than perfection.

• Find substitutes for enjoyable activities you can no longer engage in. Just don’t overdo it.

• Make your home as safe as possible.

• Accept offers of help and ask for assistance as needed.

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Speaker argues dignity, not utility, must govern bioethics

By Rick DelVecchio Human dignity rises above all other considerations in biomedical research and health care and must govern ethical decisions in the lab and at the bedside, Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, the chairman of the President’s Council on Bioethics, told Stanford law students April 9.

Dr. Pellegrino covered the council’s newly published anthology, “Human Dignity and Bioethics.” The book is a response to critics who have complained that dignity is both too vague a standard and too theologically oriented to have a place in bioethics.

Addressing students in a classroom at Stanford Law School, Dr. Pellegrino made a forceful claim for the inescapability of dignity – the lived experience of being human – for anyone making ethical choices in research, in the clinic and in general biology.

“Wherever you start, wherever you go, you’ll have to come back to either accepting the notion or denying it utterly, and then we can weigh out for you the implications of denying that to a human being,” Dr. Pellegrino said.

“There are too many examples in the world’s history of the denigration of the special nature of being human,” he said. “I can only mention the Holocaust. It’s a reality then – a value you must deal with.”

Dr. Pellegrino did not address human embryonic stem cell research directly, but his appearance came just four days after an advisory group to the state-funded California Institute for Regenerative Medicine recommended issuing $262 million in Proposition 71 funds for stem cell research facilities.

Stanford is in line to receive $47.5 million, which would be the largest grant among the 12 the panel is proposing.

In January, the institute, the world’s largest funder of human embryonic stem cell research, criticized President Bush for what it called a misleading assessment of stem cell research in his state of the union address. The institute said human embryonic stem cells are the “gold standard” for research and that safe alternatives for human studies will not be ready in the foreseeable future because of safety concerns.

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“Therefore it is critical that all avenues of stem cell research be aggressively advanced,” the institute said.

The Catholic Church condemns human embryonic stem cell research because the work involves the destruction of days-old embryos to obtain the cells. Surplus embryos from in-vitro fertilization clinics are one source of the embryos used in research. The Church supports other avenues of stem cell research that do not destroy life.

Henry T. Greeley, a Stanford law professor who chairs the California Advisory Committee on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, addressed the Stanford class after

Dr. Pellegrino. He said he has some sympathy for an ethical theory that goes beyond individual autonomy but argued that proponents of dignity have not made a suitably rigorous case.

“I don’t see why the human species as a whole is inherently entitled to dignity,” he said. “If it turns out we encounter non-human persons, either biological, mechanical or computational, earthly or alien, I think dignity should apply to them as well. Furthermore, the idea that the species as a whole has some essence that shouldn’t be violated strikes me as way too abstract.”

A third panelist, David Magnus, an associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford Medical School, said the council’s new book constitutes a rejection of academic bioethics in favor of more attention to religion and efforts to probe deeper questions of human dignity and human nature. He said the book brings out a fundamental tension between those who are theologically inclined and those who are less so.

Magnus wondered whether two types of dignity could be articulated, one arising from human nature and another governing threats to dignity in the lived experience. He cited what he said was the factual example of a gravely ill infant who was being maintained on life support at the request of the family but whose plight was deeply troubling to the caregivers. Nurses and social workers felt the treatment was unethical.

“It was hard to see what they were saying except in the sense that the human dignity of the child was being violated, the sense that even though the patient doesn’t feel pain, the patient’s dignity is being violated. Its spirit is being injured.”

In questions posed to the panelists after the discussion, a student said the principle of autonomy tends to be worked out in a “very thin way.”

“I see human dignity as trying to fill out something we all yearn for,” the student said, addressing Greeley.

In response, Greeley said, “If we’re going to use it we better have a very good idea of what it means. Otherwise I’m reluctant to sign on to it.”

Chapel to be dedicated A new chapel for Notre Dame Des Victoires School will be dedicated at an April 30, 6:30 p.m. ceremony in the school gymnasium, 659 Pine St., San Francisco.

Made possible by an anonymous donation, the chapel occupies space previously used as a principal’s office and library. The chapel is named for St. Peter Chanel, a Marist priest martyred on the Pacific island Futuna in 1841. A mural depicting Father Chanel (left) adorns a chapel wall as does an image of Mary and Jesus (right). Katie Wolf, a teacher at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, painted the mural. School Principal Mary Ghisolfo and parishioner Catherine Mutz “added an artistic eye and care for the project,” said Marist Father Rene Iturbe, pastor.

Birthday blessings . . .

■ Continued from page 3 Service hours done throughout the year were tallied. The results are 4,848 service hours done by students from Grade 2-8,” Sister Ponce reported.

Nativity Elementary School, Menlo Park: Principal, Carol Trelut. Students: 280. “As part of the Birthday Blessings Project, Nativity school’s student body will be saying the rosary May 1 at Church of the Nativity in honor of our Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI,” said Trelut.

St. Gabriel Elementary School, San Francisco: Principal, Mercy Sister Pauline Borghello. Students: 503.

The school’s students offered 4,368 prayers for the pope.

“We celebrate the school’s 60th anniversary in mid-April,” said Sister Borghello. “All student volunteer efforts toward the celebration will be to honor the pope.”

Our Lady of Angels Elementary School, Buringame: Principals, Patricia Bordin and Judy O’Rourke. Students: 306. “Each class of 35 students has composed a spiritual bouquet in honor of Pope Benedict XVI’s birthday,” the school said. In addition, the morning assembly prayers

for the week of April 14 were to be offered for the pope.

A compilation of the spiritual bouquets will be mailed to the Vatican. All of the school’s teachers helped oversee the good work.

Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School, San Francisco: Principal, Ann Manchester. Students: 334. The school’s students accumulated 1,002 service hours and hours of prayer for the pope, according to Manchester.

Goodwill activities included a canned food drive, a Lenten campaign for the Holy Childhood Association and praying the rosary.

Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School, Daly City: Principal, Alex Endo. Students: 532. Students offered more than 550 hours for the pope through daily prayer, class service projects and service gathered as part of the confirmation preparation program, the school said.

Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo: President, Lars Lund. Students: 1,000. “A total of 2,500 hours of service have been pledged by students to be completed by May 31,” the school said in an announcement. Students will choose how they will fulfill the promise and have been encouraged to begin the gift with a prayer asking God’s blessings on the pope.

Father Gerald Brown to appear on TV program April 20 Sulpician Father Gerald Brown, rector and president of St. Patrick Seminary and University in Menlo Park will appear on the “For Heaven’s Sake” TV program, which airs at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, April 20, on KRON Channel 4.

Host Maury Healy, director of Communications for the Archdiocese, talks with Father Brown about the contemporary Catholic Church, current trends in seminary formation and continuing education for clergy, and plans to expand and update St. Patrick Seminary. “For Heaven’s Sake” is produced by the San Francisco Archdiocese’s Office of Communications in cooperation with KRON Channel 4.

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Guest editorial Benedict XVI: Why many call him the ‘Green Pope’

By Cecilia Calvo and Dan Misleh WASHINGTON, DC (April 9, 2008) – Several themes are emerging from Pope Benedict XVI’s teaching on the environment: urgency, threats to human life and dignity, and poverty.

