April 25, 2008 by Catholic San Francisco

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By John Thavis NEW YORK (CNS) – On his first trip to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI achieved three objectives that could be considered critical to the pastoral future of the American Church. First, the pope brought a certain closure to the priestly sex abuse scandal that has shaken the Church for more than six years, expressing his personal shame at what happened and praying with the victims. Second, he set forth a moral challenge to the wider U.S. culture on issues ranging from economic justice to abortion, but without coming across as doctrinaire or bullying. Third, to a Church that often seems divided into conservative and liberal camps, he issued a firm appeal to “set aside all anger” and unite to effectively evangelize society.

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In the process of his April 15-20 visit, the 81-year-old pope established his own identity in a country that did not know him well and in a sense came out of the shadow of the late Pope John Paul II. “I feel like I know him a lot better. I learned that he is trying all his best to reach out to the youth,” 18-year-old Gabriella Fiorentino of Yonkers, N.Y., said at a youth rally April 19. Did she understand what the pope, a scholarly theologian, was trying to get across? “Jesus’ message of hope – that is his message,” she said. The pope addressed clerical sex abuse on five different occasions, beginning with his encounter with reporters aboard his plane from Rome. He spoke from the heart about the shame, the damage to the Church and the suffering of the victims. He also spoke with familiarity about the Church’s efforts to make sure perpetrators are out of ministry and to implement better screening of would-be priests. At one point, he mentioned that when he read case histories of the victims, he found it hard to imagine how a priest could betray his mission to be an agent of God’s love. These were far more detailed and direct comments on the issue than were ever made by Pope John Paul II, and there was a reason: As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict headed the doctrinal congregation, which took over the handling of sex abuse cases in 2001. What Cardinal Ratzinger saw in those files led him to denounce, POPE IN U.S., page 9

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the crowd as he departs Yankee Stadium after celebrating Mass in New York April 20.

Abortion notification initiative appears headed for ballot By Rick DelVecchio The Sarah’s Law initiative campaign for a state constitutional amendment requiring family notification before ending a minor’s pregnancy appears to have gathered enough names to qualify for the Nov. 4 ballot. The campaign submitted nearly 1.2 million signatures to county elections officials last week for verification. That number is expected to net a comfortable margin of valid names over the 696,000 needed to qualify.

The campaign involved extensive phone work, faxing and mailing to all 1,100 Catholic parishes throughout the state, campaign spokesman Jim Holman said in an e-mail. He said signatures came disproportionately from the southern four (arch)dioceses– San Diego, Orange, San Bernardino and Los Angeles – but isolated parishes in every see contributed. Evangelical churches – especially Calvary Chapel, First Assembly of God and First Baptist– provided two to three times as many signatures as they had in

the campaigns for parental-notification Propositions 73 and 85 in 2005 and 2006. Both propositions were defeated by small margins. “The other surprise was many more signatures from Hispanic, Vietnamese and Chinese voters than ever before,” Holman wrote, noting that multilingual materials on the www.FriendsofSarah.com website might have played a role. In a shift from Propositions 73 and 85, backers of the new initiative are focusing on the welfare of minors rather than on

parental rights. The measure would require that a doctor notify a minor’s family members, not just her parents, if parental abuse is reported. The change is designed to avoid the problem of abusive parents, as well as teens’ exploitation by older men who use secret abortions to cover their crimes of statutory rape, according to the campaign’s website. Parental notification laws are in force in 30 states and have contributed to fewer pregnancies and abortions among minors, according to the website.

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Enjoying the 105th reunion of alumnae from Notre Dame High School in San Francisco were Patty Kane Holden, ’70, Notre Dame Sister Laura McGlinn, and Laura Miranda Arnold, ’70. Sister McGlinn, an assistant professor at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, donned the long-ago habit to commemorate the long history of the now-closed and much-missed secondary school. Almost 300 women attended the event that included Mass at Mission Dolores Basilica and lunch at the Spanish Cultural Center. Hats off to Frances Zimmer O’Neil, class of ’33, who was kept away by illness but was there in spirit. The alums sponsor an annual scholarship for a student at Mission Dolores Elementary School and contribute regularly to the Notre Dame Sisters retirement fund. Students at Mercy High School in San Francisco were up to the task gathering more than 6,000 non-perishables –as is the memory of their good work - in a Lenten food drive for the poor. Those topping the charts in items collected were junior Fatima Avellan, left, senior Kimberly Ly, and senior Tracy Wong pictured with Teresa Lucchese of the school’s community relations office.

Happy 50th birthday Feb. 14 to Mario Balestrieri, organist and director of music at Church of the Epiphany for 19 years and a professional church musician since the age of 12. “I’ve loved these 38 years,” Mario told me. “It’s a privilege to work with choirs and people at the parish. I am grateful to be able to be a helping part in the joys and sorrows of parishioners’ lives.” Mario is a graduate of St. Elizabeth Elementary School – where he has also been church organist - and a ‘76 alum of Archbishop Riordan High School. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in organ performance from San Francisco State University and has also served as organist and director of music at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral in Oakland, which was closed due to damage from the Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989. Mario did a quick add-up and put the number of Masses and other rites he’s accompanied in the almost 40 years at “very near 10,000.”… Shooting straight from the mound was Notre Dame High School senior Emma Holden who pitched a perfect game in a recent softball contest against San Jose’s Presentation High School.

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Hats off to Emma and those who played behind her. While I played little league ball as a kid, the closest I ever came to a perfect game was having the same birthday – Aug. 7 – as New York Yankee pitcher Don Larsen who threw a perfect nine innings in the World Series of 1956 against the Brooklyn Dodgers. Seems fewer than 20 perfect games have been pitched in the major leagues even to this day. Emma, I’m sure, joins a similarly small family of high school ballplayers who’ve done the 27-up-27-down masterpiece. The mound-tender’s proud folks are Kelley and Kevin Holden… Much to celebrate at Notre Dame de Namur University where Joe Putnam, Robert C. Webster and Elaine Cohen have joined the school’s Board of

Trustees. Robert joins his wife, Carla, on the board. Elaine ‘s hub is cardiologist Dr. George Cohen. Much-missed is Joe’s wife, Mary Lou, who died last year. Good luck to them all as they help guide the school.….Happy 60 years married May 25 to June and Ray Bianchi, longtime parishioners of St. Dunstan’s in Millbrae. Thanks to Marie Amoroso for the good news….This is an empty space without ya’!! The e-mail address for Street is burket@ sfarchdiocese.org. Mailed items should be sent to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Pix should be hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 dpi. Don’t forget to include a follow-up phone number. Call me at (415) 614-5634 and I’ll walk you through it. Trying on a helmet – and maybe a profession - for size is Anastasia Koulakis, a junior at Mercy High School in Burlingame and San Mateo firefighter and Mercy alumna, Stefanie Morello, ’91. Career Day brought 44 women speakers to the school including an airline pilot, a defense contract negotiator, and alumna and stage actress/singer Rona Figueroa, ’90, who has appeared on Broadway most recently in the Les Miserables revival (I was sorry to hear closed in early January).

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April 25, 2008

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Two busses carrying about 100 Catholics from the Archdiocese of San Francisco departed early April 22 for Sacramento to convene with faithful from around the state for Catholic Lobby Day during which Catholics make known their legislative concerns to state lawmakers at the capital. Those boarding the bus that left from the Pastoral Center in San Francisco included, from left: Michael Adams, Old St. Mary’s Parish; Daniel O’Connor of the St. Anthony Foundation; Julio Escobar of Comunidad San Dimas; Patricia Ribeiro, Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns; Gerry da Laz of St. Dominic Parish, San Francisco; and Michael Vick, reporter for Catholic San Francisco.

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Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, whose diocese includes the airport. Also in attendance were New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne. “It has been a memorable week, and Pope Benedict XVI has stepped into the history of our country in a special way,” Cheney said. “You’ve encountered a nation facing many challenges, but with more blessings than any of us could number,” the vice president said. “You have seen a country where the torch of freedom, equality and tolerance will always be held high, a country where you – a herald of the Gospel of Jesus Christ will always be welcome.” After noting the pope was ordained almost 57 years ago, Cheney said, “You might have found it hard to imagine then that you would stand before all humanity as a teacher, a statesman and a shepherd of more than a billion souls.”

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Roadside bomb kills priest

Cardinal Lopez Trujillo dies ROME (CNS) – Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, died April 19 at Rome’s Pius XI clinic, where he had been hospitalized since early April with a respiratory infection. He was 72. The Colombian-born cardinal, who served as archbishop of Medellin from 1979 to 1991, had been president of the family council at the Vatican for nearly 18 years. But even before taking up the Vatican post, Cardinal Lopez Trujillo’s influence was felt throughout Latin America and beyond because of his work as general secretary and later president of the Latin American bishops’ council, known as CELAM.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNS) – A Jaffna diocesan priest active in promoting human rights was killed April 20 by a roadside bomb on the way back to his church after celebrating Mass in a parish substation. Father Mariampillai Xavier Karunaratnam was driving the car and reportedly died instantly of head wounds in the explosion on a road about 50 miles south of Jaffna, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. The jungle area, known as the Vanni, is under the control of the rebel group the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Father Karunaratnam was founder and chairman of the North East Secretariat on Human Rights and offered trauma counseling to war victims and those who suffered after the 2004 tsunami. The human rights group handles human rights violations against ethnic Tamils in the north and east, where the ethnic minority community is concentrated.

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SEATTLE (CNS) – Catholic adolescents may be more oblivious than opposed to the Church’s teachings on human sexuality because they are formed more by the culture than by the church, according to several educators commenting on a recent federal study reporting the frequency of premarital sex. At least 1 in 4 teenage American girls has a sexually transmitted disease, according to the report released in March by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. While cautioning against imputing the same 1 in 4 statistics to young Catholics, Jesuit Father Thomas Rausch said they “take their values from society, the culture in which they are living, and not from the Church. It is certainly true that Catholic moral teaching is often dismissed by many young adult Catholics,” said Father Rausch, a professor of theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

ADRIAN, Mich. (CNS) – Dominican Sisters and friars throughout the world are able to make their justice and peace concerns known in the international community through Dominican Sister Eileen Gannon, the main representative of the Dominican Leadership Conference to the United Nations. From offices just a couple of blocks from UN headquarters in New York City, the Dominicans are among the nongovernmenSister Eileen Gannon, OP tal organizations, or NGOs, that maintain a presence at the world body, expressing positions and offering input on policy proposals. Sister Gannon meets with U.N. Secretariat staff and makes presentations to gatherings of member nations’ representatives and also to other NGOs. The leadership conference, based in Forest Park, Ill., is the networking organization for elected leaders of Dominican congregations and provinces in the United States. It serves 29 congregations of Sisters and four provinces of men, representing about 6,000 Dominican men and women.

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Report examines inner-city schools WASHINGTON (CNS) – Catholic schools in America’s cities are “in crisis,” according to a new report highlighting the closure of 1,300 Catholic schools in the past two decades. The report, conducted by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington think tank, not only lists statistics, such as the displacement of 300,000 students due to school closings, but it also examines possible solutions to reverse this trend. Chester Finn, president of the Fordham Institute, called the report’s April 10 release date timely, since it was just prior to Pope Benedict XVI’s

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U.S. visit when he said the “nation’s attention will focus briefly on the Church and its key institutions.” The 121page report, “Who Will Save America’s Urban Catholic Schools?” cites statistics from the National Catholic Educational Association which report Catholic school enrollment is now about 2.3 million, down from its peak of 5.2 million in the early 1960s.

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Bishop-elect reflects on pope’s message to ‘wounded Church’ Pope Benedict XVI’s direct call for healing in the face of the clergy sexual abuse scandal was candid, clear and compassionate said Bishop-elect William Justice of San Francisco who attended the pope’s April 16 address to U.S. Catholic bishops at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. Appointed by the pontiff as the next auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco just five days before the pope’s April 15-20 visit to the United States, Bishop-elect Justice said he was both surprised and heartened by the pope’s message. Pope Benedict acknowledged the suffering caused by priests who turned their backs on their vocational promises and called for the Church community to care for the victims, Bishop-elect Justice said, “I thought he would say something, but not as clearly as he did,” Bishop-elect Justice said of the pope’s comments on the scandal. “Thank God, he did it. As a wounded Church, as a Church that understands much more now that we need Christ and we’re not exempted from sin, let’s move on and be the witness to hope, to justice, to equality, to love and to forgiveness, never forgetting our responsibility to those who were injured.” Bishop-elect Justice said the pope’s message of healing and forgiveness does not negate the need for vigilance in protecting children, but rather strengthens it. “The experience has to be always in front of us, to warn us to never get to feeling that we can do anything,” he said. “We’re humbled. We need to be.” The bishop-elect said the pope’s theme of “Christ Our Hope” touched him personally. He said he feels energized and challenged by the pope’s visit, especially

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Pope Benedict XVI greets U.S. bishops as he leaves a prayer service with them at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington April 16. Bishop-elect William Justice, appointed the new auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco on April 10, was among those attending.

