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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates an outdoor Mass in the Josafat Valley at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem May 12.

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Pope Benedict leaves a written prayer at the Western Wall, Judaism’s holiest prayer site, in the Old City of Jerusalem May 12. The prayer appealed to God to bring “your peace upon this Holy Land, upon the Middle East, upon the entire human family.”

Israel’s President Shimon Peres and Pope Benedict XVI exchange greetings as members of an Israeli youth choir look on in the garden of the presidential palace in Jerusalem May 11.

In Holy Land, pope appeals for peace, condemns anti-Semitism

By John Thavis JERUSALEM (CNS) – Marking a highlight of his Holy Land pilgrimage, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated an open-air Mass in Jerusalem May 12, prayed at the Western Wall, and visited one of Islam’s most sacred shrines.

The pope’s events, midway in his May 8-15 trip, underscored his message that Jerusalem, a meeting ground for Christianity, Judaism and Islam, must again become a city of peace. It was his second day in the holy city after four days in Jordan.

The pope made a morning visit to the Dome of

U.S. Bishops launch new campaign against embryonic stem-cell research

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – As the National Institutes of Health continued to gather comments on the draft guidelines that would permit federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops launched a new campaign urging support for ethical cures and treatments “we can all live with.”

The “Oppose Destructive Stem-Cell Research” campaign at www.usccb.org/stemcellcampaign also

encourages Web users to contact Congress and NIH to express opposition to the draft guidelines.

May 26 is the NIH deadline for public comment on the draft guidelines, which would allow the use of federal funds for stem-cell research on embryos created for reproductive purposes at in vitro fertilization clinics and later discarded.

Donald M. Raibovsky,an NIH spokesman, said a total of 13,503 comments on the stem-cell guidelines had been received as of May 8.

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the Rock, sacred to Muslims as the place from which Mohammed ascended to heaven. He told Islamic leaders there that Christians, Muslims and Jews have a “grave responsibility” to expand dialogue and mend divisions.

POPE IN HOLY LAND, page 4

California bishops urge consideration for poor

By Michael Vick The California Catholic Conference, the lobbying arm of California’s Catholic bishops, has urged the governor and legislature to remember the poor and vulnerable amidst the state’s growing budget crisis. Steve Pehanich, CCC’s senior director for advocacy and education, told Catholic San Francisco that Californians should work together to promote the welfare of all.

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INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION On parish evangelization . . . 5 News in brief. . . . . . . . . 10-11 Filipino American history . 14 Obituary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Scripture reflection . . . . . . . 17

St. Patrick’s commencement ~ Page 3 ~ May 15, 2009

Forming a new priest ~ Page 6 ~

“The Church came first for everything” ~ Page 12 ~

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Honorees at Archbishop Riordan High School’s opening night fundraiser included three who have “tread the boards” in the school’s plays and musicals. Kristina Guevel, Channel 2’s Sal Castaneda, and Hollywood agent Dana Sims are Riordan stage vets. Dominican Sister John Martin Fixa was principal at Immaculate Conception Academy when Dana was a student there.

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Daughter of Charity Sister William Eileen Dunn, vice-president of Mission Integration at Seton Medical Center, Dr. Debra Barra-Stevens, and Lorraine Auerbach, hospital president at annual “Sipping With Seton” event in April.

Congrats, however belated, to Richard Dunn, Knight of Malta and longtime member of St. Stephen Parish, who was honored in December with a Distinguished Graduate Award by his high school alma mater, Boston Latin School. The school called him a “tireless advocate of the sick and poor throughout the world,” a description truly in synch with his recognition by Catholic Charities CYO with its “Loaves and Fishes Award” in 2005 as well as his service with the Order of Malta including 23 pilgrimages to Lourdes. Much of his good work – he’d correct me to all

methinks – was done hand-in-hand with his wife, Marygrace, much missed since her death in 2000. Dick, a retired investment banker, is a graduate of Yale with a law degree from Harvard and a graduate business degree from Stanford….Thanks for the good news to Tom Hayes. Tom, raised in Ireland, and his wife, Patricia, who attended St. Anne Elementary School, were married 57 years ago in St. James Church and will celebrate their 58th anniversary Oct 4. They have been parishioners of St. Stephen’s for 44 years. Their children are all graduates of St. Stephen Elementary School. Joanne Hayes-White, of course, is San Francisco fire chief and mom to Riley, Logan and Sean Daniel. Patricia Hayes has been with the U.S. State Department for 18 years serving in countries including France and Mexico. She also served as the State Department’s representative on President Bill Clinton’s visit to Ireland. Geralynn Forghani and her husband, Bob, are proud folks of Brendan and Nolan. Dan Hayes heads the Physical Education Department at San Francisco City College, just across the street from his alma mater, Archbishop Riordan High School.

Joanne, Patricia and Geralyn are graduates of Mercy High School, San Francisco….Into the wild went Father Bill Nicholas of Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato, and parishioner, Dr. Louie Limchayseng on a Boar Hunt Father Nicholas won at an auction benefiting Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School.

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Students and staff at St. Cecilia Elementary School are reducing trash by composting and recycling on site. “This has made a sizeable difference in what the school adds to the landfill,” said Anne Sculley, Science Coordinator. A “Green Team” of students monitors the bins. Seventh graders Nicole McManus, left, Brigid O’Brien and Sophia Napoli take part in the new good work.

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Archbishop Wuerl advocates pastoral, teaching approach Communion should not be used as a political weapon, The teaching approach has been used for centuries Archbishop Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C, said in an and requires patience and persistence, the prelate said: interview with Inside Politics Daily.

“But I believe if we teach our people, “That’s the new way now to make we will not have a problem with our your point,” Wuerl told the online publipoliticians.’’ cation’s editor in chief, former New York Discussing House Speaker Nancy Times political correspondent Melinda Pelosi, Archbishop Wuerl said he has Henneberger, in an article posted May 6. not and will not bow to pressure to deny “We never – the Church just didn’t use her Communion.

Communion this way. It wasn’t a part “There’s a question about whether of the way we do things, and it wasn’t a this canon was ever intended to be way we convinced Catholic politicians used’’ to coerce politicians, he said. to appropriate the faith and live it and “I stand with the great majority of apply it. The challenge has always been American bishops and bishops around to convince people.” the world in saying this canon was Wuerl said bishops have two never intended to be used this way.’’ approaches to bringing Catholic politiThe article maintained that cians in line with Church teaching.

Archbishop Wuerl’s critics see him as Washington’s Archbishop “One is the pastoral, teaching mode, insufficiently outraged over politicians’ Donald W. Wuerl and the other is the canonical approach,’’ insensitivity to Church teaching. Prohe said. “I have yet to see where the canonical approach choice President Obama’s upcoming commencement has changed anyone’s heart.’’

San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer has approved the following appointments, effective July 1, 2009 for two San Francisco parishes: Father Daniel Nascimento has been named Pastor at St. Brendan Parish. Father Arnold E. Zamora has been named Administrator at Holy Name of Jesus Parish.

In an earlier announcement, Father Thomas M. Parenti has been named pastor of Star of the Sea Parish in Sausalito effective July 1, 2009.

Additional appointment announcements will be forthcoming.

Sulpician Father Gerald L. Brown, who is retiring after a five-year tenure as president and rector at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, looks on during commencement ceremonies at the seminary May 8. Father Brown will step down July 1 and begin a sabbatical focusing on the teaching of communication and homiletics. He will remain on the St. Patrick’s faculty.

The Provincial Council of the U.S. Province of the Society of St. Sulpice, which staffs the seminary, named Sulpician Father James L. McKearney to be the new president and rector. The seminary conferred 41 degrees on a graduating class of 21, representing nine dioceses and archdioceses.

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address at Notre Dame is the latest example of what they see as such as affront.

But Archbishop Wuerl does not wish to add to the agitation.

“There’s always been a certain amount of that, but the polarization in our culture seems to flow into our Church,” he said. “It’s the society in which we live – it’s so easy to be anonymous.”

Websites such as YouTube, he added, allow people to “unburden themselves.’’

We live in “an age of polemicists’’ where pundits are glorified and no one is bound by the rules of decency, Archbishop Wuerl said. But he said he is optimistic that the truth will prevail.

“One of the best parts of our nation is if we’re left to struggle with an issue long enough, we’ll get it right,” he said. “The truth wins; you just have to wait a long time, and that’s why the Catholic Church feels so comfortable preaching and teaching, preaching and teaching, preaching and teaching… We’re in it for the long haul.’’

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Pope in the Holy Land appeals for peace ■ Continued from cover The pope then went to the Western Wall, a site sacred to Jews as the remains of the Second Temple, and placed a written prayer in a crevice between the massive stones.

It asked God to “hear the cry of the afflicted, the fearful, the bereft; send your peace upon this Holy Land, upon the Middle East, upon the entire human family.”

The 82-year-old pontiff stood in silent prayer before the wall for two minutes, much as his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, had done nine years earlier.

In the evening, the pope celebrated Mass for several thousand people in the Josafat Valley beneath the Mount of Olives next to the walls of the Old City. In his homily, he called for the city to regain its vocation as “as a prophecy and promise of that universal reconciliation and peace which God desires for the whole human family.”

Sadly, in today’s Jerusalem, he said, “hope continues to battle despair, frustration and cynicism, while the peace which is God’s gift and call continues to be threatened by selfishness, conflict, division and the burden of past wrongs.”

Like many papal events, the Mass was tinged with politics. Welcoming the pope, Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem said Palestinians dream of a “free and independent” state of their own while the people of Israel dream of living in peace and security.

The patriarch said the Catholic community is shrinking, mainly because of emigration due to the “unjust occupation” of Palestinian land by Israel and “all its humiliation.”

The pope’s first day in Jerusalem May 11 was a busy one, and it began with a remembrance of Jewish suffering under the Nazi extermination campaign and a strongly worded warning about new forms of antiSemitism.

Speaking at a welcoming ceremony at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, the pope said he had come to honor the memory of the 6 million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and “to pray that humanity will never again witness a crime of such magnitude.”

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“Sadly, anti-Semitism continues to rear its ugly head in many parts of the world. This is totally unacceptable,” he said.

As Israeli President Shimon Peres and Israeli government leaders listened, the pope then urged a negotiated peace settlement that will allow Israelis and Palestinians to “live in peace in a homeland of their own, within secure and internationally recognized borders.”

Meeting with Peres at the presidential palace in Jerusalem the same day, the pope spoke about the sensitive topic of security, saying the term needs to be understood not simply as “the absence of threat” but as inseparable from justice and peace.

In a visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, Pope Benedict prayed silently before the eternal flame in the Hall of Remembrance and said the suffering of Jews under the Nazi extermination campaign must “never be denied, belittled or forgotten.”

The pope called the Holocaust an atrocity that disgraced mankind and said the church is committed to working tirelessly “to ensure that hatred will never reign in the hearts of men again.”

He met with six Holocaust survivors, who later expressed their appreciation for the pope’s gesture. But some Jewish leaders said they were disappointed that the German pope made no mention in his talk of the Nazi perpetrators of the Holocaust.

That evening, the pope told a group of interreligious dialogue experts that, in a world that has in some ways become “deaf to the divine,” religions must give common witness to God’s rightful place in the world. The event was marred by a Muslim sheik’s denunciation of Israeli policies, which prompted some Jewish representatives to walk out.

The pope began his eight-day Holy Land trip in Jordan, where he walked a pilgrim’s path, energizing its minority Christian population and building bridges to the moderate Muslim world.

