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San Francisco Police Officer Isaac Espinoza

Thousands of mourners came to St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco April 16 to celebrate the life of Isaac Anthony Espinoza, a San Francisco Police Officer slain April 10 while on duty in the City’s Bayview District. Thousands of Police Officers from as far away as Oregon stood at attention on the Cathedral’s plaza to salute the 29-year-old officer for the last time. Officer Espinoza leaves his wife Renata and three-year-old daughter, Isabella. He was laid to rest at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma. SEE ADDITIONAL PICTURES ON PAGE 19.

Catholic educators urged to help in creating a ‘church of hope’ Catholic News Service

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Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley addresses Catholic educators at NCEA annual meeting.

BOSTON – Speaking at the 2004 National Catholic Educational Association convention, Father J. Bryan Hehir told delegates that despite the obstacles and challenges to their work, they can play a vital part in creating a “church of hope.” The NCEA annual meeting drew 17,000 Catholic educators. Participants, including Catholic school teachers and principals, religious education directors and teachers and diocesan officials, spent four days learning about how to teach better and how education involves far more than helping students master the basic subjects or tenets of the faith. In the closing session of the NCEA’s 101st annual convention, held April 13-16 in Boston, Father J. Bryan Hehir, president of Catholic Charities in Boston, urged educators to go about their work with “confident modesty,” assured that the church has “something to teach and much to learn.” He encouraged them to draw upon the resources of the Catholic tradition which emphasizes that faith is connect-

ed to the world at large. “We aren’t exclusively a church of faith, but a church of reason,” he added, emphasizing the need to learn from others and to interpret Scriptures for modern challenges. Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, attended the NCEA meeting along with Assistant Superintendents Sister Marianne Viani and Marilyn Lynch. Ms. Huntington said the challenges faced by Catholic schools in northern California are shared by other Catholic schools throughout the country. She noted that urban centers nationwide are seeing a decline in the number of school-age children, which has an impact on Catholic as well as public schools. The superintendent also said there is a worry about pressures on middle-class families that traditionally have sent their children to Catholic schools. These families often are not wealthy enough to afford rising tuition, but they also are not poor enough to qualify for financial aid, she said. CHURCH OF HOPE, page 22

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Students at St. Cecilia elementary enjoyed a recent Multi-Cultural Day at the Parkside District school. Bottom from left: Leonard Flores, Santino Cinimo, Marco Barajas, Christopher Pang. 2nd row from left: Molly Buckley, Sara McKeon, Kevin Kohmann, Marisa Dudum, Erin Fergus, Annie Lee. 3rd row from left: Ben Feiner, Cole Feeney, Claudia Fong, Brianna Caba, Kevin Buckley, Kristen Park. Top from left: Niamh Chrastil, Stephanie Rosignuolo, John Dizon, Saleem Bader.

Where You Live by Tom Burke Hats off to Peggy McDonald, Grand Marshall of San Francisco’s 152nd St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Peggy, former and first woman prez of the Irish Cultural Center, called it a “great honor” and said she would “cherish the day.” Peggy and her husband, Joseph have been St. Stephen parishioners comin’ up on 30 years and will celebrate their 46th wedding anniversary May 10th. Also joining in the festivities was their daughter, Karen. In recognition for her “devoted service to San Francisco’s Irish community,” Mayor Gavin Newsom named March 14th Peggy McDonald Day…. Nice to run into Father Kirby Hanson who says he’d “recommend retirement highly.” Father Hanson is retired pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish and uncle to Dominican Father Carl Schlichte, a chaplain at Stanford University…. Gotta’ say “Sorry” to Kerry Peele, technology Peggy McDonald and Donal coordinator and comDenham, Ireland Consul General. puter teacher at St. Paul elementary and whose name was not included among the crew of the school’s recent Bugscope project. Kerry’s job was making the connection between St. Paul’s computers and the microscopes at University of Illinois as well as acting as liaison between the two schools. Kerry, an Indiana native, has been at St. Paul’s for three years and previously taught in Chicago….Oops, again, but this time to Katie Petrucci, assistant JV girls volleyball coach at Our Lady of Angels elementary, whose name was misspelled here a while ago. Katie is a senior

at Notre Dame High School, Belmont and soon on her way to author Charlie Chin in storytelling. Tony Gomez, a Sacred Santa Clara or UC Davis. Her proud folks are Debbie and Heart Cathedral Preparatory faculty member and percusJim….One more slip of the text to Edith Holm, wife of sionist, explained that musical dimension. Thanks to Deacon Russ, who was misnamed here a coupla’ weeks ago Bernadette Sy for the good news. Bernadette, an ‘81 alumna of and thanks to Deacon Gary West for the congenial comeup- Mercy High School, San Francisco, and her husband, Tony, pance! …Also at Our Lady of Angels, happy 35 years mar- an ’81 alumnus of Junipero Serra High school, celebrated ried June 14th to Jo Ann and Pat Barrett… their 16th wedding anniversary January Speakin’ of anniversaries, happy 55 years 30th. They are the proud parents of St. Cecilia married to Dorothy and Frank Burns who 6th grader Xavier, and Christopher, a freshcelebrated their St. Joseph’s Day union with man at Sacred Heart Cathedral family in Sausalito. Both born and raised in Preparatory…. Also at St. Cecilia’s happy 43 the Mission District’s St. Peter Parish, they years married January 28th to Bella and took their vows March 19, 1949 at the City’s Jerry Smith. Thanks to Jerry for lettin’ me Old St. Mary’s Cathedral later living for know he too graduated high school on the more than three decades in Our Lady of Jersey Shore about 20 years ahead of me and Mercy Parish and for the last 22 years in St. 40 miles North at Holy Spirit near Atlantic Isabella Parish. “We always enjoy Catholic City. Jerry and Bella’s daughters, Donna and San Francisco,” Dorothy and Frank said, and Dorothy, are alumnae of the revered and much Dorothy and Frank Burns missed Presentation High School. Sons, we couldn’t be happier about that…. Music and foods from around the world were hallmarks of a recent Jerry and Eric, are Archbishop Riordan grads…. Multi-Cultural Day at St. Cecilia Elementary School. At the Remember, this is an empty space without ya’!!! Send items helm were Joan O’Neil Johnson, mom of 8th grader, Maraide, and a follow up phone number to On the Street Where You 6th grader, Brendan, and 3rd grader, Catherine. Also guiding Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Fax (415) 614-5641; the celebration were 6th grade teacher, Christine Gonzales, and e-mail tburke@catholic-sf.org. Do not send attachments 4th grade teacher, Christine Reeder. Ruth Halpern, a member except photos and those in jpeg, please. Remember no Zip files! of the faculty at Dominican University of California, joined You can reach Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634….

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Catholics with roots in countries around the filled St. Mary’s Cathedral world in San Francisco July 27 to celebrate the anniversary of the creation of the Archdioce of San Francisco in 1853 - just four years after gold se ers from around the world seekhad lage known as Yerba Buena transformed a sleepy vilinto the bustling new city of San Francisco. Joining Archbishop William J. Levada in celebratin the Sesquicentennial Mass g were two dozen bishops throughout California from and from dioceses as far away as Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, of the original territory which once had been part of the Archdiocese of Francisco. San “Like a great tree planted 150 years ago, the Archdiocese of San Francisco has taken root. It is growing,” Archbishop Levada, the bishop, said in his homily. archdiocese’s seventh arch“Its roots in the soil California go deep. It of is destined to grow in age and, please God, wisdom and grace.” The archbishop gave “thanks and glory to God for the many blessings we are heirs to, thanks to the sacrifices and dedication of the People of God - the priests, religious and laity - of these past 150 years.” “We thank God for the generations of people of a rich diversity of such backgrounds, Native Americans, Mexicans, Europeans, Africans, Latin American s, Asians and Pacific Islanders who, not withstanding our differences of language, race and Body of Christ, the Church,” culture, make up the one he said. “We admire the ness and achievement witof their lives of faith and works of charity.” Representatives of these ethnic groups played prominen t SESQUICENTENN

s and benefits of marVatican City (CNS) — riage. Massachusetts’ in the same period from In a new document, highest court is widely 31 percent to 47 percent. Vatican offers detailed the rule in favor of expected to A senior Vatican official arguments against legal legalizing same-sex marriages said the document “offers recogni- legislation tion of same-sex unions ; similar ments from arguwas enacted in 2000 in and asks Catholic lawmaker human reason” about Vermont. Also in July, fight growing movemen the foundational role of s marriage in well-funct ts to legalize “gay marriage. to Canada’s government proposed a draft ioning societies and “The bill to legalize absence ” The 12-page document same-sex complete marriage; of an analogy between the underscores church teaching Belgium, Denmark and marriage of a man and requiring compassion Netherlands woman already have legalized a for homosexuals, but and the such union unions. of two it men or says legal recognition of gay unions The document was intended two women.” is contrary to human nature ultimately harmful to society, to help local bishops and See full text of document present convincing argument a senior Vatican official PAGE 18 said. The document, prepared Opposition to gay marriage of gay marriages, to give s against legal recognition by the Congregation for , including opposition direction to Catholic lawmakDoctrine of the Faith is the among white U.S. ers, and “to help anybody titled, “Considerations Catholics, has dropped who has to confront the Regarding recent years, significantly in ter,” Proposals to Give Legal mataccording to a poll released the official said. It warns Recognition to Unions Catholic lawmakers that Between Pew Research Homosexual Persons.” in July by the is “gravely it Center for the People and immoral” to vote for such the Press. Just 41 Release of the documen measures. At the same time, the t coincides with a growing percent of white Catholics today opposed official said the documen movement in Europe legalized gay “strongly marriage, in contrast andPHOTO) t insists on respect” for (CNS FILE North America toward granti- for such measures with 60 percent in 1996. Support and homosexual individua ls should not be interprete among white Catholics d as an encouragement has increased “unjust of discrimination” against la in 1996. ezue Ven gays. in ort

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Prisoner rehabilitation and public safety are aims of proposed law By Patrick Joyce A rehabilitation program designed to keep inmates from turning into career criminals would join punishment as a goal of the state prison system under provisions of legislation written by Sen. John Vasconcellos and supported by the California Catholic Conference. California’s high recidivism rate – nearly four out of five criminals return to prison after their release – is a sign of the failure of the prison philosophy written into state law in 1976, Sen. Vasconcellos said. At that time the penal code was amended to state that “the purpose of imprisonment for crime is punishment.” Offering inmates a program that will prepare them to lead a constructive life in society will “enhance our own public safety,” he said. “It makes sense: to help people while they’re locked up to get better so when they come out they’re not dangerous.” California’s recidivism rate is 79 percent according to study done by the Legislative Analyst’s Office at his request last year, Sen. Vasconcellos said. The rate is 10-to-15 percent in states that have rehabilitation programs similar to the one in his bill, he said. The legislation, SB 139, requires the prison system, beginning next year, to evaluate new inmates, and to develop a program designed to provide them with the education, job skills and the psychosocial development” needed to lead a constructive life after they are released. In three states that have this sort of law – Maryland, Minnesota and Ohio – “it has reduced recidivism 23 percent,” Senator Vasconcellos said. By cutting down on the costs of imprisoning career criminals, “ It saves taxpayer dollars, two dollars back for every dollar spent,” he said. Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, told the committee the conference supports the bill because its emphasis on the possibility of rehabilitation echoes Catholic teaching. “From our perspective, punishment has three purposes” Mr. Dolejsi said. “ One of those is the preservation and the protection of the common good of society. The second one is to restore public order and the third is to restore the offender back into the community. This bill goes a long way to move us in that direction.” “Now is a good time to assess the implications of a couple of decades a single-minded punishment philosophy – that punishment is all we are about,” he said. “That has not served us well. The Catholic vision is a better of definition of punishment.

