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California Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage

Respect Life Essay winners honored Pictured with Archbishop George Niederauer, Phillip Carrion, an Archbishop Riordan High School sophomore, won the grand prize honor for grades 9-10 in the 18th Annual Respect Life Essay Contest sponsored by the Archdiocese’s Respect Life Ministry program. He and more than 100 students in grades one through 12 were honored during a May 18 awards ceremony at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Additional coverage is slated for the June 13 Catholic San Francisco. Vicki Evans directs Respect Life Ministry for the Archdiocese.

By Michael Vick Archbishop George Niederauer and other California Catholic leaders have condemned the May 15 ruling by the California Supreme Court that struck down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.

In a statement released shortly after the ruling, Archbishop Niederauer said Catholic teaching on marriage is clear and based on the teaching of Jesus Christ, who said God “made them male and female” and “for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.”

“At a moment in our society when we need to reinforce the strength of marriage and family, this decision of the Supreme Court takes California in the opposite direction,” the Archbishop said. “This action challenges those in society who believe in the importance of the traditional understanding of marriage to deepen their witness to the unique and essential role that marriage between a man and a woman has in the life of society.”

In a statement released on the heels of the Supreme Court’s decision, Ned Dolejsi, executive director of the California Catholic Conference, said the Court overturned the will of the people.

“Proposition 22, which states, ‘Only marriage between one man and one woman is valid and recognized in California,’ passed eight years ago by a vote of 61.2 to 38.8 percent,” Dolejsi said. “That statute reflected the wisdom of the voters of California in retaining the traditional definition of marriage as a biological reality and a societal good.

Unfortunately … the Court saw fit to disregard the will of the majority of people of California.”

“Catholic teaching maintains that marriage is a faithful, exclusive and lifelong union between one man and one woman joined in an intimate partnership of life and love – a union instituted by God for the mutual fulfillment of the husband and wife as well as for the procreation and education of children,” Dolejsi said.

In a statement sent to all parishes and departments of the Oakland Diocese on May 16, Bishop Allen Vigneron called the Court ruling “a profoundly significant matter” and underscored that “the experience of history – both ancient and in our own time – has taught us that no government has the power to change the order which God has inscribed in our nature.”

“The conviction that same-sex couples cannot enter marriage is a conviction SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, page 5

By Michael Vick

Rev. Mr. Juan Lopez is looking forward to making himself at home among the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The transitional deacon will be ordained to the priesthood June 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral by Archbishop George H. Niederauer.

Born in Mexico 39 years ago, Deacon Lopez joined his parents, Benita and the now late Jose, in the United States in the 1990s.

His mother continues to make her home in the Bay Area as do his 11 siblings and their families.

Deacon Lopez arrived in the United States with a background in computers from a technical school in Mexico. He began studies at College of San Mateo almost immediately, taking day and night courses while working two jobs.

“I’ve been a plumber, construction worker LOPEZ, page 8

Rev. Mr. Ghislain Bazikila, who on June 21 will become the second deaf priest of African descent to be ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in as many years, told Catholic San Francisco he hopes to see more deaf people ordained in the future.

“Deaf people struggle with vocations because of limited access,” Deacon Bazikila said through interpreter and deaf services coordinator Neva Turoff in an interview at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park.

The seminarian encountered stumbling blocks on his road to ordination himself.

Born in Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, Deacon Bazikila enrolled in the seminary at age 14. In his third year of studies, he began to lose his hearing. He initially did not notice the gradual changes in his hearing.

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by Tom Burke I cannot think of a better leadoff item than this happy birthday to Beatrice Barry, a founding member of Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Daly City, and 100 years old May 21. “On behalf of all of us who are part of your parish, Beatrice – the Sisters, staff members, parishioners, teachers, priests, deacon, students – we wish you God’s blessings on your 100th birthday,” said Father Bill Brown, pastor of Our Lady of Mercy. “In the year you were born – 1908 – Mother’s Day was celebrated for the very first time and the Boy Scout movement began. The Grand Canyon National Monument was created and the first Model T Ford was built. In your hundred years you have seen a lot, and given a lot, and we wish you a lot of love and happiness.”…. Please let me lead a mortarboard salute of the highest order to Heidi Frances Groh who just graduated from University of California at Berkeley.

The English Literature major is an alumna of St. Hilary Elementary School and St. Ignatius College Prep. She’ll travel a bit before beginning work on her teaching credential.

Lining up to offer congrats are younger sisters, Elizabeth, soon a junior at the University of Hawaii where she is Heidi Groh a member of the water polo team, and Susannah, soon a senior at SI and volunteering again this summer at St. Mary’s Medical Center. Proud mom of the all three lasses is Annabelle Groh, manager of Clergy Personnel Services in the Office of the Vicar for Clergy for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and a longtime Pastoral Center colleague….Never too late to commend good work and that’s what painting the Parish Hall at St. Rita’s in Fairfax certainly is. Brushes raised, please, for Stan Rowan, Bill Cuneo, Kevin Baumsteiger, Tim Pult.

“Great work, gentlemen,” a recent bulletin said. “It looks wonderful.”… Congratulations to Vinny Martin, a second grader, at Our Lady of Loretto Elementary School, who received first Eucharist April 6. Brother, Marco, a sixth grader at the school, was a server at the Mass. The boys’

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YANGON, Myanmar (CNS) – Christians crowded into Catholic and Protestant churches in Yangon to pray and donate money to relief efforts for survivors of the cyclone that recently devastated the Irrawaddy River delta and Yangon in this nation located between India and Laos.

About 1,000 people, some inside Our Lady of Fatima Church and others outside under umbrellas in the rain, attended a May 18 Mass devoted to the victims and survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which struck May 3, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. Archbishop Charles Bo of Yangon said the Mass, and Archbishop Paul Zinghtung Grawng of Mandalay, three other bishops and 19 priests concelebrated.

Archbishop Grawng is president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Myanmar.

“It is important to help the neediest people affected by Cyclone Nargis without discrimination,” Archbishop Bo said in his homily.

The Catholic Church has been sending volunteer groups to help in the relief effort.

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By Michael Vick Bay Area-based Burmese American Catholic Fellowship hosted a fundraiser May 17 for victims of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar. Nearly 1,000 people attended the event at Little Theatre Serramonte Del Ray in Daly City.

The cyclone touched down on May 3. The United Nations estimates the death toll could

Official appointments Following are clergy assignments announced May 19 by the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Unless otherwise noted, they are effective July 1. This list augments assignments announced May 5 and reported on page 9 of the May 9 Catholic San Francisco.

NEW PASTORS, NEW ADMINISTRATORS Rev. Thomas M. Hamilton, pastor, St. Gabriel Parish, San Francisco, effective Oct. 1 Rev. Edward S. Inyanwachi, administrator, St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Burlingame, effective July 1 through Sept. 30.

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exceed 100,000. Early on, foreign aid to the Southeast Asian country was hampered by the ruling military government, which initially refused to accept outside help.

BACF members with family still in Myanmar, formerly Burma, reported great difficulty in contacting loved ones. Dominic Fong, a member of the Burmese fellowship, said the cyclone merely amplified longstanding infrastructure problems in the Southeast Asian nation.

“Burma was already a pretty backward country,” Fong said. “After cyclone Nargis, it is next to impossible to get in touch with people.”

Originally planned as its yearly fundraising drive for mission work, BACF’s members reorganized the event in the cyclone’s aftermath. The event raised several thousand dollars which will be donated directly to Myanmar’s Catholic bishops.

The fundraiser featured live contemporary Burmese music and traditional Burmese cuisine. Fong said the fare represented more than 150 hours of food preparation.

Additional money was raised through T-shirt sales and donations.

Msgr. Labib Kobti, pastor of St. Thomas More Parish, where BACF is based, was among those in attendance. The parish has become a central meeting place for Burmese Catholics. Msgr. Kobti has learned enough Burmese to celebrate Mass in the language.

Daly City-based Myanmar Community USA, Inc., another of St. Thomas More Parish’s Burmese groups, will host a memorial service and candlelight vigil on May 24 from 5-7 p.m. for the cyclone’s victims at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. For more information, contact Felix Chin at (650) 303-1800.

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WASHINGTON (CNS) – The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is suing the online social networking site Facebook to learn the identity of the person who developed a phony Facebook page that targeted a high school administrator by using his name without his permission. The suit was filed May 9 on behalf of Tim Puntarelli, dean of students at the archdiocesan-run Roncalli High School in Indianapolis.

Archdiocesan spokesman Greg Otolski told Catholic News Service May 15 the suit was filed after Facebook failed to turn over information about who established the Web page and sent inappropriate messages to students. Facebook, based in Palo Alto, Calif., allows users to communicate with friends, fellow students, co-workers and others. Users can post photos and messages on individual Web pages. The phony Web page’s anonymous developers must be identified for the archdiocese to determine if additional legal action is required to protect and restore Puntarelli’s reputation, Otolski said. Facebook declined comment on the case.

Trial begins for diocese’s CFO CLEVELAND (CNS) – The Cleveland Diocese’s onetime chief financial officer belied the trust of diocesan officials in engineering a kickback scheme involving nearly $785,000 in diocesan funds, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Siegel said in his opening salvo in the trial of Joseph Smith, the former CFO. Defense attorney Phillip Kushner gave sympathetic opening arguments, even introducing Smith’s wife and the couple’s two children who were in the courtroom.

He said evidence will show Smith did nothing illegal.

Pope hits trivialization of sex VATICAN CITY (CNS) – If the trafficking of women and children and prostitution are to be stopped, poverty and the “trivialization of sexuality” must be tackled, Pope Benedict XVI said. The media and entertainment industries’ trivialization of human sexuality “fuels a decline in moral values and leads to the degradation of women, the weakening of fidelity in marriage and even the abuse of children,” he said. The pope made his remarks May 16 during a private audience with Catholic bishops from Thailand at the end of their “ad limina” visits, in which they reported on the status of their dioceses.

Families need help, says pontiff VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Families in crisis desperately need help from the government, church and local commu-

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Irena Sendler, a Catholic social worker who saved an estimated 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis, poses at her home in Warsaw, Poland, in this March 14, 2007 photo. Sendler died in Warsaw May 12 at the age of 98.

nities, Pope Benedict XVI said. “There is an increasingly urgent need for a common commitment to support families by every means available, from the social and economic point of view as well as the juridical and spiritual,” he said.

The pope spoke May 16, the day after the International Day of the Family, in a special audience with several European Catholic family associations.

Prays for Chinese Catholics VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI called on the universal Church to pray that Catholics in China never live in fear of spreading the Gospel message and remain loyal to the Holy See. In a special prayer released by the Vatican May 16, the pope asked that, despite the hardships Catholics in China face, they “continue to believe, to hope, to love.”

Last June, Pope Benedict established May 24, the feast of Our Lady, Help of Christians, as the world day of prayer for the Church in China. Mary is venerated under that title at the Marian shrine in Sheshan, outside Shanghai, China.

‘Tridentine-only’ parish VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Diocese of Rome has erected a “personal parish” in Rome’s city center dedicated to the celebration of the Tridentine Mass. The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, reported May 15 that Cardinal Camillo Ruini, papal vicar for Rome, recently designated the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims as a parish where the pre-Second Vatican Council liturgy will be celebrated exclusively.

Jesuit to chair NYC board NEW YORK (CNS) – A Jesuit educator who is the president of a high school in the Cristo Rey network has been named chairman of the New York City Campaign Finance Board. Father Joseph Parkes, president of Cristo Rey New York High School in East Harlem, has served on the board for the last year. Mayor Michael Bloomberg named him to the position April 8. The five-member board is an independent, nonpartisan city agency charged with administering the city’s campaign finance program.

Embryonic stem cell is topic WASHINGTON (CNS) – The brief policy statement on embryonic stem-cell research that is to come before the U.S. bishops at their June 12-14 meeting in Orlando, Fla., is designed to set the stage for a later, more pastoral document explaining why the Catholic Church opposes some reproductive technologies. “While human life is threatened in many ways in our society, the destruction of human embryos for stem-cell research confronts us with an issue of respect for life in a stark new way,” says the statement drawn up by the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, a pioneering Church figure for Africa and an influential voice at the Vatican for more than 30 years, died in Paris May 13 at the age of 86. Pope Benedict XVI, in a telegram of condolences, praised the cardinal for his pastoral ministry and for his generous service in Rome, where he worked for several Vatican offices.

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has never been a formal statement on the issue from the full body of bishops.

Would drop parishes from 165 to 75 LA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS) – Under a plan accepted May 8 by Bishop Jerome E. Listecki of La Crosse, the number of parishes in the Diocese of La Crosse could be cut by more than half, from 165 to 75, but no church buildings are yet slated for closure or sale. The pastoral plan, designed to foresee a future with fewer active priests, designates the 75 parishes that would remain as “parish centers,” with a rectory, a “governance seat” with parish offices, and a pastoral and finance council. Each of the other 90 parishes would be designated as either a “liturgical satellite,” a “church building,” an “oratory” or a “private chapel.” All would be affilliated to a parish center.

Astronomer discusses aliens and redemption VATICAN CITY (CNS) – If aliens exist, they may be a different life form that does not need Christ’s redemption, the Vatican’s chief astronomer said. Jesuit Father Jose Funes, director of the Vatican Observatory, said Christians should consider alien life as an “extraterrestrial brother” and a part of God’s creation. Father Funes, an Argentine named to his position

by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006, made the remarks in an interview published May 13 by the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Father Funes said it was difficult to exclude the possibility that other intelligent life exists in the universe, and he noted that one field of astronomy is now actively seeking “biomarkers” in spectrum analysis of other stars and planets. These potential forms of life could include those that have no need of oxygen or hydrogen, he said.

CHW president/ CEO honored SAN FRANCISCO – Catholic Healthcare West (CHW), the nation’s eighth largest hospital system, last week announced that President/CEO Lloyd H. Dean has been recognized as one of the nation’s top 25 minority healthcare executives by Modern Healthcare magaLloyd H. Dean zine.

“This recognition is a very personal honor for me,” said Dean. “I grew up in a time when many doors to leadership were closed to minorities. I hope today that awards such as this serve as a source of inspiration to others that with perseverance, hard work and a deep belief in yourself, anything is possible.”

In his role as president/CEO, Dean is responsible for $10.8 billion in assets and the overall management, strategy and direction of CHW’s integrated healthcare system of 41 hospitals, 45 health clinics, nine trauma centers, two medical practice groups, 50,000 employees and 9,500 physicians. CHW serves a population spanning 22 million people throughout California, Arizona and Nevada.

In June, Dean will be installed as the chair for the Catholic Health Association of the U.S. In 2007 Modern Healthcare named Dean one of the “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” for the third consecutive year.

which all Catholics implicitly affirm when, in our baptismal promises, we profess that we share the Church’s faith that the ‘Father Almighty [is] the Creator of heaven and earth,’” Bishop Vigneron’s statement said, adding: “This conviction about marriage, while confirmed by faith, can be known from reason. Therefore, our efforts to enshrine this wisdom about marriage in the laws of our community are not an imposition of an ideology but a service of the truth which we make for the common good. This wisdom about the nature of marriage is not a form of discrimination, but undergirds our freedom to live according to God’s plan for us.”

Ron Prentice, head of the California Family Council, said in a press release May 15 that the Court has sidestepped the will of the people of California.

“This shocking decision is a wakeup call for the majority of California’s citizens, whose votes have been rendered worthless by the Supreme Court’s disregard for the democratic system,” said Prentice, whose organization helped spearhead an initiative drive to place a measure on the Nov. 4 ballot to amend the state constitution to define marriage as only between a man and a woman.

Sponsors of that initiative submitted 1.1 million raw signatures and are confident they have the required 694,354 signatures to qualify for the general election. The Secretary of State is expected to rule whether enough signatures were gathered by the end of June. The initiative is similar to constitutional wording enacted by 26 other states.

“In November, the people will have an opportunity to overrule the Court’s decision by passing a constitutional amendment – and California’s voters must respond in strength and number,” Prentice said.

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John Lewis (left) and his partner of 21 years, Stuart Gaffney, react to a decision by California’s Supreme Court in San Francisco May 15. The court ruled that the state cannot bar same-sex marriages.

Prentice also said his group will likely push for a stay of the Court’s decision pending the November vote on the marriage amendment. If no stay is approved, the Court’s ruling will take effect in 30 days.

Bill May, chairman of Bay Area-based Catholics for the Common Good, told Catholic San Francisco that protecting traditional marriage is a “matter of social justice.”

“We need clear laws supporting and promoting marriage,” May said. “Forty percent of children are born out of wedlock, and 34 percent are raised without contact with their fathers. Marriage has become a lifestyle choice that is disconnected from children.”

May said Catholics have an obligation to stand in opposition to laws and rulings that would deny children both a mother and a father.

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Rosalie Rendu Center celebrates tenth year More than 75 supporters of the Rosalie Rendu Center recently celebrated its 10th anniversary of combating the cycle of poverty in East Palo Alto.

The first Rosalie Rendu Center Friends Breakfast was held April 22 at St. Elizabeth Seton School in Palo Alto. The Center is sponsored by the Daughters of Charity Ministry Services Corp. The school is sponsored by the Daughters of Charity, Province of the West.

Mike Sugarman, CBS-TV 5 reporter, was master of ceremonies. President and board chair of the Daughters of Charity Ministry Services Corp. and Visitatrix, Sister Margaret Keaveney, told participants: “A vision without a task is a dream.

A task without a vision is drudgery. A vision and a task is a hope that can change the world.�

The Rosalie Rendu Center, located in the Carriage Manor Apartments in East Palo Alto, began its service to low-income families in 1998. Daughter of Charity Trinitas Hernandez, executive director of the Center, with the assistance from the Junior League of Palo Alto, rented two apartments and started three on-site English classes for community members.

The dilapidated building went on the auction block. When a bidding war erupted the purchase escalated. The Daughters of Charity and the Junior League were able, however, to raise the funds to buy the building.

Today, the Center provides English as a Second Language classes to more than 100 adults. The Tot Spot offers a kindergarten readiness program for 20 children, and the after-school

Secular Franciscans elect new regional leadership The Blessed Junipero Serra Region of the Secular Franciscan Order, which covers northern California from Bakersfield to the Oregon border, elected new officers at its Feb. 29-March 2 meeting at San Damiano Retreat in Danville.

The new Regional Executive Council now includes Cindy Wesley, Gualala, regional minister; Mikaela Shin, San Jose, vice minister; Kathleen Molaro, Grass Valley, secretary; Dianne Prior, Napa, secretary; and Jim Wesley, Gualala, formation director.

Elected to represent each of the region’s three areas, respectively, were Claire Breen, Fresno, southern fraternities; Cosmos Bacich, Napa, northern fraternities; and Mary Munden, fraternities from San Francisco to San Jose.

The Secular Franciscan Order is a Catholic order of single and married persons “who strive to follow the Gospel in the footsteps of St. Francis of Assisi,� a spokesman said.

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Among those to address participants in the recent Rosalie Rendu Center 10th anniversary celebration were, from left: Daughter of Charity Margaret Keaveney, Visitatrix, Province of the West; Mike Sugarman, CBS-TV 5 newscaster and master of ceremonies; and Daughter of Charity Trinitas Hernandez, executive director of the Center.

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The Center is named for Sister Rosalie Rendu, a French Daughter of Charity who was at the center of a movement of charity to the sick and poor that characterized Paris and France when public assistance did not exist. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on Nov. 9, 2003.

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My Will I have a will.

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It took the death of a close friend to wake me up. Now I’m wondering why I procrastinated so long.

