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Winners of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development poster art contest in the San Francisco Archdiocese are John David Lorentz (left poster) and Olivia Galioto (artwork above). See story on page 8.

‘Gang members and the homeless are our friends’ By Tom Burke For Deacon Nate Bacon, his wife Jenny and others they’ve joined in ministry, it’s all about change – InnerChange, that is. The clergyman put it simply. “We are an ecumenical community of lay missionaries, both single and married, who seek to be a bridge from local parishes and churches to those on the margins.” A key to the work is “being there,” Deacon Bacon said in an e-mail conversation with Catholic San Francisco. “We live among those whom we serve, and seek to be ‘extended family’ to the homeless, to gang members, drug addicts, prostitutes, and all those whom society has cast aside.” John Hayes founded InnerChange in 1985, Deacon Bacon explained. Spurred by the comings and goings of many ministries for the poor, Hayes felt led by God to establish something more constant and began living among Cambodian refugees in Southern California. “Living simply, and sharing life with his neighbors, he ministered the love of Christ there, and was transformed by his own experience,” Deacon Bacon said. “Soon volunteers joined him, and in an organic, Spirit-led way, InnerChange was birthed.” A 1986 graduate of Stanford University, Deacon Bacon joined InnerChange in 1988 and became a

member of the Catholic Church in 1992, the same year he and Jenny married. He was ordained to the diaconate for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1999. In addition to their InnerChange commitments, Deacon Bacon and Jenny minister at St. Peter Parish in San Francisco’s Mission District. “I am privileged to be a part of St. Peter’s which has such a rich heritage, and a strong tradition of social justice, dating back to Father Peter Yorke in the early 1900s,” he said. “We at InnerChange seek to be messengers of the hope of the Gospel in a way that can transform both individual lives as well as entire communities,” Deacon Bacon said. “Together with our friends on the margins, we organize for structural changes that promote justice, opportunity, and life, in a way that reflects the vision of the Kingdom of God.” Deacon Bacon, Jenny and their children — Gabriela, an eighth grader at St. Peter Elementary School and Nathanael, a kindergartner there — live in a San Francisco neighborhood Deacon Bacon calls “a DMZ between the two biggest warring gangs” in the City. InnerChange has been working with gang members for 14 years and has helped some 100 youth out of gangs, Deacon Bacon said.

“What distinguishes what we do are the friendships and relationships we develop,” Deacon Bacon said. “We minister as community, and help create community. Gang members and the homeless are our friends. They are in and out of our homes, hang out with our families, and are truly a part of our lives. We have been privileged to see many such young people find their way to a deeper faith, as well as establishing new foundations by forming their own healthy families, finding careers, and even purchasing their own homes.” As InnerChange directors in San Francisco, Deacon Bacon and Jenny are busy with administrative duties but “still keep a heavy hand in the work.” Jenny oversees Casa San Dimas, a transitional home for youth. “Casa San Dimas grew out of our taking children into our homes,” Deacon Bacon said. “These are kids with no family who have slipped through the cracks. We provide family and support.” The Bacon family plans to spend the summer in Guatemala. They will be involved in training new InnerChange leadership there, but also, added Deacon Bacon, “We will certainly lend a hand in the work.” Among the people helped in Guatemala are youth called “shoeshine boys” who work for penOUR FRIENDS, page 18

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State legislators hear from Catholics during ninth Lobby Day

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Back again is the famed Spaghetti Lunch at Immaculate Conception Church on Folsom St. just up the hill from Army/Cesar Chavez St. Pasta, meatballs and more will hit the tables at Immaculate Conception Church Hall May 16 at noon and continue on third Wednesdays of the month. Franciscan Father William Lauriola, retired pastor of Immaculate Conception, will be there to greet the crowd as he has since 1974. Now 80 – his happy birthday was March 31 – Father William said, “1927 was a very good year. Pope Benedict was born in 1927.” He is also very glad to have his health. “I don’t know the doctor yet,” he laughed. The spaghetti lunches go back more than 50 years but recently have been on hiatus. Proceeds will benefit St. Anthony Parish, which is just around the corner from Immaculate Conception. “The Lord blesses us with so many things, we must help where we can,” Father William said. Through the years thousands of people have enjoyed the homemade meals cooked by moms of the parish. “The same people will cook this time,” Father William told me. “Some have been with us for 20 and 30 years. New cooks, of course, are welcome.” Diners at the “family style” table have included Joe

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‘Get on the Bus’ for a journey of the heart By Sharon Abercrombie At approximately 5 a.m. on May 11, a bus packed with 20 excited children, their caregivers and a group of volunteers will pull away from Church of the Visitacion Parish in San Francisco. The destination: Chowchilla Women’s Prison near Fresno. For these children, it will be a journey of the heart – a rare, precious visiting day with their mothers. Ranging in ages from four to 17, most of the kids have been apart from their mothers for months, some for years. But thanks to combined efforts of archdiocesan agencies, parishes and volunteers, the children will be able to exchange hugs and kisses, shed tears, snap pictures and share a meal with their mothers. For some of the caretakers — who might be the incarcerated women’s mothers, fathers, aunts or other family members – the day will be a memorable reunion as well. Named “Get on the Bus,” the project was initiated in Los Angeles in 1999 by two Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Susanne Jabro and Suzanne Steffan. The objective was straight-forward: provide free transportation to children and their caregivers to visit incarcerated mothers. “Get on the Bus” began with one vehicle. It has grown to 38 busses going to prisons all over the state near Mother’s Day. Two years ago, the San Francisco Archdiocese’s Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns joined the program and shared a bus with Oakland and San Jose. This year, the Archdiocese has its own bus, and enough passengers to fill it in large part because word of mouth among inmates about the opportunity to see their children has led to an increase in requests to “Get on the Bus,” according to Via Vigil, program

Joseph hugs his mother, Triana, during a visit at the California Institute for Women in Chino last year. Joseph was visiting as part of the "Get on the Bus" program scheduled annually in anticipation of Mother's Day that enables children to visit their mothers in California prisons. This year’s event will include a bus-load of youngsters from the Archdiocese of San Francisco visiting their mothers in Chowchilla Women’s Prison near Fresno.

coordinator for the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns’ Restorative Justice programs. Last October, the office’s 31-member Restorative Justice Board passed a resolution to support “Get on the Bus.” Board member Brian Cahill, who is also executive director of Catholic Charities CYO, said his agency would provide the bus. Seven months later, thanks to parishioners who responded to appeals, Catholic Charities was able to donate funds for its rental. The agency is also providing a counselor to

accompany the children, to help them process feelings both before and after the prison visit. Renting a bus is just a first step, said Vigil. Preparing the youngsters for their trip, keeping them occupied and fed during travel, and providing memorable gifts are all important components of “Get on the Bus.” Parishes, corporations and individuals have been generous, Vigil said. Backpacks came from Google. St. Ignatius Parish contributed $2,500. St. Ignatius

Institute at the University of San Francisco prepared “stay in touch” bags including stamped envelopes and stationery. The back packs and stationary will be given to the children when they step back onto the bus. There will also be Teddy Bears to cuddle, blankets for comfort, and letters from their moms to read – or have read to them. Vigil and volunteers helped sew the bears whose patterns come from the Bear Factory in San Francisco. Two anonymous parishioners from St. Emydius Parish contributed money for the bears. The St. Agnes Spiritual Life Center is providing several volunteers who will “get up in the middle of the night” to sign-in and welcome passengers, said Pat Cleveland, one of the local “Get on the Bus” coordinators. The San Francisco St. Vincent de Paul Society is helping with items to keep children occupied and entertained — from games and marker pens and crayons to a template for a Mother’s Day card, which a child can color and fill-in with his or her own message. Most California prisons are located in remote areas, making it very difficult for families to afford or arrange transportation, according to Dennis Flannery of Oakland, one of the northern California coordinators. Flannery and others say the program is increasingly significant in light of the dramatic increase of women incarcerated in the state. Over the last two decades there has been more than a 300 percent increase in women prisoners, he said, mostly due to drug violations. Eighty percent of them are mothers. Seventy one percent were sexually or emotionally abused themselves during childhood.

CCCYO centennial Mass May 20 A Mass commemorating the founding of Catholic Charities CY0 a century ago will be celebrated May 20 at 3:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral. 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside. A reception will follow the liturgy. CCCYO traces its roots to the organized efforts to “provide for the orphans, widows and those left destitute by the San Francisco earthquake and fire,” according to a

CCCYO press release. “All pastors, priests, parishioners, local dignitaries and staff of Catholic Charities CYO are invited to attend this powerful and moving celebration,” it stated. Winners of the organization’s Centennial Essay Contest will be announced during the reception. For information on the Mass and other centennial events, visit www.cccyo.org/centennial.

Hispanic Charismatic congress set A Spanish-language Catholic Charismatic Congress will be held May 19 and 20 at the gymnasium of Sequoia High School, 1201 Brewster Ave., San Francisco. Sponsored by the Catholic Hispanic Charismatic Movement of the Archdiocese, the event theme will be “My Household Will Serve the Lord.”

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Pope: reading Bible important VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI says in his new book he tried to highlight what the Bible says about Jesus, what the moral implications of his teachings are and how reading the Scriptures can lead to a real relationship with Jesus. At his April 25 weekly general audience, the pope said his threepronged approach to the Bible’s words were inspired by Origen of Alexandria, a third-century theologian. The pope’s book, “Jesus of Nazareth,” went on sale April 16 in Italian, German and Polish; the English edition is set for release May 15. During his general audience, Pope Benedict called Origen “one of the greatest” teachers of the Christian faith, particularly because of the way he combined scholarship, preaching and teaching with the example of “exemplary moral conduct.”

birthrates, it said. About 68 percent of U.S. Hispanics say they are Catholics. The study is titled “Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of American Religion.”

bishops have expressed concern over a growing disconnect between Catholics’ beliefs and daily life — an issue they pledged to raise at the fifth general assembly of Latin American and Caribbean bishops that will begin May 13 in Aparecida, Brazil. “Our culture leads us to say we’re Catholic, but our social environment leads us to live our lives as if we weren’t believers,” said Bishop Carlos Aguiar Retes of Texcoco, president of the Mexican bishops’ conference, at an April 20 press conference. “This is what we call the life-faith divorce.” In a weeklong meeting the Mexican bishops discussed the shrinking role of religion in modern society, growing individualism and deterioration of traditional communities. The bishops concluded they face a critical task in re-energizing Catholicism and Catholic virtues in Mexico and Latin America. Pope Benedict XVI is to inaugurate the general assembly of Latin American and Caribbean bishops during his first papal trip to the Western Hemisphere.

$48 million settlement in Spokane SPOKANE, Wash. (CNS) — U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Patricia Williams April 24 confirmed a reorganization plan under which the Spokane Diocese will pay childhood victims of clergy sexual abuse and their lawyers $48 million. “Today’s decision by Judge Williams marks the end of a tragic chapter in our history,” Bishop William S. Skylstad of Spokane said at a press conference.He used the occasion to apologize again to the abuse victims. “Individuals used their positions of authority and trust to damage the least among us. It was shameful, and it was wrong,” he said. Of the $48 million, $40 million is to compensate victims, $7 million is fees of attorneys and accountants, and up to $1 million is for expenses incurred in reviewing claims.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (CNS) — Every Catholic can do something about climate change by adopting a life of voluntary simplicity, the Vatican’s U.N. nuncio believes. It comes down to “working less, wanting less, spending less,” thus reducing the impact each person has on the environment, Archbishop Celestino Migliore told participants gathered in Columbus for the second in a series of regional Catholic conversations on climate change April 14. Citing Genesis’ call to humanity to oversee creation while protecting it and the Church’s social doctrine, the Vatican diplomat outlined the Holy See’s position on the need for Catholics to heed the environmental dangers the planet faces. “The denigration of the environment has become an inescapable reality,” the archbishop said.

