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Taking part in Dominican Schools Music Project instruction at San Francisco’s St. James Elementary School are third-graders, from left: Alexei Stout, Joel Tolentino, Ashley Dickson and Carolina Hernandez. See story on page 8.

St. Francis of Assisi relic arrives in San Francisco

By Rick DelVecchio Two Franciscan friars from Assisi, Italy landed in San Francisco last week bearing a rare gift for the city and the Archdiocese: a small rock from the Porziuncola, the stone chapel St. Francis of Assisi and his early followers built more than 800 years ago and where the Franciscan order was born.

Banded with a red ribbon and bearing the wax seal of the Franciscan community in the saint’s native town, the angular chunk of pink granite arrived in a felt-lined leather case with the gold-embossed image of the Porziuncola gracing its lid. The rock circulated among admiring guests at a welcoming party at San Francisco International Airport and later starred at a reception at the De Young Museum.

The rock’s final destination is a replica of the Porziuncola under construction at the National Shrine of St. Francis in North Beach. Possibly the first relic of the 13th century saint to enter the United States, it will be installed on the altar of the sister Porziuncola.

“This rock isn’t only a rock,” said Frate Gianpaolo Masotti of Santa Maria degli Angeli basilica in Assisi.

Sponsors confident marriage initiative will make ballot

A rock used more than 800 years ago in the repair of St. Francis of Assisi’s chapel at Assisi will be enshrined at the National Shrine of St. Francis in San Francisco’s North Beach district.

The sponsors of an initiative to define same-sex marriage in California as unconstitutional are confident the measure will qualify for the Nov. 4 ballot.

Ron Prentice, chairman of the steering committee for ProtectMarriage.com, a coalition of pro-family organizations, churches and individuals, told Catholic San Francisco that election officials in 10 of the state’s 58 counties have finished validating signatures the campaign turned in April 24. Based

“It’s the story of a sanctity, a holiness that has lasted 800 years. It’s a rock that has seen pass in front of its eyes the life of St. Francis himself, Santa Chiara and many, many other saints and apostles who have worked very hard to live Francis’ life.”

The 72 friars of the Assisi community met in 2006 and agreed to donate the relic “with the hope that the joy this rock gives us will also give that joy to the City of San Francisco,” Frate Gianpaolo said.

The rock was one of two that had been removed from the Porziuncola over the years during repairs and kept in the museum at the basilica that was built to enclose the chapel in the 1600s.

“That church is the original church St. Francis repaired and loved during his life,” Frate Gianpoalo told Catholic San Francisco. “Was he the only one who handled the rocks? At the beginning he was alone but then probably some of his followers helped him to restore the church.

Of course we don’t know which part of the church was repaired by St. Francis. But we know the first community of St. Francis and the Brothers worked together to repair the church.”

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on the results so far, Prentice predicted that when the remaining counties complete their work over the next few weeks the initiative will have the 694,354 signatures required to qualify for the general election. The campaign submitted 1.1 million raw signatures. This initiative would place the wording in the state Constitution, where advocates say it could not be changed by the Legislature or the courts. Proposition 22 states that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid in the state.

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Catholic lobbyists visit and challenge corridors of power A record number of more than 120 people from the Archdiocese of San Francisco traveled to Sacramento April 22 to make their convictions known to state representatives during the 10th annual Catholic Lobby Day. Volunteer lobbyists ranged from Chancery employees to groups of young people from area Catholic schools.

Director of the Campaign for Human Development for the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns Via Vigil explained the motive behind encouraging greater involvement of youth: “There is a new generation incorporating their faith and their right to vote. Through the study of theology and faithful citizenship, they will grasp how important this day is in preparing them for the day they’ll be voters.”

Patrick Cody, theology teacher at San Mateo’s Junipero Serra High School, brought 11 students to participate in the process. It was also Cody’s first year taking part in Catholic Lobby Day. “I’m here because I want to live out my faith,” he said.

“We’re called to live that faith in the public sphere.”

Approximately 700 people from around the state came to Sacramento for the event, up slightly from last year. Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference and lead organizer of the event, said the results of the sustained presence of Catholic lobbyists at the state house are profound.

“Certainly the impact on the lives of those who come is awesome,” Dolejsi told Catholic San Francisco. “The impact on the capital is palpable with so many people lobbying.

I’ve received a number of calls from [State Assembly and Senate] members today.”

Issues raised during the meetings with state lawmakers included continued funding for naturalization services and for education, and care for elderly prisoners. Dolejsi said the lobbying efforts always focus on measures currently before the legislature.

“The easiest out for a legislator is to say, ‘This isn’t currently under consideration,’” Dolejsi said.

Lobbyists also called on members to support AB 2262, a

(PHOTO BY MICHAEL VICK/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

By Michael Vick

State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), left, meets with Catholic Lobby Day participants including, from left, Ofie Albrecht, Kathleen Fourrie and other archdiocesan parishioners to discuss California budget priorities.

bill sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Alberto Torrico of Fremont to address child abandonment. The bill would extend the deadline for parents to voluntarily surrender physical custody of a newborn child to a hospital or another designated location, such as a firehouse or police station. Current law allows up to 72 hours, while AB2262 would increase this to one week.

The bill has been introduced three times and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed it each time, citing statistics that show most abandonment and neonaticide occurs within three days of a child’s birth. Lobbyists met with Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, Democrat of San Francisco and co-sponsor of the bill, to ensure her support.

Ma said she does not understand why the governor opposes the bill. She said many states with child surrender statutes have a one-year deadline or even no deadline at all.

“I was angry at the hearing,” Ma said of the commit-

tee discussion held on the bill. “If purpose is to save a life, why do we have to have a limit?”

Serra teacher Cody, lobby spokesman for the meeting with Ma, also pushed the assemblywoman to reject AB2747.

Opponents of this bill, sponsored by Democrat Patty Berg of Eureka, said the bill provides a platform for state-assisted suicide.

Berg has brought assisted-suicide bills to the floor of the assembly in the past. The most recent attempt, the “Compassionate Choices Act,” was tabled last June. The controversial bill was similar to an Oregon euthanasia law, the Death with Dignity Act, upheld in 2006 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Ma, the majority whip, was instrumental in preventing the bill from coming to a floor vote. Though personally in favor of what she called “personal choice,” she said she did not want to split the Democratic caucus on the divisive CATHOLIC LOBBYISTS, page 6

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LCWR names new executive SILVER SPRING, Md. (CNS) – The Leadership Conference of Women Religious appointed Sister Jane Burke, a School Sister of Notre Dame, as its new executive director, effective in August. Most recently, she was the national manager for the Justice for Immigrants campaign sponsored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. As executive director, Sister Burke will administer the 1,600-member LCWR, a canonically established organization for leaders of U.S. religious communities of women, representing about 67,000 Catholic Sisters.

Pope moved by meeting BOSTON (CNS) – Meeting victims of clergy sexual abuse at the papal nunciature in the nation’s capital during his six-day U.S. visit was a moving experience for Pope Benedict XVI, said Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston. Speaking April 23 with The Pilot, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, Cardinal O’Malley said the meeting between the pope and victims from the Boston Archdiocese was important to both parties. “The many times he addressed the sexual abuse crisis (during the trip) indicate how deeply he understands the situation of our Church and what happens here,” the cardinal said. “He obviously feels a great sorrow over what has happened and that he is ashamed but, at the same time, wants to encourage us on the path to healing and reconciliation.”

Seeks meeting with Giuliani NEW YORK (CNS) – New York Cardinal Edward M. Egan will request a meeting with Rudolph Giuliani, saying in a statement he deeply regretted that the former New York mayor received Communion during a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at St. Patrick’s Cathedral April 19. A statement issued by Cardinal Egan April 28 said that when he first came to the archdiocese and Giuliani was mayor the two of them “had an understanding ... that he was not to receive the Eucharist because of his well-known support of abortion.”

Says liturgy renewal ‘irreversible’ VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Liturgical renewal launched

The exhumed body of St. Padre Pio lies in a glass sepulchre in the crypt of the saint’s shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo, southern Italy, April 24. The body of Padre Pio, who died in 1968, will be on display until at least September.

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by the Second Vatican Council is an “irreversible path” and has not been affected by Pope Benedict XVI’s concession on wider use of the Tridentine rite, a Vatican official said. “The pope’s decision has so far not produced any change in the celebrative practice of our ecclesial communities. His gesture was only one of service to unity,” Archbishop Piero Marini, who arranged papal liturgies for more than 20 years, said in an interview April 25 in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.

Assisi enacts begging ban ASSISI, Italy (CNS) – Assisi – the birthplace of St. Francis, saint of the poor – has instituted a ban on begging. The mayor of Assisi, Claudio Ricci, signed an ordinance in mid-April that prohibits begging within 500 meters (550 yards) of any church, square or public building – a decree that effectively makes the entire hill town off-limits to beggars. Ricci said he instituted the ban after numerous complaints from pilgrims, tourists and citizens about aggressive and insistent forms of begging outside the city’s medieval churches.

Examines urban schools’ plight WASHINGTON (CNS) – Educators, school lobbyists and business and government representatives gathered at a White House summit April 24 to examine ways to reverse the trend of faith-based schools being closed in U.S. cities. Although the term “faith-based schools” was used throughout the day and representatives from a variety of religious schools were present, the majority of attendees represented Catholic schools, and many of the presentations focused on the benefit these schools provide, the reality of their closing and steps already taken to keep them open.

‘Get on the Bus’ May 9 Volunteers from the Archdiocese of San Francisco will take 16 children to see their mothers at Valley State Women’s Prison in Chowchilla, Calif., as part of the annual “Get on the Bus” initiative, an event timed to coincide with Mother’s Day. Each year, hundreds of children and their caregivers board buses at no cost to see their incarcerated parents.

Children receive a pre-trip home visit, three meals, a teddy bear from their parents and post-trip counseling. This year’s trip departs from San Leandro at 5 a.m. May 9. For more information, contact Via Vigil, the project’s coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, at (415) 614-5572.

A similar event for fathers is set to be held close to Father’s Day.

Praises vocation prayer project VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI has praised a Vatican initiative to encourage eucharistic adoration for the holiness of priests and recruit “spiritual mothers” to pray for priests and for vocations to the priesthood.