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My will reflects my wishes. Instead of the courts

I can change or amend my will. It is not set in

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concrete. I can change it easily, whether adding a codicil or by simply having it redrafted. The important thing is that I have a workable will in place-right now.

My will makes provision for family members in a way state laws would not do. My will lets me give money to my children and grandchildren in an orderly manner after I pass on. My will identifies my parish and the Archdiocese to receive special bequests. In short, my will allocates my assets according to my desires.

My will is safely stored. I have a copy of my will in my files at home, but I keep the original in a safety deposit box. I don’t want to lose this important document through fire or theft. I also made sure my personal representative, my son, knows how to find my will.

My will is legally valid. I went to an attorney who

My will provides peace of mind. For years, I lived

specializes in estate planning. She knew the right questions to ask and the best way to accomplish my goals. I was tempted to take a short cut and use one of those will documents I saw at the stationary store. I even thought of just sitting down and writing out my will on a piece of paper, a sort of do-ityourself project. I’m sure glad I didn’t fall into that trap. After all, why do a will and then spend the rest of your life or the last moments of life wondering whether it is truly valid?

with a nagging apprehension about what would happen if I died without a will. Those feelings are gone. I now have a sense of peace about these matters. It took a little time and effort and it cost a few dollars, but it was well worth it all.

My will is up-to-date. This is because I only

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Bazikila . . .

■ Continued from cover “It wasn’t until I was 18 or 19, maybe even 20, that I started to be aware of the fact that I must have been losing my hearing,” Deacon Bazikila said. “My mother was the one who detected my hearing loss. We were having a very noisy family gathering at Christmastime.

Everything seemed very confusing to me, and my mother noticed that I seemed to be a bit disoriented.”

Deacon Bazikila said the loud, crowded party was a huge contrast to his life at the seminary, where he mostly dealt with quiet classrooms and the voice of one professor. As time went on, he had more trouble hearing even in these ideal situations, especially once he completed his initial philosophy degree and went on to the major seminary.

“The bishop called me into a meeting and said, ‘We’re really at a loss as to how to help you,’” he recalled. “I started to get this fear about what was going to happen.”

The bishop ultimately asked him to step down from the seminary, hoping at a later date to be able to reinstate him. Overwhelmed with the loss of both his hearing and his vocation, Groundbreaking ceremonies for Marin Catholic High School’s $13.3 million Pope John Paul II Student Center took place Deacon Bazikila despaired.

May 15. Joining in the spade work were, from left: Marin Catholic Regent Duane Geck, Benefactors Frank and Lois Noonan, “I had never met another deaf person,” he Building Committee Chair Bob Basso, Superintendent of Schools Maureen Huntington, Archbishop George Niederauer, said. “I didn’t know sign language. I didn’t Marin Catholic President Father Thomas A. Daly, Regent Jack Boland and student body representative Matt Spinelli. know what being deaf meant. When I became Scheduled for completion in September, 2009, the project includes a music room and seven classrooms. deaf, I thought I was the only one.”

This changed when he enrolled in a secular university in the Congo. There, in the course I started to think that I could do the most good as ministers of the Mass. Mom, Benita, with of finishing his master’s degree in sociology, as part of the Church and that’s what started Deacon Lopez’ sister, Maria Hirelea, her he met more people like himself and started to my thinking higher things and reading the husband, Javier, and their children, Xavier and learn more about deaf culture.

■ Continued from cover Sarah, and the new priest’s nephew, Osbaldo, Gospels.”

“I realized that perhaps it was God’s way More and more Deacon Lopez became part and his wife, Jenee, will bring up the gifts of helping me to encounter new friends and to and washer of trucks,” he said with a smile. “We were all pursuing our degrees, but I found out of St. Anthony’s parish life. “I joined the choir, including Deacon Lopez’ chalice and paten. discern a different vocation,” he said.

Deacon Lopez’ sister, Celia, will proclaim It was at the university he was first encour- this would not satisfy what I wanted or was helped with the youth group.”

It was during a parish gathering that the the first Mass reading in English and his brother, aged to learn to sign. He had been relying solely looking for.” His immediate thoughts were not on lip reading. Lip reading, he said, requires of priesthood but of “doing good.” Prayer, a priesthood called him closer. “At the end of Miguel, will proclaim the second in Spanish.

Generally, newly ordained priests have sevclose proximity, and even then in some situ- regular part of his life from childhood, became the event I went to eat a taco and Father Garcia was there. He called me over and said if I ever eral weeks of free time before going to their first ations is nearly impossible. Signing opened a a pivotal discernment tool.

“My mom and my dad always made sure we wanted to talk about the seminary, he would assignment. Deacon Lopez will have the time whole new world for him. but nowhere to go. “We had to postpone a trip He started teaching the Bible to the deaf in got to Mass on Sunday, and we’d often pray a be there for me.”

The next step was discernment, but this to Rome I was taking with my mom,” Deacon local churches. This experience in turn led him family rosary,” he recalled.

“I was focusing on the material aspects of time with Father Garcia as guide. “He was my Lopez said, noting he’ll use the time for rest back to the seminary after meeting men and women religious who encouraged him to seek life,” Deacon Lopez said. His career choice, at mentor,” Deacon Lopez said. Studies at San and refreshment. He and his mother will visit his vocation in spite of the challenge of hearing that time, was architecture. “I wanted to be a Francisco State University and completion of Europe at a later date.

“I first want to be a parish priest and to learn loss. One of the priests himself was deaf, and good designer and make beautiful buildings and his undergraduate work at Mt. Angel Seminary from the United States. That meeting eventually be famous. But then I realized that would not in Oregon preceded his entering St. Patrick’s the ins and outs of the parish,” Deacon Lopez said, “and to celebrate the sacraments the best Seminary and University in Menlo Park. make me happy.” led to Deacon Bazikila traveling to America.

Deacon Lopez is also grateful to Father Tom I can. I want to focus, too, on justice and peace “I had a lot of questions about life, about Deacon Bazikila spent a year in New York in seminary, a pastoral year in Boston, and then, at what I wanted and needed,” Deacon Lopez Seagrave, pastor, St. John of God Parish in San and life issues and work with youth. If possible, the encouragement of then-Archbishop William told Catholic San Francisco. Remembering Francisco, and Father John Jimenez, chaplain, I ask to be placed in a bi-lingual parish with a Levada, he and several deaf seminarians came his life in Mexico as among the middle class, San Francisco General Hospital, for their help school. I want to work hard. I am ready to go where I am needed.” he said that on return trips to his home state along the way. to St. Patrick Seminary.

The new Father Lopez will celebrate his first Father Garcia will help Deacon Lopez vest Deacon Bazikila said his five years in Menlo of Michoacan as an adult, he saw with new Park have been a growth period both for himself eyes the poverty and poor living conditions of during the ordination Mass. In the rite, Deacon Mass in Spanish and English at St. Anthony Lopez removes his deacon vestments – dalmatic Church on June 8 at 12:45 p.m. and for the school in its efforts to reach out to many people.

His first thoughts were to prepare himself and deacon stole – and dons the deaf community. When he first arrived, he and the other deaf students had to rely on typed to help the poor. Initially he planned to secure the priestly stole and chasunotes from hearing classmates. Later, caption- an architecture degree and earn a living while ble. Deacon Lopez’ godfather, Father Primitivo Gonzalez of ing services were available, but he said these securing financing for affordable housing.

By Patricia Kasten “I started to pray more,” he said, adding that the Los Angeles Archdiocese, were done by people off-site and were at times Gospel for May 25, 2008 unreliable. Eventually, the seminary brought on he also began attending Mass at St. Anthony will also assist.

John 6:51-58 All of Deacon Lopez’ signing interpreters available not just for class Parish in North Fair Oaks where Father James family, numbering as many as Garcia is pastor. but for Mass and social occasions.

Following is a word search based on the Gospel “I knew who Father Garcia was, and I liked 200, will be at the ordination reading for the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ: “In the beginning the seminary had no idea Jesus speaking to the Jews about food and drink. The about deaf culture and how to accommodate him a lot, but I was mostly praying by myself. Mass with several serving words can be found in all directions in the puzzle. our needs,” Deacon Bazikila said. “It was a learning curve LIVING BREAD HEAVEN WHOEVER EATS FOREVER MY FLESH THEMSELVES for all of us involved.” + YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE + THIS MAN GIVE US JESUS Because his father is too UNLESS SON OF MAN DRINK ill to make the trip to San BLOOD RAISE LAST DAY IN HELPING US BUILD THE TRUE FOOD FATHER CAME DOWN Francisco for ordination, the ANCESTORS ATE DIED seminarian received special KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH dispensation from Archbishop PLEASE CONSIDER HIS FLESH George Niederauer to be ordained in Africa. He will MAKING A DONATION TO L M Y F L E S H K O J U also say his first Mass there, I C A M E D O W N E S N SAINT PATRICK’S SEMINARY before returning to the United V S D N N F G O S T K L States.

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Jubilee Year of St. Paul Archdiocese, orders and parishes to mark Pauline Year Archbishop George H. Niederauer and the Archdiocese of San Francisco will open the Jubilee Year dedicated to St. Paul on June 29, the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, at the Mass for the ordination of permanent deacons at St. Mary’s Cathedral .

“The year marks the bi-millennium of the birth of St. Paul, ‘Apostle to the Gentiles,’ which historians have placed between the years 7 and 10 A.D,” said Pat Vallez-Kelly, director of worship for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “It’s a tremendous opportunity to recall the profound impact St. Paul of Tarsus continues to have on the Church and the spread of the Gospel, particularly through his divinely inspired letters included in the New Testament.”

Vallez-Kelly said, “It’s worth noting that during the jubilee year, the Church will hear semi-continuous readings in Sunday Mass from several of the Pauline letters, including the Letter to the Romans (June 1 through Sept.

7), the Letter to the Philippians (Sept. 14 to Oct. 12), the First Letter to the Thessalonians (Oct. 19 to Nov. 16), the First Letter to the Corinthians (Jan. 18, 2009 to Feb. 15, 2009), and the Second Letter to the Corinthians (Feb. 22, then June 21-29, 2009). Faith-sharing and Scripture study groups following the Lectionary for Mass will have substantial opportunity to go deeper into St. Paul’s writings, as will our parish congregations in general if our homilists choose to preach on these series of second readings in the Sunday liturgy.”

• Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski is pastor of St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco. “Our parish is excited about this declaration by Pope Benedict XVI making the coming year the Year of St. Paul.

It will be an opportunity for us to look closer at our patron saint and our parish mission in the context of St. Paul’s mission and thus learn more about the Holy Spirit’s design for our

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By Tom Burke

A sarcophagus is seen through an opening in the floor of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome Dec. 11, 2006.

The sarcophagus was discovered beneath an inscription that reads, “Paul Apostle Martyr.” Vatican officials believe it to be the tomb of St. Paul.

universal, local and parish Church of today.”

• Father David Pettingill is a former pastor of St. Gabriel Parish in San Francisco and professor at St.Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park.

“St. Paul occupies a unique place in Christianity,” Father Pettingill said. “After Jesus he remains the most influential person in the shaping of the practice and the expression of the Christian faith,” “Of the 27 New Testament documents,14 bear Paul’s name or are related to him. Over half of the Acts of the Apostles has Paul as the hero, sharing that title with no less than Peter. Paul’s First Thessalonians, the first written document, contains the vocabulary that we use today: God the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit, faith, love and hope,” Father Pettingill said.

“Paul, maybe next to Jeremiah, is the most eloquent writer in the Scriptures because he is the most self-revelatory,” Father Pettingill continued. “The autobiographical sections are filled with alarming candor, passionate commitment, and exquisite tenderness for God’s people. He can be vulgar, angry, hurt, threatening, merciful and filled with God’s praise.”

• “When it was announced that Pope Benedict had called for a Pauline Year, my heart jumped for joy,” said Sister Germana Santos, a past provincial of the Daughters of St. Paul, whose ministry includes Pauline Books and Media in Redwood City. “As Daughters of St. Paul we were delighted that the Church was being offered an entire year to focus on the person and the writings of the great Apostle.”

The congregation was founded in 1915 in

Italy and came to the United States in 1932.

“Since the early years of life in our community, we have been encouraged to read the Letters of St. Paul and be nourished by them,” Sister Santos said. “Our goal is to acquire the heart of Paul in his love for Jesus Master, and to preach this Jesus to the whole world. St. Paul did so through his preaching, his letters and his travels. We do it through our mission of evangelization with the media.”

“St. Paul is absolutely central to our spirituality and our mission, and his words form the very foundation of a life of a Daughter of St. Paul. For example, phrases like the following are daily on the lips of each Sister as she seeks to ‘put on Christ’: ‘I live, no longer I, but Christ lives in me; insofar as I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who has loved me and given himself up for me’ (Gal 2:20),” Sister Santos said.

• The Paulist Fathers are celebrating their 150th year in 2008 with commemorative events throughout the year and a convocation at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. June 19-21. The Paulists have served at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Parish in San Francisco since 1894. and Chinatown’s Holy Family Mission since 1903.

“The year 2008, our 150th anniversary year, has been designated by our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, as a time dedicated to our patron, St. Paul the Apostle,” said Paulist Father John F. Duffy, congregation president. “Is it by pure coincidence or perhaps the prompting of the Spirit that these two events coincide? I would dare say it is the latter. Our community is engaged in Paul’s mission in the present day.

Paul was very much engaged in the world of his times. As Catholic Christians, we are called to do the same.”

For more about Paulist activities and events visit www.Paulist.org.

For Pauline Year events at Pauline Books and Media in Redwood City, visit www. paulineredwood.blogspot.com.

St. Paul pastor: ‘We want to get the Pauline Year off to roaring start’

Blessed Father James Alberione, founder, Daughters of St. Paul

By Tom Burke The Year of St. Paul to be observed by the universal Catholic Church – June 28, 2008 to June 29, 2009 – will have an early and fitting welcome June 12 at Noe Valley’s St. Paul Parish when Immaculee Ilibagiza, who survived the Rwandan genocide, will speak about the atrocities suffered by her and others and how she found the courage to forgive.

“We want to get the Pauline Year off to a roaring start and think this is the way,” said Father Mario Farana, St. Paul pastor. “I found out about Immaculee when a friend passed her book on to me. It was an incredible experience to read her story.”

Immaculee Ilibagiza is the author of “Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Genocide.” In 1994,she fled for her life from the Rwandan massacres, living more than three months hidden with seven other refugees in the small bathroom of a sympathetic clergy-

Venerable Mother Tecla Merlo, first superior, Daughters of St. Paul

Father Isaac Thomas Hecker, founder, Pauist Fathers, and whose cause for sainthood was opened in January.

Immaculee Ilibagiza, author of “Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Genocide”

man. When she emerged she found that her closest family members were among those slaughtered.

Immaculee’s faith and her willingness to search her heart and forgive even these worst of crimes is what makes her story so appropriate for beginning the Pauline Year, Father Farana said.

“Deep faith and the willingness to forgive are all themes Paul talked about himself as a great apostle,” Father Farana said. “It seems to me Immaculee is an apostle like Paul in the sense of going out and speaking about faith and the love of Christ.”

“We want to move this beyond a lecture or talk,” Father Farana said. “It’s a moment of faith and a moment to help us reflect on our lives as we kick-off the year of St. Paul. We’ll have our parish musicians here that night as people come in and that will set a nice tone.”

Prayer has been a mainstay for Immaculee, said Katy O’Shea, a lifelong member of St.

Paul’s and director of the parish capital campaign.

“The rosary was her staple,” O’Shea said, “and the rosary she used during her time in hiding was one given her by her dad.” Immaculee, who has spoken about her experience to audiences around the world, simultaneously shocks and enchants those who come to hear her, O’Shea said.

“Our moral culture has deteriorated greatly,” Father Farana said. “There is such disrespect for life that Immaculee’s message should be heard by as many people as possible so we can begin to renew ourselves in terms of what we are about.”

Audrey Cabrera Amort of St. Matthew Parish in San Mateo and Toni Guttierez of St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco were among the first to purchase tickets to the June 12 talk. Both have read Immaculee’s book.

Guttierez saw her in person at a PBS-sponsored event in San Francisco.

“I am very excited,” Amort said. “She is someone I very much want to hear. Her faith is so inspiring. I am touched by her prayer, strength, spirit and not going crazy or being afraid while in hiding. Her message of forgiveness is for all of us. We’ve all been hurt one time or another and we all need to forgive.”

“I am so impressed by Immaculee’s humility and gentleness,” Guttierez said, “and how God watched over her every step. She is a reflection of Jesus and Mary. She walks the talk. That’s the bottom line.”

“Immaculee is walking in the footsteps of Paul,” Father Farana said. “He went out to the Gentiles and she is all over the world. Paul was beaten, shipwrecked, and through it all found room to forgive and that’s what Immaculee has done.”

Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. For tickets phone St. Paul’s church office at (415) 648-7538. Parking available.

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Disappointing decision In a surprising decision announced May 15, a divided California Supreme Court, by a one-vote margin, struck down the California Defense of Marriage Act, a ballot initiative (Proposition 22) approved by more than 61 percent of voters in 2000, which held that “Only marriage between one man and one woman is valid and recognized in California.”

California’s Catholic bishops through the California Catholic Conference issued a statement that same day expressing disappointment at the high court ruling, stating that “Catholic teaching maintains that marriage is a faithful, exclusive and lifelong union between one man and one woman joined in an intimate partnership of life and love – a union instituted by God for the mutual fulfillment of the husband and wife as well as for the procreation and education of children.”

San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer underscored the California bishops’ reference to the teaching of the Catholic Church, which he said, “follows forth from the teaching of Jesus Christ.”

Archbishop Niederauer stated, “At a moment in our society when we need to reinforce the strength of marriage and family this decision of the Supreme Court takes California in the opposite direction. This action challenges those in society who believe in the importance of the traditional understanding of marriage to deepen their witness to the unique and essential role that marriage between a man and a woman has in the life of society.”

This ruling by the California Supreme Court – four justices in favor and three justices dissenting – also overturns a 2006 California Appeals Court ruling, which said because same-sex marriage has never been recognized in California, “courts simply do not have the authority to create new rights, especially when doing so involves changing the definition of so fundamental an institution as marriage.”

In the recent decision, however, a bare majority of the state’s highest judges have overridden the expressed will of a strong majority of the electorate and denied the axiom that in a democracy the people are sovereign.

Oakland Bishop Allen Vigneron said in a pastoral letter this week, based on the decision of the California Supreme Court, “we appear to be heading – at least for a time – toward a social order in which same-sex couples will be able to contract marriage.”

Bishop Vigneron stated, “The conviction that same-sex couples cannot enter marriage is a conviction which all Catholics implicitly affirm when, in our baptismal promises, we profess that we share the Church’s faith that the ‘Father Almighty [is] the Creator of heaven and earth.’ This conviction about marriage, while confirmed by faith, can be known from reason.

Therefore, our efforts to enshrine this wisdom about marriage in the laws of our community are not an imposition of an ideology but a service of the truth which we make for the common good. This wisdom about the nature of marriage is not a form of discrimination, but undergirds our freedom to live according to God’s plan for us.”

Proponents of a definition of marriage as a union of one woman and one man already have gathered more than one million signatures to place on the November 2008 ballot an amendment to the California constitution, which would overrule the recent 4-3 vote of the State Supreme Court. The constitutional amendment would be similar to the marriage laws adopted in more than half the states in America in recent years.

The recent court decision reflects a secular phenomenon that seeks to normalize all aspects of homosexuality, and blur the intrinsic differences between heterosexual marriage and homosexual relations. Contemporary culture also finds advocates and a constituency for efforts to stigmatize religious beliefs regarding marriage, family and morality.

