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His faith and his life changed the world

By Victor Morton, Washington Times With the death of John Paul II at 84, the Roman Catholic Church loses a historic and beloved world figure who survived an assassination attempt, lived to see his native Poland freed from communist tyranny and urged Catholics to reject the modern “culture of death.”

John Paul became the most traveled pope in history during his 26-year pon-

tificate as the 264th man to hold the office that Catholic tradition traces to the apostle Peter.

He was the first modern pope to visit the Holy Land, the first to apologize for Catholic wrongs against other religions and the first to be mass-marketed as a cultural and spiritual icon.

HIS FAITH AND HIS LIFE, page 6

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Summer camps/schools . 10-11 Remembering JPII . . . . . 12-13 Scripture and reflection . . . 14 Datebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Centenarian Mary Stecher with great grandson Nate Nickolai.

A salute of the centennial sort to Our Lady of Angels parishioner, Mary Stecher, 100 years old April 6th.

Appropriate birthday goin’s will mark the occasion at the Olympic Club April10th, her son, Mike, told me. Age has not been an obstacle to Mary’s matriarchal responsibilities, he said, noting that she “continues to be involved in all of our family matters.” Mike and his wife, Pat, also OLAers, will be married 37 years in November. Mary’s son Fred and his wife, Denise, are parishioners of St. Pius in Redwood City. Mary’s many grandkids and great grandkids will also be bearing good wishes in honor of the100 year milestone. They include Shannon and Michael of the Redwood City Stecher’s, as well as Pat and Mike’s daughters, Carole Nickolai, with her husband, Roy, and their 8 year-old son, Nate; Jennifer Sullivan, with husband, Brian; and Stacy; plus sons, Christopher with his wife, Amy, and their children, Emma 2, and twin boys, Jack and Aidan, 8 months, and Matthew, with his wife, Shawna….Please let me remind households with young pianists and organists of the upcoming Pipe Organ Encounter 2005. The week-long sessions – June 19 – 25 are an effort of the American Guild of Organists to allow

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Knitting is making a comeback at Notre Dame De Namur University. Tuesday afternoons in the school cafeteria students are joining together to ply the craft stitching hats and scarves for runaway youth and the homeless. “It’s such a great opportunity to bring diverse members of our community together,” said Kathryn Racine-Jones, Director of Campus Ministry and Community Based Learning at the Belmont school. “We’re knitting our good intentions — our prayers — into the things we’re creating,” More than 1,700 students attend the school with 450 living on campus. From left, Kathryn, Lori Drake, MaryAnn Burman.

growing musicians aged 13 to 18 to “explore the wonders Names College in Oakland. “I love teaching,” Pat said. of the pipe organ” as well as “study with professional “Among my former students are many people who have teachers” and hear “great music performed by faculty mem- served San Francisco well and have made me very proud to bers.” The teaching staff includes Cheryl Arnold, organist have had a small part in their education. Teachers do make and music director at St. Monica Church, Simon Berry of a difference in the lives of the children they teach. In honSt. Dominic Church, and Glen Frank of Notre Dame des oring me, you honor all those in the teaching profession.”

Victoires Church. A highlight of the event is meeting Sean Elsbernd’s dad is Joe Elsbernd, longtime principal of Felix Hell, a 19 year-old organist of great acclaim who St. Thomas More Elementary. Sean’s mom, Margaret, performs internationally. For details including costs and currently teaches 4th grade at the Brotherhood Way location email evaughn318@comcast.net…. Hats off to School….Mighty proud are Barb and John Geibel Mercy High School, SF seniors, Sheri Lee whose daughter, Christine has earned Dean’s and Maricela Chan on winning top honors List honors at Loyola University in Chicago. from the California Scholarship Federation.

Christine is a graduate of Nativity Elementary Their $1,250 Seymour Awards are named for – the family parish for many years - and the group’s founders Marian and Charles Atherton’s Sacred Heart Prep. Daughter, Seymour. “I am so proud of these two student’s Bridget, is a senior at Columbia University – and they are the first of my students at Mercy to just blocks from where I once kept digs on the receive this honor,” said Carole Turner, a memUpper West Side –in NYC. Barb and John will ber of the faculty at Mercy since 1974 and be married 33 years July 29th…. Got a kick adviser to the California Scholarship out of a license plate that said MABNXYR. Patricia Pinnick Federation branch at the 19th Avenue school.

Of course, it belonged to a Chicago Cubs fan.

“I’ve taught a lot of wonderful kids over these 30 years,” Like baseball, another sign of spring is the roving ice Carole said….Also to be thanked for her many years as cream truck. One rolled by me recently bringing back teacher is Patricia Pinnick, who was recently honored for memories of my own days as a kid running after the goodher 49 years at St. Cecilia Elementary School by the San ie-wagon with friends all waving our nickels for a Popsicle Francisco Board of Supervisors and the school. or Drumstick. Same excitement prevails now methinks Supervisor Sean Elsbernd, a 1989 St. Cecilia’s alum and except that today’s youngsters are waving five dollar former student of the honored educator, presented the bills…. The email address for Street is now award. “Pat is an inspiration to our school community,” said burket@sfarchdiocese.org. As this continues to be but an St. Cecilia principal, Holy Names Sister Marilyn Miller. empty space without you, please jot it down and get those “For her, teaching is a ministry, We are very proud of her.” items in here??!! All the rest is the same. Mailed items Pat is a San Francisco native and graduate of Epiphany should be sent to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF Elementary and Presentation High School. She complet- 94109. Pix should be hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 ed undergraduate studies and a teaching credential at Holy dpi. You can reach me at (415) 614-5634.

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Memorial Mass for Pope John Paul II Homily by Archbishop William J. Levada April 5, 2005 at St. Mary’s Cathedral On September 16, 1978, I stood in the evening dusk with tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square to await the smoke from the distant Sistine Chapel chimney. In the dark it is hard to tell what color smoke is. But this time excited voices were raised into a roar: Bianco! White smoke!

With lights blazing on the balcony of St. Peter’s, we saw the doors open. Our eyes strained to see, and our ears barely caught the announcement of Cardinal Karol Wojtyla’s name. Who is he? each one turned to ask his neighbor. Can the Pope come from Poland?

Who knew then what we have come to know through these past 26 plus years!

“Sia lodato Gesu Cristo!” were Pope John Paul II’s first words as Pope. The traditional Italian greeting was spoken in perfect Italian – it was a good beginning. The Romans, indeed all Italy, came to embrace Wojtyla as one of their own. And so it seems has the world.

As we gather this evening to mark the death of Pope John Paul, to commend his soul to God in prayer, and to give thanks for his remarkable papacy, my thoughts spontaneously went back to that evening in 1978, when we asked each other, Who is he? Who knew? Who could have known?

I thank you all for joining in the celebration of the Eucharist in his memory. I am grateful to the representatives of other Christian faiths, especially to His Eminence, Metropolitan Gerasimos, newly-enthroned Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of the Metropolis of San Francisco, and to Bishop Anthimos, his assistant, for your presence here this evening in prayer. I am grateful to Rabbi Pearce and representatives of the Jewish community. I thank the representatives of other religious traditions who have come to be with us.

I want to welcome with gratitude the representatives of other governments, the Consuls General and the Honorary Consuls, here this evening. And I thank very sincerely government representatives and fellow citizens from around the Bay Area for coming to St. Mary’s Cathedral this evening.

I know I speak for Archbishop John Quinn, former Archbishop, Auxiliary Bishop John Wester, my brother priests, as well as our deacons, religious men and women, and lay parishioners when I say that your presence here is a tribute to a man, a priest, and a pope who has made us – and we hope you as well – feel that he is one of us.

Eighteen years ago he was one of us as he stood here in this Cathedral. The vestment I am wearing this evening is the one he wore to celebrate the great stadium Mass at Candlestick park.

Many of us here tonight may remember those days – no one better than Archbishop Quinn, who was the “host” archbishop for the 1987 papal visit, one of 104 pastoral visits outside Italy during his third-longest ever pontificate. How different from the pontificate of Blessed Pope Pius IX, the second-longest, who in 1870 became “the prisoner of the Vatican” when the Papal States were absorbed into the new nation of Italy.

Pope John Paul made 143 trips within Italy, making him more visible and accessible than any of his predecessors there.

And he visited over 300 of the parishes of Rome, making some 700 pastoral visits all told to his flock as Bishop of Rome.

I am not going to spend time rehearsing statistics that are no doubt easily available on the Internet. Instead, I mention just these to call attention to how the role of the Pope has changed within the lifetime of many of us here. As a successor of St. Peter, every pope is called to be the “Rock” of strength and stability, a center of unity in a church that has known its share of strain and fissure. He must keep faith with tradition: as St. Paul wrote to the Corinthians, “the tradition which I handed on to you came to me from the Lord himself” (1 Cor 11:23). But think how that tradition found new life in the preaching and writing of Paul.