In an undated letter sent to the Vatican’s Congregation for Clergy, which is promoting the initiative, the pope said he is “grateful for the thoughtful gesture” and for suggestions the congregation has put forward. In the letter, posted on the congregation’s website, the pope said he hoped “the love and devotion to the eucharistic Jesus and devotion to Mary ... may give new fervor” to the life and apostolate of priests. The clergy congregation released to journalists April 22 a letter addressed to the world’s priests from Cardinal Claudio Hummes, congregation prefect, and Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, congregation secretary. The letter details the intentions of the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests May 30.

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ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) – On the last day of an unprecedented summit, Catholic ministry leaders detailed lifelong learning, collaborative ministry, solid formation and a greater need to encourage diverse leadership as crucial to the further growth of a healthy Church.

“Emerging models require an emerging vision of leadership,” said Robert McCarty of the National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry April 23, near the close of the National Ministry Summit, which attracted about 1,200 lay ministers, religious and clergy.

McCarty served as a panelist on a plenary session, which examined responses to recommendations for the future of pastoral leadership made earlier in the April 20-23 summit.

Present were members of a coalition of six Catholic national organizations – the National Association for Lay Ministry, Conference for Pastoral Planning and Council Development, National Association of Church Personnel Administrators, National Association of Diaconate Directors, National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association and National Federation of Priests’ Councils – that received a $2 million grant in 2002 from the Lilly Endowment for a four-year study in response to changes in the Church.

These changes include an increase in the number of Catholics, a more educated laity, a decrease in the number of priests and vowed religious, an increase in permanent deacons and professional lay ecclesial ministers, and growing cultural diversity.

Attendees suggested developing comprehensive training programs for ministry at all levels in dioceses; defining the roles and responsibilities of lay ecclesial ministers, sacramental ministers and priest moderators; providing initial and ongoing formation for ministers that balances leadership, management and support roles; creating a culture of accountability; and increasing consultation between lay leaders and pastors.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco recently saw the graduation of 35 parish personnel from an in-depth training program designed to support parish operations. The archdiocesan Council of Priests originated the program, which appears to be a first in Catholic parish administration training curriculum in the U.S. Lack of racial diversity among summit participants was a major concern for many. With 91 percent of attendees identifying as white or Caucasian, and 70 percent between the ages of 50 and 69, speakers wondered about the summit’s ability to adequately speak for the more diverse parts of the Church.

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Assisi relic . . .

Frate Gianpaolo Masotti of the Franciscan community in Assisi, Italy holds a case containing a rock used more than 800 years ago when St. Francis and his Brothers built the church where the Franciscan order was born. The community agreed to donate the relic to the City and Archdiocese of San Francisco.

The relic will be installed on the altar of a replica of the church that is being built at the National Shrine of St. Francis in North Beach.

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One obstacle lobbyists continually encountered during meetings with legislators was the budget crisis. The state faces a shortfall of nearly $15 billion for the next fiscal year, putting severe restrictions on what legislators can accomplish.

The state constitution requires a balanced budget. To do this, legislators can either increase revenue or decrease spending. Tax increases require a two-thirds majority in both houses, and there are not enough Republicans yet willing to join Democrats to increase taxes.

One area projected to be hit hard by the budget crisis is education, which accounts for nearly 40 percent of the state budget. State Senator Leland Yee said he does not want to

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Greeting the friars at the airport was former San Francisco Supervisor Angela Alioto, the force behind the Porziuncola project.

“Just imagine what this rock has seen,” she said. “It has seen St. Francis cry, it has seen him laugh, it has seen him sing, it has seen him do everything we know he did that created an order that 800 years later is taking care of the sick and the poor. That could not be cooler to someone like me and to the city that carries his name.”

Father William Justice, the archdiocesan Vicar for Clergy and Auxiliary Bishop-elect, welcomed the friars on behalf of Archbishop George Niederauer. St. Francis gave his life in service to the poor and to creation, Bishop-elect Justice said, paraphrasing the reading from the previous Sunday’s liturgy. ”This actual rock and the Porziuncola in which it will reside will encourage each of us to be living stones, to be more like St. Francis and to build a spiritual base,” he said.

Father Robert Cipriano, rector at the national shrine, offered the welcoming party a poem in the spirit of St. Francis, who is revered by Catholics and non-Catholics alike for his love of the poor, the animals and the Earth. He chose “Prayer of Thanksgiving” by Walter Rauschenbusch. cut state education funding, but the political reality has left legislators with little choice.

Yee urged the nearly 40 lobbyists in his cramped office to call on Republicans to consider raising revenue. Otherwise, he said, deep cuts will be inevitable.

“It’s a difficult budget year,” admitted Yee, Democrat from Senate District Eight, which includes the western half of San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County. “It’s just like balancing your checkbook at home. If we don’t cut spending, the state will go bankrupt.”

George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said he hoped legislators would consider the impact those cuts would have on real people.

“So many who speak to legislators are doing so on behalf of their own self-interest or moneyed interests,” said Wesolek, who took part in the lobbying effort. “One would hope that the legislators hear that their constituents are speaking on behalf of the poor. We hope they keep the poor in mind.”

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Academic Decathlon Bishop-elect Justice ‘Mosaic’ guest May 25 winners are listed: Following are the individual winners in specified categories of the Academic Decathlon held March 8 at Redwood City’s St. Pius Elementary School. Rita Carroll is principal. See photos of the schools that placed first, second and third overall on the back page.

Logic: first place, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel; second, St. Gabriel; third, Good Shepherd.

Current events: first place, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mark Wolohan; second, Sts. Peter and Paul, Edmond Quan; third, Mission Dolores, Sidney Golden.

English: first place, St. Gabriel, Megan McNamara; second, Notre Dame des Victoires, Evan Linsey; third, Epiphany, Erin Navarro.

Mathematics: first place, Epiphany, Adan Guanlao; second, St. Gabriel, Audrey Gomez; third, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Jacob Goell.

Religion: first place, Notre Dame des Victoires, Angela Garcia; second, St. Charles School, Matt Denton; third, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Alex Tabing.

Literature: first place, Notre Dame des Victoires, Lily Marx; second, St. Gabriel, Carmen Conroy; third, St. Pius, Katie Nehrenz.

Fine arts: first place, St. Gabriel, Matthew Wong; second, Nativity, Ethan Williams; third, Notre Dame des Victoires, Claire Fahy.

Science: first place, Colton Huynh of Nativity and Kaitlan Grauley of St. Gabriel; second, Notre Dame des Victoires, Stephanie Donahue; third, St. Charles, Lucas Hruska.

Social studies: first place, St. Gabriel, Nicholas Lawrie; second, Notre Dame des Victoires, Stacey Ward; third, St. Anthony-Immaculate Conception, Joao Carvalho.

Super Quiz: first place, Notre Dame des Victoires; second, Sts. Peter and Paul; third, Good Shepherd School.

An interview with Bishop-elect William Justice will be featured this Sunday, May 25, at 5 a.m. on “Mosaic,” the half-hour television program aired on CBS affiliate KPIX TV, Channel 5.

Bishop-elect Justice was appointed the new auxiliary bishop of the San Francisco Archdiocese on April 10 by Pope Benedict XVI, just five days before the pope’s April 15-10 visit to the United States.

The new prelate was among U.S. bishops who took part in papal events in Washington and New York during that time. Well-known Catholic San Francisco columnist Tom Burke will host this segment of “Mosaic,” made possible through the local Catholic Communications Campaign, the archdiocesan Communications Department and KPIX. The archdiocesan Communications Campaign Collection is May 18.

Bishop-elect Justice will be ordained to his new post on May 28 at 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Archbishop George Niederauer will be principal consecrator.

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Dominican Schools Music Project educates and inspires

By Tom Burke “Music, music, music” is the mantra and the fuel of the now three-year-old Dominican Schools Music Project currently serving students at Immaculate Conception- St. Anthony Elementary School and St. James Elementary School, both in San Francisco.

Established by the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose for seven Bay Area Catholic schools where they have a presence, DSMP is based on helping “music students develop the knowledge, wisdom, and skills to be successful in higher education and in life,” the program officials say.

Keri Lindell, a classically trained soprano and veteran of much stage and classroom experience, directs the program.

“The goal of DSMP is to promote the ongoing integration of music and the performing arts into the curricula of schools, often in disadvantaged areas, to enhance students’ academic performance, awareness of the arts, self-esteem, and personal development,” Lindell, who holds a graduate degree in vocal performance from San Jose State University, told Catholic San Francisco.

Lindell is a former conductor of the Chicago Children’s Choir and founding artist/teacher for Chicago Opera Theater’s “Opera for All” program. She has most recently performed with Opera San Jose and the Assisi Music Festival in Italy.

Initial questions about programs like these often center on how they meet expenses. Lindell hit the ground running.

“We are currently in the third year of a generous five-year confidential leadership grant which provided for the start-up of our programs,” she said. Planning for the schools being able continue the programs after that time is ongoing, she said, noting, “The DSMP constantly seeks out new avenues for continuing sustainability through gifts and grants from friends and donors.”

Every student in each of the elementary schools benefits from the program, Lindell said, pointing out that in its first years music was taught to each class once a week and since then has increased to twice a week. Additionally, after-school voice and instrumental classes and ensemble opportunities including choir, guitar and percussion are available.

While Lindell is at the DSMP helm, the program itself is in the hands of its teachers, she said.

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The musical arts, therefore, have enormous spiritual value and are called to “instill hope in the human spirit so scarred and at times wounded by earthly life,” he said.

Milan’s Giuseppe Verdi symphony orchestra and chorus performed works by Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven and Luciano Berio in the Vatican’s Paul VI hall to a large audience that included the pope’s elder brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger. Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano, who sat next to the pope during the performance, offered the concert to the pope as a gift.

Pope Benedict told the audience the joy music and song bring is “a constant invitation to the faithful and people of good will to dedicate themselves to offer humanity a future rich with hope.” include qualified men and women from the school parent pool as well as full-time musicians who also double as freelance artists. Among them is a percussionist who has done studio work with Carlos Santana, a strings teacher who has played for Kanye West and area symphonies, and one with a radio show that explores unique instruments.