Hear papal talk to educators Among persons from the San Francisco Bay Area to experience Pope Benedict XVI’s recent U.S. visit were Maureen Huntington, superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese, and Gustavo A. Torres, an alumnus of Mission Dolores Elementary School and a 2006 graduate of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. Both were present for the pope’s April 17 talk to Catholic educators at The Catholic University of America in Washington where Torres is a politics major.

in light of his recent appointment. “Being there [with the pope] gave me more hope and more excitement about being a Catholic, but also about the challenges of my new role,” Bishop-elect Justice said. “It really was a renewal of hope, and I think everybody felt that way. I know I must proclaim that hope.” Bishop-elect Justice said the heavy security in Washington meant the bishops had to arrive hours early for papal events giving them time to talk among themselves. This gave the newly appointed bishop the opportunity to get to know bishops from around the country, including fellow newcomers – the new auxiliaries for Denver and San Antonio, and the new ordinary for Little Rock. “A number of the bishops said that this was probably one of the best times they’ve had together because there was no formal business,” Bishop-elect Justice said. “You had nothing to do but talk to each other. People had a good time and learned more about one another.” The bishop-elect also attended the welcoming ceremony on the White House lawn, where President George Bush welcomed the pope to the United States. While in Washington, Bishop-elect Justice also provided commentary on the papal visit to the Bay Area’s KCBS radio. Bishop-elect Justice said he was appreciative to have experienced the clear humanity of Benedict as leader of the universal Church. “He had been the person to guard the faith,” the bishop-elect said, alluding to the pope’s former position as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “In Washington we saw a very humble and genuinely gracious human being. He was bringing the Lord’s message of hope. We were all renewed by his presence.”

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Scientist: ‘Supernatural intervention guides the process’ The intersection of science and faith is a daily reality for Paul Ashby, a Christian and a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley. Ashby is a physical chemist who specializes in the study of the molecular machines of cell membranes. These machines are so intricate that the process of their development in the cell required guidance by God, Ashby believes. Ashby, who was featured at a C.S. Lewis Society of California discussion in March on “God, Nature and Modern Science,” spoke with Catholic San Francisco’s Rick DelVecchio. These remarks are condensed from the interview and a follow-up e-mail. God’s nanotechnology I’m continually struck by the intricacy of nature, how beautifully everything works, the detail there is in life. I’m very struck by how much information or how much detail there is in life. I’m continually astounded by the complexity of protein machines and how they’re extremely excellent nanotechnology. As scientists we can only dream of making things that work with such exquisite scale. Like a flowing stream I’m open to an evolutionary process to arrive at the complex result we observe. But the environment required to arrive at this result would require a higher degree of complexity and unique specification. The life forms around us required significant creative input and the specification of the environment during an

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evolutionary process could have been a means of accomplishing the goal. C.S. Lewis uses a wonderful metaphor in his book

“Miracles” when he talks about nature being like a flowing stream responding to obstacles in its path. The obstacles divert the stream and it simply flows in a new direction. Likewise, physical law sets the character of nature but supernatural intervention guides and directs the process. It doesn’t have to be contrary to the laws of physics, it’s complementary. They’re dancing with each other. Science and the character of God Scientists’ technique is to look at nature as something that works on its own. We can only learn very little about God through what we learn about his creation. We can definitely see in nature that what we have around required a creator and that a creator can continue to interact with his creation and to shape and mold. We also shape and mold creation through our free will and actions. But fortunately God has revealed himself in other ways, too. There’s the revelation of nature and there’s revelation through God communicating directly with people. Science and Genesis In Genesis 1, it says that when God created different things that they were good and when he created mankind that they were very good. I think that science shows that the planet is made to support us well. There are abundant resources. If we harnessed them properly, we could live a life without toil and suffering due to scarcity.

Vatican Letter Do the homework: fiasco shows scholars miss pope’s point By John Thavis VATICAN CITY (CNS) – It was a first, at least in modern times: In Rome, the center of the Catholic world and the capital of Catholic Italy, a pope felt unwelcome to give a speech at the public university. When Pope Benedict XVI canceled his planned visit to Sapienza University Jan. 17, it marked a setback in the pontiff’s difficult dialogue with the contemporary scientific and intellectual world. The cancellation came after more than 60 professors wrote a letter protesting the visit, saying the pope was “hostile to science.” A number of factors, some of them outside the pope’s control, contributed to the controversy. Many observers pointed to the history of anti-clericalism in Italy, a large part of which was under papal rule until the late 19th century. This legacy has left Italians sensitive to potential Vatican political interference. “The Church is always pushing its power a little bit forward toward the Italian state,” said Piergiorgio Odifreddi, a professor of mathematics at the University of Turin. The university fiasco suggests Pope Benedict’s message about reason and faith is missing much of its target audience. The pope has explained at length why, in his view, the modern tendency to exclude God and religion is a dangerous development. He has offered carefully worded arguments to show why science and technology alone cannot furnish ethical or moral standards, and why one can speak of a divine

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“creative reason” at the origin of the created world. But as commentary flowed, it became apparent many protesting professors had little knowledge of what the pope has actually said. One rallying cry, that the pope was “against Galileo,” was apparently based on an erroneous page on the Italian Wikipedia, a website billed as an encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to or edit. The page has since been corrected. The professors and students might have done a little research and discovered Pope Benedict has spoken highly of Galileo. In a talk at the Vatican in 2006, he said “the great Galileo” had understood mathematics as the language of God as creator. On a related issue, Marcello Cini, the physics professor who organized the university protest, told the newspaper Corriere della Sera that a pope shouldn’t be given an academic forum when he “tells our biological colleagues that they shouldn’t take Darwin seriously.” That, too, seems to be an impression based perhaps on headlines rather than anything the pope has stated. The pope, in fact, has not taken issue with evolution as long as it does not exclude a divine cause. The pope has laid down serious challenges in areas like genetic manipulation, embryonic experimentation, abortion

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Interview: David J. Theroux and the C. S. Lewis Society The Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis (1998-1963) is perhaps best known for The Chronicles of Narnia. But, Lewis was also a penetrating apologist for Christianity. His work speaks to all people of faith at a time of a hostile atheism, says David J. Theroux, who formed the C. S. Lewis Society a year and a half ago. The society, which sponsors events ranging from book readings and film premieres to conferences on science and religion, has a board of advisors of more than 40 Catholic and Protestant scholars. Catholic San Francisco’s Rick DelVecchio recently spoke with Theroux at his office in Oakland. These remarks are condensed from the interview and follow-up e-mails.

David J. Theroux

Why the Lewis society? Why now? We created the society to take advantage of the inspiring influence of Lewis and boldly advance public discussions of the enduring questions of mankind. The society was also started to address an ongoing problem in Western society – the assumption that God either does not exist or is irrelevant. Many people believe that Christianity does not relate to their concerns or that it is a threat to their well-being. The setting of this includes the spate of recent best-selling atheism books, not just atheist books, but anti-theist books, anti-Christian books. People who are not believers can be considered atheist or perhaps agnostic, but the more recent form of this is really hostile and seeking to obliterate faith and religion. How did Lewis come to faith? Lewis was a very good friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, who was a very devout Catholic. A lot of people don’t realize “The Lord of the Rings” was a Christian-themed myth for 20th century man. Incidentally, “The Lord of the Rings” is a Christian-themed epic written by Tolkien with Lewis’s guidance and encouragement. Lewis had become a very devout atheist in his youth after his mother died from cancer. His training and education resulted in him developing a unique and logical mind and great talent for writing. Lewis at the time was in the intellectual world past World War I. It was a time when people were radically running away from the traditional faith institutions. They were embracing all sorts of radical ideologies. Lewis became very concerned about this even before he became a Christian because

C.S. Lewis (1998-1963)

he could see there was a connection with this and the rise of totalitarianism. Lewis was very dismissive of Christianity and anything about God. He flitted from one thing to another and was going to write the definitive book against Christianity. All the arguments that he had, he thought were airtight. He kept looking into them and they would fall apart. He abandoned atheism as a profound lie, describing himself as “the most dejected and reluctant convert in all of England,” and he acquired an insightful devotion to Christian teachings. Lewis was a harsh critic of utilitarian thinking in science. What would he say about today’s biomedical research using human embryonic stem cells? Lewis was a critic of oppression. In his dystopian novel “That Hideous Strength” (published in 1943, the same year as his book on natural law, “The Abolition of Man”), Lewis describes a totalitarian world in which a group of scientists tries to perfect mankind through bioengineering. If one accepts the materialist/atheist worldview, the Gulag, concentration camp and bombing of cities can all be rationalized. Individuals don’t have souls, free will, or rights; they’re just robots determined by the laws of physics, expendable because “the end justifies the means” – the opposite of Christian teachings. Bioethics was a big issue for Lewis, and his books warn of the consequences of denying God and accepting materialism. Lewis wrote vividly about heaven and hell. What, for Lewis, did hell look like? Lewis’s novel “The Great Divorce” is about a man who wakes up in a town which we learn is hell – a world of self-imposed

separation from God that produces infinite coldness and isolation. In this town, instead of commerce and relationships, all people are moving away from each other without limit. In contrast, Lewis believed that community among individuals through Christ’s sacrifice and triumph over death was the basis of fellowship with God. The man then takes a bus toward heaven and enters a strange world of departed souls provided a final opportunity to renounce their selfish ways and journey to heaven. The results are an intriguing look at the afterlife, human vanity and the ultimate questions we all face. How did Lewis affect your faith journey? I was a student at UC Berkeley during the turbulence of the Vietnam War. I came across “The Abolition of Man” and “Mere Christianity,” and they were godsends. I had been a Christian but just hadn’t thought it through. These books greatly strengthened my faith and answered my questions. Then, about three years ago in my looking deeper into Lewis’s work, it became clear that there was a real need and opportunity for the Lewis Society. What are your goals for the society? We want people to simply view us as a

resource. But the society cannot function without the people of faith who have their own personal commitment to advance this in their own fields. It is interesting that the Christian world, the Church that Lewis described as this invisible reality, is in some respects a community that is not connected the way it could be. Many churches feel besieged, defensive, isolated, and I think an organization that can bridge these different groups can only be helpful. Online resources “C. S. Lewis and Philip Pullman,” by Michael Ward http://www.planetnarnia.com/assets/ documents/101/Lewis_and_Pullman.pdf Ward’s “Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis” (Oxford University Press, 2008) h t t p : / / w w w. u s . o u p . c o m / u s / c a t a log/general/subject/ReligionTheology/ HistoryofChristianity/Modern/ ?view=usa&ci=9780195313871 “God, Time and Eternity,” by William Lane Craig http://www.lewissociety.org/time.php “The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe,” by William Lane Craig http://www.lewissociety.org/existence.php

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April 25, 2008

Seminary leader calls papal visit ‘masterful performance’ “It was brilliantly done, I thought.” During the pope’s seminary visit, Father Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic visit to the Brown was impressed by the enthusiasm of United States was a masterful performance of the seminarians. “They were hyped-up in the head and heart. The pope not only directed a spirit of John Paul II to hear what the Holy distinct message to a number of different audi- Father had to say to our culture, to our times, ences but also conveyed a depth of personal to young people,” Father Brown said. spirituality that gave his words great force. Less visible but as impressive was the That, in sum, was the assessment of Sulpician pope’s encounter with a group of handiFather Gerald Brown, rector and president of St. capped children during a ceremony in the Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park and a past U.S. seminary’s chapel. provincial of the Society of St. Sulpice. “He would bend down toward each Father Brown child. He would was present bless their foreApril 19 at St. ‘He would bend down toward heads, pat them Joseph Seminary on the shoulders, and College in each child. He would bless pat their hands,” Yonkers, N.Y., Father Brown when the Holy their foreheads, pat them said. “It was just Father addressed very personal, 30,000 students, very tender.” including as many on the shoulders, pat their Father Brown as 2,000 semisaid he was narians including hands. It was just very reminded of the about 20 from St. Joseph Ratzinger Patrick’s. Father personal, very tender.’ he knew during Brown, whose 12 his trips to Rome years as Sulpician – Father Gerald Brown as Sulpician proprovincial gave vincial. him a close-up “I found him look at the papacy of John Paul II and then- a very warm, accepting kind of person who Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s role as head of the really listens, is good at conversations,” he Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, also said. “I found him really easy and relaxing took time for a close reading of media coverage to deal with.” of the rest of the pope’s apostolic journey. There are similarities as well as differ“He had a way of scoping out the nature of ences to the pastoral style of John Paul II. the audience he was addressing and speaking “John Paul II was probably a little more to them directly,” Father Brown told Catholic introverted and energetic by personality, whereSan Francisco. “He had a great sensitivity to as Benedict at age 81 is going to be a little more the audience and spoke in a way that would limited in energy,” Father Brown said. “But he’s generate reflection and dialogue. a man of great love and compassion, which he

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Pope Benedict XVI reaches out to a girl during a gathering with young people with disabilities at St. Joseph Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y., April 19.

shared with John Paul II. When he reaches out to someone, you know it from his eye contact, his face and his smile, that he’s really being attentive to the person he’s talking to.” Benedict seems to absorb energy from his audiences, Father Brown noted. “The pope would have his arms up and he is just smiling like crazy,” he said. “He comes alive,” Father Brown said, “almost like a young man.” Father Brown said the pope impressed the media. The coverage was generally highly positive. The priest attributed the reaction in part to the positive way in which pope addressed each audience. “When meeting with Bush he chose not to make an issue of the war in Iraq, but

talked about things he has in common with President Bush, for example, concern for Africa,” he said. Similarly, when the pope addressed priestly sex abuse he spoke of his personal pain rather than casting blame. “He was operating more as a pastor than a political negotiator, calling on the bishops to be pastoral in their approach,” Father Brown said. Father Brown said the pope emphasized time and again that faith has a part to play in the success of the world, that belief and politics can work together “He also used the message, ‘Don’t be afraid,’” Father Brown said. “’Don’t be afraid to witness, don’t be afraid of the world. Have a sense of hope and make a contribution.”’

