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Congo bishop seeks US Catholic help on mining wars, violence against women By Rick DelVecchio More than 1 million Congolese have been displaced in fighting over illegal mining in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, and women and girls are suffering the most as combatants use rape as a weapon of war, says Bishop Nicolas Djomo of the Diocese of Tshumbe. Armed groups outgun Congo’s military to claim their share of scarce “blood minerals” such as casserite and coltan, which command high prices in the world market because they are needed to make computers and cell phones, Bishop Djomo told Catholic San Francisco during an interview at the Archdiocese of San Francisco chancery May 18. “In the eastern Congo we have armed groups who are committing atrocities against civilians, mainly because of the

mineral resources,” Bishop Djomo said. “Groups are looting resources to send them outside to international companies. They get money and continue to rape women and commit atrocities, because it’s a way to humiliate the enemies. It’s like a weapon. That is very difficult for the women. We have at least 1 million displaced in that region. The Church is taking care of them with our hospitals.” The 65-year-old prelate, who serves as president of the National Catholic Bishops Conference, described revenge attacks where “when one group arrives in a village they think that village before them has welcomed their enemy, so they punish them by raping.” The United Nations Population Fund reported 7,500 cases of gender violence in North and South Kivu provinces in the CONGO, page 5 (CNS PHOTO/CAROLINE IRBY, OXFAM/REUTERS)

A victim of violence in the Congo, this 17-year-old girl stands at a transition and rehabilitation center run by religious and charitable groups.

SF Planning Commission approves pot club for Sunset; neighbors to appeal

As Korean tensions escalate, Catholic leaders call for prayers SEOUL, South Korea (CNS) – Catholic leaders have called for prayers as tensions in the Korean peninsula escalate, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News. South Korea’s president raised the stakes in the standoff by slashing trade to communist North Korea in retaliation for a torpedo attack by the North that killed 46 South Korean sailors. North Korea accused the South of a smear campaign and said May 25 that it would sever all ties with the South. “With Christian faith, we view this as another ordeal on the way toward national reconciliation and we must keep hope. We need to pray for peace and reconciliation,” said Fabiano Choi Hong-jun, chairman of the Catholic Lay Apostolate Council of Korea. He said the tensions have thrown cold water on efforts for national reconciliation. The sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan March 26 in the Yellow Sea was the country’s worst military loss since the 1950-53 Korean War. An international team of investigators determined a torpedo from a North Korean submarine sank the ship. Father Raphael Seo Jong-yeob described South Korean President Lee Myungbak’s decision to enact economic reprisals against the North as “regretful,” observing that the bishops’ Committee for the Reconciliation of the Korean People had planned much aid to North Korea, but had to cancel it. He welcomed the president’s decision to exclude North Korean children from the aid embargo. South Korea has been the North’s second-largest trading partner, after China. Father Seo said North and South Korea “must continue to talk about peace and reconciliation” and that is why “prayers are needed earnestly.”

Delegation from St. Ignatius. From left, social studies teacher Art Cecchin, students Katie Girlich, Ester Abarca, Theresa Martin, S.I. Dean of Students Bill Gotch. By Valerie Schmalz The San Francisco Planning Commission voted 5-1 to approve a medical marijuana dispensary in the Sunset District, despite opposition by thousands in the neighborhood including members of the Chinese Gospel Church, located next door to the proposed site at 2139 Taraval Street, and the owners of a 7-Eleven store across the street.

Neighborhood groups say they will appeal. “We’re going to fight this,” said Dallas Udovch, president of the Taraval Parkside Merchants Association. The Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns also submitted a letter in opposition and a delegation from St. Ignatius College Preparatory testified against the pot club. SUNSET POT CLUB, page 10

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On The Where You Live By Tom Burke Hats off and thanks to Mercy Sister Mary Joanne De Vincenti who was recently honored for her 45 years service at her congregation’s St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco. “We might still be here tomorrow if I tried to name all of Sister Joanne’s accomplishments,” hospital president, Anna Cheung, said in remarks at the Employee Recognition Dinner in February….Oops and “sorry about that” to the May 29 Public Square Rosary Crusade of 2010. I was to get the event in Datebook a coupla’ weeks ago but erred in that duty. The prayer fest takes place at Civic Center Plaza, One Carlton B. Goodlett Place in San Francisco, across from City Hall. The decades will be led by Father John Jimenez. Based in the power of public prayer, intentions include strengthening the faith throughout the world especially in the United States. For more information, call Juanita Agcaolli at (415) 647-7229 or Nini Leigh at (415) 681-5409.... Thanks to Bishop William Justice for sharing his take on jury duty. The San Francisco prelate served three-and-a-half weeks on a panel of adjudicators – used the thesaurus for that one – on a Superior Court case that was settled before final arguments. “It really struck me – it was a very diverse jury, typical San Francisco, and almost everyone treated me as an equal to them,” Bishop Justice said, noting “not everyone was awed that I was a bishop” and “it was kind of fun” to not be singled out. “Okay,” he surmised others thought, `you’re part of the crowd and everyone likes you but no trumpets and you don’t get a free parking space.’ That was good for me.”… Congrats to Ina Herlihy, a senior at Convent of the Sacred Dennis Pettinelli Heart High School and editor-in-chief of the school’s the broadview, who has been named National High School Journalist of the year. The award includes a $5,000 scholarship. Ina’s taking the state honor in the journalist category had been mentioned here earlier.

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Cuban bishops meet with Castro; opening seen for political prisoners HAVANA – Days after two Cuban Catholic archbishops came away from a four-hour meeting with President Raul Castro voicing optimism that conditions would improve for jailed political dissidents, one Cuban human rights activist said he was told the changes would begin this week. Havana Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino and Archbishop Dionisio Garcia Ibanez of Santiago, president of the Cuban bishops’ conference, told reporters that they believed “small steps” would soon begin in the process of improving the conditions for political prisoners. They said their session with Castro was “a magnificent start,” but “we are not talking about any commitments,” and that talks would continue between the Church and the government. On May 24, the Miami Herald daily newspaper reported that Guillermo Farinas, an independent journalist hospitalized in Santa Clara because of a lengthy hunger strike, said he was told the Cuban government would begin moving sick political prisoners to hospitals and allow other dissidents to be detained closer to their homes. Farinas said Havana Auxiliary Bishop Juan de Dios Hernandez Ruiz told him May 22 the changes would begin the following Monday and that eventually some of the jailed political activists could be freed, the Herald reported. Supporters of the dissidents say there are more than 200 political prisoners in Cuba. Amnesty International counted 58 “prisoners of conscience” at the end of 2009. The government denies it holds political prisoners, calling them mercenaries who are funded by the U.S. government and Cuban-Americans. Farinas began his latest hunger strike following the death in February of jailed political activist Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who was on a hunger strike of nearly three months. Farinas

Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino addresses the media during a May 20 news conference in Havana.

has been receiving intravenous nutrition at a hospital in his home city. Another political activist has promised to begin a hunger strike if Farinas should die. Farinas told The Associated Press that he would end his hunger strike if the government provides the Church with a schedule for the release of the dozen political prisoners who are the most ill. In the bishops’ May 20 press conference, Cardinal Ortega also noted that Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, Vatican secretary for relations with states, would visit Havana June 15 to participate in a commemoration of 75 years of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the Vatican. He was invited by the Catholic Church and the Cuban government. Within weeks of Pope John Paul II’s 1998 visit to Cuba, the government freed about 300 prisoners. When the Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, visited Cuba in 2008, seven prisoners, including four dissidents jailed since 2003, were freed shortly before he arrived. This spring the government was in a public

