April 20, 2007

Pope Benedict offers condolences, prayer following VA Tech tragedy VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI was deeply saddened by the massacre at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., and prayed for the victims and their families.

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone sent a telegram to Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo of Richmond, Va., expressing the pope’s condolences to all those affected by the April 16 shooting that left at least

33 people, including the killer, dead.

Cardinal Bertone said in the wake of the “senseless tragedy” Pope Benedict asked him to assure the victims, their families and the entire school community of his prayers.

Pope Benedict “asks God our father to console all those who mourn and to grant them that spiritual strength which triumphs over violence,” Cardinal Bertone said.

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Local and national prayers extended for VA Tech tragedy (CNS PHOTO/ BRENDAN BUSH, REUTERS)

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Members of Virginia Tech’s Corps of Cadets pray in the War Memorial Chapel at the university in Blacksburg, Va., April 16. A gunman, later identified as a Virginia Tech student, shot dozens of people at the school earlier that day. At least 33 people were killed in the deadliest campus shooting rampage in U.S. history.

Pope and Bush set probable meet VATICAN CITY (CNS) – U.S. President George W. Bush is expected to have his first formal audience with Pope Benedict XVI in early June, according to a Vatican spokesman.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi said April 14 that Bush is expected to visit the Vatican June 9 or 10 after participating in the summit of leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized countries in Germany.

Bush made his last visit to the Vatican for the April 8, 2005, funeral of Pope John Paul II. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future Pope Benedict, celebrated the funeral Mass.

The president had met Pope John Paul three times.

The president’s brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, led the U.S. delegation to Pope Benedict’s inaugural Mass.

Also April 14, Father Lombardi told reporters that former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami would visit Pope Benedict at the Vatican May 4.

Khatami was scheduled to be in Rome for a conference on dialogue and peace sponsored by the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Iranian Embassy to the Vatican.

SAN FRANCISCO – Prayer services, memorial liturgies and acknowledgements of campus security concerns took place on college campuses across the nation and in the Archdiocese of San Francisco in the wake of the April 16 shooting spree at Virginia Tech that left at least 33 people dead, including the gunman.

On the day of the shootings University of San Francisco President Jesuit Father Stephen Privett sent out a campus-wide e-mail offering prayers for the victims, their families and the Virginia Tech community. The message also said the University has done extensive planning and preparation for emergencies, but that “today’s events will force USF, and all universities, to once again re-examine campus security.”

Nearly 100 attended a 5:30 p.m. prayer service for the Virginia Tech victims, families and students on Monday at Dominican University of California in San Rafael, Father Bob Haberman, head of campus ministry, told Catholic San Francisco.

Dominican college officials told the Marin Independent Journal that since the Columbine high school shootings they have increased security and adopted updated tactics to deal with emergencies, but in reality there is no failproof way to prevent incidents like the one at Virginia Tech – which has been declared the deadliest on-campus attack in U.S. history.

At Belmont’s Notre Dame de Namur University about 30 persons took part in a 3 p.m. prayer service Monday as well, said Jesuit Father Thomas Splain.

He said a member of the faculty shared that he had worked with the Virginia Tech engineering department in the past and “knew some of the people who were killed.”

Another moving part of the service, he said, was when a student from Laos found it too emotionally challenging to pray in English so she shared prayer in her native Laotian. “It was powerfully felt by all,” he said.

Mary Jansen, director of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Young Adult Ministry Office, said her office had received a request on Tuesday from the national Catholic Campus Ministry Association (CCMA) which asked prayer intentions and messages of support be sent to the “very large Newman Community at Virginia Tech.” Jansen said she forwarded the CCMA request to Bay Area Newman Club leaders and others.

In his message to the USF campus, Father Privett stated, “Today’s horrific events at Virginia Tech have shocked us all. We join with others in offering our prayers for the victims, for those injured, for the families affected and for the entire University community as it responds to this unimaginable tragedy — that they may find strength and support as they grieve the loss of so many innocent lives.”

“Fortunately, incidents such as this on American college campuses are rare,” he added. “We know, however, from law enforcement experts that no workplace or institution is immune from violence. Someone who is determined to harm others can often succeed, whether it be at the shopping VA TECH TRAGEDY, page 3

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Among those recently honored by Catholic Charities CYO for their work with Little Children’s Aid Junior Auxiliary were Maureen Hurley, left, Lilla Roll, Penne Tognetti, Joan Higgins and Anne Alvarez.

All stops were out for the 90th birthday of Star of the Sea Parishioner Mel Pulizzano who entered the nonagenarian ranks Jan. 28. More than 200 friends and family members joined for the occasion that included an opening prayer

by Kathy Lorentz and a video presentation of Mel’s life produced and presented by his grandson Michael Miller who teaches at St. Catherine of Siena Elementary School in Burlingame. Tony Hall and the Hallmarks provided dance music into the wee hours. Congrat’s to Mel and his wife, Barbara, who have been married 56 years. “Mel promises another party at 100 and we have no doubt he’ll be there,” said his daughter, Melinda Pulizzano-Moorley….Tony Hall was also busy as Master of Ceremonies for the kick-off gala marking the 100th Anniversary of Catholic Charities CYO and honoring the work of its first helpers, Little Children’s Aid. “We all had a great time,” said gala co-chair Maureen Hurley. “We had a very successful live auction and a very moving audio visual presentation of our history assembled by the family team of Barbara McGettigan, historian and her son, Matt McGettigan, a sophomore at Archbishop Riordan High School.” More than 300 people attended. “Our organization was the forerunner of what today is CCCYO, so our birthday is always a little bit before their birthday,” Maureen said. For more information on what’s coming up with Catholic Charities CYO during this very special year visit www.cccyo.org/centennial .… Dr. Seuss had his day at

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VA Tech tragedy . . . mall, the local church, a university campus or a baseball game at AT&T Park. There is a cost to living in a free society, and today that cost has been made abundantly and tragically clear.”

In a Catholic News Service phone interview just hours after the shootings, Teresa Volante, Catholic campus minister at Virginia Tech, said she had sent out an electronic notice that the Newman Center chapel was open for anyone who wanted to stop in and pray.

But she said the center, located just off the campus, was quiet at that time since the dormitories on campus were still locked down and the off-campus students had been instructed to stay away.

Later in the afternoon Debbie McClintock, a volunteer who came in to help, told CNS that people at the center were calm and were focused on helping anyone who visited. A prayer service was held at 7 p.m. at the center.

At St. Mary Parish, the only Catholic parish in Blacksburg, the receptionist said the pastor, Father James Arsenault, had spent more than three hours at the hospital with those who were wounded before heading over to the university to help there.

She said the church would be open all afternoon, with the Blessed Sacrament exposed for adoration, followed by a special Mass in the evening.

Father Rob Cole from Our Lady of Nazareth Parish in Roanoke came in to celebrate the Mass because Father Arsenault was ministering to victims and their families.

Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo of the Richmond Diocese celebrated a noon Mass for the victims April 17 at the cathedral in Richmond. He said his heart goes out to the parents and family members of the dead students.

Hispanic youth meet to draw an expected 300 Nearly 300 Hispanic youth are expected to take part in “Hispanic Youth Day 2007” on April 28 at St. John the Evangelist School gymnasium, 925 Chenery, San Francisco, according to a spokesperson for the Archdiocese’s Latin American Pastoral Youth Team.

The event is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. and end at 9:30 p.m. and feature Mass, conferences, a talent show, prayer, reflection and dancing.

Theme is “Young people: All is possible with Christ!” A $20 donation at the door includes lunch, dance, refreshments and event materials.

Keynote speaker will be Father Jorge Ramon, parochial vicar of St. Peter Parish, San Francisco.

Archbishop George Niederauer is scheduled to take part. Msgr. Jose Rodriguez, pastor of St. John the Evangelist, will be celebrant of the event Mass.

For more information, call Freddy Torres at (650) 878-9609, Amelia Argueta at (415) 830-0295, or Cecilia Arias-Rivas at (415) 614-5573.

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Father James Arsenault receives a slice of pizza from campus minister Karen Melendez at the Catholic Newman Center at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., April 17. Father Arsenault, pastor of the local parish, had been ministering to families of victims o f the Virginia Tech tragedy nearly around the clock since the shootings. Father Victor Quagraine, center, also had been helping students deal with their grief.

“At this time one cannot help but think of the endless years of commitment, of love and care these parents have invested in their children and then to have it all cut down by a bullet is tremendously sad,” he said.

“The tragedy really hit home with me,” he said, because he learned of it at a chancery luncheon that included two women who have children studying at Virginia Tech. Their children were not harmed.

The gunman has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, a 23-year-old senior from South Korea. He attacked

students attending classes in Norris Hall, an engineering building, shooting more than 40 people before killing himself as police were closing in.

Anne Greenwood, a second-year graduate student in history, said she was in a conference room in the Major Williams building, when Cho began shooting people at nearby Norris Hall.

She said the first notice the group she was with had about the shootings was when they began receiving campus e-mail around 9:30 a.m. In quick succession, messages from the administration said there had been a shooting in a residence hall, then warned everyone that a gunman was still on campus and that they should stay inside.

Greenwood said the people she was with were unsure whether they were hearing gunshots because of extreme high winds at the time.

Virginia Tech has about 26,000 students. Volante said about 800 to 1,000 of the students regularly attend Sunday Mass at the Newman Center or are involved in activities there.

The campus Virginia Tech Newman Club Web site address is www.catholic.org.vt.edu.

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April 20, 2007 “Having learned with sorrow of the death of your husband I offer my heartfelt condolences to you and your family and to all who mourn his passing,� the pope said in his message to Dr. Evelyn Billings. The Billingses were among 40 founding members named by Pope John Paul to the Pontifical Academy for Life in 1994.

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Bush praises Catholic schools WASHINGTON (CNS) — President George W. Bush praised Catholic schools and pressed for immigration reform in remarks delivered April 13 at the fourth annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington. “America’s Catholic schools play a vital role in our nation. The schools were built by poor immigrants, they were staffed by legions of dedicated nuns, Brothers and priests — and they have given millions of Americans the knowledge and character they need to succeed in life,� Bush said. “Today, these schools are also serving thousands of non-Catholic children in some of nation’s poorest neighborhoods. I appreciate the tremendous sacrifices that many dioceses are making to keep their inner-city schools going. I am worried that too many of these schools are closing — and our nation needs to do something about it,� the president added to applause.

On immigration, Bush said to the 1,600 gathered for the breakfast that “we must have� a national policy “that enforces our laws and upholds the dignity of every single person in the United States. And now is the time for the United States Congress to get a bill to my desk that I can sign.� how we live and make important decisions and still be who we are as Catholics and as heirs to the American dream of personal freedom, faith and the common good.�

Dr. John Billing dies at 89 PERTH, Australia (CNS) — The Catholic doctor who with his wife pioneered a revolutionary new Churchbacked method for couples to avoid or achieve conception died April 1 at a retirement home in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond.

No cause of death was given for Dr. John Billings, who was 89. By the time of his death, teaching centers on the Billings Ovulation Method of natural family planning had been established in more than 100 countries and the government Dr. John Billings of China had officially adopted it for population control purposes. The method was supported by the Church as a morally acceptable way for Catholic couples to plan families.

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Dominican Sister Stella Goodpasture of Oakland is arrested during an anti-war demonstration in San Francisco March 19, the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (CNS) — Auxiliary Bishop Joseph W. Estabrook of the Archdiocese for the Military Services will spend a year stationed on the West Coast visiting members of the military services west of the Mississippi and in Alaska and Hawaii. “If I’m not out with them, I’m not doing my job,� said Bishop Estabrook during a visit to Camp Pendleton Marine Base near Oceanside where he confirmed more than two dozen adults and teens March 24.His home base during his yearlong tour on the West Coast will be Our Lady of Fatima Parish in San Clemente.