This small beginning attempts to move us in that direction.” “We know what it takes for someone to survive in society and not go back into prison,” Mr. Dolejsi said. “ It takes a family or a community to go back to. It takes employment skills, education and personal discipline usually gathered through religious experience. We can provide those if we do the assessment upfront to find out what is necessary to get there.” While the legislation requires prisons to offer rehabilitative services, “the burden lies on the individual to avail themselves of those services and to reform themselves, but if we’re not offering that opportunity we’re failing as a society,” Mr. Dolejsi said. “The Church is committed to the dignity of the human person even those who have offended us grievously,” he said. “They should be punished for their crimes and provide restitution to society, but we always want to hold out the hope of rehabilitation, particularly when 90 or 95 percent of the people are going to be back in the community.” Supporting the rehabilitation of criminals does not mean the Church is neglecting the victims of crime, he said. “That is always the first response of people of faith: how are we dealing with the victims? They deserve a sensitive and compassionate response.” “The Church is most concerned about victims,” he said. “That response includes Masses in dioceses throughout the

state for crime victims, especially victims of violent crime. The Church also offers a variety of outreaches to victims of sexual abuse in all its forms, not just clergy abuse. We’re also looking at ways we can respond to victims of domestic violence.” The committee also heard words of support for the bill from the California Police Chiefs Association and California Narcotics Officers Association. Police officers benefit if prisoners are rehabilitated instead of becoming career criminals, lobbyist John Lovell told the committee. The two groups believe in the value of punishment, Mr. Lovell said, “But the reality is that, other than a few lifers, everybody’s getting out of prison.” “When you look at the officers who have been killed in the line of duty in the last ten years. It’s chilling. Virtually every officer was killed by a former inmate. This is very fundamentally an officer safety issue.” Jim Lindburg of the Friends Committee on Legislation told the committee that his group supports the bill because “the emphasis on punishment only is a social experiment that has been a grand failure. We think that rehabilitation and public safety are synonymous.” No one spoke in opposition to the bill. Three Democrat and two Republican members of the committee approved the bill, on a vote of 5 to 0. It now goes to the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Assembly committee passes same-sex bill By Patrick Joyce In Sacramento April 20, the Assembly Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would legalize same-sex marriages in California just four years after voters approved Proposition 22, an initiative defining marriage as between a man and a woman. The bill, AB 1967, by San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno, was supported by eight Democrat members of the committee and opposed by three Republicans. The vote came at the end of an hour and a half hearing Tuesday that included testimony of same-sex couples and supporters of traditional marriage. At the hearing, supporters of AB 1967 argued that the “equal protection” provisions of the California and U.S. constitutions override Proposition 22 and guarantee samesex couples the right to marry. In addition, supporters of the

bill said that Proposition 22 only applies to California’s recognition of same-sex “marriages” approved by other states. It does not deal with marriages performed in California, they said. Robert Teegarden, associate director of the California Catholic Conference, told the committee that marriage is not a right but a privilege. In passing Proposition 22, the people of California decided that this privilege should be limited to a union of one man and one woman, he said. “We have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness derived from our creator and affirmed by both the state and federal constitutions,” Mr. Teegarden said. The exercise of those constitutional rights does not require a license, he pointed out. “If it is an activity that requires a license it is a priviSAME-SEX BILL, page 11

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April 23, 2004 farmworkers and some undocumented high school students the chance to become legal permanent residents. Bishop Gregory also asked the president to modify his proposals for a guest worker program to provide a path to legal permanent residency for illegal immigrants already in the United States. One of the pending bills is the Agricultural Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act, known as AgJOBS. A second pending bill is the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act.

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Native American women explore connections with Catholic faith SACRAMENTO — Billee Willson grew up on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation where the Klamath and Trinity rivers meet — a place that continually drew her back and a place she refused to completely leave behind. Stella Vaughn, who was raised on a small farm in northeastern Oklahoma near Mingo, learned about prejudice as a child. It was not until several years after high school that she discovered being Cherokee, Choctaw and African-American was a good thing to be. The two women were among members of Cherokee, Choctaw, Pueblo, Apache, Huastec, Yurok and Miwok tribal nations who attended an unprecedented meeting with Sacramento Auxiliary Bishop Richard J. Garcia earlier this year. The meeting was part of the diocese’s effort to initiate an ongoing relationship with representatives of the Native American community to better understand their life and culture, learn their gifts and address their spiritual needs.

Grants for home missions not keeping pace with need WASHINGTON — The Catholic Home Missions Appeal says it plans to award almost $12 million in grants to financially strapped home mission dioceses this year, but the grants cannot keep pace with the growing needs of the nation’s poorest dioceses. The U.S. bishops’ home missions office released the figures in mid-April, shortly before the annual home mis-

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WASHINGTON — An updated version of the study on the nature and scope of the clergy sex abuse crisis in the U.S. Catholic Church from 1950 to 2002 has been posted on the U.S. bishops’ Web site. The updated version was posted April 16 and fine-tunes some of the statistical data. In several sections it adds further explanations to help understand some of the charts. The study was commissioned by the U.S. bishops’ National Review Board and was conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. It was the first comprehensive study of child sex abuse perpetrated by U.S. priests and deacons. The study was made public Feb. 27. The updated version does not alter any of the major findings. The updated John Jay study can be accessed on the Internet at: http://www.usccb.org/nrb/johnjaystudy/index.htm. U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division attend a memorial service for two comrades at the military base near Najaf, Iraq, April 15. With the deaths of 87 U.S. troops by midmonth, April became the deadliest month for U.S. military since Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled last year.

sions collection was to be taken up April 24-25 in most U.S. Catholic parishes. About 90 U.S. dioceses in rural America rely on home mission grants for parish support, religious education, youth ministry and other tasks of spreading the Gospel, including work with Hispanics and other minority populations. The appeal also provides support to U.S. military chaplaincies through the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services; to Eastern-rite Catholic dioceses, some of which have only a few parishes scattered over a number of states; and to Catholic organizations such as the Catholic Network of Volunteer Service and the Southeast Hispanic Pastoral Center.

Bishop asks Bush to support pending immigration bills WASHINGTON — The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference asked President Bush to exert his influence in getting two pending immigration measures through Congress and to modify his administration’s proposals to help more immigrants legalize their status. In an April 13 letter, Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., asked Bush to support bills that would give some foreign-born

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WASHINGTON — Comparing the child sex abuse problem in the Catholic Church with other sectors of U.S. society is impossible because of the lack of comprehensive data about other institutions, said a detailed report by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Much of the information about other churches and organizations — such as the Boy Scouts of America and Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — comes from newspaper articles, it said. The new report is a companion to the previously released John Jay national study on the nature and scope of child sex abuse in the U.S. church commissioned by the U.S. bishops’ National Review Board. The latest report summarized major academic works on sex abuse of minors over the past 30 years. The aim of the 148-page report titled “Child Sex Abuse: A Review of the Literature” was to provide a context for the clergy sex abuse crisis in the U.S. church. It was completed at the end of March and posted April 2 on the Web site of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at: http://www.usccb.org/nrb/johnjaystudy/litreview.pdf.

Pollster finds ambivalence in U.S. on religion-politics ties WASHINGTON — When it comes to religion and politics, Americans are deeply ambivalent, according to Albert Winseman, religion and values editor for The Gallup Organization in Atlanta. “The public is not quite sure of the role religion should play in government and vice versa,” Winseman said at a recent briefing in Washington for religion reporters. The 86 percent of the U.S. population that believes in God is “far, far higher than Canada, Great Britain or Western Europe,” he said. Another 8 percent of Americans believe in “a higher power or universal spirit,” while only 5 percent said they believe in neither. The latest Gallup figures show that nearly half (49 percent) of Americans identify themselves as Protestants, 24 percent say they are Catholic and 9 percent belong to other Christian religions. Two percent say they are Jewish, 5 percent say they belong to other faiths and 11 percent say they are atheists, agnostics or have no religion. Although two-thirds of Americans think religion can answer today’s problems, Winseman said, “there’s a real disconnect” between that belief and “what they see happening” in American society.

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VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II appealed to fighting factions in the Philippines to end terrorism and resume dialogue with the government. In a speech April 19 to the Philippines’ new ambassador to the Holy See, Leonida Vera, the pope called on various factions to “embrace the path of dialogue, which alone will enable the people of the region to create a society that guarantees justice, peace and harmony for all.” Several separatist groups — mostly in the southern Philippines — have been fighting government forces for decades. Many are engaged in a struggle for independence or greater Muslim autonomy and to bring attention to their cause have adopted extreme measures, such as bomb attacks or the kidnapping of civilians for cash. In his address to Vera, the pope said, “it is essential that the state continue to promote dialogue in society, fostering mutual understanding and appreciation among various religions.”

Sainthood cause advanced for nun who served Hawaii’s lepers VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II has advanced the sainthood cause of Mother Marianne Cope of Molokai, a Franciscan sister who served leprosy patients in Hawaii for 35 years. A decree attesting to the “heroic virtues” of Mother Cope was promulgated at the Vatican April 19. That means the nun is considered venerable and can be beatified once a miracle is attributed to her intercession. Vatican sources said such a miracle was at an advanced stage of study. A second

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Palestinians carry a wounded youth after an Israeli helicopter fired a missile at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip April 15. Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, sent a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush urging him to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

miracle after her beatification will be needed for her to be canonized. Mother Cope, who lived from 1838 to 1918, was the first U.S. missionary to work among patients with leprosy — or Hansen’s disease — in the Hawaiian Islands. When Blessed Damien de Veuster, the more famous Belgian missionary to Hawaiian Hansen’s patients, died of the disease in 1889, Mother Cope took over his ministry as well.

