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ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) — Arlington was awash with the brightly colored native costumes of countries in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and Europe as more than 700 women from 39 countries gathered for the a week-long international meeting of the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations.

The conference, which ended June 7, featured discussions of social justice and world peace. It was hosted by the National Council of Catholic Women, which is based in Arlington.

The conference featured speakers from around the world including Flaminia Giovanelli from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace; Father John Jai-Don Lee, the first priest to run the Office of Environmental Ministry in Seoul, Korea; and a panel of women peacemakers.

Maryann Cusimano Love, from the Center for International Social Development, spoke to the participants about justice and peace in a global UNITY, JUSTICE , PEACE, page 17

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Adults from 37 parishes receive Confirmation at St. Mary’s Cathedral

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Candidates for Confirmation stand as they are presented to Archbishop George H. Niederauer June 4 at Saint Mary’s Cathedral.

Three bishops were needed Pentecost Sunday as the largest class of adults in memory were confirmed at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. Archbishop George H. Niederauer and Auxiliary Bishops John C. Wester and Ignatius Wang confirmed 183 adults from 37 parishes at a Mass that was packed with the family, friends, sponsors and educators of the candidates.

Cathedral Pastor Father John Talesfore said the number of adults seeking confirmation has been growing every year. There are now two annual ceremonies, the other being the Feast of Christ the King, at which adults who were not confirmed in their childhood or adolescence are able to be “sealed with the Gift of the Holy Spirit,” completing for them the rites of Christian initiation.

In his homily, Archbishop Niederauer related the Sacrament of Confirmation to the feast on which it was celebrated. The

fullness of the Spirit “is poured out upon the Church for the first time on the Feast of Pentecost,” he said.

Jesus sent the Spirit to his “weak, human, sinful, limited followers” in order that they may continue the work of proclaiming the Good News of “forgiveness of sin and life with God now and forever,” Archbishop Niederauer explained. The Gospel of Luke portrays the Spirit as a “strong driving wind,” and “tongues as of fire,” Archbishop Niederauer said, “partly because wind and fire are irresistible natural forces; you can’t hold them back. . . The power of faith in the Good News of Jesus Christ can’t be held back when the Spirit acts.”

Humans are limited though, “we are not irresistible forces,” the archbishop said. “It is easy for us to hide our faith or set it conveniently to one side when we are threatened or challenged or tempted,” he CONFIRMATION, page 5

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By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Pentecost with hundreds of thousands of Catholics of different cultures, races and languages who have different ways of expressing and living their faith.

From the moment of Pentecost and throughout history, he said during a June 4 Mass in St. Peter’s Square, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit “transforms confusion into communion.”

The majority of people attending the Mass Pentecost morning were part of a gathering of at least 350,000 people who had filled St. Peter’s Square and the broad boulevard leading to it the previous evening for a papal vigil with members of lay movements and communities.

At the vigil and Mass, Pope Benedict called on the movements to work together with each other and with the church to bring God’s love to the world and to show modern men and women the beauty of a life lived for others.

“Human pride and selfishness always create divisions, raising walls of indifference, hatred and violence,” he said at the Mass. “The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, makes hearts able to understand everyone’s languages because it re-establishes the bridge of commu-

nication between earth and heaven. The Holy Spirit is love.”

The Pentecost vigil brought together members of Catholic charismatic groups, lay movements connected with religious orders, traditional parish-based organizations like the Legion of Mary, and new movements like Communion and Liberation, the Neocatechumenal Way, the Focolare movement, L’Arche, the Sant’Egidio Community, Cursillo and the Christian Life Communities.

In his homily at the vigil, Pope Benedict praised the movements as schools for helping Catholics learn to live according to the Spirit and for sharing the Christian message with the world.

The pope said that in learning about the Holy Spirit people must first look at nature because the world is the work of the Spirit, the creative force of God. While Pentecost is the feast of the church’s birth, he said, it is also the “feast of creation.”

“The world does not exist on its own; it comes from the creative spirit of God, the creative word of God,” he said.

Recognizing that God created the world, he said, means “we cannot use and abuse the world and matter simply as material for our

Six men to be ordained permanent deacons at St Mary’s Cathedral Archbishop George H. Niederauer will ordain six men to the permanent deaconate June 25 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. The faithful of the Archdiocese are invited to attend the ceremonies.

The six being ordained as permanent deacons are Larry Chatman, Richard P. Foley, Michael E. Murphy, Thomas T. Reardon, John H. Rittenhouse and Benjamin S. Salvan.

Deacon candidates take part in a five-year program of formation and study. In the first year of aspirancy, each candidate discerns his vocation more closely, and the Archdiocese considers each man’s qualification for the office. The next four years include study and practical experience in parishes and ministries of the Archdiocese.

Following ordination, new deacons are assigned by Archbishop Niederauer to minister in a parish or organization of the Archdiocese. New deacons, who are mentored by senior deacons, are welcomed into the ordained deacon community and participate in activities and ongoing study programs.

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At Pentecost vigil, Mass, pope urges lay movements to work together

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass on Pentecost in St. Peter’s Square. He called on lay movements to work with each other and the church to bring God’s love to the world.

own actions and desires; we must consider creation to be a gift entrusted to us.”

The pope said it is no accident that monasteries tend to be surrounded by gardens, because nature prospers where human hearts are in a correct relationship with God. Unfortunately, he said, “over the course of human history, the good creation of God has been covered with a massive layer of dirt which makes it difficult, if not impossible, to see the reflection of the creator in it.”

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“Now we know the Creator-Spirit has a heart. He is love,” he said.

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Archbishop Niederauer’s homily Remembrance is theme of Memorial Day Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery More than 700 people from around the archdiocese marked Memorial Day by participating in a Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma for those who died defending the United States in time of war.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer was celebrant, assisted by Father Daniel Nascimento of St. Anne of the Sunset, Father Joe Landi of St. Cecilia, Deacon Pete Pelimiano and Lt. Col. Father Michael Padazinski, Judicial Vicar for the archdiocese and Air Force chaplain.

Mass was held in the center of the main mausoleum where former archbishops and bishops of San Francisco are interred.

Archbishop Niederauer used the Cathedra, or bishop’s chair, originally belonging to first Archbishop of San Francisco Joseph Sadoc Alemany.

Following is Archbishop Niederauer’s homily for the Mass.

We Catholics gather in this cemetery today to pray for all of those who have died, but especially, on Memorial Day, for those you have died in defense of the country and its people, its liberties. But our beliefs about life and death come not from our citizenship but from our religious faith.

We believe that Jesus Christ changed forever what is true about the meaning of human life and death.

It was not always so. One writer gives this example of despair in an ancient Roman epitaph: “I was not; I became; I am not; I care not.” Listen to the Roman poet Catullus: “When once our brief light sets, there is one perpetual night through which we must sleep.” We believe that Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, replaces that view with the truth about himself, and also the truth about us. The prophet Isaiah had foretold that God would destroy death, would rip away the veil that veils all people, the web woven over all nations. We believe that Jesus is the Savior Isaiah foresaw. The Risen Jesus Christ is stronger than death, and our union with him by our faith in him is stronger than death as well.

In the Gospel of John, which we just heard read, Jesus declared: “All the Father gives me shall come to me. I will reject no one; I will lose none.” Jesus promises directly and forcefully: “Everyone who looks upon the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life. Him I will raise up on the last day.”

The eternal memory of God in His Son Jesus Christ is stronger than death. Jesus Christ remembers we are his, if we remember. That is the key. Father William Bausch has a powerful reflection on Memorial Day; he says that the day’s very name, “Memorial,” tells us that we should not forget, but remember. Especially on this day we remember all those who died in the various wars to make us free. But consider the word itself: “re-member.” We are called to “remember,” re-connect, because forgetting is the great sin.

Why? The early Christians said that all sin stems from forgetting who we are, forgetting that we are connected: to God, to God’s creation, and to one another.

Deacon Pelimiano, Archbishop Niederauer, Father Michael Padazinski and an altar server at Holy Cross Cemetery’s Memorial Day Mass. Archbishop Alemany’s Cathedra is seen in the background.

For example, if we forget that we are part of God’s creation, connected with all the rest of what He made, and are its stewards, it’s that much easier to pollute the rivers and seas and air, and to lay waste the land. If we forget that we are human beings responsible for our actions, it is easier to cut down anyone or anything that gets in our way. If we forget that the human person lives on more than bread alone, we turn ourselves into consuming machines. If we forget the sacred value of each human life, it is easy to favor abortion or euthanasia or capital punishment. If we forget that we belong to the human family, the Mystical Body of Christ, we easily give in to those who tell us that we are merely “individuals” with lots of rights and no obligations, and there is no higher course than “doing our own thing.”

If we forget our holy days and allow them to become holidays, then the holidays quickly become – days for special sales. So Memorial Day, for instance, is not really for remembering, re-connecting with those fallen in our wars for our sakes. Instead it is a time for Memorial Day sales.

If we forget that we are children of God, made to God’s image and likeness, and that we have tremendous dignity, we also forget that, because we are God’s children, there are certain things we simply must never do or say or take part in, because we would betray God’s life within us, within each other.

