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On The Where You Live

by Tom Burke

Congrats to Deacon John Norris, left, new board chair of Seton Health Services Foundation. The good news was announced at a recent Mass and awards ceremony for the Good Stewards Society, sponsored by the foundation to recognize major donors.

Archbishop George Niederauer presided at the liturgy. Joseph Keenan, a new member of the board, and his wife, Patricia, also attended. Deacon Norris heads the offices of Development and Pastoral Ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Happy 93rd birthday to Jesuit Father William Maring, who has helped with weekend Masses at All Souls Parish in South San Francisco for more than 30 years. Marissa Andres, Iris Rivera, Amelia Villa, Ben Villa, Deacon Alex Aragon, Irene Aragon, Ofie Albrecht and Steve Albrecht were among those who recently gathered to honor the priest. Also on hand were former All Souls pastor and now Vicar for Clergy, Father William Justice, and former parochial vicar and now pastor of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax, Father Kenneth Weare, who by the way is celebrating his fifth year as a priest. The group also said “Thanks” and “Farewell” to Indiana Blandon, who recently retired as parish secretary…. Lest they forget, the Lone Mountain College class of ’51 took some time at the Sacred Heart Sisters’ Oakwood retirement facility to visit and thank some of the teachers and encouragers who helped them on their way. “The only Sister at Oakwood now who we knew then is Sister Helen Donohue,” said Anstell Daini Ricossa, spokesperson for the Lone Mountain alums, who reminded me the women graduated almost 56 years ago. “Our teacher, Sister Jane Miller, died over a year ago. There are more than 50

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It is with great respect that we visit these wonderful women.” Not to be missed were Sisters Marina Mapa, Mary Be Mardel, Rita Ryan and Catherine Henry. Joining Anstell on the trip were Anne Sweeney Desler, Rosemary Cotruvo Farbstein, Holy Names Sister June Kearney, Aileen Moriarity Kelly, Anne Quinn Kirkbride, Marie Owen, Claire Winant O’Sullivan, Mary Arrighi Thompson, and Toni Hines Buckley. Sacred Heart Sister Jane McKinlay of the class of ’51 now lives in New Orleans. “Part of the Gabriela Perez, left, Erika Hidalgo festivities was a sing-a-long, led by and Fiorella Vasquez dress their best pianist Cynthia Nourse,” Anstell said. during Student Teacher Day, when “It truly was a heartwarming visit for all the eighth graders get to experience of us.”… Lest I forget, please let me what it’s like to be a part of the faculencourage all of us to tune in our ty and staff at St. Charles Elementary “streamin’” clergy whose homilies on the School in San Francisco. Their readings of the day can be heard responsibilities included teaching lesTuesdays through Sept. 25 at www.cccsons and correcting homework. tv.org. And while I’m at it, please let me

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Assisted suicide bill clears Assembly Judiciary Committee

By Julie Sly SACRAMENTO — Legislation that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients passed the state Assembly’s Judiciary Committee March 27, after a lengthy hearing with passionate testimony on both sides.

The Judiciary Committee voted along party lines. Seven Democrats voted for the bill and three Republicans voted against. It is the third time the committee has approved essentially the same bill since 1999.

AB 374, called the California Compassionate Choices Act, is co-authored

by Assemblywoman Patty Berg, D-Eureka, who is Catholic, and Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Sherman Oaks. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Los Angeles Democrat who is Catholic, is also listed as a co-author of the measure.

The bill contains language identical to legislation sponsored by Berg and Levine that died in a Senate committee last June. It would allow a physician to prescribe a selfadministered, life-ending drug for an adult who requests it and has been found by two doctors to be mentally competent and within six months of death.

The bill, which would require all state agencies to refer to assisted suicide as “aidin-dying,” is similar to the nine-year-old Oregon law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court last year.

During the hearing, Berg promoted the bill as an issue of privacy and choice. Those testifying in support said the bill would allow dying patients to avoid pain and debilitating conditions in the last stages of their lives.

Tom McDonald, a 77-year-old Lake Oroville resident, told committee members that he is dying of melanoma, a form of skin cancer. He said the bill would “give me the chance to have a peaceful death, look-

Opponents of legalizing physician-assisted suicide march in downtown Los Angeles March 21. On April 2, that city’s Cardinal Roger Mahony called such proposed legislation an "assault on life."

ing presentable with my wife, daughter and son beside me. Don’t condemn me to a death that is so insidious, with unbelievable pain and no relief.”

Dr. Jay Cohen, representing the California Association of Physician Groups, which supports AB 374, noted that the measure has divided the medical community. “We can’t forget that patient care is all about the patient,” he said.

Opponents in their testimony said AB 374 would devalue life and could prompt some patients to hasten death because health care costs would burden their families. They also cited lack of safeguards in the bill and

questioned reliability of doctors’ predictions of terminally ill patients’ life spans.

“I think we get the diagnosis correct, but it’s the prognosis that’s often difficult,” said Dr. Richard Frankenstein, president-elect of the California Medical Association, which opposes AB 374.

“The concerns of patients near the end of life are important, but issues they face, whether they are pain or other symptoms, can virtually always be substantially eased or eliminated by the judicial use of pain management techniques,” he added.

The California Medical Association stated the bill would compromise medical ethics

because assisting in someone’s death directly conflicts with a doctor’s ethical duties. The group also says the bill could create a “slippery slope” toward allowing fatal prescriptions for people suffering from major disabilities or chronic, but non-terminal illnesses.

Holly Swiger, a board member of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association, said approving physicianassisted suicide “would be sending a message to the public that we’re not willing to do harder work to assure pain and symptom management at the end of life.”

“This type of care is available, but is not made available to the majority of the terminally ill,” she claimed.

Marilyn Golden, a policy analyst with the Disability Rights Education Fund, said data from nine years of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon “still leaves too many unanswered questions.”

“Those who back this bill say there would be no significant impact on people with disabilities,” she said. “But in reality there is no clear distinction between people who are terminally ill and people with a chronic illness. There is a significant danger many people would take the ‘escape’ of assisted suicide due to external pressure.”

Catherine Campisi, director of the California Department of Rehabilitation from 1999 to 2006, stated at the hearing she has joined Californians Against Assisted Suicide, a coalition fighting legalization of physician-assisted suicide.

Assisted suicide “is a direct threat to anyone who is viewed as a significant cost liability to public or private health care providers,” Campisi, a member of St. Anthony Parish in Sacramento, said in a press release.

“While it is understandable that people in such situations may greatly fear loss of autonomy or being a burden emotionally or financially on their family, assisted suicide is ASSISTED SUICIDE, page 15

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April 6, 2007

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LONDON (CNS) — A British cardinal has said he would like to have a seat in the House of Lords, the upper chamber of the British Parliament.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor of Westminster said March 28 he believed Catholic bishops should be represented in the political chamber and that he would like to be among the first Catholic prelates to have a seat since the Reformation. “Sometimes I regret there isn’t a Catholic bishop speaking on the points that do arise,” he said after a lecture in Westminster Cathedral Hall on the role of religion in public life. “Some of my fellow bishops think we would be less free if we sat in the Lords. I don’t quite agree with that.”

Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor believes the five Catholic archbishops of estminster, Southwark, Liverpool, Birmingham and Cardiff should be allowed seats. “The five archbishops should be there because of right,” he said.

Members of the House of Lords are not elected, and generally work alongside the House of Commons in debating and drafting legislation. Anglican bishops, called the Lords Spiritual, fill 26 seats of the House of Lords.

The Catholic Church Code of Canon Law does not allow bishops to hold political office.

Papal events in ‘high-def’ VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Keeping in step with the fast pace of communications technology, the Vatican television center is to begin broadcasting in high definition.The first papal event to be aired using the new format will be a an April 15 Mass celebrating Pope Benedict XVI’s April 16 birthday.

“We’ve realized that if we want to continue to do a good job of broadcasting footage of the pope to other television stations, we have to be ready for the day” when high definition is expected to become the norm in television broadcasting, said Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman and head of the Vatican television center, or CTV.

Says Chavez still inspires LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Cesar Chavez’s commitment to justice for the most vulnerable members of society continues to influence Catholics today who are fighting for comprehensive immigration reform, said Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles during the annual Mass honoring the legendary labor leader. “We have this Mass every year

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People protest outside the local legislative assembly in Mexico City March 22 as lawmakers debate legislation that would decriminalize abortions up to 14 weeks into a pregnancy.

Mexico’s Christian churches have banded together to fight legislation that would legalize abortion in Mexico City, fearing abortion could become legal in the rest of the country.

near his birthday, because we want to keep alive the spirit of his spirituality and his deep commitment to the protection of all in a nonviolent way,” said Cardinal Mahony at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels March 25.

Same-sex unions at issue NAVASOTA, Texas (CNS) — The bishops of the U.S. Episcopal Church have requested a meeting with the head of the worldwide Anglican Communion to discuss ways of avoiding a rupture with other Anglican churches over the ordination of an openly gay bishop and the blessing of same-sex unions. The issues have divided the U.S. church, part of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and alienated the U.S. church leadership from the bishops of many other Anglican churches. The meeting request was sent to Archbishop Rowan Williams of Canterbury, England, the titular head of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Episcopal officials said that as of March 27 the archbishop had not responded.

Vatican backs concert by bishop VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican has helped sponsor a concert with music composed by a top Russian Orthodox bishop. Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria, the Russian church’s representative to the European Union, recently wrote and composed the two-hour work titled “The Passion According to Matthew.”

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made its debut in Moscow March 27 to an audience that included Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow.

The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and Pontifical Council for Culture helped bring the music to Rome, where it was performed March 29 at the St. Cecilia Auditorium, a few blocks from St. Peter’s Basilica.

Israel delays negotiating VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Israel postponed a major negotiating session with Vatican officials on questions regarding the Church’s legal and financial status in the Holy Land. The Vatican expressed disappointment at yet another delay in the on-again, off-again talks, which began 15 years ago. The meeting of the joint commission on church-state issues had been scheduled for March 29 at the Vatican and would have been the first plenary session of the commission since 2002. On March 26, Israel told the Vatican the meeting would have to be delayed because it coincided with important developments in the Middle East.

Pope: unity guarantees one faith VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The teaching of the bishops and unity with the pope guarantee that one’s faith truly is the faith taught by Jesus to his apostles, Pope Benedict XVI said.

“The true Gospel is that imparted by the bishops, who have received it in an uninterrupted chain from the apostles,” the pope said March 28 at his weekly general audience.

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San Diego Diocese offers $95 million to settle abuse cases SAN DIEGO (CNS) — In a bankruptcy reorganization plan filed March 28, the San Diego Diocese proposed a $95 million pool to compensate 143 people who claim childhood sexual abuse by priests.

In addition, the diocese proposed to establish a $3 million fund to settle any currently unknown claims that might occur in coming years.

