Archbishop leads interfaith prayer for just, humane immigration law
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Nearly 10,000 people took part in a march for just and humane immigration reform April 23 in San Francisco. Many Catholics joined following Mass at Mission Dolores as the walkers passed on their way to the Federal Building from Dolores Park.
Catholics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco responded to Archbishop George H. Niederauer’s call to pray on Divine Mercy Sunday, April 23, for “just and humane” immigration reform legislation. On the same day, Archbishop Niederauer lead an interfaith prayer service on the steps of Mission Dolores for a national immigration policy that “respects the dignity of our brothers and sisters who come here from other lands.” Parishes throughout the archdiocese noted Archbishop Niederauer’s call for a day of prayer (Catholic San Francisco – April 14) and joined in prayers for the nation’s leaders who now are debating immigration reform. Nearly 1,000 parishioners from throughout the Bay Area attended a special Mass and rally at Mission Dolores April 23. Bishop John C. Wester celebrated the standing room only noon Mass along with Mission Pastor Father Bill Justice and several other priests. As Congress prepares to resume debate on competing immigration reform proposals, Bishop Wester asked the congregation in English and Spanish to “pray that our political leaders will find a just path for our immigrants.” Bishop Wester said, “In our Church there are no strangers. We are all brothers and sisters in Christ. We pray that our country will follow that path as well.” Father Jorge Román of St. Peter Parish in San Francisco gave the homily in Spanish and English saying that, “In this nation people come from all over the IMMIGRATION, page 3
Archbishop Niederauer to receive ‘pallium’ from Pope Benedict XVI By Maurice Healy San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer will be among the small group of new archbishops from around the world who will receive the “pallium” from Pope Benedict XVI June 29 at a Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica. The pallium is a circular band of white wool marked with six black crosses. It is worn over the shoulders and symbolizes the archbishop’s authority and unity with the pope. Bestowing the pallium on new archbishops is in keeping with a 1,700 year-old church tradition. Usage and appearance of the pallium have gradually evolved over the centuries, including several substantial changes introduced by Pope John Paul II. Starting in 1984, the Polish pontiff was the first to personally consign the pallium annually to all new
archbishops — a task his predecessors since the fourth century regularly had delegated. Pope John Paul II also fixed the date for bestowing palliums to June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, and, for the first time in church history, incorporated the ceremony into the celebration of the Mass. Pope Benedict XVI is continuing these innovations and will solemnly bestow the pallium on archbishops named within the past year, most of whom head a metropolitan see. In his homily last year at the first pallium ceremony of his papacy, Pope Benedict said that throughout history and the world, the church “visibly comes together” in its unity to the Petrine service. It is this unity that “protects each one of us from (the risk of) slipping into false autonomies that too easily turn into internal factions within the church,” he said.
The church is able to unite people of different cultures and nations because it focuses on the one God and his truth, the pope said. Just as there is one sun that shines over the world, “the light of true preaching beams everywhere and enlightens all people who want to come to know the truth,” he said. The June 29 Vatican Mass is the only time archbishops wear the palliums together. Once bestowed, liturgical rules require that the pallium be worn only in the metropolitan’s own see, and then only during solemn liturgies such as ordinations. Members of the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco plan to attend the pallium Mass at St. Peter’s as part of a week-long tour. For information on these travel packages, email Laurie Miller at millerl@sfarchdiocese.org.
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St. Thomas the Apostle 8th graders, Ken Savage, left, Jasmine Leoung, Iona Hughan, Talia Rapier, and Hoi Ching Lam were among young orators taking home prizes from recent speech competitions.
So glad to pass along this good news about recent speech contests for junior high school students sponsored by Mercy High School, San Francisco and St. Ignatius College Preparatory. As a younger lad of high school age, I was known to spout a scripted word or two in similar tourneys while a student at Wildwood Catholic High School in the Eastern seaboard diocese of Camden, New Jersey. I took much from the experience and it lent me many an assist in future and current endeavors with the written word, radio, song and – while there is still debate as to whether I ever acted – stage. Please let me lead a rhet-
An Ash Wednesday collection at St. Timothy Elementary School raised $450 that went to good use filling and decorating 56 Easter Baskets delivered to homebound seniors of the San Mateo Parish by Presentation Sister Connie Madden, Pastoral Associate. Enjoying a few moments with the seasonal treasure chests are 2nd grade teacher, Christie Costa, and 2nd graders, Rachel Quillen, Robert Jaurigui, Isaiah Diaz, Jennifer Ho, Frances Conci, and Jaime Llamas. Pastor is Father Arturo Albano. Evelyn Nordberg is principal.
oric-oriented congrats to Ken Savage, Jasmine Leoung, Iona Hughan, Talia Rapier, Hoi Ching Lam, Amanda Schallert, Aidan Fox, Danielle Laub, Theresa To, Michelle Pas, St. Thomas the Apostle; Ellie Quinlan, Tim Green, , St. Gabriel; Gracie Fish, Catherine Teitz, Convent of the Sacred Heart; Joseph Fangon, Our Lady of Mercy; Mercedez Perucho, St. Paul’s. Congrats, also, on opening the talk-fest to students of nonCatholic schools including Margaret Kealhofer, Hamlin; Ashley Thompson, Kate McLaughlin, Brendon Young, Omeed Afsarifard, Michaela Creedon, Adda
Clevenger. A salute, too, to the many faculty and others who made the event possible including St. Thomas the Apostle’s Michael Lauricella Daragh Powers, Evelyn St. Germain, and Barbara Carbone, as well as the many additional participants and advisors not named here…. Remember this is an empty space without ya’!! The email 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. You can reach me at (415) 614-5634. Enjoying a moment together in Rome for the admission of former San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada to the College of Cardinals are Reno Bishop Randy Calvo, former pastor of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish, Redwood City; San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester; Father Donald D’Angelo, pastor, Holy Name of Jesus Parish, San Francisco; and Msgr. Harry Schlitt, Vicar for Administration of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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Archbishop Niederauer joins interfaith leaders in blessing the marchers from the steps of Mission Dolores.
Immigration . . . ■ Continued from cover world.” He said immigration is a constant pattern in human nature and cited examples including the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and the Spanish colonization of the New World. Following Mass, Archbishop George H. Niederauer led an interfaith gathering on the steps of the old Mission which included music, prayer and a joint interfaith statement in support of comprehensive immigration reform. Archbishop Niederauer presented the statement which called for a reform which would: give undocumented workers and their families a path to lawful permanent residence and citizenship; reunite families separated by immigration; open legal pathways for safe and humane migrant labor; restore due process protections to immigrants; and improve economic prospects, health and labor protections for all U.S. residents. Also speaking in support of just and humane immigration reform from the perspective of various faith traditions were Rabbi Stephen Pearce of Congregation Emanu-El, Reverend Gloria del Castillo of Good Samaritan Episcopal Church, Reverend Norman Wong of the Chinese Presbyterian Church, Father Bill Justice, and other faith leaders. Brian Cahill of Catholic Charities CYO and
Those who attended Mass at Mission Dolores listen to speakers at the interfaith gathering for “just and humane” immigration reform.
Betty Cantón-Self of the Interfaith Coalition for march including many families with young children. While people of Hispanic heritage Immigrant Rights emceed the event. constituted the majoriRabbi Pearce said ty of participants in “Our Bible tells us to both the Mass and welcome the stranger march, there were sizin our midst as a able contingents from home born . . .and we other cultural groups, have to remember including Irish, that we are all immiChinese and Korean. grants.” He said “our Several in the Catholic immigrant workers contingency carried are willing to work American flags and hard to build this images of Our Lady of country, immigrants Guadalupe. American are what have made flags were also presthis country great.” ent among particiFollowing the pants in the main interfaith gathering, march as well as many participants in Mexican and the prayer service joined in a larger Celebrating Mass at Mission Dolores Salvadoran flags. march organized by Archbishop were Fathers Ulysses D’Aquila and the Bay Area Niederauer addressed Bill Justice, Bishop Wester and Coalition for the immigration quesMsgr. Maurice McCormick. Immigrant Rights, tion earlier this month which was passing at a meeting of the Mission Dolores on its way to the Federal Catholic Professional and Business Club Building. Archbishop Niederauer led a blessing, along with the assembled interfaith leaders, of the interfaith prayer participants who were going to join the larger march. About 10,000 people took part in the larger
April 12 at Saint Mary’s Cathedral. He said he chose to speak on immigration reform because the issue was “front and center for our country and our church.” The archbishop cited biblical precepts calling the people of God to “deep compassion for the plight of the migrant.” Among them are the Mosaic law demanding “You shall treat the alien who resides with you no differently than the natives born among you,” and Christ’s statement referring to his “qualifiers” of final judgment, “I was a stranger and you welcomed me.” The Church’s “calling and tradition” of welcoming migrants is also the heritage of the United States, he said, “a land of immigrants, a place praised as a refuge for those fleeing persecution and seeking a better life.” He said Catholics had a duty to “move beyond the anti-immigrant stance . . . and the nativism and racism that continue to reassert themselves in our communities.” In addition to seeking fair immigration reform, Archbishop Niederauer said Catholics had a special history and continuing duty “to reach out to ethnic communities that exist side by side in our parishes with little connection to one another.”
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WASHINGTON — After the coordinated April 10 National Day of Action for Immigrant Rights, the hundreds of organizations that pulled events together in 160 different cities are looking to follow up with a second day of action May 1. But while there’s widespread agreement to do “something” that day, there’s less unanimity about what, and particularly about whether to support the call by some for boycotting school, work and/or the marketplace. Supporters of a boycott say it would show the impact immigrants, legal and illegal, and those who support them, have on the U.S. economy. Activities planned in different cities range from prayer vigils to voter education projects, and cultural celebrations to marches. Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony asked people not to support a boycott of work, school and businesses. Cardinal Mahony recommended instead that people mark May 1, the feast day of St. Joseph the Worker, by devoting time to understanding “the dignity of work, the value of education and the important role immigrants play.”
Boston Archdiocese in ‘dire’ financial condition, says Cardinal O’Malley BRIGHTON, Mass. — Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley called the archdiocesan financial condition “dire” April 19 as he unveiled audited disclosure reports showing a $46 million deficit for the 18-month period ending June 30, 2005. “It is quite obvious that the situation is urgent,” putting programs and ministries at risk, Cardinal O’Malley said at a news conference held to release the financial disclosure reports and an archdiocesan fiscal recovery plan. Also announced were plans to cut the deficit that include eliminating 50 positions, consolidating or merging programs, selling more property and making efforts to increase fundraising. “I don’t think there are any quick fixes but we are poised to stop the bleeding and hopefully our fundraising efforts will continue to generate the kind of capital we need,” the cardinal said at the news conference held at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton. He expressed hope that by fulfilling the promise of financial transparency he made last October trust in the archdiocese will be restored.