People do terrible things because they have forgotten who they are. That’s why, to keep their children in line, parents used to speak a truth deeper than they realized: “Remember who you are.” Meaning, no matter what the other kids do, remember who you are. You’re not just any-

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body, a face in the crowd. You’re our son or daughter, and you must act accordingly. God says the same thing: You are my Beloved child, and you must act accordingly.

Do you remember the turning point for the Prodigal Son? It was when he remembered. He remembered his father’s house, his full plate, his home. Here he was, a nameless, faceless nobody swilling the pigs, until he remembered he was more than that. He remembered he had a name, he had a home, he had a father who loved him.

When he remembered who he was and whose child he was, he repented and remembered, reconnected with the source of his dignity.

The earliest Christians were right. Forgetfulness is the source of all sin. Kids do drugs, spouses have affairs, men beat up their wives and children, employers and workers cheat each other, people hate and feed their prejudices because they have lost a sense of who they are, whose children they are. They are spiritual amnesiacs.

The men and women of the armed services, whom we honor today, remembered who they were, remembered that, yes, they were their brothers’ and their sisters’ keepers, and they sacrificed their lives for our sakes. On this Memorial Day we should renew our memories of who we are and teach our children who they are: the inter-connected children of the same God of us all, responsible stewards of creation, their brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, bearing the image of Jesus, their Savior. Indeed, Jesus has promised to raise us up from our graves on the last day, if we believe in him and live out that belief in our daily lives. He has promised to remember that we are his forever, if we remember too.

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Catholic San Francisco receives national awards For the seventh consecutive year, Catholic San Francisco received honors in the annual Catholic Press Association award competition, which judges submissions by Catholic newspapers throughout the United States and Canada.

Results were announced May 26 at the culmination of a three-day Catholic Media Convocation in Nashville, Tenn.

The 2006 awards considered work completed in the 2005 calendar year.

A Catholic San Francisco editorial titled “Shame of San Francisco,” by Maurice Healy, took second place in the category of “best editorial on a local or regional issue.” The editorial concerned the civil rights of participants in the first Walk for Life West Coast, which took place in January 2005.

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Catholic San Francisco, established in February 1999, has won awards for its editorials in each of the seven years the newspaper has been eligible to submit entries.

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Since it was founded in 1999, Catholic San Francisco has won three-dozen CPA awards including recognition in 2004 for general excellence.

Confirmation . . .

Janet Ross has coordinated the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults at Sts. Peter and Paul Church for seven years, and previously at other parishes. She has noted a shift in the reason people seek adult confirmation and even adult baptism in recent years. The great bulk of candidates in the past consisted of those for whom confirmation was an encouraged, though not required, step to being married in the Catholic Church. More and more, younger people whose parents came of age in the 1960s and decided to “let their children make up their own mind about religion,” are coming back to Church, she said.

“They are looking for a real spirituality in their life and they see the Catholic Church offers a real tradition and foundation they can connect to.”

The desire to get more serious about faith comes often through the witness of friends, Ross said. “They see how their friends practice their faith and they see their friends’ conviction to God and the Catholic Church.”

Those seeking adult confirmation through Sts. Peter and Paul are required, among other things, to attend seven of the weekly meetings lasting eight months for those going through though the full RCIA process leading to Baptism or reception in the Church. Although it is not required, many of those seeking confirmation have taken part in the entire RCIA process because they feel they “need an update on the whole Catholic faith.”

Ross sees the level of commitment among those seeking both Baptism and Confirmation increasing over recent years.

“Sometimes you hope they stay with it,” she said, “but this is a group that is truly committed to what they’ve professed.”

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The Spirit received in the Sacrament of Confirmation “gives us the gifts we need to live out our faith, and to share in the life of the Church,” Archbishop Niederauer said. The operation of the Spirit in the soul of a believer is so important that “St. Paul says a Catholic Christian cannot even say, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ unless the Holy Spirit within him gives him the light and the power to do so.”

The gifts of the Spirit are many and varied to different people in different places and times with different roles, Archbishop Niederauer explained, but “The Spirit makes one reality out of the great variety of the Catholic Church throughout the world.” Archbishop Niederauer challenged the congregation to see that beyond the “wide, even wild diversity” of the Church, “the words of Jesus are proclaimed to all, and the body and blood of Jesus is given to all, and the life and teachings of the Catholic Church continue the works of his first apostles.”

Fr. Talesfore credits the increase in the number of those receiving adult confirmation on the greater familiarity pastors now have with the process of adult preparation. He also said the assistance of the Archdiocese Office of Religious Education in providing catechesis “is making it easier for adults to get confirmed.”

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Expert urges national focus on crisis of 46 million uninsured ORLANDO, Fla. — A leading health care advocate this week urged leaders at the annual meeting of the Catholic Health Association to “keep the heat turned up” on the issue of the nation’s 46 million uninsured until Congress is convinced that the American public wants it to solve the problem. Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J., said Catholic health care “fielded an army of volunteers” at various events during the recent Cover the Uninsured Week observance, which her foundation coordinates each year. She encouraged the Catholic health leaders to tell anyone who will listen that “Congress won’t act (on health care) until you do.” Quoting Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, recently retired archbishop of Washington, LavizzoMourey said getting health coverage for the uninsured “is not just another policy goal” but “an ethical imperative.”

Overcome ‘enemy’ view of Iran, Pax Christi official tells Americans WASHINGTON — Americans have to overcome a negative stereotype of Iran so that they can better assess Bush administration claims that the Muslim nation is planning to build nuclear weapons, said Dave Robinson, executive director of Pax Christi USA. “Enemy imaging dominates the U.S. media,” he said. This makes Americans “easy targets” for accepting a U.S. “preventive war” against Iran rather than a negotiated solution, he said. “I have no idea if Iran has or not plans to make nuclear weapons,” said Robinson. But the U.S. is promoting a fear that plans exist rather than saying it has evidence of a nuclear weapons program, he said. Robinson was interviewed June 2 by Catholic News Service after returning from a 12-day trip to Iran in May. He was part of a 25-member delegation of mostly U.S. peace activists organized by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an international interfaith peace movement.

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Churches get funding for marriage programs WASHINGTON — Catholic and Protestant leaders praised the Bush administration for making $100 million in new funds available to programs that strengthen marriage in America. After four years of rejecting President George W. Bush’s Healthy Marriage Initiative, Congress passed the proposal in May. Five religious leaders and marriage advocates spoke about the initiative at a press conference hosted by Marriage Savers, a nonprofit organization that aims to reduce the nation’s growing divorce rate. “Marriage is the community’s responsibility,” said Bishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Knoxville, Tenn., chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Marriage and Family Life. “Good marriages cannot exist in a vacuum. We need to ... take action.”

More Americans oppose embryonic stem-cell research, survey finds

into believing that most Americans back the use of federal funds for research that kills embryos, according to an official of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities. Richard M. Doerflinger, deputy director of the pro-life office, cited a new poll that showed 48 percent of Americans oppose federal funding of stem-cell research that requires destroying human embryos, while only 39 percent support such funding. The rest said they didn’t know or refused to answer. When told that scientists disagree on whether embryonic stem cells or adult stem cells would “end up being more successful in treating diseases,” 57 percent of survey respondents said they favored research “using adult stem cells and other alternatives, to see if there is no need to destroy human embryos for research.” Only 24 percent said they would support “all methods, including those that require destroying human embryos, to see which will be most successful.”

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By Tom Burke Arlene Fife has been principal of Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School for 17 years. The Parkside District native remembers having teaching in her sights since childhood.

“On my block growing up there were four of us who wanted to be teachers and we’d play school in our basements,” Arlene told Catholic San Francisco.

“One of our students was entertainer Bob Sarlatte. He was the little kid on the block.”

A graduate of St. Cecilia Elementary School and Mercy High School, San Francisco, Arlene later earned degrees at San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco. She cut her teeth as a teacher in the public schools of Daly City. She later accepted a position on the faculty at OLM where she was named principal in 1989.

Arlene’s husband is retired San Francisco Police Captain Robert Fife.

Their life together began July 19, 1969 just as America was making its first trip to the moon. They are longtime residents of the Westlake District as well as parishioners of Our Lady Mercy. Their sons, Robert and Chris both attended the parish school.

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Educator is thankful for Catholic faith “Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to be a principal,” Arlene said, naming plant management as the biggest downside to the principal’s role. “We have a very good person taking care of that now,” she said laughing, “but before that I spent a lot of time taping pipes and doing whatever else needed to be done in that area. A leak can take very high priority.”

Arlene firmly believes in Catholic education and its benefits to students and the wider community. “Catholic education has an enormous place in the world today,” she said. “First, because of the values-based education we provide. We do an excellent job in the academic area and our standards are higher. We weave into it, too, making decisions based on morals – ‘What is the right thing to do?’”

Arlene said her career is not something she accomplished alone. “I am grateful to the many people who have assisted me along the way,” Arlene said, naming Rita Carroll, principal, St. Pius School in Redwood City, and Mercy Sister Pauline Borghello, principal, St. Gabriel school as close colleagues. “They are both incredible educators.”

Arlene also is grateful to the faculty and staff at Our Lady of Mercy. “We have a close group here. They aren’t clones of one another in any way, shape or form.

We have people of different ages and ethnicity and philosophies but we are a community. We work as a team and things go as well when I’m not here as when I am.”