Lead plaintiffs’ attorney Ray Boucher called the diocesan proposal “outrageous” and predicted “a long and expensive battle.” Plaintiffs’ attorneys have indicated they think the settlement should be about double what was offered.

Susan Boswell, an attorney from Tucson, Ariz., who previously represented the Tucson Diocese in its bankruptcy reorganization, is the bankruptcy attorney for the San Diego Diocese. She said she considered the $95 million proposal realistic.

According to the proposal, about half of the money would come from diocesan funds and the other half from insurers.

Under the proposal 83 victims who say they were forced to have sexual intercourse could receive up to $800,000 each. Forty-four who claim they were touched sexually or forced to masturbate could receive between $176,000 and $575,000. Payments to 16 victims of abuse not involving touch, such as being asked to look at pornography or posing for indecent pictures, could range from $10,000 to $175,000.

Besides the different levels of seriousness of the

abuse, factors in determining the amount of each award would include such elements as the age of the victim and the duration and frequency of the abuse.

The San Diego Diocese, which filed for bankruptcy protection Feb. 27, is the latest and largest of five U.S. dioceses that have sought to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Act since 2004 because of numerous sexual abuse claims against their clergy.

The San Diego Diocese … is the latest and largest of five U.S. dioceses that have sought to reorganize under Chapter 11.

San Diego has nearly a million Catholics, more than double the size of the Archdiocese of Portland, Ore., the next largest of the five with 400,000 Catholics.

In its initial financial filing the San Diego Diocese claimed assets of $156 million — a figure disputed by plaintiffs’ attorneys — and liabilities of about $100 million.

Boswell told Catholic News Service April 2 that in a revised filing at the end of March the diocese increased

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Plaintiffs’ lawyers have questioned the failure to list the 14-acre site of a former Catholic high school, for sale to a developer for $65 million, which the diocese says is owned by Catholic Secondary Education, a separate corporate entity established by the diocese.

Boswell declined to comment on the status of the former high school property, saying she does not comment on issues pending in court. “I can tell you this: There has been no hiding of assets,” she said.

As in other dioceses facing bankruptcy proceedings, plaintiffs’ attorneys in San Diego have been seeking to have parish and school properties included as diocesan assets. So far such efforts have not succeeded. Observers believe if the question is ever fully tested in court it would be an expensive, drawnout legal battle that could end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

In a separate action the Diocese of Spokane, Wash., on March 27 released a similar payment plan, or matrix, for its $48 million settlement with about 140 victims.

Payments could range from $15,000 for victims of visual indecency only to a range of $750,000 to $1.5 million for those forced to have sexual intercourse.

The Spokane settlement, tentatively reached Jan. 4, must still receive confirmation by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Patricia Williams. She has set April 13 as a voting deadline for parties to accept the settlement or raise objections to any part of the plan. She has scheduled a confirmation hearing on it for April 24.

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High-profile religious leaders to attend local climate summit SAN FRANCISCO – A day-long summit to address global climate change and the role religious leaders and their constituencies might play in addressing that topic has been scheduled April 14 at Grace Episcopal Cathedral here.

Sponsored by The Regeneration Project, the by-invitation-only event is expected to draw national and regional participation including the Most Rev. Katharine JeffertsSchori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States; Bishop Marc Andrus of the Episcopal Diocese of California; the Rev. Dr. Robert W. Edgar, general secretary of the National Council of Churches; the Rev. Richard Cizik, vice president for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals; Dr. Joel C. Hunter of Northland Church, Longwood, Fla.; and Dr. Sayyid Syeed, secretary general of the Islamic Society of North America.

George Wesolek, director of the San Francisco Archdiocese’s Office of Public Affairs and Social Concerns, will represent the Archdiocese.

“The condition of our earth, the home for our children and grandchildren and their children’s children,” Wesolek said, “is more and more in our hands. We must learn to treat it with care. The environment is a justice issue.”

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May 11-13, 2007 Every Moment, God’s Time A Retreat for Young Adults in the Spirit of Kairos Fr. Thomas J. Carroll, S.J. and Team Young adults, ages 20-40, are welcome to share, with a team of their peers and older mentors, a weekend of prayerful conversations in the spirit of the Kairos retreat tradition, recognizing the invitation of loving God in each moment.

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VALLOMBROSA CENTER Retreats and Spirituality Programs Conferences and Meetings APRIL 13-15, 2007 “His Mercy Endures Forever” Led by Father Kevin Kennedy $190 single room; $170 per person shared room Thomas faced his struggles to believe with radical honesty by bringing those doubts into his encounter with the Risen Jesus. The result was a renewal of faith and of trust in the Lord’s merciful love. What struggles impact our encounter with the Risen Lord? Can we, like Thomas, risk being honest enough to receive the Easter gift of peace. This weekend retreat will be led by Father Kevin Kennedy, a priet of the Archdiocese of San Francisco who currently serves as hospital chaplain for Kaiser and Sequoia Hospitals in Redwood City.

APRIL 14, 2007 “LAUGHTER: Led by Carol Kaplan An Inexpensive Cure for What Ails You” 9:30 am – 3:30 pm; $40 This is your one and only life. Are you enjoying it? Joy is not an “option.” It is a proven cure for better physical, psychological, and spiritual health. Come for the day and have some fun. Wear casual clothes. Carol Kaplan is a marriage and family counselor with a private practice in Monterey, California. She is a well loved retreat director.

APRIL 28, 2007 “Forgiveness: The Healing Act” Led by Susan Cabrera 10:00 am – 3:00 pm; $40

In honor of our 150th Anniversary, St. Mary’s Medical Center is providing free health seminars throughout 2007. The first in our series is on April 17th, 2007 at 12 p.m.

One of the key teachings of Jesus, and one of the most challenging to apply in “real life”, is the teaching of forgiveness. This retreat will focus on: the forgiveness teachings of Christ, what forgiveness is and is not, how to identify what needs to be forgiven, the body/mind/spirit beenfits of forgiveness, and how to start forgiving yourself and others. Susan Cabrera, who has an MA in Counseling Psychology, will lead this retreat.

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MAY 5, 2007 “Love, Anger, Power – and Food!” Led by Shoshana Kobrin 9:30 am – 3:30 pm; $40

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Learn to make food your friend! Concerns about weight and body image are really about buried feelings such as loss, anger, and the need for personal power. This retreat will focus on transforming your inner hungers in the “Fertile Void” – where the longing for spirit, fulfillment, connection and creative living are made possible. Shoshana Korbin, MA is a licensed marriage and family therapist and has been treating people with eating disorders since 1986.

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MAY 6, 2007 “A Contemplative Rosary: Praying” Led by Bob Hurd with Scripture, Song and Icons” 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm; $25 Inspiried by Pope John Paull’s apostolic letter on the rosary (Rosarium Virginis Mariae), Bob Hurd and friends have created a resource that invites us to rediscover the rosary as a form of contemplative prayer. Designed for both communal and individual recitation, A Contemplative Rosary engages the whole person through music, Scripture readings, icons and meditations.

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Well-known pro-life speakers to address student conference A high-profile assembly of pro-life speakers — including the national president of Feminists for Life, Serrin Foster, and the author of the California proposition that would have required parental notification before a minor’s abortion, Katie Short – will address the annual California Students for Life’s conference April 21 at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont.

With a theme of “Life, Camera, Action!

Myths and the Media,” the day-long gathering will “focus on common misinformation and misunderstandings surrounding life issues” and “aim to educate on issues of life especially in light of controversies encouraged by the media,” according to organizers.

In addition to Foster and Short, scheduled speakers include Dr. Thomas Murphy Goodwin, an obstetrician specializing in maternal and fetal medicine; Kristan Hawkins, executive director of National Students for Life of America; Monika Rodman, active in post-abortion healing and other pro-life work; Cecilia Cody, executive director of California Right to Life Educational Fund; and Karen Cross, political director of National Right to Life.

According to organizers, the conference will concentrate on supporting

the science of human developmental biology, dealing effectively and clearly with the media, and how to “educate, support and encourage others in making lifeaffirming decisions,” planners said.

Check-in and on-site registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. The conference will run from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., including complimentary lunch.

Founded in 2001, California Students for Life (CASTL) describes itself as a “non-politically and non-religiously affiliated coalition of California collegiate pro-

life groups.” Members include students at University of Californian at Berkeley, Notre Dame de Namur, Santa Clara University; Stanford University; U.C. Davis; UCLA, and San Francisco State University.

The Celebrate Life Conference, held at the school of a member group, is CASTL’s largest annual event.

To register online, or for more information, view the conference Web site: www.stanford.edu/group/ssfl/clc07.html or email CelebrateLifeConference@gmail.com.

Serrin Foster

human beings from conception to natural death; examining how the media portrays the pro-life perspective; and “acting on pro-life principles in the context of political and social pressures.”

Participants will hear presentations on

‘Demolition party’ to benefit National Shrine of Sr. Francis An entire block near the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi church, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco, will be closed off for a celebration marking deconstruction of the current gift shop to make space for a replica of St. Francis of Assisi’s own “small church” (Porziuncola) in Italy.

To take place from 4-8 p.m., the “Demolition Block Party” will benefit the shrine’s Renaissance Project. Restaurants of neighborhood will be offering food and beverages. Suggested donations: $50, $75, $100. For more information, visit www.shrinerenewal.org.

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State needs to hear from Church, says bishop “We are careful to select only those issues which have a significant moral comFAIRFAX – While the Catholic Church ponent or affect the life of the Church and in California “does not seek to impose our her ability to freely minister to our people values on anyone,” it is nonetheless called and in the community,” explained the bish“to be a strong moral voice on what we op, who is former chair of the United States believe is necessary for the well being of Catholic Conference of Bishops’ society and the good of the human family,” Committee on Ecumenical and the president of the California Conference of Interreligious Affairs and currently a memCatholic Bishops told an audience at St. Rita ber of the USCCB Hispanic Affairs Parish here March 27.

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The vast impact the Church and Catholics High on the CCC radar, he said, are have on the state make it all the more critical efforts to have conscience clauses removed they have a voice in California public polifrom reproductive health legislation which cies, Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton indiwould force Catholic hospitals or individuals cated, point out that: to take part in abortions or other procedures ● The Catholic Church is the largest in opposition to Church teaching. provider of health care, social services and Another issue, he noted, is current legisprivate education in California operating 41 lation, AB 374, that if passed would allow hospitals, 31 health care centers, 13 colleges physician-assisted suicide. (See related story and universities, 115 high schools, 586 ele- Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton (center) joined St. Rita parishioners including on Page 3.) mentary schools and 181 social service units. Dolores Stoll (left) and Dorothy Yudice, and Father Ken Weare, pastor, for a Lenten The CCC has also been “very involved in ● Catholics make up 30 percent of the reform of the prisons, a terribly broken syssoup dinner prior to his March 27 lecture at the Fairfax parish. Yudice and her state population, approximately 11 million — husband, Hank, have been mainstays in the parish’s outreach program to Guatemala. tem,” he said, as well as being “strongly of whom nearly half are Hispanic or Latino. committed to comprehensive immigration The last of six speakers in a Lenten lecreform,” “promoting health care for chilture series at St. Rita based on the 1967 encyclical The encyclical’s exhortation, he said, has clear local dren,” and encouraging vocational training “with special “Populorum Progressio,” Bishop Blaire focused his application where “the great material needs of our people attention to be given to (high school) drop-outs.” address on work of the California Catholic Conference in California are still food, health, education, housing and “The list goes on,” he said, “depending upon legislation (CCC) which, he said, “resonates with the teachings” of employment.” introduced, judicial decisions rendered …, the governor’s Pope Paul VI’s well-known document.