Arriving at Amman’s airport May 8 he said he had come as a Christian pilgrim and with “deep respect” for the Muslim community. It was Pope Benedict’s first trip to an Arab country.

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The pope paid tribute to interfaith dialogues launched

by Jordanian leaders, saying they have advanced an “alliance of civilizations between the West and the Muslim world, confounding the predictions of those who consider violence and conflict inevitable.”

The pope’s first stop in Amman was the Regina Pacis center, a church-run facility for the disabled, and it underscored the charitable role played by Jordan’s minority Christian population in cooperation with Muslims. Arriving to loud cheers, he waded into a huge crowd of well-wishers as a band played the “gerpe” – a Jordanian bagpipe – and tabla, or hand drums.

The following day, the pope visited the King Hussein Mosque in Amman, pausing briefly in what the Vatican called “respectful meditation” in a Muslim place of prayer.

In a speech afterward to Muslim academics and religious leaders, the pope warned of the “ideological manipulation of religion” that can act as a catalyst for tensions and violence in contemporary societies.

The pope traveled May 9 to Mount Nebo, the place where Moses glimpsed the Promised Land before dying.

He then rode his popemobile to the ancient biblical city of Madaba, where he blessed the foundation of the first Catholic university in Jordan.

The pope’s Mass May 10 in an Amman soccer stadium that holds 25,000 people was the liturgical high point of his visit. In his homily, the pope preached as a simple pastor, recognizing the spiritual and material struggle of Christian families in the land where the church was born.

Christians in the Holy Land have a special vocation to engage in dialogue and build new bridges to other religions and cultures and to bear witness to the sacrificial love of Christ “and thus counter ways of thinking which justify taking innocent lives,” he said.

Later in the day the pope made his way to the Jordan River, where archaeologists believe they have identified the site of Jesus’ baptism by St. John the Baptist. He blessed the foundation stones of two Catholic churches – one Latin-rite and the other Melkite – to be built at the location and said the new construction was a hopeful sign for a Christian community that goes back to the church’s beginnings.

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Clericalism, ideologies hinder parish evangelization, priest says at Jesuit-run Xavier University in Cincinnati; Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio; and Kerry Robinson, executive director of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management in Washington.

In his April 29 talk, Father Deck said that, although the U.S. church “has become as much an immigrant church today as it was a hundred years ago,” U.S. Catholics today are characterized by a “wild diversity.”

But, he added, “the key to a successful parish is precisely what it always was: creating the conditions whereby many diverse groups experience a real sense of belonging.”

Father Deck cited a number of obstacles to achieving a truly evangelizing church

Iowa workplace raid one year later

By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) – A year ago a dramatic workplace immigration raid turned the town of Postville, Iowa, on its head, with the arrest of 389 immigrant workers rippling through to most of the town’s 2,300 residents, straining resources and ultimately leading to closed businesses around town.

A year before Postville, another large workplace raid of a sewing factory in New Bedford, Mass., roiled that city and captured attention nationwide as widely published photos of distraught children separated from their parents underscored the effect of immigration arrests on families.

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Anniversary prayer services and other events around the country organized by religious and labor leaders and other activists, and a May 11 teleconference called attention to the broad and lingering effects of the current immigration system’s problems.

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community, including a lack of “regard for the role women play in the church” and an “unhealthy polarization of thought” among some Catholics.

He cited concerns he has heard that some newly ordained priests “have developed a priestly identity that is not congenial to the collaborative, collegial way of working demanded by a church whose mission and identity is to evangelize.”

He said “neither so-called conservative nor progressive/liberal responses” can adequately address “the wide gamut of circumstances that characterize a multicultural, multigenerational church.”

“The diversity that characterizes our parishes today requires a rich diversity of responses that run the gamut from the traditional to the innovative,” he said.

“The Catholic Church is fully able to hold in creative tension a bewildering range of cul-

tural, language and liturgical preferences,” he said, “from the Latin extraordinary rite to the Life Teen Masses, from charismatic renewal devotees and Sister Faustina’s Divine Mercy disciples to Pax Christi social activists and the ecumenical spirituality of Taize practitioners, from Guadalupana associations to the Knights of Columbus.”

“The challenge for an evangelizing parish is to create an environment of real hospitality strong enough to overcome the innate tendency, the default drive, of many ecclesial communities to close in on themselves and huddle together in homogeneous groups,” Father Deck said.

He advised pastors to keep “their eyes and ears wide open to the realities around them” and to encourage the formation of small Christian communities within the parish that can be “the best environment for motivating people to put faith into daily practice.”

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Jesuit Father Allan Figueroa Deck, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church, delivered one of the keynote talks at the April 27-30 NFPC meeting in San Antonio. The theme of the meeting was “The Parish of Tomorrow – Today.”

Other speakers included Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles; Edward Hahnenberg, associate professor of theology

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Mike Quinn is serving as parochial associate at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco during the final year of his training for the priesthood. On a recent tour of the church, Quinn showed the chapel, at left, and met Holy Ghost Sister Mary Consumpta, in the sanctuary during a rehearsal for a liturgy honoring Mary.

Forming a new priest: Mike Quinn Ex-accountant Quinn drove Lincolns and loved his secular life but left it all behind for a vocation that “allows one to be happier.”

This is the first in a series of three profiles of seminarians who will be ordained June 20 to serve as priests in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. May 22: Bill Thornton. June 12: Joseph Previtali.

By Rick DelVecchio On the eve of his priestly ordination at 56, Mike Quinn is a late vocation by anyone’s definition. But listen to Quinn describe his spiritual path and it is clear the foundations of his calling were set early in life. The key element seems to have been that he grew up in an environment where he knew priests who were good men and who did good work.

The first of these role models was Father William Quinn, Mike Quinn’s uncle. A priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, now retired, Father Quinn was a frequent visitor at the Quinn home.

He was a fun, approachable man who took it in stride when the kids peppered him with questions about his work.

“We always had the same question,” Mike Quinn recalled.

‘Did you hear a good confession?’ He would always kind of laugh. He would never tell me anything.”

Because of men like his uncle, young Quinn never had the fear of priests that others might have felt. “Our faith was kind of fun, it was approachable,” he said.

As he grew up the young nephew also came to admire his uncle’s stalwart obedience to his bishop and unwavering service to his parishioners.

“He was a fellow who endured,” Mike Quinn said. “When he was retired from here he had time to get sick. We he left here he was really sick. We talked about that and he said, ‘I never had time to get sick before.”’

Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton and Msgr. Henry Lyne were two other priests who made positive impressions on the young Quinn.

Quinn saw Father Peyton from afar. He was one of a halfmillion people who attended Father Peyton’s rosary crusade in San Francisco in 1961 and inspired families like the Quinns to pray the rosary together at home. The event stands out as one of the three most powerful times that Quinn has “seen the people’s faith explode.” The other two were a military discernment event at St. Raymond Parish last year and this year’s May Day service at Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco, combining 500 singers and a 30-piece orchestra.

Msgr. Lyne was pastor at Most Holy Redeemer Parish, where Quinn shared altar boy captain duties with his twin brother in the early 60s.

But as much as he was devoted to his faith and knew many admirable priests, young Quinn in no way felt called.

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“I went to high school, started dating,” he said. “Loved dating. Girls were good. Went to college, married my highschool sweetheart. Unfortunately that didn’t work out. Came home one day and everything was gone, including her. I guess I was a little into work.”

Quinn’s work was financial management. He was a Certified Public Accountant enjoying a thriving career and a lifestyle to match. He had nice cars – black Lincoln Marks 7s were a favorite – and a 36-foot boat moored in Sausalito. He was a modern, free professional man leading, he admits, a charmed life.

“I believed life was mostly a meritocracy,” Quinn said.

Although he did not know it at the time, the annulment of his marriage and his decision not to remarry aligned him toward his new vocation.

“Being a Baltimore Catechism Catholic, I said you can’t remarry,” he said. “You only marry once.”

Quinn now was developing as an active lay Catholic, teaching religious education at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Novato and helping out with parish finances. The work grew on him and soon he found himself dropping old hobbies. One incident in the mid-90s dramatized the change he was going through.

His brother, who was active in a group that supported the Navy, asked him if he wanted to jump on a helicopter and take a ride into MIKE QUINN, page 7

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His answer would have been unthinkable to Quinn as a younger man: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got religious education tonight. I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do that.â&#x20AC;?

Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s involvement in his parish was growing to the point where he began to feel a call to enter the diaconate. He saw himself retiring from his job and serving as a deacon in his later years.

But two encounters in 1996 pointed him in another direction.

Father Sarsfield Sullivan of Butte, Montana, Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second cousin, was an occasional house guest. A remark he made on one visit seemed to foreshadow Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s path: â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You know, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m praying for you to be a priest.â&#x20AC;?

Then-Auxiliary Bishop Patrick J. McGrath had become a friend through Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uncle. Quinn told the bishop of his plans to become a deacon and his decision not to remarry. The accountant at this time was bringing his dating career to a close.

The bishop put the pieces together and came back with: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you apply for the priesthood?â&#x20AC;?

Quinn responded with litany of reasons why that was a bad idea. The bishop listened and let his answer hang in the air: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you just let God take this one.â&#x20AC;?

And so he did.

Quinn next reached out to another of the good priests he had known all his life, Father Kevin Gaffey, who was pastor at St. Anthony in Novato at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was a guy who was absolutely comfortable in his own skin,â&#x20AC;? Quinn said.

Father Gaffey, who had become Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mentor, advised him

to start praying. Quinn did so and next found himself a seminary applicant in conference with Father Tom Daly, the archdiocesan director of vocations.

He was selected and decided to begin his training. But the doubts continued. â&#x20AC;&#x153;How many accountants do well in philosophy?â&#x20AC;? he remembered asking himself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never heard of one, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go to seminary and get this crazy idea out of my head.â&#x20AC;?

He did well in seminary. But still the doubts persisted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I found myself in chapel saying, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;God, are you sure?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I think you might be making a mistake.â&#x20AC;?

The hubris of the question struck him later on. Quinn finally let go of his doubts â&#x20AC;&#x201C; he â&#x20AC;&#x153;let go of the wheelâ&#x20AC;? and put it in Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hands.

Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s high-achiever personality took well to the task of priestly training. He not only completed his seminary studies successfully but also earned a degree in spirituality from Creighton University. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more, he renewed both his prayer life and his physical condition.

Quinnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s superiors felt it would be wise for him to lose weight. He resisted at first (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not a GQ guy.â&#x20AC;?) However, he came around to the idea when he realized that Father Daly and Archbishop George H. Niederauer were supporting his health as part of his spiritual development.

He dropped 120 pounds and is satisfied with energy bars as a major part of his diet. He puts his success to the goodwill of his mentors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had good shepherds,â&#x20AC;? he said.

In his prayer life, he describes a sense of â&#x20AC;&#x153;awesomenessâ&#x20AC;? that has come over him as he approaches ordination. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What comes across is the wonder and awe of serving at the

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Lordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s altar and being the conduit of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will in the confessional,â&#x20AC;? he said.

All seminarians entering the priesthood fill out a form listing their preferences for ministry. Quinn responded that he is open to all opportunities. But he feels as if he may best serve in a pastoral role, much like the men who helped him come this far. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The number one thing is, I used to think that serving the people of God was a combination of privilege and duty. I concluded it was not duty and privilege, it was only privilege, and if there happened to be a minor duty it flowed from the privilege. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And so I tend to look at life with a greater sense of gratitude,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tend to look at all of life now. I see it in color instead of only seeing in black and white. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It allows one to be happier.â&#x20AC;?

