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A crowd fills St. Peter’s Square for a canonization Mass led by Pope John Paul II May 16. The pope created six new saints: Italian laywoman Gianna Beretta Molla; Italian Fathers Luigi Orione and Annibale Di Francia; Spanish Father Josep Manyanet Vives; Italian Sister Paola Elisabetta Cerioli; and a Lebanese Maronite monk, Nimatullah Kassab al-Hardini. Pictured left a tapestry depicting St. Gianna Beretta Molla hangs from the front of St. Peter’s Basilica during her canonization Mass.

Pope canonizes Italian mother, Lebanese Maronite monk, four others By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II elevated four men and two women to sainthood, including a mother who gave up her life to save the life of her unborn child. The pope said “this holy mother,” St. Gianna Beretta Molla, followed Christ’s example of loving one’s “own in the world and loving them to the end.” St. Molla and five religious were canonized May 16 in St. Peter’s Square as 40,000 pilgrims from all over the world watched and waved flags and banners.

In his homily, the pope said the six new saints trusted completely in Jesus’ promise of peace. “True peace is the fruit of Christ’s victory over the power of evil, sin and death. Who follows him faithfully will become witnesses and builders of his peace,” he said. Pietro Molla, more than 90 years old and the modern church’s first living husband of a saint, looked on with his two daughters, one son, and other relatives as the pope recited the formula of canonization. Born in 1922 near Milan in Magenta, Italy, St. Molla is often called the “pro-life saint.” She died of a

uterine tumor in 1962, just one week after giving birth to her fourth child, who was present at the ceremony. A doctor and surgeon, St. Molla had refused to undergo any treatment that may have saved her life but would have put the fetus she was carrying at risk. The pope said, “The extreme sacrifice that sealed her life pays witness to how only the person who has the courage to give oneself totally to God and others fulfills oneself.” Many of the newly canonized were Italian, but the SAINTS, page 16

CRS official speaks on immigration at annual ‘Public Policy Breakfast’ By Jack Smith Social, political and personal responsibility for the immigrant in America was the theme of the annual Public Policy Breakfast May 14 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. Ms. Erica Dahl-Bredine brought her experience as Mexico program coordinator for Catholic Relief Services to bear on how U.S. Government policy, local

communities and the individual of good faith might respond to the challenge of immigration in light of Catholic social teaching. The speaker outlined numerous ways in which current U.S. policy exacerbates the plight of immigrants and leads to unwanted effects both abroad and in the United States. In the last 10 years, $20 billion has been spent on U.S. border control, Bredine said,

while the number of undocumented workers has doubled. Failure to develop a coordinated and “holistic” approach encompassing trade, naturalization, and border controls are to blame, she said. Referring specifically to Mexico and Latin America, she said, “people leave their homes because they cannot find IMMIGRATION, page 19

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION On education justice . . . . . 3 News-in-brief. . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Care of migrants . . . . . . . . 6 Concern for environment . 10 Editorial and letters . . . . . . 14 Datebook & review . . . 20-21

‘Ad limina’ visit

Archdiocesan Choral Festival

Scripture & Reflection

Mind on Media . . . . . . . . . 22

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its Worship Commission and members including John Malone, Suzanne Schneider, Art Angst, Carolyn Tomola, Mary Sue Weston, Sharon Martinez, George Ritter, Jean Taylor, Maureen Powell. “Behind the scenes” contributors were Phil D’India and Frank Eddy with additional help from Barbara Fisher, Lesly Hargens, Maria Barba, Shirley Ortega and Michelle Gaston. Much afoot at St. Peter’s with special good-byes to retiring pastor of 23 years, Father Len Calegari June 27th and welcomes to new pastor, Father Michael Healy, who is busy bidding adieu to his longtime parish family at St. Philip’s, San Francisco. May we never miss a chance to say “Thanks” to priests like Fathers Healy and Calegari and so many more who understand service and are committed to us people in the pews day in and day out, rain or shine, high or low every day of the week…. Knowing and well serving the faithful, too, are deacons of the Archdiocese, Dennis Rivera, class of ’95 among them. A prayerful salute to Dennis and his wife, Guia, on announcement of their retirement from service at Holy Name of Jesus Parish, May1st. “We thank them for their dedication and service to the people of God and our parish,” a bulletin note said. And at Holy Name School congrats to next year’s Parent Guild board members including Alice Ho Seher, Jackie Alcaraz, Roberta Beach, Maribel Johnson, Colleen Cheong, Rowena Hapin, Lisa Hurd, Bernadette Lee, Lily Ling, Greg Martinez, Donna Kirwan, Donna Nathanson, Carol Weir, Belinda Cleaver, Ana Madanat….Thanks to Mercy Sister Edith Hurley for fillin’ us in on the annual Hurley

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Women’s Golf Tournament held February 1st – Feast of St. Brigid – that included female family members hailing from Sacramento to Paso Robles. The event began 10 years ago in miniature golf form but was rained out so the women devised a makeshift course at one of their homes and the contest commenced. “It’s been that way ever since,” Sister Edith said. “Refreshments and a great reunion follow.” Hats off to this year’s winner, Bernadette Hurley of Pacifica. “The men of the clan don’t seem to miss us for the day,” Sister Edith said…. Farewells at St. Patrick Parish, Larkspur to Nining Wahyuningsih, a coordinator of Sunday morning child care and now “going home to Indonesia.” Welcome, meanwhile, to “Rosa Tan, who has taken Nining’s place,” a recent bulletin said…. Liked this laugh from St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf. Asked what happened to Jesus on Good Friday and Easter many hands went up in the children’s religious education class. “He died on a cross,” one girl said. “And God recycled him,” chimed in another…. All hats off at Holy Angels Parish, Colma for Adele Rideau who was “involved in the school, worked in the school library and helped at Tuesday Bingos.” Her sister is one of the parish’s “faithful counters” Janiece Duronslet…. Remember, this is an empty space without ya’!!! Send items and a follow up phone number to On the Street Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Fax (415) 614-5641; e-mail tburke@catholic-sf.org. Do not send attachments except photos and those in jpeg, please. You can reach Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634….

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News analysis Leno’s same-sex marriage bill unlikely to see assembly vote this election year By Patrick Joyce Legislation attempting to legalize samesex marriages in California faces an uncertain future as San Francisco Assemblyman Mark Leno tries to line up the 41 votes he needs to get Assembly approval for his “gender neutral” marriage bill. The fate of the bill, AB 1967, this year depends less on its merits than on the fall reelection campaigns of Democrat legislators from moderate districts. While Democrats hold a 48 to 32 majority in the Assembly, some Republican strategists are so optimistic about the election that they are talking about taking control of the Assembly in November. Even more subdued Republicans are expecting to pick up some additional seats in the election. Republicans base their predictions in large part on the results of last fall’s recall: not only did Governor Gray Davis lose his job but Republicans won a landslide victory in the vote for his replacement. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Republican rival Sen. Tom McClintock took a total of 62 percent of the vote – 48.6 percent for Schwarzenegger and 13.5 for McClintock – while Democrat

Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante got just 31.5 percent of the vote. In addition, Republicans are hoping that Governor Schwarzenegger will lend his immense popularity to their legislative campaigns. He is already aiding Stockton Mayor Gary Podesto’s campaign to unseat Democratic Sen. Mike Machado in a moderate Central Valley District. Both political parties also have fresh memories of the landslide victory four years ago of Proposition 22, an initiative defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Proposition 22 not only won 61 percent of the vote statewide but it lost in only six counties, all in the solidly Democratic Bay Area. Even voters in Los Angeles County, traditionally a Democratic stronghold, favored the initiative with a 59 percent majority. Opponents of the Leno bill say it is unconstitutional because it is a legislative attempt to overturn an initiative, something that is forbidden by the state constitution. Mr. Leno agrees with that reading of the constitution but says it does not apply to AB 1967. He says that Proposition 22 deals with the recognition of out-of-state marriages, while his bill

redefines marriages performed in California. For Democratic members from moderate districts, mostly in the Central Valley and inland Southern California, where voters heavily favored Proposition 22, that legal distinction might not make much of a difference with their constituents. These legislators fear that if they vote in favor of AB 1967 and give Leno a victory this summer, they will guarantee their own defeat in the fall. In an interview with Catholic San Francisco soon after he introduced his bill in February, Mr. Leno said he was optimistic about its prospects. This month, the Assemblyman’s office did not reply to Catholic San Francisco’s requests for comments on the outlook now. Last month, the Leno bill sailed through the Assembly Judiciary Committee on a straight party line vote of 8 to 3, with all Democrats voting in favor and all Republicans opposed. Since then, Mr. Leno has had trouble lining up the 41 votes he needs to win a floor battle in the 80-seat assembly. This month, the Democrat-controlled Assembly Appropriations Committee avoided a vote on the bill. Instead, the committee

placed it “on suspense” because of its fiscal impact. The committee cited a Franchise Tax Board estimate that the state would lose about $1 million in income tax revenue each year for every 4,900 same sex couples who would be allowed to file as married couples. According to Appropriation Committee rules, bills on the suspense file will die unless they are approved this week by the committee. Still, a negative vote by the committee might not end the debate over same-sex marriages this year. In the arcane world of the Legislature, the majority party often finds ways of reviving bills that are technically dead. That could happen with AB 1967 if Assemblyman Leno does manage to find 41 votes before September. That still remains unlikely. Even Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez has said that he doubts it will come to a floor vote this year. Although he has spoken favorably of the bill, one of Mr. Nuñez’ key tasks as speaker is ensuring Assembly victories in the fall election. While a Republican takeover is a longshot, leaders of both parties remember that the Republicans beat the odds and won a majority of Assembly seats in 1994.

Bishops’ official calls for recommitment to just educational system lives, and be socially and morally responsible,” it said. In a reformed educational system, it said, parents, teachers, administrators and government policy-makers fully accept their responsibility to students, who are “the central focus of all education.” The bishops also advocated policy decisions that would allow school choice.

By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — On the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation ruling, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ education secretary said the Supreme Court decision should “renew our commitment to a just educational system.” “Without the Brown decision, it is hard to imagine any serious efforts to improve education for all children in the United States,” said Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee, education secretary for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a May 17 statement. She noted that the ruling, with its declaration that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” represented what was a “long-overdue victory” at the time and also shows “how far our nation has come” in the 50 years since it was issued. She said the May 17, 1954, decision — which said that segregation had no valid purpose and was also unconstitutional — “benefits all American children, regardless of race.” Sister McPhee noted that although “many implementation struggles ensued in the years following Brown, and many continue today, the spirit of hope captured in the Brown decision lives on.”

The document also noted the poor academic performance of so many American students and cited “a fundamental lack of education in basic religious, moral and civic values.” It said the U.S. Catholic bishops “want to make a positive and lasting contribution” to local and national discussions on school reform.

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BOSTON — Archbishop Sean P. O’Malley of Boston greeted the arrival of legalized same-sex marriages in Massachusetts with “deep sadness” but reminded Catholics that “our sadness at what has happened should not lead us into anger against or vilification of any group of people, especially our homosexual brothers and sisters.” Hundreds of same-sex couples went to courthouses throughout Massachusetts to get marriage licenses May 17, the day the Supreme Judicial Court ruled the state had to begin granting the licenses to same-sex couples because it found the ban on samesex marriages unconstitutional. “The Catholic Church remains committed to the truth that marriage is a unique bond between a wife and a husband, a bond which is the bedrock and foundation of our families and society,” the archbishop said in a statement. He expressed hope that “at some point in the very near future, our legislators will enact laws to protect the unique benefit to society that the marital bond creates and the good that this bond produces for children.”