The bishop told the gathering of about 100 that priorities, the state budget and cultural issues which weigh The CCC is the state Catholic bishops’ lobbying arm “Populorum Progressio” “is not talking about just acquisi- in on moral and Gospel values.” based in Sacramento, the “only lobby that doesn’t give tion of possessions but rather of an integrated fulfillment, a A recent CCC endeavor, the bishop told his St. Rita gifts,” the bishop quipped. development from less human conditions to more human audience, is looking at establishing “legislative networks “Listen to the opening words” of “Populorum conditions.” throughout the dioceses in the state.” While in the “early Progressio,” Bishop Blaire said, then quoted them: That goal, he said, underpins CCC priority setting as it stages,” he added, “It will be most interesting to see what “The development of peoples has the Church’s close evaluates “the flood of bills before the legislature each year.” impact this will have upon governmental decision making attention, particularly the development of those peoples State bishops “as pastors” meet with the CCC staff “as when there is a wider engagement of Catholic people in the who are striving to escape from hunger, misery, endemic experts” twice a year to “discern prudential ways to bring work of the Conference.” diseases and ignorance; of those …looking for a wider the Gospel to bear on legislative, judicial or executive matOne frustration for Church workers, Bishop Blaire share in the benefits of civilization and a more active ters,” the bishop said.

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April 6, 2007

More than 40 youngsters earn Scouting awards More than 40 boys and girls received Catholic Scouting medals and emblems during the annual Catholic Scouting Award Sunday liturgy Feb. 14 at St. Philip the Apostle Parish in San Francisco.

Father Anthony La Torre, archdiocesan Scouting chaplain, blessed the medals and emblems and presided at the Mass.

Members of the Archdiocese’s Catholic Scouting Committee presented the awards.

Also present were representatives from the various Girl and Boy Scout regional offices.

Girl Scouts who received a 2006 Glorious Mysteries Patch included Carmel Gisslow and Jo Van Hasselt (Troop 199); Cynthia Ziganti, Jessie Hernandez, Dawn Van Hasselt and Jade Van Hasselt (Troop 1018); Joy Van Hasselt and Jan Van Hasselt (Troop 1213); Brianna Davis and Emily Hernandez (Troop 1223); Nina Reodica (Troop 1705); Rebecca Gisslow, Laura Ziganti and Sierra Stark (Troop 2818).

Four young women additionally received the 2003 Joyful Mysteries Patch, 2004 Luminous Mysteries Patch and 2005 Sorrowful Mysteries Patch: Carmel Gisslow, Brianna Davis Nina Reodica and Rebecca Gisslow.

In addition, Brianna Davis and Nina Reodica earned the Eucharistic Patch.

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Pictured with Catholic Scouting Chaplain Father Anthony La Torre are four members of St. Gregory Scout Pack 152, from left: Mitchell Marinaro, RJ Teijeiro, Austin Lau and Jiacomo Rodriguez.

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Scouts receiving the Light of Christ Emblem included Vincent Kvarna and Efrain Alvarado III (Pack 74); Jiacomo Rodriguez, Ben Carrithers, Austin Lau, Mitchell Marinaro, RJ Teijeiro, Randall Williams, Nicholas Daher and Benjamin LaMar (Pack 152); Julian D’Agostino and Patrick Callagy (Pack 152); Alexander

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Cody Calhoun Dragon of Pack 345 earned the Duty to God Patch. The patch honors Scouts who have made presentations on the religious emblems and encouraged members of troops to study their faith.

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said, is that many who qualify for state and federal assistance — “laws that are the books” — either are not aware of them, or have not been able to find a way to access them.

According to a recent report for the CCC by Seattle-based researcher Joseph Claude Harris, Catholics represent nearly 60 percent of California’s projected population growth in the next 20 years.

The state’s total Catholic population, Harris projected, will grow by 5.6 million in the next 20 years — from just over 11 million now to 16.7 million in 2025. The increase will reportedly include 3.5 million from a natural increase — births in excess of deaths — and 2.1 million as a result of migration from other states and countries. California’s total population is expected to grow from about 37 million to nearly 46 million in 2025.

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Good Shepherd Sisters marking 75 years of Bay Area ministry The Sisters of the Good Shepherd will celebrate 75 years of service to women of San Francisco and northern California with a Mass of Thanksgiving April 21 at St. Elizabeth Church, 450 Somerset St., San Francisco, at 11 a.m.

“Everyone is invited,” said Good Shepherd Sister Elizabeth Schillergs, coordinator of the celebration which is themed: “Gratitude is the Memory of the Heart.”

“We are conveying our gratitude to the San Francisco community for all the support they have given us over the last 75 years,” Sister Schillergs said.

“The Sisters of the Good Shepherd are celebrating 75 years of serving women and young girls in San Francisco,” said Ann Lund, executive director of Good Shepherd Gracenter, the Sisters’ 13-bed residential treatment facility for women. “They have planned a special Mass and reception in gratitude for the wonderful residents of the Bay Area who have long supported their work.”

Arriving at the request of Archbishop Edward Hanna in 1932, the Sisters soon opened University Mound School, a residential home for adolescent girls referred through the court system. One of the largest such facilities in the nation, the school housed more than 200 girls at a time.

The reputation was so widespread that Mrs. Rose Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy visited the school in 1968 to learn more about its success with such a broad spectrum of girls.

The Sisters of the Good Shepherd and University Mound Labor leader Joe Sullivan meets with Good Shepherd Sister Mary of the Passion School attracted the attention of a caring San Francisco during construction of Grace Cottage in 1961. The facility was a transitional population as well. Both a Women’s Guild and Men’s Guild home for graduates of the Sisters’ University Mound School. supported the Sisters’ work. The women held fashion Rose Kennedy shows and boutiques to raise funds, while Ben Swing and the Men’s Guild held a huge meets Sisters of lunch each year at the Fairmont Hotel. A 30-year mortgage was paid off in less than seven. the Good Shepherd Both guilds continue today. during her visit to In 1961, San Francisco labor unions, under the leadership of Joseph Sullivan, donated University Mound materials and labor to build a home on the property where the young girls could live safely School in 1968. and securely after graduation, as they transitioned into working and providing for themselves.

Mrs. Kennedy Some students were wards of the court with no living relatives, and others were classified as and her son, pre-delinquent. Regardless of their status, thousands of girls received a welcoming home and a then-Senator solid education at University Mound School. It remained opened until the late 1970s when the Robert F. Kennedy, court system began placing adolescents into foster care rather than large residential schools. came to the Remaining true to their mission of providing protection and rehabilitation to young school to study the women, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd soon opened Gracenter, a residential treatment facilSisters’ approach ity for 18 through 35-year-olds dealing with addiction. Many of the residents also suffer hometo residential care. lessness, inadequate education and unemployment. Gracenter remains one of the few facilities in northern California to treat only females. This is crucial to the recovery of many of the clients, Lund points out, because many enter with significant histories of trauma and abuse.

The program is six months long. Clients participate in classes and individual therapy Clients are a combination of “self-admits” and others placed through Drug Court. for the first 90 days, then move to work or attending school along with continued thera- Some clients have insurance, while most have few or no assets. Many are estranged from py for the final 90 days. their families upon entry in the program.

No client has ever been refused due to inability to pay for treatment, Lund emphasized.

Good Shepherd San Francisco also provides addiction assessments as well as individual and family therapy for those not enrolled in the residential program. In addition, court mandated anger management and parenting classes are available.

The Sisters of the Good Shepherd support the program through a combination of donations, grants and interest on a small endowment, They do not operate under a City contract. Currently, the program is transitioning to lay governance. Ann Lund is the first lay executive director. A board of directors oversees the operation.

Good Shepherd San Francisco is part of the larger Good Shepherd national network, with more than 80 separate programs operating out of 36 Good Shepherd agencies in 23 states.

No single group of agencies within the United States works with as many emotionally and psychologically challenged adolescents as the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Lund said. In addition, the order operates numerous low-cost housing alternatives for homeless women with children throughout the country.

The United Nations has granted the Sisters of the Good Shepherd advisory status in recognition of the more than 700 Good Shepherd Houses throughout the world. The Sisters continue to assist the UN in the rescue and rehabilitation of young women who are victims of sex trafficking.

“Come and celebrate on April 21 with the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. They want to join in prayer and gratitude with those who have already been part of their mission and those who wish to assist their work in the future,” a public invitation from the Sisters of the Good Shepherd said. Advance response is requested by April 10; e-mail Lschillergs@aol.com or call (415) 586-2822.

Further information on Gracenter can been found on its Web site: http://www.gsgracenter.org.

On behalf of San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer and other northern California religious leaders, Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang reads a statement condemning government tactics used against potential undocumented immigrants. A press conference was held March 30 on the steps of Mission San Rafael in San Rafael.

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April 6, 2007

Members of the Golden Gate Minuteman Project, a political network staunchly opposed to immigrants entering the United States illegally, staged a rally March 31 in San Rafael in support of Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps targeting undocumented immigrants.

End immigration raids, urge religious leaders

By Jose Luis Aguirre

would like for our people to understand that the Church broken and we need comprehensive immigration reform SAN RAFAEL —- From the steps of Mission San is united with them in this struggle and that it is underat the national level now.”

Rafael here northern California faith leaders called for The following day, a Saturday, standable they are afraid, but they suspension of sweeps for undocumented immigrants by pro- and anti- undocumented-worker can find comfort and security in the the United States Immigration and Customs rallies were staged in downtown San Church. They know that, but we Enforcement agency (ICE) pending comprehensive Rafael. The Golden Gate Minuteman need to say it over and over again.” reform of immigration laws.

Project, a political network advocatDuring ICE operations March 6 At the March 30 press conference, San Francisco ing strict immigration law enforceand 7 in San Rafael and Novato 65 Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, representing ment, demonstrated in support of ICE people were arrested and 23 reportArchbishop George Niederauer, told reporters immigraraids. Opponents organized a counter edly deported as part of Operation tion law is one thing, but how it is enforced is another. rally in the same area.