Laments ‘destructive research’ WASHINGTON (CNS) — An official of the U.S.

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U.S. President George W. Bush waves before speaking at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington April 13.

Conference of Catholic Bishops criticized the U.S. Senate’s “fixation on destructive research� after the Senate passed a bill that would provide federal funding for stem-cell research involving destruction of human embryos. “Many members of Congress remain dazzled by irresponsibly hyped promises of ‘miracle cures’ from the destruction of human embryos, although experts in the field increasingly admit that treatments from this avenue may be decades away,� said Richard M. Doerflinger, deputy director of the USCCB’s Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities in comments April 11 following a vote in which the Senate approved S. 5, a bill permitting destruction of human embryos in federally funded stem-cell research, by a 63-34 margin.

Episcopal bishop Catholic again ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) — Bishop Daniel W. Herzog, recently retired Episcopal bishop of Albany, and his wife, Carol, have left the Episcopal Church and re-entered full communion with the Catholic Church. Both were raised as Catholics and joined the Episcopal Church as adults.

In a letter to his successor, Bishop William H. Love, Bishop Herzog said his decision was a result of the decision of the 2003 General Convention of the U.S. BRIEFS, page 5

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Fathers John Baptist Gabriel, Mario Rosario, Fausto Kaverenge and Maciej Napieralski are introduced at a Sunday Mass for basic trainees at Fort Jackson, S.C., March 25. The priests, all foreign-born, completed the Chaplain Basic Officer Leadership Course and could easily serve in Iraq within a year.

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Cross burning leads to charges

Episcopal Church to affirm election and ordination of an openly gay man, Bishop Gene Robinson, as bishop of New Hampshire.

Referring to that action, he said, “That turmoil was not merely external. It also caused a lot of hidden tears.” In his view, he said, the power the convention claimed in taking its action “negated any previous authority on which I had relied. It caused me to engage in a fresh examination of apostolic teaching and authority.”

The ordination of Bishop Robinson has provoked worldwide controversy in the Anglican Communion, to which the U.S. Episcopal Church belongs.

SACRAMENTO – Two Lassen County men have confessed to burning a cross in front of the rectory of an African priest of the Sacramento Diocese because he is black.

The Sacramento Bee reported April 4 that Kevin William Ridenour and Nicholas Edward Craig are charged in a criminal complaint filed in Sacramento federal court with conspiracy against civil rights, interference with housing rights because of a person’s race, and use of fire to commit a felony.

Father Bernardin Mugabowakigeri resides at Our Lady of Snows Parish in Westwood. A native of Rwanda, Father Mugabowakigeri filed a report of the cross-burning with the Lassen County Sheriff’s Department in late March.

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Loaves & Fishes Awards to honor those helping families and children Outreach to families and children is the common denominator for the four Loaves & Fishes Awards for Outstanding Philanthropic Works announced April 11 by Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese.

San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer will present the 2007 awards at the Loaves & Fishes Awards Dinner April 21 at the San Francisco Ritz-Carlton. The Loaves and Fishes event itself has raised more than $6 million for the 33 programs of CCCYO since its beginning 10 years ago, CCCYO officials said, adding that it will be the symbolic launching point for the commemoration of the agency’s 100th year of service.

This year’s awards will go to: ● B.J. and Bebe Cassin and the Cassin Educational Initiative Foundation (CEIF) for outstanding philanthropic works; ● The Nibbi Family and Nibbi Brothers Construction for outstanding corporate philanthropy; ● The life and works of Leo T. McCarthy for outstanding service to the community; ● The Auxiliaries of Little Children’s Aid (LCA) for outstanding community organization.

Archbishop Niederauer explained, ”This year’s honorees have been absolutely dedicated to transforming the lives of families and children in need through direct aid and as advocates. Their unwavering commitment to help the ‘least among us’ is an inspiration and an example of philanthropy and public service at its most generous.”

The 2007 honorees “are especially focused on assisting families and children in need —

providing educational opportunities for innercity youth, building affordable housing for low-income families, advocating on behalf of poor families and foster children, spearheading public policy changes to protect them, and providing direct aid to abused, troubled and homeless children,” a CCCYO statement said.

Since 2000, CEIF – founded by B.J. and Bene Cassin — has supported the opening of more than 40 schools nationwide based on Cristo Rey and Nativity/Miguel educational models, “which provide private, innovative, comprehensive and accessible Catholic education to underserved children in at-risk communities,” the CCCYO statement said. The De Marillac Academy in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district is a Nativity/Miguel school.

The Nibbi Family and Nibbi Brothers Construction “have been building structures to meet the challenges of San Francisco’s unique landscape, and have been doing so with a philanthropic mindset” for more than 50 years, notes the CCCYO statement, adding, “In 2005, Nibbi Brothers opened the doors to the largest new structure dedicated entirely to supportive housing in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood.

In addition to affordable housing for lowincome families, they have donated services to various Bay Area non-profit organizations and continue to be one of the most generous supporters in Bay Area education.”

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Loaves & Fishes organizers said the century-old Auxiliaries of Little Children’s Aid was being recognized for “consistent and generous response to Bay Area children when they have been threatened by natural disaster, illness, abuse or economic hardship.”

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San Domenico wins national ‘green’ honor

Little Sisters of Poor schedule open house The Little Sisters of the Poor have scheduled an April 29 open house from 3:30-4:30 p.m. for women interested in religious life. To be held at St. Anne’s Home, 300 Lake St., San Francisco, the open house will be followed by a holy hour and benediction.

For more information, call Sister Caroline or leave a message at (415) 751-6510.

By Tom Burke While much of the world will mark April 22 as Earth Day, San Domenico School in San Anselmo has been respecting the planet for more than a decade with its environmental sustainability program – an effort recently honored by the Washington, D.C.-based National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).

The NAIS “Leading Edge” award was presented to the school in Feb. 28 ceremonies in Denver, Col. “This ethic of sustainability is at the heart of San Domenico’s mission as a Dominican Catholic educational community,” said the program’s director, Nancy Metzger.

“Its goals are to integrate sustainability into the curriculum and to make the school operations – food systems, maintenance, building programs and buying practices – all reflect the principles of sustainability.”

The program’s roots go back more than a decade.

Retired school president, Domincan Sister Gervaise Valpey, used a $111,000 grant in 1994 to engage leading “green” designers to plan a sustainability program and develop a Garden of Hope on San Domenico’s 500-acre campus. Today, a one-acre garden is the heart of the sustainability vision for the school community.

San Domenico has a student body of 560 in kindergarten through high school; some 60 students live on campus. Girls and boys attend grades K-8; girls only attend grades 9 through 12 at San Domenico Upper School.

San Domenico Head of School Mathew Heersche

Middle school students collect food scraps from the campus cafe on a daily basis for composting in the garden.

praised Metzger, Sister Gervaise, and teacher Shelley Flint for their “hard work and leadership” in the project and helping “integrate sustainability into all of our practices.”

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St. Mary Chinese Day School’s choir under the direction of Satoko Fujiwara was one of dozen choral units to take part in the March 15 Archdiocesan Choral Festival.

Under direction of Carlton White,assisted by school parent Johanna Hirota, St. Philip the Apostle School choir sang “Morning has Broken.”

Archdiocesan Choral Festival unites more than 1000 voices More than1000 singers from two dozen elementary and junior high schools from Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo counties came together in song March 15 at Riordan High School in San Francisco for the 19th Archdiocesan Choral Festival.

“The Archdiocesan Choral Festival has been a wonderful event that has helped students, parents and school faculty to appreciate and enjoy music programs from schools throughout the Archdiocese,” said Pamela Carey, music director at St. Hilary and St. Rita schools. Carey also

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Sponsored by the archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools with the encouragement of Superintendent of Schools Maureen Huntington and Associate Superintendent for Curriculum Holy Names Sister Marianne Viani, the day centered on music reflecting a theme of “Music Touches Lives.”

As he has for several years, Tom Blount, music director at Riordan High School, served as the festival’s master of ceremonies. St. Joseph of Carondelet Sister Sharon Breden of San Jose listened to the invidual performances and gave constructive comments.

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The national Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Centers recently named Seton a recipient of its Gold Seal of Approval designation after a review of the hospital’s facilities, stroke treatment protocols and follow-up care.

The hospital has also been praised by the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association.

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

The most effective treatment for stoke victims is to convey them as quickly as possible to a Primary Stroke Center where they can receive rapid diagnosis and appropriate treatment, he emphasized. One of the most effective treatments is administering tissue-type plasminogen (t-PA) within three hours of a stroke onset. Plasminogen is a blood clot dissolving medication.

According to a Seton spokesperson, each year about 700,000 people in the United States experience a new or recurrent stroke, which is the nation’s third leading cause of death. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 45 seconds and someone dies of a stroke every 3.1 minutes. Stroke is a leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States, with about 4.7 million stroke survivors alive today.

“We are pleased to be recognized for adopting best practices and providing our team of specialists with tools and

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Pope turns 80: Is ‘Ratzinger revolution’ yet in the making?

By John Thavis

ANALYSIS Meanwhile, the pope was preparing for his first papal trip to the Western Hemisphere, a mid-May journey to Brazil for a crucial planning session among Latin American bishops.

Pope Benedict, who marked the second anniversary of his election April 19, seems fit and energetic in public appearances. He glides through crowds, lingers with wellwishers and often delivers his most incisive remarks off the cuff.

The pope at times hints he might have little time in office, yet he shows no sign of ill health or failing stamina.

During Holy Week, he seemed unfazed by the heavy schedule of major liturgies and encounters.

The pope is one of few top Church officials not obligated to hand in his resignation on or before the age of 80. For cardinal and bishop members of Vatican congregations, 80 is the mandatory retirement age. Bishops must offer to resign as heads of dioceses when they turn 75, as must heads of curial offices.

That leaves Pope Benedict as the oldest among chief Vatican officials, but the others are not far behind. Of the heads of the 25 main Vatican agencies, only one is under 65.The average age of top curial officials is almost 73.

That’s more than 10 years older than the average age under Pope John Paul at the two-year mark of his pontificate.

(CNS PHOTO/HEINZ-PETER BADER, REUTERS)

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — When Pope John Paul II turned 80 in 2000, it fueled speculation about whether the ailing pontiff might break with tradition and resign.

In contrast, Pope Benedict XVI’s 80th birthday April 16 finds him with the wind in his sails.

The pope’s new book on Jesus was being released in several languages, an event that will no doubt launch the Christological themes of his pontificate into wider circulation.

In March the pope published a major document on the Eucharist, and sources said he was preparing to release a long-awaited decree liberalizing use of the Tridentine Mass. (See story on Page 12.)

Following a recent Vatican summit, the pope’s announced letter to Chinese Catholics was anticipated eagerly in April, in hopes it could offer a new path of dialogue with the government and help heal internal Church divisions.

Archbishop Edmond Farhat, apostolic nuncio to Austria, looks at a special edition Austrian stamp released in Vienna April 12 for the occasion of Pope Benedict XVI’s 80th birthday.

The pope, who turned 80 April 16, shows no signs of ill health or failing stamina.

In part, that’s because 80 percent of curial leaders are holdovers from the era of Pope John Paul. That could change significantly over the next 12 months; 10 of the 25 current department heads will reach mandatory retirement age.

To a great extent, then, Pope Benedict has a chance to put his own mark on the Curia in the coming year. The changes could affect Vatican agencies dealing with liturgy and sacraments, ecumenism, sainthood causes, health care, justice and peace, interreligious dialogue, Eastern churches and Vatican finances.

