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At the head of a procession, a woman carrying a bowl of incense and a group of Korean musicians lead the way to the site of the groundbreaking for the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland May 21. SEE STORY ON PAGE 3.

Church continues to help sick in poorest countries GENEVA — A Vatican official told health ministers from around the world that the Catholic Church would continue to dedicate its resources to helping the sick in the world’s poorest countries.

Easily treatable infectious diseases are spreading in the Third World while science is focused on creating treatments and drugs for sale in the world’s richest nations, said Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, president of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers.

The cardinal represented the Vatican at the May 16-25 World Health Assembly in Geneva, the annual gathering of representatives from the World Health Organization’s 192 member states.

The assembly focused on a full range of health issues, but Cardinal Lozano, like many of the speakers, focused on HIV/AIDS, the situation of the poor and the health needs of mothers and their children.

On the issue of maternal and child health, he told the delegates that “among the 211 million human beings who are newly conceived 46 million are subjected to induced abortions, 32 million die prematurely or at birth, and thus only 133 million survive.”

On the issue of infectious diseases, he said that each year the preventable HELP SICK, page 4

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A young girl washes her hands and a boy hangs his clothes at their house on the bank of the Rimac River in Lima, Peru. About 1,500 poor families live on this part of the river in difficult health conditions.

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Human trafficking. . . . . . . . . 5 Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Editorial and letters . . . . . . 12 Readings and scripture . . . . 14 Datebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Groundbreaking at Saint Thomas More ~ Page 6 ~ May 27, 2005

Book review . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Wedding Guide

National Prayer Breakfast

Revenge of the Sith . . . . . . 18

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by Tom Burke A biodegradable ticker-tape salute to John Ahlbach, a ten-year faculty member at Archbishop Riordan High School, but for this laud moderator of the school’s environmental club.

The Green Team earns a coupla’ grand a year for Riordan with a “comprehensive bottle and can recycling program,” said longtime admissions director Dion Sabalvaro, now getting his feet wet for additional duties as ARHS public relations person.

Congrats also to students for their cooperation with ecologyminded Green Team efforts including “composting lunch leftovers.” John’s son Conner, an 8th grader at Good Shepherd Elementary School in Pacifica will be a Riordan freshman in the fall….While we’re at it let’s raise an environmental cheer for Jim McGarry, a 4-year member of the faculty at Mercy High School, San Francisco and counsel to its earthfriendly programs and the students who make them go. Mercy’s recycling rate is at a very respectable 79% and events such as No Waste Day, where students bring lunch in reusable, recyclable or compostable containers, are making the 19th Ave. site a “truly green campus,” the school said….Hats off to seniors at San Domenico Upper School who were recently named to Life Membership in the California Scholarship Federation including Katie Bartunek, Lindsay Bochner, Rebecca Busch, Jaime Castner, Frances Chen, Charlotte Chou,

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory recently christened its new Sylvia and Arthur Zanello ’51 Campus Ministry Center.

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The Junior Varsity Wrestling Team at Junipero Serra High School took this year’s West Coast Athletic League Wrestling Championship. Back from left: Coach Dimitri Andruha, Steven Erickson, Joe Ceccotti, David Richardson, Tony Kasaris, Mark Fortes, Steve Spina, Ray Baldonado, Kyle McLoughlin, Anthony Roberts, Coach Dan Vogl, Coach Harold Lorber, Coach Bob Marshall. Front from left: Kenny Lorber, Papu Tuiasosopo, Andrew Guttas, Danny Stark, Coach Michael Klobuchar, Sean Hart. Not available for the photo were Hanna Malak and Mitch Vogl.

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Additional hats off to the more than 60 students at the school who have made the federation’s spring list for their excellent academic performance…. Prayers please for Father Warren Woods who is battling cancer. Father Woods was pastor for almost 20 years at the now closed Blessed Sacrament Parish in San Rafael and is retired pastor of St. Monica Parish in San Francisco. His message continues to be “Spread joy.” Father Woods is currently, and for the last half dozen or so years, resident chaplain at Nazareth House, 245 Albion Way, San Rafael, 94903…. “Break a leg” as they say to Bartlett Sher, a 1977 graduate of St. Ignatius College Prep and a 2005 Tony nominee as best director for the new musical “The Light in the Piazza.” Bart also directed a coupla’ shows at SI in the early 80s including “Ten Little Indians” and the musical “Working”. He holds a graduate degree from the Yale School of Drama and has most recently served as director for Seattle’s Intiman Theater. Fillin’ in for him at Intiman while he’s busy with Broadway is Jonathon Moscone, an ’82 SI alum as well as artistic director for California Shakespeare Theater. Had fun jawin’ with SI’s Paul Totah about the show biz tradition at SI and others it has birthed including Richard Egan ‘39 of A Summer Place and other film fame, Peter Casey ’68, creator

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By Monica Clark Oakland Bishop Allen Vigneron and Bishop Emeritus John Cummins led a groundbreaking ceremony May 21 for the new Oakland Cathedral of Christ the Light.

The planned 21,600 square-foot worship space and adjacent buildings will replace St. Francis de Sales Cathedral which was razed after being irreparably damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

At the groundbreaking, Bishop Vigneron said the new cathedral “will be a masterpiece of architecture and a magnificent symbol of our faith.� He promised that the Cathedral of Christ the Light would be “a witness to the presence of Christ . . . and a welcoming gathering place for all who want to do good.�

The new cathedral, with a seating capacity of 1,500, will be built at the northwestern tip of Lake Merritt at the intersection of Grand Avenue and Harrison Street. The 100,000-square-foot site, currently a parking lot, will also contain offices and a multi-purpose hall for the cathedral parish, offices for diocesan staff, a conference center, rectories for the bishop and parish priests, a library, cafĂŠ, shop, public plaza, and underground parking for 200 cars.

The design, which has already been awarded the prestigious San Francisco AIA Design Award, is the inspiration of San Francisco architect Craig Hartman, whose other accomplishments include the international terminal at San Francisco Airport and the newly completed U.S. Embassy in Beijing. He is associated with Skidmore, Owings& Merrill.

Hartman said his intent is “to create a 21st century architecture that would ennoble and inspire through the use of light,

material and form, and convey an inclusive statement of welcome and openness.�

Hartman plans to use light, which he calls a “sacred phenomenon,� to elevate the use of such modest materials as laminated douglas fir, concrete and glass into a dynamic structure that rises more than 140 feet.

The cathedral’s curved shape will be formed by 26 110-foot-high laminated douglas fir vaults conjoined by a compression ring of high-tension steel. These vaults will be connected by 768 horizontal louvers, also made of douglas fir. These fixed louvers will contain sound-absorbing material that will modulate both light and sound within the building.

Natural light will illuminate the cathedral during the day with the early morning light directed by ocular panels toward the altar. At night, soft artificial light will shine through the louvered panels, creating a lantern-like quality on the exterior.

Some of the wooden panels will have acoustically absorptive materials and others will be acoustically reflective so that the spoken word and music can be heard without amplification.

The cathedral’s wooden interior structure creates the building’s strength. A veil of ceramic-frit-coated glass will cover the outside of the cathedral structure, protecting it from wind, rain and other natural elements.

The two are interconnected by lightweight steel tension rods and elongated, tapered wooden compression struts. The outside glass will be made to withstand the wear of centuries, say cathedral engineers.

A motorized standard ground rig platform will be installed to allow for washing of the glass.

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Oakland Diocese breaks ground for Cathedral of Christ the Light

Oakland Bishop Allen Vigneron (left) and Emeritus Bishop John Cummins turn over shovels of earth at the site of the new Cathedral of Christ the Light during groundbreaking ceremonies, May 21. Also participating were Craig Hartman, the cathedral's principal architect (far left), and Father Quang Dong, cathedral rector.

Hartman said the cathedral plan is founded on the liturgical principles articulated by Vatican II with the emphasis on the celebration of Eucharist. The altar will be the central focus with the congregation encircling it. This contrasts with the linear, hierarchical structure of early cathe-

drals. The altar will be inscribed within a circle of glass in the floor that will visually connect it with the mausoleum altar directly below. “This configuration symbolizes the Catholic metaphor of the communion of OAKLAND CATHEDRAL, page 8

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■ Continued from cover or treatable diseases are “responsible for the deaths of 17 million persons, of whom 90 percent live in developing countries.”

In many of the world’s poorest countries, he said, one cannot even find the drugs needed to treat tuberculosis, malaria and small pox and “95 percent of people living with AIDS do not have sufficient money to purchase antiretroviral medications.”

The cardinal told the assembly that between 1975 and 1997, more than 1,220 new drugs were introduced to the market; “only 13 of those medicines were dedicated to the treatment of tropical infectious diseases,” he said.

Pope John Paul II established and Pope Benedict XVI has ratified the Good Samaritan Foundation to strengthen the Catholic Church’s ability to provide assistance to the world’s neediest people, the cardinal said.

Microsoft head Bill Gates also focused on the problem of access to care and treatment in his May 16 speech to the assembly.

case, arguing that the federal courts erred in finding the New Hampshire law’s lack of a health exception made it unconstitutional.

The state law was challenged by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. A U.S. District Court judge ruled

the law was unconstitutional. The first Circuit, based in Boston, upheld that ruling.

The District Court had cited the Supreme Court’s 2000 ruling in the Nebraska case, Stenberg vs. Carhart, to say New Hampshire should have had a health exception in the law.

However, that provision should not have applied to this case, the diocese argued. The Stenberg case was about a law that banned a method of abortion, while New Hampshire’s law only required parental notification on a minor’s abortion, the brief said.

“Parental notification laws, on the other hand, do not purport to ban abortions, but simply seek to promote the interests of minors in having the benefit of parental involvement,” said an executive summary of the diocese’s brief.

It also said the New Hampshire law is “virtually identical” to Minnesota’s parental notification law, upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in 1990.

The May 23 statement from the diocese also included a comment from the chancellor, Diane Murphy Quinlan. The parental notification law, she said, “ensures that parents are able to protect their daughters’ physical and emotional well-being by, among other things, protecting them from their lack of experience, ensuring that all pre-existing medical conditions are considered and ensuring that they obtain proper follow-up medical care for what could be lifethreatening complications.”

“The world is failing billions of people,” Gates said.

“Rich governments are not fighting some of the world’s most deadly diseases because rich countries don’t have them. The private sector is not developing vaccines and medicines for these diseases, because developing countries can’t buy them.

And many developing countries are not doing nearly enough to improve the health of their own people.”

Father Robert J. Vitillo, special adviser on HIV/AIDS for Caritas Internationalis, the umbrella organization for Catholic charities worldwide, also participated in the assembly and related events.

The priest, former head of the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development, was one of the speakers May 19 at a session on “spirituality, religion and social health.”

Father Vitillo told the gathering that in the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS “the role of faith and of faithbased organizations often, at best, is ignored, and, at worst, is misrepresented or even ‘demonized’ as being responsible for much of the negative impact of this disease.”