Commission report details abuse of international religious freedom WASHINGTON – Release of the annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom caused barely a ripple in the news, despite its details about the deterioration of sometimes deadly conditions worldwide for those who would practice their religion in peace. The May 12 report by the independent governmental commission highlighted problems in 21 countries. They ranged from aggressive government action against religious activity in China, North Korea, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia to a growing climate of official religious intolerance in France and the Indonesian government’s ineffective efforts to stop religion-related violence. Details included Father Thaddeus Nguyen Van Ly was spending his third year in a Vietnamese jail cell as punishment for testifying in the United States about religious freedom restrictions in his country. In Sudan, prison inmates, displaced people and kidnapped children have reportedly been forced to convert to Islam. Meanwhile in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, Muslim religious expression is arbitrarily linked to separatist or terrorist acts and authorities are reported to prohibit teaching of Islam to those under 18.

Review board head says letter got bishops moving on audits WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. bishops’ National Review Board on clergy sexual abuse said May 11 that a letter she wrote to the head of the bishops’ conference March 29 prompted the U.S. bishops to decide they will discuss a second diocesan audit on sexual abuse this June instead of waiting until November. In the sharply worded March letter Justice Anne M. Burke, interim chairwoman of the board, complained

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the board was being “manipulated” as the bishops gave it no notice of their plans to defer decisions until November on a second diocesan abuse audit and a study into the nature and causes of clergy sexual abuse of minors. Burke wrote that the board found it “more than disingenuous” that board members were kept in the dark about the delay plans when board representatives met with the bishops’ Administrative Committee in mid-March, even though the committee voted during that same meeting to defer those questions to the bishops’ November general meeting. Burke told Catholic News Service that her letter led to a change in plans and a decision that the bishops would discuss the second audit in June, when they meet in Denver for what was originally scheduled as a retreat-style gathering devoted entirely to other matters.

Forming leaders cited as key reason church backs Boy Scouts ST. LOUIS — The church has supported the Boy Scouts since the program’s inception in 1910 and will continue to do so because of the group’s commitment to developing and forming future leaders, said Edward Gargiulo, chairman of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting. Bringing the next generation along is the job of the Boy Scouts, he said, calling the organization the “largest voluntary, values-based education program in the United States.” Gargiulo, a mechanical engineer from Wilmington, Del., is finishing a three-year term as chairman of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting. He was in St. Louis for the committee’s 38th biennial conference. The committee is a liaison between the U.S. bishops and the Boy Scouts of America. About 250 people, including the committee’s adviser, Bishop Gerald A. Gettelfinger of Evansville, Ind., and about 40 priests, attended the meeting. The committee represents approximately 9,700 Boy Scout units and their 330,000

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Who are the Catholic voters? A look at Congress gives a clue WASHINGTON — If you want to see the face of the U.S. Catholic voter today, a good place to start might be with the 150 members of the 108th Congress who have identified themselves as Catholics. They are Republicans and Democrats, Latinos and non-Latinos, pro-life and not, anti-war and not, born-again and not, from working-class backgrounds and born into wealth. They are new Americans and those who have lived here for many generations. They are from big cities, the suburbs and rural areas. As in earlier presidential election years, pundits are looking at Catholics as a key swing vote in the 2004 campaign, which features a Catholic candidate atop a major party ticket for the first time since 1960. Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, is one of 14 Catholic Democrats in the Senate, which also includes 10 Catholic Republicans. In the House of Representatives, there are 73 Catholic Democrats and 53 Catholic Republicans. But that does not mean they vote in Congress as a Catholic bloc, and neither do Catholic voters in presidential campaigns.

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Cardinal George urges health care for uninsured CHICAGO — Legislators, health care institutions, business leaders and pastors and parish leaders must work together to fashion policies that will ensure health coverage for all Americans, Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George said in a “Cover the Uninsured Week” message. “By raising our voices collectively, there is a greater chance to bring about the changes needed to provide equal and fair access to basic human health care for all,” the cardinal said in a pastoral statement released May 14. Currently, about 44 million people in the United States have no health insurance. Eight out of 10 uninsured Americans belong to a household in which at least one person works. “In view of this crisis, I join many others today in asking for change in our health care system,” Cardinal George said at a May 14 breakfast for legislators at St. Anthony Hospital in Chicago. “Through prayer, hard work and trust in God and each other, we can make access to health care a reality for all the people of our country.”

Priests urging optional celibacy seen as men who love the church WASHINGTON — Leaders of U.S. priests who recently formed a national advocacy group for optional celibacy are “mainly older men” acting out of love for the church, said Father Robert Silva, president of the National Federation of Priests’ Councils. The group, Priests’ Forum for Eucharist, was formed at a meeting in New York April 20-21 which was attended by 21 priests from 10 dioceses around the country. A week later they issued a press release announcing the formation of the forum and its position. Outlining the growing shortage of priests and its negative impact on weekend Masses in parishes, the group said, “Priests’ Forum for Eucharist sees that the church law of mandatory celibacy is endangering the identity of the Catholic faithful as a people of the Eucharist.” Members of the forum “believe that making celibacy an option for those who wish to become priests or by ordaining those who are already married is an obvious way to alleviate the problems” arising from the priest shortage, the news release said.

Ambassador takes issue with comments on Iraq ROME — U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Jim Nicholson took issue with a Vatican official’s comment that the scandal over Iraqi prisoner abuse was a “more serious blow to the United States than Sept. 11.” The comment by Archbishop Giovanni Lajolo, the Vatican’s leading foreign affairs expert, made headlines and provoked some criticism in the United States. Speaking to Catholic News Service May 14, Nicholson said Archbishop Lajolo was “entitled to say what he wants,” but suggested the archbishop should be careful “when speculating about the reactions of the American people.” Most Americans believe the sol-

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Bosnian church leader on Nobel nomination OXFORD, England (CNS) — A Catholic leader in Bosnia-Herzegovina said the nomination of a Bosnian bishop for the Nobel Peace Prize will bring attention to the “country’s unresolved problems.” Bishop Franjo Komarica of Banja Luka received the nomination from the Sarajevobased International League of Humanists. “At a time when Bosnians feel forgotten alongside events in Kosovo and Iraq, this initiative will alert people of good will to our country’s unresolved problems,” said Msgr. Mato Zovkic, vicar general of the Sarajevo Archdiocese. Msgr. Zovkic told Catholic News Service that the nomination, which came from an ethnically diverse group with backing from Orthodox and Muslim leaders, was “a significant ecumenical development.” Msgr. Zovkic, cochairman of Bosnia’s Interreligious Council, said the bishop had won respect from Serbs and Muslims for his defense of human rights.

Church must promote dialogue, pope says VATICAN CITY — As the populations of many communities become more marked by religious and cultural pluralism, the Catholic Church must step up its efforts to promote dialogue, Pope John Paul II said. Dialogue is a religious as well as a social obligation, he told mem-

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Changes prompt Vatican to update guidelines on care of migrants By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The vast scale and changing face of today’s people on the move prompted the Vatican to update its guidelines on the pastoral care of migrants. The Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers released the document, “Erga Migrantes Caritas Christi” (“The Love of Christ Toward Migrants”), May 14 at the Vatican. The 80-page instruction comes 35 years after Pope Paul VI’s “Pastoralis Migratorum Cura” put forth the church’s basic guidelines concerning the care of immigrants, refugees and people on the move. “The instruction aims to be an ecclesial response to the new pastoral needs of migrants, to lead us to turn migration into an occasion for dialogue and mission, in a sign of the new evangelization,” said Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, the council’s secretary. At a Vatican press conference May 14, Archbishop Marchetto said migrants today number more than 200 million people, representing “the largest movement of peoples of all times.” The vast number and the diverse religious traditions of today’s migrants prompted the council to revise some of its responses and reaffirm its principles concerning how the church should address the needs of today’s newcomers. The document makes specific mention of how the

church can work with Eastern- and Latin-rite immigrants as well as Muslims. “The uprooting that moving abroad inevitably involves (from country of origin, family, language, etc.) should not be made worse by uprooting the migrant from his religious (tradition) or identity, too,” the document said. “Where there are faithful of a different rite, the diocesan bishop should provide for their spiritual needs either through priests or parishes of that rite or through an episcopal vicar endowed with the necessary faculties,” it said, citing a decree of the Second Vatican Council. In regard to the growing numbers of Muslim immigrants to predominantly Christian nations, the document reiterated Vatican II’s call “for a purification of memory regarding past misunderstandings, to cultivate common values and to clarify and respect diversity, but without renouncing Christian principles.” But it also gave a clear warning against mixed marriages and against making churches or chapels available as places of worship to other faiths. “To avoid misunderstandings and confusion, and considering the religious diversity that we mutually recognize, and out of respect for sacred places and the religion of the other, too, we do not consider it opportune for Christian churches, chapels or places of worship ... to be made available for members of non-Christian religions,” the document said.

“With regard to marriage between Catholics and nonChristian migrants, this should be discouraged,” it said. But the document pays particular attention to marriage between a Catholic woman and a Muslim man. “Bitter experience teaches us that a particularly careful and in-depth preparation is called for,” it said. The importance of dialogue, however, was a common thread running throughout the new text. Migration “helps people get to know one another and provides opportunity for dialogue and communion or indeed integration at various levels,” it said. Father Michael Blume, the council’s undersecretary, said that “dialogue and evangelization are not opposites.” Past pastoral experience has taught the church “that when migrants feel understood and at ease, they become part of the community more easily and they enrich it,” he said. The instruction urged proper formation in the lay faithful to understand their own faith’s teachings as well as those of other religions. It advocated the creation of a culture of “welcome and solidarity” that overcomes fears and erases prejudices that keep people from seeing the face of Christ in “the stranger.” “The church, sacrament of unity, overcomes ideological or racial barriers and divisions and proclaims to all people and all cultures the need to strive for the truth in the perspective of correctly facing differences by dialogue and mutual acceptance,” it said.