Pope Benedict XVI has noted that marriage is not “a casual sociological construction,” but a reflection of truth about the human person, the meaning of life and the relationship of human beings with the God who created them out of love and for love.

The pope also has noted that in recent generations, the overriding purpose of marriage has evolved to be the spouses’ mutual pleasure. This view differs from what every culture in history has recognized as the heart of marriage: the birth, welfare and education of children. The happiness of a couple is vital, certainly, but this is not the only or primary purpose of marriage. The Catholic Church has consistently recognized that society owes its continued survival to the family, founded on marriage between a man and a woman.

The recent California Supreme Court decision – striking down the definition of marriage as between one woman and one man – calls to mind the words of Pope Benedict, when he warned of a “cultural context marked by relativism” and against any views of marriage as merely a legal union “that human will could manipulate as it pleases, even depriving it of its heterosexual nature.”

MEH

Unions and matrimony I would like to remind the California Catholic Conference and bishops that the recent California Supreme Court decision is a matter of jurisprudence and in no way hinders any religious organization within California from establishing norms within which they choose to bless or sanctify marriages. Such a religious action is “matrimony.” In no way does the ruling “attack the sanctity of marriage” or the stability of the family. This ruling is a clarification of the equal protection aspects of the Constitution as it is currently written.

This is a legal decision that will be played out at the ballot box and in the courts for a long time. Even if advocates of samesex marriage prevail, there is no way that result would or should result in religious entities having to change their norms.

However, as the law currently exists, religious proscriptions masquerading as cultural or traditions norms impose restrictions on a portion of society that does not agree with nor observe these proscriptions.

For those truly worried about the sanctity of marriage and the traditional family unit, I suggest that the people most responsible for the weakening thereof look in the mirror and see the cause of whatever failures exist looking back at them. I have yet to hear a convincing, compelling argument why the 36-year relationship I have with my partner in any way diminishes the value of anyone’s marriage or family stability to the point of denying me and mine equal protection.

I propose this solution: anyone who wants to be married must enter into a civil union that confers all of the legal rights and privileges that currently come with marriage. Thereafter, anyone who wants “matrimony” or the equivalent can do so within the religious group of their choice. That has been done in most of “Catholic Europe” for many years and life as we know it has not ended.

Jim McCrea Piedmont

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Matthew 25:35 I write in response to the recent letter of Sean Walsh regarding Bishop-elect Bill Justice and the issue of illegal immigrants.

I would invite Mr. Walsh to include a brief passage from Matthew’s Gospel in his personal prayer:”For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me.”

There are lots of “strangers” who have come to this country, the people to whom Mr. Walsh refers.

I would ask him what he thinks Jesus meant by this mysterious word “stranger”? Did Jesus mean only those with an official governmental seal of approval? May the Lord give us the ability to see and understand crucial issues rightly, as people of faith.

Rev. Piers Lahey Pacifica

L E T T E R S

I always enjoy Father Gerald Coleman’s articles. “Clergy sex abuse and clericalism” (May 16) was no exception. I simply add that an “ism” isn’t a sin.

From my perspective what kills priesthood, what destroys innocence, and what drains archdiocesan reserves of millions of dollars is not clericalism but sinful, criminal action by a cleric. Clericalism is not on trial nor behind bars; a cleric is.

So instead of wasting too much energy and ink on what is, after all, the oldest of the “sins” of the fathers – clericalism - let’s instead consider the real culprits: (gulp!) bishops.

Google St. Peter Damian and his “Book of Gomorrah.” Written a thousand years ago and addressed to Pope Leo IX, the saint openly discusses homosexuality and pederasty within the clerical ranks. This is not PG13 spiritual reading. And the saint minces no words in his condemnation of

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those bishops and abbots who refuse or fail to take a strong hand in dealing with clerical sodomy either because they are themselves morally “blasé” or because of their inability to face up to a distasteful and potentially scandalous situation.

Father Coleman uses the phrase, “... many priests who have abused children.…”

Sorry, such an expression troubles me. As I see it, the albatross first hangs around the neck of bishops (many? some?) who failed to take seriously the perennial, thousand-yearold counsel of the Church’s tradition.

Father James Garcia Menlo Park

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I wish you could have witnessed the joy and excitement on campus when our principal gave me the “task” of showing our third grade your Youth@Art picture in the May 9 Catholic San Francisco that included children from the class.

Some were literally jumping up and down, exclaiming in disbelief, “We’re in the newspaper!” One child, who also inquired about the newspaper circulation, ran instantly to her sister (four siblings attend Mission Dolores) to show her the photo. So, thank you so much – and for referring readers to our school website as well.

Cathy Patterson Mission Dolores Elementary School San Francisco

Music to our eyes Thank you for writing such a wonderful article on our Dominican Schools Music Project and for the photo of the kids on the May 2 cover. The principals, staff and children were all very excited, and on behalf of all of us involved with bringing music instruction into these schools, I want to express our appreciation.

Keri Lindell Director Dominican Schools Music Project

Note from Illinois I want to thank you once more for your kindness and fidelity in sending me the Catholic San Francisco with such regularity.

It is such joy to receive it and I look forward to getting the latest news of the Archdiocese.

So does Sister Veronica Donlon who also receives it.

Having lived in San Francisco for many years we love to read all that is happening and thank God for all the good that is being done. I was particularly delighted to receive the news of Father Bill Justice. I have known Bill for a long time and know that the Archdiocese will be all the richer for having him as auxiliary bishop.

I also enjoyed the news of Pope Benedict’s visit even though I had followed it on television. What a gift!

Yesterday I cut out Brother Samaha’s great contribution on “Why pray the rosary” and shared it with many. Louis Pasteur must be smiling from heaven. Great men are usually so humble!

LETTERS, page 22

May 23, 2008

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From Sacramento

Reform, initiatives and reforming initiatives On the first Tuesday in June, Californians will vote for the second of three times in eight months. This upcoming primary election is designed to nominate candidates for the parties who then face off in November, The state’s primary system was established in 1909 as an attempt to eliminate the undue influence of the Southern Pacific Railroad in California politics. It was part of a major reform pushed by the Lincoln-Roosevelt League, whose best-known member was Governor Hiram Johnson.

Changing entrenched political processes usually takes time. The reforms that Johnson and others pushed took place over a span of just a few years – after politics in California had reached a point that its failures rallied voters into action.

Triple elections and legislative inaction may bring us to such a point again, 100 years later.

For example, other states also followed California when we established the state initiative process in 1911.

A powerful tool “of the people,” the initiative process has been used to great good, but during the last century it also has created a morass of confusing, often conflicting, laws that either are thrown out by the courts or eventually corrected by another initiative.

It is not uncommon, for instance, to find two propositions dealing with the same issue on the same ballot. Often the initiatives are placed on the ballot solely for the purpose of confusing the voters.

June’s Proposition 98 and 99 are examples of how out-of-control the initiatives process has become. Both deal with eminent domain – the power of governments to seize

property for a public good and purchase the land from what might be a reluctant owner at a fair price.

Most people understand the need to do this for a highway, school, or similar project. But, it has been abused by governments.

Over time the law has been improved, but not enough in some areas. One group has put an initiative on the ballot to rewrite the law and another countered with their own initiative that had a “poison pill” that killed the other initiative if both pass.

You can’t make this stuff up.

These dueling ballot measures also contain little noticed surprises. Prop 98, for instance, eliminates rent control, while Prop 99 applies only to owner-occupied dwellings.

As is often the case in California, why do we elect representatives if not to have them sort out these issues through the legislative process in a professional manner?

The danger in all this, of course, is that voters will become anesthetized by the process and cease to pay sufficient attention to the issues and candidates.

Another hazard feeding the potential indifference among voters is that our Assembly, Senate and Congressional districts are determined by partisans.

In the 2006 elections the number of seats held by each party in both state houses did not change. It seldom does.

Party-protected districts are the norm in California.

The Governor has been pushing redistricting reform but has found that entrenched interests are hard to move.

No surprise there.

Eliminating as much partisanship as possible from the redis-

tricting process would open up elections to more contenders, bring more voices into the process.

Talk is brewing in Sacramento about further refinements to the initiative process to allow legislators to fine tune Steve Pehanich proposals with sponsors before a proposal is placed on the ballot. This change could actually return us to the original system.

Healthy skepticism and debate is what our democracy needs.Recognizing the problem is the first part of the solution. Continually improving our political system is another part of the answer.

If we stay involved as voters, perhaps we will not have to wait another century for major reform. That’s why it is time to return to our regularly scheduled election, even when it is not so exciting Steve Pehanich is director of advocacy and education for the California Catholic Conference. Visit www. capwiz.com/cacatholic/home/ for information on legislation, elections and Catholic social teaching.

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Spirituality for Life

The anatomy of hatred There is a popular theme within Christian apologetics that goes something like this: Christianity is the most hated of all religions and that is a certain proof of its truth.

The logic works this way: If we are so unfairly hated, we must be doing something right. Truth and innocence draw hatred. Jesus was hated, and so are we!

We need to be careful with that because, among other things, today, thanks to certain radical fundamentalists claiming to be Muslim, Islam is probably the most hated of all religions, and hated not because of what is true and best inside it. Not only innocence and truth draw hatred. Being hated is not always a good sign or an indication you (alone among the unfaithful) are holding to the real truth. It may be you have made a vow of alienation rather than of love. Both eventually make you hated.

Being hated is only a criterion of carrying the truth if you have made a vow of love. Jesus wasn’t trying to be divisive and unpopular. He was trying to speak his truth in ways that precisely didn’t alienate and didn’t provoke hatred. But that

isn’t always possible. He was trying to love others, purely and in the truth, but it eventually made him an object of hatred.

That isn’t surprising. There is a certain proclivity within human nature to hate innocence and goodness. We see this illustrated in books and movies. Notice how in so many stories that depict the struggle between good and evil, invariably the bad will eventually fixate on what is its opposite, innocence and goodness. In most every dramatic epic, eventually the guns of the bad guys will end up trained upon the most innocent and loving person in town. It’s the saint who invariably bears the brunt of wound and hurt inside a community.

It is the saint who is the scapegoat. It happened to Jesus. It happens to all goodness; by its stripes we are healed.

Why? Because such is the anatomy of hatred. Hatred is a perverse form of love, love’s grief. It’s what love becomes when, because of wound and circumstance, it cannot be warm and reciprocal. Rollo May once famously stated that hatred is not the opposite of love.

Indifference is. Hatred might instead be described as cold, wounded, frustrated and grieving love, love gone sour. You can’t conjure-up a powerful hatred for someone unless at some level you first love him or her. When love is Father wounded and frustrated, Ron Rolheiser the tears it provokes can be warm and cleansing, but they can also be bitter and cold. Cold grief. Hatred with its children: jealousy, bitterness, murderous feelings.

That’s part of the anatomy of love and that’s why love can so quickly turn into hatred and why most murders are domestic.

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The Catholic Difference

The pope and the universities Benedict XVI had barely left the Catholic University of America on April 17 when the Catholic higher education establishment’s spin machine shifted into high gear. One university president said that what most impressed him about the papal address to Catholic educators was what it was not: a dressing-down. Still another president cooed that she felt “affirmed.”

An administrator at yet another institution said that, as the pope hadn’t cited Ex Corde Ecclesia, John Paul II’s concerns about Catholic identity were clearly old hat. One got the distinct impression from the spin that a lot of people thought they’d dodged a bullet – and were grateful they weren’t going home to face irate alums and dubious donors. The “Benedict loves what we’re doing” blah-blah has continued ever since.

The facts, to put it gently, suggest something rather more complicated. Consider these excerpts from the Holy Father’s address: • “A university’s or school’s Catholic identity...is a question of conviction – do we really believe that only in the mystery of the Word made flesh does the mystery of man truly become clear? Are we ready to commit our entire self – intellect and will, mind and heart – to God? Do we accept the truth Christ reveals?” [What percentage of this year’s Catholic college and university graduates could honestly answer those questions with a convinced “Yes?” What percentage would even understand the first question?]

• “While we have sought diligently to engage the intellect of our young, perhaps we have neglected the will. Subsequently we observe, with distress, the notion of freedom being distorted.

Freedom is not an opting out. Freedom is an opting in – a participation in Being itself. Hence authentic freedom can never be obtained by turning away from God.” [Might these sentences be printed, framed and posted in co-ed dormitories on Catholic campuses?]

• “We observe today a timidity in the face of the category of the good...an assumption that every experience is of equal worth and a reluctance to admit imperfection and mistakes.

And particularly disturbing is the reduction of the precious and delicate area of education in sexuality to management of ‘risk,” bereft of any reference to the beauty of conjugal love.” [How many freshman orientation programs and student life offices on Catholic campuses would have to examine consciences here?]

• “....I wish to affirm the great value of academic freedom....

Yet...any appeal to the principle of academic freedom in order to justify positions that contradict the faith and the teaching of the Church would obstruct or even betray the university’s identity and mission; a mission at the heart of the Church’s [teaching mission] and not somehow...independent of it.” [Will the theologians at prestige Catholic universities who affirm Humanae Vitae’s teaching on the morally appropriate means of regulating fertility, the Catechism’s teaching on the disordered character of homosexual acts, and the teaching of Ordinatio Sacerdotalis on the inadmissability of women to Holy Orders please raise their hands?]

The spin machine notwithstanding, Benedict XVI put serious challenges before the nation’s leading Catholic educators.

To resolve any doubts that the pope has a different idea of what

befits a Catholic college or university than a lot of the Catholic higher education establishment, however, I propose a simple test.

Whether or not to produce Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues – a “play” that George Weigel mocks the settled teaching of the Catholic Church – has become a tedious annual ritual on many Catholic campuses. Prominent among them is Notre Dame: to the public mind, the flagship among U.S. Catholic institutions of higher education. There, the university’s president, Father John Jenkins, CSC, has allowed Ensler’s “play” on campus, acquiescing to the demands of some Notre Dame faculty while rejecting the counsel of other distinguished faculty members and the arguments of the local bishop.

In the patristic period, disputes within and among local churches were submitted to the Bishop of Rome for adjudication.

So here’s my proposal and my test-case: let Father Jenkins send Pope Benedict XVI a copy of Ensler’s “play,” asking the pope whether he considers this material appropriate for production or useful for discussion on a Catholic campus.

The answer, I predict, will not please the spin machine.

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

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May 23, 2008

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By Deacon Bill Turrentine During the famous Summer of Love in 1967, hoards of young people descended on San Francisco to join the hippie rebellion against superficial, middle-class values. “Make love,� the appealing slogan went, “not war.� I was 14 years old and in full sympathy with the hippie movement, opposing the cultural bankruptcy that seemed to be epitomized by the war in Vietnam.

The assassinations the following year of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy and the televised scenes of police brutality at the Democratic Convention in Chicago seemed to confirm the need for a radical break with the past. In July of this tumultuous year of 1968, Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical letter, Humanae Vitae, defending Christianity’s traditional teaching on the meaning of sexuality and openness to life. As the pope anticipated, Humanae Vitae was a “sign of contradiction�

(HV 18). It seemed obvious to me and many others that the Catholic Church was a dangerous anachronism which opposed progress to control people afraid to think for

themselves. The Church was bound to fade away, I thought, as the Age of Aquarius spread enlightenment, which would include sexual liberation.

Nine years later, influenced by a professor at San Francisco State, I entered the Catholic Church I had once despised. In the instructions prior to my Easter Vigil baptism, however, the Church’s teachings regarding the meaning of sexuality, openness to life and against the use of artificial contraception were not even mentioned. Later, when my fiancÊe and I were preparing for marriage, the Church’s teachings were again never mentioned. We did know that there had been some, apparently vague, Church teaching against contraception. We assumed this was an ancient, dreamy ideal but certainly not a practical requirement for modern Catholics. The few Catholic couples we knew well enough to know this sort of thing all used contraception. Dependent on my wife’s income while I worked at a start-up company, it never occurred to us to mention contraceptive use when we went to confession.

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documents, such as Casti Connubii, written by Pope Pius XI society, for marriages and especially for women. He predicted in 1930 and Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church a lowering of morality and a tendency for a husband to view in the Modern World, published in 1965, which reaffirmed his wife “as a mere instrument of selfish enjoyment, and no longer as his respected and beloved companion� (HV 17). the traditional teaching of the Church.

Fortified by prayer, my wife and I remained faithful and God With trepidation and self-pity, my wife and I agreed that, as faithful Catholics, we had to submit to these teachings. We could helped us. First we discovered the Sympto-Thermal method, not, as Humanae Vitae states, “determine in a wholly autonomous taught by the Couple to Couple League, which includes mulway the honest path to follow; but they [the married couple] must tiple signs of fertility. For us, it was like driving north on the conform their activity to the creative intention of God, expressed Golden Gate Bridge and coming out of the fog into sunshine. in the very nature of marriage and of its acts, and manifested by The method is presented in the context of the Church’s teachings, which helped deepen our understanding and commitment. the constant teaching of the Church� (HV 10).

We later discovered Pope John This was the heaviest cross Paul II’s Theology of the Body, ever thrust upon us. Growing where he explores the biblical up in a time of general rebel- It seemed obvious to me ‌ the roots of Humanae Vitae and lion against societal norms, nature of married love. He the virtue of chastity was Catholic Church was a dangerous delves into the reasons why the foreign to me. The Natural love-affirming and the babyFamily Planning we learned anachronism which opposed making parts of sex have been to comply with Humanae united by God and cannot be Vitae required periodic abstiprogress to control people afraid pulled apart without harming nence, which I found difficult. the marriage relationship.

Furthermore, the method we The pope also observed learned depended on a single to think for themselves. that periodic abstinence sign of fertility, a single sign requires couples to develop which works well for the vast majority of couples. We were one of the rare exceptions, and self-mastery. Though difficult to achieve, self-mastery liberates the spouses to make a free gift of themselves to we had a surprise pregnancy, our first child.

The challenge of abstinence and the shock of the preg- each other. The beautiful self-giving of husband and wife nancy precipitated a crisis. As unhappy as we were, however, is expressed physically through the union of their bodies as we realized we could never turn back to contraceptives. To God intended from the beginning when he made them male our surprise, when we had fearfully dispensed with artificial and female. With the development of self-mastery, this selfmethods, our relationship had improved profoundly. It was giving can rise above the limits of selfish desire, so that each clear in retrospect that the use of contraception had involved spouse can seek the highest good of the other.

St. Paul tells us in his letter to the Ephesians that this love exploitation. We discovered in our own experience what Pope Paul VI had warned about: by disrupting the baby-making between husband and wife refers to the mystery of Jesus and part of sex, we had also been damaging the love-deepening HUMANE VITAE, page 14 part of sex. This kind of damaged sexual relationship still affords sensual pleasure; in fact, contraception makes sensual pleasure available on demand, which is particularly desirable to many men. But wives often sense that their husbands end up more intent on satisfying bodily urges than making an authentic gift of self. Pope Paul VI warned that the acceptance of contraception would lead to negative consequences for ((() * +)

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Wedding Guide Humane Vitae . . .

Deacon Bill Turrentine is assigned to St. Rita Parish in Fairfax. He is on the board of The Couple to Couple League, one of the largest providers of Natural Family Planning services in the world. He and his wife, Pat, teach the Sympto-Thermal Method of NFP.

■ Continued from page 13

his bride, the Church. Jesus makes a complete gift of himself – body, soul and divinity – to his bride, the Church, on the cross, and he continues to make that same self-gift present to his Church, above all in the Eucharist. The Church in turn makes a total gift of herself to Jesus, placing herself completely at his disposal. This mutual self-giving is never a closed circle.