He said that even a U.N. draft report on the crisis spoke

of “religious barriers” to HIV prevention, “yet no recognition is given to the crucial role of faith-based organizations in promoting responsible sexual behavior as an effective and valid way to prevent the widespread transmission of HIV.” At the same time, he said, “faith-based organizations within the Catholic tradition either support or directly sponsor HIV/AIDS services in some 102 countries of the world.”

Father Vitillo also asked his audience not to ignore the “unique and important” aspect of the spiritual care provided by religious organizations.

In addition, he said, the Catholic Church, its agencies and other faith-based groups have been very vocal in defending and promoting respect for the human rights of those affected by HIV/AIDS and in lobbying for access to drugs for poor victims of the disease.

“In the case of HIV and AIDS,” he said, “faith-based principles and values have motivated effective services, have assisted those affected to discover the God-given meaning and values of their lives despite the trauma and suffering wrought by the disease, and have insisted on respect for the human rights of such persons.”

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court this fall will hear its first case about access to abortion in five years when it considers the constitutionality of a New Hampshire law requiring parental notification before minors can have abortions.

The court agreed May 23 to review a First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that said the 2003 parental notification law was unconstitutional because it did not provide for an exception in case of a medical emergency.

The state’s appeal said other state laws would apply to override the notification requirement if the mother’s health was at risk, so such a provision was unnecessary in the 2003 law.

Bishop John B. McCormack of Manchester, New Hampshire’s only diocese, lauded the court’s decision to take the case, saying he was pleased the court “sees the value in considering the role of parental rights alongside the concern for the preservation of all human life.”

“The rights of parents and respect for human life are foundational to the health and welfare of our whole society,” the bishop said in a statement released by the diocese.

The last time the court took a case over abortion laws was in 2000, when it overturned Nebraska’s ban on partial-birth abortions, ruling 5-4 that the law was unconstitutional because it lacked an exception to protect the health of the mother.

The Manchester Diocese had filed an amicus or friendof-the-court brief asking the Supreme Court to review the

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Speaker provides insight to human trafficking at public policy event

By Jack Smith Human trafficking — named by the United Nations as the greatest violation of human rights in the 21st century — was the topic for the Annual Public Policy Breakfast May 17 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

Salvatorian Sister Sheila Novak gave the keynote address. The Salvatorian Sisters have made human trafficking a central concern for the mission of their congregation, and Sister Sheila speaks nationwide on the subject.

George Wesolek, director of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said he was pleased by the broad representation of interest among attendees.

In addition to priests, religious men and women, and Catholic social justice advocates, the event attracted government officials including San Francisco Supervisor Fiona Ma, and representatives from the offices of Assemblymen Leland Yee (D – San Francisco) and Gene Mullin (D – San Mateo), the Mayor’s office, and the District Attorney’s office.

“The solution to human trafficking needs to be something we devise across the constituencies we have here today,” Wesolek said.

Paraphrasing Russian Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Sister Sheila said people tend to find sympathy for tragedy occurring near home, but have a harder time identifying with tragedy far away. The graphic images of the recent South Asia Tsunami tragedy changed that dynamic and “stirred our passion.”

Sister Sheila hopes to raise similar concern through her talks for human trafficking which she called the “greatest tragedy of our time.”

“Twenty-seven million people are enslaved in our world,” Sister said, a number 35-times greater than the population of San Francisco.

The term “trafficking” indicates a significant difference from precious forms of slavery, she explained. While slaves in the past were forcibly brought to this country and generally stayed put as valuable property to their owners, “slaves of today are cheaper to obtain and are very expendable to their owners,” Sister said. Moving trafficking victims around is an intentional strategy to “keep them disoriented and dependent on their captors,” she said.

Traffickers use a “wide range of coercive means to obtain the consent of a trafficked person,” Sister said.

These can include trickery, promises, threat or use of force, the abuse of power or position of vulnerability.

There is “hardly a single country” which is not a place of origin, transit or destination for trafficked persons, she

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Salvatorian Sister Sheila Novak said. Various government agencies estimate between two and four million people, mostly women and children, are trafficked annually.

The financial profits from human trafficking exceed $13 billion per year, Sister said, “an amount greater than the gross domestic product of some countries from where they come.” A young woman can be purchased from Moldova or Ukraine for approximately $4,000 and make her owner nearly $1 million in her first year of prostitution.

Sister Sheila told a “typical” story of the coercion used by traffickers.

Lynn Lee was 16 years old when well-dressed traffickers from China visited her village. They were recruiting girls to be trained as cooks to work at well paid jobs in high-class Chinese hotels. After three months training, the girls were promised at least a full-year contract. Lynn and nine other girls from her village joined, signing contracts neither they nor their parents read, and were given visas and airline tickets to China. As soon as they got off the plane, their passports were burned.

“There was no job - only a brothel,” Sister said.

One of the women who defied her captors was beaten and raped in front of the others and the young women were brought to a morgue to see the bodies of two girls who had tried to escape. The captors told the women they could not leave until they had paid back all of their expenses, but the captors kept all their earnings from prostitution.

Lynn’s brothel was eventually raided by police and she was deported. “You may think I am lucky,” she said, “I am not. I am dirty now. I am filthy inside and my soul is empty. One day they will come back and if I don’t go they will kill me or my family.”

In Lynn’s case it was a stranger who sold her to slavery, but often it can be friends or even family Sister Sheila said.

Confiscating papers is one of the “big leverages,” Sister said. Captors will not return papers until the “debt” a victim owes is paid in full. “The debt they owe never decreases, but increases to ensure continued bondage,” she said.

The sex trade is the largest consumer and producer of human trafficking. People trafficked for sex can be used in prostitution, “massage parlors,” strip establishments, pornography and sex tourism. Children as young as six service customers in the Thai sex tourism trade.

Victims have been trafficked for the sex trade to the United States from 49 countries Sister said. One-third of them are under 17. Those recruited to prostitution may serve as many as 25 customers a day, keeping just pennies on the dollar of their earnings.

The second largest area of trafficking is for forced or indentured labor. This is widespread, Sister said, in agricultural, meat packing, hospitality, and even nanny industries. A significant amount of the world’s coffee production and much of the world’s cocoa supply results from the labor of trafficked persons.

The Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns will be facilitating a local response to increase education and promote local coordinated action on human trafficking. Those interested in participating can call 415-614-5570.

Dr. Mary Davenport to discuss abortion’s long term effects Dr. Mary Davenport, a noted pro-life obstetrician-gynecologist from the East Bay, will discuss the long term effects of abortion on women’s physical and emotional health, and on society June 7 at Sts. Peter and Paul Church. The free event begins at 7:00 p.m. and is sponsored by Catholics for the Common Good.

Dr. Davenport will discuss recent large scale scientific and sociological studies demonstrating abortion can cause profound psychological, medical and economic damage to women and their families. Dr. Davenport says this is important and credible information the “pro-choice” movement has worked hard to discredit and cover-up.

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St. Thomas More School breaks ground on $5.8 million addition

By Tom Burke St. Thomas More Elementary School in San Francisco broke ground on a new and long anticipated building addition May 20. The school community has saved and planned for the addition of classrooms, gym and accessory rooms for 15 years.

St. Thomas More celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2004. “To continue to meet the needs of our school families we are beginning an expansion to the current school building with the addition of new classrooms and a gymnasium,� said Joe Elsbernd, St. Thomas More principal since 1986. The new building will also provide a permanent facility for kindergarten students, Elsbernd said, as well as space for a pre-school, a library/media center and a science/art instruction area. It is also equipped with a full kitchen and multi-purpose meeting area. “This is a dream come true for the St. Thomas More school community,� said Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

She added, “Today, parents expect more from their child’s school. The basics are not enough - every school offers the basics. Parents want and students need a full curriculum. This includes art, music, physical education, an after school sports program, fine arts opportunities, after school activities and after school care for working parents. This new facility will provide additional space that will enhance the quality of the program offered at St. Thomas More.� “Everybody is excited about this new building, whether your interest is science or sports, there will be something there for everyone,� said Linda Kilmartin Shah, a 1966 alumna of St. Thomas More and president of its alumni association. “We look forward to reunions in the new building. We’ve already talked about making the first one a “sock hop� - don’t want to damage the new gym floor.�

Shah’s son, Jay, is a 1995 graduate of St. Thomas More and today coaches the junior high baseball team at the school.

The building, scheduled to begin construction in June and be completed by March 2006, is part of a bright St. Thomas More future, Joe Elsbernd said. “St. Thomas More School offers a traditional, value-centered course of studies to an ethnically diverse student body from middle class families,� he said. “As our school community continues to grow and our curriculum expands to include additional new areas, we need to enhance our current facilities to meet the needs of our students and their families� “The budget for the complete building is $5.8 million,�

Elsbernd said. “Thus far, the school staff, together with the supportive and active community of parents and friends of

Helping to get construction underway at St. Thomas More School are, from left, Mike Giusti, Joe Elsbernd, Linda Shah, Don McGill, Maureen Huntington, Sal Torres, Sister Patricia Rogers, BVM, Sean Elsbernd.

the school, has now raised $3,300,000.� The total also includes funding from several local private foundations including a $300,000 grant from The Herbst Foundation and grants from the Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation and The Callison Foundation.

Funding also includes a $1.5 million loan from the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Elsbernd said, as applications for grants from several other local and national foundations continue.

Speakers at the groundbreaking in addition to the principal and superintendent of schools included State Assemblyman Leland Yee, San Francisco Supervisor and principal’s son, Sean Elsbernd, Noelle Walker of NBC-11 news, school parent and Daly City Councilman, Sal Torres, and project building committee members Ron Graham and Mike Mihelich.

Football coach is Professional and Business Club speaker Bob Ladouceur, who coached Concord’s De La Salle High School football team to the nation’s longest winning streak, is the featured speaker at the Catholic Professional and Business Club’s monthly breakfast meeting June 8 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Coach Ladouceur’s topic, not surprisingly, is Excellence as a Process. “If you are fascinated by excellence not only as a product but as a process, this speaker’s story will both entertain and inspire,� said

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Daughter of Charity Sister Andrea Vaughan Sister Andrea (Frances Josephine) Vaughan, D.C., 84, died May 20 at Seton Residence in Evansville, Indiana. Born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1920, Sister Andrea entered the Daughters of Charity in 1941. After her initial formation period, she was sent to San Francisco to teach at St. Patrick School. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Francisco in 1951, and served three years at St. Joseph School in New Orleans. She returned to San Francisco in 1954 to serve as a group mother at Mt. St. Joseph for six years.

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■ Continued from page 3 saints, the light uniting the saints who came before, the saints of the present day, and the saints of the future,” Hartman said. Atop the cathedral will be aluminum finials, making the building seem to be reaching to heaven.

A circular baptismal font will be placed directly inside the cathedral’s front door on axis with the altar. It will have what Hartman called an “infinity edge,” allowing water to continuously envelop the top and sides.