‘The charismatic draws Hispanics’ WASHINGTON (CNS) — The church familiar to and preferred by Hispanic Catholics in the United States is a livelier, more charismatic place than the one most American Catholics are used to, finds a new survey on Latinos and religion. A detailed survey by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released April 25 says about a third of U.S. Catholics are Latinos and that they are bringing a more evangelical style of faith into the broader Church as their numbers grow. Despite an overall drop in the percentage of U.S. Hispanics who are Catholic — due largely to those who joined evangelical and Pentecostal churches — Latinos will continue to represent an ever-larger share of the U.S. Catholic population because of immigration and high

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Beijing Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan’s coffin is draped with China’s national flag during his funeral service at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in Beijing April 27.

Beijing bishop dies BEIJING (CNS) -- Bishop Michael Fu Tieshan of Beijing, the top leader of the registered Catholic Church community in China, died April 20 after a long battle with cancer. Bishop Fu, 75, had led the diocese covering the Chinese capital since 1979. At the time of his death, he served as chairman of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and acting president of the government-recognized Bishops' Conference of the Catholic Church in China. Bishop Fu's last public appearance was at the March 4 preparatory meeting for the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's parliament, of which he has been a vice chairman since 2003. People holding positions of vice chairman or higher are ranked as state leaders.

Mexican bishops express concern CUAUTITLAN IZCALLI, Mexico (CNS) — Mexican

MEXICO CITY (CNS) — Despite an intense opposition campaign by the Catholic Church, the Mexico City Assembly has approved an initiative legalizing abortion during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Following a heated session April 24, the legislature voted in favor of the law, which will allow hospitals run by the city to provide abortions. The bill passed 46-19 with one abstention. Outside the Assembly, on the streets of Mexico City’s colonial center, supporters and opponents of the measure faced off, separated only by a thin row of riot police.

Filipino priest running for office BETIS, Philippines (CNS) — A diocesan priest said his campaign to become governor of Pampanga province is an act of desperation. Corruption, illegal gambling and abuse of power have brought the government of his northern Philippine province to rock bottom, Father Eddie Panlilio told UCA News, an Asian church news agency. He said the provincial government, based in San Fernando City, is in an “emergency state.” He said the two major gubernatorial candidates in coming elections are linked to all the problems and there was no alternative to them on the ballot. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, a native of Pampanga, has decided to back neither of the main candidates. The May 14 balloting across the country is for senators, members of the House of Representatives, and provincial and local government officials. Father Panlilio, 53, said he asked friends — including a bishop’s brother — to run, but all refused.

Airport chapels questioned ROME (CNS) — Airports are obvious places for interreligious dialogue, but to avoid confusion it would be better if Christians did not offer use of their airport chapels for Muslim prayers, said the cardinal in charge of the Vatican’s dialogue with other religions. French Cardinal Paul Poupard, president of the NEWS-IN-BRIEF, page 5

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News-in-brief . . . ■ Continued from page 4 Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, encouraged Catholic airport chapels to support the establishment of “meditation rooms” that can be used by any religious group, but he cautioned against opening dedicated Christian chapels to other religions. In predominantly Christian countries, it is important Christian chapels “maintain their character as a place for Christian worship,” he told Catholic airport chaplains meeting in Rome April 23-27.

CRS adviser: ‘dirt in the details’ WASHINGTON (CNS) — Global poverty rates continue to fall, but deepening economic inequality in many countries “is a worrying trend,” said a Church policy adviser. Paul Miller, Africa policy adviser for Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency, said the World Bank Development Indicators 2007 report “brings positive news about income growth and the number of people in poverty worldwide, but a number of nuances make a less-rosy picture.” He said the report “notes income growth does not necessarily lead to poverty reduction, although it may be a necessary condition.” Miller, based at CRS headquarters in Baltimore, said, the economies of many African countries “are saddled with challenges of HIV/AIDS” and dependence on one export, which “makes them more vulnerable to shocks — climatic, political or economic.”

Foster care program to end CHICAGO (CNS) — Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago has begun dismantling its foster care program after announcing it will stop providing foster care services as of June 30. The decision, which Catholic and state welfare officials called “tragic,” came after Catholic Charities was unable to get liability insurance for its foster care program. When the closure was announced April 16, about 900 children were in the program, said April Specht, a spokeswoman for Catholic Charities. More than 150 staff positions are to be cut as well. The insurance company’s decision came after Catholic Charities settled a lawsuit over alleged abuse of three children in a foster home in the 1990s for $12 million. Bilingual Staff Information and Referrals ● Care Coordination

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Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis announced April 25 he had withdrawn his support for an upcoming benefit for a Catholic hospital because it featured singer Sheryl Crow, an outspoken supporter of keeping abortion legal. She was scheduled to perform at an April 28 benefit for SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center. Crow is pictured in a 2007 file photo and Archbishop Burke in 2006.

N. Dakota closer to abortion ban FARGO, N.D. (CNS) — North Dakota legislators approved a bill April 23 that will make abortion illegal in the state if Roe v. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. North Dakota Gov. John Hoeven was expected to sign the bill, which would make abortion a felony except in cases of rape or incest or to save the mother’s life. Called a “trigger bill,” the legislation would only take effect if the Supreme Court overturned its 1973 decision legalizing abortion in all 50 states. Mississippi has passed similar legislation.

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2007 -20th Annual Nor-Cal Catholic Charismatic Convention May 25 (eve.) , 26, 27

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Catholic San Francisco

May 4, 2007

Church of Visitacion continues centennial with May 19 Mass By Tom Burke Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving commemorating the 100th anniversary of Church of the Visitacion, 655 Sunnydale Ave. at Rutland St. in San Francisco May 19 at 12:30 p.m. The Mass is part of an ongoing year of thanksgiving in honor of the parish centennial. Father Joseph Marini, pastor of Visitacion from 1979 – 95, took part in the centennial year’s opening Mass in January but will be unable to be at the May 19 liturgy. “I send my prayerful best wishes and good thoughts to all on this special day,” Father Marini said from St. Robert’s in San Bruno where he lives in retirement. “I remember the people of Visitacion and am grateful for my time among them. They are very good people and could get things done. Church of the Visitacion Parish was established in 1907. Today’s church (above) It was wonderful to have the Daughters of Charity in our was built in 1952 – and is the fourth in the parish’s 100-year history. school. We always had terrific principals.” Judy Becker has been a member of Visitacion for 40 years and currently chairs the parish liturgy committee and Visitacion’s first pastor. “I’ve always liked Visitacion our three churches and those old-time roots continue the committee planning the May 19 Mass. “Our theme for Valley, even with the wind,” Viola said. “My doctor used to today.” “Visitacion is a living parish,” Sue said. “I’ve been the year is ‘A Community of Disciples,’ so we are building tell me that it blew the germs away.” Viola and her husband, Louis, a City of San Francisco happy here and am glad to serve.” on that,” Judy said. “Our Mass will include English, Father Tom Seagrave, pastor of St. John of God Parish Spanish and Tagalog languages as well as acknowledge- gardener who died nine years ago, raised two sons in “the Valley,” Paul, a retired Brisbane firefighter, and Denis, a in San Francisco, served as pastor at Visitacion from 1995 ments of other ethnic communities here at Visitacion.” – 2002. He will be present for the centennial Mass on May Parish clubs took much of the year upon their shoulders junior high school principal in Spokane, Wash. “We’re going to have some very nice times in the next 19. “Some of the finest Catholic people I’ve ever met in my with activities incorporating the disciples theme. “A huge dinner bringing all of us together will climax the year in the few months with the Mass in May and upcoming events,” life are Visitacion parishioners,” Father Seagrave said. For information about the Mass or other centennial Viola said, sure to mention that she is “but one of many fall,” Judy said. information, call the parish office at (415) 239-5950. Father Thuan Hoang, a parochial vicar at Visitacion, is helping to make the anniversary a time to remember.” Sue Ochoa moved into Visitacion Parish in 1962. She happy to be assigned to the parish. “The people of Visitacion are dynamic and enthusiastic,” he said. “The and her husband Jose were married at Visitacion Church community is very diverse and very active. They contribute in 1966. Director of religious education at the parish, Sue great culture and devotion to the prayer life and everyday is co-chairing the Centennial Committee with Susan By Patricia Kasten Collins. life of the parish.” For April 29, 2007 “This has been fun to see how Visitacion came to be,” Father Zachary Shore now living in retirement at Alma Rev 7:9, 14b-17; Jn 10:27-30 Via residence in San Francisco was pastor at Visitacion Sue said. “There was a hunger among the people. We had Following is a word search based on the second reading from 2002 – 2006. “Visitacion parishioners are a very parishioners going door to door to raise money to build and the Gospel for the Fourth Sunday of Easter: prayerful people. I am lookpromises about the fate of Jesus’ followers. 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May 4, 2007

St. Mary’s Chinese Schools announce honors

An attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, Wesley J. Smith will be the featured speaker at the Annual Public Policy Breakfast May 7 from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1111 Gough St., San Francisco. Registration and breakfast is $20. Call the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns at (415) 614-5570. Smith’s book, "Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America," was cited by the Independent Publisher Book Awards as one of 2001’s top 10 books and received top honors for a book on health. Smith is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer will be awarded St. Mary’s Chinese Schools and Center’s 2007 John XXIII Service Award for Outstanding Leadership in Education and Service to Youth at the 24th annual Alumni, Parishioners and Benefactors Banquet May 5 at the Empress of China Restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The same event will also publicly acknowledge a $1 million grant from the Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation for use in construction of the new St. Mary’s Chinese Schools and Center, planners said. Prior to the banquet itself, the Archbishop will preside at a Mass of thanksgiving with Paulist Fathers and graduates of St. Mary’s Chinese School at 5 p.m. at Old Cathedral of St. Mary Church, 600 California St. In making the announcement, Paulist Father Daniel E. McCotter, school director, said the award was being presented to the Archbishop “because of his dedication and commitment to Catholic education, especially here in Chinatown.” “Since becoming the Archbishop of San Francisco, Archbishop Niederauer has demonstrated his commitment to youth by his encouragement and support of Catholic education, the Catholic Youth Organization and youth ministry,” Father McCotter said. The event will also include presentations of the Father Charles A. Donovan Outstanding Service to St. Mary’s Award to Kwan Mie Fung Lai, longtime Chinese language teacher at St. Mary’s Chinese Day School and St. Mary’s Chinese Language School; and the 2007 Danny Awards to Msgr. Harry Schlitt, archdiocesan moderator of the curia and vicar for administration;

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2007 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

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For 20 years, Nate Bacon has lived and ministered in the Mission District of San Francisco. He serves as a Director for InnerChange, an ecumenical Christian Order among the Poor and Marginalized. InnerChange has ministry sites in the US and five other countries. Nate is passionate about the prophetic current of InnerChange and has pursued a connection to systemic change through faith-based Community Organizing with SFOP and the PICO network. Nate studied at Stanford where he graduated with a degree in Psychology. Nate began seminary studies, at Fuller Seminary in 1986, intending to become a Presbyterian Pastor. God had other plans! His world was turned upsidedown the following year when he moved with eight college friends into SF’s Mission District, and never looked back. After a year working at a homeless shelter for Central American Refugees, he joined InnerChange in1989. Nate joined the Catholic Church in 1992, and thereby became InnerChange’s first Catholic missionary—now there are several. Nate and his wife Jenny, share a passion for Christian unity. They cofounded the Comunidad San Dimas ministry with young Latinos in gangs and juvenile detention centers. Nate was ordained a Deacon in 1999, and serves at St. Peter’s Parish. He is a member of the Archdiocesan Ecumenical Council, serves on the Restorative Justice Commission and has been invited to serve on the Archdiocesan Pastoral Counsel.