“I have recorded with Hugh Masekela, Taj Mahal, and Chris Isaacs as well as performed with Mikey Hart and Gerry Garcia to welcome Nelson Mandela to Oakland,” said Nigerian percussionist Joni Haastrup, who according to Keri Lindell, “has revitalized the program at Immaculate Conception-St. Anthony and has students `drumming into recess.’”

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“Our programs teach music skills as an academic subject for study. Rather than supplanting other subjects, this reinforces and integrates the higher-level thinking skills being taught in other disciplines,” Lindell said. Math is reinforced through spatial and rhythmic time relationships and fractions, social studies through the music of world cultures, and public presentation skills through preparing for concert performances, she said.

Highlights of the program have included St. James students singing the Star Spangled Banner at a San Francisco Giants game last season.

Jennifer McKenna oversees the program at St. James.

“Jennifer has developed a growing choral program that has performed often within the schools, church and the community,” Lindell said.

“What drew me into managing this program was the realization that I could support and advocate not only for individual students but for entire schools,” Lindell said, “and prepare students with higher-level thinking skills, the ability to work with others, and the ability to express themselves creatively. With my first anniversary as director coming up in July, I become more excited about what is happening in these schools each month.”

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International figure addresses United for Life gathering Father Linus Clovis of the Archdiocese of Castries, St. Lucia, addressed nearly 200 people gathered April 26 at the 36th Annual Celebrate Life Dinner, sponsored

by United for Life San Francisco and held at the Irish Cultural Center.

Father Clovis has been instrumental in preventing the legalization of abortion on his native island in the West Indies.

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embers of the St. Dominic Parish young adults group pray the rosary every Wednesday evening. Lance Johnson, a member of the group, said participation in the community prayer reflects growing interest in Mary among young adult Catholics. “The whole idea of Marian spirituality seems to be on the upswing,” he said. One recent evening, eight participants gathered to pray the Glorious Mysteries with Meditations by Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta. A deep quiet filled the St. Dominic chapel as evening light streamed through stainedglass windows inscribed to the Blessed Virgin. Lorelei Low opened the prayer and participants took turns leading the five Glorious Mysteries. The rosary closed with the Prayer to St. Michael – written, according to the script for the Rosary, by

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Pope Leo XIII after having an unsettling vision of hell. The participants included a couple in their early 20s, Christopher and Maureen Corgiat. Maureen is expecting the couple’s first child. “I grew up in Cincinnati, not Catholic,” Christopher said.

“My first year in college is when I converted to Catholicism. I met my wife-to-be and her family – a beautiful example of Catholicism. We got married, moved out to San Francisco and heard about St. Dominic from a wonderful priest in Cincinnati. Got here, loved it, and the young adults community has been open and inviting and has helped us meet a lot of good Catholics.”

The other parishioners participating were Laurie Murdock, Karen Griadek, Jordan Lindsay and Tushar Kureishi.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

‘Mary and Me’ Local book club members review one of their own

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n March, I was sitting at my bi-monthly book club meeting. I’ve been a part of the group a few years now. It was formed by some women at my parish, St. Dominic in San Francisco.

On this particular Sunday afternoon, however, it wasn’t the usual routine. We were discussing the book we had chosen for that month, “Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God,” written by Ginny Kubitz Moyer.

Ginny is one of our book club members.

Ginny’s book is a collection of interviews of 46 Catholic women, ranging in age from 24 to 92. The stories weave together a beautiful tapestry of how these widely diverse women came to know Mary, and made her a real source of strength in their lives. Ginny goes beyond the surface image of Mary, beyond the beautiful, serene, perpetually peaceful statue image so many of us carry around. In “Mary and Me” this “statue” comes to represent a much stronger woman of flesh and blood. Although sinless, she can still be seen as relevant to today’s women.

Ginny shares that her intent was to examine Mary through the sensus fidelium (sense of the faithful). She says, “There’s been so much written about her theologically, but I wanted to know how she speaks to the average woman in the pews, so to speak. I was truly amazed by the range and variety of stories I received. It showed me once again how much power there is in sharing our spiritual journeys with one another.”

There are many little gems contained in the book

that I will keep on my own spiritual journey.

One of my favorites comes from “Emily,” a 24-year-old administrative assistant. She shares that growing up she was told to see the Blessed Mother as a “powerful advocate” for her prayer intentions. Her mother would say, “Imagine that your prayers are like a bushel of apples. When you bring them to Mary, she bakes them into a pie and brings the pie to Jesus. It’s like she takes the prayers and makes them sweeter, so it’s harder for him to say no.”

In the book, Ginny speaks of relationships many women in particular understand: having a mother, being a mother, and loving as a mother does. Ginny also describes her own personal journey to closeness with the Blessed Mother, something that became crucial when she and her husband decided to start a family.

After her first two pregnancies ended tragically, Ginny shares one example of gaining strength from Mary. She was feeling torn in deciding whether or not to attend a friend’s baby shower while in the midst of her own grief. As she writes, “…it’s hard to be in the company of someone who has what we deem a painless life.

They seem to us to have no hard-won wisdom or empathy with which to comfort us.

In Mary, though, we find the opposite: a woman who walks with familiarity into the middle of our worst suf-

fering…a woman whose grief is surpassed only by her love.”

That love is something everyone can appreciate. As Ginny puts it, “Whether we identify with the mother who gives love or the child who receives it, the figure of Mary and Jesus together taps into our most basic human desires: to love and to be loved, unconditionally.”

The discussion at that March book club meeting was understandably more lively than usual. We were all so happy to celebrate with our friend, seeing the fruits of her labor come together in print. I am probably a little biased, but I highly recommend this book to anyone who desires to see how Mary can be a source of strength, and, of course, be an avenue to truly knowing and loving her Son.

About the author Ginny Kubitz Moyer grew up in Sunnyvale, attended St. Simon Elementary School in Los Altos, then St. Francis High School in Mountain View.

She is currently a public school English teacher and a writer.

She has been married for five years to Scott Moyer, director of faith formation at San Francisco’s St. Dominic Parish.

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By Brother John M. Samaha, S.M. More than a century ago a proud university student boarded a train in France and sat next to an older man who seemed to be a peasant of comfortable means. The brash student noticed the older gentleman was slipping beads through his fingers. He was praying the rosary.

“Sir, do you still believe in such outdated things?” the student inquired. “Yes, I do. Don’t you?” the man responded.

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“Science? I do not understand this science.

Perhaps you can explain it to me,” the old man said humbly, tears welling in his eyes.

The university student noticed that the aging gentleman was deeply moved. To avoid hurting further the older person’s feelings, he said, “Please give me your address and I will send you some literature that will explain the matter to you.”

The old man fumbled in the inside pocket of his coat and pulled out his card. On reading the card, the student lowered his head in shame and was speechless. The card read: Louis Pasteur, Director of the Institute of Scientific Research, Paris.

The deluded student had encountered his country’s leading chemist and bacteriologist, and a scientist of worldwide renown.

A prolific writer, Marianist Brother John Samaha resides at the Marianist Care Center in Cupertino, Calif., and has been a religious for 58 years.

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Guest editorial Italian Catholics changed my ideas on death penalty

By Nancy Oliveira I was not always against the death penalty. Like earthquakes, I accepted the death penalty as part of life in California.

Growing up as a Catholic in Modesto, and then attending college at UCLA, including attending services at the Newman Center, I never heard my parents, teachers or priests talk about the death penalty, and I never explored the issue on my own. I was focused on getting through school, holding down a part-time job, getting married, and busying myself with my children’s needs and schooling.

On that rare occasion that I heard something about the death penalty, I truly accepted it as a given, just part of a civilized society. I thought that if someone was on death row, they probably deserved to be there.

Then 10 years ago, when my children were grown, I picked up and moved to Italy. I started volunteering in a soup kitchen run by a Catholic lay organization called the Community of Sant’Egidio, which began in Rome in 1968 to listen to and to put the Gospel into practice.

One day, as I was serving up pasta to the homeless, I was approached by one of the Italian volunteers. He asked if I could help read some letters that they had received from death row prisoners in Texas and Georgia. I was stunned. I wondered what they were doing with letters from American death row prisoners.

I learned that they had been corresponding with death row inmates in America for 10 years, solely for the purpose of befriending them. And not only did they write letters, but they also included small amounts of money so the condemned prisoners could buy stamps, paper, and pencils.

I learned that prisoners on death row are given nothing, and they are not allowed to work to have spending money like regular prisoners.

I was shocked. For 30 years I lived 15 minutes from San Quentin, which houses the largest death row in America, yet I knew virtually nothing about the reality of the death penalty.

I was very embarrassed that these hardworking Italians, who in addition to their regular jobs, volunteered thousands of hours to help the poor around the world, knew everything about our death penalty, and I knew nothing.

In fact, these Italians even raised large amounts of money to help with the appeals of those they believed were innocent based on their own research.

It was from these kind hearted Catholics, that I began to learn the shocking facts about our death penalty system. They told me that 135 countries no longer use capital punishment; that the United States stands with the likes of China, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan as the world’s top executioners; and that 90 percent of the world¹s executions take place in these countries.

The most appalling fact I learned was that more than 100 innocent people had been released from death row after it was discovered that they had been wrongfully convicted. How had this happened in my very own country? And why hadn’t I heard more about it? These wrongful convictions are often attributed to incompetent defense lawyers, faulty eyewitness testimony, overzealous prosecutors, unethical law enforcement officers, false testimony from jailhouse snitches who received reduced sentences for their testimony, and false confessions extracted from suspects after tortuous hours of interrogation.

When I returned to the United States I began reading everything I could get my hands on about this issue. And the more I read, the more I realized that something was seriously wrong. Why were we wasting so much money and so many resources on a death system that was so inherently flawed and poses a real danger of executing innocent people when other alternatives, like life without parole, exist?

We urgently demand the recall of faulty cars and planes, harmful toys, and risky prescription drugs that pose potential threats to the safety of our citizens. We even recall tainted pet food. And yet our death penalty system has erred 128 times (that we know about), and we still send many people to death row each year. How could this be?

