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St. Peter’s Square is filled with pilgrims for the installation Mass of Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican April 24.

Attending the Mass were an estimated 350,000 people, including delegations from more than 130 countries and from dozens of other denominations.

Pope Benedict XVI begins ministry as head of Church

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Then, with some 150 cardinals, he processed into a sun-bathed St. Peter’s Square to begin VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In a liturgy rich with symbols and promises, Pope Benedict XVI the Mass and receive the main symbols of his office: the fisherman’s ring and the pallium.

“At this moment, weak servant of God that I am, I must assume formally began his ministry as head of the universal church, and See Pope’s homily this enormous task, which truly exceeds all human capacity,” Pope Catholics from around the world pledged their love and obedience to him.

PAGE 15 Benedict said in his homily.

The morning of April 24, Pope Benedict, elected April 19, walked The 78-year-old pope said he would rely on the prayers of all down to the tomb of the martyred St. Peter in the Vatican basilica to INAUGURAL MASS, page 9 Catholics and the grace of God. pay homage to the first bishop of Rome.

St. Paul’s in San Francisco celebrates 125 years

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Parishioners reach across aisles to pray Our Father.

It was standing room only at a celebratory Mass April 24 marking the 125th Anniversary of the founding of San Francisco’s historic and storied St. Paul Parish in Noe Valley. The parish pulled out all stops to fashion a grand and memorable liturgy.

San Francisco Police Mounted Division watched guard over the entrance procession which gathered on the steps of See More on St. Paul’s St. Paul’s prior to the Mass. The procession PAGES 10-11 included children of the parish waiving colorful flags, members of dozens of parish groups with identifying banners, the resident Missionaries of Charity, as well as current and former priests affiliated with St. Paul parish.

Music for the liturgy was performed by three choirs – the Missionaries of Charity, Children’s and Adult – with musical accompaniment. Under Music Director Laura Flaviani, the ensemble performed traditional and modern song including a psalm ST. PAUL MASS, page 9 refrain written by Flaviani.

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On The Where You Live

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Graduates and former students of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School came home for a reunion January 29th. The day included Mass with Father Joe Gordon, a 1959 OLPH grad, celebrating, and Deacon William Bruening, also a ‘59er, assisting. Also among the more than 100 revelers were, from left, Judy Ricci Ansaldi, Lois Lagomarsino Erasmy, Betty Curtin Cutietta, Patsy McGraw, Pat Ricci Casey, Carol Donofrio Luhrs.

“Oh, Places We’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss was the theme of Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School’s celebration of the renowned author’s birthday March 2. Each student visited 14 countries including China, Canada, Italy, Portugal, Scotland, Ireland, Greece, and The Land of Imagination. Enjoying their stay in the Land of Imagination are 6th grade teacher, Francesca MacKenzie and 2nd grader Sophia Serdengecti. At right is “bubble-man” Louie Pearl. Photo by 5th grader, Mark Wilson.

Much afoot at St. Finn Barr Elementary School where the 4th grade helped during Holy Week with a Passion Play.

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Pope visits tomb of St. Paul, praises his work spreading Gospel ROME (CNS) — In his first official foray into the city of Rome, Pope Benedict XVI visited the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls to pray at the tomb of the apostle and pay homage to his legacy of spreading the Gospel.

“The church is by its nature missionary; its primary task is evangelization,” the pope said in his homily during the April 25 prayer service.

“At the beginning of the third millennium, the church feels with renewed strength that Christ’s missionary mandate is more pressing than ever,” he said.

Several thousand people attended the 30-minute service, which expressed the “inseparable tie” between the church of Rome and St. Paul.

As Pope Benedict entered the basilica to applause, people stood up on chairs to get a better look, and some chanted his name in Italian. He grasped several outstretched hands, stopping to bless the foreheads of those in wheelchairs and a few infants.

Pope Benedict said Pope John Paul II’s many trips abroad were inspired by the same love of Christ that transformed St. Paul on the way to Damascus, and he asked God to nourish that love in him in order to meet the “urgency of the evangelical announcement in today’s world.”

The pope recalled St. Benedict’s motto to “prefer absolutely nothing to the love of Christ,” saying that St. Paul, too, made Christ the center of his life.

“Passion for Christ led him to preach the Gospel not only with words but with his life,” Pope Benedict said.

The blood of the martyred Sts. Peter and Paul, as well as the many 20th-century martyrs Pope John Paul beatified and canonized during his pontificate, fertilized the church, the pope said.

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Pope Benedict XVI blesses a child as he leaves a prayer service in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome April 25.

During the service, attended by several thousand people, the pope stressed that the primary task of the church is to evangelize.

“If then the blood of martyrs is the seed of new Christians, one can expect a renewed blossoming for the church at the beginning of the third millennium,” he said.

Pope Benedict’s visit to St. Paul’s marked the first time he ventured outside the Vatican since his April 19 election, except for two brief trips to his old apart-

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San Francisco jury awards four plaintiffs nearly $6 million (CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS)

SAN FRANCISCO – A San Francisco Superior Court jury awarded individual damages ranging from $1.3 million to $1.6 million to four plaintiffs, three men and a woman, who had filed lawsuits against the Archdiocese of San Francisco for sexual molestation as children by a San Jose priest in the 1970s.

Plaintiffs said three other priests had known of the molestation by the priest who died in 1988. The archdiocese disputed only the plaintiffs’ claims that the molestations were a substantial factor in the plaintiffs’ continuing personal problems. The issue before the jury was the amount of damages, mostly for psychological trauma. After the verdicts were given April 20, plaintiff John Salberg hugged San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester and said “I love my church, I wasn’t out to destroy it.”

Wester called the verdict fair and praised the plaintiffs for their courage. “We’ve always wanted just compensation,” he said. “I really pray that this brings closure for the plaintiffs.”

Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, right, prays with her mother during an April 26 Mass for Pope Benedict XVI at a cathedral in Manila.

Responsibility for the $1.055 million awarded to the brothers as compensation for suffering will be shared by the diocese and the priest. Oakland Bishop Allen H. Vigneron, who testified at the trial, said in a statement that the sex abuse scandal has been “one of the most difficult issues I have had to face since coming to serve as the bishop of Oakland.” He has headed the diocese since January 2003. He said the trial and its outcome “give us one more occasion to renew our commitment” to ensure the safety of children. “That is our commitment,” he said, “and we will not draw back from it.”

Award for damages in Oakland case put at $1.9 million OAKLAND — An Alameda County Superior Court jury awarded damages totalling $1.9 million in damages April 13 to two brothers, now in their 30s, who had filed a civil lawsuit charging that they were molested by Father Robert Ponciroli when he was pastor of St. Ignatius Parish in Antioch two decades ago. The jury award included $875,000 in punitive damages, which is the subject of an appeal by the diocese.

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Priests urged to reject defensive posture despite abuse scandal PORTLAND, Ore. — Meeting in Portland in mid-April, an alliance of more than 200 U.S. priests eyed the future in the wake of the clergy sex abuse scandal and the election of a new pope. One of the nation’s top religion journalists urged members of the National Federation of Priests’ Councils not to “retreat into a defensive crouch” as a result of controversy. If priests close down emotionally, many non-Catholics who still yearn for the faith may not be able to make contact with it, said David Gibson. “It is vital that you remain open and human and vulnerable, true Christs to us all.” Gibson, whose new book is “The Coming Catholic Church: How the Faithful Are Shaping a New American Catholicism,” said that “the future of the church is at the parish level.” But, he said, today’s culture embraces belief but not belonging, making it hard to get many Catholics into church.

Protections for ‘born-alive infants’ and conscience rights

Catholic Charities USA has named 83-year-old Helen Brown of New Orleans as its national volunteer of the year in recognition of her 54 years of service to her community and Catholic Charities. The annual award recognizes the contributions of close to 200,000 volunteers, who provide millions of hours of service each year.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. bishops’ pro-life spokeswoman praised the Department of Health and Human Services for its plans to “aggressively enforce federal laws that protect born-alive infants,” as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced April 22. “Roe vs. Wade may currently leave our country helpless to defend infants moments before birth, but even now we can and must protect those struggling for their lives outside the womb,” said Cathy Cleaver Ruse, director of planning and information for the bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. “We applaud the Department of Health and Human Services for initiating this important and humane effort,” Ruse added in an April 22 statement. The department’s action followed the passage in August

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WASHINGTON — Two Catholic organizations disagreed on the intent and effect of “Justice Sunday,” an event held April 24 by the Family Research Council in an attempt to break a Senate logjam on some of President George W. Bush’s judicial nominees. Pax Christi USA, the U.S. arm of the international Catholic peace movement, decried “Justice Sunday,” while the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights supported it.

“What we’re seeing in ‘Justice Sunday’ is a partisan attempt by religious conservatives to declare war on judges that don’t rule in accordance to a right-wing political agenda,” said an April 21 statement from Pax Christi USA executive director David Robinson. “Shamefully, in their attempt to bring down those they label as activist judges, they are also branding as unfaithful anyone who disagrees with them,” Robinson added.

Catholic League president William Donohue, in an April 22 statement, said his group backed “Justice Sunday.” “Though there is no ‘de jure’ discrimination against people of faith, there is ‘de facto’ discrimination,” he said.

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Eight out of 10 of those without health care coverage are in working families, and 8 million are children. “We cannot afford to remain silent while quality, affordable health care is not a reality for everyone in the country,” said Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Sister Carol Keehan in a joint letter. Bishop DiMarzio heads the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Domestic Policy, and Sister Carol, a Daughter of Charity, chairs the Catholic Health Association’s board of trustees. Both organizations are involved in Cover the Uninsured Week.

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Anglican leader says pope to energize united Christian witness ROME (CNS) — The spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion said he is encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI’s commitment to Christian unity and believes his papacy will give special energy to a “united Christian witness” in an increasingly secularized Europe.

Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, the only head of a church present for Pope Benedict’s installation and his April 25 meeting with ecumenical representatives, spoke with reporters afterward.

Because of the large number of representatives at the audience, Archbishop Williams said, “it was not possible to speak in any great depth, but the pope and myself were able to exchange a few words and promised to pray for each other.”

The archbishop said he was encouraged by the fact that in the first days following his election “Pope Benedict has gone out of his way to underline the sense of priority of ecumenical work. He has spoken of the service of unity, and we have taken that very much to heart.”

The Anglican leader told reporters Pope Benedict repeatedly has expressed his commitment to ecumenism since his April 19 election, “so we look forward in hope and sympathetic interest to how this very fruitful dialogue ... is to be pursued.”

English Cardinal Cormac MurphyO’Connor of Westminster, who joined Archbishop Williams at the press conference, said Pope Benedict had made it very clear since his election that “there is no going back” on the Catholic Church’s commitment to Christian unity, and he has given “his own imprimatur” on ecumenism.

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Pope Benedict XVI meets Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury and German Cardinal Walter Kasper at the Vatican April 25. Following the meeting, Archbishop Williams said he is encouraged by Pope Benedict's commitment to Christian unity.

prises, and who knows, Pope Benedict, too, may be a pope of surprises,” the cardinal said.

Archbishop Williams said he also was pleased about the new pope’s emphasis on “the theme of united Christian witness.”

“I sensed a real willingness to draw others into that common encounter — not aggressive or triumphalistic — with secularism as a philosophy,” he said.

Especially in Europe, the archbishop said, there is a need to find the proper balance between the separation of church and state, on one hand, and the freedom of Christians to make their beliefs known publicly, on the other.

Archbishop Williams said he does not see secularism as a conspiracy against Christianity, but believes the growth of secularism is due more to “a drift toward a sounquestioned, so-bland ... assumption that secularism is what every sensible person thinks, that it can feel like a real pushing of the Gospel to the margins” of social discussion.

The archbishop said he has been assured that current Anglican-Roman Catholic projects will continue.

The Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission’s statement on the Blessed Virgin Mary, “Mary, Grace and

Hope in Christ,” is due to be released May 16 in Seattle and, the archbishop said the Anglican-Roman Catholic Commission for Unity and Mission work on developing a common statement of faith is continuing.

Archbishop Williams also said the illness and April 2 death of Pope John Paul II, his funeral, the conclave, the election of Pope Benedict and his installation have given “a foretaste of a worldwide fellowship gathered for worship, glorifying God together,” in a way that overcame denominational and doctrinal divisions.