Pope appeals to radical groups in Iraq to show ‘humanity’ VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II appealed to radical groups in Iraq to show “feelings of humanity” and

release the hostages they are holding. At the same time, the pope deplored the “inhuman” violence in the Holy Land, the day after the leader of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas was assassinated in an Israeli missile attack. The pope made his appeal April 18 after reciting midday prayers from his apartment window overlooking St. Peter’s Square. “I am following with great sadness the tragic news coming out of the Holy Land and Iraq,” the pope said. “May the bloodshed among brothers end. Such inhuman acts are contrary to the will of God,” he said. The pope said he joined in the prayers of families “who are fearful for their loved ones, especially those who have been taken as hostages.”

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Annual prison ministry prayer breakfast The Service League of San Mateo will host its 18th Annual Community Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, May 6 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Foster City. The Service League works to help inmates and ex-offenders in San Mateo County through a variety of programs geared to motivate prisoners while recognizing their worth by encouraging them to become productive citizens. The programs aim toward an inmate’s successful re-entry into the community. Programs include services to the families of inmates, family re-unification, educational opportunities and the provision of clothing and hotel and bus vouchers for those being released from custody. “When they get out of prison, a lot of them are homeless,” Diane Rummel with the Service League said, “We try to restore their dignity.” One of the most important aspects of restoring dignity is provided by the Service League’s religious services programs. Pastoral and spiritual support as well as worship services, meditation classes and Bible studies for male and

female inmates at San Mateo County jails are coordinated through the Service League. The services themselves are provided by a committed group of 215 religious service providers of numerous faith traditions including many Catholics. The purpose of the Annual Breakfast is to bring together civic, community, church and business leaders for inspiration and prayer. All proceeds from the breakfast support the Service League’s religious services program. KRON TV broadcaster Vic Lee will be Master of Ceremonies. San Francisco minister and City College lecturer Dr. Elliott Osborne will be keynote speaker. He will speak on the meaning of restorative justice and his first hand experience of being restored. The program begins at 7:30 a.m. and ends at 9:00 a.m. An optional prayer hour begins at 6:00 a.m. Cost is $35 per person and tables of 10 are available. Reservations can be made by visiting website www.serviceleague.org or call Diane Rummel at 650-364-4664.

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‘Loaves and Fishes’ dinner recognizes individuals, organizations Archbishop William J. Levada welcomed 350 guests to the annual Loaves and Fishes Dinner March 20 in San Francisco. The evening, which benefits programs of Catholic Charities CYO, raised more than $650,000. The annual event also recognizes “extraordinary charitable works” of individuals and organizations, according to Catholic Charities CYO. This year’s honorees included social justice advocate, Msgr. Eugene Boyle; local businessman, John Malcolm; Catholic Healthcare West; and The Guardsmen. The acknowledgements are aimed at inspiring the spirit of philanthropy and support for Catholic Charities CYO and all charitable organizations in the Bay Area, the agency said. Msgr. Boyle, ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1946, has “worked to improve access to housing and jobs” and “universal access to education,” Catholic Charities CYO said, “and has always fought for those who needed him most.” John Malcolm, founder of the now internationally known Malcolm Drilling Company, was described as a loyal employer who has created a “culture of caring, shared responsibility for one another and professional excellence.” He has been very active, Catholic Charities CYO said, “behind the scenes” in “personal philanthropy and caring for others.” Catholic Healthcare West, created in 1986 by the Sisters of Mercy, now includes 41 hospitals. CHW maintains a “commitment to the healing ministry” while continuing to “improve the quality of life and to create healthy communities,” Catholic Charities CYO said. The organization was also lauded for its advocacy on behalf of the “poor and disenfranchised.” The Guardsmen were honored for the volunteer service of its members and more than 55 years of “providing disadvantaged youth an opportunity to participate in camping, educational and other culturally enriching opportunities,” according to Catholic Charities CYO. One of the group’s efforts funds children’s stays at Catholic Charities CYO’s summer camp facilities.

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‘Roots of Peace’ helping to rid the world of dangerous landmines By Sharon Abercrombie St. Raphael parishioners Heidi Kuhn and her teen-age daughter Kyleigh, presented a $70,000 check last month to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in New York to help efforts to clear war-torn fields in Afghanistan of landmines, which lie hidden with no time limit on their capability to kill and maim. The mother-daughter presentation took place March 5 in the General Assembly of the U.N. during a convocation of students — delegates’ children attending the U.N. School. The check represented six and a half million pennies donated by local students during a three month period last year, “plus additional donations, which keep coming in,” according to Ms. Kuhn, founding director of the non-profit organization “Roots of Peace.” Begun seven years ago, Roots of Peace has raised more than $1 million, some in matching donations from other groups including several local wineries, to remove land mines in Croatia, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Roots of Peace is replanting the land with grapes, wheat, cherries, walnuts and other food crops. Kyleigh Kuhn, 16, a junior at Marin Catholic High School, spearheaded the “Pennies for Peace” project, which took place September through December last year in 75 Marin County schools. The money raised in the “pennies” project will be used for schools and soccer fields. Kyleigh initiated the effort after a trip to war-torn Croatia, where she saw for herself the demolished houses, traumatized people, and the landmine-ridden farm land going to waste. Pennies for Peace, the outgrowth of her visit, is the result of a brainstorming lunch she had with her mother and her mother’s friend, KGO ABC-TV news anchor, Cheryl Jennings. Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams chaired the Pennies for Peace project. The huge penny collection became part of an Offertory gifts procession at a children’s Mass December at St. Raphael Church in San Rafael. A cadre of kids wheeled the pennies to the altar in a line of little red wagons. Heidi and Kyleigh’s trip to New York was a family affair, as are most Roots of Peace events. For this trip, Gary Kuhn, husband and dad, paid the air fares for their sons, Brooks, 20, Tucker, 18, and Christian, 8. Brooks has been to Croatia, and Tucker will go either there or to Cambodia this summer. Christian will get to go in four years when he is 12. The Kuhn family celebrated Easter this year in the absence of Gary, who was in Afghanistan selecting sites for soccer fields that will be provided by the pennies project. Roots of Peace had its official birth after Heidi Kuhn watched a TV newscast on the death of Princess Diana,

Jody Williams and Kyleigh Kuhn, Marin Catholic High School student and co-founder of the Roots of Peace “Pennies for Peace” campaign.

who had advocated for the removal of land mines. Diana was well known for her ability to put human faces onto landmine tragedies —-such as, the children who had lost arms and legs and eyes, while playing outside in innocent looking, but deadly fields, Ms. Kuhn learned. When she looked out her San Rafael window and watched her own children playing in carefree, safe circumstances, Heidi Kuhn had to do something. So she called some friends she knew at the United Nations Association, a non-profit group that supports the work of the U.N. and asked how she could help. They were delighted, and had just the job for Ms. Kuhn. Could she play hostess to a group who would be in San Francisco as part of a nine-city land mine awareness tour? Two weeks later, in her living room, Ms. Kuhn and 100 guests listened as the group presented the harrowing facts about landmines: someone steps on one every 22 minutes. Land mines kill or maim about 26,000 men, women and children each year. There are more than 70 million land mines in more than 70 countries, and it costs $1,000 to remove a landmine, which costs between $3 to $30 dollars to make and install. Without knowing where the prompt came from, Heidi Kuhn suddenly raised her glass of wine, and said, “May the world go from mines to vines.” Later, enlisting the help of several wineries and Rotary Clubs, Roots of Peace went into operation. But, in looking back, now, Ms. Kuhn thinks Roots of Peace had its inception from two other factors as well –

Students at Brookside School in San Anselmo giving their contribution to the “Pennies for Peace” project.

heredity and a childhood dream. Of Scottish background, Heidi Kuhn’s descendants hail from the McNear Clan who first came to California in 1840. They supplied the Bay Area with milk, eggs and butter from their Sonoma farm for years. They still own the 250-year old McNear Brickyard. “I’ve always had this pioneer spirit and respect for the land – land that should be used to feed people, not as killing fields,” she later realized. Another seed for Roots of Peace was probably sown the day John F. Kennedy was murdered, she said. “I was in kindergarten at Dominican that day. We were coloring. All of a sudden, the mommies and daddies came to take us home. It was raining. As they put our raincoats on, they were crying. I felt so sorry for them. I remember thinking, ‘what can I do to keep the mommies and daddies from crying?’” That night, after she went to sleep little Heidi dreamt about Mary. “She was a beautiful woman looking down at me with the most loving presence. Her hands were outstretched to me. Her eyes radiated absolutely love.” Remembered dreams can percolate for years. Their dreamers can get new hits and “aha’s” anywhere along the life path. As Roots of Peace plans simmered in her mind, Ms. Kuhn received an “aha.” What better way to keep the mom‘ROOTS OF PEACE, page 9

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‘Roots of peace’ . . . ■ Continued from page 8 mies and daddies – especially in landmine plagued countries from weeping, than making their farms safe for the children and for the growing of good nourishing food again. Mary would certainly approve, believes Heidi Kuhn. With stories like these peppering one’s life for more than 23 years of marriage, Gary Kuhn just couldn’t resist jumping in to assist his wife’s organization. “You just kind of get drawn in,” he said, laughing easily. Mr. Kuhn, a former executive at IBM and Adobe, went to work for Roots nearly three years ago. He is presently overseeing the planning and rebuilding of a soccer field and school in an area north of Kabul, Afghanistan, as well as de-mining and replanting of grape vines and cleaning up of irrigation canals. Through the efforts of the Halo Trust, a British mine removal organization with which Roots of Peace has contracted, 2,000 villagers have been able to move back to their homes. Another 2,000 are still living in tents, said Mr. Kuhn. He hates to see this happening to a people whom he has discovered are warm, friendly, gracious souls. UC Davis and 50 other subcontractors are heading up the grapevine planting effort. “We’ve had to teach the farmers how to plant and take care of their grapevines,” explained Mr. Kuhn. Because of a 25 year war, first with the Soviet Union, followed by a civil war and finally with the Taliban and Al Queda, a whole generation of farmers has forgotten how to farm in an area that has cultivated grapes, walnuts and pomegranates for the past 7,000 years. Roots of Peace is one of many NGOs who have partnered with the U.S. State Department’s efforts to clean up landmines. During the last decade the State Department has invested over $600 million in the project. Earlier this year, the Bush administration pledged up to $70 million for landmine removal in more than 40 countries. The removal money covers the kinds of weapons Roots of Peace is helping to eliminate. While increasing its financial support for this project, the Bush administration decided to continue using “smart” mines, those which self-destruct on some timetable, through 2010. It also has declined to sign on to the International Landmine Ban Treaty, a treaty which has

Heidi Kuhn, Kofi Annan, Diane Disney Miller and Nane Annan at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles Dec. 3 as Roots of Peace receives a humanitarian award.

been signed by 141 countries including those in NATO. An administration spokesperson said the decision to keep using them “aims to strike a balance between military need to retain effective weapons and humanitarian concerns.” As part of its balancing equation, the administration will continue to use the “dumb” variety of landmines in North Korea. It will use the newer, self-destructing mines freely without any geographic restrictions, according to Human Rights Watch, even though they can kill or maim innocent civilians while still viable. Human Rights Watch notes that these weapons are often flawed and do not always follow the “self destruct” timetable. Heidi Kuhn’s reaction: “I am having great difficulty giv-