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■ Continued from cover “Catholic teaching suggests that tax policy needs to promote the common good, but there are differences of opinion about how to reach that goal,” Pehanich said. “That’s where prudential judgment comes in. The bishops are not economists but it’s clear the state is in a major fiscal bind. Our Catholic principles would say we need to work together to fix it.”

The call comes just days before Californians head to the polls to vote in the May 19 special election. Though Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic-controlled Legislature agreed to place six measures on the ballot in February, ending a three-month stalemate over the state’s projected $42 billion budget deficit, all but one of the initiatives appear poised for defeat.

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Prop 1C would allow the state to borrow up to $5 billion from future lottery proceeds. The proposition faced the greatest opposition, with 59 percent of likely voters against and only 32 percent in favor of the measure.

Measures 1D and 1E would each reallocate funds from previously passed ballot initiatives to help pay down the deficit.

Prop 1D would redirect tobacco tax revenues, currently allocated for children’s health and social services, to the general fund. If approved, Prop 1E would also redirect money from mental health programs to the general fund. Each faces opposition similar to that faced by 1A and 1B. For more information from the California Catholic Conference visit www.cacatholic.org.

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S ENIOR L IVING What to do when an aging relative or friend needs your help

By Lisa M. Petsche If you have an elderly parent or other loved one who lives alone, at some point you may become worried that he or she is not managing well.

Typically, concerns center around one or more of the following issues: mobility, nutrition, housekeeping, grooming, financial management, medication use, safety, energy level, mood and mental status.

No matter how difficult it may to be to look after their day-to-day needs, some older adults are reluctant to ask for help or accept it when offered. The most common reasons are highlighted below.

Denial: Seniors may have difficulty accepting the reality of aging and the prospect of increased dependence on others.

Pride: Often, seniors don’t want to appear weak or incompetent.

Discomfort: They don’t like the idea of strangers coming into their home, or the role reversal involved in accepting help from younger generations, particularly their children.

Guilt: Seniors don’t want to worry or inconvenience their family.

Anxiety: They fear they will be pressured into leaving the comfort of their home, end up in a care facility and generally lose control over their life.

Resentment: Seniors may perceive concerned family members as overly critical or intrusive.

Personality: They may have always found change difficult or have been fiercely independent, stubborn or private.

Finances: They are concerned about the cost of recommended equipment and services, due to limited means or frugality.

Cognition: Some may be in the early stages of dementia and lack insight into their needs and capabilities.

While a certain degree of reluctance is to be expected, if your relative continues to resist offers to help, they may experience a crisis that lands them in hospital.

Preventing a crisis – The approach with your relative depends to some extent on their personality and the nature of your relationship, but here are some general guidelines.

Before talking with your relative, research resources in their community that may be of help. This way you’ll be prepared with solutions. Information can be obtained from the local office on aging.

Raise concerns gently and gradually. Use “I” statements, for example, “I notice that...” or “I’m worried that....” Provide concrete examples.

Emphasize your relative’s abilities and how these can be supported. A strengths approach helps preserve their selfesteem. Stress that your aim is to help them remain at home and maximize their independence.

Organize a family meeting if your relative denies problems or resists suggestions. Consider including someone from outside the family, such as a trusted physician or a good friend of theirs who shares your concerns. Your relative may perceive them as more objective and consequently take their concerns to heart.

If your relative objects to help, gently probe to learn their reasoning. Listen and respect their point of view. Be attuned to underlying feelings (such as sadness or fear), acknowledge them and demonstrate empathy.

Share brochures or information from the Internet about medical equipment or community services that may be of help.

Highlight any that are free or subsidized.

Focus initially on the least intrusive options, such as setting up an emergency response system or obtaining medical equipment.

Acknowledge how uncomfortable it may initially be to change their habits, alter their environment or allow strangers

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into their home. Remind them of their resilience, drawing on past life experiences.

Offer to pay, or contribute to, the cost of medical equipment, day programs or home services if your relative has limited income.

If your relative appears physically unwell or cognitively impaired, arrange a check-up with their primary physician. If your relative refuses to go or accessibility is an issue, find out if there’s a geriatric outreach program that performs in-home assessments.

Bear in mind that choosing not to follow the recommendations of healthcare professionals or family members does not mean a senior is mentally incompetent.

Recognize, too, that opinions about what constitutes an acceptable standard of living and quality of life can vary considerably, and that frail seniors – struggling to maintain control in the face of declining health, relationship losses or other difficulties – often have a different perspective than family members.

Since mentally capable seniors have the right to put themselves at risk, at some point you may need to agree to disagree with your relative about what’s best for them, in order to preserve the relationship.

But even if your relative continually refuses help, there are some things you can do.

Stay in close contact and make regular visits to monitor their safety and well-being. And keep collecting information about community resources so you’re ready to jump in and assist your relative in making informed decisions and necessary arrangements should they have a change of mind or a crisis occurs.

Lisa M. Petsche is a medical social worker and a freelance writer specializing in family life and elder care issues.

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■ Continued from page 10 The call, coming May 6 from the leaders of a dozen organizations such as Pax Christi USA and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, follows the recent release of declassified Justice Department memos that outline the legal justification for the enhanced interrogation of detainees since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. The memos set the stage for the use of techniques deemed to be torture by human rights activists, such as waterboarding, which causes the sensation of drowning, and actions that included exposing detainees to extreme temperatures, sleep deprivation and physical violence. While commending Obama for his Jan. 21 executive order that banned torture and mandated the closing within one year of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where about 240 detainees are being held, the advocates said in a statement that a commission will help expose “these horrific practices” and allow the nation to move toward reconciliation and healing.

Cardinal: unite Ireland in peace DUBLIN, Ireland (CNS) – An Irish cardinal criticized the idea of using violence to achieve a united Ireland. But Cardinal Sean Brady of Armagh, Northern Ireland, also insisted that the goal of uniting Northern

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Among those present at the Mass were Irish President Mary McAleese and other senior government representatives. The Mass commemorated the execution of 14 leaders of the 1916 rebellion when Irish Republicans seized many key government buildings and sought to gain independence from Britain.

While initially unsuccessful, the rising precipitated the Irish War of Independence that led the British to grant independence to the 26 southern counties of Ireland five years later. The remaining six northern counties became known as Northern Ireland and remain part of Britain.

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Indigenous communities in the northern Peruvian Amazon have been protesting since April 9, calling on the government to overturn the laws and set up a task force to address their grievances. On May 7, they gave the government 48 hours to respond. Congress met that day to discuss whether to overturn the laws, as a congressional commission and the government Ombudsman’s Office have recommended. Forty indigenous leaders threatened to go on a hunger strike if their demands were not met. Some of the laws the bishops are asking the government to overturn would make it easier for companies to operate on indigenous peoples’ lands.

Threats to conscience rights OTTAWA (CNS) – Physicians cannot be forced to violate their consciences but can be punished for respecting them, a university professor told a group of Canadian Catholic doctors. Douglas Farrow, associate professor of religious studies at McGill University, acknowledged that conscience rights are under threat in North America, but urged the physicians gathered in Ottawa for a three-day conference, “Conscience and the Physician” not to abandon fields like obstetrics and gynecology, to adhere to Hippocratic principles and to inform themselves of the differences between Catholic and utilitarian ethics. He reminded them to remember the Great Physician, “who has power to save body and soul alike, and to silence critics.” Not only are individuals under threat, but so are Catholic hospitals, said John Haas, president of the Philadelphia-based National Catholic

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Bioethics Center. He told the gathering that New York’s former governor, Eliot Spitzer, had plans to force all hospitals in the state to perform abortions. Haas said the classical understanding of the conscience, as the moral law written on the heart, has been replaced by views that are “fundamentally individualistic, subjective, relativist and based on emotion.”

Society lacks shared moral norms, Haas said, and everyone “presumes to determine morality for himself or herself.” He added, “If we try to protect the most vulnerable in our midst, the unborn, the dying, we are told that we cannot impose our moral beliefs on anyone else.”

Honduran Cardinal: Economies based on greed must be replaced VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The financial meltdown is a symptom of a deeply flawed economic system that should not be repaired but should be replaced by one that is based on justice and solidarity, said the president of Caritas Internationalis. “A world built on the globalization of greed and fear rather than the globalization of solidarity was never sustainable or desirable,” said Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, who heads the confederation of international Catholic aid agencies. As the “walls of the deregulated free market (lie) in rubble about us,” the world must learn at least one lesson from “this misadventure,” he told ambassadors from a dozen European countries during a May 6 meeting at Caritas’ Vatican headquarters. “The actions we take in 2009 cannot be aimed at resuscitating the old system, but must aim at a blueprint for a better world based on justice and respect for all,” he said. The cardinal said the global financial crisis is not a result of failed banks, “but is a symptom of deeper flaws within the economic system.”

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“Quite a tale when you think about it” The Contis, Mario and Louise, took in 100 foster children over 30 years.

“Louise liked to take care of the newborns. We used to get them from St. Elizabeth’s home for unwed mothers. I learned how to change old-fashion diapers. You just had the square cloth and had to make a diaper. And then after you get all done he looks up at you and he’s got a grin and you know darn well...”

Story and photos by Rick DelVecchio Catholic San Francisco visited the elder care residence Alma Via of San Francisco to meet with residents for an article about how the economic downturn is affecting the elderly.

The residents downplayed that idea right off the top: they saw no comparison between the severity of the current recession and the Great Depression. In the 1930s, they recalled, people experienced true want and fear. Do today’s newspapers carry pictures of men jumping off buildings? Do children of the 2009 recession go to the corner store to pick up 10 cents worth of vegetable trimmings and soup bones for supper? The residents saw nothing to compare with such scenes today. A different story emerged over two visits as the residents, ranging in age from their mid 80s to almost 100, opened up with reflections on long and happy lives. Some painted word pictures of growing up in immigrant families in San Francisco and the central role Catholic parish life played in their upbringing. “The Church,” native San Franciscan Bernardine Washburn said, “came first for everything.”

Here, as part of Catholic San Francisco’s latest issue of Senior Living, Bernardine and three other Alma Via residents – Claire Sullivan, Mario Conti and Betty Feeley – reflect on their lives in their own words.

Betty. Born Jan. 24, 1925.

The best things about being 84 are having grandchildren and making new friends.

Bernardine. Born Aug. 20, 1915.

The children got two nickels on Sunday – “one was for church and one was for the ice-cream man.”

“My grandmother and grandfather, Mary and John Tierney, were born in Northern Ireland. They were Catholic, so they couldn’t get jobs.

They finally came to America and settled in the Potrero, where he had an uncle. They were advertising for work – they wanted miners on the eastern slope of Mt. Diablo. He became a coal miner.

“My mother always talked about what a beautiful place it was. She always talked about the beautiful rolling hills.

“There was one man who had a horse and buggy and he would go to Antioch every Saturday to shop and the wives would always have something for him to buy like a bolt of gingham to make dresses, and

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anything that was left was to buy candy for the children.”

When Bernardine was growing up her mother would take her and her two sisters on trips to the mining camp called Somersville, by then a ghost town. She would point out where the boys lived.

“She always longed to see the hills of Somersville. She would see a pepper tree and she would know who lived in that house because the midwife would plant a pepper tree every time she birthed a baby. I think it was a beautiful time for her.

“Her father died of black lung from the coal. And the mother got a $345 death benefit and she bought the house on Santa Marina Street. That’s where we lived. We went to school at St. Paul’s, which was a good long Bernardine Washburn holds the rosary walk for us. Years passed, and here that belonged to her mother.