“It is as if we have been given a glimpse of other levels of unity,” he said.

Too often, the archbishop said, the faith of ordinary Europeans has been ignored, but the massive media coverage of Pope John Paul’s death and Pope Benedict’s election gave many Christians an opportunity “to talk ‘to camera’ about their faith.”

Archbishop Williams said Pope Benedict’s election comes at a time when the Anglican Communion is “struggling to find a robust, sustainable doctrine of the church” that will help the communion remain united even in the face of sharp differences over such issues as the ordination of openly gay men as bishops and the blessing of gay unions.

The agreements reached with the Catholic Church over basic doctrines and teachings are a resource for the internal unity of the Anglican Communion as well as for the movement toward unity with the Roman Catholic Church, he said.

Archbishop Williams said that “perhaps for people outside the Roman Catholic Church” more than for Catholics there is a willingness to suspend judgments about Pope Benedict and wait to see what he will do as pope.

Human trafficking expert to speak at Public Policy Breakfast Sister Sheila Novak, a member of the Sisters of the Divine Savior and an expert on human trafficking, will be keynote speaker at the Annual Public Policy Breakfast May 17 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Human trafficking is a present day form of slavery which constitutes the third most profitable worldwide criminal activity after illegal drug and armament trading. Condemning the practice, Pope John Paul II said, “Trade in human persons constitutes a shocking offense against human dignity and a grave violation of fundamental human rights.”

The U.S. Department of Health and Human services estimates that each year, between 800,000 and 900,000 people are trafficked across international borders having been bought and sold for forced labor in the sex trade, factories, agriculture, domestic labor, peddling and other industries. Between 14,500 and 17,500 people are trafficked for these purposes into the United States each year.

The San Francisco Bay Area is port to a high number of trafficking victims brought into the country for sexual slavery according to Assembly member Sally Lieber (D – San Jose). Lieber is sponsor of Assembly Bill 22 which would create additional tools to hold traffickers criminally accountable and provide victims with needed protection and services. The bill is one of the items supported by the California Catholic Conference made part of the agenda for Lobby Day which was held April 26 in Sacramento.

Sister Sheila Novak is co-founder of the “Stop Trafficking” newsletter which is a vehicle for women religious to share information about trafficking and ways religious congregations can work to aid victims and curtail trafficking.

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Installation of new pope has special significance for Benedictines VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The installation of Pope Benedict XVI held special significance for a group of black-robed monks in the throng celebrating the event in St. Peter’s Square.

Abbot Notker Wolf, abbot primate of the Order of St. Benedict, said that when he heard that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had chosen the name Benedict, “I was very happy.”

“I felt recognized,” he added.

In further recognition, U.S. Benedictine Brother Gregory Gresko of Mary, Mother of the Church Abbey in Richmond, Va., sang the Gospel in Latin during the Mass.

The 34-year-old monk, a songwriter who sings in a Christian rock band called Mary’s Men in Black, is studying at St. Anselm University in Rome.

The new pope’s name evokes both the legacy of the early 20th-century Pope Benedict XV and a spiritual tradition dating back to the sixth-century saint credited with spreading Christianity throughout Europe as the Roman Empire collapsed.

“Before the conclave, Cardinal Ratzinger made a critique” of modern society, urging the cardinal-electors to take a stand against relativism, Abbot Wolf said.

Upon hearing the new pope’s name, “I said this is the answer to his critique,” the abbot said. “The Rule of St. Benedict is just the opposite (of relativism). It is a moderate rule based on living out the Good News.”

Other observers had also taken careful note of the new pope’s name and its possible significance.

“This man is saying, ‘I’m not John Paul III, I’m not Pius XIII, I’m not Paul VII or John XXIV. I’m someone completely different,’” said Paul Collins, an Australian church historian and former priest.

The newly elected pope reportedly told the cardinals that he had chosen Benedict for several reasons.

In part, it harks back to the last Benedict, pope from 1914 to 1922, who sent a seven-point letter to the countries involved in World War I in an effort to halt the hostilities.

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Benedictine Brother Gregory Gresko sings the Gospel during the inaugural Mass of Pope Benedict XVI April 24 in St. Peter's Square. The Mass marked the formal start of Pope Benedict's papacy.

His pontificate was relatively short, lasting slightly less than eight years. At age 78, his namesake is probably not expecting a long pontificate.

Then there is the new pope’s affinity for the spirituality of St. Benedict, whose rule for living, working and praying in community still guides the lives of Benedictine abbeys around the world.

“The Benedictine spirituality is a very balanced, human one,” Abbot Wolf said. The heart of monastic life, he said, “is just living out the Gospel.”

Pope Benedict XVI was born in Bavaria, where Benedictine roots run deep. With 17 abbeys in the region, “Bavaria is called ‘terra benedictina’ — Benedictine land,” Abbot Wolf said.

“Benedictine wisdom has permeated society there.”

Over the years, the new pontiff has made an annual spiritual retreat at the Benedictine abbey in Scheyern, Germany, the abbot said.

He also has visited other Benedictine abbeys. Father Cassian Folsom, prior of St. Benedict Monastery in Nursia, Italy, the saint’s birthplace, recalled a visit from thenCardinal Ratzinger in 2003.

“He gave a wonderful homily, blessed our new library and was delighted to be here. And of course, we were even more delighted,” Father Folsom said.

The new pontiff’s choice of the name Benedict could be a symbol of his desire to revitalize Catholicism in an increasingly secular Europe, as he indicated in his homily at the Mass before the conclave. St. Benedict is credited with having spread the faith throughout Europe in the early sixth century.

“The faith in Europe is extremely fragile. It’s a terrible crisis,” Father Folsom said. “St. Benedict was a master of the faith in a time of similar crisis. He went about witnessing to the faith not by special programs or strategies or long-range planning, but by being faithful in the little things of every day in the monastic vocation.”

Those who live by the Rule of St. Benedict find it as relevant today as it was when the saint established his first monasteries.

Monasticism emphasizes “the primacy of God, the importance of prayer, putting things in their right order,” said Father Folsom, who went to Nursia from the Benedictine abbey in St. Meinrad, Ind. “God first, and other things come from that. It’s also a way of life that emphasizes prayer and communion with God.” The structure of Benedictine life also provides guidelines for the exercising of authority, Abbot Wolf said.

“It’s a very human rule” that maintains respect for the individual within the communal life. While the members of the community are under the authority of an abbot, “the abbot has to convoke the entire community for serious questions,” he said. “There’s a sharing of responsibility.”

Most of all, the abbot said, Benedictine spirituality, with its hours for prayer, work and rest, is a model to the world of “a balanced way of living.”

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By Jonathan Luxmoore VATICAN CITY (CNS) — German Catholics heralded Pope Benedict XVI’s installation as a “new beginning” for their country and said the pontiff could help reconciliation among some European countries.

About 100,000 German pilgrims, many waving flags and banners, were among some 350,000 people who attended the April 24 installation Mass in St. Peter’s Square; the largest number of Germans came from the southern state of Bavaria, where Pope Benedict was born.

Michael Ilyander, a 40-year-old university professor who came with fellow Bavarians, said he believed Pope Benedict had a “fantastic opportunity” to heal the World War II wounds still existing between Germany and neighboring countries.

“As a universal theologian and philosopher, our new pope’s horizons go far beyond Germany,” Ilyander told Catholic News Service. “Although his manner and attitude seem conservative, he also embodies a Bavarian tradition of liberalism with very positive aspects, which he can rediscover as pope.”

Sacred Heart Father Heinrich Wilmer, a principal from the state of Lower Saxony, Germany, said he and 1,800 students and parents had planned to come for the scheduled April 24 beatification of the founder of the Sacred Heart Fathers. When the beatification was postponed after the death of Pope John Paul II, the group decided to come anyway, since their bus tickets were nonrefundable.

“Everyone was surprised and stunned” when German Cardinal Joseph

Ratzinger was elected pope April 19, Father Wilmer said.

“I myself will go back full of strength, energy and hope,” he said after attending the installation Mass. “I think this will give everyone a new, fresh attitude toward our Catholic Church.”

“I’m proud of my country — it’s the first time in my life I haven’t been ashamed to hold up our flag,” said Theresa Konopka, a lay Catholic from the former capital, Bonn. “Some people have said they expect a new evangelization to come out of Germany, something that has been hard to imagine. Perhaps we can now see how (Pope Benedict’s) election could really give new force to our church.”

Michael Holzer, a student from Nuremberg who came for the weekend with members of a Catholic youth group, told CNS he was “not surprised” so many young Germans made the journey for Pope Benedict’s installation.

“Although he’s been in Rome a long time, he’s still a Bavarian German inside,” said Holzer. “I think he’s a good, strong person for the job — this is a great chance for the German church.”

Angela Stefan, a student from the pope’s home town of Marktl am Inn who slept in St. Peter’s Square with a group of 100 Catholics and Protestants, said she came to Rome to “feel the atmosphere” after joining street celebrations at home.

A consecrated lay Catholic from Munich, where Pope Benedict was a parish priest and later archbishop, said some of her “Youth 2000” group had “wept with emotion” during the Rome Mass, adding that it was clear to fellow Germans the new pope had “a German heart.”

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The Catholic predicted the rest of the world could learn from the German church’s theological and cultural resources, adding the new pope would “do everything to bring Germans back to the faith.”

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Pope meets with non-Catholics, pledges dialogue VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In his first meeting with representatives of other Christian communities and of other religions, Pope Benedict XVI pledged his pontificate would be marked by dialogue to promote truth and serve humanity. “I assure you that the church wants to continue building bridges of friendship with the followers of all religions, in order to seek the true good of every person and of society as a whole,” he said.

In remarks to the Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant delegates, Pope Benedict said their prayers and presence at the April 8 funeral of Pope John

Paul II was a “tribute of sympathy and affection” that “went well beyond a simple act of ecclesial courtesy.”

The pope held an audience April 25 for the 70 Christian representatives, seven Muslim delegates and 17 Buddhist representatives who had attended his April 24 installation. Jewish representatives missed the meeting because it was held during their Passover observance.

Earlier, in one of his first acts as pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI sent a message to Rome’s chief rabbi expressing his intent to further dialogue with the Jewish community.

“I trust in the help of the highest to continue dialogue and strengthen collaboration with the sons and daughters of the Jewish people,” the pope told Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni in his message, sent April 21.

The note followed an April 20 telegram from the rabbi congratulating the pope on his election.

Welcoming the cardinals’ choice of Pope Benedict, Jewish leaders said they expected him to renew his predecessor’s commitment to advancing Catholic-Jewish relations and hoped he would reaffirm the church’s teaching on Judaism even more forcefully.

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Inaugural Mass . . . ■Continued cover “I do not have to carry alone what in truth I could never carry alone,� he said.

The new pope said his inaugural Mass was not the moment to present “a program of governance,� but rather a time to promise to try be a good shepherd to Christ’s flock, to rescue those who are lost, to help the poor and to build unity among all believers in Christ.

An estimated 350,000 people attended the Mass, including delegations from more than 130 countries and from dozens of Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant churches.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, brother of U.S. President George W. Bush, led the five-member U.S. national delegation.

Canada’s governor general, Adrienne Clarkson, led the five-member Canadian delegation.

The German-born pope’s 81-year old brother, Father Georg Ratzinger, was seated in the front row by the altar, not far from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and President Horst Koehler.

The crowd was dotted by faithful waving flags, especially German flags.

Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, King Juan Carlos of Spain and Britain’s Prince Philip were seated alongside the altar.

Religious calendars created some complications for some delegations. Israel was represented by its ambassador to the Vatican, although the inauguration took place on the first full day of the weeklong Passover observance. Sixteen Orthodox churches sent representatives even though April 24 was Palm Sunday on the Julian calendar most of them follow.

Chilean Cardinal Jorge Medina Estevez placed the pallium, a long woolen stole, around the neck of Pope Benedict, reminding him that Jesus has entrusted him with taking up the ministry of St. Peter to shepherd Christ’s flock.

Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, handed Pope Benedict the fisherman’s ring, which the new pope placed on the ring finger of his right hand.