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About the Catholic and Professional Business Club (CP&BC) You are invited to become a member of the CP&BC of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The Club meets for breakfast on the second Wednesday of the month. Catholic people come together to share our common faith, to network, to hear speakers on pertinent topics, and to discuss ways to incorporate our Catholic spirituality and ethics into the workplace. To become a member, or to make a reservation for the upcoming meeting, please visit our website at www.cpbc.-sf.org. Questions? Call (415) 614-5579

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May 11-13, 2007 Every Moment, God’s Time A Retreat for Young Adults in the Spirit of Kairos Fr. Thomas J. Carroll, S.J. and Young Adult Team Young adults, ages 20-40, are welcome to share, with a team of their peers and older mentors, a weekend of prayerful conversations in the spirit of the Kairos retreat tradition, recognizing the invitation of loving God in each moment.

May 18-20, 2007 The Al-Anon Paradox: Let Go to Get a Grip 12-Step Retreat in the Language of Al-Anon Msgr. Terrence Richey With the grace of God working through the 12 Steps of our Recovery, we get to give up all hope of achieving security by controlling people, places and things. Then, to our surprise, we find a measure of control over our own lives.

May 23, 2007 The Spirit of God’s Love Has Been Given to Us A Pentecost-Day of Prayer for Men and Women (10 a.m.-4 p.m.) Fr. Bernard Bush, S.J. The Spirit of God’s Love was poured out on Christ's disciples on Pentecost. It was a life-transforming event empowering them to go to all nations to spread the gospel. On this day, we will consider the seven gifts which the Holy Spirit has given to us Wisdom, Counsel, Understanding, Fear of the Lord, Knowledge, Fortitude, and Piety. We will discuss how we experience each of them and what they enable us to do.

May 25-27, 2007 A Journey Through Grief to Healing A Retreat for Those Who Are Mourning

Fr. Joseph Fice, S.J.

The experience of loss is a sad but inevitable part of our human lot. The death of a loved one is probably the greatest loss we suffer. Grieving is our normal way of dealing with this experience. This retreat is for those who have lost a loved one. This retreat will offer some insight into the grieving process within a spiritual context as well as the opportunity for healing through prayer and by sharing with others who are also grieving.

June 1-3, 2007 The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola Silent Retreat for Men and Women Fr. Bernard Bush, S.J. and Sr. Anne Hennessy, C.S.J. The dynamic of The Exercises frees the soul of heroic identification with Jesus in his Paschal Mystery. It is a movement from pragmatism to love. We will use various forms of Ignatian prayer toward deepening our union with Christ.

June 8-10, 2007 Emotional Sobriety: The Next Frontier 12-Step Retreat in the Language of A.A.

Fr. Thomas Moran

We will look at obstacles that prevent us from experiencing “emotional maturity and true serenity,” trapping us in dependency on others. Spiritual practices of Bill Wilson (“Grapevine,” 1958) will indicate a path toward happiness.

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JUNE 8 – 10, 2007 “Prayer of Heart & Body Retreat” Led by Fr. Thomas Ryan, CSP $190 single room; $170 per person shared room This retreat will work with the body to open and orient the heart towards God in prayer. The postures of yoga can powerfully express the attitude of the heart and the thoughts of the mind through the medium of the body. As Easterners and Westerners share notes with one another on the spiritual journey, Christians are discovering ways to help put into practive their own positive convictions about the body as a transmitter of energy and grace. You will have the opportunity to experience praying in a fresh and powerful way. The more we learn to pray as a whole person, the more meaningful prayer becomes, and the more it can serve as an instrument of transformation in our lives. This retreat will be led by Father Thomas Ryan, CSP directorof the Paulist North American Office for Ecumenical and interfaith Relations. He leads retreats in the United States, Canada and Europe.

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JUNE 23, 3007 “Spiritual Gifts Discernment– Led by Sarah Cozzi A Life-Long Journey” 9:30 am – 3:30 pm; $40 “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good”. (I Corinthians 12:4-7) Give yourself, God and your community the gift of this day as we delve into the world of spiritual gifts. (Re)discover the gifts God has given you, discern how your gifts can be used in the Kingdom of God, and rejuvenate yourself for the life-long journey of spiritual gifts discernment confident in what God has given you to share. The day will include input, personal reflection, and discussion. Come with an open and discerning heart, your favorite translation of the Bible, and a journal or notebook. Sarah Cozzi, founding director of Celebrate Living: Enhancing Christian Communities will lead this day. She has a Masters in Christian Ministry as well as a certificate in the art of Spiritual Direction.

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Legion of Mary, Men & Women “Reconciliation and Affirmation of God’s Love” Fr. Serge Propst, O.P.

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Catholic San Francisco

May 4, 2007

Local youth artists aim talents at poverty By Tom Burke The artwork of two students from the Archdiocese of San Francisco has moved to national consideration in a contest seeking to increase awareness among the young about poverty. “This art reminds us that we should learn how to apply the teachings of the Bible to our modern-day problems,” said John David Lorentz, local winner in the grades 7-9 category. The St. Brendan School eighth grader’s drawing is titled “Blessed Are You.” “I hope my artwork will expose the truth about poverty in America and motivate us Americans to make a change,” explained Olivia Galioto, top pick in grades 10-12. A parishioner of St. Charles in San Carlos and a sophomore at Summit Prep High School, she said her piece is called “Tears of Poverty/Shields of Indifference.” The art contest is a project of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) based in Washington, D.C. Olivia and John’s drawings were chosen from some 20 local

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submissions. The archdiocesan offices of Youth Ministry and Public Policy, from which the local CCHD desk operates, worked together on the project. “We have been focusing on collaborating with other offices to promote the work of the CCHD campaign so this worked

beautifully between youth ministry and our office,” said Via Vigil who has coordinated CCHD work here since September. Although the annual contest was established in 2001, “this is the first year we’ve held it here,” she said, noting that ways to use Olivia and John’s art in local materials in the fight against poverty are being discussed. “The art contest gives young people a chance to become more acquainted with the situation of poverty in the United States and then reflect on it creatively,” said Megan Pryor Lorentz, associate director for youth ministry. “It gives our teens a chance to donate their time, energy and talent to this really important cause.” “The objective of the contest is to raise awareness of some of the root causes of poverty in the United States and to help build solidarity between the poor and non-poor,” Donna Grimes, national contest coordinator, told Catholic San Francisco. The 2007 theme, “This is Life in Poverty in the U.S. A.,” YOUTH ARTISTS, page 14

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Catholic San Francisco

May 4, 2007

Pope says love, respect for life must lead to greater justice VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Love for neighbor and respect for human life must lead to protection of the environment, promotion of social justice and greater access to education for all, Pope Benedict XVI said in a message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. “Only charity can encourage us to place the human person once more at the center of life in society and at the center of a globalized world governed by justice,” the pope said. The academy held its annual plenary session April 27May 1, discussing charity and justice on an international level as part of its long-term investigation into globalization. In his message, the pope said building a just society is first of all a responsibility for those involved in political leadership, but it also requires the use of reason and resolve on the part of all to promote the common good and the dignity of each individual.

A key principle in Catholic social teaching, he said, is “the universal destination of all the goods of creation.” “According to this fundamental principle, everything that the earth produces and all that man transforms and manufactures, all his knowledge and technology, is meant to serve the material and spiritual development and fulfillment of the human family and all its members,” Pope Benedict said. The pope asked the academy — made up of experts in law, politics, economics, sociology, philosophy, anthropology and history — to look at three specific challenges: ● “The first concerns the environment and sustainable development,” he said. Much more needs to be done to protect the environment, to ensure equitable access to natural resources and to accurately monitor environmental changes and sustainable growth. “Particular attention must be paid to the fact that the

poorest countries are likely to pay the heaviest price for ecological deterioration,” he said. ● Ensuring the practical application of the conviction that all men and women are created equal and are endowed with dignity.”The growing gap between the rich and poor,” war, unequal distribution of natural resources and wealth, hunger and poverty, the plight of refugees and displaced people, abortion, the exploitation of children and “numerous other grave injustices” demonstrate that the equal dignity of all people is not universally recognized, he said. ● An unreasonable tendency to hoard “spiritual goods such as knowledge and education,” which, unlike material goods, actually increase as they are shared. With globalization, the pope said, “the peoples of the world, for all their differences, are constantly learning about one another and coming into much greater contact.”

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Catholic San Francisco

May 4, 2007

Legislators hear from Catholics during ninth Lobby Day More than 600 novice and veteran Catholic lobbyists-for-a-day from California’s 10 dioceses and two archdioceses descended on Sacramento and Statehouse legislators April 23, sharing their views on topics from food stamp eligibility to prison reform. A 99-member contingent from about a dozen parishes of the Archdiocese of San Francisco made up the “second highest number of people taking part after the Diocese of Stockton which brought 200 people,” according to Sarah Nolan of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns for the Archdiocese who helped coordinate the event. Nolan said issues at the front of discussions included restructuring food stamp eligibility, allowing terminally ill prisoners with fewer than six months to live to be released to their families, a proposed physician-assisted suicide bill (AB 374), and resident tuition rates at state colleges for undocumented students (SB 160, called the California Dream Act). “Many of the legislators were in support of our positions,” Nolan said. Not buying into the Church’s position on the end of life, however, was local Assemblywoman Fiona Ma who continues support state sanctioning of physician-assisted suicide, Nolan noted. “We received mostly positive feedback” from policy makers, Nolan said “There is a lot of common ground we can find with legislators and I think that surprises them when we come in and talk about food stamps, prisoner rights and physician-assisted suicide all in one breath.” Sergio E. Canjura, a parishioner of Church of the Epiphany in San Francisco, was on his third trip to the capital for what is known as Lobby Day, sponsored by the California Catholic Conference, the public policy office of the state’s Catholic bishops. “I am a strong believer in civic involvement, my duty as a Catholic, “ Canjura said. “As an immigrant I treasure and would never take for granted the opportunity to interact with elected officials. It is always positive to unite and work together as people of faith, for issues that will affect us all.” Canjura said he went “toe-to-toe” with politicians including Ma, Mark Leno, Leland Yee, and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and will attend Lobby Day again. “I felt I contributed to the democratic process. My voice was heard.” Canjura said he’d like to see wider participation. “The bishops from the different dioceses should nudge their pastors little bit more and promote Lobby Day in all parishes.” Members of St. Augustine Parish in South San Francisco, Ann and Terrell Cole attended Lobby Day for the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s Voice of the Poor Committee. “Lobby Day is an opportunity for us to learn about current legislation and speak to legislators on behalf of the voiceless,” Mrs. Cole said. “While the SVdP Society has provided help for many years to those in our communities who experience poverty, we have only recently begun to address the justice side, that is the issues that cause poverty.” The Coles have attended Lobby Day for three years and said it has always been a positive experience for them both. “One highlight is always the solidarity experienced in company with Catholics from all parts of the state,” Mrs. Cole said. Attendance was not up to other years, she said, which disappointed her. “This day always energizes me, gives me courage to speak out, helps me real-

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Boarding the bus that carried Lobby Day participants from the Archdiocese of San Francisco to Sacramento on April 24 were, from left, Julio Escobar, ministry director for Comunidad San Dimas, a youth detention ministry; Sarah Nolan and Via Vigil, both of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns.

ize that many other Catholics are attentive to social issues and want to influence our society in a positive way,” she said, adding, “As a Catholic voter, it is my responsibility to understand issues that are being considered by my legislators and what their position on these issues may be. If I believe an item of legislation is in opposition to Catholic social teaching, then it is my obligation to oppose that legislation.” The Lobby Day theme, “Hope, Healing and Restoration,” was echoed in the homily by Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala of Los Angeles during Mass in Blessed Sacrament Cathedral at the beginning of the day. Monterey Bishop Richard J. Garcia presided.