The fact the pope has not already put his own team in place and has introduced few major changes at the Vatican has disappointed some of his strongest supporters in Rome. “His problem is that he doesn’t want to offend anyone,� one Vatican official remarked recently.

Some journalists, too, have been frustrated that the “Ratzinger revolution� they predicted has failed to materialize, at least in the dramatic form they had foreseen.

Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the former Vatican spokesman under Popes John Paul and Benedict, tackled the issue in a commentary written for the Rome newspaper La Repubblica.

The pope is certainly cautious, Navarro-Valls said, but that should not be confused with indecision or timidity. He said the pope’s style seems to embody an intellectual seriousness: the spirit of St. Thomas Aquinas’ “diligent and subtle inquiry,� which is never in a hurry.

The pope’s patience also has been evident in his teaching style. His back-to-basics approach has aimed at prodding people to question values of today’s dominant culture and to make space in their lives for the divine.

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By Tom Burke Record attendance is expected for the April 24-26 annual national meeting of representatives from Pontifical Mission Societies from across the nation when they gather in San Francisco April 24 – 26.

“This year’s attendance – probably due to the beautiful location of San Francisco with its own rich missionary heritage – is setting records,” said Monica Yehle of the group’s national office in New York City.

“This annual gathering helps to inform and energize the directors, coordinators and staff of the Pontifical Mission Societies in each diocese,” she said. Pontifical Mission Societies include the Society for the Propagation of the Faith, the Holy Childhood Association, the Society of St. Peter Apostle, and the Missionary Union of Clergy and Religious.

According to Msgr. John E. Kozar, national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States, “This is our ‘family reunion’ each year and the time we affirm one another in our important work for the universal Church.”

That affirmation extends beyond those at the meetings, Yehle told Catholic San Francisco. “We who are baptized

are missionaries, above all, through our prayers – and also through our sacrifices and financial help.”

Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside at the principal liturgy of the convention April 25 at 5 p.m. in St. Mary’s Cathedral, a Mass open to all the faithful.

“It is a great honor for the Archdiocese of San Francisco to host this annual national meeting of the National Pontifical Societies,” Archbishop Niederauer said. “For over 150 years San Francisco has both sent forth missionaries from her shores and welcomed sisters and brothers in the Catholic faith from many lands. Catholics here will continue their generous support for the Propagation of the Faith, so that the Catholic Church can keep on obeying Christ’s command: ‘Make disciples of all nations’.”

“I absolutely continue to have a personal gratitude to the Pontifical Mission Societies,” said San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang who was born in Beijing, China.

Ordained in Hong Kong in 1959, Bishop Wang said his seminary tuition both in China and later when he studied in Rome was subsidized by the Pontifical Mission Societies, particularly the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and the Society of St. Peter the Apostle.

A priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco since 1974 and ordained a bishop in 2003, he has served as archdiocesan missions director for 12 years.

This is his first opportunity to host the national meeting.

“We learn from each other at the meetings — both our successes and our failures,” Bishop Wang said. “We also get good speakers and first-hand reports from people serving in

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“At this particular meeting, we will be hearing of the great needs of the missions of our day – the more than 1,150 dioceses of Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and remote regions of Latin America,” Monica Yehle said. “We will also focus on better ways to encourage prayers and financial help for these dioceses, looking to religious education at various levels, as well as advances in technology.”

The meeting begins with a keynote presentation by Maryknoll Father Kevin Hanlon, a staff writer for the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on World Mission.

Archbishop Henryk Hoser, president of the Pontifical Mission Societies, will preside at the convention’s opening Mass at the Cathedral Hill Hotel where most of the sessions will take place. Archbishop Hoser is also secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the Vatican office overseeing the Pontifical Mission Societies.

Yehle said a continuing component of the agenda is hearing how Catholics in the missions also support the work of the Pontifical Mission Societies. Presenters from Zambia, Sri Lanka, Ecuador and the Caribbean will share information.

“All of us in the Church – clergy, religious, laity – are called, by virtue of our baptism,” Yehle said, “to support the Church’s worldwide missionary work. Not all of us will leave all we have to ‘go make disciples of all nations,’ but we can be missionaries in prayer and sacrifice right here at home.”

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Vatican Letter Tridentine Mass: Pope Benedict looks for bridge to tradition VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Sometime soon, Pope Benedict XVI is expected to broaden permission to use the Tridentine Mass, a long-standing request of traditionalists who favor the rite used before the Second Vatican Council.

The move is aimed at ending a liturgical dispute which has simmered for more than 20 years. In the process, it could clarify how the pope intends to implement what he once described as a “liturgical reconciliation” in the modern Church.

The pope will enunciate the new policy in a document to be released after more than a year of debate and discussion at the Vatican. The Roman Curia had mixed views on expanding use of the Tridentine rite, and so did the world’s cardinals and bishops — all of which has lent a certain drama to the outcome.

From the outside, allowing the old Mass has been seen primarily as a concession to the followers of the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who was excommunicated in 1988 for his intransigence on liturgical and other reforms of Vatican II. But some Vatican officials believe that aspect has been overblown. More than making peace with Archbishop Lefebvre’s followers, they said, the pope is trying to make peace with the Church’s own tradition.

One big clue came in his 1997 book, “Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977” and written when he was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. In it he sharply criticized the drastic manner in which Pope Paul VI reformed the Mass in 1969.

The almost total prohibition of the old missal, which had been used for 400 years, was unprecedented in the history of the liturgy, he said in the book.

In effect, he wrote, “the old building was demolished” and a new one put in its place.

Thus the liturgy ceased to be a living development and was treated as something manufactured by experts, which caused the Church “enormous harm,” he said.

Even before he wrote those words, thenCardinal Ratzinger had caused a stir when he said it made sense for priests to celebrate Mass facing the same direction as the congregation, in the pre-Vatican II style, although he also said it would be confusing to turn the altar around once again.

Over the years, he has pointedly disparaged what he sees as a tendency for the worshiping community to celebrate only itself.

All of that led some to presume that, as pope, he would preside over a rollback of liturgical reform. But the picture is not so clear-cut. As Cardinal Ratzinger, he said he considered the new missal a “real improvement” in many respects, and that the introduction of local languages made sense.

In one revealing speech to Catholic traditionalists in 1998, he said bluntly the old “low Mass,” with its whispered prayers at the altar and its silent congregation, “was not what liturgy should be, which is why it was not

(CNS PHOTO/GIANCARLO GIULIANI, CATHOLIC PRESS PHOTO)

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A Lectionary is seen during celebration of the Tridentine Mass on Palm Sunday at San Gregorio dei Muratori in Rome April 1. Pope Benedict XVI is expected to widen permission to use the Tridentine Mass. The new Roman Missal replaced the Tridentine rite in 1969.

painful for many people” when it disappeared.

The most important thing, he said at that time, was to make sure the liturgy does not divide the Catholic community.

With that in mind, knowledgeable Vatican sources say the pope’s new document will no doubt aim to lessen pastoral tension between the Tridentine rite and the new Mass, rather than hand out a victory to traditionalists.

Under Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Ratzinger conducted the unsuccessful

negotiations with Archbishop Lefebvre in 1988, before the archbishop broke off talks and ordained new bishops in defiance of the pope.

Cardinal Ratzinger insisted then the Lefebvrites accept the new Mass and other major teachings of Vatican II. It’s a position he has repeated in his ongoing contacts as pope with Lefebvrites leaders, sources said.

It was Pope John Paul who in 1984 first made it possible for groups of the faithful to worship according to the Latin-language

Latin Mass opportunities limited in the Bay Area No authorized, congregational celebrations of the Mass in the Tridentine form (1962 missal) take place in the Archdiocese of San Francisco at this time. The closest site with permission to celebrate according to the 1962 missal in Latin is St. Margaret Mary Parish, 1219 Excelsior Ave., Oakland, where that liturgy is offered weekly at 12:30 p.m.

St. Margaret Mary and San Francisco’s St. Patrick Parish both offer a weekly 10:30 a.m. Latin Mass according to the Novus Ordo of Pope Paul VI as does San Francisco’s Sts. Peter and Paul Parish on the first Sunday of the month at 11:45 a.m.

According to the celebrant of the weekly St. Patrick Latin Mass, Msgr. Fred Al Bitanga, the readings and homily are in English, but the Mass and Eucharistic Prayer are sung in Latin. Salesian Father Salvatore Giacomini presides at the Sts. Peter and Paul monthly Latin liturgy.

The 9 a.m. Sunday Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral includes use of Gregorian Chant.

The ordinary hymns and acclamations and the introit, offertory and Communion chants are all in Latin.

1962 Roman Missal, the last Vaticanapproved missal prior to post-conciliar reforms.

Pope John Paul set conditions for this special permission, or indult. The main requirement was that those who used the Tridentine rite must make publicly clear “beyond all ambiguity” they do not call into question the validity of the new Roman Missal.

In 1988, Pope John Paul relaxed the conditions for the indult, but groups still had to accept the new Mass and were still expected to obtain the permission of their local bishop.

The role of the bishop in approving and overseeing use of the Tridentine rite has been a crucial issue in the recent debate.

Last fall, when rumors were swirling that a bishop’s permission would no longer be needed, the bishops of France issued a statement saying return of the pre-Vatican II Mass should be regulated and not left to “personal tastes and choices.”

The French bishops also said traditionalist groups that use the Tridentine rite should be expected to give “an unequivocal gesture of assent to the teachings of the Church’s authentic magisterium,” its teaching authority.

For these reasons, many will be looking at Pope Benedict’s document not only for a liturgical verdict, but also for a sign of his reconciling skills.

English-speaking liturgists design education project for new texts

By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) — Although a new translation of the Mass probably is a couple years away from parish use, a group of liturgy specialists from the United States, England and Australia is designing a multimedia package to help Catholics prepare.

Msgr. James P. Moroney, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for the Liturgy, said the liturgy offices of other English-speaking bishops’ conferences will be invited to participate in the education project, which could be ready by late 2008.

He said the project flowed from informal discussions about how little was done to

prepare people for the Mass in English after the Second Vatican Council. Many people felt efforts to get the original English Mass into use were “very hurried,” he said.

As the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, or ICEL, continues to prepare new English translations of the Mass prayers and as bishops’ conferences await Vatican permission to use the translations they have approved, the group met in Rome in late February to continue outlining what members believe an education package should include.

The six participants began work in November, deciding they wanted to produce a DVD with video, slide show and text presentations, which would include the history

of the liturgy, liturgical spirituality, liturgical language and how to preside at the liturgy.

“Ministry guides” and bulletin inserts also would be part of the package they hope would get “massive distribution in the Englishspeaking world,” Msgr. Moroney said.

He said the materials would include suggestions “to help priests effectively proclaim the (new) texts, but a discussion about translations is only a very small part of the project.”

Most Catholics, he said, are aware of the Second Vatican Council’s call for “full, conscious and active participation in liturgical celebrations” on the part of all the faithful, but many have overlooked the council’s warning that participation is

unlikely unless priests are “fully imbued with the spirit and power of the liturgy and capable of giving instruction about it.”

Msgr. Moroney said the group was not convoked by the Vatican or by the ICEL, although ICEL chairman Bishop Arthur Roche of Leeds, England, and its executive director, Msgr. Bruce Harbert, are involved.

The three other participants are: Father Allen Morris, secretary of the Department for Christian Life and Worship of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales; Msgr. Peter Williams, executive secretary of the Australian bishops’ National Liturgical Commission; and Msgr. Kevin Irwin, dean of the school of theology at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

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Maternity care outreach:

S t u d e n t s s h a re , s t u d e n t s l e a rn Midwives of San Lucas Toliman, also known as “comadronas,” met with the USF students and Linda Walsh (far left) in January.