Father Ron Schmit, pastor of St. Anne Parish in Byron, is chairing the cathedral’s sacred art and design committee, responsible for cathedral aesthetics and insuring that all elements of the design conform to Church norms.

The committee will be recommending materials for the cathedral furnishings including the pews and the devotional areas. These will take into consideration the history of the area and the cultural diversity in the diocese, cathedral officials said. They will also select the interior artwork, insuring that it represents the devotions and spirituality of various Catholic ethnicities. Bishop Allen Vigneron said the cathedral will be “rich with Catholic metaphors and symbols.”

The $131 million construction project is expected to begin immediately with excavation of the entire site, followed by installation of the concrete foundations and the 2.5-acre podium for all the buildings adjacent to the

cathedral itself. The cathedral is expected to open for Epiphany 2008.

More than 1,500 trades persons are expected to be involved in the construction project, according to Lee Nordlund, cathedral spokesperson. He said all contractors and subcontractors must employ union workers and will be required to meet not only EEOC fair-hiring requirements but also diversity goals set by diocesan officials.

Three components of the initial plan for the cathedral center— a daily chapel with seating for 150 people, a bell tower and a conference center – have been postponed because of budget constraints, Nordlund said.

To date, $86 million has been pledged or contributed by individuals, foundations and companies, he said. The diocese plans to sell several pieces of property, including the site of the former St. Francis de Sales Cathedral, to raise at least $15 million. The remaining millions still must be raised, he said, to meet the $131 million goal.

When the cathedral center is completed, the St. Francis de Sales Cathedral Parish, which merged with St. Mary Parish after the earthquake and became St. Mary-St. Francis de Sales Parish will move to the new cathedral with Father Quang Dong as rector. The parish will continue its outreach ministries, including services to the poor, Nordlund said.

Monica Clark is editor of The Catholic Voice in the Diocese of Oakland. Catholic San Francisco staff contributed to the story.

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Wedding Guide Why It’s OK to Marry a Catholic

By Father Eugene Hemrick “What does a person bring to a marriage by being a Catholic?” This question from a colleague of mine is perfect for tickling the Catholic imagination and inviting us to assess our appreciation of Catholicism and its unique worldview.

Catholics believe first and foremost that not only is Christ God but that he truly is present in the Eucharist. That means we believe that God so loves us that he desires physical contact with us, making us temples of God whose very life calls out for respect.

This eucharistic love of Christ for us makes clear how sacred human life is. And it is because of this belief in the sacredness of human life that we abhor any form of violence to another person. The Eucharist, at the heart of a Catholic’s practice of the faith, is itself a sacred statement against murder, injustice, abortion, the death penalty.

So it can be hoped that a Catholic will bring to marriage a respect for life and a belief in life’s sacredness that are based in love. It is a respect and love that one’s spouse is sure to welcome over the years.

It is well known, of course, that Catholics aren’t supposed to take marriage lightly. Although the contracting man and woman

pledge themselves to each other in the presence of the community, it is above all a pledge before God, which makes it a threeparty, holy contract — as well as a bond that endures. A Catholic certainly should bring to marriage a sense that “I’m here to stay” and that this marriage is a vocation nurtured by God. Many Catholics treasure the lives of the saints and look to at least two or three of them as models. So a Catholic spouse ought to enter marriage with some good role models.

Often the saints teach us that the world is best served when we serve the poor. We learn of saints who started out in high, worldly positions but left it all to dedicate themselves to those who are impoverished. In doing this, they teach us how to overcome that empty feeling when we have so much but are unhappy.

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Wedding Guide Couples learn a lot from a marriage inventory After Elizabeth Kennedy and Justin Gil of Spokane, Wash., completed a marriage preparation course at St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Spokane, they filled out a “couple inventory.”

They were relieved to discover that they saw eye-to-eye on many issues that can torpedo a marriage. But the inventory surfaced one issue the couple hadn’t discussed: finances.

“We scored low on the nuts and bolts of finances,” Kennedy said. They hadn’t talked about how they would repay their student loans. So they sat down and worked out these details, feeling fortunate that the inventory caught this area of concern for their future life.

The couple inventory they filled out is known as FOCCUS (Facilitating Open Couple Communication, Understanding and Study). The internationally used inventory isn’t the only one available, but it is one of the most popular. FOCCUS isn’t a test. It is a tool for couples planning to marry. (Couples married a few years can return to the inventory through a tool called REFOCCUS.) The inventory is easy to fill out. The couple separately answer the same questions by saying whether they agree, disagree or feel uncertain about 156 statements. Some sample statements are: “I am concerned that my future spouse sometimes spends money foolishly.”

“I want a strong sexual relationship in my marriage.”

“My future spouse and I disagree on when to begin having children.”

“I am concerned that in-laws may interfere in our marriage relationship.”

“I find it difficult to say ‘I am sorry’ to my future spouse even when I am wrong.”

There are additional questions specific to interfaith couples and couples in which one or both are marrying a second time.

After completing the inventory, the responses are compared and graphed.

The statements are separated into 19 categories that engaged couples need to discuss. Some sample categories are communication, religion and values, parenting issues, extended family issues and lifestyle expectations. Marriage preparation facilitators like to see agreement rates of 80 percent or more on each category’s statements.

Kathy Finley, who teaches “Christian Marriage” at Gonzaga University in Spokane, has facilitated marriage preparation courses for more than 300 couples at St. Aloysius, including Kennedy and Gil. She carefully pores over inventory results with each couple.

Finley is especially concerned if the agreement rate is less than 50 percent in any category. “I ask them why.

Sometimes they just haven’t talked about it. Then, it’s just OK, let’s get to it. Sometimes it’s too hot of a topic, and they haven’t been able to talk about it.

So I give them some ways to talk about it.”

Doing poorly on the inventory won’t necessarily delay a marriage. But some facilitators will recommend that couples seek counseling with a therapist specializing in marriage issues. And Finley always sends a note to the priest who will preside at the couple’s wedding. “So this will be in their file if things pop up later,” she said.

Facilitators worry, too, if couples score poorly on communication. If they lack that skill going into marriage, it makes the bumps along the way harder to navigate. The inventory is also a good tool to uncover behaviors or attitudes with the potential to be physically or emotionally damaging.

For instance, physical abuse often begins with nonphysical controlling and emotional withholding. So, agreeing with statements that one’s “future spouse makes most of the decisions about what

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we do together” or that at times one is “concerned about the silent treatment I get from my future spouse” could send up a red flag.

Likewise, statements about alcohol and drug use, such as, “Drinking or using drugs causes my future spouse to act inappropriately,” can be an early signal that an addiction problem needs attention.

How couples score in two categories — problem solving and personality match — provides the strongest indicators for their future. The Nebraska-based company that provides FOCCUS recommends giving special attention to results in these categories.

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Catholics understand Christian marriage as a lifelong partnership between a baptized man and woman lived in the context of the church community. This union forms the basic unit of both church and civil society. Since its earliest days, Christianity has used the metaphor of marriage to show the relationship of Christ to the church (Eph 5:10-32).

Unlike an entirely civil marriage ceremony, a Catholic ceremony reminds couples that they will lead their lives together in a faith community. Couples pledge themselves to the values of love, permanence and fidelity. These three values are not necessarily reflected in a purely civil ceremony performed at city hall.

Catholics also look at marriage as a covenant rather than a contract. A contract looks at whether or not a person has fulfilled certain legal stipulations (things), while a covenant looks at personal commitment (people). Obviously “covenant” brings to mind biblical roots that highlight relationships such as those between people and their God, and with each other.

Probably the most important decision any person can make is that of a lifelong commitment to another person. For many today this will mean 50 to 60 years of a close, intimate relationship. Statistics tell us, however, that almost half of those who go through a formal wedding ceremony realize afterward that for some reason or another they are not compatible and then seek a divorce. This phenomenon is particularly acute in the United States where it strikes almost every religion and ethnic group.

The church is responding to this by focusing on marriage preparation to help couples beginning their lifelong journey together. Church marriage preparation programs aim to help people face the problems that most couples experience. The preparation typically includes taking the FOCCUS inventory (Facilitating Open Couple Communication, Understanding and Study), which helps couples examine their attitudes on finances, sexuality, children, in-laws and communication.

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A man and woman pledge to love, permanence and fidelity at their Catholic wedding ceremony.

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Dioceses usually provide other types of preparations such as Pre-Cana Conferences, Evenings for the Engaged and so on. Frequently dioceses offer programs for those who have been married previously and those who will marry someone of a different faith tradition.

A negative way of looking at all of this is to ask why the church has so many regulations about getting married. A positive approach is to reflect on the Christian values of marriage and then respond, “Thank heavens the church is implementing in a practical way these values and ideals.”

Values and ideals remain simply values and ideals if we cannot incorporate them into our lives in a practical way.

The so-called “regulations” simply implement in a realistic way the church’s view that marriage is a lifelong commitment of a man and woman to permanence and fidelity in a covenantal relationship.

Each diocese offers programs to prepare soon-to-marry couples to live out these ideals in a world and a society in which many do not view permanence and fidelity as values.

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Building up the Church In witnessing the groundbreaking ceremony for the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, we are able to share an inspirational moment with our sisters and brothers in the Diocese of Oakland. This is a moment of great joy for the local Church of the Oakland Diocese, which is composed of a diverse Catholic population numbering more than 500,000 in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.

In his homily at the May 21 ceremony, Oakland Bishop Allen Vigneron said, “We have chosen a motto to give voice to our vision for the building of this Cathedral: ‘Gather Good Together.’ Today we see already that God has begun to fulfill the prayerful hopes expressed in that motto. Look around and see: God has gathered together here from all parts of our local Church people of every language, culture and background. And in gathering us here he reinforces and heightens the gift of each by joining them to the talents and graces of all. In this way we have already begun to fulfill the mission of the Cathedral of Christ the Light: That it be a witness to the presence of Christ in the East Bay and a welcoming gathering place for all people who want to do good.

“The Sacred Scripture which we just heard is a word from God reminding us that Christ himself is the foundation stone of this new Cathedral: He, though once rejected, ‘has become the cornerstone’ through the victory of his resurrection from the dead (Acts 4:11). The risen Christ is the cornerstone of our building this Cathedral, and he will be foundation and capstone of all we strive to accomplish when in his name we are gathered together in this sacred place. It is in his name that we will gather here, in order to gather together all good and, thereby bring it to its perfect consummation according to the will of the Father.

“As the gospel parable instructs us, it is the hearing of Christ’s word and the celebrating of his message of redemptive love in the sacraments – especially the Most Holy Eucharist — within this Cathedral and then going forth to act on that word, which establishes for the Cathedral of Christ the Light a foundation that will endure (cf. Lk: 6: 47-48).

“The mission of the Cathedral of Christ the Light is to be a place for the Holy Spirit to give us, formed into the living temple of God, new energy for our mission: to witness to Christ by lives of holiness and virtue and unstinting service of God and neighbor.”