Experts say efforts to heal from sexual abuse crisis just beginning By Julie Sly Catholic News Service SANTA CLARA, Calif. — A member of the U.S. bishops’ National Review Board on clergy sexual abuse said May 14 that if the bishops do not proceed this year with a second diocesan audit on sexual abuse “it will be clearly seen all across the country as an additional sign of retreat that will seriously undermine their effort to restore trust.” Leon Panetta, former White House chief of staff to President Clinton, said in an address at Santa Clara University that the board is concerned about the recent move by more than two dozen bishops to postpone the planned 2004 audits and to reconsider other aspects of the “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.” The clergy sex abuse crisis “is not a legal crisis, not a media crisis, not a personnel crisis,” he said. “It is truly a crisis of trust and faith. If it persists and if bishops basically try to push this aside and hope the problem will go away by itself, then ultimately trust in our faith will continue to be eroded.” Panetta was among two dozen experts on clergy sexual abuse — theologians, psychologists, abuse victims, journalists and clergy — who convened for a conference titled “Sins Against the Innocents: Sexual Abuse by Priests and the Role of the Catholic Church.” The conference was designed to shed light on the current status of the church’s sex abuse scandal. Most of the speakers at the conference contributed essays to a just-published book of the same name that was edited by Thomas Plante, professor of psychology at Santa Clara University and clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Stanford University. In his address, Panetta also urged the bishops to be “more transparent and have an openness to greater participation by the laity” in all church structures. He contended that, if bishops govern “not by crisis but by leadership, trust can be restored and the church will be stronger.” Kathleen McChesney, executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Office of Child and Youth Protection, told about

250 conference participants that the sexual abuse crisis and the church’s effort to regain the trust of parishioners are not over and that audit compliance must continue. “I think we are at the beginning, just the beginning,” she said. “We know the impact of the often-repeated acts of abuse on children, the impact on their families, the discouragement of the laity, the economic costs to the church and the erosion of the church’s moral authority.” She said victims of sexual abuse are the “most important subgroup” in the current crisis. “Some are healed, some are on the way, some are irrevocably broken,” she said. “They have shown incredible courage. They have spoken out like never before. They have supported one another. They have educated the rest of the world and the church to what has happened. And they have worked toward healing, reconciliation and prevention.” McChesney said she “fully expects” her office to be directed by the bishops to undertake a second audit of dioceses this year and predicted that the matter would be resolved when the bishops meet in Denver in June. During a panel discussion on ethics, church governance and sexuality, Dominican Father Thomas Doyle, a canon lawyer who has been involved with helping sex abuse victims for the past 20 years, called for a “radical change” in church structure and governance. “The good of the church has meant protecting the governmental system — the power, prestige and security of the bishops,” he said. “But what the (good of the) church should really mean is protecting the most vulnerable and those who have been harmed and cannot take care of themselves. It should mean due process for all those who have a right to due process, not just for those whom it will benefit in the short run.” Father Doyle urged bishops to “stop playing hardball” and personally apologize to sexual abuse victims and their families. Jesuit Father Thomas Rausch, a theology professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, said the

sexual abuse scandal has shown how little input lay people actually have in decision-making processes in the church. While “the vast majority of Catholics” have remained loyal to the church, “many of them have sensed that something is seriously amiss,” he said. “More lay people are becoming aware that there are no institutional checks and balances that allow them some say in how authority is exercised at all levels.” At a press conference, Father Rausch added that there is “room for considerable change” in the way diocesan bishops are appointed. “There are ways in which you can get input from the bottom, where the laity and clergy and bishops are solicited for suggestions and for an analysis of what kind of bishop is needed when a see becomes vacant,” he said. “The way it’s being done now is a bad system because it allows almost no (input) from local churches or even the hierarchy in the United States.” Nannette deFuentes, a victim of clergy sexual abuse and a Los Angeles-area psychologist, said potential candidates for the priesthood should undergo rigorous psychiatric exams and counseling to prepare them for a life of celibacy. She said she is hopeful the sexual abuse crisis in the United States will usher in broad reform, including investigations into clergy sexual abuse in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Plante, who also edited a 1999 book on clergy sexual abuse titled “Bless Me Father for I Have Sinned,” said he still believes the sex scandal peaked a few decades ago. Media scrutiny, civil and criminal court cases, and better screening and training of priests reduce the likelihood of more clergy becoming molesters, he said.

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The event was sponsored by the Harvard Forum on Religion and Ecology, a program led by a Catholic couple, Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, who teach at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. They organized the symposium to spotlight the Jewish, Christian and Islamic volumes in a series of books produced after the couple initiated the convening of 10 conferences between 1996 and 1998 on the relation of ecology to 10 of the world’s religious traditions. Sister Johnson, a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, said the volume on “Christianity and Ecology” showed in a scholarly way how ecology was connected with “the heart of what people really believe, with the way they actually pray and practice their religion.” According to the doctrine of creation, God calls the created heavens and earth good, and the divine Spirit continues to dwell “within the world, enlivening it,” she said. “God is at home here, as are we.” In reference to the doctrine of incarnation, Sister Johnson said God was “no longer satisfied to be with us in word and Spirit only, but becomes one of us in the flesh.” The ministry of Jesus includes “feeding hungry bod-

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May 21, 2004

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Address of the Holy Father to the Bishops of California, Nevada and Hawaii Dear Brother Bishops, 1. “God who is rich in mercy, out of great love ..., made us alive together with Christ” (Eph 2:4-5). With these words of Saint Paul I warmly welcome you, the Bishops of the Church in California, Nevada and Hawaii, on the occasion of your visit ad limina Apostolorum. Continuing my reflection on the munus sanctificandi of Bishops, I wish to reflect on the call to a profound conversion of heart and mind, essential to the new impetus in Christian living to which I have invited the whole Church. I am confident that a commitment to ongoing purification and deep renewal will bring about a greater appreciation of the Church’s sanctifying mission and embolden her prophetic witness to American society and the world. 2. Every member of the Church is a pilgrim along the path of personal sanctification. Through baptism the believer enters into the holiness of God himself, being incorporated into Christ and made a dwelling place of his Spirit. But holiness is not only a gift. It is also a task, intrinsic and essential to discipleship, which shapes the whole of Christian life (cf. Novo Millennio Ineunte, 30). Impelled by the Lord’s explicit teaching – “this is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Th 4:3) – the community of believers rightly grows in the awareness that it is holiness which best expresses the mystery of the Church (cf. Novo Millennio Ineunte, 7) and which stirs the desire to give “striking witness” (Lumen Gentium, 39). As Bishops you must be at the forefront of this spiritual journey of sanctification. Your episcopal ministry of ecclesial service, marked by your personal quest for holiness and your vocation to sanctify others, is a participation in Jesus’ own ministry and directed towards the building up of his Church. It demands a pattern of life that unequivocally rejects any temptation to ostentation, careerism, or the recourse to secular models of leadership and instead requires you to bear witness to the kenosis of Christ, in pastoral charity, humility and simplicity of life (cf. The Code of Canon Law, c. 387; Ecclesia in America, 28). Walking in the presence of the Lord, you will grow in a holiness lived with and for your priests and people, inspiring in them the desire to embrace the high standards of Christian life and guiding them along the footsteps of Christ. 3. The credibility of the Church’s proclamation of the Good News is intimately linked to the commitment of her members to personal sanctification. The Church is always in need of purification and so she must constantly follow the path of penance and renewal (cf. Lumen Gentium, 8). The Father’s will that all believers be sanctified is amplified by the Son’s fundamental exhortation: “Repent, and believe in the gospel” (Mk 1:15). Just as Peter boldly echoed this imperative at Pentecost (cf. Acts 2:38), you are charged with heralding a kerygmatic call to conversion and penance, proclaiming the boundless mercy of God, and inviting everyone to experience the call to reconciliation and hope at the heart of the Gospel (cf. Pastores Gregis, 39). The courage to face the crisis of the loss of the sense of sin, to which I alerted the whole Church early in my Pontificate (cf. Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, 18), must be addressed today with particular urgency. While the effects of sin abound – greed, dishonesty and corruption, broken relationships and exploitation of persons, pornography and violence – the recognition of individual sinfulness has waned. In its place a disturbing culture of blame and litigiousness has arisen which speaks

Archbishop William J. Levada and San Francisco Auxiliary Bishops John C. Wester and Ignatius C. Wang in Rome.

more of revenge than justice and fails to acknowledge that in every man and woman there is a wound which, in the light of faith, we call original sin (cf. ibid., 2). Saint John tells us: “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves” (1 Jn 1:8). Sin is an integral part of the truth about the human person. To recognize oneself as a sinner is the first and essential step in returning to the healing love of God. Given this reality, the Bishop’s duty to indicate the sad and destructive presence of sin, both in individuals and in communities, is in fact a service of hope. Far from being something negative, it strengthens believers to abandon evil and embrace the perfection of love and the fullness of Christian life. Let us boldly announce that indeed we are not the sum total of our weaknesses and failures! We are the sum of the Father’s love for us, and capable of becoming the image of his Son!

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San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada, Los Angeles Archbishop Roger Cardinal Mahony and the bishops of California, Hawaii, and Nevada join together with the Holy Father on the last day of their ‘ad limina’ visit May 14. At left, Cardinal Mahony applauds Pope John Paul II who celebrates his 84th birthday May 18. (CNS PHOTO FROM CATHOLIC PRESS PHOTO)

4. The lasting peace and harmony so longed for by individuals, families and society can only be won through that conversion which is a fruit of mercy and constituent of genuine reconciliation. As Bishops you have the difficult yet satisfying duty of promoting the true Christian understanding of reconciliation. Perhaps no story better illustrates the profound drama of metanoia than the parable of the Prodigal Son, upon which I have elsewhere commented at length (cf. Dives in Misericordia, 5-6). The prodigal son is in a certain sense all men and women. We all can be lured by the temptation to separate ourselves from the Father and thus suffer loss of dignity, humiliation and shame, but equally so we all can have the courage to turn back to the Father who embraces us with a love which, transcending even justice, manifests itself as mercy. Christ, who reveals the abounding mercy of God, demands the same of us, even when confronted with grievous sin. Indeed mercy “constitutes the fundamental content of the messianic message of Christ and the constitutive power of his mission” (ibid., 6) and thus can never be set aside in the name of pragmatism. It is precisely the father’s fidelity to the merciful love proper to him as a father that sees him restore the filial relationship of his son who “was lost and is found” (Lk 15:32). As pastors of your flock it is with this merciful love – never a mere sense of favor – that you too must “reach down to every prodigal son, to every human misery, and above all to every form of moral misery, to sin” (Dives in Misericordia, 6). In this way you will draw good from evil, restore life from death, revealing anew the authentic face of the Father’s mercy so necessary in our times. 5. Dear Brothers, I particularly wish to encourage you in your promotion of the Sacrament of Penance. As a divinely instituted means by which the Church offers the pastoral activity of reconciliation, it is “the only ordinary way for the faithful to reconcile themselves with God and the Church” (Catechism of the Catholic

Church, 1484). Though it cannot be denied that the profound power of this Sacrament is often considered today with indifference it is also the case that young people in particular readily give testimony to the graces and transforming benefits it bestows. Strengthened by this encouraging message I again appeal directly to you and to your priests: arm yourselves with more confidence, creativity and perseverance in presenting it and leading people to appreciate it (cf. Novo Millennio Ineunte, 37). Time spent in the confessional is time spent in service of the spiritual patrimony of the Church and the salvation of souls (cf. Reconciliatio et Paenitentia, 29). As Bishops, it is of special importance for you to have frequent recourse to the Sacrament of Reconciliation in order to obtain the gift of that mercy of which you yourselves have been made ministers (cf. Pastores Gregis, 13 ). Since you are called to show forth the face of the Good Shepherd, and therefore to have the heart of Christ himself, you more than others must make your own the Psalmist’s ardent cry: “A pure heart create for me, O God, put a steadfast spirit within me” (Ps 51:12). Sanctified by the graces received in your regular reception of the sacrament, I am confident that you will encourage your brother priests and indeed all the faithful to discover anew the full beauty of this sacrament. 6. With fraternal affection I share these reflections with you and assure you of my prayers as you seek to make the sanctifying and reconciling mission of the Church ever more appreciated and recognizable in your ecclesial and civic communities. The message of hope which you proclaim to a world often fraught with sinfulness and division will not fail to evoke fresh fervor and a renewed zeal for Christian life! With these sentiments I commend you to Mary, the Mother of Jesus, in whom is effected the reconciliation of God with humanity. I gladly impart to you and to the priests, deacons, Religious, and lay faithful of your Dioceses my Apostolic Blessing.

‘Ad limina’ visits a time for prayer, dialogue, encouragement and hope San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada joined with other bishops from California, Nevada and Hawaii in making an “ad limina” visit to the Vatican May 9-15. The Archdiocese of San Francisco contingent also included retired Archbishop John R. Quinn, Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester and Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang. During their visit, the bishops from California, Nevada and Hawaii met privately with Pope John Paul II, held joint meetings with the Vatican congregations and concelebrated Masses at the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul. The visits are made every five years, and their name comes from the Latin phrase “ad limina apostolorum” (to the threshold of the apostles), a reference to the pilgrimage to the tombs the bishops are required to make. There were no such visits in the Jubilee Year 2000, so U.S. bishops are making their first “ad limina” visits since 1998. The San Francisco Metropolitan Province is headed by Archbishop Levada, while Cardinal Roger M. Mahony is head of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Province.