It is always open to new life. The new life involves a deeper union between Christ and his people and it also reaches out to bring new life to those in need, to those who do not know Christ, and to those who are enemies of Christ.

In the sacrament of marriage, God touches the human the act itself in order to damage the life-giving power God has love of husband and wife with his divine love. It is the woven into the physical self-giving of married couples. nature of divine love to confer new life and so the expression These actions may succeed in destroying the life-giving of Christian love in marriage must always be life-giving. nature of sex, thereby making sensual pleasure available with Sometimes the new life a couple actively seeks with their only the remote possibility of unwanted babies. But even if physical self-giving may be limited to the development of a couple’s intentions are good, these actions are really more a fuller love for each other and, in some circumstances, war-like than love-like. This is a type of mutilation that conception may be highly unlikely due to the phase of the makes us less capable of giving ourselves completely or of fertility cycle or because of other natural factors, such as receiving the self-gift of our spouse. Regardless of intention, advancing age, which can reduce or prevent fertility. these actions damage the love-affirming character that God At other times, the life has built into marital sex. sought may include the immediAs my wife and I discovered, ate hope to participate with God To our surprise, when we had Natural Family Planning helps in the creation of a new human bring couples into harmony with being, a baby in whom husband the law of love and life that God and wife become one flesh for- fearfully dispensed with artificial has written into our very being ever in the person of a new and and into the nature of Christian unique image of God. A couple, methods, our relationship had marriage. We should not have evaluating their circumstances been surprised that Christian with reason, faith, generosity improved profoundly. marriage leads to the cross. and prayer, need not seek a baby Anything that shares in the every time they engage in the sacrifice of Christ will require self-giving proper to marriage but they must never seek to kill repentance, faith, self-mastery and self-giving. Nor should we new life once conceived. They also must not alter themselves have been surprised that Jesus would help us along the way and with a surgeon’s knife, or with spermicides, artificial hormones, that this cross would lead to new and more abundant life. That the introduction of physical barriers or by the frustration of is the resurrection.

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Wedding Guide ‘Quality couple time’ benefits the whole family As my husband and I discovered more than a decade ago, the early years of raising children are so physically and mentally demanding that spending quality time together can easily become a low priority.

Although understandable, this is undesirable.

To flourish, our marriage relationship must remain a priority and continually be nurtured.

To avoid gradually, insidiously drifting apart, we’re challenged to consciously and creatively make time for each other, rather than passively waiting and hoping to “find” some.

For example, if you or your spouse devote time to individual leisure pursuits, scale back and substitute couple time.

Consider establishing a weekly, biweekly or monthly date, perhaps going out for dinner, attending a cultural or sporting event, or trying a new activity together. If you’re on a tight budget, collect and use coupons for local restaurants and attractions, go out for dessert instead of a meal, take a long walk or go roller-blading, pack a picnic lunch or supper and go to a park, or drive somewhere that offers a great sunset view. Vary activities and the time of day to make dates even more fun, and take turns planning them.

Give preference to activities that allow the opportunity to be alone and to communicate.

Remember how much time you spent talking – in person and on the phone – when you were dating? So if you like going to the movies, build in time for coffee or a walk afterward.

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Or consider taking turns babysitting with friends whose kids are compatible with yours.

Check out the weekend preschool programs at area recreation centers. They often allow enough time for you and spouse to go for coffee or take a walk. Some facilities also offer Saturday night sleepovers.

If it’s hard to arrange child care or you’re not comfortable leaving your children yet, plan home-based dates. Once the kids are settled in bed, order your favorite take-out food and enjoy a candlelit dinner. Have a picnic on the living room floor. Cook a special meal together.

Snuggle up and watch a movie - perhaps one

you enjoyed while courting. Play cards or board games. Turn off the phone.

If you both work, arrange a lunch date or jointly take an afternoon off and do something fun together until it’s time to pick up the kids. If you can flex your work time, plan to go in later one day and have breakfast together.

It’s also important to find ways to build quality couple time into daily life, even if all you can manage for now is 15 minutes. It can be as simple as habitually sitting down together to talk about your day once the kids are settled into bed, instead of automatically turning on the TV or computer or scrambling to do household chores. Give each other your full attention; eliminating distractions.

Get into the habit, too, of demonstrating affection on a daily basis, and expressing appreciation for the things your partner does for you and your family that you tend to take for granted.

Perform thoughtful gestures such as completing a household task your mate customarily handles or serving breakfast in bed. Revive courtship practices, like giving flowers or writing notes.

Take heart that as your children grow, couple time will be easier to come by. However, you must lay the groundwork now.

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Wedding Guide Guest Commentary The domestic church and the global village The domestic church is the family. It is the faith-life of the family. It is this invisible structure made of the love between each family member and between them and God. It is resting on the visible members of the family, but it is being nourished by the invisible energy of grace.

It softens what would normally harden. It unites what would simply come apart. It comforts what would easily give up. How each family will deal with love and relationships and grace (or lack of it) will set up the stage for its spiritual health and fitness.

Of course, there can be love in any family, but in a Catholic family, there is love and faith. And this faith is not only the link to God, to Jesus and to the saints, to everything transcendent, it puts the “big picture” about our journey on earth into the proper context. It is from the nest of the family that one can learn how to exercise charity toward the other members of the human family – starting with its own, then reaching out to the world.

The virtues of everyday life, such as courage, patience, restraint, kindness and generosity, are all best learned when first practiced within the circle of the family.

The family is the very first school of love.

Most parents know this instinctively, but do not always know how to articulate it. They know that what they are doing within this school of love is more important than

any course at a top university. However, that truth is not well propagated in popular culture. Parents often feel they have to swim against the current (just like salmon), and it is a constant struggle. They have to filter the constant avalanche of messages, most of which conflict with the Christian faith: messages about instant gratification rather than developing patience and fortitude, about feeding our own needs rather than exercising love of neighbor, about glorifying individualism rather than working for the common good, about the superficial importance of appearances rather than true character, about use and abuse rather than self-restraint, about greed rather than charity.

But, there are many small practical steps that can be taken, and it must start with us – parents or even grandparents. We need to be willing to learn more about our own faith. We need to look at this family faith journey as an adventure because that is exactly what it is – an on-going quest that can redirect everything to its proper goal: the sanctification of the world and our own inner conversion.

It is the abundant life, even from a precarious position.

Globalization and the overwhelming reach of media offer just as many opportunities for the love of God and love of neighbor as it does for sin and turning away

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from God. To live as a follower of Christ has been a challenge ever since the very beginning.

Christians faced persecution from the first days of the Church, and although the modern threats to the Michele Szekely family take new forms and many shapes, they are a form of persecution.

As Pope John Paul II said, we need to remember the family is placed “at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.”

How many factors are at work that can destabilize the family nucleus? Too many! The list is appalling. Trying to witness as a Catholic family is certainly a challenge.

Resistance can come from outside unbelievers as well as from lukewarm members of our own family who can resist faith with apathy.

At the parish level, the primacy of the domestic church needs to be recognized and clearly articulated. Teachers and parents can start a faith-sharing group on “How do you share the faith at the dinner table?” or “How do I instill veneration for the saints rather than blind SZEKELY, page 17

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With a theme of “One World, One Family, 40 Years,” the convention will celebrate the international marriage-support movement’s fourth decade.

The emphasis of Marriage Encounter has long been what are called “Encounter weekends” for married couples.

“The emphasis of the weekends is on the communication between husbands and wives,” said the press release.

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and gentleness. When we succeed, it benefits us all. It is crucial we remember in times of great challenge to put our trust in the mercy of God. This is not about what ■ Continued from page 16 we can do, but about putting ourselves into his hands, admiration for billionaire sport stars?” Start a Catholic entrusting him with our family members, knowing his book-club; organize a pilgrimage to a holy site; network grace can overcome all our shortcomings. The fruits of such trust will benefit our community first, and then it with other families. will ripple out in blessings The importance of the of love and faith, peace labor of love done within and support. Whether the the domestic church cannot We need to look at this family results are initially visible be overstated. The truth is or not, they will eventuthat it is sometimes easier faith journey as an adventure ally bless the whole global to befriend perfect strangers than to love members of our because that is exactly what it is… village. own family. Similarly, this A member of Notre Dame labor of love must continue des Victoires Parish in even when our children are grown and reject the faith; especially then, because our San Francisco, Michele own love, patience, humility and forgiveness might form Szekely describes herself as a “returning Catholic.” the only thread keeping them from a life indifferent to A longer version of this commentary may be seen on God. As long as they are linked to us through love, there her website which carries material in French and is a chance for grace.

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Rolheiser . . .

When love breaks down, what follows is rarely indifference (a parting in good friendship). What follows is often hatred, bitterness, coldness. Affairs mostly grow sour, not indifferent, and the same is, sadly, true of love in almost all its aspects.

What’s to be learned? That hatred needs to be understood, whether it’s at a personal level or at the level of whole civilizations. Hatred is not the opposite of love. It is a perverse form of love, cold grief, bitter disaffection, that needs not to be met in kind, with a reciprocal form of coldness, but with warmth and forgiveness, tough as these are in the face of their opposite.

One of the great moral struggles of our lives lies in this. When people hate us what spontaneous feelings rise within us? Feelings of coldness and anger, along with the wish, secret and not-so-secret, that their lives will go badly and that they will be forced to see their error and have to swallow against their will the fact they are wrong.

Hatred wants the other to choke on his or her own error.

But none of that will be productive for those who hate us, or for ourselves. Only if good things begin to happen in the lives of those who hate us, only if they feel the warmth of love and blessing, can their hearts let go of the bitterness, jealousy and hatred that’s there. Hearts don’t thaw out inside bitterness and jealousy. They break. It’s not when people are bitter that they admit the error of their ways and the unfairness of their hatred. Hearts begin to see how wrong their hatred is only when the very object of their jealousy and hatred is itself strong enough to not give back in kind, but instead to absorb the hatred for what it is – wounded love, love gone cold when it would want to be warm.

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May said Catholics should work to generate public support for the marriage amendment likely on the November ballot.

The day after the Courtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling, Pope Benedict XVI spoke out on the issue of marriage. While not directly mentioning the decision, the pope reiterated his commitment to traditional marriage in an address to the Forum of Family Associations and the European Federation of Catholic Family Associations. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The union of love, based on matrimony between a man and a woman, which makes up the family, represents a good for all society that cannot be substituted by, confused with, or compared to other types of unions,â&#x20AC;? Pope Benedict said.

The pope called the traditional family â&#x20AC;&#x153;founded on matrimony between a man and a woman, the natural cradle of human life.â&#x20AC;?

Several gay and lesbian couples joined the City of San Francisco and gay rights groups to sue the state to overturn the ban on same-sex marriage. The ruling makes California second after Massachusetts to allow same-sex couples to wed.

Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Vermont allow civil unions, an arrangement that grants many of the rights of marriage to same-sex couples. Maine,

Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia allow domestic partnership, with rights varying by state. Hawaii allows for reciprocal beneficiary status, which is similar to domestic partnership.

Same-sex marriage is banned by the state constitutions of 26 states, 18 of which also have constitutional bans on same-sex civil unions. Sixteen additional states ban same-sex marriage by statute.

May 15â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ruling passed 4-3. Chief Justice Ron George wrote the majority opinion, joined by Justices Joyce Kennard, Kathryn Werdegar and Carlos Moreno.

George wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;History alone is not invariably an appropriate guide for determining the meaning and scope of this fundamental constitutional guarantee.â&#x20AC;?

In the dissenting opinion, Justice Marvin Baxter wrote the majorityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision â&#x20AC;&#x153;relies heavily on the Legislatureâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adoption of progressive civil rights protections for gays and lesbians to find a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. In effect, the majority gives the Legislature indirectly power that body does not directly possess to amend the Constitution and repeal an initiative statute.â&#x20AC;?

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Corpus Christi Commemorations May 25, following 1 p.m. Mass: Corpus Christi Procession will begin at Sts. Peter and Paul Church at 666 Filbert St., San Francisco and will end at the Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi at the corner of Columbus and Vallejo. Procession of Adoration through North Beach is open to all! Call (415) 421-0809.

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Taize/Chanted Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Young Adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For information contact, mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net.

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

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

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

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

Pauline Books and Media Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City (650) 369-4230 - Visit paulineredwood.blogspot.com.

June 19, 7 p.m.: Join the Daughters of St. Paul as they launch the Year of St. Paul with the renowned and beloved Father David Pettingill.

Topics will include: Paul, the man behind the mission, the far reaching influence of his life and letters, his passionate love for Christ, and pastoral application of Pauline theology. For more information call (650) 369-4230.

Food & Fun May 30, 31, June 1: St. Pius Church’s Festival of Fun at 1100 Woodside Rd. in Redwood City.

Includes games of chance, children’s games, arts and crafts and entertainment. Friday 6 – 10 p.m.; Saturday noon – 10 p.m.; Sunday noon – 8 p.m. The hilarious Late Nite Catechism II dinner comedy show is on June 1 at 2 p.m. Tickets at $60 include a chicken dinner. Childcare available for 4 – 10-year-olds. Enjoy the Friday night dance featuring music by Busta Groove. Tickets are $25.

Call Elizabeth Krebs at (650) 364-2766 for more information.

May 31, 8 p.m.: Music with a Mission: Come to a benefit for the Dominican Schools Music Project at St. Anthony Immaculate Conception School, 299 Precita Ave. in San Francisco. The event will feature performances by music and Latin Dance students from SAIC and St. James Schools and headliner Latin jazz band Los Bros. $10 donation at the door; advance reservations at (510) 5342743. Enjoy a night of food, music and dance to benefit music for every child!

June, 13, 14, 15: The 28th annual Nativity Carnival at Nativity School in Menlo Park, corner of Oak Grove and Laurel; 12 carnival rides, car raffle, silent auction, Saturday night casino, food and game booths, live entertainment and more.

More details can be found at event website: www. nativitycarnival.org.

June 28: Eduardo Verastegui, star of the film “Bella,” is special guest at annual dinner and auction of Our Lady’s Ministry at St. Veronica Parish Hall, 434 Alida Way in South San Francisco, beginning at 6 p.m.

T i cke t s a r e $ 2 5 .

Contact Katie Bruno at (415) 664-2100 Eduardo Verastegui or kathleenbruno@ gmail.com.

Reunions May 31. 11 a.m.: Class of ’58, Sacred Heart High School and St. Vincent High School are guests of honor at this Gold Diploma ceremony at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. Tickets are $45. Call (415) 775-6626 or visit www.shcp. edu.

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

June 7, noon: Class of ’51 from now closed St. Agnes Elementary School at the United Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Contact W. Urie Walsh at (415) 6686501 or wuwkmw@aol.com or Kevin Carter at (214) 893-3130 or kevincarter@prodigy.net.

June 19, 12:30 p.m.: Class of ’46 from St. Paul High School at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Call June Maffei at (415) 584-7239 or Maureen Collins at (415) 585-5203.

June 26, noon: Reunion of ‘53 graduates from St. Ignatius, Sacred Heart and Archbishop Riordan high schools at Caesar’s Restaurant, Bay and Powell in San Francisco. Tickets are $37.

Call Charley Leach, SI, (415) 420-5082; John

Consolation Ministry Grief support groups meet at the following parishes.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 5581015. St. Dunstan, Millbrae; call Barbara Cappel at (650) 692-7543. Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-0478. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 366-3802.

St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sister Patricia at (650) 589-2800.

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

San Francisco: St. Dominic; call Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824; St. Finn Barr (bilingual); call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823. St. Gabriel; call Elaine Khalaf at (415) 564-7882.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo; call Barbara Elordi at (415) 6145506.

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

Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 558-1015.

Information regarding grief ministry in general: call Barbara Elordi at (415) 614-5506.

Returning Catholics May 31, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.: The Filipino Ministry of St. Bartholomew Parish is sponsoring a Marian May Festival May 31 in the parish auditorium, 600 Columbia Dr. at Alameda de las Pulgas in San Mateo from 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. A multi-media presentation on Our Lady and how she is venerated around the world will be shown. Music, dance, free tasting of Filipino foods are also part of the afternoon.

Admission is free. Call Alison at (650) 347-0701, ext. 10 or e-mail Brenda Foster at mom.bfoster@gmail.com. Father Michael Healy, St. Bartholomew pastor, with event organizers, Marilene and Leo De Guzman.

Zeiter, SH, (415) 479-3286; George Schnapp, Riordan, (415) 731-7692; Bill Cotton, Riordan, (408) 725-1339.

St. Emydius Class of ‘58 will have its 50th reunion this year! We are looking for classmates and have a website at www.stemydius58.com.

You can enter your information, post pictures and help plan the event. Contact Bill Duggan at (415) 239-2278, Duggan341@aol.com, or Irene Hogan Deem, (707) 869-3751, irenedeem@ comcast.net.

Star of the Sea Elementary School will mark its 100th year in 2009. Graduates, former students, staff and friends of Star of the Sea and its now-closed sister school, Star of the Sea Academy, are invited to call (415) 221-8558 or e-mail centennial@staroftheseasf.com. Events marking the occasion include opening rites, dances, golf outings and wine tastings.

Prayer June 8, 11:30 a.m.: Mass celebrating the golden anniversary (1958-2008) of St. Robert Parish, Oak Ave. and Cr ystal Springs Road., San Bruno. Archbishop George Niederauer will preside at the Mass with barbecue and reception to follow. Were you a parishioner in 1958?

Did you help build Archbishop George this church? Past Niederauer parishioners are encouraged to join the celebration. For more information, call the parish rectory at (650) 589-2800 or visit www. saintroberts.org.

June 17 – 21: Rehearsal and perfor mance for first Gospel Mass at national Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus in San Francisco, under direction of Rawn Harbor, director of liturgy and music at Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley. Rehearsals Rawn Harbor are scheduled June 17, 18, 19, 20 from 7 – 9 p.m. at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, 1122 Jamestown Ave. at 3rd St. in San Francisco.

A rehearsal at 9:30 a.m. precedes the 12:15 p.m. Gospel Mass at the shrine on June 21.

Musicians, professional singers and hobbyist singers are invited. Call Joyce Herbert at (415) 983-0405, ext. 16.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

3rd Sunday, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: “For Heaven’s Sake,” featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.

KSFB Catholic Radio 1260 AM offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith – visit www. ihradio.org

Arts & Entertainment May 24, 5:30 p.m.: “Spring Musicale Dinner Concert,” an evening of musical classics and nostalgic love songs of the Philippines featuring acclaimed performers J. Greg Zuniega, piano, Sim Zuniega, violinist, Minda D. Azarcon, conductor, Senen Bagos, Jr., tenor, Janine B.Castillo, mezzo-soprano. Proceeds benefit St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, 850 Judah St.,San Francisco. Visit www.stanne-sf.org. Tickets are $50. Call Tessie Velicaria at (415) 665-1600, ext. 22 or Precie Agaton at (415) 564-7487 or e-mail Bernadette Hynson at rbbsfo@comcast.net. Free parking. No tickets sold at door.

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs are available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 4226698.

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

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

2nd and 4th Wednesday in Spanish at St. Anthony Church, 3500 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Toni Martinez at (650) 776-3795.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639 for information.

Third Saturdays: The potluck is back and being held at St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo.

Gather at 6 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room of the parish hall at 600 Columbia Drive, just uphill from the church, which is at the corner of Alameda de las Pulgas and Crystal Springs Road in San Mateo. Call Gail (650) 591-8452, or Vonnie (650) 873-4236 for more information or directions..