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Pope in U.S. . . . in early 2005, the “filth” inside the Church – even among its own priests. The pope’s unscheduled meeting with five sex abuse victims was a moving and tearful encounter. It seemed to mark an emotional turning point for several of those who participated and perhaps indirectly to others among the thousands of victims in the United States. Overall, the pope left the strong impression among Americans that, on the sex abuse issue, he “gets it.” The pope’s broader issue in the United States was what he called the “attack of a new secularism” that threatens to undermine traditional moral values and the voice of religion in public affairs. He articulated this challenge on several occasions, most notably telling 45,000 people at a Washington Mass that American society is at a moral crossroads. “We see clear signs of a disturbing breakdown in the very foundations of society: signs of alienation, anger and polarization on the part of many of our contemporaries; increased violence; a weakening of the moral sense; a coarsening of social relations; and a growing forgetfulness of God,” he said. To counter these trends, he said, people need the Church’s message of hope and fidelity to the demands of the Gospel. What was striking about the pope’s approach was that it was framed in a very positive context. Over and over, he praised the United States for blending a secular form of government with a moral order based on “the dominion of God the Creator.” He quoted George Washington, who called religion and morality the “indispensable supports” of political prosperity, and cited Franklin Roosevelt’s statement that “no greater thing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of faith.” The pope warned, however, that today this secular-moral balance risks tipping toward a godless, individualist form of freedom. He made his argument more relevant by linking it to a popular contemporary issue: environmental degradation. “The earth itself groans under the weight of consumerist greed and irresponsible exploitation,” he told young people. In the pope’s view, ecology is part of an ethic of respect for creation and the creator. When it came to the Church and its sometimes divided membership, the pope had an equally encouraging approach. Time and again, he praised the vitality of parish life and movements and noted U.S. Catholics’ continuing contribution to the life of the country. He said he was convinced that God was preparing a “new springtime” for the Church in the United States. The pope looked honestly at shortcomings, too, lamenting

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Local young adults attend papal Mass San Francisco parishioners Kimberly Weber of St. Vincent de Paul Parish and Lance Johnson of St. Dominic Parish were among 20 young adults from the Archdiocese who attended the Yankee Stadium papal Mass April 20. “It was cloudy and threatening rain until His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI arrived,” Weber said. “Then in what seemed to be almost rehearsed, at 2:30 p.m. the sun broke through as the pope emerged from the Yankee’s dugout and made his procession to the altar in short center field for the start of Mass.”

that some Catholics are not in line with Church teaching, even on the issue of abortion. But his solution, expressed to bishops, was a long-term program of religious education, not a set of short-term marching orders or penalties. In a comment aimed at people inside and outside the Church, he said the faith is more than a set of rules and suggested that more attention should be given to external challenges. “Perhaps we have lost sight of this: In a society where the Church seems legalistic and ‘institutional’ to many people, our most urgent challenge is to communicate the joy born of faith and the experience of God’s love,” he said. One of his strongest themes was Church unity. At a Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, he expressed disappointment with the formation of divisions within the Church between Catholic groups, generations and individuals. The Church, he said, needs to “put aside all anger and contention” and turn its gaze together toward Christ. At a Mass in Yankee Stadium on his last day in New York, he told Catholics to remember that all Church groups,

associations and programs exist only to support and foster deeper unity in Christ. The papal Masses highlighted the diversity of the Church in the United States which, as the pope said, comes together in a “common commitment to the spread of the Gospel.” These were colorful, musical liturgies and the pope seemed pleased with them. The papal visit did not register very high on topical issues. He avoided partisan political questions, did not mention Iraq and, although he visited ground zero, certainly did not dwell on terrorism. His United Nations address was not a state-of-the-world survey but a call to conscience on the moral foundations of human rights. The pope’s focus was religion and its place in all areas of life. Before the papal visit, most Americans said they didn’t know a lot about Pope Benedict. When he left the country, they were more likely to view him as he described himself upon his arrival: as “a friend, a preacher of the Gospel and one with great respect for this vast pluralistic society.”

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April 25, 2008

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Archbishop Riordan expansion project targets fall completion

Present for groundbreaking April 10 at Archbishop Riordan High School were, from left, Michael Mayer, ’71, chair Riordan board of trustees; Jack Fitzpatrick, executive director, Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation; Mike King, Gellert Foundation board; Marianist Father Tom French, school president; Tony Sanchez Corea, ’80, Riordan trustee; Mal Visbal and Andy Cresci, Gellert Foundation board members; and Kevin Asbra, principal.

Artist drawing shows one of the courtyards of the new complex underway at Archbishop Riordan High School.

By Tom Burke Marianist Father Tom French, president of Archbishop Riordan High School, joined more than 100 alumni and friends April 10 for groundbreaking ceremonies for new construction at the San Francisco school. The project, called “Legacy of Hope” Academic Building Expansion, is scheduled to be complete in November. It will include a lecture hall, The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Ministry Center, and a technology center. The Gellert Foundation has donated $1 million to the $3.5 million project. “It’s a great day when we can begin construction that will serve our young men for years to come,” Father French said. “We urgently need to improve our facilities to ensure that our centers of excellence will continue to grow and existing programs will flourish.” The new rooms will be built over “courtyards that have been vacant for years,” the school said. The school’s last capital campaign in 1999 raised $3 million for renovation of its Lindland Theater and science wing. That work was completed in 2002.

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Priest builds village of hope in Haitian countryside Following is a second report by Catholic San Francisco reporter Michael Vick based on his Feb. 11-18 fact-finding trip to Haiti sponsored by Cross International Catholic Outreach, a non-profit relief agency based in Florida. By Michael Vick week of food riots in Haiti came to a tentative close April 10 after a massive crackdown by police and United Nations peacekeepers left at least five dead and scores wounded. Rioters set fire to cars and blocked major roads with barricades of burning tires. They burned part of the U.N. compound in the southern port city of Les Cayes and stormed the gates of the palace in the capital city, Port-au-Prince, demanding the resignation of President René Préval. The Haitian senate has since voted to unseat Prime Minister JacquesEdouard Alexis and backed a motion calling on the president to appoint a new cabinet. The price of staple foods like rice, beans and fruit has risen 50 percent in the last year, leaving the impoverished majority in dire straits. Nearly 80 percent of the population lives on less than $2 per day. Préval announced plans to reduce the price of rice by 15 percent. Opposition senators have called the move “too little, too late.” The riots began in Les Cayes after days of relatively peaceful protests turned violent. That port city is where the aid and development organization Pwoje Espwa (Creole for “Project Hope”) has been laboring to care for hundreds of poor children either orphaned or given up by desperately poor parents devoid of hope. Father Marc Boisvert heads the project. Ordained in Maine in 1984, the priest served in the U.S. Navy Chaplain Corps for seven years, part of that time at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. There he ministered to Haitian refugees who had fled the island by the thousands in makeshift rafts in the turmoil of the mid-1990s. The priest said their harrowing tales motivated him to act.

cells packed with inmates. The roughly 6-by-12-foot cells house as many as 26 people. The only places to sit or sleep are two metal benches that extend the length of the cell. Prisoners stay in the cells 23 hours a day. Many have no shoes, and most have only the clothes they wore when they entered. Father Boisvert has convinced the prison to allow him and Nancy Orgello, a native Haitian who works for Cross International Catholic Outreach, to supervise a sewing program. For prisoners who follow the rules, the hour outside their cells can be spent sewing clothes for themselves. Father Boisvert hopes some of the men might realize the benefit of the new sewing skills when they are released. There is little if any due process in Haiti. Father Boisvert said the justice system runs on bribes, whether to police, judges or prosecutors. Delays of supplies to Vilaj Espwa are common, he said, because he refuses to pay bribes to custom agents. Regardless, Vilaj Espwa is a lifeboat for hundreds of children, whose only other alternatives would be almost certain death as beggars or the miserable life of indentured servitude. UNICEF estimates upwards of 300,000 children now live as virtual slaves in Haiti. Some are orphans, but most have parents who cannot feed them and do not want to watch them starve to death. These indentured children are only marginally safer than they would be on the streets, local activists say. Deprived of education, many sleep outdoors on cardboard, work long hours, and are given table scraps to eat and rags to wear. More than 70 percent are girls, who face repeated sexual assault by members of families they serve. Vilaj Espwa has become a haven for desperate orphans and for desperate parents no longer able to care for their children. While loving the children may be a natural outgrowth of his faith, Father Boisvert is the first to admit that actually caring for them is an enormous challenge. Even with more than 200 employees and volunteers – ranging from teachers and mothers to mechanics – the task can be overwhelming. During Catholic San Francisco’s visit to the compound, Father Boisvert had to deal with a broken well pump and a busted grain mill, among other problems. The maintenance tasks take time and money, both of which come at a premium in Haiti.

Father Marc Boisvert said he saw his calling in the eyes of the desperate children living on the streets of Les Cayes

Church agencies call for help in responding to Haitian food crisis By Chaz Muth

Wilson Jeanty, 18, of Vilaj Espwa shows off his artwork, painstakingly created from discarded oil drums

(PHOTOS BY MIKE VICK/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

A member of Vilaj Espwa’s roofing crew teams with the village’s young men to create building materials and furniture. Floridian Kevin Scobie (not pictured) heads this vocational program teaching carpentry, welding and metal work. “They told me stories about Haiti that were so terrible that you couldn’t imagine they were true,” he told Catholic San Francisco. Father Boisvert went to Haiti himself and encountered abject poverty he scarcely believed possible. He stepped down as a chaplain in 1997 to devote himself to the country. The priest said he saw his calling in the eyes of the desperate children living on the streets of Les Cayes. “I dedicated myself to giving them a chance,” he said. After five years of work housing a small number of children, in 2002 his nonprofit organization, Theo’s Work, Inc., purchased 25 acres of fertile land outside Les Cayes. There he, along with two staff members and a dozen teenagers who had been living with him in the city, built a village from the ground up. Vilaj Espwa, as it came to be known, now encompasses 100 acres and houses more than 500 children. Most are orphans, but some have parents who simply could not afford to feed, clothe or shelter them. The children have bunkrooms and a water system that delivers both potable water and clean water for showers. Large swaths of land are devoted to farming, and the village has its own school, arts and crafts room and carpenters’ workspace. Future plans include a medical and dental clinic and a vocational training center. One need met recently was the building of a wall around the children’s residential area. It now provides security both from natural surroundings and from marauders. The village itself has fences and security personnel for the same reason. Father Boisvert said the precautions address real threats. A small group of men from a nearby village once staged an ambush on a truck carrying the Vilaj Espwa payroll. Other local villagers captured the men, turned them over to the police and kept the payroll as a reward. Father Boisvert now spends some of his time at the local prison ministering to, among others, the man who masterminded the theft. The priest took Catholic San Francisco on a brief tour of the prison. Prison officials did not allow photos. They have good reason. The prison occupies a block in Les Cayes and is separated by a thick wall from the surrounding residential area. Building materials, barbed wire and trash litter the walkway to the prison proper. Inside, a large, debris-clogged courtyard is surrounded on three sides by

A Haitian woman sells rice in a street market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti April 10. Taxis, vendors and shoppers returned to thedebris-strewn streets of the Haitian capital after the president appealed for an end to food riots.

Father Boisvert meets with Vilaj Espwa children. The priest says it is difficult to get anything done in the morning because the boys all want to shake his hand, and the girls all want to kiss his cheek. Many of the orphans learned these social skills from him.