The “ad limina” by California, Nevada and Hawaii bishops follows similar visits, which began earlier this year, by bishops from around the United States. In speaking to bishops from Michigan and Ohio the prior week, Pope John Paul II said bishops must love, listen to, support and correct the priests in their dioceses. “As a spiritual father and brother to his priests, the bishop should do everything in his power to encourage them in fidelity to their vocation and to the demands of leading a life worthy of the calling they have received,” the pope told the bishops May 6. During an earlier “ad limina” this year, Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore said, “our job is to help those in the Holy See to understand better what is happening in the United States.” The bishops also use the opportunity to listen to Vatican concerns, get input from a universal perspective and express “our gratitude for the clear teachings and principles that always guide us,” the cardinal said.

Cardinal Mahony’s remarks to pope during ‘ad limina’ visit By Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Here is the text of Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony’s remarks to Pope John Paul II May 14 during the “ad limina” visits of the bishops of California, Nevada and Hawaii. The region includes two Metropolitan Sees; San Francisco and Los Angeles. Cardinal Mahony spoke as senior prelate of the region: The bishops who serve the church on the Pacific Coast of the United States are pleased to have this opportunity to gather with you and to reconfirm our bonds of collegiality, fraternity and fidelity. Since our last “ad limina apostolorum” meeting with you in 1998 we have experienced many challenges as bishops of our particular churches. We continue to witness increased ethnic diversity among our Catholic faithful since our churches serve as the point of entry to the United States for both the Asia-Pacific region as well as Latin America. Newly arrived immigrants constitute a greater majority among our parishioners. The rapid growth of our Catholic communities is heartening for the church in our region, but the increase in our Catholic population far outdistances the number of priests we have available to serve them. Providing adequate numbers of priests to celebrate Sunday Eucharist and to serve as pastors of parishes remains a daunting challenge for us. We are all deeply concerned about this imbalance, and we welcome your wisdom and guidance in meeting this challenge for our particular churches.

We have all felt the shame, sorrow and disillusionment realizing that some priests in past years sexually abused children and young people. This betrayal of their priestly commitments has embarrassed and saddened our Catholic people, our faithful and devoted priests, and each of us bishops. We continue to reach out to victims of such sinful behavior with pastoral and spiritual care. These efforts will demand our prayers and efforts for years to come. You have given us great encouragement in “Pastores Gregis” as you told us: “If we must say that a bishop is never alone, inasmuch as he is always united to the Father through the Son in the Holy Spirit, we must also add that he is also never alone because he is always and continuously united with his brothers in the episcopate and with the one whom the Lord has chosen as successor of Peter” (par. 8). Holy Father, we come to you, the vicar of Christ, to hear those same words spoken by Jesus to Peter: “I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers” (Lk 22:32). In turn, we promise you our prayerful support, and we reaffirm our filial obedience. May we also extend to your holiness our best wishes as you celebrate your birthday next week. May the Virgin Mary, mother of the church and queen of the apostles, “obtain for us the grace never to fail in the task of love which Christ has entrusted to us” (PG, par. 74).

Catholic San Francisco

May 21, 2004

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‘I am the light of the world’ At this time of graduation for many Catholic students, these comments by Pope John Paul II, excerpted from his 2002 Youth Day homily, serve as an inspiration for young people and Catholics of any age. “You are the salt of the earth...”. One of the main functions of salt is to season food, to give it taste and flavor. This image reminds us that, through Baptism, our whole being has been profoundly changed, because it has been “seasoned” with the new life which comes from Christ (Rom 6:4). The salt which keeps our Christian identity intact even in a very secularized world is the grace of Baptism. Through Baptism we are re-born. We begin to live in Christ and become capable of responding to his call to “offer [our] bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God” (Rom 12:1). Writing to the Christians of Rome, Saint Paul urges them to show clearly that their way of living and thinking was different from that of their contemporaries: “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect” (Rom 12:2). For a long time, salt was also used to preserve food. As the salt of the earth, you are called to preserve the faith which you have received and to pass it on intact to others. Your generation is being challenged in a special way to keep safe the deposit of faith. Discover your Christian roots, learn about the Church’s history, deepen your knowledge of the spiritual heritage which has been passed on to you, follow in the footsteps of the witnesses and teachers who have gone before you! Only by staying faithful to God’s commandments, to the Covenant which Christ sealed with his blood poured out on the Cross, will you be the apostles and witnesses of the new millennium. It is the nature of human beings, and especially youth, to seek the Absolute, the meaning and fullness of life. Dear young people, do not be content with anything less than the highest ideals! Do not let yourselves be dispirited by those who are disillusioned with life and have grown deaf to the deepest and most authentic desires of their heart. You are right to be disappointed with hollow entertainment and passing fads, and with aiming at too little in life. If you have an ardent desire for the Lord you will steer clear of the mediocrity and conformism so widespread in our society. “You are the light of the world...”. For those who first heard Jesus, as for us, the symbol of light evokes the desire for truth and the thirst for the fullness of knowledge which are imprinted deep within every human being. When the light fades or vanishes altogether, we no longer see things as they really are. In the heart of the night we can feel frightened and insecure, and we impatiently await the coming of the light of dawn. Dear young people, it is up to you to be the watchmen of the morning (Is 21:11-12) who announce the coming of the sun who is the Risen Christ! The light which Jesus speaks of in the Gospel is the light of faith, God’s free gift, which enlightens the heart and clarifies the mind. “It is the God who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness’, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God on the face of Christ” (2 Cor 4:6). That is why the words of Jesus explaining his identity and his mission are so important: “I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (Jn 8:12). Our personal encounter with Christ bathes life in new light, sets us on the right path, and sends us out to be his witnesses. This new way of looking at the world and at people, which comes to us from him, leads us more deeply into the mystery of faith, which is not just a collection of theoretical assertions to be accepted and approved by the mind, but an experience to be had, a truth to be lived, the salt and light of all reality (Veritatis Splendor, 88). In this secularized age, when many of our contemporaries think and act as if God did not exist or are attracted to irrational forms of religion, it is you, dear young people, who must show that faith is a personal decision which involves your whole life. Let the Gospel be the measure and guide of life’s decisions and plans! Then you will be missionaries in all that you do and say, and wherever you work and live you will be signs of God’s love, credible witnesses to the loving presence of Jesus Christ.

Abetting abettors Cardinal Roger Mahony is quoted (CSF – 5/14) as saying he was “slightly mystified why all this (concern for Catholic politicians receiving Communion while publicly supporting abortion ) is coming up now,” since Roe vs. Wade occurred over 30 years ago. I think the faithful have finally given up waiting for signs of leadership from his and similar offices. His consideration of the communicant’s conscience is understandable for the average individual, but he fails, as many recent writers on the subject have, to recognize the power that elected officials have in encouraging the wholesale killing of our children. He is quoted as saying “the politicians themselves are not going in for abortions; it’s women themselves, so that’s the group we need to influence.” The politician’s role in publicly supporting the concept of abortion “rights” amounts to directly abetting and facilitating the basic crime on a much larger scale, surely a far worse offense than that in the heart of a misguided, distraught girl. The public support of such abettors to these crimes by Church leaders makes them also accomplices. Very similarly, when the spiritual leader of the City’s prominent Catholic university has an errant Catholic public official as Commencement speaker, one who has just recently assaulted Church principles so vociferously, he also acts to abet and encourage the basic anti-Catholic practice. G.P. Heckert San Mateo

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He’s been educated Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles (CSF – 5/14) said, roughly, apropos of his meeting with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry: “that education on abortion is more effective than sanctions.” This is a little naive, if not disingenuous. First, sanctions are a form of education. Second, John Kerry has already been educated on the subject of abortion. As a young vet returning from Vietnam, he was on record as opposing it. His education began as he began to climb through the ranks of the Democratic party in Massachusetts. He quickly learned that if you don’t support legalized abortion everywhere, all the time, for whatever reason, you’re not going anywhere in the Democratic party. In other words, support abortion or face the consequences, which is another way of saying: sanctions. Judging from his voting record, he’s earned a PhD. Certainly, we must hope that all people are educated on the subject of abortion. But a Catholic Cardinal, above all people, should know that it is quite possible for a person to be very well educated on a given subject, and still deliberately choose an evil course. Sen. Kerry does not need any more education he needs to change his voting. Church sanctions may help that to happen. Gibbons J. Cooney San Francisco

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In his letter (CSF – 5/14) concerning Boxer’s (sic) personal conscience, Fr. Malloy writes, “Eucharist is not a right, but a privilege to those in good conscience.” The Eucharist is about neither right nor privilege. It is an invitation from Jesus Christ, an invitation He extended most often to sinners. Moreover, the definition of “good” conscience does not necessarily include “being in communion with the Catholic Church,” or following those bishops “who are in agreement with” papal teachings. Check out Aquinas on that - he’s quite clear. Then, as I read the feature on Marin Catholic’s Religion Department, I wondered where the students are getting such notions that their “spiritual questions need to be answered by a person of authority” identified in this article as a priest. I would presume that all religion teachers at Marin Catholic and other Catholic high schools are well trained in their field, many master degrees and even M.Div’s. Our students must come to understand that the knowledge, the wisdom, and the right to speak with great and learned authority on spiritual questions can be held by readers of this paper, by lay teachers, and hopefully in the future, by the students themselves. So it was with relief, then, that I read both Cardinal Mahony’s reminder that “Efforts to educate people about the immorality of abortion is more effective than imposing sanctions” and Deacon George Salinger’s letter reminding us that the 5th Commandment also applies to the outcasts of society, not just “innocent fetuses.” Where are the US bishops’ cries against Catholic employees of San Quentin and other prisons who are direct participants in the death penalty? Silence. Mary Ahlbach San Francisco Ed. Note: (1) In his letter, Fr. Malloy refers to Congresswoman Pelosi, not Senator

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Boxer. Fr. Malloy noted that Congresswoman Pelosi had said, “I fully intend to receive communion one way or the other.” The priest then wrote, “To approach the Eucharistic table anytime you attend Mass is not a right but a privilege, and the privilege is reserved to those of good conscience in communion with the Catholic Church.” (2) The story about Marin Catholic High School was not about its Religion Department. The comment, “priests have insights that lay teachers would not necessarily possess,” was made by a student. The comment does not ignore the unique perspectives of lay people. (3) Deacon Salinger’s letter begins, “Thank you to Archbishop Levada for his courage in standing up to those who would seek the death penalty in the murder of Officer Espinoza.” (4) Mary Ahlbach is head of the Religion Department at St. Ignatius High School.