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Presentation Sisters honored as St. Anne’s convent to close By Evelyn Zappia Prayer, gratitude and treasured memories marked the Mass and luncheon April 6 honoring the Sisters of Presentation for their 84 years of service to St. Anne’s Elementary School. Among the estimated 34 Presentation Sisters attending the celebration were Sisters Frances Sherman and Teresa Boarrna, the last two Sisters remaining at the school’s convent. The Sisters’ recent request to move into the Mother House, according to Administrator Sister Patricia Anne, left the convent vacant and its closing imminent. The closure date of May 15 spurred talk among the school faculty, staff, and students regarding an event, recognizing the many years of service and sacrifice the Presentations Sisters gave freely to the Sunset District School. “It was the most beautiful day I ever experienced,” said Sister Teresa. “Everything was beautiful, the liturgy, the singing, the Mass, and the luncheon was just perfect. Pastor Eduardo Dura celebrated Mass and former pastors of St. Anne of the Sunset Church: Father Richard Deitch (19901995) and Father Anthony McGuire (1995-1998) concelebrated. Reflecting on that day, Father Dura said the Sisters’ faces represented the many years of service to the Church - people who gave up everything to serve. He told them, “Although the thousands you helped cannot express their gratitude today, you do not need it because the Lord is your inheritance.” “The Mass was a lovely tribute to the Sisters,” said Sister Patricia Anne, who also commented on the wonderful choir, and inspiring violin rendition of Amazing Grace, by second grader Natalie Law. At the luncheon, Sister Kathleen Healy accepted a $5,200 check for the renovation of the Mother House, located near the University of San Francisco on Turk Boulevard. Faculty members, Laverne Fahey, Noreen O’Reilly, Kathleen Kelly, and Pat Meek organized a fundraiser to which the students responded generously. “I think we’re

Sisters of the Presentation came to the special Mass and luncheon.

going to have free dress days until May 5,” said Diane Mulligan. The secretary of the school for the last 24 years said the eighth graders sold free dress passes and movie-day coupons. With a little extra help from faculty and staff, the 502 students raised the $5,200 presented to Sister Healy. “We are very grateful,” said Sister Patricia Anne. “The donation will be used to make our Sisters more comfortable, so we can take care of them in their home.” A difficult task these days with the aging population and the critical needs such as, health care. A 50-member school chorus, conducted by Laura Flaviani, youth ministry, entertained at the luncheon. “They were just wonderful,” said Sister Teresa. “To get a group like that so organized takes 100 percent dedication.” Looking back, Sister Teresa said about her many years of teaching, “It was “absolutely thrilling to watch the children learning.” Although the 80-year-old Sister admits to “mixed feel-

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Court grants dioceses’ petition for coordination of abuse cases A Los Angeles Superior Court judge April 19 ruled in favor of a request by a half-dozen Catholic dioceses in northern California seeking coordination of outstanding clergy abuse cases. The Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Dioceses of Oakland, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Monterey and Stockton had filed a petition for coordination of cases earlier

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■ Continued from page 3 lege,” he said. “Society has defined the requirements for the privilege of marriage – most recently in California in Proposition 22. The words of Prop 22 very clearly say that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman.” “In order to obtain the privileges of marriage, those applying must meet the definitions agreed upon by society for the common good. . . . one man, one woman of suitable age, not closely related and not already married to another.” This bill “unfortunately tries to raise the issue of that privilege to a right” and place it on the same level as civil rights such as those based on race, Mr. Teegarden said. AB 1967 attempts to create a historic transformation of the institution of marriage with a few simple changes in the California Family Code’s references to marriage. The bill would remove the words woman and man and male and female, and replace them with the words person and persons. On the surface, the legislation, entitled the “California Marriage License Nondiscrimination Act,” seems to be a

Judge McCoy, in his decision, said, “Managing overlapping legal and factual issues in a single pre-trial context will prevent duplicative discovery, preserve judicial resources, and avoid inconsistent rulings.” In addition to granting the petition for coordination of cases, the court recommended to the Judicial Council that the San Francisco Superior Court is the appropriate venue for coordination. The court also recommended the Second Appellate District Court in Los Angeles be the reviewing court having appellate jurisdiction. Tobin & Tobin Attorney Paul Gaspari, representing the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said he was pleased at the court’s ruling. He

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By Jayme George and Royd Hatta

If you never understood or even liked Shakespeare before, all that is about to change. Not only is there magic hidden just beneath the surface of Shakespeare’s words, but his plays have left us with one of the greatest literary mysteries ever! Join me and my annoying little brother as we tackle the question, who wrote Shakespeare’s plays?

The Great Shakespeare Mystery Here is something your teachers won’t tell you: there has been a debate raging about who wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Some people don’t question that the real author was a man named Will Shakspere. Others think the author of the plays was really an important Earl named Edward de Vere. My brother thinks he is the real Shakespeare, but that’s a whole other story. Decide for yourself who YOU think wrote all those great plays and poems. ❧ Will Shakspere was born in Stratford-on-Avon, and later became a minor actor in London. The name “Shakespeare” appeared on the first major publication of the plays. The variation in spelling (Shakspere and Shakespeare) was very common at the time. ❧ When he was alive, at the time of his death, and for nearly 200 years afterwards, no one questioned that Will Shakspere had written the plays. ❧ A monument in a church in Stratford-on-Avon acknowledges a writer known as Shakspeare. ❧ Many of the plays contain references to Catholic imagery. Shakspere’s family and friends were Catholic, and he may have been Catholic himself. BUT… ❧ Edward de Vere was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth’s court as well as a recognized poet, playwright, and patron of acting companies. ❧ As an aristocrat, de Vere had much more education than Will Shakspere. He studied law, literature, many languages, falconry, and other special skills that are mentioned often in the plays. ❧ The events and experiences of de Vere’s life show up in many of the plays, most notably in the play “Hamlet.”’ ❧ There is little evidence that Will Shakspere had anything to do with theatre, especially playwriting. In fact, there is very little that we know for sure about his life, and what we do know suggests that he was not a writer, but a businessman. ❧ But the most important fact, the one that destroys both sides of the debate, is that I am Shakespeare! Ha!

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Catholic San Francisco

April 23, 2004

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Stomping on free speech By John Leo “Canada is a pleasantly authoritarian country,” Alan Borovoy, general counsel of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, said a few years ago. An example of what he means is Bill C-250, a repressive, anti-free-speech measure that is on the brink of becoming law in Canada. It would add “sexual orientation” to the Canadian hate propaganda law, thus making public criticism of homosexuality a crime. It is sometimes called the “Bible as Hate Literature” bill, or simply “the chill bill.” It could ban publicly expressed opposition to gay marriage or any other political goal of gay groups. The bill has a loophole for religious opposition to homosexuality, but few scholars think it will offer protection, given the strength of the gay lobby and the trend toward censorship in Canada. Law Prof. David Bernstein, in his new book “You Can’t Say That!” wrote that “it has apparently become illegal in Canada to advocate traditional Christian opposition to homosexual sex.” Or traditional Jewish or Muslim opposition, too. Since Canada has no First Amendment, anti-bias laws generally trump free speech and freedom of religion. A recent flurry of cases has mostly gone against free expression. The Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission ruled that a newspaper ad listing biblical passages that oppose homosexuality was a human-rights offense. The commission ordered the paper and Hugh Owens, the man who placed the ad, to pay $1,500 each to three gay men who objected to it. In another case, a British Columbia court upheld the one-month suspension, without pay, of a high school teacher who wrote letters to a local paper arguing that homosexuality is not a fixed orientation but a condition that can and should be treated. The teacher, Chris Kempling, was not accused of discrimination, merely of expressing thoughts that the state defines as improper. That anti-free-speech principle, social conservatives argue, will become explicit national policy under C-250, with criminal penalties attached. Religious groups say it would become risky for them to teach certain biblical passages. If a student says something that irritates homosexuals in class, the student’s parents might be held legally liable. Some Canadians worry that, for instance, discussions about gay men giving blood will be suppressed. Robert Spitzer of Columbia University, a longtime supporter of gay rights and an important figure in the American Psychiatric Association, published a study finding that many gays can become heterosexual. Would that study be banned under C-250 as hate speech? And since C-250 does not mention homosexuality but focuses broadly on “sexual orientation,” Canada’s freewheeling judiciary may explicitly extend protection to many “sexual minorities.” Pedophilia and sadism are among the conditions listed by the American Psychiatric Association under “sexual orientation.” The churches seem to be the key target of C-250. One of Canada’s gay senators denounced “ecclesiastical dictators” and wrote to a critic, “You people are sick. God should strike you dead.” In 1998, lesbian lawyer Barbara Finlay of British Columbia said “the legal struggle for queer rights will one day be a struggle between freedom of religion versus sexual orientation.” It’s starting to be defined just that way in other countries. In Sweden, sermons are explicitly covered by an anti-hate-speech law passed to protect homosexuals. The Swedish chancellor of justice said any reference to the Bible’s stating that homosexuality is sinful might be a criminal offense, and a Pentecostal minister is already facing charges. In Britain, police investigated Anglican Bishop Peter Forster of Chester after he told a local paper: “Some people who are primarily homosexual can reorientate themselves. I would encourage them to consider that as an option.” Police sent a copy of his remarks to prosecutors, but the case was dropped. In Ireland last August, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties warned that clergy who circulated a Vatican statement opposing gay marriages could face prosecution under incitement-to-hatred legislation. In the United States, the dominance of anti-bias laws and rules limiting free speech and free exercise of religion is clear on campuses, not so clear in the real world. Still, First Amendment arguments are losing ground to antidiscrimination laws in many areas, and once stalwart free-speech groups, like the American Civil Liberties Union, have mostly gone over to the other side. An unlikely split has occurred. In the interest of fighting bias, liberal groups reliably promote laws that limit First Amendment principles. The best defenders of free speech and freedom of religion are no longer on the left. They are found on the right. John Leo is a national columnist syndicated by Universal Press.