“My happiest moments are when students come back and tell us what they are doing and affirm that OLM has been important to them and played a major role in their lives.”

“You had to hug everybody - the stu-

dents, the faculty and staff,” Arlene said recalling the time following the attacks of September 11, 2001. “You can’t forget that moment seeing the fear and the heartbreak.” Also among her saddest moments as an educator was the death of founding OLM pastor, Msgr. Richard W. Power who led the parish from 1954 to 1981. “He was incredible,’ she said.

“Enjoy what you’re doing and feel lucky that people have entrusted their children to you,” is Arlene’s guiding thought to new teachers.

Even though she admits to “hard times sometimes,” Arlene said she would choose education as a career again.

“There is an incredible amount of joy watching students learn and grow and mature. There is nothing like it. This is the best job in the world.”

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Archbishop Niederauer speaks at forum on ‘The Da Vinci Code’ Speaking at an evening panel discussion at St. Thomas More Church in San Francisco May 31, Archbishop George H. Niederauer said one of the reasons for the success of the Dan Brown book, “The Da Vinci Code,” is that “a large readership is not knowledgeable about the history of Christianity.”

This general lack of knowledge regarding the development of the early Church, he told an audience of about 250 people, is compounded by our “fondness for conspiracy.”

For example, people may accept as fact Brown’s statement in the book that Constantine in 325 A.D. was responsible for choosing the Gospels in the New Testament. However, the New Testament Gospels were accepted as the canon of the Church well before the time of Constantine.

In his earlier commentary in Catholic San Francisco (May 5), Archbishop Niederauer said, “By 150 A.D. (175 years before Constantine), Christian writers were listing the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John as the most reliable sources of information about the life of Jesus and the faith of the apostles.”

The Archbishop said one critic (Mark Gopnik in The New Yorker) was on the mark in observing that if a cultural anthropologist looked at the phenomenon of “The Da Vinci Code” from the perspective of 100 years from now, the conclusion might be that spirituality in the this era was simply an immense openness to cult superstitions of all kinds.

The Archbishop also noted Brown’s almost exclusive identification of the Catholic Church as villain in the book. He compared its impact to “The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk,” an anti-Catholic book first published in 1836. The book, which luridly portrayed decadent behavior of priests and nuns, and the murder of their innocent children, was a sensational success.

However, investigative work by Colonel William Stone, a Protestant newspaper editor, led to the debunking of the book.

Nonetheless, it remained in print for many years and many people continued to believe its deceptions.

Kelly Macatangay, a member of Opus Dei, also was on the panel of speakers. She and her husband are natives of The Philippines. They lived in the United Kingdom for several years before coming to America in 1999. In her professional life, she is a Silicon Valley

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She explained that the members of Opus Dei are committed to seeking Christ and helping others find Christ. The 87,000 members of Opus Dei worldwide (4,000 in the United States) try to live seriously their Christian vocation.

Opus Dei members focus on personal sanctification, with the goal of holiness in their ordinary lives. In their Apostolate, they also work to help other people discern the spiritual meaning in all aspects of their lives.

Ms. Kelly Macatangay explains the tenets of the Opus Dei movement at forum.

She said, “By sanctifying our work, we may help transform the world, one person at a time.”

A well-spoken, intelligent and articulate woman, Ms. Macatangay’s presentation refuted the portrait of Opus Dei painted by Dan Brown in “The Da Vinci Code.”

Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun magazine, also was a member of the panel.

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Institute’s programs seek to help priests thrive at every stage of life are crucial to being effective ministers. Father Myers said good relationships among priests Tucked away in a comfortable corner of St. have a positive effect on other relationships.

“It doesn’t just happen that we support Patrick Seminary and University in Menlo Park, the Vatican II Institute is a resource for each other and care about each other and lisclergy seeking refreshment and better ways to ten to each other and have a sense that we are working together rather than serve.

“That is our goal,” said Sulpician Father working separately or even James Myers, Vatican II Institute director. worse working in competi“How do we help priests thrive? How can we tion with one another,” he devise the types of programs that facilitate that said Father Myers said the profundamental desire to thrive?”

“I operate on a core assumption that people gram for recently ordained are drawn to priesthood because of a deep priests is now in its fifth year. desire to give themselves to the Lord for the “The program is for priests in San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John Wester with Father Francisco enrichment and building up of the people of their first five years of minGamez, left, ordained 2003, Sulpician Father James Myers, Vatican II God. They want to thrive. They want to be istry, a critically important Institute director, Father Linh Nguyen, ordained 2004, and Father Mark happy, successful and very effective ministers time for priests and a criticalReburiano, ordained 2005, in sacristy of St. Patrick’s Seminary chapel. ly important time to offer of the Gospel. They want to find joy and be support and encouragement ministers of joy.”

Father Myers, a former pastor of San for priests.”

Director of the Theological now a parochial vicar at St. Elizabeth Parish in The program focuses on Sally Gomez-Kelly spoke Field Education Program at San Francisco, was among three-dozen new Francisco’s St. John the Evangelist Parish, at a Vatican II Institute spoke with Catholic San Francisco on a lunch the particular issues newly the Oblate School of priests representing Dioceses including program for recently break from the Institute’s “Continuing ordained priests are facing Theology in San Antonio, Sacramento, Fresno, San Bernardino, Stockton, ordained priests.

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“Across a lifetime of priesthood our hope is of assignment together so they can reflect “We said at the very beginning that there to learn more about the multi-cultural parish,” to find ways to support priests in all their expe- on their ministry around the topic of their is no recipe for this. It is dealing with it day Father Reburiano said. “This workshop will rience,” Father Myers said. “The ongoing for- experience with cultural diversity,” he said. in and day out and the tensions that come help me in my day to day parish ministry not The growing diversity of Catholic com- with this kind of growth. We want these new only now but in years ahead.” mation of priests is more than continuing education. It’s more than going to seminars and munities today is not a new phenomenon, priests to see it as an opporworkshops. It’s more about recognizing the crit- Father Myers said. “The Church has always tunity for them to grow and ical moments of development in our lives been a multi-lingual community from its the community to grow.” whether it’s starting off as a priest, starting off inception and has always been faced with the “I hope when the new Date: Thursday, June 15, 2006 Time: 9:30 am as a pastor, transitioning to a new assignment, opportunity and challenge of transcending priests leave here they leave Taraval Police Station/Community Room – FREE BREAKFAST! 2345 24th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94116 approaching retirement. All of those things are culture – welcoming diversity among cul- energized about this great (between Santiago and Taraval Streets) not just moments in life. They are wonderful tures, fashioning unity among cultures and challenge but nonetheless Miren R. Alvarez, Reverse Mortgage Specialist spiritual opportunities. Our approach to forma- being a witness in the world in that process.” great moment in the Church.

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By Patricia Zapor WASHINGTON (CNS) — A group of U.S. religious leaders, including Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali and Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley, attended a June 5 briefing by President George W. Bush on the proposed Marriage Protection Amendment.

At the briefing, held at Eisenhower Executive Office Building next door to the White House, Bush said amending the Constitution was the only way to “take this issue out of the hands of over-reaching judges and put it back where it belongs — in the hands of the American people.”

Bush called marriage between a man and a woman the most enduring and important human institution. He noted that 45 states have passed laws or constitutional amendments defining marriage as only between a man and a woman.

The bill, which was on the Senate calendar for a June 6 vote, would add a two-sentence amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It reads: “Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution, nor the constitution of any state, shall be construed to require that marriage or the legal incidents

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Pope: Church does not stifle love ROME – Speaking at a religious education conference June 5, Pope Benedict XVI said young people should understand that the church does not want to “suffocate” the joy of love between a man and a woman. “Adolescents and young people, who feel inside themselves an urgent call to love, need to be liberated from the widespread prejudice that Christianity, with its commandments and prohibitions, places too many barriers to the joy of love,” he said. “On the contrary, Christian faith and ethics do not want to suffocate love but rather make it healthy, strong and truly free. This is the sense of the Ten Commandments, which are not a series of ‘noes’ but a great ‘yes’ to love and life,” he said.

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Cardinal Justin Rigali and leaders of other faiths talk with press after marriage amendment briefing by President Bush June 5.

thereof be conferred upon any union other than the union of a man and a woman.”

Bush pointed out that since 2004 courts in Washington State, California, Maryland, New York and Nebraska have overturned similar laws. He said nine states face lawsuits challenging their marriage laws banning same-sex marriage.

Cardinal Rigali told reporters he was impressed by the quality of Bush’s knowledge of the issues behind the constitutional amendment campaign. He said the U.S. bishops are firm supporters of the amendment.

In addition to Cardinal Rigali, seven U.S. cardinals and nine archbishops and bishops have signed a petition by the Religious Coalition for Marriage urging support for the amendment.

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In a statement released by his office, Cardinal Rigali said, “Those who would seek to redefine the institution of marriage are asking society to give up something it does not have the right to relinquish. Marriage is given to us by God. It is the sacred union of one man and one woman for the purpose of procreation, part of God’s plan for the human race.”

He said marriage is not the construction of any particular religion, nor is it a legalism, but part of God’s universal law.

“That is why unions that are not between one man and one woman cannot possibly receive the approbation of society, law and culture,” the statement said.