As excavation and construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Light begins in Oakland, the faithful of the Archdiocese of San Francisco look across San Francisco Bay and see the witness of God’s presence in our lives – the people of the Diocese of Oakland at work in building up the Church and working to fulfill the mission entrusted to us.

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Separation sometimes In response to your May 13th story on the Migden bill to seize St. Brigid’s Church, it seems that Senator Migden and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors have reached a new low in hypocrisy in pushing this legislation.

These are the same politicians who scream like a stuck pig when the Catholic Church has the temerity to speak out on public and civic issues, claiming this violates the “separation of church and state.” Yet they seem to have no problem injecting themselves into church affairs, trying to forcibly seize church property to do with as they please regardless of the adverse impact it may have on the archdiocese.

It seems that Senator Migden and a majority on the Board of Supervisors, while they may claim to be prophets of tolerance and guardians of “rights,” seem to have no problem trampling on the rights of others when it’s in their politically correct interest to do so. To paraphrase an old quote, “How long must we suffer these fools?” San Francisco deserves better.

E.F. Sullivan San Francisco

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For further reading I enjoyed George Weigel’s column “The greats make a come-back” (CSF – May 20) naming authors and their works. The goal to read eight books of substance a year is a great plan.

My problem is a consistent one which books do I want to invest my time in reading? I was fortunate to stumble across a delightful find, in answer to my dilemma, called “The Catholic Lifetime Reading Plan” (updated version 1998, Grotto Press, MI) by eminent theologian Father John A. Hardon, S.J. This book is a wonderful and insightful guide to more than 100 major Catholic authors and their works giving about a two-page summary of each author’s personal life and background in preface to a recommended reading list of their works. Just reading the summaries alone is in of itself a wealth of enlightenment.

Fr. Hardon’s choice of authors for his compilation had to meet certain criteria one of which was the writers “relevance for our age.” Issues and ideas that are being raised and challenged today both in and outside the Catholic Church have been already explored by some of the greatest minds of history. Fr. Hardon expresses how these authors’ insights can help us to endure the upheavals of our modern society and help us to weather the storms and become stronger.

From saints, philosophers, priests, converts to Catholicism, spanning from the age of persecution to the modern age - these writers’ works offer what Fr. Hardon considers as “basic” to a balanced understanding of the Catholic faith as lived out for two millennia of Christian history. He adds that the insights expressed by these writers are just the sort of nourishment for the mind that the world so desperately needs today.

Finola Glassmoyer Redwood City

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I shake my head and wonder at what passes for theology among Catholics today. Fr. Rolheiser (The danger of riches – May 20) seems to think we can buy our way into heaven by giving to the poor, assuming we receive the appropriate letter of recommendation. If he wants to make the point that giving to the poor is good, fine, but let’s not change two thousand years of Christian theology in the process.

I suppose he could rewrite John 3:16-18. Perhaps it should read: “Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, (assuming of course he has given sufficiently to the poor), but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, (unless of course he has been sufficiently charitable) because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” The truth is we don’t earn our way to heaven, not even by giving to the poor. We get there by accepting Christ’s gift at the foot of the cross. Once we accept Christ into our lives, a change in how we see the world, including the poor, will occur. We give then because it’s what God expects of us, not to buy a “ticket” into the kingdom. As regards riches, the danger is not that it separates us from the poor, but instead that the love of riches separates us from God. Why submit to an all-powerful God when riches make us think we are God. The story of Lazarus is not that the rich man never saw him, but that once

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judgment comes it is too late to go back and correct things. That’s why the almsgiving Pharisees probably didn’t make it. Let’s get our theology straight while there’s still time.

Albert Serrato Millbrae

Diverging faiths I am writing to express my sadness and disappointment in the resignation of Fr. Thomas Reese, who was recently forced to resign his position as editor of America Magazine. According to reports, Fr. Reese resigned, after years of pressure from the Vatican, rather than allow the magazine to have its content regulated by a board of censors.

Fr. Reese used the pages of America to discuss, in a thoughtful way, the many issues facing the Catholic Church today.

At all points, he presented the many diverging opinions within Catholicism in a sympathetic manner. He respected the differences within the faith, and provided an outlet for the kind of thoughtful discourse the Church needs to heal itself.

He offered a model for the kind of “shared responsibility” the Church needs, and in losing his leadership at America, we are losing an important voice.

I am extremely disappointed that this action has taken place, and worry about the ramifications for the Catholic Church. Christ promised the Holy Spirit to the entire body of Christ, the church, and that Spirit may be found in the lived experiences, struggles and concerns of all of those Christ calls his own. I wonder if our church is able to be a listening church, a dialoguing church.

Lisa Striebing Burlingame

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The Catholic Difference A lot of press coverage of Archbishop William Levada’s nomination as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith [CDF] revisited some old shibboleths about “watchdogs reining in dissidents,” as if “the doctrine of the faith” were a political platform and the prefect of CDF a party whip, hustling wavering legislators into line with threats of retribution. Which might make a degree of sense, if you think of Catholicism as simply another life-style choice with no more tether to the truth than any other hobby.

If, however, the Catholic Church is what it claims to be — the earthen vessel containing the truth of the world — then “doctrine,” the boundary that distinguishes authentic Catholicism from counterfeit Catholicism, is something entirely different. Doctrine, in a truly Catholic understanding of the term, is liberating, not confining.

Take three examples.

First, the Bible. There will be no new books added to the Bible. The canon of Scripture is closed; that’s a matter of doctrine. But does that make Scripture a dead letter? No. The doctrine that the Bible is this set of books, period, insures that the Word of God can be received intact by every new generation of believers, inviting them to a fresh engagement with God’s revelation in written form.

The Church’s sevenfold sacramental system is another matter of doctrine: these seven sacraments, the Church teaches, are the sacraments in a way that other acts of worship are not. Does that teaching make baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, the sacrament of rec-

onciliation, holy orders, matrimony, and the anointing of the sick empty rituals, performed simply because others did these things before us? No. The givenness of the sacramental system — the fact that we don’t have to make this up — teaches every generation of Christians a seminal truth: just beyond the ordinary — bread and wine; water, salt, and oil; marital love and fidelity — lies the extraordinary reality of God’s passionate love for the world, manifest in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, whom we meet in the sacraments.

And then there is the matter of authority in the Church, which touches Archbishop Levada’s new responsibilities. Authority in the Church is not intended to impede creativity; authority in the Church is meant to insure that Catholics, including theologians, don’t settle for mediocrity. The teaching authority of the Church, of which CDF is one instrument, has one purpose: to hold all of us accountable to the regula fidei, the “rule of faith,” that is the living Christ.

Theologians, like other intellectuals, can be tempted to be impressed by their own cleverness. The teaching authority of the Church, including CDF, exists to call theology to a love of the truth, not to self-absorption in its own genius.

Some (including some Catholics) find it odd that the Catholic Church should have an office dedicated to the integrity of its tradition. Perhaps they might look at the situation of Christian communities that have no such offices, communities whose boundaries are so porous that it’s hard to tell who’s in and who’s out — or

even what “in” and “out” mean. More to the point, though, concerns about an office of vigilance and encouragement that calls theologians to a faithful and creative exploration George Weigel of “the tradition” misses the distinctively Catholic meaning of “tradition.”

Latin helps here. “Tradition,” our translation of the Latin traditio, comes from the verb tradere, which means “to hand over” or “hand on,” as in a patrimony.

As the Catholic Church understands it, this “handing on” begins, not with us, but within the Holy Trinity itself: for the Trinity is a communion of complete giving-and-receiving. That radical self-giving entered history in Jesus of Nazareth and continues in the life of the Church, which is his mystical body, through the power of the Holy Spirit. That is why tradition is the living faith of those who have died. And that is why “tradition” must be distinguished from forms of traditionalism which bespeak the dead faith of the living.

Doctrine isn’t excess baggage on the journey of faith. Doctrine is the engine that makes the journey possible, in integrity.

other gifts. When we were leaving my friend said that she wanted her daughter to open her gift in front of us.

“Oh, no, really that’s okay,” I said, “she can open it later; she really doesn’t need to open it in front of us.”

But my friend politely but firmly led me over to her daughter with the gift and handed it to her.

She was sitting on the floor with a small group of her friends, all girls, and I must admit I felt a bit embarrassed as she began to open the book. As she pulled off the wrapping paper I was absolutely astonished to hear her yell, excitedly, “Pope John Paul!” And her friends, equally excited, gathered around her to look at the pictures as she turned the pages. I was stunned, still thinking this little girl must have the best manners in the world to be pretending she liked this book so much. She couldn’t really be that excited about a book with pictures of our late Pope . . . could she?

That night her mom called me and said after the party, her daughter came up to her holding two things, and she said to her mom, “These are my favorite pres-

ents.” One of them was the book on Pope John Paul. I forget what the other one was, but the book was picked from a large assortment of both religious and non-religious gifts. It wasn’t until then that I Lynn Smith realized that her daughter really had loved her book.

The unaffected and unembarrassed joy she expressed had really surprised me. The joyful and innocent delight in her words “Pope John Paul!” will stay with me for a long time. I feel like I am the one who received a gift.

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

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Surprised by joy We attended a First Communion ceremony last Sunday for our friends’ daughter. They were having a celebration party afterwards and I realized that we should bring a gift. I couldn’t decide what to get though.

Should it be something religious or should I just buy her clothes, or something else that I thought she would really like.

I really couldn’t decide so I asked my husband about it. “How about a book on Pope John Paul II and a rosary?” he suggested. “Well…. okay,” I said doubtfully. In my mind I was thinking, what little girl the in world would get excited about those gifts? He picked out a (admittedly beautiful hard cover) book, with large glossy pictures of Pope John Paul. And he picked out a (again, admittedly, very pretty and colorful) rosary. I wrapped up the presents and put them in a pretty bag.

When we got to our friends’ house after the First Communion I saw that there was a table covered with gifts, and I rather half-heartedly put the bag with the

Lynn Smith is a parishioner at St. Monica Parish and is mother of a five year old boy.

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SUVs, DVDs and all things digital Did you have the same reaction I did when you first saw a commercial advertising the new SUVs that feature the little DVD movie screens?

No, no, no — not that someone is going to rack up one scary total of video late fees when they drive from Minnesota to Florida with “Finding Nemo” tucked under the seat.

No, no, no — not that microwave popcorn accessories will be next.

My first reaction was more like, “This is over the top.”

My second reaction was, “This is waaaay over the top.”

What’s wrong with the longstanding tradition of children sitting in the back and kicking the driver’s seat and whining, “Are we almost there yet?” or “I have to go potty”? Can’t we Americans walk, drive, fly, ride, rest or recreate without an electronic, digital and/or computer-generated image in our face?

Within the past week I have ridden a shuttle bus with an 8-inch square screen in my face hawking flights to Disney World, flown in a passenger jet that blinked images at me from an 6-inch screen just above the tray table and listened to a young family debate how they

could make payments on that new SUV. (Note: They estimated that if they sold their house, cashed in their 401-K and moved into the SUV they could make it fit their budget. They are thinking about it.)