Send a message Thank you Rev. John J. Malloy, S.D.B. (letters – 5/14) for giving a clear and concise answer to those who feel abortion should be left to one’s conscience. I have often wondered how people can vote into office a Catholic candidate that supports choice. I feel that every time an abortion is performed, those who voted for the “Pro-Choice” candidate bear on their souls part of the blame for the murder of that innocent child. As a Catholic who believes abortion is a grave injustice and sin, I vote for and support people in public office who are against infanticide. I urge my fellow believers to do the same. Perhaps we can send these lawmakers a loud message. Donna K. Mani Novato

Been done before Why all the fuss in the for-profit press over Bishop Michael Sheridan wanting to deny Communion to abortion backers? Four letters blasting the bishop appeared in the letters column of the Chronicle on May 17. Not one letter supported the bishop. There even was a picture of Sheridan - in case one meets him on the street and can tell him off? Earlier this month the Chronicle carried a double-barreled Open Forum blast that defended Catholic politicians who fail to live church teachings. Obviously, Fox News does not have a monopoly on journalism that is “fair and balanced.” There is nothing new here, except abortion is involved this time. Archbishop Joseph Rummel of New Orleans excommunicated four lay people and the local political boss in 1962 because they supported racial segregation. If I recall correctly, LETTERS, page 19

May 21, 2004

Catholic San Francisco

The Catholic Difference Amidst the myriad canonizations and beatifications proclaimed by Pope John Paul II, some have involved exceptionally dramatic lives. Think of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, the Franciscan martyr of charity who offered his life in the starvation bunker at Auschwitz to save the father of a family. Or Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), the brilliant philosopher and proto-feminist who rediscovered her ancestors’ faith in the God of Abraham through Catholicism. Blessed Miguel Pro, S.J., shot by a firing squad of violent anti-clericals during the Mexican Cristero uprising in 1927, was perhaps the first martyr in history to have had the moment of his death photographed. And then there is Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who lived a different kind of drama – the drama of intense spiritual purification, revealed only after her death when we learned from her spiritual diaries of her prolonged, agonizing “dark night” of the soul. Now, on May 16, God has given the Church another heroic model for our times, in the newly canonized Saint Gianna Beretta Molla. Born near Milan in 1922, Giovanna Francesca Beretta began medical studies at the University of Milan in 1942, transferring to the University of Pavia in 1945; there, she graduated in medicine and surgery in 1949. In 1952, she received a specialist’s certificate in pediatrics. During a medical practice involving extensive volunteer service to the poor, Gianna Beretta met Pietro Molla, an engineer, whom she married in 1955. Gianna and Pietro’s correspondence reveals a couple who believed that marriage was their way, together, to

sanctity. Their family, they hoped, would be a “little cenacle where Jesus may reign over all affections, desires and actions,” as Gianna wrote Pietro. Three children were born in the first years of their marriage. Then, in 1962, after a series of miscarriages, Gianna began another pregnancy. Toward the end of her second month, Gianna started experiencing sharp pains; the diagnosis was a fibrous tumor in the ovary. A knowledgeable physician, Gianna knew the options: surgical procedures that would, directly or indirectly, take the life of her unborn child, or removal of the tumor in such a way that the pregnancy was saved, despite the ongoing risk to her life. She unhesitatingly made the choice for her child, the tumor was removed, and the risky pregnancy continued. Shortly before her delivery, she repeated her decision to her doctor: “If you have to choose, there should be no doubt. Choose – I demand it – the life of the baby. Save the baby.” On April 21, 1962, Gianna Emanuela Molla was born. A week later, Gianna Beretta Molla died from multiple complications involved in carrying her fourth child to term and giving her birth. Gianna was laid out in the family living room, her children’s playroom, so that the enormous crowds of people whom she had served as a physician could pay their respects. After the funeral Mass, her casket, covered with the red roses long associated with the gift of one’s life to Christ, was carried to the cemetery as Pietro, holding the hands of the two older children, walked behind. Gianna Beretta Molla was beatified by Pope John Paul II on

April 24, 1994; Gianna Emanuela, for whom Gianna had died, helped carry the offertory gifts to the Pope. Fittingly enough, the miracle confirming Gianna Beretta Molla’s heroic sanctity involved a George Weigel difficult pregnancy successfully carried to term through the new saint’s intercession. In a world rife with confusions about the meaning of womanhood and the distinctive qualities of the feminine, Saint Gianna Beretta Molla exemplifies the unique heroism of women and women’s distinctive vocation to love. Beyond her special importance for women, mothers, and those living the vocation of marriage, Saint Gianna is a message for all of us. The Church celebrates her new saint at a cultural moment when “choice” rarely means self-gift – making our lives the gift to others than our own lives are to us. Saint Gianna Beretta Molla made a choice: a choice for love, even unto death, because she knew that “choice” in the truly human sense means freely choosing the good. May her prayers at the Throne of Grace strengthen us in living and defending the Gospel of life. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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‘Friends’ and the world beyond A few weeks ago, along with about 52 million or so others, I watched the last episode of the long running sitcom “Friends.” I had enjoyed the show over the years, and was curious to see how they would “wrap it all up”. One of the story lines involved the characters of married couple Monica and Chandler. They were in a hospital room, attending the birth of the baby they were going to adopt. I was surprised at how the birthmother was portrayed. She was characterized as an “airhead”, “religious”, and apparently unfeeling, teenager. When Chandler asked her what she would do for the summer, she replied “Bible Camp.” Chandler responds, “You’d better not mention this.” When Monica reverently tells her they are going to name one of the twin babies “Erica”, the birthmother replies, “Oh my gosh, that’s my name!” apparently not understanding that that was why Monica and Chandler had chosen it. And when it was time to say goodbye, tears were bare-

ly shed. “We’ll call you!” Monica called after Erica as she was wheeled out of the room. Upon reflection, I see that this is “just a TV show,” and that they didn’t want the last episode to be a “downer” or be too heavy. But I also realize that a generation of people grew up with the “Friends,” faithfully watching their 10-year long run. I know that people consider the “Friends” to be their friends, and there is something admirable about the persistence of commitment shown by these six people to each other. However, with the show’s emphasis on the dynamics of the core friendship, major milestones in the character’s individual lives can sometimes be trivialized making the rest of the show seem less real. So I couldn’t help but compare this adoption situation with my own experience from real life. Some of the things are similar: two eager, expectant, nervous people, wanting with all their hearts to become parents; a woman in a hospital bed; and a beautiful newborn baby. But that is where the similarities abruptly end. The birthmother in this case was not an “airhead”, she was not a teenager,

and she did not give up her baby for religious reasons. Are the writers of “Friends” trying to tell us that a loving, caring, intelligent woman would not give up her baby for adoption? Is the underlying message that an intelligent Lynn Smith woman would have had an abortion? If so, I for one reject this message. I know that a loving, caring, intelligent woman can make the agonizing, sacrificial decision to give her baby up for adoption. I know because she placed her baby in my arms and made me a mother. Lynn Smith is a parishioner at St. Monica Parish and is mother of a three year old boy.

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A spirituality of not hurrying “Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.” Thoreau wrote that and it’s not meant as something trivial. We hurry too much, pure and simple. As Henri Nouwen describes it: “One of the most obvious characteristics of our daily lives is that we are busy. We experience our days as filled with things to do, people to meet, projects to finish, letters to write, calls to make, and appointments to keep. Our lives often seem like over-packed suitcases bursting at the seams. In fact, we are almost always aware of being behind schedule. There is a nagging sense that there are unfinished tasks, unfulfilled promises, unrealized proposals. There is always something else that we should have remembered, done, or said. There are always people we did not speak to, write to, or visit. Thus, although we are very busy, we also have a lingering feeling of never really fulfilling our obligation.” We are always hurrying. What’s wrong with hurrying? Any doctor, police officer, spiritual director, or overworked mother can answer that. Hurrying causes tension, high blood pressure, accidents, and robs us of the simple capacity to be in the moment. But spiritual writers take this further. They see hurry as an obstacle to spiritual growth. Donald Nicholl, for example, says: “Hurry is a form of violence exercised upon time,” an attempt, as it were, to make God’s time our own, our private property. What he and others suggest is that, in hurrying, we exercise a form of greed and gluttony. How so? Too often we have a rather simplistic notion of greed and gluttony. We imagine greed, for example, as hoarding money and possessions, as being selfish, hard-hearted, like Scrooge in the Dickens Christmas tale. Indeed, that kind of greed exists,

though it’s not the prerogative of many. For most of us, greed takes a different, more subtle form. More than money, we hoard experience. We try to drink in the world, all of it. We would like to travel to every place, see everything, feel every sensation, not miss out on anything. We constantly hurry what we’re doing so as to be available to do something else. We try to juggle too many things at the same time precisely because we want too many things. The possessions we really want are experience, knowledge, sensation, achievement, status. We’re greedy in a way Scrooge never was. Gluttony works essentially the same. For most of us, the urge to consume is not so much about food or drink, but about experience. Our propensity to overeat (particularly in an age that is so sensitive to health and fashion) generally has little to do with food and infinitely more to do with other kinds of consumption. We are always in a hurry because we are forever restless to taste more of life. It’s this kind of hurry, subtly driven by greed and gluttony, that can be a form of violence exercised upon time and can constitute an obstacle to holiness. But there are other kinds of hurry that come from simple circumstance and duty. Almost every one of us, at least during our working years, has too many things to do. Daily, we struggle to juggle the demands of relationships, family, work, school, church, and countless other things that eat up more time than is seemingly available. The Gospels tell us that even Jesus was so busy at times that he didn’t have time to eat. That’s not surprising. Robert Moore once said that the mark of a true adult is that “he or she does what it takes.”

Sometimes that means being stretched to the limit, being overextended, having to juggle too many things all at once, driving faster than we’d like, working to the point of exhaustion, even as there is Father still more that we Ron Rolheiser should ideally be doing. There’s a hurriedness that doesn’t come from greed or gluttony and that can’t be dismissed with the simplistic judgment: “That’s what she gets for trying to have it all!” Sometimes we have to hurry just to make do, and simple circumstance and duty eat up every available minute of our time. That’s not necessarily an obstacle to holiness, but can be one of its paths. Still, we have to be careful not to rationalize. God didn’t make a mistake in creating time; God made enough of it, and when we can’t find enough time and, as the Psalmist says, find ourselves getting up ever earlier and going to bed ever later because we have too much to do, we need to see this as a sign that sooner or later we had better make some changes. When we hurry too much and for too long we end up doing violence to time, to ourselves, and to our blood pressure. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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May 21, 2004

Archdiocesan Choral Festival draws talented singers from many parishes By Tom Burke The common thread of music wove parishes together for the second annual Archdiocesan Choral Festival May 16 at St. Cecilia Church, San Francisco. An audience of more than 300 people enjoyed the harmonies of the more than 60-voice ensemble. “The musicianship that each of the singers brought to the concert is a compliment to them and the music directors at their parishes,” said Russell Ferreira, music director at St. Cecilia’s and festival conductor. “We hope this experience reinforced techniques they’ve been taught at home. Chorus members have been wonderful from the start and were very receptive and open” Ferreira, who in addition to his duties at St. Cecilia’s teaches instrumental music at South San Francisco’s Alta Loma Middle School, played trumpet for last year’s inaugural concert. His son, Andrew, a junior at Junipero Serra High School, brought his percussionist skills to this year’s orchestra. “This will definitely continue as an annual event,” said Linda Myers, chair of the Music Committee of the Archbishop’s Liturgical Commission, coordinators of the festival. “Our hope is to give choristers in the Archdiocese an opportunity to gather together and sing as one voice as well as get to know one another.”