Both Cardinal Rigali in his statement and Bush said that the rights of all people deserve to be respected.

“The church has consistently taught that the dignity and rights of homosexual persons must be respected,” Cardinal Rigali said.

Bush said that as the amendment is debated “every American deserves to be treated with tolerance and respect and dignity. On an issue of this great significance, opinions are strong and emotions run deep. And all of us have a duty to conduct this discussion with civility and decency toward one another.”

Passing an amendment to the Constitution requires the approval of two-thirds of the House and two-thirds of the Senate, as well as ratification by three-quarters of the states.

The last amendment to the Constitution, the 27th, was completed in 1992, after being proposed by Congress 203 years earlier in 1789. It says no changes in compensation for members of Congress may take effect until after an election cycle.

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Arlington Hotel built in 1906 in called ‘An Island of Sobriety.’

By Evelyn Zappia

For example, “An ex-client returns to let us know he’s clean and sober, One drug prevalent on the streets and widely used is crack. It is an zanam Center, a substance abuse detoxification and recovery has a permanent job, and is beginning to love life without drugs,” she said. inexpensive and potent version of cocaine. It can be bought in the facility managed by the Saint Vincent de Paul Society of San “Every day is someone’s anniversary of sobriety. And the City of San Francisco Tenderloin District cheaply and with little difficulty.

Francisco (SVdP), opened its doors an astonishing 44,000 informs us that Ozanam is a vital and important agency,” she said.

“It is impure and very dangerous,” said Saint Joseph Sister Katie times last year to help low income and homeless men and women battling MacLeod has witnessed hundreds and hundreds of success stories O’Shea, SVdP chaplain. “People using it deteriorate fast. There are things addiction to drugs and alcohol. “We take people in without judgment,” throughout her 27 years working at Ozanam. But the one story she still “marthat happen to them that can’t be turned around. There can be a breaksaid Peter Wise, SVdP Executive Director. vels” at is her own success of sobriety since 1970. “I tell other survivors ‘don’t down in their mental and physical health,” she said.

The Center, located in the South of Market Area was established in ever become complacent, and respect your efforts so they won’t be in vain.’”

1978, and named after the founder of the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, “Oz” has also been a training ground for people who have not worked Frederic Ozanam, a young French nobleman, who challenged the citizens for many years. “It has helped many, many people get back into the workforce of Paris in 1833 to do something about the city’s devastating poverty. and the mainstream of living,” said MacLeod, who also explained that Called “Oz” by staff members and clients, the Center is described most of the staff members at “Oz” are in different stages of recovery.

by Wise as “a stepping stone” to a near miracle that often involves The Ozanam Center is one of SVdP’s five major proreturning six or seven times before achieving sobriety. grams that “focus on helping the marginalized among At right, Saint “For the vast majority, addiction is brutal,” he us who are most in need,” said Wise.

Joseph Sister said. “Some have been struggling for years. The fact SVdP’s Multi-Service Center is the largest Katie O’Shea that clients keep trying is an example of success.” homeless shelter in Northern California with space conducting a “Oz” receives about 70 clients a day for 345 residents. Wise describes it as “a 24-hour scripture reading. seeking assistance to get clean and sober a day cacophony of people, needs, and inspifrom alcohol and drugs. About 10 perration – and the highway to housing.”

Below, Erica Hunter, cent of the clients are women.

It’s where Sister Katie spends a lot There are three very important of time. Quite a different area for the program aide, and Jamie components to “Oz” that support native San Franciscan and graduFrederick, case manager. clients who are struggling with ate of Star of the Sea Academy. their addiction in various stages.

The Carondelet Sister of St. The Drop-in Center provides Joseph leads scripture readings a sober and supportive environevery Tuesday and Thursday ment for people just beginning mornings at the Center. Although or continuing recovery. The it is not a requirement to attend, services offered include inforsome 20 male guests attend the mation and referrals to other sessions regularly, and hold programs and medical services; meaningful discussions about money management assistance; God and their faith, she said. daily Alcoholics Anonymous and Sister also chases down Narcotics Anonymous support toothpaste, deodorant, blankets, meetings; and education and sheets, socks, and shaving cream relapse prevention programs. The – just about anything that will Drop-in Center provides support to make the guests comfortable. over 40,000 guest cases each year.

As chaplain she is available to Left, ‘People who come Ozanam’s Withe Reception all guests who may need to speak to Center helps more than 7,200 individher. “It’s not what you do for them – it’s here have a chance to Above, Nathan Lawson, uals yearly, focusing on short-term recuhow you treat them,” said Sister Katie. She improve their lives with Case Manager at peration. It is a person’s entry point into explained, “I finally feel like I’m doing what our help – and a lot Ozanam, and detoxification. Guests are provided nutritious all Sisters were put on this earth for – working of them do!’Thomas Roderick Toliver meals, showers and bathroom facilities. The among people who everybody else discards.”

Jennings, assistant of the Multi guests receive health assessment and referrals to Nathan Lawson said, “At MSC we try to stabimaintenance Service Center. medical facilities, and counseling. lize them, get them off the street, and help them to supervisor at The guests may stay a few hours, or a few days. All rework their lives and get back on to a path where they the MSC are encouraged to continue and further their treatment to can succeed. It’s all done with great respect.”

Center. progress to the stage of recovery. At maximum, the facility houses The Vincentian Help Desk provides clothing and food for the 28 men and 7 women. needy. Guests are treated with dignity as they drop by the desk and are told they Ozanam’s Howard Street Detox facility provides over 2,000 people a may choose one article of each: pants, shirts, jackets, shoes and food basket. Wise year with a secure and supportive setting as they go through withdrawal. said additional items like pots and pans are available to those who need them.

Lori Bugaj, administrator, said that it takes three days for alcohol to leave The Help Desk is open four days a week and assists about 10,000 indithe system, and can be much longer for other drugs.

Sister explained the feet are the first indication that the drug is affecting viduals and 260 families a year. The Society’s 28 Parish Conferences, two Great attention is paid to the guests. They are monitored, provided with the body. Many heavy users have a distinctive walk where the feet flop, she said.

Grammar School Conferences, and six Program Sites in San Francisco donate daily 12-Step meetings, counseling sessions, referrals to other agencies and Dependence on the drug can be so severe that some users resort to most of the merchandise. The Vincentian volunteers assist in the organization programs, and given a detailed treatment and recovery plan for them to folcunning tactics to purchase the illegal substance. Some users spend their and distribution of the merchandise, along with contributing their time. low. The facility can help a maximum of 32 men and 10 women at one time.

The Riley Center is a safe haven for women and children overSSI (Supplemental Security Income) to acquire it. Others use their $48 If a client displays genuine interest in continuing treatment in a trancoming domestic violence. It is a continuum of Rosalie House, SVdP’s first Care for Cash County Program Money, according to Lawson. sitional program “Oz” staff members will arrange interviews, and assist shelter founded in 1983.

“Panhandling, stealing and prostitution are other methods used to the client with finding shelter while waiting for an opening to become Every year more than 1,000 women seek help at the Riley Center that offers keep the habit,” said Lawson. But on the flip side, in his three years at SVdP available. The transitional program can last from 60 days to two years. safe and confidential services for women with children in an abusive relationship he has witnessed “many success stories.”

Unfortunately, the wait can be long. There are not enough programs He recalled one story about a “gentleman” who was just released from through Rosalie House, Brennan House, the Community Office, and CalWORKS. in San Francisco to serve the vast numbers of low income and homeless The Arlington Hotel is nicknamed “An Island of Sobriety.” The San Quentin after serving a 24-year prison sentence for murder. “He was people seeking help for their addictions, according to Nathan Lawson, an huge structure built in 1906 stands in the heart of the Tenderloin District straight up with me,” said Lawson. “He wanted to get stabilized, and continue “Oz” case manager. on Ellis Street and provides housing for 173 residents who have been clean his recovery from drugs and alcohol.” SVdP assisted him in securing housing.

“A good majority of the people seen at SVdP’s facilities have organic He recounted that one day, while he was walking down the street, he and sober for a minimum of six months. mental issues such as bipolar disease or schizophrenia which often prevent “The sole criteria for receiving help from SVdP is need,” said Wise. “On our heard someone shouting his name. It was the same “gentleman” who was them from succeeding,” Lawson said. best days not only more than 1,000 lives are touched, but souls are transformed.” now driving a taxicab. He told Lawson he was preparing to take a Muni He blames the crisis on the deinstitutionalization of long-term mental Transforming those souls are Wise’s 135 staff members who believe if Test, to hopefully become a San Francisco bus driver. He credited his new health facilities in the 1980’s. “These people have nowhere to go. They end they gently nudge the courage inside a guest, he or she may ultimately success in life to the Society, and thanked Lawson. up on the streets, treating their mental illness with alcohol or drugs,” he said. find the strength to face the journey of sobriety they hope for each day.

Rosemary MacLeod, Program Director of “Oz,” describes the center as “They worked their way down the ladder to nothing,” said Wise.

Wise praises the work ethic and genuine caring the staff displays for a place with “much to brag about,” and where all celebrations are mean“Imagine the difficulty of being captive – with nothing.” each guest. “They do so many things for so many - every day,” he said. ingful. “There’s something to make one feel proud every day,” she said.