Return to Sender, an initiative of “I don’t think the way they enforced the law is right, During the March 30 press conthe Homeland Security Department or just, or moral, or tolerable, especially for children. We ference representatives from several launched last June to identify and all are immigrants some way or another, and why should faith groups delivered brief statearrest immigrants who have been Catholic priests who we treat other immigrants as aliens? If the government ments. “Will my mother be there ordered deported. addressed the March 30 wants to secure the borders, it is right. But if they treat when I get home? This is the quesAccording to ICE statistics, press conference at Mission human beings inhumanly, it’s not right, ” said the native tion a little girl from a Catholic between Oct. 1 and Jan. 26, more San Rafael included, from of Beijing. school asked fearing that her famithan 800 undocumented immiNear the end of the press conference the bishop read a ly will be separated,” said Mary left: Father Paul Rossi, St. grants were arrested in Northern Raphael Parish pastor; statement prepared on behalf of “the bishops and Doyle, the Oakland Diocese’s social and Central California.

Father Brendan McBride, Archbishop and broader faith community of northern justice coordinator.

A spokesperson for ICE has said coordinator of the Irish California” in which ICE “tactics” were challenged and “We call upon the government enforcement efforts will continue.

Immigration Pastoral described as having spread “anxiety throughout our to respect both the rights and digni“Juan,” a Guatemalan who communities resulting in the erosion of trust and confity of those without legal docu- Center in San Francisco, and attended the press conference, said he dence in local police agencies.” ments,” Doyle said. came to the U.S. to work and improve San Francisco Auxiliary Characterizing the raids as “a symptom of a much “Our Bishop Allen Vigneron,” she life for his family. “We are not crimiBishop Ignatius Wang. larger problem, the lack of a sensible immigration policy,” continued, “said earlier this month nals, and this country is so big there the prepared statement said, “Families in our communities that immigrants fill up our communities materially and spirare opportunities for everybody.” The ICE raids concern are living in terror. A seven-year-old girl was put in handitually, and that they are not criminals. They are families, our him, but he said he is hopeful about immigration reform. cuffs. Children are sleeping with their backpacks packed neighbors, our brothers and sisters and we stand with them.”

Press conference participants also included Most Rev. with necessities because they don’t Other Catholic bishops sending Marc Andrus, leader of the California Episcopal Diocese; know where they will be or if they will representatives included San Jose’s Rabbi Henry Schreibman from the Jewish Community be with their parents. Children are Bishop Patrick McGrath and Relations Council of San Francisco and Marin; Rev. Carol not going to school. And parents are Stockton’s Bishop Stephen Blaire.

Hovis, executive director of Marin Interfaith Council; Rev. not taking their children to hospitals Bishop McGrath was represented by Pamela Griffith from the Marin Interfaith Committee for or church. This is not humane.”

Father Jon Pedigo, director of the Worker Justice; Rev. Carol Been from the Interfaith Father Paul Rossi, pastor of St. Justice for Immigrants campaign Council on Religion, Race, Economic and Social Justice; Raphael Parish, told the crowd that in the San Jose Diocese.

Tom Wilson, director of Canal Alliance; San Rafael Mayor “people of faith” should view the Stockton’s Bishop Blaire and Al Boro; and San Rafael City Councilman Cyr Miller. immigration question as one not Monterey’s Bishop Richard Garcia The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency only of law, but “as an issue of expressed strong support for the has conducted raids in recent weeks at workplaces across morality.” the U.S. to round up workers in the country illegally. In Father John Balleza, pastor statement and event, Wesolek said.

George Wesolek, director of the of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Father Brendan McBride, coortwo communities where raids took place March 6 -Archdiocese’s Office of Public Policy dinator of the Irish Immigration South Bend, Ind., and New Bedford, Mass. -- members of Redwood City, takes part in a and Social Concerns, said ICE raids Pastoral Center in San Francisco, the Catholic community and the wider community conblessing for immigrants and have created a climate of fear in said immigrants are poor people tinue to help families torn apart by the federal action, their families at the end of trying to make a life for themselves many neighborhoods. “The immiespecially children left unattended. A majority of the the March 30 press confergrant community which works next in this country, “and we have to be detainees in both places were women, many of them sinto us, lives next to us, goes to ence at Mission San Rafael. with them in every step.” gle parents with babies or toddlers. church with us, and sends their Father John Balleza, pastor of The United States Catholic Conference has issued children to our schools is in terror, and they’re living in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Redwood City where ICE raids repeated pleas for heightened attention for immigration pain,” he stated, adding, “Our immigration system is were staged in early February, told the gathering, “I law reform.

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Easter Message 2007 Let us resolve to think and talk and act as Easter people Again this Easter the Gospel of life proclaims to the disciples of Jesus, “The Lord’s tomb is empty! He is risen!” Grace and life in Christ have defeated sin and death. But the good news calls out to each believer even more intimately, “Your tomb is empty! You can rise!”

Jesus has lived and died and been raised that we might live, die and rise to eternal life with him. But our faith in our resurrection is not confined to a post-mortem moment. One spiritual writer has remarked that when a Christian comes to the end of life, he or she will have left behind a trail of empty tombs, only the very last of which will be the grave. Children grown into young adults, and when they leave home and strike out on their own, there is a dying to one way of living and a rising to another. At times we need to die to old ways of thinking, of judging and relating to others, of handling challenges and difficulties.

When the spirit of Jesus delivers us from doubt or confusion or fear or grief, we leave an empty tomb behind. Whenever we choose with grace to let go of envy or anger or greed, we are raised from “a little death.” Whenever prayer and the help and example of others strengthens us to overcome an addiction or an obsession or a sinful behavior, we step out from a darkened grave into the light of God’s loving regard.

On the first Easter Sunday evening, the risen Jesus spoke to his first disciples the same words he speaks to us together this Easter Sunday, 2007: “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”

Let us resolve to think and talk and act as Easter people, bringing Christ’s peace to our families, our communities, and our world.

Most Reverend George H. Niederauer Archbishop of San Francisco April 8, 2007

Thoughts for Easter season English Dominican Father Tom Kearns reminds us that "peace" is a word that often appears in Christian vocabulary. "Peace be with you" is the greeting that Jesus gave to his disciples when he comes and stands among them after his resurrection, and Jesus repeats the phrase as the disciples rejoice when they recognize him on that first Easter Sunday evening. He uses an identical greeting when he comes to them again eight days later. Earlier, in the course of his farewell address to his closest friends before his passion and death, Jesus had told them not to let their hearts be troubled at his going away: "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you." But, he added, "not as the world gives do I give to you," (Jn. 14:27) and, again, he says to them, "I have said this to you so that you may have peace." (Jn. 16:33) Just as Jesus came to his disciples on that first Easter Sunday evening while they were hiding in fear behind closed doors, Father Kearns states, so too Jesus comes today and shows himself to us, bringing us his peace, and enabling us – like his first disciples -- to rejoice in the knowledge that Christ is risen indeed.

As we begin the Easter Season, Jesus invites us to share in his resurrection and in his life of glory with the Father and the Holy Spirit. But to us, also, Jesus shows his hands and his side, bearing the marks that remind us that his victory and peace were attained through his passion and death. Jesus beckons us to join him in freely offering up to the Father whatever pain or suffering we may experience in our lives, so that dying with him we may also rise with him and share in that peace which the world cannot give. MEH

Can war be ‘good’?

Parish not ‘lost’

What is it about anyway? Is it about winning or losing, and we need to be perceived as winning, whatever the cost in lives and money, and regardless of whether the cause was just or not?

Christ never took up a sword against another. His rebukes were verbal. In all of history wars were traditionally fought for territorial acquisition and greed of various kinds, and ended only when people got tired of them. Has anything changed?

The “good war,” presumably good because we were among the victors in World War II, killed somewhere around 55 million people and destroyed much of Europe and Asia. What “good” came out of it was the notion that such slaughter was a lesson — that it is better to cooperate with other nations in finding solutions to world economic crises and other problems peacefully.

This administration, by isolating itself from the rest of the world, making its own rules of law, and oppressing its own people, has done exactly the opposite. Saber-rattling is one thing, but brandishing nuclear weapons is infinitely more lethal.

Let us follow the example of Christ who was a healer with a gentle touch who embraced the rejected people of the society he lived in, and who left us with a message of hope.

Our troops, including the 25,000 already wounded by this war, are being better served by truth seekers than by those who choose to deny reality. I think pacifism is more consistent with Christianity now than it has ever been.

Rosemary K. Ring Kentfield

Catholics know their parish is a dynamic center of service to youth, seniors and families. It is not a museum for the nostalgic contentment of a few or a venue for defiance of prudent authority, as presented in the San Francisco Chronicle series, “The lost parish.”

In the 1990s many dioceses found it necessary to close urban parishes. The Archdiocese of San Francisco was not immune from demographic trends that affected Church attendance and the viability of parishes. In 1994 there were 52 Catholic churches within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. The bustling congregations they had served in the past simply no longer existed.

Archbishop John R. Quinn demonstrated vision and administrative responsibility (aka “good stewardship”). He convened expert lay leaders and experienced clergy to evaluate conditions and make recommendations that would serve Catholics of the future, not the past.

The committee concluded wisely that limited resources should not be used to maintain half empty buildings when they would be needed for human services, including the homeless, AIDS, scholarships and other charities.

Archbishop Quinn accepted the recommendations and like a good shepherd he bore recriminations as did his successor, Archbishop Levada. The committee did the right thing.

Mike DeNunzio San Francisco Ed. note: Mike DeNunzio is a former development director for the Archdiocese.

Explain your stand

L E T T E R S

In regard to the second editorial in three months criticizing the Israeli defensive wall: I have two questions: 1) How can you expect Israel to negotiate with a terrorist government that won’t even acknowledge Israel’s right to exist? 2) Why is a Catholic newspaper taking sides on a political (versus a moral) wedge issue that can only unnecessarily divide the Catholic community?

Kent M. Grealish Daly City (Ed note: The Vatican sees the IsraeliPalestinian issue in a moral context and has called for a two-state solution with peace and justice. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem — covering Israel, Palestine and Jordan — has spoken out about the injustices evident in the treatment of Arab Christians and non-Christians in the West Bank and Gaza. One must consider that while the wall may have reduced the incidence of suicide bombers hitting Israel, the wall has brought great hardship and suffering to the Palestinian people. As the Patriarchate’s Archbishop Fouad Twal notes, “There cannot be peace and security for one people, and not the other.” We have tried to be fair and balanced, but also willing to speak the truth. MEH)

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Misguided stand

I read in dismay the stance the Archdiocese of San Francisco has taken against the immigration raids in the San Rafael area. The Catholic Church, or churches of any religion, should not be involved in such matters as the raids focused on illegal immigrants. The meaning of illegal as described in the Marion dictionary is “not according to or authorized by law.”

As described in Onelook Dictionary: “illegal immigrant – n. an alien (non-citizen) who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa.”

I feel sorry for the people who wish to get away from oppression and live in a better world, etc., etc., etc. However, it must be done in a lawful manner. I am married to a legal immigrant. My parents were legal immigrants and went through Ellis Island. I know what it takes to become a permanent resident. If people wish to emigrate to the United States, then do it legally.