So too for Pope John Paul. His ministry as the Rock of Peter was a ministry of fidelity to the tradition handed on from Jesus Christ, whom he proclaimed tirelessly as the center of the Church’s life and of his own. But how many times he could surprise us with original and imaginative ways of following in the missionary footsteps of Paul the Apostle in proclaiming that good news.

I think for example of World Youth Day. Every two or three years he went to celebrate in a different country with young people – in the hundreds of thousands or even millions, as in Manila – from throughout the world. When World Youth Day came to Denver in 1993, I had already decided I was too old for that sort of thing. But young people in Portland challenged me to be with them. How lucky for me as a bishop to see this pope, 16 years my senior, speak of his love for these young people – and also challenge them to consider the good they could do with their lives.

I think too of the celebration of the Jubilee of the Year 2000, which he encouraged us to celebrate as thanksgiving, but also as a time to remember the wounds of the past, to ask forgiveness and to pray for healing for divisions and injustices that Catholics had inflicted on their neighbors in the name of Christ.

I think of the two visits to Assisi with religious leaders of so many of the world’s faiths to pray for peace. How much we should honor and revere that legacy here in the City that bears the name of the poor man of Assisi, San Francisco.

I think of his memorable visit to Israel and Palestine, the land holy to the three Abrahamic faiths. After being the first

Archbishop Levada in Vatican City with Pope John Paul II, Oct. 30, 2002.

pope ever to visit the synagogue in Rome, and after having established diplomatic relations with Israel, he visited not only the shrines sacred to Christians but also visited with great emotion the holocaust memorial at Yad Vashem, and the Western Wall of the Temple Mount.

These were not actions designed for media attention; they were examples to be followed. I recall shortly after going to Portland as Archbishop in 1986 being invited to preach at the Sabbath service by Rabbi Emmanuel Rose. With the Rome synagogue visit still fresh in my mind, I accepted. Rabbi Rose, an avid student of Vatican II’s Declaration Nostra Aetate on the Relation of the Church to non-Christian Religions, told his congregation that I was the first Bishop in the United States to preach at a Sabbath service. Something to be said for good example.

I think as well of the Pope’s burning desire to heal the broken unity of the Christian Church. His testament, the Encyclical Letter Ut Unum Sint – That All May Be One, was surrounded throughout his pontificate by many heartfelt gestures and outreach to fellow Christians. To give one example: last Saturday I attended the enthronement service of Metropolitan Gerasimos at Ascension Cathedral in Oakland at the same hour that the Pope died. Twice Metropolitan Demetrios, head of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North America told me how profoundly touched Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and he were last November when Pope John Paul gave the Ecumenical Patriarch the relics of two of the earliest bishops of Constantinople, St. Gregory the Theologian and St. John Chrysostom, to be returned to their home. They are another example of an instinct to repair in some small way the wounds of the Fourth Crusade, during which these relics were taken as plunder.

We have marveled at his persistent appeals to the people and governments of the “first” world to take responsibility for providing a place at the table of the human family for the poor and hungry of the world. We have all been struck by his vigorous appeals for peace, asking us to imagine new ways to avoid the MEMORIAL MASS, page 15

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Missionaries of Charity already praying to Pope John Paul (CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS)

CALCUTTA, India — The Missionaries of Charity nuns have already started praying to Pope John Paul II, according to their superior. “We are not only continuing to pray for him, but also have already started praying to him,” said Sister Nirmala Joshi, who succeeded Blessed Teresa of Calcutta as head of the congregation. The late pope developed “a spiritual friendship” with Mother Teresa, who launched the congregation in 1950 to work among the poorest of the poor. He beatified her in 2003, just six years after her death in 1997. All Missionaries of Charity houses around the world are praying to the pope, Sister Nirmala told UCA News, an Asian church news agency based in Thailand, April 3.

A woman walks with her children past earthquake-destroyed homes in the town of Gunung Sitoli on the Indonesian island of Nias March 30. A massive earthquake March 28 killed an estimated 1,000 people.

At Guadalupe basilica, Mexicans Cardinal calls Schiavo remember papal visits killing ‘murder’ MEXICO CITY — Rogelio Reyes stood before the

VATICAN CITY — Whoever stands idly by without trying to prevent the death of Terri Schindler Schiavo becomes an accomplice to murder, said Cardinal Renato Martino, head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. The death of the severely brain-damaged woman “would represent a homicide in which it is impossible to idly stand by without becoming accomplices,” he said in a March 31 interview with Vatican Radio. Schiavo died March 31, nearly two weeks after her feeding tube was removed. The Italian cardinal made his comments the day after the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal appeals court refused to intervene and order doctors in Florida to resume feeding Schiavo. The 41-year-old woman’s feeding tube was removed March 18 after a decision by a Florida state judge allowed the husband, Michael Schiavo, to order doctors to take out the tube.

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By Evelyn Zappia Local parishes are reacting to the recent death of Pope John Paul II by focusing on the Holy Father’s extraordinary legacy, while working through the grief.

“Pope John Paul’s lasting impact on our Church will be his emphasis on the culture of life, as opposed to the culture of death,” said Father John Malloy.

The Pastor of San Francisco’s Saints Peter and Paul Church believes that one day “the Holy Father will be referred to as ‘John Paul the Great’ because of his extensive teachings through his writings.”

Although Malloy said the “Holy Father’s stand for life, the poor, the downtrodden, and the weak will be known as his great legacy, he also believes the Pope’s ecumenical spirit fostering of relationships with the non-Christian world will not be overlooked.”

The North Beach parish held a special prayer service for the Holy Father, the evening of April 5, in conjunction with a previ-

ously scheduled conference for the disabled, focusing on remembrance of Terri Shiavo, the disabled Florida woman who died Holy Week after nearly two weeks of starvation and dehydration.

“As I watched Pope John Paul boldly living his final days in front of the world with his trembling hands and pain, I was impressed with the great dignity he was giving to human suffering,” said Pastor Neal Healy of St. Anselm Church in San Anselmo. “He was the champion of freedom, demonstrating to the very last the importance of all life. He preached the Cross and he lived it.”

The Marin parish’s scheduled Saturday evening Mass was offered for Pope John Paul II and a memorial Mass, to honor and pray for him as a parish and community was held Wednesday night, April 6.

“John Paul II was a strong and untiring moral voice of Church teachings in the midst of the burning moral issues of the times whether the world and its leaders agreed with him or not,” said Pastor Domingo Orimaco of Half Moon Bay’s Our Lady of the Pillar Church.

Father Orimaco said “the Pope’s many pastoral visits around the world were evidence of his great leadership, along with his love for the youth of the world and the special place in his heart he had for them.”

“The people here are mourning the loss of the people’s Pope and a great moral voice,” he said.

On the day of John Paul II’s funeral in Rome April 8, the Coastside church will have Exposition and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from 8:30 a.m. ending with Benediction at 6:00 p.m.

A Memorial Mass was celebrated by Archbishop William J. Levada at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 7:30 p.m. April 5 (see homily, page 3).

Stationed inside the Cathedral at the Shrine of the Crucifixion is a shrine honoring Pope John Paul II. Beside the shrine is a book of condolences that can be signed by the faithful until Sunday, April 10. While the line to sign the condolence book is extremely long, it should be noted that many Archdiocesan parishes, if not all, have books to sign, and shrines of honor to the Holy Father.

Local artist paints portrait of Pope as a young man Inspired by his life and work, artist Lisa Steinbrenner Andrews has recently completed a life-size portrait of Pope John Paul II as a younger man. The piece, unveiled April 8 at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, will hang in the school’s John Paul II Library.

“It’s a portrait of Karol Wojtyla as a university student destined to be pope,” Mrs. Andrews said. The painting is called “During Unrest the Lord Will Strike,” a phrase taken from the work of one of the pope’s favorite writers, nineteenth century poet Juliusz Slowacki, who 100 years before the election of Pope John Paul II predicted that one day a Slavic pope would lead the Church.

The painting began at the urging of the university and its board of trustees but gained strength when the artist’s son, Kirk, a sophomore at Franciscan University, signed onto the idea.

“I asked Kirk what he thought about my painting the pope as a younger man and he really liked the idea,” Mrs. Andrews said.

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“I painted him from his high school graduation picture, pictures of him as a young priest and pictures of him as an actor.”

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■ Continued from cover John Paul was applauded by conservatives both inside and outside the Catholic faith for his stout defense of orthodox theology and traditional morality, especially his opposition to abortion. But he also took stances considered liberal in the context of U.S. politics, such as criticizing the death penalty, the excesses of capitalism and the U.S.-led war in Iraq.

Born Karol Josef Wojtyla in Wadowice, Poland, on May 18, 1920, John Paul II served as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics for 26 years — longer than all but two other popes. Only St. Peter’s 34-year reign in the 1st century and Pius IX’s 31-year reign in the 19th century were longer.

Upon being invested as pope on Oct. 21, 1978, he became the first non-Italian since the election of the Dutchman Adrian VI in 1522, and at 58, he was the youngest pope in a century.