(PHOTOS BY EVELYN ZAPPIA AND CATHERINE BARRY)

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HELPING SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL The St. Vincent de Paul Society was established in San Francisco in 1860. For over 145 years, need has been the only requirement to receive help.

About 85 percent of the population that St. Vincent De Paul Society of San Francisco serves is homeless, 15 percent are women. About 80 percent are between the ages of 36 and 65 years old.

Among its substance abuse cases the greatest number is for alcohol use, followed by cocaine and heroin. However, the majority of clients are treated for abuse of multiple substances.

To help you can give online donations at www.svdp-sf.org and also learn more about the Society.

Donations by mail may be sent by check payable to The Saint Vincent de Paul Society, 425 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.

Donations may also be made by calling (415) 977-1270 x 3016. Callers may also use this number to make an appointment to donate in person for any questions about SVdP’s programs.

One of the shelter’s women receives dinner in the canteen.

Ozanam guests in front of the South of Market Center.

Ozanam guest Patrick Bahlmann.

A Help Desk volunteer serves pastries and coffee to the waiting shoppers.

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In the News Vatican document on family, procreation

By Vatican News Service The Pontifical Council for the Family, founded 25 years ago by John Paul II with the Motu Proprio “Familia a Deo Instituta,” and presided by Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, today (June 6) published a document entitled: “Family and Human Procreation.”

The text, according to an explanatory note written by Fr. Abelardo Lobato O.P., consultor of the pontifical council, “is destined to be an object of study, both for its doctrine and in its pastoral application.” The document opens with “an introduction to the theme of the relationship between ... the family and procreation.”

This theme is then developed over four chapters covering “procreation; why the family is the only appropriate place for it; what is meant by integral procreation within the family; and what social, juridical, political, economic and cultural aspects does service to the family entail” The fifth chapter presents the theme “from two complementary perspectives: the theological, in that the family is an image of the Trinity; and the pastoral, because the family lies at the foundation of the Church and is a place of evangelization.”

“The document,” the explanatory note continues, “makes reference above all to Vatican Council II, to Pope John Paul II who dedicated great attention to these matters, and to the recent ‘Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.’ All this means that the document aims not only to find a doctrinal approach to the problem, but also to open doors to future research on the questions that are the object of discussion today.”

The introduction evokes the words of John Paul II in Puebla, Mexico, in 1979, where “he affirmed that the Church possesses the truth about man and at the same time seeks the truth entire. Man is not just a ‘rational animal,’ he is also familial. The family is connatural to man and was instituted by God. But today man has become a great enigma to himself and lives through the most acute crisis of his history in its family dimension: the family is subject to attack as never before; the new models of the family destroy it; procreation techniques jettison human love; the politics of birth control lead to the current ‘demographic winter.’ ... Along these paths ... we deviate towards a ‘post-human’ world. It is necessary to save man.”

An understanding of human procreation, the text goes on, may be attained from various perspectives: “the historical,” reaffirming the value historically attached to having descendants, “the anthropological, ... and the religious, which places man before God the Creator, Who infuses a soul into each individual and relies on man’s cooperation to achieve the fullness of human existence.”

The explanatory note continues: “Procreation is the means of transmitting life by the loving union of man and woman,” and it “must be truly human.”

This means that it must be the “fruit of the actions of man,” and the “fruit of a human act, free, rational, and responsible for the transmission of life. ...

The unitive act of man and woman cannot be separated from its connatural dimension, which is that of procreation and which makes responsible paternity and maternity possible. Only on this personal basis can conjugal morality be understood.

“The Church’s doctrinal documents, such as the Encyclical ‘Humanae vitae,’ and the Apostolic Exhortation ‘Familiaris consortio,’ refer to the fundamental principle of the dignity of human beings and their ethical dimension.” The condemnation of abortion, the inseparable nature of the two dimensions - the unitive and the procreative - and the view of sexuality as a procreative function, “have their foundation in individual beings and their dignity.”

“This is the key to the solution: an integral understanding of what is human. Without a ‘meta-anthropology’ which touches the being, the substance, the spirit, there can be no integral understanding of what is human, because the concepts of person and being are emptied of content. Morals and religion, which are fundamental and decisive values, are reduced to a ‘private matter.’ The return of metaphysics is vital in order to regain a sense of what is human in man.

“The human being is a familial being,” Fr. Lobato’s note adds, “and for this reason has the characteristics of a social, political, economic, cultural, juridical and religious being. The family is involved with each of these aspects, which are essential to it. The family requires services, help, protection and constant promotion; and the document indicates how each of these elements should develop. It emphasizes the juridical dimension and recalls that in 1983 the Holy See published the first ‘Charter of the Rights of the Family,’ which is a solid defense of that institution.”

“The doctrine concerning integral human procreation,” the note concludes, “is corroborated by the theology of creation and by the mystery of salvation revealed in Jesus Christ and put into effect in the new evangelization. The Creator wished human beings to be two-in-one; the Redeemer assumed the familial condition in Nazareth reminding everyone of the nature of the family since the beginning of the divine plan: two in a single flesh.”

Everyone’s land Fr. Stephen Privett, SJ, says that the solution to the immigration concerns of the USA is in changing the economics of the poor (CSF – May 26). He emphasizes this in several different ways, without ever actually making a proposal of how to do it. That is fair enough, since he is not an economist himself.

Not being an economist myself, perhaps I should not weigh in with a “how to do it”. But I have thought about this for some time and here would like to share one thought. At the highest level let Mexico and the USA agree on an economic buffer zone of about 200 miles just south of the border.

Rather than a “no man’s land” this could be an “everyone’s land,” with tax and other economic incentives for building new businesses and taking economic risks. Whatever is happening just north of the border, could now begin to happen just south of the border just as easily. If there are farms to the north, there could just as easily be farms to the south of the border. All the infra-structure present in the USA would begin to be built in this buffer zone. The zone would have to include all the health and safety measures as well as transportation and public security. It would be a new pioneer country, but with the moral support and good will of both nations. This is the land to which the poor from south of the border would migrate, work to improve themselves, and become economically independent, if they are willing and able. There would, of course, be costs to the USA. But these would not be more than the unseen costs that already exist because of the overall problem.

The border should still be solidly maintained. But the wealth that is now mostly on one side may begin a migration towards the other without harm to anyone.

This is presented not as the solution, but as one possible idea for positive action. A few constructive thoughts from Fr. Privett’s qualified economic experts would be welcome.

Alex M. Saunders, MD San Carlos

Teaching moment Without question The Da Vinci Code book and movie are an attack on the divinity of Christ and concomitantly on the Catholic Church. For Christ is the Church and the Church is Christ.

The refutation of false statements, proffered as fact, has been promulgated by many Catholic spokespersons, including the erudite article by Archbishop Niederauer in Catholic San Francisco (How Dark the Con of Dan – May 5).

Many other non-Catholic denominations have taken umbrage with the attack on the Divinity of Christ.

In both instances, an exploration of the false premises can only lead to an examination of the Catholic doctrines from which the Divinity of Christ emanate and which have been unerringly maintained from the inception of the Church founded by Christ.

How many of these nonCatholic denominations, from their examinations, will find recognition of the authenticity and the Magisterium of the Catholic Church?

For Christ is the Church and the Church is Christ.

Richard LemMon Atherton

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Navel display

A Vatican Cardinal urged Catholics to be more reverent during Mass. He called on priests to restore tabernacles to more central positions in church, and for Catholics to rediscover the tradition of reverent genuflection in the presence of the Eucharist.

Placing the tabernacle in a less prominent location is, in itself, an irreverent gesture.

Failing to genuflect when entering a pew has become the rule rather than the exception. There is often no acknowledgement of the Presence in the tabernacle. Many clergy fail to genuflect when passing in front of the tabernacle as well.

Many adults, including priests, visit so loudly with friends they can be heard from one end of the church to the other.

In hot weather men and women attend church in short shorts and some teenagers wear low-cut jeans with navel on display.

How reverent the people are is a reflection of how reverent the clergy are.

Clergy must set a stronger example in order to bring reverence back to church.

Bill Gillen Novato

Philip the Deacon c. first century feast – June 6 Philip is among the first deacons named in the Acts of the Apostles (6:1-7). After the Hellenists complained that “their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution,” the Twelve Apostles gathered the Crosiers community, saying, “It is not right for us to neglect the word of God to serve at table.” Philip was among those chosen to assist them: “seven reputable men, filled with the Spirit and wisdom.” Philip also evangelized, baptizing the magician Simon in Samaria and an Ethiopian official on the road to Gaza (Acts 8:4-40).

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McCain is wrong on marriage amendment Sen. John McCain is speculated to be the GOP frontrunner for the presidency in 2008, but he seems badly mistaken about the one issue — same-sex marriage — which likely won re-election for President Bush in 2004. Bush needed Ohio to win, and there is good reason to believe that without a sizeable turnout among religious voters backing Ohio’s state constitutional prohibition of same-sex marriage, Bush would have come up short.

Recently on “FOX News Sunday” with Chris Wallace, McCain said he would not back a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. McCain is apparently not alone.

Admittedly, a federal marriage amendment hardly would have been thought needed by the drafters of the Constitution. An amendment reading simply: “Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman” would have been thought a “self-evident truth.”