On March 31 headlines read, “Clergy oppose immigration raids.” What? These people were arrested because they had been caught previously and were given voluntary deportation which obviously they chose to ignore. Now they have been arrested. So? Quoting George Wesolek of the Archdiocese: “We must temporarily and immediately suspend the ICE raids because of the terror that is going on in our communities.” What terror? Who is Wesolek to demand this? Is he speaking for all Catholics? Not me. What part of the sentence, “These people are illegal,” doesn’t he understand?

American citizens cannot just go to another country and demand all that “our” illegals want. The other countries would put us in jail, fine us and deport us. Was Wesolek talking for the Catholic Church? Is this the stance the Archdiocese of San Francisco has taken? Is this his personal feeling? I am a devout Catholic, a graduate of a Catholic high school in San Francisco, and I am infuriated. The Archdiocese needs to stay out of politics.

Diana Rossini San Rafael

April 6, 2007

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The Catholic Difference The calendar pages turn, Lent unfolds – and once again God comes to the rescue of our humanity. That is what we remember, ponder and celebrate each year in the great Easter Triduum: the astonishing good news that the Creator of the universe entered his creation, in the person of his son, in order to redirect the story back to its proper end, which is eternal life within the light and love of the Blessed Trinity. That’s a rescue story for the ages.

It is also, as Paul put it to those rowdy Corinthians, “a stumbling block to Jews and a folly to gentiles” (1 Corinthians 1.23). Other New Testament texts refer to the “scandal” of the cross. But what kind of “scandal” is this?

It is not a scandal against reason; it is a scandal beyond reason. Creation, Joseph Ratzinger once wrote, displays the “exaggerated infinity of God’s love.” The love of God, that mysterious exchange within the life of the Trinity in which the gift eternally enhances both the giver and the receiver, bursts the bounds of the inner-trinitarian life and there is – creation. Yet if the exaggeration of the divine love is manifest in the creation, how much more is it manifest in the incarnation and the redemption?

The God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus is, Benedict XVI constantly reminds us, “the God with a human face.” As the pope put it last September in Germany, in the first section of the Creed we confess the world began, not accidentally, but purposefully: a divine purpose is at

work in the created order. But then, Benedict teaches, we get more: “God does not leave us groping in the dark.” He comes looking for us in history. The creative reason and love from which everything proceeds “has a face”: the face of goodness, the face of love.

For Christians, the “face of God” is the holy face of Christ. On Good Friday, we see the exaggerated love of God at its most scandalous: for the holy face is struck, spat upon, lacerated, crowned with thorns. Here is a scandal beyond reason: what the world sees as the quintessence of irrational brutality, the eyes of faith see as a love that has burst the bounds of our reason to show us the deeper “reason” of God, which is the reason of infinite love.

We live in a season of irrationality, as the pictures in our newspapers regularly remind us. The irrationality of the early 21st century is not only the irrationality of murder-inthe-name-of-God, however. It is also the irrationality of the radical skeptic, who insists human beings can never know the truth of anything with surety. Corrosive skepticism is eating away at the cultural vitals of Europe, the continent that gave the world the very idea of reason. Corrosive skepticism is not unknown in America, which is Europe transplanted. At this moment in history, confronted on the one side by irrational faith and on the other by a profound loss of faith in reason, the Church, Benedict XVI insists, must “make more room for rationality.”

The rationality the Church proclaims is not, however, identical to the rationality of the scientists. It is a more ample rationality, a bigger reason. For the reason to which Christianity gives George Weigel witness is the reason that is the Logos, the Word of God, the second person of the blessed Trinity. And the second person of the Trinity, incarnate, displays for us the human face of God, the face of infinitely exaggerated love.

The reason of God, the Logos through whom all things were made, calls us beyond reason to love. Walking the Way of the Cross, Jesus reaches the end of the road of the world’s rationality – and becomes, thereby, a stumbling block and a folly. But a more ample “reason” is at work here: the logic of love, carried out to infinity. That is what bursts the bounds of the tomb on Easter morning. The tomb is empty. The world has been suffused with the power of divine love, which is the most living thing there is.

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

Spirituality Today

The lessons of ‘Blue Snow’ What often attracts us to a book is its title. That’s why I picked up “Beyond Blue Snow,” by Father Paul Keenan (Illumination Books).

While the subtitle was more explanatory — “Essays Toward the Refreshment of the Soul” — I kept wondering, “What is “Blue Snow”? Father Keenan, director of radio ministries for the Archdiocese of New York, begins his book with an explanation, his personal story of encountering “blue snow” from his childhood years.

There was a painting his parents loved that hung over the fireplace. It showed a place in rural Canada — a shack surrounded by trees. The artist had painted a “patch of blue,” like a shadowy mist that connected the cabin with the trees. Somehow the painting bothered his Nana, who called that patch “blue snow,” maintaining that “no artist in his right mind would ever paint blue snow,” Father Keenan tells us.

Well, as he got older, studied hard, suffered from a near-death illness, turned to God and then gave his life to God, Father Keenan knew he had learned an unexpected lesson from his Nana’s “blue snow”: We all have to deal with the “shadows,” the “dark side” of our lives.

“Our first tendency, however,” writes Father Keenan, “is to see our shadows as ‘blue snow’ — an abnormality, an

anomaly, something we would do better to write off and forget about.”

A priest of 26 years who has served in New York City’s Lower East Side, Hell’s Kitchen and the Garment District, he has seen “blue snow” in the lives of many people. He describes our shadow sides as the “blue snow we try hard to ignore and keep hidden from others.”

“Interesting, isn’t it, how many of our ‘blue snow’ names end in the suffix ‘pression’ — depression, apprehension, regression, suppression?” he notes. This, he said, “assures us that under no circumstances will we show our ‘blue snow’ to others. Why? Because we know our shadows. We are afraid that if others discover these ‘scary’ sides of us, this would simply destroy us.”

There is more. There is the “blue snow” caused when one has been broken by mistakes, cruelty, tremendous loss, death of a loved one, physical incapacitation and even just bad luck.

I have lived my share of these pains and met so many people similarly afflicted. Sometimes I have tried to help them keep faith by quoting John Donne, the 17th-century English preacher-poet who said: “If God breake my bones, it is but to set them strayter ..., if he draw his knife, it is but to prune his Vine.”

But it remains always difficult to understand why God shows his love for us by allowing so many of us to have mounds of “blue snow.”

How do we get beyond it?

By never denying Antoinette Bosco or repressing the emotional or spiritual shadows that can plague us long term or suddenly, as Father Keenan points out. It is within our power to face these and be victorious, bringing our shadows into the light provided by God. Father Keenan affirms poetically, “Truth is, God transforms the shadow by lighting it and making it beautiful, just as the light of the sun or the moon transforms the shadow of a tree, making it part of the overall beauty of the forest.”

With faith, we can see the truth of this.

Antoinette Bosco is the author of a dozen books including “One Day He Beckoned.”

Spirituality for Life

The mystery of the cross of Jesus Among all the religious symbols in the world none is more universal than the cross. You see crosses everywhere, on walls, on hillsides, in churches, in houses, in bedrooms, on chains around peoples’ necks, on rings, on ear-rings, on old people, on young people, on believers, and on people who aren’t sure in what they believe.

Not everyone can explain what the cross means or why they choose to wear one, but most everyone has an inchoate sense it is a symbol, perhaps the ultimate symbol, for depth, love, fidelity and faith.

And the cross is exactly that, the ultimate symbol of depth, love, fidelity and faith. Rene Girard, an anthropologist, once commented, “The cross of Jesus is the single most revolutionary moral event in all of history.”

The world measures time by it. We are in the year 2007 (roughly) since Jesus died on a cross and everincreasing numbers of people began to organize their lives around its significance.

What is so morally revolutionary in the cross?

Precisely because it such a deep mystery, the cross is not easy to grasp intellectually. The deeper things in life, love, fidelity, morality and faith are not mathematics, but mysteries whose unfathomable depths always

leave room for more still to be understood. We never quite arrive at an adequate understanding.

But that doesn’t mean we don’t know them.

Knowing is different than understanding and we intuit a lot more than we can intellectually imagine or express.

For example, Time magazine did a cover story some years ago on the meaning of the cross and interviewed a large number of people asking what the cross of Jesus meant to them. One woman admitted she couldn’t really explain what the cross of Jesus meant to her, but said she had a sense of its meaning: When she was young girl, her mother was murdered by a jealous boyfriend. When she saw the blood-soaked mattress and her mother’s bloody hand-print on the wall, she realized she had to find a connection between her mother’s story (and her blood on that mattress) and Jesus’ story (and his blood on the cross.) Sometimes the heart intuits where the head needs to go.

Beyond this gut-knowledge, what can we intellectually grasp about the meaning of the cross? What is its revolutionary moral character?

Theologians, classically, have tried to come to grips with this mystery by dividing the meaning of the cross (and of Jesus’ death) into two parts: First, the cross gives

us our deepest understanding of the nature of God. Second, the cross is redemptive, it saves us. Christians believe that somehow we are washed clean in the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God. Father Neither of these Ron Rolheiser concepts is easy to explain, though theologians do better with the first, the cross as revelation, than with the second, the cross as redemptive. But both concepts, even to the limited extent we can intellectually understand them, are thoroughly morally revolutionary.

Christianity is 2000 years old, but it took us nearly 1900 years to fully grasp the fact that slavery is wrong, that it goes against heart of Jesus’ teaching. The same can be said about the equality of women. Much of what Jesus revealed to us is like a time-released capsule.

Throughout the centuries, slowly, gradually, incrementalROLHEISER, page 14

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Easter: a rescue story for the ages

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EASTER SUNDAY THE RESURRECTION OF THE LORD Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23, Colossians 3:1-4; John 20:1-9 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (ACTS 10:34A, 37-43) Peter proceeded to speak and said: “You know what has happened all over Judea, beginning in Galilee After the baptism that John preached, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power.

He went about doing good and healing all those oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.

We are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem.

They put him to death by hanging him on a tree. This man God raised on the third day and granted that he be visible, not to all the people, but to us, the witnesses chosen by God in advance, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. ”He commissioned us to preach to the people and testify that he is the one appointed by God as judge of the living and the dead. To him all the prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in him will receive forgiveness of sins through his name.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23) R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.

Let the house of Israel say, “His mercy endures forever.”

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

“The right hand of the Lord has struck with power; the right hand of the Lord is exalted.

I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the Lord.”

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

By the Lord has this been done; it is wonderful in our eyes.

R. This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE COLOSSIANS (COL 3:1-4) Brothers and sisters: If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Rolheiser . . .

■ Continued from page 13 ly, Jesus’ message is dissolving more deeply into our consciousness.