Another TV commercial has applicability here.

Have you seen the one where this Bob Dylan-ish character plays a guitar and harmonica? The harmonica is wired to his head by a contraption that looks like teeth braces on steroids — you know, like Dylan’s.

Anyway, the advertiser is a major hamburger chain.

The message is that people love these major chain hamburgers so much that they modify the harmonica headwear into burger feeding machines — and keep their hands free.

This, of course, forces us to ask if there will soon be headgear with flip-up or flip-around or flip-down screens the wearer can use to access the Internet at any given moment.

OK, maybe this is overreaction. Hey, maybe it is true that if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em. If that is true, we Catholics had better hurry or I just know the Baptists will beat us to it — you know, installing those little screens in pews.

Sure, the liturgy police might raise a fuss, but I bet the parish finance people would cotton to this idea big time. Think about it. Right there in the pew you could be force-fed images perDan Morris suading you to be more generous.

And the liturgy folks might be assuaged a little when it is pointed out they could place words to new songs on the little screens (as long as they have a good friend who is a copyright lawyer).

Maybe a new parish job — prayer screen acolyte, perhaps — would appear, and the screens could be so well controlled that the prayer screen acolyte could send individual messages to any pew at any time, such as: “Attention. You at Pew Screen 23-C. Stop your 2-yearold from eating the hymnal.”

Dan Morris is former editor of Catholic San Francisco.

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THE SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58 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.”

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A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT 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 HOLY 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.”

Scripture FATHER JAMES GARCIA

The greatest day of your life Did you ever travel to Paris and walk along Le Champs Elysee? Surveying the green tree-lined boulevard, my eye was almost magnetically drawn forward until it rested on the distant, milk-white Triumphal Arch of Napoleon. I remember standing under its shade and reading the endless list of city names which cover its surface. The cities are Bonapart’s trophies; conquests for “The Glory” of France. It is said that a few months before Napoleon suffered the defeat of Waterloo, a Continental journalist - thinking no doubt in political terms - asked the Little Frenchman what he considered the greatest day in his life. “Was it your victory, Sir, at Berlin? or at Warsaw?or at St. Petersburg? or Vienna?or Austerlitz?”

Napoleon left the interviewer speechless with his retort? “The greatest day in my life, Sir, was the day of my first Holy Communion.” A powerful admission from a man who was not the greatest of Catholics.

What about us? Would you be ready to agree with Napoleon that your next worthy Holy Communion is also going to be “the greatest day” of your life? If you are unsure about the answer, here are two reasons from the scripture of “The Feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord” that should help you.

First, all of us are on a journey, just like our Hebrew ancestors. Only we are not traveling from Egypt to the Land of Promise (1st reading), a relatively short three hundred miles. Instead, our destination is literally “out of this world.” Now the mana got our ancestors successfully through the desert. But we New Testament travelers need different nourishment, one adapted to our new enterprise.

We need a food which contains the antidote against the sting of everlasting death . . . a

food which contains within it eternal life (3rd reading). “Cibus viatorum,” St. Thomas Aquinas calls it, “Food of wayfarers; . . . and Panis angelicus, Bread of angels” (Sequence). Such a food is Jesus Himself; He is the “Bread come down from Heaven” precisely to be the sacramental nourishment which successfully takes us back to Heaven.

There is a second reason why your next worthy Holy Communion is going to be the “greatest day” of your life. St. Augustine liked to say that in ordinary life, what we eat is digested and becomes part of us. A silly example. The kids may enjoy McDonalds, but they don’t become cheeseburgers! Instead the Happy Meal becomes part of who little Johnny or Suzie is. But when it comes to the sacramental food which God apportions to us from the altar, the transformation passes in the opposite direction. Augustine simply urges his listeners, “Christians, become what you eat.”

To eat the bread which is his Body is to become Jesus. This heavenly Food absorbs us.

To drink the wine which is his Blood is to be incorporated into Christ (2nd reading). The Spirit in his Blood breaks us down and reconstitutes us as Christ. The recipient of Holy Communion becomes what he eats . . . a living member of the victorious Lord.

There are many ways of defining greatness. At one point in his life, Napoleon identified it with Holy Communion. He was right. None of us are ever more successful or fulfilled as persons than when we are transformed into Christ and thus, already possess our future destiny.

Fr. James Garcia is pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Menlo Park.

Blood and water from His side Following is excerpted from a homily

by St. John Chrysostom, Doctor of the Church and Patriarch of Constantinople.

If we wish to understand the power of Christ’s Blood, we should go back to the ancient account of Its pre-figuration in Egypt. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, where in they shall eat it (Exodus 12:5-7) If we were to ask Him what He meant, and how the blood of an irrational beast could possibly save men endowed with reason, His answer would be that the saving power lies not in the blood itself, but in the fact that it is a sign of the Lord’s Blood. In those days, when the Avenging Angel saw the blood on the doors, he did not dare to enter; so how much less will the Evil One approach now when He sees, not that figurative blood on the doors, but the True Blood on the lips of believers, the doors of the Temple of Christ.

If you desire further proof of the power of this Blood, remember where It came from, how It ran down from the Cross, flowing from the Master’s side. The Gospel records that when Christ was dead, yet still hanging on the Cross, a soldier came and pierced His side with a spear and immediately there poured out water and Blood.

Now the water was a symbol of Baptism and the Blood, of the Holy Eucharist. The soldier pierced the Lord’s side, He breached

the wall of the sacred Temple; and I have found the treasure and made it mine own.

So also with the lamb: the Jews sacrificed the Victim and I have been saved by It. And straightway there came forth blood and water (John the Theologian 19:34). Beloved, do not pass over this Mystery without thought; it has yet another hidden meaning, which I will explain to you. I said that water and blood symbolized Baptism and the Holy Eucharist.

From these two Mysteries, the Church is born: from Baptism, the cleansing water that gives rebirth and renewal through the Holy Spirit, and from the Holy Eucharist.

Since the symbols of Baptism and the Holy Eucharist flowed from His side, it was from His side that Christ fashioned the Church, as He had fashioned Eve from the side of Adam. Moses gives a hint of this when He tells the story of the first man and makes Him exclaim: This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh (Genesis 2:23). As God then took a rib from Adam’s side to fashion a woman, so Christ has given us Blood and water from His side to fashion the Church. God took the rib when Adam was in a deep sleep, and in the same way Christ gave us the Blood and the water after His own Death.

Do you understand, then, how Christ has united His Bride to Himself and what Food He gives us all to eat? By one and the same Food we are both brought into being and nourished. As a woman nourishes her child with her own blood and milk, so does Christ unceasingly nourish, with His own Blood, those to whom He Himself has given life. Amen.

The Institution of the Eucharist (detail) – Nicolas Poussin, 1640.

Thanksgiving Prayer after Mass I thank you, holy Lord, almighty Father, eternal God, who deigned to feast me, sinful and unworthy servant, with the precious body and blood of your Son, Jesus Christ our Lord, not for any merit of mine, but only because of your merciful goodness. And I pray that this Holy Communion, far from condemning me to punishment, may bring about my pardon and salvation, encompassing me with the armor of faith and the shield of a good will. By it let my vices be done away, all lustful desires extinguished. May it advance me in charity, patience, humility, obedience, and every other virtue. Let it be strong defense against the wiles of all my enemies, visible and invisible, allaying for me every disturbance of flesh and spirit, binding me firmly to you, the one true God, and bringing my last hour to a happy close. I pray, too, that it may be your pleasure to call my sinful self one day to that banquet, wonderful past all telling, where you, with your Son and the Holy Spirit, feast your saints with the vision of yourself, who are true light, the fulfillment of all desires, the joy that knows no ending, gladness unalloyed, and perfect bliss: through the same Christ our Lord.

Amen. – St. Thomas Aquinas

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Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., delivered the following keynote address at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast May 20.

I grew up in Concordia, Kansas. It’s a typical small farming community of less than 7,000 peo-ple. But in those days Concordia was also the hometown of Senator Frank Carlson, who was a major player in Congress. So it wasn’t unusual for people in Concordia to think they had some-thing important to say about government affairs and life in Washington, DC. That’s the way it should be. That’s what the Founders of our country intended. All of us, no mat-ter how little we are, have a voice in our nation’s public life and a major part to play.

Additionally, Catholics see politics as part of the history of salvation. For us, no one is a minor actor in that drama. Each person is important. And one of the most important duties we have is to use our gifts in every way possible for the glory of God and for the common good. That’s why Catholics and other Christians have always taken an active role in public life. What we believe about God shapes how we think about men and women. It also shapes what we do about promoting human dignity.

Today’s national discussion about religion and politics is sometimes so very strange. If God is the center of our lives, then of course that fact will influence our behavior, including our politi-cal decisions. That’s natural and healthy. What’s unnatural and unhealthy is the kind of public square where religious faith is seen as unwelcome and dangerous. But that seems to be exactly what some people want: a public square stripped of God and stripped of religious faith. Our duty, if we’re serious about being Catholics, is to not let that happen. But our work as citi-zens doesn’t end there. Our bigger task is to help renew American public life by committing our-selves ever more deeply to our Catholic faith — and acting like we really mean it.

Catholics spent the first 200 years of our nation’s life trying to fit in and be accepted. Well, con-gratulations, we did it. We made it. We’ve arrived. But we should remember St. Paul’s words: “Let him who boasts, boast of the Lord” (2 Cor 10:17).

Have we really examined the cost of our fitting in? Since the 1960s, many American Catholics have been acting like we’re lucky just to be tolerated in the public square. In other words, we’d better not be too Catholic or somebody will be offended.

That’s a mistake. It’s a recipe for losing our faith and throwing away any hope for a national political discourse based on conviction. It’s also important to notice that most of today’s antiCatholic prejudice in the public square is dif-ferent from the past.

It doesn’t come from other religious believers. It comes from people who don’t want any religious influence in public debates.

That’s not pluralism. It’s not democracy. Democracy and pluralism depend on people of convic-tion fighting for what they believe through public debate - peacefully, legally, charitably and justly; but also vigorously and without excuses. Divorcing our personal convictions from our public choices and actions is not “good manners.” On the contrary, it can be a very serious kind of theft from the moral treasury of the nation, because the most precious thing anyone can bring to any political conversation is an honest witness to what he or she really believes.

This applies to elected officials. It applies to voters. It applies to you and me. Belief in God has profoundly shaped what Americans believe about human dignity; the law; the common good; and justice. To cut God out of the public square is to cut the head and heart from our public life. What we really believe, we conform our lives to. And if we don’t conform our lives to what we claim to believe, then we’re living a lie. When public officials claim to be “Catholic” but then say they can’t offer their beliefs about the sanctity of the human person as the basis of law, it always means one of two things. They’re either very confused, or they’re very evasive. All law is the imposition of somebody’s beliefs on somebody else. That’s exactly the reason we have debates, and elections, and Congress - to turn the struggle of ideas and moral convictions into laws that guide our common life.

