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By Valerie Schmalz Giving just $10 to buy a mosquito bed net and rudimentary health care education for a family of four in Mali is one of four easy ways that youth and young adults can help reduce poverty and disease in developing countries, say two organizers of youth involvement in a conference on world poverty to be held at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St. April 20-21.

Simple ways that anyone – but particularly youth – can help raise the standard of living in developing countries will be the focus of this year’s One Voice of Faith Conference sponsored by the Interfaith MDG Coalition, which includes the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. The Coalition includes Muslims, Jews, Buddhists and Christians. The group bills the conference as “a catalytic convening of activists, leaders, and youth for education, networking

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Archdiocese joins other faiths in efforts to end global poverty and advocacy.” MDG stands for United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which were unanimously passed by the UN in September 2000.

“Ten dollars is three days at Starbucks,” says Hafsa Arain, 22, a Faiths Act fellow, who with Tim Brauhn, 26, is on an eight-month fellowship sponsored by The Tony Blair Faith Foundation. Student groups from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, University of San Francisco, UC-Berkeley, Santa Clara University and Stanford University will participate in the One Voice of Faith Conference, Arain said.

Organizers are highlighting the Youth Leadership Summit on Tuesday, April 20, which features speaker Jessica Beckerman, founder of Project Muso, an organization focused on simple steps to prevent malaria, a scourge of developing countries. The 4 to 7 p.m. youth summit will include pizza, a keg of END GLOBAL POVERTY, page 7

A crucifix hangs before a mural depicting the Resurrection in the sanctuary at St. Timothy Parish in Mesa, Ariz.

By Archbishop George H. Niederauer

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Pope John Paul was a model of untiring love says Pope Benedict VATICAN CITY – Pope John Paul II was a model of untiring love for God and for all men and women, Pope Benedict XVI said as he celebrated a memorial Mass for his predecessor.

“The entire life of the venerable John Paul II unfolded under the sign of this love, this ability to give himself generously without reserve, without measure and without calculation,” Pope Benedict said March 29 during his homily at the Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

The Mass was celebrated in advance of the fifth anniversary of Pope John Paul’s death April 2, because the date fell on Good Friday this year.

Using the Mass readings for March 29, Pope Benedict said Pope John Paul had many of the same traits as the “suffering servant” described in the reading from the Book of Isaiah.

“The servant acts with indestructible firmness, with an energy that does not lessen until he has realized the task he was assigned,” the pope said. “He presents himself with the strength of his convictions and it will be the Holy Spirit that God places in him who gives him the

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By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service

Pope John Paul II is pictured at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during a teleconference with youth across America in September 1987. On the same trip, he visited San Francisco and celebrated Mass at Candlestick Park. ability to act with meekness and strength, assuring his success in the end.”

“That which the inspired prophet says can be applied to our beloved John Paul II: the Lord called him to his service and, entrusting him with increasingly greater POPE JOHN PAUL , page 19

cripture readings at the Easter Vigil tell the story of our relationship with God, from the first moment in time to this moment in time, and beyond. The first reading from Genesis is about creation, all of God’s love poured forth creatively in the heavens, the earth, life, and men and women in His image and likeness. The second from Genesis tells of the choosing of a people to be especially God’s own, in Abraham and Isaac, and their descendants in the people of Israel. The third reading from Exodus describes the first deliverance, the first Passover, from slavery to freedom, from death to life, from Egypt to the promised land under Moses, through the waters of the Red Sea, leading to covenant.

The fifth, sixth and seventh readings, from the Prophets Isaiah, Baruch, and Ezechiel, tell in different ways of Israel’s unfaithfulness to the covenant and of God’s loving call to conversion of heart, reconciliation, forgiveness and renewal of life in him. The eighth reading from St. Paul, in Romans, startles us by saying that we have been buried with the crucified Christ, died to sin with him in the waters of baptism, in order to rise with him to new life now and forever: “dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus!” All possible because of what happened that first Easter, all possible because, as Luke tells us, Jesus Christ is risen from the dead!

In Luke’s gospel we are told that the women come to the tomb at dawn.

“Dawn” is a good image for the resurrection of Jesus, because only slowly

does it “dawn” on his followers the wondrous thing that has happened.

Their lives are never to be the same again.

Now and then something happens which seems to freeze us in space and time, and everything that happens after that event is more or less colored by it. The first Easter Sunday was like that. All the family, friends and followers of Jesus were never to forget where they were when they first heard the news that Jesus had been raised from the dead, when it first dawned on them that their lives were never to be the same. Jesus, their teacher and healer, was indeed the Son of the Living God. Jesus became the Way they chose what to say and do, the Truth they used to test all other truths and meanings, and the Life they shared with each other and hoped to share forever with him. The risen Jesus Christ was, as he claimed, the Light of the World, the light of their world, and they learned to see everything and everyone in their lives “in the light that is Christ.”

And that’s the difference Jesus wants to make in each of our lives, through our faith and through Baptism and the other sacraments.

This is especially meaningful for the elect, the catechumens and candidates who will become members of the Church at Easter Vigils around the archdiocese and around the world.

Baptism is a radical break with the past: St. Paul is very clear about that.

Our brothers and sisters among the catechumens and candidates can tell us about Christ changing their lives, about changes in relationships, in priorities, in values.

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Son-in-law, Norman Jacobson, new centenarian, Julia Messier, and Julia’s daughter, Norma Jacobson at Julia’s 100th birthday party Feb. 28.

Let’s hear it for the scholars at Epiphany Elementary School!! They won the 2nd Annual Catholic Junior High Quiz Bowl at Archbishop Riordan High School March 20, beating St. Gabriel’s in the final match, 100-45. The Students from St. Catherine of Siena Elementary School planted a maple tree in Burlingame’s Washington Park in honor of Arbor Day. Front from left: Tre Paolini, Christian Peterson, Lauren Liberty.

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I am so happy that it is a part of my children’s education,” Donna said. “Art in Action curriculum introduces students to famous artists, giving them an appreciation of the arts and an understanding of why the artist chooses a theme or style to communicate a message.”

Carol Trelut is principal.

Msgr. Steven Otellini is pastor…. St. Thomas the Apostle Elementary School finished first in a recent speech competition at Mercy High School, San Francisco. In addition, the student body collected more than $2,200 for the people of earthquake-ridden Haiti. The From Left: Bob McCann, Birthday Bob Mihan, Patrick and money went to work through Nikko Mihan, Val Mihan, Jim McCann.

Catholic Relief Services and the Holy Childhood kids from Our Lady of Mercy finished in third place, Association. Judith Borelli is principal. Father Dan barely loosing the semifinal match to Epiphany, 65-60. Maguire is pastor…. Bob Mihan enjoyed the “surprise The event was organized by Riordan teachof his life” at a party arranged by his ers, Bruce Wicklund and John Ahlbach, sons to mark the 80th birthday of the co-moderators of the Crusader Quiz Bowl 1947 St. Ignatius College Prep alum. team at Riordan. Thanks to John Albach for His boys live far and wide – New York the details and play-by-play!... And while and Colorado – so it was a night he never we’re at it, please let me add Assistant expected. Friends and additional family Superintendent for Faith Formation, also joined in the milestone celebration.

Janet Suzio, and the Department of Thanks to Clare McCann for lettin’ us Catholic Schools to the credits of the know….Next CSF is April 16. Happy recent Shadows to Light youth retreat at Easter!! This is an empty space withSt. Cecilia Parish. Many had a hand in the out you. E-mail items and electronic most successful day. Congrats and thanks Jackson Polverari and Ramon pictures – jpegs at no less than 300 Barragan with student art at to all!…. “Easel does it” is a watch dpi – to burket@sfarchdiocese.org or Nativity Elementary School. phrase at Nativity Elementary School mail them to Street, One Peter Yorke in Menlo Park where students participate Way, SF 94109. Don’t forget to add a in an Art in Action program from kindergarten through follow-up phone number. Thank you. My phone number eighth grade. The parent- is (415) 614-5634. taught classes have been a staple at Nativity for 20 years. Thanks to school mom, Donna Badgett, whose daughters are Ali in 7th grade, Brooke in 5th and Lindsay in 2nd, for fillin’ us in. Donna is the Art in Action coordinator at Nativity as well as one of the teachers.

Through the program’s 108 lessons students study ancient art to pop art, Donna said, noting each lesson is based on a masterpiece by a great artist.

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Church leaders restate concern for abuse victims, praise pope’s leadership WASHINGTON (CNS) – U.S. leaders of the Catholic Church have voiced concern for victims of clergy sexual abuse while offering praise for Pope Benedict’s long-standing leadership in dealing with abuse cases.

In a Holy Week statement issued March 30, members of the Executive Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said they are aware of the pope’s concern for abuse victims and “how he has strengthened the church’s response to victims.”

Committee members also acknowledged Pope Benedict’s support for efforts within the U.S. Catholic Church on behalf of victims as well as the steps taken to deal with perpetrators of abuse.

The statement was signed by Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., and Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J. The committee said recent revelations of sexual abuse by clergy “saddens and angers the church and causes us shame.”

“If there is anywhere that children should be safe it should be in their homes and in the church,” the bishops said.

In recent weeks hundreds of sex abuse allegations, often dating back decades, against priests and other church personnel have surfaced in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland.

The Executive Committee members reiterated that bishops across the U.S. continue to “respond with compassion to victims (and) survivors.”

“We continue to intensify our efforts to provide safe environments for children in our parishes and schools. Further, we work with others in our communities to address the prevalence of sexual abuse in the larger society,” the bishops said.

“With the support of both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI, we bishops have made a vigorous commitment to do everything in our power to prevent

abuse from happening to children,” they said.

The bishops added that the U.S. Church continues to screen church workers and volunteers who work with children and young people, provide child abuse awareness and prevention training, report suspected abuse to police and participate in an annual audit as a way to hold local dioceses accountable for their efforts in protecting children and young people.

In 2002 the U.S. bishops adopted their “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People,” which mandates zero tolerance for abusers, safe environment programs in dioceses and parishes and an annual audit to measure how dioceses and religious orders are complying with provisions in the charter.

New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan told Catholics March 28 that the “tidal wave of headlines” about the sexual abuse of minors in Europe and new stories about an old case in Wisconsin have “knocked us to our knees once again.”

“Anytime this horror, vicious sin and nauseating crime is reported, as it needs to be, victims and their families are wounded again, the vast majority of faithful priests bow their heads in shame anew, and sincere Catholics experience another dose of shock, sorrow and even anger,” he said at the end of Palm Sunday Mass.

“What deepens the sadness now is the unrelenting insinuations against the Holy Father himself, as certain sources seem frenzied to implicate the man who, perhaps more than anyone else has been the leader in purification, reform and renewal that the church so needs,” he said.

After a series of reports in the New York Times and other media criticizing the pope for alleged “inaction” on sex abuse cases, Vatican authorities emphasized that it was Pope Benedict XVI, who, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, pushed for harsher measures against abusers and made it easier for the church to defrock them.

Another Times story faulted the Vatican

Cardinal Levada calls on American virtue of fairness in New York Times coverage In a commentary entitled “The New York Times and Pope Benedict XVI: How it looks to an American in the Vatican,” U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada, former Archbishop of San Francisco and now Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, addressed a March 26 New York Times story and editorial.