McCain explains his opposition as deference to the states and, secondarily, on the ground that it is legally unnecessary.

The first basis is puzzling; the second regrettably untrue.

McCain rightly wants his home state of “Arizona [to] make [its own] decisions about the status of marriage ... just as the people in Massachusetts and other states should make their decisions.”

Fair enough, local decision making is a core principle of federalism (and Catholic subsidiarity), but judges, not the people, seem to be getting the last word.

By contrast, the process of considering a constitution-

al amendment returns the issue to the people. Before a single word can be added to our federal charter, three-fourths of the states must agree. The amendment’s proponents merely are asking for Congress — by a two-thirds vote of both houses — to let the people in their individual states engage in civil discourse and decide for themselves.

As for legal necessity, McCain is under the misimpression that the Massachusetts mistake can be confined to the Bay state. That is unlikely.

Similar litigation by gay activists from New York to California is under way. If the activists prevail even in one or two venues, same-sex couples will migrate and press the courts of other states to recognize these judicially invented licenses.

The Constitution’s “Full, Faith and Credit” clause arguably requires just that, as an Oklahoma federal court striking down a state constitutional amendment restricting gay adoption all but decided last month.

Congress in the 1990s passed the Defense of Marriage Act to allow individual states to maintain traditional marriage as a matter of public policy, but the federal judge in Oklahoma held there is no “roving public policy exception” to another state’s legal judgments.

There is none, that is, in the absence of a federal marriage amendment.

McCain is a thoughtful man; no doubt he believes his refusal to support the federal marriage amendment is the course of “live and let live” toleration. The witness of the

Catholic faith, however, finds this to be the greatest error of all.

There is nothing tolerant or moderate in ignoring legal developments that further undermine the understanding of marriage as a faithful, Douglas exclusive and lifelong W. Kmiec union between one man and one woman, joined as husband and wife.

As the bishops of the church said: “[T]his union was established by God with its own proper laws ..., and it exists for the mutual love and support of the spouses and for the procreation and education of children. These two purposes, the unitive and the procreative, are equal and inseparable.”

There is nothing extreme, controversial or hateful in Catholic teaching or the proposed amendment. To the contrary, urging the adoption of language reaffirming marriage and family in our foundational document might well be expected of someone seeking to be president of the United States.

It is certainly our Catholic calling.

Douglas W. Kmiec, dean of Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America in Washington, is a monthly columnist for Catholic News Service.

Family Life

There is a time to unplug At this moment I am a typical Gen-Xer. I am sitting in a coffee shop, typing away at my laptop computer, checking e-mails and listening to iTunes from with my earpieces.

I’m trying to concentrate on crafting a column, but I inevitably get distracted by people ordering the latte of the week or by a new e-mail. I have difficulty sitting still for any length of time or turning my attention to one task.

My children are learning by example. Four-year-old David logs on to his favorite Web sites, where he can color with the click of a mouse, periodically glancing at the cartoons on the TV in back of him. Two-year-old Katherine grabs her pretend cellphone from her plastic pink purse and paces the kitchen with the phone glued to her ear chatting away to make-believe friends.

Generation M, children ages 8 to 18, are even worse.

They are instant messaging, playing games online, doing homework, watching TV, and listening to iTunes all at once. They have grown so used to distraction that required silence is uncomfortable.

A few weeks ago, Time magazine featured a study of modern family life led by anthropologist Elinor Ochs,

director of UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families.

She found the impact of electronic multitasking is one of the most dramatic areas of change in family life.

The observers of the Ochs study looked at what happens at the end of the day. “We saw that when the working parent comes through the door, the other spouse and the kids are so absorbed by what they’re doing that they don’t give the arriving parent the time of day. ... We saw how difficult it was for parents to penetrate the child’s universe,” says Ochs.

On the one hand, younger people today are so technosavvy that they are equipped at finding and manipulating all kinds of information. Their ability to research and find answers online, and the breath of their knowledge are impressive. Steve Johnson, author of “Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today’s Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter,” argues that all of it — e-mail, IM, Google, MySpace, iTunes, games and other digital gadgets — are sharpening the minds of today’s youth. But there are others, like David Meyer, director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Laboratory at the University of Michigan, who fear that habitual multitasking is

bad news because people lose the skill to maintain concentration.

It’s not that blogging or IMing or e-mailing are bad in and of themselves.

In today’s hectic pace, everyone is required to multitask some of the Therese time. We can learn from J. Borchard the younger generation’s skill and aptitude with new technology.

Ultimately, though, there comes a time when we should unplug and actually talk to each other old-fashion style, face to face, uninterrupted by e-mail or cell-phones or iPods. Because without real human interaction, technology isn’t worth much.

Therese J. Borchard writes a column for Catholic News Service.

Spirituality

Needed: A new maturity to match our freedom We are the freest people to ever walk this planet, at least in terms of opportunity. Our freedom is so great that, at times, it’s almost a burden, an over-choice. We often find it difficult to commit ourselves to marriage, to a vocation, to a career, and to a friendship precisely because we are so free and have so many choices.

Freedom is a great gift. But it’s easily misused and easily becomes a destructive thing. We’ve all hurt others and ourselves through the misuse of our freedom.

But something doesn’t become bad just because it’s misused. Food remains a good thing, even when we overeat. It’s the same with freedom. It remains always the greatest gift that God has given us, even though we don’t always use it maturely. Jesus came to bring us freedom.

What’s needed today is not less freedom but more maturity. Simply put, we are often too immature to carry properly the great gift of freedom that God has given us. The answer to that is not to denigrate freedom in the name of God and morality, but to invite a deeper maturity so as to more properly honour the great gift that we have been given.

Our model here is Jesus, himself. Nobody has walked this earth as freely as he did. But he also had the maturity to carry such great freedom without ever misusing it. If we can believe the gospels, Jesus wasn’t afraid of anything satan, temptation, tax-collectors, prostitutes, street people, rich people, poor people, church people, non-church people, moral people, and immoral people. He went into the singles’ bars of his time, but he didn’t sin.

And in that lies the challenge: To walk in freedom, but

not compromise ourselves in doing so. Not an easy thing to do. There is always a double danger: On the one hand, we can be too timid and too frightened to use our freedom to take God’s presence and grace into places that are morally threatening, like Jesus did. That’s often where we, as church people, sell ourselves and our freedom short. We are so afraid of seemingly godless places that we simply stay away from them, fearing for our own safety. That’s sometimes a very prudent thing to do; it isn’t always an imitation of Jesus. He wasn’t afraid to go into godless places.

As well, there’s the opposite danger, namely, that we go into morally dangerous places and lose ourselves there.

Like Jesus, we eat and drink with sinners, but, unlike him, we sin because we don’t have the maturity and moral strength to be in dangerous situations without falling.

But, dangers notwithstanding, the great challenge is to become mature enough to walk in the freedom of Jesus without compromising. Whenever we are able to do that, we become missionaries in the true sense, namely, we take God’s love and light into places that are devoid of them.

But that’s not easy to do. We need models to help us.

Someone who can help mentor us on this, I believe, is Henri Nouwen. One of his great gifts was his honesty about his own moral and emotional struggles and the capacity to share that in a way that helps us in our own struggles.

Nouwen was searingly honest in admitting that he struggled. He shared that, even if you are sincere, prayerful, morally honest, and trying your best, it doesn’t mean that you won’t, at the same time, also be weak, complex, tempted, torn, dis-

couraged, forever at war with certain parts of yourself, sinful, and subject to obsessions, addictions, and pathologies.

Our desires are deep, complex, unyielding, wild horses, bent on their own path - and all of this Father co-exists with what’s Ron Rolheiser healthy, good, and best in us. So it’s not easy to be whole, mature, and to walk into morally dangerous places and not sin.

Nouwen was so honest and humble about this that there were seasons in his life when he wouldn’t travel by himself, but always took along a companion, because he recognized that there are a lot more moral dangers travelling alone than there are when we have family, companions, and community along with us.

We aren’t all as mature and as strong as Jesus. Like Nouwen, we need to be honest and humble about our weaknesses, sometimes we simply don’t have the maturity to walk into dark places alone. We’re wise to take someone with us so that, in the strength given by family and community, our maturity can measure up to our freedom.

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40; Psalm 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22; Romans 8:14-17; Matthew 28:16-20 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY (DT 4:32-34, 39-40) Moses said to the people: “Ask now of the days of old, before your time, ever since God created man upon the earth; ask from one end of the sky to the other: Did anything so great ever happen before? Was it ever heard of? Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking from the midst of fire, as you did, and live? Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the Lord, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes? This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other. You must keep his statutes and commandments that I enjoin on you today, that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may have long life on the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you forever.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22) R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Upright is the word of the Lord, and all his works are trustworthy.

He loves justice and right; of the kindness of the Lord the earth is full.

R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

By the word of the Lord the heavens were made; by the breath of his mouth all their host.

For he spoke, and it was made; he commanded, and it stood forth.

R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

See, the eyes of the Lord are upon those who fear him, upon those who hope for his kindness, To deliver them from death and preserve them in spite of famine.

R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Our soul waits for the Lord, who is our help and our shield.

May your kindness, O Lord, be upon us who have put our hope in you.

R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE ROMANS (ROM 8:14-17) Brothers and sisters: For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!”