His long reign means that John Paul “has appointed men who agree with him on the major issues that face the church,” said the Rev. Thomas J. Reese, editor of the Jesuit magazine America. “As a result ... with the next pope, we will see more continuity than change.”

RENAISSANCE MYSTIC He was a Renaissance man — a student, actor and industrial worker during the Nazi occupation of Poland, then blooming into a translator, poet, playwright and philosopher, before advancing in his calling as professor, priest and finally, pope and global leader.

In 1978, John Paul was a sturdy 5 feet, 10 inches tall and 175 pounds. He would continue for some years to pursue the fabled athleticism of his youth — when he had been known to swim flooded rivers on a dare — by skiing, hiking and kayaking.

Before his priesthood, he wanted to study literature and become an actor, his love of acting dating back to impersonations of his teachers. He wrote six plays, the best known being “The Jeweler’s Shop” and “Job.” A lover of the Polish language, he translated Sophocles’ “Oedipus Rex” into that tongue.

The pope’s health began to decline after he was shot in the chest in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981, by Mehmet Ali Agca, a Turk whom some accused of being hired by the Soviet secret police. The bullet missed his heart by a few millimeters.

In his last book, “Memory and Identity: Conversations Between Millenniums,” the pope said he didn’t recall much of what happened after he arrived at the hospital because “I was almost on the other side.”

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As bishop of Krakow in the 1960s, Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was a prolific writer. In his book, Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way, the pontiff describes his confrontations with Poland's communist government and his efforts to create a new style of ministry.

The pope endured many accidents and operations in the mid-1990s and turned, some chroniclers have said, to mystical introspection. In 2000, Vatican officials

said one of the Virgin Mary’s prophecies at Fatima foretold of the assassination attempt. In Polish Catholic tradition, HIS FAITH AND HIS LIFE, page 7

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Father Karol Wojtyla is pictured on a cycling (above) outing in Poland in the early 1950s. At right, Father Wojtyla is pictured reading in a kayak in 1955. Three years later during a kayaking trip, he was called to Warsaw for the announcement that he was to be made a bishop. His strong interest in outdoor activities continued through his years as Pope John Paul II, until the effects of age kept him away from strenuous pursuits.

role is to admonish” and that he perhaps failed to be strict enough.

“Maybe I should reproach myself that I did not try to rule enough” while in Krakow, John Paul wrote in his next-to-last book, “Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way,” published in May. “But it stems from my character.”

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“Agca knew how to shoot, and he shot with confidence, with perfection. But it was just as if someone guided this bullet,” wrote John Paul, according to an Associated Press translation of his last book’s Polish edition.

INTELLECTUAL POPE Besides being history’s most traveled and photographed pope, John Paul was its most prolific writer, composing 14 encyclicals, with the last being “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” (“On the Eucharist in Its Relationship to the Church”) in 2003, and a host of other papers, letters and books.

He oversaw formalization of the Second Vatican Council through the adoption of a new Code of Canon Law, which last had been updated in 1917, and a new universal catechism, the first since the 16th century.

In his 1998 encyclical, “Fides et Ratio” (“Faith and Reason”), he argued that religion can be in harmony with science and that “absolute truth” does exist in Jesus Christ, despite the modern world’s appearance as a shifting, fallen world of uncertainties.

In 2002, he introduced a fourth set of mysteries, or themes, for the rosary. Called the “Luminous Mysteries,” they help Catholics contemplate Christ’s ministry on Earth, unlike the other three “mysteries” of the rosary, which concentrate on His birth, death and Resurrection.

Many historians credit John Paul with hastening the end of the Soviet empire. He supported the Solidarity movement in Poland and helped keep it alive during its suppression by the communists.

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■ Continued from page 7 ECUMENICAL EMPHASIS John Paul promoted better relations with other Christian groups. He suggested in his 1995 encyclical “Ut Unum Sint” (“That All May Be One”), speaking as the bishop of Rome rather than “supreme pontiff,” that Rome might reconsider the exercise of papal authority if it would mean the end of a millennium of Christian division.

Evangelical Anglican theologian Gerald R. McDermott characterized John Paul as “unparalleled in his combi-

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John Paul commonly referred to Protestants and the Orthodox as “other Christians,” instead of the term “separated brethren” of the Second Vatican Council and previous terms “heretics” and “schismatics.”

In one ecumenical meeting, in 1982, he met the moderator of the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly before a statue of John Knox, the man who led the Reformation in Scotland and called the Catholic Church “the synagogue of Satan.”

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PRIEST AND BISHOP During the World War II occupation of Poland by Germany under Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, a young Karol Wojtyla was hit by a streetcar and hospitalized, an incident that sparked him to consider a religious vocation.

He began studying in Krakow’s underground seminary in 1942, was ordained in 1946 and sent to the Angelicum University in Rome. His dissertation, “Problems of Faith in the Works of St. John of the Cross,” centered on a 16th-century Spanish mystic.

On returning to Poland, Father Wojtyla served as pastor of St. Florian’s in Krakow. He was professor of moral theology at Krakow’s major seminary by 1953, and the next year was appointed professor of ethics at Catholic University in Lublin.

While on a canoeing trip in 1958, he was summoned with the news that he had been appointed auxiliary bishop of Krakow. He rushed to Warsaw in a truck full of flour sacks to meet the head of the church in Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski.

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John Paul also fostered numerous outreaches to Jews worldwide and to the state of Israel, including the 1993 establishment of diplomatic relations with the Jewish state.

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“The primate responded: ‘This is a weakness of which we are quickly cured. Please do not oppose the Holy Father’s wish,’” the pope wrote in his book, which takes its title from Jesus’ words in Mark to his disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane just before His betrayal and Crucifixion.

In 1959, Bishop Wojtyla was inducted into the Polish Academy of Sciences for his work in philosophy. He became archbishop of Krakow in 1964, but was called “vicar” because the communists banned the title “archbishop.”

The pope’s most important philosophical work as Karol Wojtyla was his 1960 book, “Love and Responsibility,” which applies the modern philosophy of personalism to support the church’s teachings on love and sex. “Love and Responsibility” was first translated into English in 1981 and since has supported a whole school of Catholic moral thought known as the theology of the body.

Archbishop Wojtyla attended all sessions of the 1962-65 Second Vatican Council and contributed to four of the major documents, notably “Gaudium et Spes.”

Pope Paul VI elevated him to cardinal in 1967 and invited him to teach at the annual papal retreat, a sign that he was favored as a successor. He is credited by some with the moral arguments that persuaded Paul VI to issue “Humanae Vitae” (“On Human Life”), which in 1968, reaffirmed the church’s teaching against artificial contraception.

THE WORLD STAGE In January 1979, John Paul made his first overseas trip as pope, to Mexico, where he warned Latin America against Marxism-influenced liberation theology. He said later that he also saw the trip as “a pass that could open the way to a pilgrimage to Poland.”

“I thought the communists in Poland would not be able to refuse me ... if I were received by a nation with a secular constitution, such as Mexico had,” John Paul wrote in the 2004 book.

In June 1979, the pope was greeted by millions of Poles, an event credited with galvanizing a spirit of national union in the face of 30 years of communist tyranny. The Solidarity labor union, backed by the church, was founded at a Gdansk shipyard the next year — one of the first cracks in the Iron Curtain before its collapse in 1989 and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Former Czech President Vaclav Havel called the pope’s pilgrimage “a miracle” and the most important single factor in bringing down the Iron Curtain. Polish Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, who oversaw the imposition of martial law and the crackdown on Solidarity in the early 1980s called the visit “the detonator.”

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev said, “It would have been impossible without the pope.”

Historian Timothy Garton Ash said, “Without the pope, no Solidarity. Without Solidarity, no Gorbachev.

Without Gorbachev, no fall of communism.”

John Paul’s more than 100 trips outside Italy amounted to more travel than his 263 predecessors combined.

John Paul would visit the United States seven times as pope, starting with a 1979 tour and most recently a one-day stopover in St. Louis in 1999 on his way back from a lengthier visit to Mexico. In 1984, he and

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At the monastery of Jasna Gora in Czestochowa, Poland, Pope John Paul II greets throngs of Poles waiting for a glimpse of their native son during the first trip to his homeland in June 1979. The pontiff's visit motivated workers to form Solidarity, the first independent trade union in a communist-ruled country.

President Reagan established the first formal diplomatic ties between Vatican City and the United States.

He was a frequent thorn in the side of U.S. politicians of both parties, including his efforts against Clinton administration plans to spread abortion and contraception in the Third World.

At the 1994 U.N. population conference in Cairo, the Vatican opposed a proposal to declare abortion a right under international law. Catholic delegates allied with Muslim nations to defeat the measure, which was backed by a U.S. delegation led by Vice President Al Gore.

The previous year, the philosopher-pope came out with the encyclical “Veritatis Splendor” (“The Splendor of Truth”), which critiqued moral relativism and utilitarian thinking and encouraged readers to build a “culture of life” by obeying the Gospel.