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The family had a pew at St. Paul Church. In those days every family had a pew with its name on it. “Very important.”

Her father, a convert, was a head usher who grew to deeply admire the pastor, Father Michael David Connolly and help care for the priest in his old age.

“When you bought a new pair of shoes you didn’t wear them until you went to church. Black patent leather shoes.

Church came first. On Sunday morning, we lined up in the kitchen and my father told us how to behave at church, and then you put your hand out and he gave us 10 cents – two nickels, one was for church and one was for the hokey pokey man, the ice cream man on Sunday. He had a horse and wagon. Church came first for everything.”

All three siblings are living. They are 95, 93, and 91. The eldest, Sister Rosemary Sage, is a Sister of Charity living at the motherhouse in Dubuque, Iowa.

“I think they were nervous about having three daughters to they were pretty strict. If you were late coming home they would say, ‘Where have you been, you could have been all the way to Milpitas?’ And we’d say, ‘Where the heck is Milpitas?’ And the years just rolled by and you wonder where they went, but I had a full life like all of you.”

Bernardine had a 50-year career as a nurse. She and her husband adopted a son.

“My little boy is 62 and he just told me the other day he put in for Social Security. So life goes on.”

only on feast days.

“One of the big things we liked to do was get on it and ride the rope up and down. It took a while to get it going but once we got it going we’d ride it up.

“There were two other bells that were rung before Mass and then there was another bell for the Angelus at 6, noon and 6 at night. You’d do the clapper three times and then the final bell would ring.

“It was a German national parish. St. Boniface was the original German national parish and then a group formed St. Anthony. The nuns were Dominicans of Mission San Jose.

Things were pretty strict. You just didn’t get out of line.

Bernardine: “I used to stop there on my way to work to light a candle. There were candles in the whole church.

Mario: “One of the things I used to do was set up the candles.”

The inscriptions on the Stations of the Cross were in German. Mario said all his prayers in German but has forgotten them now.

“Those were days when there wasn’t too much worry about stuff except of course making ends meet, but that was my parents’ problem!”

Mario. Born Nov. 15, 1921.

“Things were pretty strict.

You just didn’t get out line.”

“My younger days were at St. Anthony’s (then a Franciscan parish) on Army Street. I went to school there.

I remember the tuition was a dollar a month. I spent quite a bit of time in the church. From the sixth grade on I helped out in the sacristy, helping brother out mostly. It got to the point where if brother had to take some time off I’d go up and ring the bells for the Angelus at noon and 6 o’clock.”

St. Anthony in those days had one main bell that rang

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Her grandfather, Jerry Sullivan, came from Boston.

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Betty’s family’s parish was Blessed Sacrament in Elmhurst, Queens, New York.

“No matter where you lived you walked to school and went home for lunch. I envied the kids who went home for lunch – they were the rich kids. My brother went to Manhattan to school with the Christian Brothers and I went to Cathedral High School on Lexington Avenue. We had Dominican nuns, Ursiline order.

“Unfortunately my school is gone now. It was condemned, it was so old. I graduated from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan. I met my husband after the war. He was transferred to California. We belonged to Our Lady of Mercy in Westlake, then we came to Our Lady of Angels, then I came to Alma Via. Betty said the best things about being 84 are having grandchildren and making new friends.

“The worst thing is I don’t drive anymore, which I miss terribly. And I don’t have my home. That I miss very much.”

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■ Continued from page 13 of the boys became attorneys, two of the girls became teachers. Even when I was growing up he said, ‘You study hard because that’s how to get ahead.’”

Both sides of her family originally came from Ireland.

“Because the English wouldn’t let them own anything. If you were Catholic in Ireland you were treated like you were a second-class citizen. So they figured the best thing was to leave. So they came as young men but they did have an advantage – they could speak the language. It maybe wasn’t the best English because they had a different brogue from a different section of Ireland but at least they had that and they got a job right away.

“And then my grandmother when she came at 16 the only thing that was open to them was to work in a home as a helper or a maid. So she worked in this home. He was a professor of German at one of the universities,

and he had two daughters. My grandmother was very bright. Whenever he taught he’d have my grandmother sit in so she would get the advantage of the education he was giving his girls. They were wonderful to her. They knew that education was the key to everything.

“My mother told me that story a million times to let me know they made great sacrifices for their children to get ahead.

The story of the Sullivans is, Claire mused, “quite a tale when you think about it.”

Claire worked as a hospital administrator for the Sisters of Mercy for almost 20 years.

“I never went to work in the morning where I felt, ‘Oh, I have to go to work.’ I always looked forward to what the day was going to bring. So, yeah, it was a good life.

“I guess I haven’t changed much because I never let things bother me too much. I’m a great reader. I always have something interesting in the room. I have my music. I have TV, my books. If I want to be social I can be social but if I don’t want to be I don’t have to be. So it doesn’t get any better than that.”

Elder care and the Church Deacon Bill Thornton sees three reasons why serving the needs of the elderly is of growing importance to the Church. One, the population is aging. Two, the children of the elderly often are tied up with careers and child-rearing and need help caring for the parents. Three, as St. Monica guided her wayward son St. Augustine to his eventual baptism, elders must continue to be spiritual role models for the youngest – and the Church must support their efforts, says Thornton, who will be ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of San Francisco June 20. See the May 22 issue of Catholic San Francisco for a profile of Thornton. To hear Thornton talk about elder care go to the Multimedia section of Catholic San Francisco Online.

Mario Conti’s First Communion class at St. Anthony Church, April 7, 1929. Conti is second from right.

Go to the Multimedia section of Catholic San Francisco Online to listen to audio clips of Alma Via residents talking about their lives.

San Mateo history magazine highlights local Filipino Americans

By Jim Clifford The history of Filipino Americans in San Mateo County is traced in the latest edition of La Peninsula, the official journal of the San Mateo County Historical Association.

The 46-page magazine article, the first of its kind, follows an earlier La Peninsula issue that highlighted the history of the Irish in San Mateo County, also a first.

The editions are laden with information on the church’s role in the growth of both communities.

The histories stem from a recent effort by the association to make the public more aware of the debt owed the county’s immigrant past. Since 2006 the organization has hosted Immigrants Day at its museum in the Old County Courthouse, a restored 1910 structure fronted by massive stairs that flow to the museum from a pavilion where water shoots from two lines of fountains.

Inside, a grand staircase leads to the museum’s permanent exhibit, “Land of Opportunity: The Immigrant Experience in San Mateo County.” The 2,000-square-foot exhibit gallery tells the stories of the diverse people who came to the San Francisco Peninsula. In addition to the Irish and Filipinos, the gallery recounts the contributions of Italians, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese and other immigrants of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

“As early as 1880, a third of the population of San Mateo County was born in another county,” said Mitch Postel, the association president, who added that the percentage is the same today. “This is an historical legacy.”

This year, Immigrants Day will be held May 16.

Dancers and others perform on a stage on Courthouse Square. Inside, visitors can taste samples of food from the immigrants’ homelands. They also can visit the gallery where the latest offering is an interactive station that lets the user share their family’s story. With a few clicks it’s possible to view stories of immigrants from around the world and then record your own one-minute story.

The La Peninsula edition on Filipino history is largely the work of Al Acena, retired social science dean from the College of San Mateo.

The Filipino American presence in San Mateo County became noticeable in the 1920s and 1930s, Acena wrote.

Many Filipino young men during the 1920s found work on farms and cities on the West Coast and the plantations of Hawaii, he said, noting that the Filipino population of California was 30,470 in 1930.

“They were those employed as houseboys and chauffeurs in affluent areas of the county,” he continued.

“There were the workers on farms in the agricultural areas of the county.’ Many who came were students “who worked their way through school in service industries where they were dubbed ‘fountain-pen boys.’”

The 2000 census shows that Filipinos made up 9.4 percent of the county’s population, with Daly City leading the county in both number and percent at 35,099 or 33.87 percent. Daly City, Arena wrote, had “become the premiere Filipino American suburb in the United States.

The growth of the Filipino population in San Mateo County has had an effect on the county’s Catholic

Note: San Mateo County’s Immigrants Festival Day will take place May 16 at the Old Courthouse Square in Redwood City at 2200 Broadway. The event features performances representing AfricanAmerican, Basque, Chinese, Croatian, Filipino, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mexican and Portuguese cultures on the Courthouse Square stage from noon until 5 p.m. For more information call (650) 299-0104. churches, La Peninsula noted, adding that most, if not all, the Filipino priests in the Bay area are natives of the Philippines.

“In a way, this is reminiscent of earlier heavy migrations when priests from Ireland followed the Irish to America, and German, Polish and Italian priests did likewise,” Acena said. A repeating of history that underlined what the museum gallery aims to show: that immigrants have more in common than they realize.

Jim Clifford, a retired Associated Press newsman, is a member of the Advisory Board of Catholic San Francisco and a parishioner at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Redwood City.

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Campaign focuses on embryonic stem-cell research ■ Continued from cover The home page for the bishops’ new campaign outlines the reasons that the proposed guidelines are considered unacceptable and provides links to USCCB resources on stemcell research in English and Spanish.

In a video on the site, Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, said the U.S. bishops “will be writing to Congress and the administration about the need to restore and maintain barriers against the mistreatment of human life in the name of science, and we urge other concerned citizens to do the same.”

The campaign Web site says the proposed guidelines, drawn up after President Barack Obama’s March 9 executive order reversed the Bush administration’s prohibition on stem-cell research involving the destruction of human embryos, “would – for the first time – use taxpayer funds to encourage the killing of embryonic human beings for their stem cells.”

“This marks a new chapter in divorcing biomedical research from its necessary ethiWalk-in Tubs

cal foundation, respect for human life at all stages,” it adds.

“Even if, like the embryos targeted by the NIH policy, an embryo may be at risk of being abandoned by his or her parents in a fertility clinic, that does not give researchers or the government a right to kill that human being – much less a right to make the rest of us subsidize that destructive agenda,” the campaign materials say.

The campaign also features three new ads for Web and print use, each focusing on the advances made in stem-cell research that does not involve the use of embryos.

“Embryonic stem cells have been hyped,” says one of the ads. “But it’s the adult stem cells that are showing hope. So where’s the future?”

On the campaign Web site, the bishops said members of Congress and the Obama administration have plans to expand stemcell research.

“They want to obtain stem cells by destroying human embryos specially generated for research through in vitro fertilization or cloning procedures – a ‘create to kill’ policy,” they said.

Serra Club essay winners Winners of annual Hugh Mullin Memorial Essay Contest sponsored by the Serra Club of San Mateo were announced at ceremonies April 22 at St. Matthew Parish. The competition drew more than 400 entries from seventh and eighth grade students from area Catholic schools and religious education programs. From left: Jim Shea, essay contest chairman, Tom O’Donnell, San Mateo Serra Club president; second prize winner, Cameron Webb, Our Lady of Angels Religious Education; Sydney Belcher, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Trisha Costanzo, St. Gregory, Lizzy Detert, St. Catherine; grand prize winner, Dominic Filice, St. Timothy; Jeremy Smith, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Allison Knapp, St. Pius, Father Tom Daly, Director of Vocations. Not available for the photo were Kimberly Bean, IHM Religious Education; Amanda Odasz, Our Lady of The Pillar Religious Education; Sean O’Rourke, St. Charles; Annalise Di Santo, St. Matthew; Evan Forney, St. Matthew Religious Education.