Cardinal Levada, in a detailed rebuttal to mischaracterizations contained in the Times story and editorial, stated that “Both the article and the editorial are deficient by any reasonable standards of fairness that Americans have every right and expectation to find in their major media reporting.”

of the sexual abuse question in the United States led to the adoption, at a meeting of the Bishops’ Conference in Dallas in 2002, of a ‘Charter for the Protection of Minors from Sexual Abuse.’ This Charter provides for uniform guidelines on reporting sexual abuse, on structures of accountability (Boards involving clergy, religious and laity, including experts), reports to a national Board, and education programs for parishes and schools in raising awareness and prevention of sexual abuse of children. In a number of other countries similar programs have been adopted by Church authorities: one

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Cardinal Levada wrote, “… we owe Pope Benedict a great debt of gratitude for introducing the procedures that have helped the Church to take action in the face of the scandal of priestly sexual abuse of minors. These efforts began when the Pope served as Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and continued after he was elected Pope.”

He noted, “From the point of view of ecclesiastical procedures, the explosion

for a decision made years ago not to laicize a Wisconsin priest who sexually abused deaf children, despite the recommendation of his bishop that he be removed from the priesthood.

In a statement the Vatican said that by the time it learned of the case in the late 1990s, the priest was elderly and in poor health.

The Vatican eventually suggested the priest continue to be restricted in ministry instead of laicized, and he died four months later.

of the first was adopted by the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales in response to the Nolan Report made by a high-level commission of independent experts in 2001.”

Summarizing factual information and noting his close work with the pope, Cardinal Levada wrote, “I ask the Times to reconsider its attack mode about Pope Benedict XVI and give the world a more balanced view of a leader it can and should count on.”

He added that no one has been “more vigorous in cleansing the church of the effects of this sickening sin” than the man who is now pope.

He said the pope himself has asked for scrutiny of how the church handled abuse cases in the past, “encouraging complete honesty, at the same time expressing contrition and urging a thorough cleansing.”

“All we ask is that it be fair, and that CONCERNS FOR VICTIMS, page 10

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St. Mary’s Medical Center plans new cancer facility SAN FRANCISCO – St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco announced plans for a new state-of-the-art, $22.75 million Cancer Center. A groundbreaking ceremony took place March 31. The 14,200 square-foot Cancer Center will be located on the ground floor of the building at 2250 Hayes St., within St. Mary’s Medical Center. “All too often, cancer patients must visit different facilities or different locations within medical facilities to receive their care,“ said Margine Sako, Executive Director of St. Mary’s Foundation. “This Center is being designed as a patient-centric facility and will provide patients with a continuum of comprehensive cancer care, from diagnosis to education to treatment and recovery, all in one location.” St. Mary’s noted that there are not enough radiation therapy services to meet the community’s growing needs. Cancer incidence in San Francisco has averaged approximately 4,000 new cases annually, and that number is on the rise as the population ages. St. Mary’s Medical Center, a member of Catholic Healthcare West, is one of the largest not-for-profit, community-based healthcare providers in Northern California. It houses the nation’s first digital cardiac catheterization laboratory, pioneering spine and total joint surgery center and a full-range of inpatient and outpatient medical services. St. Mary’s Medical Center has more than 550 physicians, 1,100 employees and 400 patient beds. For more information, call 415-668-1000 or visit www.stmarysmedicalcenter.org.

Religious Congress draws 40,000 to share gifts of faith ANAHEIM – Reflecting its theme of “Incredible Abundance,” the 2010 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress displayed the bountiful gifts of God’s people witnessed by thousands of convention participants and online viewers. More than 40,000 people gathered at the Anaheim Convention Center March 19-21 for the event, which started

In a commemoration of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador, University of San Francisco student Maddie Todd letters the dying words of the archbishop: “May God have mercy on the assassins.” USF fine arts students painted a mural of the martyred prelate on campus March 24, marking the 30th anniversary of the archbishop’s assassination in El Salvador. The mural was displayed that night in St. Ignatius Church for a Lenten penance service and candlelight vigil. It is on temporary display in the main lobby of University Center. View a short video of the project at http://bit.ly/cx3ava.

with an opening rite extravaganza of music, dance, prayer and reflection shown for the first time this year on a live webcast streamed from the arena. Sister Edith Prendergast, a Religious Sister of Charity who is director of the archdiocesan Office of Religious Education, began her welcoming remarks in the packed convention arena by offering congratulations and thanks to Cardinal Roger M. Mahony on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of his ordination as a bishop. Members of the assembly responded with a standing ovation. “Let us be quick to recognize the many miracles of grace,” said Sister Prendergast.

“Just as the refugee Israel received bread from heaven, ours is a God who takes to heart our very basic needs, a God involved in the stuff of our lives. So often in our emptiness, it is the generous hand of God that reaches out, lifts us up, sets us on a new path.” The Gospel, she said, “invites us to sit with others, to live inside our abundance. If we are not grateful for what

we have, we will never be satisfied. Let us imagine a world of peace and nonviolence, a world where mouths are not hungry, a world touching the spirit with hope. If we can imagine it, we are on our way to achieving it. It is never too late.”

Late nun’s plea that Catholics live Holy Week still resonates JACKSON, Miss. – Sister Thea Bowman, a well-known educator, evangelist and gospel singer, died March 30, 1990, but the Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration left behind a legacy that still resonates, including her reflection on Holy Week that was released shortly after her death. Sister Bowman, who was from Canton, was nationally known for her work to advance the life of her fellow black Catholics in the church.

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years of her life the disease forced her to spend most of her time in bed or a wheelchair. At the time of her death she had been a consultant for intercultural awareness for the Jackson Diocese for about 20 years. About three weeks before she died, from her bed she dictated a meditation on Holy Week in response to a request by Janna Avalon, editor of the Jackson diocesan newspaper, Mississippi Catholic. Avalon said it was probably the weakened nun’s last public writing before her death. It was published in the paper’s April 6, 1990, issue, just before Holy Week that year. In the meditation titled “Let us love one another during Holy Week� Sister Bowman urged Christians “to resolve to make this week holy by claiming Christ’s redemptive grace and by living holy lives.� She also encouraged people to reach “out across the boundaries of race and class and status to help somebody, to encourage and affirm somebody, offering to the young an incentive to learn and grow, offering to the downtrodden resources to help themselves.�

Bishop urges closer attention to priests’ needs

The terra-cotta sculpture “Mother and Child� by Saturnino Gatti is among 200 religious objects on display in a new Vatican Museums exhibit featuring artwork from L’Aquila, Italy. The sculpture was salvaged from the Basilica of Santa Maria of Collemaggio after last year’s earthquake that struck central Italy April 6. Artwork in the exhibit is in need of restoration, and donations are being sought to complete the repairs.

WASHINGTON – In an inaugural lecture honoring the late religion sociologist Dean Hoge, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Hoge’s recommendations on bringing new vitality to the priesthood bear receiving close attention from the church’s leaders. Hoge died in 2008, after a 34-year career at The Catholic University of America as a professor of sociology and as head of the school’s Life Cycle Institute from 1999 until 2004. The March 24 dinner gathering honoring Hoge included guests invited from universities, research institutions and various church organizations around Washington.

Drawing from Hoge’s research on the priesthood, particularly about those who are beginning their priestly lives, Bishop Kicanas said that if the newly ordained are to thrive in ministry as Pope Benedict XVI stressed in declaring the Year for Priests, “dioceses need to attend to the amount of work they put on priests and to find ways to assist them in acquiring the skills necessary to feel competent in what they are called to do in parish work.� He suggested that further research into how priests spend their time might help dioceses provide them with the training they need in management and in making use of other people’s skills. Research also “might clarify whether priests feel heard and understood by their bishop and those in responsible diocesan positions,� he said, and provide guidance for addressing problems caused, for instance by priests’ living situations. Bishop Kicanas explained that in his diocese many priests live alone. For those who recently came from a seminary where they had friends down the hall, peers to pray with and to discuss their lives with, the transition to solitary living can be difficult and stressful for the priest.

who remain homeless after the Jan. 12 earthquake into better housing, even if it is nothing more than a sturdy tent on safe ground. The rainy season peaks in May, but sporadic drenching rains already are occurring, turning many of the temporary tent camps around Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, into muddy quagmires. Boyd and some of the world’s leading emergency shelter experts fear the flimsy shelters that people now call home will be inundated by the soon-to-come daily downpours, compounding an already taxing humanitarian crisis. So the experts are scrambling to identify alternatives. The situation is worsened because the devastation was so widespread in the capital region, leaving few safe structures for people to occupy.

WARSAW, Poland – Catholics in Moscow were “shocked and terrorized� after two suicide bomb attacks on the Moscow Metro, said the secretary-general of the Russian bishops’ conference. “Our own church of St Louis is at the Lubyanka (station), so we were close to the scene and very emotionally affected,� said Father Igor Kovalevsky, secretary-general of the Russian bishops’ conference. “Our parishioners use the Metro every day to get to morning Mass and could easily have been caught up in the blasts. Thank God, this doesn’t appear to have happened – all those who usually come to Mass were there again today,� he told Catholic News Service March 30, an official day of mourning for victims of the March 29 rush-hour explosions that left 39 dead and at least 70 seriously injured.

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – With the rainy season on the doorstep in Haiti, Isaac Boyd, an emergency shelter expert for Catholic Relief Services, and a coalition of relief agencies from around the world are trying to tackle the impossible.

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Russian President Dmitri Medvedev vowed to “find and destroy� perpetrators of the attacks, in which two suspected women suicide bombers blew themselves up at Moscow’s Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations.

Amid crises, Church officials urge Catholics to keep faith LAHORE, Pakistan – Holy Week in Pakistan this year is set against a backdrop of the war on terror and suicide bombings. Workers at several Catholic institutes have died and many have lost their houses in recent bomb blasts across the country. Price hikes are making it harder for the poor to meet their daily needs. The country also is experiencing major power shortages, and workers at Catholic schools and hospitals told the Asian church news agency UCA News that these shortages are seriously affecting their operations. With the country in the grip of these crises, low-profile Easter celebrations are being scheduled in Catholic parishes in the Archdiocese of Lahore, UCA News reported. Palm Sunday processions March 28 were limited and kept inside church compounds all over the country. Auxiliary Bishop Sebastian Shah of Lahore asked Christians to keep their faith in God amid the war-like conditions in the country. In the March 16-31 edition of Catholic Naqeeb, Lahore archdiocese’s Urdu-language bimonthly, he wrote, “Let’s see how we can become a source of good news for the worried people of our times as we celebrate the feast of the glorious resurrection of Jesus in 2010. Every person is insecure and worried today.�

Bishop Shah noted that “people are feeling insecure in their houses and colonies amid dearness, unemployment, suicide attacks and shortage of basic commodities.� – Catholic News Service and Catholic San Francisco

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April high school musicals feature dancing, political themes The April high school musical line-up features both classic and freshly written music and choreography centered around universal themes: love and death, revenge, the lust for power, dissolution and despair.

All three of the April musicals at Catholic high schools take a step back in time—but not too far back. St. Ignatius College Preparatory presents Cabaret, set in 1931 Berlin on the eve of the Nazis’ rise to power. Archbishop Riordan High School performs West Side Story, the story of the star crossed lovers, Tony and Maria, doomed by gang rivalries between Puerto Ricans and working class whites in New York in the 1950s. Also in San Francisco, Mercy High School will recreate a high school classroom in Palo Alto, California that in 1967 turned into a miniature Fascist state when a high school teacher’s experiment to explain how Nazism and the Holocaust could occur went farther than he ever imagined.

