Arizona Church leaders call for legal, congressional responses to law WASHINGTON – Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., one of many religious leaders decrying Arizona’s new immigration law, said he will ask the general counsel of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to become involved in lawsuits expected to challenge its constitutionality. In a posting on the diocesan website April 26, Bishop Kicanas said he believes the law needs to be challenged for reasons beyond the constitutional questions that many opponents of the bill have raised. Among his objections to the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, signed April 23, are that it “does not address the critical need for border security to confront drug smuggling, weapons smuggling and human trafficking.” He also objected to the law on the grounds that it “sends a wrong message about how our state regards the importance of civil rights;” distracts local law enforcement from their primary role in protecting public safety and puts additional pressure on depleted law enforcement resources; discourages people from reporting crimes if they lack legal immigration status; makes criminals out of children who were brought to the United States by their parents; risks splitting families apart; and could cause further damage to an already strained state economy. In a phone interview with Catholic News Service, Bishop Kicanas said he hopes violence will not result from the tension in Arizona that led to the law’s passage by the legislature and has accompanied its signing by Gov. Jan Brewer.
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“I hope that whatever is done will be civil and not lead to violence,” he said. “Emotions can lead to irrational behavior.” He said religious leaders, in particular, must work with their communities to ensure that people realize violence is not the way to address the situation. Along with Bishops Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix and James S. Wall of Gallup, N.M., whose diocese includes parts of northern Arizona, Bishop Kicanas had called for a veto of the bill and for a more comprehensive approach at the federal level to solve immigration problems. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., who strongly opposed the bill, said “the governor made a huge mistake. By signing this bill, she’s nationalized this issue. This opens up a dangerous precedent for the rest of the country.” Grijalva called for an economic boycott of his state by those opposed to the law and urged the federal government not to cooperate when local police try to turn over immigrants they detain over their legal status. Thousands of protesters opposed to the law gathered at the state capitol in Phoenix leading up to the signing ceremony and in the days since. Nationwide, rallies in support of federal comprehensive immigration reform long planned for May 1 were expected to have new focus and determination, as supporters of comprehensive reform zeroed in on the Arizona law as a consequence of Congress’ delay in dealing with the dysfunctional immigration system. The Arizona Interfaith Network and the heads of several of the state’s major religious denominations issued a statement ARIZONA CHURCH, page 4
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A solemn high Mass in the extraordinary form is celebrated at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington April 24. It was the first time in 50 years that a Mass was held at the shrine in the traditional Latin rite according to the 1962 missal. Sponsored by the Paulus Institute, the Mass honored Pope Benedict XVI on the fifth anniversary of his election as pope.
A conversation with Guadalajara Bishop José Leopoldo González (PHOTO BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)
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Bishop José Leopoldo González talks with young people April 18 after presiding at Confirmation at St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo.
José Leopoldo González, is the auxiliary bishop of Guadalajara and the current secretary general of the Latin American Council of Bishops (CELAM). The 55-year-old prelate visited the Bay Area this past April 18 to preside over the confirmation of more than 80 youngsters at St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo. Catholic San Francisco talked to him about the Church in Latin America, immigration and the priest sex abuse scandal, among other topics. Bishop González lives in Bogotá, Colombia, where CELAM is headquartered. CELAM is the episcopal body that gathers bishops from Latin America and the Caribbean for reflection, communion and dialogue. What is your vision for the Church in Latin America?
Many are under the impression that Catholics are abandoning the Church, but this is not so. Since the fifth CELAM conference in May of 2007 there has been a great thrust for evangelization in Latin America and the Caribbean and we are witnessing a new Pentecost. If we fail to evangelize the baptized we will not have good disciples and it is possible that they can leave the Church. But if we evangelize them, we will have great witnesses. What is your reaction to the scandal of sexual misconduct by priests – specifically the case of Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ? In the first place we must know the truth and face it as it is. The person is dead and it is not our role but God’s to judge him. It is painful for us as Church BISHOP GONZÁLEZ, page 9
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Marijuana initiative . . . . . . . 3 News in brief. . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Clergy renewal . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Commentary & letters . 12-13
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Leadership of Catholic women’s organizations in the Archdiocese of San Francisco recently received a visit from Mary Adams, San Francisco Province Director of the National Council of Catholic Women. From left: Cathy Mibach, President, SF County Council of Catholic Women; Mary Ann Bertken, President, SF Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women, Mary Adams, Lois Agresti, Past Province Director, and Mary Ann Schwab, Past National President of the Council of Catholic Women.
Where You Live By Tom Burke Happy 50th Anniversary this June 7 for Joan and Bernard Schneider, “San Francisco natives still living in the City,” said several of our former teachers, principal, and parish priests as their son, Brendan our guests that weekend,” Nancy told me. “It promises to be a who is one of eight grand event or as Msgr. Collins used to proclaim, `the finest, proud Schneider the greatest, and the best’”!!! See Datebook…. Congrats progeny. Joan is a to St. Stephen Third Grade boys’ basketball team, who graduate of Our Lady recently dribbled themselves to a Flame tournament chamMel and Barbara Pulizzano of Perpetual Help pionship. Hats off to team members Nathaniel De Guzman, Elementary and Michael Malouf, Ryan Desmond, Alfonso Reodica, Shea Mercy High School, San Francisco, and followed gradu- McGrillen, Gabriel Wassmer, Oisin McCormack, Connor ation from St. Mary’s Hospital Nursing School with 50 Cassidy, John Paul Mungcal, Daniel Di Lena, Jean-Marc years’ service at the esteemed San Francisco medical center. Hechinger, Miles O’Neill, Stephen Austria, Ryan Kim, Bernie, a graduate of Epiphany Elementary, Archbishop and Jack Corriea, and Coaches David Di Lena, Sergio Riordan High School Mungcal, Francis Kim, and the University of San and Martin Wassner. Francisco, taught at Marin Thanks to Sandy Onken, Catholic High School from hard-workin women’s guild 1961 – 64. The couple’s PR person for fillin’ us children – Patrick, Brigid, in….. San Francisco’s Kathleen, Brendan, Kevin, St. Monica Elementary Deirdre, Moira, and School celebrated its 90th Meghan – attended schools anniversary in March. including St. Monica and The Class of 1970 reunited St. Cecilia elementary, for the first time at the and high schools including celebration, said classmate Archbishop Riordan, St. John Stiegler. John said the Ignatius College Prep, gang was especially happy Mercy, San Francisco, and to see their third grade the much-missed St. Rose teacher Suzanne Brown, Academy. Also cheering who continues to teach Croonin’ the St. Monica elementary alma mater are 1970 Joan and Bernie on are at the school, at the big grads Peter Balestreri, Rose Berryessa, Janice Seale, their 20 grandchildren, event. “We were her secBobby Maloney, Lora Cress, and Susie Schulze. Brendan said….Nancy ond class,” he said. Vince Sarlatte Murphy is putSweeters is principal…. ting out a call to classmates from the class of ’60 from San Still time to sign up for a workout in The Lord’s Gym, Francisco’s St. Cecilia’s Elementary School. Events are the first Annual Peninsula Catholic Men’s Conference at planned for Oct. 22 and 23 with a wine and cheese party St. Luke Parish in Foster City. The day includes talks about kicking things off in the parish Collins Center- named for being a Catholic man in the world today. Speakers include late and former pastor Msgr. Harold E. Collins. A reunion Jesse Romero and Terry Barber popular EWTN hosts. dinner and accompanying rites take place the next day at See Datebook…. Longtime Star of the Sea parishioner, the Irish Cultural Center. “We are happy to be including Mel Pulizzano will be honored May 5 with the Lasallian
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More than 400 guests attended “Homecoming,” St. Stephen Women’s Guild annual Dinner Dance and Auction. Event chairs, Margaret O’Driscoll, left, with husband Paul, and Celine O’Driscoll, with husband, Finbarr, pulled out all the stops to welcome school families, parishioners, alumni and friends to the new St. Stephen Parish Center. Proceeds benefit St. Stephen School.