Sister Sheral said her focus has been “to think nationally and internationally, so I needed to focus closer to home and realize that change comes slowly and incrementally, not usually in a big leap.” “I hope to go again next year and to be better prepared than I was this year,” Sister Sheral said. “Once in a while, someone asks me why we’re doing political things and I often answer, ‘I was hungry and you gave me to eat.’ The direct service is important, of course, but changing the structures which keep people hungry and poor has to happen, too.” Jean A. Ramirez attended Lobby Day from St. Philip the Apostle Parish in Noe Valley. “I went for two reasons,”

Sarah Nolan: ‘I think that surprises them when we come in and talk about food stamps, prisoner rights and physician-assisted suicide all in one breath.’ “We come as a people of hope, confident we will be heard, that our legislators will be open to listening with ears that hear the voices of those who speak for what is right and just….willing to be touched by the plight of those who are poor,” Bishop Zavala said. Franciscan Sister Sheral Marshall is a pastoral associate at St. Robert Parish in San Bruno. “It was my first time to go to Lobby Day and I enjoyed it very much,” she said. “I went because I wanted to see what it would be like and because I’m facilitating our parish social concerns group.” “I enjoyed the Mass with Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia and so many Catholics from all the dioceses of all different ages and cultures present,” Sister Sheral said, adding that she now has “a better understanding of how complicated the process is to make even a small change in a law.”

Ramirez said, noting this was her first Lobby Day. “I am particularly interested in the successful passage of one of the bills that was going to be addressed — AB 1539, Sentencing: Compassionate Release. As a volunteer at San Quentin and as a member of the San Quentin Interfaith Restorative Justice Round Table, I believed I could offer factual information to support the Church’s support of this bill. I also could provide a real and current scenario concerning an inmate, who had committed non-violent crimes, and who died while awaiting his request for compassionate release. As a Catholic, and as a California voter, I felt it my duty to participate.” “Sharing in the wonderful faith and energy of like-minded individuals, learning from others who were eager to share their faith and stories, and being part of a multi-cultural, multi-age and multi-socio-economic effort” were

among the highlights for Ramirez. The opening Mass was one of the highlights for Ofie Albrecht who attended Lobby Day for the first time. “I wanted to get hands-on experience in lobbying,” said the St. Veronica, South San Francisco, parishioner. “We recently started a social justice committee at St Veronica and going to Lobby Day offered a wealth of information and learning experience. Most of all, I went to be in solidarity with my brothers and sisters who are impacted by these bills.” Currently by U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates two million Californians eligible for food stamps are not receiving them mainly because of the state’s reporting system. Albrecht said the day was “definitely” a positive experience. “Seeing the legislators whom we voted for, and presenting our positions on the bills showed me that we Catholics are heard and hopefully counted.” She appreciated meeting Catholics of various ethnic groups from all over California, including young people. “It showed we are one body united in spirit going to fight for our rights peacefully, speaking on behalf of the oppressed and marginalized. I felt the faith, passion, and love among all children of God.” She’d like to see more people from the Archdiocese at future Lobby Days. “I really think we need to promote this event at each and every parish and school. It’s on my calendar already for next year.” Establishing social justice organizations “is very critical at this time in our lives and in our parishes. I am confident our social justice committee in our parish will make a difference. We have many resources available within the Archdiocese and we are continuing to learn.” Nancy Westlund of the Catholic Herald, newspaper of the Sacramento Diocese, contributed to this story.

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May 4, 2007

San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer and Oakland Bishop Allen H. Vigneron became third and fourth degree Knights of Peter Claver during an exemplification ceremony April 26 at the Archdiocese's Pastoral Center. The Western States District of the Knights and the Ladies Auxiliary held their 54th conference April 26-29 at the South San Francisco Embassy Suites Hotel. Hosted by Council and Court 296 of St. Boniface Church, San Francisco, more than 300 members from California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and Nevada attended. Theme was " Sent by God." Pictured followed the exemplification rite are, from left seated: Franciscan Father Jorge Hernandez, St. Boniface pastor; Jesuit Father Gregory Chisholm, pastor of OaklandÅfs St. Patrick Parish; Father Kenneth Westray, pastor of KentfieldÅfs St. Sebastian Parish; Archbishop Niederauer; Bishop Vigneron; Gene A. Phillips, KPC Supreme Knight; Paul Jones, Jr., Deputy Supreme Knight; and George Williams, National Lay Board member; standing, from left: Darrell L. Washington, conference chair; William Ross; Gregory Warner; Leroy Titus; Anderson Shaw, Western Sates District Deputy; Wesley Arceneaux; Rufus Fisher; Martin Blont; James Ned; Deacon Eugene Stelly; Sam Washington, and Thomas St. Julien. For Local membership information, call Darrell Washington at (415) 286-8838, or visit www.knightsofpeterclaver.org. The KPC and Ladies Auxiliary is the largest African-American lay Catholic organization. Located in 34 states, it has 298 Councils (men divisions) and 312 Courts (womenÅfs divisions). Founded by four Josephite priests and three laymen in 1909 in Mobile, Ala., the group supports numerous educational and charitable causes. It is named after St. Peter Claver, a Spanish Jesuit who ministered to African slaves in Colombia, South America in the 1600s.

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Killing the suffering By Father Gerald D. Coleman, S.S. Patty Berg (D-Eureka), Lyoyd Levine (D-Van Nuys), Fabian Nuñez (D-Los Angeles and Assembly Speaker), and 27 others have reintroduced Assembly Bill 374 which would permit a physician to kill a person who is close to death (a sixmonth prognosis), experiencing intolerable pain, and asks to die. The bill is titled “California Compassionate Choices Act” to avoid terms such as physician-assisted “suicide” or “murder.” This language shift is clearly manipulative. “The Random House College Dictionary” and “Webster’s New International Dictionary” describe euthanasia as “mercy killing,” “putting to death a person suffering from an incurable and painful disease or condition,” and “inducing death painlessly as a relief from pain.” Pro-euthanasia societies go back to 1935 in London and 1938 in the United States. The Society for the Right to Die was reintroduced in the U.S. in 1975. Support for physician-assisted suicide grew enormously in the 1990s. Public opinion polls in the U.S., Britain and Canada show increasing willingness to sanction physician-assisted suicide. This fact represents a “sea change” in public opinion. Supporters of physician-assisted suicide herald and manipulate the main forces driving this upsurge of public opinion: growing fear of a lingering death; people living and dying longer than they desire; the HIV/AIDS pandemic which often demonstrates miserable and degrading death; advocacy of individual freedom; judgment that one’s life is no longer valuable; the necessity of others to respect this judgment out of a sense of “compassion;” pain is evil and to be eliminated at all costs; pity at the sight of suffering; a host of publications setting forth a rationale for physician-assisted suicide and describing ways to commit suicide. Advocates of AB 374 maintain “the Catholic Church is the only identifiable group of people that strongly oppose the bill” and “most of the money for the opposition campaign comes from the wealthy Catholic Church.” The assertion is false, deliberately misleading, and gives the impression AB 374 is opposed only for religious reasons. The fact is physician-assisted suicide has long been opposed by the California Disability Alliance, California Medical Association, League of United Latin American Citizens, hospice organizations, California Foundations for Independent Living Centers, and more than 20 disability rights organizations. Opposition is not religion-based. Opposition rests on at least these factors: ● When a person decides to commit suicide with the assistance of a physician, the physician becomes complicit in suicide. Although AB 374 provides immunity for the physician, it is the physician who supplies the medication. ● The bill does not authorize “ending a patient’s life by lethal injection, mercy killing, or active euthanasia.” It does authorize physicians to prescribe “medication … to provide comfort with an assurance of peaceful dying if suffering becomes unbearable.” What is this medication? The patient consumes 50-100 pills such as vicodin, oxycontin (morphine derivatives) or fentamyl. Taken with alcohol, these pills work faster by putting a person to sleep and stopping the breathing. “Medication” should not be construed to mean a patient merely takes a pill. ● Consuming these pills (or a combination thereof) can cause vomiting. In this case the “medication” does not work and the patient becomes angry and depressed. ● Physician-assisted suicide is mercy killing. Physician-assisted suicide alleviates pain by eliminating the patient. The inherent dignity of every person is the fundamental basis for morality. Mental or physical suffering does not lessen one’s human dignity. Our society overstresses “attributed dignity” which is based on one’s value, worth, power, prestige, function, productivity and self-control. Attributed dignity is not comparable to inherent dignity. No matter how sick or frail, a person always possesses dignity. This dignity is never forfeited. “Value of life” must not be substituted for “quality of life.” ● AB 374 misinterprets pity for compassion. When a person asks to be murdered, the person is probably in great pain, lonely, and feeling a sense of burden to family and society. To allow such a person to commit suicide is a failure to properly situate and address these concerns. Physician-assisted suicide is a final act. It is not compassionate. It abandons a dying person at a critical point. ● While AB 374 maintains a dying and suffering patient “must self-administer the medication,” there is no reason to believe “dying” and “suffering” are a part of the definition of physician-assisted suicide. AB 374 will lead to the right of persons to kill themselves for other reasons. In Canada, for example, there is growing pressure to legalize physician-assisted suicide since “we should all have the right to choose our way of dying and the moment of death.” ● Our nation has decided killing is legal in just wars, capital punishment, abortion, self-defense, in protecting private property. These “exceptions” help create a violent society. Physician-assisted suicide adds another form of violence. ● Statistics show family and friends face a long road of grief in the aftermath of suicide. There is a certain stigma attached to suicide. Physician-assisted suicide creates another forum for creating this grief. ● AB 374 advocates maintain that “under the current system, terminally ill people are aided in their dying every day. But it’s covert and secret and it’s done without regulation.” This assertion is misleading. With the consent of a patient and family members, a physician may increase the level of morphine for a patient in pain. The intention is to alleviate pain, not to kill the patient. Pretending physician-assisted suicide is the same as allowing a person to die is erroneous. Father Coleman is the vice president for corporate ethics for the Daughters of Charity Health System. On April 18 AB 374 was heard in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. No vote was taken. The bill will remain in suspense until sponsors think they have the votes to pass Appropriations and to bring it to the Assembly floor.