Though the vast majority of donors have good intentions, Father Boisvert said, he candidly expressed frustration with those who want to narrowly dictate how support is applied rather than work to address high-priority needs. As a case in point, the priest’s assistant, Paige Orlowski, showed Catholic San Francisco a sanitation project funded by an organization that disregarded the fundamental needs of the village. The project, a large complex of incinerating latrines, now sits virtually unusable. The donor chose its location to make it accessible to both Vilaj Espwa and the surrounding villages. The site proved to be too far from both and has never been used. Father Boisvert would have preferred to see the funding used for more beds and to meet the increased cost of living that has thrown the country into turmoil. With more than 500 children, 200-plus staff, volunteers and additional programs for children in surrounding villages and in Les Cayes, the staff serves over 3,000 meals every day, all from a kitchen that is about 20 feet by 15 feet. Breakfast is usually oatmeal, grits or plain spaghetti. The most nutritious meal of the day, lunch, is a simple mixture of rice and beans with cornmeal. For an evening meal, the children eat a simple dumpling soup or a flour-based pudding. The final meal of the day costs about 24 cents per person, amounting to $7,200 a month. With rising food prices and a shortfall in donations, Father Boisvert fears the group will have to reduce or even eliminate dinner. The priest said many donors do not understand that these costs, while not as flashy as development projects, represent the most basic unmet needs of Haiti’s children. He works with groups like Cross International Catholic Outreach, an aid group he said understands that operational costs are among the most important expenditures. Robyn Lees, CICO communications director, shared a story the priest told her about a recent encounter between him and one of his young charges. Despairing over a series of setbacks, the priest looked sullen. One of the little girls came to him and said, “Don’t worry, Daddy, it’ll be alright.” Suddenly he realized that no matter what, he could not give up. The children did not just call him “Father.” They think of him as “Daddy.” For further information, visit www.freethekids.org or pwojeespwa. blogspot.com.

BALTIMORE (CNS) – Violent demonstrations in Haiti have prompted officials from aid agencies to call on the Haitian government and the international community to funnel more resources into the country so people can obtain food and fuel. “At the core of the demonstrations is a sense of desperation among the people,” said Bill Canny, country representative for Catholic Relief Services in Haiti, speaking from the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, April 11. “The unemployed and poor working class doesn’t sense yet the effects of some of the government initiatives. Therefore, you have a high level of frustration.” Food is available in Haiti – the poorest country in the Americas – but most people simply can’t afford to buy it, Canny said. CRS, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency, reopened its operations April 11 after several days of looting and rioting over skyrocketing food prices forced it to shut down. “Yesterday there was still a sense of panic,” Canny said. “You could see it in the faces of people who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from. People are calmer today. They are starting to crowd the markets and stores.” Because the cost of the basic food staples of rice and cornmeal has risen at least 50 percent in recent months, it is going to cost the relief agencies significantly more to feed the thousands of destitute Haitians to whom they already provide aid, said Angel A. Aloma, executive director of the Florida-based Christian organization Food for the Poor. “We have to double our donations to maintain what we are doing now,” said Aloma, who was in Haiti in late March as the situation was reaching a boiling point. “We would love to open more food centers to ease some of the violence, but we can’t right now. It will take a tremendous increase in donations to do that.” Desperate Haitians have resorted to eating cookies made of butter and dirt, Aloma said. Demonstrations have sparked violence, looting and a call by lawmakers for the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis. Rioting is being blamed for the shooting deaths of at least five Haitians and the wounding of more than 40. U.N. officials are calling for emergency food aid, and France has pledged $1.6 million in support, including $1.2 million in food. “The situation is more serious than ever,” said Father Duken Augustin, a Food for the Poor representative who lives in CapHaitien. “The price of consumer goods like rice, beans and flour has more than doubled in just five months. Consequently, more and more children become malnourished, more and more adults are forced to beg for something to eat.” In the 20-plus years his organization has been helping Haiti’s needy, Food for the Poor’s president, Robin Mahfood, said he has never seen the situation so bad and he has never seen such an urgent need for assistance. Relief agencies are in negotiations with international governments, including the United States, to boost relief funding during the crisis, Canny said, and the hope is more aid will arrive in Haiti in the next few days. In the meantime, CRS is distributing its food reserves to organizations – like the Missionaries of Charity – throughout Haiti to get relief to the cities most affected, he said. CRS also is making sure the food shelves of its Haitian orphanages and other institutions are stocked to feed the children and elderly during the food crisis, Canny said.

Catholic San Francisco

April 25, 2008

Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Christ Our Hope In a message prior to his apostolic journey to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI told American Catholics: “Together with your bishops, I have chosen as the theme of my journey three simple but essential words: ‘Christ our hope.’ Following in the footsteps of my venerable predecessors, Paul VI and John Paul II, I shall come to United States of America as pope for the first time, to proclaim this great truth: Jesus Christ is hope for men and women of every language, race, culture and social condition. Yes, Christ is the face of God present among us. Through him, our lives reach fullness, and together, both as individuals and peoples, we can become a family united by fraternal love, according to the eternal plan of God the Father. I know how deeply rooted this Gospel message is in your country. I am coming to share it with you, in a series of celebrations and gatherings. I shall also bring the message of Christian hope to the great assembly of the United Nations, to the representatives of all the peoples of the world. Indeed, the world has greater need of hope than ever: hope for peace, for justice, and for freedom, but this hope can never be fulfilled without obedience to the law of God, which Christ brought to fulfillment in the commandment to love one another.” Meeting with U.S. bishops, Pope Benedict asked how in the 21st century a bishop can “best fulfill the call to make all things new in ‘Christ, our hope?’ How can he lead his people to ‘an encounter with the living God,’ the source of that life-transforming hope of which the Gospel speaks? Perhaps he needs to begin by clearing away some of the barriers to such an encounter. While it is true that this country is marked by a genuinely religious spirit, the subtle influence of secularism can nevertheless color the way people allow their faith to influence their behavior. Is it consistent to profess our beliefs in church on Sunday, and then during the week to promote business practices or medical procedures contrary to those beliefs? Is it consistent for practicing Catholics to ignore or exploit the poor and the marginalized, to promote sexual behavior contrary to Catholic moral teaching, or to adopt positions that contradict the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death? Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted. Only when their faith permeates every aspect of their lives do Christians become truly open to the transforming power of the Gospel.” At a Mass at Nationals Stadium in Washington, Pope Benedict said, “Dear friends, my visit to the United States is meant to be a witness to ‘Christ our hope.’ Americans have always been a people of hope. Your ancestors came to this country with the expectation of finding new freedom and opportunity, while the vastness of the unexplored wilderness inspired in them the hope of being able to start completely anew, building a new nation on new foundations. To be sure, this promise was not experienced by all the inhabitants of this land; one thinks of the injustices endured by the native American peoples and by those brought here forcibly from Africa as slaves. Yet hope, hope for the future, is very much a part of the American character. And the Christian virtue of hope – the hope poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, the hope which supernaturally purifies and corrects our aspirations by focusing them on the Lord and his saving plan – that hope has also marked, and continues to mark, the life of the Catholic community in this country.” Praying with priests, men and women religious at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Pope Benedict said, “[O]ne of the great disappointments which followed the Second Vatican Council, with its call for a greater engagement in the Church’s mission to the world, has been the experience of division between different groups, different generations, different members of the same religious family. We can only move forward if we turn our gaze together to Christ! In the light of faith, we will then discover the wisdom and strength needed to open ourselves to points of view which may not necessarily conform to our own ideas or assumptions. Thus we can value the perspectives of others, be they younger or older than ourselves, and ultimately hear ‘what the Spirit is saying’ to us and to the Church.” In his homily at a Mass in New York’s Yankee Stadium, the pope said “authority” and “obedience” are not easy words to speak nowadays [and] “represent a ‘stumbling stone’ for many of our contemporaries, especially in a society which rightly places a high value on personal freedom. Yet, in the light of our faith in Jesus Christ – ‘the way and the truth and the life’ – we come to see the fullest meaning, value, and indeed beauty, of those words. The Gospel teaches us that true freedom, the freedom of the children of God, is found only in the self-surrender which is part of the mystery of love. Only by losing ourselves, the Lord tells us, do we truly find ourselves. True freedom blossoms when we turn away from the burden of sin, which clouds our perceptions and weakens our resolve, and find the source of our ultimate happiness in him who is infinite love, infinite freedom, infinite life. ‘In his will is our peace.’” To review the homilies and public comments made by Pope Benedict XVI during his Apostolic Journey to the United States of America, visit the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s new website, www.sfarchdiocese.org – click on “Christ Our Hope.” MEH

Felicidades y adelante As a chancery employee, life-long resident of South San Francisco, and parishioner of All Souls Church, I am delighted to hear of the wonderful news of the appointment of Father Bill (Justice) as auxiliary bishop of San Francisco. Father Bill’s administrative skill and leadership have blessed All Souls Parish. As a parochial vicar in the early 1970s and later as pastor for 12 years (1991 – 2003), Father Bill managed the nuts and bolts of running a parish with insight and firmness. Yet, he led by example, with compassion and the ability to teach parish volunteers and ministers, like myself, to decide and act on their own with initiative and skill. He also touched the Hispanic community, not only by learning and using Spanish, but also by close interaction with and having a deep appreciation for our Latino culture, history, customs and traditions. Anyone who meets Bishop-elect Justice will find a pastor, a bishop, a friend who is tender yet firm, listens but is not afraid to speak, insightful but seeks answers from others, and a man who makes an outstanding leader for our times. Thank you to Catholic San Francisco for the opportunity to respond to the issue of April 18 and to wish Bishop-elect Justice God’s blessings and assure him of our continual prayers in his new role along with Bishop Wang and Archbishop Niederauer in the shepherding of God’s people in this wonderful Archdiocese. Felicidades y adelante, Padre Bill. Rose Gomez South San Francisco

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Stealth suicide bill Sponsors of California’s assisted suicide bills have not succeeded in their attempts to bring assisted suicide to California over the past 4 years. But instead of giving up, they have fashioned a stealth assisted suicide bill. Called End of Life Care, A2747 is the proverbial wolf in sheep’s clothing, creating a framework for future assisted-suicide laws. AB2747 mandates that a terminal patient – one having one year or less to live – be provided a “menu” of choices for end-of-life care. This menu would include palliative sedation and voluntary stopping of eating and drinking (VSED). Translation: Creating a vehicle for slow assisted suicide by making the withdrawal of food and fluids part of palliative sedation’s legal definition. AB2747 opens the door wide for abuse of palliative sedation for the imminently-dying patient. AB2747 is opposed by the California Medical Association and the Association of Northern California Oncologists. It interferes with communication between physicians and patients and their families. Catholic Lobby Day took place Tuesday, April 22, and this is a Lobby Day issue. Visit our website, http://www.sflifeandjustice.org/ for how you can participate in opposing this proposed legislation. Letters and calls of opposition to the Assembly Judiciary Committee are also important: Assembly Judiciary Committee, Attention: Drew Liebert, 1020 N Street, Room 104, Sacramento, CA 95814. Phone (916) 319-2334. Fax (916) 319-2188. Vicki Evans Respect Life Coordinator Archdiocese of San Francisco

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The article about Bishop-elect William Justice in the April 18 issue was puzzling. All of the comments were from members of the clergy. Were there no lay people available? Other priests lauded his leadership skills. He was said to be a good listener, very compassionate, and respected among the people. Not one of the “people” was quoted. It also would have been of interest to learn more about his parents and whether he had any siblings. Also, some examples of his “multicultural outreach” and “abilities in the service of unity” would have contributed to a more in-depth and personal image. We lay people may not be consulted much in the appointment of bishops, but we might have some relevant things to say about the priests we have known who become bishops. It was almost as if the bishop-elect’s prior service was largely on behalf of and known only by his brothers in the priesthood, rather than a picture of a priest also known and respected by the lay people who must have been in his life as vicar and pastor over the years. I’m sure this impression doesn’t do him justice. Jack Hitchcock San Mateo (Ed. note: A special section featur-

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Ashamed? If the Church is so ashamed about the sexual abuse of children, why was a basilica in Rome given to Cardinal Bernard Law? He should have been defrocked. Elizabeth Pinelli San Francisco

Dignity, decorum I was so happy to read that Archbishop Albert Malcolm Ranjith plans to have new guidelines to bring back “dignity and decorum” to the Mass and the reception of Holy Communion. Let’s pray that he does it soon to show our Lord and King all the honor and glory that is due to him, and that for so many years has been taken from him. Thanks be to God. Rhina Mendoza San Francisco

Listen to the Spirit The April 11 “World Day of Prayer For Vocations” edition of Catholic San Francisco provided an excellent view of the efforts of many religious individuals and groups to encourage Catholics to become priests or to enter other walks of religious life. At Mass on Sunday, we all recited a prayer in hope that Catholics, particularly young ones, would be moved to become seminarians or postulants. I truly hope our supplications are effective. An excellent article in the New York Times stated that currently in the U.S., there are 50 percent of the number of seminarians compared to four decades ago even while the Church increases in numbers, especially of Hispanics. It does seem current strategies to increase the number of priests and nuns to serve the Church are not bringing about the outcomes we need to enable the Church to carry out its mission – to sanctify the people of God. Other than prayer and the training and ordination of permanent male deacons, the hierarchy seems bereft of ideas to deal with diminishing numbers of priests and nuns.