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LA district attorney warns marijuana legalization initiative could cost state billions The points Cooley raised in his letter are among the issues the State Legislative Analyst’s Office is investigating as part of its fiscal and policy analysis, said Anthony Simbol, director of criminal justice for the non-partisan fiscal and policy advisor for the state legislature. “A lot of this is going to be the subject of Jay Leno jokes. There are so many absurd provisions,� said John Lovell, lobbyist for the California Police Chiefs Association and the California Narcotic Officers Association. “Under this initiative, I can test positive for marijuana, and still get behind the wheel of a bus. I can bring marijuana to the workplace. I can use marijuana, at least the non-smokable kind. If there is a smoking area, I can smoke my marijuana there.� “It does create a civil right for the consumption of marijuana prior to entering the workplace or at the workplace and would deny employers the ability to discipline that employee,� Cooley said. The California attorney general’s office said it is not its job to address fiscal impact so referred Catholic San Francisco to the legislative analyst’s office. Cooley, a Republican, has served as Los Angeles district attorney since 2000 and formed an exploratory committee to run for attorney general in January. A call to the campaign of Attorney General Edmund G. “Jerry� Brown, who has filed for the Democratic nomination for governor, was not returned by deadline. Dale Sky Clare, a spokesperson for the legalization proponent, the Control and Tax Cannabis campaign, said her understanding was that existing federal contracts would not be affected by the initiative. Her colleague Doug Linney wrote in a follow-up email that the Drug Free Workplace Act would take precedence over state law if an employer
By Valerie Schmalz State and local governments and businesses located in California will potentially lose billions of dollars in federal funds if a proposition to legalize marijuana for recreational use is approved by voters in November, the district attorney of Los Angeles charges in a letter sent earlier this month to the state attorney general. “The Federal Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 requires that all employers who receive government grants and contracts greater than $100,000 maintain a drug-free workplace,� but the language of the initiative protects the use of cannabis, even in the workplace, and bars an employer from disciplining an employee unless he or she demonstrates impairment, Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley wrote in an April 13 letter to the California attorney general. “The Act specifically prohibits a state marijuana tax and would deprive California of billions of dollars in federal funding because the Act requires employers to violate the federal DFWA (Drug-Free Workplace Act),� Cooley wrote. The head of Catholic Charities CYO in the Archdiocese of San Francisco said Cooley raises troubling issues, although Catholic Charities of California officials were not able to say immediately what impact the initiative could have on its work with the poor. “We have not had the opportunity to study the proposed legislation, however the points raised by the L.A. district attorney are troubling,� said Jeff Bialik, Executive Director of Catholic Charities CYO. “Clearly, it would not benefit the people we serve to put at risk the Federal funding that so many rely upon to meet their basic needs.�
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opted not to employ cannabis users. “Any employer who deems being under the influence of cannabis as ‘actually impairing job performance’ can ban it, “ Linney said. “And really, even the supporters of the measure will not argue that being high does not affect job performance in nearly any job.� The federal government classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance, with “a high potential for abuse,� and in 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal law governs in the case of state drug laws. The federal government does not accept smoking of marijuana, even for medical reasons, as a valid use under any circumstances, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration website’s “The DEA Position on Marijuana.� The California Catholic Conference has not taken a position on the initiative which qualified for the November 2 ballot on March 24. The Catholic Church teaches all drug use, except for medical reasons, is a sin. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: (2291) “The use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense. Clandestine production of and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law.� While some proponents have claimed the proposition would mean regulation for marijuana similar to the California Department
of Alcoholic Beverage Control and establish a new billion dollar source of revenue for a state $20 billion in the red, the language states that regulation is up to local jurisdictions. Legalization campaign spokesperson Dale Sky Clare said the initiative could not create a state framework like that of the ABC Department. “We cannot require the state to be in violation of federal law,� Clare told Catholic San Francisco. “California can control, tax and regulate cannabis but we cannot require California to do that because it would be in conflict with federal law.� Clare said local jurisdictions can choose to tax cannabis directly and she said that the city of Oakland, the headquarters of Oaksterdam University where she is executive chancellor, did that last year. Oaksterdam is a “cannabis university� and its founder Richard Lee and the organization itself were the main funders of the $1 million plus campaign to place the marijuana legalization proposition on the ballot. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and Men’s Wearhouse founder CEO George Zimmer are also major backers. The initiative language relegates to the 478 towns and cities and 58 counties all tax and regulation authority, similar to the case under the existing 1996 medical marijuana law. That law allows those with a medical card or a doctor’s letter to purchase cannabis and dispensaries are regulated by local zoning laws. In practice, anyone can get a doctor’s LEGALIZATION INITIATIVE, page 9
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Bishops ramp up efforts to support new arms pact WASHINGTON – Senate ratification of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty is a moral imperative and a necessary step toward the eventual goal of total nuclear disarmament, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien of Baltimore said. Speaking during an April 26 panel discussion on the ethics of President Barack Obama’s nuclear weapons policy hosted by The Catholic University of America, Archbishop O’Brien urged senators to cast aside partisan differences and approve the START agreement, which calls for what he described as “modest reductions” in American and Russian nuclear arsenals. Signed April 8 in Prague, Czech Republic, by Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, the START “follow-on” treaty calls for both countries to reduce their strategic arsenals – weapons deployed on long-range missiles, bombers and submarines – to 1,550 each. Under the previous START pact, which expired in December, both countries reduced their strategic arsenals to 2,200 weapons each. The Russian Duma also must approve the treaty, and from that point, both countries will have seven years to reach the agreement’s targets. The archbishop’s call is the most recent public step by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Church leaders to build support for the new round of nuclear disarmament among Catholics in church pews as well as across the wide gap separating Senate Democrats and Republicans.
Arizona Church . . . ■ Continued from cover saying that “by codifying racial discrimination this law makes Arizona the laughingstock of the nation and a pariah on the international stage.” In the statement, United Methodist Bishop Minerva Carcano of the Southwest Desert Conference said that through their social services, schools, congregations and workplaces, religious leaders “witness the human consequences of an inadequate, outdated system.” Episcopal Bishop Kirk Smith said the law “offends the dignity of all Arizonans.” “The tendency to scapegoat a vulnerable population for Arizona’s economic stagnation and federal inaction on immigration issues is an unworthy and counterproductive response to the problems we face,” Bishop Smith said.
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Media content worries parents WASHINGTON – Parents are concerned about the content of the media to which their children are exposed and are eager to exert more control over that exposure. Those are two principal findings in a national survey commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Parents are right to express concern about their children’s exposure to media but have not historically displayed a willingness to follow through, according to Emory Woodard, an associate professor of communication at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. In the USCCB survey, released April 15, more than 80 percent of those who responded said they wanted to be able to control access to media content depicting sex, violence, illegal drug use, alcohol abuse and profane language. The survey, “Parents’ Hopes & Concerns About the Impact of Media on Their Children,” found that three-fourths of respondents say makers of media products should do more to help protect children from inappropriate media content, while 58 percent say government also should do more. Parents surveyed were asked about TV programs, TV ads, Internet sites in general, social networking sites, video games and cell phones. Seventy-two percent of respondents cited TV programs as something they were either “concerned” or “very concerned” about, followed by Internet sites (67 percent), TV ads (62 percent), social networking sites (59 percent), video games (57 percent), music (54 percent) and cell phones (43 percent).
clashed with the law school’s policy that student groups that seek university funding and access to facilities be open to “all comers,” meaning any student may participate, regardless of status or beliefs. The District Court ruled that the school’s policy does not violate the Constitution, because it is viewpoint neutral and does not require any club to admit students who do not meet its standards. The court said the policy merely puts limits on a club’s access to campus benefits if it does not accept anyone who wants to participate. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court with a two-sentence opinion, saying the school’s conditions for participation are “viewpoint neutral and reasonable” because it “imposes an open membership rule on all student groups – all groups must accept all comers as voting members even if those individuals disagree with the mission of the group.”
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WASHINGTON – A Christian student group’s effort to obtain on-campus status at a California state law school in San Francisco raises questions for the Supreme Court over whether it is constitutional to require clubs to accept members who disagree with their basic principles. In Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, a group of students sued the University of California Hastings law school after the club was denied status as a registered student organization. Club bylaws require its officers to adhere to faith-based tenets. That requirement
WASHINGTON – The Vatican’s U.S. lawyer said a federal lawsuit accusing Pope Benedict XVI of covering up sexual abuse by a priest at a Milwaukee Catholic school has no merit. “While legitimate lawsuits have been filed by abuse victims, this is not one of them,” Vatican attorney Jeffrey Lena, who is based in Berkeley, said in an April 23 statement. “Instead, the lawsuit represents an attempt to use tragic events as a platform for a broader attack.” The lawsuit was filed April 22 in the U.S. District Court in Milwaukee by an unnamed Illinois man who claims he was molested by Father Lawrence Murphy while he was a student at St. John’s School for the Deaf. The plaintiff is represented by Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson, who has filed thousands of abuse lawsuits against priests and representatives of the Catholic Church. Father Murphy worked at the school for the deaf from 1950 to 1974. The April 22 lawsuit claims the Vatican “has known about the widespread problem of childhood sexual abuse committed by its clergy for centuries, but has covered up that abuse and thereby perpetuated the abuse.” NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5
Bishop Kicanas said he expects the law’s implementation – in July, 90 days after signing – will be delayed by legal challenges. The law would make it a crime to be in the United States illegally. Federal law treats that as a civil violation. The law also would require police to make a “reasonable attempt” to determine legal status during “any lawful contact” and require immigrants to carry proof of their legal status, also not a requirement of federal law. It also makes activities such as soliciting work from public roads illegal and would allow anyone who does not believe a police officer or agency is sufficiently enforcing the law to file a lawsuit. Jesuit Father Sean Carroll, executive director of the Kino Border Initiative in southern Arizona and Northern Mexico told the Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix, that the law “violates the dignity of the human person” and ultimately “undermines the safety of our community.”
Father Carroll said public safety depends upon trust between the community and the police and that the law will make that difficult. “Crimes are committed and people feel like they’re going to have to report their legal status,” he said. The Kino Initiative aids immigrants after they’re deported from Arizona. The bigger issues will still happen on the border, he said, where drugs and human smuggling are rampant. In signing the bill, Brewer emphasized that “racial profiling is illegal,” and that the law stipulates police need not ask about residency status if it would impede a case. Supporters of the legislation, who also gathered outside the Capitol hours before the signing, said, like Brewer, that the law is necessary because the federal government hasn’t acted to control border problems. Recent polls in Arizona show that 70 percent of the state population supports the new legislation.
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Sacramento Diocese to close newspaper, start magazine SACRAMENTO – Officials of the Diocese of Sacramento have announced that because of rising costs, they will stop publishing The Catholic Herald newspaper with the June 19 issue. The 102-year-old diocesan newspaper will be replaced by a new bimonthly Catholic Herald magazine, which will debut with a September-October issue. The new magazine will focus on individual personal stories of the people of the diocese, diocesan news, be available electronically, said Bishop Jaime Soto, publisher of the Herald, in an April 6 letter to pastors and other diocesan leaders. The diocese will also expand its online presence, and its web site at www.diocese-sacramento.org will be the source for current news and information. The Herald is currently mailed to 53,000 households in the 20-county diocese. In June, the diocese also will withdraw from El Heraldo Catolico, the Spanish-language newspaper founded in 1979 and currently published by the dioceses of Sacramento and Oakland and the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Vatican supports adult stem-cell project; no financial contribution VATICAN CITY – The Vatican is strongly supporting a new international project for adult stem-cell research but is not directly involved and has made no financial contribution to the initiative, a Vatican spokesman said. The project, led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, established a consortium of researchers from several Italian health institutes, including the Vatican-owned Bambino Gesu Hospital in Rome. The Church opposes embryonic stem-cell research because it involves the destruction of embryos. It supports adult stem-cell research, which uses undifferentiated cells obtained from adult organs and tissues. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said news reports of a Vatican contribution of 2 million euros ($2.7 million) to the project were inaccurate. In an e-mail to Catholic News Service April 25, Father
Lombardi said no funding commitment had been given by any Vatican institution. “This aspect must be further studied,” he said. “It is true, however, that institutions such as the Bambino Gesu Hospital are connected with the Holy See, and therefore its concrete participation in the research can be seen as a ‘Vatican’ contribution, but the precise extent of this participation has not yet been defined,” he said. The initiative was announced at a meeting in Rome
Church on freedom of expression VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church respects everyone’s right to expression but it, too, has a right to make its message known to society, Pope Benedict XVI said. The Church respects people’s freedom to have opinions that are different from the Church’s, but the Church “would like that its right to expression also be respected,” he said in a speech April 24 welcoming Charles Ghislain, Belgium’s new ambassador to the Vatican. The Church carries a message that gives meaning to and can guide people’s personal, social and family lives, he said. As with all individuals and institutions, the Church has the right to express itself publicly on issues of social interest, he said. “The Church, having the common good as its aim, asks nothing more than to have the freedom to be able to propose this message, without imposing it on anyone, in respect for the freedom of conscience,” said the pope. The pope also talked about the “fragility of human existence” and the need to protect life by having everyone work together in a way that “does not weaken the legitimate diversity of opinions.”