Of guns and dialogue In light of the Virginia Tech tragedy and similar tragedies like the 2002 shooting at Conception Abbey in Conception, Mo., the incredulous statements of politicians and presidential candidates, who rant about Iraq in tandem with supporting universal gun rights, are sad. Most of us procure food at grocery stores, and instead of hunting for wild game in the woods as necessary family dinner preparation, we remove plastic wrap off food sitting in nice containers purchased at a Vons, Ralphs, Albertsons or Costco. Benedictine abbeys, parishes, college campuses should be sacred grounds — not places for weapons. Why are politicians skittish about gun control dialogue? To punctuate the urgency, read about the 2002 tragedy at Conception Abbey, and to confirm how crazy life here is becoming sans a dialogue about gun control. Go as far as asking the Conception Abbey communications office about practices such as Lectio Divina and the praying of the Liturgy of the Hours (maybe a few of your readers will choose to become Conception Benedictine Oblates in the diaspora as I have chosen. Benedictine prayer practices are close to the heartbeat of Christ and his Church). Whether or not our great American society degenerates into the horror of street violence like in Iraq is up to each of us in dialogue with religious and elected leaders. Whether at church, at a McDonalds with your children or just walking down a street, do you really feel more secure knowing that around you are citizens armed to the teeth and ready to engage in an O.K. Corral repeat? Back to the Virginia Tech tragedy: each of us knows a young person attending a university. For the sake of the many people who don’t want to carry loaded weapons to a campus, to an abbey or to anywhere else, please talk to your local, state and federal representatives about gun control and violence in society here, not just in Iraq. John J. Brunson Irvine

ing more than a nominal Catholic who easily compromises her religious principles to elicit the approval, support and votes of her pro-abortion liberal constituents. Sadly, in so doing she has opted to follow the spirit of Zeitgeist instead of the Holy Spirit. If her fellow Catholics pray fervently for Nancy Pelosi, hopefully, like the merciless Pharisee Saul of Tarsus, she will be given the grace of conversion and the change of heart enabling her to use her political acuity to vigorously promote the sanctity of life instead of the cruelty of death. Jane L. Sears Burlingame

Address suffering I support aid in dying for those whose suffering becomes unbearable and are close to death. They should have the option for assisted suicide. Jesus said, “Help those who suffer,” who can’t be healed. Has the Church hierarchy become so inhuman? Reform is needed. Victor Stangenberg Pt. Reyes

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Editorial missed chance In his excellent April 27 editorial in which he takes Speaker Nancy Pelosi to task for her position on partial birth abortion being a mere medical procedure, Archdiocesan Director of Public Policy and Social Concerns George Wesolek reminds her that “as leader of your party, you have responsibilities far beyond this issue. Do not let it define you as out of step with a civilized society.” However, I find it regrettable Mr. Wesolek let an opportunity pass to also remind Speaker Pelosi that her specious justification of abortion also puts her “out of step” with Catholic Church teaching. The condemnation of deliberate abortion goes all the way back to the Didache and has been reiterated in the papal encyclicals Casti Connubii and Humanae Vitae as morally evil and a grave sin. Her support and defense of abortion indicates Speaker Pelosi is noth-

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Ironic vilification

In the April 20 letters, Matthew Hysell observed that not all that is legal is necessarily moral. He applied this to the immigration debate and concluded, upon his review of Scripture, U.S. immigration policies are immoral, as “one cannot show love to illegal immigrants by deportation, however legal it may be.” There are issues where this logic applies. It is self-evident a law promoting slavery, or abortion, is not law in the true sense but an act of violence. Christians have a duty to stand against such misuses of law. There are other issues where this logic does not apply. Immigration is one. While it is always wrong to enslave another, or deliberately take innocent human life, it is not always wrong to exclude individuals from this country. No nation can long endure without promoting internal cohesiveness and limiting immigration. While it may seem “loving” to open the gates to all, such a policy would result in chaos and great harm. Government was established by God to prevent such harm, protect its citizenry, and provide order. It can perform this function, or it can welcome all who seek admission, but it cannot do both. Week after week, this paper contains articles and columns in which our immigration laws are condemned, but I have yet to see the case for injustice made. As individuals, we are called upon to welcome the stranger, feed the poor and comfort the sick. It is entirely a different matter to argue that as policy no immigrant should ever be deported. It is sadly ironic the country that has done the most to welcome the tired, the poor, the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free” would be vilified for not doing more. Al Serrato Millbrae

Unacceptable option Mr. Russell Hardeman’s letter (April 20, “Appeasement rattling?”) seems to have missed the point I was trying to make (Letters, April 6) – namely, that the tremendous destructiveness of modern warfare, especially nuclear weapons, makes it imperative for us to seek as our first priority peaceful solutions to the problems we share with the rest of the world. The alternative is the potential destruction of all life on our planet, not a great choice, surely. Our Christian faith reinforces this, and Christ’s message was hardly ambiguous. From a practical standpoint, the lesson of World War II could be drawn from the results of the Marshall Plan, as contrasted with the result of the punitive peace treaty that concluded World War I. Perhaps being a “loser” in was is a more effective educational experience than being a “winner.” I think a presumption against war is a great idea whose time has come. Rosemary Ring Kentfield

May 4, 2007

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Virginia Tech and all parents’ anguish My 24-year-old daughter called from Dallas the day after the Virginia Tech massacre, and I started to cry. She wanted to tell me about her plans for the upcoming weekend – visiting a senior-citizen residence with the young adult group to play bingo, and this news would normally thrill me. But all I could think is that I was hearing my child’s voice while the family members of the 33 dead at VT were not. I’d been trying to not cry for 24 hours, ever since hearing about the horror at VT. All I could think of was the victims and their parents. I have never been able to comprehend how parents go on following the death of a child, and hearing the voice of mine, I was so grateful I do not have to know this pain. While the entire nation is mourning with the families of the Virginia Tech tragedy, I think parents of college students are feeling the grief and fear at a heightened level. We know what it is like to send our children – young, optimistic adults – off into the wide world, away from our protection. We know what it is like to trust strangers – resident assistants, professors, roommates – with our most precious commodity. You send them off not knowing for sure that everything will be fine, but still assuming it will be. Until fate proves you wrong. Lauren, of the aforementioned phone call, was at the University of Arizona in 2002 when a disgruntled nursing

student arrived on campus and shot three professors. I remember calling her and telling her to stay away from the nursing building. Be safe, I commanded; pay attention to news bulletins, don’t take any chances. She told me roads were blocked off near that building and, as I recall, seemed nonplussed. She presented the typical attitude of adolescence and young adulthood: I am immortal. I will be fine. I’ve got to get back to class. The UA shooting was a small event – if murder can ever be called such – in comparison to what happened April 16 at Virginia Tech, and yet, in some ways, the same. It was violence visited upon the unsuspecting, terror reaching out and saying, “Surprise.” And although my child wasn’t hurt, for weeks I was calling and offering safety reminders. Two of our children are in still in college, and our fourth will join them this fall. Our 21-year-old is a resident assistant in the dorm, just like one of the first victims in the VT shooting. I called him repeatedly the day of the event, only to be put off by his voice mail. The next morning he left a message on my phone. “I’ve been praying for the people who died,” he said, then stated the obvious, his voice cracking. “I don’t get why these things keep happening. It doesn’t make sense.” Indeed, there is little most of us can do for these families except pray for them, and that is what I was doing in Mass that day. During the prayers of petition, I silently

joined into all the prayers uttered for the parents of the student victims. As a mother, I could imagine the horrible questions running through their minds: Did he suffer? Did she try to call me? Why did Renee Horton he have to die? And then, in this grief, I heard a different prayer – for the parents of the gunman. In that moment, I realized there was another family grieving, a family from a country that puts extreme cultural weight on honor, a family facing their own horrible question: Why did he do this? While only the completely callous will not feel some vicarious heartache for the parents of the young victims and the families of the professors who were killed, we must realize there must be a special, unimaginable pain that the parents of the shooter are enduring. May some of our tears and prayers be for them as well. Renee Horton is an Arizona-based freelance journalist specializing in religion, parenting and education.

Spirituality for Life

Power of positive thinking or power of God? Classical writers in all religious traditions tell us there is a secret to growth, namely, when we reach a certain point, we must let grace do the work. It isn’t that we cease making an effort; it’s just that we need to let our efforts be augmented by something beyond us. Etty Hillesum, in her diaries, explains this: “I don’t have to tinker with my life [anymore] for an organic process is at work. Something is growing, and every time I look inside, something fresh has happened, and all I have to do is to accept it.” Is this what we call “the resurrection”? For many people the resurrection is a metaphor, the faith equivalent of the Phoenix-myth: Deaths aren’t final and we can, if we do it right, rise from our own ashes. What gives us the power to rise from our own ashes? In this view, proper will-power and positive thinking. The idea is that if you think positively, good things will happen to you. If you believe strongly enough in something, it will happen. If you preserve long enough in hope the good thing wished for will be given you. Faith, hope and positive thinking make good things happen and resurrect life from its many deaths.

This is the basis for many self-help philosophies and a lot of religious groups. They base themselves more on the power of the human spirit than on the power of transcendent grace. For them, the resurrection is the Phoenix-myth, upgraded a bit by psychological and religious language. And there is some depth and truth in this. Among other things, the resurrection is about positive thinking and the belief that positive energy makes good things happen, just as self-defeating thoughts can be self-fulfilling. Positive thinking creates positive energy and that energy can help bring life out of ashes. This is true even physically. Sometimes in a serious illness the right attitude is just as important for a cure as the right medication. This is not just wishful thinking; proper attitude lets the right physical, emotional, and spiritual energy flow into the world and into the body. For many people, this is what the resurrection means, it is a metaphor for the transformation that positive energy can bring. But it is more than that. The resurrection is not just about the potential effect of positive human energy within

us, it is too, and especially, about the power of God, miraculous energy, energy that can do for us what we can’t do for ourselves, energy that can do for us what nature, all on its own, can’t. The resurrection Father is about power entering Ron Rolheiser our world and our lives from beyond. How might we understand that? Paul Tillich once made a distinction between what he termed pseudo-religion, quasi-religion, and real-religion. Pseudo-religion is when we use the language of religion (God, revelation, grace, resurrection) but in essence, use those words to refer to what is highest inside of our individual consciousness. And that, at its best, can take us to ROLHEISER, page 14

The Catholic Difference The New Yorker was once famous for the ferocity of its fact-checking and editing. No more. Any magazine whose editors give a pass to falsehoods (e.g., Catholics believe that “heaven, and possibly earth, belongs exclusively to them”), grossly tendentious mis-readings of documents (e.g., Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate taught “the dim possibility of Jewish salvation”), and factual errors (e.g., Karol Wojtyla was “one of the young theological advisers at Vatican II”) is a magazine that is not seriously edited. Jane Kramer’s lengthy tantrum in The New Yorker’s April 2 issue, “The Pope and Islam,” is really several articles in one. It’s a wailing wall for left-leaning Vaticanisti, disgruntled Curial bureaucrats, and Italian Catholic activists unhappy with Benedict XVI’s challenge to Islam. It’s an effort – rather unsuccessful – to come to grips with the substance of the pope’s Regensburg Lecture in September 2006. It’s yet another attempt to drive a wedge between Benedict XVI and John Paul II, along the hoary “nice Wojtyla/nasty Ratzinger” axis of pseudo-analysis. And it’s a brusque dismissal, without serious examination, of Benedict XVI’s suggestion that the first inculturation of Christianity in the world of classical rationality was providential, because it gave early Christians the intellectual tools to turn their evangelical confession of faith (“Jesus is Lord”) into doctrine and creeds, such as the Nicene Creed universally prayed by the Church. The Wojtyla-vs.-Ratzinger business is easily rebutted. In Crossing the Threshold of Hope, John Paul II stated flatly that “not only the theology but also the anthropology of