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By Valerie Schmalz What the heck does the Catholic faith have to do with teaching physics or English? The Vatican’s astronomer will be one of those speaking to the question at the Substantially Catholic Seminar June 8-10 at Marin Catholic High School. The seminar will address the issue of infusing the Catholic intellectual tradition at the high school level. The seminar’s goal is help teachers and administrators “ensure that the Catholic intellectual tradition is part of every department, every subject and every course,” said Chris Valdez, principal of Marin Catholic High School and a conference organizer. “Where do Christian values [come in], how does redemption play?” asked Valdez. “What are the texts that best serve our students to fulfill our mission? That is not to say that books that may contradict the mission of the school are not useful, they may be,” said Valdez. “It is also not prescriptive. The idea is not that you need to teach this book and this book. A lot of this seminar is to create a more Catholic atmosphere to teach biology and physics and chemistry…” The seminar will focus on science and English, with next year addressing Social Studies and maybe visual and performing arts, Valdez said. Speakers will include: Jesuit Father William Stoeger, astronomer at the Vatican Observatory and professor of astrophysics at the University of Arizona; Oliver Putz, who has a doctorate in evolutionary biology from the Freie Universität Berlin and is a doctoral student at the Graduate Theological Union; Paul Contino, Pepperdine University professor of Great Books and specialist in modern fiction; Marquette University English Professor Ed Block, Jr., who has written on Hans Urs Von Balthasar and modern literature. Other speakers will be David Gentry-Aiken, professor of theology at St. Mary’s University of California, Moraga, who has written on Catholic identity of schools; and Thomas Cavanaugh, professor of philosophy at the University of San Francisco who has written on Catholic moral theology. Two speakers from the Catholic Education Institute in New York, Melanie Morey and Jesuit Father John Piderit, will address issues in administration and conveying the Catholic tradition. For more information, visit www.marincatholic.org; www.catholicexcellence.org; or contact Joe Tassone, (415) 215-8571. showdown with the Ladies in White, a group of female relatives of political prisoners. The women attend Mass each Sunday dressed in white, then walk down a major Havana street in a silent protest. In April the women were stopped from their march for three weeks by counterproS ET T K 5 C TI TAR T $2 S S JU AT

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Catholic nurse Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo is suing New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, charging that her conscience rights were violated when she was compelled to help with a late-term, non-emergency abortion last year, despite previously notifying the hospital of her religious objections to abortion. The lawsuit has wider implications for implementation of the new health reform law, which the U.S. Catholic bishops contend does not adequately protect conscience rights. Cenzon-DeCarlo, whose uncle is a Catholic bishop in her native Philippines, said her participation in the abortion was required by several of her superiors on the medical staff despite the fact that the case had not been deemed an emergency under hospital procedures and that there were other nurses available to assist who did not object to abortions.

with policies on abortion and conscience rights that have long prevailed in other federal health programs,” said the head of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. In a May 20 letter to House members, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of GalvestonHouston urged passage of H.R. 5111, legislation proposed by Reps. Joseph Pitts, R-Pa., and Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., and co-sponsored by 91 other House members. “Efforts to ensure that our health care system serves the life, health and conscience of all will be a legislative goal of the Catholic bishops in the months to come,” Cardinal DiNardo said, adding that the Pitts-Lipinski proposal makes “a significant contribution to this important task.” The cardinal warned, however, that if “these genuine problems are not addressed in their own right, they will be taken up and used as ammunition by those who favor repealing (the health reform law) outright, which would eliminate the positive as well as negative aspects of the new law.” Cardinal DiNardo said the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed into law by President Barack Obama March 23, was “an important step toward ensuring access to health coverage for all Americans” but was “profoundly flawed in its treatment of abortion, conscience rights and fairness to immigrants.” He also said Obama’s executive order signed March 24 “does not address, or claim to address, several of the problems.”

USCCB opts out of human rights group over ‘expanded agenda’ WASHINGTON – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has withdrawn from the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, citing the group’s “expanded and broadened agenda” that fails to “reflect the principles and policies of the bishops’ conference.” In announcing the withdrawal May 19, Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Peace, pointed to the rights group’s support of the nomination of Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court as the most recent example of how the concerns of the two organizations’ have diverged in recent years. Traditionally, the bishops have been neutral on court nominees, said Mercy Sister Mary Ann Walsh, director of media relations for the bishops’ conference. Kagan, U.S. solicitor general, was nominated by President Barack Obama May 10 to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. “In light of recent events,” Bishop Murphy said in a statement, “it has become increasingly clear that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ continued membership ... is not possible. NEWS IN BRIEF, page 6

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Pope says Congo’s mineral wealth must be used to help whole population VATICAN CITY (CNS) – To bring lasting peace to Congo, earnings from the country’s rich mineral deposits must be shared with the entire population, particularly through state funding of education and health care, Pope Benedict XVI recently told Congo’s new ambassador to the Vatican. “If the earnings were shared justly, the important natural riches that God has given to your land – and which, unfortunately, have become sources of greed and disproportionate profits for many inside and outside your country – would go a long way toward helping the population out of poverty,” the pope said. “Congolese families and education for young people would be the first beneficiaries,” the pope told Ambassador Jean-Pierre Hamuli Mupenda. The pope said April 29 that lasting peace and prosperity would remain only a dream for most Congolese unless the government increased its subsidies to the nation’s schools, because most parents cannot afford to pay tuition. Increasing school enrollment is especially important for the young who have been “deprived of education and trained

to kill” as child soldiers in the regions of Congo where violence continues to erupt, he said. The former child soldiers need an education “that will support them in their future adult and professional lives, but also would give them a moral and spiritual basis to resist the temptation of violence and resentment,” he said. Congo is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its independence this year, the pope said, and should use the occasion “to start over from a new foundation” of equality, justice and mutual respect. “Your country has known particularly difficult and tragic moments,” he said. “Blind and ruthless violence has battered a large segment of the population, bending them under its brutal and unsupportable yoke and sowing ruin and death,” he said. “Now is the time to repair and to do justice,” the pope said. “But this cannot happen unless the social fabric, which was so seriously torn, is repaired little by little,” he said. The place to begin is by helping families, which in turn will help build strong communities and promote values of respect and cooperation, he said.

Bishop Djomo said that contacting their senators and Congress members to encourage support of the legislation is the most ■ Continued from cover effective measure that U.S. Catholics can first nine months of 2009, nearly double the take to help the Congolese people. The bill calls on the U.S. to support figure for the same period the year before. In North Kivu, nearly half of the attacks in multilateral efforts to investigate, monithe first half of 2009 were perpetrated by tor and stop activities involving natural members of the Congolese armed forces, resources that contribute to illegally armed groups and human rights according to the U.N. violations in eastern Most vulnerable of all Congo. The bill also are women who defend would require that the human rights. In 2009, State Department closely armed men threatened monitor the financing of to kill Rebecca Agamile armed groups in mineralfor her work with a nonrich areas of eastern governmental organizaCongo. tion that is cooperating Africa’s third mostwith the International populous country, with Criminal Court to investi60 million people, Congo gate human-rights violais 50 percent Catholic. tions, the U.N. said. Congo’s Bishop Nicolas Djomo Congo’s 51 bishops have The Congolese authorsays the 47 Catholic dioceses political influence and ities, not to mention nonin his nation are supporting plan to use it in June state actors, continue to war refugees and victims after they meet to assess stigmatize defenders as but need international help. a proposal by President enemies or opponents, Joseph Kabila to remove the U.N. said. The latest wave in more than 15 years of the nation’s 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers. Kabila wants the troops withdrawn as a sign the world’s bloodiest unrest since World War II, the fighting is not over land or political of Congo’s independence, although human power but over profit in a desperately poor rights groups warn the move is premature. “That’s a question we are asking,” Bishop country with weak governance. “The whole point is to keep the war going,” Djomo said. “U.N. troops are there, they can Bishop Djomo said. “The main cause of the fight, their mision is to protect the populawar is economic. Some countries bordering tion. Right now we are not sure the military are able.” the Congo are living from that system.” Bishop Djomo said he also is asking U.S. Bishop Djomo was in the U.S. on a solo trip to build Catholic support for the Congo Catholics for general humanitarian help Conflict Minerals Act, S891, a measure for the Congolese Church, where dioceses sponsored by U.S. Senator Sam Brownback run 50 percent of the nation’s schools and of Kansas and co-sponsored by California’s 40 percent of its hospitals. Those in need Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and include raped women, street children and 17 other senators. The bishop met with San orphans, he said. On www.catholic-sf.org. Hear Bishop Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, San Jose Bishop P.J. McGrath and Oakland Djomo discuss violence against women in eastern Congo’s mining wars. Bishop Salvatore Cordileone. (PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