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Memorial Day Mass scheduled for Holy Cross Cemeteries

Sister Patricia Lynch, Sister of Charity BVM, teacher, principal remembered

The Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco have announced plans for a Memorial Day Mass on Monday, May 25, at 11 a.m., which will be celebrated at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Colma by Archbishop George Niederauer. Officials said a shuttle will be available from the front gate to the Mausoleum site of the Mass from 10:00 am until 1:00 pm.

Also on Memorial Day, May 25, Father William Myers, pastor of St. Raymond Church in Menlo Park, will celebrate an outdoor Mass at Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Menlo Park at 11 a.m.

Father Domingo Orimaco, pastor of Our Lady of the Pillar Church in Half Moon Bay, will celebrate an outdoor Mass at Our Lady of the Pillar Cemetery at 9:30 a.m. on Memorial Day, May 25.

In Marin County, Father Louis Robello will celebrate an outdoor Mass at Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery in San Rafael at 11 a.m. on Memorial Day. Kathy Atkinson, director of the Archdiocesan Catholic Cemeteries, invited the faithful “to join in remembrance and prayer for all who are buried in these sacred grounds.”

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“She loved her students,” Hanley told Catholic San Francisco.

“Sister Patricia was good with young teachers helping them be better at their craft. She loved the St. Philip’s community and was a happy woman.”

Sister Patricia also taught at San Francisco’s St. Brigid Elementary Sister Patricia Lynch School and St. Paul Elementary School as well as in schools in Chicago, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Des Moines, Iowa.

Survivors include nephews and the Sisters of Charity, BVM with whom she shared life for more than 65 years.

Interment was in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. Remembrances may be sent to Sisters of Charity, BVM Retirement Fund, 1100 Carmel Drive, Dubuque Iowa 52003.

Winners and participants in annual Respect Life Essay Contest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco will be recognized at a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco, May 24 at 11 a.m. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside and present awards for best essays at reception following the liturgy. Contact Vicki Evans at (415) 614-5533 or e-mail evansv@sfarchdiocese.org .

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Sister Patricia served as principal of San Francisco’s St. Philip Elementary School from 1973 – 91.

“Sister Patricia had a great talent as principal,” said Sister Eileen Healy, BVM, who taught at St. Philip’s from 1974-86.

“She hired teachers who complemented each other and could work together well for the good of the students.”

The late religious was a dedicated home team fan, according to Sister Eileen. “Sister Patricia became an avid 49er’s fan,” she said. “She attended games, sitting in the wind and fog of Candlestick Park whenever her dear friend, Father Tom Regan, could get her a ticket. She attended at least two of the Super Bowls the 49ers won.” Father Regan, pastor of St. Philip’s from 1969 – 92, died in 1993.

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The Sixth Sunday of Easter

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 98:1, 2-3, 3-4 R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

Sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done wondrous deeds; His right hand has won victory for him, his holy arm.

R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

The Lord has made his salvation known: in the sight of the nations he has revealed his justice.

He has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel.

R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation by our God. Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; break into song; sing praise.

R. The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF JOHN 1 JN 4:7-10 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.

Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 15:9-17 Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.

“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy might be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another.”

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Scripture reflection

Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; Psalm 98:1, 2-3, 3-4; I John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ACTS ACTS 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 When Peter entered, Cornelius met him and, falling at his feet, paid him homage.

Peter, however, raised him up, saying, “Get up. I myself am also a human being.”

Then Peter proceeded to speak and said, “In truth, I see that God shows no partiality.

Rather, in every nation whoever fears him and acts uprightly is acceptable to him.”

While Peter was still speaking these things, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who were listening to the word. The circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit should have been poured out on the Gentiles also, for they could hear them speaking in tongues and glorifying God. Then Peter responded, “Can anyone withhold the water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit even as we have?”

He ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.

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FATHER BILL NICHOLAS

Love – God has set the standard During the moral upheaval of the 1960s the subject of ‘love’ gained particular prominence in the cultural mindset, particularly in comparison with the carnage coming out of Vietnam seen daily on television, read about in newspapers and debated strongly in both the social and political arenas. We began to hear and speak such slogans as “Make ‘love,’ not war.” Cultural sages began to sing songs with such themes as “All you need is ‘love.’”

While many of that generation would have us think they were revolutionary, such themes emphasizing ‘love’ were not new to the human, particularly the Christian, mindset. Such has been the constant theme behind the Good News of our salvation, which we celebrate at great length during this fifty-day celebration of Christ’s Resurrection. Given that, would either Jesus or St. John have felt at home during the sixties, with such lackluster, exhaustive, dreary and mind-numbingly avant-garde talk of ‘love’? Or might they have stood out like two sore thumbs amid such jaded monotony?

The understanding of ‘love’ of which both Jesus and John speak is expressed briefly in the basic command to “love one another” (John 15:17). Jesus expands upon this eloquently in the preceding verses as he addresses the Eleven for the last time before going off to be betrayed – “As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Live on in my love” (John 15:9). John develops this concept in his First Letter. He points out that God has set the standard for Love – “not that we have loved God, but that he has loved us,” – and exhorts us to “let us love one another because love is of God” (1 John 4:7).

The love spoken of by Jesus, however, is different from the popular clichés so prominent in our cultural mindset. In His command to “live in my love” Jesus gives a very specific classification to the Love we are called to live – “You will live in my love if you keep my commandments” (John 15:10). Jesus offers as the pinnacle of Love the act of self-sacrifice for a friend, but then attaches the same classification – “You are my friends if you do what I command you” (John 15:13-14). Hence, keeping God’s commands is the essential element to the Love we are called to live. Without total

obedience to God, call it what we might, it is not Love.

Therefore, on further examination of popular slogans regarding ‘love’ that grew out of the moral mayhem of the sixties still lingering in our modern cultural mindset, placed alongside the standard of love expressed by the very existence and action of God, we might recognize other, more exacting denotations that divulge the true connotation behind popular cultural idioms.

“Make ‘love,’ not war” can be more precisely understood to mean, “be promiscuous, not violent.” The Christian understanding of Love, as Jesus taught it, would declare in contrast, “be neither promiscuous, nor violent, but obey God.” The popular refrain, “All you need is ‘love’” can attain greater exactitude in the Christian context – “All you need is Obedience to God.” Such ideas expressing the true nature of love taught by both Jesus and John may not have been popular during the so-called “Summer of ‘love’” and during the overall pandemonium of the sixties, a time of rebellion against all things authoritative, when expressions of so-called ‘love’ led to outright violations of the standards given us by God. Our response to such popular cultural clichés, as followers of Christ, might be to respond with that other question arising from popular culture – “What’s love got to do with it?”

God has set the standard for love by sacrificing His only Son (1 John 4:9-10).

Jesus, in turn, further expanded the standard of love by living and acting, first and foremost, in total obedience to the Father.

Finally, Jesus imposed this standard onto His followers when He commands us to “live on in [His] love.” In short, we are to love, not by the modern ideology of popular culture, articulated in droning clichés. Rather, Jesus declares, we are to “love one another as I have loved you” (John 15:12); a love lived in total obedience to the commands of God, who is the very embodiment of true and authentic love.

Father Bill Nicholas is parochial vicar at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato. Visit his website at www.frwnicholas.com.

Spirituality for Life

There is a season for everything A friend of mine likes to explain his religious background this way: “I have powerful conservative roots. I was raised in a very strong conservative, Roman Catholic, immigrant, German, farming family, with all the inhibitions, protectiveness, exclusivity, and reticence that this entailed. It would be hard to find a more strongly conservative religious background than mine. And I’m grateful for that. It’s one of the greatest gift you can be given. Now I’m free for the rest of my life!”

There is something both healthily conservative and healthily liberal in that assessment. The instinct within the liberal wants to push edges, to widen the circle, to move away from narrowness, to be more inclusive, to not always see the other as threat, and to protect the ineffability of God and God’s universal salvific will. Whereas the conservative intuits the necessity of being rooted in truth, in grounding yourself in the essentials, in having proper boundaries, and in not being naïve to the fact that everything that’s precious and true will invariably be under attack.

Both protect the soul. The soul, as we know, has two functions which are often in tension with each other. On the one hand, the soul is the source of all energy inside

of us, the fire that fuels everything we do. We know the precise moment when the soul leaves a body. All energy ceases. On the other hand, the soul is also the source of unity and integration. It glues us together. Decomposition begins the very second the soul leaves the body. Without the soul, every element goes its own way.

The liberal instinct is mostly about the fire, the conservative instinct is mostly about the glue. The story of the man who was raised in such a strong conservative background and who now feels rooted enough to be more liberal illustrates that both are necessary. There is a time to be liberal and there is a time to be conservative and it is important that we know which time is right both as regards to our own growth and as regards to the growth of others.

The gospels, the mystics, and the great spiritual writers, with some variation in how they express this, concur that there are three clear stages to the spiritual journey or, in another way of putting it, three levels of discipleship: The first level, which might aptly be termed, Essential Discipleship, is the struggle to get our lives together, to achieve basic human maturity (which itself might be

defined as the capacity for essential unselfishness, the capacity to put others before ourselves). The second level can be called Generative Discipleship and is the struggle to give our lives away Father in love, service, and Ron Rolheiser prayer. The third level can be called Radical Discipleship and consists in the struggle to give our deaths away, that is, to leave this earth in such a way that our deaths themselves become our final gift and blessing to our families, churches, and society.

The first stage, Essential Discipleship, is precisely about essentials, about getting our lives together by properly channeling our energies through discipline (the origin of the word discipleship). By definition, that task ROLHEISER, page 22

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Taking a measured view

By Michael Vick The Vatican’s semi-official newspaper L’Osservatore Romano marked the May 4 Roman premiere of the film “Angels and Demons” with two editorials decrying the film as riddled with historical errors but praising its “dynamic direction” and “splendid photography”.

The paper’s review of the film warned viewers “must face hours of harmless entertainment that has little to do with the genius and mystery of Christianity, without getting beyond the usual stereotypes.”

The film is the sequel to the critically panned box office hit “The Da Vinci Code.” “Code,” based on author Dan Brown’s 2003 fictional mystery novel of the same name, depicted a cover-up by Church hierarchy of the marriage of Jesus to Mary Magdalene, which produced an heir. Though the narrative itself is entirely fictional, Brown set off a firestorm of controversy by claiming the book’s central premise is true.

In the sequel, main character and “symbology” expert Professor Robert Langdon, played by Tom Hanks, attempts to thwart a secret society’s plot to destroy the Vatican with an “antimatter bomb” during a papal conclave.

Langdon must also follow clues to save four kidnapped cardinals, all likely papal candidates, before they are publicly executed.

Director Ron Howard retooled “Angels and Demons,” released in novel form prior to “Code”, as a sequel. By most accounts, Howard also left some of Brown’s most outlandish plot elements on the cutting room floor.

Though exact details of the film’s plot are unknown at this writing, among the elements in the book many find objectionable (Spoiler alert): • The secret society, calling itself the Illuminati, is portrayed as a Renaissance era scientific organization, some of whose members were hunted down and murdered by Church authorities. Counted among its members are scientists Galileo Galilei and Nicolaus Copernicus, and sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Each man died of natural causes at least a century before the historical founding of the Illuminati in 1776, and the organization itself lasted only ten years.

• The late pope’s chamberlain, who is responsible for determining his death and serves as acting head of state during the papal conclave, is secretly the late pope’s son. The chamberlain, played by Ewan McGregor, does not know of his lineage and kills the pope when he learns the pope had fathered a child with a nun by means of in vitro fertilization.