Another voice Congratulations to Catholic San Francisco for the tremendous coverage in the April 9th issue of the prayer rally held in San Francisco showing support for marriage and family. The beginning article on page one and the excellent pictures in the center pages prove that a large number of people of all ages support traditional marriage. It is time that those favoring traditional marriage no longer remain silent. It is important to counteract the view one could get from secular coverage in newspapers and television that the great majority approves of counterfeit “marriage.” The first column of letters in the same issue plus the one from Kenya show that there is more that just local support for marriage as only between one man and one woman. Rose Marie Webb San Rafael

Puzzling absence The rally for Traditional Marriage and Family led by Archbishop Levada and Bishop Vigneron on Saturday, April 3 was very inspiring for all of us. I felt honored by the presence of so many people, particularly families and priests who came over to show their support for the truth of God’s divine plan for man and woman in the context of marriage and family. However, there was one thing that puzzled me the most. I did not see a group of religious sisters showing support for Traditional Marriage and Family. I did see few individual religious sisters in their habits, but what I mostly saw was groups of priests, seminarians, novices and lay people with small children showing their support at this rally. I was equally puzzled because there was a group of religious sisters marching at a peace rally a few months ago in downtown San Francisco along with their banners, representing their religious congregations, protesting the war in Iraq. Did any of them come to the rally for Traditional Marriage and Family? Father Thomas Coughlin St. Benedict Parish San Francisco

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In his Inaugural Address, President Bush made a big point about being a compassionate conservative; yet he supports a Constitutional amendment that would disenfranchise a whole segment of our citizenry by denying marriage rights for same-gender couples. How compassionate is that? Richard Boyle San Francisco

Free exercise When it comes to Catholicism, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer appears inappropriately ignorant of what our faith is and how it works. He is therefore off base in claiming that Catholic Charities is “nonreligious,” hence not exempt from a secular provision of law that conflicts with the agency’s Catholic character and mission. Through 80-plus years I’ve known that being Catholic entails earnest efforts to apply Christ’s teachings in daily life. It’s called prac-

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ticing the faith. It includes helping neighbors who hunger, shiver, hurt, or have other needs, whatever their beliefs. With our support, Catholic Charities reaches out to the needy in our area. Through other groups, our neighborly reach can extend to far shores. It would be unCatholic to condition help on reciprocal sharing of or receptivity to our faith - the litmus that Lockyer upholds for what’s religious and not. He goes further, Lockyer claims government may not contract for social services unless a religious provider hires people who don’t agree with its moral views on personal and social responsibility. Good works fulfill our faith. The U.S. Constitution guarantees us that freedom. It does not authorize public authority to define a religion or set its rules. Nor does it say or imply that government may purchase social services only if a religious provider suspends inherent beliefs and free practice thereof. Free practice means freedom to entrust a vital mission to those who share an understanding of what they are doing and why. James W. Kelly San Bruno

Why so flip? The Chronicle Pink section’s “This Week” Easter item about a “Hunky Jesus” competition had this advice for those who might not think the event funny: “It’s easy. If you’d be offended don’t go.” Why so flip? I can’t imagine the same lecture if the event involved, say, a minstrel show, a screening of “The Birth of a Nation” or the opening of a Hooters. A day later the paper’s Datebook ran an extensive piece decrying the movie “The Alamo” as just more antiMexican propaganda. Offended? Easy. Don’t go. No wonder so many of my friends put journalists in the for-profit media in the same class as rat catchers. James O. Clifford Sr. Redwood City

Mercy and violence

I have read a number of letters about “The Passion of the Christ,” and I have some responses which I hope will be helpful to people who won’t see the film, or don’t like it because of the violence. First, that it is anti-Semitic. I don’t think it is, anymore than the Gospels are. Facts are facts, and the fact is some, not all, of the Jewish leaders then, did have a part in bringing about Jesus’ execution. I never felt that all of the Jews living then, or any of the Jews since then, were responsible for Jesus’ death. We are all responsible for Jesus’ death in that we are all sinners. Many people have complained about the violence in the movie. It certainly depicts Jesus’ Passion very graphically, but I think we Christians needed this, to show us what Our Lord actually went through for us. If Jesus had just been slapped or punched a couple of times that would not make the impact on people that His actual Passion was. The Passion happened because of two reasons: our sins, and Jesus’ very deep and passionate love for all of us. This film deepened my faith tremendously, and greatly increased my love and devotion for Jesus. I can see beyond the pain, the blood and gore, and I see Divine Love and Mercy. Theresa Murney So. San Francisco

More buts Kudos to Bishop Olmstead of Phoenix for his resume of the “Catholic But.” More could be added but I suggest three: CEO’s have their products manufactured in countries where human rights are violated BUT the profits outweigh this immorality from their stockholders and those who buy the products. Smokers know the dangers especially to children BUT they do nothing about that irresistible urge. One final “BUT.” We all know right from wrong, BUT fail to pray and fast to gain the Holy Spirit’s strength to overcome our failures to accept the example of Mary and the Saints to make a better world of peace and love and concern, beginning with ourselves. Father George Twigg-Porter Director, Apostleship of Prayer San Francisco

April 23, 2004

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The Catholic Difference Why support a Federal Marriage Amendment? Here are ten reasons why. 1. The FMA will prevent activist judges from redefining marriage to fit their squinty reading of the “signs of the times.” There isn’t the slightest shred of evidence to support the claim that the American people want this redefinition. Those who do should have the democratic courtesy to take their case to legislatures, not courts. Judicial usurpation of decision-making on grave issues of public policy is undermining democracy. It’s time to draw the line. This is the place. 2. “Marriage” is not something the state can legitimately redefine. Marriage is a human institution thousands of years older than the state; a just state recognizes that and structures its laws accordingly. The state is under moral judgment here, not the institution of marriage as it’s been understood for millennia. 3. Attempts to redefine marriage inevitably involve parallel attempts to drive religiously-informed moral norms from public life. The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, for example, declared marriage a “wholly secular institution” in its recent decision mandating so-called “gay marriage.” The Massachusetts Supremes were wrong, but if their opinion prevails, it will be another step toward establishing secularism as the official ideology of the United States. 4. Government-sanctioned same-sex “marriage” will inevitably lead to demands that homosexual sex be discussed “neutrally” in public schools. Parents who fight this will be branded irrational bigots. This is already happening to supporters of the Federal Marriage Amendment. 5. The same charge of bigotry will be laid against priests,

ministers, and rabbis who decline to perform “gay marriages.” One young priest I know, an entirely sober soul, told me that he fully expects to see clergy of his generation jailed for refusing to perform same-sex “weddings.” He is not being alarmist. Unhappy precedents have already been set in Canada and Great Britain, where clergy have been subjected to the pressures of the criminal law for teaching classic Christian doctrine on homosexual behavior. 6. Some constitutionally fastidious conservatives and a few dissembling politicians argue that marriage has always been a matter for the states. This is historically inaccurate. Several federal laws against polygamy were passed in the nineteenth century, and absent federal intervention, polygamy might well have been legal in several states. Moreover, gay “marriage” activists will insist that any one state’s “gay marriage” provision be recognized in every other state under the Constitution’s “full faith and credit” clause – and they’ll find a lot of the federal appellate bench supporting that claim. In the current political, cultural, and judicial climates, defining marriage is, inescapably, a national issue. 7. Then there’s the slippery slope, which in this instance is an empirical reality, not a logical fallacy. If states can redefine marriage as the union of two men or two women, on what principled ground will states deny the claims of one man and three women to be married? Or two women and three men? There is no such ground. If gay “marriage” becomes the law of the land, polygamy and polyandry are not far away. 8. Gay “marriage” advocates insist that family “structure” doesn’t matter. Haven’t we learned from years of a

lengthy, failed experiment in social welfare policy that marriage “structure” does count? What’s just about ignoring the overwhelming social scientific evidence that kids flourish best in a George Weigel stable family led by a father and a mother? To endorse same-sex “marriage” is to declare that motherless or fatherless families are social goods. The kids, as usual, will suffer most. 9. We’ve already seen the damage that’s been done to marriage and to children by a culture that increasingly divides “marriage” and “procreation.” Legally endorsing same-sex “marriage” will accelerate the separation of marriage and parenting. 10. What would we be saying about ourselves and our traditions if same-sex “marriage” wins the day? Among other things, we’d be saying that the biblical understanding of marriage and the family is wrong, even bigoted. We’d be saying that there’s nothing really important about our being created male and female. We’d be saying that “marriage” is something than can be redefined by anyone seeking to meet a personal “need.” Is that what we want to say to, and about, ourselves? I don’t think so. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Family Life

Getting away close to home “Are we there yet?” Like most kids, Lucas and Gabe are destinationfocused travelers. We’ve tried to persuade them that life is a journey, that getting there is half the fun. But all they care about is getting to the motel and jumping in the pool. Finally, we decided to try it their way. We booked a room in a motel five minutes from our home. Turns out they were right. We had all the fun of traveling with none of the hassle. Packing was a breeze, we never got lost, and we didn’t even have to fill the gas tank. And we still got those little shampoo bottles, free hot chocolate in the lobby, and all the ice we wanted from the machine in the hallway. Our room, overlooking the beautiful Canyon Creek Shopping Center, may not have been a prime tourist location, but it had everything we needed. We swam in the pool, soaked in the hot tub, and surfed the net in the business center. We lounged in our room, playing cards and watching old movies. We went out to dinner at a nearby Italian restaurant. “Let’s go swimming again!” said Gabe when we got back to the room. I sat in a chaise lounge with a magazine while the boys

laughed and splashed in the water. Afterward, we went down to the lobby to drink hot chocolate and play a board game. Soon the snow flurries outside the window turned serious. “Can we go out in the snow?” asked Lucas. They pulled on their coats and ran outside, jumping and twirling in the falling snow. The motel clerk looked up from her paperwork and smiled. “They keep you busy, don’t they?” “Oh, yeah,” I said, and I breathed a prayer of thanks for all the joy they bring to my life. In the morning, the boys got up with their dad to explore the breakfast buffet. By the time I got there, they’d polished off a bowl of Lucky Charms and several doughnuts. “We’re going to go play on the computer, OK, Mom?” I filled a bowl with granola and sat down to eat. At another table, a family was frowning at a map as they planned their day in Seattle. I stopped by the business center and pried the boys away from the computer. “Let’s take a walk.” When we got back to the room, Steve was happily flipping through the TV channels. “We should do this

more often,” he said. Our close-to-home vacation gave our family a chance to spend some fun, relaxing time together. Our experience showed me that you don’t have to go far to get away. A quick break can revitalize us and help put us in Christine Dubois touch with what’s really important. It’s the same in our spiritual lives. We don’t have to take a long pilgrimage to find God—God is always close at hand. An extra 15 minutes in prayer, a meditative walk on the beach, a spiritual book—all can be mini-vacations with God that refresh our spirit and renew our relationship with our Creator and Savior. Best of all, you never have to wonder if you’re there yet. Christine Dubois is a widely published freelance writer who lives with her family near Seattle.