Islam is very distant from Christianity.” That’s a far more dramatic statement of the gap between Christianity and Islam than anything Benedict XVI said at Regensburg. The “nice Wojtyla/nasty Ratzinger” trope is a cartoon, period. Anyone who hasn’t come to grips with what John Paul II wrote about Islam isn’t in a position to comment seriously on the differences in approach – which certainly exist – between the two popes. A similar lack of research, or so one assumes, distorts Ms. Kramer’s reading of Benedict’s approach to Islam. Ms. Kramer makes no reference at all to the pope’s address to the Roman Curia last December, in which he suggested the inter-religious dialogue of the future focus on assisting Muslims who wish to assimilate the best of the Enlightenment (like the institutional separation of religious and political authority) by developing the resources of their own religious tradition. She makes passing reference to the post-Regensburg “Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI” from 38 senior Muslim leaders, but does not conjure with the fact that this Muslim condemnation of violence in the name of God followed a robust papal challenge, not the platitudes too frequently typical of “inter-religious dialogue.” As for the issues put on the global table at Regensburg, does Ms. Kramer really think it a bad thing to challenge irrational forms of faith that command the murder of innocents in the name of God? Is it wrong to suggest there is danger in the obverse of irrational faith: that trouble is afoot in the West’s loss of faith in reason, which erodes our

capacity to defend the universality of human rights and the superiority of the rule of law over the rule of coercion? Then there’s Ms. Kramer’s bugbear about reason-and-faith. George Weigel Classical ideas of reason have a privileged place in Christian theology, not because of xenophobia (“Ratzinger is Eurocentric. To him, Europe means Christianity”) but because the conviction that human beings can know that some things are true is essential in a Church whose Lord taught that the truth is liberating. Doctrine is not excess baggage on the journey of faith. It’s the vehicle that makes the journey possible. Finally, Jane Kramer really ought to find herself some new Roman sources. The men she cites remind me of nothing so much as those unfortunate Japanese soldiers found on remote Pacific islands in the 1970s – men who never, somehow, got the word that Emperor Hirohito had packed it in 30-some years before. One of her-refugees-from-radicalisms-past sighs that Vatican II was “the 1968 of the Catholic Church.” Memo to source: It’s over. Get over it. George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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May 4, 2007

FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Acts 14:21-27; Psalm 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13; Revelation 21:1-5a; John 13:31-33a, 34-35 A READING FROM THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES (ACTS 14:21-27) After Paul and Barnabas had proclaimed the good news to that city and made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch. They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, “It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.” They appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had put their faith. Then they traveled through Pisidia and reached Pamphylia. After proclaiming the word at Perga they went down to Attalia. From there they sailed to Antioch, where they had been commended to the grace of God for the work they had now accomplished. And when they arrived, they called the church together and reported what God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles. RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 145:8-9, 10-11, 12-13) R. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. The Lord is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness. The Lord is good to all and compassionate toward all his works. R. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. Let all your works give you thanks, O Lord, and let your faithful ones bless you. Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might. R. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.

Youth artists . . . ■ Continued from page 8 drew interest from dozens of dioceses around the country,” she noted. “CCHD received more than 25 winning entries of art, literature, music and digital presentations.” Submissions included a wide variety of media — two and three-dimensional collages, pencil drawings, videos, digital photographs, slide shows, crayon, marker, painting and mixed-effect media. The national grand prize is $500 with a $500 gift to a CCHD project in the winner’s name. Second and third prizes are $375 and $250 to be awarded the same way. Honorable mentions will receive $50 and a certificate. Winners are expected to be announced some time this month. John and Olivia will he honored at the annual CCHD dinner at St. Mary’s Cathedral Nov. 8. All contest entrants will be invited, Vigil said. Also in the planning stages is a joint video project between Vigil’s office and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School in San Francisco.

Rolheiser . . . ■ Continued from page 13 human maturity and altruism, just as at its worst it can take us to narcissism and grandiosity. In either case, in the end, we are recycling human consciousness, and willpower and positive thinking play the pivotal role in any growth and transformation. Quasi-religion, on the other hand, does not use the language of religion but uses the language of social analysis, psychology, philosophy, economics and anthropology. And

Let them make known your might to the children of Adam, and the glorious splendor of your kingdom. Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages, and your dominion endures through all generations. R. I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God.

Scripture reflection FATHER BILL NICHOLAS

Revelation hails New Jerusalem: the New Creation, the Church

“Students will film our events, meetings and the organizations CCHD has helped locally,” Vigil said. The 2007 CCHD Collection will take place at weekend Masses just before Thanksgiving. Through what Vigil called “grass roots efforts” including talks at Masses and personally handing out materials about the campaign after Masses, the CCHD collection for 2006 ran ahead of 2005 — $100,000 compared to $85,000. “The increase in the collection was due to the efforts of the local committee and myself in doing outreach to the parishes and the cooperation of pastors,” Vigil said. One fourth of the collection remains in the Archdiocese to support programs to combat poverty. Since its founding in 1970, CCHD has awarded nearly 8,000 grants nationally, approximately $10 million each year. CCHD focuses on community-based, selfhelp organizations initiated and led by poor and low-income themselves. For more information about CCHD visit www.usccb.org/cchd and www.povertyusa.org. Past winners and several honorable mentions can be viewed on line at http://www.usccb.org/cchd/pastmm.shtml.

Many see the Book of Revelation as a fearsome prophecy of the catastrophic end of the world preceding the Second Coming of Christ. Some even use the details presented to calculate the exact moment when the end will come. Others seek to interpret present occurrences as signs of the future Parousia. But how many think of reading and interpreting the Book of Revelation, not in terms of the future end of the world, but as an expression of present reality; a goal and an end already achieved? From that angle, Revelation is not fearsome, but rather one of the most triumphant and uplifting books of the Bible. Consider the second reading for this Sunday. It makes use of the image of a bride. Arguably the most endearing image in any wedding is that of the bride processing down the aisle to meet her groom, who sees her in the beauty of her gown for the first time. Everyone gathered stands and looks with anticipation at the doors of the church, waiting for them to open, eager to see how breathtaking the bride looks as she enters in procession to the sound of a rousing anthem, and proceeds to the sanctuary. Usually expressions of awe accompany her appearance and all present are moved by her radiance and happiness. In the Book of Revelation a wedding is the metaphor used to describe the bond between Christ and the Church. It is used three times toward the end of the book, closely linked to the Lamb that was Slain (symbolic of Christ crucified) and directly identified in the last two bridal visions as the New Jerusalem. It is first used in the image of the Wedding Feast of the Lamb (Rev 19:7-8), in which the Bride is clothed with a white linen dress, made up of “the virtuous deeds of God’s saints.” This identifies the Bride of the Lamb with the Church, made up of the Lamb’s faithful followers. Hence the wedding of the Lamb is nothing less than the covenant union between Christ and the Church – a present reality. The second reading of this Sunday’s liturgy further describes the New Jerusalem as a radiant bride prepared to meet her husband. John will again observe the bride, the New Jerusalem, descending, as if in procession, to be present in the New Creation (Rev 21:9-10). As we interpret Revelation in terms of present reality, we understand the New Creation and the New Jerusalem as symbolic of something very relevant to all time, as much as it was to the Church at the time Revelation was written. That something is the redemption won by Christ, celebrated particularly during the Easter season. Christ’s death and resurrection opened the gates of heaven to God’s faithful people, made the world a New Creation washed clean by the blood of the Lamb, and blessed that New Creation with the Church. The Church, commissioned by the Lamb and inspired by the Holy Spirit, continues the sanctifying work

of the risen Christ, its loving spouse. Therefore, for the reader of Revelation, both then, now and for all time, the New Creation and with it the New Jerusalem are symbolic expressions of the reality that is the Church and of a world redeemed by God. The New Jerusalem symbolizes the Church itself, descending upon the earth in conjunction with the triumph of Christ. The Book of Revelation describes the New Jerusalem in great detail (Rev 21:1127), all of which could be metaphorically understood as spiritually descriptive of the Church. It is a city of great richness, far surpassing any city. It is a city that is new, but built upon the foundation of the old covenant with Israel. The city is a manifestation of God’s presence on earth and is a place of great intimacy with God. The city does not have a temple, for the glory of the Lord is its temple. No longer centralized in one building, God is fully present and fully accessible to all the inhabitants of the New Jerusalem, as Christ is present throughout the Church – the People of God. The New Jerusalem is a universal city where all people of good will are welcome to walk in the light of God. Finally, the New Jerusalem is a return to the grace lost through sin, symbolized in the great river that flows from its center, giving purification wherever it flows, giving rise to multiple Trees of Life that provide nourishment. So if we are looking for a futuristic New Creation and the grand, bridal appearance of the New Jerusalem, we need look no further than our own community of faith, and the Church that gathers us together, sanctifying us through the grace of the sacraments and through which Christ, ever present, diligently works for the purification and sanctification of the world. One need also look no further than a celebration of the great sacrament of matrimony, which is for us a great witness to the covenant between Christ and his bride, the Church, symbolized in the love shared between husband and wife. As we continue to celebrate the event and mystery of Easter (and welcome our new brothers and sisters entered during the Easter Vigil Mass) we celebrate the very reality symbolized in the New Creation and the New Jerusalem. We celebrate a world that God has visited, redeemed and sanctified through the sacrifice of the Lamb that was Slain. We joyfully proclaim the Gospel that continues to flow to all corners of the world, drawing people into the loving embrace of the Lamb, calling all to share in the community of faith that is the Church throughout the world – the New Jerusalem present in our midst.

what it calls us to is to what’s highest, not in individual consciousness, but inside of the collective consciousness. Like real-religion, it calls us beyond ourselves to the transpersonal. Quasi-religion, in its best expressions inside of some political and social ideologies (Marxism, Greenpeace, NGOs, social justice ideologies), like real-religion, calls us beyond ourselves, but, unlike real-religion, it doesn’t ultimately bring transcendent air into our lives. It still only touches what is highest inside of us and our own will-power and positive thinking remain the real driving force behind any transformation.

Real-religion might use or not use the classical words of religion, but, in either case, what it opens up for us is not just what’s highest inside of ourselves and what we can achieve through will-power and positive thinking. Rather it opens us to a power and grace beyond us. It doesn’t simply recycle the air inside of our universe; it brings in air from beyond — divine, transcendent air. The resurrection has a place for positive thinking and emphasizes the importance of appropriate will-power. But it’s much more than that. Ultimately, it is about the transcendent power of God breaking into nature and

into our lives and doing for us what we can’t do simply through will-power and positive thinking. It is a power that can re-arrange the very atoms inside of our physical bodies, our aching emotions, and our divided world and raise up new life from the ashes.