The drama department is presenting the musical The Wave based on the short story the teacher, San Francisco resident Ron Jones, wrote about the experience. The story was also turned into a TV drama by Norman Lear.

At Archbishop Riordan High School, drama director Valerie O’Riordan opted to stage West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet in the same year, noting West Side Story is a modern musical version of the Shakespearean tragedy. While the tragedy of miscommunication, revenge and unreasoning enmity between warring factions is told in both productions, O’Riordan says there is another side to the classics. “With both Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story, it’s about the impetuosity of youth and the prodigious power of love,” O’Riordan said.

For Cabaret, the spring musical at St. Ignatius College Preparatory, drama director Ted Curry double cast the production to expand the number of students who can participate.

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Riordan’s West Side Story, from left: Alex Ruiz as Tony and Maria Azzolino as Maria, in the background Omar Hernandez, Filip Amborski, Caitlyn Cordano, Monica Mandapat.

Originally entitled Welcome to Berlin, Cabaret is based on John Van Druten’s play I Am a Camera, which in turn was adapted from the novel Goodbye Berlin, by Christopher Isherwood. Set in 1931 Berlin on the eve of the Nazis’ rise to power, it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the young English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with young American writer Cliff Bradshaw. Curry says the production features the emcee who presides as master of ceremonies at the Kit Kat Klub, “and serves as a constant reminder that life is really a cabaret – we are always on stage.”

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students. Mercy music director Frederick Harris contributed musical scoring and arrangements. The Wave is part of Mercyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Holocaust series. Freshman Audrey Dileo is playing Bomber, a key role, in The Waveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story of five days that transformed a classroom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe that doing The Wave as Mercyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spring musical is a great idea,â&#x20AC;? says Dileo. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It teaches children as well as adults that we, as humans arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perfect.â&#x20AC;?

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Tickets: $10 Info: siprep.org Story: Set in 1931 Berlin on the eve of the Nazisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; rise to power, it focuses on nightlife at the seedy Kit Kat Klub and revolves around the young English cabaret performer Sally Bowles and her relationship with young American writer Cliff Bradshaw.

Production: The Wave High School: Mercy San Francisco Location: Mercy Theatre, 3250 19th Ave. When: April 16, 7:30 p.m. Red Carpet; April 17, 23, 24, 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: Red Carpet, $16; $10 adults, $8 students Info: mercyhs.org Story: A new musical written by Ron Jones, grandfather of Breanna McNeil, Class of 2009.

Production: West Side Story High School: Archbishop Riordan High School Location: Lindland Theatre, Riordan, 175 Phelan Ave., across from City College When: April 16,17, 23, 24, 8 p.m.; April 25, 2 p.m.

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The eight Millennium Development Goals the nations of the world pledged to achieve by 2015 include eradicating extreme poverty and hunger; achieving universal access to primary education; promoting gender equality and empowering women; reducing child mortality; improving maternal health; combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases; ensuring environmental sustainability; and developing a global partnership for development. The Catholic Church fully supports the UN goals, said George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, and one of the founding members of the MDG Coalition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Vatican, through its representative, the papal nuncio to the United Nations, has been very supportive of the UN Millennium Goals,â&#x20AC;? Wesolek said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI have mentioned the goals as worthy of international support.

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Catholic Charities CYO to honor woman at annual ‘Loaves & Fishes’ event Catholic Charities CYO (CCCYO) will present its 2010 Loaves & Fishes Award for Faith in Action to Immaculée Ilibagiza, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. The award will be presented at the 13th Annual Loaves & Fishes Dinner & Gala, April 16, at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. The event recognizes the extraordinary philanthropy of leadership donors of $2,500 or more per year in support of CCCYO’s services to more than 44,000 people annually in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Immaculée will be speaking at the event about her personal story of faith put into action and how she was helped by others on her path to forgiveness as documented in her book “Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust.” The book recounts the young woman’s life before the Rwandan mass killings and her own second start after she spent three months with seven

other women in a small cramped bathroom before escaping the area.

As the Rwandan civil war escalated to a genocide of Immaculée’s tribe, friends and family joined together to survive. Immaculée turned to her neighbor, Pastor Murinzi, for refuge. Pastor Murinzi aided Immaculée and the other women. They hid in the small lavatory surviving on table scraps and water the minister would provide until he could safely help them flee to a safe camp.

During this time, Immaculee realized her life was changing dramatically and began to teach herself English with the use of a Bible and a dictionary. She started by learning the key phrases that she would need to know in her second start: “I am Immaculee. I need help. I have been hiding for three months. I need a job.” The end of the Rwandan genocide marked the beginning of Immaculée’s new life.

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Once free, Immaculée was able to secure a job with the United Nations assisting with relief efforts in Rwanda. She volunteered her time working with the orphans of the genocide, forgave her family’s killers and, as she will April 16 at the upcoming events, continues to share her story.

At the Loaves and Fishes dinner, Immaculée will relate her story to the support provided by CCCYO as it addresses the struggles and distress faced by women, children and families - clients who are at the core of CCCYO’s mission to serve.

Just as Immaculée and her family committed themselves to helping others in time of distress and disparity, CCCYO works to change lives and break the cycles of poverty, homelessness, abuse and neglect.

“Immaculée’s story represents the realities that are faced by our most vulnerable neighbors,” notes Jeff Bialik, Executive Director of CCCYO. “By hearing her story, we may all learn how the power of forgiveness and compassion builds a community of hope and understanding.”

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Bialik said, “The Loaves & Fishes Dinner & Gala honors extraordinary works in our communities and raises vital funds for the agency’s programs that help families, children and those in need.”

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Holy Family Sister Mary Eileen Peach Sister Mary Eileen Peach, a member of the Sisters of the Holy Family for 68 years, died at the Sisters’ Motherhouse in Fremont, California on March 18 at the age of 88.

Sister Eileen’s ministries over the years took her to the Dioceses of Oakland and San Jose and the Archdioceses of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Sister is remembered for her ministry as the librarian for Holy Family Day Home in San Francisco for approximately 18 years. In 2002 Sister Eileen retired to the Motherhouse to continue her ministry in a Ministry of Prayer.

Sister Eileen is survived by a sister, Dorothy Asmus, and several nieces and nephews.

A funeral Mass was celebrated at the Motherhouse Chapel on March 22, 2010 with interment at Holy Cross Cemetery at Colma. Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of the Holy Family, P.O. Box 3248, Fremont, CA 94539.

Holy Family Sister M. Malachy Hannigan Sister M. Malachy Hannigan, born in Donegal, Ireland on December 4, 1906, and a member of the Sisters of the Holy Family for 76 years, died at the Sisters’ Motherhouse in Fremont March 16 at the age of 103.

Sister Malachy’s early years of Home/Kitchen Ministry in San Francisco, at what was then the Holy Family Sisters’ Hayes St. convent, included the preparation of lunches for anyone who appeared at the convent door, and providing clothing to those in need. In later years she ministered to the elderly at Laguna

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In 2002 Sister Malachy retired to the Motherhouse. In 2003, Sister Malachy’s Pastry Cookbook, first published in 1971, was published a second time with the publication of 100 of her favorite recipes taken from the original cookbook.

The congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family, a community of Roman Catholic Sisters, was founded in San Francisco, California in 1872. Elizabeth Armer, a young woman with a passionate desire to serve God through serving the poor, was its foundress and was inspired by Father John J. Prendergast, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Baltimore Archdiocese sues city over law affecting pro-life centers

third at St. Rita Church in Dundalk. A total of 1,000 women annually seek assistance at the three sites.

Carol Clews, executive director, said her organization has complied with the law, posting signs in English and Spanish.

Clews pointed out that requiring the signs forces pro-life pregnancy centers to send out the â&#x20AC;&#x153;implied messageâ&#x20AC;? that abortion services are available elsewhere and should be considered. In

violation of their moral and religious beliefs, she said, the law makes pro-life pregnancy centers â&#x20AC;&#x153;legitimizeâ&#x20AC;? abortion clinics.

Angela Page, coordinator of the pregnancy center at St. Brigid, said the law â&#x20AC;&#x153;targets and harassesâ&#x20AC;? pro-life pregnancy centers because abortion clinics are not required to list what services they do not provide.

The suit was filed against Mayor Stephanie RawlingsBlake, the Baltimore City Council, Olivia Farrow, who is acting health commissioner, and the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health department.

Lawyers from Gallagher, Evelius and Jones in Baltimore and The Catholic University of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Columbus School of Law in Washington are providing free services in the fight to overturn the law. Thomas J. Schetelich, a Baltimore lawyer with Ferguson, Schetelich and Ballew and board chairman for Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, is also providing pro bono assistance in the effort. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We strongly believe that this is very bad legislation and that it is an offense to the staff and the many volunteers of pregnancy centers who provide support and material assistance to vulnerable women and children,â&#x20AC;? Schetelich said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Frankly, we would expect our city government to be supporting these sacrificial efforts rather than trying to hinder them.â&#x20AC;?

He said the law requires pro-life pregnancy centers to make statements that are untrue. Referring to the fact that the centers provide information on abstinence and natural family planning, he said it was inaccurate to say they do not provide birth control. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(They) are recognized, medical forms of birth control,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles praised Pope Benedict for the action steps he took in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when he served as Prefect of that Congregation. He said the then Cardinal Ratzinger â&#x20AC;&#x153;responded quickly and affirmatively to all of our requests for assistance here in the United States.â&#x20AC;?

In A blog posting, he wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Recall that Canon 1324, par.

4, states that in Canon Law a minor is a person under the age of 16 years. However, in the civil laws of the United States, a minor is deemed to be a person under the age of 18 years. After we brought this gap to the attention of Cardinal Ratzinger, the canonical age was also raised to 18 years to accommodate civil law in our country and in other countries.â&#x20AC;?

Cardinal Mahony said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Without the proactive and helpful assistance of Cardinal Ratzinger and the Congregation over these years, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles would never have been able to move forward aggressively to remove priests from ministry who were proved to be guilty of the sexual abuse of minors.â&#x20AC;?

He added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Congregation continues forward with the same vision and policies of then Cardinal Ratzinger, and I am grateful to the present Prefect and staff of the Congregation for their proactive efforts to assist us in our local Dioceses and Archdioceses to remove from active ministry any priest or religious found guilty of the sexual abuse of minors.â&#x20AC;?

By George P. Matysek Jr. BALTIMORE (CNS) â&#x20AC;&#x201C; The Archdiocese of Baltimore is suing the city of Baltimore to overturn a new law that requires the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pro-life pregnancy centers to post signs saying they do not provide abortion or birth control.

Archbishop Edwin F. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien announced the federal lawsuit March 29 at St. Brigid Church in Canton, site of a pro-life pregnancy center. The suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

The archbishop said the law â&#x20AC;&#x153;clearlyâ&#x20AC;? violates the constitutional rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion.

The law was passed late last year despite a strong campaign against it from archdiocesan leaders and other pro-life advocates. It imposes a $150 daily fine on pregnancy centers that fail to post signs. The archbishop noted that it has become a model for similar efforts in jurisdictions across the country. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ordinance applies only to pro-life pregnancy centers,â&#x20AC;?