Vatican plans to strengthen ‘new evangelization’ VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI is planning to create a Roman Curia department charged with overseeing the “re-evangelization” of traditionally Christian countries, an Italian newspaper reported. The Pontifical Council for the New Evangelization will be announced in an apostolic letter being prepared by the pope and will be headed by Italian Archbishop Rino Fisichella, Il Giornale said April 25. The Vatican had no immediate comment on the report. The step would represent the first major Roman Curia innovation under Pope Benedict, who has frequently spoken about the need to renew the roots of the faith in European and other Western societies. It was Pope John Paul II who first used the term “new evangelization,”
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and Il Giornale said a proposal to create a Vatican department to promote this type of activity was made in the 1980s by Father Luigi Giussani, the founder of the Italian lay movement Communion and Liberation. More recently, the newspaper said, Cardinal Angelo Scola of Venice re-proposed the idea to Pope Benedict, and the German pontiff decided to move ahead with the project. Archbishop Fisichella has headed the Pontifical Academy for Life since 2008. He came under fire recently from a small number of academy members, who said in a statement that he should be replaced because he “does not understand what absolute respect for innocent human lives entails.”
Pope encourages vocations, calls for protection of flock VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI called for prayer and encouragement to nourish new vocations within the Church, and reminded priests that it is their job to vigorously defend their flocks from evil. Pope Benedict marked the World Day of Prayer for Vocations by telling the faithful in St. Peter’s Square April 25 that vocations are born primarily through prayer, and that they can be nourished by the prayers of parents and ordained clergy. Before reciting the “Regina Coeli,” Pope Benedict said that “the most important form of witness in inspiring vocations is prayer,” and he invited parents “to pray so that the hearts of your children open to listen to the Good Shepherd. The pope emphasized the role of the priest in protecting the people they are chosen to lead and steering them to God. Quoting the Gospel of St. John, the pope said, “Only the Good Shepherd, with immense tenderness, guards his flock and defends it from evil, and only in him can the faithful put their absolute faith.” Pope Benedict reminded priests and bishops of their responsibility to “adhere totally to their vocation and mission through a severe self-discipline” of abstinence and meditation. They should be ready to listen and forgive the faithful in their care, and should also cultivate priestly fraternity, he said. – Catholic News Service.
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Clergy renewal has led the Church out of crisis in the past and will do so again: Manila’s Cardinal Rosales The Church has emerged from crisis at least six times in its history, and each time a reformed clergy has led the way, Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, archbishop of Manila, the Philippines, said in an April 15 interview with Catholic San Francisco. In the priestly abuse crisis, the Church is once more experiencing the suffering of the Paschal Mystery experience, the cardinal said, elaborating on a topic he mentioned in his reflection at a Holy Hour devotion for Filipino priests at St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco. As Jesus was resurrected after his suffering and death, the Church will experience new life in the aftermath of its worst crisis since the Reformation, Cardinal Rosales said. The marks of this will be a clergy that renews its intimacy with Jesus and expresses this unity in holiness, evangelization and effective dialogue with the modern world, he noted in his reflection. “The Church is divine in origin, therefore the gates of hell will not prevail against it,” the 77-year-old prelate said. “But it doesn’t mean there’s a guarantee that the Church will not have to pass a lot of trial. It doesn’t mean to say the Church will not fail in a sense. It doesn’t say the Church will not be broken into several pieces and then mended again. It doesn’t mean the Church is spared what we call the Paschal Mystery experience, because the Paschal Mystery experience is the brokenness which is mended again.” Resurrection is the most important part of the experience, Cardinal Rosales said.
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include former San Francisco Archbishop John Quinn, Cardinal William J. Levada, Marygrace and Richard Dunn, Christian Brother Christopher Brady, and the priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Patrons’ Awards are named for the patrons that guard and protect the Archdiocese of San Francisco: St. Joseph, patron of the universal Church; St. Francis of Assisi, principal patron of San Francisco and the Archdiocese of San Francisco; and St. Patrick, co-patron of the Archdiocese. The awards are presented as framed plaques and certificates to those persons who embody the characteristics of the saint. The Saint Joseph’s Patron’s Award is given to someone who helps to build and develop the Church in San Francisco as St Joseph did. The 2010 Saint Joseph’s Patron’s Award will be presented to Mary Welch for her creation and leadership of Marin/Scapes, promoting the work of local artists and raising funds to provide vital services to those with mental illness in the true spirit of Joseph the Patron of our Universal Church. Welch began collecting landscapes of Marin “so that when my 10 children grew up and moved away, they wouldn’t forget where they were raised.” In 1988 she founded Marin/Scapes with Sandy Yoffie, an artwork fundraising event featuring landscape art of Marin County to benefit Buckelew Programs which supports those with mental illness. Over the course of 20 years, Mary has expanded the art show into an internationally known event attended by thousands of people. Katie Wolf will receive the 2010 Saint Francis of Assisi Patron Award in recognition of her outstanding services to the community performed in the true spirit of San Francisco’s patron, through her celebration of faith and beauty in the liturgical arts and the education of young artists. Wolf holds a graduate degree in Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. She was a resident artist in San Francisco public schools for five years before working with St Ignatius College Preparatory where she designed and implemented the visual arts curriculum. At SI Katie has served as chair and member of numerous faculty committees, and she is active in many
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“I sympathize with the world you’re in here, the Western world,” Cardinal Rosales said. “It’ll take some time to get the young people back. Let’s not blame the Church altogether. It’s not just the Church, it’s the culture prevailing in this part of the world.” In his reflection, Cardinal Rosales urged the priests to be “public persons for Christ” whose example is so
■ Continued from page 6 Asked about vocations, Cardinal Rosales said attracting men to the priesthood is a difficult problem for the Church in the West. As he put it, a young man who may feel a calling in the morning may find it killed by sundown.
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committed against those who cross the border to realize the American dream. This is a result of unemployment because government has ignored the needs of its citizens â&#x2013; Continued from cover and the structures are falling short. Migration is forced and we must ask for forgiveness but as the Holy Father and we expect the U.S. government will approve an immiputs it, this will serve to renew the Church, to purify her gration reform that was the great promise of (President) and to have a rebirth. We have a zero tolerance policy and Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign. Every person has the right to migrate and thus it is those who commit the abuse will go to prison. the obligation of the government to The Church is sinful because her accept anyone who immigrates into its members are sinners but it is holy country. because Christ is her head and He CELAM has an organization dealing is holy. For the past 21 centuries the with human mobility that meets freChurch has survived attacks, scandals quently with bishops of all 22 countries and human misery and it is during that make up the conference, and in moments like these that great saints Mexico bishops from border states also spring forth like St. Catherine or St. meet to discuss the issue. Francis of Assisi. I believe the message The Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social doctrine is the in moments of scandal like these is that instrument of dialogue used to approach we need to take whatever is positive government agencies; we offer workand do what the Lord asks us to do, shops and make suggestions but they to be pure, to renew and to profound are autonomous and they are free to take spirituality. them or leave them. We follow the proposed guidelines of What do you think of the criticism the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Bishop JosĂŠ Leopoldo of Pope Benedict XVI in regards to Care of Migrants and Itinerant People how he handled the crisis? GonzĂĄlez in Rome and we apply those that are We can see that they are trying to strike the pope because it will be easier to strike the pertinent to Latin America. Some parishes, especially near the Mexican border, bishops, and that cascades into weakening the Church. This is a worldwide campaign to demean the Church. The have created homes for migrants and service centers for attacks on the pontiff are painful to me as a Christian, those who decide to travel north. as a Catholic and as a bishop because he is the Vicar of How does the Church confront the wave of violence Christ on earth and we are in communion with him, but they will criticize this pope or any other pope. How great in Mexico? The Conference of Mexican Bishops published in is the goodness of the missionary who spends 40 years in the missions or the nun who dedicates her life in a February a book addressing the issue of peace and human hospital? Do they make the news? People are beholding dignity as the Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to violence, insecurity the noisy tree that falls in the forest but canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the and unemployment and the migration of those fleeing all other trees left still standing. Goodness is not noisy and of this. The reality is that the social fabric is lost and each one the noise isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t any good. applies the law as it pleases, and we lack values. When How does Latin America perceive the issue of immi- we have a fractured lawless society we end up having a society lacking in values and in chaos. gration and what role does the Church play? With this document we present the reality so that we Hispanics are greatly contributing to the Church in the U.S. and bishops are aware of that. As a Mexican I can shine the light of the Gospels and the Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social know the problems in my country, the atrocities and abuse doctrine on it. When we evangelize, we provide values and
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the person experiences conversion, lives differently and this will influence society. If we have good Catholics we will have good citizens. The Federal District (Mexico City) approved abortion until up to 12 weeks of gestation. What does the Mexican Church think of this? The Church always promotes the culture of life and it should be respected from conception through natural death, and therefore we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t accept abortion or euthanasia. In Mexico we talked against abortion and we succeeded in including in the constitutions of 18 states the respect for life. This generated criticism against local legislators and the Church. What is your opinion on the approval of marriage between homosexuals in Mexico City? It was first approved in the capital with the intention to approve it throughout the states. The people were not consulted, there was no plebiscite and the majority of citizens were against it. It was a rather capricious decision of the authorities that implemented it and a result of international pressure that offered millions of dollars in aid. But the Church is always faithful to the doctrine that affirms that marriage is founded on the relationship between a man and a woman. We respect other unions but they cannot be called a family, they cannot be called a marriage. The institution of marriage is non-negotiable. What is your final comment for our readers? We should give thanks to God and to all the many Catholics committed to many fields. The great challenge is to form lay people. When we have a well-informed laity it is like leaven all over the world. This is not a time to be scared, the ship is not going to capsize. We need to remain positive and present the experience of all that is good in the Church. Who will give us hope? Catholics, and who among Catholics? The youth. People will not get near Christ through sermons but by attraction, by contagion of those who follow the Lord.