While almost universally condemned by Catholic commentators, the tactics used to combat the books and films vary widely. Bill Donahue, outspoken critic of the film and head of the New York-based Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, has accused Hanks and Howard of duplicity in promoting the film.

“Tom Hanks is on record saying he doesn’t believe in conspiracy theories,” Donohue said in a press release. “That hasn’t stopped him from playing the lead role in two back-to-back conspiracy tales, both of which target the Catholic Church.”

Donohue has also called for Howard and Sony Pictures, the film’s producer, to air a disclaimer prior to the showing of the film indicating that it is a work of fiction. Such a disclaimer was ordered in India, and Donohue pointed out that Howard used a similar disclaimer in his fact-based drama “A Beautiful Mind.”

In an op-ed posted online at The Huffington Post, Howard said Donohue and other critics paint with too broad a brush when calling him anti-Catholic.

“I have respect for Catholics and their Church, and know they accomplish many good works throughout the world,” Howard wrote.

In an interview with Radio Times, actor Tom Hanks admitted doubts over the historical information presented in the films.

“It’s not important, but it’s fun,” Hanks said of the film. “We play fast and loose with an awful lot of facts, but a trickle of authenticity makes it plausible.”

Jimmy Akin, director of apologetics and evangelization for San Diego-based Catholic Answers, told Catholic San Francisco that both Hanks and Howard are trying to “have it both ways” by calling the film “fictional” in order to defend its historical inaccuracies.

“It matters whether you depict historical realities accurately in art,” Akin said. “If I made a film showing Adolf Hitler as friend of Jewish people, I would be rightly criticized for betraying the historical record artistically.”

Pauline Sister Rose Pacatte, head of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles, has urged a tamping down of the rhetoric on both sides. She said while the books and films are problematic, she did not want to judge the intentions of the novelist or the filmmakers.

“The novels were written by a non-Catholic fascinated with Church history, but who doesn’t know Church history,” Sister Pacatte said. “I learned to distinguish between fiction and non-fiction as a child. Anyone who picks up a novel and thinks it is true is not an engaged reader.”

Sister Pacatte said Catholics could use the books and films as an opportunity to share the faith with the wider culture.

“Filmmakers are storytellers,” Sister Pacatte said. “If their worldview does not match with our own, that’s where the conversation comes in. That’s where we bring in our views and critique it.”

Suggested reading is Sister’s film essay in this issue on page 20.

Michael Vick is on the staff of Catholic San Francisco.

‘Amazing’ reflection What a great decision you made in printing Archbishop John R. Quinn’s commentary: “Barack Obama, Notre Dame and the Future of the U.S. Church.” (CSF, May 1) And what a thought-provoking and challenging article it proved to be! Would that every Catholic newspaper and periodical had this thinking in print at a time when facile answers to the situation abound. I congratulate Catholic San Francisco for your wisdom in presenting Archbishop Quinn’s depth of thinking on a topic which is such a hot button in Catholic headlines today. Thank God for the courage and balance of this dear son of the Church, who has an amazing way at looking at all sides of a question, in fidelity to the Church he so loves.

Sr. Mary Ann Foy, RSCJ Redwood City, CA

Stand up for truth Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn asks many questions, and rhetorical as they are, he wants us to believe that there are negative consequences to standing up, and telling the truth about this president, and his policies, and acting accordingly. President Obama is a pro-abortion extremist, who would set into law the killing of viable living babies that survive the abortion mill, and toss them into a sink or waste disposer to die, cold and alone. Regarding his question about the image of the Church, I ask as seen by whom? Is it President Obama, the Democrat party, or Planned Parenthood? He/they only care about getting reelected and getting their liberal agenda through. The Supreme Court got the Dred Scott decision wrong. Christian/ Catholic society must take stands against the state for moral atrocities. We need leadership in this Church of God, those who would stand tall against the modern day Scribes and Pharisees, those who profess Jesus, and his Word, yet act counter to His teachings.

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Knowledge and ideas The wave of criticism of Notre Dame University for inviting the president to give a commencement address is misplaced. That the president may not share the views of the

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Sees stark contrast What a stark contrast between two articles in the May 1 issue of Catholic San Francisco.

On page 7, there is an inspiring story of a brave young woman, Lila Rose, who along with others is finding new ways to combat the epidemic of abortion in our country. On page 9 there is the “Guest Commentary” by Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn concerning President Obama’s scheduled appearance at the University of Notre Dame. The Archbishop is full of fear: fear of embarrassing the president, of being marginalized with the Republicans, of being labeled a racist, fear for the image of the Church.

While the Archbishop takes his “step back” to pose 13 questions, I have a few questions of my own. For how many years has President Obama firmly and clearly stated his position as pro-choice, promising to act on that position once in office? Why would the Church, after spending years exhorting Catholic youth to support the pro-life movement, risk public embarrassment by abandoning them while offering weak excuses for doing so? And finally, is it really so hard to tell a president that certain of his policies are wrong?

Joan Niemeier Woodside

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I didn’t have to read Archbishop Quinn’s article to know exactly what he was going to say but I did anyway.

The questions he raised in the first four paragraphs are red herrings to the real issue, which is the deaths of 50 million unborn children since Roe V. Wade and the invitation by Notre Dame to the most pro-abortion politician in the United States, who while he was in the state senate of Illinois, once held up a law that would have saved the lives of partially aborted babies who had survived. What is it about abortion that the good archbishop does not understand? Those who support Notre Dame’s decision to award an honorary doctorate to President Obama are wrong.

Stephen Firenze San Mateo

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Church on abortion is irrelevant. It must be remembered that the function of a university is the exchange of knowledge and ideas. It is entirely appropriate for a Catholic university to invite persons with whom it is not in agreement to deliver the commencement address.

Plus, having the President of the United States speak is a shot of prestige for the university.

Jerome Downs San Francisco

Thoughtful voice

It is so good to have Archbishop Quinn still a presence in our Archdiocese, albeit less visible than in the past. His thoughtful voice is a welcome alternative to the cacophony of sound from the judgmental, fearmotivated and exclusionary forces. I welcomed his thoughts in his book “Reform of the Papacy” and now regarding the University of Notre Dame/President Obama controversy. The university’s position reminds me of that taken by Loyola University (now Loyola Marymount) of Los Angeles in the 1960’s when it invited Herbert Apthecker, chairman of the American Communist Party, to speak on the campus. Loyola was loudly denounced for the “affront to Catholicism” and for exposing the student minds to corruption. The attempts to have the invitation withdrawn came from alumni (a minority of the letters/phone calls received), some of the usual fear mongers and the Archbishop of Los Angeles. Loyola stayed the course and responded that the university was the ideal place for Mr. Apthecker to present his philosophy because he would find few converts and this would probably increase attendance in the Thomistic Philosophy courses. The school is still there and Mr. Apthecker has long been on God’s time. Alleluia Archbishop Quinn.

Jack Hitchcock San Mateo

Damage is done, but . . .

Although I made a promise to myself to write to Catholic San Francisco only on subjects related to my professional discipline of economics, I am breaking that promise to respond to the Guest Commentary of Archbishop Emeritus John R Quinn. I was relieved that he did not defend Notre Dame President Father John Jenkins on the main point of controversy, his decision to invite President Obama and to offer him an honorary degree. Instead, the Archbishop Emeritus tackled a subsidiary issue: Wouldn’t it be terrible to cancel the invitation now? Well, maybe it would. The damage is done. Yet, is it too much to expect that a man who used to exercise the office of archbishop would, at the very least, concede that Father Jenkins should have consulted his own bishop?

Stephen St. Marie San Francisco

May 15, 2009

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The Catholic Difference

What ‘Church’ does Notre Dame belong to?

Of all the commentary I’ve read on Notre Dame’s decision to invite President Obama to receive an honorary doctorate of laws as the university’s 2009 commencement speaker May 17, the most disturbing came from Father Kenneth Himes of the Boston College theology department. In a Boston Globe story about Professor Mary Ann Glendon’s courageous (and correct) decision to decline Notre Dame’s Laetare Medal because the university had defied the U.S. bishops’ policy barring honors for pro-abortion politicians at Catholic events, Father Himes said this: “There are some well-meaning people who think Notre Dame has given away its Catholic identity, because they have been caught up in the gamesmanship of American higher education, bringing in a star commencement speaker even if that means sacrificing their values, and that accounts for some of this … But one also has to say that there is a political game going on here, and part of that is that you demonize the people who disagree with you, you question their integrity, you challenge their character, and you brand these people as moral poison.

Some people have simply reduced Catholicism to the abortion issue, and, consequently, they have simply launched a crusade to bar anything from Catholic institutions that smacks of any sort of open conversation.”

I trust Father Himes is not referring here to Professor Glendon, or William McGurn of the Wall Street Journal, or Father Wilson Miscamble, CSC, of the Notre Dame faculty, or me, or other serious critics of Notre Dame’s decision. For if Father Himes is suggesting that any of us has demonized the

president, branded him “moral poison,” reduced Catholicism to the abortion issue, or summoned a crusade to eliminate debate at Catholic colleges and universities, he is perilously close to committing calumny. Yes, there are self-serving nuts in the forest, some of whom have seized the Obama/Notre Dame issue for their own purposes. By why does Father Himes waste time bashing fringe crazies? Why not engage the arguments of the serious critics? Why not attempt a theologically coherent defense of what seems an incomprehensible decision – awarding an honorary doctorate of laws to a man determined to enshrine in law something the Catholic Church regards as a gross violation of justice?

Another colleague (and Notre Dame grad), Professor Russell Hittinger, who holds the William K. Warren Chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, clarified one key facet of this controversy in an e-mail. Notre Dame, he suggested, has adopted a “purely American low-church position of [institutional] autonomy,” by acting as if the local bishop, John D’Arcy, has nothing to say to which the university must pay serious attention – although Bishop D’Arcy, a longtime Notre Dame booster, was speaking for the settled position of the American episcopate in asking the university’s president, Father John Jenkins, CSC, to reconsider his decision to honor Obama. As Professor Hittinger continued, this fracas “has nothing to do with academic freedom nor with ecclesiastical supervision of routine academic procedures and judgments.

It is ecclesiological all the way down – what Church is Notre Dame ‘in,’ if any?... . Notre Dame is speaking and acting as

though it were not a member of the local Church, let alone Rome.”

That’s exactly right.

There’s also a high-stakes “political game” here, though not the one Father Himes suggests. The George Weigel Obama administration is full of very smart political operators. Reading last November’s electoral entrails, they’ve sensed the possibility of driving a wedge through the Catholic community in America, dividing Catholics from their bishops and thus securing the majority Catholic vote Obama received in 2008. And they’ve shrewdly judged that the soft underbelly of Catholic resistance to the Obama administration’s radical agenda on the life issues is composed of Catholic intellectuals, their prestige institutions (like Notre Dame and Georgetown), and their opinion journals – the very people and opinion centers who claimed last year that Obama was the true pro-life candidate. It’s a clever move on the political chessboard, and barring extraordinary actions from the bishops, it will likely meet with considerable success.

Politics aside, though, the crucial question remains this: just what Church are Notre Dame and its supporters “in,” anyway?

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Twenty Something

Grace for graduates: a leap of faith, a new beginning Dear Graduate, I know how you’re feeling: light headed and faint hearted.

You’re trying to process the culmination of four long years that flew by, trying to smile pretty and keep it straight – left hand takes diploma, right hand shakes, tassel flips from right to left.

You’ve managed to master biochemistry and the sociology of the cafeteria, Professor Martin and two inexorable roommates, and yet, these simple instructions have you feeling criss-crossed.