Myers, longtime music director at San Rafael’s St. Isabella Parish, sang with the festival chorus and was a featured soloist. “Russ has been a jewel. He kept everyone comfortable and on track,” she said Chorus member Cathie Peters is music director at San Francisco’s St. Anthony Parish. “I wanted the experience of singing with a large ensemble,” Peters said. “It has also been important to sing with other musicians of the Archdiocese.” “I think it’s important to share the music,” said Sam Cadelinia, a member of St. Cecilia’s choir and among the day’s soloists. “God gave me a voice and I want to use it.” Louise Lew of Holy Family Parish in Chinatown attended the concert with her daughter, Michelle. “I truly support this kind of thing,” Lew said. “It’s great.” Michelle, a junior at Lowell High School, said she’s taken some of her skills from the Boys and Girls Chorus at St. Mary’s Cathedral to her work with the Lowell choir. “I’m enjoying the concert very much,” Michelle said. “Sitting in a pew on a sunny afternoon with light streaming through the sanctuary stained-glass windows onto this spirit-filled choir was most inspiring,” said Msgr. Michael Harriman, pastor of St. Cecilia’s. “I am grateful that St. Cecilia’s was chosen for this festival and so proud of our music director, Russell Ferreira. As we live in these troubled times in our Church and in

Joining accompanist, Christoph Tietze, at the piano are, from left, Johanne Weber, St. Peter, Pacifica; Margie Arce, St. Cecilia’s; Sylvia Seibt, St. Anne of the Sunset; Mary Hauke, Our Lady of Loretto.

our world, this afternoon’s music festival was refreshing to the spirit.” Additional members of the orchestra included Christoph Tietze, music director,

St. Mary’s Cathedral, organ and piano; Victor Flaviani, St. Paul Parish, percussion; Patrick Vallez-Kelly, assistant director, Office of Worship, piano.

Choral Festival singers represented the following parishes:

This final warm-up with conductor Russell Ferreira completed the rigorous four-week rehearsal schedule for the Choral Festival.

St. Peter, Pacifica St. Cecilia St. Anne of the Sunset Our Lady of Loretto, Novato Holy Name of Jesus Old St. Mary’s Cathedral St. Patrick’s, San Francisco St. Anselm, Ross St. Veronica, South San Francisco St. Isabella, San Rafael St. Paul

St. Michael Korean St. Andrew, Daly City St. Brendan St. Hilary, Tiburon St. Thomas More St. Ignatius St. Robert, San Bruno St. Mary’s Cathedral Church of the Epiphany St. Thomas the Apostle St. Anthony, San Francisco

Saints . . . canonization of St. Nimatullah Kassab alHardini, a 19th-century Lebanese Maronite monk, gave the May 16 ceremony a touch of the Middle East. After the Gospel reading in Italian, the colonnade surrounding St. Peter’s Square reverberated with the haunting tones of a Maronite chant. The same passage from the book of John was then intoned in Arabic. Even the Holy Father took part by chanting, “peace be with you,” in Arabic. St. Hardini was born in 1808 in Hardine, Lebanon, and died in 1858. He was a priest at the monastery in Kfifan who demonstrated a special devotion to the Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin Mary. He prayed daily for Mary to help protect Lebanon — which underwent two civil wars in his lifetime — and his order, which came under brutal assault just two years after his death. The pope called St. Hardini “an example for all monks of the Lebanese Maronite order, as well as for all Lebanese friars and all Christians of the world.” St. Hardini gave himself completely to God “in a life of great sacrifice, showing that the love of God is the only true source of joy and happiness for mankind,” said the pope. “May his example show us the way and may it especially spark in young people a true desire for God and holiness in order to proclaim the light of the Gospel to the world,” he said. St. Hardini is Lebanon’s third saint and the second Lebanese to be canonized by Pope John Paul. Also canonized May 16 were: ● St. Luigi Orione, Italian priest and

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An image of St. Gianna Beretta Molla is held above pilgrims at the May 16 Mass of canonization in St. Peter's Square.

founder of the Sons of Divine Providence and the Little Missionary Sisters of Charity. He was born in 1872 and died in 1940. Pope John Paul called him “totally dedicated to Christ and his kingdom.” He said it was his passion for Christ that helped St. Orione overcome many difficulties and face great physical hardship. This passion “was the driving force behind his uninhibited altruism and the ever-flowing wellspring of an indestructible hope,” he said. ● St. Josep Manyanet Vives, Spanish priest and founder of the Sons of the Holy Family and the Missionary Daughters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. He lived from 1833 to 1859.

A nun receives Communion from Pope John Paul II during the May 16 Mass of canonization in St. Peter's Square. The pope created six new saints: Italian laywoman Gianna Beretta Molla; Italian Fathers Luigi Orione and Annibale Di Francia; Spanish Father Josep Manyanet Vives; Italian Sister Paola Elisabetta Cerioli; and a Lebanese Maronite monk, Nimatullah Kassab al-Hardini.

The pope called him “a true apostle of the family,” who “fulfilled both his project of personal sanctity and, heroically, the mission the Holy Spirit entrusted to him.” ● St. Annibale Di Francia, an Italian priest born in Messina, Italy, in 1851. He founded the Daughters of Divine Zeal and the Rogationist Fathers. He died in 1927. The pope praised his dedication to promoting prayers for vocations so that other holy men and women would expand his work. Pope John Paul invited today’s young people to heed St. Di Francia’s call to “fall in love with Jesus Christ.” ● St. Paola Elisabetta Cerioli, founder

of the men’s Congregation of the Holy Father and the Sisters of the Holy Family. She was born near Cremona, Italy, in 1816 and lived until 1865. She became a religious after her husband and four children died. The pope said the new saint believed families remained solid when their relationship was founded upon and fostered by common “values of faith and Christian culture.” The pope said St. Cerioli believed that for children to grow up strong and secure “they needed a family that was healthy and united, strong and stable.” Pope John Paul has canonized 483 men and women.

May 21, 2004

FEAST OF THE

ASCENSION OF THE LORD Acts 1:1-11; Psalm 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9; Ephesians 1:17-23 OR Hebrews 9:24-28; 10:19-23; Luke 24:46-53. A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (ACTS 1:1-11) In the first book, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While meeting with them, he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for “the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.” When they had gathered together they asked him, “Lord, are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel?” He answered them, “It is not for you to know the times or seasons that the Father has established by his own authority. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, throughout Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” When he had said this, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. While they were looking intently at the sky as he was going, suddenly two men dressed in white garments stood beside them. They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking at the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9) R. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. All you peoples, clap your hands, shout to God with cries of gladness, for the LORD, the Most High, the awesome, is the great king over all the earth. R. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. God mounts his throne amid shouts of joy; the LORD, amid trumpet blasts. Sing praise to God, sing praise; sing praise to our king, sing praise. R. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. For king of all the earth is God; sing hymns of praise. God reigns over the nations, God sits upon his holy throne. R. God mounts his throne to shouts of joy: a blare of trumpets for the Lord. A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS (EPH 1:17-23) Brothers and sisters: May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a Spirit of wisdom and revelation resulting in knowledge of him. May the eyes of your hearts be enlightened, that you may know what is the

hope that belongs to his call, what are the riches of glory in his inheritance among the holy ones, and what is the surpassing greatness of his power for us who believe, in accord with the exercise of his great might: which he worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating him at his right hand in the heavens, far above every principality, authority, power, and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this age but also in the one to come. And he put all things beneath his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way. OR FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE HEBREWS (HEB 9:24-28; 10:19-23) Christ did not enter into a sanctuary made by hands, a copy of the true one, but heaven itself, that he might now appear before God on our behalf. Not that he might offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters each year into the sanctuary with blood that is not his own; if that were so, he would have had to suffer repeatedly from the foundation of the world. But now once for all he has appeared at the end of the ages to take away sin by his sacrifice. Just as it is appointed that men and women die once, and after this the judgment, so also Christ, offered once to take away the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to take away sin but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await him. Therefore, brothers and sisters, since through the blood of Jesus we have confidence of entrance into the sanctuary by the new and living way he opened for us through the veil, that is, his flesh, and since we have “a great priest over the house of God,” let us approach with a sincere heart and in absolute trust, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water. Let us hold unwaveringly to our confession that gives us hope, for he who made the promise is trustworthy. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 24:46-53) Jesus said to his disciples: “Thus it is written that the Christ would suffer and rise from the dead on the third day and that repentance, for the forgiveness of sins, would be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold I am sending the promise of my Father upon you; but stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.” Then he led them out as far as Bethany, raised his hands, and blessed them. As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven. They did him homage and then returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and they were continually in the temple praising God.

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Scripture ABBOT JOSEPH OF MT. TABOR MONASTERY

Let your prayer rise like incense On this great feast of the Ascension of our Lord, we sing in the liturgy, “The Lord goes up into heaven!” But does the Lord really go up? Well, I think the best answer would have to be, “Yes and no.” Yes, He went up because it says right there in the Scriptures that He went up: the apostles saw Him going up, on a cloud, into the heavens. But on the other hand, we should say, “No,” in the sense that in order to go to heaven, He doesn’t have to go up. He didn’t have to pass through the various layers of the atmosphere and then go into space and maybe take a little rest stop on Jupiter and then go to some other, hidden corner of the universe where heaven is located. He didn’t have to “go up.” But the fact that He did bodily rise out of their presence helped them understand what He was really doing, because the whole mentality, not only of Israel, but of practically all races and cultures, is their sense that what is great is “up,” is “high”; what is poor and mean is “low” and “below.” So God is often referred to, as the Scripture says, as the “Most High” – He’s the One who is way up there. And many times in the Scriptures too it says, “You who dwell in the heavens,” which is literally, “You who dwell in the sky.” So Christ, before his disciples, in order to communicate with them where He was going, went up. But heaven is not really up; heaven is a dimension of reality that’s everywhere. Unfortunately, we have extremely limited access to this dimension – maybe certain glimpses we get, or a fleeting perception or awareness of the ineffable somehow connects us with this dimension of heaven, but even if we’re unaware, it’s there. We should not try to conceive of our relationship with God in terms of direction and distance: God dwells “up there” and, through the incarnation, He came “down here”; and, through the Ascension, He went back “up there” and then, at the end of the world, for judgment, He’s going to come back “down here.” And if we’ve been really good, He’ll take us with Him back “up there!” But that’s not really how it works. We can see that after Jesus was raised from the dead and was in his glorified body, He kind of passed in and out of heaven, a number of times. When He was eating with the disciples at Emmaus, and broke the bread, He just disappeared: well, where did He go? Just outside or something, so that they wouldn’t see Him? No, He just went back to where He is! He went back to heaven. And the women who were running away from the tomb after they’d seen the angels – suddenly, He appeared in front of them: what was He doing, hiding behind a tree, and then He jumped out in front of them? No, He’s in heaven, and He just came into our dimension of space and time and sense perception, and manifested Himself to the women. But the Ascension into heaven is really a return to his eternal dwelling place (so to speak), but now, “in a new way,” as man, in his glorified body, but which glorified body has the capacity, unlike our unglorified bodies, to pass through, into that dimension that is heaven, the dwelling place of the divine. We ought to be aware, when we’re thinking about heaven (and this applies to our life here on earth), that heaven is not “way out there at the edge of the universe” somewhere; that it’s really everywhere, and that we need to have a certain sensitivity to at least begin, here below – see? I just automatically said “below.” It’s so much ingrained in our consciousness: “here below” and not “up there”! We have to develop this awareness and sense of the presence of God. G. K. Chesterton and Abraham Heschel both came, independently, to a similar insight. They say when we see things in the world,