Spirituality

Waiting for the Resurrection “When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it, always.” Mohandas K. Gandhi wrote those words and they can be helpful in difficult times. We live in difficult times. We’ve only to watch the news on any given evening. If there’s an all-powerful, and all-loving God who’s Lord of this universe, his presence isn’t very evident on the evening news. There’s violence all over the planet, fueled on every side by self-righteous ideologies that sanction hatred, and by a socially-approved greed that lets the poor fend for themselves. It’s fair and reflective to wonder: Where is the resurrection in all of this? Why is God seemingly so inactive? These are important questions, even if they aren’t particularly deep or new. They were the questions used to taunt Jesus on the cross: “If you’re the Son of God, come down off that cross! If you’re God, prove it! Act now!” Then and now, it seems, we’ve never figured out why salvation can’t work like a normal movie where, at the end, a morally superior violence kills off all that’s bad. Except God doesn’t work like a Hollywood movie and never has. For centuries they prayed for a messiah to come and display a power and a glory that would simply overpower evil, but what they got was a helpless baby lying in the straw. And when that baby grew up they wanted him to overthrow the Roman Empire and instead he let himself be crucified.

But God, as revealed in the death and resurrection of Jesus, doesn’t meet our expectations even as he infinitely exceeds them. What the resurrection teaches is that God doesn’t forcibly intervene to stop pain and death. God rids the world of evil not by using force to blot it out, but by vindicating what’s good in the eyes of evil so that eventually the good is all that’s left. Evil has to forever “look upon the one whom it has pierced!” until it understands what it has done and lets itself be transformed. How does this work? What the resurrection of Jesus reveals is that there’s a deep moral structure to the universe, that this structure, anchored at its center by Ultimate love and power, is non-negotiable: You live life its way or it simply won’t come out right. More importantly, the reverse is also true: If you respect the structure and live life its way, what’s good and true and loving will eventually triumph. If this is true, and it is, then we don’t have to escape pain and death to achieve victory, we’ve only to remain faithful, good, and true inside of them. However, part of what’s revealed here is that we need a great patience, a patience called hope. God’s day will come, but God, it seems, is not in any hurry. Good and truth will always triumph, but this triumph must be waited for, not because God wants us to endure pain as some kind of test, but because God, unlike ourselves, doesn’t use coercion or violence to achieve an aim. God uses only love, truth, beauty and goodness, embedding them into the universe itself, like a giant moral immune system that, eventually, always

brings the body back to health. God doesn’t use a morally superior violence to kill the bad people so that the good are spared pain and death. God lets the universe right itself the way a body does when it is attacked by a virus. Father The immune system Ron Rolheiser eventually does its work, even if, in the short term, there are pain and death. Simply put: Whenever we do anything wrong, anything at all, it won’t turn out right. It can’t. The structure of the universe won’t receive it and it comes back to us, one way or the other. Conversely, whenever we do something right, anything that’s true, good, loving or beautiful, the universe vindicates that. It judges our every act and its judgment allows no exceptions. Perhaps that judgment doesn’t seem to be immediate. We can be confused and ask: “Why doesn’t God, truth and goodness, come down off the cross?” But, eventually, as Gandhi says, always, without a single exception, evil is shamed and good triumphs. The resurrection works. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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April 23, 2004

THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER

Scripture

Acts 5:27-32; Psalm 30 Revelations 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 (RV 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 OR JN 21:1-14) 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.”

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You know that I love you My father forced me to fish. As a young boy, I sat on a hard wooden seat in a tiny boat swatting at mosquitoes and waving at flies, watching a small cork gathering moss and insects. I would dream of playing baseball or shooting baskets with the boys in the school yard. I never knew why my dad loved this apparently useless activity. He did not need to feed the family with our catch. But like most fathers, he knew best! He was fishing for peace of mind and a chance to get away from his working world and all the pressure it entailed. He found God in fishing. Peter and his pals find themselves in the same boat, as the Gospel of this week describes how they are floating aimlessly catching nothing. Jesus comes on the scene and everything changes. “It is the Lord,” Peter says, as the nets begin to fill up. Then the dialogue of “love” between Peter and Jesus takes place. A few years ago, a Bud Lite beer commercial featured two young men together and the one without a beer kept telling his buddy, “I love you Man.” He said it in such a way with the emphasis on “love” that his friend began to doubt his veracity and his very commitment as a friend. Peter seems to be responding to Jesus

with the same doubt and confusion. After the same question is repeated to him three times, Peter says, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Some families say it as a matter of habit when coming or going, “Love you Mom!” “Love you!” Sometimes they mean it; sometimes they do it because they have been parroting what they heard growing up. It can be a hurtful phrase when it’s done without connection to the heart. “Love you, no, love YOU” … an expression filled with sweet syrup and dripping with goo and gushing all over the place, without a focus. “You look pretty today Mom!” No, I don’t! I say you do look pretty and I’m saying it because I love you! I heard that in a home once and it made perfect sense to me. “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Of course I do, and I am saying it from the heart, because I DO love you! We see signs of love all around us. The words “I love you” don’t have to be repeated. They are exhibited in gestures, in smiles, in looks across crowded rooms; in the knowledge and trust that we have for each other. “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.”

The ‘Truth of Reality’ is a person By Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete When the early Christians entered into the religious world of the Roman Empire, they associated themselves intellectually with its philosophical critics. “Religion,” at that time, was not considered as a source of truth about reality, but as the realm of poets and those who sought ways of interpreting the rites, myths, and symbols that expressed the people’s sense of identity, meaning, and purpose. “Rationality,” the way to discover “the truth” of the universe, had nothing to do with religion. Christianity, of course, saw itself as the fulfillment of human religious needs, but only because it was the way of grasping what is real, of grasping the “truth.” That is why the early Christian thinkers were considered “atheists,” allies of the rationalists who sought to “demythologize” religion. Christians today face a similar situation. Christianity is “acceptable” as a private religious option, as a way of expressing and dealing with the emotions and conflicts that characterize human “interiority.” It is even possible to accept Christianity as a way of dealing with a “Mystery” that transcends human life, as long as it is seen as one of many possible ways of responding to this Mystery. For others, Christianity is valid as a moral force for good in society, as an inspiration for human creativity and works of compassion. Problems arise when Christians insist—in the words of Tertullian—that Christianity is the following of Someone who did not come to teach us an ethical social behavior, but the Truth of God’s creation. This is what provokes opposition to Christianity, from its beginnings until today. This claim of Christianity is seen as a temptation to intolerance and social divisiveness, all the more so when “truth” is defined not by reason but by Power. Whatever else we do in the “New Evangelization” in order to propose the Christian Gospel to today’s world, it is

absolutely essential not to reduce the Christian message to an ethical system or a way to express the perceptions of transcendence, of mystery, of the “unknown.” The Gospel is not merely a proposal about “values” to guide our lives. There is an observation by Fr Giussani that shocked me into realizing how my thinking as a theologian stood in the way of grasping the “origin” of the Christian claim. In “The Christian Event,” Giussani writes, “In the end, it is possible to recognize Christ as the consistency of all things and even to base a theology on this affirmation. But Christ is first of all a lump of blood in the womb of Our Lady. This lump became a child and then He grew up, died, and ascended into heaven. And, as a method of His continuing presence in history, He chose a companionship: the Church, with a head, St Peter; a companionship in which His presence could be visible, touchable, verified experimentally; a companionship that would render analogically possible today the same dynamism of the encounter that Andrew and John, Zaccheus and the Samaritan woman experienced with His physical presence. In fact, the Christian event has the form of an encounter, a human encounter in the banal reality of everyday life. It is a human encounter through which He who is called Jesus, a Man born in Bethlehem at a precise moment in time, is revealed as significant to the heart of our lives.” Christianity, therefore, is not originally a religion, a theology, a philosophy, or an ethics, even though it gives rise to all of these. The “truth of reality” that it proclaims is not a conclusion of those disciplines. The “truth of reality” is a Person, discovered not by arguments, but through the event of a human encounter in which all the desires of the human heart are fulfilled. It is this that prevents the Christian claim from being an intolerable presumption. “When we encountered Christ, we discovered ourselves as human” (M. Vittorino, 5th c.). Reprinted with permission from Traces magazine.

April 23, 2004

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How to tell a duck from a fox Thinking with the Church as we look toward November By Most Rev. Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. “If it quacks like a duck and looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. A fox can claim to be a duck all day long. But he’s still a fox.” We’ve all heard that saying, or some version of it, a thousand times. The reason is simple: It’s true. Our actions prove who we are. If a gulf exists between what we say, how we look and what we do, we’re not living in a spirit of truth. A fox, even if he quacks, is still a fox. Sooner or later, it becomes obvious. I remembered this last week as I read yet another news report about candidates who claim to be Catholic and then prominently ignore their own faith on matters of public policy. We’ve come a long way from John F. Kennedy, who merely locked his faith in the closet. Now we have Catholic senators who take pride in arguing for legislation that threatens and destroys life — and who then also take Communion. The kindest explanation for this sort of behavior is that a lot of Catholic candidates don’t know their own faith. And that’s why, in a spirit of charity, the Holy See offered its guidance and encouragement in a little document last year On Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Public Life. Nothing in this Roman document is new. But it offers a vision of public service filled with common sense. First, quoting John Paul II, it reminds us that, “man cannot be separated from God, nor politics from morality.” In other words, unless our personal faith shapes our public choices and actions, it’s just a pious delusion. Private faith, if it’s genuine, always becomes public witness — including political witness. Second, while Christians “must recognize the legitimacy of differing points of view about the organization of worldly affairs,” they are also “called to reject, as injurious to democratic life, a conception of pluralism that reflects moral relativism.” Appeals to a phony definition of pluralism and tolerance can never excuse inaction in the face of

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grave evil — including attacks on the sanctity of life. Catholics can only ensure real pluralism by “living and acting in conformity” with their religious convictions so that, “through political life, society will become more just and more consistent with the dignity of the human person.” Third, “(democracy) only succeeds to the extent that it is based on a correct understanding of the human person.” Catholic lawmakers who do not vigorously seek to protect human dignity and the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death are not serving democracy. They are betraying it. Fourth, “those who are directly involved in lawmaking bodies have a ‘grave and clear obligation to oppose’ any law that attacks human life. For them, as for every Catholic, it is impossible to promote such laws or to vote for them.” Politics is the exercise of power. Power always has moral implications. And God will hold each of us accountable —

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from the average voter to senators and presidents — for how well we have used our political power to serve the common good and the human person. “Pro-choice” candidates who claim to be Catholic bring all of us to a crossroads in this election year. Many Catholics, including some Church leaders, argue that “(we) should not limit (our) concern to one issue, no matter how fundamental that issue is.” That’s true — but it can also be misleading. Catholics have a duty to work tirelessly for human dignity at every stage of life, and to demand the same of their lawmakers. But some issues are jugular. Some issues take priority. Abortion, immigration law, international trade policy, the death penalty and housing for the poor are all vitally important issues. But no amount of calculating can make them equal in gravity. The right to life comes first. It precedes and undergirds every other social issue or group of issues. This is why Blessed John XXIII listed it as the first human right in his great encyclical on world peace, Pacem in Terris. And as the U.S. bishops stressed in their 1998 pastoral letter Living the Gospel of Life, the right to life is the foundation of every other right. The humorist James Thurber once wrote that “you can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” Our job as Catholics this election year — if we’re serious about our faith — is to not get fooled. Candidates who claim to be “Catholic” but who publicly ignore Catholic teaching about the sanctity of human life are offering a dishonest public witness. They may try to look Catholic and sound Catholic, but unless they act Catholic in their public service and political choices, they’re really a very different kind of creature. And real Catholics should vote accordingly. Charles J. Chaput is Archbishop of Denver, Colorado. Reprinted with permission from Denver Catholic Register.