June 27 – 29: National Catholic Singles Conference to be held in San Diego. Featured speakers will be Matthew Kelly, Jason Evert and Kerrie Caviezel. Live praise and worship, mixers, Mass, adoration, beach excursions, Saturday night dance social, and finding peace and strength in living the single life. For more information and to register, go to www.nationalcatholicsingles.com or call (858) 490-8260. Cosponsored by the Diocese of San Diego.

Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church have been established at the following parishes: Marin County: Tiburon, St. Hilary: Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775. Ross, St. Anselm: (415) 453-2342. Greenbrae, St. Sebastian: Jean Mariani (415) 461-7060. Mill Valley, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel: Rick Dullea (415) 3884190. Sausalito, St. Mary Star of the Sea: Lloyd Dulbecco (415) 331-7949.

San Francisco: Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, Michael Adams (415) 695-2707; St. Philip the Apostle (415) 282-0141; St. Dominic, Lee Gallery (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus (415) 6648590; St. Paul of the Shipwreck, Deacon Larry Chatmon and Loretta Chatmon (415) 468-3434.

San Mateo County: San Mateo – St. Bartholomew: Donna Salinas (650) 347-0701, ext. 14; St. Matthew: Deacon Jim Shea (650) 3447622. Burlingame – St. Catherine of Siena: Silvia Chiesa (650) 685-8336; Our Lady of Angels: Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter (650) 375-8023.

Half Moon Bay, Our Lady of the Pillar: Meghan (650) 726-4337.

Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life June 7, 8, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.: “The Art and Science of Love: A Weekend Workshop for Couples at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park.

Presented by licensed marriage and family therapists Robert Navarra of the seminary faculty and Lynda Voorhees, this workshop provides tools designed to enhance relationships and a road map for repair for those that are struggling. Cost is $500 per couple. For more information and registration, contact Dr. Navarra at (650) 593-8087 or visit www. robertnavarra.net.

June 6, 7 a.m.: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club June meeting. Jim Dietz, a Dominican University trustee, will speak on conversion of the Edgehill Mansion on campus into the St. Catherine Benincasa Chapel and Alumni House . Cost is $7 for members; $10 non-members. Payable at door. For information, call 461-0704 or e-mail Sugaremy@aol.com.

June 13, 7 p.m.: Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, retired auxiliary bishop of Sidney Australia, will speak at the Handlery Dining Room in the Lone Mountain Conference Center at the University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St. He will be available to sign copies of his book, “Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church: Reclaiming the Spirit of Jesus.” Lecture is free; donations welcome.

June 15, 1 p.m.: Professor Paul Lakeland will speak in Xavier Hall of the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St. Lakeland holds the Aloysius P. Kelley SJ Chair in Catholic Studies at Fairfield University.

He will lecture on “Catholicism at the Crossroads: How the Laity Can Save the Church,” which is the title of his new book.

Professor Paul Lecture is free; donations welcome.

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Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

On the Feast of Corpus Christi, we can relate to the sentiments of St. Thérèse of Lisieux expressed in the “Story of a Soul”: “How I loved the feasts! I especially loved the processions in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. What a joy it was for me to throw flowers beneath the feet of God!…. I was never so happy as when I saw my roses touch the sacred monstrance....”

I, too, remember as a boy, being excited with my whole town on this feast as we carried the Blessed Sacrament around town, praying and singing, stopping for Benediction at welldecorated stages, and returning to the church for the final Benediction. We were upbeat, exhilarated by the presence of Jesus and a sense of unity in faith.

Such celebrations draw us into the inner sanctuary of the Eucharist, “the source and summit of the Christian life.” Jesus gives himself – his body and blood – in the form of food, becoming an integral part of our body and spirit. We become what we receive in the Eucharist: Jesus himself. In us and with us, Jesus lives and loves, as we remain in him. In the breaking of the bread and sharing of the cup, we enter the flesh and blood of Jesus, as we recognize him – and ourselves – and hasten to reveal him to others. The intimacy and warmth, the beauty and power of this encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist are stuff poems, paintings, songs and dances are made of.

Jesus’ eucharistic gift is prefigured in Deuteronomy when Yahweh gives Israelites manna for their physical hunger. But it was also “to show you that not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.” In Jesus, the Word of God becomes flesh, satisfying the longings and hungers of people. Offering his own body and blood in the Eucharist and on the cross, Jesus becomes the source of life for us: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you… Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.”

The presence of Jesus in the Eucharist evokes our faith and adoration because he is

“truly, really, and substantially present.” Our holy practices – the Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, eucharistic processions, Benediction – guide us to the transforming power of the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, inspiring us to grapple with the implications and responsibilities.

Eucharist is memory. Our consciousness thrives on the memory of loved ones, alive or returned to God. Eucharist as memory of Jesus mingles with our consciousness, letting him resonate with the seasons of our mind and heart. Deeply human, even sentimental, Jesus says, “Whenever you do this, remember me.” Translation: “Don’t forget me. I need your love.”

Eucharist is unity. In Jesus and among ourselves we are in union and communion, thanks to the Eucharist. As Jesus binds us together through one bread and one cup, we grow, like Jesus, to feel the “joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties” of others. We are one body. Jesus is the head and we the members. Eucharist binds us in the mystical body of Christ. Responsible for one another, we shepherd one another.

Christian unity will overflow to the whole world, creating peace and harmony.

Eucharist is body. It is flesh and blood.

Jesus could not have affirmed more clearly the positive nature of our body, matter, and the whole of God’s creation. In the bread and wine turned into his body and blood, Jesus dwells and encounters us, challenging us to get more involved in people’s pursuits. Eucharist militates against world-negating approaches and draws us into the heart of the world. If God could love the world so much as to send his only son, if the son could become one with the world to redeem it, in the Eucharist we receive the impetus to do the same: to transform this world according to the mind and heart of Jesus.

Eucharist is food. It is bread and wine. We cannot celebrate the Eucharist and adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament without being truly concerned about the bread for the world’s hungry. Jesus fed the hungry with five loaves and two fish. In light of recent food shortages and the needs of victims of natural disasters,

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Contemplate Body of Christ and its fullness of meaning

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY DT 8:2-3, 14B-16A Moses said to the people: “Remember how for forty years now the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the desert, so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your intention to keep his commandments. He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.

“Do not forget the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery; who guided you through the vast and terrible desert with its saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock and fed you in the desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

Glorify the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion. For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

He has granted peace in your borders; with the best of wheat he fills you.

He sends forth his command to the earth; swiftly runs his word!

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

He has proclaimed his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

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nation; his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia.

R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS 1 COR 10:16-17 Brothers and sisters: The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 6:51-58 Jesus said to the Jewish crowds: “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.”

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him. Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.”

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Letters . . .

■ Continued from page 10 Thanks again, dear friends, and may God continue to bless you.

Sister Mercedes Reygadas SH Homer Glen, Illinois

Practicing Catholic?

The Speaker of the House supports abortion.

She recently sent congratulations to San Francisco on the Supreme Court decision to permit gay marriage.

Nancy Pelosi is a practicing Catholic?

James Laherty San Mateo

Pelosi off the mark Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s defense of receiving Communion from the pope in Washington (Catholic San Francisco, May 9) is troubling and misleading. She correctly points out that the very word “communion” signifies unity, but quite erroneously concludes that denying Communion “would shatter that union.” Our liturgy and rituals are ways of making visible, conscious and explicit those realities which are invisible and spiritual.

If our beliefs and ethics are at odds, receiving Communion does not by itself resolve them. Ms. Pelosi may well explain her religious actions on personal grounds, but she should not attempt to do so on theological grounds.

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In the same edition, while I agree with Stephen Catalano’s point (Letters, ”Of reverence, worship”) that some liturgical music seems like “people celebrating themselves,” I was surprised and saddened to read that he stopped regular Mass attendance.

His reasoning: he learned he can ‘live without it’ and he finds Communion in the hand irreverent. Does he not know anyone can still receive Communion on the tongue as before? And to live without the Eucharist is to “fast” from spiritual nourishment, to decline the Lord’s invitation to union with him, to ignore the command to “do this in memory of me,” and deny that our salvation is not merely individual, but communal.

Paul Seliga San Bruno

Latin Mass Congrats to Catholic San Francisco for starting to publish an entry under the Datebook section about the Tridentine Latin Mass and where it is celebrated.

I know the following is a bit out of the Archdiocese, but since it’s not too far and some San Franciscans already attend, here is some additional information on the Tridentine Mass that you may also wish to consider including: The Tridentine Mass according to the 1962 Missal of Blessed John XXIII is celebrated Monday through Friday at 6 p.m. at St. Margaret Mary Parish Oakland, as well as Saturdays at 10 a.m., and a sung High Mass on Sundays at 12:30 pm.

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Reflection. . .

■ Continued from page 21 Eucharist moves our hearts to secure basic necessities for everyone and to work for justice and peace. Gandhi said, “To a hungry person, God comes in the form of food.” Jesus in the Eucharist comes as food to our hungry bodies and commands us to alleviate hunger. The greatest shame of the world would be to let even one person go hungry.

Jesus, my eucharistic brother and Lord, bind me with my sisters and brothers ever closer to you in the Eucharist – to love and adore you. Then send me out to live the eucharistic life: to celebrate your memory amidst life situations, to forge unity among the peoples, to love the world as you love it, and to feed the hungry. Amen.

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St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco is a 2,500-strong congregation of spiritually mature and active Catholics united by a desire for spiritual enrichment, service, and prayer. Inspired by the Dominican Friars who serve as the pastoral staff, the goal of the parish community is to foster a truly welcoming church that is a center of faith, friendship and spiritual renewal embracing the larger community.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of April HOLY CROSS COLMA Lucia “Lucy” Abdilla John H. Albee, Sr. Ann M. Alberigi Alvina G. Allen Rev. Antonio Almarines Jeffrey Amend Barbara Gallatin Anderson Helene Andraos Evelyn Camozzi Avansino Chusita Ayala Porfirio Flores Balagot Louis P. Balunsat Esperanza R. Barrios Barbara F. Bartholomew Marie D. Baskfield George U. Batiza Mary Keane Belliveau Michael Bergin Enrico Bertini Beatrice Bianchi Albert J. Boragno Earl Bruschini Nattie Bulatao (nee Basconcillo) Richard Burner Trinidad Campos Hugo Cannizzaro John L. Carraro Felicitas Catacutan Gertrude Leone Cattermole Paul M. Celillo Margarita S. Cevallos Rudolpho S. Cezar Alicia Chavarria Janice T. Cline Cathleen Collins Ellen Louise Conover (Lepow) Charles E. Corey, Sr. Ralph S. Crocker Ana Esperanza Cuadra James M. Cuevas Marie N. Daniele Carmen de Calderon Jason K. De La Cruz Joseph J. Delorio Edward J. Destefanis Joan Dickey

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Catholic san Francisco Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

William J. Justice

APPOINTED: APRIL 10, 2008 ORDINATION: MAY 28, 2008 (PHOTO BY MICHAEL COLLOPY)

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A message from bishop-elect ‘How good the good God is to allow us to W

served as a pastor of three different parishes for a total of 22 years.

allow us to work together as we respond in the grace of the Lord to the needs of his people.

I had a suspicion that was not the real reason he was calling although it did raise my anxiety level wondering what his next statement might be. It was, “The Holy Father is calling you to be an Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco.”

This local experience, this reality that this is my home, binds me so closely to all of us who make the cities, towns and rural areas of the Archdiocese our home. And I am privileged to have the opportunity to continue the priestly ministry that Lord Jesus has called me to, now as a bishop, here among you in the place we all call home.

This appreciation for the gifts we have as Catholic Christians in the Archdiocese and seeing the challenges we face as part of those gifts echoes the theme and reality of the visit of our pope to our country last month, “Christ Our Hope.” The joy, hope and reconciliation he unleashed was tangible. The Lord is truly risen and he is among us, calling us, embracing us, and challenging us to live as his people. I am grateful to be a part of it with you.

hen Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the representative of the Holy Father in the United States, called me on April 2 of this year, his first words were, “How is the weather in San Francisco?”

And what gifts and challenges we have!

My anxiety turned into shock, fear, humility, joy and surrender to the grace of God as I said, “I accept the Holy Father’s appointment.” Those emotions are still with me today although the reality of that phone call is slowly sinking into my consciousness as I prepare ‘The Lord is truly risen and he is among us, calling for my episcopal ordination on May 28 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. us, embracing us, and challenging us to live as his As I am able to contemplate the fact people. I that I will be alongside Bishop Ignatius Wang as an auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, I am aware of how excited I am at being a bishop in my almost native area. My parents, Ann and Bill Justice, moved to San Mateo in 1946 where my father began his 30-year career as a professor at the College of San Mateo. Luckily they brought me with them! I was only four years old. San Mateo is my hometown – where I went to school and received First Communion at St. Matthew Parish and confirmation at St. Gregory Parish. I graduated from Junipero Serra High School and entered the seminary in 1960.

I was ordained a priest in 1968. All my assignments have been in San Mateo County and San Francisco, though as a deacon I served for one month in Marin County at St. Isabella Parish. Until I became vicar for clergy for the Archdiocese in March, 2007, I had

People who have helped me to be able to say “Yes” to the Holy Father’s appointment are the wonderful parishioners who I have served, especially the parishes where I have been pastor: Saint Peter Church in San Francisco, All Souls Church in South San Francisco, and Mission Dolores Church in San Francisco. I also thank am grateful to be a part of it with you.’ members of the Cursillo Movement, the Movimiento Familiar Cristiano, the Engaged Encounter and CYO for their The immense diversity of our Archdiocese is one of faith-filled example. I was fortunate to be a chaplain the greatest examples of St. Paul’s declaration that in at many of their activities in the years before I became Jesus, “There is no distinction between Jew and Greek, a pastor. The members of the Permanent Diaconate male and female, slave and free person. We are one in also influenced me as I have watched their outstandthe Lord.” It is the joy and challenge of this family we ing commitment to the Lord become concrete in their call the Archdiocese to live what we are: One in the service to God’s family.

Lord. Together we are called to daily put into practice The wonderful people of the Hispanic Community our unity in Christ. have been an enormous gift to me over the past 40 years The cry of our fellow residents of the counties of of priesthood. They still are helping me to deepen my the Archdiocese for an end to violence and alienation trust in God and in being a person of heart. And they is increasing. All around us it continues for the care of have helped me to speak Spanish! our youth and our seniors, for just and humane treatFinally, my parents’ deep, Irish Bostonian Catholic ment of immigrants, for respect for life from beginning to end. It is calling us to listen and respond out of the faith showed me the love of a merciful God. Father mercy of the Gospel. How good the good God is to James O’Malley taught me the joy and healing power

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Congratulations Bishop William J. Justice

We congratulate Bishop William J. Justice on his appointment by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang The Clergy, Religious and Faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

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work together’ of being a priest. The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at St. Gregory School allowed me to sense that a vocation is a joyful gift of God. And the six priests of my priest support group have for 29 years challenged and supported me in my growth as a priest.

So a new journey begins for us. I, as a member of this beautiful area for 62 years, now called to serve in a new way my fellow brothers and sisters, promise you my prayers, my presence and my love. Please remember me in your prayers and together under the leadership of Archbishop Niederauer, let us celebrate the gifts we have as an Archdiocese and serve the Lord as our patron St. Francis wishes: to be an instrument of God’s peace.

God’s mercy endures forever! Christ is our hope.

Most Reverend William J. Justice Auxiliary Bishop-elect of San Francisco

To our dear Bishop William Justice

YMI Council #32 Congratulates Bishop Bill Justice The Young Men’s Institute - Council #32 is honored to have you as a brother member and is grateful for your support.

God has blessed you with integrity, wisdom and sense of service.

As a member of our YMI family, our hopes and prayers are with you for continued success and joy serving God’s faithful.

Pro Deo, Pro Patria

with all our fondest love and affection.

W The clergy, staff and parishioners of Mission Dolores Basilica.

“It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain.”

Jn 15:16

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Congratulations and prayerful good wishes to Bishop William Justice from Bishop Stephen E. Blaire and the people of the Diocese of Stockton

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Archbishop Niederauer: ‘With great joy I welcome our new auxiliary bishop’ With great joy I welcome the appointment of our new auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, William J. Justice. I am grateful to our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, for recognizing the needs of the Archdiocese of San Francisco for a collaborator in episcopal ministry, and I am thankful to Bishop-elect Justice for answering this new call.

The priests, deacons, religious and lay faithful of the Archdiocese join me in rejoicing at this appointment. Bishop-elect Justice brings so many vital gifts to his new office: his generous priestly heart and sound judgment; his knowledge and appreciation of the Archdiocese of San Francisco — its diverse people, its needs and its resources; his love for the universal Church and for his non-Catholic sisters and brothers as well. Bishop-elect Justice enjoys the trust, confidence and respect of his brother priests in his present work as Vicar for Clergy, a position in which he will continue to serve in the Archdiocese.

While it is true that His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI has honored Bishop-elect Justice by selecting and appointing him as auxiliary bishop, we must recognize, as he does, that he will be ordained as a successor of the first apostles on May 28th mainly because this local Church of San Francisco needs his ministry as a servant-leader.

Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang and I welcome our new bishop as he joins us in our ministry of proclaiming the Word, celebrating in worship, sacrament and prayer, and gathering and shepherding the flock of Christ the Good Shepherd in this Church under the patronage of St. Francis of Assisi. Ad multos annos! May he serve for many years!

Most Reverend George H. Niederauer Archbishop of San Francisco

Fr. Thomas A. Daly and Mr. Don Ritchie with the Faculty, Students and Families of Marin Catholic High School would like to congratulate

Congratulations!

BISHOP WILLIAM J. JUSTICE Junípero Serra High School Class of 1960

Most Reverend William J. Justice on his appointment as

Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

Your classmates and many friends at your alma mater send to you our PRAYERS AND BEST WISHES

as you begin your new ministry as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

“A community founded on faith, knowledge and service”

Men of Faith, Wisdom and Service

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Cardinal Levada: ‘I was delighted by Father William Justice’s appointment’ I was delighted by Father William Justice’s appointment as the new auxiliary bishop of San Francisco. I am happy to join Archbishop George Niederauer and the clergy and faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in thanking God for this appointment and promising my prayers and support for Bishop-elect Justice.

Bishop-elect Justice is, of course, no stranger to the Church in San Francisco.

He has served faithfully for many years as a pastor in three parishes: St. Peter’s, All Souls, and Mission Dolores. More recently, he has taken on the very special role of ministering to his brother priests as Vicar for Clergy. His experience in pastoral leadership and his many fine personal qualities have prepared him to take up the office of Bishop in the Church.

Although my responsibilities in Rome at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith make it impossible for me to travel to San Francisco for the ordination liturgy on May 28, I will accompany the Church at San Francisco and our new Auxiliary Bishop in my prayers here in the Eternal City.

God bless Bishop-elect Justice, and God bless the Archdiocese of San Francisco!

From the Vatican, May 12, 2008

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Bishop William Justice A shepherd, a leader, a friend...

Congratulations and prayerful best wishes.

May God continue to bless you as you begin your new ministry as Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Bishop Patrick J. McGrath with the clergy, religious and faithful of the

Cardinal William Levada Archbishop Emeritus of San Francisco Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Diocese of San Jose

Our Warmest Congratulations to

Most Reverend William J. Justice Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco We pray God blesses you with continued wisdom and strength.

From all your good friends at

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

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Our warmest congratulations to Bishop-Elect

William Justice as you begin your new Episcopal ministry within the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Thank you for your compassion and service to the ‘most vulnerable among us’.