Archbishop Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and thereby targets for speech regulation only one side of a contentious public debate.â&#x20AC;?

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The archbishop was joined in the lawsuit by St. Brigid Parish and the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, which operates the pregnancy center at the parish.

It also operates another pregnancy center in the city and a

Concern for victims . . . â&#x2013; Continued from page 3 the Catholic Church not be singled out for a horror that has cursed every culture, religion, organization, institution, school, agency and family in the world,â&#x20AC;? Archbishop Dolan said.

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Tens of thousands, including ex-atheist, to join church at Easter

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – Tens of thousands of new Catholics, including an 89-year-old former atheist, will join the Church at the Easter Vigil, April 3.

Those seeking baptism are called catechumens, and those already baptized who will be brought into full communion with the Catholic Church are called candidates.

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco this year, there will be 185 catechumens, 72 candidates for reception into full communion, and 217 adult Catholic candidates preparing to complete their initiation through Confirmation and/or Eucharist.

The catechumens and candidates joining the 68 million Catholics in America, 1 billion worldwide, at the Easter Vigil have reached the Church through a variety of paths.

Some have been led by family and friends, while others were motivated by powerful or painful personal experiences.

Jean Henry of Easton, Md., was raised a Methodist and “drifted” into the Episcopal Church, but rejected Christianity more than four decades ago after a major spat in the women’s guild.

“I tried to heal it but I could not,” Henry told The Dialog, newspaper of the Diocese of Wilmington, Del., which includes Maryland’s Eastern Shore. “I thought I had a good, strong faith, but it was too shallow.”

Henry, who turns 90 April 16, said she “started out agnostic and went on to become an atheist because I never do things by halves. If I was going to doubt, I was going to doubt all the way.”

But she found that “this life is hell if you’re an atheist,” she said. “I had gotten to the point where life didn’t seem worth living. I’m not suicidal, so I’m not saying that, but why be here if you’re an atheist?”

She reached that point shortly before she turned 89 last

Risen Jesus Chirst . . .

■ Continued from cover all of us, over and over again. He wants to do this all our lives. We express our faith and love for God today in our renewal of Baptismal promises. Think of parents and children, husbands and wives who love each other all their lives long: they need to keep on telling each other of their love, and showing that love in action, over and over again, not taking each other for granted, not taking their love for granted. That is true for Jesus Christ and each one of us – all of us together as Church. In these Sacraments, these signs of our salvation, the Father and the Son and the Spirit tell us of their love for us and show it in action: in Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist most of all; Penance as well.

Christ calls us to let him be our life. At the Easter Vigil, D I S T I N C T I V E L Y

year. But she also found hope and new life through what she considers “an intervention by God.” “It was as if all of this atheism was gathered up on both shoulders as if it were a loose garment, and it simply fell onto the floor,” recalled Henry, who will become Catholic at Ss. Peter and Paul Church in Easton. “I sort of figuratively stepped out of it. Since that garment of atheism fell off of me, I have never thought of it, questioned it, had one argument in my head about it.”

As she was preparing to become Catholic, Henry said she believes “the true story is the strength and persistence of God’s faith. I was in his arms all the time, but I was too stupid, too stubborn, too focused to realize that was always there, every minute.”

Now she realizes all she has to do is accept God’s love.

“There’s not much fuss or feathers here because I feel I’m home,” she said.

Across the country in Portland, Ore., Brad Wright, a 42-year-old teacher, was brought to the Catholic faith by substituting in Catholic school classrooms. When he saw students going to Mass and really enjoying it, he decided he wanted that for himself.

“It’s the community,” said Wright, who will be baptized at Christ the King Parish in Milwaukie.

Karl Hellberg, a 41-year-old special agent with the National Marine Fisheries Service, is another of the approximately 900 people joining the church this year in the Portland Archdiocese.

“I feel like I have (been) guided by divine providence through my life, through all the things that happened to me,” said Hellberg, who will become Catholic at St. Mary, Star of the Sea Parish in Astoria.

In Texas, the Diocese of Dallas will welcome more than 3,000 new Catholics into the church this Easter. The Archdiocese of San Antonio reports more than 1,100 new members, including nearly our new brothers and sisters in Christ will promise to make Christ their life. Moments after that, all of the rest of us will renew our baptismal promise as well.

And none of us is supposed to keep this good news and life in the risen Christ to ourselves, bottled up inside us. From the beginning, the good news of the risen Jesus has made missionaries out of all of us, witnesses to the world around us. The first were the women at the tomb in Luke’s gospel: they heard the good news from the angels and immediately told it to Eleven apostles. Jesus Christ’s resurrection thrusts all of us into mission, into being sent: go, proclaim the good news, don’t keep it to yourselves, let this news be good and saving for others, by what you say and by the way you live. What began with Genesis and reached its fulfillment on Calvary and on Easter Sunday, must now achieve its full effect daily in the lives of all of us, the Easter people of the Risen Jesus Christ.

340 children. The Diocese of Fort Worth will welcome approximately 1,000 catechumens and candidates, and the Diocese of Victoria will welcome 132 new Catholics from 14 parishes.

The Archdiocese of Atlanta reported that more than 1,800 people will join the Catholic Church at Easter. This is the largest group of new Catholics registered in Atlanta in any year on record. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta presided over the Rite of Election and Call to Continued Conversion, when catechumens and candidates are formally presented to the local bishop, at a ceremony conducted in 11 languages at the Atlanta Civic Center.

The nation’s largest archdiocese, Los Angeles, reported that nearly 2,400 catechumens and candidates will be received into the church on Easter. The Archdiocese of Seattle will welcome 682 catechumens and 479 candidates, for a total of 1,161 people.

In other areas of the country, the Archdiocese of Detroit will welcome 1,225 people. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati reported a combined number of 1,049 catechumens and candidates. The Archdiocese of Denver said it expects 1,102 new Catholics, and the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis reported 182 catechumens and 515 candidates.

In the Diocese of Arlington, Va., an estimated 1,100 people will be brought into the church. The Archdiocese of Washington, which includes the District of Columbia and part of Maryland, will receive approximately 1,150 people, as well 18 students from St. Augustine School, the oldest African-American school in the district.

The Diocese of Nashville, Tenn., will welcome 400 new members. The Diocese of South Bend-Fort Wayne, Ind., will welcome 193 catechumens and 276 candidates, for a total of 469 people; and the Diocese of Allentown, Pa., will welcome 486 new Catholics.

Definite numbers won’t be known until the fall parish censuses are completed. Although most catechumens and candidates are formally received into the Church at Easter, some may join the church at other times during the year.

“When you make new members, it’s a witness to the whole church,” said Providence Sister Jeremy Gallet, director of worship for the Portland Archdiocese and organizer of the rites of election. She added that those joining the church “realize how much bigger this is than themselves.”

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St. Boniface: welcoming all for 150 years

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o Christine Morrison, it is a uniquely serene space that rings with the memory of prayers offered by thousands of people over 150 years. “I believe it’s the presence of God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” she said, “but especially the incarnation of Jesus.”

To Father Kirk Ullery, it embodies the Gospel – literally, all are welcome. “Jesus is walking in this street, I really feel that,” he said.

To Johnny Weaver, it is a shelter from the harsh reality of the street. “It’s a safe place to sleep,” he said. “When you come here, you don’t have to worry about nothing.”

A parishioner, a priest and a homeless man, Morrison, Father Ullery and Weaver spoke in celebration of a Catholic church that plays an important part in their lives: St. Boniface, the landmark on Golden Gate Avenue in the Tenderloin District of San Francisco. That three people from such diverse backgrounds could share such intensity about a church says a lot about the character of St. Boniface as a sanctuary and sacred space that has touched many communities in the heart of San Francisco since it was founded very soon after the Gold Rush.

St. Boniface marks its 150th anniversary as a parish this year. Commemorations are being planned that are as diverse as the parish, celebrating the parish’s Vietnamese, African American, Filipino and Spanish-speaking communities and the role of the Orders of Friars Minor, who have been the backbone of St. Boniface since Archbishop Patrick Riordan called them in 1887 to return to the missionary City of St. Francis.

The major event marking the 150th anniversary will be a Mass on June 5, with Archbishop George H. Niederauer celebrating. The archbishop’s appearance will take place 150 years and three weeks after Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany dedicated the first St. Boniface Church, which was the seventh Catholic church in San Francisco. Named for the apostle of Germany, it was the heart of a citywide parish devoted to German Catholics who immigrated to San Francisco with the Gold Rush.

The church was born during the era of the Barbary Coast, and its first building was near the edge of the old waterfront that had been filled with the wrecks of

A homeless man who had been asleep in the pews rises as the church is cleared for noon Mass.

On the altar, the outstretched arms of the cross.

gold-seekers’ ships. A retrospective written for the 75th anniversary of St. Boniface in 1934 captured the flavor of the time. Heavy drinking, frequent fights “and more or less riotness prevailed.”

After the 1868 earthquake, the church moved from its original location on Sutter Street to Golden Gate Avenue. Also moving to the neighborhood were the activities associated with the Barbary Coast, which the city had shut down. Thus, lower Golden Gate became the new Tenderloin. But it was also a neighborhood full of working men and women, and St. Boniface quickly established itself as their haven.

Mass was mandatory on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation, and the pews were full, according to “A Sentinel in the City,” a newly published history of St. Boniface by parishioner Jim Baun. The parish elementary school, staffed by three Holy Cross Sisters from Brooklyn beckoned west

by Archbishop Alemany in 1876, grew to 400 students.

When the Franciscans arrived in 1887, St. Boniface became an even more important part of the neighborhood.

“The eastern end of Golden Gate was a sentinel of faith and hope, alive with the activities of a faith-based community,” Baun writes.

From 1887 to 1934, the friars of St. Boniface performed more than 6,500 baptisms, nearly 2,000 confirmations and nearly 2,600 marriages. During their first 47 years on Golden Gate, they distributed First Communion to 729 males and 660 females.

The history of St. Boniface is in part a history of the Franciscans who devoted their lives to serving immigrants and the poor. Father Josaphat Kraus, a member of the parochial staff from 1894 to 1912, was so respected for his empathy that he reportedly heard more than 400 confessions a week, Baun writes. San Francisco native Father

FATHER JOSAPHAT KRAUS, OFM

Under its first pastor, Father Sebastian Wolf, St. Boniface became a national parish for German Catholics. The city’s first German Catholics were baptized and married during his tenure in 1860.

Father Maximilian Neumann, OFM, led the recovery and rebuilding after the 1906 earthquake.

Father Josaphat Kraus, OFM, was a legendary confessor who reportedly heard 23,000 confessions in one year, historian Jim Baun writes. He also was known for his 1909 production of the Oberammergau Passion Play on the church stage, which The Chronicle praised as “stupendous.” At the time, Father Kraus also directed the painting of the apse dome, which features murals of the Trinity, the Seraphim, the Holy Family and the Franciscan saints.

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For more information, visit the parish website at www.stbonifacesf.org. The home page features links to a virtual tour of St. Boniface art and architecture and to a photo archive, as well as to Jim Baun’s newly published history of the parish.

View “Jesus walks in this street,” an audio slideshow narrated by Father Ullery, at http://bit.ly/ cc3mli.