By Evelyn Zappia

by Walsh helps screen applicants. Participants are chosen after reviewing essays that A health care project aimed at addressing the high infant mortality rate of a rural area of explore an applicant’s history with under-served populations, commitment to the poor, Guatemala has not only improved conditions there for expectant mothers and their infants, but and previous international exposure.

Acceptance is only the beginning. MIHP students are required to “prep” for the trip by has helped dissolve stereotypes and stitch strong cross-cultural bonds of respect and affection.

Assistant Professor Linda Walsh, Ph.D., of the University of San Francisco School of fundraising to supply new parents and baby with items not readily available to poor famNursing has spearheaded the program – Maternal Infant Health Project (MIHP) – since its ilies in Guatemala — prenatal vitamins, medicine, blankets, sleepers and other supplies.

The January contingent collected and then prepared inception. The focus: send USF student nurses to San Lucas materials for 200 “kits” for expectant mothers.

Toliman — a town in the western highlands of Guatemala on Students’ direct travel expenses, however, are covthe shore of Lake Atitlan — to provide prenatal care to pregered by the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation. “The generous nant women and to assist USF faculty nurse-midwives at births. grant was awarded to increase cultural competency More than four of five of the community, including outamong nurses,” said Walsh. lying villages, are of Mayan descent. Poverty and grueling During the past seven years, 11 teams of 10 USF stulabor are a way of life. dents under Walsh’s leadership have volunteered servThe result has been not only a sharing of medical help, ices to the Guatemalan people. The 12th MIHP group is medicines and equipment, but a reciprocal experience of scheduled to depart in June, she said. local hospitality and learning from the unique acumen of During her nine years at USF, the professor has traveled indigenous midwives, known as “comadronas.” to San Lucas Toliman and surrounding villages “several A Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) herself, Walsh praised times” on her own, including a sabbatical leave for “the extraordinary knowledge and experience” of the research. During that time she has formed life-long friendcomadronas who help mothers in giving birth, the majority ships and relationships there. She and a colleague from the of which take place in the home.

University of California San Francisco, Amy Levi, Ph.D., A highlight of the trip for students, said Walsh, is meeting CNM, have worked extensively with San Lucas Toliman’s the comadronas, who freely share expertise and wisdom. pastor, Msgr. Gregory T. Schaffer, who oversees the parish MIHP was introduced at the School of Nursing as a new clinic – “La Clinica” — where USF volunteers minister. course to be taught by Walsh in the classroom – and then Msgr. Schaffer is scheduled to address the School of brought to life with roughly 10 days actual experience in San Nursing’s May 18 commencement exercises at 6 p.m. at Lucas Toliman and the surrounding area.

St. Ignatius Church, 650 Parker Ave., San Francicisco.

The “sense of community” and “welcoming manner” was A USF student checks “One of our projects has been to collect reproductive a “pleasant surprise,” for Renee Piech, one of 10 USF students on the condition of a health data and we have developed a data base that curunder the leadership of Walsh who took part in January’s mother-to-be and baby. rently has over 800 cases,” Walsh said. “Our data suggests MIHP session. that the infant mortality rate in San Lucas Toliman has “I appreciated how the people accepted volunteers into the community,” she said. “It made it possible for the people of San Lucas and the volunteers been around 41 deaths per 1000 live births, compared to the U.S. rate of 6.4 for 1000 live births.”

“We are currently analyzing the more recent rates,” she continued, “because it appears to learn from one another.”

January’s sojourn was particularly joyous, Walsh said, because five births took place that with the availability of La Clinica and ambulance transfer capability to the governduring the group’s stay, so each student was able to take part in a birthing experience. The ment hospital two hours away the death rate is decreasing.”

The University of San Francisco School of Nursing began in the 1940s as a cooperative effort USF nursing students also provided prenatal care to 89 women.

Piech said providing comfort to families of a “different culture and language” than her with the Sisters of Mercy — so that registered nurses from nearby St. Mary’s Hospital could own “was a challenge,” but she learned how to care for people and respect their values. “I earn a baccalaureate degree. The School of Nursing became the first private nursing program found the power of touch and facial expression can exceed any cultural or language barrier.” in California, formed in 1954 and accredited by the Collegiate Commission on Nursing Although not a required course, there is a long list of MIHP hopefuls. A process devised Education. The School began offering a Master of Science in Nursing in the fall of 1984.

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Speak up for St. Vincent School For more than 150 years, St. Vincent School for Boys in Marin County has provided a home, education, care and guidance to youth separated from their families. In 1855, St. Vincent School welcomed 14 boys and began its heritage as the oldest institution west of the Mississippi dedicated exclusively to the care of boys.

When it was founded on land donated to the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Irish pioneer Timothy Murphy, the nearest town of San Rafael had only 10 homes, a boardinghouse and an abandoned mission. St. Vincent School for Boys always has been closely linked to the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Marin County, and the Bay Area.

At a Mass celebrating St. Vincent’s 150th anniversary in 2005, Father Tom Daly said St. Vincent School in its 150 years of existence had faced many difficulties. But these challenges had always been overcome — “and the doors have remained open to children in need.” He noted the work of religious orders, including the Daughters of Charity, Dominican Sisters, and Christian Brothers, and praised the leadership of many diocesan priests, as well as the help of lay people in furthering the mission of St. Vincent School for Boys.

In the latter half of the 20th century, St. Vincent School transitioned from its early days as an orphanage to its current role as a residential treatment home for boys aged 7 to 17. St. Vincent’s offers housing and care for boys with deep emotional disturbances that result from severe abuse — physical, sexual or emotional. The boys, who may have lived previously in foster-care households, come from Bay Area counties and live in five group homes according to age. This community living creates environments in which therapeutic, educational, and recreational activities can begin to relieve the trauma suffered early in boys’ lives.

While the Highway 101 corridor through Marin County has been developed over the past century with towns, businesses and homes, much of St. Vincent’s land – which represents the school’s only endowment – has remained undeveloped. Over the past decade, St. Vincent’s has raised the idea of developing a small portion of its land endowment – with the proceeds to be used to support its mission.

But time after time, special interest groups have been successful in blocking steps that would allow St. Vincent to use its land endowment for the benefit of needy boys. Separately, a tentative plan announced last year to sell 20 acres of land, including the chapel and quad area, was withdrawn by the prospective buyer.

So the current situation can be drawn in the clearest terms. St. Vincent needs to build new facilities, homes and a school for the boys; preserve and adaptively re-use its historic buildings; and put in place a financial endowment that can sustain the school’s mission.

However, when St. Vincent School for Boys in recent years has made modest proposals to access its land endowment, the influence of environmental advocates and special interest groups have had the upper hand.

While St. Vincent has proposed sensitive and responsible development of less than 15 percent of its land endowment, the current situation also includes new efforts by special interest groups to impose unfair and restrictive land-use policies that will effectively strip away most of the opportunities for St. Vincent’s to realize a reasonable fair-market return. Environmental special interest groups and some members of the Marin Planning Commission are advocating public land use policies that are wrong and unjust.

On Monday, April 23, the Marin County Planning Commission will consider future land-use policies for the 750-acre St. Vincent Land Endowment. This public hearing at Marin Civic Center likely will have dramatic consequences on St. Vincent’s ability to build new homes and a school for boys; to preserve the historic campus, which includes Holy Rosary Chapel; and to establish a financial endowment that will sustain the work of St. Vincent into the future.

St. Vincent supporters are urging a strong turnout of people for the Marin County Planning Commission meeting – scheduled, again, for Monday, April 23, at 9:30 a.m., at the Marin Civic Center. As the commission considers actions affecting the future of St. Vincent School for Boys, it is crucial that adults speak up for the boys and be visible representatives of their interests. We endorse this call for support of St. Vincent School for Boys, and we ask the Marin Planning Commission to act with courage, fairness and justice.

MEH

Appeasement rattling?

Church priorities?

In Rosemary Ring’s letter of April 6 she advocates a more peaceful solution to our conflict in Iraq than our current administration is allowing. She seems to claim that since “Christ never took up a sword against another,” then neither should we, and that to “cooperate with other nations,” would be a better solution.

She used WWII as an example of our failure to do so.

Need I remind her of history? Before the war, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain had long talks with Hitler without any “saber-rattling” and triumphantly returned to England with an appeasement treaty. Soon after, the Nazis invaded Poland, France and Britain. So what happened with Christian diplomacy?

And when Japan suddenly attacked us at Pearl Harbor without provocation, would Rosemary have preferred we turned the other cheek, too?

Christ’s teachings were strictly spiritual. He refrained from political issues. Maybe others should do the same.

Russell Hardeman San Francisco

In the April 6 Catholic San Francisco I noted a number of articles that make me wonder what happened to our Catholic Church. Because it is our Church — or so I was taught. In one article regarding a summit on global climate change a representative from the Archdiocese, George Wesolek, stated that the environment is a justice issue? Whether you believe in the popular hypothesis that states climate change is affected by man, or not, the Church (at least in San Francisco) seems to believe that it is an issue of justice.

In another article in the same edition the illegal immigrant is also fondly surrounded by the term “social justice.” I would ask, what do you mean by justice? It is well known that the term “social justice” arose in meaning and usage from our “socialist” enemies throughout the world.

In essence it means redistribution of wealth and rights, by their own admission and manifestos. The regular use of (or misuse) of the term justice or “social justice” does a disservice to all of us. Both issues, illegal immigration and global climate change, are issues that affect us all.

My real fear is that the Catholic Church will continue to pursue goals that negatively impact American citizens who are, lest the clergy forget, parishioners as well. Our Archdiocese might consider administering to our souls and standing strong against the forces in our society that seek to separate us from our God instead of assisting those who are insistent in weakening our country, our borders, our safety, stifling political debate and destroying our economy.

The issues of climate change and illegal immigration are complex and will take thought and fortitude and in the end justice as well. True justice relies on a foundation of fairness and truth, neither of which seem to exist in the current debate on climate change and illegal immigration within the Archdiocese or for that matter in the U.S. Sean J. Walsh Novato

Civil vs. moral law

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Ms. Diana Rossini wrote (Letters, April 6) that immigration “…must be done in a lawful manner.” What Rossini forgets is that civil law and moral law are not coextensive. Rather, as St Thomas Aquinas argues, civil law is valid insofar as it has its basis in the law of God. Reiterating St Augustine, Aquinas asserts that an unjust law is unlawful. Thus, what is “illegal”’ is sometimes lawful from God’s perspective.

More than that, the law of God demands the assurance of a secure life even for refugees. The Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et spes (no. 27) agrees wholeheartedly with Mr. George Wesolek’s comments on behalf of the Archdiocese regarding immigration reform.

Rossini overlooks that in the Mosaic Law, God demanded the utmost respect to be given to aliens (Lev 19:33, 34). Earlier in chapter 19, God demanded a portion of each farmer’s crop to be left unharvested for “illegal aliens.”

Even though the Mosaic Law is no longer binding (2 Cor 3:1ff; Eph 2:11-16), St Paul argues the “gist” of the law remains by way of Jesus’ commandment of love (Rom 13:8-10).

A person is identified as a Christian solely on the basis of his or her love; one cannot show love to illegal immigrants by deportation, however legal it may be.

Mr. George Wesolek speaks rightly for Catholics in the Archdiocese. He has been appointed to his position precisely because he knows the Church’s social teaching.

Matthew G. Hysell San Francisco (Ed. note: George Wesolek directs the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns.)