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Archbishop Quinn: ‘I send my heartfelt congratulations to him…’

Thirty-one years of association with Bishop William Justice confirm my high opinion of his fine qualities.

He has generously accepted varied responsibilities in the Archdiocese and carried them out effectively. I send my heartfelt congratulations to him as he begins his service to the Church as a bishop.

My congratulations go also to the priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco from whose ranks he comes.

The priests of this Archdiocese have been one of the great shaping forces in the life of Bishop Justice and for this reason his honor is their honor as well.

Archbishop John R. Quinn Archbishop Emeritus Archdiocese of San Francisco

The Board & Staff of

Catholic Charities CYO

San Francisco, San Mateo & Marin

Bishop-elect William J. Justice’s episcopal motto:

God’s mercy endures forever

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Bishop William J. Justice as Shepherd, colleague and friend!

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Bishop-elect Justice is a great sign of Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hopeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Pope Benedictâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visit to the United States last month gave us many glimpses of his love for American Catholics and his hope for the Church in the U.S. Many priests and bishops had the opportunity to say Mass with him and receive his blessing and encouragement. Bishop-elect Bill Justice was among the bishops who met with the Holy Father in Washington, D.C. as our newly appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

What a grace that was for him which will be a memory that blesses his upcoming ordination as bishop on May 28, and gives him great confidence that his life and vocation continues to be abundantly blessed by God. In the Chinese culture there are landmark anniversaries that mark a personâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life and are opportunities of encouragement and approval. The 40th anniversary is a landmark of spiritual maturity. This is true for Bishop-elect Justice as he celebrated his 40th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood on May 17. It was a very joyful occasion for him, and gives us all reason to praise God as he has served us all so well in the Archdiocese as a faithful priest, pastor and administrator.

I offer my sincere congratulations to Bishop-elect Justice on his anniversary of ordination and on his upcoming episcopal ordination. I look forward to working alongside him and to supporting Archbishop Niederauer in serving the Church in San Francisco, which is strong and diverse.

Many of us know Father Bill very well and praise him for his intelligence, patience and fidelity. He was formed in the Archdiocese from childhood, attending our Catholic schools, including St. Matthewâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, St. Gregoryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Serra High School. If we consider the formation he received we see firsthand the fruit of his efforts to excel in school and also his vocation is the fruit of the instruction he received in our diocesan schools.

It is a light that God calls young men within our midst to be priests and shepherds of the Church. I encourage our young people to follow Father Billâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s example.

From personal experience, I attest to the great joy one receives in the sacrament of Holy Orders and elevation as bishop. It is joy that overcomes oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s humble feelings as we place our trust once again in Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s will for our lives. God calls us to all to serve his Church. As priests and bishops we try to lead others to know, love and serve Christ in this life. The words of Pope Benedict describe the gift of hope available to each of us who wish to follow the path that Christ lays out for us: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christ is our Hope. The one who has hope, lives differently.â&#x20AC;? Bishop-elect Justice is a great sign of Christâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hope. Let us all thank God for his vocation.

Prayerful best wishes on this most special occasion from

Maurice Healy, executive editor, and Staff

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Among his other distinctions, Bishopelect William Justice is now the head of the Titular See of Mathara in Proconsulari.

This see was in the Province of Carthage, an ancient city-state in modern-day Tunisia. So, why would an auxiliary bishop in San Francisco be given “title” to a now defunct see on the other side of the world?

Tradition dictates that a bishop be the head of a defined territory. In the case of auxiliary bishops, who are not the ordinary of the see to which they are appointed, the Church confers a special designation – a titular see.

These sees, as their name suggests, now exist in title only.

In some cases, reorganization of dioceses means the seat of power shifts from one location to another. For example, the Diocese of Allegheny in Pennsylvania was absorbed into the Diocese of Pittsburg.

More commonly, however, titular

sees are dioceses where the Church once flourished, but where its presence is now greatly diminished or has entirely disappeared. In fact, until 1882 titular sees were known in Latin as in partibus infidelium, meaning “in the territory of the infidels.”

At one time, the Church gave titular sees to coadjutor and retired bishops.

The former are now given title to the diocese or archdiocese they will eventually lead, while the latter are named bishop or archbishop emeritus of the see they headed when they retired.

On rare occasions, the transfer of a diocesan bishop to a titular see is used for punitive purposes.

Such was the case with Bishop Jacques Gaillot of Évreux, whose political activism was deemed unorthodox and incendiary. Bishop Gaillot was stripped of his responsibilities and in 1995 made head of the Titular See of Partenia, named for an abandoned ancient city consumed by the Sahara desert in the fifth century.

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Meet Bishop-elect William J. Justice ‘Pray for me, be honest with me and call me

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an Francisco’s soon-to-be newest auxiliary bishop spoke with Catholic San Francisco in his fourth-floor Pastoral Center office as the planning for his May 28 episcopal ordination Mass was growing to almost tornado strength around him.

Influences that helped move Bishop-elect Justice to thoughts about priesthood started with his mom, dad and extended family, he said. Bishop-elect Justice’s parents are the late Ann E. Vallely Justice and William J. Justice, Ed.D., a professor of accounting and other business related subjects for 30 years at College of San Mateo.

Bishop-elect William Justice and his late parents, Ann E. Vallely Justice and William J. Justice after whom the bishop-elect was named. Photo is dated 1942.

“My Bostonian Irish family was most proud of being Catholic,” Bishop-elect Justice said. “That whole sense of the faith as a deep part of your life and that you breathe it was certainly true of my parents.”

“There is an optimist in me and it’s because of my parents,” Bishop-elect Justice added. “My mother was always joyful and friendly and my father was a great teacher. He liked it because he could help people.”

Bishop-elect Justice was also influenced by the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sisters who taught him at St. Gregory Elementary School in San Mateo.

“They were Los Angeles girls,” he said smiling, “and went out and played baseball with us. They were real human beings who were religious.”

Father James O’Malley, retired pastor of San Francisco’s St. Kevin Parish and now living at Nazareth House in San Rafael, was a parochial vicar at St. Gregory’s during Bishopelect Justice’s growing up years. “He’d take five or six of us into his car and drive us down to the minor seminary – the now-closed St. Joseph in Mountain View – to go swimming and talk to seminarians. That was a real influence,” Bishop-elect Justice recalled.

Father O’Malley will accompany the bishop-elect in the entrance procession at the ordination Mass. “It is tradition that the

bishop-elect invites two people to walk in the procession with him. Jim O’Malley will be there and that will be very emotional,” Bishopelect Justice said. Msgr. Conrad Gruber, a priest from the Diocese of Stockton and a longtime friend, will also walk with him.

‘My mother was always joyful and friendly and my father was a great teacher.’

Bishop-elect Justice has been measured for his new robes, miter, pastoral staff, and ring and said delivery has been promised before May 28.

“The ring I chose is called the Vatican II ring because, I understand, each of the bishops attending the sessions received one. It has no stone, is shaped like a miter and has Jesus and Peter and Paul on it. It’s very simple.”

Former San Francisco Archbishop John R. Quinn has presented Bishop-elect Justice with a pectoral cross, a sign of the office of bishop and worn around the neck.

“It was very kind of him to do that. It is

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one he received when taking part in a synod will now go nine more years and it can be a of bishops on consecrated life in the 1970s.” challenge. Not everybody loves bishops.”

Bishop-elect Justice’s crosier or pastoral Bishop-elect Justice, who marked his 40th staff is being made in Reno. year as a priest May 18, served in the tumultuAre friends and others treating him differ- ous times that included the 1960s and the years ently now that he has following Vatican II been named bishop? when many priests “Friends? Absolutely and religious left not,” he said laughministry. ing. “I do notice a “Seven of my little in others and it’s close friends left a bit embarrassing priesthood,” Bishopbecause I’m still the elect Justice said. same person – and “We had a hiking I’d better be. I think group every Monday that’s why they wantof 10 priests. We got ed me to be bishop down to three.” because they wanted The bishop-elect me to be me.” said the era helped Bishop-elect shape him. “I think Justice said when it helped make me people asked him if who I am because it “congratulations or was a real challenge condolences” would to say why you are best accompany his a priest and there appointment, he told was very much of them both would ‘… I really wanted to an interchange with apply. the whole laity.”

“Congratulations serve people and through “One day I went on the immense joy down to lunch at home that comes with in San Mateo and my the occasion,” he the years it has become mother said, ‘Your explained, “but conFather and I have been dolences because it more spiritual for me talking,’ which always is more responsibility meant there was going and I have to work and more authentic.’ to be some pronouncelonger.” Priests may ment,” Bishop-elect retire as early as Justice said with a age 70 but it is rare for the pope to accept a smile and laugh. ‘We have decided,’ my mom bishop’s resignation anytime before age 75. said, ‘that when you leave the priesthood we Bishop-elect Justice turned 66 years old May will pay your tuition at USF so you can get a 8. “I could have gone only four more years but master’s degree and be employed well.’”

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forth to be of service’

‘…I’m still the same person – and I’d better be. I think that’s why they wanted me to be bishop because they wanted me to be me.’

“I stopped and looked at them and said, ‘When I leave?’ I don’t think I’m planning to leave.’ Then they both burst into tears and were thrilled. I said, ‘I don’t know why I’m staying, but I know I’m not leaving.’”

“My mom answered with, ‘But all your friends are leaving.’ ‘Yeah,’ I said, ‘that confuses me.’ It was a beautiful thing. I was their son and they were going to support me. It was a very beautiful statement. And I proved them right. It is 30 years since then.”

Bishop-elect Justice meets monthly with a Jesus Caritas support group. “We’re a group of seven priests who have been meeting for

29 years. We come together to pray, chat and have dinner and the next day we pray and have a quiet hour of prayer alone. After that we share how things are going and help each other with problems and we constantly keep each other in our prayers. It’s a very important group. It helps enable us to walk the journey in the presence of the Lord and friends in the same profession.”

Bishop-elect Justice was present for Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Washington, D.C. in April. “What I saw was a person who has definitely worked with his shyness and is able to let out a deep part of himself. When MEET BISHOP-ELECT, page J12

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During his recent U.S. visit, the pope ‘was someone praising, then rejoicing and calling us to be better as a father, a teacher, someone who helps you learn.’ you see him smile, somehow you feel it’s the depth of him. In his talks there was a sense of respect for the community. It wasn’t someone yelling at us. It was someone praising, then rejoicing and calling us to be better as a father, a teacher, someone who helps you learn.”

Will there be surprises as a bishop?

“Oh, sure,” said Bishop-elect Justice, again laughing.

Highlights of Bishop-elect Justice’s years as a priest include helping implement Vatican II and assisting in community organizing at parishes where he has served. “My early years were a time of community organizing and bringing about housing reform and such. I was a founding member of the Mission Coalition and was able to meet people like Cesar Chavez. The possibility of bringing about a change to people’s lives was very exciting, very fulfilling.”

Bishop-elect Justice, who today is “comfortable” in Spanish, recalled his assignment to All Souls Parish as a parochial vicar. “About half the parish spoke Spanish and at that time I probably had about six words. When I left six years later, a member of the Spanish-speaking community said, ‘You know, Father, for the first three years we had no idea what you were saying but the last three years have been pretty

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good.’” He remembered his later years as pastor of All Souls as well as Mission Dolores and St. Peter in San Francisco as “great.”

If a new bishop may bring a platform of issues they’d like to see addressed, Bishopelect Justice’s is rooted in, well, justice.

“Auxiliary means I am at the service of and helping the Archbishop. So, whatever Archbishop Niederauer wants me to do, I’ll do.

As bishop, however, I am part of the college of bishops in the world and part of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and given the responsibility to care for the Church.

As part of that I can bring issues forward.”

“I’d like to challenge people on immigration and work with that and have them see we are all brothers and sisters. A nation does have the right to protect its borders, but how do we put that together without destroying the unity of families and so on? I’d also like to advocate for the right to a good education, jobs and the dignity of life from conception, and against the death penalty.”

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Bishop-elect Justice owns a home in Sonoma that has become his refuge. “My parents were members of that ‘greatest generation’ and said, ‘We want you to have nice vacations and a place to retire in.’” Bishops do get a day off, he affirmed, and his place in Sonoma is where he spends his. “I go up on Sunday afternoon and return Tuesday morning. I have friends over, read, and take care of the roses. Days off are important.”

Other pastimes include walking and cooking. He loves Italian food. He’s tried his hand at painting. Several “in progress canvasses” now sit next to his “in progress” attempts at poetry.

He drives a Honda and loves it. His favorite color is blue.

What can the faithful do to help Bishopelect Justice in his new role? He answered simply: “Pray for me, be honest with me and call me forth to be of service.”

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Bishop-elect Justice said he has found what he sought in becoming a priest and expects that to multiply in future years as a bishop. “I wanted to serve people,” he said. “I wanted to celebrate Eucharist and preach, but I really wanted to serve people and through the years it has become more spiritual for me and more authentic. I really am called to be of service to people in the Lord Jesus.”

“I think priesthood is an exciting life,” Bishop-elect Justice said. “It’s full of adventure and you can make a difference in people’s lives and that opportunity can bring out the best in you. You celebrate the Eucharist and the Word of God and can do something to make the world a better place.”

In 1988, four years after the death of Ann Vallely Justice, Bishop-elect Justice’s father remarried, and Loretta Justice became part of the family. She was a “wonderful support to her husband until his death in 1992,” Bishop-elect Justice said, and she offered steady support to then-Father Justice in the years that followed.

In 2005, Mrs. Justice moved to an assisted care facility in San Mateo County. Bishop Justice is able to visit frequently and is grateful to a staff that continues to “provide excellent care” to his step-mother.

Priesthood ‘is an exciting life – full of adventure and you can make a difference in people’s lives and that opportunity can bring out the best in you.’

With Prayers and Best Wishes for a Fruitful and Joyful Ministry as Bishop from the Clergy and People of

ST. MATTHEW’S PARISH to a distinguished alumus,

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Auxiliary bishops of Archdiocese made unique contributions to its history Colorful characters, strong leaders and popular churchmen among the 15 auxiliaries to precede Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice

Archbishop Thomas A. Connolly Auxiliary: 1939-48

Bishop Hugh A. Donohoe Auxiliary 1947-62

Bishop James T. O’Dowd Auxiliary 1948-50

Bishop Merlin J. Guilfoyle Auxiliary: 1950-69

Bishop Mark J. Hurley Auxiliary: 1967-69

Bishop William J. McDonald Auxiliary: 1967-79

Bishop Norman McFarland Auxiliary: 1970-74

Bishop Francis A. Quinn Auxiliary:1978-79

Bishop Pierre DuMaine Auxiliary: 1978-81

Bishop Daniel F. Walsh Auxiliary: 1981-87

Bishop Carlos A. Sevilla Auxiliary: 1988-96

Bishop Patrick J. McGrath Auxiliary: 1988-99

Bishop John C. Wester Auxiliary: 1998-2007

Bishop Ignatius C. Wang Auxiliary: 2003-current

Bishop-elect William J. Justice Ordination: May 28, 2008

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Bishop Denis J. O’Connell Auxiliary: 1909-12

By Deacon Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D. When Joseph Sadoc Alemany, a Dominican, became the first U.S. bishop of California in 1850, his diocese included all of Baja and Alta California. In 1853 when the Archdiocese was established, it covered all of northern California from the southern boundary of Santa Clara County to the Oregon border.

In 1861, the Archdiocese would be reduced to the 13 Bay Area counties (which now include the dioceses of Stockton, Oakland, Santa Rosa, San Jose and part of Sacramento). In short, Alemany presided over a vast and far-reaching Archdiocese. The rugged frontier conditions he confronted prompted him to request an assistant in this arduous work. In those days, Rome was more apt to appoint a “coadjutor archbishop” than an auxiliary. A coadjutor “had the right of succession,” and so would become the next archbishop with the retirement or death of the current archbishop. After 30 years of struggle, in 1883 Alemany was delighted to receive Patrick W. Riordan as his coadjutor. The following year Alemany retired and returned to his native Vich, Spain with Riordan becoming archbishop.

Not long after Riordan became archbishop, he also began to seek help. In 1903, the bishop of Los Angeles, George Thomas Montgomery, was appointed coadjutor for San Francisco.

Unfortunately, Riordan outlived him. Montgomery died in 1907, his life apparently shortened by the toll taken by his heroic efforts in the aftermath of the great earthquake and fire of 1906. With the

devastation of the earthquake and fire Riordan looked even more desperately to replace Montgomery. His choice was Rochester seminary professor, Edward J. Hanna.

Hanna’s road to San Francisco, however, was “rough” according to his biographer, Richard Gribble. Hanna’s appointment was short-circuited by accusations that he was a “modernist,” a heresy condemned by Pope Pius X in 1907. In his stead, the Archdiocese received its first auxiliary bishop, Bishop Denis O’Connell, one of the most colorful bishops in the U.S. Church. O’Connell had served as the rector of the North American College in Rome, where he played a major role in the Americanist controversies of the 1890s, and as rector of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. before being named auxiliary for San Francisco in 1908. In 1912 he was named Bishop of Richmond, Va. Riordan again sought a replacement and this time he succeeded in getting Hanna appointed later in 1912. However, Hanna did not come as a coadjutor archbishop as Riordan wanted, but as an auxiliary bishop without the right of succession.

Nonetheless, Riordan celebrated Hanna’s appointment: “It was a great triumph…for until now he [Hanna]was under a cloud, and evil-minded people were disposed to carp at him because he had been rejected a few years ago, but I kept my counsel and remained loyal to him, and at last, for his sake, I brought him through triumphantly. He is a wonderfully good man, learned,

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and full of apostolic zeal for the building up of the Church, and I am not one to curb activities in that direction. I shall give him a free hand when he comes out to me.”

Despite being named an auxiliary, Hanna did succeed Riordan as Archbishop in 1915 and went on to become one of the most beloved figures in the history of the Archdiocese. (See Richard Gribble’s biography of Hanna, “An Archbishop for the People” (Paulist Press)).

San Francisco did not receive another auxiliary bishop until 1939. By that time Archbishop John J. Mitty had succeeded Hanna in 1935. In June 1939, Thomas Arthur Connolly was appointed the first native-born San Franciscan and alumnus of St. Patrick’s Seminary to be named auxiliary bishop. He remained until he was named coadjutor bishop of Seattle in 1948, later becoming Archbishop of Seattle in 1951 when Seattle became an archdiocese. When he died in 1991 he was the oldest member of the U.S. hierarchy.

Following Connolly, native San Franciscan auxiliary bishops became more familiar figures. Hugh A. Donohoe was appointed in 1947, with James T. O’Dowd appointed the following year.

Both had distinguished careers. Donohoe, who had served as editor of The Monitor (the Archdiocese’s newspaper for 124 years until 1984) and professor at St. Patrick’s Seminary, became the first bishop of Stockton in 1962, and Bishop of Fresno in 1969. O’Dowd, who had served as superintendent of Catholic

schools, was expected to do great things as he was only 40 years old when he was appointed auxiliary. O’Dowd was a broad, big shouldered man with a winning smile. One newspaper described him as “a policeman’s son with the physique of a college fullback, a scholar’s mind, and a deep concern for the welfare of children.” Unfortunately, O’Dowd died tragically in 1950 in a train accident at the age of 43. His loss was deeply mourned throughout the Archdiocese.

Shortly thereafter Merlin Joseph Guilfoyle was named auxiliary in August 1950. Guilfoyle is well remembered for his penchant for poetry and a historic confirmation sermon: “When I was one, I had just begun….” He was named bishop of Stockton in 1969.