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION (REV 21:1-5A) Then I, John, saw a new heaven and a new earth. The former heaven and the former earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. I also saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with the human race. He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will always be with them as their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there shall be no more death or mourning, wailing or pain, for the old order has passed away.” The One who sat on the throne said, “Behold, I make all things new.” A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN (JN 13:31-33A, 34-35) When Judas had left them, Jesus said, “Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and God will glorify him at once. My children, I will be with you only a little while longer. I give you a new commandment: love one another. ”As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Father Bill Nicholas, ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 2001, is a parochial vicar at St. Cecilia Parish in San Francisco.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and awardwinning author, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. His Web site is www.ronrolheiser.com.

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Upcoming ‘Rosary Bowl’ conjures up memories of 1961 By Tom Burke An old idea updated to bring Catholics to the Virgin Mary and her son — and highlight world peace — is scheduled May 19 at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl from 6-9 p.m. Sponsored by Holy Cross Family Ministries and Family Theater Productions of Hollywood, founded by the late Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton, the Rosary Bowl will focus on the theme “A World at Prayer Is a World at Peace: A Rosary Celebration.” In addition to the rosary itself, the event will feature music, prayer and cultural exhibitions, planners say. Featured speaker will be Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony. Among tales of San Francisco’s Catholic history is legendary Father Peyton’s International Rosary Crusade. The event brought more than 500,000 people to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park in October 1961 to pray the rosary. The gathering has been called the era’s “symbolic high point of Catholicism in the Archdiocese,” by Deacon Jeffrey Burns, Ph.D., archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and author

Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton preaches to the multitudes at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park Oct. 7, 1961.

of “A History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.” The archdiocesan newspaper of the time, The Monitor, named the crusade “the greatest public display of faith in the nation’s history.” The late Msgr. Alvin Wagner oversaw planning of the massive event. Msgr. Wagner is also remembered as founder of the Catholic Rosary Radio Hour, which aired for more than 50 years to a wide audience. The Rosary Crusade gave start to the popular adage, “The family that prays together stays together” which is also being used in promotion of the May 19 Rosary Bowl. In a homily to the throng at the Polo Field, Father Peyton said, “The Holy Rosary is the instrument to make a home of love to live in, a home of unity to live in, a home of peace to live in.” A front-page story in the San Francisco Examiner about the crusade began with the words, “A gentle Irish priest made out a convincing case for the power of prayer yesterday.” The Rosary Bowl Web site is www.rosarybowl.org.

Mission Societies’ event draws record numbers A record attendance of nearly 160 persons – including representatives of the four Pontifical Societies based in Rome — took part in the April 24-26 national meeting of diocesan directors of mission activities held at the Cathedral Hill Hotel. In his April 25 homily during a Mass for the group held at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Archbishop George H. Niederauer pointed out the Scripture readings on the feast day of St. Mark had “much to say to you, the directors of Pontifical Mission Societies across this country.” The readings contained “three great Christian ideas,” he said, “the call to proclaim the Gospel and live the faith, the persistent fact of many obstacles and opponents, and the powerful grace of the risen Jesus Christ to bring us through the struggle to the triumph of the kingdom.” Those challenges and the assurance of “God in Christ” providing strength and perseverance clearly speak to the work of missionary outreach, he said. Representatives of the four Pontifical Mission Societies at the gathering included Archbishop Henryk Hoser, SAC, international president of the Pontifical Mission Societies and adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples; Divine Word Father Patrick Byrne, secretary-general of the Holy Childhood Association; Msgr. Jan Dumon, secretary-general of the Society of St. Peter Apostle; and Father Vito del Prete, secretary-general of the Pontifical Missionary Union of Clergy and Religious. Other attendants included Bishop Daniel Walsh of Santa Rosa, chair of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on World Mission; Father Anthony Jayakody, rector, Our Lady of Lanka Seminary, Sri Lanka; Father Reginald Saparamadu, national director,

Archbishop George H. Niederauer was principal celebrant and homilist at an April 25 Mass celebrated at St. Mary’s Cathedral in conjunction with a national meeting of the Pontifical Mission Societies in San Francisco. Pictured, from left: Archbishop Henryk Hoser, SAC, international president of the Pontifical Mission Societies and adjunct secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples at the Vatican; Archbishop Niederauer, Deacon Peter Boulware, Deacon R. Christoph Sandoval, and Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang who is the Archdiocese’s mission director.

Pontifical Mission Societies, Sri Lanka; Father Timothy Lehane, national director, Pontifical Mission Societies, Ecuador; Father Bernard Makadani, mational director, Pontifical Mission Societies, Zambia; SpiritanFather Ed

Grimes, national director, Pontifical Mission Societies, Ireland; Msgr. Richard Albert, national director, Pontifical Mission Societies, the Antilles; and Maryknoll Father Kevin Hanlon, staff writer to the U.S. bishops’ Committee on World Mission.

St. Anthony Foundation honored for volunteer management Franciscan Father John Hardin (center), executive director of the St. Anthony Foundation, received the Award for Excellence in Volunteer Management on behalf of the Foundation from Kevin Carroll (left) of Levi Strauss Foundation and John Power of The Volunteer Center. (PHOTO BY JACKSON ZHOU)

St. Anthony Foundation, known for its extensive services to feed, clothe and work with the poor of San Francisco, was presented the Award for Excellence in Volunteer Management by The Volunteer Center on April 20 during ceremonies that also called attention to National Volunteer Week. Cited for setting high standards for best practices in volunteer management, St. Anthony Foundation currently fills nearly four dozen volunteer positions every day and maintains an active volunteer bank of more than 5,500 individuals, a St. Anthony spokesperson said. St. Anthony’s annual Volunteer Appreciation Party took place the next day. Volunteers help staff 11 programs that provide food, medical care, social work, housing, and recovery services to the poor and homeless. “We could not possibly comprehensively serve the number of guests we do every day, with no expense to taxpayers or our guests, in the second most expensive city in the United States, without our volunteers,” noted St. Anthony Volunteer Coordinator Marie O’Connor. St. Anthony Foundation does not accept federal, state, or local government money, and is entirely funded by private donations. St. Anthony Foundation volunteers, donors and staff help serve more than 2,500 meals a day at St. Anthony’s Dining Room, 365 days a year; more than 3,800 patients a month at St. Anthony Free Medical Clinic; more than 2,700 people a

month at St. Anthony Furniture and Clothing Program; more than 60 each month in its Employment Program Learning Center; more than 4,000 clients each year at the free St. Anthony Social Work Center; more than 360 each year in

residential drug and alcohol recovery programs; more than 50 impoverished elderly women with secure housing and ongoing care and services; more than 85 homeless women in a supportive transitional housing program.

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Special Events June 2: Coming of Age: The First Northern California Lay Convocation, an all-day event challenging the Church to reinvigorate both its ancient tradition and its Second Vatican Council call to authentic lay leadership. Sister of Mercy Eloise Rosenblatt and popular presenter, Father Brian Joyce, pastor, Christ the King Church in Pleasant Hill will speak. Their talks will cover Lay Leadership in the Third Millennium and Shared Baptism/Shared Leadership. Takes place at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Visit www.NorCalLayConvocation.org for more information and registration.

May 4, 2007 Harwood, director of alumnae, at (415) 422-5015 or e-mail hharwood@pbvmsf.org. May 19: Our Lady of Perpetual Help Elementary School, class of ’51, at Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco at 6 p.m. Call Janet Cirimele at (650) 579-7458.

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Prayer/Lectures/Trainings May 7: 26th Annual May Crowning and Living Rosary in All Hallows Chapel, Newhall and Palou St. in San Francisco at 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by Young Ladies Institute #182. Call Sue Elvander at (415) 467-8872. May 7, 8, 9: Looking More Like God, an Easter Season mission at St. Raphael Church, 1104 5th Ave., San Rafael. Dominican Father Jim Marchionda, combines music and reflection in his talks at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and at Masses May 5 at 5 p.m. and May 6 at 7:30, 9 and 10:30 a.m. Contact Judith Howell at (415) 454-8141, ext. 28 for more information. May 13: Bilingual Healing Mass; main celebrant: Father Robert Faricy at St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Praise and worship at 6:30 p.m. with Mass at 7 p.m. Contact Augustine Nga Pham (415) 472-1567.

Food & Fun May 5: Cinco de Mayo Family Dinner Dance, 6 – 10 p.m., at Mission Dolores School Auditorium, 16th St. and Dolores in San Francisco. Dinner includes Mexican fajitas and enchiladas. Adults $12, children $7. No-host sports bar will be serving Mission Dolores Style Margaritas. Proceeds benefit the parish. Call Sylvia Aguilar at (415) 999-1608. May 12: Bid on one-of-a-kind fashions transformed from discarded clothing into stunning couture wear by Bay Area designers and design students, at St. Vincent de Paul Society’s “Discarded to Divine” fashion show and live auction, 6 - 8 p.m. at Gap Inc. Headquarters, 2 Folsom St., San Francisco. More than 100 designs include evening wear, casual clothes, coats and accessories. Live and silent auction, live models, food, music. Proceeds go to the Vincentian Help Desk, which serves up to 80 poor and homeless men and women each day. Space limited; tickets $35 advanced purchase, $45 at the door. Call (415) 977-1270, ext. 3021 or purchase online at www.svdp-sf.org. May 12: St. Sebastian Parish in Greenbrae is sponsoring its 12th annual giant parking lot sale which will benefit its St. Vincent DePaul Conference. Nearly 80 spaces have been reserved by various groups and vendors. For information contact Kathie Meier, (415) 461-4133 or e-mail whaleofasale@comcast.net or visit http://www.sswhaleofasale.com. May 12: Raise the Roof, a benefit for InnerChange, Guatemala, a Christian missionary order working with the poor and marginalized; 6:30 p.m. -11 pm at Notre Dame High School, Belmont. The evening includes silent and live auctions, salsa/merengue dance lessons, and dinner. InnerChange, Guatemala is a project of Deacon Nate Bacon and his wife, Jenny. For information, contact Theresa at (415) 279-9168 or email shoeshineboys@gmail.com or check out the Web site at www.innerchange.org/raisetheroof. May 13: Mother’s Day Champagne Brunch sponsored by Sisters of the Holy Family at their motherhouse, 159 Washington Blvd., Fremont with seating at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Reservations required. Tickets $40 adults/$15 children 4 – 12. Call (510) 624-4512. May 16: Come back to Sorrento or at least Folsom St. for spaghetti and meat balls at Immaculate Conception Church just up the hill from Army/Cesar Chavez St. in San Francisco. Feast begins at noon. The family-style lunches consist of salad, bread, pasta and homemade meatballs. The lunches will continue on the third Wednesday of each month as they have been for over 50 years. Instead of the old school cafeteria, the lunches will take place in the church hall, beneath the chapel. Call (415) 824-1762. Tickets $8 per person. Beverages available for sale. May 17: Monthly luncheon of St. Thomas More Society at the Bankers Club, 555 California St., 52nd Floor, San Francisco at noon. Tickets are $38 per person/$15 law students. Call Stacy Stecher at (415) 7729642 or e-mail sstecher@tobinlaw.com. Guest speaker is William Issel, visiting history professor, Mills College, and professor emeritus, San Francisco State University.