basically what we’re looking at is the “back side” of things. When we see a tree, it’s really the back of the tree; when we see a cloud, it’s the back of the cloud. And Chesterton says, everything out there is hiding a face, and if only we could go around front, and get a look at it! And Heschel makes it even more explicit when he says, “Why is it that we see only the backs of things?” He says, “Because their faces are turned towards God, who created them.” And hopefully, we can get a little bit of a glimpse of what all creation is looking at, in its very being, coming fresh from the hand of God, that there’s a deep reality, a meaningfulness out there, that we can only arrive at, we can only sense, through a spiritual gift. We don’t come to faith in God through logical syllogisms, through conclusions based on certain premises. We don’t come to believe in God through those so-called “proofs” of the existence of God. Proofs may support our faith, but they can’t create it. It has to come, as Heschel says, through this awareness of the ineffable, a sense of the great meaningfulness of everything that somehow seizes us, and we cannot but realize the presence of God, we cannot but believe that there’s something profound, magnificent, as he says “pregnant with awe-inspiring grandeur,” that’s just behind, so to speak, or within the phenomena, the things that we see. And when we pursue that presence that’s at once beyond the heavens and in the depths of our souls, we finally realize an encounter with the living God. Then no one has to prove anything to us because it’s like an intuition: it’s something that impresses itself on us and gives us a little bit of a taste for the truth, for the deeper meaning of everything, and the Source of everything. So, when we see a flower swaying in the breeze, we’re witnessing its state of ecstasy in its silent devotion, and every chirp of a bird is a syllable of the language of heaven; the patterns of the clouds in the sky are the hieroglyphics of God. It’s all there for those who can see it, who want to see it, and who open their hearts to something beyond logic and reason and scientific verification. It’s there because God is there. So we need to “connect” somehow with this reality, and one of the most important ways to do it is by prayer, by seeking, by trying to enter into some sort of relationship with this great Mystery that fills, inspires, and vivifies the entire universe. Talking about Ascension, we sing every day at Mt. Tabor, “Let my prayer rise like incense,” so we’re always wanting to rise, to go up and beyond where we already are, to get higher. And our prayer, in that sense, ought to rise. There’s a story about a very famous and holy rabbi who is visiting a certain town, and he came to the synagogue of the town and, as he came to the entrance, he stopped and would not go in. And they said, “Rabbi! Why don’t you want to come into the synagogue?” And he said, “I sense that the synagogue is full of the words of Torah and of prayer.” And they thought, “Wow: that’s really the highest compliment!” and so they said, “Well, all the more reason! Why don’t you want to come in?” And he said: “Because, when the words are uttered with devotion and the prayer is prayed with fervor, it rises to heaven! But I sense that this place is full of Torah and prayer.” So, let us hope and pray, that this temple is not full of prayer, but that our prayer rises up to heaven, and not rising up just through the roof, but connecting, communicating, finding the ear of God: that’s what we want to do with our prayer, with our lives. Mt. Tabor Monastery is a Byzantine Rite Catholic community located near Ukiah.

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Immigration . . . ■ Continued from cover the conditions to support their families.” In part this is caused by poor internal policies of the countries people flee, but also by a “too quick open competition” in the market place between “unequal trading partners” caused by foreign trade pacts such as the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), she said. One of the greatest areas of inequality in trade leading to large-scale immigration from Mexico is agriculture, she said. Mexico has three million small corn farmers. On the Mexican side, these farmers have not been supported because of the Mexican government’s efforts to move away from a small farm economy and into higher paid manufacturing and city-based jobs. The Mexican farmer’s ability to compete is further eroded by U.S. government subsidies of domestic corn which is imported to Mexico at 20 to 40 percent below the Mexican cost of production. Unable to make a living, farmers flee to cities, where manufacturing jobs are increasingly difficult to find because of even cheaper labor available in Asian countries and elsewhere, she said. For many, their only choice is to attempt work in the U.S. Ironically, Bredine said, many of these workers find work tending the same crops in the U.S. they previously farmed in Mexico. In another ironic twist, she said, increased border controls since 9-11 have led to a jump in permanent undocumented workers in the U.S.A. Where many immigrants formerly would seek seasonal work here and return to Mexico, they now remain in the United States because of the anticipated difficulty of returning from Mexico. Tighter controls in “hot spot” immigration points of entry like San Diego and El Paso, have meant immigrants resort to more dangerous crossings such as the Arizona

desert where an increasing number of immigrants die en route. Bredine said the Mexican Consulate in Tucson has established a bureau for relatives to identify the remains of their loved ones who died in the desert crossing. Catholic Relief Services is trying to address Mexican immigration by working on initiatives on both sides of the border, Bredine said. In Mexico, they try to “humanize the journey” for immigrants and document abuses. In addition to a right in Catholic social teaching to immigrate, there “is also a right not to migrate.” To that end CRS attempts to improve conditions for work in Mexico by supporting rural development projects and other programs to stimulate jobs and economic development. In the United States, CRS advocates for “comprehensive immigration reform,” which includes worker programs having access to a naturalization process thereby seeking to eliminate the crime, insecurity and other pathologies associated with a “permanent worker underclass,” she said. CRS also works to “address reasons people leave” by looking at “building new terms of trade . . . building sustainable development models” and analyzing “U.S. agricultural subsidies.” The economy “should serve the human person, not the other way around,” she said. On a community and personal level, CRS has worked to change attitudes and “build relationships by bringing communities together on both sides of the border,” she said. Ms. Dahl-Bredine’s presentation was followed by a question and answer session bringing up numerous points of immigration and trade policy. Mr. George Wesolek, director of the Archdiocese Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, ended the morning reflecting, “It all comes down to people seeing one another first as brothers and sisters, and then making policies we would want applied to our own families.”

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Letters . . . ■ Continued from page 14 those excommunicated by the archbishop felt they were supporting “choice” of association. However, I do not recall the church being attacked for interfering in the political process. Not outside the South, at least. James O. Clifford Sr. Redwood City

They’re both Catholic As an Oxfordian (one who believes that the name “William Shakespeare” was nothing less than the pen name for Edward de Vere, the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford), I was glad to see that your two-page tribute to “the Bard” in your April 23rd issue contained a prominent section on the authorship question. Quite possibly you have already heard from the Stratford/academic establishment and are now harboring secret regrets regarding this, so I thought I would try to hearten you up with a few words of appreciation. Anyone who has read through a number of the dozen or so books out there on this question/controversy, and maintained an unbiased mind, can hardly disagree with the Oxford position. There are too many facts, coincidences, and visual material that link Lord Oxford with the poems and plays of Shakespeare - too many, in fact, to be contained in any one individual book. Being won over to Oxford not only enriches one’s reading of all the works of Shakespeare, but helps to undo an injustice now perpetrated for four hundred years - that is, the robbing of a creative genius of his literary masterpieces, the pain of which seems echoed again and again throughout his sonnets to the selective ear. Also, do not let the probability of the Catholicism of Shakespere, the Stratford man, as you mentioned in your article, dissuade anyone from looking into Edward de

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Social justice priest Your report (CSF – 4/23) of the Catholic Charities CYO “Loaves and Fishes” dinner recognition mentioned that Msgr. Eugene Boyle was “ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1946.” Indeed he was, but in 1981 he became a priest of the Diocese of San Jose. He was then serving in Palo Alto as pastor/chaplain of St. Anne Chapel which provided Newman ministry to Stanford University. Msgr. Boyle chaired the 1981 inauguration committee for the new diocese and in 1985 he was named Vicar for Inter-religious and Public Affairs. He then served as pastor in Morgan Hill until his retirement. Above all, for more than 40 years, he has been a champion of the poor and is well known for his support of the civil rights movement and most especially for his support of Cesar Chavez and the struggle of the farm workers. Throughout his priestly career Msgr. Boyle has served in parish and (arch)diocesan posts, always with clear vision regarding the social teaching of the Catholic Church. It is through his ministry that many of us witnessed and learned advocacy for social justice. He has been honored over the years for his efforts by Church and civic organizations. It is most fitting that he be honored once again for reminding the rest of us about the Church’s “preferential option for the poor.” Roberta Ward Executive Editor, The Valley Catholic Diocese of San Jose

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Food & Fun May 28, 29, 30: St. Anselm School Carnival, 40 Belle Ave., San Anselmo. “Fun for the whole family, plenty of free parking.” Enjoy carnival rides, game booths, BBQ, plus raffle and White Elephant sale. Fri: 5 – 10 p.m.; Sat: 10 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Sun: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Call (415) 454-8667. June 4, 5, 6: St, Pius Parish Festival featuring “many new attractions along with old time favorites.” Good, food, game booths for all ages.” Fun includes Silent auction, Friday; Live Auction, Sat. and Sun.; plus a Saturday Pie Eating contest. Edibles include Rib dinner on Fri.! Spaghetti on Sat! BBQ Chicken on Sun.! Raffle featuring large cash prizes with tickets at 3 for $25. Fri: 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat: 12:30 – 10 p.m.; Sun. 12:30 – 9 p.m. Takes place in parish compound, Woodside Rd. at Valota, Redwood City. June 6: Celebration of Our Lady of Mercy Parish’s 50th year continues with a Jubilee Concert by organist William L. Vaughan at 4 p.m. Works by Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn will be performed. The artist is a native of San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Parish and is currently director of music at St. Francis Xavier Parish, Phoenix. “Admission free but donations always welcome to help defray costs of anniversary events.” Church is at Five Elmwood Dr., Daly City. Plenty of free parking. The Cathedral Autumn Group welcomes men and women 55 years and older. Call Mercy Sister Esther McEgan at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. 3rd Wed.: All you can eat Spaghetti Luncheon at Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, 3255 Folsom up the hill from Cesar Chavez, SF. $7 per person. Now celebrating its 49th year. Reservations not required. Call (415) 824-1762. Catholic Networking Night at St. Dominic’s Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF from 7 – 9 p.m. Admission is free. Those attending are asked to bring a snack to share. Reservations are requested. Contact Connie at daura@ccwear.com or (415) 664-8108. 1st Fri: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers for Mass and special presentation at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. Breakfast and presentation follow in parish hall. Reservations required to Sugaremy@aol.com or (415) 461-0704 daily. Members $7, others $10. Dues $20 per year. 3rd Sat.: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823. 4th Sat.: Handicapables of Marin meet at noon in the recreation room of the Maria B. Freitas Senior Community adjacent to St. Isabella Church, Terra Linda, for Mass, lunch and entertainment. Call (415) 457-7859. California Handicapables needs volunteers including drivers, servers, donors, and recruiters of those who might benefit from the experience. Call Jane Cunningham at (415) 585-9085. 1st Fri.: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers for Mass and special presentation. Now in its 10th year the morning begins at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. Breakfast and presentation follow in parish hall. Reservations required to Sugaremy@aol.com or (415) 461-0704 daily. Members $7, others $10. Dues $20 per year. Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free. May 23: John Renke organ recital featuring French music; May 30: David Schofield organ recital featuring the Pentecost Suite by Tournemire; June 6: The Novello Quartet with music of Franz Joseph Haydn. Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral at 3:30 p.m. The Cathedral Choir of Boys and Girls is currently recruiting for the Fall 2004 season. Now in its twelfth year, the choir has performed all over the Western United States. On a recent pilgrimage to Italy, the choir sang for a papal Mass in front of 150,000 faithful. The choir sings twice a month at the cathedral and other locations in the archdiocese. During their time in the choir, members learn about responsibility, vocal production, and music reading. The choir is open to any boy or girl in grades 3 through 8, and carpools from Marin and San Mateo Counties can be arranged. There is no charge for membership. For more information, please call Christoph Tietze, Music Director, (415) 567-2020x213, ctietze@stmarycathedralsf.org.

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Brightening up the recent Glen Park Festival was the St. Paul Elementary School Choir under the direction of Laura Flaviani with assistance from her husband Victor. Songs sung were of “the malt shop era,” said Michele Bulen, Parents’ Club prez and whose husband, Shawn, took the picture. They are the parents of St. Paul’s 2nd grader, Michael. Bruce Colville, principal, Father Mario Farana, pastor, and “proud parents” of choir members were in the audience. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Concerts are open to the public. Admission free. May 30: Arthur Johnson of Reno, Nevada, organist. .