As Catholics, it is time for us to urgently work for the recall of the death penalty.

A resident of San Francisco for 35 years, Nancy Oliveira has served in various community leadership positions and now serves on the board of Death Penalty Focus. For more information on Death Penalty Focus, visit www.deathpenalty.org

Cost of war Guest columnist Tony Magliano’s April 25 argument was that to merit support an act must be moral, and the war in Iraq fails that measure because it is too expensive.

Listen to the late John F. Kennedy: “… let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden meet any hardship, oppose any foe, in order to insure the survival and success of liberty.”

We have suffered the early death of 4,000 troops and are expending one percent of GDP on the effort in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Does that exceed the precepts of JFK? The author contends the war was preemptive and therefore not just. We are in a new era.

Today an individual terrorist may place a satchel force that could destroy lives and property over a vast area without obvious preparation.

The aggression is in the preparation.

To reduce this threat of terrorist invasion the cells of origin must be snuffed out before they light the flame of mad desire.

“Democracy is the right and desire of all mankind,” and by introducing the conditions for free elections, igniting the flame of democracy, we reduce the temptation of these insidious cells that spew out the spell and technique of destruction.

The further charge that current financial disruption in food and energy pricing is due to the conflict in the MidEast is invalid. Prices of oil and food have risen due to increased demand and restricted supply. Increased demand of the ever prosperous world, restriction of supply by governments pursuing counterproductive programs.

Magliano wrapped himself in morality, but is just promoting the antiwar agenda with false assumptions and conclusions, and strikes out on the JFK precepts of American responsibility.

Ron Gillis Larkspur

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Father Stephen Privett’s April 25 article regarding Pope Benedict’s thoughts on Catholic education was insightful but fell short of the mark.

The pontiff stressed the importance of education for immigrants and the poor to prepare them for a more fulfilling way of life. No one would disagree with the value of education and that potential outcome.

However, to just have the education available as it is and has been for years has not changed the way of life of all of the immigrants or the poor. Why? After spending 42 years in public high school education and administration, I finally realized that having the best educators and curriculum that money could buy did not impact many students who fall into the category of immigrant and lower socio-economic students. Those are the very students the pope stressed the importance of helping.

Why didn’t the fine educators and excellent curriculum always help those students to reach the goals of the programs?

It is because the place where the seeds of a fulfilled way of life are planted is in the home. When a child comes to school from a home or other living accommodation where there are no positive role models, perhaps

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only one parent, an abusive relationship, a drugged or alcoholic living environment, no one who cares about the success or failure of the child, it is not likely the child will do well even in the best educational environment.

I say this because I have had many student conferences where the home environment mirrored one or more of the previously stated conditions. The bottom line is that the students often felt alone without any parental guidance, concern or interest. By the time I had these students, it was sometimes too late to help and all that could be done was to console and counsel.

My point is that education is important but to make it effective for the so-called disenfranchised there must be some component that gets parents more involved and to be held responsible for their children’s progress or lack of progress.

Bernard Ames San Carlos I am grateful for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations issue (April 11) of Catholic San Francisco. It is a great service to the religious of the Archdiocese and the whole Bay Area to present our pictures and contact information.

Sister Rosemary Everett, SNJM Cupertino

Grand gesture I would personally like to thank President and Laura Bush for inviting the pope to this great country of ours and for the warm receptions from them at Andrews Air Force Base and the White House. I still get shivers up and down my spine when I think of the Army Chorus singing the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” for this very religious man of God. For those four and one half minutes, while it was being sung, it felt that the White House was God’s House. Also, I sure would have liked to have been at the 81st birthday party for the pope at the White House. To the Bushes, thank you, thank you and thank you for such a great gesture to a man who is not even of your faith.

John “Scotty” Thomas San Francisco

Whoops is right!

Before Mr. Feiner (“Who really cares?”

Letters, April 18) finds Democrats guilty of all “sins” in our society (some of the “sins” listed are direct and intended results of the U.S. Constitution and the founding fathers’ intentions, so maybe it’s America Mr. Feiner has issues with) check out the last two election maps of general election (2000 and 2004). Red states: Republican conservative states were almost identical to the pro-slavery maps of the mid 1800s. Also, red state statistics show higher unwanted pregnancy rates, higher teen abortion rates, higher poverty levels, higher child and spousal abuse rates and lower graduation rates for children.

Whoops is right, Mr Feiner, but be careful where you point fingers.

As for the “sins” of working for peace and pro-environmental stands of Democrats over the alternative – pre-emptive invasion based on lies, executive branch condoning of torture and illegal wiretapping, and sacrificing the environment so we can give tax breaks for Hummer owners – I feel confident the Democrats display a very Christian and human perspective, one that cares for and respects all views and the earth itself, as well as the principles this democracy called America is based on.

Peter Mandell San Francisco

Global alarmism Initially it was refreshing to read that the Vatican was promoting a seminar that would involve both sides of the global warming controversy. (Catholic San Francisco, April 18, pages 8-9). This in itself was a monumental step because advocates of the so-called global warming phenomena are usually not willing to debate the issue and, like their messiah Gore, they avoid the critics.

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Twenty Something

All that glitters: Chasing glamour, inviting beauty I have been watching Dancing with the Stars with an interest that verges on addiction. I enjoy the dancing, but it is the costume and makeup magic that draws me in every Monday night.

The tricks are wide ranging: spray-on tanner, fake eyelashes, body glitter, ornate costumes. Swirled together, they create aesthetic fireworks.

During commercials, I grab my 5-pound weights and do tricep curls, huffing and heaving into toned conformity. Wedding and swimsuit seasons have arrived, and I’m not quite ready.

It seems nearly impossible for a young adult – even a grounded, faith-filled one – to resist bouts of beauty yearning and seeking. The pursuit can be a rollercoaster, ascending to arrogance, dipping to despondency, jerking you back and forth.

And yet, my understanding of beauty is deepening, and as a result, the rollercoaster is leveling off. The catalyst: a book by the late, great Catholic thinker John O’Donohue called “Beauty: The Invisible Embrace.”

In the book’s introduction, O’Donohue makes a profound distinction, writing, “It has become a habit of our times to mistake glamour for beauty.” Though glamour can be alluring, it is fickle and hollow, fool’s gold next to beauty.

Most of what the media presents as beauty – the images we mimic with calisthenics and cosmetics – is actually glamour. It can be applied and achieved because it is superficial.

“Beauty,” on the other hand, “cannot be forced.”

This simple sentence brought me great relief. If we cannot manufacture beauty, then we need not chase it with such vigor.

Sit ups, teeth-whitening strips, high-volume mascara – they may achieve glamour, but they do not lead to beauty.

Rather, beauty is marked by “its ability to surprise,” O’Donohue writes. “With swift, sheer grace, it is like a divine breath that blows the heart open.” It is not plucked or tweezed, scrubbed or squeezed. It arrives on a gentle breeze of the Holy Spirit.

Here’s another reassuring insight: Beauty is not a limited commodity to be coveted and clawed at, as reality TV and beauty pageants often imply. It is infinite, and it multiplies when celebrated and shared.

“When we say from our heart to someone: ‘You are beautiful,’ it is more than a statement or platitude, it is a recognition and invocation of the dignity, grandeur and grace of their spirit,” O’Donohue writes.

It is a prayer.

And prayer polishes the soul, which surfaces outwardly.

“Ultimately, it is the soul that makes the face beautiful.”

That may sound suspiciously like what your mom always said, but it’s true. And I’ve got it on good authority, verified by Miss America 2001, Angela Baraquio, a nationally recognized beauty.

“To me, a beautiful person is kind, loving, generous, humble,

respectful, honest, considerate, self assured and speaks from the heart,” Angie told me. “The funny thing is, the more beautiful you are on the inside, the more beautiful you become on the outside, because beauty really does Christina come from within.”

In Angie’s crowning Capecchi moment, her inner and outer beauty converged.

Here was a young woman who had honored her Catholic principles and gut instincts along the path to the pageant. She consulted her priest. She supported other contestants. She prayed backstage.

She embraced her personal style, eschewing the big hair and sequined dresses in lieu of a parted chignon and an unadorned satin dress so simple that it shocked some contestants.

But when she walked onstage, she caught the light and shimmered.

Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. E-mail her at christinacap@gmail.com.

The Catholic Difference

Light from the East (Ed. note: A ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the 1932-33 famine-genocide in Ukraine will begin at 7:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, on Monday, May 5. A liturgical rite will be followed by a candle-lighting ceremony.)

One of the more jarring transitions in the liturgical year is the rapid switch from the beautiful pastoral exhortations of the First Letter of Peter, which the Office of Readings prescribes for Easter Week, to the high drama of the Book of Revelation, read during the next four weeks of the Easter season. I was particularly struck this year by a passage from the sixth chapter of St. John’s vision: “When the Lamb broke open the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the spirits of those who had been martyred because of the witness they bore to the word of God. They cried out at the top of their voices, ‘How long will it be, O Master, holy and true, before you judge our cause and avenge our blood among the inhabitants of the earth?’ Each of the martyrs was given a long white robe, and they were told to be patient a little while longer until the quota was filled of their fellow servants and brothers to be slain, as they had been.”

No Christian community in the 20th century had to exercise such heroic patience amidst martyrdom as the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine. Bitterly persecuted by Stalin and his NKVD henchmen, the Greek Catholics of Ukraine – Byzantine in liturgical and theological practice and sensibility while in full communion with the Bishop of Rome – became the world’s largest outlawed religious community, forced to worship and

catechize underground for decades. That the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church survived the Soviet Union was a miracle of heroism, empowered by grace.

Throughout those difficult years, the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine was blessed by two remarkable leaders: Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky, a man of culture and vision and a pioneer ecumenist, and Cardinal Iosyf Slipyi, who survived years in the Gulag to become the model for “Pope Kyril I” in The Shoes of the Fisherman. Both Sheptytsky and Slipyi dreamed of building a Catholic university in Ukraine.

Now, under the current head of the Greek Catholic Church, the equally remarkable Cardinal Lubomir Husar, that dream is becoming a vibrant reality. And the Greek Catholics of Ukraine are becoming a cultural force to be reckoned with in one of the world’s most strategically important countries.