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Archbishop warns that Judas text is ‘not a real Gospel’ SANTA FE, N.M. — Santa Fe Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan said the widely publicized gnostic Gospel of Judas is a heretical document that contradicts the teachings of the Bible. Writing in the May issue of the archdiocesan newspaper, People of God, Archbishop Sheehan said the National Geographic Society, which sponsored an English translation of the ancient text and put the manuscript on exhibit in early April “did a disservice to Christian people and has exploited this old manuscript for its own purposes.”
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anniversary Mass. The celebration date is the feast of Mary, Mother of the Society, marking the day in 1541 when the three saints and the other original members of the Jesuits took their solemn vows in Rome. Calling the three early Jesuits “great giants of holiness,” he said they continue to be examples of how to follow Christ and bring others to him. In his homily, Cardinal Sodano not only offered thanks for the gifts and works of the Society of Jesus, but he also called on those present to seek forgiveness for the times they have failed to live up to their calling. “Today we want to ask forgiveness for our infidelities,” he said. Human beings are inclined to sin, Cardinal Sodano said, and so each day they must pray for strength to be faithful, obedient and holy. Writing to Jesuit superiors before the jubilee year began, Father Kolvenbach said the anniversaries “invite us to examine and intensify our fidelity to the call of the Lord,” whom the three saints “followed in such a creative fashion that it continues to challenge us, their companions of the third millennium.” In addition to their vows of poverty, chastity and obedience, Jesuits take a fourth vow, that of obedience to the pope in mission, pledging to go where he sends them. The fourth vow not only has led popes to send Jesuits on missions to the farthest reaches of the earth, but also has included longtime special missions in Rome. They run the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Pontifical Biblical Institute and the Pontifical Oriental Institute; they direct a massive staff and multilingual programming at Vatican Radio; and they write and publish the influential biweekly journal, La Civilta Cattolica. U.S. Jesuit Father Keith Pecklers, a professor of liturgy at Gregorian University and coordinator of the April 22 Mass in St.
By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Invoking the Jesuits’ special vow to fulfill missions assigned by the pope, Pope Benedict XVI asked the Society of Jesus to concentrate on teaching and research in theology and philosophy, dialogue with modern culture and the Christian education of future generations. Pope Benedict met with hundreds of Jesuits and their collaborators April 22 in St. Peter’s Basilica after a Mass honoring three of the first members of the order. The Mass commemorated the 450th anniversary of the death of St. Ignatius of Loyola, the order’s founder, and the 500th anniversary of the births of two of his first companions: St. Francis Xavier and Blessed Peter Faber. Pope Benedict called the three “men of extraordinary holiness and exceptional apostolic zeal.” “Precisely because he was a man of God, St. Ignatius was a faithful servant of the church,” the pope said. “From his desire to serve the church in the most useful and efficient way, the vow of special obedience to the pope was born.” Pope Benedict asked the Jesuits to continue to be faithful to that vow so that “the urgent, current needs” of the church could be met. Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, superior general of the more than 19,500-member order, thanked the pope for his affection and trust in the Society of Jesus. He told the pope that it was right for the order to honor the three early Jesuits and “see them as enlightened and secure guides for our spiritual journey and our apostolic activity even though the times and circumstances in which we live and work have changed radically.” Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, presided over the April 22
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Peter’s, said the fourth vow is an affirmation that “the Jesuits find their mission only in terms of serving the church, and we cannot speak of service to the church without putting ourselves at the beck and call of the pope.” “St. Ignatius was insistent from the beginning that he and his companions would be ready and willing to go where the pope sent them,” he said. According to the Jesuit general secretariat in Rome, as of Jan. 1, the society had 19,564 members, a decrease of 286 from the previous year. Like the Salesians, the Capuchins and the Franciscan Friars Minor — the next largest religious orders of men — the Jesuits have seen a decline in membership over the past 40 years. The Vatican yearbook reported 36,038 Jesuits in 1966. Despite the decline in manpower, the Jesuits still run more than 500 elementary and secondary schools, more than 120 colleges and universities, some 40 technical schools, about 55 seminaries and hundreds of social justice and social service projects, including the Jesuit Refugee Service.
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News-in-brief . . . ■ Continued from page 4 those granted the legal status of refugees. Julianne Duncan, associate director for children’s services at MRS, said that MRS will distribute funds from the HHS contract through local service agencies across the country to help victims get assistance such as housing, medical care, food stamps and referrals for pro bono legal help.
Judge to Spokane diocese: Redo child sex abuse settlement plan SPOKANE, Wash. (CNS) — The Spokane Diocese has to restructure its settlement offer to people claiming that they were abused as minors by clergymen, ruled U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Patricia Williams. She said the $45.7 million plan did not treat all claimants fairly because it favored one group over another. Earlier this year, the diocese offered the settlement to 75 claimants. Since then the diocese has received more than 100 other claims, which it is reviewing to see if there is enough evidence to justify the claims. “This settlement violates a rule that requires fair treatment,” she said April 21. Williams told attorneys for the diocese and for the plaintiffs that she expected them to come up with a solid settlement plan by autumn, before the second anniversary of the diocese’s filing for Chapter 11 protection from bankruptcy. The diocese’s bankruptcy filing was announced Dec. 6, 2004. Under Chapter 11 proceedings a bankruptcy judge has to approve any settlements in clergy child sex abuse cases and oversees the reorganization of diocesan finances.
As “Da Vinci” movies nears, Opus Dei forms new institute NEW YORK — Opus Dei will take a hard rap when “The Da Vinci Code” premieres May 19, if the movie at all resembles the best-selling book of the same name by nov-
elist Dan Brown, which portrays Opus Dei as a secretive cult within the church plotting to take over the church. But U.S. leaders of Opus Dei — a Catholic organization with more than 87,000 members worldwide who seek to make their faith infuse all aspects of life, including their jobs — are using the occasion as a teachable moment to spread the word of what they are really about. A month in advance of the movie’s release, Opus Dei’s U.S. branch announced the formation of the St. Josemaria Institute and the release of a free DVD with interviews of several U.S. members who tell how belonging to Opus Dei has affected their lives. The institute, named after Opus Dei’s founder, St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, is at the organization’s U.S. headquarters in New York. The DVD, titled “Passionately Loving the World,” can be ordered on the institute’s new Web site, www.stjosemaria.org.
Vatican preparing document on condom use and AIDS VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has asked a commission of scientific and theological experts to prepare a document on condom use and AIDS prevention, a Vatican official said. Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, head of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Ministry, said the document would focus, at least in part, on condom use by married couples when one spouse is infected. He said the document would be made public soon, but refused to give details about the commission’s conclusions. Cardinal Lozano was responding to questions in the wake of an interview by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, retired archbishop of Milan, who said use of condoms can be the lesser evil in some situations. Cardinal Lozano spoke in an interview April 23 with the Rome newspaper La Repubblica. He was asked specifically about use of condoms by married couples seeking to prevent transmission of AIDS. “It’s a very difficult and delicate theme that requires prudence,” Cardinal Lozano said. “My council is studying this attentively with scientists and theologians expressly charged with preparing a document on the subject, which will be made public soon,” he said.
Pope condemns suicide bombing VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI condemned the April 17 suicide bombing in a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Israel, that left nine people dead and more than 50 people injured. In remarks in Italian at the end of his April 19 general audience, the pope said he felt “great pain” after learning of the “terrible attack,” adding that he felt it was his “duty to express the firmest condemnation for this terrorist act.” A member of the Islamic Jihad carried out the suicide bombing, which happened during the Jewish festival of Passover. Hamas, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, said the bombing was an act of self-defense. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said the only way to stop such attacks was for Israel to stop the occupation of Palestinian lands and to grant full rights and autonomy to Palestinians. Pope Benedict said such “hateful acts” could never guarantee the legitimate rights of a people.
One year after his election, pope asks people for continued prayers VATICAN CITY — On the first anniversary of his election, Pope Benedict XVI asked people for their continued prayers so that he might carry on his mission to do Christ’s work and be a “gentle and firm shepherd” in leading the universal church. “How time flies,” the pope exclaimed to the 50,000 faithful who packed St. Peter’s Square for his April 19 general audience as he recalled that exactly one year earlier the College of Cardinals elected him to succeed the much-loved and “the great pope, John Paul II.” He said he was still moved by the memory of appearing at the central window of St. Peter’s Basilica right after his election to the cheers of nearly 100,000 people jammed into the square. The pope said the huge outpouring of support displayed in that and other gatherings “has stuck in my mind and heart.” He said the grace of God and the prayers and help of all people, near and far, have given him the strength to accomplish a mission that “alone I could never carry out.”
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Capping a day of ceremony and remembrance marking the 100th anniversary of the Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire, Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma honored firefighters past and present with a blessing and wreath laying at the gravesite of quake era San Francisco Fire Chief Dennis Sullivan who died following injuries sustained in the quake. San Francisco Fire Department Chaplain Father John Greene, while honoring the bravery of Chief Sullivan and firefighters throughout City history, prayed that government officials would give firefighters “the tools and support we need” to face the new dangers of modern life, including potential terrorist activity. Current San Francisco Fire Department Chief and St. Stephen’s parishioner Joanne Hayes-White (right) with Deputy Chiefs Gary Massetani and Richard Kochevar salute after placing a wreath at the grave of the former Chief.
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Themes of the Easter Season: “Come, follow me.” The following homily was delivered by Archbishop George H. Niederauer at the annual Chrism Mass, April 11, at St. Mary’s Cathedral. We are now in Holy Week approaching the Sacred three days of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, culminating in Easter: the celebration of the death and rising of our Savior Jesus Christ. This is the celebration of who and what we are as Catholic Christians because of who Jesus is and what Jesus has done. We begin our readings with Isaiah’s describing his own call, and the eventual call of the Messiah: “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me; He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, to comfort all who mourn, to give those who mourn the oil of gladness in place of mourning, to give them a glorious mantle instead of a listless spirit.” Next we hear Jesus, early in his public ministry, in the synagogue at Nazareth where he grew up, reading those same words from Isaiah and then proclaiming: “Today this Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing”. “I am the deliverer, the savior these words describe,” Jesus claims. We Catholics believe Jesus is Lord and Messiah, and that he continues to teach us and make us holy and shepherd us in his Church, through the service of his ministers and the power of the Sacraments. We gather this evening as a priestly people in the service of the Lord. We Catholics deeply value ritual and symbol. This Cathedral and our celebration here richly testify to that value. But we also are deeply convinced that we must live our lives in the power of these rites, that these rites call and commit us to loving service to God and to one another, all the days of our lives; we are anointed, yes, but for loving, self-sacrificing service. Listen again to that promise in Isaiah: “You yourselves shall be named priests of the Lord, ministers of our God you shall be called. All who see you shall acknowledge you as a race the Lord has blessed.”
San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer washes the feet of lay people at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Holy Thursday, April 13.