Cardinal Sodano prayed that “the Spirit of love� would fill the new pope with the strength and meekness needed to minister to Christians “in the unity of communion.�

In his homily, Pope Benedict said, “One of the basic characteristics of a shepherd must be to love the people entrusted to him, even as he loves Christ whom he serves.�

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Also attending were numerous religious, particularly Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who had served St. Paul’s for years in the parish schools, as well as many whose priestly or religious vocation was nurtured at St. Paul’s.

Main celebrant was pastor Father Mario Farana; former pastor Father Kevin Gaffey gave the homily. Father Gaffey was clearly taken by the beauty of the liturgy and spoke for all when he said, “We are about something very special here today . . . This doesn’t happen at every Mass . . . There is no place I’ve been that knows how to celebrate better than St. Paul’s!�

Father Gaffey traced the history of the parish and schools with the history of the City and said, “The lives of

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“Loving means giving the sheep what is truly good, the nourishment of God’s truth, of God’s word, the nourishment of his presence which he gives us in the Blessed Sacrament,� he said.

The new pope asked for the prayers of the entire church that he would grow in his love for the Lord and for the members of the church and prayers that he would be strong in the face of those who threaten the church. “Let us pray for one another, that the Lord will carry us and that we will learn to carry one another,� he said.

His homily repeatedly was interrupted by applause, and Pope Benedict received a long ovation when he finished.

After he received the symbols of his office, Pope Benedict received the act of obedience of his new flock, symbolized by 12 people from eight countries.

Bishop Andrea Erba of Velletri-Segni, who represented diocesan bishops, leads the diocese of which the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was titular head while serving as dean of the College of Cardinals.

Father Enrico Pomili, representing all priests, is pastor of the Rome parish of Santa Maria Consolatrice, Cardinal Ratzinger’s titular church until he became dean of the college in 2002.

The others included a transitional deacon from Africa; a Discalced Carmelite priest who serves as a consultant to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith; a Benedictine abbess; a Korean married couple; a young woman from Sri Lanka; and a young man from Congo.

Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, South Korean Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan and Cardinal Medina represented the College of Cardinals.

Among the thousands of people who gathered in St. Peter’s Square and filled the surrounding streets for the Mass were many who felt represented by the 12.

Joseph Previtali, a San Francisco seminarian studying at North America College in Rome, said, “It was so amazing to see Pope Benedict XVI in action for the first time! He is a natural as pope. We all knew that this intellectual of extremely high voltage would provide us with much depth in his teaching and preaching, but his charisma and comfort with the crowd was not a little surprising.�

While the Gospel was chanted in Latin and Greek, the other Bible readings were in English and Spanish. The prayers of the faithful were recited in German, French, Arabic, Chinese and Portuguese.

In French, the people prayed: “For our Holy Father Benedict XVI, who today begins his ministry as the Roman pontiff, may be serve the church and be a courageous witness of the Gospel.�

The bread and wine consecrated by Pope Benedict during the Mass were brought up to him by Catholics from Hungary, Croatia, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Italy, China and Peru; many in the procession wore their national costumes.

During the offertory procession and the act of obedience, Pope Benedict smiled broadly, listened attentively, stroked the cheeks of the young and offered his blessing.

At the end of the Mass, Pope Benedict took his first ride in the popemobile, standing in the back of the open vehicle, waving to the crowd and blessing them with his right hand, newly weighted by the fisherman’s ring.

He then went into St. Peter’s Basilica where a chair was set on an oriental rug before the main altar. Members of the government delegations were led into the basilica to greet him and pose for photographs.

Pope Benedict met April 25 with the delegations from the other Christian churches and from other religions. A separate audience was planned for Catholic pilgrims from Germany.

many of St. Paul’s graduates had a deep influence on the life of the City and our state.� Among them are many important businessmen and civic leaders, as well as 245 vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

In recounting the difficulties triumphed and faith of the people of St. Paul’s throughout its history, Fr. Gaffey found “a striking similarity to the life of our patron, St. Paul. He knew suffering, rejection, hardship, yet still won the crown of victory.�

Father Gaffey said the parishioners formed the “living stones� of a parish which has been a “beacon of light� in Noe Valley for 125 years. In that time, he said, there have been 6,470 marriages at St. Paul’s and 22,143 baptisms.

Gaffey hoped that St. Paul’s parishioners would continue “to be that beacon of light and faith to the Noe Valley for years to come. May future generations say with pride, ‘I’m from St. Paul’s.’�

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A PLACE WHERE GOD LIVES - ST. PAUL’S PARISH: A HISTORY 1980 – 2005

THE EIGHTIES: YEARS

OF

CALM

For the people of St. Paul’s, the Eighties began in celebration and ended with an earthshaking Act of God. When 1980 began, Father Kevin Gaffey, a Noe Valley native from 26th Street, who was baptized and raised in St. Paul’s Parish, was in his third year as the sixth pastor of St. Paul’s. It was Father Gaffey’s first pastorship, and highly unusual for the United States where priests are rarely assigned to their native parishes. But thanks to this uncommon situation, St. Paul’s celebrated its Centennial that April with a native son presiding over all the events and celebrations.

The following year, 1981, marked the worldwide commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the life of St. Francis of Assisi. To honor the occasion, the Archdiocese invited Mother Teresa, already the legendary head of the Missionaries of Charity, to San Francisco. It was an event that would begin a rich new chapter in the life of the parish. Mother Teresa was looking for a home for a North American novitiate for her order of nuns. After reviewing three sites in the Archdiocese, she chose the former grammar school convent of St. Paul’s.

No one who was there will ever forget that day in 1981 when the Missionaries arrived. For weeks parishioners had worked cleaning and restoring the convent. Parish members turned out in force that afternoon to welcome the nuns to their new home. Like a sea of white and blue, they flowed down the street and into the building. Moments

Father Lawrence Breslin, the first pastor of St. Paul’s, standing before the main altar in the original St. Paul’s Church, surrounded by altar boys and two unidentified assistants (1887).

later, to the amazement of all, the carpets, drapes, and furniture that the parishioners had spent weeks cleaning came flying out the windows and doors of the convent. It was a sign to all that even the most meager appointments were too luxurious for the sisters’ spiritual commitment to live as simply as the poor they serve so humbly and so well.

In 1983, Father John Cloherty became the new pastor of St. Paul’s. He inherited a parish in remarkably good physical shape as Father Gaffey had seemingly repaired virtually every building in the now 103-year-old parish. The focus for Father John quickly became the educational mission and administration of the schools.

Under Father John, the St. Paul’s Schools would continue to thrive while also carving out a niche for their progressivism. Responding to the growing trend toward two-parent working households, the parish schools became the first in the Archdiocese – and among the first in San Francisco – to offer pre-school and after-school childcare programs.

In 1984, Sister Jeanenne Weis, a Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, was hired by Father John to be Pastoral Associate. For the next six years, she would be Father John’s indispensable right hand. Sister Jeanenne became famous for her uncanny ability to convince even the most reluctant parishioners to do things they never thought possible.

Father John’s tenure as pastor was marked by its generous collegial spirit. Every Thursday night, he hosted parish staff dinners in the beautiful formal dining room of the St. Paul’s Rectory on Valley Street. Father John believed in building community in this way and, at these meals, everyone was invited to weigh in on any parish plans and projects.

In one of the most exciting and spiritually moving experiences in San Francisco history, His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, visited San Francisco in the fall of 1987. The opportunity to see Pope John Paul II galvanized our entire parish. Adding to the excitement, students from St. Paul’s High School were among those chosen to serve as ushers at a huge outdoor Mass Pope John Paul II celebrated at Candlestick Park.

In the fall of 1988, the Renew Small Group Faith Sharing program was introduced at St. Paul’s. It would have a profound, transformative effect on the parish community. Sister Jeanenne spearheaded the program and she was tireless in her efforts to recruit parishioners to join the initial Small Groups. By the end of the first Renew sign-up period, more than 120 parishioners had joined the program.

Renew inspired the St. Paul’s Parish community in ways that still resonate today. The formation of a Parish Social Action Committee in 1991, which later integrated itself into and helped re-energize the St. Paul’s Conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, grew out of one of those initial Renew small groups, and a solid new core generation of St. Paul’s parishioners became actively engaged in a wide range of parish activities.

THE LOMA PRIETA QUAKE: THE PARISH FAULT LINE In the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the City and County of San Francisco enacted a new Unreinforced Masonry Building Ordinance that would affect scores of buildings throughout the city and

Whoopi Goldberg and co-star, Wendy Makenna, in costume visiting St. Paul’s High School during the filming of “Sister Act.”

Sister Maureen, first Chair of the Capital Campaign, standing before the Capital Campaign’s “Spire-ometer.” The mini-billboard hung on the front wall of the church and displayed for all in the neighborhood the status of the fund-raising campaign.

THE EARLY NINETIES: ACTIVISM

AND

“SISTER ACT”

In 1991, the St. Paul’s Social Action Committee (SAC) initiated a monthly ministry at St. Martin de Porres House of Hospitality, a Dorothy Day-inspired soup kitchen on Potrero Avenue. St. Paul’s committed itself to staffing the soup kitchen on the third Saturday of every month. It is a ministry that St. Paul’s continues every third Saturday to this day.

That same year, the parish organized the first of what would become annual Clothing Drives in October, Thanksgiving Food Drives in November, and the first Christmas Gift Drive, an effort symbolized by the erection of the parish’s first Giving Tree.

In July of 1991, Sister Jeanenne transferred to Holy Angels Parish and Mary Tan became St. Paul’s Pastoral Associate. It was a brilliant choice. This woman, relatively short in stature, would prove to be a giant over her many years of service. That same summer, Sister Ann Cronin, BVM, was named principal of St. Paul’s Primary and Intermediate Schools. A native of the parish, Sister Ann would soon be tested as no St. Paul’s principal before her.

In 1991, Hollywood also came to St. Paul’s in the form of the Disney Films production of “Sister Act.” Hundreds of parishioners got to play extras in scenes throughout the movie. Absolutely extraordinary was the wizardry of the set designers who transformed the beautiful church and Noe Valley streets into a graffiti-covered, run-down slum. “Sister Act” was a huge hit and practically overnight, St. Paul’s became one of the most famous and recognizable churches in America. To this day, it is, along with Mission Dolores, one of the most popular churches for tourists visiting San Francisco from around the world.

In a convergence of events that could truly be called an “only at St. Paul’s” event, in 1991, during the filming of “Sister Act,” Mother Teresa returned to the parish to visit her novitiate. As part of her visit, she came over to St. Paul’s High School to speak to the girls. Exactly one week later, Whoopi Goldberg addressed the same audience from exactly the same spot.

FATHER MARIO FARANA

AND

THE FIGHT

TO

SAVE ST. PAUL’S

In June, 1993, Archbishop Quinn agreed to Father Mario Farana’s request to be the new pastor of St. Paul’s.

In July, 1993, an enormously joyful and grateful parish community welcomed their new pastor to his new home. True to his unassuming nature, Father Mario did not tell his community that he had asked for the assignment. He just went quietly about the task of re-introducing himself to the community and beginning the process of assessing what would be needed to raise funds to retrofit the parish’s UMB structures.

One month later, in August, he was informed by the Archdiocese that St. Paul’s High School for Girls would have to close at the end of the 1993-1994 school year. Worse news was still to come.

On Sunday, November 14, 1993, the Archdiocese announced a long-awaited list of parishes to be closed. St. Paul’s Church was on the list and the entire parish marked for ecclesiastical suppression. In its reasoning, the Archdiocese stated that it did not believe St. Paul’s had the financial resources to complete the retrofitting necessary to remain open.

On Monday evening, November 15, more than 50 parishioners, led by Father Mario turned out to protest the Archdiocesan commission’s closure decision. The emotional highpoint was Father Mario’s testimony. To roaring applause in the crowded auditorium, he angrily told the commission that he had not come to St. Paul’s to close it down and that he would not be the man to turn off the lights.

The next night, Auxiliary Bishop Patrick McGrath came to St. Paul’s Church itself to hear directly the appeals of the parishioners. By the time the Bishop arrived, more than 1,200 people had packed the Church, so many that Mary Tan had to open the choir loft to accommodate the overflow.

One by one, parishioners rose to speak. Members of the Noe Valley community-at-large added their voices.