Online resources Manila cardinal to visit St. Boniface For more information, visit the parish website at www.stbonifacesf.org. The home page features links Cardinal Gaudencio B. Rosales, Archbishop of Manila, the Philippines will celebrate Mass at St. Boniface to a virtual tour of St. Boniface art and architecture and to a photo archive, as well as to Jim Baun’s Church on Sunday, April 18, at 5 p.m.. The cardinal’s visit will commemorate Filipinos’ historic role in the newly published history of the parish. downtown San Francisco parish.

View “Jesus walks in this street,” an audio slideshow narrated by Father Ullery, at http://bit.ly/ The invitation to the archbishop was extended last June by Francisan Father Jorge Hernandez, the most recent cc3mli. pastor of St. Boniface, and Rowena Lawson, president of the Filipino community in the parish. The 77-year-old archbishop, who was appointed to lead the Manila archdiocese in 2003 and was elevated to cardinal in 2006, confirmed his acceptance this month.

“It gives me joy to be with you and to celebrate with you the Eucharist of Jesus Christ” at St. Boniface, the cardinal wrote.

“I wish also to take this occasion to thank the Archdiocese of San Francisco for opening the doors to you and providing you a venue to the lively practice of our Catholic Filipino faith,” he wrote.

A gift to the parish from the Philippines also is in preparation: a five-foot-high statue of St. Boniface, made entirely of wood. The creation of sculptor Kid Baldemor, the statue will be unveiled during the April 18 Mass.

View images of the statue online at www.catholic-sf.org.

Alfred Boeddeker, pastor from 1949 to 1960, opened St. Anthony’s Dining Room and his work continues to inspire the St. Anthony Foundation. “The great activity of our life is to love,” Baun quotes Father Boeddeker. “I see God as one act, just loving, like the sun always shining.”

Parishioner Leonora Gomez Trejo knew Father Boeddeker in the 1940s. “He confessed my mother in Spanish,” she said. “He just welcomed you with all the love in his heart.”

More than anything else, what is being celebrated this year is the relationship between the Franciscans of St. Boniface and a neighborhood that is as wide open to newcomers and the poor as it was in 1860.

Father Ullery, a retired archdiocesan priest who is on a six-month assignment as the administrator of St. Boniface, put it this way: “Every once in a while a neighborhood, a community, emerges whose needs make the power of the Gospel more evident, and I think this is one of them.”

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Father Alfred Boeddeker, OFM, with Mayor Joseph Alioto in 1968. Appointed pastor in 1949, he opened the church to San Franciscans marginalized or rejected by the post-war economic boom, historian Jim Baun writes. Father Boeddeker’s legacy lives on.

St. Boniface is “a safe place to sleep,” Johnny Weaver, a homeless man in the Tenderloin, said as he emerged from the church after a morning rest in the pews.

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Archbishop’s Journal Chrism Mass: Thanks be to God for the gift Jesus gives us San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer gave this homily at the annual Chrism Mass, March 30, 2010, at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

We are now in Holy Week, approaching the Sacred three days of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, culminating in Easter: the celebration of the death and rising of our Savior Jesus Christ, the celebration of who and what we are because of what Jesus has done.

We began our readings with Isaiah describing his own call, and the eventual call of the Messiah: “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, to comfort all who mourn, to give those who mourn the oil of gladness in place of mourning, to give them a glorious mantle instead of a listless spirit.”

Next we hear Jesus, early in his public ministry, in the synagogue at Nazareth where he grew up, reading those same words from Isaiah and then proclaiming: “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” I am the deliverer, the savior these words describe, Jesus claims.

At the beginning of his public ministry Jesus declared that the Father had sent him on this mission, and at the end of that ministry, he told his first followers, “as the Father sent me, now I send you.” That is the charge and the character given to each one of us at our baptism: to be Christ for the world. Jesus, His Father, and their Spirit call to us through Isaiah: “You yourselves shall be named priests of the Lord, ministers of our God you shall be called.”

That is an exalted view of our call through Baptism and of our mission as Church. Is it a way of avoiding or denying our problems and challenges as human sinners within the Church? Not at all. Two years ago the Capuchin Father Raneiro Cantalamessa preached a weekly Lenten meditation to the Papal Household, before the Pope and his curial staff. Father Cantalamessa touched on the Catholic Church’s constant need for renewal, and our obligation not to judge the Church harshly and dismissively.

He asked: “If Christ loved the Church, in spite of the iniquities she would commit, who are we to see in the weaknesses and miseries of the Church a reason not to love her?

Did Jesus not know that among his disciples, one was betraying him, another denying him, and all fleeing? But he loved this real Church, not an imaginary and ideal one.” In that connection there’s a story about Martin Luther, who wrote to Erasmus of Rotterdam, demanding to know why Erasmus did not leave a church so much in need of reform.

Erasmus replied: “I endure this Church in the hope that she will improve, given that the Church also has to endure me in the hope that I will improve.”

Closer to our own time, fifty years ago, the Catholic writer, Flannery O’Connor, wrote these words about the Church to a friend: “Christ was crucified on earth and the Church is crucified in time, and the Church is crucified by all of us, by her members most particularly because she is a Church of sinners. Christ never said that the Church would be operated in a sinless or an intelligent way, but that it would not teach error. The Church is founded on Peter who denied Christ three times and couldn’t walk on the water by himself. You are expecting his successors to walk on the water. All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.” (She might have added bishops as well.)

Imperfectly, but with the grace of God, we seek to live the life of the Catholic Church together.

In a special way this evening, we celebrate at this Chrism Mass both the priestliness of all baptized Catholics and the

ordained ministry of deacons, priests and bishops. There is no competition among laity, religious and the ordained.

All the baptized are part of that “royal nation of priests” described in the second reading. These two priesthoods differ, but they are intimately related: think of the uses of the most sacred of the oils we bless this evening, for our sacraments throughout this coming year: the oil of Chrism.

We use Chrism to anoint all the baptized; to seal all those who are confirmed; to anoint the priest’s hands and the bishop’s head; to anoint altars and churches when they are consecrated. Ordained priests are drawn from among the baptized for their service. This universality is characteristic of the other oils as well: all those preparing for baptism are anointed with the oil of catechumens; the Church seeks the healing of all her daughters and sons who are sick with the oil specially blessed for that purpose.

In this Year for Priests, at this Chrism Mass, I want to speak directly to the priests who are ministering in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Thank you for responding to a vocation, a call from Christ the High Priest to minister in his name and the power of his love. Thank you for living priesthood as a vocation and not just another job. Your work in the vineyard of the Lord is not from 9 to 5, with time and a half and overtime, and weekends free. As one priest has said, “The best thing about being a priest is, you never have to go to work – you’re always there!”

Most priests do not retire at 65, and even in retirement they want to do whatever priestly work they can. Thank you for answering a call. I speak for myself and the Catholic community of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Thank you for giving a shepherd’s care to the People of God, challenging them, consoling them, teaching them the Catholic faith in the pulpit, in the schools that you work so hard to maintain and improve, in religious education programs in youth and young adult ministries, in RCIA programs and so many other venues as well.

Thank you for being men of prayer and leaders of prayer, for faithfully and devoutly leading Catholic worship, administering the sacraments of the Church to young and old, to young couples and those who are sick, making each occasion a fresh encounter with Christ ministering through his Church.

Thank you for ministering so generously and so tirelessly.

Winston Churchill said of the RAF pilots in the Second World War, “never have so many owed so much to so few,” but that is increasingly true of priests in parishes and other ministries. Nevertheless, we must work together to find new approaches to being shorthanded in priestly ministry.

Thank you for carrying alone and together the Cross that none of us saw coming but all of us must share: the pain of this

past decade following the scandal over sexual abuse of minors by clergy. We must always say at the outset that terrible crimes and sins were committed and dreadful administrative decisions were made.

We must now commit Archbishop ourselves to the healGeorge H. ing of victims and the vigorous protection of Niederauer young people by means of our programs of training for the young and those who work with them, and by diligent screening.

Nevertheless, smear tactics have been used in the media against all priests, bringing contempt, mockery and distrust into the lives of the 96 or 97 percent of priests who have not offended but are regarded as guilty until proven innocent.

I say “thank you” to our numerous international priests, who come to this Archdiocese from many different lands, to minister alongside us and to meet the demands of the process of inculturation. Thank you for encouraging, by example and direct word and invitation, the men in this Archdiocese whom Jesus Christ is calling to follow him in priestly service.

I say “thank you” to the seminarians who have stepped forward to prepare to join the ranks of our priests, and to the priests on the faculty of Saint Patrick’s Seminary, especially the Sulpician community, who dedicate themselves to the formation of our future priests. Thanks as well to all our deacons and their wives, and to all our lay ministers who collaborate in so many ways with priests in our parishes, schools, hospitals and other places of ministry.

Priesthood is a high calling issued to ordinary men.

Most of us priests and bishops here this evening know our limitations and our weaknesses even better than you think you know them. However, the mystery of God’s love and grace make it possible, because, as Jesus told Peter, “with God all things are possible.” In this connection I’ll quote Flannery O’Connor for one final time this evening.

Over, 50 years ago, she wrote this to a friend about parish priests: “It is easy for any child to pick out the faults in the sermon on his way home from Church every Sunday. It is impossible for him to find out the hidden love that makes a man, in spite of his intellectual limitations, his neuroticism, his own lack of strength, give up his life to the service of God’s people, however bumblingly he may go about it . . . .” Amen to that!

Finally, all those “thank you’s” remind me of the “thank you” that you and I need to say together daily: Thanks be to God for the gift his Son Jesus Christ gives us, the gift of himself, most especially in this Eucharist that we celebrate. It is this gift that strengthens us and lights our way, so that we can follow Jesus for life, serving and loving him by serving and loving his people. In the power of the Eucharist we can accept the same challenge that Saint Paul wrote to Timothy: “Stir into flame the gift of God that you have through the imposition of hands. Bear your share of hardship for the gospel with the strength that comes from God.” In trying to meet that challenge we can take heart from Saint Paul again, in what he wrote to the Philippians, and therefore to us: “I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work in you will continue to complete it until the day of Christ Jesus.”

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By Tony Magliano It’s hard to believe five years have passed since Pope John Paul II left this world. April 2, 2005, seems almost like yesterday. Because he accomplished so much good in this life, it feels like his life is still here.

The Rev. Billy Graham, a famous Protestant evangelist, summed it up well when he said, “When future historians look back on the most influential personalities of the 20th century, the name of Pope John Paul II will unquestionably loom large in their accounts. Few individuals have had a greater impact – not just religiously but morally – on the modern world. He will stand as the most influential moral voice of our time.”

In all the many prophetic ways he influenced our time, the pope’s moral voice rang out most powerfully when it was raised on behalf of the world’s forgotten masses: the poor, the hungry, the war torn and the unborn.

During his 1979 visit to Washington, Pope John Paul,

standing within sight of the U.S. Capitol, boldly proclaimed to 175,000 of us at the Capitol Mall: “We will stand up every time that human life is threatened. When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, we will stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life!”

The pope’s passionate call to protect the unborn in no way detracted from his equally passionate concern for suffering human beings already born.

In his famous encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”), Pope John Paul stated: “As disciples of Jesus, we are called to become neighbors to everyone ... and to show special favor to those who are poorest, most alone and most in need. ...