In our rituals, then, we celebrate that God has chosen us – continues to choose us in Christ. Then, in our daily lives, by the way we live, we choose the One who has chosen us. This is the “both/and” of Catholic living. But the age and the world in which we live very often features “either/or” thinking and choosing. It is a simple-minded view of life: either you oppose abortion or you value human freedom and privacy; either you prize self-reliance or you worry about poor people; either you defend free speech or you oppose child pornography; either you value and participate in democratic institutions or you send your children to Catholic schools. It’s nonsense, but it’s very popular nonsense. Currently we are faced with another unfortunate example of “either/or” thinking: either
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you are a patriotic American or you favor justice, fairness and compassion toward immigrants. These days our country’s legislators are debating proposals for dealing with the challenges of immigration; some of those proposals are punitive and mean-spirited. I urge the Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to pray earnestly for a just and compassionate outcome from this process. On the Sunday after Easter – also referred to as Divine Mercy Sunday – in our parishes we will pray together most particularly for justice for immigrants. As you leave the Cathedral tonight, I urge you to take a prayer card containing a prayer for this intention, and I urge you to offer that prayer frequently in the days ahead. There is a place, of course, for “either/or” thinking, especially in the experience of temp-
tation and sin; for example, it’s either a sin to gossip viciously about someone or it’s not. But most of the time, “both/and” thinking is more careful, more respectful of necessary distinctions, more likely to honor the complexities of life, and more likely to be patient with the human dignity and the very human struggles of our brothers and sisters in Christ. Jesus taught forcefully, but He did not teach in slogans. So we embrace both Catholic ritual and worship and our call to service. The Eucharist and the sacraments are not distractions for our life of self-giving – they are sources of the power for that life. In a special way this evening, we celebrate at this Chrism Mass both the priestliness of all baptized Catholics and the ordained ministry of deacons, priests and bishops. There is no competition among laity, religious and the ordained. All the baptized are part of the “royal nation of priests” described in the second reading. These two priesthoods differ, but they are intimately related: think of all the uses of the most sacred of the oils we bless tonight, for our rituals throughout this coming year: Chrism. We use Chrism to anoint all the baptized; to seal all those who are confirmed; to anoint the priest’s hands and the bishop’s head; to anoint altars and churches when they are consecrated. Ordained priests are drawn from among the baptized for their service. This is true for the other oils as well: all those preparing for baptism are anointed with the oil of catechumens; the Church seeks the healing of all her daughters and sons who are sick with the oil specially blessed for that purpose. In the kingdom, every one of the faithful is sacred, consecrated, set apart, from baptism onward, until eternal life. This evening is not merely a celebration of the bishop and the priests. It’s true, priests do gather here as witnesses and cooperators with the bishop, as sharers in his office, sharers in his work and task of being Christ the priest, the prophet and the shepherd for the Church. For the Church! Ordained to be special for, not better than. This COME, FOLLOW ME, page 9
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Bishop says educators called to witness ATLANTA (CNS) — With all of the men and women who were present for Jesus’ death and resurrection long dead, “there is only one living witness,” said Bishop Donald W. Wuerl of Pittsburgh, “and that is his church.” Bishop Wuerl invited Catholic educators to be witnesses to Christ’s resurrection through their service in an April 20 Mass homily during the National Catholic Educational Association’s convention in Atlanta. “We are not bystanders. We are actually sharers in the transformation of this world and in the lives of the people we teach, because we are witnesses,” Bishop Wuerl said. “Jesus said to his apostles, ‘You are my witnesses. You are my witnesses to all these things,’” he said. “We are carrying on that apostolic ministry.” The bishop spoke of a recent airplane trip
he took in which the flight attendant, on behalf of herself and the co-pilot, a fellow Catholic, had a question for him about the Eucharist. Bishop Wuerl, wearing his clerical collar, confirmed the point the flight attendant made in her question. After she left to talk with the copilot, the passenger in the seat next to Bishop Wuerl asked him, “How did you know that?” Bishop Wuerl said he could have answered one of three ways: “That’s what I was taught,” “that’s what the church teaches,” or “that’s what the church has passed down from Jesus’ time to our own day.” “Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again. We can say with unblinking certainty that these are the words of everlasting life,” he said. “Hear Christ’s church,” he added, “and you hear the voice of Jesus the Lord.”
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through the Church: “not in spite of yourselves. Not if you are skeptical or if you do not trust. Not if you will not pray about it and be open to it and hear my call to follow me.” Jesus calls out to future priests: “Come, follow me.” Are we still hearing and amplifying that call? Are we letting Jesus call to others through us, his people? Consider this: We receive Christ in the Eucharist, but then we need to share the love of this Christ we have become; otherwise, Eucharist is frustrated, incomplete. In the same way, it is not enough for us to prepare and bless this oil of Chrism for anointing – we must also pray for, call forth and support the candidates to be anointed with that Chrism in their ordination. That is the “both/and” of our Catholic faith as applied to the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Calling forth Church vocations is the task of each of us in the Church: each priest, each religious, each laywoman and layman. Please take that to heart this evening as we rededicate ourselves to the life of the Catholic Church in this archdiocese; take it to heart all year long, and in all the years to come. Then the promise made through the prophet Isaiah will come true in the Archdiocese of San Francisco: “You yourselves shall be named priests of the Lord.”
■ Continued from page 8 evening is centrally a celebration of Jesus the High Priest present, living, active, saving his Church, his baptized, faithful, priestly people: laywomen and lay men; religious priests and brothers; deacons priests, the bishop. True, this is a Holy Thursday Mass as such it is very dear to the ordained deacons, priests and bishop But in this matter of vocations, we in the Church today must be especially sure to think and to talk and to pray in “both/and” terms, and not “either/or.” We affirm the central value of marriage and family life for most Catholics in the Church. But also we pray for, respect, and encourage God’s call to some Catholics to priesthood and to religious life. God has given this call, and continues to give it. But as a society and as individuals we can resist and impede the call, just as we can make happy, holy family life more difficult. We need holy, happy effective priests and religious, and we have them! But we need many more, and new generations of them. Isaiah: “You yourselves shall be named priests of the Lord.” But Jesus must add,
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Notre Dame des Victoires celebrates 150 years
1856 drawing of Notre Dame des Victoires as it looked like a Baptist Temple without a cross on the building.
The Arrival of the French in San Francisco – 1849 On Sept. 14, 1849, 40 Frenchmen arrived in San Francisco from Le Havre, France aboard the boat, La Meuse. All were eager to amass their portion of California’s gold that was discovered Jan. 24, 1848. Among the thousands of hopeful French who soon followed these 40 men was the future pastor of San Francisco’s Notre Dame des Victoires, Abbé Dominique Blaive. Unlike his countrymen who were seeking new lives from the harsh realities of unemployment and poverty, the young priest was on his way to Stockton, where he founded the city’s first Catholic Church, St. Mary of the Assumption.
Father Dominique Blaive: the first pastor of NDV. Archbishop Alemany asked him to serve the French Catholic Community.
The first Marist priest to be appointed pastor of NDV was Father Onésime Renaudier, Nov. 15, 1885. After a few months as pastor, Father Renaudier suggested to his Superior General, Father Antoine Martin, if he might ask Rome that NDV could stay indefinitely under the Founding of the French Church - 1856 responsibility of the Marists so the priests could continue ministering to the By 1855 it was estimated some 10,000 French people resided in San increasing population of French-speaking Catholics. Francisco, including French Canadian. Archbishop Joseph Sadoc Alemany Pope Leo XIII signed the decree July 24, 1887, making NDV the City’s (1853-1884) requested Father Blaive come to San Francisco and minister to National French Parish. From that date on, NDV would have no territorial the City’s growing French community. limits, and any French citizen could be married or baptized there or interred Father Blaive accepted Archbishop Alemany’s offer to come to San from the church whether or not he/she resides in Francisco, and promised to do his best to build a French California or is just visiting. church for the faithful. In the meantime, he celebrated Reconstruction began on the church. The pastor was the liturgy and ministered to the French at the Cathedral able to have a rectory built. He also had the church lengthof St. Mary. ened 20 feet, and the walls raised 10 feet. Father Blaive’s opportunity to build a French church in the Marist Father Felix Barbier who was a talented City arrived that same year, following the French military victopainter assisted the pastor. He decorated and painted the ry, defeating the Russians, in the Crimean War at Sebastopol. church walls. A great victory celebration took place on Nov. 26, At the request of Archbishop Riordan, Father 1855 in South Park (between Second and Third Streets) Renaudier entered into negotiations in 1891 to bring the where Father Blaive gave a rousing speech, pledging to Little Sisters of the Poor to San Francisco to work with the build a church in honor of Notre Dame des Victoires. elderly. The crowd welcomed Father’s words with enthusiasm NDV parishioner Edouard Le Breton, and president of and vowed to support his project financially. the French Savings and Loan Society, donated $100,000 In 1856, Father Blaive purchased a building that was toward the purchase of the Little Sisters’ land. He requestonce a Baptist Temple. It was located at 526 Bush Street in ed the new home be dedicated to St. Anne, the patron saint the City’s section known as “the French Quarter,” where of Brittany, France. the majority of French families resided. The cost for the The groundbreaking was April 28, 1901, and the building was $15,000. building was completed May 13, 1904. On May 4, 1856, Archbishop Alemany dedicated Notre Today, The Little Sisters of the Poor remain at that Dame des Victoires Church. same location in San Francisco at 300 Lake Street. In order to reduce expenses, Father Blaive never built From 1892 to 1895, Marist Father Henri Audiffred was a proper rectory, choosing to live in a cold, dark, and damp The statue of Notre Dame NDV’s pastor, followed by Marist Priests Emile Gente room located in the basement of the church. The difficult des Victoires installed (1895-1897), Alexandre Loude (1897-1899), and conditions took their toll on Father. He contracted severe in the church 1915. Alexandre Hamet (1899-1905). inflammatory rheumatism, and suffered for six years. He died Sept. 30, 1862 at the age of 50. The Great Earthquake and Fire 1906 – 1921 His successor, Father Molinier, was a missionary and was brought to Marist Joseph Guibert was NDV’s newest pastor (1905-1908). On April San Francisco from Mariposa County. In 1856 he was incardinated into the 18, 1906, Father woke up to San Francisco’s Great Earthquake. It shook for San Francisco Archdiocese. 90 seconds - long enough to collapse the roof of Notre Dame des Victoires Father Molinier inherited the building’s mortgage of $18,000 and Church and destroy the City’s French Quarter. immediately appealed to his parishioners to assist him in organizing Father inspected the condition of the church to find the walls were fundraising events. still standing, but the fire raging toward the church on Bush Street was Father’s plea was heard and he was able to meet the church’s debt with too enormous to ignore. The priests feared the fire would destroy the interest. He also made improvements, purchasing an organ and pulpit. church. With little time to react they buried the sacred vessels in the Unfortunately, after only seven years of service to the French community he died. church courtyard garden along with the registry of marriages and christenings. The Marist Fathers at Notre Dame des Victoires - 1885 Days later, the priests dug up the parish records. All of them were saved, Several secular priests served at NDV until 1885 when Archbishop making NDV one of the rare parishes in San Francisco that has the original Patrick W. Riordan (1884-1914) offered NDV to The Society of Marist registry of marriages and christenings during that time. Fathers of Lyon, which was established by Father Jean-Claude Colin (1790The preservation of those records assisted many parishioners to collect 1875), and approved by Rome in 1836. their losses from insurance companies. The Society’s members had founded colleges, staffed parishes and semReconstruction of the church started with building a basement so the inaries, and were missionaries in Oceania.