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Young Adults Class of ’86 from San Francisco’s Notre Dame des Victoires Elementary School recently celebrated with a 20-year reunion.. The evening included a tour of their old stomping grounds and dinner in the parish hall. The classmates also donated money to the continued development of the school library. Several additional schools have announced upcoming reunions. See Reunions. events throughout the year. Information about the group’s activities can usually be found in Datebook and always at their Web site: www.sfspirit.com. First Fridays of the month are commemorated with rosary and Mass at selected churches throughout the Archdiocese usually beginning at 7 p.m. For more information, email John Murphy at exmorte@aol.com. May 4: First Friday Mass at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica; rosary at 7 p.m. and Mass at 7:30 p.m. May 12: Praise, Prayer and Worship Explosion session at St. Paul of the Shipwreck, gymnasium, 1122 Jamestown, San Francisco, 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Led by Father Jim Tarantino. A time for our English and Spanish-speaking to praise, worship and share prophecy — immersing in the healing power and presence of Jesus. For information call: English (415) 350-8677 or (650) 594-1131; Spanish (415) 292-4306 or (415) 469-8927. May 11-13: Three-day Vietnamese Charismatic Conference at St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco. Free admission. Visit www.thanhlinh.net for further information. May 19-20: A Spanish-language Catholic Charismatic Congress at Sequoia High School, 1201 Brewster Ave., Redwood City, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Theme: “My Household Will Serve the Lord.” Donation $5 per day. For information, call Father Joseph Corral (415) 333-3627, Father James Garcia (650) 3664692; Josefa or Joel Sanchez (650) 368-7110. May 25, 26, 27: 20th annual Nor-Cal Catholic Charismatic Convention at the Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara. Theme is “Prepare the Way of the Lord.” For more information and registration, go to ncrcspirit.com or call (707) 643-2238.

Arts & Entertainment May 4: Dominican Winifred Baker Chorale performs works of Mozart at St. Raphael Church, 1104 5th Ave. in San Rafael at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10/$5 students and seniors/under-12 free. Call (415) 4853236 or visit www.duwbc.org.

May 4: Ave, an acclaimed choral ensemble devoted to sacred music of the Renaissance, will present a concert at St. Ignatius Church, Parker and Fulton St., San Francisco, to raise awareness about conditions in Darfur. Under the direction of St. Ignatius organist, Jonathan Dimmock, the ensemble is in its third season. The 7:30 p.m. concert, titled “Life and Death: A Requiem for the Victims of Darfur,” will benefit relief organizations serving the 3.9 million people affected in the Sudan. Interpretive dancer, Noëlle Morris, will also perform. Ticket and concert information at www.ave-music.org. May 6: Cantate Domino! A concert of Gregorian Chant and Renaissance-era motets will be presented at the National Shrine of Saint Francis, 510 Vallejo St., at 4 p.m. These liturgical pieces of early Church music will be sung by the Shrine Schola: Lauren Groff, Elva MacGowan, Joseph Murphy, Alvin Tan, and Joanne Um. Contributions of $15 per person will be appreciated. For information, call (415) 983-0405. May 12: The St. Stephen Parish Choir in a fundraiser concert at 8 p.m. featuring choruses, arias and famous songs of great composers. Dawn Farry, soprano, and Miles Graber, piano, will lead the event with Angela Cadelago, soprano. Proceeds benefit church music ministry. Suggested donation is $15. Tickets available at the door and in advance. E-mail dawn.farry@gmail.com or call (925) 691-5584.

Reunions May 6: Class of ’52 from St. Cecilia Elementary School in San Francisco at Caesar’s Restaurant, Bay and Powell St. in San Francisco at 4 p.m. Call Marilyn Donelly at (650) 365-5192. May 11: The class of ’47 from the High School of Commerce is having a 60-year reunion at the Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco with social at noon and lunch at 1 p.m. Tickets are $25. Call John Kristovich at (650) 583-9152; Lorraine Reisinger at (650) 756-7735; or Bon Hughes at (415) 333-6236. May 19: All Class of 1942 alumnae of Presentation High School, San Francisco, are invited to a 65th Class Reunion Luncheon hosted by Cecelia Nihill Gaddini at the Cityscape Restaurant at the Hilton, San Francisco. Please contact Helen

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Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen at (415) 614-5596, or e-mail jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Check Web site for Bay Area events, or download quarterly newsletter at www.sfyam.org. May 11-13: Every Moment, God’s Time: A Retreat for Young Adults, ages 20-40.Young adults are welcome to share with a team of peers and older mentors, a weekend of prayerful conversations in the spirit of Kairos retreat tradition, recognizing the invitation of loving God in each moment at the Jesuit Retreat House in Los Altos. Visit www.sfyam.org for information and link. 2nd Sunday: Catholics in their 20s meet at various San Mateo locations for friendship and to discuss the Gospel and become active members of the Church. Contact: Catholic_20s@yahoogroups.com. Fridays at 7:30p.m.: Most Holy Redeemer young adults meet at 18th and Diamond Streets, San Francisco. Contact yag@mhr.org or www.mhr.org/yag.html. Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m.: St. Dominic young adults meet in parish hall at Bush and Steiner, San Francisco. Rosary precedes meeting at 7 p.m. in parish church. Contact: youngadults@stdominics.org or www.stdominics.org/youngadults. St.Thomas More Church and Catholic Campus Ministry offer liturgy on Sundays at 8 p.m. and 3rd Tuesdaya on the SFSU campus. St. Thomas More is located at 1300 Junipero Serra Blvd. at Brotherhood Way in San Francisco. Contact: newman@stmchurch.com or www.stmchurch.com/newman/. 2nd and 4th Monday: St. Vincent de Paul young adult group meets: “Just show up and be part of our community.” Meetings take place at Steiner and Green, San Francisco, at 7:30 p.m.

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‘Media Missionaries’ convene at St. Veronica, South San Francisco On March 24, 85 northern California Catholics gathered at St. Veronica Parish in South San Francisco for an Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) “Day of Recollection for Media Missionaries.” Media Missionaries are volunteers who promote EWTN, the 24-hour Catholic TV network, according to Jim Quinn who helped organize the retreat. The morning session included a video featuring Media Missionaries from around the United States. Later, Father Mark Mary, a Franciscan Missionary of the Eternal Word from EWTN’s studios outside Birmingham, Ala., gave a talk. The rosary, an opportunity for the sacrament of reconciliation, and Mass in St. Veronica Church followed. The afternoon featured a review of EWTN materials and an open symposium on promoting EWTN. The day ended with the Chaplet of Divine Mercy and a standing ovation for Father Edward Bohnert, St. Veronica pastor and a supporter of EWTN, Quinn noted.

“It was a wonderful day,” said Dr. Ron Konopaski of San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Parish, “and I was blown away by the large turnout.” “The enthusiasm was infectious,” said Judy Miller of Burlingame’s St. Catherine Parish. “Everything was upbeat. In this age of television, EWTN is part of a worldwide groundswell, and it’s working.” “We’re modern-day missionaries,” said Mundy Tomaneng of St. Augustine Parish in South San Francisco. “Just as the disciples going to Emmaus were unaware that Jesus was walking with them, so people today are unaware that Jesus and their Catholic faith can be with them via their own TV sets.” Last year EWTN celebrated the 25th anniversary of its founding by Mother Angelica, a Poor Clare nun from Ohio. Today EWTN is the world’s largest religious media outlet, according to Quinn. Contact Quinn for information on the Media Missionary Program, (650) 3483925.

Among participants in the March 24 day of recollection for Eternal World Television Network Media Missionaries at South San Francisco’s St. Veronica Parish were, from left: Brother Leo Mary and Father Mark Mary of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word from Birmingham, Ala., where EWTN operations are based; Mundy Tomaneng of St. Augustine Parish, South San Francisco, and Sally Reyes of Good Shepherd Parish, Pacifica.

Sister Lucia dos Santos is pictured at the age of 13, left, three years after she and two cousins experienced apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal. Sister Lucia died at the age of 97 on Feb. 13, 2005. Her book, “Calls,” and a documentary on the children’s visions are the topic of the TV program “Mosaic” this Sunday at 5 a.m. on KPIX/CBS, Channel 5.

Visionary’s doctor, Fatima filmmaker interviewed on ‘Mosaic’ this Sunday Dr. Branca Paul, the personal physician of the late Fatima visionary Sister Lucia dos Santos, and Thomas Mc Cormack, producer of a film documentary based on the Carmelite nun’s book, “Calls,” are interviewed on the local television program “Mosaic,” scheduled to be aired May 6 at 5 a.m. on KPIX/CBS, Channel 5. Hosted by Tom Burke and produced by Marta Rebagliati-Ribbeck of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Communications Department, the halfhour program will delve into the legendary story of apparitions of the Virgin Mary experienced at Fatima, Portugal in 1917 by three cousins, including Sister Lucia, then 10 years old. The pair’s Bay Area trip was planned to launch both Sister Lucia’s book, which “gives a unique insight into the message of Fatima,” say publishers, and to promote “The Call to Fatima,” a documentary based on the book and Sister Lucia’s other memoirs. Recipient of the St. Maximillian Kolbe award for education, “The Call to Fatima” is scheduled to be broadcast globally on the Eternal World Television

Network on May 13 to mark the 90th anniversary of the first apparition. McCormack spent four years filming the production, now available on DVD. Dr. Branca “knew Sister Lucia intimately for 15 years” until her death at the age of 97 on Feb. 13, 2005, according to a spokesperson for the promotional tour. Information on “The Call to Fatima” and “Calls” can be found at the Web site www.thecalltofatima.com. Other related Bay Area events include a planned an 8 a.m. Mass May 5 at Oakland’s St. Margaret Mary Parish, 1219 Excelsior Ave., followed by a talk on the book, film and visions themselves. Fluent in Spanish and English, Dr. Branca will answer participants’ questions in either language, planners said. On 13 May 1917, Sister Lucia and her two cousins – Francisco and Jacinta Marto, ages nine and seven – experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary while tending a small flock of sheep in the Cova da Iria Parish of Fatima. They experienced a series of Marian visions over the coming months, the last taking place on Oct. 13 with about 70,000 people present.

EWTN announces extensive coverage of papal Brazil trip Extensive coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s May 913 visit to Brazil is planned by Eternal Word Television Network, EWTN officials have announced, and will begin with a live telecast of his arrival and welcoming ceremonies, May 9 at 12:30 p.m., Pacific Time. The telecast will encore at 6 p.m. Coverage will resume on May 10 at 6:30 a.m. when the pope meets with the president of Brazil, with an encore presentation set for midnight. Later that day the pontiff’s three-hour meeting with young people will be shown, starting at 1:30 p.m. and encoring at 6 p.m. On May 11 the pope is scheduled to preside at a Mass and canonization ceremony from Campo de Marte, telecast beginning at 4:30 a.m. and encoring at 6 p.m. At 11:30 a.m., there will be coverage of the pope meeting with the bishops of Brazil at the Sao Paulo Cathedral. Papal arrival in nearby Aparecida, famous for its Marian shrine, will be shown at 3 p.m., On May he is scheduled to preside at the opening Mass of the fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean. The telecast will begin at 5 a.m. and encore at 9 p.m. The bishops’ conference is scheduled May 13-31. EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast Digital Ch. 229; RCN Ch. 80; DISH Satellite Ch. 261; and Direct TV Ch. 422. Comcast airs EWTN on Ch. 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Ch. 74 in southern San Mateo County. See Web site www.ewtn.com for updates,

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