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He built on this theme in his 1995 encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”), where he called for a “cultural change” in the world that recognizes that there “is no true freedom where life is not welcomed and loved, and there is no fullness of life except in freedom.”

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■ Continued from page 9 In a passage that has caused heartburn for pro-choice Catholic politicians, John Paul warned: “In the case of an intrinsically unjust law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is therefore never licit to obey it, or to ‘take part in a propaganda campaign in favor of such a law, or vote for it.’”

THE STAR POPE Time magazine, after having featured John Paul on its cover 11 times in 16 years, named him its “Man of the Year” for 1994. The magazine said he spoke the language of morality and of right and wrong, standing firm amid a tabloid, amoral culture.

Time cited the pope’s reiteration that year of the church’s stance on the impossibility of ordaining women, a leading focus of dissent in the United States, as well as his approval of an English-language version of the catechism, and the publication of “Crossing the Threshold of Hope,” the first popular-press book written by a sitting pope.

John Paul made a huge popular impression in the United States and the West, especially among young Catholics, as the first pope of the mass market.

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John Paul released a compact disc of himself saying the rosary in Latin. He was the first pope to have his life told in a Marvel Comic, and the first to attend a concert at Milan’s opera house.

In “Crossing the Threshold of Hope,” he answered, in layman’s terms, an Italian reporter’s wide-ranging questions on religion and the modern world. The results became a best-seller in all of the dozens of languages into which it was translated.

The secular and religious press alike noted John Paul’s influence in the growing conservatism of younger American men inspired to join the priesthood during his pontificate, especially “on matters of theology, the role of women and the authority of church leaders,” as Time put it in 1994.

CRITIC OF CONSERVATISM Biographer George Weigel wrote that a 1976 visit to the United States left the future pope “disappointed by American culture and its tendency to dissipate freedom into shallow license.”

Elizabeth Fox Genovese, an Emory University professor and adult convert to Catholicism, said John Paul saw American capitalism as suffering the same spiritual disease that communism did — “the unleashing of radical individualism.”

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“Both, from the pope’s perspective, embody a betrayal of the true nature of the individual and of individual freedom, which emerge from the individual’s relation to God and to others,” she wrote in Christianity Today.

In “Memory and Identity,” the pope returned to that theme, saying that after casting off communism, Eastern Europe “is uncritically falling under the influence of negative cultural patterns spread in the West.”

John Paul took on consumer capitalism most explicitly in his 1999 letter, “Ecclesia in America,” decrying the “absolutizing of the economy ... the growing distance between rich and poor, unfair competition, which puts the poor nations in a situation of ever-increasing inferiority.”

Other stances that did not enamor him to American conservatives included his opposition to the death penalty and both U.S.-led wars against Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Before his St. Louis visit, he asked then-Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan to spare triple-murderer Darrell Mease, who was to be executed during John Paul’s visit.

A court delayed the execution just days before, and Mr. Carnahan, a Baptist, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment on the day after John Paul left the United States.

In the run-up to the second Iraq war, he insisted that war is a “defeat for humanity” and that a preventive strike is neither legally nor morally justified. Some of his subordinates were much more outspoken, with one calling the attack a “crime against peace.”

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rior for social justice and human rights, and a courageous advocate for promoting the culture of life in the world,” said Mr. Flynn, a former Democratic mayor of Boston.

“President Reagan remarked on what a determined, courageous man he was. He looked into the face of communism, and they blinked.”

Victor Morton is Deputy National Editor of the Washington Times. Julia Duin and Larry Witham contributed to this article.

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Pope John Paul II greets Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome’s main synagogue April 13, 1986. The meeting marked the beginning of a new era in Catholic-Jewish relations. It was the first time a pope had entered the Rome synagogue.

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A final word on Mercy Following is the message Pope John Paul II had prepared to be read at the gathering of pilgrims to pray the Regina Caeli on Divine Mercy Sunday. It was read by Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, substitute of the Vatican Secretariat of State, following the Mass for the eternal repose of John Paul II. Dear Brothers and Sisters!

1. The joyful Easter Alleluia resounds also today. Today’s Gospel page of St. John underlines that the Risen One, on the night of that day, appeared to the Apostles and “showed them his hands and his side” (John 20:20), that is, the signs of the painful Passion printed indelibly on his body also after his Resurrection. Those glorious wounds, which eight days later he made the incredulous Thomas touch, reveal the mercy of God “for God so loved the world that he gave his only Son” (John 3:16).

This mystery of love is at the heart of today’s liturgy, Sunday “in Albis,” dedicated to the worship of Divine Mercy.

2. To humanity, which at times seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, egoism and fear, the risen Lord offers as a gift his love that forgives, reconciles and reopens the spirit to hope. It is love that converts hearts and gives peace. How much need the world has to understand and accept Divine Mercy!

Lord, who with [your] Death and Resurrection reveal the love of the Father, we believe in you and with confidence repeat to you today: Jesus, I trust in you, have mercy on us and on the whole world.

3. The liturgical solemnity of the Annunciation, which we celebrate tomorrow, leads us to contemplate with Mary’s eyes the enormous mystery of this merciful love that arises from Christ’s heart. With her help, we can understand the true meaning of paschal joy, which is based on this certainty: The One whom the Virgin carried in her womb, who suffered and died for us, has truly risen. Alleluia!

Letter from Poland Around the world this week Catholics remembered the life of Pope John Paul II, mourned his passing from us, and took Easter joy in the knowledge that our beloved Holy Father now rests with Jesus Christ, the risen Lord.

It is not surprising that the people of his native country Poland, and particularly the residents of Kracow where the pope served as priest and bishop, remembered Karol Wojtyla in a special way.

On Sunday, April 3, this largely Catholic nation of 38 million people in public and private prayer expressed their extraordianary love for Pope John Paul II. In Kracow, thousands upon thousands came to the city’s main market square, the largest medieval urban center in Europe, to gather, to pray and to remember. At the Archbishop’s residence, where John Paul II had stayed on his visits to this city as pope and where he lived for 14 years while he was Archbishop of Kracow, a huge throng stood quietly in reverent prayer. The pope had spoken to the people of Kracow from the window above the entrance to the residence, providing a closeness and intimacy with this city of 900,000 and a university student population of 120,000.

Crowds pack tightly into the many churches of the city, including St. Francis of Assisi church near the main square. The 14th century Church of St. Mary faces the square itself. A huge overflow crowd at the door of St. Mary’s drew me close, and I found myself at the great iron doors of the inner church, which were open to allow people on the square to catch a glimse of evening Mass.

I was standing shoulder to shoulder and pressed close with Catholics of Kracow. The church seemed to be a great ship of faith, bouyed by the individual faith of thousands present. A sinner with small faith, I found myself enveloped and lifted by their reverence and devotion.

They had come to remember a man; a man from among them who had become pope. But their focus was the adoration of God. Pope John Paul II was a true desciple of Jesus Christ. He proclaimed the Gospel in word and example.

The residents of Kracow, like people throughout the world, were paying homage to the Holy Father’s life, but in so doing they were demonstrating their faith in God — in the love, mercy and redemption of Jesus Christ.

At the end of the first full day of mourning, remembrance and thanksgiving, hundreds of thousands of Kracow residents made their way to Blonia Meadow, a large open space in the city, where in 2002, Pope John Paul had celebrated Mass for two million people. In the darkened night, streams of people — many carrying candles — made their way to the place where the pope had said Mass.

Catholic San Francisco associate publisher and editor Maurice Healy filed this report from Poland where he is on a week-long tour with a small group of Catholic newspaper editors. The planned trip happened to coincide with the death of Pope John Paul II.

I regarded the Pope as my wise and forbearing confessor. John Paul II died a martyr who showed us all that it’s not only important to know how to accept one’s death, but that no less important is it to fight for life to the final moment, because life is the greatest gift which has been given to us.

Vaclav Havel, Gazeta Wyborcza Why did the Pope remain a compelling figure for the young? One reason was his transparent integrity. Young people have acutely sensitive hypocrisy detectors; in John Paul II, they saw a man who believed what he said and acted out his beliefs.

There was no “spin” here—only integrity all the way through, the integrity of a man who committed every facet of his life to Jesus Christ. This was immensely compelling.

The Pope was also attractive to the young because he defied the cultural conventions of our age and didn’t pander to them. Rather, he challenged them to moral grandeur. While virtually every other authority figure in the world was lowering the bar of moral expectation, John Paul II held it high. You are capable of moral heroism, he told young people. Of course you will fail from time to time; that is human.

But don’t demean yourself by holding your lives to a lower standard. Get up from your failures, seek forgiveness and reconciliation, try again. That, he insisted, is the path to the fulfillment all young people seek.

And they listened. Not all of them agreed. But they came, in their millions, and listened. There is little doubt that many were changed by the encounter.

George Weigel, Beliefnet Thoughtful atheists ought to be able to recognise that, whatever one’s tastes in these areas, the Pope was on to something that abortion et al, in separating the “two meanings” of sex and leaving us free to indulge in one while ignoring the other, have severed us almost entirely and possibly irreparably from traditional impulses, such as societal survival. John Paul II championed the “splendour of truth” not because he was rigid and inflexible, but because he understood the alternative was a dead end in every sense.