Pope Benedict XVI is likely to have addressed care for creation and the urgency of addressing climate change during his journey of hope to the United States.

Like Pope John Paul II before him, Pope Benedict calls us to care for creation to demonstrate respect for God the creator. In his first homily as pope, Pope Benedict warned that today “the earth’s treasures no longer serve to build God’s garden for all to live in, but they have been made to serve the powers of exploitation and destruction.”

Pope Benedict is sometimes called the “Green Pope” because of his persistent calls See Pages 6 – 9 for respect for all of creation. He is not embracing some new cause, but calling Catholics to recover and live out a duty anchored in Scripture, reflected in the lives of St. Francis and other saints, articulated in Catholic teaching and expressed in traditional virtues of prudence and sacrifice.

Pope Benedict has given concern for the environment new urgency and priority. In this year’s World Day of Peace Message, Pope Benedict urges prudent action in the face of environmental challenges, with the “good of all as a constant guiding criterion” and with a special focus on the poor.

Echoing his words to youth gathered in Loreto last summer, he states that action is needed “before it is too late.” He adds, “Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God….”

Pope Benedict links the natural environment with human life and dignity. Last year he cautioned that humankind “can destroy the foundations of existence, of the earth” and therefore “we can no longer simply do what we like or what seems useful and promising at the time with this earth of ours …. On the contrary, we must respect the inner laws of creation, of this earth. We must learn these laws and obey these laws if we wish to survive.” He goes on to say, “And if we must be obedient to the voice of the earth, this is even truer for the voice of human life.

Not only must we care for the earth, we must respect the other, others: both the other as an individual person, as my neighbor, and others as communities who live in the world and have to live together.”

Pope Benedict has warned that the poor and vulnerable — the ones least responsible for contributing to climate change — will likely suffer its worst consequences. If the protection of the environment involves costs, the pope insists, “they should be justly distributed, taking due account of the different levels of development of various countries and the need for solidarity with future generations.

Following the pope’s leadership and drawing on their own statement, “Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence and the Common Good,” the U.S. Catholic bishops are offering a distinctive, authentic and constructive contribution to climate change discussions and public policy decisions. Working with interfaith partners and the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging policy makers to take into account that climate change and other environmental threats disproportionately hurt the poor.

Pope Benedict clearly reminds us that the Earth is not for us to exploit, but “the Earth is the Lord’s.” Creation is God’s gift. Care for creation is a religious duty and a test of our faith.

Cecilia Calvo coordinates the USCCB environment justice efforts; she can be contacted at ccalvo@usccb.org or (202) 541-3188. Dan Misleh is the executive director of the Catholic Coalition on Climate change; he may be contacted at danmisleh@catholicsandclimatechange.org or (301) 322-1180.

Resurrection realism I believe we need George Weigel’s weekly column in our archdiocesan paper to stay informed and vigilant about the religious rhetoric within our own tradition that bears chilling comparison to the pronouncements of others from many traditions around the world who use religion to justify theologically and morally questionable policies and practices.

Mr. Weigel, in his March 21 column, claims “classic Catholic thought on world politics was resolutely realistic.” He continues: “Avowed commitments to peace and human rights, however heartfelt, give no one a pass from reality.” What good is this “realism?” Weigel describes atrocities in Iraq by Iraqis but is not forthright enough to spell out even one action he thinks that “realism” justifies in response. Torture?

Bombing? Nuclear weapons? Is this theological or moral argument or a reactionary version of “by any means necessary?” The presumption of “worldly realism” as ultimate is often the idolatrous refuge of those seeking a variety of utilitarian permission slips for betraying peace and violating human rights.

I do wish your paper could regularly feature side by side with George Weigel a Louis Vitale OFM column.

This would give all of us a clear choice through which to understand our Catholic tradition. We could weekly choose Weigel’s “realism” or Vitale’s Scripture and magisterium-based theology of hope in which the possibilities and practices of nonviolent, unconditional love, even of enemies, is the orthodox alternative to reliance on torture, execution and weapons.

As Father. Vitale knows from his own experience, this Gospel-based realism is evidenced in the living examples with which he closes his Easter letter from jail: the lives and witness of St. Francis, Archbishop Oscar Romero, Notre Dame de Namur Sister Dorothy Stang and Blessed Franz Jaggerstatter. Now there is some Resurrection realism!

Jim McGarry Pacifica

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Sin of silence When Mr. White (“Letters,” April 4, “Real martyrs”) criticizes Father Vitale and Father Kelly for protesting at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, which teaches the military of Latin America how to torture suspects, he fails to realize that the brilliant quote from Abraham Lincoln he uses – “To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men” – also rightfully applies to the brave actions of these two courageous priests. If these men didn’t criticize our own government for immoral behavior, who else would?

Richard Morasci San Francisco

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I have just read a letter from Ted Weber, Jr. (“Need more voices”) regarding the discussions between Father (Stephen) Privett, SJ, and Mr. George Weigel where Mr. Weber claims readers may be missing rebuttals with opposing views. He wonders why we are not getting more opinions.

In my book, the Catholic Church should avoid giving “opinions” and stick to truths.

That is the trouble with the “American Church.” Everyone makes up his own mind about truth, and heaven knows many Jesuits have taken the wrong road. Methinks Father Privett protesteth too much, a sure sign of trying to convince us of his opinion.

On the subject of truth, I cannot understand how the Archbishop of San Francisco can continually permit dissenters of truth to be given awards for “charity.” Tell it to the unborn babies how charitable these do-gooders are when they promote death of innocence. The Church in San Francisco is a powerful tool of leftist agendas, big time,

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and has forgotten Christ’s truths. Just saving people from poverty doesn’t cut it when these same people are doing Lucifer’s work (or don’t we talk about the devil anymore?).

Liberation theology (condemned by the popes) is alive and well in San Francisco.

But then, I only have common sense, not a Jesuit education nor a bishop’s ring.

Mrs. Justine Nunan San Bruno

Who really cares?

We must vote issues, but what issues? In general, here are some – pornography; the abortion industry; advocates of no parental involvement in the abortion process for very young girls; the sex and violence film industry; the removal of God, Bible and prayer from the classroom; the evolutionist whereby God is out, and the atheist is in; the extremist environmentalist who will not allow us to become energy independent to ease the burden of high gas prices that are hurting the poor and middle income families the most; same-sex marriage advocates; and the peace-at-any-price voters. Supporters of these issues tend to vote for Democrats.

Is it because the Democrats are soft on these issues? Are the Democrats heavily supported, and beholden to these special interest groups? Without a doubt!

According to a recent article

by Frank Brieaddy of Religious News Service, a Syracuse University professor, Arthur C. Brooks, in his book, “Who really cares?” points out that conservatives give far more to charity than liberals. I quote: “For far too long, liberals have been claiming they are the most virtuous members of American society. Although they usually give less to charity, they have lambasted conservatives for their callousness in the field of social justice.” Whoops!

Philip Feiner San Carlos

Messenger maligned?

In her April 4 letter about the “News in Brief” item on the Komen for Cure organization, Patricia Stratigos mistakenly directs her ire at Catholic San Francisco. She accuses the archdiocesan paper of “meddling” in Komen’s efforts to help breast cancer victims, of “daring to stop Komen’s support for them” because Catholic San Francisco does what periodicals do to bring their readers the news via news briefs.