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The following history of San Francisco’s French National Church is compiled from notes by former pastor Father Etienne Siffert and his recently published book, Notre Dame des Victories – San Francisco – 1856-2006.
Notre Dame prior to the 1906 earthquake.
Contemporary photograph of the Church and parishioners. community could celebrate Mass together. Weddings were performed at the chapel of St. Anne’s Home, which was undamaged. Because of illness, Father Guibert was replaced as pastor in 1908. Marist Father Joseph Sollier was NDV’s pastor until he was appointed Provincial of the American Province in 1911. His successor was Father Henri Thiery (1911-1917). His first decision was to resume the plans to rebuild the church. On May 18, 1913 Archbishop Edward Hanna blessed the cornerstone of the new church, and he dedicated the church Sept. 12, 1915.
The French Church among the ruins of San Francisco’s Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906. The chief architect of NDV was Pascal Brouchoud who modeled the church’s façade after the Basilica of Notre Dame de Fourviere in Lyon, France. The First World War (1914-1919) had an enormous impact on the French community. More than 600 young men left for France to defend their native land – 120 never returned. Their names were inscribed on a plaque placed in NDV Church, and it remains there today. Within 65 years, the French church had 15 pastors to minister to the community.
1921 to 1957 In 1921, the appointment of Father Gérard as pastor brought the dream alive of providing religious education for the children of French immigrants. With the assistance of Father Le Bihan who came to San Francisco in 1911, Notre Dame des Victoires School opened its doors Jan. 14, 1924. Only 14 students attended that day but attendance rose to 150 students by Nov. 4, 1924 when Archbishop Hanna blessed the building. The school continued to prosper under the direction of Sister Mary Charles, the first principal of the school, and one of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange who staffed the school. The cost of the completed school was $340,000, including a gymnasium. It took 25 years to clear the debt.
Marist Father Onésime Renaudier: the first in a long line of Marist Priests serving as pastor at the French National Parish.
Father Gérard died in 1949, one year short of realizing Father Le Bihan’s dream of building a convent for the Sisters of St. Joseph. The new building completed in 1950 housed 22 Sisters. It was a continuation of the school and had four stories. In 1956, NDV’s Centennial year, the California Historical Society presented a bronze plaque to the Church. In addition, the church’s beautiful stained glass windows were installed. The French Government also celebrated NDV’s Centennial and presented the Church with a statue of the Blessed Mother. The life-size statue still stands near the rectory entrance on Bush Street today. Father Le Bihan died Dec. 6, 1957.
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churches, schools, and convents) marked by the city as hazardous and unlikely to survive a future earthquake unless it was reinforced and retrofitted. The City’s decision to make NDV an historic landmark, and Pope Leo XIII’s 1887 decree making it a national parish, were instrumental in exempting the church from the closures affecting other un-reinforced church buildings in 1993. Pastor Siffert was able to raise $3 million to retrofit the church and rectory. The reconstruction began April 1996, and was completed July 1997, making NDV the first church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco to have its retrofit work completed. In March, 1998, the Historic Preservation Awards for the State of California were given to three notable projects in the Bay Area: The War Memorial Opera House, the Saint Francis Hotel, and Notre Dame des Victoires Church. After 19 years serving as pastor at NDV, Father Siffert stepped down on June 30, 2004. Father René Iturbe became the 23rd pastor of NDV July 1, 2004. Under Father Iturbe’s leadership NDV remains a vibrant and active parish. He has developed a Young Adult Discussion Group; Eucharistic ministers regularly visit patients at the Nob Hill Healthcare Center located on Hyde; volunteers tutor students at De Marillac School founded by the Daughters of Charity and Christian Brothers in the Tenderloin. Other volunteers participate in a “listening post” program in the Tenderloin, regularly spending several hours with residents and bringing small toiletries to the needy.
For the first time in 102 years, the pastor appointed to NDV was not born in France. Marist Father Julian Marquis was born in Wisconsin. He served NDV from 1958 to 1964. He was appointed Superior of the Marist Province of San Francisco in 1962. He accepted the position while continuing to serve NDV as pastor. Although suffering from a The future of Notre Dame des Victoires serious heart condition, he served NDV for six years and Notes from Father Siffert’s book state “it is difficult died Oct. 28, 1964. today to imagine the importance of the French communiFrom 1965 to 1968, Pastor James Marchant superty in the Bay Area because of the dramatic series of demovised a renovation of the rectory. He also added three graphic shifts over the years.” rooms and a separate dining room. The Earthquake of 1906 was a terrible catastrophe for 1968 brought a new pastor. Marist Father Emile them since the “French Quarter” was completely Neyron faced the crises of diminished vocations, religious destroyed. Many moved to the East Bay or Marin County. reverting to lay status, an aging French community and After the Second World War the population of the the closing of NDV’s high school in 1970. French community declined dramatically. Life was easier Father Etienne Siffert arrived at NDV in November of in France, immigration was reduced, people left San 1975, following 10 years of teaching experience, and five Francisco to escape high rents and went to other counties. years of missionary work in Oceania. “The challenge for Notre Dame des Victoires,” Father The French government preFather was appointed assistant pastor until 1983 sented NDV a life-size statue Siffert writes, “is to read the signs of the times by recognizwhen he became pastor of NDV and served in that position ing the changes in our faith community, to reflect and listen of the Blessed Mother for its until 2004. to the Spirit, and to have the courage to respond to the call A delightful story about Father Siffert written in his 100th Anniversary in 1956. of the Spirit, as we continue to minister to God’s people.” book states that from “1976-77 he had gone to Notre Dame des Victoires School to learn English, and sat many times in class with the second grade children.” When Father first arrived in the classroom the students thought he was Four days of festivities are planned for the 150th Anniversary of San there to observe the teaching. Yet after a while, they discovered that the priest Francisco’s Notre Dame des Victoires Church, May 4-7, including a did not speak English and they wondered if something was wrong with him. variety of historical, cultural, culinary and athletic activities. The second graders had no idea that Father Siffert was learning his May 4: NDV Parents Association Golf Tournament launches the celebrafourth language and that he received his teaching license from the tion at Presidio Golf Course for a daylong tournament at the cost of $145. Sorbonne University of Paris. He had previously taught French, Latin, and May 5: Self-guided tours of the historic stain-glassed windows begin 6:30 p.m. Greek in different Marist schools. At 7 p.m. a free piano concert will be performed by Suzanna Perez. Following In 1984, Father Siffert was more than happy to learn that the City the concert, a no-host cocktail reception will be held in the Church Hall. decided to designate NDV as an historic landmark. He believed the decision May 6: An informal gathering with food and wine ($17 donation per perwould save the French Church from demolition one day - and it did. son) will be held at the NDV School auditorium from 6 to 10 p.m. Marist The 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake shook Northern California for 15 Father Etienne Siffert will unveil his book titled the 150th Anniversary of seconds with an estimated magnitude of 7.1. Although there appeared to be Notre Dame des Victories, San Francisco (1856-2006). no damage to the church, it was identified by the City’s planning departMay 7: Archbishop George H. Niederauer will celebrate a 12:15 p.m. ment as a building in danger of collapsing in a future earthquake. Thanksgiving Mass immediately followed by a reception. NDV was just one of a few thousand buildings (including Catholic
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Stop the killing cycle In the photograph below, Palestinian men in the West Bank village of Arakah put up posters proclaiming as a martyr the perpetrator of a suicide bombing that killed nine people and wounded more than 50 others in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 17. When the photo is considered as a companion to the photo of a grieving mother (News-in-brief) whose son was killed in the April 17 bombing, we see the awful cycle of killing that seems to have Israelis and Palestinians in its grasp. The Israeli-Palestinian violence is not one-sided by any means, and certainly other photographs could be brought to the table to demonstrate Palestinian suffering and Israeli indifference. Yet, the terrible tragedy of endless Mid-East killing is palpable in the photograph of men putting up posters in Arakah. Focus for a moment only on the top portion of the photo. See the innocent young children, many boys, leaning over the railing in a playful pose. But what the Palestinian children are looking at has nothing to do with innocence — or everything to do with the death of innocence. The eyes of the children are fixed on an invitation to model a young man who chose to die in a mission of killing innocent people. This distills the agony of Mid-East violence: An Israeli mother mourns the death of her son, one of nine people killed and 50 wounded in a suicide bombing attack. Meanwhile, Palestinian men hang posters in front of children proclaiming the 18-year old suicide bomber a hero and martyr. As Catholic Americans, we should support efforts to achieve a just peace in the Middle-East. But first, we need to call the parties into account for a glorification of killing that perpetuates violence from one generation to the next. MEH
I have to take issue with Archbishop Niederauer and others within the Catholic Church hierarchy on their stand on illegal immigration. The problem with the Church’s position on the issue, along with that of the immigrant rights organizations, is that they absolutely refuse to specify what they would do to secure the border and safeguard our safety. They oppose a fence. They also opposed sending the National Guard to back up the border patrol, even though it says in the U.S. Constitution that the purpose of the military is to “secure the borders of the United States.” We already know that members of the violent street gang MS-13 have come across the border illegally and are a main contributor to the spike in violent crime in Southern California. Does anybody really doubt that Al-Qaeda terrorists are not looking at the open border with Mexico as a way to gain easy access to the United States to commit mass murder? To oppose securing the border in a post-September 11 world, is in effect advocating endangering the public safety. Until those in the Church and the immigrant rights groups recognize this and come up with a specific proposal to secure the borders, all their protest and prayer vigils will mean nothing. E.F. Sullivan San Francisco
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I am delighted our new archbishop is taking a strong stand on the issue of immigration. So often we who are already established with citizenship in the United States lose sight of our Catholic and Christian responsibility to our brothers and sisters. All of us came from somewhere, even Native Americans’ ancestors probably traveled across the Bering Strait to reach this continent! We cannot let passions of selfishness and fear guide our response as Church to those in need and certainly we must resist legislation that could even criminalize Church outreach to illegal immigrants. The choice of Divine Mercy Sunday as a day of prayer for this intention is a wonderful tribute to our late Holy Father John Paul II, who instituted Divine Mercy Sunday and so fittingly returned to his Father’s House on its vigil last year. As someone who supports the right to life in all its ages and stages, and as someone who believes the Holy Spirit guides our Church through the Holy Father and his bishops, as well as inspiring and guiding those of us in the laity, I commend Archbishop Niederauer for his stand on this important issue. Valerie Schmalz San Francisco
False dichotomy Fr. Peter J. Daly’s argument (CSF – April 14) that “welcoming the stranger”
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Palestinian men put up posters proclaiming 18-year-old suicide bomber Samer Hammad as a martyr in the West Bank village of Arakah April 18. Hammad killed nine people and wounded more than 50 others in a suicide attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 17.