Now there was nothing left to do but wait and pray. Father Mario left the church open for the next two days for community prayers. Finally, November 19, 1993, the Archdiocese said that St. Paul’s was to be removed

(PHOTO BY JACK SMITH)

Mother Teresa was greeted by Sister Maureen O’Brien, BVM, upon her arrival at St. Paul’s High School for Girls during her visit in 1991.

the archdiocese. Under the criteria of the ordinance, every St. Paul’s structure but the rectory was declared out of compliance and required seismic upgrading within ten years.

The UMB Ordinance hung like the proverbial sword of Damocles over the parish for the next four years. But the quake itself also had inspired some of the largest Sunday Mass attendances in modern memory. St. Paul’s also rallied to the assistance of the Watsonville community, where many people had been left homeless by the quake.

By the following Easter, the mood of the Parish had brightened considerably. Worry about the UMB Ordinance and the quake had begun to recede. The church had taken a hit, but to virtually everyone’s way of thinking, since it was still standing, it didn’t really seem like much of a crisis. Little did anyone know that greater shocks were still to come.

San Francisco Police Mounted Division watches over the entrance procession for the 125th Anniversay Mass. from the list of parishes to be suppressed. Children from the schools rushed outside and began ringing bells to alert the people of the joyous news.

That evening, as the adults of the parish returned from work, they and their families gathered for a prayer service that soon turned into a spontaneous celebration that filled the St. Paul’s High School cafeteria until the wee hours.

THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: 1995 – PRESENT In the Spring of 1994, St. Paul’s High School said good-bye to its final graduating class and the Men of St. Paul spent much of that summer cleaning and renovating the vacant St. James School on Fair Oaks Street. St. Paul’s Elementary School moved into this rental space in September.

On April 1, 1995, under the initial direction of Sister Maureen O’Brien, St. Paul’s launched a Capital Campaign to raise the money to “seismically retrofit” the church and remaining school properties of St. Paul’s.

Michael Stanton, a gifted architect and a parish member, captained the architectural design planning for the retrofit of the church and the St. Paul’s Intermediate School. After developing the retrofit designs and evaluating the costs for retrofitting the school, Michael informed Father Mario that only an all- new school building would be truly viable.

The launch and continuance of the Capital Campaign was not easy, but the parish community threw itself whole-heartedly into the effort. The Campaign itself was designed to touch every parish constituency – from the oldest to the youngest, the nearest to the furthest away.

Some decisions were heart-wrenching but absolutely necessary for the Campaign to reach its goals. In 1994 and 1995, the parish sold the high school, the BVM Convent, and St. Paul’s Primary School at Sanchez WHERE GOD LIVES, page 17

Fr. Mario and the leaders of the parish Retrofit Committee standing on the altar during the church restoration.

Michael Stanton, the architect of the church and school retrofit plans, is standing third from the left.

(PHOTOS COURTESY OF ST. PAUL’S PARISH)

Condensed from a longer history written by James P. Woods, Jr. a freelance writer and parishioner at St. Paul’s Parish.

In 1876, Noe Valley was a poor but rapidly growing, working class community, composed primarily of Irish and Italian immigrants, who overwhelmingly were Roman Catholic. The closest Catholic Church was distant St. Peter’s, a difficult trip on good days, and a perilous one when the rains fell and the many creeks that lined the valley overflowed their banks.

To rectify this situation, the young community petitioned Archbishop Joseph Alemany for permission to build a new church in their own neighborhood. The Archbishop agreed and work began. In the first display of St. Paul’s remarkable spirit, the future parishioners organized subscription drives to purchase a site for their church. By the end of the year, with individual contributions that averaged not much more than $12 per family, they raised $2800, and purchased the property around 29th and Church Streets.

Four years later, on April 29, 1880, the cornerstone of what would be the first Church of St. Paul’s was laid. Father Lawrence Breslin was named the first pastor, and St. Paul’s Parish was born. Seventeen years later, the second pastor, Monsignor Michael D. Connolly, began construction on the present church to serve the needs of the still growing community. Building the church on a pay-as-you-go basis without any outside assistance or financial help, the poor but enormously resourceful community took 14 years to complete the task.

One need look only at the individual architectural details to appreciate the extent of the achievement of those early parishioners and to see how deeply the history of the city lives on in the beautiful English Gothic cathedral.

From a quarry at 30th and Castro, the men and women of the parish hauled rock to lay the foundation. From the rubble of the great San Francisco earthquake, they salvaged cobblestones that became the façade. Reflected also in the details is their immigrant heritage; a legacy that lives on in the magnificent stained glass windows they had specially made in Bavaria, and in the exquisite Carrara marble they imported from Italy to compose the main altars.

The same indomitable spirit of this faith community created what would become one of the largest Catholic school systems west of the Mississippi. Beginning with the opening of St. Paul’s Elementary School for Boys and Girls in 1916, the parish built and constructed three schools, including St. Paul’s High School for Girls, in four years. At its height in the late 1920’s and 30’s, the St. Paul’s School System comprised more than 1,500 students.

Inextricably tied to the history and educational mission of the schools were the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Lovingly referred to as the BVM’s, the sisters taught generation after generation of parishioners at all three schools.

Since the first school opened, more than 350 BVMs have served St. Paul’s Parish as teachers and pastoral associates. In another sign of the broad and enduring spiritual strength of the parish community, many of these remarkably dedicated and talented religious women were born and raised in the parish itself. Under their supervision, the schools maintained a twin commitment to academic excellence and, reflective of St. Paul’s roots in the immigrant experience, a special ministry to the poor and marginalized.

This was the proud heritage of the first 100 years that St. Paul’s celebrated on its Centennial, April 29, 1980. It is a spiritual legacy that would prove to be just as strong, vital and sustaining in the next 25 years.

The St. Paul’s Children’s Choir performing at Disneyland.

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The pope, thee, and me A good deal of the current commentary about Pope Benedict XVI concerns advice about what issues should occupy his time and how he might address these issues as successor to St. Peter.

In Our Sunday Visitor, Russell Shaw cites declining vocations to the priesthood and religious life, continued fallout from the clergy sexual abuse crisis affecting finances and morale, the still-unresolved issue of homosexuality in the priesthood, ongoing debate over ordaining women and married men, and challenges to church teaching on a wide range of moral issues.

Shaw says a “marked slowdown in ecumenism” will challenge the new pope, as well as persistent differences over the power of bishops and their national conferences and whether there should be “more pluralism in doctrine and liturgy.” In his stance toward the world, Shaw notes, “a new pope will face three overarching challenges of a global nature: secularism, the ongoing revolution in biotechnology and the resurgence of Islam.”

Elsewhere, an editorial in the national Catholic weekly magazine America also puts the priest shortage at the top of its list of internal issues and says, “A church without sacraments is not Catholic. Providing the Eucharist and other sacraments to the Catholic community is more important than mandatory celibacy.” America lists nuclear weapons, internal conflict and terrorism, glaring economic inequalities, globalization of the economy and culture, global warming and consumption of resources as other issues facing the new pope.

The Jesuit magazine also calls for the church to “return to a fuller collegiality that treats bishops as more than echoes for Vatican pronouncements.” It says too many issues were “taken off the discussion table” in the previous papacy, citing “birth control, divorce, women priests, married priests, homosexuality, the selection of bishops, the overcentralization of decision-making in the Vatican, inclusive language, inculturation of the liturgy, catechetics, intercommunion and the role of the laity in church governance.”

Father Raymond de Souza, writing in the National Catholic Register, lists secularization of the West as was among the major issues at hand, and notes connecting with youth will be a key challenge for the new pope. Internal church challenges, he said, include liturgical reform and discipline, the renewal of religious orders, the restoration of Catholic identity in higher education and the renewal of catechetics and lay formation. Along with the challenges posed by rapid growth of the church in Asia and Africa, Father de Souza cites relations with Islam, genetics, biotechnology and the multiple issues arising from globalization, saying the church faces increasing challenges in preaching the Gospel of life and the “primacy of the human person over market forces.”

National Catholic Reporter lists Islam, secularism in the West, women in the church, the priest shortage, sexual morality, Christian unity and church governance among other key issues. But the editorial says the real near-term question is “Will the new pontiff teach and explain or will he assert?

Father Eugene Hemrick, a columnist for Catholic News Service, hopes that our new pope will rely on the Holy Spirit and image Christ the Good Shepherd as our Church faces the complex challenges ahead. Father Hemrick cites the challenges of working with other religions, the new role of women, adapting Catholic tradition while remaining true to it, the future of religious life, the plight of the family, war and terrorism, growing secularism, ecology, bioethical challenges, nuclear power, and unity among nations.

In Commonweal, a lay-run national biweekly magazine, theologian Richard R. Gaillardetz suggests the discussion of challenges facing a new pope should “focus less on issues and more on papal vision.” The first challenge he sees for a papal vision stem from Vatican II’s document on divine revelation, which begins, “Hearing the word of God reverently and proclaiming it confidently... .” That line reminds church leaders and teachers that they must first be “learners, hearers of the word,” he says.

Gaillardetz says God’s word can be discerned not only in Scripture, the liturgy and other traditional sources of church teaching, but also in the present day “in the holy conversation of the baptized followers of Jesus.” The University of Toledo professor hopes that the pope will encourage honest and prayerful conversation of the people of God through the reform of existing participative structures and the creation of new and more effective ones.

He adds, “This is no liberal fantasy for a democratic church, but a quite traditional longing for a genuine community of discernment” like that exhibited in the Acts of the Apostles in its narrative of the Council of Jerusalem, he said. “It is a longing for a church that raises up leaders who recognize that leading and listening are not mutually exclusive.”

The list of challenges above are more than daunting for one individual, even if he is pope. One of my concerns is the focus on what the pope should or should not do. What is left out of the spiritual equation — besides God the Father, Our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit – is the responsibility of thee and me.

May we adhere to the instruction of St. Paul, in his letter to the Ephesians: “Brothers and Sisters: I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace.”

MEH

God’s benevolent choice According to major media reports there are some who are disappointed at the election of Pope Benedict XVI by the College of Cardinals. Apparently the Pope doesn’t meet the agenda of his detractors. Maybe we need a reminder of why Jesus established this Church.

The purpose of the Church is to lead us to salvation. If we listen to the words of God and utilize the means Jesus has given us – the Sacraments, the Mass, the teachings of His Church – we are guaranteed great help in “working out our salvation.”

But when we ignore these means and the teaching of the Church – especially matters of faith and morals which are unchangeable, as God is unchangeable – we open ourselves up for disaster.

The truth subsists in our Holy Mother Church. We sinners have made many and serious mistakes, but the faith, as given us

by Jesus Christ, will never err.

We must cling to our faith and stop trying to remold it to fit our own human desires which are flawed by our fallen nature.

Whatever God’s purpose (His agenda) in giving us Pope Benedict XVI, we must accept it as a sign of God’s benevolent, salvific will for us and the Church at this present time.

May our Holy Father accomplish all that God desires for him, by His Grace and our prayers.

Diane Dawes San Francisco

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My hero the Pope All my life I wanted a hero. I guess we always do, don’t we? We seek for a hero as a child and from disappointment to disappointment we look for another.

We find them in books and in the Bible but we keep searching for one with skin on - one we can see and touch. I had no idea what a hero would be like but I knew I would know one when I found him - and I did find one!

How did it happen that this man from Poland became a Pope living in Italy and could bring everyone together.

How did he do that? He brought Catholics, Protestant Christians, even unbelievers from country to country together. He brought the countries together like never before. He did it well. He was equal to the task We needed a hero with slipon shoes, didn’t we? We needed a hero who would work until the moment he died. We needed a hero who would stand for Jesus Christ even when he could no longer stand. We needed a hero who would speak for the Savior, while wiping saliva from his drooling mouth, even when he could no longer speak.

And I? I keep saying at 72 that I am so tired. I move too slowly and forget that God can make me equal to a task, if I want to serve Him. If we learn nothing more from this man of God, this Holy Father, this Papa, our Papa than finishing the race, let’s all encourage each other to do just that. Fight the good fight, without swords, and finish the race. Let’s hold each other to it!

We praise you, Lord, for the quarter of a century with a Hero like this one. Don’t let us forget these past 27 years and don’t let us forget these past two weeks. I am so grateful. I love being Catholic.