If his beloved Europe survives in any form, it will one day acknowledge that.

Mark Steyn, The London Telegraph Anti-death penalty, antiabortion, antiwar, anti-stem-cell, pro-worker, pro-poor, pro-sick. It’s hard to think of any American politician whose positions reflect the entirety of John Paul II’s “life” concerns.

Even the American Catholic Church does-

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n’t always reflect the pope’s priorities. . . .

His legacy, however, may be limited by an age-old reality: the tendency of political leaders and the faithful to hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest.

Amy Sullivan, Salon Our religion teachers weren’t fond of the pope.

They’d taught us he was a drab authoritarian from Eastern Europe—incapable of understanding “democracy,” Vatican II or modern notions of sexuality.

That’s all curious to ponder today, since this pope became the father of democracy in Eastern Europe, had been a leader at Vatican II and was to write more positively about sex than any pontiff in history.

John Zmirak, Godspy John Paul II’s reach far exceeded his grasp. While his governing authority was limited to the Catholic Church, his heart opened to the entire world. He, more than any single individual of modern times, responded to the call of the Second Vatican Council for Catholics to take on the “joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the people of this age, especially of those who are poor or in any way afflicted.” This pope personified the council’s concern in his powerfully captivating gestures, and thereby moved the minds and hearts of people everywhere. He changed this world for the better.

Fr. Stephen A. Privett, SJ, San Francisco Chronicle It was Stalin who gave us the most famous formulation of that cynical (and today quite fashionable) philosophy known as “realism” — the idea that all that ultimately matters in the relations among nations is power: “The pope? How many divisions does he have?”

Stalin could have said that only because he never met John Paul II. We have just lost the man whose life was the ultimate refutation of “realism.” Within 10 years of his elevation to the papacy, John Paul II had given his answer to Stalin and to the ages: More than you have. More than you can imagine.

Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post It is an illusion, to which the human race has been prone since its beginning, to suppose that God’s will and human will could be located on the same plane and put in contest with one another. Instead, our very existence is a gift from God, a participation in his life and wisdom. As Augustine eloquently puts it, “God is nearer to us than we are to ourselves.” As much as he was an enthusiastic advocate of the dialogue between reason and faith, to which topic he devoted an encyclical, Fides et Ratio, he also knew that the most persuasive argument, the most eloquent testimony, was holiness of life.

Thomas Hibbs, National Review That’s exactly the kind of pope that Poles liked: a great religious leader who didn’t teach religious hatred, who had no desire to fight anyone, who never excluded anyone from the conversation. He was a Catholic who could pray by the Western Wall, who could pay respects at Yad Vashem and visit the Umayyad Mosque. The only regret among Poles was that he did not succeed in bringing about a dialogue with the Eastern Orthodox Church, which clearly rebuffed all his efforts to do so.

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POPE JOHN PAUL II - IN MEMORIAM Totally Ours On October 16, 1978, Archbishop Karol Wojtyla both simple and challenging. There is no mistaking the was elected as the successor of St. Peter and became life Christ calls each of us to live and this was what Pope John Paul II. Two and a half weeks later, I was John Paul II trumpeted to the ends of the Earth. born. Like the rest of my generation who was born after Like the invitation of “follow me” Jesus gave to the death of John Paul I, there has only been one Holy the rich young man, John Paul II wanted the whole Father. When people mention the word pope or papacy, world to follow Christ. Every generation faces a chalthe image of John Paul II is who will come to mind for lenge in their lifetimes. Examining the Holy Father’s us. The image that appears is not one of a scowling old own life, we see his own particular struggles and triman or an elite who is disengaged from the lower social umphs. The Holy Father knew the challenge existing in classes. As a friend of mine put it, we see him like a the call to follow Christ. But like any young person grandfather, wanting to spoil his grandchildren with all will say, “If you can do it, then we can do it better!” the love he can give them.

Realizing young people needed and relished a challenge, he set Christ’s Reminiscent of call to conversion as the prophet John the a benchmark before Baptist, John Paul Realizing young people needed and us. Our generation II’s mission was the was and still is being same as all the popes relished a challenge, he set Christ’s call called to become the and bishops before of Christ to a him. The message to conversion as a benchmark before us. light world embracing the was the redemption darkness of secularof the whole world ism and moral relaby the Son of God, Jesus Christ. He spread this message through the tivism. As the practices of divorce, sexual promiscuity, human signs of smiles, embraces, and handshakes. He and a culture of death and violence became acceptable knew we sometimes needed to hear words that were behaviors in society, John Paul II asked our generation firm and sometimes light jokes. He brought us words to stand firm against a wave of evil. We are to be a cultural sign of Christ to the world, even if it means being filled with hope, courage, and beauty.

I have heard people refer to my generation as the counter-cultural.

I have begun to see our Millennium Generation Millennium Generation. A group of young men and women who are coming of age after a time of great living out John Paul II’s call to holiness in our everychange both in the world and in the Church. Though the day lives. The families we will start and raise, the messages from our society are filled with static and mis- careers we will build, and the communities we will guided hopes, John Paul II’s message cut through loud form have the light of Christ shining in them because it and clear. It did not waver. It did not bend or give in to was John Paul II who focused the light into us. Many being watered down. The message could not because young people of our generation are also listening to the the message was Jesus Christ: yesterday, today, and for- call of the Holy Father to be lights to the world in a ever. The message of Jesus Christ was finally one we truly radical and unique way. Young men and women could embrace with certainty. The truth it contained was are deciding to be living witnesses to the Kingdom of

God on Earth by living totally consecrated to God through religious communities and through the priesthood.

Speaking from personal experience, my decision to leave the field of teaching (which I enjoyed) and pursue the priesthood, was greatly influenced by John David A. Schunk Paul II’s call to be a light to the world. If I am ordained a priest, God willing, I hope to live out my priesthood as the Holy Father lived out his priesthood.

Not for my own salvation, but at the complete service of helping others obtain their salvation won for them on the Cross.

For his episcopal motto, John Paul II chose a phrase of St. Louis de Montfort, Totus Tuus - Totally Yours. These words describe his entrustment of himself to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the vessel of the Incarnation of the Word of God. As his days on Earth are finished and God calls him to eternity, our generation is left with this reflection. Though he entrusted himself to the Blessed Mother, and had been totally hers, for our generation, he was totally ours.

John Paul II, we will always love you.

May you rest in peace.

Amen, Alleluia!

Mr. Schunk is a seminarian at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park studying for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He came to the Seminary from St. Anthony parish in Novato.

About every five hundred years “A voice is silent in the midst of the Church and in wrong. The Holy Father responded, “We must accept our land, the like of which will not be heard again in these things … with JOY!” our day…”

I was studying in Rome when Mikhail Gorbachev About every five hundred years, Fulton Sheen made his historic visit to the Vatican in 1989. All traffic wrote, a crisis hits the Church. The first was the fall of was stopped. There was an eerie quiet on the streets, Rome, and God raised up Gregory the Great. In about like during a championship soccer match. All the the year 1000, schism and corruption occurred, and God Romans were glued to their TVs, as Gorbachev’s limcalled upon Gregory VII, a holy Benedictine, to stop the ousine inched toward the Vatican. The Pope came out of scandal. Five hundred years later, the Reformation split his apartments in a dramatic gesture to welcome the Western Christendom, and God gave the Church Pius V Soviet President. They spent the first 10 minutes alone to apply the reforms of the Council of Trent and gener- together with no interpreters. “Gorby is going to conate missionary activity throughout the world. Sheen fession” one Polish Jesuit quipped.

A few years later President Gorbachev admitted in continued, “Now we are in the fourth cycle of five hundred years, with two world wars in twenty-one years, a syndicated article that Pope John Paul was the single and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This greatest influence on him in changing the communist time God has given us John Paul II, who has drawn the system.

In one of his famous Parochial and Plain Sermons, attention of the world to himself as no human being has Cardinal John Henry done in history.”

Newman said I’ll never forget “Personal influence my brief meeting Looking at the faces of the mourners is the principal with Pope John Paul means of propagating II in the Vatican in gathered in St. Peter’s Square and the Truth.” John October 1988. It was Paul’s immense perthe day of his 10th around the world, we can see how this sonal influence has anniversary of elecnot only touched the tion. In a private famous, but especialaudience, I was pre- man’s personal influence transformed ly the common persented to the Holy son. During a cereFather by Cardinal people’s lives with love. mony before a two Pio Taofinu’u, for million kids at World whom I had been working in Samoa. The Cardinal said to the Pope: Youth Day 2000, a barefoot teenage girl, evading the “This is Father Barber. He’s a Jesuit.” The Pope looked guards, climbed up onto the stage, ran across the altar to at me incredulously, but with a twinkle in his eye. where the Pope was sitting, and threw herself at his feet.