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requires that we flout immigration law is bad theology, as well as bad policy. Sadly, Fr. Daly makes no case that current U.S. immigration laws are unjust, as any call to civil disobedience requires. Instead, he resorts to name-calling. Those who disagree are xenophobes and “know nothings.” Clearly, no country can survive if it opens its doors to all who wish to enter. No thinking person can deny that limits must be placed and enforced. By failing to respect those limits, grave harm is done to the rule of law, which is the foundation of an ordered society; to the citizen, who must support illegal behavior with his taxes; and to the countless individuals who wait patiently to immigrate legally, and whose places are taken by those who flout the law. Aren’t those who follow the law entitled to the same respect as those who would come here illegally? Christians are called to be salt and light within the culture. That means, in part, that they lead honest and honorable lives, which of course includes respect for law. Most appalling to me is the argument that Fr. Daly’s ancestors were illegal immigrants and this creates in him a duty to support illegal immigration. I suppose we should be thankful that his forebears were not anarchists, or worse. Fr. Daly’s “thoughts on illegal immigration” don’t show much moral clarity. Christians do not have to choose between welcoming the stranger and following the law. They should do both. Al Serrato Millbrae
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Once again I am completely shaken by the hypocrisy of our religious leaders. In a recent article in Catholic San Francisco, Father Peter Daly, based on the illegal entry of one of his ancestors, has rationalized the continued illegal trespass of others into this country. Father Daly titles his article “Welcoming the Stranger,” and I would love to but he or she arrived before I had the chance. These strangers came early and under cover of darkness. They helped themselves to my hard earned tax dollars through my school system, then they decided that my social services were great, so they went ahead and helped themselves to that as well. Before I got the chance to offer them medical coverage they got that too through a judicious use of our state laws that require treatment of all who walk through the doors and clog our emergency rooms . . . with mostly non-emergency ills. Never mind the hospitals in Southern California that have folded under the burden of this misuse. I am glad that Father Daly has decided that I no longer get to pick my charities and in fact non-Catholics will no longer have to choose either. I am Irish, Italian, French and we have Mexican ancestors as well. They all waited years to get here and were proud to do so. They came here to be Americans . . . not just for a better paying job. They learned how to speak English, because that is the language Americans speak. They didn’t give up their culture, only their previous nation. Americans believe in fair play and the rule of law. That’s what makes this country so attractive to non-Americans. Should we suspend fair play, help others commit crimes such as fraud, tell those in line for citizenship for years that they should forgo their own dream to become Americans? Should we reward those who don’t respect our laws and fairness to cut in front of the line? Sean Walsh Novato
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A voice that never dies Easter is about many things. We celebrate God’s In Jesus’ case, nobody witnessing his humiliating In essence, we are power to overcome death, sin, and injustice, but we also death on a lonely hillside, with his followers absent, would saying that God is ulticelebrate the voices and wounds of the ones who died on have predicted that this would be the most remembered mately still in charge of Good Friday. death in history. The same is true for this young woman. this universe, despite any To illustrate this, I would like to recount one such Her rape and murder occurred in a very remote place and indications to the convoice, that of an anonymous, young woman who was bru- all of those who might have wanted to immortalize her trary; that brutality and tally raped and murdered by the Salvadoran military in story were also killed. Yet her voice survives and will, no rape not withstanding, at 1981, at a place fittingly called La Cruz. The story was doubt, continue to grow in importance, long after all those the end of the day vioreported by Mark Danner, a journalist. who violated and killed her are forgotten. lence, injustice, and sin Father He describes how, after this particular massacre, some As both Jesus and this young girl illustrate, power- will be silenced and Ron Rolheiser soldiers told how one of their victims haunted them and lessness and anonymity, linked to a heart that can sing the overcome; that gracioushow they could not get her out of their minds long after her words: “Forgive them for they know not what they are ness and gentleness, as death. doing!” while being raped and humiliated, ultimately manifested in Jesus, are They had plundered a village and raped many of the become their opposite, power and immortality. ultimately what lies at the root of all reality; that this young women. One of these was a young woman, woman, so brutally violated, has now been an evangelical Christian, whom had been raised and lives, joyfully, in the heart of God; raped many times in a single afternoon and ‘When we affirm that Jesus has been raised from and that her death, like Jesus’, is redemptive subsequently tortured. However, throughout precisely because, like him, she too, in the face this all, this young woman, clinging to her the dead and is Lord of this world we are saying of helplessness before the worst brutality the belief in Christ, had sung hymns. Here’s how world could perpetrate, could still say: “Forgive one of the soldiers described it: them for they know not what they do!” everything else within our faith as well.’ “She kept on singing, too, even after To celebrate Easter is to affirm that all of they had shot her in the chest. She had lain this is true. But that also asks something of us: there in La Cruz with the blood flowing from her chest, and A death of this kind not only morally scars the conIt asks, as the critic in the New York Times so aptly put had kept on singing - a bit weaker than before, but still science of its perpetrators and their sympathizers, it leaves it, that we strain to hear the sound of that girl’s singing, that singing. And the soldiers, stupefied, had watched and something that can never be forgotten, a permanent echo we struggle to keep her, and her song, in our hearts. She is pointed. Then they had grown tired of the game and shot that nobody will ever silence. What God raises up after still alive in God’s heart, but we must keep her alive in ours her again, and she sang still, and their wonder began to Good Friday is also the voice of the one who died. as well. turn to fear - until finally they unsheathed their machetes A critic reviewing Danner’s book in the New York Why? Not for sentimental reasons, nor simply because and hacked her neck and at last the singing stopped.” (The Times, tells how, after reading this story, he kept “straining” her story is exceptional. No. We must keep her alive in our Massacre at El Mozote, N.Y., Vintage Books, 1994, pp. 78- to hear the sound of that singing. hearts because her song is the leaven, the yeast, of the res79) The task of Easter is to rekindle the creed within our- urrection and that, and that alone, can raise us up to become Gil Bailie, who recounts this story in his monumental selves. The earliest Christians, immediately upon experi- exceptional too. book on the cross and non-violence, notes not just the encing the resurrected Jesus, spontaneously voiced a oneOne of the tasks of Easter is to strain to hear the voicremarkable similarity between her death and that of Jesus, line creed: “Jesus is Lord!” That does, in fact, say it all. es of Good Friday. but also the fact that, in both cases, resurrection means that When we affirm that Jesus has been raised from the dead Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, their voices live on when everything about their deaths and is Lord of this world we are saying everything else suggest that their voices should have died. within our faith as well. teacher and award-winning author.
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Catholics in political life On November 24, 2002, the Congregation for the support to laws which attack human life and consequently church’s guidance and Doctrine of the Faith issued a “Doctrinal Note” regarding sin against the common good. Specifically, Catholic public assistance” but adds the participation of Catholics in political life. This Note officials who consistently support abortion “risk making that they “believe also warns against an “ethical relativism” which leads some themselves cooperators in evil in a public manner.” The in the primacy of conCatholics to “claim complete autonomy” with regard to Bishops commit themselves to maintain communication science.” The signers their moral choices. with public officials in order to “persuade” them that all acknowledge a “tenSuch a claim is unfounded as we must uphold true and human life is precious and human dignity must be defended. sion” between the solid ethical principles which underpin our lives and that of On June 18, 2004, Cardinal William Levada, then Church’s “role in prosociety. It is wrong, for example, to compromise the true Archbishop of San Francisco, issued “Reflections” on viding moral leadermeaning of the human person. The Second Vatican Council Catholics in political life. He stressed the fundamental and ship” and their role Father Gerald D. Coleman, S.S. taught in Gaudium et Spes that the protection of “the rights paramount obligation to support the sanctity of human life. where “disagreement of the person is … a necessary condition for citizens, indi- Since the church’s teaching on abortion “holds a unique with the church” might vidually and collectively, to play an active part in public place” in Catholic social and moral teaching, a politician arise. “We believe,” life and administration.” who intends to promote the killing of human life is guilty they state, that “the separation of church and state allows for our faith to inform our public duties.” It is wrong when legislative proposals and laws do not of formally cooperating in evil. protect the inviolability of human life. Politicians, While this statement affirms basic values in therefore, have a grave obligation to oppose any promoting the protection of human life, it also prolaw that attacks human life. The Note directs that ‘ . . . basic ethical values must not simply be a motes a gap between personal conviction and “For them, as for any Catholic, it is impossible to church teaching. It leaves open the real possibility promote such laws or to vote for them.” matter of personal belief without public affect of personally believing that abortion is wrong, Citing Evangelium Vitae, the Note likewise while “in conscience” voting differently. While points out that in situations where a law does and manifestation. There must be a coherence speaking of the “undesirability of abortion,” the attack human life and it is not possible to comstatement affirms the political right to take an innopletely repeal it “an elected official, whose between faith and life and Gospel and culture.’ cent human life as compatible with a free society. absolute personal opposition to procured abortion This statement seems to be a reiteration of was well known, could licitly support proposals “I am personally opposed to abortion but I must aimed at limiting the harm done by such a law and at lessenOn February 28, 2006 fifty-five Catholic Democrats in protect and vote for laws which allow abortion.” This judging its negative consequences at the level of general opinion the House of Representatives issued a statement expressing ment is not unwarranted as 33 of the signatories voted to and public morality.” Clearly, laws must defend the basic their pride at being “part of the living Catholic tradition,” support partial-birth abortion, 41 voted to make abortion right to life from conception to natural death. one that promotes the common good and expresses a “con- legal in Defense Department clinics and hospitals abroad, The Note significantly teaches that Catholic politi- sistent moral framework for life.” These signatories avow and 37 voted against efforts to constrain the courts from cians as well as all Catholics cannot live “two parallel that “we believe that government has a moral purpose.” compelling hospitals and physicians to perform abortions. lives,” a “spiritual life” on the one hand and a “secular life” All Catholics, along with Catholic politicians, must The 55 signers commit themselves to “making real the on the other. In other words, basic ethical values must not basic principles that are at the heart of Catholic social teach- carefully study the basic principles in the teachings already simply be a matter of personal belief without public affect ing.” The statement lists such “basic principles” as helping the cited and come to see the critical link between church and manifestation. There must be a coherence between poor and disadvantaged, protecting the most vulnerable, reduc- teaching and one’s public life. Following one’s conscience faith and life and Gospel and culture. ing the rising rates of poverty, increasing access to education is not an autonomous reality. A correctly-informed conOn July 18, 2004, the U.S. Catholic Bishops published and health care, and taking seriously the decision to go to war. science “receives and affirms” church teaching. The gova similar statement, “Catholics in Political Life.” This They assert that “we envision a world in which every ernment has a moral purpose only when citizens and politistatement begins by asserting that “the killing of an unborn child belongs to a loving family and agree with the Catholic cians publicly manifest fundamental moral values regardchild is always intrinsically evil and can never be justified. Church about the value of human life and the undesirabili- ing the protection of all human life. If those who perform an abortion and those who cooperate ty of abortion.” They pledge themselves to reduce the numwillingly in the action are fully aware of the objective evil ber of unwanted pregnancies and to encourage an environSulpician Father Gerald D. Coleman is professor of of what they do, they are guilty of grave sin and thereby ment whose policies encourage pregnancies to be carried to ethics at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University and separate themselves from God’s grace.” full term. They desire to find “alternatives to abortion” such teaches adjunct at Santa Clara University. He is Politicians have an obligation “in conscience” to work as adoption and improving access to children’s health care. toward correcting defective laws as well as expressing nonThis statement ends with the affirmation to “seek the Vicar for Priests in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
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THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 3:13-15, 17-19; Psalm 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9; 1 John 2:1-5a; Luke 24:35-48 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (ACTS 3:13-15, 17-19) Peter said to the people: “The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence when he had decided to release him. You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you. The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses. Now I know, brothers, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did; but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 4:2, 4, 7-8, 9) R. Lord, let your face shine on us. or: R. Alleluia. When I call, answer me, O my just God, you who relieve me when I am in distress; have pity on me, and hear my prayer! R. Lord, let your face shine on us. or: R. Alleluia. Know that the Lord does wonders for his faithful one; the Lord will hear me when I call upon him. R. Lord, let your face shine on us. or: R. Alleluia. O Lord, let the light of your countenance shine upon us! You put gladness into my heart. R. Lord, let your face shine on us. or: R. Alleluia. As soon as I lie down, I fall peacefully asleep, for you alone, O Lord, bring security to my dwelling. R. Lord, let your face shine on us. or: R. Alleluia.