Last Sunday we celebrated Pentecost, which is the birthday of the Church. In Catholic churches around the

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Chaput addresses National Prayer Breakfast

Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput shares a laugh with President George W. Bush at the second annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington May 20.

world, lectors read the following passage from St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians: “No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord,’ except by the Holy Spirit.”

Now, that may sound like the right way to read it, but it’s wrong. That passage should really be read this way: “No one can say ‘Jesus is Lord!’ except by the Holy Spirit.” It’s the fire of the Holy Spirit in our hearts that enables us to make this profession of faith; that gives us the kind of energy and zeal to live our lives based on our faith in Jesus Christ.

We need to understand that in the early Church, those words - “Jesus is Lord” - were a political statement. The emperor claimed to be Lord both in the private and public lives of the citizens of the empire. When Christians proclaimed Jesus as Lord, they were proclaiming the centrality of Jesus not only in their personal lives, but in their public lives and their decision-making as well. That took real courage. And it had huge consequences for their lives. Jesus was hung upon the cross because of his claim of Lordship. Christianity was illegal for the first 250 years of the Church’s life because Christians proclaimed, “Jesus is Lord.”

Americans re-elected President Bush because most voters saw him, and see him, as a man of dedication and a leader deserving of our respect — but he is not “Lord.” Our political parties whether Democratic or Republican — are not “Lord.” Congress is not “Lord.” The Supreme Court is not “Lord.” And neither are we “Lord”; nor our spouse or friends or possessions or tal-ents.

None of these people or things is Lord. Only God is God, and only Jesus Christ is Lord. And Christ’s relationship with each of us as individuals, and all of us as the believing Catholic community, should be the driving force of our personal lives and for all of our public witness -including our political witness.

“God” need not be on our lips every minute of every day. But He should be in our hearts from the moment we wake, to the moment we sleep. Only Jesus is Lord. The Church belongs to Him; not to us, but to Him. And there’s no way — no way — that we should ever allow ourselves to be driven from the public square by those who want someone else, or something else, to be Lord.

St Augustine, who had such a deep influence on the mind of our new Holy Father, once wrote that, “Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way

things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” Are we angry enough about what’s wrong with the world — the killing of millions of unborn children through abortion; the neglect of the poor and the elderly; the mistreatment of immigrants in our midst; the abuse of science in embryonic stem cell research? Do we really have the courage of our convic-tions to change those things?

The opposite of hope is cynicism, and cynicism also has two daughters. Their names are indif-ference and cowardice. In renewing ourselves in our faith, what Catholics need to change most urgently is the habit and rhetoric of cowardice we find in our own personal lives, in our national political life, and sometimes even within the Church herself.

Last Sunday we celebrated Pentecost. This coming Sunday we celebrate the feast of the Holy Trinity. Every year during this week between Pentecost and Trinity Sunday, I reflect on what the Church means when she talks about the season of “ordinary time.” There’s a spot just west of Denver as you descend out of the Rocky Mountains where the mountains suddenly stop, and the horizon opens up, and you gaze out on the beginning of the Great Plains - a thousand miles of flatland between Denver and the Mississippi River.

It reminds me of where we spend most of our lives. Not in the mountains, but on the plains -raising families, doing our jobs, making the daily choices that shape the world around us.

Ordinary time is the space God gives to each of us to make a difference — between the past and the future, between Pentecost and Jesus’ Second Coming.

What we do with that ordinary time - in our personal choices and in our public actions — mat-ters eternally. Solzhenitsyn once said that “the line separating good and evil runs not through states, nor between classes, nor even between political parties, but right through the center of each human heart, and every human heart.”

Renewing our hearts — that’s where we begin. Renewing the world - that’s our goal. Reclaiming the fire and courage of Pentecost - that’s how we’ll get there. Say it, and mean it, and live it: Only God is God, and only Jesus is Lord. When our actions finally follow our words, then so will our nation, and so will the world.

Enthusiastic crowd welcomes Bush to Catholic prayer breakfast

By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) — An enthusiastic audience of 1,600 people heard President George W. Bush acknowledge the work of the Catholic Church in the United States at the second National Catholic Prayer Breakfast May 20.

Participants from around the country gathered at the Washington Hilton also heard keynote speaker Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver admonish them not to allow religion to be cut out of the public square.

In his comments, Bush quoted the pope’s recent criticism of moral relativism.

“Freedom rests on the self-evident truths about human dignity,” Bush said. “Pope Benedict XVI recently warned that when we forget these truths, we risk sliding into a dictatorship of relativism where we can no longer defend our values. Catholics and non-Catholics alike can take heart in the man who sits on the chair of St. Peter, because he speaks with affection about the American model of liberty rooted in moral conviction.”

He said Catholics “have made sacrifices throughout American history because they understand that freedom is a divine gift that carries with it serious responsibilities.

Among the greatest of these responsibilities is protecting the most vulnerable members of our society.”

Bush’s comments were greeted with enthusiastic applause, especially when he referred to Pope John Paul II, whose funeral Bush attended in April; when he praised Catholic schools; and when he referred several times to a “culture of life,” a phrase the late pope used often. Bush left the breakfast as soon as he finished speaking.

Last year’s inaugural Catholic prayer breakfast drew about 1,000 people. This year’s event was held at a much larger venue, but still the number of people who tried to attend the Mass at 6:45 a.m. before the breakfast exceeded the room’s capacity. The Mass was celebrated by Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of San Antonio.

Also on the program for the breakfast were a presentation on the work of the Little Sisters of the Poor and a tribute to Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict.

Participants included Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington, Va., and Auxiliary Bishop Martin D. Holley of Washington.

In driving rain outside the Hilton, a handful of members of Pax Christi USA, the Catholic peace group, held signs protesting Bush’s participation in the event because of the war in Iraq. Pope John Paul strongly opposed the invasion of Iraq and he expressed his disapproval to Bush several times, including during the president’s June 2004 visit to the Vatican.

The group Catholics for Faithful Citizenship issued a press release questioning the invitation to Bush, saying his policies “fail to aid the least among us.” It said that despite Bush’s support of legislation to restrict abortion, since he’s been in office the number of abortions has increased in a majority of states that have released such data.

Catholics for Faithful Citizenship grew out of groups including Catholics for Kerry that were active in the 2004 presidential election.

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Feast of Body and Blood of Christ / May 29 Mass commemorating Feast of Corpus Christi at Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 10 a.m. “Every year we invite the public to join us for Mass followed by procession and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament,” the Dominican Sisters said. The Sisters remind that “during this Year of the Eucharist a Plenary Indulgence has been granted for Catholics who participate in veneration of the Blessed Sacrament.”

Corpus Christi procession from Star of the Sea Church, 9th Ave. and Geary to St. Anne’s Home – the happiest address on Lake Street - at 3 p.m.

Following the 1:00 PM Mass, Saints Peter and Paul Church, 666 Filbert Street, will be having a procession from the church down Columbus Avenue to St. Francis of Assisi Church. Bishop John Wester will preside the lead the procession. Members of any parish are invited and welcome! Pope Benedict suggested that this year “the solemnity of Corpus Domini” be “celebrated with particular prominence.”

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St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco.

Call (415) 567-2020 for more information.

June 3: Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament every First Friday after the 8:00 a.m. Mass Friday and continuing throughout the day and night until 7:45 a.m. Saturday with Morning Prayer and Benediction. (Exposition is suspended during scheduled Masses at 12:10 noon, 7:00 p.m. and 6:45 a.m. according to liturgical norms.) Join us as we pray for world peace, a culture of life, priests and the special intentions commended to our prayers. For more information or to volunteer please call (415) 567-2020 x224.

Cathedral Autumn Group: All people 55 and over are cordially invited. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. June 16: Tour of Alma Via San Francisco, Catholic Senior Residence, One Thomas More Way, San Francisco.

Reservations Required to (415) 567-2020 ext. 218.

Food & Fun May 27, 28, 29: St. Anselm School Carnival, 40 Bella Ave., San Anselmo. “Fun for the whole family,” the school said. “Admission is free. Plenty of free parking.” Features super carnival rides, games and great food – awesome bbq chicken, hot dogs and more. Call (415) 454-8667.

May 29: Mass commemorating Feast of Corpus Christi at Corpus Christi Monastery, 215 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 10 a.m. “Every year we invite the public to join us for Mass followed by procession and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament,” the Dominican Sisters said. The Sisters remind that “during this Year of the Eucharist a Plenary Indulgence has been granted for Catholics who participate in veneration of the Blessed Sacrament.”

June 3: Friends of City firefighter, John Voelker, are holding a fundraiser for their injured comrade at Bimbo’s 365 Club, 8 p.m. – midnight. The Church of the Visitacion parishioner, well known for his work and generous heart as head of SFFD’s Christmas toy program, was seriously injured in a recent motorcycle accident.Tickets are $25 per person. Contact Steve Smith at (415) 495-9473 or Sally at (415) 777-0440. For updates on his condition go to www.supportcircle.com and input John Voelker.

June 3, 4, 5: St. Pius Parish Festival featuring “many old favorites and some new ones too.” Live entertainment offered all weekend. The new gym is site for Saturday’s

June 5: Mass for couples married at St. Bartholomew Church in San Mateo. The 11:15 a.m. liturgy is part of St. Bart’s ongoing Jubilee celebration and its 50 years of faith, community and service. If you know someone who was married at Saint Bartholomew who is no longer in the area, please contact them and ask them to call or email the parish office at (650) 347-0701 or receptionist@barts.org for more information.

Spinning yarn into warmth and security for cancer patients are members of Mary’s Little Blanket Makers ICF, Branch 161 at St. Patrick Parish in Larkspur. “These loving ladies have been busy supplying our oncology patients with handmade blankets,” said Judith Sheridan of the Veterans’ Medical Center on Clement St. in San Francisco. The sewers and weavers also share their gifts with patients at UCSF, Children’s Hospital in Oakland and Masonic Avenue’s Mt. St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth’s. Front from left: Terry Rosser and Anna Biggio. Back from left: Norma Ness, Giovanna Pomilia, Lonnie Fugate, Rita Pinzon, Emilia Dicaprio, Diane Hollister. Not available for the photo were Dolly Biggio, Peggy Leahy, Laura Giovannoni, Margaret D’Rango, Florence Falvey, Norma Sweeney, Annie Knoblock, Lorraine Kuboshige, Fran Clark, Helen Otero, Connie Hall, Mary Perona, Jan Kardgair, and newest member 13 year-old, Serena Ghirarduzzi.

Live Auction. Don’t miss the silent auction, games, and special kids’ attractions. Raffle to with grand prize of $10,000. The parish compound at 1100 Woodside Rd. is where it all takes place. Fri: 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat: 12:30 – 10 p.m.; Sun: 12:30 – 9 p.m. Call (650) 361-1411.