The hard part ought to be behind you, but you suspect the greatest challenge awaits: how to properly punctuate your college career.

You’re treading in the deep end of emotion, torn between a weep and a cheer. Each goodbye you extend feels sorely inadequate.

I couldn’t imagine life beyond college. I hated to leave the close quarters and the strong, sustaining circle of friendship I’d been living in. I was sure I would never again experience anything like it.

And I was right.

But I can assure you that the end of one good thing makes room for the beginning of another. You’ll come to love your post-college life, with its new blessings and different rewards.

It, too, is deeply satisfying – perhaps more so, because you become a contributing member of society, not just a college student. You make your mark on a broader canvas.

So here is my summons to you: Instead of dreading this change, embrace it. Invite and absorb the grace of a new beginning.

“When the heart is ready for a fresh beginning,” wrote the late Irish poet John O’Donohue, “unforeseen things can emerge. And in a sense, this is exactly what a beginning does.

It is an opening for surprises.”

Heart-stopping, soul-stirring, life-giving surprises.

They won’t arrive immediately, though. You must be patient.

As you wait for your future to unfold, take heart in this month’s scripture readings. “Beloved,” St. John writes, “we are God’s children now; what we shall be has not yet been revealed.”

It will be, he promises. “We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”

That is what we do know, and it is enough for today: Every change that brings an uncomfortable waiting period will result in clearer vision to see and mimic God. St. John offers additional solace later in the month. “I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth.”

What a stunning promise, to leap from childhood to adult-

hood, from being unready to unlocking “all truth.”

As you prepare to graduate, remember St. Rita, whose feast day is this month. She is the patron of impossible causes, which your job search may feel like.

St. Rita faced a terChristina rifying crossroads when Capecchi her husband and sons died. The convent she yearned to enter refused her application. But she prayed fervently and its doors swung open.

Prayerful patience will open doors for you too.

Look beyond the obvious as you assess your current state: yes, you have a paper degree and deep debt to show for the last four years, but you’ve also developed a broader mind and a bigger heart, which the world desperately needs.

Keep your head up as you walk across that stage. You have so much to look forward to!

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn.

Email her at christina@readchristina.com.

Guest Commentary

Provider conscience regulation The “Provider Conscience Regulation,” proposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in August 2008, has occasioned an enormous amount of attention and debate. The regulation was issued as a final rule on December 19, 2008 and became law on January 20, 2009. On March 5, 2009, the Obama Administration formally announced its intention to rescind this regulation after a mandatory thirty day period to allow for public response.

This response period ended on April 9, 2009.

This regulation was designed to protect doctors and healthcare personnel from having to violate their consciences in the performance of medical procedures, and to exempt medical facilities from having objectionable procedures performed on their premises. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt said that this regulation “protects the right of medical providers to care for their patients in accord with their conscience.”

The Provider Conscience Regulation aims at enforcing federal conscience right laws, and to ensure that these laws are faithfully executed. The purpose of the regulation is threefold: (a) to raise consciousness in the public, in the health care community, among recipients of federal funds,

and among protected individuals and entities of their rights and responsibilities, (b) to ensure that federal funds do not support coercive or discriminatory practices or policies, and (c) to establish regulatory enforcement measures.

Under this regulation, workers in health care settings can refuse to provide services, information or advice to patients on subjects that they find objectionable on religious or moral grounds, e.g., contraception, family planning, blood transfusions, and vaccine counseling. Institutions are required to certify in writing that they will comply with the regulation, and failure to comply may be punished with loss of federal funding. Controversy has arisen about the wide scope of this regulation, but not over the protection itself.

On April 2, 2009, during her first confirmation hearing before the Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Governor Kathleen Sebelius, now Health and Human Services Secretary, testified in this regard, “I can tell you right now that the President supports and I support a clearly defined conscience clause for providers and institutions. I always have.” This important acknowledgement serves to clearly demonstrate the Obama Administration’s

commitment to uphold the importance of federal conscience statutes and perhaps regulations that support their significance.

Over a thirty-six year period, Congress has enacted three sepaFather Gerald rate statutes to protect Coleman, SS provider conscience rights: First, in the 1970s, the Church Amendments were enacted to protect both those who choose to participate in abortion and sterilization and those who choose not to do so.

Second, in 1996 the Public Health Service Act was enacted to prohibit federal, state, or local governments that receive federal financial assistance from discriminating against individual or institutional health care providers, COLEMAN, page 22

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Tom Hanks stars in a scene from the movie â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angels & Demons.â&#x20AC;?

Langdon is joined by a beautiful scientist who understands the mechanisms of the canister, Vittoria Vetra (Ayelet Zurer), and a host of Vatican and Roman police and Papal Guards, in a race to save the cardinals and the Vatican before midnight. Complicating matters are the deceased popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s camerlengo, the angelic Father Patrick McKenna (Ewan McGregor) and the aging, traditional, and ambitious Cardinal Strauss (Armin MuellerStahl) in a devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s advocate role. Not all is as it seems, and not everyone is who he appears to be.

Critique: Angels & Demons is a very different film from The Da Vinci Code. It takes place in the Vatican and Rome with a side trip to Switzerland. The movie was filmed on a set that was constructed not far from Sony Studios in Culver City, CA. The Vatican and the City of Rome refused most requests to film there apparently because of the fall-out from The Da Vinci Code and the cautions circulating about this film. The Catholic Church of Angels & Demons is very male. No mention is made of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;divine feminineâ&#x20AC;? and other points that caused so much doctrinal distress in The Da Vinci

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The pageantry in the film contrasts with the good guys chasing those who seem to be many bad guys â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and therein lies the plot.

Things are not what they seem.

One of the major plot points in the film is the relationship between the Catholic Church and science. According to the film, the Illuminati began as a secret society that resisted the Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s persecution of scientists beginning with Galileo (1564-1642) and now they are emerging again because of scientific developments that interest the Church. (In actuality, a group calling itself Illuminati were formed in Germany in the 1700â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and lasted for about ten years.)

Controversy: Dan Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s books as well as the films based on them are fiction. I was in second or third grade when I learned the difference between fiction and non-fiction and admittedly much older when I started asking questions about books, film and television.

There are inaccuracies in Angels & Demons about history and Catholic practice such as who can be elected Pope and how.

For example, â&#x20AC;&#x153;acclamationâ&#x20AC;? was one of the valid forms of papal election before 1996, but in the film they call it â&#x20AC;&#x153;election by adorationâ&#x20AC;? which really irritated my Catholic ears.

Despite these annoying elements, I did not find anything controversial in the film, nor did I find the film Angels & Demons anti-Catholic. It is more about action than theology, unlike The Da Vinci Code, which

attempted to dismantle Christianity. I interpret the worldview of Angels & Demons as commercialism struggling to become art.

Ted Baehr of Movieguide, a Christian organization that reviews films, without having seen the film, had this to say in a fundraising letter on April 29, 2009 about Angels & Demons: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A clear anti-Christian message that not only are Christians evil and murderers but also that science has proven faith in Jesus Christ to be outdated! In the end, it is the highest echelon of the Catholic Church who is the villain!â&#x20AC;?

However, the official Vatican newspaper review on May 6, of Angels & Demons states that the film is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Two hours of harmless entertainment, which hardly affects the genius and mystery of Christianity.â&#x20AC;?

As hard as some people have tried, Angels & Demons is not controversial. It is a Hollywood movie made with great skill.

As the Vatican also noted, the filmmakers masterfully recreated the Vatican and various pieces of art for the film. The film is engaging and entertaining, contains scenes of peril and intense violence, and is about twenty minutes too long. In the end, Angels & Demons is an intense thriller with a surprising, satisfying, moving, and even inspiring, finale.

Pauline Sister Rose Pacatte is director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Los Angeles.

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When director Ron Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angels & Demonsâ&#x20AC;? marches into theaters May 15 some people may be expecting the same controversy that accompanied his 2006 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Da Vinci Code.â&#x20AC;? Alas, I am sorry to be a killjoy but audiences just may be inspired instead. I know I was.

The Story: Some time has passed since Dr. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks), a Harvard University â&#x20AC;&#x153;symbologistâ&#x20AC;? attempted to solve a mystery that seemed to indicate that Leonardo Da Vinci had hidden in his Last Supper masterpiece not only that Jesus had fathered a daughter with Mary Magdalene, but that she was divine. Langdon, who was not a believer, incurred the ingratitude of the Catholic Church for his efforts. This completely fictitious controversial story was told in best-selling author Dan Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2003 book The Da Vinci Code and Ron Howardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2006 film of the same title.

Now in Angels & Demons (based on Dan Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2000 novel that actually preceded The Da Vinci Code) Langdon is back at Harvard, working out in the pool early one morning when a Vatican official approaches him with a paper. One word is printed on it in gothic type: Illuminati. The official explains that the Vatican has received threats from this secret society, thought to be long extinct. Indeed, the pope has died and four of the cardinals most favored to be elected the next pope, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;preferitiâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;papabileâ&#x20AC;?, have been kidnapped. The official wants Langdon to accompany him to the Vatican to help interpret the symbols and clues left by the Illuminati. The conclave is about to begin.

Langdon is surprised, given his strained relationship with the Church, but agrees.

Meanwhile, another Illuminati threat appears. A canister with a particle of extremely volatile â&#x20AC;&#x153;anti-matterâ&#x20AC;? has been stolen. The priest-scientist who discovered the process that has the potential to recreate the moment of creation, become a weapon of mass destruction, or become an inexpensive source of energy, was murdered. The canister is somewhere in the Vatican and timed to explode when the last of the four cardinals is killed.

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Third Tuesdays through September, 7:15 p.m.: The Year of St. Paul Lecture Series features Professor Stephen C. Córdova of the St. Anthony of Padua Institute, and Conventual Franciscan Father Francisco Nahoe of the Franciscan Spirit and Life Institute. Talks are free of charge. Information and lecture dates are available online at www.stanthonypaduainstitute.org/stpaul.pdf Sundays, 3:30 p.m.: Concerts featuring local and musical artists from around the world. Open to the public. Free will offering helps support Cathedral’s music ministry. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 231.

Good Health May 26, 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.: “Diagnose and Prevent Skin Cancer at Any Age,” a free health seminar for patients and the general public at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan at Fulton in San Francisco. Go to cafeteria on Level B of hospital. Reduced rate parking in hospital garage with entrances on Stanyan and Schrader. Call (415) 750- 5787 or e-mail christina.hayeschandler@chw. edu or visit www.stmarysmedicalcenter.org.

Pauline Books and Media Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City, (650) 369-4230 - Visit www.pauline.org May 20, 7 p.m.: Paul and His Friends, a presentation by Father David Pettingill. Come to celebrate the approaching close of the Pauline Year as together we consider how the strong collaborative friendships of Paul helped to further the Good News he so tirelessly proclaimed. As members of the same Body of Christ we too can experience this richness.

Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center,

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Food & Fun May 16, 6:30 p.m.: “The Wild, Wild West,” an evening of fun and food sponsored by the Filipino Community of St. Cecilia Parish in Durocher Pavilion, 17th Ave. at Vicente in San Francisco. Tickets are $20 per person and include a rodeo dinner. Call Mercy at (650) 994-2702 or Remy at (415) 661-9528.

May 23, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.: St. Finn Barr School Rummage Sale at 419 Hearst Street at Edna in San Francisco’s Sunnyside neighborhood. Many items available including furniture, appliances, clothing, toys and sporting goods. Coffee, lemonade and baked goods also for sale. Bring friends and find bargains!