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Through Christ, the Spirit is within us Archbishop Niederauer delivered the following homily on the Vigil of Pentecost at the California Knights of Columbus 108th Annual State Convention, held in San Jose May 20-23. Jesus cries out: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me. Let him drink who believes in me.” We cannot live physically without water. Imagine a real estate agent showing you around various homes you are considering for a move. The agent says about a very attractive house: “There is one drawback. It has no water. No water lines, no well, no availability of water whatsoever. No water for miles. But isn’t it lovely?” How long would it take you to decide about that house? Jesus teaches us: “You need water to live physically. You need me to live spiritually.” If we come to Jesus and accept him, our spiritual thirst is refreshed. You believe that. You believe that when you were baptized, you died to sin with Jesus on the Cross and rose to new life with him to Easter life, now in the Church and forever in heaven. You Catholic Christians are here this evening, on the Vigil of the Feast of Pentecost so that you can ratify, publically, freely, and deliberately, the action of baptism. As leaders and faithful servants in the Catholic Community, you Knights and your families continue the work of witness and evangelization that began with those 12 men at the first Pentecost. The passage from John’s Gospel has a striking, even startling statement in it: “There was of course no Spirit yet, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.” There was no Holy Spirit! No Pentecost without Calvary. No Risen Jesus Christ to be baptized into, so that you could believe and hope and love in him: so that your sins could be forgiven; so that you would have the Eucharist as food for your faith journey and as supreme worship of the Father; so that you would have companions on this journey, the Church as the assembly of believers. Once Jesus is glorified by the Cross, the Resurrection and the Ascension, the Holy spirit – the powerful force of creative, redeeming divine love, connecting you and all of us with Father and Son, now and forever – this

Holy Spirit could be poured out on you in Baptism and Confirmation – and eventually all the other sacraments. St. Cyril of Jerusalem, a bishop who lived during the fifth century, gave us a beautiful comparison for how the one gift of the Spirit of God gives such diverse gifts to the Church through its many members. St. Cyril says that Jesus once compared the Holy Spirit within a believer to be a fountain of water. Then he says: “Water comes down from heaven as rain, and although it is always the same in itself, it produces many different effects, one in the palm tree, another in the vine, and so on throughout the whole of creation. It does not come down, now as one thing, now as another, but while remaining essentially the same, it adapts itself to the needs of every creature that receives it. In the same way the Holy Spirit, whose nature is always the same, apportions grace to each man as he wills. The Spirit makes one man a teacher of divine truth, inspires another to prophesy, gives another the power of casting out devils, enables another to interpret Holy Scripture. The Spirit strengthens one man’s self-control, shows another how to help the poor, teaches another to fast and lead a life of asceticism, makes another oblivious to the needs of the body, trains another for martyrdom. His action is different in different people, but the Spirit himself is always the same. In each person, Scripture says, the Spirit reveals his presence in a particular way for the common good.” And that is the promise – the “pouring out of the Spirit” – Joel – on all – women and men alike; all ages; even the servants and handmaids – no one left out, but no one forced – all those who call on the Lord’s name – as you do this evening – will survive and thrive in this Spirit. The presence of God in the Risen Christ brings with it the outpouring of the Spirit of God – Paraclete. But you need the courage of your convictions – your faith – for this to be fulfilled in your lives. As surely as the prophet Joel speaks of the promise of the Spirit, Paul in Romans speaks of the experience of fulfillment – in your experience of fulfillment and ours as well.

St. Paul says that all creation hopes and expects AND groans in pain for birth and growth and fulfillment – take the example of spring each year, and our reactions to it. So it also is for us and our Archbishop spiritual growth, our George H. growth in the Spirit. Everyone believes in Niederauer progress, but no one likes unfinishedness, incompleteness – but that’s what growth and progress imply: that there is still some way to go toward fullness, completeness – including spiritually. The gifts you have already received from the Spirit – in the Spirit – are a pledge of gifts to come; and finally of eternal life. Tonight we seek the gifts of wisdom; understanding, right judgment, courage, knowledge, reverence, wonder and awe. Paul gives one beautiful example – Prayer: “we don’t know how to pray as we ought” – isn’t it the truth! But how we agonize, and avoid and feel inferior! But God is not distant, remote, judging us – God is within, leading, inspiring, helping, gracing us: What a beautiful description: The spirit himself prays within us, prodding and coaching – “makes intercessions for us with groaning which cannot be expressed in speech” – “He who searches hearts” – God – knows what the spirit means, for the Spirit intercedes for the saints as God himself wills.” But this is not all interior – like charity, which begins at home but does not stay there. Focus on the missionary – the evangelizing, witnessing – nature of your baptismal and confirmation commitments. You believe and you will witness to this belief. Secrecy and discipleship don’t go together – not a “Jesus and me” relationship. Others are spiritually thirsty too, and you know where the water is – you have it within you.

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A time for healing Recently, Catholic Charities/CYO, the social services agency of the Archdiocese, presented its Loaves and Fishes Award. This award recognizes a person or agency that has helped fellow human beings to go beyond the ordinary, to reach out and care for others in a way that brings a new sense of life and hope to others and to those receiving the award. This year the award went to a remarkable young woman, Immaculee Ilibagiza; a woman whose whole family was slaughtered in the genocidal uprising in the African nation of Ruwanda in 1994, which took the lives of Tutsis and Hutu political moderates by the Hutu-dominated government. To survive, she and a few other women lived in a small household bathroom for an extended period of time where they could not make a sound or they would have been discovered and brutally murdered. The estimates range from 500,000 to 800,000 people killed in that cataclysmic national upheaval, 20 percent of the total population of the country. But what is even more remarkable than her survival is that she came to realize that if she was going to be able to really live her life, she needed to not let hatred and revenge take control or consume her. She understood that it if she didn’t, it would ultimately destroy her and make a mockery of her heroic effort to survive the horror of the unspeakable violence she witnessed. So she went home to where her parents had lived and had been killed. And it is reported she forgave those who were involved in the killing of her family. She did it because she felt her Catholic faith in Jesus was calling her to do so, but she also knew that in doing so she, with the power of God, would be able to let go of hatred and revenge and invite those who committed the heinous slaughter to admit their guilt and come to know the healing power of forgiveness. They, too, would be able to face life again! To hear her story is to stand in awe. How could anyone do as she did? Especially after she saw what she saw! It is beyond belief that a person could be so forgiving. Most of us probably think we could never do such a thing. In fact it is hard enough for us to be with a family member who has just verbally hurt us, never mind the reality that Immaculee endured. Many of you here this afternoon have endured painful

things, mentally or physically, from a spouse, or a child or relative, or from a friend or a complete stranger, or a priest or a religious. Others of you might find it difficult to let go of anger toward God for the death of a child, or people you love whom you have lost in an accident, or who are suffering because of a struggle with depression or a horrible disease. You might be not only wondering how Immaculee did what she did, but even be upset at the fact that she did this. Why forgive? Why talk about healing? How is it possible to break into a sorrowing heart and let hope in? Probably, humanly speaking, it is nearly impossible. But Immaculee and others who have struggled to heal gaping wounds of prejudice, fear and oppression, have participated in the story of God’s Son, Jesus. “God so loved the world that he sent his own Son, that we might have eternal life,” the Gospel declares. Rarely does a person die for a good person. But Jesus, while we were still in our sin, died for us, Saint Paul writes. “Then Jesus said on the cross, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And in his first Easter encounter with his disciples – the disciples who had at the least abandoned him, and Peter who had denied him three times! – Jesus’ first words were, “Peace be with you.” Then he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” In the power of Jesus Christ, all is possible. Through our Baptism, he lives in us. We are not alone. It does not all depend on us. Remember the Gospel story of the two disciples on the road back to their town of Emmaus. They were in need of healing, of forgiveness. Their dream of Jesus being the Messiah and Liberator had ended with his cruel death on the Cross. Now they were going home, mourning his death and the death of their dream. But a man – who we know is Jesus – joins them and walks with them. They begin to discuss the Scripture. The man tells them that the Scripture foretold that Jesus must suffer and die. They brighten up. They invite him to dine with them. He agrees and takes bread, blesses it, and breaks it, the actions of the Last Supper. At that moment, they recognize him. He disappears, but hope has returned for the two disciples. They rush back to Jerusalem, and tell all the disciples what has happened, and they in turn tell them they

too have heard Jesus had risen. Their sorrow, pain, and abandonment of Jesus was forgiven, was healed. They could have hope! And they were ready to proclaim it to God’s people to the ends of the earth! Bishop William It was Jesus’ gift J. Justice of the Spirit that gave them courage after they were healed. God’s Spirit gave Immaculee the courage to face not only the murderers of her family and tribe, but the demons of hatred and revenge in her heart. Once faced, the joy of Jesus’ love radiated – and still does – in her life as it does in the community of the disciples today in the Body of Christ. Our Second reading today celebrates the victory of the martyrs of the late 1st and early 2nd century Church. They were healed of sin and anger by courageously accepting the path of suffering and death in order to be faithful to the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ. Now they are celebrated – and are celebrating – in the joy of the heavenly kingdom! And every tear is being wiped away. Our Gospel today is clear and direct: Jesus is the Good Shepherd and he gives his followers eternal life – his life. No one can take them – or us – out of his hand. If we trust in him. If we, with the disciples on the road to Emmaus, listen to his forgiving yet challenging Word, and we share his meal where he takes, blesses, breaks and gives us his body in the bread of life, then we can be confident that whether the journey to healing is long or short, he is walking with us with his rod and staff that gives us courage. He will take our hand and lead us safely home to where there is no more pain and suffering, where the former things have passed away. Let us now celebrate the Supper of the Lord that heals us with his forgiving love. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice delivered the homily above April 25, 2010 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