Terry Fenwick Half Moon Bay

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I had a few thoughts after watching the funeral Mass of Pope John Paul II. The Latin Mass and chanting was beautiful. Thank God that’s not a lost art. It brought back pleasant memories.

Also, receiving the Eucharist on the tongue was very evident on the square at St. Peter’s. Thank God. Sometimes you almost have to fight for it, or as I’ve been told, go to another Eucharistic minister.

I was also impressed by the number of young priests and seminarians taking part in the funeral Mass. I’ll bet most of these men were altar boys at some point. The Church needs to take every opportunity to involve the young in the liturgy of the Mass, the activities of the parish, and in really learning their faith – at least as much time as they give to sports and computers. Parishes constantly have opportunities to involve youth which they don’t seem to use.

It is heart-warming to see an older gentleman step up to serve when some-

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one doesn’t show up. That commitment was instilled a long time ago. We must instill that in the young.

I’m sad to think that the Church has lost so many of its fine traditions.

Change has not always been for the best.

Funny, when we were a bit stricter, we had more entering religious life.

My thanks to Catholic San Francisco for your work spreading the Good News.

L.G. Dockery San Francisco

Take on Goliath It has become pretty obvious to any reader of the San Francisco Chronicle that this city’s only daily paper seems to lick its chops whenever it can denigrate, by remote control, the Catholic Church as seen in recent issues. From clerical sexual abuse to the needling of Cardinal Bertone for his “condemnation” of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (Apr. 14) to Joan Ryan’s recent Sunday article where she belittles Pope John Paul and dismisses her loose association with her Catholic heritage - and lots in between.

Isn’t it time for Catholic San Francisco to take on this media giant. It may be a David-and-Goliath encounter; but take heart - you know who won that fight.

As our spokes-medium for the Catholic population of our city, our Catholic paper should stop putting soft marshmallows in its slingshot, and start aiming some hard-nosed editorial exchanges at our less than amicable opponent.

Fr. Michael Ribotta Sts. Peter and Paul Church San Francisco

April 29, 2005

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The Catholic Difference

Pope Benedict XVI — The man and the mission Benedict XVI: The name is the program, and the name is the man.

St. Benedict was born in 480, in a small Umbrian village. In 529, as a monastic town was being built for Benedict and his monks on the brow of Monte Cassino, Plato’s Academy closed in Athens. The timing nicely illustrated a conviction of the late John Paul II: “In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.”

As a great embodiment of classical culture shut its doors, the “academy of Christianity,” as the new pope once called it, was being established.

And a good thing, too. The Roman empire was in rapid decline, beset by wars, economic dislocation, and social disorder. The civilizational achievement represented by Plato’s Academy could have been lost; classical culture might have gone the way of the Mayans. That it didn’t had a lot to do with Benedict. His monks not only preserved crucial elements of the civilization of Athens and Rome during the Dark Ages; they transformed that civilization by infusing a biblical understanding of the human — person, community, origins and destiny — into the classical culture they preserved for future generations in their scriptoria and libraries.

The result of that fusion of Jerusalem, Athens and Rome was what we know as “Europe,” or, more broadly, “the West.” It was a colossal, indeed world-historical achievement. And the achievement was entirely consistent with what Pope Benedict XVI remembered in a recent interview as “a Benedictine motto: Succisa virescit — pruned, it grows again.” Thanks to St. Benedict and Western monasticism, the demise of classical civilization was the occasion for a new beginning — and, eventually, a nobler civilizational accomplishment.

Benedict XVI once described that accomplishment through another Benedictine motto: Ora et labora, pray and work. “Turning the earth into a garden,” he told the German journalist Peter Seewald in 2000, “and the service of God [were] fused together and became a whole . . . Worshiping God always takes priority . . . But at the same time, it’s a matter of cultivating and renewing the earth in an ethos of worship. This also involves overcoming the ancient prejudice against manual labor . . .

Manual labor now becomes something noble . . . an imitation of the Creator’s work. [And] along with the new attitude toward work comes a change in our ideas about the dignity of man.” Thus the culture of the classical

world was not only preserved; it was transformed into a culture of freedom.

Benedict XVI has long been concerned that the West risks the possibility of a new Dark Age. What he described in a sermon on the day before his election as a new “dictatorship of relativism” is one dimension of the problem. If there is only “your truth” and “my truth” and nothing that we understand as “the truth,” then on what principled basis is the West to defend its greatest accomplishments: equality before the law, tolerance and civility, religious freedom and the rights of conscience, democratic self-governance? If the only measure of us is us, isn’t the horizon of our aspiration greatly foreshortened?

(And if you want to see what that kind of metaphysical and spiritual boredom can do to a once-great civilization, look around Western Europe, where self-absorption and a stubborn resistance to saying that anything is “true” has led a continent to the brink of demographic suicide.)

Pope Benedict also senses that a new Dark Age may be aborning in those laboratories where human begetting is turned into human manufacture — the Dark Age of Huxley’s brave new world. So just as we can expect the new pope to champion a revitalization of Christian faith and practice in Europe as the necessary condition for the rejuvenation of the public life of the West, so we can expect him to be, like his predecessor, a global champion of the dignity and worth of human life from conception until natural death.

A first public test of these two thrusts of the new pontificate will come as early as mid-August, when Benedict XVI will return to his native Germany for the International World Youth Day that will be celebrated in Cologne. Can he rally the millions of young who streamed into Rome for John Paul II’s funeral Mass, determined to say goodbye to a man in whom they sensed the solidarity of true fatherhood? Can Benedict be a father who inspires his young charges to enter the lists of contemporary culture, not primarily to deplore it but to convert it? A lot of 21st-century history may ride on the answer we’ll get in four months, there along the banks of the Rhine.

As with the program, so with the man: He is a Benedict in the depths of his interior life and in his intellectual accomplishment. Benedict XVI has an encyclopedic knowledge of two millennia of theology, and indeed of the cultural history of the West. He is

more the shy, monastic scholar than the ebullient public personality of his predecessor; yet he has shown an impressive capacity for George Weigel a different type of public “presence” in his brilliantly simple homily at John Paul II’s funeral and in his first appearance as pope. He has known hardship: He knows the modern temptations of totalitarianism (paganism wedded to technology) from inside the Third Reich; he has been betrayed by former students (like the splenetic Brazilian liberation theologian Leonardo Boff) and former colleagues (like Hans Kung, a man of far less scholarly accomplishment and infinitely less charity). His critics say he is dour and pessimistic. Yet I take it as an iron law of human personality that a man is known by his musical preferences; and Benedict XVI is a Mozart man, who knows that Mozart is what the angels play when they perform for the sheer joy of it.

Indeed, and notwithstanding the cartoon Joseph Ratzinger, the new pope is a man of Christian happiness who has long asked why, in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, summoned to be a “new Pentecost” for the Catholic Church, so much of the joy has gone out of Catholicism. Over some 17 years of conversation with him, I have come to know him as a man who likes to laugh, and who can laugh because he is convinced that the human drama is, in the final analysis, a divine comedy.

He once called himself a “donkey,” a “draft animal” who had been called to a work not of his choosing. Yet when Joseph Ratzinger stepped out onto the loggia of St. Peter’s to begin a work he never sought, I couldn’t help think of the conclusion of Alasdair MacIntyre’s penetrating study of the moral confusions of the West, “After Virtue.” In a time when willfulness and relativism had led to a frigid and joyless cultural climate, MacIntyre wrote, the world was not waiting for Godot, “but for another — doubtless very different — St. Benedict.” The world now has a new Benedict. We can be sure that he will challenge us all to the noble human adventure that has no better name than sanctity.

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

Guest Commentary

The Mission of Benedict XVI: Act Two? Benedict XVI was a “member of the Nazi Youth,” fought in the German Army, became a Catholic priest, a bishop, a cardinal, a “hard-liner,” a “Rottweiler” for the Vatican—these are a few of the “facts” certain media outlets have thrown out there for public consumption. This is so you will understand why it is that American Catholics are “dismayed” by the choice of Ratzinger as Pope.

Of course, this is all nonsense. Ratzinger, like all German boys, was considered a member of the Hitler youth—and (did they tell you?) he resisted and skipped meetings. He was drafted into the army, which is what you would expect, and deserted, though was later held, briefly, as a prisoner of war. His father, by the way, was a known dissident.

One report I heard also said that Ratzinger and Karol Wojtyla were “on opposite sides” during the War. Technically true—they were born in countries at war with each other. But both men enlisted in the priesthood and were decidedly not engaged in politics. Neither had any use for either Fascism or Communism.

As the Eastern Europe in which John Paul II lived fell behind the Iron Curtain, the war-ravaged Western Europe of Ratzinger’s youth was freed from Fascism and experienced freedoms forbidden to the Poles. John Paul II later emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, summoned to the papacy. Having experienced the Eastern part of Europe under the tyranny of Communism, he helped to effect a revolution that shocked the world with its speed and non-violence.

Ratzinger, on the other hand, while living in the free West came to experience another sort of revolution that Poland was spared: the radical 60s revolution. Ratzinger saw the student riots that swept Europe (and parts of the United States) alongside the Sexual Revolution.

In his sermon before the conclave Cardinal Ratzinger

said, “A dictatorship of relativism is being constituted that recognizes nothing as absolute and which only leaves the “I” and its whims as the ultimate measure.” It is a “dictatorship” when you are told that you only need to go with your feelings and passions, that there are no external rules to bind you. Ratzinger, having lived under the horrors of Nazi Germany realized that though there are no more Nazi commandants there yet remain commandments; there are no more dictators but there are still moral dictates.

Relativism kills the soul from within by removing the guidance that comes from the “spiritual” realm. The recognition of the spiritual was forcibly suppressed by the Communists; it is more subtly undermined by Western relativism and materialism. In the West we have lost our grasp of the spiritual by allowing ourselves to become swamped by a sea of things and sensations, of which perhaps the most powerful is sex. Both East and West have thus lost track of the spiritual.

John Paul II spoke of the whole of Europe as having “two lungs,” the East and the West—sometimes this referred to Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Regardless of whether the metaphor works on every level, one can still say that both lungs have had pneumonia for quite some time. In the East the state (until recently) denied the spiritual, while the West increasingly denies there is any Truth.

The Eastern European John Paul II and the Western European Benedict XVI. Are they together bookends, a first and second act designed to preach the Word of God to the whole of Europe, not to mention the world, which has increasingly come under the sway of either Western relativism and materialism or Eastern collectivism (e.g., China)?

Does Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI — named for Benedict of Nursia, the patron saint of Europe— stand poised to complete the work of John Paul II, who

reminded the world of the spiritual and freedom? Is it Benedict XVI’s mission to remind the world that there is also Truth? Will this new Benedict continue to be called a “hard-liner” for simply warning that James Kuchiner there are some truths that cannot be ignored?

It was by ignoring the truths of man’s sinfulness and need of a Redeemer in Christ that the whole of Europe fell into an abyss that only deepened in the 20th century, with its million-fold carnage of war, death camps, gas ovens, genocides, and gulags; with its moral and physical carnage of unbridled sexuality, abortion, infanticide, “mercy” killings, divorce, homosexuality, and the ensuing despair and loss of meaning, purpose, and joy in response to the miracle and gift of life.

Benedict XVI is 20 years older than was John Paul II at the beginning of his pontificate, so he likely has much less time. But some of the work has already begun, and who knows where the Spirit will blow? No one knew that 1989 would see the liberation of Eastern Europe.

Both John Paul II and Benedict XVI together point to Christ who is the Truth, the Truth who makes us free.

James Kushiner is Executive Editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity. He and his family attend All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago. This article originally appeared Apr. 20, 2005 in Mere Comments, the weblog of Touchstone Magazine (www.touchstonemag.com).

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SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Psalm 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20; 1 Peter 3:15-18; John 14:15-21 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (ACTS 8:5-8, 14-17) Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them. With one accord, the crowds paid attention to what was said by Philip when they heard it and saw the signs he was doing. For unclean spirits, crying out in a loud voice, came out of many possessed people, and many paralyzed or crippled people were cured. There was great joy in that city.

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for it had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20) R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. or: R. Alleluia.

Shout joyfully to God, all the earth, sing praise to the glory of his name; proclaim his glorious praise.

Say to God, “How tremendous are your deeds!

R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

“Let all on earth worship and sing praise to you, sing praise to your name!”