Running a news brief does not mean the paper is promoting or endorsing the item in the brief. Rather the paper is doing what it’s meant to do: objectively supplying us with local or global news, albeit bad, good or shocking.

Being a source of information is no reason for a blanket condemnation of a newspaper.

Thura Straus Burlingame

Weigel adds balance In response to the negative comments from a reader of Catholic San Francisco about George Weigel in the March 7 edition, I wish to offer my whole-hearted support of George Weigel. In my mind, he adds balance to the “op-ed” page. His article is always my first to read. I find his scholarly approach especially thoughtful and balanced.

Lucille Phelps Pt. Reyes Station

April 18, 2008

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Spirituality for Life

A spirituality of martyrdom Only if we adore something beyond ourselves will we stop adoring ourselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said as much when he wrote that we reach moral maturity on the day we realize we really only have one choice in life: Genuflect before something higher or begin to self-destruct.

Simone Weil agreed. Despite being a fierce defendant of independence and private conscience, she makes it clear that the deepest need within the human soul is the need to be obedient to something beyond ourselves. Without this, she states, we inflate and grow silly, even to ourselves.

We know the truth of this through experience. We feel within ourselves a constant, congenital press towards a healthy self-abnegation and the adoration of something higher than ourselves. We only feel good about ourselves when we don’t put ourselves at the center of the world. We only feel right about what we are doing when we are giving our lives away, when, as Richard Rohr says, our lives are not about ourselves.

From this, we see that we are built for altruism and, ultimately, for martyrdom. Within the secret of life lies a great paradox. We only experience the true meaning of life when we are dying to ourselves and giving life away.

We understand this, for instance, in the truth of the axiom: I defy you to show me a selfish person who is really happy. There is more to this. In the spirituality of the early Christians, it wasn’t just a question of being unselfish; it was also a question of dying, really dying. They believed we are intended for martyrdom, that dying as a martyr was the normal way a Christian was intended to end his or her life. To live out discipleship fully was to die physically as a martyr. That is one of the reasons why the early apostolic community had some

problems with the Apostle John, who, unlike the other apostles, did not die a martyr’s death. For some, the fact he died a natural death made them suspicious of his discipleship.

And this belief, that the ideal way to die as a Christian was through martyrdom, continued through the early years of the Church, when indeed many Christians were martyred.

Moreover it continued even after the persecutions stopped and the Roman powers stopped killing Christians. The belief remained that the ideal way to end one’s life was through a martyr’s death. The only thing that changed was how that martyrdom was now conceived. A rich spirituality developed within which martyrdom began to be conceived more metaphorically, as giving out one’s blood, drop-by-drop, through selflessness, through sacrificing one’s hopes and dreams for others, through giving away one’s life through duty, through letting oneself be constantly called out of one’s personal agenda to respond to the needs of others, and even through the emotional crucifixion of celibacy.

We would be happier if we understood this. When we try to live as if our lives are about ourselves, we either end up too full of ourselves or too empty of everything else, inflated or depressed. Put simply, we either end up dying in selflessness on one hill or we end up full of ourselves and self-hatred on some other hill. There’s no neutral space. The early Christians understood this. Only one thing can save us from infantile grandiosity, dangerous self-righteousness, bitterness about life, and aging badly; namely, some form of martyrdom.

There is a reason for this. We are made in God’s image and likeness and therefore carry inside ourselves an immense fire – a fire for love, creativity, glory, greatness and transcendence. But that deep, restless, insatiable, burning energy is

not simply a chaotic one, as Freud believed. It’s a configured energy, an energy arranged in clear, meaningful patterns. We burn with fire, but it’s a fire with meaning, purpose and direction.

It is a fire to carry Father others, feed others and Ron Rolheiser create delight for them, even as it is an energy to die for them. It is a fire to act as Jesus did and, therefore, it is a fire for crucifixion, for martyrdom. We are born to live for others and we are born to die for them, with one and the same energy. We are only happy when we are about the business of doing both.

This longing for martyrdom has various disguises, some lofty and others less so. The desire for martyrdom manifests itself in the desire for heroism, the desire for greatness, the desire to be a great lover, the desire to leave a mark, to be immortal. Underpinning all of these is the desire to take love and meaning to their ultimate, altruistic end – death in sacrifice for others.

This is the deep instinctual pattern written into the soul itself and it posits that real maturity lies in being stretched truly tall, on some cross, in crucifixion.

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

Family Life

When God is – not Why do tragic events seem to plague the lives of some whereas others are seemingly trouble free? Understandably, the victims of sadness, illness or loss, often feel bitterness at the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” that have so cruelly targeted them or their loved ones. The old adage of “offering it up” can easily suffice when one knows an aching tooth will be relieved by the dentist, or a sluggish car revitalized by a tune-up. Those are the daily difficulties with which all of us can cope. It’s when intense, irreparable suffering strikes like lightning that the very structure of life collapses, and the victim is burdened with a crushing weight.

We each have a cross to carry, a cross fashioned just for us and no other. A cross that that would be insurmountable for one is for another, bearable. God never gives his creature more than he or she can beat. Nor does God withhold the grace needed to strengthen us against giving in to the sin of despair.

What could be more tragic and worthy of despair than the deafness that struck the great master Beethoven at the height of his career? Although his loss prevented him from hearing his own majestic works, the greatest music of this genius was yet to come. Helen Keller’s inability to speak

or hear did not prevent her from becoming a paradigm of courage; nor did the manic depression of Newton, Dickens and Van Gogh crush their creativity. With the help of God’s grace, each persevered in spite of devastating affliction.

At no time of our lives does our faith become more a soul-saving lifeline than when our dwindling hope threatens to convince us that God is – not. Not real, not there, not caring. In the lovely sentiment, “Footprints,” an anguished soul addresses this moment around which all despondency gathers. Although Jesus has promised to walk with this suffering victim all the way, there is only one set of footprints in the sands of deepest sorrows. When the troubled soul asks, “I don’t understand why, when I needed you most of all, you did not walk beside me.” The Lord replies, “My precious, precious child, I love you and I would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.”

The tangled web of our lives can be likened to the underside of a tapestry where the muddled knot of threads are as senseless as the invasive trials that threaten to break us, leaving our world, for the rest of our lives, transformed. But our trust in the blessed nearness of the Lord, who silently car-

ries us through the most difficult moments, will enable us to realize that what is unfathomable this side of heaven, will be understandable when we reach our final destination. Only then will we fully understand that Jane Sears which seemed to have no rhyme or reason, had purpose and meaning after all. We will then see clearly the meaning of our sorrows and tears intermingled with joy and gladness in the perfect design of our individual lives as fashioned by the Divine Weaver.

For now, with faith and in trust we can rest assured that along with the jumbled fibers that often tear us, God’s grace is the thread that mends us, making us stronger than ever before.

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

The Catholic Difference

Courageous truth telling John Paul II arrived in Warsaw on June 2, 1979. There and then, he ignited the revolution of conscience that would give birth to the Solidarity movement, the Revolution of 1989 – and the end of European communism. Distinguished secular historians of the Cold War now argue that John Paul’s first pilgrimage to Poland, from June 2 to June 10, 1979, was one of the pivots of 20th century history.