“Where life is involved, the service of charity must be profoundly consistent. It cannot tolerate bias and discrimination, for human life is sacred and inviolable at every stage and in every situation; it is an indivisible good.”

During a pastoral visit to Brazil, Pope John Paul said, “The

church wants to be the church of the poor. ... To those who live with a certain well being ... think about the poor. ... Think about the ones who do not have what is needed, the ones who live in chronic want, who suffer hunger.

“Look around you. Does it not hurt your heart? Do you not feel the stings of your conscience for your surplus and abundance? ...

“Remember that the value of a man is not measured by what he has, but what he is. ... Only a socially just society, one that strives to be ever more just, has a reason to exist.”

To the Vatican diplomatic corps, Pope John Paul proclaimed that war “is always a defeat for humanity.”

His consistent care for all, especially for the poor and vulnerable, radiated in him a Christ-like holiness.

“Santo Subito!” (“Sainthood Now!”) That’s what Italians heralded during Pope John Paul II’s funeral Mass.

Indeed, “Santo Subito!”

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Parish Diary

Being there in grief I wish I were a better priest.

I wish I prayed more. Then maybe I would have grace to share when needed.

I wish I knew the Scriptures better. Then I would have the right words to say when sorrows come and tragedy visits a household.

But time and again I know that I am inadequate.

This is not phony humility. I am not begging for consolation or a compliment; it is the truth. I don’t have the holiness, the wisdom or even the faith that some occasions require.

Like most parish priests, there are times I just feel lost.

Not long ago I was called to the bedside of a 42-yearold wife and mother of three beautiful little girls. The young woman was dying of breast cancer. Her body was so distorted by the disease that I did not recognize her even though I had seen her every week for five years.

She had been so brave and confident through the course of her treatment that I never really understood how sick she really was. Ever the optimist, she waved off any worry.

So when I was called to the hospital to anoint her I was stunned.

She could not talk or swallow because of the tubes down her throat. If they were removed she would die. The

hospital was keeping her alive until her husband could get back. He is in the Navy and was out at sea on a submarine.

The Navy made extraordinary efforts to get him back. The sub had to surface and return to a nearby port.

I’ve seen many deaths in the last 25 years, but this one really got to me.

On the way back from the hospital I lost it. In the car I started shouting at God. It wasn’t exactly a prayer. It was more of a complaint.

“Some loving God you are! You let this good woman, who by the way, is so dedicated to you, die. You leave her young children without a mother. You expect me to love you? Well, I don’t!”

It was a long drive home. After a few miles my anger passed. Then I started pleading with God: “Why can’t you just give me this one? It doesn’t cost you anything. What is the value of taking a mother of three little girls? Why do you create so many people and then let them suffer? They are not guilty. You are guilty, God!” I was angry, like Psalm 10: “Why, O Lord, do you stand aloof? Why hide in times of distress?”

A few days later she died. There was some consolation.

Her husband had returned in time to see her.

When I went down to the house to visit with the husband and the girls and grandma, all I could do was sit there in silence, like the friends of Job. Nobody ever said anything about this when Father Peter I was in the seminary.

It probably would not Daly have mattered if they did.

Nothing can ever equip you for such sorrow. This sorrow was only a tiny drop in the ocean of suffering in the world.

But, at such moments, all we have is faith. We trust that somewhere in the heart of the universe is the heart of a God who loves us.

I don’t really have any words of wisdom or grace that will take away the pain.

I wish I were a better priest. Maybe then I would.

Father Peter J. Daly, a pastor in Maryland, writes a column for Catholic News Service.

Coming of Age

Saying no to temptation Once upon a time, golf legend Tiger Woods seemed to have everything. He lived in a million-dollar mansion, built his reputation as one of the most talented golfers in modern history, and had a wife and children. He also cultivated a very positive image in the media – no mean feat in these days of constant scandal and rabid paparazzi.

But Woods didn’t have everything. He’d built a house of cards.

Of course we were all disappointed when we found out that Woods had been linked to at least 10 women who weren’t his wife, but I don’t think many people were surprised. This kind of scandal has happened before, to other men who were just as blessed with money, power and family as Woods was, men such as former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, former Sen. John Edwards and basketball star Kobe Bryant.

Politicians and sports stars are supposed to be good examples for the rest of us, but they seem to lose their pants at an alarming rate. Why? Some commentators say powerful men and women who cheat are seduced by the influence their positions give them over others, whether they are aware of it or not. The lives of these famous men tell us that it’s harder to resist temptation than we think.

Temptation is the little voice in your head that urges you sweetly to do those things you know are wrong. This

little voice gets you to do those things because it lies to you, saying: “It’ll feel good. Who’s going to know? It won’t hurt.

Let your standards fall just this once.”

Temptation is less of an army with their weapons pointed at you and more of a sneaky, snake-like adviser who says he has your best interests at heart but is really only out for his own agenda.

Teens know temptation. There’s the temptation to lie to teachers about missing homework, the temptation to take that beer or joint someone offers at a party or to punch out the guy who just said something nasty about you.

That little voice always tells you that you’ll feel better afterward, that you’ll get something good out of it.

As Woods found out, it doesn’t work that way.

Back in high school, a supersmart friend of mine succumbed to temptation when he decided to plagiarize a journal for English class and use the time he “saved” to play video games. He got away with the first three entries before the teacher caught on. He failed the entire unit and spent the rest of his year working extra hard to make up for his zero.

Each time we give in to temptation, whether it’s cheating on a loved one or on a test, lying to teachers or friends, or tearing down the standards we set for ourselves, we take a card from the deck and contribute another wall to an already pre-

carious house of cards.

And any good architect knows that a building has to have a good foundation to stand.

Making the right choices, even if it leads to a harder path, builds houses out of things Karen Osbourne that will last – concrete foundations, stone walls, steel girders. Add to that trust and standards.

When we pray “lead us not into temptation,” we’re not saying we’re never going to have any fun. We’re saying, “God, help me to make the right decisions for me and for everyone I love.”

We’re saying, “I respect myself, I respect my friends and family, and I respect the awesome future I’m going to have.”

Say no to temptation. Don’t be left playing 52 pickup.

Karen Osborne, a Florida-based freelance writer, contributes to Catholic News Service’s “Coming of Age” column.

The Catholic Difference

Almsgiving – all $300 billion of it Almsgiving, along with fasting and intensified prayer, is one of the three traditional Lenten practices enjoined on all Catholics by ancient tradition. So it might seem an odd moment to reflect briefly on just how much almsgiving Americans already do. But perhaps a review of some remarkable data will spur those who are already in the game to do better in our charitable giving—and encourage those who aren’t yet giving to do so.

A few months back, Adam Meyerson, president of the Philanthropy Roundtable, gave a lecture on “The Generosity of America” at Michigan’s Hillsdale College (itself entirely supported by tuition and philanthropy, as it accepts no government money whatsoever). Meyerson began by noting that the media generally notice Americans’ charitable donations only in the wake of disasters; it was widely remarked, for example, that some $6 billion had been given to disaster relief in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Yet, admirable as that giving was, Americans routinely give about $6 billion to charity every week, Meyerson noted: “Last year (2009), Americans gave $300 billion to charity. To put this into perspective, that is almost twice as much as we spent on consumer electronics equipment—equipment including cell phones, iPods, and DVD players. Americans gave three times as much to charity last year as we spent on gambling and ten times as much as we spent on professional sports.”

All of which makes us, Meyerson concluded, “the most charitable country in the world. There is no other country

that comes close.” The interesting question is, why?

The first reason why has to do with American piety.

Secularism may have made serious inroads into American high culture and American public life, but we are not yet Europe or Canada, and it tells in our giving: “Americans who attend church or synagogue or another form of worship once a week give three times as much to charity as a percentage of their income as do those who rarely attend religious services.” And while it is true that $100 billion of that annual $300 billion in charitable giving goes to religious institutions, two-thirds of it goes to other forms of charitable activity, usually secular in character. Moreover, Meyerson, noted, regular worshippers “also give more to secular charities than do those who never or rarely attend religious services.” Secularism’s claims to a deeper compassion for those in need are put into serious question by this data.

Americans also are not—yet—infected with the European tendency to look toward government for the resolution of all their problems. As Meyerson put it, Americans “respect the freedom and the ability of individuals, and associations of individuals, to make a difference. Americans don’t wait for government or the local nobleman to solve our problems; we find solutions ourselves.” And we help support those who are finding those solutions through charitable giving.

The culture of philanthropy that has traditionally been a part of wealth-creation in America is another facet of this striking picture of generosity, from Andrew Carnegies’s

libraries to James J. Hill’s donation of the Catholic seminary in St. Paul to the Gates Foundation’s work to eradicate malaria. That this extraordinary generosity—and its microcosmic counterparts in the giving George Weigel that ordinary Americans do—is facilitated by tax laws that make charitable giving economically beneficial to the donors simply suggests that, for once, there’s a part of the tax code of which we can be proud.

This Lent, however, Catholics still have reason for some examination of conscience on their almsgiving. We’re traditionally far behind our Protestant brethren in the percentage of our income we give back to God; and, one expects, we’re also a bit behind the curve on giving to secular charities, too. The “one-third, one-third, one-third rule” still applies in too many Catholic parishes: one-third of a parish’s families carry the bulk of the parish’s financial burden, one-third do a little, and one-third do nothing. That can, and should, change, even in economically difficult times.

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 10:34A, 37-43 Peter proceeded to speak and said: “You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power. He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.

They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

April 2, 2010

Easter Sunday The Resurrection of the Lord Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-9 R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

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

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

morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from

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

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 20:1-9 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the

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f you are particularly lucky this Easter Sunday, more likely so if you attend an afternoon or evening Mass, the homilist will have the option of reading the traditional Easter account of the empty tomb or the stirring account of the appearance of Jesus to the disciples who are on their way from Jerusalem to Emmaus.

As only Luke, the evangelist with the best sense of humor could tell it, here are three of Jesus’ closest friends walking down from Jerusalem to the seaside town of Emmaus, talking to themselves about the amazing happenings of the past few days, when this stranger (the unrecognized Jesus) joins them and asks (in modern parlance), “What are you guys so excitedly talking about?”

Their response is classic: “What? Where the heck have you been? Haven’t you heard about this teacher named Jesus, and how he got killed, dashing our hopes that he was the Messiah who would get us out from under Rome’s thumb! And about the rumors that someone has taken him from his tomb!”

You can imagine Jesus trying hard not to roll his eyes, experiencing even in his resurrected state the “will-they-ever-get it?” frustration he surely felt all through his years with them.

Ever the patient teacher, Jesus walks with them, listening intently, then finally carefully showing them through a discourse on the ancient prophecies how their picture of what the Messiah would look like, and how his kingdom would actually unfold were in reality two quite different plans.

Scripture reflection ROB GRANT

And their eyes were opened Despite our alleged sophistication and supposed evolutionary edge, we modern day disciples often are just as dense about getting who this Jesus really was, and what his gift to us truly is.

Yes, we love the empty tomb story – complete with glorious light, angels, the mystery of resurrection. We get to be the observers of glory, and by association, vicariously experience that glory. The BIG Event! We love this stuff – all the larger-than-life drama that Jesus brings with his miracles, healings, and now, his own resurrection.