June 3: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club gathers for Mass at 7 a.m. in St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. and Sir Francis Drake Blvd., Kentfield. Breakfast and presentation follow in parish hall. Today’s speaker is St. Sebastian pastor, Father Ken Westray, who will speak about his recent trip to France, Monaco and Italy. Father Westray was present in St. Peter’s Square for the announcement of new Pope Benedict the XVI. Members Breakfast: $7. Visitors Breakfast: $10 . Call 461-0704 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. or contact Sugaremy@aol.com! No meetings in July & August.

June 5: 10th Annual Afternoon in the Garden hosted by Jesuit Father Tom Weston and benefiting the Jesuit Volunteer Corps: Southwest. Special guest is Bay Area author, Anne Lamott, who will read and discuss her works. Takes place from 1 to 4 p.m. at the O’Malley Residence 485 Ellita Avenue, on Lake Merritt, Oakland.

Tickets $50 per person. Enjoy raffle and silent auction plus delectable desserts, savories and refreshments. RSVP to http://www.jesuitvolunteers.org/southwest/rsvp.html or by calling (415) 522-1599.

June 10, 11, 12: It’s Nativity Parish’s 25th Annual Spring Carnival! Experience 13 thrilling rides, Kiddy-land, terrific games and prizes. Super Silly Pie-Eating Contest! Live music: Great bands play jazz, salsa, and rock n roll. Silent auction and a raffle with grand prize of 2005 Toyota MR2 Spyder. Serving tasty tri-tip and pasta dinners, plus Sunday Pancake Breakfast. “It’s great wholesome fun for the whole family,” said parishioner, Lisa Izzi Come to Nativity School compound at Oak Grove and Laurel in Menlo Park: Fri: 5-11 p.m., Sat: noon-11 p.m., Sun: noon6 p.m. Free admission and parking. Info: 650-323-7914 or www.nativityschool.com/carnival/

Shows/Entertainment Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admission free.

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

Golden Gate Boys Choir and Bellringers will be in Rome and singing for the new Pope Benedict XVI December 26th – January 7th.

“Boys joining the choir program at this time may still be eligible for the tour group,” said Steven Meyer, director. For membership information about the GGBC, their August summer music camp, or the Rome Congress/Italian Tour, please call (510) 887-4311 or (415) 431-1137.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

Reunions June 11: Class of ’85, Star of the Sea Academy in Star of the Sea elementary school auditorium, 360 9th Ave., SF at 7 p.m. Contact Debra Stashuk at ssa_classof85@yahoo.com.

June 25: Immaculate Conception Academy, class or ’50 at Grosvenor Hotel in South San Francisco.

Classmates should contact Mary Ahern Schroer at (415) 282-2180.

June 25: The St. Agnes School All-Class Reunion will be held at 5:30pm in St. Agnes Gym, 1563 Page Street, SF. The evening includes Hors d’ Oeuvres and Desserts. Tickets $35 per person before May 15, $40 before June 15, $45 before June 24 and $50 at the door, pending availability. No refunds. For more information, please contact Sam Coffey at (415) 398-6390 or coffey@eesclaw.com Sept. 17: St. Paul’s Grammar School reunion for class of 1960, 6 p.m. at Irish Cultural Center, San Francisco.

Call Liz Hinds Hannan at (650) 342-1759.

Oct. 29: Class of ’55, Immaculate Conception Academy at Embassy Suites in Burlingame. Contact Anne Nolan Dowd at (650) 359-2601 or andown@aol.com.

Class of ’65, Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City, reunion. “We are in the process of planning our 40th reunion and are looking for lost classmates,” said Michael Thompson. The reunion will be in September 2005. Contact Pat Lucido Davisson at (415) 457-6544. Email is patdavisson@ctt.com.

Class of ’75 from St. John Ursuline High School is planning a 30th reunion for this fall! Classmates should contact Kathy Grimley at (650) 342-7633 or kathygbnp@aol.com. Archbishop Riordan High School is in search of alumni moms! Call (415) 586-8200, ext. 217.

SF/East Bay Chapter of Kappa Gamma Pi is seeking members with whom it’s lost touch. Call Betty at (925) 284-2028.

We are on a Star Search for graduates of Star of the Sea Academy, Class of ‘55. A 50th Reunion is in the planning stage. Let us know where you are.

Contact Patricia Lawless Sack at 415-472-5732.You won’t want to miss this one!

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

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

May 31: Theology on On Tap, Christian Themes in Rock Music with Professor of Moral Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, 4092 Piedmont Ave., 7:30 p.m. Contact www.churchofstleothegreat.org for details.

June 4: Pro-Life Ministry, praying for the unborn and healing of mothers and fathers after an abortion, 815 Eddy St. Contact Tony Vallecillo at tonyvll@yahoo.com for details.

June 6: Martinis and Jazz benefiting HIV/AIDS at Shanghai 1930 Restaurant, 133 Steuart St., 5:30 8:25 p.m. Call (415) 972-1239.

June 18: Young Adult Spring Dance, Lucie Stern Center, 1305 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto from 3:30 - 9:30 p.m. Tickets $40 in advance only. Contact Donna Kashat at dkashat@stanfordalumni.org.

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Japanese novelist explores ‘redefining’ humanity NEVER LET ME GO, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Knopf, 304 pp., $24.00.

By Amy Welborn My father called me a few weeks ago, furious. Not at me, thank goodness. It was a book review that had raised his ire to the point that he had to call me and tell me about it.

The book in question was Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro, the author of, among other novels, The Remains of the Day (made into a 1993 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson).

“You know what it’s about, right?” asked my father.

“Yes- sort of. It’s about bioethics, a group of young English people being used – ” “That’s it,” he interrupted. “Now just listen to what Jonathon Yardley said about it in the Post.”

He read the offending passage to me over the telephone: “It is almost literally a novel about humanity: what constitutes it, what it means, how it can be honored or denied. These little children, and the adults they eventually become, are brought up to serve humanity in the most astonishing and selfless ways, and the humanity they achieve in so doing makes us realize that in a new world the word must be redefined.”

Now, what’s wrong with this? Why did this infuriate my dad and, once I read the entire review, sadden me as well? Let’s look at Never Let Me Go, and perhaps you’ll see.

Ishiguro sets his novel in England in the late 90’s. Parts of the landscape are recognizable, but hints abound – in unfamiliar terminology, in odd social norms – that the children in whose lives we are immersed are living in a world not quite like ours.

The narrator, Kathy, introduces herself as a 31-year old carer, and from that point plunges into reminiscence and an obsessive, but oddly casual self-scrutiny. One memory leads to another as she takes us back into her childhood at an isolated, elite boarding school named Halsingham.

Kathy and her friends, Tommy and Ruth, live with other children and, not teachers, but “guardians.” They are constantly told how special they are and how important it is for them to take excellent care of themselves. Their classes seem to focus primarily on the arts, the fruit of which are occasionally collected by a mysterious woman from the outside known to them only as Madame.

Kathy’s recollections of rivalries, bullying and peer pressure are the stuff of many school memoirs, but here they are suffused with mystery. Why, indeed, are these children so special? For what are they being prepared?

As the story proceeds, we begin to understand, slowly, and with a growing sense of horror. (Stop reading here if you do not want to know why.)

The children are, to put it, bluntly, clones, created for the express purpose of providing organ donations. They will grow into young adulthood, and most will spend

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some time, as Kathy is doing, as a carer – a support person for donors – her fellow students who have been called, to donate, one by one, vital organs. Usually, after the fourth donation, a student will complete – that is, die.

And eventually, the carer will become a donor, as well.

Despite what the bare bones of the plot might lead you to believe, Never Let Me Go is not a science-fiction tale. The process that defines these young people’s lives is never directly described or shown, and aspects of it remain shrouded in mystery throughout the book. The reason for that, of course, is that Ishiguro’s real subject is not the process, but the people – the victims, you might say, of the most utilitarian evil, made all the more horrific because it is presented from the unquestioning point of view of a rather ordinary young woman.

The novel is suffused with a sadness that is almost unbearable at times. The young people are either engineered or rendered surgically sterile, and are told from early on that they can’t have babies, that sex is fine, but they must be careful to understand that others do not see sex the same way they do. As a young girl, Kathy finds a tape of a song with a refrain of “…never let me go, baby, baby..” and she imagines it is about a woman who’s been told she can’t have a baby, but finally does.

The students engage in fantasies about their “possibles” – the parents from whom they were cloned. They discuss their futures – not donation, but rather, futures that exist only in their imaginations, seem banal to

us, but are terribly exciting to them – working in a proper office, driving a truck.

In the end, Yardley is partly correct. Never Let Me Go is, indeed, a meditation on what it means to be human. It moves us to think of our own limits, of what we are desperately seeking, as we ponder our own pasts and plan our own futures, up against the sureness of death.

But there is more, of course. It’s not just about being human, but about using human beings. Created to be harvested, nurtured to unquestioningly submit, taught, in fact, to be grateful for their great good fortune, Kathy and her friends are wistful, yearning putty in the hands of their creators, with only a bit of imagination separating them from the very real cloned embryos eagerly nurtured, at this moment, in laboratories in South Korea and, ironically, England.

Jonathon Yardley, it seems, thinks it might not be such a bad thing to engage in this task of “redefining” human beings, and it might even be rather lovely and moving, as those who didn’t ask to be conceived or born are harvested for their creators’ benefit. Why not, he and many others, enthused at the prospect of progress, might ask. Why not? Is the question Kazuo Ishiguro answers, ever so indirectly, in this quietly moving novel that reveals the harsh limits of life for those we would seek to use to dissolve the limits of our own.

Amy Welborn is a freelance writer.

Her most recent book is “Here.Now. A Catholic Guide To The Good Life” (Our Sunday Visitor, 2005). This review originally appeared on Spero News.

The Catholic Professional & Business Club of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Invites You to its Monthly Meeting Wednesday, June 8th 7:00 to 8:30 a.m.

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Our meetings are held St Mary’s Cathedral lower hall (enter on Gough St.) Doors open at 6:45 a.m., and our meeting begins with Morning Prayer promptly at 7:00 a.m.

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On April 9, 2005, Seton Health Services Foundation held its 17th Annual Charity Ball at the San Francisco Fairmont Hotel. With over 400 in attendance, the annual fundraising event raised funds for Seton Medical Center’s charity care and community benefit programs.

“Providing Forty Years of Compassionate Healthcare to the Community” was the theme of the event, which featured a retrospective review of Seton’s Forty years of service to the people of Daly City and the surrounding communities. Bernadette M. Smith, President & CEO, of Seton Medical Center, recognized the contributions of individuals whose dedication and commitment to the Daughters of Charity helped the hospital in its relocation from San Francisco to Daly City in 1965. Those acknowledged were Sister William Eileen Dunn, D.C., representing the Daughters of Charity; Dr. John Crew, representing Seton’s medical staff; Annabelle Piercy, representing Seton’s volunteers; Jack Fitzpatrick of the Carl Gellert and Celia Gellert Foundation, representing the philanthropic community; and LeeRoy Eyheralde, RN, representing Seton’s associates.