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Parish Diary

Unexpected guests: a family of robins I have a family living in my rectory, and I don’t care who knows it. You can tell the archbishop if you’d like. That’s because it is a family of birds, American robins, to be exact. They built their nest on the window ledge right above my front door. I noticed them when I was going out the rectory front door for morning Mass. There was a mess of twigs on the porch in front of the door. I turned around to go back into the house for a broom. Then I saw a chain of twigs going up the side of the door leading to the window ledge above the door. I pulled on it and disturbed the nest above. Immediately, a red-breasted robin flew out of the nest he had been working on and dived at me. I had to high-tail it into the house. Valuing caution over speed, I went out the backdoor and around to the front of the house. Mr. Robin was flying in with a mouthful of building material. I left him to his work, figuring I wouldn’t mind having somebody to share the rectory with, especially now that my cat had died. When I came up the front walk after Mass, I forgot about the robins. Mr. Robin again dive-bombed me. But I stood my ground and walked straight up to the front door.

Over the next few days, we worked out a “modus vivendi” (“a way of living”). I opened the door and went quickly off the porch. As long as I did not dawdle too long, the robins did not seem to mind. It was a good place to build a nest. The porch roof protected it from the elements. The high ledge was impossible for cats and other predators to reach. The nearby garden gave a reliable source of worms and other creepy food. Soon, Mrs. Robin showed up. She got busy about egg laying. Early in April, she was sitting on the eggs in the nest. More coming and going with Mr. Robin, but she was usually sitting in the nest. I could watch her directly by going halfway up the hallway stairs inside the house and sitting down, facing the front door. She and I were on the same level but on opposite sides of the glass. We eyed each other warily. Eventually, babies started peep-peeping in the nest. Cute, tiny little heads were visible over the sides of the nest. They started making a mess on the porch. One other advantage for them was the easy disposal of sanitation from the nest. But it made a problem for me on the porch. Despite the little nuisance, I am glad to have the

robins. They remind me that we share this planet with other creatures. Just because we stake our claim to space with our great big nests doesn’t mean that we are the only tenants. Father I like looking in on the growing family. Soon Peter J. Daly they will be flying away. The thing about rectory life these days is that most priests live alone. We come and go without anybody noticing too much. In a way it is nice to have another living thing with which to share my space. Something that God also put here and cares for. Something that God also looks at and sees that it is very, very good. And cute too! Father Peter J. Daly, a Maryland Pastor, writes a column for Catholic News Service.

Twenty-Something

Milestones and inch-stones: the reason we celebrate I have been anticipating my birthday with the vigor and vigilance of an 8-year-old. For months I’ve pondered what I will eat and where I will shop and how I will dress. I’ve dedicated an entire weekend to Favorite Things. I’ve even devised a wish list. It felt awfully indulgent at first, but then I considered how novel the impulse is and vowed to nurture it. If so many birthdays have slipped by quietly, the desire to celebrate this one – just another notch along my twenties – may be worth heeding. The past year seems to merit celebration. I experienced the highs and the lows more acutely: late nights, early mornings, and a few leisurely weekends that rolled by with no plans and great fun. I bought more flowers, whose bloom I studied and relished like never before. I settled into a home perched beside an old oak, and just as I am looking up at its winding branches silhouetted against the sky, so too am I sinking roots. The early spring hydrated my brittle parts. I have marveled over the way humidity heals, relaxing the tightly-wound bands in my chest. I am laughing more readily, and when anger flashes, I seem to have greater odds of holding my tongue. This year I worked harder, prayed harder and loved harder – which probably means I lived better. So if I feel older, that may be why. And it’s worth toasting.

We’re in the season that celebrates landmarks with wedding bells and graduation parties, and we are following the script, sending cards with doves and eagles, starbursts and fireworks. But my desire to celebrate is not about milestones: It’s about inch-stones, the small steps that take courage, the times you hold your breath and tip toe along. Scootches, not leaps. Recognizing an inch-stone is like catching a butterfly; it requires attentiveness and good timing and brings a sense of wonder, allowing us to feel the warm breeze of the Holy Spirit and see God’s hand in our lives. We’re usually too busy to notice an inch-stone passing by, so when we do, and we feel that desire to celebrate, we should honor it. I know a widower who is raising nine kids, and he celebrates every Sunday with Mass and brunch. He fries bacon, plays rock, and everyone dances. A reporter friend won a blogging award exactly one year after being laid off from her local newspaper. She celebrated by blogging and bragging and exercising. Another reporter signed with a book agent and then took a celebratory hike, unplugging from her computer for an entire day. My longtime softball coach self-published his father’s biography. His kids threw him a book launch party, sharing their takeaways over red wine.

When we celebrate these moments, we mark time together. We echo Mary’s Magnificat. Our gratitude becomes poetry and, in turn, praise. “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,” we sing. “The mighty one has done Christina great things for me, and Capecchi holy is his name.” It was Mary, after all, our most gracious advocate, who prompted Jesus’ first miracle at the wedding in Cana, pointing out, “There is no wine.” She wanted the celebration to continue, and so did her son. Today we remember that impulse, the second luminous mystery of the Rosary. Mary suffered and she celebrated, because joy involves grief in a well-lived life. That’s what I’m striving for this birthday, why I keep a bottle of champagne in the fridge. I’m ready at a moment’s notice. Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. Contact her at www.ReadChristina.com.

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Operation Let the Fire Fall In November 2007, George Misulia, a Catholic layman who lives in Mount Airy, Md., was lying in bed, recovering from fractured vertebrae suffered during an accident and wondering what he might do to support Catholics defending America in the armed services. There are some 1.5 million Catholics in the armed forces of the United States today; their 300 chaplains are stretched very thin across a vast number of deployment areas and overseas bases. Some soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines go for months on end without seeing a chaplain or being able to participate fully in the sacramental life of the Church—often at moments of great spiritual vulnerability when their lives are on the line. Units that don’t have their chaplain are often served by lay leaders trained in what are called “Catholic Lay Services in the Absence of a Priest.” Bible studies and other forms of paraliturgical worship are also used when a chaplain is unavailable. George Misulia couldn’t do much about the chaplain shortage—one result of the overall priest-shortage in the United States, but a particularly sad one. Still, he thought, he might be able to do something to enhance the worship of Catholics in the military by some judicious deployment of modern technology: “It occurred to me that an iPod, loaded with quality liturgical music, combined with a Bose portable SoundDock, could enrich Masses on ships, in the field, even in combat zones. By adding a Web site with downloadable music, lyrics and other inspirational material,

we could provide a quality resource to support our heroic Catholic military personnel around the world, even in the most remote places.” And so, with the help of a few friends, Operation Let the Fire Fall was born. The first “FireBox” unit was sent to Thule Air Force Base in Greenland in September 2008. Catholics at Thule see a priest perhaps twice a year. But with the FireBox equipment supplementing the “Catholic Lay Service,” the Catholics at Thule began gathering weekly for prayer. Since that modest beginning at the top of the world, Operation Let the Fire Fall has deployed FireBox units and supporting materials around the world, to Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt and other sites. Chaplains in all branches of the service have eagerly embraced Operation Let the Fire Fall, as have Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Archdiocese of the Military Services and his predecessor, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, now archbishop of Baltimore. According to Mr. Misulia, the music chosen for the FireBox units is aimed at “supporting singing at Masses and a variety of Catholic lay prayer services in the absence of a priest.” The aim is not entertainment or diversion, but “prayerful participation,” and the music chosen includes both traditional hymns (happily ungelded by that great hymn-wrecker, “Alt.”) and newer compositions that are, as Mr. Misulia put it to me, “scripturally based, theologically sound, and ‘God-centered’ rather than ‘we-centered’… [including] communion hymns [that] focus on the Real Presence.” (One of the vicars general

of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, who had best remain anonymous, made it clear that there were limits to his sense of musical ecumenism: “If I hear ‘Gather Us In’ one more time I’m going to George Weigel jump out a window.” May his tribe increase!) Operation Let the Fire Fall cannot substitute for an increase in the chaplain corps, and doesn’t pretend to do so. Its aims are modest, but nonetheless important for their modesty: given the circumstances we’ve got, which dictate that Catholics in the armed services are often deprived of a normal sacramental life, sometimes for months on end, it ought to be possible to enhance the opportunities for regular worship that can be created, both by overstretched chaplains and dedicated lay leaders. And if Operation Let the Fire Fall does that, it may help bring out of the service a rich harvest of priestly vocations, which could then reinforce the chaplain corps. Want to know more? Go to Operation Let the Fire Fall’s Web site, www.oltff.com. It’s a project worth learning about, following and supporting. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF PROVERBS PRV 8:22-31 Thus says the wisdom of God: “The Lord possessed me, the beginning of his ways, the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago; from of old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water; before the mountains were settled into place, before the hills, I was brought forth; while as yet the earth and fields were not made, nor the first clods of the world. “When the Lord established the heavens I was there, when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep; when he made firm the skies above, when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth; when he set for the sea its limit, so that the waters should not transgress his command; then was I beside him as his craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, playing before him all the while, playing on the surface of his earth; and I found delight in the human race.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth! When I behold your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place —