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April 25, 2008

Catholic San Francisco

Catholic Education

Pope on education: serve poor, teach truth In his recent apostolic visit to the United States the pope’s April 17 address to Catholic educators in Washington, D.C. received minimal attention in the media which devoted most of its attention and coverage to Benedict’s repeated and heartfelt expressions of regret and shame over persons sexually abused by U.S. clergy. The pope addressed this issue with reporters before Shepherd One landed on the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base, and he returned to it throughout his visit. Perhaps the most dramatic crystallization of the pope’s feelings on the issue was his unscheduled afternoon meeting with the victims of sexual abuse in the chapel of the papal nunciature in Washington, D.C. which immediately preceded his 5 p.m. address at The Catholic University of America and rightfully overshadowed that event. The pope arrived more or less on time outside Pryzbyla Center at Catholic University. He stepped from his limousine and acknowledged with a shy waive of both hands the hundreds of students who had been awaiting his arrival for several hours under a warm sun with rock music blaring in the background. The festive atmosphere was more typical of the rites of spring than a papal visit. Benedict indicated to an aide that he would not speak to the students and moved up the stairs past cheering seminar-

ians and into the room where we had been waiting since 3 p.m. to hear his address. I sat between the superintendent of Catholic schools in Buffalo and the president of another university, which indicates the breadth of experience represented by 300 Catholic educators to whom the pope would speak. The pope spoke from a raised dais flanked by six cardinals in the front and rows of prelates on either side behind the chair from which he read his address. Cardinal Levada managed a wink and hand wave when I caught his eye. Benedict shared his thoughts on the nature and identity of Catholic education. He affirmed the centrality of education to the Church’s mission of proclaiming the Good News and strongly underscored the responsibility of Catholic education to “become an especially powerful instrument of hope” in a culture plagued by moral confusion and the fragmentation of knowledge. In a particularly timely observation, the pope acknowledged the role that Catholic schools have played in helping immigrants “rise from poverty and take their place in mainstream society.” He insisted that U.S. Catholics should do “everything possible” to ensure that Catholic schools “are accessible to people of all social and economic strata.” He insisted that no one should be denied the right to a Catholic education “which in turn nurtures the soul of a nation.”

Benedict named the major challenge facing Catholic schools, whether primary, secondary or university: maintaining a focus on immigrants and the poor and not allowing financial pressures or preoccupation Father Stephen with status to transform Privett, S.J. them into academies for a privileged elite. Pope Benedict’s discussion of the nature of Catholic education was rather densely philosophical and theological in orientation. He is clearly not a “sound bite” speaker, but one who thinks deeply and clearly about issues and eschews simple answers for complex subjects. He grounded the Church’s involvement in education in the mystery of God and God’s desire to make himself known and the correlative “innate desire of all human beings to know the truth.” Truth leads to goodness and ultimately to God, who is both. The pope affirmed the mutuality of faith and reason in

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The Catholic Difference

Architecture and Christian sensibility In my Walter Mitty life, I’m not turning a double play with Cal Ripken at Camden Yards, or playing the Emperor Concerto with the National Symphony. I’m not even writing the Great American Novel. No, when I imagine a different life it’s as an architect. On the face of it, my architectural fantasies are quite absurd. I can’t draw a circle. My mathematical skills are challenged by the family check book, and I’m clueless about engineering. But I love great buildings, and to think of the exhilaration involved in designing and building one is ... well, exhilarating. Which brings me to one recent experience, and one splendid book. The experience took place in Barcelona where, this past November, I fulfilled a longstanding ambition to visit Antonio Gaudi’s Temple of the Sagrada Familia, perhaps the world’s most famous unfinished structure. How to describe the Sagrada Familia? It’s an utterly unique mix of naturalism and the gothic, sprawling over an entire city block and weaving elements of nature and classic Christian symbols together into a stone fabric unlike anything in the world. From another point if view, it’s a kind of colossal Christian forest, inside and out; there will eventually be 18 exterior spires (Jesus, Mary, the apostles, the evangelists), and inside the gothic nave, the supporting columns resemble nothing so much as gigantic trees. The three facades – Nativity, Passion and Glory – are mini-catechisms of the basics of Christian doctrine. I was in Barcelona to received an honorary degree

along with my old friend Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, former secretary to John Paul II and current archbishop of Cracow. We climbed to the very top of the temple, hundreds of feet above Barcelona, neither one of us feeling at liberty to tell our hosts that hiking up open-air scaffolding at those altitudes wasn’t our favorite pastime – and the cardinal did it in a cassock! But we made it, and I’m glad we did, because it’s only from that angle that you can get a full sense of both the enormity of Gaudi’s vision and his remarkable attention to detail. The current head of construction told us that they hoped to finish what Gaudi had begun in1892 in, say, 25 or 30 years. I hope they make it – and I hope Barcelona isn’t the capital of the Islamic Republic of Catalonia when the Sagrada Familia is done. The splendid book in question is “The Architecture of Ralph Adams Cram and His Office,” by Ethan Anthony. In the first half of the 20th century, when architectural modernism was riding high, Ralph Adams Cram was the leading classical architect in America. His most famous buildings include the Princeton University Chapel, the Post Headquarters at West Point, St. Thomas Episcopal Church at Fifth Avenue and 53rd Street in New York (home to the greatest stone reredos in North America), Fourth Presbyterian Church on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, and, of course, the never-completed Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. In addition to his magnificent churches – which he did in Gothic, Romanesque, Tudor, and Spanish Colonial, among other styles – Cram designed college campuses (Princeton,

Rice, Sweet Briar, Boston University), public buildings, offices and homes. As Ethan Anthony puts it, neatly, Ralph Adams Cram was the “crusading knight” of American architecture, George Weigel contesting for buildings that gave expression to the nobility of the human spirit and our aspiration to touch the true, the good and the beautiful. If, as architect-friends tell me, contemporary construction economics make Cram’s stone-based work impossible to replicate, then we are the much the poorer, aesthetically, for it. Antonio Gaudi and Ralph Adams Cram were two very different architects, whose work could hardly be considered parallel. Except, I would submit, in the most important sense: both men worked out of a profound Christian sensibility, informed by classic Christian ideas about the way the world is – and the way our stewardship of the world should function. If the banal plainness of Bauhaus modernism bespeaks spiritual aridity, the architecture of Gaudi and Cram is redolent with an intellectually sophisticated faith that never loses sight of the mystical, of that which is beyond our reason. That’s why their works soar. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Making a Difference

The debilitating costs of war A joke that often circulates around April 15 is that there are two certainties in life: death and taxes. For Easter disciples, passing on from earthly life to eternal joy is something to really look forward to. Paying taxes is not. While none of us likes dishing out part of our hardearned money to the government, people of faith who are financially able have a moral obligation to support a just government. And that government has an obligation to use tax money in morally responsible ways. Squandering financial resources to wage an unjust “preventive war” is not a morally acceptable use of taxpayers’ money. Especially when it’s to the tune of $3 trillion. In a book titled “The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict,” co-author Joseph Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, conservatively reveals that the actual cost of the Iraq war to date is an astounding $3 trillion! Despite the war’s astronomical cost, President Bush, according to the independent news organization Democracy Now, said that he did not agree that the Iraq war was hurting the economy. “I think, actually, the spending on the war might help with jobs,” said the president.

Stiglitz strongly disagrees. “When we went to war, they (the Bush administration) said it was going to cost $50 billion. We are now spending that money upfront every three months.” Stiglitz continued, “You know, in the election campaign, people said there are two big issues: the economy and the war. I think there’s one big issue, and that’s the war, because the war has been directly and indirectly having a very negative effect on the economy.” The full cost of the Iraq war is not to be found in the defense budget, as many would have us believe. According to Stiglitz, there are huge outlays hidden in other places, “like contractors. ... We pay their insurance through the Labor Department.” But the most important budgetary cost that has not been publicized is the expense of veterans’ health care and disability “that will total hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decades,” points out Stiglitz. Consider, too, the “fact that the war has been associated with an increasing price of oil. … It’s money that’s not being spent here at home,” Stiglitz argues. He said all this contributed to the large-scale economic costs which have depressed the economy: “We were living

off of borrowed money. The war was totally financed by deficits. And eventually, a day of reckoning had to come, and now it’s come.” While most of us are feeling some of these negative economic effects, Tony Magliano it’s the poor who are especially experiencing “a day of reckoning.” The world’s Catholic bishops at the Second Vatican Council proclaimed: “While extravagant sums are being spent for the furnishings of ever new weapons, an adequate remedy cannot be provided for the multiple miseries afflicting the whole modern world.” Imagine the tremendous good, and goodwill, that would have resulted if $3 trillion had been instead spent on ending the “multiple miseries afflicting the whole modern world.” Tony Magliano is a Catholic News Service columnist.

Catholic San Francisco

April 25, 2008

Sixth Sunday of Easter

Scripture reflection

Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Psalm 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20; 1 Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 8:5-8, 14-17 Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them. With one accord, the crowds paid attention to what was said by Philip when they heard it and saw the signs he was doing. For unclean spirits, crying out in a loud voice, came out of many possessed people, and many paralyzed or crippled people were cured. There was great joy in that city. Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for it had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. Shout joyfully to God, all the earth, sing praise to the glory of his name; proclaim his glorious praise. Say to God, “How tremendous are your deeds!” R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. “Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you, sing praise to your name!” Come and see the works of God, his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam. R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. He has changed the sea into dry land; through the river they passed on foot; therefore let us rejoice in him. He rules by his might forever. R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare what he has done for me. Blessed be God who refused me not my prayer or his kindness! R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PETER 1 PT 3:15-18 Beloved: Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an explanation

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

Jesus Christ is pathway and reason for holy hope

St. Philip the Apostle

to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that be the will of God, than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the Spirit. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 14:15-21 Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

“Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul/And sings the tune without words/And never stops at all.” Emily Dickinson then goes on to say that “the little bird” will sing sweetly “in the chillest land” and “on the strangest sea,” without asking “a crumb of me” even “in extremity.” Dickinson’s sentiments may well find an echo in Peter’s insistence on the “reason for our hope,” which we are to be ready to give at all times, despite present pain and possible persecution. It is not enough to live in hope, but we ought to interpret it in such a way as to inspire others to grasp our reason for hope, so they too can come to discover for themselves that we have a common quest for hope. Peter is convinced that the reason for everyone’s hope can only be Jesus who suffered, died and has risen to new life in the Spirit. Regardless of our circumstances, our constant need for hope can arise from the risen Christ alone. If Jesus rose to a glorious life, overcoming death, evil and suffering, those of us who die with him can live in hope of rising with him, here and now, in the midst of life’s challenges and responsibilities. In the din of conflicting voices that may lead us to conflicts, self-absorption, discouragement, indulgence and self-interest, we can discern the voice of Jesus calling us gently, as he did ages ago, to take a chance on him and thus make sense of our existence as individuals, families and communities. We have hope for the present. We have reason to hope for the future. It is Jesus. Let us, therefore, as Peter suggests, “sanctify Jesus as Lord” in our hearts. After the resurrection, Philip shares the reason for hope with Samaritans, the first nonJewish community outside Jerusalem, who accept it with “great joy.” The deal is sealed with the visit of Peter and John from Jerusalem, as they lay hands on them. Anointed with the Holy Spirit, the Samaritans realize that their reason for hope is now invested with dynamism and direction. Philip will offer the same reason for hope later to the Ethiopian official

who will also gladly embrace it. In case there is tepidity and trepidation in regard to our reason for hope, Jesus foresees our need for “another Advocate… the Spirit of truth” to infuse passion and power, courage and creativity into our lives. Our desire to keep the commandments of Jesus, our wholehearted love for him, our understanding of the indwelling presence of the Father and the Son with us, will all be intensified with a new capability, thanks to the Holy Spirit’s purifying fire and mighty wind. We shall never feel orphaned again. Our reason for hope shall become abundantly clear to us. Others shall be touched by the leaping tongues of this fire to know that their hearts are burning with the desire for Jesus. They too will understand that the gusty wind will blow their hopelessness away, grounding and rooting them in Jesus. Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying: “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” This sad situation for Christians may arise if we cannot clarify for ourselves the reason for our hope – Jesus. Our life needs to be in consonance with the reason for hope; it can only be a demonstration of this hope. If not, as Gandhi discovered, there would be a chasm between faith and profession, resulting in our inability to give others the reason for our hope. Our hope will always enshrine the power to propel us toward love and service. Giving others hope is necessary. As Pope Benedict XVI says in Spe Salve: “Our hope is always essentially also hope for others; only thus is it truly hope for me, too. As Christians we should never limit ourselves to asking: how can I save myself? We should also ask: what can I do in order that others may be saved and that for them too the star of hope may rise? Then I will have done my utmost for my own personal salvation as well.” Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is parochial vicar at St. Patrick Parish, San Francisco.