The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW (MT 28:16-20) The eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had ordered them.

When they all saw him, they worshiped, but they doubted. Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.”

Scripture FATHER GERARD O’ROURKE

Glimpsing the inner life of God Today we celebrate the great Feast day of the Most Holy Trinity. I have to confess and I do not deny that in my early years as a priest that I approached speaking about the Holy Trinity with fear, with trepidation and with a sense of dread. This was the great mystery and is the great mystery that in the one divine Nature there are three divine Persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Theologians spoke or seemed to speak about it in dense forbidding language. So I learned to speak about it in closed, distant, safe, scarce and careful language, least I should speak about the Holy Trinity in false or even heretical terms!

However, somewhere along the line I grew up and actually listened to the Word of God and the words of Jesus about the Trinity. Maybe I was inspired by my patron, St. Patrick, who made his teaching about the Holy Trinity the focal point of his Christian teaching to my people nearly 1600 years ago.

Then I began to see as I listened to the word of God in the New Testament a new and revealing way of approaching the wonder of the Blessed Trinity. It was Jesus letting us in on the inner working of the life of God. We were being allowed to have a glimpse of the inner life of God in the three Divine Persons.

Let us just listen to the magnificent words from the first Reading taken from the Book of Deuteronomy. “This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the Lord is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.”

Then in the New Testament Jesus comes along and he lets us in on the inner and intimate life of the three Persons and their relationship life within the one divine Nature. We are indeed privileged to be let in on this inner life of God. Without the revelation of Jesus none of us could ever have figured it out!

God is one and this unity is expressed as having three distinct yet equal persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. They are the expressions of that wonderful inner life of God. We are the privileged people of faith that have been let in on his magnificent inner life of God. The great saints and doctors of the Church never ceased in their lives to thank and acknowledge God for sharing this majestic gift with them.

The life and teachings of Jesus in the Gospels are full of references to his relationship as Son of God to the Father and the Holy Spirit. We learn from him that the Father is creator, source, provider, the one who cares as a good father and who is full of the life of abundance and grace.

What he reveals about himself, the

Son, is that he is our teacher, our brother, our savior, our redeemer, as the one who inspires us, our good shepherd and our light to enlighten us in our moments of darkness.

Jesus also reveals to us some attributes of the Holy Spirit as our counselor, our consolation, our advocate, the spirit of truth, the great Paraclete, our fountain of life, full of the fire of love, our source of true peace, harmony and the sevenfold gifts that empower us to live the Christian life that we are called upon to live.

Today on the Feast of the Blessed Trinity we can rejoice in the great diversity of the attributes of the three Divine Persons in God as well as marveling in their Unity. Let it be a great lesson for all of us to acknowledge and accept the great diversity everywhere in human life.

Let this diversity be seen by us as a gift from the God who created us. Let the God who created us teach us that indeed our diversity is good and a blessing for us all and definitely not a permission for us to judge, to misjudge and to nastily evaluate one another!

There is a wonderful recurring theme in the Wisdom Scriptures of the Bible about God, as we put in it Latin, “Deus Ludens,” that is the “Playing God.” That is the God who plays and delights to play with the wonders of creation and more personally who delights to play with the children of the human race that is of course us, all of us with no one left out.

May this wonderful aspect of the Blessed Trinity inspire us to emulate this spirit of joy and playfulness in our lives.

Especially I would hope that if we have ever experienced aloofness, fear, or worry about any aspect of the Blessed Trinity in our prayer life or our spiritual lives that we would let go of it and allow ourselves to be embraced by the love that revealed it to us.

May we all mature enough in our relationship with the Blessed Trinity to relish, to enjoy, to delight and to appreciate that the revelation of the inner personal life of God to us is a truly magnificent gift and a totally loving act of God to bless and enrich our lives. It is God’s way to offer each of us the possibility of being included in the divine relationship as a child, as a sister or a brother, or as a lover.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Father Gerard O’Rourke is Director Emeritus of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Prayer of Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity

Trinity Pieta – Unknown German, 1415-30.

O my God, Trinity whom I adore, help me forget myself entirely so to establish myself in you, unmovable and peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing be able to trouble my peace or make me leave you, O my unchanging God, but may each minute bring me more deeply into your mystery! Grant my soul peace. Make it your heaven, your beloved dwelling and the place of your rest. May I never abandon you there, but may I be there, whole and entire, completely vigilant in my faith, entirely adoring, and wholly given over to your creative action.

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Unity, Justice, Peace . . .

■ Continued from cover context. She is also associate professor of international politics at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

Cusimano Love said that although international conflict has declined since the end of the Cold War conflict is still very much alive and has an impact especially on the most vulnerable — women, children and the poor.

“Building peace is about much more than combating armies,” she said. “It is something other than signing peace accords.” For there to be peace in the world, there must be justice, she said. It is up to the Catholic Church, she said, to work for justice and set an example for the rest of the world.

One of the steps toward world peace, Father Lee said, is a renewed respect for nature and environmental protection. Without the environment and nature, human life cannot be sustained, he added.

“We come from earth, we live on earth, and in the end we return to earth,” he said. “Destroying nature is equivalent to destroying the foundation of our life. If earth’s economy goes bankrupt, then human economy will follow.”

Catholic women leaders working around the world shared their experiences in seeking social justice and peace. Among them were Amelita Dayrit Go from the Philippines, Yogi Sutton from England, and Mary DeLorey, a policy and advocacy official with Catholic

Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency.

Go, vice president of the World Union of Catholic Women’s Organizations who represents the Asia Pacific region, talked about the severe poverty in her country and how it affects women and children more than men.

Women are hindered by unstable political and economic policies and are often limited in their access to education, she said. But even in the poverty there are success stories, especially with projects that teach women to turn life skills into businesses, Go added.

Sutton, president of the National Board of Catholic Women in England, was raised as a Hindu in South Africa, but she attended Catholic services because there was no temple where she lived. She eventually converted to Catholicism and taught catechetics to children after the government closed Catholic schools.

She married an Irish-Catholic man in Swaziland in 1973 but they were forbidden to associate in their home country because they were a mixed-race couple. They emigrated to England, but even in London Sutton experienced racism. She said she was able to combat racism and share her culture by beginning at the parish level and working within her community. She continued working with children and now serves as coordinator of catechesis for her parish.

“I thank God for the gifts I’ve been given to help these young people as an immigrant,” she said. “I’ve gained much and I pray that I’ve contributed and will continue to give back as much to them.”

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When issues such as poverty, war and immigration are not effectively addressed, people are left vulnerable to human trafficking, said DeLorey.

In situations where there is a lack of social justice, “desperate people are falling into the hands of people more than willing to abuse them,” she said. CRS conducts programs in 27 countries aimed at stopping trafficking.

Emphasizing a conference theme of cooperative efforts in working for peace and justice, Giovanelli said, “Solidarity is not just a vague feeling of compassion, but a firm commitment to work for the good of all society.”

She also argued that charity is not simply giving money to the poor. “It’s not enough to give money without the ability to use this money for (the) common good.”

Afua Amoo-Adare, president of Ghana’s NCCW, agreed, saying, “You can do all the charity, but if you don’t follow up to see that it is equitably divided up, it is not charity. If there is equitable charity, we will not need to meet to discuss peace.”

‘For Heaven’s Sake’ June 18 Dominican Sister Christina Heltsley, director of St. Francis Center, joins host Maury Healy on the TV program “For Heaven’s Sake” airing Sunday June 18 at 5:30 a.m. on KRON-4. Tape or Tivo for later viewing, or rise early for heaven’s sake.

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Two books on how faith is lived in the new millennium “THE BELIEVER’S EDGE: THE SECRET TO A HEALTHIER, HAPPIER, MORE SIGNIFICANT LIFE,” BY OWEN PHELPS. ACTA Publications (Durand, Ill., 2005). 130 pp., $13.95.

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Reviewed by Brian T. Olszewski “The Believer’s Edge: The Secret to a Healthier, Happier, More Significant Life,” by Owen Phelps, is a book of fiction with lessons for laity about how to live their Catholicism.

Set in a nondescript manufacturing company, the story is that of Derek, one of the company’s best sales people. Concerned about unresolved personal issues — including his relationship with his wife and children, the manner in which he spends his time away from work, and temptations of life on the road — Derek consults with Tom, a longtime acquaintance who works in the same company.

Unlike Derek, Tom’s priorities include faith and church attendance. Tom introduces his troubled coworker to others in the company who have struggled, or who continue to struggle. They talk to Derek about faith and the practice of it and, as a result, Derek changes his life.

The result is a cross between stories in Guideposts magazine and episodes of “Touched by an Angel” — and that’s a compliment! Different readers will relate to differing facets in Derek’s simple story and the stories of the people he encounters. No deep meanings or hidden symbolisms that require deciphering and discussions — rather, it’s a story about how much better life is when one’s faith is lived. Phelps, associate publisher of The Observer, newspaper of the Diocese of Rockford, Ill., has written a story that engages readers and inspires them in a subtle, nonpreachy way. It’s a nudge, an examination of where one is, where one should want to go.

“Catholic Laity in the Mission of the Church,” by Russell Shaw, explains in welcome detail how the laity’s mission in the Catholic Church is defined. Shaw provides a short course in the laity’s roles throughout church history, and examines those roles in the postVatican II church.