The Master of Ceremonies was ABC 7/KGO TV News Anchor Cheryl Jennings whose humor and warm presence delighted the attendees. Over thirty Daughters of Charity attended the event, including the first administrator of the new hospital, Sister Louise Scheessele, D.C., who praised the spirit of all who helped the hospital open its doors, including the elected leaders in San Francisco and Daly City. Attending the event and presenting resolutions to the hospital were San Mateo County Supervisor Adrienne J. Tissier and Daly City Council Member, Maggie Gomez, each of whom recognized the hospital’s contributions to the health of the community.

“As we celebrate our 40th year, we recall our roots in San Francisco where Mary’s Help Hospital served the community for over fifty years. Responding to the need for a hospital in Daly City, the Daughters of Charity relocated its services and presence to this community,” said Sister Judith Lynn Gardenhire, D.C., Chair of the Board of Directors of Seton Medical Center.

You are invited to become a member of the CP&BC of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The CP&BC meets for breakfast on the second Wednesday of the month. At our meetings, Catholic business people come together to share our common faith, to network, and to hear speakers discuss how we can incorporate our spirituality and uphold our ethics in the workplace.

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Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith NEW YORK (CNS) — The force is back for the sixth and final time in “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” (20th Century Fox), the satisfying and decidedly dark climax to George Lucas’ sprawling space opera.

The saga started midstream with “Star Wars: A New Hope” back in 1977 and continued with “The Empire Strikes Back” (1980) and “Return of the Jedi” (1983). After a 16-year hiatus, there were two highly anticipated but disappointing prequels, “The Phantom Menace” (1999) and “Attack of the Clones” (2002). The saga now comes full circle in what is by far the best film of the “newer” trilogy.

“Revenge of the Sith” — which takes place three years after the last movie — opens like all the rest with scrolling text and a blast of brass courtesy of composer John Williams. The preamble announces “War!” and viewers are plunged into what seems like a half-hour of unabated space battles and swashbuckling light-saber duels.

At the center of the CGI storm are space samurai Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) and his petulant apprentice, Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen). The two Jedi Knights have been dispatched to rescue the kidnapped Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) from the sinister clutches of General Grievous, a separatist cyborg with a hacking smoker’s cough.

Once the daring duo deliver Palpatine safely to Coruscant — the seat of political power in the galaxy — things calm down, briefly, so viewers can catch their collective breath.

Skywalker learns that his wife, Senator Amidala (Natalie Portman) — whom he secretly wed at the end of “Clones” (marriage is a no-no for the celibate Jedi) — is pregnant. But his happiness is tempered by ominous night visions of Amidala dying in childbirth.

Anakin also finds himself increasingly alienated from the Round Table-like Jedi council — including his mentor Obi-Wan and the verb-inverting mystic Yoda (voiced by Frank Oz) — after they deny him “master” status.

Though conflicted, his dreams and growing discontentment eventually drive him to align himself with the deceitful (soon to be evil Emperor) Palpatine, who tells him that

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Palpatine reveals himself to be a Sith lord.

Of course, since Lucas chose to tell his story backwards and viewers already know the outcome, the question is not “what happens?” but “how does it happen?” How does the sweet messianic child from “Phantom Menace” turn into the icon of evil we all love to hate?

Without giving anything away, let’s just say that the road to the dark side is paved with good intentions.

By the end of the film, Anakin’s conversion is complete and he is fitted with what has become the most famous black helmet in film history.

When watched chronologically with the other films, “Sith” can be seen as the pivotal chapter of a story in which Anakin/Vader is the protagonist. His character arc parallels the fall and redemption of man. Anakin/Vader starts out innocent, but is seduced, like Adam, with “forbidden knowledge” that will give him mastery over life and death.

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Age mysticism wrapped in sci-fi spectacle, at its heart the “Star Wars” saga is an old-fashioned tale of good versus evil, in which a “new hope” is just an episode away and light ultimately defeats darkness. And while some write off the franchise as adolescent fare, others more correctly view it as a return to mythic storytelling (of which “Sith” achieves a depth and complexity that its two recent predecessors sorely lacked).

The driving theme in “Sith” is the corrupting allure of evil, especially when manifested in a Nietzschean will to power.

Palpatine embodies the danger of modern relativism professing that “good is a point of view” and that “narrow dogmatic views” stunt true enlightenment.

“Sith” is the first in the series to be rated PG-13, and with good cause. The movie contains scenes too intense for young children; they include a grim slaughter of innocents.

Some things never change in the “Star Wars” galaxy: the Jedi are noble, the B-movie dialogue is (mostly) corny, and the performances are wooden (McGregor, McDiarmid, Yoda and R2D2 excepted). Still, the film overall is a marked improvement over both “Clones” and “Menace.”

Part “Hamlet,” part brooding Buck Rogers, Christensen is less stiff this time around, but, in fairness, not even a Jedi master can make the script’s many dreadful lines sound less hokey.

Visually, “Sith” is the most stunning, if at times overwrought, of the entire series, with eye-popping aerial dogfights, dazzling death duels and elegant, Fritz Lang-inspired vistas.

Among the action center pieces is an operatic bond-breaking showdown between master and pupil on a planet of molten lava.

As Anakin was prophesied to return equilibrium to the Force, so Lucas strikes a balance between technical videogame-style wizardry and human drama, bringing all the loose story threads to a coherent ending (or middle).

And while this final film falls just short of the mythic grandeur of “Empire” (still the best of the lot), or even the popcorn escapism of “Star Wars,” “Revenge of the Sith” is more fun than a barrelful of Wookies.

It wasn’t such a “long, long time ago” that George Lucas first transported us to a galaxy “far, far away.” As the final curtain falls, it’s nice to see a film that finally captures the true force of his vision!

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of April

HOLY CROSS COLMA Catherine I. Adams Margaret L. Aiello Celestino M. Alfafara Tanya Emma Alioto Ligia E. Altamirano Antonio Alvarez, Jr. Jhon Anderson Claire L. Anderson Clay S. Andrews Juanita D. Aquino Juanita P. Arenas Marciano H. Aringo Lenore Armanini Arsenio S. Arruda Catalina J. Atienza Isabel Atken Julio Armando Ayala Joseph R. Azzolino Gloria Baioni Guido B. Bardini John J. Bari Fernando A. Barrientos Helen R. Bartley David John Berwick Regina P. Biscarra Georgette M. Boucher Anne M. Boyle Josephine Bridgeman Rosaura Calderon John C. Callan Sadie A. Cameron Eugene J. Caradeuc Carol Ann Casey Andree R. Casey Eileen M. Casey Rosemarie Cimino Dorothy Louise Cloney Eduardo A. Cornejo

Joseph J. Costa Alba Costagli George M. Cowhig Mary Cox Bernice E. Creedon Phyllis Jane Crooks Albert H. Davis Marilou C. De Guzman Vincent A. DeMartini Benjamin Harrison Dennis Marie DeVincenzi Lena T. DeVincenzi Marie M. Dewar Anthony J. Dichiera Jayne Zurbich Dilley Hermie R. Dino Helen A. Dixon Jackson Do Charles E. Dougherty Mary Jean (Jung Soon) Drilon Wanda Emond Rosalie A. Esman Frances Fambrini Doris V. Ferrari Guerina Filipas John E. Fischbach Apolonia U. Flores Marie Forte Charles Gallagher, Sr. Mary Grace Gomez Santiago Gomez Maria Liston Gonzalez Jean Gotelli Evelyn T. Gray Miriam Drum Gray Robert Emmett Halsing Gregory Aloysius Haran, Jr. Josephine A. Hart Patrick Hawkins

Joan Marie Healy Marguerite C. Healy Patricia K. Helin Evelyn C. Henzi Raymond Hernandez Rosaura O. Hernandez Maxine E. Irwin Martin Kealy Irene N. Keating Alfred A. Lapuyade Candido B. Larios Armando Ramon Leon Anna Marie Leon Doris E. Lucas Agapita S. Madrid Doris Mae Marota William K. Martens Mary Martinez Gertrude H. Martinez Eyadeh Yusef Masarweh Rosmarie E. McCarthy Mary A. McDevitt Margaret M. McGill Kevin A. McKenna John A. McNamara Monte Meda Celso S. Medalla Leoncio Palacios Medina Julie A. Molloy Adelmo Montafi Grace K. Moretti Enzo Morotti Elizabeth M. Murphy Olivia S. Murray Edward Musso Mary M. Nixon Mary Lou Noce Jeanne Kabeary Nolan Ronald N. Nunziati

Jerome J. O’Leary Virginia “Hensley” O’Sullivan Daria Pellegrini Emilia Perla Leona Piazza Reynaldo C. Pira Ethel D. Quintero Janice Aileen Rainford Carmen Ramirez Margarita B. Ramos Evelyn T. Regino Ruth Lydia Limjoco Remo Sofia Reyes Pedro B. Reyes Oscar Rodriguez Virginia M. Salvo Guadalupe A. Sanchez Rev. Benjamin F. Sargent Olivia Eugenia Savant Marion N. Scattini Rolly M. Slavazza Marie J. Solimine Paul J. Stanners Anita J. Sullivan Peter Leo Sullivan Marie E. Taylor John A. Totah Patricia C. Trabucco Mary G. Trigg Anacorita L. Valido John A. Warekois Etta Wilson John Gabriel Yee Apolonio A. Ynion Helen Fredericks Young Carmen Zablah

BURIED IN MARCH James H. Laber Augusta Troche

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Robert Lee Burnham Adrian R. Calderon Geraldine M. Churchill Anne K. Estacaille Frankie Felix-Esparza Philip E. Gannon, Sr. Jesse Junia Swain Livesay Jacqueline “Jackie” Swain MacKay Maria Marquez Amelia Ellena Reviglio Ana Luisa Rebuelta Luseane Taufa Verna Witzel

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Helen (Duda) Brown Theresa Caro Londo N. Casassa Jane Stempel Coldiron James A. Dalton, Jr. Vivian Egisti Frances E. Finnegan Carole M. French Norma R. Geissberger Robert P. Logan Ursula (Lambie) McCarthy Lt. Col. Eugene J. Naber Marie L. Pedersen Hans Schmied Vicki (Lenzi) Seamster Mary M. Shelley

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA First Saturday Mass – Saturday, June 4, 2005 Rev. Wiliam Brady, Celebrant – Pastor, St. Emydius Church All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 a.m.

MEMORIAL DAY MASSES Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma Memorial Day Mass – Monday, May 30, 2005 Most Reverend William J. Levada, Celebrant – Archbishop of San Francisco Holy Cross Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 a.m.

Shuttle available from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 a.m.

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Menlo Park

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery, San Rafael

Reverend Patrick Michaels, Celebrant St. Raymond Church, Menlo Park Outdoor Mass – 11:00 a.m.

Reverend Louis J. Robello, Celebrant Outdoor Mass – 11:00 a.m.

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

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

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

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.