The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) in L’viv is led by a Ukrainian-American, Father Borys Gudziak, who brings to his work a Harvard doctorate in Church history, indefatigable energy, organizational skill and spiritual vision. I am a suspect witness in the case of Father Gudziak, as we’ve been friends for years.

But I will risk special pleading by saying publicly what I’ve said privately: if I had to name the 50 Catholics whose present work is most important for the future of the world Church, Father Gudziak’s name would easily make the cut. What he has built in a decade in L’viv, starting from scratch, is breathtaking.

L’viv is a university town, home to some 100,000 students.

Only 1 percent of those students attend UCU, but they generate half the public discussion in town. Books published by the

UCU press win prestigious awards; UCU’s theology department broke through the secularist bias in postcommunist Ukraine and got theology recognized as an academic discipline. Of the university’s 500 graduates George Weigel to date, almost 40 percent have gone on for graduate studies, and all but one of those students has come back to Ukraine. UCU forms its students for a mission: building the free and virtuous society from under the rubble of communism. And the students respond.

During the 2004-2005 Orange Revolution in defense of Ukrainian democracy, UCU students were among the leaders of nonviolent protests against a stolen election that threatened to undo the gains of the post-communist period. They were also leaders in seeking reconciliation and cooperation with Orthodox and secular students. If Ukraine has thus far escaped reincorporation into a Russian imperial system, UCU can claim some measure of the credit – and that’s good both for Ukraine and for the world.

You can learn more about this remarkable enterprise, and how to share in its work, by contacting the Chicago-based Ukrainian Catholic Education Foundation: www.ucef.org.

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

Spirituality for Life

Kenotic vs. triumphant Christ One of the deeper issues underlying the tension between liberals and conservatives in the Church is the tension between the kenotic and the triumphant Christ, the tension between the Christ who empties himself to become a slave and the Christ who rises triumph over death and rules the world.

I remember an incident at our Oblate General Chapter in Rome in 2004 that illustrates this. Our Chapter was concluding and we were trying to write a document for our missionaries around the world. There were people in the room from nearly 70 countries, so our experience was varied. One of the delegates from Western Europe stood up and said something to this effect: “I live in a culture within which there is a lot of anti-clericalism and a lot of resentment toward the Church, triggered not just by the sexual abuse crisis but by a history of ecclesial privilege.

The only Christ I can preach right now is a kenotic one, a Christ who self-effaces, self-empties, who isn’t in anyone’s face!”

Before he could even sit down, a bevy of other voices, coming from different parts of the world objected, saying the opposite: “We need Christ to be more visible! What our culture needs right now is for us to proclaim the truth and the

triumph of Christ. This is not a time to be timid and silent.

We need to celebrate and proclaim our faith, proudly and publicly and with color.”

Who’s right? Both. Scripture gives us both versions of Christ.

On the one hand, Scripture proclaims, at its center, the triumph of Christ. Thus our God, as Karl Barth famously used to say, doesn’t need to be apologized for, as if he were a product to be sold. The world does not judge God, God judges the world. God doesn’t need to be soft-soaked or even explained. He only needs to be proclaimed, announced.

Barth is a famous Protestant theologian, but that is also the Catholic tradition with its long, proud history of educational and health institutions, of Corpus Christi processions, the Way of the Cross in public, ashes on our foreheads to begin Lent, World Youth days, cathedrals and churches that dominate the landscape, and religious habits and clerical collars to publicly set aside certain persons.

All of these speak of the triumphant Christ and suggest the best response to the issues faced by the Church in a secularized culture - indifference, belligerent challenge on sexual issues, anti-ecclesial and anti-clerical feelings fuelled by the sexual abuse crisis, opposition

to religious discourse and religious symbols in the public arena, and anger at the authority structure – is not that of disappearing into a self-effacing silence, privatizing even more our beliefs, apologizing Father for the fact the world Ron Rolheiser doesn’t understand us, and refusing to set our truth strongly in the face of the world. The answer is to publicly, proudly and with color celebrate and proclaim our faith.

But that’s half of it. Scripture also tells us God comes into this world as a helpless baby in the straw, unable to feed himself. He grows into the Christ who refuses earthly power, glory, trappings, religious dress, and anything else, other than a deep life of prayer and integrity, that would set him apart from the rest of humanity. The God who is born into this world is also the God who self-effaces and empties himself

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Scripture reflection

Acts 1:12-14; Psalm 27:1, 4, 7-8; 1 Peter 4:14-16; John 17:1-11a A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES ACTS 1:12-14 After Jesus had been taken up to heaven the apostles returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. When they entered the city they went to the upper room where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 27:1, 4, 7-8 R. I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom should I fear? The Lord is my life’s refuge; of whom should I be afraid?

R. I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: To dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, That I may gaze on the loveliness of the Lord and contemplate his temple.

R. I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

Hear, O Lord, the sound of my call; have pity on me, and answer me. Of you my heart speaks; you my glance seeks.

R. I believe that I shall see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PETER 1 PT 4:13-16 Beloved: Rejoice to the extent that you

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share in the sufferings of Christ, so that when his glory is revealed you may also rejoice exultantly. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let no one among you be made to suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as an intriguer. But whoever is made to suffer as a Christian should not be ashamed but glorify God because of the name.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 17:1-11A Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you, just as you gave him authority over all people, so that your son may give eternal life to all you gave him. Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the world began.

“I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, because the words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been glorified in them. And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.”

DEACON JOHN DUPRE

‘I am the way, the truth and the life’ Praise God. We give God all the honor, the praise and the thanksgiving as we celebrate the seventh Sunday of Easter or Ascension Sunday.

I am so glad that we have come into the house of the Lord with joy. We have come to worship and make a joyful noise to the Lord from whom all good things come, for the Almighty is the giver of all good gifts, human and divine. So we praise God! Pray with me, if you please, from the 17th Chapter of the Good News according to the evangelist, John, the first through the 11th verses on the theme, “The hour had come for the glorified Son.” The setting is plain. Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away all the sins of the world, offers his final prayers at his last Passover meal in that upper room which appeared spacious and well furnished.

Jesus had given his final farewells to his disciples and now prayed to the Father that he be glorified. Yes, the hour had come for the Father to glorify the Son. The Father had first glorified the Son during his incarnation when Jesus became man and had been conceived into the world through the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, Queen of Heaven.

Now, Jesus would be glorified again as he would be lifted up upon a rugged Cross, his second throne as Christ, the King of Glory.

Yes, on this second throne, Jesus would draw all men and women to himself.

Yes, as Jesus be lifted up, he will draw all men and women to himself. The hour had come

Remembrance planned for Ukraine ‘Holodomor’

to become a slave. This is not the God of earthquakes and storms but of gentle breezes. He is cognizant that atheism A ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the is always a parasite feeding off bad theism and ecclesial “1932-33 famine-genocide in Ukraine” – known as the dis-privilege is invariably a reaction to ecclesial privilege.

“Holodomor” tragedy – will begin at 7:30 p.m. at St. This is a God who, as Carlo Carretto once suggested, would Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco, on prefer that we postpone all triumphant hand-clapping and May 5, planners announced last week. victory speeches until much later in the Kingdom and who A liturgical rite will be followed by a candle-lighting prefers, in the meantime, that we celebrate the Eucharist in ceremony at the Cathedral. cancer wards and mental hospitals and other places where The Ukrainian parliament last year passed a law declaring the passion of Christ is actually being lived out. the “Holodomor” an act of genocide. Eleven United Nations Christ is both, a self-emptying and a triumphant God. member countries have agreed to date, the planners noted.

We need to radiate both. There are times to shout our truth Some historians claim the famine was engineered by from the rooftops, to march publicly in processions, to the Soviet authorities to attack Ukrainian nationalism. proclaim a God who doesn’t need to be apologized for or Others view it as a consequence of economic problems soft-soaked. And there are times to be self-effacing, to not associated with radical economic changes implemented be in anyone’s face, to radiate a God who was born helpduring Soviet industrialization. less, an anonymous baby in the straw, empty of worldly The Monday remembrance ceremony is one of “a series recognition and power. of programs and exhibits including educational, religious and When should we do one and when the other? That symbolic events” that will call attention to “Holodomor.” answer has to be found in our own circumstances, in our own temperament, and in our own unique calling and vocation – and in sensible, practical judgment. There is a time to flash a religious symbol and there is a time not to.

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for the glorified Son. Everything that Jesus possessed had been given to him by his Father by the power of his Father’s love, and now everything that the Father had given to Jesus, the Son, had been given by Jesus to his disciples.

Yes, the hour had come for a glorified Son. Now, Jesus prayed for the world. Jesus realized that he was no longer in the world but would be ascended to his Father at the right hand of his throne in glory. Jesus prayed nonetheless that the joy of Jesus may be fulfilled in them, his disciples. Jesus prayed that they be not taken out of the world by the devil but that the Father protect them from the evil one.

Jesus prayed that his disciples be sanctified in the truth so as they be sent into the world that they might consecrate themselves into the truth of the Gospel. Jesus had said, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” Yes, whoever believes that Jesus Christ is Lord, shall inherit eternal life. Yes, Church, the hour had come for the glorified Son. As many of us rejoice in the season of Easter, we give thanks to God for the visit of our Holy Father, the pope, to America and the celebration of his birthday We thank God for Jesus and that his hour had come for the glorified Son. Alleluia. Alleluia. Amen.

A native of New Orleans, Deacon John Dupre’ has served at San Francisco’s St. Anne of the Sunset Parish since 1993.

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Sister Flaherty dies at 101 Sister M. St. Julian A Marin County native, Flaherty, a Sister of Charity Sister Flaherty served for of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 20 years at San Francisco died April 21 at her conschools including St. Paul gregation’s Marian Hall Elementary School (1930in Dubuque, Iowa. Sister 41; St. Brigid High School Flaherty was 101 years old.

(1947 – 49); St. Paul High She entered religious School (1949-55). She also life Sept. 8, 1925 following served at schools in Petaluma, graduation from St. Vincent Santa Barbara, Lincoln, High School in Petaluma.