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Support Resources Relevant to the Economy Edgewood Works, an employment support group, meets Mondays 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. and 4th Thursdays from 7 – 9 p.m. in Merry Room at St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Rd. in Redwood City. There is no cost to attend. Drop-ins welcome. Call (650) 906-8836 or e-mail edgewoodworksstm@gmail.com for more information.

Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.: Stress Management Group - Benefit from relaxation techniques, mind and body awareness practices, group support. Takes place at Catholic Charities CYO, 36 West 37th Avenue, San Mateo. Cost is $15 per session. Enroll by calling Catholic Charities CYO at (650) 295-2160, ex.199. Pamela Eaken, MFTI, and Natasha Wiegand, MFTI, facilitate the sessions. The program is supervised by David Ross, PhD. May 17, 5 – 7:30 p.m.: “The Role of Money in Precarious Economic Times,” an evening with perspectives from three faith traditions – Christians, Jews and Muslims - at Old St. Mary’s Church, Grant and California St. in San Francisco. Franciscan Father John Hardin, former executive director of the St. Anthony Foundation, is among the presenters. Joining him are Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe and Jafar Shenasa. Bread and soup will be served.

Suggested donation is $15 but no one will be refused for lack of funds. Proceeds benefit the homeless. Call (510) 374-0701 or e-mail interfaith@baycc.org.

May 20, 7 – 9 p.m.: “Keeping the Faith During the Downturn,” a series of evening sessions exploring ways to God even in the midst of the downturn. Patrick O’Halloran, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist with degrees in English, Theology and Psychology, will facilitate. Takes place at Vallombrosa Retreat Center, 250 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. Call (650) 325-5614 or visit www.vallombrosa.org.

June 12, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.: “Slowing Down to the Present Moment,” part of the “Retreat in Times of Stress Series” at Mercy Center, 2390 Adeline Dr. in Burlingame.

Suzanne Buckley and Mercy Sister Loretta Moffatt will facilitate. No fee but registration is required. Call (650) 340-7454 to reserve a spot. Bring a bag lunch.

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May 21, 22, 23 at 7:30 p.m. and May 24 at 3 p.m.: Mission Dolores Theater Arts Group presents “Bigger Than Life.” American folk tales and legends come to life with stories and songs. “It is amusement, amazement, and entertainment of the whole family,” information said. The show plays at Mission Dolores School Auditorium, 16th St. at Dolores in San Francisco. Tickets available at the gate or at (415) 621-8203 Adults: $5 / students and seniors $4 / children $2.. Proceeds benefit Theatre Arts Ministry at Mission Dolores School.

Graduates of San Francisco’s Notre Dame High School gathered for the annual all-school reunion at Mission Dolores for Mass and later the Spanish Cultural Center for nostalgia and lunch. The school closed 28 years ago but “the camaraderie and sister-solidarity continues to envelop those who have traversed the halls of 347 Dolores,” Katie O’Leary, president of the Alumnae Association, said. Notre Dame Sister Barbara Kavanaugh, a 1947 alum, is alumnae moderator. Borrowing on the day’s theme – “Life is Like Box of Chocolates” – she called those assembled “St. Julies box of chocolates – some creamy, some chewy, some soft, some nutty, some dark, some light but all undeniably wonderful.” Sister Julie Billiart, canonized in 1969, is founder of the Notre Dame Sisters.

Enjoying the event are Ruby Belles from the class of ’69, Ana Najarro Akin, left, Ana Colorado Villalobos, Geri Arata Pruett, Lynn Duncan Stacey, and Carla Aste Caimotto.

138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468.

May 17, 5 – 7:30 p.m.: “The Role of Money in Precarious Economic Times,” an evening with perspectives from three faith traditions – Christians, Jews and Muslims - at Old St. Mary’s Church, Grant and California St. in San Francisco. Franciscan Father John Hardin, former executive director of the St. Anthony Foundation, is among the presenters. Joining him are Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe and Jafar Shenasa. Bread and soup will be served. Suggested donation is $15 but no one will be refused for lack of funds. Proceeds benefit the homeless. Call (510) 374-0701 or e-mail interfaith@baycc.org.

May 24, 7:30 p.m.: Catholic author Piers Paul Reid will speak at St. Peter and Paul Parish center, 620 Filbert St. at Washington Square in San Francisco.

Admission is free and the church parking lot will be open. Call (888) 619-7882. Sponsored by Ignatius Press and St. Anthony of Padua Institute.

Reunions May 17: Class of ’79 from Notre Dame Elementary School at the school, 1200 Notre Dame Ave. in Belmont.

For more information, e-mail jpenner@nde.org May 31, 12:15 p.m.: 85th Anniversary Mass of St. James Elementary School at St. James Church, 23rd and Guerrero St. in San Francisco. Reception follows at St. James School, 321 Fair Oaks St. “Graduates from as far back as the 1930s have said they’ll be there,” said Raquel Fox, a 1976 St. James alumna, who is helping coordinate the event. For more information, call Raquel at (650) 773-4400 or e-mail foxryan8@msn.com.

Vallombrosa Retreat Center 250 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park. Call (650) 3255614 or visit www.vallombrosa.org.

May 19: Sacred Healing: Nature Reflects God - This one day retreat will focus on connecting with Nature as a form of healing ourselves. Become more aware of the Earth as a sacred living organism and pray with rituals that help us unite our love with the Divine love. Dominican Sister Joan Prohaska, will facilitate this healing day.

May 20, 7 – 9 p.m.: “Keeping the Faith During the Downturn” This series of evening sessions will explore ways in which we can find God even in the midst of the downturn. Patrick O’Halloran, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist with degrees in English, Theology and Psychology, will facilitate.

May 29 – June 1: “Praying the Mystics - Teresa, John and Ignatius” Great Christian saints and mystics - Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross and Ignatius of Loyola - were teachers of prayer whose practical wisdom can help us draw closer to God no matter where we are on the spiritual journey. On these retreat days, learn about their lives, spirituality, teachings on prayer and their “maps” of the journey toward union with God. Carmen de la Vega Neafsey, MA and James Neafsey, D.Min., who have studied the lives and works of these Spanish mystics for over 30 years, will lead the weekend.

Special Liturgies May 16, 17: Annual Festa do Santo Cristo dos Milagres including Mass, Queen’s Ball, parade and sopas e carne lunch. Festivities May 16 begin at 7 p.m. and rites of May 17 begin at 8:45 a.m. at Santo Cristo Hall, 41 Oak Ave. in South San Francisco. Call Rebecca at (650) 922-3233 or Maria at (650) 345-4324 for more information.

May 16, 4:30 p.m.: The Chinese Community of the Archdiocese is going to celebrate Bishop Ignatius Wang’s 50th anniversary of priesthood ordination and Episcopal retirement with a Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral followed by a buffet dinner at the Patrons Hall, St. Mary’s Conference Center. Tickets for dinner are at $30 per person. It will be first come first served and no tickets will be sold at the door. Call Ella at (415) 614-5574.

May 23, noon: Father John Jimenez leads the Public Square Rosary Crusade at United Nations Plaza in San Francisco. Pray for the world, its people, and its leaders. For information, call Juanita Agcaoili at (415) 647-7229.

May 31, 12:15 p.m.: 85th Anniversary Mass of St. James Elementary School at St. James Church, 23rd and Guerrero St. in San Francisco. Reception follows at St. James School, 321 Fair Oaks St. “Graduates from as far back as the 1930s have said they’ll be there,” said Raquel Fox, a 1976 St. James alumna, who is helping

Consolation Ministry Grief support groups meet at the following parishes.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 558-1015.

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) 3663802. 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 Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824; St. Finn Barr (bilingual); call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823. St. Gabriel; call Monica Williams at (415) 350-9464.

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 at (415) 614-5506.

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

Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese.

1st Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues.

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is mainly conservative: learning proper teaching so as to have a healthy vision, submitting to rules of behavior that ground us and move us beyond our instinctual selfishness, and being a learner within family and church community.

But, once this stage is achieved with some proficiency, the challenge becomes different. Now the task is to give our lives away – and to give them away ever more deeply and to an ever-widening circle. That’s a more liberal task and it becomes even more liberal as we move toward that truly great unknown, death, where all that we have grounded ourselves in must be left behind as we are opened to the widest circle of all, cosmic embrace, infinity, and the ineffable mystery of God. In our discipleship, our spiritual journey, there is an important time to be conservative, just as there is an important time to be liberal. We are not meant to pick one of these over the other.

including participants in medical training programs, who refuse, for example, to receive training in abortions, require or provide such training, perform abortions, or provide referrals for, or make arrangements for such training or abortions.

Third, in 2005 and subsequent years, the Weldon Amendment has been attached to the Labor/HHS/Education appropriations act prohibiting the provision of federal funds to any state or local government or federal agency or program that discriminates against institutional or individual health care entities on the basis that that entity does not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for abortion.

These federal statutes are consistent with the Supreme Court’s 1973 acknowledgment in Roe v Wade of the right of physicians, hospitals, and other care providers not to be discriminated against on the basis of their moral convictions against performing or facilitating abortion.

Awareness of these federal protections have been frequently ignored or overlooked, thus raising the importance of some form of regulatory enforcement. In 1999, for example, a bill was introduced in the California State Assembly that required, among other things, Catholic hospitals to provide

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and author, is President of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, TX.

or arrange for abortions. In 2000, members of the California Medical Assistance Commission attempted to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortion and other reproductive services as a condition of receiving a Medi-Cal contract. And in the same year the California Medical Association presented a resolution to the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates urging the enactment of laws to strip hospitals that decline to participate in abortion from receiving taxexempt financing or participating in state-supported health care programs.

Freedom of conscience is not a sectarian, religious, or Catholic belief. It is an American conviction. We have conscientious objection against war for those who cannot fight. We have conscientious objection for doctors against being involved in administering the death penalty. Freedom of choice must belong to everyone, including those who have deep moral concerns about the sacredness and dignity of embryonic and fetal life. The dignity of every person and the sanctity of human life are bedrock values which must inform our commitment to provide quality health care to all who require it, and to preserve the conscience rights of health care providers.

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Pope in Holy Land

At the Regina Pacis Center in Amman, Pope Benedict is greeted by the crowd May 8.

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by Jordan’s King Abdullah II and his wife Queen Rania, are greeted at the Amman, Jordan airport May 8, the first day of the pope’s weeklong pilgrimage to Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories.

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Members of the Missionaries of Charity wave flags during Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at a stadium in Amman, Jordan, May 10.

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Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to celebrate Mass at a stadium in Amman, Jordan, May 10.

Pope Benedict offers a blessing to some 300 people in attendance during his visit to the co-cathedral of the Latin Patriarchate in the Old City of Jerusalem May 12.

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Pope Benedict kisses a cross during a visit to the Chapel of the Cenacle on Mount Zion just outside the walls of Jerusalem’s Old City May 12. The pope met with the bishops of the Holy Land in the chapel, which tradition holds is the “upper room” of the Last Supper and the place where the Holy Spirit descended on the apostles at Pentecost.

With Muslim leaders, Pope Benedict visits the Dome of the Rock on the compound known to Muslims as Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem May 12.

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Many will outlive their resources and also encounter age related disabilities. The California

Commission on Aging, is the principle advisory body to the Governor and Legislature on public policy for elder Californians. It is developing a “Comprehensive Strategic Plan on Aging.” Commissioner DeNunzio will address two components of the plan- Elder Abuse and End of Life Care. How Catholics deal with these This provide of world.

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