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Rally changes hearts The Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry would like to thank you for the March 30 front-page coverage of our youth rally. These events do make a difference in young people’s lives. Just a couple of examples: one young women who had a career picked out that would make her lots of money said she changed her mind after hearing one of the speakers. Now she wants to be a teacher. She sees this as a way to help many people have a positive influence in the world today.

A young man who had not wanted to be confirmed came home after the event telling his mother he had changed his mind. He had experienced a larger Church community and was excited about it. The experiences, faces, and learning all lead to a vibrant Church of young people willing to participate.

Thank you for spreading the word on their discipleship with Jesus. It is encouraging to see the local news and events throughout the Archdiocese.

Sister Celeste Arbuckle, SSS Director, OREYM

M.U.S.E.U.M. peace Your readers will be glad to know that on June 3 his holiness Pope Benedict XVI will declare Blessed Father Gorg (George) Preca, a Maltese priest, to be “Sanctus Giorgio Preca,” the first Maltese saint.

Father Preca founded the Society of Christian Doctrine, a lay movement for the teaching of the Catechism also called Magister Utinam Sequator Evangelium Universus Mundus; in short, MUSEUM. Father Preca was beatified by Pope John Paul II on May 9, 2001 along with two other Maltese – Ignacio Falzon and Maria Adeodata Pisani.

Manuel Spiteri San Carlos

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The Catholic Difference There’s an Anglican church, St. Luke’s, a few blocks up Old Georgetown Road from my parish in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. St. Luke’s recently posted a large sign on the church lawn: “No matter who you are, no matter what you believe, you are welcome at our table.”

Which is, in one sense, a noble sentiment: if it’s meant to convey that, look, we’re all sinners, and no matter how awful you might think you are, you’re welcome in the communion of Christ’s Church if you’re truly repentant. Judging from recent events in the Anglican Communion, however, St. Luke’s sign isn’t a synopsis of the parable of the prodigal son and his merciful father; it’s a succinct, if unwitting, statement of why the Anglican Communion is coming apart at the seams.

No Catholic serious about the Catholic commitment to the unity of Christ’s Church can take any satisfaction from today’s Anglican meltdown. It now looks as if John Henry Newman was right when he concluded Anglicanism was not a “third branch” on the tree of historic Christian orthodoxy, of which the other branches were Catholicism and the Orthodox churches of the Christian east. Rather, Newman decided, Anglicanism was Protestantism in English guise. In the wake of the Second Vatican Council, as hopes for ecclesial reconciliation between Rome and Canterbury ran high, it seemed, briefly, as if Cardinal Newman might have been wrong. With the Anglican Communion now fracturing into a gaggle of quarreling communities no longer in communion with each other, it looks as if Newman had the deeper insight into what King Henry VIII wrought.

But neither the late cardinal nor the multi-uxorious king could have imagined that Anglicanism’s breakup would result from some Anglicans’ insistence that sodomy can be sacramental.

Yet that is precisely what is happening. As Canada’s finest Catholic commentator, Father Raymond de Souza, wrote last year (reflecting on the attempts of Dr. Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, to hold the Anglican Communion together), “Some [Anglicans] argue that [homosexual acts] are sinful; others that they are sacramental. This is an unbridgeable gap and it appears impossible for Canterbury to straddle it, try as he might.”

Dr. Williams has tried mightily. He seems to have failed. There are indeed unbridgeable gaps, and it turns out it does matter what you believe, if you wish to be seated at “our table” – at least in the minds of the majority of the world’s Anglicans, who disagree with the Episcopal Church USA’s determination to bless same-sex unions and ordain practicing homosexuals to priestly and episcopal ministry.

An American Anglican clergyperson, debating all this on PBS’s “NewsHour,” said that, if schism were the only answer, she and her Pasadena congregation would choose “the Gospel” over “the institutional church.” From a theological point of view, no more thoroughly Protestant posing of the issue could be imagined. And what does standing up for “the Gospel” have to do with embracing the Zeitgeist of the more delirious suburbs of the People’s Republic of California?

Shortly after Rowan Williams was named to Becket’s chair, we spent a cordial 90 minutes together at Lambeth Palace, Canterbury’s London headquarters. We spoke of John Paul’s theology of the body, George Weigel and then fell to discussing the difference between “sacramental” and “gnostic” understandings of the human condition. The former insists the stuff of the world – including maleness, femaleness, and their complementarity – has truths built into it; gnostics say it’s all plastic, all malleable, all changeable. The sacramentalists believe that the extraordinary reveals itself through the ordinary: bread, wine, water, salt, marital love and fidelity The gnostics say it’s a matter of superior wisdom, available to the enlightened (which can mean, the politically correct). Dr. Williams seemed convinced the gnosticism of a lot of western high culture posed a great danger to historic Christianity and the truths it must proclaim.

He was right. The gnosticism that infects the Episcopal Church USA has just about driven the Anglican Communion over the cliff.

George Weigel is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Guest Commentary

Gray area between black and white A reader responded to a commentary I wrote recently on altering how the Catholic Church is perceived among U.S. blacks, 90 percent of whom are not Catholic. She wrote, “I am confused why you feel the Catholic Church is responsible for some blacks not becoming Catholics. We choose the religion and church we feel we can fulfill our obligations to, and which will bring us closer to God. Not because it is white or black or Hispanic.”

Her family, she said, came to America from Germany in 1929 when she was seven. They could not “live with the idea — Hitler’s — kill all Jews or whoever disagreed with him.” They struggled through the Depression and “did not expect the Church to cater to us.”

“No one drags you in or kicks you out,” she continued.

“You’ make that choice. I think it is time for all people to look at themselves and say, ‘I’m responsible for the choices I make,’ and not blame society, their race or someone else.”

Sounds reasonable, but there is a gray layer between black and white that impacts choices.

The late Franciscan Archbishop James P. Lyke of Atlanta said, “The power of the Gospel is blunted” when it is welded to the cultural expressions of one group.

Blacks don’t want the Catholic Church to cater to us.

We want to participate in the Church to the fullest extent

possible — with our cultural expressions, too! Racism has had such a devastating effect on some people that they doubt even God himself could love them, that maybe the Good News does not apply to them, too!

So, there are diocesan-sponsored liturgies and conferences for blacks and other minorities not to separate us from the general body of Christ but to reflect all the good that we are and have contributed to the Church.

When I was a teen-ager, my brother’s girlfriend chose to become Catholic. She attended Mass with our family.

One Sunday we went to a 5:30 a.m. Mass at a nearby predominantly white parish so Mom and I could catch an early Greyhound bus to the restaurant where she worked.

When we were leaving immediately after Communion, the priest said, “Look at the people leaving Mass before it is over (we were the only ones leaving). I’ll bet they didn’t put 50 cents in the collection. It’s a disgrace!”

My brother’s girlfriend decided right then and there not to become Catholic. I doubt I would have continued myself if my grandmother who lived with us had not forbidden me to allow the disdain of humanity to keep me from the love of God and his grace poured out through the sacraments.

A daily Mass attendee, she kept me focused on what really mattered. Besides, I was already a member of a very

welcoming parish staffed by Josephite priests. I chose, then, to run the gauntlet of acceptance in one parish and possible rejection in another.

That’s no way to live, though.

Carole Greene The example I use here of an unwelcoming parish is an extreme. But it helps demonstrate this truth: Individuals comprise the Church. That priest who was rude to my family was the Church.

My grandmother was the Church. What we do or say impacts others’ decisions, whether we are aware of it or not.

Is the Catholic Church responsible for blacks not becoming members? To the extent that some Catholics, regardless of their race, are not welcoming, are selfabsorbed and unwilling to carry the Gospel of Christ to all people, yes, it is!

Carole Greene is a feature editor for Catholic News Service.

Spirituality for Life

Avoiding the ‘hyper’ in sensitivity In her autobiography, Therese of Lisieux describes what she considers as one of the key moments of conversion in her life: She was the youngest in her family and her father’s favorite.

He doted on her and every year when the family came home from church on Christmas Eve, he had a little ritual he played out as he gave a gift to her, his youngest and favorite daughter.

One Christmas Eve when Therese was nine years old and still tender and sad from her mother’s death, as the family returned home from church, she overheard her father tell one of her older sisters he hoped that, this year, he would no longer have to play that little, childish charade with Therese.

Overhearing this, Therese, a deeply sensitive child, was stung to the core, felt betrayed, and fell into a long period of silence and depression. Eventually she emerged from it and regained her resiliency and joy. Looking back on it years later, she saw her giving up of that particular hurt, and the hypersensitivity that provoked it, as one of the key moments of conversion in her whole life.

We usually wouldn’t define overcoming sensitivity as a religious conversion, but it is precisely that, a conversion with immense religious and emotional repercussions. Our happiness depends upon having the resiliency to accept the many hurts, disappointments, and injustices of life so as to

live in the give- and-take required for family and community living. And we learn that lesson slowly.

The older I become, the more I am coming to know how sensitive people are and how easily they are hurt. It doesn’t take much for someone to ruin your day. We don’t just get hurt when we meet open hostility, insults, unfairness, or hatred. We can be deeply hurt just by overhearing a casual remark or simply by not being noticed, appreciated, or invited. The human heart is easily bruised, too easily.

And then, like Therese, the impulse is to withdraw, withhold, grow silent, nurse the wound, become depressed, grow cold. That is why we are often so cautious and paranoid inside of our families and communities. We don’t want to be cold, but we’re hurt.

Moreover that doesn’t bring out the best in us. Pettiness too often spawns pettiness. Thomas Aquinas once suggested we have two souls inside us: an “anima magna” (a grand soul) and an “anima pusilla” (a petty soul). When we act out of our grand soul, we are generous, hospitable, big-hearted and warm.

Conversely, when we act out of our petty soul, we are paranoid, bitter, over-protective, cautious and small-hearted. When we feel hurt it is all too easy to act out of the petty half of our souls.

We know the truth of that from everyday experience: One minute we can be feeling generous, hospitable, and

big-hearted, and then an insult or a simple slight can trigger feelings of disappointment, bitterness, and pettiness.

Which is really us?

They both are!

Everything depends, day to day, minute to Father minute, upon from Ron Rolheiser which soul we are drawing our vision and energy at a given moment.

Of course we can always rationalize our bitterness, coldness, and pettiness by appealing to our sensitivity. We feel slights and insults deeply precisely because we are deep. There’s truth in that. The more sensitive we are, the more deeply we will feel both love and its betrayal. But, and this is the point, we need, like Therese, to see our hypersensitivity as something from which to be converted so we can be resilient enough to absorb the bumps and bruises of everyday living. Nobody can live for any length of time within a family or a community without hurting ROLHEISER, page 20

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THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 5:27-32, 40b-41; Psalm 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13; Revelation 5:11-14; John 21:1-19 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (ACTS 5:27-32, 40B-41) When the captain and the court officers had brought the apostles in and made them stand before the Sanhedrin, the high priest questioned them, “We gave you strict orders, did we not, to stop teaching in that name? Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and want to bring this man’s blood upon us.”

But Peter and the apostles said in reply, “We must obey God rather than men. The God of our ancestors raised Jesus, though you had him killed by hanging him on a tree. God exalted him at his right hand as leader and savior to grant Israel repentance and forgiveness of sins. We are witnesses of these things, as is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey him.”

The Sanhedrin ordered the apostles to stop speaking in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them. So they left the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for the sake of the name.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13 R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

I will extol you, O Lord, for you drew me clear and did not let my enemies rejoice over me.

O Lord, you brought me up from the netherworld; you preserved me from among those going down into the pit.

R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

Sing praise to the Lord, you his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy name.