Crying, she looked up and poured out her heart to the “You?” “A Jesuit?” “But you are so friendly!”

I remember the thrill of his election. Only 56 years Pontiff. Waving off security, the Pope held her hand, lisold. The first non-Italian in 455 years. The skiing Pope. tened to her, looked right in her eyes and spoke to her as The shock when he was shot. His admission of depres- a father to his daughter. He gave her an affectionate hug sion during his recovery. His forgiveness and compas- and she departed, clearly relieved.

In his first-ever address as Successor of Peter, sion for his would-be assassin. His gratitude to Our Lady of Fatima for sparing him. During his convales- given to the Cardinals still assembled in the Sistine cence, he received Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter of Chapel following his election, the new Pope said “We Toronto, who was suffering from a recent stroke. want our ministry to be from the outset a ministry of Struggling to walk, Cardinal Carter said to the Pope, love, and want to show and declare this in every possi“Well, Your Holiness, I guess we just have to accept ble way.”

Looking at the faces of the mourners gathered in St. these things from God.” The Pope looked at him, and said “No…” “No…” Carter wondered what he had said Peter’s Square and around the world, we can see how

this man’s personal influence transformed people’s lives with love. Wherever the Pope went, he literally touched as many hands as he could. His personal touch, the blessing of his presence, is something many people will never forget. Watching Father Michael the television reports these days in the wake C. Barber, S.J. of his death, countless people are testifying that just seeing him in person filled them with joy and peace. “It’s like my dad has died.” “He was a priest who listened, who understood, who cared”. “We are all orphans now.”

He never forgot his origins. He had a superb education with two doctorates, but he was essentially a working man. When he came to San Francisco and dined in St. Mary’s Cathedral rectory with local bishops, the vintners of the Napa Valley donated their very best wines. Gesturing toward these priceless bottles, Monsignor P.J. McGrath, then pastor, approached the Pope and said “Holy Father, would you like something to drink?” The Pope thought for a minute, looked at the wine, and said “You know . . . I think . . . I would like . . . a beer.” In haste Monsignor went digging through the fridge but could only come up with a single can of “Bud Lite”.

In the dome, high above the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica, where the Pope celebrated Mass for 26 years, there is inscribed: “Tu es Petrus.” You are Peter.

Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you truly love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.” Jesus said “Feed my lambs.”

May this faithful servant who fed us with the Bread of Life and the mysteries of the Lord’s forgiveness and love, rejoice with Him for ever in heaven.

Father Michael C. Barber, S.J. teaches theology at St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park.

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Acts 2:14, 22-33; Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; 1 Peter 1:17-21; Luke 24:13-35 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (ACTS 2:14, 22-33) Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice, and proclaimed: “You who are Jews, indeed all of you staying in Jerusalem. Let this be known to you, and listen to my words. You who are Israelites, hear these words. Jesus the Nazorean was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds, wonders, and signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. This man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using lawless men to crucify him. But God raised him up, releasing him from the throes of death, because it was impossible for him to be held by it. For David says of him: I saw the Lord ever before me, with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.

Therefore my heart has been glad and my tongue has exulted; my flesh, too, will dwell in hope, because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your holy one to see corruption.

You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence’ “My brothers, one can confidently say to you about the patriarch David that he died and was buried, and his tomb is in our midst to this day. But since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that he would set one of his descendants upon his throne, he foresaw and spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he abandoned to the netherworld nor did his flesh see corruption. God raised this Jesus; of this we are all witnesses. Exalted at the right hand of God, he received the promise of the Holy Spirit from the Father and poured him forth, as you see and hear.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11) R. Lord, you will show us the path of life. or: R. Alleluia.

Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge; I say to the Lord, “My Lord are you.”

O Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot.

R. Lord, you will show us the path of life.

I bless the Lord who counsels me; even in the night my heart exhorts me.

I set the Lord ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.

R. Lord, you will show us the path of life.

Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence; because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.

R. Lord, you will show us the path of life.

You will show me the path to life, abounding joy in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever.

R. Lord, you will show us the path of life.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PETER (1 PT 1:17-21) Beloved: If you invoke as Father him

who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning, realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb.

He was known before the foundation of the world but revealed in the final time for you, who through him believe in God who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 24:13-35) That very day, the first day of the week, two of Jesus’ disciples were going to a village seven miles from Jerusalem called Emmaus, and they were conversing about all the things that had occurred. And it happened that while they were conversing and debating, Jesus himself drew near and walked with them, but their eyes were prevented from recognizing him. He asked them, “What are you discussing as you walk along?” They stopped, looking downcast. One of them, named Cleopas, said to him in reply, “Are you the only visitor to Jerusalem who does not know of the things that have taken place there in these days?” And he replied to them, “What sort of things?” They said to him, “The things that happened to Jesus the Nazorean, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people, how our chief priests and rulers both handed him over to a sentence of death and crucified him. But we were hoping that he would be the one to redeem Israel; and besides all this, it is now the third day since this took place.

Some women from our group, however, have astounded us: they were at the tomb early in the morning and did not find his body; they came back and reported that they had indeed seen a vision of angels who announced that he was alive. Then some of those with us went to the tomb and found things just as the women had described, but him they did not see.” And he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are! How slow of heart to believe all that the prophets spoke! Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?” Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the Scriptures. As they approached the village to which they were going, he gave the impression that he was going on farther. But they urged him, “Stay with us, for it is nearly evening and the day is almost over.” So he went in to stay with them. And it happened that, while he was with them at table, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, and gave it to them. With that their eyes were opened and they recognized him, but he vanished from their sight. Then they said to each other, “Were not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the way and opened the Scriptures to us?” So they set out at once and returned to Jerusalem where they found gathered together the eleven and those with them who were saying, “The Lord has truly been raised and has appeared to Simon!” Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.

MARK SHEA

In the breaking of the bread A woman I know once suffered amnesia. One morning, her surroundings suddenly looked strange and she found she could not recognize her house or remember where she lived. Fumbling for the phone she tried desperately to call somebody for help. However, try as she might, she could not even remember the phone number of her best friend.

At this point something remarkable happened: Lifting the handset on the phone she found that her hand knew which numbers to press though her brain was at a loss to verbalize them. So she got through to her friend and was able to get help.

I think of this story sometimes when people speak of ritual or liturgy as a meaningless “going through the motions.” For many people in our culture tend to equate “understanding” (particularly of religious things) simply and solely with an ability to articulate verbally some set of ideas or feelings. The notion is that unless one can earnestly give a point-by-point description of one’s relationship with the Lord, that relationship is suspect. Thus, Catholics (who are often not very verbal about their faith and who notoriously do the same thing day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year) are often prime suspects for being members of the “frozen chosen”: spiritually dead ritualists who have a form of the gospel while remaining utterly immune to its reality. All those signs of the cross. All that standing and kneeling. All those “stock phrases.”

Where is the true knowledge of the Lord in such ritual?

The orthodox Catholic answer: In our bodies, not just our heads, just as the woman above had the knowledge of her friend’s phone number in her hand as well as her head.

This is a strange notion to our modern culture, but it is very much a biblical one.

Consider, for a start, the way in which the biblical writers use the word “know.” For them “knowledge” of persons (and particularly of the Lord) always has a bodily character to it as well as a spiritual one.

Between husband and wife, for instance, the biblical sense of “know” has an explicitly sexual connotation: “Adam knew his wife” (Gen 4:1). Likewise, for the writers of the Old Testament, to “know” Torah is more than merely verbalizing it. It involves all sorts of different acts of physical ritual designed to make the Law, not merely a part of one’s mind, but a part of one’s entire being, physical and spiritual.

Thus Deuteronomy enjoins the faithful of Israel to “bind [God’s commandments] at your wrist as a sign and let them be as a pendant on your forehead” (Deut 6:8)—a command taken literally in the use of phylacteries. Likewise the Old Testament is dominated by an enormous amount of prescribed physical ritual for the right worship of God: a ritual that is clearly addressed to the whole of our being and not simply to our heads or spirits.

Worship, for the Old Testament Jewish mind, involves action, obedience, doing—not just words.

But we do not live under the Old Covenant. We are, says St. Paul, no longer under the Law. True enough. But we are still human and therefore still physical beings. This is why Jesus does not call us to be “free” from ritual and liturgy, only free from the burden of sup-

posing that ritual can earn us the love of God. As he himself says, we are to worship God, not just verbally, but “with all your heart, all your mind, all your soul and all your strength.” And this is rooted in the very essence of the New Testament: for when God revealed himself to us, he too did not merely speak or hand down some verbal concepts. The Word did not become word; the Word became flesh.

It is worth paying attention to this since modernity constantly conditions us to think of Jesus primarily as a teacher and to think of teaching primarily as “imparting ideas.” Now, to be sure, Jesus did teach. The Sermon on the Mount, the parables, the discourses are all verbal articulations of God’s revelation and begin Christ’s ministry just as the Liturgy of the Word begins the ministry of the Mass. His words are essential to us and will outlast heaven and earth. But his words, and especially the words at the end of his life are not ends in themselves.