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The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Proverbs 8:22-31; Psalm 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; Romans 5:1-5; John 16:12-15 What is man that you should be mindful of him, or the son of man that you should care for him? R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth! You have made him little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor. You have given him rule over the works of your hands, putting all things under his feet: R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth! All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field, The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and whatever swims the paths of the seas. R. O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS ROM 5:1-5 Brothers and sisters: Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith to this grace in which we stand, and we boast in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we even boast of our afflictions, knowing that affliction produces endurance, and endurance, proven character, and proven character, hope, and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 16:12-15 Jesus said to his disciples: “I have much more

he Trinity says, “Come here, let’s have a visit and enjoy each other’s company.” I’m thinking of two images of the Trinity that can be seen inside the Mission Church at Santa Clara University. One is an oil painting based on Luke 2, like a holy card rendering, that shows the child Jesus teaching in the Temple. He is a youth in a short white tunic, eyes gazing heavenward. Above him is the Father, a long-bearded old man, who reaches down from a cloud and extends a hand of blessing toward Jesus. Between his hand and the head of Jesus is a white dove, wings outstretched, at the center of an aura of shimmering gold light. The message is: “All of you, look at Jesus, and hear how wise he is because the Father approves him and the Holy Spirit inspires him.” The other image of the Trinity, painted on the ceiling, is one I like better. It’s unusual and more emotive. God, as three persons in one, is shown quite literally as three identical men, looking like a brotherhood of Hispanic compañeros, mid-thirties triplets with handsome faces, dressed in identical blue-green tunics, each with the same full black beard, their arms around each other’s shoulders. They look very happy in one another’s company and you’d enjoy meeting them. The message could be, “Come here, let’s have a visit and enjoy each other’s company.” This theology of the Trinity seems more attractive than the oil painting. The viewer wants to know the secret of this extraordinary relationship – three members of one family who get along eternally without arguments or divisions among them. What a miracle of unity! So, who is the God you know, and the one you pray to? When you exclaim, “Oh my God!” are you thinking of the Father or the Holy Spirit? When you say, “Good Lord!” are you thinking of Jesus or the Father? Or all three at once? Or does it depend on what you are going through at the moment? The saints who were experts in prayer have distinguished two schools of thought when

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Stop by and visit with us it comes to knowing God. One school, more philosophical, says you can’t know God; it’s foolishness and arrogance because a human being has no way to grasp who God the eternal is. So it’s more respectful to say, “God, I don’t know who you are, and I can’t even name you. My knowledge is nothing. You are. All I can’t comprehend.” And that’s the best prayer. The other school says that God is revealed in many images. We know the divine by many names that are partial expressions, but we use the inadequate means we have. This is more the Scriptural tradition, that God wants to be known, and there are any number of names to call God. While any name is inadequate, it’s a start at the relationship. If we are made in God’s image, then there has to be a human way of naming God. So “Father,” “Son” and “Holy Spirit” are analogies and names we use. In Jewish mystical tradition, the “shekinah” or holy dwelling place, the tent which served as the tabernacle in the desert wanderings, is imagined as female. Thus, the Spirit, or movable presence of the divine, is sometimes considered the “female” aspect of God. Above all, the concept of the Trinity interrupts the tendency to

think in dualisms. With the Trinity of Christian theology, you can’t reduce God to polarities or opposition like male-female, spirit-matter, lightdark, creation-destruction, visible-invisible. God transcends our human categories. The reading from Proverbs presents a different image. Wisdom is speaking on her own behalf, personified as the divine alwaysthere-ness, the life-force of God who pre-exists Genesis. Wisdom accompanies God and enables the creation of earth, sky and sea. Wisdom, like an artist and designer, is a companion to human beings, delighting in that work. So, should Wisdom be understood as the joyful Holy Spirit? This Proverbs reading is also used for feasts of Mary, because theologians reflect that she personifies God’s creativity. Through her, Jesus comes to earth as the Word of God. The reading from Romans represents Paul’s multi-dimensional theology of the Trinity. Paul boasts of his sufferings and his endurance. He has come to know God through his struggles to go on despite much opposition. He lives in hope for better times to come, and to see his traveling and preaching bear fruit. If we were to use Paul’s language to translate what

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God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are depicted in a stained glass window at the Glasgow cathedral in Scotland. Trinity Sunday, which acknowledges the threefold revelation of God as Father, Son and Spirit, is marked May 30 this year.

to tell you, but you cannot bear it now. But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on his own, but he will speak what he hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming. He will glorify me, because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you. Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.” each member of the Trinity “does,” it would be something like this: Jesus justifies us, and makes right our relationship with God. We are back in God’s good graces. The Father is the one we have peace with. The Holy Spirit keeps hope alive in us because we have such love in our hearts that we cannot imagine this God ever disappointing us. Paul was writing at least three decades before the Gospel of John, and drew on traditions of the Holy Spirit found in Hebrew Scripture. The passage from John’s gospel focuses on the Holy Spirit’s role. The passage is taken from the Last Discourse, the words of Jesus the night before he died. The Holy Spirit is the promised one, the one assured will be there. Jesus may be physically unseen, but we continue to receive his teaching through the wisdom imparted by the Spirit of truth. The Spirit “speaks” at a time when we are ready to hear, when we can bear it. The Spirit is a guide. That is different from being a manager, a parole officer, or a parent. A guide is someone by our side, on our side, who shows us the way ahead, sometimes in the dark, sometimes in the light. A guide nudges us and doesn’t force us beyond our strength or willingness. A guide advises us and gives us confidence that we can do what needs to be done. Thus, the Holy Spirit is a kind of “life coach” who keeps our mind and heart focused on God, and how to carry out the mission of Jesus. The mood of Trinity Sunday is suggested by the responsorial psalm, “O Lord, our God, how wonderful your name in all the earth!” The feeling reflects those three family members portrayed on the ceiling calling out, “Stop by and visit us,” their arms entwined around each other’s shoulders, inviting us to join their happy company. Eloise Rosenblatt, R.S.M.is a theologian and an attorney in private practice in San Jose. Contact: info@eloiserosenblatt.com.

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Deeper language One year ago, outside of Guatemala City, Lorenzo Rosebaugh, a Missionary Oblate of Mary Immaculate, was shot to death as he was driving with a number of his fellow missionaries to a community meeting. The real motive behind his killing may never be known. On the surface, it appeared to be nothing more than a violent robbery, but given the circumstances of Lorenzo’s life and his life-long fight for justice for the poor, everyone, myself no exception, wants to believe that his being shot was more than a question of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Too many things suggest that this was more than an accident. If nothing else,

his death by gunshot is somehow symbolic: Lorenzo wasn’t meant to die of old age in a comfortable bed. I first met Lorenzo at our mother-house at Aix-enProvence in France ten years ago. He had just returned from a long missionary stint in Latin America where, among other things, he had lived on the streets of Recife with its poor, without roof or fixed address, for several years. A serious illness drove him back to the USA and his Oblate community sent him on a sabbatical to France. He arrived there unable to speak any French whatsoever. Yet, when I met him there, less than a month after his arrival, he was sitting on the steps of the church

which is attached to our community residence with a dozen street-people gathered round him. They were sharing food and cigarettes and some kind of conversation. It looked like a picnic in the park. There is nothing SPIRITUALITY, page 16