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Guest Commentary Dignity of human life and participation in Holy Communion In November 2002, the Congregation for the your faith and plundering it.” The 1973 Directory for the Doctrine of the Faith issued “Doctrinal Note On Some Pastoral Ministry of Bishops emphasizes the prime responQuestions Regarding Participation of Catholics in sibility of the Bishop to show special “pastoral care” for his Political Life.” This Note stresses several points. One’s people by encouraging them to always shape the Christian conscience bears an “inalienable dignity” that does not and social community by their “living and conscious” lives. permit a division among one’s self, one’s faith in God, Certain Bishops have taken this challenge with great and one’s political stances. (no. 1) All the faithful must seriousness in their pastoral care for their community and infuse society with true Christian values that promote the necessity of lawmakers to bridge a unified road the common good: e.g., public order, freedom, respect between their faith and their political life. On January 8, for human life. (no. 1) 2004, Archbishop Raymond Burke, then the Bishop of As citizens, we cannot divorce our faith from our La Crosse, published a notification, citing Canon 383:1, moral choices, a concept especially binding on lawmak- that he must be “solicitous for the faithful entrusted to his ers since politics must be concerned with true human care” by admonishing Catholic legislators that any suplife and social good. There are non-negotiable ethical port given by them for procured abortion or euthanasia principles that ground society and these can never be commit a serious sin and give scandal to the community, compromised: for instance, the rights of every person to and thus they cannot be admitted to holy communion, play an active part in public life, (nos. 2-3), one’s basic which is the sign of unity within the Church. They canright to life, and marriage as a unity between a man and not receive Communion until they “publicly renounce a woman. Lawmakers have a “grave and clear obliga- their support of these most unjust practices.” tion” to oppose any law that attacks these fundamental ethical principles. (no. 4) There is a rightful autonomy of politics from religion, but never from There is a rightful autonomy of politics morality. The faithful cannot live on two parallel levels, a from religion, but never from morality. spiritual level where one believes in fundamental ethical values and, on the other hand, a secular level Bishop Burke emphasized that all Catholics are called where one lives out one’s life in family, work, society and to be a “community of conscience” within the larger socieculture. (no. 6) Numerous responses have followed on the publication ty and have a serious responsibility to inform society of of this Note. Cardinal Meisner, the Archbishop of authentic moral wisdom. The sacred and inviolable nature Cologne, for example, states that the Catholic faithful of the human person lies at the heart of Catholic society must commit itself with “particular urgency” to building and moral teaching and thus it is wrong to exclude from the up society and culture. This does not mean that the state protection of law the whole population of the unborn and is to become Catholic or Christian, but it must be com- the elderly sick. Wrong choices regarding the protecting of mitted to upholding the inviolability of human life. human life in all of its complexities (unborn, born, poverty, Indifferentism in this regard is never acceptable as there hunger, employment, health care) are never acceptable. It is are certain and clear “anthropological constants” such as a basic political responsibility to safeguard life by not supabortion, euthanasia, slavery, drug abuse, and prostitu- porting any laws which aim to destroy it. Burke ends by stating, “Our faith and our political judgments cannot be tion that must be unambiguously addressed. Cardinal Biffi, the Archbishop of Bologna, cites St. separate compartments of our lives; they must relate to Ambrose, “The human person is the peak and the com- each other in a life which is lived with integrity.” Archbishop Alfred Hughes of New Orleans and Bishop pendium of the universe, and the highest beauty of the whole of creation.” This fact imposes on us the duty to David Zubik of Green Bay, Wisconsin, have taken similar always defend the human person from every manipula- stands. Archbishop Hughes argues that there are certain ethical issues which allow of no exception: abortion, physition or attack. Bishop Wilton D. Gregory, President of the U.S. cian-assisted suicide, homicide, the destruction of human Conference of Catholic Bishops also wrote that “respect embryos in artificial fertilization, stem-cell research and for the human person” is wide-ranging in its application: cloning. Citizens must not support politicians who do not for example safeguarding unborn life and the family, pro- defend human life as they would then share “in responsimoting education, protecting minors, defending religious bility for this grave evil,” and Catholic officials in this catfreedom, assuring a just economy and fostering peace. egory “are no longer faithful members in the church and should not partake of holy communion.” The entirety of the common good must be upheld. Catholics cannot be timid about bringing moral convicIn his famous Catecheses, St. Cyril of Jerusalem puts it this way: “The faith which the Church hands down to you tions into the public forum, and Zubik likewise teaches that has all the authority of the Scriptures behind it. 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never freedom from the truth but is always and only freedom in the truth.” The legal profession and politicians have great influence on the development of laws and public policy and cannot adopt a stance of “live and let live,” as the Father Gerald central point is a quesColeman, S.S. tion of right and wrong: “We cannot afford to sleep at the switch. We cannot afford to run for cover… (We must) live our baptismal commitment to be witnesses, to be prophets… Use your wisdom and science to defend the truth (and) do it with passion for what is right.” What can be gleaned from these important scenarios? First, Catholics must resist in our own lives all tendencies to give personal or political support to non-protection of human life in every stage and level of its being. Second, we do not live in a Catholic society. However, the pro-life concerns and issues noted above are not Catholic issues alone; rather, they are human issues that affect our political and social lives. Third, Holy Communion is surely a source for unity in the Church a true support and grace for our spiritual lives. However, the Eucharist is par excellence the sacrament of unity in the Church. If we cannot be united with the Church in belief and action, then, should we not excuse ourselves from the Sacrament that signifies unity and faith by its very nature? Fourth, the church already excludes from Communion persons remarried without an annulment. Such persons are seen to be in contradiction to the Church’s teaching on the sanctity and permanence of a valid marriage. Extending this prohibition to include any Catholic who stands in unambiguous contradiction to fundamental Church teachings on human life thus seems equitable and just, but more importantly and hopefully, a call to conversion of heart and thinking. Fifth, from a pastoral point of view, it would seem wiser if a Catholic would make the necessary decision in his or her own regard about proper admission to Holy Communion, rather than waiting for a bishop’s determination. St. Paul’s admonition in 1 Corinthians 11: 27-32 seems most appropriate in this discussion: “Therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord unworthily will have to answer for the body and blood of the Lord. A person should examine himself, and so eat the bread and drink the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, eats and drinks judgment on himself.”

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Very generous of heart and pocket were students from St. Anne of the Sunset Elementary School where more than $1,300 was recently collected for the parish conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The drive was one of four “Mission Collections” taken at the school each year. From left, 8th grader, Jill Aguinaldo; 7th grader, Rogers Farlow; Jerry O’Leary, of the St. Anne’s SVDP conference; and school principal, Tom White. for at-risk youngsters. Call (877) 994-2662 or visit www.hannacenter.org. May 3: Children’s Choir Festival, St. Elizabeth Church, SF, at 3 p.m. Music under direction of guest conductor, Michael Burkhardt, accompanies ecumenical prayer service. Call (415) 239-7227. May 3: 23rd Annual May Crowning and Living Rosary with All Hallows #182, Young Ladies Institute, 7:30 p.m. All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Palou, SF. Call Sue Elvander at (415) 584-1593. Our Lady of Mercy Parish celebrates its 50th anniversary with a week of commemorative events. Bishop John C. Wester, who grew up in the parish and attended its school, will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving May 16th. Subsequent activities include a video history presentation, a multi-cultural gathering, a music concert by OLM school, BINGO, a cocktail party for present and former parishioners, a dinner dance, and a pancake breakfast. For more information, call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-2727 May 4: Catholic Networking Night at St. Dominic’s Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF from 7 – 9 p.m. Admission is free. Those attending are asked to bring a snack to share. Reservations are requested. Contact Connie at daura@ccwear.com or (415) 664-8108. May 9: Mothers’ Day Champagne Brunch benefiting Sisters of the Holy Family, with 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. seating at 159 Washington Blvd., Fremont. Tickets $40 adults/$15 children 4 – 12 years/under 3 free. Call (510) 624-4512. May 15: Mass and dinner commemorating the110 year partnership of the Franciscan Friars and Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose at St. Anthony and Immaculate Conception schools. Evening begins with 5 p.m. liturgy in St. Anthony of Padua Church with subsequent festivities at St. Anthony Immaculate Conception School. Reservations required. Call Marie Driscoll at (415) 642-6130. May 15: 9th Annual Whale of a Sale benefiting St. Vincent de Paul Conference of St. Sebastian Parish, Greenbrae from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Spaces available for $25. Sell your crafts and keep all proceeds or raise money for your group or club. Call Kathie Meier at (415) 461-4133 or whaleofasale@comcast.net. May 16: Singers Wanted! The Second Annual

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Reviewed by Amy Welborn The first thing to say, before we say anything else, is that if you are an American Catholic, Paul Elie’s new book The Life You Save May Be Your Own belongs on your bookshelf, and, more importantly, belongs in your hands, open, being read. No, it is not a perfect book, and yes, it might be tough going at times, but the fact is that after forty years of postConciliar fractious, ideologically-driven and divided intellectual life, American Catholics need to get back on track and start thinking and talking in broader, deeper and more fundamental terms, both with each other and with the wider culture. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is a marvelous place to start the conversation. What Elie has undertaken is a daunting and impressive task: tell the stories of four important Catholic religious and literary voices of the last century: Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O’Connor and Walker Percy. Although heavily biographical, the book has a purpose beyond biography. As different as they were, each of these figures traveled a generally similar path: their intellectual and spiritual lives were enlivened, nourished and sparked by their engagement with the written word. As Elie writes: “In their different ways, the four writers this book is about sought the truth personally – in charity, in prayer, in art, in philosophy. Their writing was the most personal way of all, for in the act of reading and writing one stranger and another go forth to meet in an encounter of the profoundest sort. They saw religious experience out before them. They read their way toward it. They believed it. They lived it. They made it their own. With us in mind, they put it in writing.” What Elie does, then, is present us with interwoven biographies of four American Catholic writers possessed of particularly powerful individual voices, worth listening to then – and now. Thomas Merton, the son of expatriate artists, orphaned by the age of 16, a seeker, writer, Catholic convert and, by the age of 26, a monk enclosed in the Trappist monastery in Gethsemane, Kentucky, left voluminous journals, poetry and spiritual writings. Dorothy Day also converted to Catholicism, but brought along with her an already firm commitment to the poor, honed by years of writing and working with communist and anarchist movements. The Catholic Worker is her organizational legacy, her collected newspaper columns and autobiographical works keep her ideas alive. Percy and O’Connor were the fiction writers, Catholic southerners and keenly, if sometimes uncomfortably aware of their identities. Percy was a son of the old, genteel aristocratic South, a physician forced into retirement by tuber-