What seems obvious now, however, wasn’t quite-so-clear at the time. On the fourth day of the June 1979 papal pilgrimage, for example, the New York Times concluded its editorial, “The Polish Pope in Poland,” in these striking – and, as things turned out, strikingly myopic – terms: “As much as the visit of John Paul II must reinvigorate and inspire the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, it does not threaten the political order of the [Polish] nation or of Eastern Europe.”

Oops.

On the occasion this week of Pope Benedict XVI’s address to the United Nations and his first pastoral visit to the United States, let’s consider the possibility that his “June 1979” has already happened and that, just as in the real June 1979, most observers missed it. And by Benedict XVI’s “June 1979 moment,” I mean the most controversial event of his pontificate, his September 12, 2006, Regensburg

Lecture on faith and reason. Widely criticized as a papal “gaffe” because Benedict cited a robust exchange between a Byzantine emperor and a Persian Islamic scholar, the Regensburg Lecture now looks a lot like June 1979: a moment in which a pope, cutting to the heart of a complex set of issues with global impact, re-arranged the chessboard in a dramatic fashion, with historic consequences.

In June 1979, a pope challenged the orthodoxies of what the Times called “the political order” in Poland and throughout the old Warsaw Pact. In September 2006, a pope challenged the shopworn conventions of interreligious dialogue.

In June 1979, a pope set in motion a revolution of moral conviction that eventually replaced “the political order” in east central Europe with something far more humane. In September 2006, a pope may have set in motion a process of intellectual and spiritual awakening that could help resolve the centuries-old question of whether Islam and pluralism can co-exist, and in such a way as to safeguard the religious freedom of all.

Consider what has happened since Regensburg. The pope has been the addressee of two statements from Islamic leaders throughout the world, respectfully requesting a new dialogue with the Holy See. Responding, Benedict XVI has politely

but firmly insisted that any such dialogue must focus on the two issues at the heart of the chafing within Islam, and between radical Islam and the rest of the world: religious freedom (understood as a George Weigel basic human right that can be known by reason) and the separation of spiritual and political authority in the 21st century state.

Those issues are precisely what the new dialogue will address, in several venues. One is a new Catholic-Muslim forum that will meet biennially, once a year in Rome and once in Amman, Jordan. Another may be the new interfaith dialogue among the monotheistic religions that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia – who has considerable leverage in the world of Sunni Islam – has recently proposed.

Benedict XVI has also urged reciprocity in relations between faiths. Thus the pope’s Easter Vigil baptism of the Italian journalist Magdi Allam, who was raised in Egypt as

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April 18, 2008

St. Patrick seminarians looking forward to being with pope Sulpician Father Gerald Brown and more than 20 seminarians from St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park will be present for in Pope Benedict XVI’s talk to young adults and seminarians at the Archdiocese of New York’s St. Joseph Seminary tomorrow, April 19.

Rector and president of St. Patrick’s, Father Brown sees the trip to New York benefiting the seminarians on several levels. “First, they are excited about going,” he said. “They feel some of the passion and excitement that comes from the pope and how he speaks to our times. A lot of them were inspired by Pope John Paul II and are also inspired by Pope Benedict. They are also excited to be meeting people from all over the country and around the world. There is a whole variety of motives. It will be a great time.”

As Sulpician provincial for 12 years from 1985 to 1997, Father Brown had the opportunity to meet Pope Benedict – then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – in person.

“I visited him several times in Rome when he was prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,” Father Brown said. “I found him to be extremely human, receptive, friendly and bright as all get out. He is a very, very gifted guy with a warm and genuine smile.”

While Father Brown does not expect to have a personal visit with the pope, he does hope he’ll be able “to say `hello’ to him again.”

Armando Gutierrez is studying at St. Patrick’s for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “This is a chance to see the pope that I might never get again,” Gutierrez said.

“I can’t wait.”

Carlton Michael Webster is studying at St. Patrick’s for the Diocese of Sacramento. “For me the trip will give me a chance to meet seminarians from around the country,” Webster told Catholic San Francisco. “I’m

(PHOTO BY TOM BURKE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

By Tom Burke

Sulpician Father Gerald Brown, left, and more than 20 seminarians from St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park will be present for Pope Benedict XVI’s talk to young adults and seminarians at the Archdiocese of New York’s St. Joseph Seminary tomorrow, April 19.

ing in different kinds of settings including hotels and rectories,” Father Brown said. “The offices back there made all kinds of information available.”

Father Brown was ordained in 1964 for the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Archbishop Joseph McGucken. “I’m definitely a San Francisco priest,” Father Brown said with a laugh.

looking forward to it.”

Seminarian Malek Eman is studying for the Archdiocese of Seattle. “This apostolic journey of the Holy Father is an historical moment,” Eman said. “I am absolutely looking forward to it.”

Father Brown will be staying at the New York seminary, also known as Dunwoodie. “Seminarians are stay-

New auxiliary bishop . . .

Father O’Malley, now a resident of Nazareth House in San Rafael.

“Bill is endlessly full of energy, always has a big smile and is ready to help. The people love him and he is always a real plus. It’s been a privilege to know him. Bill is totally committed to Christ and the Church. There is not a lazy bone in his body. Bill has made the most of the gifts God has given him. He hasn’t squandered a thing.”

Bishop-elect Justice is a trustee of St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park, from which he graduated with a master’s in divinity degree in 1968. He currently chairs three archdiocesan boards – the Priest Personnel Board, the Ongoing Formation Board, and the Priests’ Retirement Board.

He chaired the Priests’ Council from September 2006 to June 2007 and took part in the Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools while pastor of Mission Dolores Parish.

His first parish assignment shortly after ordination was as parochial vicar at St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco (1968-70). He has also been parochial vicar at All Souls Parish, South San Francisco (1970-76) and St. Paul Parish, San Francisco (1976-79).

Bishop-elect Justice’s first pastorate was at St. Peter Parish, San Francisco, were he served from 1985-91. He was pastor of All Souls from 1991-2003, and of Mission Dolores from 2003-2007.

From 1979-81 he helped spearhead Spanish Ministry while also working as part-time director of the Permanent Diaconate Program. From 1982-85 he headed the Pastoral Ministry Office.

Bishop-elect Justice has lived nearly his entire life in the Archdiocese, having moved to San Mateo with his family in 1946 from Lawrence, Mass. where he was born May 8, 1942.

He was ordained on May 17, 1968 by Archbishop Joseph McGucken, shortly after graduating from St. Patrick Seminary.

The bishop-elect was awarded a master’s degree in applied spirituality in 1980 from the University of San Francisco.

He is also a graduate of St. Joseph’s College, Mountain View, Calif. (1962); Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo (1960); and St. Gregory Elementary, San Francisco (1956).

He attended St. Matthew Elementary from 1948-51.

“Comfortable” in Spanish, Bishop-elect Justice studied the language during the summer of 1969 at Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He took additional instruction at the Intensive Spanish Language Program at Cuernavaca, Morelia, Mexico during the summer of 1971.

“I know this great country, and I know the great liveliness of the Church, despite all the problems,” he said.