Neb; Des Moines, Iowa, and She professed first vows Chicago and Mundelein, Ill. Aug. 15, 1927 and final Sister Flaherty is surSister M. St. Julian vows Aug. 15, 1933. vived by a sister, Rosalie Flaherty, BVM Kelly, as well as nieces and Sister Flaherty’s sight and hearing were failing in recent later years, but nephews and the Sisters of Charity of BVM “her wit was sharp and she was absolutely with whom she shared life for 82 years.

A funeral Mass was celebrated April delightful,” said Sister Mira Mosle, BVM, director of communications. At Sister Flaherty’s 24 with interment in the Sisters’ cemetery.

100th birthday celebration, she had relatives and Remembrances may be sent to Sisters of friends from all around the world in Dubuque Charity of BVM Retirement Fund, 1100 Carmel Dr., Dubuque, Iowa 52003. for the big day, Sister Mosle said.

Motherhouse, where she assisted in the finance department. In 2005, Sister Geraldine moved to St. Martin’s Residence and began her apostolate of prayer. Sister Geraldine was noted for three loves: teaching, driving and gardening.

According to her sister-in-law, Bonnie, “Sister Geraldine absolutely loved being a teacher.

She came alive speaking about the children in her classes!”

A funeral Mass was celebrated April 30, at the Dominican Sisters’ Motherhouse in Fremont with interment in the motherhouse cemetery.

Sister Geraldine’s sister is Sister Mary Jean Meyer, a Dominican Sister of Tacoma.

She is also survived by another sister, Mary Ann, brothers Frank and John, brother and sister-in-laws, and many nieces, nephews.

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Veteran educator dies April 20 Sister Mary Geraldine Meyer, OP, a Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose for 37 years, died April 20 at Washington Township Hospital in Fremont. Sister Geraldine was 90 years old.

Adeline Teresa Meyer was born on March 31, 1918, in Philip, S.D. and grew up in Bellingham, Wash., entering the Dominican Sisters of Tacoma in 1935.

She attended Central Washington College of Education for her bachelor’s degree and teaching credential, and the Gregorian Institute of America for music certification.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco – (415) 567-2020 May 5, 12:10 p.m.: Mass commemorating Cathedral’s dedication 37 years ago. For information, contact Doug Benbow (415) 567-2020, ext. 220 May 5, 2008, 7:30p.m.: All are invited to this 75th Anniversary Memorial of the Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933. Victims of this tragedy will be remembered with a prayer service in the Cathedral, followed by a candle-lighting ceremony outside. For information, call Zenon Zubrycky at (408) 356-8537 May 10, 10 a.m.: The Canossian Daughters of Charity invite all to join them in celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the founding of their order.Celebrants are Archbishop George Niederauer, Bishop Ignatius Wang and Bishop-elect William Justice. For information, contact Sister Neck Guan at (415) 681-4225.

May 18, 11 a.m.: Annual Pro-Life Essay Contest Liturgy and awards ceremony. Archbishop George Niederauer will preside and award prizes to contest winners. A reception follows in the Cathedral’s St. Francis Hall. Contact Vicki Evans at (415) 614-5533 or evansv@sfarchdiocese.org

Good Health May 10, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.: Free skin cancer screenings by UCSF dermatologists at Castro-Mission Health Center, 3850 17th St. at Noe in San Francisco.

May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month.

Taize/Chanted Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

Call (650) 340-7452; Young Adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults.

Convenient parking is available. For information, contact mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net.

1st Friday at 7:30 p.m.: Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113.

2nd Friday at 8 p.m.: Our Lady of the Pillar, 400 Church St. in Half Moon Bay. Call Cheryl Fuller at (650) 726-2249.

3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Contact Benedictine Father Martin at (650) 851-6133 for directions or information.

Vallombrosa Retreat Center 350 Oak Grove Ave. in Menlo Park - Call (650) 325-5614 or visit www.vallombrosa.org.

Weekend Session, May 23 – 25: Sacred Healing Retreat led by Dominican Sister Joan Prohaska. Come May 17, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.: The First Annual Monsignor Harry Bocce Tournament and Picnic at home of the Bocce Federation, Albert Park, 550 B St. in San Rafael. Day includes warm-up sessions from 8:30 a.m. accompanied by light breakfast and coffee; bocce games from 9:30 a.m. with a barbecue lunch at noon. Championship Round and awards at approximately 4 p.m. Sodas, beer and wine are available throughout the day.

Entry fee – includes all of the above - is Msgr. Harry Schlitt $300 per team of 4 – 6 players. Players must be at least 18 years of age. Picnickers, spectators of all ages also welcome at $25 per person. Proceeds benefit media projects of God Squad Productions, founded and directed by Msgr. Harry Schlitt, vicar for administration for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Contact Jan Schachern at (415) 244-0771 or janschachern@mac.com.

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May 7, 7:30 – 9 a.m.: Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, and Dominican Father Michael Sweeney, president of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, will address the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s annual Public Policy Breakfast at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Also confirmed as a speaker is former state Senator David Roberti. To register, phone Patricia Ribeiro at (415) 614-5570, fax (415) 614-4468 or e-mail ribeirop@sfarchdiocese.org. Breakfast and registration is $20. The event is sponsored by the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns. and learn the healing code. Using our bodies as portals to the divine energy of God, experience the interconnectedness of the chakras, the sacraments, the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the beatitudes of Jesus, to become the healing Light of Christ to the world. Cost for weekend session is $195 single room/$175 shared room.

Food & Fun May 3, 4: Spring bake sale following weekend Masses and benefiting St. Stephen Elementary School, 23rd Ave. at Eucalyptus in San Francisco. Contact epmtrohan@comcast.net for more information.

May 3, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.: St. Sebastian’s 13TH Annual “Whale of a Sale” with crafts, jewelry, household items, and new famous-maker clothes for $1 to $5 each. Refreshments available. Please come! 373 Bon Air Road, Greenbrae. For reservations or information call Kathie Meier 415 461-4133.

May 5, 7:30 p.m.: 27th Annual May Crowning and Living Rosary in All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Palou St. in San Francisco. Sponsored by All Hallows #182 Young Ladies Institute. Call Sue Elvander at (415) 467-8872.

May 9: Join the St. Stephen Men’s Club for a day of golf at the Crystal Springs Golf Course in Burlingame.

Tickets are $165.00 and include golf, golf cart, box lunch, tee prizes, and dinner. This event is sure to sell out so call Pat Goudy (415) 587-0471 or Mark Hazelwook (415) 452-0480 for more information.

May 21: The fun continues at Immaculate Conception Chapel where a spaghetti and meatball lunch is served for $8 per person - each third Wednesday of the month, beginning at noon. The family-style lunch consist of salad, bread, pasta and homemade meatballs. Beverages are available for purchase. The meal is served in the church hall, beneath the chapel. Call (415) 824-1762.

June 7: Please join us for the 140th running of the Belmont Stakes at the Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope 1st Annual Day at the Races at Golden Gate Fields, 1100 Eastshore Hwy., Berkeley. Enjoy valet parking, admission to the Turf Club, Daily Racing Form, Brunch/Prime Rib Buffet, tax and gratuity. Reserved seating in the first two rows - $75 per person; regular open seating in the last two rows - $50 per person. For more information or tickets, please call (510) 533-5768 before May 10.

Arts & Entertainment May 2, 8 p.m.: 50th Anniversary Concert of Dominican University Winifred Baker Chorale at St. Raphael Church, 1104 Fifth Ave. in San Rafael.

Tickets will be sold at the door - $10 adults/$5 students and seniors. Call (415) 482-3579.

May 3: “Late Nite Catechism” at Mater Dolorosa Church, 3-7 Willow Ave. in South San Francisco at 8 p.m.

Tickets are $40 at the door. Contact the parish office at (650) 583-4131 or MDComedy08@yahoo.com.

May 8, 7:30 p.m.: Broadway Concert featuring students from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, 1055 Ellis between Gough and Franklin in San Francisco.

Call (415) 775-6626 or visit www.shcp.edu.

May 9, 10 7:30 p.m.: Dominican Sister Nancy Murray as “St. Catherine of Siena: A Woman of Our Times,” at St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco. Sister Nancy is a member of the acting Murray family that includes “Saturday Night Live” alumnus and film actor, Bill Murray. Sponsored by Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley. Tickets are at $15. To order tickets or for more information, contact Dominican School Advancement at (510) 8832085 or e-mail Advancement@dspt.edu.

May 14, 7:30 p.m.: Instrumental Spring Concert featuring talent from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, 1055 Ellis between Franklin and Gough.

Call (415) 775-6626 or visit www.shcp.edu.

May 16, 17, 8 p.m.; May 18, 1:30 p.m.: Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” at Notre Dame Elementary School auditorium, 659 Pine St., San Francisco.

Tickets are $7.50. Call Paddy at (415) 246-1749.

May 24, 5:30 p.m.: “Spring Musicale Dinner Concert,” an evening of musical classics and nostalgic Philippine love songs featuring acclaimed performers J. Greg Zuniega, piano, Sim Zuniega, violinist, Minda D. Azarcon, conductor, Senen Bagos, Jr., tenor, Janine B.Castillo, mezzo-soprano. All proceeds benefit St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, 850 Judah Street, San Francisco: www.stanne-sf.org. Tickets are $50. Call Tessie Velicaria at (415) 665-1600, ext. 22 or Precie Agaton (415) 5647487 or Bernadette Hynson rbbsfo@comcast.net. Free parking. No tickets sold at door.

Reunions May 10, noon: Class of ‘53 from the now-closed Most Holy Redeemer Elementary School at Caesar’s Restaurant, Powell at Bay St. in San Francisco. No host bar and lunch. Tickets are $35. Valet parking available. Call Terry White at (925) 939-7508 or John Strain at (415) 492-3310.

May 31, 11 a.m.: Members of Class of ’58, Sacred Heart High School and St. Vincent High School, are guests of honor at this Gold Diploma ceremony at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. Tickets are $45.

Call (415) 775-6626 or visit www.shcp.edu.