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Young mother writes of hers and five other lives transformed by Mary’s grace By Sharon Abercrombie As a five-year-old, Christine Watkins was enchanted the night her family went to view an outdoor nativity scene in their Berkeley neighborhood. But when she asked her father who the man, the lady and the baby were, he said they were just part of a Christian fairy tale. One night, four years later, as she lay in her bed, Watkins realized there was no getting around the awful fact that she would eventually die — just like the rest of the human race. So where would she go? Her mom’s response: into a box buried in the ground or a cremation jar, but not to worry. Christine wouldn’t care because she’d be dead. Rudderless and sad, with no spiritual underpinnings, facing a bleak future pointing to nothingness, the little girl created her own god — dance. She became a professional dancer with the San Francisco Ballet Company, loving every minute of it. Her passion came to a crashing halt when she was 19. Severe back and foot injuries forced the young woman to hang up her satin toe shoes forever. The setback was more than she could bear. Desperate for comfort and reassurance, she turned to transcendental meditation, Indian gurus, and New Age practitioners. They didn’t take away her pain. But Mary of Medjugorje and her son, Jesus, did. Watkins has written the story of her spiritual journey and conversion to Catholicism in a riveting, new book, “Full of Grace: Miraculous Stories of Healing and Conversion through Mary’s Intercession.” Released four months ago by Ave Maria Press, the book has sold more than 1,600 copies. Since 1995, the year of her transformation, Christine Watkins has attended Holy Spirit Parish/Newman Center in Berkeley, going through the RCIA program there. For a few intervening years, she was a member of St. Dominic Parish in San Francisco. She now attends Newman Hall all as well as St. Joseph Basilica Parish in Alameda, where she serves erves as coordinator for the Afterr the Choice post-abortion healing ling program for the Oakland diocese cese as well as Rachel’s Vineyard site coordinator for Oakland and San Francisco. Her husband, John ohn Watkins, is coordinator of Life ife and Justice for the Oakland nd diocese. They have two sons, s, Christian, 5, and John 1. Besides her own story, y, Watkins writes of conversionn episodes in the lives of fivee other people: Angela, a former angry stripper; Michael, a heroin addict; Poppa Jaime, a man who rescues children living in the sewers of Colombia; Goran, a homeless drug addict, and her husband John, “a sad, lonely young man,” before his healing. What each has in common is a visit to Medjugorje, e, a town in the former Yugoslavia, where Mary has allegedly been appearing to six people since 1981. What the people in Watkins’ book collectively discovered is that “God will walk to the ends of the earth to find us, save us from whatever sin we’ve entangled ourselves in, and bring us home on his shoulders,” said Watkins, who first traveled to Medjugorje in 2001. The trip took place six years after her spiritual breakthrough in 1995. That was the year Watkins had

hit bottom. She was a walking spiritual emergency. Disillusioned by a long procession of gurus and empty relationships with men, she was spiritually bereft and physically ill. During a phone conversation, Joseph, a friend from Berkeley, encouraged her to return from the East Coast to spend a few days in his Kensington home. Upon her arrival, she found herself surrounded by Catholic holy pictures and books. She hadn’t realized her friend was so deeply spiritual. They had long conversations about religion. She began to realize the nothingness of her life. She fell to her knees and asked God’s forgiveness. It was then that she discovered that Joseph was a mystic given to visions. Three days after her return to the West Coast, an exhausted Christine had a powerful experience of God’s presence, and in a semi-dream state saw a dark mass within her pop into nothingness. She awoke to find Joseph at her side. He told her that Jesus had just cured the terminal cancer she had not known about and wanted her to join the Catholic Church and help bring to it compassion, kindness, love and generosity. Joseph also received a message from Mary that Christine should say the Rosary whenever she needed Mary’s help. “The evening after I was cured,” she writes, “I heard a symphony — a soft, lilting piece of music I had never heard before …I checked everywhere …to see where the music might be playing, but I soon realized that the beautiful music was coming from within me. I realized then that heaven was rejoicing because one sinner had been saved, and the heavenly hosts were letting me join in the celebration.” Watkins experienced a re-creation that brought hope and purpose: “to love him above all things and to love my neighbor as myself.” She joined the Church through the RCIA program at Newman Center and spent three years earning a masp ter’s ddegree at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, “where all the great mysteries of life were at my fingertips like ripe blackberries ready to be plucked.” She graduated in 1998.

Christine Watkins

way of a new Marian discovery for Watkins, but the energy of the church, the town, the mountains and the devotion of other tourists like her and her husband was “amazing,” she said. “Medjugorje captivated us,” Watkins writes. “We didn’t know that a physical place on earth could contain so much of heaven…such intense spiritual communion.” Watkins recalls being unable to worry about anything on her visit. “It was impossible.” But she still didn’t feel the actual presence of Mary. That came a few months later during a medical procedure. Feeling alone and abandoned, she called a friend who, on arriving, said, “I sense Mary. She’s here, she’s here — I feel her presence so strongly. She’s waited for this moment all your life. She’s been there for you ever since you were a little girl. She wants you to let her into God will walk to the ends your heart, she’s telling me that now you’re finally able to feel her.” of the Earth to find us… and Watkins writes, “I could barely speak. I allowed her bring us home on his shoulders words to wash over me gently a lullaby soothing the – Christine Watkins like plaintive cries of an infant. For the first time, I let Mary’s love heal my pain. For the first time I could feel my Mother Watkins studied spiritual direc- in heaven. As her light, comforting presence wrapped W tion hher last summer at JSTB, then itself tenderly around me, she somehow entered the open spent the next two years getting a cracks in my heart, and the cold chasm I had long felt master’s degree in social welfare at between us vanished.” master Watkins and her husband have since made three more Berkeley. UC Be When a friend gave her a book visits to Medjugorje. Their trip in 2005 was the defining Whe Medjugorje, Watkins was fas- moment for her book. “God started bringing to me other about M cinated. She felt compelled to make people with the most remarkable stories I’d ever heard.” a visit, perceiving Mary “as God’s mouthpiece for our Watkins asked if she could write them down. “Full of times. She is calling out for peace and for a return to Grace” is the result. What is the greatest gift she has received from Gospel values.” Watkins also had another agenda. While grateful to Medjugorje? “It was the change I saw in my husband. Mary for helping bring about her conversion, there was He was healed of much of his anxiety and depression something missing. Watkins still perceived the Blessed and really gave his life over to Christ.” Watkins adds that both of them received the grace Lady as “a cold and aloof being.” The trip to Medjugorje turned up very little in the “to live Mary’s messages. When I was there, we were both graced with miracles, such as the miracle of the sun spinning and smelling roses during an apparition, when no roses or rose perfume were present. I learned later that the mystical smell or roses is a sign of Mary’s presence.” The fruits of Medjugorje have spilled over into other people’s lives too, relates Watkins. “One friend converted in Medjugorje and is now running a large daycare for low-income and homeless children in San In mid-March of this year, the Vatican announced that at the request of the bishops of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Francisco.” Another friend moved from a secure, wellthe Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had established an international commission to investigate the paid job in San Francisco as a school principal to livclaims of six young people who said Mary appeared to them daily beginning in 1981. The doctrinal congregation ing in Mexico City, where he teaches and ministers to appointed retired Cardinal Camillo Ruini, former papal vicar of Rome, to head the commission. The Vatican orphaned boys. said the commission members include: Slovakian Cardinal Jozef Tomko, retired prefect of the Congregation Each chapter of Watkins’ book concludes with a series for the Evangelization of Peoples; Cardinal Vinko Puljic of Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Spanish Cardinal of questions for personal reflection and group discussion Julian Herranz, retired president of the Pontifical Council for the Interpretation of Legislative Texts; and as well as a faith exercise. Archbishop Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes and former secretary of the docFor more information, visit www.christinewatkins.com trinal congregation. or the author’s blog, www.medjugorjemiracles.com.

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All liturgy is a song of praise to the Trinitarian mystery The following is an excerpt from a homily by Pope John Paul II, delivered June 7, 1998, during a pastoral visit to the parish of San Nicola di Bari in Rome. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come let us worship the one true God: the Father, Son and Holy Spiritâ&#x20AC;? The Liturgy of Hours today begins with these words. They are echoed by those of the Entrance Antiphon of todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Holy Mass: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Blessed be God the Father and his Onlybegotten Son and the Holy Spirit: for he has shown that he loves us.â&#x20AC;? These words are a hymn of praise to the Holy Trinity, the great mystery that we celebrate this Sunday. In fact, all liturgy is a song of praise to the Trinitarian mystery; every prayer is addressed to God the Father, through the Son, in the Holy Spirit. The most simple invocation, such as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sign of the Cross,â&#x20AC;? is made â&#x20AC;&#x153;in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,â&#x20AC;? and the most solemn liturgical orations end with praise to the Trinity. Every time we raise our minds and our hearts to God, we enter into the Holy Trinityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eternal dialogue of love.