For his anger lasts but a moment; a lifetime, his good will.

At nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing.

R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

Hear, O Lord, and have pity on me; O Lord, be my helper.

You changed my mourning into dancing; O Lord, my God, forever will I give you thanks.

R. I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION (REV 5:11-14) I, John, looked and heard the voices of many angels who surrounded the throne and the living creatures and the elders. They were countless in number, and they cried out in a loud voice: “Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches, wisdom and strength, honor and glory and blessing.”

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, everything in the universe, cry out: “To the one who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor, glory and might, forever and ever.”

The four living creatures answered, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 21: 1-19) At that time, Jesus revealed himself again to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias.

He revealed himself in this way. Together were Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, Zebedee’s sons, and two others of his disciples.

Simon Peter said to them, “I am going fishing.”

They said to him, “We also will come with you.”

So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing. When it was already dawn, Jesus was standing on the shore; but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus. Jesus said to them, “Children, have you caught anything to eat?”

They answered him, “No.” So he said to them, “Cast the net over the right side of the boat and you will find something.”

So they cast it, and were not able to pull it in because of the number of fish.

So the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” When Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he tucked in his garment, for he was lightly clad, and jumped into the sea. The other disciples came in the boat, for they were not far from shore, only about a hundred yards, dragging the net with the fish. When they climbed out on shore, they saw a charcoal fire with fish on it and bread. Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you just caught.” So Simon Peter went over and dragged the net ashore full of one hundred fifty-three large fish. Even though there were so many, the net was not torn.

Jesus said to them, “Come, have breakfast.”

And none of the disciples dared to ask him, “Who are you?” because they realized it was the Lord.

Jesus came over and took the bread and gave it to them, and in like manner the fish. This was now the third time Jesus was revealed to his disciples after being raised from the dead.

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?”

Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”

Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.”

He then said to Simon Peter a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”

Simon Peter answered him, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”

Jesus said to him, “Tend my sheep.”

Jesus said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?”

Peter was distressed that Jesus had said to him a third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”

Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to dress yourself and go where you wanted; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.”

He said this signifying by what kind of death he would glorify God. And when he had said this, he said to him, “Follow me.”

Scripture reflection FATHER BILL NICHOLAS

It is the Lord! Catching ‘fish’ in the net of the Gospel call In the film “Forrest Gump,” the simple-minded title character (a college football hero, Vietnam Vet and international ping-pong star) has become a shrimp-boat captain in fulfillment of a promise made to a deceased Army buddy. In one of the more moving and humorous moments of the film, as Forrest is piloting his boat back into port, he spots his old army superior, the crippled Lieutenant Dan, awaiting Forrest’s return on one of the docks. Forrest is so full of joy that, without a thought, he leaps from the boat into the sea, swimming to Lieutenant Dan, leaving his shrimp-boat to crash into another dock nearby.

In the beginning of their shrimp-boat business, Forrest and Lieutenant Dan are a little down on their luck. Eventually they make a great catch of shrimp after enduring a hurricane in which theirs was the only boat that did not flee to port in the face of the impending storm, and therefore, was not washed ashore.

These scenes have always reminded me of the beginning of this Sunday’s Gospel reading in which the Apostles add one more tale to their experiences of the risen Christ. While St. Luke tells of the catch of fish at the beginning of Jesus’ ministry, St. John places the miracle at the end of his Gospel, after the resurrection. Where in Luke’s account Peter asks Jesus to depart from him, John tells of a very different reaction. Upon recognizing Jesus on the shore Peter is filled with such joy that, without a thought, he puts his clothes on, jumps into the water and swims for shore, leaving his companions to haul the catch of fish.

There is so much that happens in this Sunday’s Gospel that it would appear an arduous task to reflect upon it, unless one sees it as a metaphor for the work of the Church, especially in the earliest years of its history. From the long, uneventful night of the fishermen to the commission of Peter to “feed my sheep,” St. John tells a well-known and frequently preached encounter between Jesus and the Apostles in such a way as to reflect the life of the Church after Jesus rose from

the dead – all sparked by that basic recognition of the Beloved Disciple: “It is the Lord!”

Like the Apostles on the waters during the night, the first few decades of Christianity were mired in apparent darkness as the Church faced struggle and persecution from which it did not flee.

We read of one such confrontation in this Sunday’s first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, in which, like Jesus, the Apostles face opposition and mistreatment at the hands of their own religious leaders. Like the Apostles in the boat, the next morning, the early Church was truly blessed with a “fine catch” of new followers for Christ. We are told in the Acts of the Apostles that 3,000 were added on that first Pentecost alone.

This “great catch of fish” is further symbolized in our second reading from the Book of Revelation. As John observes the Lamb that was Slain, he hears the voices of every creature in heaven, on Earth and under the Earth, proclaiming the Lamb’s praise and calling on all creation to worship. As the Book of Revelation is not about the future, but rather the present, we reflect on our call to further recognize the true identity of the Lamb who draws such a multitude of followers. Like the Beloved Disciple, we look upon the Lamb and recognize him for who he is: “It is the Lord!”

Our response is as true today as in the early days of the Church. Like the Apostles, we are filled with that Easter joy that moves us to live as people who are saved, people who worship the Lamb, people of the resurrection, people who are among that great catch of fish the Church continues to pull ashore, where Christ awaits. Like the Apostles, we too are called to put out again and again for that catch, whereby we become the instruments through whom Christ continues his fishing expedition, calling more and more to join the multitude, become his followers, rejoice in the resurrection and follow the Lamb that was Slain.

Like the Apostles in the fishing boat, and later on that first Pentecost, we continue to recognize that the grace and the spirit bestowed upon the Church by the risen Christ continue to bring about a great influx of followers. Like the Beloved Disciple (who in many ways symbolizes all Christians) we are called to recognize that in all the actions of the Church there is always the presence of the risen Christ, standing on the shore, not far off, observing all we do, telling us to lower our nets just one more time, as he sends the fish to be caught by the net of the Gospel. In this way, in all things, the Church recognizes that in its entire works, it does not act alone. Rather, the Holy Spirit works within the Church, always under the watchful eye of the risen Christ, even when we do not at first recognize him. In short, it is not our doing; rather, “It is the Lord!”

Father Bill Nicholas, ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2001, is a parochial vicar at St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco.

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Longtime Larkspur pastor dies Father John Shanahan, retired pastor of California Hospital in San Francisco and as St. Patrick Church in Larkspur, died April 4 moderator of the Newman Club of the at Marin General Hospital. He was 81 and University of California Medical Center.

In 1966 Father Shanahan 56 years a priest. was assigned as parochial vicar A funeral Mass was celeat the now-closed St. Edward brated at the Larkspur parish on Parish in San Francisco, where April 12. Father Paul Rossi, he served until he was appointpastor, St. Raphael Parish in ed pastor at St. Mary Star of the San Rafael, was principal celeSea Parish in Sausalito. He brant and homilist. served at Star of the Sea for 12 Father Shanahan was born in years, followed by a brief San Francisco on Sept. 15, assignment as pastor at St. 1925. He attended Most Holy Elizabeth Parish in San Redeemer Elementary School Francisco. and Sacred Heart High School Father John In 1984, Father Shanahan in San Francisco, later studying Shanahan began his 22 years as pastor at for the priesthood at St. Joseph College in Mountain View, and St. Patrick’s St. Patrick Church in Larkspur, where he continued to reside after retirement in 2006.

Seminary in Menlo Park.

“Father Shanahan was an original memHe was ordained for the Archdiocese by Archbishop John J. Mitty at St. Mary’s ber and chair of the Archdiocesan and Inter-religious Cathedral on June 16, 1950. He completed a Ecumenical graduate degree in theology at the University Commission set up by Archbishop of San Francisco in 1969, and earned a post- McGucken after Vatican II,” said Father graduate degree from the Graduate Gerard O’Rourke, director emeritus of the Ecumenical and Interfaith Office.

Theological Union at Berkeley in 1999.

“Jack was an eminent scholar in the hisIn his first years after ordination, Father Shanahan served as parochial vicar at St. tory of the break-off of Protestants from the Catherine of Siena Parish in Burlingame, St. Church in the 1500s, and any question we Anne Parish in San Francisco and St. Robert had about that era we went to him. He was Parish in San Bruno. He then ministered for very professional and scholarly and an three years as chaplain of the University of important resource to have nearby.”

Judge tells San Diego Diocese to disclose all parish accounts SAN DIEGO (CNS) — At a federal bankruptcy hearing April 11, Judge Louise DeCarl Adler ordered the San Diego Diocese to re-file financial disclosure statements and to include this time the balances in 770 bank accounts held by the 98 parishes of the diocese.

She also indicated, in response to a request from the diocese, that she will appoint an outside expert to analyze the parish and diocesan accounting systems.

Adler asked why an organization would have 770 bank accounts. “I’ve had billion-dollar corporations in this court without this kind of accounting,” she said.

Lawyers for the diocese explained each parish is a separate entity that needs its own bank accounts because it functions separately in financial operations.

In addition, when dealing with money dedicated to one purpose which cannot be commingled with other funds, a parish may place it in a separate account.

In a hearing April 12, Adler approved an interest-free $14 million loan from the ALSAM Foundation, a Utah-based charity, for the diocese to complete the nearly-finished construction of Mater Dei Catholic High School in Chula Vista.

The loan is the last installment on $50 million in funding ALSAM has provided to help build the $61 million school. ALSAM, founded by Catholics Aline and Leonard Samuel Skaggs Jr., gives large donations to many organizations. “(The plaintiffs) were trying to shut down our high school,” said diocesan attorney Micheal Webb. “We successfully opposed that effort and the high school will be constructed and operated. ... The diocese is delighted with the court’s decision.”

The San Diego Diocese filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Feb. 27, the day before the first of 143 clergy sex abuse claims against the diocese was to go to trial. It is the fifth U.S. diocese to enter bankruptcy proceedings in the face of sexual abuse lawsuits.

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Holy Family in heaven entreated to help namesake Holy Family Day Home moving to new facility

Holy Family Day Home Executive Director Donna Cahill and Kiara enjoy a joke between them in front of one of the child-friendly sinks in the Home’s new building. Photo in background shows one of tents the Sisters of the Holy Family erected to continue helping families after the 1906 Earthquake.

Donna Cahill is convinced the Holy Family in heaven wants Holy Family Day Home — its earthly wood, brick and mortar namesake – to continue nurturing little children for generations to come at the same historic location in San Francisco.

That familiar corner of 16th and Dolores Streets, kitty-corner from Mission Dolores Basilica, “is where San Francisco history began,” the Home’s executive director points out.

Holy Family Day Home, the oldest educational childcare facility in the City, has thrived in this neighborhood for the past 94 years, caring for more than 15,000 youngsters ages two to six. In addition, the agency cares for nine infants and a dozen toddlers at its Minna Street site.

Cahill admits there are times she feels overwhelmed by the prospect of raising $7.1 million for the Home’s capital building campaign. At those times, however, she says she challenges the Holy Family directly. “If you want this program to continue, you need to get some donors here.”

“And invariably,” she smiles “within two or three days the phone rings. People call for tours. Some of them make donations themselves, or else they lead me to other people who do.”

Result: the campaign recently reached $4.1 million.

Among the hundreds of donors is Phil Marineau, former CEO of Levi Strauss and Co. and the Levi Strauss Foundation which provided technical assistance and helped establish infrastructure needed to put a capital campaign in place.

The Sisters of the Holy Family, the founders of the Day Home, have contributed $300,000 to the drive. Although the Home is now administered by a lay board and staff, it continues to be sponsored by the Sisters, whose motherhouse is now in Fremont.