The pope said his trip had several objectives: to reflect in a pastoral way with the U.S. Catholic community, to reach out in fraternity to non-Catholics and to review the foundational values of human rights at the United Nations.

Responding to a question from a Mexican correspondent about immigration issues in the United States, the pope said the long-term solution is to make sure people have enough employment and social opportunities so there is no longer a need to emigrate.

He said he would speak to Bush about development assistance to Latin American countries.

“Above all, the United States needs to help so that

these countries can develop. This is in the interest of everyone, not only in the interest of (developing) countries, but of the world and precisely of the United States,” he said.

The pope said short-term action also needs to be taken to help families separated by immigration, a problem he has discussed at length with Latin American bishops.

“This is really dangerous for the social, moral and human fabric of these countries,” he said.

The pope emphasized that immigration has also brought positive things, particularly the hospitality shown

by U.S. Church leaders and lay members.

“So with all the painful things, let’s not forget so much real humanity and so much positive action that exists,” he said.

Francisco, who served as a parochial vicar with the bishop-elect at the parish in the 1970s. “Bill is a hard worker, a good listener, a very good co-worker and not a one-man band with an ego that needs to be fed. He is smart, creative and forthright with his parishioners and his brother priests. He will take on any task and does not skirt issues. Bill is honest and does not play games. I think he is a wonderful choice.”

Father James MacDonald concurs. Pastor of St. Pius Parish, Redwood City, Father MacDonald and Bishop-elect Justice were “hiking buddies” in years past and continue to be friends.

“Bill is very well respected among the priests and people of the Archdiocese,” Father MacDonald said. “He is honest and forthright and speaks his mind. He exercises very good leadership and as a former chairman of the Council of Priests he helped in many ways, especially in formulating ways to assist priests coming here from other countries.”

Msgr. Conrad Gruber, pastor of St. Mary of the Annunciation Parish in Oakdale in the Diocese of Stockton, said he and Bishop-elect Justice have been friends since their seminary days.

“Bill is a very good choice for bishop,” Msgr. Gruber said. “He is very well organized, very compassionate and deals very well with people. In the best sense, he is a man of the Church and very loyal to the Church. He has shown a great capacity for leadership and is a very prayerful man.”

Father James O’Malley has known the bishop-elect since he was “a little kid at St. Gregory’s.” The auxiliaryto-be also resided at St. Kevin Parish, San Francisco, in the early 1980s during Father O’Malley’s pastorate there.

Bishop-elect Justice has been heard to say, “Father O’Malley is one of the major reasons I am a priest.”

“He came from wonderful parents and was a great kid who has done great work for the Archdiocese,” said

Pope hopes to heal. . .

■ Continued from cover future these things cannot happen,” he said.

“We hope that we can do and have done and will do in the future all that is possible to heal this wound,” he said.

The pope stood during the question-and-answer session, speaking in English and Italian into a microphone held by an aide. He was flanked by his secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and his spokesman, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi.

The pope said he was traveling with joy to the United States, a country he has visited several times.

(CNS PHOTO/LARRY DOWNING, REUTERS)

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Pope Benedict XVI walks with U.S. President George W. Bush after arriving at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington April 15.

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‘Torture on Trial’ priest Catholic San Francisco invites you to speak in Burlingame to join in the following pilgrimages The former pastor of St. Boniface Parish in San Francisco told Catholic San Francisco Franciscan Father Louis Vitale will deliver that although his time in prison was difficult at a free, public lecture about nonviolent alter- times, he misses some of his fellow inmates, natives to war on May 1 at 7:30 p.m. at St. some with whom he is still in contact.

Catherine of Sienna Parish, 1310 The priest said his time Bayswater Ave., Burlingame. in prison gave him firsthand Father Vitale ended a fiveexperience with another cause month prison sentence in March, close to his heart, immigration a result of pleading no contest reform. In border-state federal to federal trespass charges prisons many inmates are not and failure to comply with the violent criminals, he said, but orders of a police officer during rather individuals charged with a November 2006 anti-torture immigration violations. protest at Ft. Huachuca in Since his release Father Father Louis Vitale, Vitale has crisscrossed the state Arizona.

OFM The case, dubbed “Torture as an activist and guest speaker. on Trial,” pitted Father Vitale and fellow San Jose, Santa Barbara and Stockton have defendant Jesuit Father Steve Kelly against been among his stops. military officials at Fort Huachuca in “It’s good to be out and with my friends,” Arizona. The priests had tried to deliver a he said. letter denouncing U.S. interrogation policies Co-sponsoring the Burlingame talk are to then fort commander Maj. Gen. Barbara Pax Christi of Burlingame and Declaration Fast. Fast, now stationed at Ft. Monroe in of Peace in San Mateo County. For more Virginia, was in charge of military intel- information, contact Anne Carey at (415) ligence during the Abu Ghraib torture 238-0704, e-mail abcarey41@comcast.net or scandal. visit www.declarationofpeace-smc.org.

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By Michael Vick

Weigel . . .

■ Continued from page 13 a Muslim, was not an act of aggression, as some Muslims quickly charged, but a public defense of religious freedom – as was John Paul II’s welcome to a newly-built mosque in Rome. Some, it seems, have begun to get the message about reciprocity. It is no accident that negotiations between the Holy See and Saudi Arabia on building the first Catholic Church in the kingdom hap-

pened after Regensburg – and quite likely because of the dynamics Regensburg set in motion.

Benedict XVI thinks in centuries. His courageous exercise in truth-telling at Regensburg has already begun to reshape the debate within Islam and the dialogue between Islam and “the rest.” That is no mean accomplishment.

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

Call (650) 340-7452; Young Adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking available.

For information contact, mercyyoungadults@ sbcglobal.net.

1st Friday at 7:30 p.m.: Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

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

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

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

Sunday, noon: Gregorian Chant Mass at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Columbus at Vallejo in San Francisco. Call (415) 983-0405.

April 18, 2008

Datebook June 12, 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.: An evening with Rwandan holocaust survivor and author, Immaculee Ilibagiza, who shares her story of faith, hope and forgiveness at St. Paul Church, 29th St. at Church in San Francisco. In 1994, the start of the massacres, Immaculee was a young college student who fled for her life, living more than three months hidden with seven other refugees in the small bathroom of a sympathetic clergyman.

When she emerged, she found that her entire family – parents, grandparents and siblings – had been killed. Her talks are about her finding in God and prayer the power to forgive even these most atrocious of assaults. Immaculee is known now throughout the world for her book, “Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Genocide.” Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.

For tickets phone St. Paul Church office at (415) 648-7538. Parking available. Book signing/merchandise sales immediately following in the Parish Center.

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Tuesdays beginning April 22, 6:30 – 8 p.m.: Sixweek study group on “Saved in Hope,” an encyclical

by Pope Benedict XVI. Fullest benefit is with attending all sessions but not required. Please call ahead so enough study guides will be available.

April 24, 7 – 8:30 p.m.: “Looking at Catholic Fiction,” an evening with Dr. Margaret Turek. Gain insights into the ideas and themes of great Catholic writers like Flannery O’Connor, Graham Greene, Georges Bernanos and others.

Tridentine Mass The traditional Latin Mass according to texts and rubrics from before Vatican II is celebrated at locations and times below.