A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT JOHN (1 JN 2:1-5A) My children, I am writing this to you so that you may not commit sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous one. He is expiation for our sins, and not for our sins only but for those of the whole world. The way we may be sure that we know him is to keep his commandments. Those who say, “I know him,” but do not keep his commandments are liars, and the truth is not in them. But whoever keeps his word, the love of God is truly perfected in him. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 24:35-48) The two disciples recounted what had taken place on the way, and how Jesus was made known to them in the breaking of bread. While they were still speaking about this, he stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you.” But they were startled and terrified and thought that they were seeing a ghost. Then he said to them, “Why are you troubled? And why do questions arise in your hearts? Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have.” And as he said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. While they were still incredulous for joy and were amazed, he asked them, “Have you anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of baked fish; he took it and ate it in front of them. He said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And he said to them, “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things.
Scripture FATHER GERARD O’ROURKE
Witnesses to the resurrection It is worth out while to look at the Gospel reading for the Third Sunday of Easter to contrast the account of the two disciples with the mood of the rest of the apostles and disciples. The first two were enthusiastic about their encounter with the risen Jesus and how they recognized him in the breaking of the bread, just the way most of us today still recognize him, in the Eucharist. The other apostles and disciples were not in good shape. They were withdrawn, given to fear, and clearly expecting the worst. Even when Jesus appears they are terrified, like seeing a ghost. They were totally unaware, oblivious to anything like the reality of the resurrection of Jesus. They, the apostles and disciples, did not look like a group of conspirators planning the great hoax of the resurrection of Jesus. They could not even imagine what resurrection could mean because they could not see outside of the box they were in regarding death; “When you are dead, you are dead;” no way back; no opening for anything else. So when Jesus appeared in their presence it was no wonder they were “startled and terrified.” Jesus recognized this in them and then he patiently spoke to them and walked them through the whole process until the “got it” – that indeed he was risen from the dead and that he was really their friend, Jesus, alive and well so that they could see him and even touch him. In all of this, Jesus showed himself to be the consummate teacher, leaving nothing out, as he wished to make sure that his apostles and disciples really experienced that he was truly risen from the dead. When he asked them, “Have you anything to eat?” it was clear even to the most doubtful among them that his resurrection was real. And of course, fishermen that they were, they gave him a piece of baked fish which he ate “in front of them.” Once again we see that Jesus was completely committed that his apostles and disciples would be left with no doubt about the reality of his resurrection. We know this from the Gospel reading because they were to be “his witnesses” to all the nations of the world “beginning with Jerusalem.” The resurrection of Jesus and the vast history of the Bible that pointed to it over the centuries would be the material of the preaching and teaching of the apos-
tles and disciples as they witnessed to the world about the resurrection of Jesus. These preachings and teachings are still alive and operative in our faith to this day and available to all of us in our Church. I recently witnessed the wonderful apostolic faith in Rome as we gathered there for the installation ceremonies for Cardinal Levada and the other fourteen Cardinals from all over the world. The apostolic faith was alive and well and even palpable as we were privileged to participate in these inspiring ceremonies. These blessings of our faith are alive and well because of the patient and powerful teaching and training of the apostles and disciples depicted in our Gospel reading for the Third Sunday of Easter. We then can turn to the first reading for an example of the result of this training. There Peter speaks to us as a transformed leader. He speaks to us in a magisterial fashion totally convincing and totally in charge of the material that he shares with us. He calls on the people to recognize the God of his spiritual ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He points out that they acknowledged and glorified Jesus. This was the same Jesus that his audience had handed over to be crucified and killed. Peter concluded by calling on the people to repent and be converted. This indeed is a transformed Peter speaking! So too in the second reading a transformed John speaks to us as he declares that Jesus is “en expiation,” an atonement, and an appeasement not alone for our sins “but for those of the whole world.” This kind of healing and inspired language is available to us today because of the reality and the power of the resurrection of Jesus which transformed the apostles and disciples as they witnessed and accepted it. May we too who live today be open to the transforming power of the resurrection for our lives. May we call on Jesus, our resurrected Savior, “to open the scriptures for us and to make our hearts burn within us,” as we listen to the words about the resurrection today. Father Gerard O’Rourke is Director Emeritus of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Emmaus Prayer for Priests Lord Jesus, hear our prayer For the spiritual renewal of priests. We praise you for giving their ministry to the Church. In these days renew them with the gifts of your Spirit. You once opened the Scriptures To the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Now renew your ordained ministers With the truth and power of your Word. In the Eucharist you gave the Emmaus disciples Renewed life and hope. Nourish priests with your own Body and Blood. Help them to imitate in their lives The death and resurrection they celebrate at your altar. Give priests enthusiasm for the Gospel, Zeal for the salvation of all, Courage in leadership, humility in service, Fellowship with one another and with all their brothers and sisters in You.
Saint Peter Preaching – Tommaso Masolino, 1426-1427.
For You love them, Lord Jesus, And we love and pray for them in Your name. Amen.
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Monsignor Charles J. Durkin Msgr. Charles J. Durkin, a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for nearly 51 years, died April 18 at Smith Ranch Care Center in San Rafael. He was 76 years of age and had been diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus, lymph nodes, stomach and liver earlier this month. Born February 4, 1930 in San Francisco, he lived in St. James Parish and was a graduate of the parish elementary and high school. He entered St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park and was ordained on June 11, 1955. The six-foot, six-inch tall priest’s first assignment was as an assistant pastor at Star of the Sea Church in San Francisco. He also served as parochial vicar at St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae, St. Patrick Church and Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco, and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Redwood City. In 1974, he was appointed pastor at All Souls Church in South San Francisco, where he served for twelve years. In 1986, Msgr. Durkin was named pastor at St. Elizabeth Church in San Francisco. He was named an Honorary Prelate with the title of Monsignor in 1989. He returned to his first parish, Star of the Sea, in 1995, where he ministered as pastor until his retirement in 2002. Most recently, he had resided at Nazareth House in San Rafael, where he was cared for lovingly by the Poor Sisters of Nazareth.
Sister Mary Consolata Kerr, PBVM
Surviving St. Patrick Seminary classmates in the archdiocese include Msgr. Richard S. Knapp, Msgr. Edward P. McTaggart, Father John J. Ward, Father William A. O’Connell, and Father William P. Quinn. Msgr. Knapp, former pastor of Saint Raphael Parish in San Rafael and now in residence at Our Lady of Loretto in Novato, said, “Charlie’s heart was as big as his body.” At the funeral vigil, Father Tom Daly fondly recalled memories of his father’s friendship with “Charlie Durkin” at St. James, and the influence that Msgr. Durkin had on his own life as a priest. Archbishop George H. Niederauer, who, with Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester, had visited Msgr. Durkin before he died, was the main celebrant at the April 21 funeral Mass at Star of the Sea Church. Msgr. Bruce Dreier, Pastor of St. Robert Parish in San Bruno, gave the homily, and said, “The foundation of Charlie’s life was faith – a faith that makes us strong, and loving, and wise.” Msgr. Dreier praised Msgr. Durkin for his “dedication to the people of God” and his help to many people. “God bless you, Charlie Durkin,” he said. “You were a wonderful human being and a friend to all of us.” Also at the funeral Mass, Msgr. Durkin’s nephew Michael spoke of the great love and care that the priest extended to family members.