Books RADIO Film culosis contracted in a pathology lab, a convert who left not only novels, but extensive philosophical writings behind. Flannery O’Connor is the only cradle Catholic in the group, but her work is no easily digested diet of unconsidered orthodoxy. Her two novels and short stories (one of which provides the title for Elie’s book) are startling, disturbing and, despite first impressions, deeply spiritual. More obviously religious in nature is the other half of her intellectual bequest: her letters and essays, the spiritual insights from which have been collected in a lovely new volume, Flannery O’Connor: Spiritual Writings, published by Orbis Books as part of its “Modern Spiritual Masters” series. The pilgrimages of the four begin separately, in different parts of the world, and, as they continue, converge and diverge as these men and women pursue truth, settle into it, question it and share it. They never all met each other, but they all knew of each other, the closest being Day and Merton who, strangely enough, never did meet in person, but shared an extended correspondence over many years. There were other meetings and reactions. Merton welcomed Percy to his hermitage at Gethsemane one July afternoon. Percy met O’Connor, but only briefly, after a talk she gave at Loyola University in New Orleans. Merton wrote a heartfelt, knowing memorial to O’Connor after she died. O’Connor told Percy that his first published novel, The Moviegoer, was a good story and that he should “make up another one.” O’Connor expressed a mild disdain for Dorothy Day’s activism in the south, saying that she sure had traveled a “long way to get shot at.” Day didn’t much care for Percy’s novels. Elie doesn’t force connections or commonalties, but when they arise, he presents them insightfully and gracefully, as he does here, speaking of Flannery O’Connor’s first major hospitalization for treatment of the lupus that eventually took her life at the age of 39: “She was in the hospital for eight months, on and off…. Dorothy Day had felt joined to all humanity as a new moth-

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Other speakers at the NCEA convention included Boston Archbishop Sean O’Malley, who gave the keynote address. Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley said Catholic educators today face enormous challenges because of sexual immorality in modern culture, an overall indifference to the Catholic faith and a decreased trust in the church because of the clergy sexual abuse scandal. “Our task is not just to teach people about God but to help them to know God and his love,” he said, adding that students will hopefully understand this not as “mere information” but as something that will give them “deeper meaning” for their lives. He said Catholic educators must teach students about God but also witness how to live a Christian life by putting faith into action. In the current school year, there are nearly 2.5 million students attending Catholic elementary and secondary schools in the United States. There are more than 162,000 full-time Catholic school teachers and administrators, 95 percent of whom are lay people. Catholic San Francisco staff contributed to this story.

Archdiocesan Historian Dies in San Francisco Sister Ann Curry, PBVM, a ten year employee of the Francisco in 1927. After graduating from Presentation Archdiocesan Archives spanning the 1980’s and 1990’s, High School, San Francisco, she entered the Sisters of died at the University of California Medical Center in San the Presentation and received the religious name of Francisco on March 31, 2004. Sister M. Basil. She returned to her baptismal name Sister Ann’s love of history and near encyclopedic after women religious were able to return to those knowledge of local history was well known to her names following Vatican II. Sisters, fellow historians, family, and Sister Ann spent nearly thirty years in friends. Her lifelong interest in the histhe ministry of education, teaching in torical relationships between religion, elementary and high schools in Northern culture, and society, especially in the and Southern California, including nineteenth century, focused her teachPresentation High School in San ing, research projects, writing, and Francisco. During the course of her employment choices. teaching career, Sister Ann earned the Sister Ann spent nearly ten years as a following degrees – B.A. in Mathematics volunteer and later as an employee servfrom the University of California, ing in the Archives of the Archdiocese of Berkeley, a M.A. in Hispanic American San Francisco. According to Jeff Burns, History from Santa Clara University, a Archivist for the Archdiocese, “Sister M.A. in Theology from the University of Catherine Ann started working at the San Francisco, and a Ph.D. from the Archives as a volunteer before we were Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. able to hire her around 1993. She was The dissertation for her doctorate, wonderful. She was a fine historian and a Shaping Young San Franciscans: Public hard worker. Having her in the Archives and Private Schools in San Francisco, Sister Ann Curry, PBVM was like having an instant reference 1851 – 1906, was published. Sister Ann source. It was like having a bit of old San Francisco sitting was also the author of Teaching About Other Americans: in the room. When I had a question, I didn’t have to check Minorities in American History and Mother Teresa any book, I just asked her.” Comerford: Foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation, Working at the Archives necessitated Sister Ann taking San Francisco. According to Jeff Burns, “Sister Ann was a bus from the Presentation Convent on Turk Boulevard to featured as a speaker at a number of historical conferences the Cal Train depot and then the train to Menlo Park. Jeff – the History of Bay Area Catholicism – and the audiences Burns would pick her up at the station. “She was a great loved her greatly.” lady who loved history,” says Jeff Burns, “She told me on Sister Ann also wrote articles and contributed to other numerous occasions that working in the Archives was the publications in the area of her interests of local history, best job she ever had.” the history of women religious, and the history of the Sister Ann was born Catherine Ann Curry in San Irish in America.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March Yvonne M. Usher C. Crespin Rolando L. Hernandez, Sr. Casey Francisco Pacheco HOLY CROSS Clorinda Yolanda Vanni (Serafini) Frank Crespo Leslie J. Hildago Anita Padilla Clara L. Vasques Elda A. Cristofani John M. Hoffmann, Sr. Luis E. Pallares COLMA Nicole B. Vers Paul A. Cuneo Dolores C. Holter Felicitas M. Pangilinan Albert L. Acri Virginia Adair Parker Carmelito Alfonso Rita Anderson Adolfo C. Anez Conchita P. Ares Mario Argueta Karen N. Arnaldo Yosu Arruti Marie R. Baccelli Marie A. Barcos Bernadette M. Barden Anna Frances Barry Ann M. Barulich Norma Belforte Anthony J. Bertetta Josephine T. Bovaird Julie M. Brady Alwin J. Broussard Erminia Duca Bulanti Louis E. Capurro Ellen M. Castelli Lucille Centanni Barbara Theresa Cerri Lillie Chasseur Anna I. Cingolani John E. Clancy Rexford A. Clark Jay M. Cochrane Joseph C. Colabufo Mary M. Collins Marion P. Commins Peter D. Conci Viola F. Connelly Salvatore A. Corbelli Enrico R. Corpuz Simon Corry Valentine Hermine Costello Cornelia Margaret Courtney Bernard Alfred Covino

Letty M. Custodio Valarie DelPonte Rinaldo John Delucchi Ann J. Delucchi Mildred Ann Dianda Alma V. Dickieson Belle Dickinson Rose A. Donovan Alexander Douglas Stephen Anthony Douglas Loretta R. Downey Henry V. Downing Jeannette F. Dubonnet Arthur Falvey Quinn Kevin Michael Fatooh Mary J. Fazio Margaret C. Fenelon Michael K. Ferris Emile “Babe” Figone Margaret (Peggy) Finsterwald Margaret M. Fitzpatrick Mary Elizabeth Flahive Voigt Ana M. Flores Collette A. Foley Manuel R. Fontes Mildred M. Forrest John J. Franco Rudolph Frey Marta Estela Fuentes Joseph S. Gallardo Nina Teresa Giammona Kathryn A. Giblin Doris M. Giuliani Homer T. Gregory Douglas M. Grillo Mary Jane Hanna Clair H. Heaney Christina Hernandez

John I. Holter Elizabeth J. Jehl Orietha Johnson Jose D. Jose Constancia M. Juan Joan C. Kavanaugh Elsie M. Kelly Ignatius C. Kranci Alba L. Lara Olga C. Lenatti Isabelle Janine Levis Teresa M. Lewis Francisco Lopez, Jr. Margaret Lucchesi William Lyons Rose C. Madonna Margaret A. Maldonado Louise C. Martens Claire E. McLaughlin Dora M. McPherson Marimichelle Meek Rose Mericone Alice L. Milano Isabel A. Miranda Dorothy Anne Murphy Leogarda C. Naval Marcelino L. Naval Thelma M. Navarro Rene J. Nelson Sara Ann Nilan Vincenzo Noe Ruth L. Nutting Eva B. O’Brien Nora T. O’Callaghan Gerald P. O’Connor Katherine T. O’Sullivan Sidney J. Oubre, Sr. Ruth L. Paalua

Gloria Anne Papera Marie Paroli Josephine Peirano Elio Leo Perrino Edith Razzetto Perry Robert L. Peters Rose A. Pierotti Rose Pinotti Lorenza A. Pons Olga M. Poueydebat Sit Poy Wong Gladys M. Puleo Virginia I. Rauh Peter D. Redmond Linda Irene Ristow Salvador V. Rivera Josephine A. Rizzo Frank J. Santuccio, Jr. Louise Marie Saucedo Eusebio Sequeira Micheal L. Shurtleff George W. Sorokowski. MD. Aurora M. Souza Frank L. Stadler Helen Jo Sullivan Lori V. Tagliafico Margaret J. Tagliafico Michael K. Tamony Clare T. Tamony Doris I. Tanner Richard J. Tapia Marguerite M. Tarantino Max T. Tellez Vera Thelma Thomas Bonnie Tobias Kenneth Tobien William M. Tonelli

Ana A. Vilanova Louis A. Vilanova Felisa T. Villa Flor Josefina Dungga Villanueva Theresa M. Wahlstrom Hans Werner Graeb Lorraine W. Wolf Hee Yong Park Florence J. Yriberri Makiling Guia Zambales Catherine H. Zinkand

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Charles Emory Dellinger Patricia Mary Floyd Gerardo Gonzalez Melgar Bernard Segulyev Antonio Contreras Silva Sione U.T. Vaea

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Fernando Rio Blanco Elsworth A. Bobbitt John J. Clahan Louis G. Freitas Diane George Maria M. Krasowski Milos D. Maiolini Electra Mehas Alice M. Paganini Argyro Scafidas

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA 1st Saturday Mass May 1st, 2004 – 11:00 a.m.

Memorial Day Mass – Mon. 31st – 11:00 a.m. Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma

Rev. Louis Vitale, Celebrant St. Boniface Parish All Saints Mausoleum Chapel

Most. Rev. Ignatius Wang Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, Celebrant Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel

Memorial Day Masses

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Menlo Park Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery, San Rafael Rev. Patrick Michaels, Celebrant St. Raymond Church, Menlo Park Outdoor Mass – 11:00 a.m.

Rev. Louis J. Robello, Celebrant Outdoor Mass – 11:00 a.m.)

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco 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.