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A parish first Communion class, 500-strong Story by Rick DelVecchio Photos by Jose Luis Aguirre Saturday morning first Communion instruction at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto is too big by far to fit into one room. It takes up the sanctuary, the parish hall, a room off the entrance, the choir loft and a picnic area outdoors. The class, where youngsters complete their two-year catechism preparation to receive first Eucharist either this year or next, is filled to capacity with 500 students but would be larger if the parish had room. “There’s more out there, people keep coming all through the year,” pastor Father Larry Goode said. “‘When do we register for catechism?’ We’re halfway through the program and they’re still asking the question. People still have it ingrained in them that children should make their first Communion.” St. Francis of Assisi is a growing parish with a primarily Latino congregation – the 9:30 a.m. Sunday Mass is standing-room only, and the 1:30 Mass isn’t far behind. These are the families who make up the backbone of the Silicon Valley service economy. The congregation consists largely of Mexican immigrants who are highly focused on work, and first Eucharist is a milestone for families nurturing their faith in their adopted country. “One of my sermons is, jobs can’t take the place of religion,” Father Goode said. “Just think that the center of life was religion down there and all of a sudden it’s work. There’s no comparison. You need religion in order to navigate all the stuff that’s out there.” Dominating the scene on Saturday, April 24, was Sister Ghisella Ruiz as she administered a catechism lesson on male parental responsibility to parents and godparents filling the front pews. Sister Ruiz is a member of the Misioneras de la Madre de Dios (Missionaries of the Mother of God), an order of women religious whose charism is Bible teaching with an emphasis on Mary. Three members of the order, which is based in Merida in Mexico’s Yucatan, have been working in the St. Francis of Assisi community to offer Bible instruction, a ministry more typically associated with Protestant churches. In a room off the front entrance, catechism teacher Nicolasa
Chacon showed third graders the proper way to place their hands when receiving the host. She also initiated them into the mysteries of the sacred blood. “It’s not actually blood,” student Corinna Martinez volunteered. “Some kids say that it looks like blood, but it isn’t. My mom had it and she said it tastes like grape juice.” In the choir loft, David Richter, a Stanford mechanical engineering student who is one of several Stanford students teaching catechism at the parish, worked with seventh graders to prepare them for their first time confessing to a priest. Some of them had the misconception that they would be expected to amplify their sins in order to confess properly. “They’re definitely not looking forward to it,” Richter said. “The point is to repair your relationship with God, not to get in trouble for something you’ve done.” Stanford students have been teaching catechism for first Communion candidates at the parish for your years. They were organized by Gaizka Ormazabal, a friend of Father Goode’s, an Opus Dei member and now a doctoral student in business. Father Goode believes these devout young scholars have what it takes to turn around youngsters whose education in public schools “is not leaning favorably toward religion.” “That’s kind of our pastoral plan – to take the kids who are sort of a challenge and give them to the Stanford students,” he said. The parish will hold first Communion Masses on May 22 at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., May 30 at 11:30 and June 5 at 11 and 2. The parish religious education director is Cruz Hyland.
Nicolasa Chacon teaches third grade children the mechanics of receiving the body and blood of Christ, including proper way to place their hands when receiving the host. Of the sacred cup, Corinna Martinez volunteered: “It’s not actually blood.”
Stanford mechanical engineering student David Richter prepares seventh graders for their first confessions. Should we report highly dramatic sins? the adolescents wondered. The volunteer catechism teacher instructed them that the sacrament is an opportunity for one to repair one’s relationship with God.
Sister Ghisella Ruiz, a member of the Misioneras de la Madre de Dios (Missionaries of the Mother of God) order, gives a Bible lesson to parents of students preparing for their first Communion. Among the parents listening was Rafael Valazquez, who attended the session with his wife, Martina, and their son, Uriel, 5, as their daughter Michelle, 9, took a catechism class elsewhere in the church.
St. Francis Assisi pastor Father Larry Goode, at right and Msgr. John Coleman, who is in residence at the parish and helps with the pastoral needs of the growing community.
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Guest Commentary
Panoply of Priests By Helen M. Alvaré I’m not sure if it got started in the late 1960s, but that’s when I remember family-friends and relatives beginning to express the opinion that it was better to roam from parish to parish in order to find a priest who satisfied one’s personal taste, than to stay in the parish assigned to you by your diocese. So some of my relatives started frequenting the parish where the priests were also professional theologians. Ordinary sermons didn’t satisfy their erudite tastes. Some friends only wanted to hear from the priest who passed out a paper bag at every Mass, in order to take up a special collection for the homeless men and women living on the Philadelphia streets. Gospel teaching without direct action wouldn’t do for them. Whenever and however this kind of picking and choosing got started, I recollect distinctly that my parents felt it to be an insidious development. I didn’t really understand the strength of their feelings on this. My mother would try to explain: “these are holy men of God,” she would remind me. God has done the choosing, and these men have bravely and sacrificially done the responding. Besides, she would say, it’s just not charitable to assume the
general posture that our job as parishioners is to take and to criticize. A better posture would be to thank God for what the priests do and bring to us. True to my parents’ words, they invited a string of very diverse priests into our house and our life. There were the exceedingly pastoral priests, whose kindness and gentleness my parents just couldn’t bid goodbye after they had moved on to another parish. There was the priest who had stuck by my parents and one of my siblings after the latter had gone through some tough times in high school. There was our former pastor who we used to visit in the retirement home for priests long after he could no longer make it over for dinner. At some point during our visit, he would start glancing around his room, determined to find gifts he could present to me and to my sister – out of the few possessions he owned – so that we never went home empty-handed. There were also the priests who elicited respect, if not the warm fuzzies. They came to dinner too. There was the pastor whom I feared to meet in confession when I was a little girl, and the priest-essayist whose opinions on defense spending did not mesh with my father’s at all, but who was welcome to dinner at our house anyway, not only for the childhood memories he shared with my parents, but
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Thorough reporting I want to express my thanks to Catholic San Francisco (CSF) for providing readers with several very helpful articles and essays on the clerical sexual abuse “crisis.” The several points of view have provided the kind of background and perspectives which help understand the problem more completely as well as understand the role of the Church and its hierarchy in dealing with matters of clerical behavior. The essay by George Weigel in the April 16, 2010 edition of CSF was particularly helpful in understanding the responsibilities of the bishops in these matters: “they are the heads of local Churches with both the authority and responsibility to govern them.” And later, “Yet the fact remains that the overwhelming responsibility for turning the scandal of clerical sexual abuse into a fullblown Church-wide crisis lays at the feet of irresponsible local bishops...” In the April 23 edition, the articles, especially by Msgr. R. McElroy and Father Tom Reese, were also helpful. Msgr. McElroy’s factual chronology of “how we got here” was enlightening. Father Reese showed the importance of the media, especially the National Catholic Reporter and the Boston Globe in coming to the aid of the abused. Please keep up the balanced, thorough reporting of important issues of interest to lay Catholics and the Church as a whole. Joseph C. Barbaccia, MD San Francisco
Respect all life on earth I was delighted to read (“News in brief,” April 23) about actions of the San Jose Diocese “encouraging the Catholic community and all people of faith to examine how we use and share the earth’s resources.” I’m also familiar with the
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work of our fellow Christians through the Interfaith Power and Light. I’m not aware of a similar commitment here in the Archdiocese of San Francisco and would love to hear about what we are doing in this regard. Pope Benedict called us to a strong stand in his World Day of Peace letter, “If you want to cultivate peace, take care of creation.” We are a Church that is pro life. Care of all life on Earth must be a central issue for Catholics. The elements for Life on this planet are clean water, clean air and healthy soil. There is much to learn and much work to do to restore and sustain the gift of Life we have been given. Let us “Choose Life!” One way to begin is by sharing our vision and actions with each other in this newspaper and in our parishes. Catherine Regan San Francisco
Humble and active repentance Thank you for Father William J. Byron’s column, ‘Facing up to the clergy sex abuse scandal’ (CSF April 16). I think he nailed it in a nutshell, and gave the most comprehensive solution to our collective sorrow. Father Byron’s thesis was simple, though not easy, and emphasized moving forward in humble yet active repentance. I’ve kept the article so I can memorize it in a way, so as to offer an intelligent response to all those uninformed lemmings who consistently use excuses to slam our dear Church. Reading the article was a refreshing relief. Dianne Pickford Rohnert Park
Kudos, clarifications I applaud Msgr. Robert McElroy for his homily addressing the “Church’s” failure. For too long the silence from the pulpit has been deafening. Some clarifications can be made, however. First, the Church is the People of God, not just the hierarchy. It was the latter who failed to protect children. Second, the “lens” that reveals child sexual abuse as a mental illness is not a distortion. Since the mid 1980s no respectable therapist would advise bishops to re-expose children to abusers, even after therapy. Too often advice from competent mental health experts was ignored or “modified.” Third, the distorted “lens” that permitted intelligent “good” men to place the reputation of the hierarchy ahead of the safety of children is the lens of clericalism, which promotes secrecy and concealment
also due to my parents’ steady respect for his holiness, his erudition, and the courage of his convictions. When I traveled the United States on behalf of the American Catholic bishops for more than ten years, I met an endless variety of holy, ordained men. I met priests who had emerged from families where there had been divorce, or disabilities – and who had become uniquely gifted bearers of Christ’s message of healing and bearing with suffering. I met quiet contemplatives, loquacious professors, and monks who operated tractors and movie cameras…all in the same day. I met priests who had prayed outside abortion clinics until the personnel inside quit because the Spirit had changed them, and priests living side by side with the homeless. I met priests whose prayer lives were so rich that they could see lucidly, what I was doing and what I ought to be doing, better than I could see while on the treadmill that was my life. The more time I spent with them (and the older I got), I could actually see how their particular gifts served the particular needs surrounding them. In short, I came to see – and won’t my parents be happy when I tell them – that my parents’ instincts were right on. God has called a great variety of men to live, work, and speak to this infinitely variable world.