Come and see the works of God, his tremendous deeds among the children of Adam.

R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

He has changed the sea into dry land; through the river they passed on foot; therefore let us rejoice in him.

He rules by his might forever.

R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

Hear now, all you who fear God, while I declare what he has done for me.

Blessed be God who refused me not my prayer or his kindness!

R. Let all the earth cry out to God with joy.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PETER (1 PT 3:15-18) Beloved: Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope, but do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that, when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that be the will of God, than for doing evil.

For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God. Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the Spirit.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 14:15-21) Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you.

Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

Is purgatory still a part of Catholic faith?

Q. I am nearly 80 years old and was in love all who are joined to Christ, taught that everyone goes to purgatory after whether still on earth or in the next world. death, nobody goes to heaven immediately.

Equally clear is that the official teachBut today there isn’t much said about it. Is ings of the church do not intend to answer purgatory still part of our faith? Are we still physical details about purgatory. to pray for the dead? (Michigan) A few years ago, Pope John Paul II A. Purgatory is still very challenged us to take a fresh look at heavmuch a part of our faith. It en, hell and purgatory. When we hear those is also true, however, words we often pay more attention to popthat we speak more ular images than to the carefully about purgadoctrines themselves. tory than we someIn his reflections times did in the past. the pope made explicPerhaps one reason we it what has been hear less about purgatory implicit all the time. today is that many of us have Father John Dietzen According to the a lot of misunderstandings pope, purgatory is not a that could use some correctplace but a “condition” of ing. The hoary pictures of torture, pain and purification for the saved whereby Christ a punishing God, which used to be common “frees them from their imperfections.” As and which made purgatory kind of a mini- the Catechism says, purgatory is a process, a hell, may scare someone to death, but most transition of purgation and of cleansing. are irrelevant to authentic Catholic teaching.

Christian spiritual theology and Two things are clear in our tradition practice in fact recognizes often that this concerning purgatory. First, we believe there process can occur, at least partly if not is some condition or circumstance in the wholly, even before we die. process of dying or after death by which any None of this changes or minimizes punishment remaining for sins is satisfied. the ancient practice of praying for people And second, Catholic teaching tells us that who have died. Past, present and future we can assist those who are “in purgatory” are all one present moment to God. Our by our prayers and good works here on earth. prayers, whenever they are said before or This is simply an aspect of our belief after death, go to a God who is not limitin the communion of saints, which unites ed by when they happen to be offered.

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QUESTION CORNER

Scripture FR. MUNACHI ESEOGU, CSSP

You can’t do it on your own Roald Amundsen, the great Norwegian explorer who discovered the South Pole took a homing pigeon with him on his trip.

He told his wife that if he reached the end of the world, he would release the pigeon.

His wife sat for hours, all alone in their big house looking up the sky for the promised pigeon. One day she looked out the bedroom window and saw the pigeon circling in the sky above. “He’s alive!” she cried, “My husband is alive!”

As Jesus gets ready to leave his disciples, he promises to send them the Paraclete who is often depicted as a dove.

But there are enormous differences between the pigeon that Amundsen sent to his wife and the Paraclete that Jesus sent to his disciples. The pigeon is merely a sign that the traveller has reached his destination. Beyond that the pigeon can do nothing more. The Paraclete that Jesus sent to his disciples, on the other hand, means to them everything that Jesus himself meant for them while he was with them. Jesus was a Paraclete to the disciples, and he promised them “another” Paraclete: “I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete” (John 14:16).

What is a Paraclete? Many words have been used to translate this word into English. They include: Advocate, Comforter, Counsellor, Helper. The Greek Paracletos literally describes someone who is called to stand beside a client. In legal terms that would be your attorney. But a Paraclete is much more than an attorney.

Probably the English word that we use today that most nearly captures the meaning of Paraclete is the word “coach.” The Paraclete is our coach, always by our side, to instruct and correct us when we make mistakes, to encourage and motivate us when we feel down, to challenge and inspire us to be the best we could, to defend us and fight for our rights when the judges are unfair to us. In short, the Paraclete means for us all that Jesus meant for the disciples.

Why do we need a Paraclete? For the

same reason that athletes and sports people need coaches. No matter how good they are, sports people always need coaches.

Even Tiger Woods has a coach. Left on our own, we are prone to mistakes and errors.

Without God we can do nothing. In the 5th century AD there was a British thinker called Pelagius who taught that human beings have the natural ability to fulfill God’s commands if they so choose. The church condemned his teaching as a heresy, insisting that human beings always need God’s grace in order to please God. Pelagianism is the belief that we can fulfill our human destiny just by being ourselves, and that we do not need the grace of God that comes through faith, prayer or the sacraments. Many people today are Pelagians without even knowing it. Jesus tells us in today’s gospel that we all stand in constant need of divine help. We all need the divine Helper, the Holy Spirit who stands always by our side, the Paraclete.

How then do we receive this all-important Spirit Helper? It is by striving to live according to the law of Christ which is love of God and love of our neighbour. “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Paraclete to be with you forever” (John 14:15-16). After the Ascension of Our Lord, the disciples “together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus” (Acts 1:14) retired to the upper room to wait and pray for the promised Paraclete. We cannot do better than follow their example. Next Thursday is Ascension Thursday. Between Ascension and Pentecost the church invites all her children to a period of prayer and waiting for the gift of the Holy Spirit. Let us observe this period as a special period of prayer just as the disciples did because we need the Holy Spirt today as much as they needed it two thousand years ago.

Fr. Munachi Ezeogu is a Nigerian priest in the Congregation of the Holy Ghost (Spiritan). Visit his website at www.munachi.com.

Confirmation – Giuseppe Maria Crespi, 1712. This painting is housed at the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany.

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“During these days of great intensity, we have chanted the us and taking away our freedom. To know what God wants, litany of the saints on three different occasions: at the funeral of to know where the path of life is found - this was Israel’s joy, our Holy Father John Paul II; as the cardinals entered the con- this was her great privilege. It is also our joy: God’s will does clave; and again today, when we sang it with the response: ‘Tu not alienate us, it purifies us - even if this can be painful - and illum adiuva’ - sustain the new Successor of Saint Peter. On so it leads us to ourselves. In this way, we serve not only Him, each occasion, in a particular way, I found great consolation in but the salvation of the whole world, of all history. listening to this prayerful chant. How alone we all felt after the “The symbolism of the pallium is even more concrete: the passing of John Paul II - the Pope who for over twenty-six years lamb’s wool is meant to represent the lost, sick or weak sheep had been our shepherd and guide on our journey through life! which the shepherd places on his shoulders and carries to the He crossed the threshold of the next life, entering into the mys- waters of life. For the Fathers of the Church, the parable of the tery of God. But he did not take this step alone. Those who lost sheep, which the shepherd seeks in the desert, was an believe are never alone - neither in life nor in death. At that image of the mystery of Christ and the Church. The human moment, we could call upon the Saints from every age - his race - every one of us - is the sheep lost in the desert which no friends, his brothers and sisters in the faith - knowing that they longer knows the way. The Son of God will not let this happen; would form a living procession to accompany him into the next He cannot abandon humanity in so wretched a condition. He world, into the glory of God. We knew that his arrival was await- leaps to his feet and abandons the glory of heaven, in order to ed. Now we know that he is among his own and is truly at home. go in search of the sheep and pursue it, all the way to the Cross.

“We were also consoled as we made our solemn entrance He takes it upon His shoulders and carries our humanity; He into conclave, to elect the one whom the Lord had chosen. carries us all - He is the good shepherd who lays down His life How would we be able to discern his name? How could 115 for the sheep. What the pallium indicates first and foremost is bishops, from every culture and every country, discover the one that we are all carried by Christ. But at the same time it invites on whom the Lord wished to confer the mission of binding and us to carry one another. Hence the pallium becomes a symbol loosing? Once again, we knew that we were not alone, we of the shepherd’s mission, of which the second reading and the knew that we were surrounded, led and guided by the friends Gospel speak. The pastor must be inspired by Christ’s holy of God. And now, at this moment, weak servant of God that I zeal: for him it is not a matter of indifference that so many peoam, I must assume this enormous task, which truly exceeds all ple are living in the desert. And there are so many kinds of human capacity. How can I do this? How will I be able to do desert. There is the desert of poverty, the desert of hunger and it? All of you, my dear friends, have just invoked the entire host thirst, the desert of abandonment, of loneliness, of destroyed of saints, represented by some of the great names in the histo- love. There is the desert of God’s darkness, the emptiness of ry of God’s dealings with mankind. In this way, I too can say souls no longer aware of their dignity or the goal of human life. with renewed conviction: I am not alone. I do not have to carry The external deserts in the world are growing, because the alone what in truth I could never carry alone. All the Saints of internal deserts have become so vast. Therefore the earth’s God are there to protect me, to sustain me and to carry me. And treasures no longer serve to build God’s garden for all to live your prayers, my dear friends, your indulgence, your love, your in, but they have been made to serve the powers of exploitation faith and your hope accompany me. Indeed, the communion of and destruction. The Church as a whole and all her pastors, like saints consists not only of the great men and women who went Christ, must set out to lead people out of the desert, towards the before us and whose names we know. All of us belong to the place of life, towards friendship with the Son of God, towards communion of saints, we who have been baptized in the name the One who gives us life, and life in abundance. of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, we who “The symbol of the lamb also has a deeper meaning. In the draw life from the gift of Christ’s Body and Blood, through ancient Near East, it was customary for kings to style themselves which He transforms us and makes us like Himself. shepherds of their people. This was an image of their power, a “Yes, the Church is alive - this is the wonderful experience of cynical image: to them their subjects were like sheep, which the these days. During those sad days of the Pope’s illness and death, shepherd could dispose of as he wished. When the shepherd of it became wonderfully evident to us that the Church is alive. And all humanity, the living God, Himself became a lamb, He stood the Church is young. She holds within herself the future of the on the side of the lambs, with those who are downtrodden and world and therefore shows each of us the way towards the future. killed. This is how He reveals Himself to be the true shepherd: ‘I The Church is alive and we are seeing it: we are experiencing the am the Good Shepherd . . . I lay down my life for the sheep,’ joy that the Risen Lord promised His followers. The Church is Jesus says of Himself (Jn 10:14ff). It is not power, but love that alive - she is alive because Christ is alive, because He is truly redeems us! This is God’s sign: He Himself is love. How often risen. In the suffering that we saw on the Holy Father’s face in we wish that God would show Himself stronger, that He would those days of Easter, we contemplated the mystery of Christ’s strike decisively, defeating evil and creating a better world. All Passion and we touched His wounds. But throughout these days ideologies of power justify themselves in exactly this way, they we have also been able, in a profound sense, to touch the Risen justify the destruction of whatever would stand in the way of One. We have been able to experience the joy that He promised, progress and the liberation of humanity. We suffer on account of God’s patience. And yet, we need His patience. God, Who after a brief period of darkness, as the fruit of His resurrection. became a lamb, tells us that “The Church is alive the world is saved by the with these words, I greet Crucified One, not by those with great joy and gratitude There is nothing more beautiful who crucified Him. The all of you gathered here, my venerable brother cardinals than to be surprised by the Gospel, world is redeemed by the patience of God. It is and bishops, my dear priests, destroyed by the impatience deacons, Church workers, by the encounter with Christ. of man. catechists. I greet you, men and women religious, wit“One of the basic characnesses of the transfiguring There is nothing more beautiful teristics of a shepherd must presence of God. I greet you, be to love the people members of the lay faithful, than to know Him and to speak to entrusted to him, even as he immersed in the great task of loves Christ whom he building up the Kingdom of others of our friendship with Him. serves. ‘Feed my sheep.’