Spirituality for Life

‘I want it all’ v. saintly simplicity What makes a saint? One of my favorite definitions comes from Soren Kierkegaard who once famously wrote: “To be a saint is to will the one thing.” That sounds simple, but, as we know, choosing something in fidelity is one of the hardest things to do in the whole world. Why? Because, as Thomas Aquinas says, every choice is a renunciation. In fact it’s a thousand renunciations. Simply put, if you choose to marry one person, you can’t marry someone else. If you choose to live on one city, you can’t live in another. If you choose to spend your time and energies in one place, you can’t spend them somewhere else. We can’t have it all! And yet that’s what we want, we want it all and we are built to have it all. There’s a story told about Therese of Lisieux in this regard. When she was a girl of seven, one of her older sisters, Leonie, had decided it was time for her to give up her toys. So she gathered them all into a basket and went into a room where Therese and her sister, Celine, were playing. She told them that each of them could choose one thing from the basket and the rest would be given to an orphanage. Celine chose a colorful ball, but Therese was paralyzed, unable to choose, and at a point simply said, “I choose them all! I want them all!”

Henri Nouwen once described his own struggles in choosing: “I want to be a great saint, he wrote, but I also want to experience all the sensations that sinners have; I want to spend long hours in prayer, but I don’t want to miss anything on television; and I want to live in radical simplicity, but I also want to have a comfortable apartment, the freedom to travel, and all the things I need to be a professional scholar and writer. Small wonder my life is trying and tiring! It’s not easy to be single-minded, to be a saint - or to be a human being, for that matter.” I have always prided myself, perhaps arrogantly and to my own detriment, on recognizing that life is complex, that human nature is pathologically layered, and that ambiguity is the fundamental phenomenon within our universe. Our hearts and souls contain more things than we honestly admit. For this reason, I have always leaned toward authors who have tried to honestly face and name this, teachers who haven’t denied or made light of our sexual complexity, and spiritualities that have taken seriously the fact that, given human nature with all its grandiosity, we shouldn’t be so surprised to see in our world a lot of jealousy, breakdown, depression, anger and violence. Even our most intimate relationships aren’t simple. We carry too many complexities, too many wounds, too much grandiosity, so that, as James Hillman

puts it, the first function of any family is to help carry the pathologies of its members. Life isn’t simple and for that we can thank, among other reasons, the very way we are built. We carry Father inside us the image and Ron Rolheiser likeness of God. That’s more than a beautiful icon stamped into the soul. It’s a divine fire, a hungry energy, an insatiable appetite, an incessant yearning, a paralysis when we try to make choices. As the author of Ecclesiastes says, God has put eternity inside of us so that we are out of sync with the seasons from beginning to end. We are complicated, not ever satisfied, and, like Therese of Lisieux, don’t like to choose. We want it all! So where do we go? Our complexity notwithstanding, in the end, we need to become saints. Leon Bloy (the French philosopher who was so instrumental in helping bring Jacques and Raissa Maritain to the faith) once packed an entire commentary ROLHEISER, page 18

April 25, 2008 A nun laughs in excitement awaiting the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI at the papal youth rally at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. April 19.

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Brother Juanmaria, a member of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal in the Bronx, N.Y., yells and waves a gold cloth as the pope arrives. (CNS PHOTO/BOB ROLLER)

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Pope urges young to combat drugs, poverty, racism By Benedicta Cipolla YONKERS, N.Y. (CNS) – Addressing a crowd of 25,000 young people and seminarians, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of the “monster” that cast a shadow over his own childhood and urged the current generation to banish the darkness that exists today. Speaking April 19 at a boisterous rally on the grounds of the Archdiocese of New York’s seminary in Yonkers, the pope said that while young people now enjoy democracy’s freedom “the power to destroy does, however, remain.” Pope Benedict offered a personal reflection on his own youth in Germany, “marred by a sinister regime that thought it had all the answers.” Nazism, he said, “banished God and thus became impervious to anything true and good.” The pope was forced to enroll in Hitler Youth as a boy but soon stopped going to meetings. In 2006 he said at a youth meeting in St. Peter’s Square that he decided to become a priest after witnessing the Nazis’ brutality. At St. Joseph’s Seminary, the pope said the evils of substance abuse, homelessness and poverty, racism, violence and the degradation of girls and women result in people being treated as objects and the denial of God-given human dignity. Pope Benedict called the manipulation of truth “particularly sinister.” When freedom disregards absolute truth, relegating it instead to the private sphere of the individual, relativism takes hold, he said. Truth is neither an imposition nor a simple set of rules. “Ultimately truth is a person: Jesus Christ,” he said. During the meeting, young people from schools in the region presented the pope, who celebrated his 81st birthday April 16, with several gifts, including framed pictures of Sts. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Frances Xavier Cabrini and John Neumann, Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, and Pierre Toussaint and Father Felix Varela, who have been declared venerable in the sainthood process. All of them were either born or served in New York. The saints’ diverse backgrounds and missions illustrate the breadth and possibilities of Christian discipleship, which should not be viewed through a negative prism of do’s and don’ts, said the pope. “Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth,” he said. The saints’ examples also propel people to renewed social action against injustices, such as environmental damage done to the

Papal Crowds Pope Benedict XVI’s six-day trip to the U.S. in April attracted tens of thousands of people from all over the world.

In Washington

13,000 White House

19,000 on the mall at Catholic University of America for events held at CUA and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception

45,000 Mass at Nationals Park

600 Address to educators at Catholic University of America

In New York City tens of thousands crowds along Fifth Avenue

3,000 St. Patrick’s Cathedral

50 people with disabilities

25,000 youth rally

57,000 Mass at Yankee Stadium

Source: CNS, CNN, NY Daily News, Catholic University of America

earth, which “groans under the weight of consumerist greed and irresponsible exploitation,” the pope said. Pope Benedict encouraged those studying for the priesthood to “reject any temptation to ostentation, careerism or conceit. Strive for a pattern of life truly marked by charity, chastity and humility, in imitation of Christ,” he said. At the end of his English remarks, the pope stood up, but an aide turned the page of his text. Laughing, the pope said, “I forgot my Spanish.” As he began reading the text, there were cheers from the crowd. Ebi Ogbu, 22, a forensic psychology major who presented the welcome message to Pope Benedict, told Catholic News Service: “A lot of young people struggle with faith, and they get God out of their lives. There’s a lot of peer pressure in terms of what the media sells, and it’s hard to break away from that when everyone is doing it. “Nobody should be afraid to let go and let God work in their lives,” she said. After the service concluded, Gabriella Fiorentino, 18, said she was surprised when she presented the pope with the picture of Blessed Kateri and got to kiss him on both cheeks. “We knew we’d get to see him and stand right near him, but then he called us up. I wish everyone could have the feeling I had when I was up (there) with him,” she said. One chaperone said he was particularly impressed by the pope’s address. “What I think was interesting was that the message had so much substance and it wasn’t so sound-bite-driven. That was good for the kids,” said Mike DeBartolo, who accompanied about 40 young adults from Resurrection Church in Rye, N.Y. Before the rally, pop singer Kelly Clarkson and other musicians performed at an outdoor concert against a backdrop of the risen Christ. With a cloudless sky and temperatures in the 70s, the festive atmosphere felt like the first taste of summer. Displaying one of the biggest smiles of his trip to the United States, the pope revved up the crowd just after his late-afternoon arrival when he stepped to the edge of the stage to grab some of the outstretched hands. The crowd also sang “Happy Birthday” in German to the pope, who gave them an “A-plus” for pronunciation. His next major encounter with young people will be in July at World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia. Contributing to this story was Beth Griffin.

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Letters . . .

Marriage is sacrament

Prayers for priests?

■ Continued from page 14

No, Mr. Downs (Letters, April 11, “Marriage and law”) marriage is not merely a custom. God created man in his image, male and female he created them. God blessed them, saying, “Be fertile and multiply.” It was through original sin that God’s divine plan of marriage for man was temporarily ended. Christ , however, healed the breach and raised marriage to the level of a sacrament. “Have you not read that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female and declared ‘for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and cling to his wife, and the two shall become as one’?” See Matt. 19: 3-10. Christ, through his divinely instituted Church, has taught that sex is only permitted within the state of marriage between a man and a woman. All sexual relations outside of marriage are intrinsically wrong. Homosexual or straight, no difference. I highly recommend that people read Humanae Vitae, the greatest papal encyclical in the last 100 years regarding what happens when sex is divorced from creation and marriage. Just look around at all the wreckage that is modern society and you can see the results. Stephen Firenze San Mateo

A Sunday bulletin in my parish had the following item: “Prayer for Priests, Week of 3/10/2008.” It listed the names of seven priests, one for each day of the week from Monday through Sunday. At the very end it says, ”Prayer for vocations.” I am totally at a loss to understand the meaning and the purpose of this announcement. Are these seven priests sick and in need of our prayer? Or do we pray for them because they are especially bad priests? Is this a continuing program throughout the Archdiocese? If so, what is the role of these seven priests? Leading the prayer sessions and preaching about the priesthood? This is really puzzling. I would deeply appreciate any information or comment that you might have on this question. Phan viet Phung San Mateo (Ed note: The “Prayer for Priests Calendar” is an on-going project of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women. The ACCW publishes and distributes a monthly calendar with a priest named for each day. The priests listed are men incardinated in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, or actively ministering in an assignment within archdiocesan boundaries. Days are often designated also for Pope Benedict XVI and for Cardinal William J. Levada, Archbishop-emeritus.)

Is it that no one is listening to suggestions provided by the Holy Spirit to move forward, or is it that the Holy Spirit is silent on the matter? I doubt the love of the Father and the Son is not touching the hearts of men and women. In my reading and listening, I hear all sorts of suggestions of how to enable those who wish to serve the Church. Yet the hierarchy repeatedly answers in the negative. I wonder, is this a matter of stubbornness or a certain “clericalism” that is again dominating the Catholic Church? What do we have to fear by listening to the Holy Spirit speaking to the entire Church? Who would want the Church to atrophy in the developed world that thirsts for spiritual drink and food of all kinds, old and new. There has been no dearth of studies trying to explain how we got to where we are today, a Church with fewer priests and nuns and a hierarchy unwilling to listen to all members of the Body of Christ on how to renew and reinvigorate the Church. Why do they refuse to listen? I suggest that our prayers not only plea for more vocations but that the minds and hearts of those with power in the Church open up to Light of the Holy Spirit and let their hearts become “unhardened.” Joseph C. Barbaccia, M.D. San Francisco

Rolheiser . . . ■ Continued from page 16 on spirituality and life into a single line: “Ultimately there is only one human sadness, that of not being a saint.” The older we get, the more we realize how true that is and how important is that truth. Real sadness has but a single source.

But becoming a saint has a real cost: Hard choice, commitment, single-mindedness, willing the one thing, renouncing whatever stands in the way, sweating blood to remain faithful, and sustaining the emotional, sexual and spiritual asceticism needed to protect that choice. We shouldn’t, of course, try to do this simplistically in a way that denies the complexity of our souls and bodies, but we

shouldn’t remain paralyzed either in the face of that complexity, rationalizing that things are just too complicated and we are just too torn to make a choice. At some point our procrastinating and the rationalizing have to end. We have to choose, accept the painful renunciations inside that choice, and will the one-thing, God and faithful service of others, because

ultimately our sadness comes from the fact we are not yet saints. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author can be contacted through his website: www.ronrolheiser.com.

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that contradict the faith and the teaching of the Church.” This balance characterized his entire talk. The pope never degenerated into “black and white” thinking over complex issues but consistently endeavored to strike a fine balance. He was clear and direct in affirming his support for the Catholic universities while not hesitating to challenge Catholic educators to greater fidelity in “living the truth which you propose to your students.” Benedict concluded his reflections by expressing his gratitude and offering his encouragement to Catholic educators. He stressed the importance of education for the life of the Church and society and called for a renewed commitment to serving the poor through education. While the sex abuse scandal overshadowed the pope’s address on Catholic education, his thoughts deserve prayerful reflection and his challenges should inspire and motivate those of us involved in Catholic education at whatever level to redouble our efforts to serve the faith and promote justice.