as it has for generations. Bishops are taught that God has directly called them to be sole teachers of the faithful. In the opinion of some prominent psychologists, this leads to a kind of institutional narcissism, which allows some to regard the enabling and facilitation of child abuse as a mistake in judgment rather than as crime against humanity. Lastly, if the Holy Father allowed reassignment of an abusing cleric during his term as Archbishop, should he not be held accountable and at least offer an apology? Robert M. Rowden, MD San Rafael
Disturbing aspect of crisis There have been more sex abuse cases among other religious groups and lay groups than in the Catholic Church. The point is that the Catholic Church is the only body in the Western World that challenges today’s moral relativism, something that agitates the consciences of the secular press. It is not the sex abuse per se that is the most disturbing aspect of this crisis, but the obfuscation of the Church hierarchy which refused to confront the perpetrators and tried to sweep everything under the carpet. But Christ’s promise to be with His Church till the end of time is more valid today than ever. Lenny Barretto Daly City
At times, the media is at fault
worst. Once the church scandal was news, all institutions were fair targets. There were plenty of alarm bells. In 1998, Education Week did a fine series called “Passing the Trash” which dealt with moving teachers and the need for disclosure laws. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette did an outstanding series in 1999. There were many reporters doing their job, but, mainly, the stories weren’t picked up by the national press. The traditional media was the only game in town when the clergy scandal first surfaced in the mainstream in the 1980s with a series in the San Jose Mercury News. Now there are lots of Internet watchdogs watching the watchdog. The AP series was all over the Internet but few papers ran it. Embarrassed? They should be. It is a simple story to do – just follow the money. James O. Clifford, Sr. Redwood City
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Father Thomas Reese contends that it is “stupid” to attack the media for the way it covered the sex abuse scandal (“The Catholic Church and the Media,” April 23). Then why did Reese publish a piece doing just that when he was editor of America magazine? I know because I wrote the article that appeared in the Dec. 2, 2002 issue. Reese is right to laud the news media for bringing to light sex abuse in the church. However, he seems timid in not going after the press for its sin of omission – not looking elsewhere for sex abuse. The story is less and less about sex abuse and more and more about the Church. Perhaps it always was just about the Church. Three years ago the Associated Press finally did a series on sex abuse by teachers in public schools. A real scandal – and I don’t mean the teachers. That it took this long for the world’s largest gatherer and distributor of news to put the problem on its agenda is a disgrace to journalism. The series should have been done at least 20 years ago when fear of defamation suits by teachers suspected of abuse led some school officials to move those teachers from school to school. The handling of the teacher abuse and the Catholic priest scandal is gatekeeping journalism at its
Virtues to live by I agree with Father Ron Rolheiser (“Living with frustration and tension” April 23) that unlike the kids of today, we were taught that it is normal to not have everything we want and to find joy in what we have. However I think he missed an opportunity to remind us of the derivation this wisdom: the four cardinal virtues: Prudence – able to judge between actions with regard to appropriate actions at a given time; Justice – proper moderation between self-interest and the rights and needs of others; Restraint or Temperance – practicing self-control, abstention, and moderation; Courage or Fortitude – forbearance, endurance, and ability to confront fear and uncertainty, or intimidation. St. James said it best: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Alan J. Smith San Francisco
Good woman, good story Thank you for publishing the wonderful article, “A Ministry of Healing,” in Catholic San Francisco (March 26), describing the work of Mercy Sister Mary Ann Scofield. In the story, writer Liz Dossa did a wonderful job of capturing the essence of this wonderful woman of God. Sister Mary Ann Scofield has been a guiding light in the spiritual direction field for many years and I am grateful that more people will come to know of her loving service to the people of God. George Biniek San Francisco
On ‘Fissure in Church’ George Wesolek (Letters, March 26) misrepresents the diversity of opinion in the Roman Catholic Church on health-care LETTERS, page 14
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The Catholic Difference
The Cardinal among the Latter-Day Saints The three years of service that Cardinal Francis George of Chicago has given the Church as president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops have been a great blessing. A recent speech the cardinal gave at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, suggests that that service will continue long after Cardinal George hands the gavel to his successor as USCCB president in November. Scholar-bishops have been rare in the history of the Church in the U.S; Cardinal George is an exception, a true intellectual with the gifted teacher’s capacity for making serious material accessible to people who’ve earned fewer degrees than he has. That gift was on full display at BYU. After noting that Mormons and Catholics had lived “mostly apart from one another” for 180 years, and telling a nifty story about his 2007 experience guest-conducting the Mormon Tabernacle Choir (while getting in a plug for his beloved Chicago Cubs), Cardinal George got down to the business at hand, which was to explore why distance and suspicion have been replaced by mutual recognition and co-belligerency, as Catholic and Mormons have discovered in each other common moral principles and a shared commitment to reforming our culture. The first point of tangency in this new relationship has to do with religious freedom. As I’ve noted before, there is an attempt in some quarters today to hollow out religious freedom by reducing it to a variant on lifestyle choice—an essentially private matter. Cardinal George is not buying that and he told his Mormon audience why:
“Religious freedom cannot be reduced to freedom of worship or even freedom of private conscience. Religious freedom means that religious groups as well as religious individuals have a right to exercise their influence in the public square…[A]ny attempt to reduce that fuller sense of religious freedom, which has been part of our history in this country for more than two centuries, to a private reality of worship and individual conscience as long as you don’t make anybody else unhappy, is not in our tradition. It was the tradition of the Soviet Union, where Lenin permitted freedom of worship (it was in the constitution of the Soviet Union) but not freedom of religion.” The cardinal then moved on to the defense of the family: “…[It’s] not individuals and their rights that are the basis of society, although they might be the basis of a political order, but it is the family that is the basic unit of society: mothers and fathers who have duties and obligations to their children, and children who learn how to be human in the school of love which is the family, which tells us that we’re not the center of the world individually but are rather always someone’s son, someone’s daughter, someone’s brother or sister or cousin or uncle. The family relationships are prior to individual self-consciousness. That is the basis of Catholic social teaching…” Marriage, which is the basis of the family, is not something the state can redefine: marriage is an institution of civil society that a just state must acknowledge and protect. States that insist on redefining marriage will therefore get pushback
from religious institutions that understand that the state is attempting to encroach on territory that is in principle beyond its reach. The state will not like this. It will attempt to compel compliance with George Weigel its redefinitions, and “if this first wave is successfully resisted, there will be a second series of government punishments for our persistence. We will lose state or local government contracts, tax exemptions, anything else that could be characterized as a ‘subsidy’ for our ‘discrimination.’” And that is why, Cardinal George concluded, “interreligious coalitions formed to defend the rights of conscience for individuals or for religious institutions should become a vital bulwark against the tide of forces at work in our government and society to reduce religion to a purely private reality. At stake is whether or not the religious voice will maintain its right to be heard in the public square.” Let the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing “Amen!” George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Twenty Something
Finding a job, keeping the faith It is a curious thing to receive bad news from a chipper person. There’s a point at which the facts crack the cheery façade, and no degree of optimism or exclamation points can keep it from crumbling. The other day, for example, a twenty-something couple emailed an update on their job search. “We’re now applying to jobs nationally,” the wife wrote. “So wherever you are, we’re open to relocating for full-time positions!” The jovial upside – “We might just move to your town!” – didn’t mask the unwritten downside – “that’s how badly we need work…any work, anywhere.” What a job market, that a highly-educated, hard-working twosome must cast their net from sea to shining sea, that all the other factors influencing where they’d like to live are now being trumped by the promise of a paycheck. Imagine them Googling towns they’ve never heard of, looking for a flicker of familiarity, a hint of connection, something to grab onto. As 2010 has marched on, the number of Americans who have been unemployed for at least half a year has steadily climbed, now reaching 6.5 million. They’ve faced fierce competition, job seekers outnumbering job openings five to one. Technically, that means you have better odds of getting into Northwestern University, where the average freshman’s ACT score exceeds 30.
Then again, it’s no longer clear a prestigious education will pay off. A good friend of mine who earned her master’s at Northwestern has moved back in with her parents and has been temping for more than a year – which, she confided over discounted mojitos – means she’s been slowly going insane. This is a woman who’s been networking and volunteering up the wazoo, praying to St. Joseph with every submitted résumé. I know what it’s like to feel butterflies when you click send. As a freelance writer, I cast a steady stream of pitches and bids into the cyber abyss, which feels vast and soundless. It may be the special lot of the recessionary twenty something to keep putting herself out there, to have much to prove and to begin each day at what feels like square one. So we blog and tweet and reach out, sending out mass emails that are white flags, pleas wrapped in pleasantries. You don’t have to dig deep to pick up on the urgency behind the courtesy – when “thank you for your consideration” means “pretty please with sugar on top” and “at your convenience” slides into “at your earliest convenience,” a pinched kind of polite panic. When your life’s achievements, polished and bulleted, don’t merit so much as a “got it, thanks,” it’s easy to feel very, very small. The Holy Father has a message for that particular
instance. He urged young adults gathered in Rome last month to draw strength from this truth: “My life has been willed by God since eternity. I am loved, I am necessary. God has a plan for me in the totality Christina of history: He has a plan specifically for me.” Capecchi It is a dramatic paradigm shift for the job seeker, rightfully concerned about cell-phone and car-insurance bills that can’t quite be shelved to eternity. But it is a mantra to keep you plugging away: “I am loved, I am necessary.” And it is pretty amazing that God’s plan for you, though it doesn’t match your timeline, stands to be noticed in “the totality of history.” So take a deep breath and the long view. The master’s plan is unfolding right now. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be reached at www.ReadChristina.com.