William J. McDonald was named auxiliary to San Francisco in 1967. He had previously served as auxiliary bishop in Washington, D.C. and as rector of Catholic University of America. His tenure at CUA was quite tumultuous including the uproar that surrounded the dismissal of theologian Father Charles Curran for dissenting from Church teaching on sexual matters.

He remained in San Francisco until his death in 1989.

Mark J. Hurley was appointed auxiliary in 1967, but two years later he was named Bishop of Santa Rosa. Norman McFarland was named auxiliary in 1970. Known for his forthrightness and business acumen, McFarland oversaw the first total financial audit of the Archdiocese in 1972. Throughout his career he

was called on to assist dioceses in financial trouble. He became Bishop of Reno in 1976 and Bishop of Orange in 1986.

Francis A. Quinn and R. Pierre DuMaine were named auxiliaries the same day, April 28, 1978. Quinn had served as editor of The Monitor, and was a much beloved pastor. He went on to become bishop of Sacramento in 1979. After he retired in 1994, he spent the next 13 years working with Native Americans in Arizona. DuMaine had served as superintendent of Catholic schools for many years, and was named the first bishop of San Jose in 1981.

Daniel F. Walsh became auxiliary in 1981, before being appointed bishop of Reno-Las Vegas in 1987, and bishop of Santa Rosa in 2000, where he faced a financial nightmare and the aftermath of a high-profile scandal involving his predecessor.

A dual appointment was made once again on Dec. 6, 1998 when Carlos A. Sevilla, S.J. and Patrick J. McGrath were appointed auxiliaries. Sevilla ultimately became bishop of Yakima, Wash. in 1996 and McGrath became bishop of San Jose in 1999.

One of the more popular auxiliaries in recent memory was John C. Wester, who was appointed auxiliary in 1998. I remember when I had just finished writing the illustrated three-volume history of the Archdiocese (still available through Catholic Communications at bargain prices), and I had failed to include Wester in the history. He asked me, “What does an auxiliary

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bishop have to do to get into your history?” to which I flipply replied “Do something historic.”

With his good nature Wester laughed at my unfortunate remark, and then he did go out and make history. He was the point man in the Archdiocese’s response to the sex abuse crisis where his sensitivity, concern and diligence were commendable. In 2007 he was appointed bishop of Salt Lake City succeeding George Niederauer who was now Archbishop of San Francisco.

One of the more significant appointments of an auxiliary bishop occurred in 2002 when Ignatius C. Wang was named

by Pope John Paul II. Wang became the first bishop of Chinese and Asian origin in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. Wang’s appointment was particularly appropriate as it reflected the growth and importance of the Asian Catholic community in the Archdiocese and on the West Coast.

And so we have a new auxiliary. Bishop-elect William Justice follows in a distinguished line of men who have made significant contributions to the Church in California and the United States.

We wish him well.

(Ed. note: The three-volume history of the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Deacon Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D., archdiocesan archivist, may be ordered by sending $18 to History of the Archdiocese, Communications Department, One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109. Price includes shipping and handling.

To order by using Visa or Mastercard, call (415) 614-5638.)

New Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, William J. Justice.

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From those who know him Integrity, intelligence, humor and commitment Compiled by Tom Burke

Bishop-elect William Justice’s supportive and inclusive style as a pastor is recalled by parishioners and by many who worked with him.

• Father Donald D’Angelo, a seminary classmate of Bishop-elect Justice, is pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in San Francisco. “Shakespeare once asked the question ‘What’s in a name?’ For Bishop-elect Bill Justice there is a lot.

His last name, Justice, has typified his commendable work in the Archdiocese for justice for the Hispanic immigrants in our community, for the right to life of our unborn, and many other major social justice issues facing the Catholic community. Now in his new apostolic ministry as auxiliary bishop he can give stronger and more visible witness of the church’s concern for justice.”

• Jeannette Saccheri is parish secretary at San Francisco’s St. Peter Parish where Bishop-elect Justice was pastor from 1985 – 1991. “He is always there with a smile happy to receive parishioners and always available. I have known him since he was a young priest with the Mission Coalition and he is today what he was then. He never changes and that’s what I love about him. He never forgets anyone. We need bishops who are peoplepersons, and he is one.”

• Rita Semel is executive vice chair ‘We need bishops who of the San Francisco Interfaith Council. “I are people-persons, have known Bishopelect Justice since and he is one.’

1988 and am thrilled by his appointment.

– Jeannette Saccheri I find him to be a warm, caring, sensitive human being who will make a wonderful contribution elect Justice, is a

to the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the larger San Francisco community. He is a superior guy and I look forward to being at his ordination Mass May 28.”

• Father Terence Horan, a seminary classmate of Bishopformer pastor of San

The Young Men’s Institute Grand Council Pro Deo . . . . Pro Patria “ . . faith, patriotism and fraternalism. . ”

Proudly Congratulates Our Brother The Most Reverend William J. Justice On His Episcopal Ordination As Titular Bishop of Matara di Proconsulare And Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco May 28, 2008

Francisco’s St. Michael Parish. “Bill’s appointment as auxiliary bishop is a marvelous gift for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He’ll serve as a bishop as wonderfully as he has served as a priest for 40 years. You couldn’t ask for a finer priest or a finer person.”

• Msgr. Michael Harriman is pastor of St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco. He and Bishop-elect Justice were ordained together from St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in 1968 and have been

friends since attending Junipero Serra High School together. “I’ve been glad to know Bill for a very long time. Bill is very accepting of people, takes them where they are and helps them discover the call to Jesus and discipleship. He does it in many ways including his homilies, when administering the sacraments, and even when planning events. He has that wonderful welcoming smile.”

The Bishop-elect also “speaks the truth clearly and boldly” and “has a keen sense of Church history and the world,” Msgr.

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of new auxiliary bishop described ‘Bill is totally committed to Christ and the Church.’

– Father James O’Malley

together. Bill was tremendously devoted to his parents who were proud of him with a capital P. His dad was a Stanford grad and his mom was a wonderful Bostonian, very funny, and loved Bill dearly. Bill will be a good bishop because he has been a good pastor. A good pastor makes for a good bishop.”

• Most Reverend Randolph Calvo, ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1977, is Bishop of Reno. He will serve as a co-consecrator at Bishopelect Justice’s episcopal ordination Mass May 28 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. “Bishopelect Justice has been a good friend of mine for more than 30 years. We have enjoyed traveling together. He has a big Retired Father James O’Malley (above with heart and is a hard worker. If you want a definition of pastoral zeal, just spend some Bishop-elect Justice) and Msgr. Conrad Gruber time working with him. He truly enjoys will present the bishop-elect to Archbishop pastoral ministry. Ministry gives him George Niederauer for ordination during the energy, even though, like the rest of us, May 28 rite at St. Mary’s Cathedral. there is a point where he can be physically tired. I believe the Church is blessed to Harriman said. “In the vineyard of the to learn Spanish. He saw the need for it have him be a bishop and I am grateful for his openness to Archdiocese of San Francisco, Bill has becoming central say ‘Yes’ to folhad many assignments and brings that not peripheral. low Christ in this experience to all he does. Finally, Bill It was not just a particular way.” has a very good sense of humor and even pragmatic choice ‘…Bill has a very good but came from his laughs at my jokes.” sense of humor and even • Margaret wider view.”

A n n e Ke r n s , F a t h e r • Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman music director is vice president for corporate ethics for Coleman added: laughs at my jokes.’ at Holy Angels the Daughters of Charity Health System “Bill is always and teaches moral theology at Santa Clara g r e a t f u n . I – Msgr. Michael Harriman Parish in Colma, taught at St. Paul University. He and Bishop-elect Justice r e m e m b e r a High School are seminary classmates. “Bill is a history camping trip as when Bishopbuff and always had a deep-felt sense of seminarians to history. This has given him a wider view Yosemite with Mike Harriman and Terry elect Justice was associate pastor at St. of things and I think it’s what moved him Horan. It was a great couple of days THOSE WHO KNOW HIM, page J18

The St. Hilary Community extends our heartfelt congratulations to

Auxiliary Bishop William Justice God bless you and your ministry as you bring all your gifts, your pastoral experience and sound judgment in serving the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Bishop-elect Justice graduated in 1960 from Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo, where he attended with Msgr.

Michael Harriman who is now pastor of St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco.

The Parish Community of

St. Brendan The Navigator wishes to extend to

BISHOP WILLIAM J. JUSTICE our congratulations on the occasion of your Ordination to the Episcopacy.

We pledge you our support and our prayers always.

We, the faith community of St. Hilary, brought together by Christ, respond to the universal Call to Holiness by living in the service of the Gospel.

—Mission Statement

Saint Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Drive, Tiburon, California

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Peter, if you love me you will feed my lambs.

With love to our new shepherd

Bishop William J. Justice CONGRATULATIONS

Bishop-elect Justice celebrated his 25th anniversary of ordination while pastor at All Souls Parish, South San Francisco. He celebrated his 40th ordination anniversary on May 17.

Those who know him . . .

ST. PETER’S PARISH AND SCHOOL COMMUNITY Clergy, Staff and Parishioners

■ Continued from page J17 Paul Parish in the 1970s. “I have a very high regard for Bishop-elect Justice. He sees things from different sides and is open to people and ideas. He is a very kind and compassionate man with a great sense of humor.”

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• Father James O’Malley, retired, has known the bishop-elect since he was “a little kid at St. Gregory’s.” Bishop-elect Justice has asked Father O’Malley to be one of the two priests to escort him for presentation to Archbishop Niederauer for ordination. “He came from wonderful parents and was a great kid who has done great work for the Archdiocese.

Bill is endlessly full of energy, always has a big smile and is ready to help. The people love him and he is always a real plus. It’s been a privilege to know him.

Bill is totally committed to Christ and the Church. There is not a lazy bone in his body. Bill has made the most of the gifts God has given him.”

‘He is the best boss I have ever had.’

– Indiana Blandon

‘You couldn’t ask for a finer priest or a finer person.’

– Father Terence Horan • Indiana Blandon is proclaiming the second reading at Bishop-elect Justice’s episcopal ordination Mass. She served as secretary to the religious education program at San Francisco’s St. Peter Parish when Bishop-elect Justice was pastor there and as parish secretary at All Souls Parish in South San Francisco during his pastorate there. “I love working with him and my family loves him. He is wonderful and deserves to be bishop. He cares for people.When someone is sick, he goes. He is the best boss I have ever had.”

• Jerome Lenk is music and liturgy director at Mission Dolores where Bishopelect Justice served as pastor from 20032007. “It was my pleasure to serve for ‘Father Bill’ during his four short years as pastor of Mission Dolores. During that time he fostered a wonderfully collaborative working environment. Father Bill truly cares about the people under his care and gave his dedicated support to THOSE WHO KNOW HIM, page J19

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Those who know him . . .

all ministries at the Basilica. His ability to truly listen to the needs and concerns of all people and his empathy for each situation are attributes that undeniably qualify him for the duties of bishop. I wish him every success in his endeavors and am grateful to consider him as a friend.”

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(PHOTO BY ARNE FOLKEDAL)

‘I find him to be a warm, caring, sensitive human being….’

– Rita Semel

Bishop-elect Justice addresses participants in the May 8 St. Pius X Awards service held at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, San Francisco.

The event honors religious education and youth ministry workers.

• Lorraine Moriarty is executive director of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, San Mateo County. Her husband, Deacon Paul Moriarty, was an icon in restorative justice ministry, sometimes known as detention ministry, until his death in 2002. “Father Bill has been an integral part of my family’s life since we first arrived in the Archdiocese of San Francisco some 20 years ago. He was my first ‘pastor boss’ when I coordinated RCIA at All Souls and his pastoral care was very evident when our granddaughter Kiri, attended school there. Bill’s presence, kindness and support for my husband Paul during the difficult months prior to his passing were a great gift that our family will always treasure. In recent years another prism has opened up and reflected light on this hardworking and committed priest’s life through his involvement in and support for those on the margins who are served by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, San Mateo County. Included in this work is his exhibited commitment to our restorative justice ministry. When I shared in jail last Sunday that the Father Bill who had visited them at Easter was about to become a bishop, they applauded!

Bill has blessed and enriched my life and that of my family and I know from first hand accounts recently shared that he has also touched the lives of many folk throughout the Archdiocese. Without exception all have had the same reaction I had upon learning of his call to episcopal ordination, namely one of great joy. I extend a deep bow of gratitude to God for choosing for us such a faithful servant leader and to Father Bill for his joyful ‘yes!’”

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The Church of the Nativity staff and parishioners congratulate

Auxiliary Bishop William Justice on his appointment Church of the Nativity 210 Oak Grove Avenue - Menlo Park, CA 94025 www.nativitymenlo.org

Congratulations to our Shepherd Most Reverend William J. Justice on his Episcopal Ordination!

‫ﱬﱫ‬ Capuchin Franciscans, Staff & Parishioners Our Lady of Angels Parish

Bishop Randolph Calvo and the

Congratulate

Congratulations Bishop William Justice on your appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco.

We extend our heartfelt prayers and best wishes to you as you minister to the faithful of our Archdiocese.

BISHOP WILLIAM JUSTICE on his ordination

St. Timothy Parish and School San Mateo, California

Diocese of Reno

Fr. Francis Garbo, Pastor Evelyn M. Nordbe rg, Princip al

AD MULTO ANNOS!

Congratulations & Prayerful Wishes for you William Justice From

All Souls Church and All Souls School South San Francisco

Most Reverend William Justice Our warmest congratulations from the Archdiocesan Office of Public Policy & Social Concerns

Congratulations Bishop-Elect William Justice on your appointment as

Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco From the Clergy, Staff and Parishioners of STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH

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‘God’s Mercy Endures Forever’ Coat of arms features motto, history, Scripture and fidelity good judgment. In things temporal and The following description of the episcospiritual, a bishop shares in the “power pal coat of arms of Bishop-elect William of the keys,” to bind and loose things in J. Justice is written in the vocabulary of this world and the next. heraldry as expressed in the Old English The set of waves in Bishop Justice’s language by way of its French roots: coat of arms signifies the two oceans Deep azure field with double wave of the Americas: the Atlantic, where charge vert banded by pure argent. Chief Bishop Justice began his life (Lawrence, honor point displayed, extending to the Mass.) and the Pacific, where he grew middle chief fesspoint, a scepter charge, to maturity and answered the call to banded in sable, topped with a Fleur-Defollow the Lord.

Lis. In field of waves proper, pair poisson (Tawny) charges respecting one another Bishop-elect Justice emphasizes the urinant in sinister, entangled in net of dull “the importance of water” in his ministry argent suspended from the sinister chief “as it is through baptism that we become point through fesse point to the dexter base part of Christ’s mission.” point. At nombril of navel point, a charge The scallop at the bottom of the of chevron scallop fare (Rubi) with fan shield represents the missionary pointing downward. nature of the episcopal ministry and The shield itself is parallel straight its willingness to enculturate different lined with a tipped bottom. It is diagoheritages and peoples. nally divided by both a set of waves and The scallop also pays homage to a fisherman’s net. The background of the Bishop Justice’s ongoing service to peoshield is midnight blue. This field color is ple of Spanish-speaking cultures. The also featured in the shield of the Justice scallop is an icon of the pilgrim apostle, Alexis Ellison, left, transfers to a computer the coat of arms of Family as found in the British Isles. In this Santiago, who went to the (then-known) Bishop-elect William Justice that was hand rendered by Stephenie context, however, the midnight blue is also ends of the earth to preach the Gospel.

Ruttinger, right. The coat of arms was designed by Father Timothy an allusion to the Gospels of John 21:3 and The shell also aligns its solidarity to Pelc, pastor of St. Ambrose Parish, Detroit/Grosse Pointe Park, Mich.

Luke 5:5 where the apostles fish through the coat of arms of Pope Benedict the dark night, and at dawn find hope in XVI. It was Pope Benedict who chose the risen Lord and answer his call.

Bishop Justice to share in the apostolic The central charge, or symbol, of the shield is a in both Psalm 45:6 and in Hebrews 1-8. ministry of the Church in April, 2008, on the eve of his “scepter of justice.” This is a “cant” or visual pun on the In Middle English, the name “Justice” came to be Holinesses’ first papal visit to the United States – a visit bishop’s name. In keeping with Scripture, the “scepter associated with a fair-minded person. In Old French, in which Bishop Justice then participated. of justice” symbolizes Christ’s function as administrator the word “justice” meant “equity.” It was also an occuThe pair of fish and the net makes yet another referand judge. In keeping with a first century cultural-theo- pational name for a judge, as this metonymic use of ence to the apostolic ministry of a bishop. In Mark 6:41, logical worldview of a righteous messiah, the symbol the word is attested from as early as the 12th century. Jesus miraculously feeds a multitude on just two fish of the scepter emphasizes the administrative judgments By extension, the life and ministry of Bishop Justice and five loaves of bread. This eucharistic foreshadowing COAT OF ARMS, page J21 of Jesus to be ethically right. This symbol is displayed is meant to be seen as one of righteousness, equity and

CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS CONGRATULATIONS

We rejoice with you,

Bishop Bill Justice,

Auxiliary Bishop William Justice

our Alliance brother, from THE SISTERS OF MERCY

Burlingame Regional Community The Church is enlivened by your wise leadership.

We look forward to continuing our work with you.

and we support your path toward justice.

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With joy and prayerful gratitude, St. Stephen Church congratulates

Bishop-elect William Justice

5/12/2008 10:43:57 AM

BISHOP WILLIAM J. JUSTICE

On your appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco May God Bless You

Congratulations from

St. Gabriel Parish and School Community St. Stephen Church ł 451 Eucalyptus Drive ł San Francisco, CA 94132 Rev. Joseph Walsh, Pastor ł Mrs. Sharon McCarthy Allen, School Principal www.saintstephensf.org

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Coat of arms . . .

■ Continued from page J20 directs us to the bishop’s role as chief celebrant of the Eucharist and his ministry to those who are in need.

At the top of the shield, and used in episcopal heraldry since the 10th century, is the “Gallero.” In English, a Gallero is also known as a pilgrim’s hat because its wide brim was commonly used to protect travelers from the heat of the sun. In this context, the Gallero indicates a person’s willingness to journey to different places for the faith, at the same time expecting to be protected by the shadow of God, as noted in Psalm 84:11.

The Gallero has a cord attached to it which ends in a set of tassels, or “fiocchi.” Tradition dictates that a bishop’s Gallero and cord are pictured in the color green and flanked by two sets of six tassels ordered in three rows, indicating episcopal rank in the hierarchy of the Church.

Above and behind the shield of Bishop Justice, there appears a Celtic processional cross, which pays tribute to the bishop’s ancestry. At the junction of the horizontal and vertical members of this cross, there is a hollow-out, circular space representing eternity. This serves as a reminder to the bishop that he should always be seeing things above the ordinary and mundane, as noted in Colossians 3:1-4, 6.

The last device of this episcopal coat of arms is a banner unfurled along the bottom of the display which contains a mission statement or motto chosen by Bishop Justice to express his ministry. It is a paraphrase of Psalm 136, which declares, “For His mercy endures forever.” This one sentence is repeated 26 times in the 26 verses of that Psalm. It therefore tells us a truth of great importance which Bishop Justice wants us to witness to in his ministry. God so loved the world that he sent us his only son to give us life. In his son, God’s mercy is ever present.

Bishop-elect William Justice’s coat of arms was prepared and executed in May of 2008

by Father Timothy Pelc of the Archdiocese of Detroit with the assistance of Stephenie Ruttinger.

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congratulate and welcome

Bishop William Justice on the occasion of his installation as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco.