First Friday of the month, 7 p.m.: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Rd. at Glen Way in East Palo Alto. Mass is followed by Benediction. For more information, call (650) 322-2152.

Sundays at 12:15 p.m.: Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent School for Boys in San Rafael. For more information, call St. Isabella Parish at (415) 479-1560.

Arts & Entertainment

Vallombrosa Retreat Center 350 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park - Call (650) 325-5614 or visit www.vallombrosa.org.

May 3, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.: “Interior Castle of St. Teresa,” with Carmen de la Vega Neafsey who has studied the life and spirituality of St. Teresa of Avila for more than 30 years.

Weekend Session, May 23 – 25: Sacred Healing Retreat led by Dominican Sister Joan Prohaska. Come and learn the healing code. Using one’s body as a portal to the divine energy of God, experience the interconnectedness of the chakras, the sacraments, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the beatitudes of Jesus, to become the healing Light of Christ to the world. Cost for weekend session is $195 single room/$175 shared room.

Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life April 26, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Restorative Justice Dialogue at University of San Francisco, Fromm Building, 2497 Golden Gate Ave. corner of Parker and Golden Gate. Discussions address foundations of Restorative Justice, healing circles/ impact of violent crimes; victim offender education group; San Quentin Restorative Justice InterFaith Roundtable Implementation Plan. Contact: usf_groundswell@usfca.edu. The event is free.

April 26, 5:30 p.m.: 36th Annual Celebrate Life Dinner featuring a talk by Father Linus Clovis, spiritual advisor to Population Research Institute and Family Life International, at the United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. and Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Tickets are $40. Tables of 10 are available at $350. Call (650) 355-7528.

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

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

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

June 7, 8, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.: “The Art and Science of Love: A Weekend Workshop for Couples” at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park. Presented by licensed marriage and family therapists, Robert Navarra of the seminary faculty, and Lynda Voorhees, this workshop provides tools designed to enhance strong relationships and provides a road map for repair for those that are struggling. Cost is $500 per couple. For more information and registration, contact Dr. Navarra at (650) 593-8087 or visit www. robertnavarra.net.

Food & Fun April 19, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Plant and garden sale at Mount Carmel Shop, 45 Lovell Ave. in Mill Valley. Proceeds benefit Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish. Choose from garden books, tools, vases, pots and annuals. Tomato plants are featured buys.

Call (415) 388-4332.

April 20, 4 p.m.: James Welch in a dedicatory recital on the rebuilt and enlarged Kilgen-Schoenstein organ at St. Monica Church, Geary and 24th Ave. in San Francisco. Program includes works by Bach, Langlais, Vierne and Widor. The parish choir under the direction of music director/organist, Matthew Walsh, will also perform. Free admission. Call (415) 751-5275 or e-mail monicarectory@sbcglobal.net.

April 19, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Rummage sale benefiting Little Sisters of the Poor and St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St. in San Francisco. Large variety of merchandise including paintings, collectibles, fine and costume jewelry, furniture, books, clothing and more. Call (415) 776-8664.

April 19, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.: Annual Aloha Festival. Admission is free. Tickets are available for purchase of great food, carnival games, bingo and rock-climbing. Live entertainment featuring The Kapalakiko Hawaiian Band and Kaiaulu and Touch of Polynesia as well as a silent auction and raffle. All proceeds benefit the Holy Name of Jesus School, 3300 Lawton St. between 39th and 40th Avenue, San Francisco. For additional information, call the school at (415) 731-4077.

April 19, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.: “Spring is in the Air Faire,” benefiting St. Matthias Parish Preschool, Canyon and Cordilleras Rd. in Redwood City. Day includes arts and crafts vendors, bake booth, food booth, silent auction, children’s game area and raffle. Call (650) 367-1320.

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

April 26, 7 p.m.: Casino Royale Deux, the 2008 board fundraiser benefiting Most Holy Redeemer AIDS Support Group, assisting those with HIV/ AIDS for more than 22 years. The evening will include casino games, foods and beverages, cabaret entertainment by Sherwood, and prizes.

Takes place at Ellard Hall 100 Diamond St. at 18th St., San Francisco. Tickets are $125; senior tickets (65+) are $75. Call (415) 863 - 1581 or e-mail mhr@mhr-asg.com.

April 26, noon: Class of ‘68 from San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Academy at Capurro’s Restaurant, 498 Jefferson St. in San Francisco.

Contact Janice Kinney Hughes at hughes16@aol. com or (415) 472-1574.

April 27, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Annual parade and celebration of the Santo Cristo Society of San Mateo County beginning with parade formation at 9 a.m. in front of Santo Cristo Hall, 41 Oak

Ave. in South San Francisco then to All Souls Church for Mass at 10:30 a.m. Parade returns to hall for festivities and Sopas e Carne lunch, fundraising auctions, music and dancing. Call (650) 678-9292.

May 3, 4: Spring bake sale following weekend Masses and benefits St. Stephen Elementary School, 23rd Ave. at Eucalyptus in San Francisco.

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May 3, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: “Whale of a Sale” at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd. in Kentfield. Choose from crafts, household items and many other goodies. Proceeds benefit parish St. Vincent de Paul Society. Vendor spaces are still available at $50. Contact Kathie Meier at (415) 461-4133 or whaleofasale@comcast.net.

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May 9, 10 7:30 p.m.: Dominican Sister Nancy Murray as “St. Catherine of Siena: A Woman of Our Times,” at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco. Sister Nancy is a member of the Murray family that includes Saturday Night Live alumnus and film actor, Bill Murray.

Sponsored by Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology in Berkeley. Tickets are $15. Tickets including reception Saturday are $35. To order tickets or for more information, contact Dominican School Advancement at (510) 883-2085 or e-mail Advancement@dspt.edu.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

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

KSFB Catholic Radio 1260 AM offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith – visit www. ihradio.org.

Through April 30, 9 a.m. – 8 p.m.: Travers Flynn’s time lapse color photography at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr. in Burlingame. Call (650) 340-7474 or visit www.mercy-center.org.

April 20, 4 p.m.: James Welch in a dedicatory recital on the rebuilt and enlarged Kilgen-Schoenstein organ at St. Monica Church, Geary and 24th Ave. in San Francisco. Works by Bach, Langlais, Vierne and Widor. Free admission. Call (415) 751-5275 or e-mail monicarectory@sbcglobal.net.

April 24, 3:30 p.m.: David Berlinski, Ph.D., will speak on his new book, “The Devil’s Delusion,” at Cowell Hall, Room 113, at the University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco. Free and open to the public. A mathematician, Princeton doctoral degree recipient, and a secular Jew, Berlinski “exposes the gaping holes in atheists’ arguments and shows the danger of the new atheist campaign to install science as the ‘one true faith,’” states a press release.

April 25, 26 at 7:30 p.m., and April 27 at 3 p.m.: “The Nifty Fifties,” at Fitzsimon Center, St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Rd, Redwood City. Tickets, sold at the door 45 minutes before curtain, are $8 adults; $6 seniors/children. Call Pam Nehrenz (650) 363-2673.