The Human Side
Peace be with you! Are you ready for yet another congressional war? At the moment, the nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens hasn’t been picked, but talk already abounds of an all-out battle, no matter the nominee. Stevens, a Republican who turned 90 on April 20, sent a letter to President Barack Obama stating that he will retire when the current term ends at the end of June. Stevens was appointed to the court in 1975 by President Gerald R. Ford. News accounts say that his legacy is one of championing abortion rights, concern for the protection of gays, limiting the availability of capital punishment and strengthening the power of judges to interpret laws and curbing executive power. Some might argue that battling over who will be the successor to the highest court in the land is business as usual in any government. This is true, but truer is the principle that American civility and its principles of reverence have always preferred debates that are respectful and desirous of peaceful endings as opposed to debates that are strident, impolite and filled with self-serving political ambitions. Respect implies awe for another and giving a person his or her rightful space. Peace implies wholesomeness and people working together as one for prosperity. Over the entrance of the U.S. House of Representatives
is the frieze “The Apotheosis of Democracy.” In the middle of the frieze is the personification of Peace. To her right and left are men and women who are working together in agriculture and the industrial world. This imagery is a connotation that peace is created by working together for prosperity. We must wonder whether the upcoming nomination hearings will include the principles of respect and those found in “The Apotheosis of Democracy.” Is it out of the question to desire a wholesome, respectful coming together? Is it ridiculous to look for inspiring awe from our Congress? If this is true, could it be a sign something is radically out of order in our predominately Christian country? In the New Testament, the greeting “peace be with you” graces its pages frequently. The beatitudes remind us, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” (Mt 5:9). In the Old Testament, the lion and lamb playing together are portrayed as a symbol of God’s desire for peace, and in the book of Proverbs we learn, “Better a dry crust with peace than a house full of feasting with strife” (17:1). Is it too much to expect God’s desire for peace to be reflected in the conduct of our Congress?
Abraham Lincoln once said, “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” He also said, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freeFather Eugene doms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Hemrick If we will witness another distasteful congressional battle over the appointment of the next Supreme Court justice, is this to be considered normal and acceptable? Or is it a sign that friendship and peacemakers no longer have a place in politics? If this is true, is this the faltering of our society that Abraham Lincoln warned would eventually destroy us? Father Eugene Hemrick, director of the National Institute for the Renewal of the Priesthood and author of “Habits of a Priestly heart,” writes a column for Catholic News Service.
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A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 14:21-27 After Paul and Barnabas had proclaimed the good news to that city and made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch. They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, “It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.” They appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had put their faith. Then they traveled through Pisidia and reached Pamphylia. After proclaiming the word at Perga they went down to Attalia. From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now accomplished. And when they arrived, they called the church together and reported what God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13 R. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. The Lord is good to all and compassionate toward all his works. R. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. Let all your works give you thanks, O Lord, and let your faithful ones bless you.
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Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 14:21-27; Psalm 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13; Revelations 21:1-5a; John 13:31-33a, 34-35 Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might. R. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. Let them make known your might to the children of Adam, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages, and your dominion endures through all generations. R. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.
throne saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race. He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will always be with them as their God. He will wipe every tear from their
Letters . . . ■ Continued from page 12 reform by attempting to disparage the contribution of women religious and to belittle their leadership. “Some nuns” is the phrase he uses for the Catholic Health Association, the group of over 1200 Roman Catholic health-care systems (including 3 of the 10 largest HMOs in the country), hospitals, long-term-care facilities, and related associations. “Tired feminism” is the phrase he uses for what is motivating the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, the group of over 1500 member congregations that constitute 90% of the 59,000 women religious in the U.S. These two groups represent the religious women who day after day for
A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 13:31-33A, 34-35 When Judas had left them, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
A READING FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATIONS REV 21:1-5A Then I, John, saw a new heaven and a new earth. The former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I also saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice from the
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ere comes the bride, all dressed in white…” Most little girls know this song, and if they have dolls, they march the veiled bride-doll down an imaginary aisle, with her dollattendants behind her. A woman’s wedding day, the real one, is the occasion when fathers feel pride and anxiety at kissing a daughter goodbye. Mothers cry in a mix of love for their daughter and worry about the event’s organizational details. Relatives not seen for years appear and share stories always suspected but now revived. Friends bring gifts they would like to receive or have found useful themselves. Shiny-tressed single girl-friends look around for eligible men. In the best of all possible financial worlds, some of the cost gets split with the groom’s family. The intensity and uniqueness of the idealized wedding day are evoked by the second reading from Revelation. “I saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” In our long meditation on the meaning of the death and resurrection of Jesus, called the Easter Season, the church looks not just to the past, but to the future. This passage comes from the end of the Book of Revelation. Probably based on a Jewish proto-type, the book is a series of imaginative waking dreams, or symbolic narratives about a glorious future of vindication, stability and restoration for persecuted believers at the end of the first century. The book as a whole describes God’s promise about the future that lies in store for the faithful who have endured political oppression with courage and patience. Await God’s rescue and the revival of all you have hoped for. What makes it a revelation? When you are in the midst of awful suffering, living in a dangerous situation, beset by undeserved trouble,
eyes, and there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain, for the old order has passed away.” The One who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.”
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Hope for deliverance after suffering you feel like a victim. You can’t imagine how you will ever get out of it, how you will endure it, or when it will end. The Book of Revelation comes as God’s message to people who feel like this, interrupting their depression and describing a hope-filled future. After a time of suffering, it will be like a wedding. In Hebrew Scriptures, the image of the wedding banquet evokes a time of deliverance and restoration. For the believer, life will start over again in the here and now. The reference to the city of Jerusalem means restoration happens not just to individual persons, but to governments, culture, and civilization itself. Humanity and human institutions start life over. God’s power overcomes evil and death. Resurrection means that all things are made new in the present life, not only at the end of the world.
Is this just magical thinking? The first half of Acts describes the unleashing of missionary energy following the Resurrection. Belief in Resurrection means you work to make it a reality. The first reading shows Paul and his public-relations companion Barnabas on a break-neck tour of cities throughout Asia Minor, present-day Turkey. The two missionaries address mostly Gentiles, people without any biblical background. The theme of their preaching is courage in a time of suffering: “It is necessary of us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.” Apparently this was a meaningful message and successful missionary tour. Like Jesus enduring his passion and death, our human condition involves trouble and suffering. Paul’s message is one of hope, that God acts on our behalf, that
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by myself silently, when another woman came up and asked me if I was there for the Day of Prayer, and she and I prayed together. It is amazing how easy it is to gravitate towards other prayer participants, even without any fanfare or advanced publicity. Most people go during their lunch hour from 12 noon to 12:30PM at any City Hall across America, and pray together, right in the plaza. The website has prayers if one needs help with knowing what to say. But those prayers are very similar to the Prayers of the Faithful read during Sunday Mass. So a heartfelt “Our Father” that most everyone knows from memory, and some prayer intentions for various sectors of the nation would work well, such as praying for schools, teachers, children, safety of the military, government leaders, church leaders, the elderly, the unborn,
National Day of Prayer: to do list The National Day of Prayer will be celebrated on Thursday, May 6, 2010 this year. For the past several years, I participated and I have found it both inspiring and simple. It has become as important to me as casting my vote during elections. God is on His throne and prayer changes things. For the first few years, I joined organized prayer groups at the official website, www.nationaldayofprayer. com. But last year, I just went to Palo Alto City Hall Plaza at 12 noon and I began to pray
God loves us, that God acts with benevolent purpose, and that God will ultimately deliver us from what hurts us. Faith means laying claim, bit by bit, in our personal lives, to what Resurrection promises. It is work, and means covering a lot of ground, like Paul and Barnabas did. The “journey” is not just a romantic saunter through spiritual corn-fields and grassy meadows. The Gospel comes from the Last Discourse in John. So we return to the night before the death of Jesus, when he counsels the disciples through his “last will and testament”– the most essential themes of his teaching and his long prayer to the Father. For the evangelist John, the follower of Jesus has very few rules or doctrines to memorize. The most fundamental message of the gospel is here: “I give you a new commandment: love one another. As I have loved you, so you also should love one another.” At root, believers who fulfill this core command of Jesus care about each other by being loyal—not betraying each other as Judas betrayed Jesus. They honor and respect each other, as God glorified Jesus. The community of disciples is a place of mutual care. Believers heal one another’s hurts. They console one another’s griefs. They extend to each other the love they learned from being loved by Jesus. The Prayer after Communion alludes to Resurrection as a commitment to go on with our lives in a spirit of energy and hope: “May these mysteries give us new purpose and bring us to a new life in you.” Mercy Sister Eloise Rosenblatt is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose. Contact: info@eloiserosenblatt.com. homeless, and other vulnerable members of society in America. Our country has a history of turning to God in prayer for the health of the nation. In 1775, the first Continental Congress asked the colonies to pray for wisdom while the nation was being formed. President Lincoln called for a national day of “humiliation, fasting and prayer” in 1863, and in 1952 President Truman signed a resolution that had come about by joint Congressional action for the National Day of Prayer. For over 20 years, this special day has been held on the first Thursday in May. So just go to any local City Hall plaza, and lift our country’s needs up to God, who promises to hear the Prayers of the Faithful, when we call to Him. Our country needs prayer. Ronna Devincenzi Palo Alto