God which spreads throughsays Christ to Peter, and out the world, in every area now, at this moment, He of life. With great affection I also greet all those who have been says it to me as well. Feeding means loving, and loving also reborn in the Sacrament of Baptism but are not yet in full com- means being ready to suffer. Loving means giving the sheep munion with us; and you, my brothers and sisters of the Jewish what is truly good, the nourishment of God’s truth, of God’s people, to whom we are joined by a great shared spiritual her- word, the nourishment of His presence, which He gives us in itage, one rooted in God’s irrevocable promises. Finally, like a the blessed Sacrament. My dear friends - at this moment I can wave gathering force, my thoughts go out to all men and only say: pray for me, that I may learn to love the Lord more women of today, to believers and non-believers alike. and more. Pray for me, that I may learn to love His flock more “Dear friends! At this moment there is no need for me to and more - in other words, you, the holy Church, each one of present a program of governance. I was able to give an indication you and all of you together. Pray for me, that I may not flee of what I see as my task in my Message of Wednesday, April 20, for fear of the wolves. Let us pray for one another, that the and there will be other opportunities to do so. My real program Lord will carry us and that we will learn to carry one another. of governance is not to do my own will, not to pursue my own “The second symbol used in today’s liturgy to express the ideas, but to listen, together with the whole Church, to the word inauguration of the Petrine ministry is the presentation of the and the will of the Lord, to be guided by Him, so that He Himself fisherman’s ring. Peter’s call to be a shepherd, which we heard in will lead the Church at this hour of our history. Instead of putting the Gospel, comes after the account of a miraculous catch of fish: forward a program, I should simply like to comment on the two after a night in which the disciples had let down their nets withliturgical symbols which represent the inauguration of the out success, they see the Risen Lord on the shore. He tells them Petrine Ministry; both these symbols, moreover, reflect clearly to let down their nets once more, and the nets become so full that what we heard proclaimed in today’s readings. they can hardly pull them in; 153 large fish: ‘and although there “The first symbol is the pallium, woven in pure wool, were so many, the net was not torn’ (Jn 21:11). This account, which will be placed on my shoulders. This ancient sign, coming at the end of Jesus’ earthly journey with His disciples, which the bishops of Rome have worn since the fourth cen- corresponds to an account found at the beginning: there too, the tury, may be considered an image of the yoke of Christ, which disciples had caught nothing the entire night; there too, Jesus had the bishop of this city, the Servant of the Servants of God, invited Simon once more to put out into the deep. And Simon, takes upon his shoulders. God’s yoke is God’s will, which we who was not yet called Peter, gave the wonderful reply: ‘Master, accept. And this will does not weigh down on us, oppressing at your word I will let down the nets.’ And then came the con-

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ferral of his mission: ‘Do not be afraid. Henceforth you will be catching men’ (Lk 5:1-11). Today too the Church and the successors of the Apostles are told to put out into the deep sea of history and to let down the nets, so as to win men and women over to the Gospel - to God, to Christ, to true life. The Fathers made a very significant commentary on this singular task. This is what they say: for a fish, created for water, it is fatal to be taken out of the sea, to be removed from its vital element to serve as human food. But in the mission of a fisher of men, the reverse is true.

We are living in alienation, in the salt waters of suffering and death; in a sea of darkness without light. The net of the Gospel pulls us out of the waters of death and brings us into the splendor of God’s light, into true life. It is really true: as we follow Christ in this mission to be fishers of men, we must bring men and women out of the sea that is salted with so many forms of alienation and onto the land of life, into the light of God. “It is really so: the purpose of our lives is to reveal God to men. And only where God is seen does life truly begin. Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution.

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary. There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him. The task of the shepherd, the task of the fisher of men, can often seem wearisome. But it is beautiful and wonderful, because it is truly a service to joy, to God’s joy which longs to break into the world.

“Here I want to add something: both the image of the shepherd and that of the fisherman issue an explicit call to unity. ‘I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must lead them too, and they will heed my voice. So there shall be one flock, one shepherd’ (Jn 10:16); these are the words of Jesus at the end of His discourse on the Good Shepherd. And the account of the 153 large fish ends with the joyful statement: ‘although there were so many, the net was not torn’ (Jn 21:11). Alas, beloved Lord, with sorrow we must now acknowledge that it has been torn! But no - we must not be sad! Let us rejoice because of Your promise, which does not disappoint, and let us do all we can to pursue the path towards the unity You have promised. Let us remember it in our prayer to the Lord, as we plead with Him: yes, Lord, remember Your promise. Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow Your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!

“At this point, my mind goes back to October 22, 1978, when Pope John Paul II began his ministry here in Saint Peter’s Square.

His words on that occasion constantly echo in my ears: ‘Do not be afraid! Open wide the doors for Christ!’ The Pope was addressing the mighty, the powerful of this world, who feared that Christ might take away something of their power if they were to let Him in, if they were to allow the faith to be free. Yes, He would certainly have taken something away from them: the dominion of corruption, the manipulation of law and the freedom to do as they pleased. But He would not have taken away anything that pertains to human freedom or dignity, or to the building of a just society. The Pope was also speaking to everyone, especially the young. Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way?

If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open ourselves totally to Him, are we not afraid that He might take something away from us? Are we not perhaps afraid to give up something significant, something unique, something that makes life so beautiful? Do we not then risk ending up diminished and deprived of our freedom? And once again the Pope said: No! If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed. Only in this friendship do we experience beauty and liberation. And so, today, with great strength and great conviction, on the basis of long personal experience of life, I say to you, dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you everything. When we give ourselves to Him, we receive a hundred-fold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ - and you will find true life. Amen.”

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Food & Fun April 30: Parade and Mass celebrating Santo Cristo Society beginning at 9 a.m. from group’s SSF headquarters with special liturgy at All Souls Church. Lunch served after Mass. Call (650) 345-4324.

April 30: All Hallows #182, Young Ladies Institute, 24th Annual May Crowning and Living Rosary, at 7:30 p.m. in All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Palou, SF. Call Sue Elvander at (415) 467-8872.

April 30: At. Anne Parish Annual Flea Market, in parish school yard, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Donate items or reserve a space by calling, Yolando Lawrence, (650) 355-7242.

April 30: Cabana Club, annual auction and dinner dance benefiting St. Brendan Elementary School Takes place in Sister Diane Erbacher Parish Center, named for Dominican Sister Diane Erbacher principal for the last 40 years and retiring in June. Begins at 6 p.m. with complimentary Margaritas and silent auction with dinner at 8 p.m. and live auction at 9 p.m. Dance from 10 – midnight. Tickets are $85 per person. For reservations and more information, call Theresa at (415) 564-8372.

April 30: Good Shepherd Guild’s Spring Luncheon/Fashion Show at Olympic Club, Lakeside, benefiting the Good Shepherd’s Sisters’ Gracenter with social hour at 11:30 a.m. and lunch at 12:30 p.m. Tickets are $60 per person. Call Beverly Desmond at (415) 587-5374.

May 8: Mothers’ Day Champagne Brunch benefiting retired Holy Family Sisters at motherhouse in Fremont.

Seating at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Call (510) 624-4512.

May 7: 10th Annual Whale of a Sale benefiting St. Sebastian Parish in Greenbrae. Now taking reservations for vendors at $35 per space earlybird of $40 after April 1st. Sell your crafts or household items and keep all proceeds. Call Kathie Meyer at (415) 461-4133 or whaleofasale@comcast .net.

Shows/Entertainment April 29, 30, May 1: The St. Cecilia School Drama Club presents a musical revue featuring songs from Peter Pan, Annie, West Side Story, Annie Get Your Gun and Oliver at the Mercy High School Theater.

Curtain at 8 p.m. except May 1 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. For ticket information, call.(415) 725-0350.

Respect Life/ 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.

April 30: Spring Northern California Pax Christi Conference, 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. with Jesuit Father John Dear, at Newman Hall at UC Berkeley. Pax Christi of Northern California Region invites you to a day of prayer and reflection with Jesuit Father John Dear. The theme of the conference is “Here I Am, Lord – Called to be Prophets of Peace”. Soup lunch will be provided. $20 individual or $30 a couple (No one will be turned away for lack of funds.) For more information contact Faye Butler (510) 791-8186.

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April 29, 30, May 1: It’s a Wonderful World, 8th annual St. Gregory Parish Festival, 28th and Hacienda St. in San Mateo, Friday, 6-10p.m.; Saturday, 1-10 p.m. Sunday, 1-8p.m. Complete with rides, attractions, games, food, entertainment, and more.

“A great weekend for kids and adults alike,” said parishioner Marcie Zacharias.

Taking the theme to heart or at least in hand are, from left, Sharon Cardani, Msgr.

Robert McElroy, pastor, and Paula Ceccotti. Also seeing to it that a good time is had by all are committee members, Mark Callagy, Roberta and James Cavazos, and Mark Weinreich. For more info call (650) 573-0111 or http://www.stgregs-sammateo.org/ Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life 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.

Reunions May 14: All-school reunion for graduates and former students of St. Raphael Elementary School in San Rafael beginning with 5 p.m. Mass and continuing with tours and refreshments. “This celebration promises to be a gala event,” said development director, Susan Neff. “If you know alumni please pass the word along.” Call (415) 454-4455 to volunteer to help or get more information.

May 14: Class of ’51 Our Lady of Perpetual Help elementary, Daly City. Looking for classmates! Call Janet Cirimele at (650) 579-7458.

June 11: Class of ’85, Star of the Sea Academy in Star of the Sea elementary school auditorium, 360 9th Ave., SF at 7 p.m. Contact Debra Stashuk at ssa_classof85@yahoo.com.

June 25: The St. Agnes School All-Class Reunion will be held at 5:30pm in St. Agnes Gym, 1563 Page Street, SF. The evening includes Hors d’ Oeuvres and Desserts. Tickets $35 per person before May 15, $40 before June 15, $45 before June 24 and

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$50 at the door, pending availability. No refunds. For more information, please contact Sam Coffey at (415) 398-6390 or coffey@eesclaw.com Sept. 17: St. Paul’s Grammar School reunion for class of 1960, 6 p.m. at Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco. Call Liz Hinds Hannan at (650) 3421759.

Oct. 29: Class of ’55, Immaculate Conception Academy at Embassy Suites in Burlingame. Contact Anne Nolan Dowd at (650) 359-2601 or andown@aol.com.

Young Adults Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596,jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org.

Check out our Web site for a list of events around the Bay Area and download our Newsletter at www.sfyam.org. We publish a quarterly newsletter to connect college students and young adults to the Catholic Church.

August 11-22: Please pray for our young adults preparing for the pilgrimage to World Youth Day to Cologne, Germany 2005. Financial support is appreciated. For more information, www.sfyam.org.

Sept 24: Fall Fest 2005, 9th Annual Young Adult Conference at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Volunteers needed.

Contact Mary, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org, 415-6145596. Registration available in June. www.sfyam.org.

Young adults recite the rosary in chapel of St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF each Wednesday at 7 p.m. Contact Tony at (415) 3871654.

2nd and 4th Mon.: St. Vincent de Paul Young Adult Group meets. “Just show up and be part of our community.” Meetings take place at SVDP, Steiner and Green, SF at 7:30 p.m.

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Thurs. at 7:30 p.m.: St. Dominic Adult Formation Series in the parish hall 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF. Explore the skills needed to understand the bible and help it inform daily life. Join at any time.

Contact Scott Moyer at scott@stdominics.org.

Consolation Ministry Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame. Call (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call (650) 3663802; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) 598-0658 or Mary Wagner at (650) 591-3850.

Marin County: St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732. Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco: St.Gabriel. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882. St. Finn Barr in English and Spanish. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Cecilia. Call Peggy Abdo at (415) 564-7882 ext. 3; Epiphany in Spanish. Call Kathryn Keenan at (415) 564-7882. St. Dominic. Call Margaret Passanisi at (415) 931-5241.

Ministry for parents who have lost a child is available from Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Young Widow/Widower group meets at St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Information about children’s and teen groups is available from Barbara Elordi at (415) 564-7882.

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, call (415) 4532342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, (415) 664-8590.

San Mateo County: St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Chris Booker at (650) 738-1398; St. Matthew, San Mateo. Jim Shea at (650) 344-7622.

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Where God Lives . . .

■ Continued from page 11 and Valley Streets. But even amidst these terribly painful decisions, the resurgent life of the parish could be seen in the opening, in 1994, of a new school at St. Paul’s, the Littlest Angels Pre-School.

By November 10, 1997, through individual gifts from parishioners and school graduates, friends and acquaintances, special fund-raising events, foundation grants, property sales, and the grace of God, more than $6 million had been raised and demolition began on St. Paul’s Intermediate School.

By January, 1999, the construction of the new St. Paul’s School was complete. In a magnificent parade-like procession led by the Crusaders Marching Band from Archbishop Riordan High School, the students and teachers of St. Paul’s, accompanied by their parents, friends and neighbors, marched 18 blocks in bright sunshine from St. James back to their new school.