And this is particularly true about our understanding of the cross and what it teaches. For example: There have been popes for 2000 years, beginning with Peter, but it was only the last pope, John Paul II, in our own generation, who stood up and said with clarity that capital punishment is wrong (independent of any arguments about whether or not it is a deterrent, brings closure to the victims’ families or not, or can be argued in terms of justice). Capital punishment is wrong because it goes against the heart of the Gospel as revealed in the cross — namely, we should forgive murderers, not kill them.

That is just one of the morally revolutionary features inside the cross. There are countless more. Rene Girard, speaking as an anthropologist, puts it one way when he says the cross is the most revolu-

When Christ your life appears, then you too will appear with him in glory.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 20:1-9) On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the morning, while it was still dark, and saw the stone removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they put him.”

So Peter and the other disciple went out and came to the tomb. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.

When Simon Peter arrived after him, he went into the tomb and saw the burial cloths there, and the cloth that had covered his head, not with the burial cloths but rolled up in a separate place. Then the other disciple also went in, the one who had arrived at the tomb first, and he saw and believed. For they did not yet understand the Scripture that he had to rise from the dead. tionary moral event in the history of the planet. Mark, the Evangelist, speaking as a disciple of Jesus, puts it another way.

For him, the cross of Jesus is the deep secret to everything.

In Mark’s Gospel, to the extent we understand the cross of Jesus, we grasp life’s deepest secret. The reverse is just as true. To the extent we don’t grasp the meaning of the cross, we miss the key that opens life’s deepest secrets. When we don’t grasp the cross, life’s deep mysteries become a riddle.

Both Mark and Rene Girard are right.

The cross of Jesus contains life’s deepest moral secret, but, as Rumi says, we live with a secret we sometimes know, and then not.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and awardwinning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. He can be contacted through his Web site: www.ronrolheiser.com.

Scripture Reflection FATHER RICHARD FINN, OP

The dawning of faith at the tomb – and in us How do we expect John to narrate the resurrection this Easter morning? Do we look for trumpets, for a swelling note of glory from the Evangelist whose Gospel opens with the awesome proclamation of the word made flesh?

What we find is Mary of Magdala shocked to discover in the semi-darkness that the tomb has been disturbed. She flees, fearing that “they”, the men of violence, have taken the body. She shares her fear with the disciples.

So, ironically, John opens his account of the resurrection with a picture of dismay.

The disciples expect the worst. The resurrection at first proves so far from their minds that they repeatedly fail to grasp the meaning of what they see. Behind this ancient irony lurks our terrible conviction that evil always wins in the end.

Then, in the growing light of dawn, the disciples see the cloths neatly folded in the tomb. This was not the work of soldiers carrying away the body. Faith dawns: the other disciple, the disciple Jesus loved‚ sees and believes. The Lord is risen. The disciples find themselves running to catch up. Not for the first time God has surprised them.

Christ has risen from the dead and the Evangelist presents us not with the resurrection itself but with this picture of the Church, the people of God, to be liberated from fear and despair that underlies that fear. The Church is revealed as the place of dawning hope through faith. Easter is the feast on which each of us is called to rediscover these springs of our redeemed humanity.

But look at how slowly, look at the piecemeal fashion, in which this change of heart is effected, communicated by one to another, and so built up. We must go beyond the confines of the Scripture readings here.

The disciple who Jesus loved has understood, but Mary still weeps. She still thinks the body has been stolen, will say as much to the man she takes for the gardener. Yet

that man is the risen Jesus – she, too, is then overtaken by joy, caught up in the good news. Now she must again act as a messenger to the other disciples.

But even when these disciples have been told and when Jesus has appeared in their midst, this gradual recovery of hope through faith is incomplete. John goes on to tell the story of doubting Thomas.

It seems each of us is, like the Magdalene, a messenger for others. There is no position of neutrality, no point to which we can withdraw without comment on the events of this Easter morning. The question is whether our message is one of fearful distrust or of joyful hope born in witness to the resurrection.

At the end of Lent we have come to celebrate the risen Lord, but find that this is only the beginning of a journey. We discover we are each a missionary..

This is not a task to be left to the “specialists” (for the clergy, the religious), although it is theirs in a particular way.

We have each a part to play in the dawning of faith for those with whom we live and converse. The faith we profess is communicated by what we say, but also by how we attend to each other, treat each other.

It seems the life of faith is necessarily collaborative. The Good News of the resurrection is not something discovered and proclaimed by only one of the disciples, by Peter, by the beloved disciple, by Mary. The experiences of each together give rise to the common faith of the Church.

In the dawn light of the resurrection much begins to fall into place. The disciples start to make sense of all they have been told, and lived through, in three years of discipleship. John says that as yet they did not know the Scripture‚ did not grasp its true significance. Each must slowly learn how to make the resurrection the point from which they see their lives, their struggles and failings.

What seemed futile will appear triumphant. The foolish abandonment of ambition, the folly of preaching, compassion in this cruel world – all stand as God’s revealed wisdom. The agony of the cross is shown as God’s glory.

To celebrate Easter is to look at our life from the perspective of the empty tomb, a perspective that re-orders life. St Paul alludes to this in his letter to the Colossians.

He’s not telling us to ignore what is happening around us. Rather, by concentrating on the risen Christ we find our true humanity. By looking in love upon the one who is truly good and radiant with every grace and virtue we come by this grace to be re-fashioned in his likeness.

It is then we can face the demons of inter-religious hatred, of secularism in the service of a doomed hedonism that instead fixes its eyes squarely and greedily on earthly things, the immediate returns of Western prosperity. We can then eat and drink together, celebrate the Eucharist, in the strange realization that God through love has beaten down these deadly powers and calls us to take our place at his final victory.

Dominican Father Richard Finn is regent of studies of the English Dominicans and Regent of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford.

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Assisted suicide . . .

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Father Paul Duggan dies at 82 March 30 Father Paul Duggan, a retired priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, died March 30 at the age of 82 at St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco. He was a native of Berkeley and the brother of retired archdiocesan priests Father Eugene F. Duggan and Father William E. Duggan, and the late Holy Names Sister Claire Duggan.

Ordained in 1948, Father Duggan served at St. Thomas the Apostle Church in San Francisco, St. Jerome Church in El Cerrito and St. Patrick Church in San Jose, before joining the faculty of Serra High School in San Mateo in 1956.

He also served as a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. In 1970, he was appointed foundFather Paul Duggan ing pastor of St. Augustine Church in South San Francisco, and later served as pastor at St. William Church in Los Altos and briefly at Our Lady of Mercy Church in Daly City. He retired from pastoral ministry in 1984.

In recent years, he lived at Serra Clergy House in San Mateo and Alma Via in San Francisco. A funeral Mass was celebrated April 4 at St. Thomas More Church in San Francisco.

■ Continued from page 3 not the solution since it poses such great risks to vulnerable people,” she said. “Increasing access and information to quality counseling, hospice and palliative care for those with an illness defined as terminal are far sounder public policy options than legalization of assisted suicide.”

Legislators on the committee questioned AB 374 proponents on the issues of “doctor shopping,” misdiagnosis, prognosis of terminal illness, and oversight.

Assemblyman Rick Keene, R-Chico, contended that some patients could kill themselves after receiving a mistaken prognosis of how long they might live.

“If we are going to err, I want to err on the side of providing access to better quality of life for patients in this circumstance,” he said. “In my experience, we have better options than this. The people where we have made a mistake, they’re dead, they’re gone.”

Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, said he has a moral obligation to defend life.

“My morality is an absolute,” he said. “I’m going to stand firm in my belief that life is an absolute, that it’s a fundamental right.”

Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, opposed Adams’ view, saying he didn’t see an ethical distinction between a patient choosing to withhold medical treatment and physician aid-in-dying.

In addition to the California Catholic Conference, members of the Californians Against Assisted Suicide opposing AB 374 include the Alliance of Catholic Healthcare, the National Council on Disability, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the American Academy of Medical Ethics, the Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, Not Dead Yet and about three dozen other organizations.

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AB 374 now moves to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. At press deadline no hearing date had been announced.

More information on AB 374 is available on the Web site of the California Catholic Conference, www.cacatholic.org, and the Web site of Californians Against Assisted Suicide, www.ca-aas.com. Julie sly is editor of The Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Sacramento Diocese.

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April 7: Easter Vigil begins at 9 p.m. Archbishop George Niederauer will preside.

April 8: Archbishop Niederauer presides at 11 a.m. Easter Mass.

Through April 22: The Cathedral hosts an exhibition, “Bringing Health & Hope to the World,” featuring the photographs of Peter Lemieux. The exhibit in the Event Center hallways documents efforts of the Daughters of Charity to serve the poorest of the poor in Africa , Asia and Latin America. Viewing hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sponsors are St. Vincent de Paul Society and Cathedral Pastoral Council.

April 19: Persons 55 and older are invited to a Cathedral Autumn Group International Luncheon, 13 p.m., co-sponsored by the senior health institute, OnLok. Reservations required. Cost: $22 before April 16; $24 after. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

April 6, 2007 Center, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco. WYD will take place in New Zealand and Australia in July 2008. Information meeting attendance confirmation requested by April 13; call (415) 614-5596.

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Food & Fun April 8: Spring on over to Star of the Sea’s Chinese American Association Easter Bake Sale at 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco, in the schoolyard from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.. An assortment of cakes will be available, beautifully wrapped. Call (415) 751-0450 for more information.

April 13, 14: Annual rummage sale benefiting the Mothers’ Club of Visitacion Parish, San Francisco, Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the Parish Hall, 701 Sunnydale at Rutland. Jewelry, furniture, toys, books, clothes, household items plus new merchandise.

April 21: A Demolition Block Party, 4 p.m-8 p.m., to benefit the National Shrine of St. Francis Renaissance Project. An entire block near the shrine church, 610 Vallejo St., San Francisco, will be closed off for a celebration marking deconstruction of the current gift shop to make space for a replica of St. Francis of Assisi’s own “small church” (Porziuncola) in Italy. Italian restaurants of neighborhood will be offering food and beverages for event. Suggested donations: $50, $75, $100. Visit www.shrinerenewal.org.

April 24: Hawaiian Highlights, annual luncheon and games day benefiting Rosalie House at Olympic Club Lakeside; cocktails at 11:30 a.m., lunch at 12:30.

Rosalie House is the St. Vincent De Paul Society’s shelter for victims of domestic violence.Tickets are $55.

For reservations, call Trilla Jentzsch at (415) 333-5819.

April 27, 28, 29: Our Lady of Mount Carmel School Annual Spring Festival at Fulton and James St., Redwood City. Food, live entertainment, carnival rides, and kid-friendly games. Admission is free. Carnival ride tickets may be purchased in advance online at a discount: www.moutncarmel.org.

Call (650) 366-8817 for more details.

April 28: Annual Country Fair Tri-tip BBQ benefiting Immaculate Conception Academy, 24th St. at Guerrero, San Francisco beginning at 4:30 p.m. Tickets $15 adults/$8 children in advance; $20/$10 at door. Tables for 12 available. Talent show, entertainment and fun activities highlight the evening. Call (415) 824-2052.