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Spirituality for Life: Looking at science and religion By Father Ron Rolheiser In certain circles it is believed that science trumps religion. The idea is simple and uncompromising: Religion cannot stand up to science. The hard facts of science ultimately render faith untenable. Coupled with this is the idea that faith and religion sustain themselves by naiveté and lack of courage, that is, if one ever looked at the hard facts with enough intellectual courage, he or she would be forced to admit that faith and religion go against the evidence of science. Ironically, this conception finds itself most at home within the most arrogant circles of science and the most fundamentalist circles of religion. These groups may hate each other but they have this in common, both believe that science and religion are incompatible. What’s wrong with that notion? Good science and good religion both suggest the opposite. Many respected scientists have religious faith and see no incompatibility between what they see through their empirical research and what they profess in their churches. Conversely many deeply religious people know, trust, and respect the insights of science and see nothing there that frightens them in terms of what they hold dear religiously. What’s best in science affirms clearly and humbly that what we can say about the world through empirical research in no way rules out or weighs against what can be said about the world through the prism of faith and religion. What’s best in religion returns the favor. Good religion cedes science its proper place, just as good science cedes faith its proper place. Moreover, the idea that science trumps religion is generally based upon a misreading of the seeming conflict between
the two. Charles Taylor, in his mammoth work, “A Secular Age,” suggests that people mostly abandon religion in the name of science not because science is more believable than religion (though that is what they may believe). Rather what they are abandoning is a “whole package,” one whole way of understanding God, of understanding the world, of understanding meaning, and of understanding our relationship to our religious past. They aren’t simply exchanging naiveté (religion) for maturity (science). They are exchanging one whole way of viewing life for another. And both options take faith. What’s meant by this? Quite simply that it is as much of an act of faith to believe that God doesn’t exist as it is to believe that God does exist and to assert that one doesn’t believe because of science involves a lot of things that have little to do with science. To say: I believe or I don’t believe involves a lot of things not derived from empirical evidence. What things? First of all, a certain concept of God. Most atheism is, as Michael Buckley asserts, a parasite off bad theism. The God that most atheists reject should indeed be rejected since that God holds little in common with the God of Jesus Christ. The same holds true for many people who reject religion. What’s being rejected is self-serving religion, not true religion. Then there is the question of how we conceive of God’s ways. Scripture assures us that “God’s ways are not our ways,” a truth Roman Catholics have tried to express philosophically with the notion of the analogy of Being and Protestants have tried to safeguard through emphasis on God’s otherness. When religion is rejected in the name of science, invariably the religion that is being rejected does not safeguard God’s otherness and has, however unintentionally, reduced God to something
that can be grasped through human categories. Stripped of genuine divinity and mystery, such a God will inevitably not stand the test of hard human questioning. Next, humility and arrogance also play into the tension between science and religion and their proclivity to reject each other. Unhealthy arrogance and unhealthy humility feed off each other to create illicit dichotomies that force people into false choices. As well, faith and doubt are tied to moral integrity. Scripture tells us that we can only see God through purity of heart. Hence our moral lives will either help clarify or muddy our awareness of God. Sin affects our eyesight, as does virtue. Arrogance is an obstacle to genuflection, sin to a vision of God. This is a sensitive point. Doubt and unbelief may not simplistically be equated with arrogance, insincerity, or a bad moral life. All of us know wonderful persons who struggle with unbelief. Yet this still needs to be in the equation. All of us too know persons who are too proud and arrogant to see straight. Finally there is also the question of our relationship to our religious past. When faith and religion are seen as childish and naïve more things go into that judgment than have to do with empirical evidence. In virtually every case, that judgment is colored and weighted by how one feels about his or her religious past. Science doesn’t trump religion and religion doesn’t trump science since one God is author of all that is good, both inside of science and inside of religion. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher and author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX.
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By John P. McCarthy NEW YORK (CNS) – “Oceans,” the second movie released under Walt Disney Studios’ new nature label is even more ambitious and wide-ranging than last year’s “Earth.” This new film offers as many visual delights as its predecessor while making a surprisingly sophisticated, indeed metaphysical, argument for responsible environmental stewardship. Shot over a four-year period, the marine documentary has a poetic, meditative quality that ultimately echoes even more resoundingly than its portrayal of the awesome power and tumultuous wonders of the sea. The best nature films present spectacular pictures, tell a dramatic story (which usually entails a high degree of anthropomorphizing) and impart facts. Co-directors and writers Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud, who previously collaborated on the Academy Award-nominated “Winged Migration,” don’t skimp on arresting images but have difficulty piecing together a cohesive narrative. And because they decline to transmit much data, at times the viewer is left wanting more explanatory detail. (Why exactly are those thousands of spider crabs attacking one another in Melbourne Bay?) Their stated goal is to provide an emotional experience that will heighten viewer sensitivity to the aquatic ecosystem. Although they touch on a handful of ways in which the human race threatens the oceans (seeing fish caught in commercial nets is particularly poignant), their philosophical approach sees mankind as the potential hero of the piece, not merely its villain. Messieurs Perrin and Cluzaud are hopeful, accurately contending that our collective will to protect the ocean has never been stronger. They begin by posing the question “What is the sea?” and end by claiming that to understand the ocean is to put a mirror up to ourselves. The journey of communal self-examination they lead spans all five oceans, submerging viewers into the waters off the Galapagos Islands, Costa
Rica, South Africa and the Antarctic (to name only four shooting locales) in loosely connected sequences featuring myriad sea creatures, both familiar and exotic. Highlights include a thrilling segment during which hosts of marine birds, sharks and whales simultaneously feast on schools of sardines; a suspenseful nighttime visit to the ocean floor; and dynamic footage of dolphins playfully cutting through the deep. Cooperation between different species is showcased as prominently as predation. And those needing their penguin fix won’t be disappointed. Visually, “Oceans” scores high marks, and it’s a bit surprising that the movie isn’t being released in 3-D or on Imax screens. The 35mm digital cinematography is most remarkable for its ability to capture fast movement. Sonic phenomena – birdcalls, whale songs, plus the sounds of churning, storm-tossed waters – are as memorable as the film’s eye-catching splendors. They’re well matched by the pleasing tones of narrator Pierce Brosnan. The message that conservation is in humankind’s self-interest and that we must endeavor to live in harmony with every denizen of the sea is unassailable. In addition to refraining from eco-scaremongering, the filmmakers avoid disturbing images. When, for instance, killer whales and great white sharks are seen hunting sea lions and fur seals, or frigate birds pluck newly hatched turtles from the sand, they cut away before showing anything too graphic, and so the film contains nothing objectionable. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-I – general patronage. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is G – general audiences. All ages admitted. John P. McCarthy is a guest reviewer for the USCCB’ Office for Film & Broadcasting. More reviews are available online at www.usccb.org/movies.
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EWTN to televise pope’s visit to Shroud of Turin EWTN, the Catholic television network, will air Pope Benedict XVI’s May 2 visit to Turin where the Shroud of Turin is on public display for the first time in 10 years. Many believe that the 14-foot-long piece of linen, which bears the markings and image of a crucified man, is the burial cloth of Jesus. Telecasts of the visit include Mass in Saint Charles Square, May 2 at 1 a.m., with an encore (rebroadcast) May 2 at 10:30 a.m. Pope Benedict will preside at this outdoor Mass. Ewtn also will air an encounter with youth in Saint Charles Square, May 2 at 7:30 a.m., with an encore March 3 at 10:30 a.m. The pope’s visit to the Cathedral of Turin where the Shroud is on display will air May 2 at 8:30 a.m., with an encore May 2 at 5 p.m. The Holy Father will venerate the Shroud and offer meditations themed “Passio Christi, Passio Hominis.” Among those present will be cloistered nuns from throughout the diocese. Before heading back to Rome, the pope will visit with the sick May 2 at 9:30 a.m., with an encore May 2 at 11:30 p.m. EWTN also will present two documentaries on the Holy Shroud: “Unlocking the Secrets of the Shroud” airs May 1 at 11:30 p.m. “Getting to Know the Shroud” airs May 2 at 3:30 a.m. EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261 and Direct TV Channel 370. Comcast airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County. See www.ewtn.com for any more information.
SCRIPTURE SEARCH Gospel for May 2, 2010 Acts 14:21-27; Jn 13:31-33a, 34-35 Following is a word search based on the First Reading and Gospel for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Cycle C, about the early days of the church. The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle.
What can a retired Wall Street executive, mutual fund pioneer, and father of six kids tell us about the Catholic priesthood? Quite a lot in fact, when he’s a priest himself. Fr. Andrew Johnson of San Francisco’s St. Thomas More parish, shares a unique perspective on the “Year of the Priest”. Before his ordination in 2004, he was a top exec at Franklin Templeton, and was known as “The Money Doctor” on his radio and television programs. To his priesthood, in service to Christ and his Church, Fr. Andrew now brings all that he has learned in business, in the world, and in family life. WHEN: Wednesday, May 12, 5:30 to 7:30pm WHERE: Chancellor Hotel, 433 Powell (btwn Post and Sutter), San Francisco COST: $20 for members, $30 for non-members (become a member for $45) Includes delicious appetizers and no-host bar PAY AT THE DOOR or for RESERVATIONS: Mail your contact information & a check payable to “CPBC-ADSF” to: CPBC, Attn: Mary Jansen, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109
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TV/Radio Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Fridays and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. e-mail info@sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. 1260 AM also offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on The Filipino Channel (TFC) (Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese. 1st Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. 3rd Sunday, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: “For Heaven’s Sake,” featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality. EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www.ewtn.com.