Sister Mary Consolata Kerr died April 19 at the Presentation Motherhouse in San Francisco. The youngest of six children, Lucille Mary Kerr was born in the City Dec. 23, 1905. She was baptized in St. Francis parish in San Francisco, but the family moved to Oakland soon after the 1906 earthquake. In 1924, Lucille entered the Sisters of the Presentation in San Francisco where she received the name, Sister Mary Consolata. She earned a B.A. in education with minors in history and music from the College of Holy Names in Oakland in 1937 and later earned general elementary and junior high school teaching credentials from the same college. During her fifty-five years in ministry, Sister Mary Consolata spent four years as a primary teacher and five years as a middle grade teacher. For forty years she taught junior high grades where most of her students were taller than she was, but there was never a question about who was in charge. She was founding principal of St. John the Baptist school in San Lorenzo. Sister Mary Consolata’s teaching career included service at Cathedral Presentation, St. Anne, St. Teresa, St. Francis, St. Agnes and Epiphany in San Francisco; St. Joseph in Berkeley; Nativity in Menlo Park, and other schools in Southern California. In many of these schools, Sister was responsible for the choir
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and/or the singing of the school musicals. This was quite an accomplishment for a person who neither sang nor played a musical instrument. Arriving at Epiphany School in 1970 to teach eighth grade, Sister Mary Consolata remained as a member of the parish community and assisted in the convent until she moved to the Motherhouse care center in 1995. She was the convent bookkeeper for many years, took responsibility for meal planning which included lunch for the school faculty of twenty, and she also assisted the school bookkeeper by paying school bills. At the 50-year reunion of the St. Anne class of 1933, Sister Mary Consolata was the guest of honor. One student spoke for all in saying “I remember you, Sister, at the blackboard teaching diagramming sentences; giving us the note on your little pitch pipe; reading Penrod and Sam to us during Friday afternoon art; working so hard with us for the George Washington play where we did the minuet; helping you on a Saturday morning with some art work and you moistened the paintbrush in your mouth and laughed at my shock. I remember you getting us ready for algebra by teaching us ratio. You were our best, sweetest, hardest working teacher. We love you.” A funeral Mass was celebrated at the Presentation Motherhouse April 24, followed by internment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
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Art & culture Last of great literary converts dies By Joseph Bottum (AP – April 15) Dame Muriel Spark, whose spare and humorous novels made her one of the most admired British writers of the postwar years, has died in Tuscany, Italian officials said Saturday. Muriel Spark is gone, dying on Thursday at age eightyeight, the last representative of Great Britain’s high literary converts before Vatican II. There’s a revealing moment toward the end of her 1992 memoir of her early career, Curriculum Vitae. Times were hard for her in 1953. She was thirty-five and still quite poor—so poor that when, the next year, she began to have the hallucinations that prompted her first novel, The Comforters, her doctor assumed that the cause was simple lack of food. She herself blames the cheap diet pills she was taking to make herself “feel less hungry” while she lived hand to mouth in London as a minor poet, book reviewer, and freelance literary critic, editing the Brontë family letters, working on a life of Mary Shelly, and preparing a study of the poet laureate John Masefield. Things eased a little when Graham Greene, who strongly believed in her talent, began giving Spark £20 and a few bottles of wine a month to keep her going. And one day in 1953, coming home from an authors’ lunch, she bumped into the literary entrepreneur Fr. Philip Caraman, the Farm Street Jesuit and editor of the British Catholic journal The Month, whom she so amused with her stories as they walked along that her sent her a check the next day for £15 “for having made him laugh.” As though prompted by this anecdote about Fr. Caraman, Spark devotes the next paragraph—and only the next paragraph—of Curriculum Vitae to her conversion, finally mentioning, 202 pages into a 213 page book, that this Scottish-born daughter of a Jewish engineer and an English mother had joined the Catholic Church. “The simple explanation,” she writes, “is that I felt the Roman Catholic faith corresponded to what I had always felt and known and believed.” What’s revealing about this is, of course, its unrevealingness. Language and structure are everything in the fiction Muriel Spark spent the rest of her life composing. You can see it in the perfect construction of her most famous work, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, published in 1962, with its tale of the effect of a self-dramatizing teacher on a Scottish girls’ school. You can see it in the careful unfolding of her best book, the 1959 Memento Mori, in which a voice rings on the telephone to whisper over and over again to a collection of London’s elderly men and women, “Remember that you must die.” You can see it in the somewhat cold precision of The Abbess of Crewe, her 1973 parody of the Nixon White House as a nunnery. You can see it even in those slim, elegant titles she chose for her slim, elegant novels: The Girls of Slender Means in 1963, Loitering with Intent in 1981, A Far Cry from Kensington in 1988. In all her work—20 novels and more than 50 stories—there are no personal confessions of the author herself and few insights into her characters’ psychology. Characters always first appear on Spark’s stage as members of a particular class of humankind. Her 1961 The Bachelors begins by denying any individuality among the unmarried men whose uniform existences are shaped by cooking, cleaning, and living for themselves. “Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were
poor, allowing for exceptions,” The Girls of Slender Means opens. Of Miss Jean Brodie, the author cruelly remarks that there were “legions of her kind during the nineteen-thirties.” And yet, these characters are not merely types—much less symbols whose humanity has disappeared into their literary function in Spark’s fiction. Sometimes they manage to grow into unique personalities by the novel’s end, as Matthew emerges from his crowd at the end of The Bachelors or William by the conclusion of the 1990 Symposium. But that is usually reserved for the few characters who accept the necessity for self-sacrifice, or stumble across a chance for self-denying love, or find a small measure of selfless grace. When, in opening pages of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, a student claims that Leonardo da Vinci is the greatest Italian painter and Jean Brodie answers, “That is incorrect. The answer is Giotto, he is my favorite”—or when, later in the book, she responds to the news that her student Sandy has become a nun by saying, “Do you think she has done this to annoy me?”—Spark has launched as brutal an attack as anyone has ever written against self-absorption, self-importance, and the use of the self as the measure for truth in the world. Real individuality, in other words, is reserved in Muriel Spark’s fiction for those who manage to forget their individuality. Each small success human beings have at disappearing from themselves is unique, and each small revelation that a human life can lose itself is a story never told before. But our supposedly unique failures are in fact merely universal, and our supposedly individual lives are actually indistinguishable participations in the common arc of fallen man. There is considerable irony in a novelist taking such a view of things, for what the novel as an artform typically undertakes—illustrating the universal human condition by drawing a picture of a particular human being—is exactly the opposite of what Spark attempts. This is perhaps the irony that made all the Catholic fiction of the 1940s and 1950s— the Graham Greene books, for instance, of the era in which Spark was formed as a writer and a convert—so peculiar. But in Spark’s case, the irony of fiction’s inverted purpose produced a set of simultaneously witty, elegant, satirical, and
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macabre novels, each extremely short, each dominated by the calm detachment of a very distant third-person narrator, and each ruled by a sternly deliberate structure designed to conceal the key incident until the novel’s end. But then, language and structure are everything for Spark because they have to be. In the world long after Vatican II, we can forget both the enormous wave of famous converts in the 1940s and 1950s and the extent to which Catholicism appealed to those converts precisely because what it offered was a structure and a language with which to express what they, in Spark’s words, “had always felt and known and believed” about the world. Personal faith in the truth of that structure and language was somehow simultaneously too obvious for Muriel Spark to bother putting in a novel and too hidden to be reached by literature. “When I am asked about my conversion, why I became a Catholic,” she once explained, “I can only say that answer is both too easy and too difficult.”
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St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information about any event listed here. May 5: Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament every First Friday after the 8:00 a.m. Mass Friday and continuing throughout the day and night until 7:45 a.m. Saturday with Morning Prayer and Benediction. (Exposition is suspended during scheduled Masses at 12:10 noon, 7:00 p.m. and 6:45 a.m. according to liturgical norms.) Join us as we pray for world peace, a culture of life, priests and the special intentions commended to our prayers. For more information or to volunteer please call (415) 567-2020 x224.
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April 28, 29, 30: Our Lady of Mount Carmel School’s 18th Annual Spring Festival. “The Festival is 3-days of carnival rides, food booths that include homemade tamales and lumpias, games, entertainment, a cash raffle, a Fun-Run through the streets of Redwood City, and a dinner on Saturday night,” the Redwood City school said. Fri.: 3 – 9:30 p.m.; Sat.: 10:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.; Sun.: noon – 8 p.m. For more information, to be a sponsor, or participate in the Fun Run, please visit the school website at www.mountcarmel.org or contact the development office at (650)366-8817. April 29: Our Lady of the Visitacion School (www.olvsf.org) will sponsor a Dinner & Auction to benefit the school’s technology center. Tickets are $25.00 and include admission to the auction and a Mexicanstyle dinner. Donations of goods and services to auction are welcome. For tickets call (415) 290-9416. April 29: St. Stephen Women’s Guild invites you to their Spring Bake Sale the weekend of April 29 and 30, 2006. Delicious home-made treats of all kinds will be sold after each mass right outside church. Proceeds benefit St. Stephen School. Call Sandy Gandolfo (415/334-1494) or Maureen Mallon (415/566-9865). April 28: Under the Big Top, annual Luncheon and Games Day benefiting work of Rosalie House Conference of St. Vincent de Paul with cocktails at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at noon at the Olympic Club Lakeside. Tickets are $50 per person. Call Marie Mahoney at (415) 333-9348. May 2: 25th Annual May Crowning and Living Rosary in All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Palou in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by All Hallows #182 Young Ladies Institute. Call Sue Elvander at (415) 467-8872. May 6: The Giddy-up Gala, annual auction and dinner dance fundraiser benefiting St Brendan School takes place in the Sister Diane Erbacher Parish Center. The event begins at 6 p.m. with complimentary Tequila Sunrises, cash raffle with $5000 grand prize, silent auction and live entertainment featuring Jeanie & Chuck’s Country Roundup. Dinner at 8 p.m. and live auction at 9 p.m. with celebrity auctioneers “Annie & Amy Smith”. Dance from 10 p.m. to midnight and wear your favorite western attire. Contact Theresa for event tickets at (415) 564-8372. May 6: Hawaiian Luau and Spring BBQ benefiting Immaculate Conception Academy, 24th and Guerrero St. in San Francisco from 4 p.m. “Great fun and food with entertainment from ICA students,” the school said. Tickets are $15 adults/$8 children under 10. Call (415) 824-2052. May 13: Moriarty Hall Gala, 6 p.m. – midnight at St. Anne of the Sunset, 850 Judah St. at Funston.
April 29: Catholic Single Adults throughout Northern California are invited to a special Dinner and Dance Party at the Tarragon Restaurant—140 South Murphy Avenue in Downtown Sunnyvale. Reception and Registration begins at 6:30 p.m. and Dinner/Dance Party begins at 7:15 p.m.. The evening will feature facilitated ice-breakers, a fourcourse dinner where diners rotate to different tables for each course, dancing, and door prizes. Reservations are necessary. For more information go to the website at www.catholicsinglesnetwork.com or contact Diane at dianep@catholicsinglesnetwork.com or 888-2089555 x 85 Separated and Divorced support group meets 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452. Group also meets 1st and 3rd Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Parish in Pacifica. Call (650) 359-6313 for location. Saturdays: Prayer Group, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at St. Hilary Church 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon, (415) 7565505. Father James Tarantino, presides. Call (415) 756-5505. Catholic Adult Singles Assoc of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639 for information.
May 6: Members of the public are invited to undergo free skin cancer screenings at a UCSF community event that is part of a national effort to set a new Guinness world record. The event will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at UCSF Medical Center at Mount Zion, 1701 Divisadero Street, 3rd Floor in San Francisco. No appointment is necessary. The event is part of a nationwide goal to screen one million Americans for skin cancer in a single day and set the new record. Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer. Up to one half of fair-skinned Americans will develop some form of skin cancer, and one of every 65 Americans will develop melanoma. Nearly 90 percent of skin cancers are preventable, and through early detection, most are highly curable. In addition to receiving a free skin cancer screening, participants also will be educated about sun protection and self skin examinations. For more information about the event, visit www.aad.org or call (415) 353-7800.