They point to the awful gesture of his death and resurrection: a gesture that is beyond words, deeper than words, untouchable by words. Thus, his last act with his disciples (and the very thing that inaugurates his Passion) is not a preachment, but a gesture. And a gesture which points not to an idea but to the physical fact of his flesh crucified for us: He took bread, broke it, gave it to his disciples and said, “Take this all of you and eat it.

This is my body.”

This revelation through the body— through gesture—is the way in which the Risen Christ reveals himself as well. The disciples on the Emmaus Road talked and talked with Jesus. They heard a great deal of verbal articulation of the gospel from the lips of the Son of God himself. Nor was such talk fruitless. They felt their hearts burning within them. But they only came to know him through his gesture— again in the breaking of the bread (Luke 24:30-31). It was, like all biblical knowledge, a kind of bodily encounter with Truth, not a mere mental understanding.

It is thus, and not merely through memorization of his words that we know him.

And so it is thus and not merely through the proclamation of his words that the Church down through the ages has followed him. We not only repeat his words, we repeat his gesture as well by taking bread, giving thanks, breaking it and sharing with his disciples.

This is the reason for all the signs of the cross, genuflection, bowing, kneeling, uplifted hands, responsorials, anointing, exchanging of greetings, rituals, and rites. We are learning, not merely with our heads, but with our arms and legs as well how to be like him. We are receiving, not just ideas, but a life from Christ.

And life for him (and for us) is a bodily thing.

Are words then useless? Certainly not.

“Preach the word,” says St. Paul. And he is only imitating his Master who preached throughout the Holy Land. This is why half the Mass is given to the Liturgy of the Word. But a gospel that is only words and addresses only our head is not the gospel of the Word made flesh. We need the fullness of the gift God has given us: a gift that is revealed not only in words, but in the breaking of the bread as well.

Mark Shea is Senior Content Editor at CatholicExchange.com.

April 8, 2005

Memorial Mass . . .

■ Continued from page 3 resort to war in seeking to live at peace in our global village.

Who knew? Who could have known that this remarkable pope would be able to touch so many people, and engender so much hope in the world? As Catholics we should take his large legacy to heart, a legacy filled with faith, with hope, and with love. For helping us realize that we too might live busy lives in which our first task is to imitate Christ and his love for us, to seek holiness as God’s first gift, while neglecting none of the challenges set before us – for this glimpse into a friend’s heart, we should give thanks to God for Pope John Paul II. This morning I glanced at some of the remarks penned in the condolence books provided at the two back pillars of the Cathedral.

One lady wrote a message in French recalling that she and the pope shared a common trial during their youth: they both had to endure years of Nazi occupation. It made me realize what helped to forge Wojtyla’s indomitable spirit: the culture of his beloved Poland, the suffering under the Nazi war machine, the long years of atheistic Communist domination. Like the people celebrated in Tom Brokaw’s The

Greatest Generation of Americans, Karol Wojtyla too was precisely of that same generation, and shares many of their characteristics.

I thought too of that other school of preparation for the papacy that the pope attended, the Second Vatican Council. The reading this evening from the Book of Revelation recalled for me a passage from its Constitution on the Church: “As the sacraments of the New Law, which nourish the life and the apostolate of the faithful, prefigure the new heaven and the new earth (see Rev 21:1), so to the laity become powerful heralds of the faith in things to be hoped for (see Heb 11:1) if they unhesitatingly join the profession of faith to the life of faith.

This evangelization … acquires a special character and a particular effectiveness because it is accomplished in the ordinary circumstances of the world” (LG 35).

Putting faith into action. This has been a central theme of the Pope’s teaching and preaching in every corner of the world, where he has proclaimed the gospel of life, of justice and of peace to all nations. He truly believed that the civilization of love is the way for all humanity, and that God will be with us in our efforts to achieve it.

Even in these final years he held out the example of his own illness and suffering to help us realize that sickness and old age do not rob us of our human dignity as beloved chil-

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April 16: An Evening in Hollywood, annual auction/dinner dance benefiting Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish and School, at Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with gourmet dinner at 7:30 p.m. and dancing to the Jack Aces band till 1 a.m.

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April 16: Garage Sale benefiting the Little Sisters of the Poor and St. Anne’s Home – the happiest address on Lake Street. 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

April 16: Plant and Garden Sale at the Mount Carmel Shop, 45 Lovell Ave., Mill Valley, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Garden books, tools, vases, pots and more.

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April 16: Come and celebrate with us! St. Isabella School in San Rafael announces its annual Spring Auction and Dinner Dance, “OLE!” Fantastic Silent and Live Auctions, a Flamenco show, dancing, and a 2005 MINI Cooper Convertible to raffle! Many more items to see and bid on! 5p.m. to 12:30 a.m., Marin Civic Center, Exhibition Hall, San Rafael. For Tickets and Reservation requests pls. Call Michele Ugarte at 415.499.1202 ASAP! Dinner tickets $75 per person. MINI Cooper tickets $100 each (only 500 to be sold!) visit www.winacooper.com.

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April 16: Annual International Food Festival benefiting St. Dunstan Elementary School in Millbrae. Enjoy fare from Greece, Ireland, Mexico, Asia and other lands. Entertainment, children’s activities, silent auction and raffle, too. Tickets $35 adults/$20 seniors/$15 children 5 – 14. Call Catherine Miller at (650) 359-1574.

April 23: Monopola, annual dinner dance and auction benefiting Our Lady of Angels Parish and school at the Olympic Club, Lakeside featuring guest auctioneer, Diane Dwyer, Burlingame native and weekend anchor of NBC – 11 News. Starts with cocktails and silent auction at 5:30 p.m. Music by House Party. Tickets are $100 per person till April 13th, $120 after. Call Lisa Larratt 650-342-7011. For raffle tickets at $100 each and a chance at $20,000, call Sarita Ahern at (650) 343-5314, Jennifer Morse at (650) 697-3552, Theresa Stoye at (65) 375-1946.

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April 14: An Evening with Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, the San Domenico Alumnae Association’s annual Spring Spirituality Event. The author has been recognized for her work for justice, peace, and equality for women in Church and society. Program begins with a dessert reception at 7 p.m. in the School’s new Hall of the Arts, 1500 Butterfield Road in San Anselmo.

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April 24 – 28: Busy Person’s Retreat at Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave. in Belmont. An opportunity for individuals to deepen their own spiritual practice in the midst of busy schedules through daily prayer and individually scheduled spiritual direction.

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Bishop John C. Wester joined students and staff of Immaculate Conception Academy and neighboring St. James Elementary School for rites remembering the Blessed Mother on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception December 8th. Mass was celebrated in Noe Valley’s St. James Church where stained glass windows honoring Mary were dedicated by parishioners almost a century ago. Others in attendance included ICA principal, Dominican Sister Janice Therese Wellington, St. James principal, Dominican Sister Mary Susanna Vasquez, and ICA campus minister, Chris Rosalez.

Belmont and other area schools. Call (415) 586 – 5866 for curtain times and ticket prices. “A baseball lovin’ hit for the entire family,” said Valerie O’Riordan, director.

April 9: The Hail Mary Children’s Choir in concert at Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. The Philippines-based ensemble won Gold Medals in the World Music Olympics in 2004. Tickets are $15 for adults and $7 for children. Proceeds benefit Novitiate House building project for Sisters of Social Service in the Philippines. For tickets, Aleli Geronimo 584-8297, Adelaida Canlas 585-9448 or Social Service Sister Celeste Arbuckle at 681-9219.

April 9: Slavyanka-A San Francisco men’s Russian Chorus singing a cappella music settings of prayers and chants selected from Russian Orthodox liturgy perform 8:00 PM at Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St., San Francisco. Call 415-397-0113.

April 23: Sister is back. Late Nite Catechism II comes to St. Stephen Parish, Eucalyptus Dr. and 23rd Ave. at 7pm.Tickets are $35.00. “It’s the sequel to Late Nite Catechism and very funny. It’s awesome.” For more information call JR at 415.681.2444, ext. 26.

April 24: Benefit concert 2-4 p.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Nicasio. Dennis McNeil and Friends perform a variety of musical styles from opera to Irish, blues and jazz. The acoustics of the small, wood framed church guarantee an amazing event.

Advanced tickets are $50 per person. Seating is limited. Call Spike or Kathy Drady at (415) 662-2057. Wine and cheese will be served after the event, weather per-

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

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

April 26: Catholic Lobby Day. Calling young adults to participate in Catholic Lobby Day 2005. Take the day off work and join 900 Catholics in Sacramento to pray, listen and advocate on behalf of the poor and disenfranchized of our society. We will carpool or take a bus from SF at 7am for the 9am - 4pm gathering. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org.

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mitting. Proceeds benefit St. Mary’s Church. Dennis McNeil has sung with the New York City Opera as well as Bruce Hornsby, The Grateful Dead, San Francisco Opera, New Orleans Opera and Los Angeles Opera.

Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free. April 10: Concert by Womensing.