The Sisters of the Holy Family began their congregation in San Francisco in 1872 to care for the poor. Six years later, they opened their first day home so children would have a safe place to stay while their parents worked. By 1906, they had three – St. Francis in North Beach, Sacred Heart in the present Civic Center neighborhood, and the original Holy Family Day Home at 6th and Brannan.

When the 1906 Earthquake destroyed the day homes, the Sisters set up tents in Golden Gate Park and other parks around the city to continue their work of child care and family support. Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, prominent silver heiress, began volunteering with the Sisters. Inspired by them, she contracted with architect Willis Polk to create a child-centered building at the corner of 16th and Dolores Streets. The Willis Polk facility served as a Mecca for thousands of children and their families until another earthquake – the Loma Prieta in 1989 — rendered the building unusable.

Since that earthquake, the children have been cared for in another building adjacent to the Polk building. But the space is smaller, which required the Home to reduce enrollment by 50 children.

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feet — will be able to accommodate “150 of our youngest San Francisco citizens,” said Cahill.

Like its original predecessor, the new kid-friendly, three-story building will feature tot-sized sinks and stair banisters in addition to the adult-sized office furnishings.

There are toy and book libraries, play therapy rooms and a large space for community activities.

In addition to classroom expansion, Cahill and her staff were adamant about increasing the size of their current play therapy space for children with special needs. “Now therapeutic play will be available to many more children during one session,” she said. The room will include sand trays, doll houses, paints, crayons and much more for small guests to enjoy.

Art and make-believe toys are telling ways to learn what is going on with small children, she explained. For some, trauma and insecurity are a part of daily life, often resulting in the deterioration of verbal skills and self esteem.

Holy Family Day Home staff and volunteers provide a safe, stable and nurturing environment. Each child becomes aware that while much in their home life might change unpredictably, their classroom and its contents will always be here for them.

“Nothing comes or goes in each classroom without discussing it with the children in advance,” noted Cahill.

“Your cubby will be here tomorrow, just as you left it today,” reassures a teacher.

“The design and construction of our new home has been completely driven by the needs of the children,” Cahill said. “It has been built with love.”

She lauded architects, contractors and subcontractors for care, work and generosity for often providing work and materials sometimes not included in original plans.

One in five of Holy Family Day Home’s families are private, fee-paying families who have selected this nationally accredited, high quality childcare program. Simply put, said Cahill, parents trust the Day Home with their precious children “and know that they will have the best start in life.”

Private schools recruit from the Day Home, thus many move on to good elementary education experiences as well.

One fourth of the Day Home’s children’s parents are homeless, 20 percent are in the Welfare-to-Work Program, and another 35 percent come from extremely low-income households. “All receive the same quality care and educa-

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Parents must be working or in a training program to qualify for a scholarship. About 25 percent of the children are referred from the homeless shelter system, more than any other early childhood education facility in San Francisco.

The new facility will have an improved parent area to support those who come to the Day Home staff with a particular need.

On May 1, some program and administrative staff will begin moving into their offices depending on the ability to acquire a temporary occupancy permit. As summer approaches and additional construction refinements are completed, 100 children will begin transitioning into their five new classrooms. By September, 50 more tots are scheduled to join them in the new quarters.

The construction team and Holy Family Day Home community will be celebrating with donors, parents, children and friends on Oct. 13 at 11 a.m. when Archbishop George H. Niederauer is scheduled to dedicate the new building.

Approximately 40 percent of the Home’s current annual budget of $2.4 million comes from government sources, 27 percent from tuition and fees, and 33 percent from contributions and other income.

Donna Cahill will continue to directly challenge the Holy Family and pray for more donors. She has no choice.

She has another $3 million to raise.

For more information on Holy Family Day Home, visit its Web site: www.holyfamilydayhome.org.

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Some five years ago, six women who had been friends for 40 years — beginning with their children attending St. Anne of the Sunset Elementary School — began to meet for lunch. They had so much fun sharing old stories and catching up they decided to gather every couple of months, and the group now numbers more than 30 – seen here at the Palace Hotel. “Everyone is looking forward to the next luncheon April 26,” said Rita McEvoy, one of the first moms on board and who sent six nowadult children through St. Anne’s – Jim, Brian, Mike, Kevin, Patricia and Joan. St. Anne’s moms interested in taking part should be in touch with Rita at (415) 563-4320. fiting Immaculate Conception Academy, 24th St. at Guerrero in San Francisco beginning at 4:30 p.m. Tickets $15 adults/$8 children in advance; $20/$10 at door. Tables for 12 available. Talent show and fun activities highlight the evening. Call (415) 824-2052.

May 3: Evening at the Oaks: Celebrating the Sisters of Mercy features dining, wine tasting by Starry Night winery, and a silent auction. All at Kohl Mansion, 2750 Adeline Dr., Burlingame, 6 to 9:30 p.m. in support of the Sisters of Mercy and their ministries. For information: (650) 340-7487 and www.mercyburl.org.

Catholic Charismatic Renewal The Catholic Charismatic Renewal plans events throughout the year. Information about the group’s activities can usually be found here in Datebook and always at their Web site: www.sfspirit.com. First Fridays of the month are commemorated with rosary and Mass at selected churches throughout the Archdiocese usually beginning at 7 p.m. For more information, e-mail John Murphy at exmorte@aol.com.

May 4: First Friday Mass at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstat Blvd., Pacifica; rosary at 7 p.m. and Mass at 7:30 p.m.

May 12: Praise, Prayer and Worship Explosion session at St. Paul of the Shipwreck, gymnasium, 1122 Jamestown, San Francisco, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; led by Father Jim Tarantino. For information in English: (415) 350-8677 or (650) 594-1131; in Spanish: (415) 292-4306 or (415) 469-8927.

present a concert at St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Fulton St., San Francisco, to raise awareness about conditions in Darfur. Under the direction of St. Ignatius organist, Jonathan Dimmock, the ensemble is in its third season. The 7:30 p.m. concert is titled “Life and Death: A Requiem for the Victims of Darfur.” Interpretive dancer Noëlle Morris will also perform. Ticket and concert information at: www.ave-music.org Through May 6: Dominican University of California’s Fringe of Marin Festival features new one-act plays and solo performances. Tickets $12/$9 seniors and students/$5 children. Takes place in Meadowlands Asembly Hall, 50 Acacia Ave., San Rafael. Contact Annette Lust at (415) 673-3131 or www.dominican.edu/events for times and titles.

Through April 30: Photographs by Burlingame resident Stuart Bacon are on display from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame. A member of the Millbrae Camera Club and winner of many awards, Bacon shows black and white, color and Bromoil prints. Call (650) 340-7474. Visit www.mercy-center.org.

May 12: The St. Stephen Parish Choir in a fundraiser concert at 8 p.m. features choruses, arias and famous songs of great composers.

Dawn Farry, soprano, and Miles Graber, piano, will lead the event with Angela Zullinger, soprano.

Proceeds benefit church music ministry in the purchase of a portable and electronic piano.

Suggested donation is $15. Tickets will be available at the door and in advance. E-mail dawn.farry@gmail.com or call (925) 691-5584.

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Arts & Entertainment May 4: Ave, an acclaimed choral ensemble devoted to sacred music of the Renaissance, will

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Events continue for the 75th Anniversary of St. Matthew Elementary School in San Mateo. Alumni should contact Nancy Carroll at (650) 372-9536.

April 28: Annual Mass and luncheon of St. John Ursuline High School at 9:30 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Church, St. Mary’s Ave., San Francisco, with lunch at the United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. and Sloat Blvd., San Francisco.

The class of ’57 will especially honored. Call Diane Gragnani at (415) 564-2077.

April 29: St. Gabriel Elementary School’s Golden Diploma Reunion for members of the class of ’57 with Mass at 11:30 a.m. and a reception after. Members of the ’57 class should contact Sue Phelps at (415) 566-0314 or e-mail sphelps@stgabrielsf.com.

May 6: Class of ’52 from St. Cecilia Elementary School in San Francisco at Caesar’s Restaurant, Bay and Powell St., San Francisco, 4 p.m. Call Marilyn Donelly at (650) 365-5192.

May 11: The class of ’47 from the High School of Commerce is having a 60-year reunion at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco with social at noon and lunch at 1 p.m. Tickets are $25. Call John Kristovich at (650) 583-9152; Lorraine Reisinger at (650) 756-7735.

May 19: All Class of ‘42 alumnae of Presentation High School, San Francisco, are invited to a 65th class reunion luncheon hosted by Cecelia Nihill Gaddini at the Cityscape Restaurant at the Hilton, San Francisco. Contact Helen Harwood, director of alumnae, at (415) 422-5015 or e-mail hharwood@pbvmsf.org.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings May 7, 8, 9: Looking More Like God, an Easter Season Mission at St. Raphael Church, 1104 5th Ave., San Rafael. Dominican Father Jim Marchionda, combines music and reflection in talks at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and at Masses May 5 at 5 p.m. and May 6 at 7:30, 9, and 10:30 a.m. Contact Judith Howell at (415) 454-8141, ext. 28 for more information.

April 26 and May 3: Keeping Easter Alive: Finding God in All Things - a mini-retreat series on developing prayer life. Learn an Ignatian method of praying with Scripture; reflect on personal gifts and how to share them with others. Takes place 7 – 8:30 p.m. at St. Bart’s Media Center, Columbia Dr. and Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo.

Patrick O’Halloran, a licensed clinical psychologist with graduate degrees in theology, will facilitate.

Call (650) 347.0701, ext. 19 for information.

May 11-13: Free admission; 3-day Vietnamese Charismatic Conference at St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Web site: www.thanhlinh.net for further information.

May 13: Bilingual healing Mass; main celebrant: Jesuit Father Robert Faricy at St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco.

Praise and worship at 6:30 p.m. with Mass at 7 p.m. Contact Augustine Nga Pham, (415) 4721567.

Datebook is a free listing for parishes, schools and non-profit groups. Please include event name, time, date, place, address and an information phone number. Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired.

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April 21: Annual Wine Tasting and Silent Auction benefiting tuition assistance program at St. Finn Barr Elementary School, 419 Hearst St., San Francisco from 6 – 9 p.m. Admission is free.

Enjoy performances by chamber ensemble from the Golden Gate Philharmonic Orchestra, singers from School of the Arts, and Praise Dancers from Ingleside Presbyterian Church. Memory portraits will be on sale for $10. Free childcare. Call (415) 333-1800 or just drop by.

April 21: Mount Carmel Shop’s annual Plant and Garden Sale, 45 Lovell Ave. in Mill Valley from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Tomato plants are featured along with books, tools, vases, pots, perennials, annuals, exotics and more. Proceeds benefit Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish. Call (415) 388-4332.

April 21: St. Matthias Pre-School celebrates its 30th anniversary with Spring Is in the Air Faire from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. on the parish campus, Cordilleras Rd. at Canyon Rd., Redwood City.

Enjoy arts and crafts vendors, bake booth, food booth, silent auction, children’s game area and more.

April 21: Pauline Books & Media celebrates the first anniversary of its new location, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City. Raffle, door prizes, fellowship and fun from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call (650) 369-4230.

April 24: Meet local author, Jesuit Father Paul Soukup, at Pauline Books & Media, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City. The Santa Clara University professor will offer a brief lecture on the theology of communications and sign copies of his latest book, “Out of Eden, 7 Ways God Restores Blocked Communication” at 7 p.m. Call (650) 3694230.

April 24: Hawaiian Highlights, annual luncheon and games day benefiting Rosalie House at Olympic Club Lakeside with cocktails at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:30. Rosalie House is the St. Vincent De Paul Society’s shelter for victims of domestic violence. Tickets are $55. For reservations, call Trilla Jentzsch at (415) 333-5819.