Social Justice/Family Life Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, Chris Lyford, director, at (415) 614-5680. Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922. Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 5683018. Seton Medical Center Natural Family Planning/Fertility Care Services offers classes in the Creighton Model of NFP. Health educators are also available to speak to youth and adults on topics of puberty, responsible relationships, adolescent sexuality, the use of NFP throughout a woman’s reproductive life, and infertility. Call (650) 301-8896. Retrouvaille, a program for troubled marriages. The weekend and follow up sessions help couples heal and renew their families. Presenters are three couples and a Catholic priest. Call Peg or Ed Gleason at (415) 221-4269 or edgleason@webtv.net or Pat and Tony Fernandez at (415) 893-1005. The Adoption Network of Catholic Charities offers free adoption information meetings twice a month. Singles and married couples are invited to learn more about adopting a child from foster care. Call (415) 406-2387 for information.

TV/Radio Mon – Fri., KEST 1450 AM, 7 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour features rosary, music and commentary with Father Tom Daly. Sunday 6 a.m., WB Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. 1st Sun, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: Mosaic, featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. 3rd Sun, 6:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: For Heaven’s Sake, featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.

Reunions June 19: Class of Spring’54, Balboa High School, SF, 6:30 p.m. at Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd., SF. Contact Joe Ramirez at RamirezJV@athlink.net. Sept. 11: Class of ’54, Notre Dame des Victoires High School, at San Mateo Marriott Hotel. No-host bar at 11 a.m. with lunch at noon. Contact Toni Pink McMickin at (415) 382-6580 or Bajada Herrera at deeshaven@accessbee.com. Sept. 18: St. Paul High School, San Francisco, class of ’64, 1 p.m. at the Terrace Room of El Rancho Motel, Millbrae. Contact classmate, Liz Hannan, at lizhannan3@yahoo.com. Sept. 26: Class of ’66, Notre Dame des Victoires High School at St. Francis Yacht Club. Contact Yvonne Deasy-Gowdy at ygowdey@yahoo.com or Renee Lorda Fassett at (510) 655-8903.

Prayer Opportunities/Lectures Memorial Day Masses: Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma, Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel, Bishop Ignatius Wang presides. Holy Cross Cemetery, Menlo Park, Father Patrick Michaels, pastor, St. Raymond Parish, presides. Mt. Olivet Cemetery, San Rafael, Retired Father Louis Robello presides. All at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060. June 13: Patronal Mass and Procession, Corpus Christi Monastery of the Dominican Sisters, 215 Oak Grove Ave, across from Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park at 10 a.m. Dominican Father Roberto Corral presides. “We invite all our friends to join us for a day of prayer and reflection, praise and thanksgiving to God,” the Sisters said. Call (650) 322-1801. June 19: Day of Recollection: Franciscan Prayer and Meditation, 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., at the Poverello, 109 Golden Gate Ave between Leavenworth and Jones, SF. Franciscan Father John Vaughn, spiritual director for the Poor Clare Sisters in America, will lead the day. $10. Bring lunch. Drinks provided. Call (415) 621-3279 or contact angelpierre2000@yahoo.com to register by June 15. Sponsored by the St. Francis Fraternity.

Single, Divorced, Separated Sundays, through June 6: Divorce Recovery Course providing a chance to understand the emotional journey begun with the loss of a marriage.Takes place at O’Reilly Parish Center of St. Stephen’s, 451 Eucalyptus Dr., SF beginning at 7 p.m. $45 fee includes materials. Call

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‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman is best known for a pair of offbeat, madly creative, but scorchingly misanthropic existential comedies directed by Spike Jonze, Being John Malkovich and Adaptation. Both films dazzle with their continual creative one-upsmanship as Kaufman piles conceit upon conceit, yet eventually one feels, to borrow a metaphor from Slant critic Jeremiah Kipp, as if one is watching a chess player pushing pieces around to be clever rather than to win, unconcerned how hopelessly he strands them. In my review of Adaptation I charged that “Kaufman creates protagonists who torture and berate themselves, but never get out of themselves — not even when, as in Malkovich, they literally get into someone else’s head. Even this awakens no shred of concern for any other human being, but becomes merely a new forum in which to seek self-gratification, a goal Kaufman’s characters inevitably pursue to the most grotesque and disturbing extremes.” Obviously, a Kaufman film called Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind isn’t going to be as cheerful and wholesome as the title might suggest. Despair, isolation, and loneliness continue to hang like a fog across his world. Eternal Sunshine also resembles his other films in its characters’ milieu of general dissipation, casual sex, drug use, and so on. Yet there’s a difference this time. In this film Kaufman’s characters finally lift their heads out of the fog and dare to hope — to move beyond narcissism and solipsism and actually try to make contact with one another. It’s not a film that everyone will care to see, but I think it’s ultimately humanistic and hopeful rather than nihilistic and misanthropic, and that’s something. That said, from the opening scene it’s clear that Kaufman hasn’t lost his driving anxieties and obsessions. The film opens with a shot studying the sleeping face of Joel (Jim Carrey in a remarkably restrained performance). The expression on his face as he comes to and squints painfully around the room suggests that consciousness itself is a frightfully unbearable imposition. He slides stiffly out of bed, unready to face the world, and we know at once that Joel is a typical Kaufman male protagonist, pathologically introspective, emotionally paralyzed, no more at home in the world than in his own skin. Later, watching Joel meet a seemingly capricious, almost predatory young woman named Clementine (Kate Winslet) with distinct echoes of Catherine Keener’s character from Being John Malkovich, I began to feel some resistance to the notion of characters being burdened with such hangups and quirks for no better reason than that they happen to be characters in a Charlie Kaufman story. Eventually, however, I was pleasantly surprised to discover that this time there actually is a reason why Joel and Clementine are such damaged goods, and that it’s integral to the plot. What the reason is is the film’s key conceit; not to reveal too much, I’ll just say that as in Being John Malkovich, there is a magical-realist fantasy conceit, and that we eventually realize that Joel and Clementine’s relationship might from one perspective be said to have been doomed before it started, to have ended before it began. Or has it? Yes, they’re both damaged goods, capable of being petty, shallow, spiteful. Beyond that, the world they live in is in many ways against them, full of capricious forces and unprincipled people seeking in various ways to tear them apart. To a large extent, Eternal Sunshine is about the mistakes we make without knowing why, the consequences we don’t understand until it’s too late, the plain human selfishness and sin and stupidity that broadside our better intentions and hopes. Yet in the end, perhaps, the film suggests that it finally comes down to a matter of choice. For all the factors outside our control, for all our own selfishness and pettiness, ultimately we must always choose to give up or choose to go on. Whether Joel and Clementine in fact make it as a couple, how long they are able to make it last, is another question; but Eternal Sunshine seems to suggest that at least they aren’t doomed from the outset. Whether they fail in the end or not, at least they have a chance, a choice. And certainly they can be together in trying, in contrast to the protagonists of Kaufman’s earlier films, all bottled up inside themselves, hermetically sealed off from one another. Ironically, Eternal Sunshine does echo the device of earlier Kaufman films of locating much of the action within the mind of one of the characters. In fact, many

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Kate Winslet and Jim Carrey star in a scene from "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is R -- restricted.

of the scenes between Joel and Clementine are the equivalent of a dream sequence, in which one of them is only a projection of the other’s mind. Yet far from turning the other person into a mere object of fantasy, this device instead illuminates the significance of memory in our relationships with other people. Love depends upon a shared history, shared memories. Who we love, in large part, is who we are. Even if we lose the one we love, whether through death, a breakdown in the relationship, or some other cause, the significance of that love in our lives survives in memory. But suppose we lose even our memories? If we don’t even remember that it happened, does it matter at all? What if death is the end, if all our memories die with us? If that happens, does it have any value, any meaning? Did it ever? If not, is any happiness we experience in this life a chimera, a dream? Kaufman’s films have always raised big questions — or, at least, characters in his films have raised big questions. In the past, I’ve never gotten the impression that Kaufman himself really cared about the questions, or for that matter about the characters — only the dramatic effect of catching the characters musing about the questions. This time it finally seems like there may be a level of emotional investment beyond the glibness and cleverness. And for the first time he allows us to hope that there really may be a ray of eternal sunshine beyond the fog of self-absorption, and that ignorance and forgetfulness may not be a necessary prerequisite of bliss. Steven D. Greydanus is film critic for the National Catholic Register. His work can be found online at www.decentfilms.com. Copyright © 2004 Steven D. Greydanus. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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May 21, 2004

Mind on the Media Independent filmmaker plans Oct. 1 release of movie on St. Thérèse “There is a renewed hunger in the people,” said Defilippis. “We know that the interest is there for a film like ‘Thérèse.’” So far, over 50 conferences have shown interest in “Thérèse” as an evangelical tool, and the country’s major cities, San Francisco included, are vying for a chance to host the world premiere. While controversy was part of the reason that “The Passion” was able to surpass all box-office expectations, Defilippis is relying on St. Thérèse’s more unifying nature to drive the ticket sales. “St. Thérèse is one of the most popular saints in the world, and not just to Catholics,” asserts Defilippis. “Protestants, Muslims, Buddhists, they all love her and can find something in her that really speaks to them and their faith.” Ultimately, what “The Passion” has done for Mel Gibson’s bank account is nothing compared to what it has done for the future of Christianity in the cinema. From a financial standpoint, Hollywood found itself a new market to bring in some heavy duty revenue. Yet for people like Defilippis, a door has just been opened to an incredibly powerful tool for bringing God’s love to the masses. For the next five months, Defilippis and members of the cast will travel the country promoting “Thérèse” on radio stations, in churches, and to anyone in any sector of religious life. Although much closer to their goal, “Thérèse” still needs more independent funding to support a nation-wide release. “In her short lifetime and for years afterwards, St Thérèse has touched many lives,” said Defilippis. “Now it is up to the people how big her outreach will be.” Visit www.theresemovie.com for more information or to view clips and interviews with the film’s stars.

By Jayme George When Catholic San Francisco first met him, independent filmmaker Leonardo Defilippis was in a mad scramble to raise at least $2 million in distribution funds for a spring 2004 release of his independent film “Thérèse.” More than six months later and well past the spring 2004 deadline, Defilippis’ schedule is no less hectic, but the finish line is in sight for the impassioned director and president of Luke Films. Months of promotion and prayers have put Defilippis and crew closer to their goal, and now “Thérèse,” a film about the life of the beloved St. Thérèse, is slated for a fall 2004 release. If all goes as planned, the movie will open Oct. 1 to coincide with her feast day. While traversing unfamiliar Sacramento terrain, Defilippis took a few minutes to talk with Catholic San Francisco via cell phone about getting “Thérèse” to the big screen and how a little picture by some guy named Mel has paved the way for future faith-filled filmmakers. “The success of ‘The Passion’ has made our job a lot easier,” explains Defilippis. “The way that Mel Gibson marketed and distributed his film, without going through the normal Hollywood channels, it just shows us that it can be done.” The delay of the “Thérèse” release from spring to fall gave Defilippis a chance to sit back, watch the fallout from Gibson’s controversial “Passion,” and take notes. “We are going about the distribution process very similar to the way Mel did it,” said Defilippis. “We don’t have a Hollywood backer…we are raising the funds, pre-selling the tickets and creating a very high visibility for the film.”

With the help of teams of employees and volunteers, both secular and religious, Defilippis is determined to reach as many people as possible , and he hopes for a world-wide release somewhere down the line.

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May 21, 2004

Most Reverend Ignatius Wang Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco and

The Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Invite You to Share

MEMORIAL DAY MASS Monday, May 31st, 2004 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 11:00 a.m. Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery , Colma Most Reverend Ignatius Wang, Celebrant Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel Shuttle available from front gate between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

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