Through April 27: Celebrating its 21st season, The Fringe of Marin and Bay Area actors, playwrights and Dominican Players stage new one-acts and solos ranging from satires on sex, war, art, social issues, and on the lives of Virginia Woolf and Monet for critics awards at Meadowlands Hall, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. Curtains Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. $14 admission/ $10 seniors and students. Call (415) 673-3131.

May 1, 2, 3 at 7:30 p.m.: Notre Dame de Namur University’s Dance Company stages “Mosaic in Motion” at campus theater, 1500 Ralston Ave., Belmont; $10 general admission. Call (650) 508-3456 or e-mail boxoffice@ndnu.edu.

May 3: “Late Nite Catechism” at Mater Dolorosa Church, 3-7 Willow Ave. in South San Francisco at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance and $40 at the door. Contact the parish office at (650) 583-4131 or MDComedy08@yahoo.com.

May 9, 10 7:30 p.m.: Dominican Sister Nancy Murray as “St. Catherine of Siena: A Woman of Our Times,” at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco. Sister Nancy is a member of the Murray family that includes Saturday Night Live alumnus and film actor, Bill Murray. Sponsored by Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology in Berkeley. Tickets are at $15. To order tickets or for more information, contact Dominican School Advancement at (510) 883-2085 or e-mail Advancement@dspt.edu.

May 16, 17, 8 p.m.; May 18, 1:30 p.m.: Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” at Notre Dame Elementary School auditorium, 659 Pine St., San Francisco.

Tickets are $7.50. Call Paddy at (415) 246-1749.

Datebook is a free listing for parishes, schools and non-profit groups. Please include event name, time, date, place, address and an information phone number. Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired. Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633, or e-mail burket@sfarchdiocese.org.

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By Michael Vick The resurrection of Jesus Christ, arguably the most important miraculous event recorded in the Bible, has been discredited from the earliest days of its occurrence. In recent times, from author Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” to the documentary “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” Christians have faced new assaults on this foundation of the faith.

Two new documentaries travel down different avenues of evidence to challenge doubts about the resurrection.

“Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead” In “Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead” distributed by St. Ignatius Press, a team of Bible scholars answer critical claims about the resurrection. They show that naturalistic explanations debunking the resurrection fail to explain the historical data.

The earliest alternative theory to the resurrection started when local Jewish authorities claimed the disciples had stolen Jesus’ body, an allegation reported in the Gospel of Matthew. Ben Witherington of Asbury Theological Seminary proposed a problem with this notion.

“You’ve got disciples who’ve denied, deserted and betrayed Jesus,” Witherington said, indicating these men were too frightened to have risked their lives for a raid on the tomb. The idea that these disciples “were willing to die for this hoax,” stretches the imagination, he said.

The filmmakers also tackle the theory that Jesus did not die on the cross at all. Proponents of this idea, commonly known as the “Swoon Theory,” argue that Jesus was merely unconscious and later revived in the tomb.

Asphyxiation, coupled with massive blood loss from the scourging, the crown of thorns and the nails placed through Jesus’ hands and feet, would have done-in anyone, the scholars argue. Even assuming Jesus could have survived all this, the film showed the spear thrust into his side would have pierced his heart.

The film delves into several other longstanding theories, but also confronts the hypothesis from the recent documentary, “The

Lost Tomb of Jesus.” In this work, directors James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici propose that the so-called “Talpiot Tomb” is in fact the tomb of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and Mary Magdalene.

The “Lost Tomb” creators claim that the odds against finding these names together prove this is the tomb of Jesus Christ.

Gary Habermas of Liberty University articulately disagrees. “There were some 1,000 men in Jerusalem whose name was Jesus and whose father was Joseph,” he said. “A Jesus son of Joseph ossuary is not rare. We know of three or four of them already.”

Habermas and fellow scholars pulled at other loose threads found in “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” ultimately unraveling the entire theory.

But, the makers of ““Did Jesus Really Rise?” asked, what about the argument that any naturalistic theory, even a flawed one, is better than the supernatural theory of the resurrection?

This, Witherington argued, is a close-minded view.

“When you exhaust the list of normal causations, then an historian can perfectly well say, ‘Well, something abnormal could have happened here,’” Witherington said.

Three movies given capsule reviews NEW YORK (CNS) – Following are capsule movie Writer-director Tom McCarthy’s film makes its political point reviews recently issued by the Office for Film & Broadcasting with intelligence, subtle humor and a sense of compassion. of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Implied cohabitation and a few expletives uttered under extreme “Persepolis” (Sony Classics) duress. The USCCB classification is A-III – adults. The MPAA Unusual animated film for adults about the coming of age rating is PG-13. of a feisty young girl (voice of Chiara Mastroianni) in Tehran, “Young@Heart” (Fox Searchlight) Iran, in the troubled years after the fall of the shah’s regime.

Often funny and ultimately moving documentary about Amid the ensuing fundamentalist repression and the violence a Northampton, Mass., senior citizens’ chorus who cope of the war with Iraq, her politically savvy parents (Catherine with the death of one member and the ill health of others.

Deneuve and Sean Penn) and grandmother (Gena Rowlands) Director-narrator Stephen Walker’s film quickly engages send her to school in Vienna, Austria, for safety, where she viewers by introducing a winning array of real-life characters feels like an outsider. Marjane Satrapi (on whose life the film and charting their struggles to master the music and carry on is based) and Vincent Paronnaud’s absorbing, mostly black- with the show. Frank sexual discussion, innuendo, occasional and-white feature gives a valuable historical overview of the crass language; possibly acceptable for older teens. The social and political situation, but what stays with the viewer is USCCB classification is A-III – adults. The MPAA rating the powerful sense of family. Some rough and crude language is PG – parental guidance suggested. and profanity, some brief violent imagery including torture and executions, sexual references, a couple of nonmarital 12-DAY HOLY LAND PILGRIMAGES relationships, the acceptability in 2008 of divorce and brief drug use; acceptable for mature teens.

With Franciscan Fr. Mario DiCicco, OFM The USCCB Office for Film President and Rector & Broadcasting classificaTHE FRANCISCAN SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY tion is A-III – adults. The Motion Picture Association May 24-June 4, 2008 and of America rating is PG-13 – parents strongly cautioned.

September 20-October 1, 2008 “The Visitor” (Overture) Sensitive, intimate drama in Both Departures Originate from Chicago which an emotionally repressed O’Hare Airport economics professor (Richard Jenkins) discovers a couple Write/Call for Free Brochure: (Haaz Sleiman and Danai Fr. Mario DiCicco, OFM Gurira), both undocumented 1712 Euclid Avenue aliens, unwittingly squatting in Berkeley, CA 94709-1208 his long-unvisited Greenwich (510) 848-5232 Village apartment as the result of a scam and becomes involved in their travails, eventually also Fr. Mario has a Ph.D. in the New Testament, has lived in the Holy Land with the Franciscans, and has 32 forming a bond with the young years of experience in leading pilgrimages to the Holy Land. man’s mother (Hiam Abbass).

“The Case for Christ’s Resurrection” Released by Grizzly Adams Productions, “The Case for Christ’s Resurrection” traces the history of the Shroud of Turin, a linen cloth believed by some to be the burial shroud of Jesus.

Much of the evidence presented in the film for the shroud’s authenticity can be found elsewhere. This evidence, however, serves as the foundation for a new leap.