■ Continued from page 15 the quest for truth and goodness which he said drives the Church’s involvement “in humanity’s struggle to arrive at truth.” He observed that faith and reason together help keep public debates “rational, honest and accountable.” The pope indicated that the Catholic identity of a university cannot be reduced simply to the number of Catholics in the institution or the orthodoxy of course content. The Catholicity of a university expresses itself “liturgically, sacramentally, through acts of charity, a concern for justice and respect for God’s creation. Only in this way do we really bear witness to the meaning of who we are and what we uphold.” Thus, the pursuit of justice and environmental responsibility are not “add-ons” in the pope’s thinking, but central expressions of the Catholic tradition. The pope took this talk as an opportunity to “reaffirm the great value of academic freedom … to search for the truth wherever careful analysis of evidence leads you.” But he also cautioned that academic freedom cannot, in principle, be invoked “to justify positions

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The saint and the actor: may they meet again Paul Scofieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portrayal of Sir Thomas More in â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Man for All Seasonsâ&#x20AC;? became a constant fixture in my memory from the first time I saw it at the ANTA Theater in New York in 1961. Robert Boltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play was and is extraordinary, and Scofield seemed not merely to play More but to become him. I went back twice to see his performance and once again to see his successor in the part, Emlyn Williams. This last visit showed how well the piece played even without Scofield, but it also demonstrated how unique Scofieldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contribution to it was. The film version enshrined the performance permanently and proves memory does not exaggerate the splendor of the original experience. Seeing him in the part several times also showed me that Scofield â&#x20AC;&#x201C; who died March 19 at age 86 in southern England, after a battle with leukemia â&#x20AC;&#x201C; was an actor who could modulate his performance to bring different reactions from his audiences. One of many quotable moments in the play comes when More inquires about the chain of office worn by the erstwhile friend who perjures himself to bring about Moreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s conviction. More is told that his accuser, Richard Rich, has been made attorney general for Wales. More says to him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why, Richard, it profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. ... But for Wales!â&#x20AC;? The first two times I saw the play, Scofield delivered the line sardonically, and it got a laugh. The third time he said it with infinite sadness, much as he says it in the film. There was no laughter that time. I do not know the extent to which either Scofield or Bolt realized the impact the play had on multitudes of Catholics in the English-speaking world. One reason for this impact is that it introduced some and reintroduced others to one of the Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most attractive saints in a wonderfully imaginative way. It also surmounted brilliantly the obstacles that usually stand in the way of successfully portraying goodness. Most writers and actors would agree they can entertain audiences more successfully and convincingly by portraying evil â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and perhaps have more fun themselves. Dante may be mortified that readers who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get enough of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Infernoâ&#x20AC;? approach the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paradisoâ&#x20AC;? with dread, but that seems to be one of the effects of original sin. It is an effect that Bolt and Scofield overcome with

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British actor Paul Scofield, who won an Oscar for his role as Sir Thomas More in the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Man for All Seasons,â&#x20AC;? is pictured in a scene from the 1966 film. Scofield died as a result of leukemia March 19 in a hospital near his home in southern England. He was 86.

their portrait of a genuinely good character who is also the most intelligent, witty, commanding and likable character in the drama.

The play also invites its audience to have a wider perspective on history than the one most are used to. One effect of the triumph of Protestantism in England was to give Catholics born and raised in the vast swath of the globe shaped by English culture a sense that Catholicism was on the losing side of history. It appeared as if England, with Protestantism as its moral engine, had triumphed over the Catholic powers Spain and France and seemingly over the Church as well. Though it is not likely that Bolt intended it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Man for All Seasonsâ&#x20AC;? provided a hero who was both quintessentially English and fervently Catholic â&#x20AC;&#x201C; flesh and blood proof there was no intrinsic opposition between the Catholic faith and the predominant culture. If anything, More was a figure who challenged that culture to consider whether it had been unfaithful to its roots. Did he not stand head and shoulders above squalid sexual, dynastic and ecclesiastical politics? Had he not proved his worth by refusing to be cowed by a bullying king or influenced by the example of a supine and opportunistic nobility and hierarchy? His determination not to be a martyr only increased his attractiveness because it removed any hint of self-righteousness. Boltâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play is not a celebration of sanctity as such. It celebrates a man who refuses to go along with what he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think is right just for the sake of his own ease and security â&#x20AC;&#x201C; which is pretty much what everyone around him is doing and urging him to do. It does not spend much time on Moreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inner spiritual and devotional life as the source of his courage. Yet I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it is too much to say that Scofield, with his immensely expressive face and voice, managed to convey an interiority that went beyond what was in the words on the page. He propelled that sense across the footlights into the hearts of his audience in the theater, and in the film itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there for everyone to see up close. Now that the saint and the actor have the opportunity to meet, I think they will recognize one another. Msgr. Francis J. Maniscalco is the former secretary for the Office of Communications of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He writes from the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y. This article is reprinted from The Tidings, newspaper of the Los Angeles Archdiocese.

Swedish Chamber Orchestra proves less can be more For the composerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s First Piano Concerto the orchestra was joined by Piotr Anderszewski, a superb soloist â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not The debate goes on over quantity and quality in classi- exactly a household name but much appreciated on the cal music: are 19th century orchestras of over a hundred international circuit. It is a tribute to Cal Performances men, and only recently of women, the right size? Should that they continue to present artists of such high caliwe favor period instruments that will give us the sound ber. that Mozart and Beethoven heard (the latter only in his In this work, published first although composed head, of course)? second, Beethoven has already mastered the technique It is largely a fruitless controversy, since there are of interplay between soloist and orchestra. Considering benefits and losses on all sides. A string sound with- that in the late 18th century an orchestra would have out vibrato is bizarre or been about the size of refreshing, depending the Swedish ensemble, on your taste. And size it might seem probdoesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter if music From the slashing opening measures lematic that the piano is well played. part would be played That being said, the of the Coriolan Overture it was on a modern Steinway concert by the Swedish with its big sound. But Chamber Orchestra at clear that this orchestra could make Mr. Anderszewski temZellerbach Hall on April pered his touch with the 6 gave new relevance a powerful statement that did not utmost subtlety so that to the axiom that less the instrument, while is more. Numbering depend upon volume. in the forefront, never 38 players under their seemed obtrusive. dynamic leader, Thomas In the slow movement Dausgaard, this enterprising ensemble presented a pro- in particular there was a hushed quality to the soloistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gram of standard classics by Beethoven and Schumann playing that held the listener spellbound. This music with remarkable freshness. Tempi were brisk without gives us the inward, yearning Beethoven, in contrast to being rushed and the sense of collaboration infused the tempestuous maestro of popular imagination. Still, everything. Mr. Dausgaard was clearly in charge, but Mr. Anderszewski had the fiery aspects of the music there were many moments when his gestures were totally at his command, and the concluding allegro minimal to the point of invisibility, yet the players were sparkled gleefully. secure and united. After intermission, Mr. Dausgaard led his players in the From the slashing opening measures of the Coriolan second symphony of Robert Schumann. Despite his mental Overture it was clear that this orchestra could make a problems and serial breakdowns Schumann turned out a powerful statement that did not depend upon volume. remarkable amount of first-rate music. If his symphonies Clarity, proportion and coherence provided the drama that never quite reach the heights, they still garner appreciation Beethoven extracted from the story of the Roman general and enjoyment, especially when played with the vigor and and transformed with his accustomed ingenuity. commitment of the Swedish players on this occasion.

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Notable throughout the concert was the presence of natural trumpets (without valves) that have a less piercing sound than later ones. The virtuoso musicians received a special ovation for their work. The concert ended with a playful rendition of the popular Brahms Hungarian Dance in G minor, punctuated by rhythmic clapping from the audience, genially incited by the good-natured Mr. Dausgaard. A good time was had by all. A priest of the Oakland Diocese, Father Basil De Pinto is a frequent contributor on the arts.

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Taize/Chanted Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Young Adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking available. For information contact, mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. 1st Friday at 7:30 p.m.: Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. 2nd Friday at 8 p.m.: Our Lady of the Pillar, 400 Church St. in Half Moon Bay. Call Cheryl Fuller at (650) 726-2249. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Contact Benedictine Father Martin at (650) 851-6133 for directions or information.

Good Health May 10, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Free skin cancer screenings by UCSF dermatologists at Castro-Mission Health Center, 3850 17th St. at Noe in San Francisco. May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month.

Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life April 26, 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.: Restorative Justice Dialogue at University of San Francisco, Fromm Building, 2497 Golden Gate Ave. corner of Parker and Golden Gate. Discussions address foundations of Restorative Justice, healing circles/ impact of violent crimes; victim offender education group; San Quentin Restorative Justice InterFaith Roundtable Implementation Plan. Contact: usf_groundswell@usfca.edu. The event is free. June 7, 8, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.: “The Art and

Ned Dolejsi, left, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, and Dominican Father Michael Sweeney, president of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, will address the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s annual Public Policy Breakfast May 7 from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Also confirmed as a speaker is former state Senator David Roberti. To register, phone Patricia Ribeiro at (415) 614-5570, fax (415) 614-4468 or e-mail ribeirop@ sfarchdiocese.org. Breakfast and registration is $20. The event is sponsored by the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns.

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Pauline Books and Media Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City, (650) 369-4230. Tuesdays 6:30 – 8 p.m.: Study group on “Saved in Hope,” encyclical by Pope Benedict XVI. Fullest benefit is with attending all sessions but not required. Please call ahead so enough study guides will be available.

Tridentine Mass The traditional Latin Mass according to texts and rubrics from before Vatican II is celebrated at locations and times below. First Friday of the month, 7 p.m.: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Rd. at Glen Way in East Palo Alto. Mass is followed by Benediction. For more information, call (650) 322-2152. Sundays at 12:15 p.m.: Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent School for Boys. For more information, call St. Isabella Parish at (415) 479-1560.

Vallombrosa Retreat Center 350 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. Call (650) 325-5614 or visit www.vallombrosa.org. May 3, 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.: “Interior Castle of St. Teresa,” with Carmen de la Vega Neafsey who has studied the life and spirituality of St. Teresa of Avila for more than 30 years. Weekend Session, May 23 – 25: Sacred Healing Retreat led by Dominican Sister Joan Prohaska. Come and learn the healing code. Using our bodies as portals to the divine energy of God, experience the interconnectedness of the chakras, the sacraments, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the beatitudes of Jesus, to become the healing Light of Christ to the world. Cost for weekend session is $195 single room/$175 shared room.

Food & Fun April 27, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.: Annual parade and celebration of the Santo Cristo Society of San Mateo County beginning with parade formation at 9 a.m. in front of Santo Cristo Hall, 41 Oak Ave. in South San Francisco then to All Souls Church for Mass at 10:30 a.m. Parade returns to hall for festivities and Sopas e Carne lunch, fundraising auctions, music and dancing. Everyone invited. Call (650) 678-9292. May 3, 4: Spring bake sale following weekend Masses and benefiting St. Stephen Elementary School, 23rd Ave. at Eucalyptus in San Francisco. Contact epmtrohan@comcast.net for more information. May 3, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: St. Sebastian’s 13th Annual “Whale of a Sale” with crafts, jewelry, household items, and new famous-maker clothes for $1 to $5. Refreshments available. Please come to 373 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. For reservations or information call Kathie Meier at (415) 461-4133. May 5, 7:30 p.m.: 27th Annual May Crowning and Living Rosary in All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Palou St. in San Francisco. Sponsored by All Hallows #182 Young Ladies Institute. Call Sue Elvander at (415) 467-8872. May 9: Join the St. Stephen Men’s Club for a day of golf at the Crystal Springs Golf Course in Burlingame. Tickets are $165 and include golf, cart, box lunch, tee prizes and dinner. Call Pat Goudy at (415) 5870471 or Mark Hazelwood at (415) 452-0480 for more information. May 17, 8:30 a.m. - 4 p.m.: The First Annual Monsignor Harry Bocce Tournament and Picnic at home of the Bocce Federation, Albert Park, 550 B St. in San Rafael. Day includes warm-up sessions from 8:30 a.m. accompanied by light breakfast and coffee; bocce games from 9:30 a.m. with a barbecue lunch at noon. Championship round and awards at approximately 4 p.m. Sodas, beer and wine are available throughout the day. Entry fee (includes all of the above) is $300 per team of 4 - 6 players. Players must be 18 or older to participate. Picnickers, spectators of all ages also welcome at $25 per person. Proceeds

benefit media projects of God Squad Productions, founded and directed by Msgr. Harry Schlitt, vicar for administration for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Contact Jan Schachern at (415) 244-0771 or janschachern@mac.com.