April 26: Monthly luncheon of St. Thomas More Society at the Bankers Club, 555 California St., 52nd Floor, San Francisco at noon. Tickets are $38 /$15 law students. Call Stacy Stecher at (415) 772-9642 or e-mail sstecher@tobinlaw.com.

Guest speaker is famed De La Salle High School football coach, Bob Ladouceur.

April 27, 28, 29: Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Annual Spring Festival at Fulton and James Street in Redwood City Three days of food, entertainment, carnival rides, and kid-friendly games. Admission is free. Carnival ride tickets may be purchased in advance online at a discount; visit www.moutncarmel.org . Call (650) 3668817.

April 28: Mercy High School, 3250 19th Ave., San Francisco, announces the celebration of 55 years of educational excellence. The school will host the “Le Mani di Domani” Gala, an evening beginning at 6 p.m. with dinner and dancing at the Catherine McAuley Pavilion. For more information, contact Marguerite Rodriguez at (415) 334-0525, ext. 235 or e-mail mrodriguez@mercyhs.org.

April 28: Our Lady of Loretto School will hold its live auction and dinner/dance at Stonetree Golf Club in Novato at 5:30 p.m.. Highlights include the music of Jorge Santana and Pride and Joy. Contact the school at (415) 892-8621 for tickets. A silent auction will be featured online. Bidding runs until April 26. Visit http://ollnovato.cmarket.com. A raffle for a 2007 Ford Mustang or $20,000 will also be held. For information, contact Deb Porchivina at (415) 883-6082 or e-mail deborah@papr.com.

April 28: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., San Francisco, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 751-8531.

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In deft strokes Hirshfield provides insights for the heart alone, a solitude that is not deprivation but fulfillment.

Then she continues And yet, among the trees, something has changed.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

Whatever the claims of inner solitude, we are never isolated, detached from the world and its reality. I may regard the world from my solitude, but the world looks back at me and I have to acknowledge that.

The poet’s remarkable achievement is to make a whole world out of a small happening. With a few deft strokes she paints a picture that evokes an experience that anyone can recognize, but only a poet can express this well. No one can avoid the balancing act between affirming the self and relating it to everything outside. Sometimes the claims of the self are paramount; as Hirshfield says in another poem, “It doesn’t matter what they will make of you…they will be wrong.”

No one knows me as I know myself, but something of me will always be known to others as, hidden perhaps, they peer through the trees, and I have to come to terms with that.

The book is well named “The Lives of the Heart.”

Hirshfield’s warm, humane voice speaks eloquently to the deepest part of the reader.

By Father Basil DePinto This may qualify as preaching to the choir, since readers are doubtless aware of our many fine California poets, but a little reminder never hurts. Jane Hirshfield has published six volumes of poetry, the most recent one last year.

My favorite is called “The Lives of the Heart” from 1997.

I’m not sure that Hirshfield should be designated a “nature poet” but she certainly has a gift for observing the world and describing it with great feeling. Then she draws the reader into a communion with what she sees, and it suddenly becomes our experience, not just a visual event but an insight that speaks to the heart.

A good example occurs in “Three Foxes at the Edge of the Field at Twilight.” A walker with a companion comes on the three animals, one standing, nose to the ground, another lying down, the third “never moved,/except to turn her head a little as we walked.”

As might be expected Finally we drew too close, and they vanished.

The woods took them back as if they had never been.

That last line has a kind of spooky air about it that matches perfectly the mysterious combination of animals and woods in the darkening scene.

The poet recognizes in this encounter the image of her own inner life: This slips into the heart without hurry, as if it had never been.

After the apparition of the foxes she had continued walking with her companion, “speaking as strangers do when becoming friends.” But now she reflects that, increasingly, her inner life is a secret space to which no one,

Father Basil De Pinto is a priest of the Oakland Diocese who writes on the arts for publications on both coasts.

stranger or lover, is admitted. Not that she is closing herself off from others but that her most basic, inner core is hers

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Daniel Berrigan once commented that if Jesus came back today he would go into every counseling office in the world and drive out both the doctors and their clients with the words: “Take up your couch and walk! You don’t have to be this sensitive!”

Perhaps that’s strong, but it contains an important challenge to conversion. Henri Nouwen used to say one of the key elements in spiritual conversion is to move from hostility to hospitality. All major spiritualities tell us the same thing.

In Tibetan Buddhism, the bowl is the image for resent-

ment. In it is contained all our bitterness, disappointment, and disillusionment. We sit holding that bowl in our hands. We can either pour it forward, so that the resentment flows away from us, or we can tip it onto ourselves, allowing all that poison to infect us. Happiness depends upon which way we tip that bowl.

How can we let go of our hypersensitivity? A priest I know once gave me this advice: Whenever you feel stung and hurt, pull away, sit in prayer, and stay there until the pain softens enough so that you can face others with warmth again.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas.

He can be contacted through his Web site: www.ronrolheiser.com.

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PRINCIPAL POSITION OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS SCHOOL Reno, Nevada Our Lady of Snows School is seeking a principal for the school year beginning July 1, 2007. The position requires Master’s Degree in School Administration or related field and Nevada license as school administrator or eligibility for license.

Applicant must have 5 years teaching experience and be a practicing Catholic. For more details about the position, please visit the school’s website at www.ourladyofthesnows.com.

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ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO FULL-TIME POSITION AVAILABLE Tribunal Canonical Auditor The Archdiocese of San Francisco Pastoral Center is seeking a qualified individual to serve as Canonical Auditor to assist the Marriage Tribunal by guiding the movement of the annulment petitions through the various procedural steps from acceptance of the petition to its final conclusion.

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PRINCIPAL 2007 – 2008 Immaculate Heart of Mary School (IHM) established in 1952 is located in Belmont, California. A thriving, Catholic, coeducational K-8 school with over 300 students provides an environment where students are nurtured in faith filled setting.

Immaculate Heart of Mary School is committed to educating the whole child. It is known for its strong Catholic identity, academic excellence, commitment to the students, opportunities for service and enrichment, after school sports and a before and after school extended care program.

The pastor is very supportive and active in the life of the school. The faculty and staff of 31 members are well qualified and committed to Catholic education. School parents are helpful and very active in the parish and school community; serving on the boards, in the library, in the classrooms, in the office and take care of all fundraising and social events.

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Practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church Current California Credential

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Minimum of five years Teaching/Administrative experience Masters in Educational Leadership or a related field

LETTER OF INTEREST AND RESUME TO:

Mr. Bret E. Allen, Associate Superintendent Department of Catholic Schools, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

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Catholic San Francisco

April 20, 2007

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March HOLY CROSS COLMA

Caroline L. Fregosi Maura G. Frias David A. Galassi Erlinda C. Garcia Ida C. Garibaldi Lucio J. Garza Carmen J. Gatmen Alfred A. Giusto Winifred J. Gogan Josephine R. Gonzalez Gerald John Gudaitis Salvador Gutierez Adib Hanna Adrian “Hap” Hazard Lorraine Josephine Hegdahl Jean R. Herman Regino A. Hernandez Mary Ellen Hockett Elisabeth A. Hofmeyer Ann T. Hurley Ernestine A. Jimenez Owen Johnson Jess T. Jones James Lee Jones Patricia P. Kelly Frank P. Kelly, Jr. Ellen Kiely Rita M. King William Christian Kleinheinz, Sr. Frances Marie Kopfer Edith K. Krivy Victoria A. Lacap Ben M. Lagade Robert L. Lauffer Ruth G. Lawlor Chung Ping Lee Jennie Lopiparo-Prigioni Margaret Cooney Lynch John Mahoney Lorenzo C. Manalo Alexandria Manini Loretta R. Marchand Lucy H. Mares Angela R. Marti Ariana Martinez Josephine Anna Marty Sr. Phoebe E. McCarthy, O.P. Bernice McCormac Rev. John F. McGregor, S.M. Alice M. McKeever

Jesus R. Almeida Josefina F. Alvarado Amanda Autumn Alvarez-Ramos Maria Guadalupe Anguiano Lorna A. Annin Lourdes M. Anunciacion Estelita A. Arcayena John Marinda Babasa Anton S. Bazlamit James A. Beard Margaret L. Bender Doris Benedetti Sola Bermudez Catalina Alicia Berrios Anita Bino Frank H. Boehle Elizabeth M. Brekle Lucy Mary Briggs Ana Elsy Bustamante Francis X. Butler Mary M. Carmona Keith Cendak Fung Ping Chan William Vincent Clifford Maria C. Cobioni Sofia Codon Sr. Filomena Conte, F.M.A. Daniel Contreras Margaret Conway Rodger G. Cooper Marian F. Copland Lucila G. Cornejo de Franco Alfredo A. Cortez Tim Coyne Kevin F. Crowley David J. DePucci Sharon J. Doninelli Bernice C. Dunleavy Thomas Joseph Dunlevy Peggy Edwards Raymond F. Erickson Maria de Jesus “Jessie” Estrada Mary Estudillo Marion Theresa Wille Farrelly Giuseppe Fazio George Richard Fleifel Wesley W. Foraker Elizabeth S. Franke

Violet McVeigh Albert Menaster Robert J. Menicucci Anthony M. Menjivar Anthony X. Menjivar Jane Merryman Charles “Chuck” Metzler Lorenzo F. Mezzera Marian R. Mifsud Luke Mark Miholovich Inez M. Montalto Helen J. Mora Leslie E. Mullin, Jr. Alice M. Murphy Emmet D. Murphy Shirley J. Murray Roberta Mildred Nieto Cecelia O’Grady Elizabeth M. O’Regan Mary A. Orlando Emily L. Ottoboni Eleanor Paladini Ernesto V. Patino, Sr. Tomas Ubaldo Perea Elda Pizzorno Robert E. Rames Marie C. Remington Renee M. Richard Bruce Wayne Roberts Rigoberto P. Roliz Gloria L. Rotor George R. Rubi Lola Marie Rupert Anthony M. Saiz Rosaura Salazar Silvia Teresa Samame Pablo H. Sanabria Ann Marie Sarraille Iva S. Scalice Clifford Scott Lomax G. Sealy, Jr. Lena Sheehan Shirley M. Smith Dennis David Smith Kathleen May Smith Margaret A. Smith Mary Ann Snyder Lois Stanghellini Edwin M. Starling Emmet Sullivan

Patricia Sullivan Anicia Lucas Tamayo Elvia Geraldine Taylor Eleanor M. Tobin Richard S. Torno Lena M. Traverso Esteban R. Vázquez Rose V. Venezia Armando D. Vitug Sam Mui Wong Andrew F. L. Wong May Lai Wong Katherine W. Woods Josefina Q. Zaldivar Frances H. Zamlich Armand E. Zaniroli

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Norman Edwin Dilling Cynthia C. Eline Raul Esparza Nobuhiro Johannes Osaki Marge L. Young

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Anna F. Allsman Paul E. Allsman John B. Borzini Aurelio R. Briones Emmet D. Condon Ernest R. Franzini Maria Gazzoli Frank X. Gormley Ralph M. Haag Gladys C. Kane Al Lindelli Helen M. O’Sullivan Marija Picukaric Elvus D. Regalia John Francis Walsh

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA 1st Saturday Mass – Saturday, May 5th, 2007 Rev. Charles Puthota, Celebrant – St. Patrick Parish 11:00 a.m. – All Saints Mausoleum Chapel

Memorial Day Mass Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma Monday, May 28, 2007 11:00 a.m. – Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel Most Rev. George H. Niederauer, Archbishop of San Francisco

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

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

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

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.