With the new school complete, the parish turned to retrofitting its magnificent and historic church. The efforts of the Capital Campaign continued unabated, and were greatly assisted by a $1 million gift from the Archdiocese. This was augmented later by a loan from the Archdiocese of more than $1.5 million.

The retrofitting began in January 2000.

Throughout that year, the parish held its daily Masses in the Convent of the Missionaries of Charity and its Sunday services in the newly opened Parish Hall of St. Paul’s School.

On December 24, 2000, after holding the regular Sunday morning Mass in the Parish Hall, the church was re-opened for good that evening with a celebration of the Christmas Eve Vigil Mass. On February 4, 2001, St. Paul’s Church was re-dedicated

by Archbishop William Levada.

(PHOTO BY © NAJIB JOE HAKIM)

REBUILDING & RESTORATION: 1999 – 2001

Led by St. Paul’s High School cheerleaders, the students from all the St. Paul’s schools flood down the steps of the church celebrating the saving of the parish.

ST. PAUL’S PARISH TODAY St. Paul’s today is a vibrant faith community building its future. The parish hosts a dizzying array of ministries and communitybuilding events. The remarkable Katy O’ Shea is the current Chair of the Capital Campaign. In that role, among her myriad fund-raising activities, she has led an inspired committee that each year produces a magnificent Gala Dinner Dance and Silent Auction.

It has become the parish’s most significant, fun and popular annual fund-raising event.

The love, faith and courage so integral

to the community spirit of St. Paul’s from its very beginnings now acts as a magnet that attracts young families and new converts to the parish and the parish’s Rite of Christian Initiation (RCIA) program.

A wide array of thriving clubs and organizations actively continues to add to the legacy of this thriving community. The Men Of St. Paul, incredibly handsome in their signature brown jackets, are a fixture at virtually every parishwide event. The Women of St. Paul, revitalized by an enthusiastic new generation, are adding a fresh, and seriously good-looking dimension to parish life. Club Latino sponsors a variety of events and celebrations each year, highlighted by their annual Cinco de Mayo Dinner Dance.

The parish’s Confraternity of Christian Doctrine (CCD) Saturday School of Religion program under the direction of Dorothy Vigna, brings quality religious education to a large number of Catholic public school children from throughout our Noe Valley community. The school’s Athletic Board hosts fund-raisers and ensures that children in all the school’s sports programs have the equipment, coaching and up-to-date facilities they need.

Other thriving organizations include the Altar Society, the Italian Catholic Federation, the Legion Of Mary, the Parish Council, the on-going Renew Faith Sharing small groups, Children’s Liturgy of the Word and Sunday

Tiny Tots child care, Eucharistic Ministers, Lectors and Commentators, and every Friday, Bingo. Adding a musical dimensions to the church’s liturgical year are the St. Paul’s Adult and Children’s Choirs under the direction of Laura Flaviani, who succeeded longtime music director, Filemon Morales. Highlighting the excellence of the church’s music programs, in March 2005, over the Easter Break, the St. Paul’s Children’s Choir was one of a handful of children’s choirs selected from across the United States to perform at Disneyland.

This is the legacy St. Paul’s carries on and extends to its parishioners and neighbors every day. It is a legacy personified by the humble man who asked to lead this parish when it was at its darkest hour, who stood up for a community and spearheaded its rescue. This is the legacy of Father Mario Farana, the ninth pastor of St. Paul’s. And it is to ensure that this legacy will always be remembered that, in 2003, the Parish Faith Community of St. Paul’s named its new Parish Hall for him. Once upon a time, a priest named Michael Connolly, built a church and its school buildings and was saluted by all who knew him as a fine priest and leader. One hundred years after that pastor of St. Paul’s built a parish, we may justly feel that we again have been graced with another fine priest and leader in Father Mario Farana, the pastor who saved our parish.

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May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

Never known to fail.

You may publish.

M.L.

Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

B.L.

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

E.D.

SERVICE DIRECTORY

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

S.M.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

F.J.S.

St. Jude Novena

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

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May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

Never known to fail.

You may publish.

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COUNSELING Barbara Elordi, MFT Licensed Marriage, Family and Child Therapist.

Offers individual, couple + family and group counseling.

The Peninsula Men’s Group, now in it’s 7th year, is a support group which provides affordable counseling in a safe and nurturing setting. Interested candidates may call for a free brochure.

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The law also state that contractors performing work totaling $500 or more must be statelicensed. Advertisments appearing in this newspaper without a license number indicate that the contractor is not licensed.

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

M.L.

If I can be of service to you, or if you know of anyone who is interested in buying or selling a home, please do not hesitate to call me . . .

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CHURCHES – SCHOOLS – THEATRES COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS – SPORTS FACILITIES ●

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked.

Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

S.M.

John Holt Ca. Lic 391053 General Contractor Since 1980

SANTI PLUMBING & HEATING

St. Robert’s Parish San Bruno

Prayer to St. Jude

F.J.S.

Real Estate Purchase

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All Mfg. Warranty: Rebates and Special Dealer Finacing goes to Registered Owner/s

May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

Thank You St. Jude.

Never known to fail.

You may publish.

REAL ESTATE

Phone: 415.468.1877 Fax: 415.468.1875

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Painting & Remodeling

John Bianchi

(415) 682-6684 or (415) 254-3724

Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted.

F.J.S.

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PLUMBING

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days. M.Z.

DRE lic#01468807

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

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AUTO SALES

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Need Office Space in S.F. 500-600 Sq. Ft. Must have muni access.

Call 415-227-0388 Interfaith Commission for Immigrant Rights.

NOVENAS

Your prayer will be published in our newspaper

Name Adress Phone MC/VISA # Exp.

Office Space Needed

GIFT IDEAS

St. Dominic’s Parishioner

•Induviduals, Couples, Family •Addictions; Food, Chemical, Love •Enneagram Personality Work •Spiritual Direction• Sliding Scale

Healing Your Inner Child

415-337-9474 • 650-888-2873 www.innerchildhealing.com

Carpentry, Cabinetry, Painting,Refinishing Floors and Furniture, Door & Window Instal.,Cement Work.

Se habla Español & Tagalog.

Serving also the East Bay, Contra Costa,&Marin Counties

415-239-8491 not a licensed contractor

Handyman Painting, roof repair, fence (repair/ build) demolition, carpenter, gutter (clean/ repair), skylight repairs, landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, janitorial. All purpose.

Call (650) 757-1946 Cell (650) 517-5977 NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

April 29, 2005

PASTORAL ASSOCIATE

Catholic San Francisco

Classifieds For Advertising Information

Please Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: jpena@catholic-sf.org

Singers/Actors Needed Singers/actors needed for musical drama about St. Bernadette & Our Lady of Lourdes “smallest of all”.

Contact Patrick at PabbyBoy2000@yahoo.com

St. Albert the Great Church, a dynamic and stable Roman Catholic Parish in Reno, Nevada is looking to replace our retiring Pastoral Associate. Duties include, but are not limited to, working directly with the parish Priest(s), administrative and financial supervision of the Parish, Child Development Center, and School (grades K-8).

Position is open on July 1, 2005.

References Required. Salary is DOE. Please call (775) 747-0722 for an information packet.

POSITIONS AVAILABLE AT ARHS 1) DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT Archbishop Riordan High School has a position opening for DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. Minimum qualifications include: Graduate degree in Business/Marketing or related field. To be considered for Director position: strong leadership and management skills with at least 3-5 years of fundraising experience in a non-profit educational environment are a must! Excellent command of written and oral communication skills. Previous experience in advancement and foundation relationships, capital campaigns and endowment fundraising management required. ARHS offers a competitive salary with excellent benefits.

2) PLANT MANAGER Archbishop Riordan High School has a position available for a PLANT MANAGER. Qualifications to be considered include: basic carpentry, plumbing, painting and electrical repair skills and building maintenance. Knowledge of building codes and regulations. Excellent organization, management skills. Strong written and oral communication skills. Supervisory experience required. Offering a competitive salary with excellent benefits package.

Help Wanted

ADVERTISING SALES For The Largest Publisher of Catholic Church Bulletins

This is a Career Opportunity!

• Generous Commissions • Minimal Travel • Excellent Benefit Package • Stong Office Support • Work in Your Community

Call 1-800-675-5051, Fax resume: 707-258-1195

SUMMARY: The Director, Vincentian Support Services (VSS) is responsible for maintaining and enlivening the network of parish-based conferences of the St. Vincent de Paul Society in San Francisco. The VSS will be responsible for recruiting, training and supporting conference members and officers, and for promoting the network between conferences and the special works programs of the Society. The VSS must possess strong written and verbal communication skills. Knowledge of Spanish is helpful. The position will work to foster and increase the spiritual values of the Society in a Catholic context, especially as related to works of charity and justice.

There is needed flexibility for weekend and some evening commitment.

QUALIFICATIONS: ● Strong planning, organizational and administrative experience. ● Excellent public (oral and written) communication skills. ● Experience in volunteer coordination, recruitment and retention. ● Proficience in Microsoft Office Applications. ● Catholic faith based, spiritually centered community organizing experience desirable.

Minimum Bachelors Degree in Theology or Social Services or equivalent experience.

Compensation commensurate with experience; benefits provided.

Refer to: www.execsearches.com (search word: SVDP)

Call Andy Whalen at 415-621-7736 or send resume to ajw003@sbcglobal.net

Send resume to: Fr. Tom French, S.M. Archbishop Riordan High School 175 Phelan Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112

Personal care companion.

Help with daily activities; driving, grocery shopping, doctor appts. Required: CNA, Nurse’s Aid, Certificate, honest, reliable, excellent refs, bonded.

Call Ori 415-713-1366

THE ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR BOTH JOBS IS MAY 16, 2005!

IS AN

Organist

Special Needs Companion Services

Special Needs Nursing, Inc.

ORGANIST WEDDINGS • FUNERALS

We are looking for you.

RNs or LVNs We are looking for you.

Worship Services, Catholic Experience Marie DuMabeiller 415-441-3069, Page: 823-3664 VISA, MASTERCARD Accepted Please confirm your event before contracting music!

• Honest • Generous • Compassionate • Make a Difference • Respectful

Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package

Clothing Alterations

Work FULL or PART time while your children are in school.

Nurses are needed to provide specialized nursing care for children in the San Francisco Public School setting.

Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421

CLOTHING ALTERATION AND REPAIR.

Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

Hemming pants, skirts and jackets.

CALL MARIA (415)643-5826

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DIRECTOR OF SUPPORT SERVICES

Please contact Fr. Tom French, S.M. at (415) 586-8200, Ext 231 for a complete job description of either position.

Caregiver

Catholic San Francisco

Generous benefit packages for generous nurses.

Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

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DEADLINE THURSDAYS - 3 PM

8 DAYS PRIOR TO PUBLICATION

TO PLACE AN AD: By phone, call (415) 614-5639 or (415) 614-5640 or fax (415) 614-5641 or

COMMERCIAL ADS: (Four line minimum) $15 for four lines, $2 per EXTRA line – applies to

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PAYMENT: All ads must be paid in advance. Money order, or imprinted checks. Credit Cards

PRIVATE PARTY ADS: (Four line minimum) $10 for four lines, $1.00 per EXTRA line – applies to

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Catholic San Francisco

April 29, 2005

The 11th Annual

Public Grand Rosary Rally Sunday, May 08, 2005 ~ 1:30 PM

St. Patrick Church ~ San Francisco, CA Let us offer our prayers and sacrifices for peace in the world, for vocations and that the Holy Spirit may inspire our youth to participate more actively in the life of the Church.

Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament with Evening Prayer and instruction on the Eucharist will take place after the procession.

EVERYONE is welcome!!

Sponsored by the Legion of Mary â&#x20AC;&#x201C; San Francisco Senatus

~ Rosary ~ ~ Procession of the Blessed Sacrament ~ ~ Benediction ~ Procession: from St. Patrick Church (756 Mission St. Btwn. 3rd & 4th Streets) west to 7th St., north to Market St.,east to 1st St., south to Mission St. and west back to St. Patrick. ~ Fellowship and light refreshments will follow in the Parish Hall ~ For further information, please contact the Legion of Mary San Francisco Senatus at (415) 665-5542