Arts & Entertainment Through April 27: Celebrating its 21st season, The Fringe of Marin and Bay Area actors, playwrights and Dominican Players stage new one-acts and solos ranging from satires on sex, war, art and social issues to treatments of the lives of Virginia Woolf and Monet. Set for Meadowlands Hall, 50 Acacia Ave, San Rafael. Curtains Friday and Saturday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 2 p.m. $14 admission/ $10 seniors and students. Call (415) 673-3131. April 25, 26 7:30 p.m., and April 27 3 p.m.: “The Nifty Fifties” at Fitzsimon Center, St. Pius Church, 1100 Woodside Rd., Redwood City. Tickets, sold at the door 45 minutes before curtain, are $8 adults/ $6 seniors and children. Call Pam Nehrenz at (650) 363-2673. May 2, 8 p.m.: 50th anniversary concert of Dominican University Winifred Baker Chorale at St. Raphael Church, 1104 Fifth Ave. in San Rafael. Tickets will be sold at the door: $10 adults/$5 students and seniors. Call (415) 482-3579. May 3, 7 p.m.: “Beautiful: An Evening of Enchanting Music” at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Ave. at Lawton in San Francisco. The free concert features singer Moira McManus with Shaying Puan, piano, Julie and Hannah Lee, violin, and Patrick O’Connell, guitar. All are faculty members of the Holy Name Conservatory of Music. Free-will donations will be accepted. Call (415) 664-8590. May 3, 8 p.m.: “Late Nite Catechism” at Mater Dolorosa Church, 307 Willow Ave. in South San Francisco. Tickets are $30 in advance and $40 at the door. Contact the parish office at (650) 583-4131 or e-mail MDComedy08@yahoo.com. May 16, 17, 8 p.m.; May 18, 1:30 p.m.: I want to see YOU Cole Porter’s “Anything in my Goes” at Notre Dame class! Elementary School auditorium, 659 Pine St., San Francisco. Tickets are $7.50. Call Paddy at (415) 2461749. May 24, 5:30 p.m.: “Spring Musicale Dinner Concert,” an evening of musical classics and nostalgic Philippine love songs featuring highly acclaimed performersJ. Greg Zuniega, piano; Sim Zuniega, violinist; Minda D.Azarcon, conductor; Senen Bagos, Jr., tenor; Janine B.Castillo, mezzosoprano. All proceeds benefit St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, 850 Judah St., San Francisco. Visit www. stanne-sf.org. Tickets are $50. Call Tessie Velicaria (415) 665-1600, ext. 22 or Precie Agaton (415) 564-7487 or e-mail Bernadette Hynson at rbbsfo@ comcast.net. Free parking. No tickets sold at door. Dir ec Ho from t llyw ood

June 12, 7 p.m., doors open at 6 p.m.: An evening with Rwandan holocaust survivor and author, Immaculee Ilibagiza, who shares her story of faith, hope and forgiveness at St. Paul Church, 29th St. at Church in San Francisco. In 1994, the start of the massacres, Immaculee was a young college student who fled for her life, living more than three months hidden with seven other refugees in the small bathroom of a sympathetic clergyman. When she emerged, she found that her entire family – parents, grandparents and siblings – had been killed. Her talks are about her finding in God and prayer the power to forgive even these most atrocious of assaults. Immaculee is known now throughout the world for her book, “Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Genocide.” Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. For tickets phone St. Paul Church office at (415) 648-7538. Parking available. Book signing/merchandise sales immediately following in the Parish Center. to go to Duggan’s Ranch where we had our 8th grade picnic with some of us riding up in a Facciola meat truck. Contact Bill Duggan at (415) 239-2278 or Duggan341@aol.com, or Irene Hogan Deem at (707) 869-3751 or irenedeem@comcast.net. Star of the Sea Elementary School will mark its 100th year in 2009. Graduates, former students, staff and friends of Star of the Sea Grade School and its now-closed sister school, Star of the Sea Academy, are invited to call (415) 221-8558 or e-mail centennial@staroftheseasf.com. Events marking the occasion include opening rites, dances, golf outings and wine tastings. April 26: St. Gabriel Alumni Association hosts Golden Diploma Reunion for Class of ’58 beginning with Mass at 11:30 a.m. followed by a reception. Contact Sue Phelps at (415) 566-0314 or sphelps@ stgabrielsf.com.

Prayer May 3: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, at 11 a.m. Call (650) 7562060. May 9-10, 6:30 p.m.: St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, Jamestown Ave. at Third Street, San Francisco, will hold its first revival – spiritually directed by Divine Word Father Ken Hamilton of St. Lawrence O’Toole Parish, Oakland, who will also preach and preside at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 11, Mother’s Day Gospel Mass. Bay Area Gospel choirs will take part. For information: (415) 468-3434.

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Reunions April 26, noon: Class of ‘68 from San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Academy at Capurro’s Restaurant, 498 Jefferson St. in San Francisco. Contact Janice Kinney Hughes at hughes16@aol.com or (415) 472-1574. May 10, noon: Class of 1953 from the now-closed and Most Holy Redeemer Elementary School at Caesar’s Restaurant, Powell at Bay St. in San Francisco. No host bar and lunch. Tickets are $35. Valet parking available. Call Terry White at (925) 9397508 or John Strain at (415) 492-3310. June 7, 3 p.m. – 8 p.m.: Class of ’58 from Our Lady of Angels Elementary School, 1328 Cabrillo St. in Burlingame will gather around a barbecue picnic. Contact John Cline at (650) 367-6212 or johncline05@comcast.net or Tom Constantino at (650) 366-7166 or thomasconstantino@yahoo.com. June 7, noon: Class of ’51 from now-closed St. Agnes Elementary School at the United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Contach W. Urie Walsh at (415) 668-6501 or wuwkmw@aol.com or Kevin Carter at (214) 893-3130 or kevincarter@prodigy.net. St. Emydius Class of 1958 will have its 50th reunion this year. We are looking for classmates and have a website at www.stemydius58.com. Enter information, post pictures and help plan the event, scheduled for some time this spring. We are hoping

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs are available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 422-6698. Ongoing support groups for the separated and divorced take place at St. Bartholomew Parish, 300 Columbia Dr. at Alameda de las Pulgas, San Mateo, first and third Tuesdays of the month at 7 p.m. in the Spiritual Center and first and third Wednesdays of the month at St. Stephen Parish Hall, Eucalyptus and 23rd Ave. in San Francisco next to Stonestown Mall at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail at (650) 591-8452 or Joanne at (650) 347-0701. Thursdays, 5:30 p.m.: Catholic Singles Club – 50s, 60s, 70s: Join us at Starbucks at corner of Jackson and Davis Streets for chat and possible plans for weekend activities. Come to table with CSC sign. More information: Maria (415) 391-8579. May 2 – 4: Widowed, Separated and Divorced weekend at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 350 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. For information and brochure contact LaVerne at (650) 355-3978 or Ward at (415) 821-3390 or e-mail sanjosebe@ att.net.

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Healthcare Agency

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Home Healthcare Agency Specializing in home health aides, attendants and companions. Serving San Francisco, Marin & the Peninsula.

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Catholic San Francisco

April 25, 2008

Catholic San Francisco Help Wanted

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Room for Rent Room in quiet, no-smoking home in the Sunset. Private shower and kitchenette. $600.00 per month, with last month’s rent deposit required.

Please call Mrs. Cruz at 415-661-2788.

Help Wanted Position Available BI-LINGUAL DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Redwood City would like to hire an English-Spanish speaking person for a full time position as Director of Religious Education. You are the person we want if you have a minimum of 3 years catechetical experience, can work well with parents and children, grades 1-6, recruit and form catechists, and are someone who collaborates well with other parish staff. Other important qualifications include a degree in Religious Education, Theology and/or Pastoral Ministry, and strong organizational, management, communication, technology, administration and training skills. Let us know you’re interested in joining the pastoral team of our vibrant parish by sending your letter of application, resume, salary history and references to: Reverend John A. Balleza, Pastor Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 300 Fulton Street, Redwood City, CA 94062 Or Fax to: 650-366-1421 www.mountcarmel.org

JOB OPENING, ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: St. Cecilia is looking for a part-time (20-25 hours per week, school term) Athletic Director to oversee all aspects of the Girl’s Athletic Sports Program. To apply or get more information please contact Chris Pollino at 415-566-2733.

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FACILITIES MAINTENANCE WORKER Looking for an energetic and organized individual who observes safety regulations while maintaining a neat and clean facility. This person can conduct minor repairs, set up furniture for special events, and assist in maintaining athletic facilities. Qualiﬁcations include basic skills in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and painting. Have the ability to lift 50 lbs. and work in inclement weather. Be able to maintain facilities by doing basic janitorial and grounds-keeping work. The applicant must be able to walk, climb, reach, push and pull. This is a 12-15 hour per week position with a ﬂexible schedule. All employees must complete a preemployment background check.

Application Deadline: May 15, 2008

To place a

Send cover letter and resume to: Mr. Scott Rea, Director of Plant and Facilities Archbishop Riordan High School 175 Phelan Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112

Help Wanted Ad please call

415.614.5642

or email: srea@riordanhs.org

JOB OPENING Marian Convent is a person-centered independent living and assisted living community of the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame. It has an opening for the following position:

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES COORDINATOR I

Caregiver Available Elderly care live in or out. Experienced, dependable, honest, with references.

We are looking for full or part time

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If you are generous, honest, compassionate, respectful, and want to make a difference, send us your resume:

Elderly Care

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Personal care companion, Help with daily activities; driving, shopping, appointments. 27 years experience, references, bonded. (415) 713-1366

Elderly Care Caring and compassionate Irish girl available to provide care for the elderly. Patient, kind and warm natured. Available 12/24 hr shifts, day or night.

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This is a part-time, weekend position, with work hours from 12 noon to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, with the possibility of working longer hours on those days. The person is responsible for scheduling the various appointments for individual Sisters (medical, shopping, general outings, etc.) and arrange for the transportation needs for said appointments. High School diploma or GED required. Two years related experience and/or training in a medical office. Able to work independently with minimal supervision; good team member; excellent communication, interpersonal and computer skills. Has good patient transfer skills and knowledge of good body mechanics. Valid current CA driver’s license with no moving violations a must. Qualified applicants may send their cover letters and resumes to:

Sisters of Mercy –Attn: HR 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010 Email: cricafrente@mercyburl.org Fax: (650) 373-4509

PRINCIPAL St. Isabella Parish School is committed to providing an education that challenges students to live out the Catholic faith in service to the parish and wider community. We provide a solid foundation for the spiritual, psychological and academic development of our students. St. Isabella School has 260 students, with an average of 29 students per class, kindergarten through grade 8. We have two wonderful teachers who co-teach kindergarten. There are classroom aides for grades 1-5 and K-8 science classes. Our middle school, grades 6-8, is departmental. Our faculty includes specialist teachers for Spanish, music, algebra, PE, computer technology and science. We also have a school counselor and two learning resource teachers; one for grades K-4, the other for 5-8. Last year we added an enrichment program for grades 3-5. Our full and part-time faculty gives us a teacher student ration of 1:17. St. Isabella School is fully accredited by the Western Catholic Education Association and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Qualified applicants for all elementary principal positions should: be a practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church, have a current California teaching credential, have a minimum of five years of successful teaching or administration in a Catholic school, have a master’s degree in education or related field and an administrative services credential. Applicants for administrative openings with the Archdiocese of San Francisco should download the Principal Applicant information found on the Department of Catholic Schools website www.sfcatholicschools.org and return the completed application and accompanying materials to: Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Schools, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109. Deadline: May 15, 2008 • FAX: (415) 614-5664 Email: hungingtonm@sfarchdiocese.org

PRINCIPAL Marin Catholic High School, is a Roman Catholic, college preparatory school that serves 725 men and women. Founded in 1949 by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, the campus is located in Kentfield, CA, 8 miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Consistent with our Gospel values, we are committed to the education and development of the whole person. We provide a spiritual, academic and extra curricular environment dedicated to imparting knowledge, values, and vision. Candidates for principal must be able to assume responsibility for day to day administration of the school as well as in developing long term goals and plans for school. Excellent leadership and communication skills and enthusiasm for maintaining a top academic, religious, and extra-curricular program is a must. The Principal reports to the President.

Qualifications: ●

a practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church.

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A Master’s degree in educational leadership (or related field)

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a valid teaching credential

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five years of successful teaching/administration experience at the secondary level. Salary is commensurate with credentials and experience.

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

Catholic San Francisco

April 25, 2008

I want to see YOU in my class!

“Uproarious interactive theatre!” THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A laugh-filled evening for all cultures, classes and religions.”

“For anyone ever taught by a nun, the show may well trigger a storm of nostalgic recollection— not to mention gales of laughter.”

Dir e Ho fromct llyw ood

LOS ANGELES TIMES

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

MATER DOLOROSA PARISH COMMUNITY presents

The hilarious interactive comedy featuring one outlandish nun

Saturday, May 3, 2008 - 8:00 pm Mater Dolorosa Church 307 Willow Avenue, South San Francisco Tickets: $30 (ADVANCE) $40 (AT DOOR) Learn more about “Late Nite Catechism” at www.funnynun.com

Contact:

PARISH OFFICE EMAIL

650-583-4131

MDComedy08@yahoo.com