June 7, noon: Class of ’51 from now-closed St. Agnes Elementary School at the United Irish

May 3, 7 p.m.: “Beautiful: An Evening of Enchanting Music” at Holy Name of Jesus Church, 39th Ave. at Lawton in San Francisco. The free concert features singer Moira McManus with Shaying Puan, piano, Julie and Hannah Lee, violins, and Patrick O’Connell, guitar. Free will donations will be accepted. Proceeds benefit the Holy Name Conservatory of Music. Call (415) 664-8590. Violinists Julie and Hannah Lee have performed with orchestras throughout the world.

Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Contact W. Urie Walsh at (415) 668-6501 or wuwkmw@aol.com or Kevin Carter at (214) 8933130 or kevincarter@prodigy.net.

June 7, 3 p.m. – 8 p.m.: Class of ’58 from Our Lady of Angels Elementary School, 1328 Cabrillo St. in Burlingame, will gather around a barbecue picnic. Contact John Cline at (650) 367-6212 or johncline05@comcast.net or Tom Constantino at (650) 366-7166 or thomasconstantino@yahoo.com.

Prayer May 3: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060.

May 9-10, 6:30 p.m.: St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish, Jamestown Ave. at Third Street, San Francisco, will hold its first revival – spiritually directed

by Divine Word Father Ken Hamilton of St. Lawrence O’Toole Parish, Oakland, who will also preach and preside at the 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 11, Mother’s Day Gospel Mass. Bay Area Gospel choirs will take part. For information: (415) 468-3434.

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs are available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 422-6698.

Ongoing support groups for the separated and divorced take place at St. Bartholomew Parish, 300 Columbia Dr. at Alameda de las Pulgas, in San Mateo, first and third Tuesdays of the month at 7 p.m. in the Spiritual Center and first and third Wednesdays of the month at St. Stephen parish hall, Eucalyptus and 23rd Ave. in San Francisco next to Stonestown Mall at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail at (650) 591-8452 or Joanne at (650) 347-0701.

Thursday, 5:30 p.m.: Catholic Singles Club – 50s, 60s, 70s: Join us at Starbucks at corner of Jackson and Davis Streets, San Francisco, for chat and possible plans for weekend activities. Come to table with “CSC” sign. More information: Maria (415) 391-8579.

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■ Continued from page 12 It actually appeared the organizers of the seminar were willing to face the heat and look for some sensibility in the controversy.

Then the accompanying article knocks down the premise of the seminar when the Vatican gives-in to the false secular religion and begins fostering the “carbon-neutral” mentality advocated by the Goreites. The Vatican is accepting the free “30 pieces of silver”— carbon credits – offered by companies that stand to make very big bucks for planting a few trees. It is an abomination to see the Church fathers succumb to the absurd mentality of the global warming alarmists.

There is no argument that we must take more responsibility for our environment.

However, to say that man is the anthropomorphic cause of the global warming due to the miniscule amount of carbon dioxide we produce directly or indirectly are patently unscientific. Of course that does not mean we should just pollute the environment to our heart’s content. Carbon dioxide is a natural byproduct of breathing and burning. It is also a gas that gives us life as plants use it to make food. This is God’s plan.

Are the Vatican and others being foolish to think they can usurp his plan? Yes! Time and space do not permit counter arguments to the current hoax. Any person who has access to the Internet can find numerous articles that provide scientific support against the popular global warming position. The later position is obviously supported by the profit-oriented carbonneutralizing crowd who seem to appeal to

the easily led and non-thinking advocates of anthropomorphic caused global warming.

Too much credit is given to man rather than to God for the sake of a few dollars.

Bill Ames San Carlos

Thanks to Jesuits It was the Jesuits who founded St Patrick School in Karachi, Pakistan (then British India) in 1861, and the Jesuits, being uncontested professionals in the fields of education and discipline, St. Pat’s easily topped the list of popular institutions of learning. The Jesuits also helped in the spiritual needs of Karachi Catholics. In 1845 they built St. Patrick Church. Although small in number, the Jesuit Fathers who served in one also helped in the other. What they lacked in quantity, they had in quality.

A famous landmark in Karachi, Christ the King Monument, was built in 1931 by the Jesuits. With marble imported from Italy, it was constructed to commemorate the memory of the Jesuit mission in Sindh (now Pakistan).

It was the Jesuits who got many of the Karachi young to assist in Church services and instilled in them love of liturgy and devotions This eventually led to the unusual number of priestly vocations. From the small community of Karachi Catholics, St. Patrick School produced two cardinals – Valerian Gracias, the first Cardinal in India, and Joseph Cordeiro, the first cardinal in Pakistan.

The school also produced an impressive number of bishops (eight) and scores of priests. At least 12 joined the Jesuits. Can this be matched?

One, whom I greatly admired, lived an exemplary priestly life, an example of a scholar capable of suffering with the poorest.

Sometimes I’m Up

Sometimes I’m Down

Music of Exaltation and Music of Despair 2008 Archdiocesan Choral Festival Sacred music performed by choir members from throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco

Sunday, May 18, 2008, 4:00 pm.

Saint Raphael Mission Church, San Rafael Including selections from Alstott, Chepponis, Franck, Hirten, Lotti, Pasqual, Vaughan Williams, Winges and others

Open admission.

A free-will offering will be taken.

For info call 415.614.5586

THE SISTERS OF PERPETUAL ADORATION INVITE YOU TO ATTEND THE SOLEMN NOVENA IN HONOR OF

CORPUS CHRISTI Conducted by

Father Francis P. Filice May 17th – May 25th, 2008 At 3:00 P.M. Services: Daily Mass Holy Rosary Benediction Novena Mass

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7:00 P.M. 2:30 P.M. 3:00 P.M. 3:05 P.M.

On the last day of the Novena we will have an outdoor Procession with the Most Blessed Sacrament At 2:00 P.M. Send petitions to:

Monastery of Perpetual Adoration 771 Ashbury Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-4013

He happened to be a cousin of mine, the late Father Aloysius Fonseca. He also had two brothers in the Jesuit order. At the request of the Indian government he created the “Indian Social Institute” and was a leading expert in labor relations. He was summoned to Rome where he became a contributor to La Civilta Cattolica and distinguished himself in social and economic matters. He was a member of the Vatican delegation to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, as well as a professor of economics at the Papal Gregorian University.

Father Fonseca had been an average student, but it was the training he received from the Jesuits in school that helped him later in life. The same goes for Cardinals Gracias and Cordeiro and others who distinguished themselves.

I remember the straight forward, clear preaching by the Jesuits. There was not place large enough to hold the people of different religions wanting to hear them. Working in a non-Christian country the Jesuits had the skills to get people of different religions and ideas to participate in discussion and debate. It was the Jesuits who had the gift to deepen our knowledge of religion and strengthen our faith.

Lenny Barretto Daly City

Defend the unborn George Weigel’s attack on the Jesuits did not go far enough. Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI, the magisterium of our

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Church and the Catechism of the Catholic Church all adamantly proclaim you cannot be both a practicing Catholic and pro-choice at the same time.

Have we already forgotten that at last year’s graduation ceremonies at the University of St. Francis in the City of St. Francis, Nancy Pelosi was given flattery, comfort and was the invited guest speaker?

Nancy Pelosi, a practicing Catholic, is a prochoice advocate, which means it is acceptable for a mother to kill her own child. The Jesuits, and the like, at the University of St. Francis have placed a difficult, strange, unusual and heavy burden on us pro-life Catholics who are working hard to stop the destruction of God’s precious unborn infants.

Roy Domenicto Petri San Anselmo

Times have changed I find George Weigel a highly intelligent man, and I enjoy reading him every week.

Why people don’t like him is beyond me.

I wrote Father Stephen Privett a letter some time ago and never received an answer.

It was about “Vagina Monologues,” a risqué, filthy play that should not have been shown on the University of San Francisco campus.

The university has lost its Catholic identity. Years ago there was a cross in every room and you said Hail Mary before class.

My how times have changed for the worse!

Anne Kimble San Francisco

2008: 21st Annual Nor-Cal Catholic Charismatic Convention May 23–25

“Build up the Kingdom of God for the Reign of Jesus”

Santa Clara Convention Center (Next to Great America) 5001 Great America Parkway • Santa Clara, California The Hilton Hotel • 4949 Great American Parkway 1-408-330-0001

Speakers • Father Daniel Balizan • Deacon Bill Brennan • Father John Compoli

Ministry programs for the youth: K-12

• Father Bill Halbing • Sister Linda Koontz • Father James Tarantino

This will be a time of Praise & Worship, Reconciliation and Teachingwith Miracles & Healing.

Come expecting the fullness of God’s POWER. Evening Events & Closing Mass are open to friends and relatives of registered participants.

Friday Eve: Registration opens 6:30 P.M. • Opening Charismatic Mass 8:00 – 10:30 P.M. Saturday: Registration opens 8:00 A.M. • Workshops • Conference Events 8:30 – 10:30 A.M. Charismatic Healing Service 7:30 – 10:30 P.M. Sunday: Registration opens 8:00 A.M. • Conference Events 8:30 A.M. – 6:30 P.M. Closing Charismatic Mass 2:30 – 5:30 P.M. Registration Fees (per person): Adult $45.00 • On-site registration $50 Child (to 18) $10.00 (maximum $20.00 per family)

For information: 1-925-551-5827 or 1-707-643-2238 Register at the door or go to our website www.ncrcspirit.com Sponsored by the Northern California Renewal Coalition

The Catholic Professional and Business Club Meets WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008 CAESAR’S RESTAURANT-SAN FRANCISCO 5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.

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THE CHALLENGE OF SELF-BRANDING: USE WORDS IF NECESSARY CARLOS R. HERNANDEZ Carlos is transforming into an entrepreneur after 28 years working for large corporations in technical solution sales, marketing and project management. He is a Hispanic, native San Franciscan and graduate of Stanford University’s School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering. Carlos worked at Westinghouse Electric and Eaton Corporations providing consultative selling solutions both in the US and to such international markets as the Middle East, Asia, and the Caribbean.