250 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park. For fees, times and details about these and other offerings call (650) 325-5614. Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, Program Director.

April 16: Photography and Prayer, Awakening to the Handprints of God with Carol Fowler. Prayer and photography serve as lens to God’s presence in our lives.

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Exploring the Eucharist, A Special Series Celebrating the Year of the Eucharist. The Church calls the Eucharist the source and summit of our faith.

Yet it’s easy for us to just go through the motions, never really experiencing it fully. Come discover the deeper meaning of everything we do at our Eucharist, and explore ways of experiencing it more deeply. This series is open to people of all ages and is offered Tuesday Evenings, April 5th-May 3rd, 7:30-9 p.m.; and Thursdays April 7th-May 5th, 2:30-4 p.m. at. St. Dominic Church, Bush and Steiner St., SF. Contact Scott Moyer, 415-674-0422, scott@stdominics.org.

April 20, May 14: Practicing Peace through Nonviolent Transformation, a workshop series – April 5, 20 and May 14 – guiding participants in living and acting as peacemakers and putting creative nonviolence into practice in daily life. Sponsored by St. Raphael Parish, San Rafael and peace advocacy organizations. Call Judith Howell at (415) 454-8141 or jhowell@straphael.com for times, locations.

April 23: Potluck Supper at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral conference center. Sponsored by Divorced and Separated Ministry of the Archdiocese.

Call Vonnie at (650) 873-4236.

April 17:Tanzania Trot, a 4-mile walk/run around Lake Merced, benefiting work of Sisters of St.Therese with AIDS orphans. Sponsored by St. Ignatius, Archbishop Riordan and Mercy, SF, high schools. Contact Annie Lee at allee@siprep.org or Mary Ahlbach at mahlbach@siprep.org. The effort hopes to raise $30,000. “The money will allow the sisters to finish phase one for a center with administrative offices, classrooms, storage, and clinic,” said Mary Ahlbach, moderator of the Tanzanian Orphans Project at SI. “The sisters work with 1500 AIDS Orphans teaching them in areas including job skills. They want the orphans to remain in their villages, but to be able to come to the center for education and whatever else they need.”

Taize Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston Hall on the campus of their Notre Dame de Namur University. Call (650) 5932045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

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April 13: Fire - Earthquake Preparedness Lecture at Holy Angels Church, 107 San Pedro Rd., Colma at 7 p.m. Mark Lee of Daly City Fire Department will lead the discussion. “These 45 minutes could save a family member’s life,” said Ted Cordano of Holy Angels Knights of Columbus sponsors of the evening. Call (650) 992-6122.

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Robots Chris Wedge and his cohorts at Blue Sky Studios learned a lot making their first film, Ice Age — and it shows in their superior sophomore film, Robots.

They may have learned from other films as well.

Robots combines the visionary alternate world-building of Monsters, Inc., the flair for gadgetry and gimmickry of an old Fleishers cartoon, and most sneakily of all, the toybox nostalgia of the Toy Story movies, with cleverly worked-in toy and game references — “Operation,” Slinky, Wheelo — that will have adults grinning with recognition.

There’s also some slyly subversive social commentary reminiscent to The Incredibles’s satire of the selfesteem gospel and the culture of entitlement. Here the target is insecurity advertising, the corporate strategem of instilling feelings of inadequacy and need in order to make their product indispensable. Once-benevolent Bigweld Industries, which historically proclaimed the inspirational message, “You can shine no matter what you’re made of!” now raises the demoralizing question, “Why be YOU when you can be… NEW?” There’s even a pro-life resonance in the film’s depiction of the sinister plot to scrap obsolete members of society who’ve outlived their usefulness and are beginning to fall apart.

Robots gets off to a sparkling start with working stiff Herb Copperbottom (Stanley Tucci) ebulliently heading home to his wife for the arrival of their new baby, Rodney (voiced in adulthood by Ewan MacGregor).

Unfortunately, Herb misses the delivery. That’s right — the kit has already been delivered by the time he arrives home. Of course, as his wife coyly reminds him, “making the baby is the fun part,” so they get to work.

Rodney’s home life is portrayed with the same domestic affection suggested by these and other rather innocent double-entendres; and, thanks in part to Tucci investing Rodney’s father with more depth and texture than the character has a right to, these early scenes promise a level of humanity that, unfortunately, the rest of the film never quite delivers on.

(CNS PHOTO FROM 20TH CENTURY FOX)

Reviewed by Steven D. Greydanus

Animated characters Rodney Copperbottom, left, voiced by Ewan McGregor, and Fender, voiced by Robin Williams, are pictured in a scene from the movie "Robots."

Yet the first big scene, when Rodney finally leaves home and heads off to Robot City, is a tour de force of the film’s real strong center, constant visual invention and creative energy. Rodney’s arrival in Robot City becomes a bravura set piece reminiscent of Monsters, Inc.’s climactic bedroom-door monorail chase scene… and that’s just one of a number of great action set pieces.

Despite the futuristic milieu, Robots actually has a strong retro vibe: This is very much a 1950s vision of the future. With his pastel colors and chrome and glass trim, Rodney somehow looks like an old-fashioned kitchen appliance. His father Herb literally is one: When he says he’s a dishwasher at a local diner, he really is a dishwasher.

The story, which pits our heroes against a slick corporate bully and his sinister Manchurian Candidate

EWTN to air funeral, conclave events EWTN will air live and encore broadcasts of the funeral of Pope John Paul II, as well as events leading up to the Conclave and numerous biographical presentations and memories of John Paul II. Schedules are subject to change due to evolving live events. Visit website www.ewtn.com for exact times.

A ten-part, behind the scenes look at the Vatican featuring St. Peter’s Square, the Pope, the Swiss Guard, the Vatican archives and daily life of the Vatican airs April 11-15 and April 18-22 at 3:30 p.m.

Another April special on the construction of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception airs April 14 at 10:00 a.m. and April 16 at 5:00 p.m.

EWTN is carried on Comcast Digital Channel 229; RCN Channel 80; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 422. Comcast Cable customers receive EWTN on Channel 54 in Half Moon Bay and Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County.

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monster-mother, is a familiar one, but offers some great character design (kindly Mr. Bigweld resembles some benevolent titan from a stop-motion Rankin-Bass production) and terrific action sequences.

There are two main drawbacks. First, Wedge leans too much on some crude humor, especially over-the-top flatulence humor, and also an almost British proccupation with bottom jokes. Perhaps they’re trying for Shrek-style bad taste, but fart jokes are one thing when your protagonist is precisely a boorish ogre, but they’re just plain out of place here. (Anyway, I didn’t care for them even in Shrek).

The other issue is more substantial, and is the main reason that neither Blue Sky nor DreamWorks Animation can yet compete with Pixar narratively (never mind visually). They simply haven’t got the knack of created layered characters who are interesting in themselves and emotional complexities that grab the audience.

The characters in Robots are generally pleasant enough — even a tired Robin Williams doesn’t entirely ruin things, and gets a funny Singin’ in the Rain tribute — but there’s no one here that I became emotionally invested in the way I did Marlin and Nemo, or even Sully and Mike and Boo. There are a few somewhat touching moments, but on the whole it comes off clever rather than heartfelt.

Still, it’s a high grade of clever, and I enjoyed it a lot.

Steven D. Greydanus writes reviews for National Catholic Register and CatholicExchange.com.

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Send resume to Sr. Virginia Espinal, 281 Masonic Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118 or e-mail to: vespinal@pbvmsf.org.

Special Needs Nursing, Inc. RNs or LVNs We are looking for you.

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

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

Generous benefit packages for generous nurses.

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

Special Needs Companion Services We are looking for you.

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

Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

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Catholic San Francisco

April 8, 2005

Every Life is Worth Remembering Cremation is not the end.

A decision regarding the final disposition of human cremated remains must be made.

Do you have Cremated Remains at Home?

There are practical aspects to be considered when deciding the ultimate disposition of these remains.

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A home may be sold or a favorite rose garden may someday be abandoned.

A woodland or favorite spot, may one day become developed.

There may not be anyone left to pray at the little shrine at home.

Where is a physical permanent evidence of this special life that was lived?

Catholic Cemeteries are dedicated to the memorialization of human lives and the safekeeping of human remains.

Consider the many options available to inter human cremated remains in your Catholic Cemeteries

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Ground burial in cremation urn gardens

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Outdoor and Indoor Marble Niches

Glass Front Niches in All Saints Mausoleum

Cremated Remains may often be placed in an existing family grave or crypt.

I would like more information: I would like to know if I can place cremated remains in my family grave or crypt. ● I have cremated remains at home and would like to discuss what to do. ● Cremation Guidelines Brochure ● Cremation Placement Options: ❏ Holy Cross, Colma ❏ Holy Cross, Menlo Park ❏ Mt. Olivet, San Rafael ●

Name: _______________________________ Address: ________________________________ City: ___________________________ State, Zip: ____________________________________ Please call me – Daytime Telephone Number: ___________________________________

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.