When we approach the mystery of the Holy Trinity, we are clearly aware that we find ourselves before the first of those â&#x20AC;&#x153;mysteries hidden in God which, unless they are divinely revealed, cannot be knownâ&#x20AC;? (First Vatican Council, DS 3015). The entire development of divine revelation is directed to the manifestation of God-Love, of God-Communion. This concerns, first of all, the Trinitarian life considered in itself, in the perfect communion that for all eternity unites the three divine Persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. By revealing his love to man, God calls men to share his own life and to enter into communion with him. To the universal vocation of believers to holiness, each of the three divine Persons makes his own specific contribution: the Father is the source of all holiness, the Son is the mediator of all salvation and the Holy Spirit is the One who animates and sustains the journey of man towards full and definitive communion with God.

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its gestures and the nuances of its countenance, we speak more deeply and more truly than we do with our words. And we have still yet a deeper language: More deeply than through the body, we speak through the spirit, through the language of the Holy Spirit, a language that transcends the spoken word and the language of our bodies. What is the language of the spirit? The Holy Spirit is not just a person inside the Trinity, hopelessly abstract and beyond our conception. Scripture tells us that the Holy Spirit is also very concrete, conceivable, and tangible inside of charity, joy, peace, patience, goodness, longsuffering, fidelity, gentleness, and chastity. These speak through us more loudly and clearly, either in their presence or their absence, than do all our words and gestures. In the end we are not fooled by each other. We hear beyond spoken words, bodily gestures, and beyond what we explicitly intend to say to each other. The heart reads the heart and the spirit recognizes itself wherever it sees itself as manifest. Thus many of us talk passionately about our love for the poor, but the poor do not hear us, understand us, or gather round us, even when our diction is perfect in their native tongue. While working in Latin America, Lorenzo Rosebaugh spoke only broken Spanish and broken Portuguese. Yet the poor there heard him and perfectly understood what he was saying. He spoke no French at all and still he was able to sit on the steps of a church in France and gather round him the street-people there who spoke only French - and they understood him clearly, as in their mother-tongue. Such is the language of Pentecost. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, TX. Contact him at www.ronrolheiser.com.

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TV/Radio Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Fridays and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. - e-mail info@sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. 1260 AM also offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr. Harry Schlitt presiding. S u n d a y, 7 a . m . : T V M a s s o n The Filipino Channel (TFC) (Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese. 1st Sunday, 5 a.m., CBS Channel 5: “Mosaic,” featuring conversations on current Catholic issues. 3rd Sunday, 5:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: “For Heaven’s Sake,” featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality. EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www.ewtn.com

St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 Strength for the Journey, a ministry of support for people diagnosed with life-threatening illness and the families, friends and caregivers, is in its inaugural stage at the cathedral. Deacon Christoph Sandoval is director. Cal (415) 567-2020, ext. 203, or e-mail Rcs7777@comcast.net. First Friday 24-Hour Adoration: Friday 8 a.m. to Saturday 8 a.m. in Our Lady’s Chapel, and Msgr. Bowe Room. Weekday Mass Schedule: 6:45 a.m., 8 a.m., 12:10 p.m.; with additional first Friday Mass at 7:30 p.m.. Adoration begins in Our Lady’s Chapel after the 8 a.m. Mass through evening Mass at 7:30 p.m. Adoration then moves downstairs to the Msgr. Bowe Room (facing Cleary Court) until 6:30 a.m. For information, contact Mary Ann Eiler at (415) 567-2020, ext. 224

Rosary Rallies May 29, noon: The Public Square Rosary Crusade of 2010 takes place at Civic Center Plaza, One Carlton B. Goodlett Place, San Francisco, across from City Hall. Rosary will be led by Father John Jimenez. Based in the power of public prayer, intentions include strengthening the faith throughout the world especially in the United States. For more information, call Juanita Agcaolli at (415) 647-7229 or Nini Leigh at (415) 681-5409.

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San Rafael Dominican Sister Gervaise Valpey, left, and retiring Head of Schools Mathew Heersche welcome Holy Names Sister Marianne Vianni, retiring Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and School Improvement in the Department of Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and Superintendent of Schools, Maureen Hungtington to San Anselmo’s San Domenico Schools April 21. “In her 36 years at San Domenico, Sister Gervaise has served as a teacher, principal of the upper and lower schools, and currently, President Emerita,” said Anyra Papsys of the schools’ communications office. “Sister Gervaise established Sustainable San Domenico in 1994, a vision that has blossomed from a small garden into a comprehensive, school-wide initiative that today inspires young people to embrace the values of stewardship and service.”

Returning Catholics Landings Program, a 10-week program in a small group setting, where practicing Catholics speak with honesty about their own spiritual journeys, and listen with compassion to inactive Catholics exploring returning to the Church. Program is held twice a year with fall and winter sessions in the evening. No cost. For more information, visit St. Dominic’s Church website, www.stdominics.org, or call Lee Gallery, volunteer coordinator at (415) 221-1288, leelgallery@sbcglobal.net.

Arts and Entertainment June 11: Dinner at St. Peter and Paul Parish benefiting rehabilitation of Salesian schools and additional works in Haiti, devastated by the recent earthquake there. Salesian priests and brothers have had a presence in Haiti since 1936 and today educate more than 20,000 children there. Evening includes special entertainment by the Don Giovannis. “They are very good,” said Russ Gumina, who is coordinating the event. “The group plays all the Italian favorites.” Tickets are $50 per person. Call (415) 397-3068.

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698. June 25 – 27: SF Catholic Engaged Encounter Weekends. Scholarships are available. Visit www.sfcee.org. SFCEE is a non-profit, volunteer ministry dedicated to marriage preparation in the Catholic Faith.

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June 6, 1:30 p.m.: The 16th Annual Eucharistic Procession and Public Grand Rosary Rally will start in front of St Patrick’s Church. Join the Legion of Mary and St Patrick’s Parish for the Eucharistic Procession through the streets of downtown San Francisco in commemoration of the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. St Patrick’s Church is located at 756 Mission St. (between 3rd & 4th) San Francisco. Visit www. sfsenatus.com or call St Patrick’s Church, (415) 421-3730.

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Taize/Sung Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults. Convenient parking is available. For more information, e-mail mercyyoungadults@ sbcglobal.net. Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113. 3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. For further information, please contact Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.

Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life June 12, 9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.: Half Day of Meditative Prayer with Thomas Keating Video at St. Cecilia’s parish, 2555 18th Avenue in the Old Convent Building, San Francisco. Call Patricia Zambrano (415) 751-6098 June 19, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Introductory Workshop on Centering Prayer at St. Cecilia Parish, 2555 18th Avenue in the Old Convent Building, San Francisco. Suggested donation $30, everyone is welcome to attend regardless of ability to contribute. Presenters are George Biniek and Mary English, Trained presenters for Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. Contact George Biniek at ( 415) 824-8358 or Mary English at (415) 282-8076. Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life 815 Eddy St. – Planned Parenthood – in San Francisco.

June 26: Class of ’60, Star of the Sea Academy. E-mail erhunt@mail.com or noniloretta@att. net October 22: Class of ’60, St. Cecilia Elementary School Wine and Cheese Party in the parish Collins Center. Event includes tour of the school and the opportunity to participate in the annual Parish Festival. Contact Bob O’Donnell at rjodfc@yahoo. com or Nancy Sarlatte Murphy at nancymurphy1248@comcast.net October 23: Class of ’60, St. Cecilia Elementary School Reunion Dinner at the Irish Cultural Center. Contact Bob O’Donnell at rjodfc@yahoo.com or Nancy Sarlatte Murphy at nancymurphy1248@ comcast.net Class of ’60 from Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma. Contact Linda Brewer at brewer@sbcglobal.net or visit www.holyangelscolma.com or call (650) 755-0220. Class of ’60 from Notre Dame High School in Belmont is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Bettina Igoa McCall at Mcbett@comcast.net or (510) 851-2344. St. Paul High School, San Francisco, class of ’80 planning a reunion sometime in June 2010 to coincide with graduation day of May 31 1980. E-mail Maria Rinaldi Vincent at vncntmtvincent@aol.com or call (650) 349-1642.

Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 June 5, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints Mausoleum. Father Brian Costello, pastor, Mater Dolorosa Parish, presiding, with the Mater Dolorosa Music Ministry leading song.