His customer base included small business firms to large health science institutions, large-scale manufacturing plants, electrical contractors, utilities, municipalities, and to state and federal government organizations. He possesses a passion for motivational public speaking, problem solving and especially connecting with others. Carlos is actively involved in building community through the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity, St. Dominic’s Catholic Church and Archbishop Riordan High School Alumni Board Association. Carlos created his firm “Visionary Business Consulting - Follow Your Heart” as a direct consequence of following his heart and he loves having the opportunity to inspire others to do the same in their entrepreneurial ventures. His current mission is to mentor colleagues with their career path challenges.

Ceasar’s Restaurant - ITALIAN APPETIZERS SERVED located at 2299 Powell Street (and Bay Street), San Francisco, CA 94133.

Enclosed is my check made payable to “CPBC_ADSF” for: ___ Annual Membership (s) at $45.00 each $ __________ ___ Meeting (s) on May 14, 2008 at $20 per member, $25 per non-member $ __________ NAME: ____________________________________________ TOTAL: $ __________ ADDRESS: ________________________________________ __________________________________________________ CITY, STATE, ZIP ___________________________________ PHONE: ___________________________________________ E-Mail: ___________________________________________

Pleae send form and payment to: CPBC, Attn: Mike O’Leary One Peter Yorke Way San Francisco, CA 94109

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May 2, 2008 More than 140 pastors, religious educators and others attended an April 25 workshop on adult faith formation at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco.

Sponsored by the Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry, the event featured author Bill Huebsch of Minnesota, a nationally known catechetical expert who in 2000 established the Whole Community Catechesis project, aimed at helping parishes and dioceses around the world implement the “General Directory for Catechesis.”

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

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JOB OPENING, ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: St. Cecilia is looking for a part-time (20-25 hours per week, school term) Athletic Director to oversee all aspects of the Girl’s Athletic Sports Program.

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Position Available BI-LINGUAL DIRECTOR OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Redwood City would like to hire an English-Spanish speaking person for a full time position as Director of Religious Education.

You are the person we want if you have a minimum of 3 years catechetical experience, can work well with parents and children, grades 1-6, recruit and form catechists, and are someone who collaborates well with other parish staff.

Other important qualifications include a degree in Religious Education, Theology and/or Pastoral Ministry, and strong organizational, management, communication, technology, administration and training skills.

Let us know you’re interested in joining the pastoral team of our vibrant parish by sending your letter of application, resume, salary history and references to: Reverend John A. Balleza, Pastor Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church 300 Fulton Street, Redwood City, CA 94062 Or Fax to: 650-366-1421 www.mountcarmel.org

We are looking for full or part time

RNs, LVNs, CNAs, Caregivers In-home care in San Francisco, Marin County, peninsula Nursing care for children in San Francisco schools If you are generous, honest, compassionate, respectful, and want to make a difference, send us your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Fax: 415-435-0421 Email: info@sncsllc.com Voice: 415-435-1262

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Help Wanted

heaven can’t wait Serra for Priestly Vocations Please call Archdiocese of San Francisco Fr. Tom Daly (415) 614-5683

ADVERTISING SALES For The Largest Publisher of Catholic Church Bulletins

This is a Career Opportunity!

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

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

PRINCIPAL St. Isabella Parish School is committed to providing an education that challenges students to live out the Catholic faith in service to the parish and wider community. We provide a solid foundation for the spiritual, psychological and academic development of our students. St. Isabella School has 260 students, with an average of 29 students per class, kindergarten through grade 8. We have two wonderful teachers who co-teach kindergarten. There are classroom aides for grades 1-5 and K-8 science classes. Our middle school, grades 6-8, is departmental. Our faculty includes specialist teachers for Spanish, music, algebra, PE, computer technology and science. We also have a school counselor and two learning resource teachers; one for grades K-4, the other for 5-8. Last year we added an enrichment program for grades 3-5. Our full and part-time faculty gives us a teacher student ration of 1:17. St. Isabella School is fully accredited by the Western Catholic Education Association and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

Qualified applicants for all elementary principal positions should: be a practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church, have a current California teaching credential, have a minimum of five years of successful teaching or administration in a Catholic school, have a master’s degree in education or related field and an administrative services credential.

Applicants for administrative openings with the Archdiocese of San Francisco should download the Principal Applicant information found on the Department of Catholic Schools website www.sfcatholicschools.org and return the completed application and accompanying materials to: Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Schools, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109.

Deadline: May 15, 2008 • FAX: (415) 614-5664 Email: huntingtonm@sfarchdiocese.org

JOB OPENING

FACILITIES MAINTENANCE WORKER

Immaculate Conception Academy A small Catholic secondary school in San Francisco seeks a: CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER The CFO oversees all general accounting and fiscal functions within the organization.

She/He is accountable to the Principal. Duties involve all accounting functions, preparing all financial reports, overseeing and/or managing all payables, receivables and bank accounts, managing human resources and facilities.

Requirements: • BA in Accounting, CPA or MBA preferred • 3-5 years experience in accounting • Excellent oral and written communications skill • Knowledge of GAAP and not-for-profit accounting • Experience in computerized accounting systems • Experience in an educational setting a plus • Spanish speaking a plus • Supervisory experience a plus

MARKETING/PUBLIC RELATIONS DIRECTOR The Marketing & Public Relations Director is responsible for all marketing endeavors. She/He is accountable to the Development Director and the Principal. Duties involve coordinating all major events, including planning, advertising, and promotion; working with campaigns; creating and producing marketing materials; directing public and media relations and writing and distributing press releases.

Requirements: • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Experience in marketing/public relations • Experience in an educational setting a plus • Knowledge of and experience with Raiser’s Edge and Microsoft Office.

• Spanish speaking a plus • Bachelor Degree Salary is competitive and is commensurate with experience.

Immaculate Conception Academy is fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. Opened in 1883, under the direction of the Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, the school now serves a multicultural community from San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area.

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume to: Sister Janice Therese Wellington, O.P., Principal email: ica@icacademy.org

Looking for an energetic and organized individual who observes safety regulations while maintaining a neat and clean facility. This person can conduct minor repairs, set up furniture for special events, and assist in maintaining athletic facilities.

Qualifications include basic skills in carpentry, plumbing, electrical, and painting. Have the ability to lift 50 lbs. and work in inclement weather. Be able to maintain facilities by doing basic janitorial and grounds-keeping work. The applicant must be able to walk, climb, reach, push and pull.

This is a 12-15 hour per week position with a flexible schedule. All employees must complete a preemployment background check.

Application Deadline: May 15, 2008 Send cover letter and resume to: Mr. Scott Rea, Director of Plant and Facilities Archbishop Riordan High School 175 Phelan Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112

or email: srea@riordanhs.org

JOB OPENING Marian Convent is a person-centered independent living and assisted living community of the Sisters of Mercy in Burlingame. It has an opening for the following position:

TRANSPORTATION SERVICES COORDINATOR I This is a part-time, weekend position, with work hours from 12 noon to 5:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, with the possibility of working longer hours on those days. The person is responsible for scheduling the various appointments for individual Sisters (medical, shopping, general outings, etc.) and arrange for the transportation needs for said appointments. High School diploma or GED required. Two years related experience and/or training in a medical office.

Able to work independently with minimal supervision; good team member; excellent communication, interpersonal and computer skills. Has good patient transfer skills and knowledge of good body mechanics. Valid current CA driver’s license with no moving violations a must.

Qualified applicants may send their cover letters and resumes to:

Sisters of Mercy –Attn: HR 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010 Email: cricafrente@mercyburl.org Fax: (650) 373-4509

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The Academic Decathlon team from St. Gabriel School, San Francisco: back from left, Coaches Charlene McDonnell, Mara Hill, Lynn Grier; principal Mercy Sister M. Pauline Borghello; coaches Rick Moseley and Pat Tucker; middle from left, Nick Lawrie, Megan McNamara, Kyle Huang, Courtney Gong, Kaitlyn Crawley and Matt Wong; front from left, Audrey Gomez, Carmen Conroy, Caroline Cosgrove and Monica Gibbons.

St. Gabriel tops Academic Decathlon and heads to state competition San Francisco’s St. Gabriel Elementary School will represent the Archdiocese of San Francisco tomorrow, May 3, at the state Catholic schools’ Academic Decathlon competition in San Diego, an honor it earned by winning the local 12th Annual Academic Junior High Decathlon on March 8 at St.

The Academic Decathlon team from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School, Redwood City: kneeling, foreground, Alex Simon; from left, standing, Jesse Boyle, Jeremy Smith, Alexandra Tabing, Edwin Garcia, Mark Wolohan, Molly Miram, Amanda Dames, Cecily Mejia, coach/teacher Jennifer Bruzzone and Emily Wohrer.

Pius Elementary School, Redwood City.

Fifteen schools took part in the March 8 event. Redwood City’s Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Elementary School placed second.

San Francisco’s Notre Dame des Victoires took third.

See page 7 for listing of individual winners.

The Academic Decathlon team from Notre Dame des Victoires School, San Francisco: back from left, Caesar Soledad, Giovanni Briggs, Evan Linsey, Stacey Ward, Natalia Keohane, Zoe Firth, Daniel Meagher and Shawn Sie; middle from left, Angela Garcia, Stephanie Donahue, Claire Fahy, Lilly Marx, Jocelyn Lim, Isabella Mello and Malaya Sadler; kneeling, Payton Carrol, left, and Taylor Stenberg.

COME JOIN THE FUN! First Annual Bocce Tournament & Picnic with Monsignor Harry Schlitt Saturday May 17th, 2008 WHERE: Albert Park – San Rafael Home of the Bocce Federation 550 “B” Street, San Rafael, CA 415-485-5583

TIME: 8:30 a.m. – Gates Open (Warm ups, practice, breakfast: coffee, juice, donuts, fruit)

9:30 a.m. – Games Begin

WHEN: Saturday, May 17, 2008 Practice begins 8:30 a.m.; Play begins 9:30 a.m.

Tournament ends 4:00 p.m.

Noon – Barbeque Lunch (Soda, beer & wine, snacks available throughout the day)

4:00 p.m. – Championship Round / Awards

COST: $300 per team of 4 –6 players (Teams guaranteed at least 3 games) Players must be 18 to participate Also welcome – picnickers, spectators of all ages (Adults: $25; Children ages 10 – 17: $10) Tournament Contact:

Jan Schachern – (415) 244-0771 janschachern@mac.com

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