St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 May 2, noon: Annual St. Mary Cathedral Parish Mass. All are welcome. May 19, 10:30 a.m. – noon: Grief Support Group in the Msgr. Bowe Room. Presenter is Barbara Elordi, MFT, coordinator of Consolation Ministry. Call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. Strength for the Journey, a ministry of support for people diagnosed with life-threatening illness and the families, friends and caregivers, is in its inaugural stage at the cathedral. Deacon Christoph Sandoval is director. Cal (415) 567-2020, ext. 203, or e-mail Rcs7777@comcast.net. First Friday 24-Hour Adoration: Friday 8 a.m. to Saturday 8 a.m. in Our Lady’s Chapel, and Msgr. Bowe Room. Weekday Mass Schedule: 6:45 a.m., 8 a.m., 12:10 p.m.; with additional first Friday Mass at 7:30 p.m.. Adoration begins in Our Lady’s Chapel after the 8 a.m. Mass through evening Mass at 7:30 p.m. Adoration then moves downstairs to the Msgr. Bowe Room (facing Cleary Court) until 6:30 a.m. For information, contact Mary Ann Eiler at (415) 567-2020, ext. 224
Taize/Sung Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For more information e-mail mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. Fremont, CA 94539. For further information, please contact Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510) 449-7554. May 12: Taize Prayer with Kayleen Asbo and Robin O’Brien accompanied by piano and cello. Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Ave, San Rafael, CA 94901, 7 - 8:30 p.m.; introduction session precedes the evening’s prayer. Donation $20. For more information: (415) 457-7727; info@santasabinacenter.org. May 22, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: Whale of a Sale at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae. Spaces available for items you might want to sell at $35 if reserved before May 13 and $50 per space after that date. Vendor supplies their own tables and chairs. Spaces accommodate eight foot table or two card tables. Call (415) 461-0704 or visit www. sebastian94904.com.
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May 2, 7 p.m.: Mission Dolores Basilica Choir, under the direction of Jerome Lenk, sings “Lend a Hand for Haiti,” a concert to benefit the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Evening feature the Basilica Choir, joined by members of other Bay Area choruses, with soloists Alexina Navarro, soprano, Liudmila Polyakova-Mullin, mezzo-soprano, David Meissner, tenor, and David Cox, baritone. Ensemble from San Francisco Ballet and Opera Orchestras accompany the chorus. Program highlights include Handel organ concerto with an Alleluia chorus, Glück’s Dance of the Blessed Spirits and Bestor’s The Prayer of the Children. Mission Dolores Basilica, Dolores at 16th street in San Francisco. Visit www.missiondolores.org. Suggested donation - $25. All musicians appear pro bono. All proceeds benefit Haiti relief.
Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life May 8, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Come join your Catholic brothers for the 1st Annual Peninsula Catholic Men’s Conference. The battle is raging all around us and it’s time to stand up and fight the good fight. Theme is The Lord’s Gym with talks on Christian Fatherhood and other topics of the times. Takes place at St. Luke’s Catholic Church in Foster City. Day features talks from Catholic speakers including Jesse Romero and Terry Barber. Tickets are $35 each and include a continental breakfast and lunch. Call or e-mail Johnny Garcia at (626) 3313549, ext. 413 or johnny@saintjoe.com for more info. You may also visit www.saintjoeconferences.com May 12: Contemplative Day of Prayer, Santa Sabina Center, 25 Magnolia Ave, San Rafael, 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; Eucharist at 1:15 p.m. Donation $20. For more information: (415) 457-7727; info@santasabinacenter.org. May 22, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.: The Life and Dignity of the Human Person with Father Andrew Amritharaj, Ph. D. at St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Rd. just of Edgewood near Alameda de las Pulgas in Redwood City. Topics include end-of-life issues in light of Catholic Church teachings. The presented is a professor of moral theology and spirituality at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park. Admission free. Lunch provided. To register, call Evie Dwyer at (650) 368-9372 or e-mail evie@federales.com Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com. Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life 815 Eddy St. – Planned Parenthood – in San Francisco.
Vocations May 15: The Society of Mary, Marist Fathers and Brothers are sponsoring monthly days of discernment for men between the ages of 18 and 35 at St. Peter Chanel Seminary, 2335 Warring St. Berkeley. These days will provide an opportunity to think, pray
and discuss their Christian calling to remain single, get married or to commit to the consecrated life as a religious priest or brother. Call (510) 486-1232 or e-mail maristvocations@sbcglobal.net.
Reunion May 2, 12:15: Centennial Alumni Mass, School Open House, and Tour of Future Science Lab, Star of the Sea Church and Schools, 360 9th Ave. For more information, call (415) 221-3399 or visit www.staroftheseasf. com/centennial/ June 26: Class of ’60, Star of the Sea Academy. E-mail erhunt@mail.com or noniloretta@att.net October 22: Class of ’60, St. Cecilia Elementary School Wine and Cheese Party in the parish Collins Center. Event includes tour of the school and the opportunity to participate in the annual Parish Festival. Contact Bob O’Donnell at rjodfc@yahoo.com or Nancy Sarlatte Murphy at nancymurphy1248@comcast.net October 23: Class of ’60, St. Cecilia Elementary School Reunion Dinner at the Irish Cultural Center. Contact Bob O’Donnell at rjodfc@yahoo.com or Nancy Sarlatte Murphy at nancymurphy1248@comcast.net Class of ’60 from Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma. Contact Linda Brewer at brewer@sbcglobal.net or visit www.holyangelscolma.com or call (650) 755-0220. Class of ’60 from Notre Dame High School in Belmont is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Bettina Igoa McCall at Mcbett@comcast.net or (510) 851-2344. St. Paul High School, San Francisco, class of ’80 planning a reunion sometime in June 2010 to coincide with graduation day of May 31 1980. E-mail Maria Rinaldi Vincent at vncntmtvincent@aol.com or call (650) 349-1642.
Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 May 1, 11 a.m.: Prayer Service in All Saints Mausoleum Chapel. Msgr. Harry Schlitt will preside.
Special Liturgies May 5, 7:30 p.m.: 29th Annual May Crowning and Living Rosary at All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Palou
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in San Francisco. Sponsored by All Hallows #182 Young Ladies Institute. Call Sue Elvander at (415) 467-8872. Third Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Manifest Mysteries Rosary Prayer – Examine how the mysteries of the rosary are manifested in daily life using short film and the Dominican Rosary prayer. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information. First Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Lectio Divina– Pray with Sacred Scripture and share your Faith with others. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans. org for more information. Fourth Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament –Silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans. org for more information. The Tridentine Mass is celebrated Sundays at 12:15 p.m. at Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent School for Boys. For more information, call St. Isabella Parish at (415) 479-1560. First Fridays: Latin High Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at 6 p.m. at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Road at Glen Way, East Palo Alto. Mass is followed by the Litany of the Sacred Heart and Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament until midnight. Confessions are heard before Mass. Low Mass in Latin is offered every Friday evening at 6 p.m. For further information, call (650) 322-2152. First Sundays at 6:30 p.m. at Mater Dolorosa Parish, 307 Willow at Miller in South San Francisco. For more information, call Ando Perlas at (650) 892-5728.
Good Health May 3, 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. All are invited to attend a presentation on Colorectal Cancer given by Dr. James Reed, a gastroenterologist. Dr. Reed will discuss what colorectal cancer is, who is at risk and how to be screened. You will learn valuable information and be able to ask Dr. Reed questions. Light refreshments will be served. St. Stephen’s Parish Center, Donworth Hall. For further information call (415) 750-5683.
Food & Fun May 7, 7 a.m.: Monthly Mass and meeting of Catholic Marin Breakfast Club at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. at Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae. Marc D’Silva of Catholic Relief Services is breakfast speaker. Members’ breakfast is $7 and non-members’ $10. June 4 features Marin County Sheriff Bob Doyle. E-mail sugaremy@aol.com to register and for other details. May 8, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: St. Gabriel Sixth Grade Rummage and Bake Sale benefiting children of Darfur in St. Gabe’s schoolyard, 2550 41st Ave in San Francisco. Darfur is now in its worst drought of recent times. Contact Katherine Alba-Swanson at klas43@ sbcglobal.net. May15, 1:10 p.m.: “Parish Family Day at AT&T” advance ticket sales - $14 per person - only by March 30. The SF Parish & School Baseball League will host a free ‘tailgate’ party of hot dogs and sodas, and we will feature 84 of our longest throwers in a ‘long-toss’ competition by grades 3 - 8. If he is not pitching, Giants’ long-toss champ, Barry Zito will hand out the trophies. Parishioners wishing to attend should contact their Athletic Director, or they can contact e-mail bstableford@sfpsbl.org or phone (415) 559-8728.
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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail. Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme 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.P.L.
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. J.A.C.
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OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE Approximately 2,000 to 10,000 square feet first floor office space available (additional space available if needed) at One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco (between Gough & Franklin), is being offered for lease to a non-profit entity. Space available includes enclosed offices, open work area with several cubicles, large work room, and storage rooms on the lower level of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chancery / Pastoral Center. We also have mail and copy services available, as well as meeting rooms (based on availability). Reception services available. Space has access to kitchen area and restroom facilities. Parking spaces negotiable. Ready for immediate occupancy with competitive terms. Come view the space. For more information, contact
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A Life Remembered C r e m at i on Op t i on s
If you are thinking about cremation, it is important to know and understand all of the choices available to you. Cremation is not the end. Just as the full body is placed in a grave or crypt, the cremated body should be treated with respect as well. Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery oďŹ&#x20AC;ers many options to celebrate and remember a life. Each person can make a decision about what is appropriate for his/her needs and those of their family.
Placement & Memorial Options Legac y - Select a family columbarium to house multiple urns or inter an urn in an existing family plot; an opportunity to share the family stories and unite loved ones in memory Garden - Interment of an urn in a resting place along a garden path, marked by a shamrock or heart-shaped stone Elegance - Beautiful glass niches display urns personalized to reďŹ&#x201A;ect a life story Tribute - A marble niche in a Garden Court or Mausoleum features engraved names, dates and photo medallions Tr aditional - In-ground burial, marked by a headstone designed to commemorate a life well-lived Memorial - Memorialf options p g y include: inscribing a name on a Memory Tree, designing a memorial bench, lighting a memorial candle, donating one of the Stations of the Cross or placing a name on a family monument