April 28: Mercy High School will host the “Le Mani di Domani” Gala, an evening beginning at 6 p.m. with dinner and dancing at the Catherine McAuley Pavilion. Mercy High School San Francisco is located at 3250 19th Ave. For more information, contact Marguerite Rodriguez at (415) 334-0525, ext. 235 or mrodriguez@mercyhs.org.

April 28: Our Lady of Loretto School will hold a live auction and dinner dance at Stonetree Golf Club in Exquisite Easter Morning String Quartet Concert (harp, violin, viola, and cello) will take place at the National Shrine of St. Francis, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus at 11:30 a.m. Admission free, but offerings appreciated. Call (415) 983-0405.

St. Matthias Pre-School celebrates its 30th anniversary April 21 with a Spring Is in the Air Faire from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. on the parish campus, Cordilleras Rd. at Canyon Rd. in Redwood City. Enjoy arts and crafts vendors, bake booth, food booth, silent auction, children’s game area and more. Looking forward to the day are Mary Ornellas, school director, Father John Glogowski, pastor, and students, from left: Nicholas Walan, Parker Macedo, Bret Anchartechahar, Julia Granucci, Jonathan Czarnecki, Lili Sulivan.

Novato at 5:30 p.m.. Highlights include the music of Jorge Santana and Pride and Joy. Contact the school at (415) 892-8621 for tickets. A silent auction will be featured online. Bidding runs from March 26 to April 26. Visit http://ollnovato.cmarket.com. A raffle for a 2007 Ford Mustang or $20,000 will also be held. For more information, contact Deb Porchivina at (415) 883-6082 or e-mail deborah@papr.com.

May 5: Our Lady of Angels Dinner Dance and Auction at The Olympic Club, Lakeside. Theme: “Stairway to Heaven.....Prom 2007.” Auction (live and silent) proceeds benefit Our Lady of Angels Parish and School. For ticket information, contact Libby at (650) 558-0805 or Moe Summa (650) 558-1522.

Social Justice/Respect Life April 13-15: Rachel’s Vineyard, a retreat at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame, to promote healing after abortion. For information, call the San Jose Diocesan Office of Project Rachel’s 24-hour line at (888) 467-3790 or visit: www.rachelsvineyard.org.

April 21: Life, Camera, Action! Myths and the Media: 6th Annual Celebrate Life Conference Reveals Common Misconceptions. Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, one of the member schools of California Students for Life, hosts speakers, workshops and networking opportunities. Free and open to the public, starting at 10 a.m. Registration requested (free) online: http://www.stanford.edu/group/ssfl/clc07.html.

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TV/Radio Sunday 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

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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.

Reunions St. Raphael Elementary School is seeking graduates, especially those from the class of ’57.

Contact Linda Arruda-Matos at (415) 459-5811 or email jijr4@prodigy.net.

Events continue for the 75th Anniversary of St. Matthew Elementary School in San Mateo. Alumni should call Nancy Carroll at (650) 372-9536.

April 14: The San Francisco Chapter of Notre Dame Alumnae will hold its annual Mass and luncheon beginning at 10 a.m. at Mission Dolores Basilica, 3321 16th St., San Francisco, followed by lunch at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd., San Francisco.

Honorees are the Golden Belles of 1957, and 75, 70, 60, 40 and 30 year anniversary classes! Call Debbie Calgaro at (650) 583-1102 for information and reservations.

April 29: St. Gabriel Elementary School’s Golden Diploma Reunion for members of the class of ’57 with Mass at 11:30 a.m., followed by reception. Members of the ’57 class should contact Sue Phelps at (415) 566-0314 or e-mail sphelps@stgabrielsf.com.

May 6: Class of ’52 from St. Cecilia Elementary School in San Francisco at Caesar’s Restaurant, Bay and Powell St., San Francisco, at 4 p.m. Call Marilyn Donelly at (650) 365-5192.

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San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at (650) 5581015; St. Dunstan, Millbrae. Call Barbara Cappel at (650) 692-7543; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. Call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-0478; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City.

Call parish at (650) 366-3802; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call Sister Patricia at (650) 589-2800.

Marin County: St. Anselm, San Anselmo. Call Brenda MacLean at (415) 454-7650; St. Isabella, San Rafael. Call Pat Sack at (415) 472-5732; Our Lady of Loretto, Novato. Call Sister Jeanette at (415) 897-2171.

San Francisco: St. Dominic. Call Sister Anne at (415) 567-7824; St. Finn Barr (bilingual). Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823; St. Gabriel. Call Elaine Khalaf at (415) 564-7882.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Ministry to parents: Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Ina Potter at (650) 347-6971 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579.

Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame.

Call Debbie Simmons at (650) 558-1015.

Information regarding grief ministry in general, call Barbara Elordi, archdiocesan pastoral outreach coordinator, at (415) 614-5506.

Returning Catholics Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Churc have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, (415) 453-2342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani (415) 4617060; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, Michael Adams (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, Lee Gallery (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus (415) 664-8590; St. Paul of the Shipwreck, Deacon Larry Chatmon and Loretta Chatmon, (415) 468-3434.

San Mateo County: San Mateo - St. Bartholomew, Donna Salinas (650) 347-0701, ext. 14; St. Matthew, Deacon Jim Shea (650) 344-7622. Burlingame - St. Catherine of Siena, Silvia Chiesa (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels, Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter (650) 375-8023. Millbrae - St. Dunstan, Dianne Johnston (650) 697-0952. Pacifica - St. Peter, Sylvia Miles (650) 355-6650, Jerry Trecroci (650) 355-1799, Frank Erbacher (650) 355-4355. Half Moon Bay - Our Lady of the Pillar, Meghan (650) 726-4337.

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Trappistine monastery to be focus of new reality show DUBUQUE Iowa (CNS) — Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey, near Dubuque, is known for the lives of prayer the Trappistine Sisters lead there and for the delicious caramels they make. Now a much wider audience will get a glimpse into their lives.

A four-part television series, “The Monastery,” filmed in Dubuque a year ago, will be shown on TLC cable (The Learning Channel). It was to debut at 2 p.m. on Easter, April 8, and continue for three more Sundays at the same time.

Five women who answered a casting call were chosen to spend 40 days and nights in a women’s monastery somewhere in the United States.

That “somewhere” turned out to be Our Lady of the Mississippi. The entire 40 days were filmed. The finished product is a companion to “The Monastery” series filmed at the men’s Monastery of Christ in the Desert in Abiquiu, N.M., shown last fall on TLC. After a similar series on monasteries was televised in England, letters of invitation were sent to all U.S. men’s and women’s monasteries by the Tiger/Tigress Production Co. looking for willing candidates for a series.

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Church in northern California topic of TV documentary April 15 The role of the Catholic Church in northern California from Gold Rush days to the 20th century is explored in a television documentary airing on KRONChannel 4 April 15 at 5:30 a.m.

The documentary was produced in 2003 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

This special presentation coincides with the April 18 anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It airs in place of the “For Heaven’s Sake” television program, which is produced by the Office of Communications and KRON-Channel 4.

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Mother Gail Fitzpatrick, former abbess of the Dubuque ence and eventually decided to stick with it. In the end, they Trappistine Community. “There was a huge turnaround in inter- were happy they stayed.” est in the Church and religious life.”

For the first week, the women did not get up at 3 a.m. with the Sisters. But from 5:30 a.m.

“I think we were approached on, they lived the life of the Sisters: because our community has many prayer, meals, manual labor, classes younger members, and a production and recreation. like this needs that energy,” said Mother Gail.

One of the hardest adjustments was Three months of prayer, dialogue keeping silence. Only one woman was and visiting with the producer, Sara Catholic; two were Christian and the Woodford, took place before the other two were nonbelievers. community agreed to be filmed.

“We didn’t have a common lan“Seeing the wonderful video from guage, and that proved to be a chalEngland and hearing of the positive lenge,” said Mother Gail. “We were tryimage of religious life it portrayed ing to express our values and beliefs in gave us a sense of trust,” she said. The Mother Gail Fitzpatrick, former abbess Jesus Christ, in God. We tried to speak agreement to have cameras rolling for of the Dubuque Trappistine Community, of grace, heaven, redemption, etc., in a 40 days in a contemplative religious says goodbye to Katie Alton, one of the language they could understand.” participants in a four-part television community, while integrating five Classes on monastic life and basic series, “The Monastery.” new women who had no experience Christian teaching were helpful. In of monastic life, was a huge decision. addition to the five participants, the “In prayer, we came to the decision,” Mother Gail told six-member TV crew — all women — was on-site. “They The Witness, Dubuque’s archdiocesan newspaper. “It is our worked hard — were on the cameras 12 hours a day,” said belief people who watch the program will have some sense Mother Gail. “That microphone must have seemed very of what our life is about and how contact with God is a way heavy for that long a time for the audio person!” of living in hope. That was our main reason for doing it.”

Crew members and participants remain in touch with Extensive preparations were made for the arrival of the the Sisters. women and the crew. Each woman would have a mentor.

“This is one way we could share some of our own joy in God “Monastic life was a huge shock for the women,” said and allow people to see it in action rather than just talking about Mother Gail. “It was so different from their lifestyles, and it took it,” Mother Gail said. a tremendous amount of time and effort for them to adjust.”

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

Call (650) 757-1946 Cell (415) 517-5977

BONDED & INSURED

415-205-1235 John Bianchi

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

Dr. Daniel J. Kugler

Handyman NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

REAL ESTATE

Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Over 25 years experience

•Interiors •Exteriors •Kitchens •Baths Contractor inspection reports and pre-purchase consulting

PLUMBING

WWW.ABBEYRENTSSF.COM

John Holtz Ca. Lic 391053 General Contractor Since 1980

Repair

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411 ALLAN STREET DALY CITY, CA 94014 FAX 415-715-6914 TEL 415-715-6900

Painting & Remodeling

SELL your house,

Phone: 415.468.1877 Fax: 415.468.1875 100 North Hill Drive, Unit 18 • Brisbane, CA 94005 Lic. No. 390254

car,

* Parishioner of St. Gregory’s Church, San Mateo

VAULT & SAFE DEPOSIT LOS ALTOS VAULT & SAFE DEPOSIT CO.

Today

• A private depository • Safe deposit boxes of all sizes • Strict and total confidentiality • To the general public – should there be a bank holiday in the near future – you would always have accessibility to your valuables in this vault.

121 First Street, Los Altos, CA 94022 Tel: 650-949-5891 • www.losaltosvault.com

MIKE TEIJEIRO Realtor (650) 523-5815 m.teijeiro@remax.net

Expert Plumbing Repairs ●

General Repairs Clean Drains & Sewers Water Heaters ●

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SANTI PLUMBING & HEATING

FAMILY OWNED

415-661-3707

GENERAL CONTRACTOR Gydesen Const., Inc. General Contractor

Featuring Pressure Washing ● ● Repairs ● Safety Grab Bars ●

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Lic. # 663641

24 HR

Wally Mooney Auto Broker

650-244-9255 Spells Wally 650-740-7505 Cell Phone All Mfg. Warranty: Rebates and Special Dealer Finacing goes to Registered Owner/s St. Robert’s Parish San Bruno

Lic. # 778332

(650) 355-8858

NOTICE TO READERS Licensed contractors are required by law to list their license numbers in advertisments. The law also state that contractors performing work totaling $500 or more must be state-licensed. Advertisments appearing in this newspaper without a license number indicate that the contractor is not licensed.