Drama, we do love. But, in the same breath, when we really look at what brings us the greatest joy in life, it is NOT the dramatic events, the BIG deals.

Think of the last time you felt deeply

the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.” So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in. When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place.

Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead.

(At an afternoon or evening Mass, another Gospel may be read: Luke 23: 13-15.)

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joyful. Was it that big vacation that set you back a month’s salary…or was it that simple hang-out time in the kitchen when your teenage son actually forgot the secret teen-boy code and spontaneously hugged you while you were making dinner? Or the last time you laughed so hard that your sides ached?

Luke seemed to have known this need for big glory and simple joys as well – that’s why we have from Luke not just a retelling of the Matthew, Mark and John account of the empty tomb, but this heartfelt story of the road where it is in animated and, in its authenticity, unpredictable, conversation and the sharing of a simple (yet unforgettable) meal (the breaking of the bread) that the people who love Jesus finally “get” him.

No lightning bolts. No angels. No voices

The morning of the Resurrection is depicted in “He Is Risen,” a painting by contemporary Chinese Christian artist He Qi. His artwork blends Chinese folk customs with traditional Chinese and Western painting methods. The Easter season begins with the celebration of the Resurrection.

from the sky. Just broken people sitting down at a humble table, breaking simple bread.

We Catholics are great about pomp and ritual – we love the glory, and pray and sing about it all the time. And that’s a good thing.

But maybe what Luke and Jesus are reminding us about in this account is that the place we are most likely to encounter the wonder and power of God isn’t necessarily in the rolledaway stones, the blinding glory, the angelic appearances, but, rather, in the simplicity of mundane, human things. Things like the disappointments that vanish and joys that become richer when we open to the possibilities beyond our preconceptions and habits. Like difficult conversations that become easier when we open our minds. Like mundane daily tasks that take on miraculous overtones when we open to the actual grace within them.

The Road to Emmaus leads us past the glory of Jerusalem to a place where, if we allow our eyes to be open, the real glory, the life-restoring power of God, is right there in our hands, not inaccessible and not shrouded in awe and mystery. Perhaps asking Jesus to join us on our daily walk is the first step to being opened to the joy that lies so within our grasp, if we only dismiss our picture of what glorious things are supposed to look like, and come to appreciate the simple grace of our actual lived experience as we break bread (and barriers) with one another.

Rob Grant, a music director and cantor, is a 30-year veteran of parish ministry in San Francisco. Contact him at www.MinistryMuse.com.

Message of Easter Season: God delights in you

By Father John Catoir The continuing message of the Easter season is clear for those who have faith: “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son so that everyone who believes in him ... may have eternal life” (Jn 3:16). The key to this passage is found in the word “love.”

When you love someone, you do not merely love in theory, you actually take delight in loving that person. One of the most obvious characteristics of love is that the lover desires to be with the loved one, “My soul longs for you O God” (Ps 42:2). Did you ever stop to think that God longs for you personally?

In his encyclical, “God Is Love,” Pope Benedict XVI said: “I want my first encyclical to speak of the love which God lavishes upon us.” He explained that God actually woos us. He lures us so that we will leave behind everything that

is counterproductive to our union with him. He wants us to abide in him: “God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God” (1 Jn 4:16).

We know that Jesus, in his love for us, followed the path of the cross and the resurrection. Just as the grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies in order for new life to begin, so did Jesus give up his life that we might awaken to a new life of love. He wants us to share this love with others.

First, God desires union with you. He knows you yearn for him; in fact he put that yearning in you. But as difficult as it might be for you to imagine, he has a corresponding desire to be with you. He longs for you to come to him. Therefore, cast away any doubts you may have, and put on the indomitable will to believe in God’s personal love for you. His love for you is eternal and infinite despite our unworthiness.

God sent his prophets to prepare you for the amazing revelation of his love. Zephaniah was a prophet who lived

around 650 B.C. He denounced the worship of false gods and idols. In his day the people worshiped the stars, the moon and the sun, all of which are inanimate objects incapable of love. He condemned this pagan practice, upholding the glory of the one, true God, proclaiming the pure monotheism taught by Moses, the God of love.

To those who embraced this personal God, Zephaniah promised the fullness of joy. He ended his book with a hymn of joy, which is sung jubilantly by the faithful remnant. The passage I like best in Zephaniah is found in Chapter 3:17.

It speaks poetically about God’s love: “God will exult with joy over you. ... He will renew you by his love. He will dance with shouts of joy for you, as on a day of festival” (Jerusalem Bible).

Father John Catoir writes a regular column for Catholic News Service.

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Spirituality for Life

The humiliation of Crucifixion When Jesus sweated blood in the Garden of Gethsemane and asked his Father to let the cup of suffering pass him by he wasn’t, for the most part, cringing before the prospect of brute physical suffering. He was cringing before the prospect of a very particular kind of suffering that is generally more feared than physical pain. When he asked God if it was really necessary to die in this way he was referring to more than death through capital punishment.

Crucifixion was devised and designed by the Romans with more than one thing in mind. It was designed as capital punishment, to put a criminal to death, but it aimed to do a couple of other things as well.

It was designed to inflict optimal physical pain. Thus the procedure was dragged out over a good number of hours and the amount of pain inflicted at any given moment was carefully calculated so as not to cause unconsciousness and thus ease the pain of the one being crucified. Indeed they sometimes even gave wine mixed with morphine to the person being crucified, not to ease his suffering, but to keep him from passing out from pain so as to have to endure it longer.

But crucifixion was designed with still another even more callous intent. It was designed to humiliate the person.

Among other things, the person was stripped naked before being hung on a cross so that his genitals would be publicly exposed. As well, at the moment of death his bowels would loosen. Crucifixion clearly had humiliation in mind.

We have tended to downplay this aspect, both in our preaching and in our art. We have, as Jurgens Moltmann put

it, surrounded the cross with roses, with aesthetic and antiseptic wrapping towels. But that was not the case for Jesus.

His nakedness was exposed, his body publicly humiliated.

That, among other reasons, is why the crucifixion was such a devastating blow to his disciples and why many of them abandoned Jesus and scattered after the crucifixion. They simply couldn’t connect this kind of humiliation with glory, divinity, and triumph.

Interestingly there is a striking parallel between what crucifixion did to the human body and what nature itself often does to the human body through old age, cancer, dementia, AIDS, and diseases such as Parkinson’s, Lou Gehrig’s, Huntington’s, and other such sicknesses that humiliate the body before killing it. They expose publicly what is most vulnerable inside of our humanity. They shame the body.

Why? What is the connection between this type of pain and the glory of Easter Sunday? Why is it, as the gospels say, “necessary to first suffer in this manner so as to enter into glory?”

Because, paradoxically, a certain depth of soul can only be attained through a certain depth of humiliation. How and why is this so? It isn’t easy to articulate rationally but we can understand this through experience: Ask yourself this question with courage and honesty: What experiences in my life have made me deep? In virtually every case, I will venture to say, experiences that have deepened you will be incidences that you feel some shame in acknowledging, a powerlessness from which you were unable

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But depth of soul comes in very different modes.

Humiliation makes us deep, but we can be deep in character, understanding, graciousness, and forgiveness or we can be deep in anger, bitterness, revenge-seeking, and murder.

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Several summers ago, I was at a conference at the University of Notre Dame where the Holy Cross community had gathered to prepare itself for the Beatification of its founder. Reflecting upon the spirituality of their founder, one Holy Cross member offered this challenge to his community: If you live inside of any family for any length of time, at some point that family will wound you and wound you deeply. But, and this is the point, how you handle that wound, with either bitterness or forgiveness, will color the rest of your life!

In the crucifixion, Jesus was humiliated, shamed, brutalized. That pain stretched his heart to a great depth. But that new space did not fill in with bitterness and anger. It filled in instead with a depth of empathy and forgiveness that we have yet to fully understand.

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“During his long pontificate, he did all he could to proclaim justice with firmness, without weakness or hesitation, especially when he faced resistance, hostility and refusal,” the pope said.

Pope Benedict said his predecessor knew he was being led by God “and this allowed him to exercise a very fruitful ministry, for which, once again, we give fervid thanks to God.” The pope also spoke about the Gospel story of Mary of Bethany anointing the feet of Jesus with perfumed oil.

The gesture, he said, was an expression of faith and great love, an offering of profound devotion and of giving a great gift without thinking of the cost.

“Love does not calculate, does not measure, does not count the cost and does not erect barriers, but knows how to give with joy, seeks only the good of the other and overcomes pettiness, stinginess, grudges and the closure that men sometimes carry in their hearts,” the pope said.

Pope John Paul demonstrated the same kind of love, he said.

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Pope Benedict also read a paragraph of his homily in Polish, urging the Polish people to transform their pride in Pope John Paul into a commitment to following his example of faith, hope and love.

The prayers of the faithful also included a petition in Polish for Pope John Paul, “who served the church to the extreme limits of his strength.”

During the Mass, Pope Benedict did not mention Pope John Paul’s sainthood cause.

In December, he formally decreed that Pope John Paul had heroically lived the Christian virtues and was venerable.

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African-American foundress of order moves one step closer to sainthood VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI advanced the sainthood cause of Mother Henriette Delille, a freeborn woman of African descent in 19thcentury New Orleans, declaring that she had lived a life of “heroic virtues.”

By signing the decree March 27, the pope confirmed the recommendations of Vatican authorities who have studied the cause for several years.

She can be beatified once a miracle is attributed to her intercession. If her cause advances, she could become the first African-American saint.

Pope Benedict also approved the decrees of three martyrs: a Romanian bishop, a German priest and a Slovenian lay member of Catholic Action who were killed for their faith in the last century.

In 1842 Mother Henriette founded the Sisters of the Holy Family, a congregation of black sisters that cared for the poor and disadvantaged and taught slaves and free blacks. This was during a time under Louisiana law when doing anything to “disturb” black people – in other words, educate them – could be punished by death or life imprisonment.

Today, the congregation’s more than 200 members operate schools for the poor and homes for the elderly in Louisiana and several other states. They also have a mission in Belize.

Mother Henriette’s sainthood cause was opened in 1988 and the New Orleans archdiocesan investigation was completed in 2005. Her cause was endorsed unanimously by the U.S. bishops in 1997.

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Mother Henriette Delille founded the Sisters of the Holy Family of New Orleans, a U.S. congregation of black sisters that cared for the poor and disadvantaged and taught slaves and free blacks. Her cause for sainthood took a step forward March 27 with Pope Benedict XVI ‘s declaration that she had lived a life of “heroic virtues.”

gational leader of the sisters, called the pope’s decree “great and joyous news.”

“We are dancing for joy,” she told the Clarion Herald, newspaper of the New Orleans Archdiocese.

“When we first heard the news, I gathered about 35 sisters and we went into the chapel and said the ‘Te Deum’ in praise of God for her life and her practice of heroic virtue,” she said March 29.

“Really and truly, some of the sisters were crying.

It just gives you a beautiful feeling knowing that God worked through her,” she added. “If you work with God’s grace, this can come about. All of us are called to be saints through the practice of love and service to neighbor.”

Mother Henriette was born in 1812 and died in 1862.

Her only recorded writing was penned in the inside cover of an 1836 prayer book: “I believe in God. I hope in God. I love God. I want to live and die for God.” Documentation for her sainthood cause included records from the 1820s that suggested that as a teenager, she may have given birth to two sons, each named Henry Bocno. Both boys died at a young age.