Church of St. Isabella Congratulations to Bishop William Justice the newly-appointed Auxiliary of the Archdiocese of San Francisco May our Lord continue to guide you in your new ministry of service to the people of God

From the Jesuit Community, Lay Staff, & Retreatants of The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos

One Trinity Way

P.O. Box 6166 San Rafael, California 94903

(415) 479-1560

AUXILIARY BISHOP WILLIAM JUSTICE The people of

St. Isabella’s Parish offer you our prayerful support and heartfelt congratulations.

Ad Multo Annos

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Retirement Board As vicar for clergy Bishop-elect William Justice is chair of the archdiocesan Retirement Board which deals with issues impacting priests’ retirements including health care, housing and pension-related concerns. Pictured at a recent meeting were board members, seated from left: Msgr. Robert McElroy, president of the Council of Priests and pastor of St. Gregory, San Mateo; Bishop-elect Justice; Archbishop George Niederauer; Msgr. Harry Schlitt, moderator of the curia and vicar for administration; standing, from left: Father John Kavanagh, retired; Father Domingo Orimaco, pastor, Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay; Mary Schembri, director, Parish and Community Response for Catholic Charities CYO; Annabelle Groh, manager, Office of the Auxiliary Bishop-elect; Father Thomas Madden, director emeritus, Vallombrosa Retreat Center; Katya Alcaraz, administrative assistant, Office of the Auxiliary Bishop-elect; Father Kevin Gaffey, retired; and Barbara McCormick of Nicolay Consulting Group.

St. Anthony of Padua BISHOP WILLIAM JUSTICE Our Prayers and Best Wishes For a Fruitful Ministry Are With You! The Clergy and Parishioners of Saint Anthony of Padua Church, Novato

ST. PATRICK’S CATHOLIC CHURCH Clergy, Staff & Parishioners CONGRATULATE

William J. Justice on his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI to Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

St. Teresa of Avila Church 390 Missouri Street San Francisco, Ca., 94107

St. Teresa of Avila Church 390 Missouri Street The community of St. Teresa’ s offers their San Francisco, Ca., 94107 prayers and congratulations to the new Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, Bishop William J. Justice.

Rev. Paul F. Warren, Pastor

Congratulations & Felicidades Bishop William J. Justice From all your friends at ST. KEVIN PARISH Bernal Heights, San Francisco May God continue to bless and guide you in your new ministry to our local Church.

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations

Bishop William Justice We look forward to collaborating with you in carrying on Christ’s mission to bring God’s love to the world.

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AUXILIARY BISHOP WILLIAM JUSTICE

The Board of Rabbis of Northern California Rabbi Marvin Goodman Executive Director

Rabbi Allen B. Bennett President

Our Prayers and Congratulations on your appointment as

AUXILIARY BISHOP OF SAN FRANCISCO

Offers Congratulations to Bishop Justice

FROM THE PRIEST, STAFF AND PARISHIONERS OF

ST. BRUNO CHURCH

Congratulations Bishop Justice CONGRATULATIONS Auxilliary Bishop William Justice Our Prayers and Support 885 El Camino Real | South San Francisco, California 94080

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ST. AUGUSTINE CHURCH

3700 Callan Blvd.

South San Francisco, CA 94080 BISHOP-ELECT WILLIAM J. JUSTICE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO

650.873.2282 fax 650.873.1356

It is with greatest joy that we read about your elevation to the Episcopate and as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco!

St. Augustine Parish wishes to congratulate you on this honor bestowed upon you by the Holy Father, Benedict XVI. We assure you of our prayers and cooperation in your new mandate in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Again, congratulations and God bless you.

FR. RENE RAMOSO – PASTOR & ST. AUGUSTINE PARISHIONERS

Congratulations

BISHOP JUSTICE from ~ SAINT RAYMOND CHURCH AND SCHOOL

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Priest Personnel Board

(PHOTO BY DAN MORRIS-YOUNG/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

As vicar for clergy Bishop-elect William Justice heads the Priest Personnel Board which makes recommendations to Archbishop George Niederauer on clergy assignments in the Archdiocese.

Pictured at a recent meeting are, front from left: Bishop-elect Justice; Archbishop Niederauer; Msgr. Jose Rodriguez, vicar for Spanish-speaking and pastor of St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco; standing, from left: Father David Ghiorso, pastor, St. Charles, San Carlos; Annabelle Groh, manager, Office of the Auxiliary Bishop-elect; and Msgr. Floro Arcamo, pastor, Star of the Sea, San Francisco.

Inset photos are Father John Talesfore (left), rector, St. Mary’s Cathedral, and Father Joseph Walsh, pastor, St. Stephen, San Francisco.

Congratulations to Bishop

Bishop Justice

William Justice

Congratulations and God bless you

“For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding...”

—Colossians 1:9

Faculty, Staff and Students of Our Lady of Angels School

From the California Catholic Conference

Congratulations Bishop Justice Blessings to you as you begin your ministry as Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of San Francisco Th

The Parish Community of Saint Raphael Church and Mission San Rafael Archangel San Rafael, CA

The People of Our Lady of Mercy Parish and School (in the Westlake District of Daly City) Send their congratulations, best wishes, and warmest prayers as the Church prepares to ordain William J. Justice to the episcopacy!

“For a bishop as God's steward must be...hospitable, a lover of goodness, temperate, just, and holy.”

(Titus 1:7-8)

“Mary, Queen of Children”

May the Lord Jesus bless you, Bishop Justice, and the many lives you will touch!

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CONGRATULATIONS TO BISHOP ELECT WILLIAM J. JUSTICE ASSIGNED 1976 – 1979

Saint Paul’s Parish FATHER MARIO FARANA PARISH STAFF & PARISHIONERS

CONGRATULATIONS! Thanks for being a special part of our lives, Bishop Justice, and thanks also to Pope Benedict for giving us a wonderful new Shepherd.

Jack and Marie Murray

Congratulations AuxiliaryBishop William Justice The Salesians of San Francisco Congratulate the Most Reverend William Justice on his appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

Salesian Provincial Community Salesians of SS. Peter and Paul Parish Salesian Sisters of SS. Peter and Paul Parish Salesians of Corpus Christi Parish Salesian Sisters of Corpus Christi Parish Salesian Cooperators of San Francisco Salesian Boys’ and Girls’ Club of San Francisco

We pray that you will have a flourishing ministry in San Francisco

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The Archdiocese of San Francisco’s three episcopal leaders posed briefly May 10 before concelebrating the 200th jubilee Mass for the Canossian Daughters of Charity at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

(PHOTO BY ARNE FOLKEDAL)

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“For I, the Lord, love JUSTICE…” Is 61:8

Prayers & Best Wishes from St. Pius Parish & School Redwood City

Congratulations!

Most Reverend William Justice Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

You are in our prayers.

480 South Batavia Street, Orange, CA 92868 (714) 633-8121 www.csjorange.org

Congratulations and Best Wishes Bishop William Justice From Most Reverend Ignatius C. Wang And Staff Of the Pontifical Mission Aid Societies On your Episcopal Ordination as Auxiliary Bishop Of the Archdiocese of San Francisco The Society for the Propagation of the Faith Holy Childhood Association One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 (415) 614-5670 FAX (415) 614-5671 E-Mail: spof@sfarchdiocese.org

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Council of Priests

(PHOTO BY DAN MORRIS-YOUNG/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Bishop-elect William J. Justice is immediate past president of the archdiocesan Council of Priests and still an active member as vicar for clergy. The group wished him a happy birthday at their May 8 meeting.

Attending that meeting were, front from left: Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang; Msgr. Robert McElroy, council president and pastor of St. Gregory, San Mateo; Bishopelect Justice; Msgr. Harry Schlitt, moderator of the curia and vicar for administration; center row, from left: Father Donald D’Angelo, pastor, Holy Name of Jesus, San Francisco; Msgr. Michael Harriman, pastor, St. Cecilia, San Francisco; Father Eugene Tungol, pastor, Epiphany, San Francisco; Father Domingo Orimaco, pastor, Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay; Msgr. Floro Arcamo, pastor, Star of the Sea, San Francisco; Father Ken Westray, pastor, St. Sebastian, Kentfield; back row, from left: Father Mario Farana, pastor, St. Paul, San Francisco; Father Thomas Madden, director emeritus, Vallombrosa Retreat Center; Father Brian Costello, pastor, Mater Dolorosa, South San Francisco; Father James MacDonald, pastor, St. Pius, Redwood City; Msgr. Jose Rodriguez, vicar for Spanish-speaking and pastor, St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco; Marist Father Rene Iturbe, pastor, Notre Dame des Victoires, San Francisco; Father Kevin Gaffey, retired; and Father John Balleza, pastor, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City.

Bishop Bill,

in the San Francisco Bay Area congratulates

FATHER WILLIAM JUSTICE on his appointment and installation as the Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco by Pope Benedict XVI. We welcome him and look forward to working with him to serve the San Francisco community.

The only parish in the Archdiocese named after our patron sends you: “Felicidades” in Spanish, “Fakamonuia Atu” in Tongan and “De Rien” in Cajun, one big “Congratulations”

St. Francis of Assisi Church East Palo Alto

Bishop-elect William Justice, The Parish and School Community of Our Lady of Mount Carmel wishes you every blessing as our new auxiliary Bishop.

May God who has begun the good work in you bring it to completion!

CONGRATULATIONS AUXILIARY BISHOP JUSTICE

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish and School Redwood City, CA Since 1885

VÉÇzÜtàâÄtà|ÉÇá 9 ZÉwËá UÄxáá|Çzá4 Auxiliary Bishop William Justice On your appointment as Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco Fr. Alex L. Legaspi, Fr. Dominador F. Corrales, the Staff and Parishioners of

St. Andrew Catholic Church 1571 Southgate Avenue Daly City, CA 94015

The parishioners of Most Holy Redeemer Church congratulate Bishop William Justice and pray for God’s blessing on his ministry to share the Gospel message with all people.

Maureen and Adrian Kelly

St. Dunstan

Faith and School Communities extend their warmest congratulations and prayerful wishes to

Father William Justice on his appointment as an Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco

THE PARISH OF ST. EMYDIUS Offers Congratulations,

SAINT GREGORY PARISH JOYFULLY CELEBRATES THE INSTALLATION OF ITS NATIVE SON

Assurance of Prayers,

BISHOP WILLIAM JUSTICE

Every Best Wish

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AS THE JUSTICE FAMILY PROVIDED PIVOTAL LAY LEADERSHIP FOR OUR PARISH IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL, NOW BISHOP JUSTICE PROVIDES HOPE-FILLED PASTORAL LEADERSHIP FOR OUR ARCHDIOCESE IN THIS NEW MILLENNIUM

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Bishop-elect William J. Justice – a timeline May 8, 1942: born to William J. Justice and Ann Vallely Justice, Lawrence, Mass.

May 1968: Graduates from St. Patrick’s Seminary with a master’s in divinity degree.

1946: Justice Family moves to San Mateo.

May 17, 1968: Ordained to priesthood by Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken.

1956: Graduates from St. Gregory Elementary School, San Francisco.

June 11, 1968: First assignment, parochial vicar, St. John the Evangelist.

July 1, 2003: Named pastor, Mission Dolores Parish, San Francisco.

May 28, 2008: Episcopal ordination, 2 p.m., St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco.

Bishop-elect William Justice celebrates first Mass, 1968, at St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo.

July 1, 1970: Named parochial vicar, All Souls Parish, South San Francisco.

Congratulations

June 1, 1976: Named parochial vicar, St. Paul Parish, San Francisco.

With prayers of gratitude for your service!

June 1, 1979: Named part-time director of permanent diaconate and part-time to ministry to Spanish-speaking.

of Jesus and Mary

Congratulations

THE ITALIAN CATHOLIC FEDERATION CONGRATULATES AUXILIARY BISHOP WILLIAM JUSTICE

Congratulations Auxiliary Bishop William Justice

Auxiliary Bishop William Justice

Congratulations Auxiliary Bishop William Justice Our prayers and blessings are with you!

WE OFFER YOU OUR BEST WISHES, PRAYERS AND SUPPORT.

Bishop Justice, may God hold you in the Hollow of His Hand!

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St. Anselm Church Ross, CA

Bishop-elect William Justice Official portrait, May, 2008.

(PHOTO BY MICHAEL COLLOPY)

Sisters of the Holy Names

July 1, 1991: Named pastor, All Souls, South San Francisco.

April 10, 2008: Announcement by Pope Benedict XVI of appointment as titular bishop of Matara di Proconsolare and auxiliary bishop of San Francisco.

1962: Graduates from St. Joseph’s College, Mountain View.

First Communion

July 1, 1985: Named pastor of St. Peter Parish, San Francisco.

March 1, 2007: Appointed vicar for clergy for the Archdiocese.

1960: Graduates from Junipero Serra High School, San Mateo.

June 1, 1967: Ordained a transitional deacon at St. John the Evangelist Parish, San Francisco.

Jan. 1, 1982: Appointed Secretary of Pastoral Ministry for Archdiocese.

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rawing on strong biblical images, the Second Vatican Council describes the bishop as one who is truly a “pastor, chosen to shepherd the Lord’s flock, a servant of Christ and steward of the mysteries of God. He is entrusted with bearing witness to the Gospel of God’s grace.” Bishop-elect William Justice, as the Council teaches, is chosen and ordained “in an eminent and visible way to carry on the roles of Christ himself as teacher, shepherd and high priest.”

Many of us recall that the previous name for this rite was the “consecration” of a bishop. Reclaiming the more venerable tradition of the Church, the Second Vatican Council restored the name “ordination” to this sacrament and taught that it confers the sacrament of orders in its fullness.

ORDINATION Unlike priests or deacons at their ordination, the one to be ordained bishop enters the cathedral already vested as a bishop. On the afternoon of May 28, as the ordinand processes in to the stirring bilingual setting of “All Creatures of Our God and King,” he wears the bishop’s pectoral cross and the skull cap (or zucchetto) on his head; he is even called Bishop-elect.

He has already been chosen, “elected,”

by Pope Benedict XVI, thus confirming the testimony of many who know him to be worthy. The pope’s letter (or mandate) will be read to all of us, announcing this choice by our Holy Father.

Bishop-elect Justice’s pectoral cross is a gift from Archbishop John R. Quinn, archbishop emeritus, a cross the archbishop received when taking part in the synod of bishops on consecrated life in the 1970s.

LITURGY OF THE WORD Bishop-elect Justice has chosen the Scripture readings with the images of the bishop’s ministry in mind. From Isaiah, we hear the prophetic words: a bishop is sent to “heal the brokenhearted, proclaim liberty to the captives, comfort all who mourn.”

Then with a musical setting much loved at Mission Dolores Parish, we respond with the words of Psalm 23, “The Lord is my shepherd; I need nothing more,” meditating on the image of bishop as chief shepherd of the flock. St. Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians sets before our eyes the model of Christian living for bishops and faithful alike, “bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.”

The Gospel especially chosen for the ordination describes the last appearance of the risen Christ in John’s Gospel. Jesus is serving breakfast to his disciples on the shore, after guiding them to a miraculous catch of fish. With Peter’s reaffirmation of his love, Jesus calls him again to follow him but this time through the episcopal ministry of tending and feeding his sheep.

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Ordination of a bishop: roots in ancient tradition

By Sister Sharon McMillan, SNDdeN THE RITE OF ORDINATION The rite of ordination occurs immediately after the Gospel reading. Father James O’Malley (pastor emeritus of St. Kevin Parish) and Msgr. Aloysius Conrad Gruber (close friend of the ordinand from earliest seminary days and pastor of St. Mary of the Annunciation Parish in the Stockton Diocese) accompany the Bishop-elect. One of them addresses Archbishop Niederauer, using words spoken at the ordination of every bishop in the Roman Catholic Church for more than 700 years: Most Reverend Father, the Church of San Francisco asks you to ordain this priest, Father William Justice, to the responsibility of the Episcopate.

Father C. Michael Padazinski (judicial vicar) now reads the pope’s mandate, declaring the Holy Father’s choice of Bishop-elect Justice. All present affirm this choice by the strong response: Thanks be to God! and by our vigorous applause.

After the Archbishop’s homily, the Bishop-elect promises life-long faithfulness in his service as bishop: proclaiming the Gospel of Christ, building up the Church in union with the order of bishops under the authority of the pope, being compassionate to the poor, to strangers, and to all in need.

THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT Now all present unite in fervent prayer for Bishop-elect Justice by invoking Mary and all the saints, asking God to bless, sanctify, and consecrate this chosen man. To the traditional ordination litany, the Bishop-elect has added names significant to his family and to his years of priestly ministry. Among these names are Our Lady of Sorrows, Ann, William, Gregory, Peter, Matthew, Elizabeth, Thomas, John, James and Roque.

Created from cherry wood, Bishop-elect Justice’s crosier symbolizes his role as a shepherd of God’s flock.

Bishop-elect Justice’s pectoral cross (above) is a gift from Archbishop John R. Quinn, archbishop emeritus.

Three ancient, sacramental elements of episcopal ordination follow: the laying on of hands by Archbishop Niederauer, Bishop John Wester of Salt Lake City, Bishop Randolph Calvo of Reno, and by all the bishops present (praying in silence for a fresh outpouring of the Holy Spirit), the imposition of the Gospel book over the head of the elect (as a visible sign of the power and presence of the Holy Spirit), and the words of the ancient ordination prayer.

We hear all the bishops join Archbishop Niederauer in praying these words: Pour out now upon this chosen one that power which is from you, the Spirit of governance whom you gave to your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, the Spirit whom he bestowed upon the holy Apostles.

With the resounding Amen at the end of this prayer (almost 1800 years old!), the heart of the ordination rite is concluded: the man before us is now Bishop William Justice.

The episcopal ring is a reminder of fidelity to the Church. Bishop-elect Justice has selected what is known as a Vatican II ring like the one here.

EXPLANATORY RITES Other parts of the sacrament help explain the meaning of the office of bishop. Bishop Justice’s head is anointed with sacred chrism, sign of his interior anointing with

all blessings and sign of his high priesthood.

He then receives the Gospel Book, sign of his ministry to preach and to teach the word of God. The episcopal ring is a reminder of his fidelity to the Church; his pastoral staff (or crosier) recalls his role as shepherd. As a new bishop, he also now wears the miter.

After being invited to take the first seat among all the bishops for the Liturgy of the Eucharist, Bishop Justice receives the kiss of peace from his brother bishops, the sign of welcome into the order of bishops.

OUR BLESSING AND PRAYER After the Communion rite, the entire assembly joyfully offers praise and thanksgiving to God for this moment of grace as Bishop Justice walks throughout the cathedral, accompanied by the three principal ordaining bishops. The new bishop then speaks to everyone gathered.

Our own prayers for Bishop Justice are echoed in the words of Archbishop Niederauer’s final blessing: May the Lord bless and keep you.

As he chose to set you as a Bishop over his people, so may he give you happiness in this present life and a share in the joy that lasts forever. Amen!

Notre Dame de Namur Sister Sharon McMillan is a professor of sacramental theology and liturgy at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University, Menlo Park.

JUSTICE Justice (jus’t is); toward moral rightness in action or attitude.

(New Collegiate Directory) You get what you deserve; you get what God wants you to have.

(Rev.20:15) A “habitus” according to which a person is said to be active by choosing what is right. (Thomas Aquinas) WILLIAM: auxiliary bishop serving the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

(Benedict XVI)

…prayers and good wishes from the Community at

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Bishop William J. Justice St. Mary's Cathedral parish rejoices that your life's journey has brought you to us, especially now at this historic moment in your life and the life of the Archdiocese.

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