For the first time on film, the audience is treated to three-dimensional images of the shroud – holograms created by digitizing photographic negatives of the shroud.

A hologram is a specific type of image wherein each piece of the image contains information about the whole image. This allows for the reproduction of a three-dimensional picture on a two-dimensional surface.

Because photographs of the shroud are two-dimensional representations of a two-dimensional object, researchers did not expect to find enough information to create a hologram. In the process of digitizing the image, they discovered that images of the shroud contain information about the third dimension not found in other such photographs.

Further lines of evidence come from new studies into the physics of the shroud. Because the image on the cloth is uniform and relatively undistorted from one end of the cloth to the other, the scholars argue it is unlikely the image was produced when the shroud was physically touching the body.

This is because the folds and wrinkles of a closely wrapped cloth would produce many such distortions.

Dame Isabel Piczek, a particle physicist who has studied the shroud for years, believes she has stumbled upon an answer. Using a three-dimensional model body and a computer-animated version of the same, she discovered the image points to a seemingly impossible conclusion: the laws of physics broke down at the moment of the image’s creation.

“If you create a three-dimensional object, as I did, the real body, then you realize the image is projected up and projected down,” Piczek said. “The muscles of the body are absolutely not crushed against the stone of the tomb. It means that the body is hovering between the two sides of the shroud. What does that mean? That there is absolutely no gravity.”

While these new clues about the shroud could produce more questions than answers, the new research also points toward the tantalizing possibility that a miraculous event occurred 2,000 years ago in a tomb outside Jerusalem.

“Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?” is available at http://www.ignatius.com/resurrectiondvd/. “The Case for Christ’s Resurrection” is available at http://www. grizzlyadams.tv/.

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Immaculate Conception Academy A small Catholic secondary school in San Francisco seeks a: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER The CFO oversees all general accounting and fiscal functions within the organization. She/He is accountable to the Principal. Duties involve all accounting functions, preparing all financial reports, overseeing and/or managing all payables, receivables and bank accounts, managing human resources and facilities.

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PRINCIPAL Marin Catholic High School, is a Roman Catholic, college preparatory school that serves 725 men and women. Founded in 1949 by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the campus is located in Kentfield, CA, 8 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Consistent with our Gospel values, we are committed to the education and development of the whole person. We provide a spiritual, academic and extra curricular environment dedicated to imparting knowledge, values, and vision.

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Letters of interest and a resume should be sent to: Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Schools One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Email: huntingtonm@sfarchdiocese.org Fax: (415) 614-5664 DEADLINE: April 18, 2008

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April 18, 2008

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March HOLY CROSS COLMA Lucia M. Abad Ruby Buck Abrera Irene C. Abunda Manuel A. Adlao Patricia C. Allgood Samuel Arango Elias Arias Marion Burkard Arnerich Cesarina Asaro Alma M. Assalino Guido P. Barbano Marian “Connie” Beckett George E. Boisson Aria C. Booker Josephine M. Borghello Joseph F. Bricker, Jr. Daniel B. Briones John Patrick Byrne Wilfred Camacho David J. Cancilla Lido Caselli Julia A. Castro Margarita S. Caylao Dora A. Cecchi Mui Chan Rene Chavez Sebastian Chavez, Sr. Mary Louise Chimenti Chun Chi Cho Rudolph W. Cipro Kathleen Cleary Michael D. Cogliandro Vicente M. Constantino, Jr. Rose C. Coppenrath Louise Lagier Cotugno Ida M. Cuneo Ella Mae Davis Consorcia Badilla Dawal Ethan Nikolas de Leon Pablo de Peralta Elizabeth Delaney John Dennehy Domingo Diaz Joseph P. Dito Mario Doninelli Rosemary Evanchak Ida Farina

Bernard I. Farrell Luis R. Feliciano Santiago C. Fernandez, Jr. Thomas J. Flynn, Jr. Adeline “Lena” Friscia-Rindahl John J. Fucile Eirene Galisim Richard F. Ganci Americo B. Garcia Marjorie A. Garven Mario A. Giusto Beverly G. Godin Olga M. Gonsalves Virginia O. Gonzalez Gregory Green Antonia Gregorin Lawrence J. Grotz Antoinette Guerrero Clementine A. Guillory Teresita de Jesus Guzman Grace C. Hanson Barbara Therese Hassett Aniela L. Hazelton Roger U. Hernandez Maria Carmen Herrera Rita A. Hoda Iva H. Hsu Luis Eloy Huaman Mike A. Isetta Keersten L. Juarez Katherine Kelber John C. Kelleher, Jr. Adrian W. Kenzler Teresa F. Lagomarsino Marie T. Lavaysse James F. Linney Michael W. Liston Dario J. Lodigiani Walter M. Loo Feliza Lopez Gloria F. Luzardi Lynn Lyons Bernadette M. Mackie Martin Macy Marguerite C. Manini Avelino M. Marania Adoracion A. Martin James F. McCone III

Victoria E. McCormack John E. McDevitt Elizabeth McGrath Agnes M. McHugh Ruth A. McLaughlin Daniel C. McQuillan Jose Hernandez Medina Frank J. Medina Sr. Marie Meller, RSM Duilio J. Meschi Carmella Miller Deogracias S. Miranda Jorge A. Molina-Franco Catherine E. Mullen Kathryn Muller Thomas J. Murtagh Lena Natole Diana Walsh O’Brien Catherine O’Connell Alberta Jeanne Orella Leventina Ortega Juanita M. Ortiz Arcenio M. Oyao Araceli A. Pargas Peter J. Pedroni Arne Pehrson Isagani Perez Scott H. Perrigo Carmen Perruquet Andrew A. Podesta John J. Presutto David Pyrooz Concepcion R. Rallojay Angela Ramirez Frances B. Ramirez Vera T. Rampone Esther M. Ribeiro Antonia F. Rivera Trevor A. Roberts, Jr. Grace Rodriguez Theresa Elizabeth Roiz Oscar E. Avalos Rosalez David J. Ruiz Sr. Lupe Sandino, FMA Debra L. Santana Medardo A. Santos Dorotea A. Santoyo Anna M. Scanzio

Virginia Sweeney Solvin Cristina B. Taguiran Ignacio Tamayo Deena P. Tannous Francis S. Taylor Liwanag N. Tenorio Frank L. Terry Lourdes S. Tigno Hipolito Tolentino Shirley A. Trapani Maurito Tugade, Sr. Sonia A. Vigil Philomena J. Viscarra Kathryn C. Watkins Mara Z. Wiedl Thomas S. Williams Michael Yribarren Matthew J. Zidich Sonja A. Zmak

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Angel Migel Delgadillo Karen Mary Gardiner Javier Lopez Daniel C. Shea Nicolas A. Sigala Suzanne “Suzy” Jean Stella Annie Regan Townsend Eva K. Vogl

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Mary C. Baker John J. Buttimer Anthony J. Chulla, Jr. Marcelina Dentoni Gabriella Marotto Alexander L. Moore Louise M. Pariani Marie J. Rush

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA First Saturday Mass All Saints Mausoleum Saturday, May 3rd, 2008 –11:00 a.m.

Fr. John Schwartz, Celebrant –St. Paul’s Church

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

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

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

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.