One death record from the St. Louis Cathedral sacramental register listed Henry Bocno as the son of Henriette Delille. Other records that were found gave conflicting information, such as one record referring to Henry as the son of “Marie.” Another record named the mother as “Henriette Sarpy.”

There is also a possibility that the teenage Henriette brought in an abandoned child and the priest mistook her for the mother, according to the archdiocesan archivist Charles Nolan.

In a 2005 interview, Nolan said the newly uncovered funeral records would not affect the cause, because even if she had given birth to two children out of wedlock, it happened two years before her confirmation in 1834.

“When the second child died, she took a whole different course in life,” Nolan said, noting she decided to dedicate herself “to live and die for God.” Benedictine Father Cyprian Davis, who wrote a definitive biography of Mother Henriette, said in 2005 that “there was this change in her life, there was this turning completely to God. That’s really what counted – her life from that point on.”

Among the other decrees Pope Benedict signed March 27 was the recognition of the second miracle needed for canonization of Spanish Sister Bonifacia Rodriguez de Castro, 1837-1905, founder of the Sister Servants of St. Joseph, a congregation originally dedicated to providing a religious and technical education to poor women.

There were decrees approving the beatification of eight men and women, including three martyrs who are: – Bishop Szilard Bogdanffy of Oradea Mare, Romania, an anti-Communist dissident who was born in 1911 and died in prison in 1953.

– Father Gerhard Hirschfelder, born in 1907 in Glatz, Germany, who died in the Nazi death camp of Dachau in Germany in 1942.

– Lojze Grozde of Ljubljana, Slovenia, a lay member of Catholic Action born in 1923 who was tortured and killed out of hatred of the faith in 1943.

Martyrs do not need a miracle attributed to their intercession in order to be beatified. However, miracles must be recognized by the Vatican in order for them to become saints.

Contributing to this story was Peter Finney in New Orleans.

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Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life Survivor of the Rwandan genocide Immaculee Ilibagiza, whose story is described in Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, will speak April 16, at 10:30 a.m. at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. All proceeds benefit Catholic Charities programs for children and families. Tickets available at www.littlechildrensaid.com April 24, 9 a.m. – noon: Women Mystics Come of Age, a presentation by Paulist Father Terry Ryan at Old St. Mary’s Paulist Center, 660 California St at Grant in San Francisco. Coffee and treats at 9 a.m. Admission is free. Sponsored

April 9, 7 a.m.: Monthly Mass and meeting of Catholic Marin Breakfast Club at Marin Catholic High School, Pope John Paul II Center Chapel.

Father Tom Daly, Marin Catholic President and Vocations Director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Father Tom Daly will be principal celebrant and breakfast speaker. Members’ breakfast is $7 and non-members $10. Call (415) 461-0704 between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. or e-mail Sugaremy@aol.com. Membership dues are $20 per year or $30/couple and can be paid at the door. E-mail sugaremy@aol. com to register and for other details.

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April 15, 7 p.m.: Mass commemorating 100th Anniversary of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars of the Western America Province at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Dr. off El Camino Real in Burlingame. Capuchin Father Mauro Johri, Minister General of the Capuchin Franciscan Order, will be principal celebrant and homilist. Capuchin Friars have served at Our Lady of Angels since the parish was founded in 1926.

Capuchin Friars also serve at parishes including Old Mission Santa Ines in Solvang and St. Lawrence of Brindisi Church in the Los Angeles neighborhood Father Mauro Johri, of Watts, and sponsor St. Francis High School in OFM Cap. La Canada. Founded in 1528, the Capuchin Franciscan Friars are a Roman Catholic religious order of brothers and priests inspired by the life and ideals of St. Francis of Assisi. They came to the United States in the 19th century to serve poor immigrants. Capuchin Friars strive to share their rich heritage of contemplative prayer, preaching the Word of God, and caring for those in need.

In this tradition of service, Capuchins find inspiration and hope. Capuchins are one of the largest religious Orders of men in the Church, with about 11,000 members.

“Our goal is always the same,” the Friars said, “to be a joyful presence of hope and salvation to all, especially to those most in need. Wherever we are, we seek to find the power of Christ working in His people.”

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April 8, noon: Serra Club of San Francisco lunch at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Ave., off Mission Street. Notre Dame Sister Roseanne Murphy, author of “Martyr of the Amazons, The Story of Sister Dorothy Stang” will talk about Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang who was murdered in 2005 in Brazil. Tickets are $16 for lunch. Contact Paul Crudo at (415) 566-8224 or e-mail pecrudodds@aol.com.

Food & Fun April 9: Monthly Mass and meeting of Catholic Marin Breakfast Club at Marin Catholic High School, Pope John Paul II Center Chapel. Father Tom Daly, Marin Catholic President and Vocations Director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, will be principal celebrant and breakfast speaker.

Members’ breakfast is $7 and non-members’ $10. E-mail sugaremy@aol.com to register and for other details.

April 21, noon: Spaghetti and meatball lunch at Immaculate Conception Chapel, Folsom off Cesar Chavez/Army St. in San Francisco. Tickets are $8 per person. The family-style meal includes salad, bread, pasta and homemade meatballs.

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April 24, 5:30 p.m.: Saturday Night Fever, 21st annual Auction/Dinner Dance at the San Mateo Marriott Hotel benefiting Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish and School in Belmont. Auctions feature more than 500 items to be bid on. Enjoy a gourmet dinner at 7:30 p.m. then dancing to the music of Jack Aces until midnight. Tickets are $100 per person and include wine with dinner.

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Reunions April 10, 10:30 a.m.: Annual Mass and Luncheon for SF Chapter of Notre Dame de Namur Alumnae begins at Mission Dolores Basilica followed by festivities at the Spanish Cultural Center, 2850 Alemany Blvd. in San Francisco. Honorees include Golden Belles of 1950 and classes of 1940, ’50, ’70, ’80. Call Katie O’Leary at (415) 282-6588.

April 24, 7 p.m.: Class of ’85 from St. Finn Barr Elementary School at The Vin Club, 515 Broadway in San Francisco. Tickets are $30 and include two drinks and appetizers. Call (415) 452-8807 or e-mail rodolfo415@yahoo.com.

April 25: The St. Gabriel Alumni Association is hosting a Golden Diploma Reunion for the Class of 1960. Mass will be celebrated at 11:30 a.m. followed by a reception at 12:15 p.m. Alumni from the Class of 1960 are welcome to contact Sue Phelps at (415) 566-0314 or by email at

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April 29: Luncheon reunion for class of 1950 from St. Cecilia Elementary School. Contact Doris at (415) 664-2247 or amadoris@sbcglobal. net.

Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 April 3, 11 a.m.: Prayer Service in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Msgr. Harry Schlitt will preside.

Special Liturgies April 11, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.: Divine Mercy Sunday - Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Sacrament of Reconciliation, Divine Mercy Prayers, refreshments, a Divine Mercy video, and Mass at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Avenue, South San Francisco. Contact Diana Powell at Diana@MDssf.org or (650) 922.3941 for schedule.

April 11, 10:30 a.m.: St. Paul of the Shipwreck welcomes Social Service Sister Eva Marie Lumas, as guest speaker on Divine Mercy Sunday. St. Paul of the Shipwreck is located at 1122 Jamestown Ave. (the corner of Third and Jamestown). All are welcome to join us as we hear from this gifted and spiritual “Child of God”!

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April 30, 11:30 a.m.: Epiphany Center’s Celebrating Mothers Luncheon at St. Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco. Tickets: $75 per person, RSVP deadline April 21. For more information, call (415) 351-4055 or visit www.theepiphanycenter.org On behalf of event chair Irene Holmes, the Epiphany Center League’s second annual luncheon Celebrating Mothers features a Songbirds Chorale performance, an inspiring testimony from a client, and great gifts for sale for mothers and other special women. Proceeds benefit the Epiphany Center, a ministry of Mount St. JosephSt. Elizabeth and the Daughters of Charity, providing life-changing and life-saving services for women, children, and families in San Francisco.

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Collection of Orthodox patriarch’s texts provides a rich harvest “IN THE WORLD, YET NOT OF THE WORLD: SOCIAL AND GLOBAL INITIATIVES OF ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH BARTHOLOMEW,” edited by Patriarch Bartholomew and John Chryssavgis. Fordham University Press (New York, 2009) 335 pp., $32.

Reviewed by Brother Jeffrey Gros, FSC Catholic News Service The leader of the millions of Christian Orthodox faithful around the world stands as one of the great leaders of apostolic Christianity with a heritage dating back to the apostle Andrew. He has presided for centuries, with the bishop of Rome and the other ancient apostolic centers, over catholic Christendom.

Since the 15th century the patriarch of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) has given spiritual leadership and direction for Christians of the East from within a Muslim culture and most recently a Turkish state where Christians have suffered great difficulties. With the emergence of the great Russian and other Eastern European Orthodox churches from the shadow of atheistic communism, the patriarch has taken on new challenges and responsibilities as the center of Orthodox unity and ecumenical leadership.

Since 1964 the unfortunate Catholic-Orthodox mutual condemnations of 1054 have been lifted, and formal dialogue between the two churches began in 1980. Each year, on the feasts of Sts. Peter and Andrew, the patriarch and the pope participate in one another’s feast day, either in person or through representatives, in prayer for one another and for the unity of the churches.

Even before his election as ecumenical patriarch in 1991 Bartholomew was a leader in the ecumenical witness of the Orthodox churches in the World Council of Churches and as a member of the dialogue with

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the Catholic Church. His training in Western Europe, including Rome, and his international engagement in Christian leadership, ecumenical work and interreligious dialogue uniquely equipped him for the spiritual and diplomatic leadership to which he has been called.

During his tenure as patriarch he has been a tireless servant of the unity among the Orthodox churches, reconciliation with Protestant and Catholic churches of the West, witness to the oppression of Christians in Turkey, interreligious outreach and the social witness of the Church. Like the popes, he has been a strong voice in the dialogues about the role of religion in a united Europe and about the role of Turkey as it moves toward closer relations with the Europeann Community.

The volume includes six sections of texts, beginning with a chapter on the he patriarch’s vision as outlined in his initial al addresses. The second chapter includes addresses and messages while visiting in the United States, about the opportunities, challenges and social problems faced in American culture and the Orthodox contribution.

The third chapter includes a number of texts addressing the social issues of economy, ecology and society from a Christian and Orthodox point of view. Patriarch Bartholomew has been particularly noted for his contribution to the debate on the environment and bringing the witness of the Scriptures and church fathers to these public concerns.

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He draws on the milc lennium of Christian-Muslim relations, lenn often ofte productive and peaceful, to counter a climate that would see only terrorism cl and conflict as the marks of religious encounter. en The last chapter includes major declarations and public proclamations, de including those with Popes John Paul in II I and Benedict XVI. They again testify t to the great progress that has been made in the few decades of the modm ern ecumenical movement, and the hopeful prospects we experience as we face the great challenges placed before b f the h Christian Ch i i churches in the modern world.

We can be grateful for this rich harvest of documents, and look forward to the two subsequent volumes promised in the series. The contribution of Bartholomew is a great monument to the role of Christianity in an everchanging world, and the leadership it can provide in witness to the Gospel.

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