April 28, 29: Hurry! Hurry! Alice will return to this side of the looking glass no later than Saturday after the final performances of Alice in Wonderland at Sacred Heart School’s Campbell Center for the Performing Arts in Atherton. Tickets are $5.00. For curtain times, call John Loschmann, Sacred Heart Preparatory Drama, (650) 473-4098 x 2182. Among those who will keep the audience Tweedle tee-hee-hee’ing are Lauren Virnoche, front left, Alex Dunlevie, Brooks Miller, and Robbie LaRue, back left, Christie Richards, Kevin McFarland, Aubrie Pollock, and Andrew Ninneman. Archbishop George Niederauer is scheduled to formally bless the new building as a prelude to the event. Atirre is semi-formal. Tickets are $100 per person. Call (415) 665-1600, ext. 21. May 13: St. Sebastian’s hosts11TH Annual “Whale of a Sale”, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Spaces are $35 early bird, $50 after April 15th. Sell your crafts or household items and keep all proceeds. Benefits the Saint Vincent DePaul Conference. Take a space and raise money for your group or club. For information or reservations contact Kathie Meier, 461-4133 or email, whaleofasale@comcast.net or visit http://www.sswhaleofasale.com. May 20: Internaional Food Festival at St. Dunstan Parish 1133 Broadway, Millbrae from 5 – 9 p.m. featuring cuisine from around the world. Also enjoy entertainment, children’s activities, plus silent and live auctions. Proceeds benefit St. Dunstan school. Tickets are $35 adults, $20 seniors (65+), and $15 for children between the ages of 5 and 14. Age 4 and under are free. Proceeds will benefit St. Dunstan’s Parish School. Call (650) 697-8119. June 9, 10, 11: Church of the Nativity’s 26th Annual Carnival with thrilling rides, live entertainment, Kiddie Land, auctions, dinners and more. Fri.: 5 – 11 p.m.; Sat.: noon – 11 p.m.; Sun.: noon – 7 p.m. Free admission and parking. Call (650) 323-7914.
of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 614-5680. Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922. Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 5683018. The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month. Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care. Call (415) 406-2387 for information.
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June 10: Presentation High School, class of ’51 at Basque Cultiral Center in South San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. Contact Yvonne Irick at (650) 941-1294 or Audrey Trees at (650) 592-0273. July 8: Class of ’56 from Notre Dame des Victoires High School. Call Marilyn Donnelly at (650) 365-5192. Aug. 26: The Class of ‘ 60 Turns, a reunion of said grads from St. Cecilia Elementary School at El Rancho Inn in Millbrae. Contact Joanne Hicks McGlothlin at (650) 952-3673. Oct. 15: Star of the Sea Academy, class of ’56 at El Rancho Inn in Millbrae. Contact Natalie Nalducci Sandell at (415) 453-3687 or Diane Donohoe Mulligan at (415) 664-7977. San Mateo’s St. Matthew Elementary School
Social Justice/ Family Life Are you in a troubled marriage? Retrouvaille, a program for couples with serious marital problems, might help. For information, call Tony and Pat Fernandez at (415) 893-1005. Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life
TV/Radio Sunday 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. 1st Sun, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: Mosaic, featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. 3rd Sun, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: For Heaven’s Sake, featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.
Volunteer Opportunities Do you have a few hours each week to spare? St. Anthony Foundation can use your help. For more than 55 years, St. Anthony Foundation has worked to provide for the physical and emotional needs of the poor and homeless. A staple of its12 programs is the support of more than 500 volunteers. If you are interested in sharing the gift of time with St. Anthony Foundation in its free Dining Room or other programs, please call (415) 241- 2600 for more information. Weekday volunteers are especially needed - www.stanthonysf.org. St. Anthony Padua Dining Room in Menlo Park needs volunteers Wed., Thurs, and Sat. from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. to help prepare and serve noon meals. More than 500 people daily are helped by the program. Call (650) 365-9664. St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco needs your help at its Help Desk. Service includes sorting donations and helping clients. If anyone would like to volunteer - also small groups of volunteers one Saturday a month - they should call (415) 202-9955.” St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County needs Spanish/English-speaking volunteers to answer phones in 2 – 3 hour shifts between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. at their offices, 50 No. B St., San Mateo. Volunteers do intake of clients’ requests, log the call and enter into Access-based computer data system. Call (650) 373-0620.
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Catholic San Francisco
April 28, 2006
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PRESCHOOL TEACHER IN THE PRESIDIO The Serra Preschool, a developmental playbased school with a spiritual framework of Roman Catholicism, is looking to hire teachers to accommodate our expansion. Teachers will be team teaching with our skilled and experienced teachers in a supportive, professional atmosphere. Our five classroom school is located in the beautiful park setting of the Presidio of San Francisco. Benefits include highly competitive salaries, health coverage, holidays and 7 personal days. Applicants need a child development permit or at least 12 ece/cd units and 6 months experience in the field. Morning and afternoon positions available with jobs starting Aug. 30th.
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Exciting opportunity to serve as on-campus leader to Catholic students on a beautiful university campus with a well-established campus ministry presence. 10-month/year position. Position organizes faith formation and liturgical/worship opportunities; coordinates pastoral plan for evangelization; develops Catholic educational programs, including lectures and retreats. Qualifications include: MA in Theology or equiv.; competence in nurturing a catholic faith community; successful work experience with young adults; commitment to ecumenical relationships. Qualified layperson or priest encouraged to apply. Compensation includes benefits, housing, and utilities for 12 months, salary for 10 months. Send resume to John Hale at Diocese of Stockton, 1105 North Lincoln St., Stockton, CA 95203 or e-mail jhale@stocktondiocese.org
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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER DIOCESE OF PHOENIX This position develops and implements programs, procedures and processes relating to public communications and media relations. Min. Qualifications: Bachelor’s in Communications, Public Relations, or Journalism; 5 yrs working experience in a related position, preferably in a broadcast/media setting; & an active practicing Roman Catholic in full communion with the Church. Must have good working knowledge of the Catholic Church in order to give accurate information to the media; ability to speak and represent the Diocese on camera; ability to take on tough issues and remain calm under fire by the media; ability to demonstrate a high level of professionalism; ability to maintain confidentiality; proficiency in verbal and written communication skills; ability to achieve the professional confidence of others; proven ability to develop media contacts; must have a basic working knowledge of advertising; and must be computer literate and have a working knowledge of Microsoft software applications. Bilingual in English/Spanish preferred. Competitive benefits package, salary, DOE.
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Catholic San Francisco
April 28, 2006
In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of March HOLY CROSS COLMA Pilar Velez Abaigar Rosalina R. Abao Giovanni F. Abundo Demetrio M. Adiarte Carlotta Alexander Nicanor P. Ares, Jr. Gina Jane Austria Frank L. Baggetta Elizabeth M. Bain Marie R. Baireuther Alice W. Barbano Anthony Barbaria Enrique C. Barnes Norma J. Barsi Marcella Jean Barton Felisa F. Bautista Honesto Bayot Sixto S. Bermudez Olympia Bignardi Florence L. Bishop Norine A. Boschetti Esther M. Boyd Peter J. Boyle Evelyn R. Brandi Pacita Breslin Julia A. Brown Jeanne F. Campusano Anita Aquino Carcamo Mary H. Carraro Rafael Castro Salvatore Cefalu Kye-Hee Chang Dionisia G. Chico Gloria Peggs Christian Simon S. Y. Chu William J. Collins Beatrice M. Cook Mary F. Coppinger John V. Costello William E. Cracknell Lucia P. Cristobal Dorothy D. Curran Dolores H. De Fonseca Flaviana A. De La Torre Josephine de Losa Josephine Margaret Del Buono Jean Y. Dela Cruz Michele Linda Desiano Lena M. Diricco
Robert Louis Dohrmann Julio A. Donati Julia M. Dondero Agatha M. Duffey Raymond W. Elsbernd Dina N. Fazio Margaret L. Flaharty Emma Galindo Marion Galletti Ethel J. Gardner David S. Gathings Victoria C. Gee Dorothy A. Geno Helen M. Gilmore Roland Giovannetti Rodolfo S. Gobunsuy, M.D. Ernest T. Gomes Elena M. Harney Edward G. Harper James P. Harvey Rev. Edmund L. Hayburn Lucille E. Heberger Sophie Hernandez Alexa Hernandez Patricia Carroll Holcombe Josephine A. Hollis Mary J. Jackson Sr. M. Christine Kaelin, SHF Loretta Keane Joseph A. Keating Gabriel Thomas Kenyon Clement E. Kenyon William F. Lamagna Christie Linehan Carmen G. Lopez Antonio F. Lopez Miryam Macay Rosetta M. Maffei Frances K. Mahoney William J. Mahoney Anthony P. Marovich Elma Pierini Martinelli Bernice Ann Maxwell Lilia McAuliffe Diana McDonald John D. McDonald, III Teresa McKenny Julia A. Medina Anthony F. Mendolari Aurelia D. Mobo Virginia Monroe
Elizabeth C. Murphy Blanche Murray Achille J. Muzio Patrick L. Norton Xenophona Notario Carmelita O’Brien John E. O’Connell John J. O’Rourke Jean A. Oeverndiek David Allen Oliveira Laurentina Bendo Orejodos Gladys R. Orozco Dora Palma Marie E. Pelletier Elena Pericic Annette P. Pino David Joseph Poggetti Maureen D. Pohley Catalina P. Policar Gloria J. Portillo Alice Puccinelli Helen K. Purcell Andree Louise Reese Keeves M. Rendahl Michael J. Riordan Santito Pena Rivera Bruno Rodella Ante “Tony” Rodin Rev. Januarius Rodrigues Cora Mary Rogers George L. Rosaia Margaret R. Rovai Alice Saisi Efren A. Santos-Cucalon John L. Sarraille Elsa J. Scannell Dorothy Marie Schade Mary Frances Schilling Alice Vinluan Soriano Jesse William Soriano Salvador T. Sotomayor Alfred Spaducci Mercedes St. Clair Molly A. Steepy Agueda S. Sunga Maria Ester Tenorio Lois E. Tracey Matthew E. Trembley Rolando Valladares Flora T. Van Tricht Teresa L. VanMeter
Joseph G. Vasquez, Jr. Regina D. Villamor Beth W. Waggoner Roy Washington Wilbur C. Whittaker Wing La Wong Catherine L. Wright Ki Sun Yu Edmond C. Zaro John Z. S. Zhu Leona M. Zidich
HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Vince Barlow Ted Cague Salvador R. Diaz Michael Donofrio Noreen Ann Burke “Pinky” Ferguson William F. Gaffney Margarita S. Garrido Elizabeth P. Goodwin Willie A. Stewart
MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Rose M. Bedecarrax Melissa M. Bernadou Grace V. Bloom Daniel Joseph Gallagher Barbara P. Griffin Elidia V. Hecht Marsha Lynn Honrath Raymond J. Leonardi Frank M. Lopez Ruth C. Monaghan Erminia Garcia Sayers Nett Steven A. Papp Mary Pretes Robert W. Remy Zoe C. Renoe Glen S. Roberts Anne L. Scully Gilbert G. Wright
HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY – COLMA First Saturday Mass – May 6, 2006 – 11:00 a.m. Reverend Brian McBride, Celebrant
Memorial Day Mass – Monday, May 29, 2006 – 11:00 a.m. HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA Most Reverend George H. Niederauer, Celebrant – Archbishop of San Francisco MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY, SAN RAFAEL HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, MENLO PARK Rev. Patrick Michaels, Celebrant Rev. Louis Robello, Celebrant
The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060
Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375
Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020
A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.