For more information, contact:

Contractors State License Board 800-321-2752

San Francisco

Call

BEST PLUMBING, INC. 415 614-5642

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(650) 557-1263

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MICHAEL A. GYDESEN

AUTO SALES

or any other items with a Classified Ad in Catholic

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Water Heater Gas Lines Furnace

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650-877-7777

Construction MORROW CONTRUCTION Specializing In Wood Fences

(650) 994-6892 lic. 343633

Shawls Trinity Shawls Knit-to-Pray Visit www.TrinityShawls.com

April 6, 2007

Catholic San Francisco Piano c l a s s i f i e d s Lessons For Information Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

Live in housekeeper wanted

FEMALE LIVE-IN HOUSEKEEPER WANTED In San Francisco – Pacific Heights area

REQUIREMENTS: English speaking, reading and writing required to keep the apartment clean and orderly for two elderly people, including some vacuuming, dusting, bathroom, silver polish, etc. Also included in the duties are some food preparation with service and cleanup.

Must be a non-smoker in good health.

Should have own health insurance.

Must have valid California drivers license, as there is the possibility to occasionally run errands, food shopping, etc.

COMPENSATION, ETC: Small bedroom and bathroom offered within the apartment.

Two days off per week from 10 am to 5 pm.

Salary and vacation to be discussed. Workers Compensation coverage is included.

WORK SCHEDULE: Work Days: 8:30 am to 7:30 pm with one and a half hours off after lunch.

Days Off: 9 am to 5 pm.

Exceptions can usually be worked out.

References are required.

PIANO LESSONS BY

CAROL FERRANDO. Conservatory training, masters degree, all levels of students.

CALL (415) 921-8337.

Catholic San Francisco

house cleaning elderly assistant

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Housecleaning and elderly assistance.

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Trying to expand? Need cash for any purpose?

CALL (415) 341-7767

Call today (877) 885-9783

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Hall for Rent HALL FOR RENT Knights of Columbus San Rafael #1292 Dining and dancing rooms for up to 120. Kitchen facility. Ideal for Baptisms, graduations, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. tassonejoe@hotmail.com

415.215.8571

ADVERTISING SALES

help wanted

For The Largest Publisher of Catholic Church Bulletins

This is a Career Opportunity!

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

Call 1-800-675-5051, Fax resume: 925-926-0799

WEB SITE CONSULTANT CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO

DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL SERVICES

Help vision, plan and manage the development of an advanced generation web site for Catholic San Francisco – the newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Working as a consultant on a project management basis, the selected individual also may play a similar role in the development of a new, state-of-the-art, web site for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Project requirements include a strong background in innovative web site design, problem-solving skills, and proven solution-oriented approach.

For over half a century, St.Anthony Foundation has cared for thousands of our hungry and homeless neighbors in the SF community.

E-mail summary of experience and sample projects to healym@sfarchdiocese.org.

Special Needs Companion Services

– St. Anthony Foundation –

The Director of Finance, under the direct supervision of the Executive Director is responsible for the accounting systems, overall fiscal management and budgeting information and control of St. Anthony’s, its programs and administrative departments.

The DOF is also responsible for information technology for the Foundation.

Requires 5 years of progressively responsible accounting experience including management and supervision. MBA and non-profit experience with a $10 million plus budget is preferred. The ability to work as a collaborative team member is essential.

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits.

Please submit resume and cover letter to: Email: job-findir@stanthonysf.org or mail to the following address:

We are looking for you.

S. Ellen McCabe, Executive Coordinator 121 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102 EOE

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

PRINCIPAL 2007 – 2008

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

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

RNs and LVNs: we want you.

Provide nursing care for children in San Francisco schools.

Full or part time.

Generous benefit package.

Send your resume to: Email: Fax: Mail:

Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN, PHN RNTiburon@msn.com 415-435-0421 Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street #427 Tiburon, CA 94920

Special Needs Nursing, Inc.

STUART HALL RELIGION POSITION FOR 2007-08 AVAILABLE. Stuart Hall for Boys, an independent, Catholic K-8 school located in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood is seeking a full time Religion instructor for their middle school. Stuart Hall is one of the Schools of the Sacred Heart, San Francisco (founded in 1887), a four-school complex which also includes Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School (girls, K-8), Convent of the Sacred Heart High School (girls, 9-12) and Stuart Hall High School (boys, 9-12).

Candidates should hold a degree in Catholic religious education. MA in Theology is preferred. A minimum of 3 - 5 years experience in teaching religion is strongly recommended. Knowledge of directing student worship services is also desired. Interested candidates should submit resume, cover letter, and 3 professional references to:

Mr. Dennis Phillips, Middle School Dean Stuart Hall for Boys 2222 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94115

Immaculate Heart of Mary School (IHM) established in 1952 is located in Belmont, California. A thriving, Catholic, coeducational K-8 school with over 300 students provides an environment where students are nurtured in faith filled setting.

Immaculate Heart of Mary School is committed to educating the whole child. It is known for its strong Catholic identity, academic excellence, commitment to the students, opportunities for service and enrichment, after school sports and a before and after school extended care program.

The pastor is very supportive and active in the life of the school. The faculty and staff of 31 members are well qualified and committed to Catholic education. School parents are helpful and very active in the parish and school community; serving on the boards, in the library, in the classrooms, in the office and take care of all fundraising and social events.

QUALIFICATIONS: ➔ Practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church ➔ Minimum of five years Teaching/Administrative experience ➔ Current California Credential ➔ Masters in Educational Leadership or a related field

SEND

LETTER OF INTEREST AND RESUME TO:

Mr. Bret E. Allen, Associate Superintendent Department of Catholic Schools One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109

PRINCIPAL POSITION OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS SCHOOL Reno, Nevada Our Lady of Snows School is seeking a principal for the school year beginning July 1, 2007. The position requires Master’s Degree in School Administration or related field and Nevada license as school administrator or eligibility for license.

Applicant must have 5 years teaching experience and be a practicing Catholic. For more details about the position, please visit the school’s website at www.ourladyofthesnows.com.

To request an application packet, please contact Kitty Bergin, Superintendent of Catholic Schools at 775-326-9430 or by e-mail kittyb@catholicreno.org Deadline for applications is April 30, 2007

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Catholic San Francisco

April 6, 2007

French nun says life changed since healing, thanks to JPII AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (CNS) — A French nun who believes she was healed of Parkinson’s disease thanks to Pope John Paul II says her life has “totally changed” since a night two months after the pope’s death on April 2, 2005.

Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre, 46, is working again, now in Paris at a maternity hospital run by her order, the Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood.

She met reporters March 30 in Aix-enProvence at a press conference with Archbishop Claude Feidt of Aix, the archdiocese where the cure took place.

“I was sick and now I am cured,” she said. “I am cured, but it is up to the Church to say whether it was a miracle or not.”

However, she said, she is well and knows she must continue her work “to serve life and to serve the family.”

Diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2001, she “saw myself in the years to come” when watching Pope John Paul deteriorate from the effects of Parkinson’s. As Sister MarieSimon-Pierre’s condition worsened, members of the Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood in France and in Senegal began praying to Pope John Paul to intervene with God to heal her.

On June 2, 2005, the religious has said, she was struggling to write, to walk and to function normally.She said she went to bed and woke up very early the next morning feeling completely different.

“I was sure I was healed,” she said.

Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre

In a March 29 statement, Archbishop Feidt said that after hearing about the alleged healing he decided to conduct “a thorough investigation” to determine if it might be the miracle needed for Pope John Paul’s beatification. In general, the Church must confirm two miracles through the intercession of a sainthood candidate before canonization.

The archbishop said the investigation took a year. It included testimony from theologians, canon lawyers, physicians, a psychiatrist and a handwriting expert.

Legibility of handwriting is used as an indicator of the progress of Parkinson’s.

Archbishop Feidt and Sister MarieSimon-Pierre planned to attend an April 2 ceremony in Rome marking the end of the diocesan phase of Pope John Paul’s cause and to attend the memorial Mass Pope Benedict XVI celebrated to mark the second anniversary of his predecessor’s death.

“Let me follow”

CD and Songbook signing

By Father Bob Fabing, S.J. Saturday April 14th 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm At our new address: 1455 Custer Avenue San Francisco www.kaufers.com Fr. Fabing is a Jesuit Priest. He has founded 61 marriage counseling and family therapy centers in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa and Central America. He has produced several CDs: Indwelling, Be Like The Sun, Song of the Lamb, Winter Risen, Everlasting Covenant, Adoramus, Shadow of My Wings, Your Song of Love and Let Me Follow.

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National Catholic Professional & Business Club will host their

6th Annual National Conference at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt, Burlingame The Conference theme Leadership and Living the Faith is based on Pope Benedict XVI’s first Encyclical “Deus Caritas Est” (God Is Love). The Pope’s “love letter” to mankind is “remarkably accessible and timely”...a solid guide for living our Christian faith in our daily work . . . especially the relationship between justice and charity, and the call of every Catholic to serve others in love.

Current National CP&BC President Bill Applegate of San Francisco enthusiastically states: “CP&BC members, spouses and guests come to our National Conference to enjoy great fellowship and an inspirational weekend. We return to our various communities more aware, encouraged and enthused to live and grow our Catholic faith values in the workplace” Chapter clubs host monthly breakfast and/or lunch meetings with a speaker who shares their faith-filled message of faith values and ethics in the workplace.

The Conference will begin on Friday 20 April at 5:30PM at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt with a Welcome Reception / Dinner with Archbishop George H. Niederauer and this year’s Keynote Speaker Ambassador Raymond Flynn.

Ray Flynn is former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, 3 time Mayor of Boston, and a best selling author.

On Saturday 21 April there will be a day-long conference with accomplished professional and business leaders who will speak to the living of Christian faith values in their respective areas of work.

Mark Brumley, President of Ignatius Press, which is among the largest U.S. Catholic publishers.

Noel Irwin Hentschel, cofounder of the largest Visit USA travel organization, American Tours International (ATI).

Pat Lencioni, President of the Table Group, is a best selling author and highly sought after corporate team builder for Fortune 500 companies.

The Conference will conclude Saturday evening with Holy Mass and dinner with CPBC National Chaplain / President of the California Catholic Conference, Bishop Stephen Blaire.

CPBC members and non-members alike are cordially invited to attend the conference.

For business/corporate table sponsorships please call Conchita Applegate (415) 587 7879.

Please visit www.cpbclubs.org for online registration.