Serra Clubs June 10, noon: Serra Club of San Francisco luncheon at Italian American Social Club, 25 Russia Avenue off Russia Street in San Francisco. Speaker: Freddi D’Alessio will talk about the Archdiocesan Gabriel Project to support pregnant mothers and their unborn children.Cost: $16 for lunch. Non members welcome. Contact Paul Crudo (415) 5668224 or e-mail pecrudodds@aol.com

Food & Fun June 4, 7 a.m.: Monthly Mass and meeting of Catholic Marin Breakfast Club at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. at Bon Air Road. in Greenbrae. Marin County Sheriff Bob Doyle is breakfast speaker. Members’ breakfast is $7 and non-members’ $10. E-mail sugaremy@aol. com to register and for other details. June 4, 5, 6: Annual Festival at St. Pius Parish, Woodside and Valota roads. in Redwood City. Friday: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday: 1p.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday 1p.m. to 8 p.m. Rides, games, food, raffle, fun! June 17, noon: Pasta and meatball lunch at Immaculate Conception Chapel, Folsom off Cesar Chavez/Army St. in San Francisco. Tickets are $8 per person. The family-style meal includes salad, bread, pasta and homemade meatballs. Beverages are available for purchase. The meal is served in the church hall, beneath the chapel. Call (415) 824-1762.

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Biography succeeds in presenting full portrait of one Catholic justice “AMERICAN ORIGINAL: THE LIFE AND CONSTITUTION OF SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA” by Joan Biskupic. Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York, 2010). 449 pp., $27.

Reviewed by Brian T. Olszewski Catholic News Service Even though there are six Catholics on the U.S. Supreme Court – Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor – it is likely that if people were asked to name one, their guess would be Scalia, the longestserving and most vocal of the six. In a profession where one’s religious beliefs are often kept out of the public eye lest one be accused of allowing them to influence his or her jurisprudence, Scalia, a member of the court since 1986, has made no attempt to hide his Catholicism. A devotee of the Latin Mass who terms the Second Vatican Council as “not on my hit parade,” Scalia could accurately be described as “old-school Catholic.” That his nine children attended public schools instead of Catholic schools appears to be out of character for the Scalia family, yet a reason is never given for that educational choice. Despite that omission, Joan Biskupic, a lawyer and journalist who has covered the

Supreme Court for a variety of media since 1989, does a thorough job in presenting a multifaceted profile of Scalia in “American Original.” Stories about family, childhood and the environment in which he was raised provide a basis for understanding the development of Scalia as a Catholic, a legal scholar, as an attorney in the Ford and Reagan administrations and as a judicial appointee. He terms himself a constitutional “originalist” – one whose views of the Constitution replicate the minds and intentions of the document’s framers. “It means what it meant when it was written,” Scalia said of originalism in a 1997 lecture. “I am now something of a dodo bird among jurists and legal scholars. You can fire a cannon in the faculty lounge of any major law school in the country and not strike an originalist.” To that end, he sees specific, well-defined roles for each of the three branches of government. Members of those branches, depending on their political leanings and legal philosophies, may or may not concur. “Part of my charm is telling people what they don’t like to hear,” he once stated. His speeches and judicial opinions are rife with things people might not want to hear, but that doesn’t dissuade him from saying and writing them. In interviews and by drawing upon the journalistic and scholarly work of others, Biskupic compiles a thorough look at Scalia. A reader who is only vaguely familiar with his

TV program notes – week of May 30 NEW YORK – Catholic News Service provides the following notes on television programs and films for the week of May 30. Sunday, May 30, 8-9:30 p.m. (PBS) “National Memorial Day Concert.” This concert – broadcast live from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol and featuring Lionel Richie, Brad Paisley, Katherine Jenkins, Kelli O’Hara and Yolanda Adams – honors the service and sacrifice of the men and women

in uniform, their families and all those who have given their lives for their country. Sunday, May 30, 8-10:15 p.m. (TCM) “Mister Roberts” (1955). The conflicts between the bored crew and mean-spirited captain (James Cagney) of a cargo ship in the South Pacific during the waning months of World War II are tempered by the executive officer of the title (Henry Fonda) who jeopardizes his long-sought transfer to combat duty to get the crew a long-overdue shore leave. Directed

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views on abortion (“My difficulty with Roe v. Wade is a legal rather than a moral one. I do not believe – and no one believed for 200 years – that the Constitution contains a right to abortion”), on”), affirmative action (“To set one race against another by giving racial preference does oes not solve the problem. It just ust further engrains the probblem.”) and gay rights (“My My court struck (Colorado’s ’s anti-gay law) down ass unconstitutional under .... the Homosexuality Clausee of the Bill of Rights.”) will certainly come away with a better understanding of Scalia’s thinking and rulings. His view on capital punishment is also noted in his own words: “The American people have determined that the good to be derived from capital it l punishih ment – in deterrence, and perhaps most of all in the meting out of condign justice for horrible crimes – outweighs the risk of error.” What adds dimension to this work, and helps in getting to know Scalia, are the interactions he has with other justices, their reactions to his views – and how he states them.

In providing these dialogues, Biskupic not only gives the reader a fuller view of Scalia, but of the judicial process at this level. It’s a personal civics lesson. The value of biography is to get to know the subject – through the author’s descriptions, the words of others and w tthe subject’s words themselves. All three th are present in this ar volume. vo “American Original” is simply good biography. It helps that rap Biskupic’s subject is brilBisk liant and fascinating, but themselves that would by th not bbe enough. She culls that bbrilliance and fascinafrom his life and work tion fr compiles it in a form and co will allow the reader to that w become more knowledgebecom able bl about b a central figure in the Supreme Court, and one whose work will eventually place him as a significant person in U.S. Catholic and U.S. jurisprudence history.

by John Ford and Mervyn LeRoy, the result largely overcomes its stage origins, thanks to vigorous staging of the shipboard antics as well as memorable lead performances abetted by William Powell as the ship’s sage doctor and Jack Lemmon as its callow laundry-andmorale officer. Monday, May 31, 5-6 p.m. EDT (EWTN) “Frontline Families: Captain & Mrs. Guy Gruters, Vietnam.” In a series of interviews, retired U.S. Air Force Capt. Guy Gruters discusses the numerous ways he was sustained by his Catholic faith in a Vietnamese prisonerof-war camp; and his wife explains the role her faith played as she faced daily uncertainty during her husband’s captivity. Monday, May 31, 8-9 p.m. (Smithsonian) “Uncommon Courage: Breakout at Chosin.” This special profiles U.S. Marine Lt. Chew-Een Lee, the first commissioned regular officer of Chinese descent in the Corps, who battled injuries, hypothermia and racism to help 8,000 of his comrades stave off certain capture during the Korean War’s Battle of the Chosin Reservoir. Tuesday, June 1, 9:30-11 p.m. (PBS) “Goodbye Solo.” Director Ramin Bahrani mixes up a fable with flavors of Africa, Mexico and the new American South in this drama

about an old man who wants to die – and the cab driver who wants to talk him out of it. Part of the series “Independent Lens” (TV-PG/L – parental guidance suggested; infrequent coarse language). Tuesday, June 1, 8-10 p.m. (TCM) “Hoosiers” (1987). Dedicated but dictatorial coach (Gene Hackman) leads a small-town high school basketball team to the 1952 Indiana state championship while effecting some attitude adjustments in the community and rebuilding his self-esteem along the way. Director David Anspaugh’s film recalls and celebrates a vanishing American rural ethic where integrity is everything and winning is the spice of life. Wednesday, June 2, 8-9:30 p.m. (TCM) “The Dead” (1987). James Joyce’s story of a family gathering on the feast of the Epiphany in 1904 Dublin, Ireland, makes a small but beautifully crafted mood piece that ends somberly in the reverie of a wife (Anjelica Huston) on the long-ago death of a boy who was in love with her and the reflections of her husband (Donal McCann) on the transitory nature of love, life and the world. Director John Huston’s warm evocation of the period and its characters is enlivened by the excellent performances of a largely Irish cast.

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Feminism offered “the radical notion that women are people.” Long before radical feminists co-opted the concept in a fierce battle for masculinity, Christianity proclaimed the dignity and value of women. New Feminism renews the vision of the feminine as unique, joyful and worthy.

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Our speaker Marjorie Campbell reverted to her Catholic faith after wandering years in barren pursuits of radical feminism. Restored to faith, health and humor, Campbell borrows ordinary moments of the day to illustrate the power and passion of God’s loving design of the feminine genius. Like her heroine Erma Bombeck, Campbell reflects on feminine humanity with a well-humored concern for understanding and empathy.

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