The thoroughness, including much documentation from literature, papal writings, the documents of Vatican II, and canon law, will be appreciated by laity who ask, “What have I, as a Catholic, been called to do?” and “How do I live my faith in such a way that it will make a positive impact upon the culture in which I live?”

Shaw’s attention to what the church teaches about lay spirituality and vocation will serve readers well as they discern — either individually or in groups — their

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Parental guidance suggested? Parental sense is needed more

By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — I’m glad I’m not too old to be surprised anymore.

But more than surprised, I’m mystified by the latest Kaiser Family Foundation survey which indicates that parents feel they can cope better when their young children use electronic media.

As the parent of a 2-year-old, I have heard all of the old saws about television being the electronic baby sitter, but I have not once had to plunk my kid down in front of the TV and let her be enraptured by what’s happening on the screen while Mommy and Daddy attend to other household duties.

The foundation interviewed 1,051 parents of children ages 6 months to 6 years around the country on the phone and in focus groups.

According to the survey, issued May 24, the use of “screen media” is on top, tied with reading or being read to for what typically happens during a child’s day — 83 percent. Listening to music is right behind at 82 percent, and watching TV is not that far back at 73 percent. More children under 2 years old know how to change the channels with a remote control (40 percent) than can turn on the TV (38 percent). Parents even reported using the TV to help their kid fall asleep.

I’m not doubting the methodology of the study, or its results. What I’m most surprised by is the candor of parents who were interviewed for the survey and, apparently, see no problem with TV as an electronic mother.

The interview subjects quoted — all moms — are not identified by name, but by the relative age of their child (1 to 3 or 4 to 6), and the city they live in. Even with such ambiguous identifiers as that, I’m not going to use them should they recognize themselves in their comments here and be shamed: — “Media makes my life easier.

We’re all happier. He isn’t throwing tantrums. I can get some work done.”

— “I always have it on. I need the noise.”

— “We’re trying to cut back. My 7year-old is always asking to have family time and talk.”

— “He’s a good little boy. He won’t bother anything. He won’t get into stuff.

He’s glued to the TV.” — “The TV is on all the time. We have five TVs. At least three of those are usually on — her bedroom, the living room, and my bedroom.”

— “My daughter just sits in the beanbag chair and watches TV. If it’s something that she’s really into, she just sits there with her mouth hanging open.”

EWTN June TV Highlights Special June programming on EWTN, the 24-hour Catholic TV network, includes a documentary on Rome, the Eternal City, that airs June 17 at 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. and again on June 22 at 10 a.m.

“To the Heights! Our Spiritual Ascent Towards God” follows Catholic teens and young adults as they hike up Colorado’s Collegiate Peaks Mountains. Led

by French priest Fr. Antoine Thomas, they embrace the example of Pope John Paul II in their experience of nature. June 25 at 7 p.m. and June 27 at 11 a.m.

EWTN is carried on Comcast Digital Channel 229; RCN Channel 80; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 422. Comcast Airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County.

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— “I would be at a total loss if it weren’t for commercials at Christmastime. I wouldn’t know what to get my kids.”

— “My daughter would eat a cheeseburger from McDonald’s every day if I let her. She sees it on TV and she comes to me right away saying that’s what she wants for lunch.”

Then there were a couple of telling comments about kids acting out what they saw on TV: — “I tend to watch the old ‘ER.’ I had to stop because my daughter tried to give my (younger) son CPR.” — “She was going around kissing everyone with her mouth open. She

wanted to be like Ariel and Eric (from ‘The Little Mermaid’).”

Of course, there were examples of kids being able learn the alphabet due to “Sesame Street,” or counting in Spanish due to “Dora the Explorer.” But those comments were distinctly in the minority, as were moms’ statements about putting limits on kids’ media use.

I don’t know who to feel sorrier for — these mothers or their children. Maybe we should feel sorry for ourselves down the road. As one mom said, “It makes life easier now, but in the long run, when they’re older and starting to run into all these problems, I think I’ll wish I wouldn’t have let them do it when they were 5.”

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St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information about any event listed here.

June 17: Hear the Bishop’s Choir of the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Kentucky.

The ensemble will lead song at the 5:30 p.m. Mass and perform in concert after Mass.

Cathedral Autumn Group: All people 55 and over are cordially invited. Call (415) 567-2020, ext.

218. June 15: Summer Luncheon at Spinnaker in Sausalito by Ferry. Reservations Required to (415) 567-2020 ext. 218.

June 9, 2006 the 14th Annual SF International Marian Conference at Crowne Plaza Hotel Conference Center in Foster City. EWTN’s Father Mitch Pacwa is among the speakers. Call (800) 456-4197 or contact www.sraphael.com.

Come pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, Scriptural Rosary, and special intentions before the Blessed Sacrament at the beautiful Monastery of Perpetual Adoration. Saturdays 10:00 to 11:15 am, 771 Ashbury Street at Waller in San Francisco. Some parking available adjacent to the monastery.

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

August 4-6: National Young Adult Conference at the University of San Francisco. Sponsored by the National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association (NCYAMA) and the Archdiocesan Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry in association with the United States Bishops’ Subcommittee for Youth and Young Adults. Contact Mary Jansen, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org, (415) 614-5596, www.sfyam.org.

Food & Fun June 9, 10, 11: Church of the Nativity’s 26th Annual Carnival with thrilling rides, live entertainment, Kiddie Land, auctions, dinners and more. Fri.: 5 – 11 p.m.; Sat.: noon – 11 p.m.; Sun.: noon – 7 p.m. Free admission and parking. Call (650) 3237914.

June 24, 25: USF School of Law needs your help!

Be a volunteer juror for NITA June 24 or June 25 from 8:15am-5pm. Each day will have a trial from start to finish. Complimentary lunch and lots of snacks provided. Please call Wendy at 422-5924 or email Heneghan@usfca.edu to sign-up.

Shows/Entertainment

Consolation Ministry

June 15: “Art with Heart,” a traveling show of art reflecting 10 Bay Area Sisters of Mercy ministries and missions at Alma Via of San Francisco, One Thomas More Way, 5 –7 p.m. Refreshments. RSVP: (415) 337-1339

Social Justice/ Family Life Are you in a troubled marriage? Retrouvaille, a program for couples with serious marital problems, might help. For information, call Tony and Pat Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.

Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available from the Office of Marriage and Family Life of the Archdiocese, at (415) 614-5680.

Sat. at 9 a.m.: Pray the Rosary for Life at 815 Eddy St. between Franklin and Van Ness, SF. Call (415) 752-4922.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 5683018.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

June 25: Franciscan Father James E. Goode will preside at a Gospel Mass at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Catholic Church, 3rd Street and Jamestown Ave. in San Francisco at 10:30 a.m.

“All are invited to come and join in welcoming back our beloved former pastor,” the church said.

“Father Jim has since founded and serves as Pastoral Director of Solid Ground, a Franciscan Ministry serving African American Families, and the poor, sick, and homeless in New York City.” To read more about his work and lifelong achievements, visit www.solidgroundministry.com. Call (415) 468-3434 for more information.

June 16-August 18, Fri.: Children’s Story Hour from 11a.m. - noon. Come and listen to stories about Jesus and God’s heroes, spend time in praise and song, have fun and meet new friends. Recommended age: 5-9. Parental accompaniment required. Come to the Pauline Book & Media Center, 2640 Broadway, off El Camino Real, Redwood City. For more information call: (650) 369-4230. Sister of St. Paul Susan James Heady crowns the Blessed Virgin during a May Crowning ceremony at the new Pauline Book & Media Center.

Reunions June 10: Presentation High School, class of ’51 at Basque Cultiral Center in South San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. Contact Yvonne Irick at (650) 941-1294 or Audrey Trees at (650) 5920273.

June 24: Class of 1956 Our Lady of Mount Carmel School at the Hilton Garden Inn in Foster City at 6pm. For more information please contact Barbara Sposito at 650-780-0777 or Sally Territo at 650-369-0812.

June 15: St. Paul High School, Sf, class of ’56 at Irish Cultural Center, SF at 12:15 p.m. Contact Maureen Collins at (415) 585-5603 or June Maffei at (415) 584-7239.

June 24: Immaculate Conception Academy, class of ’46 at Joe’s of Westlake in Daly City at 11 a.m.

Call Pat Wenster at (650) 341-0820 or Pat Becketti at (650) 366-8517.

July 8: Class of ’56 from Notre Dame des Victoires High School. Call Marilyn Donnelly at (650) 365-5192.

Aug. 26: The Class of ‘ 60 Turns 60, a reunion of said grads from St. Cecilia Elementary School at El Rancho Inn in Millbrae. Contact Joanne Hicks McGlothlin at (650) 952-3673.

Sept. 23: Presentation High School, SF, class of ’56 at Sinbad’s Restaurant, San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. Contact Judi Guidi Crosetti at (650) 589-8377 or nonihugs@aol.com; Aggie Roensch Malanca at (925) 283-4477 or tomagco@yahoo.com.

Oct. 15: Star of the Sea Academy, class of ’56 at El Rancho Inn in Millbrae. Contact Natalie Nalducci Sandell at (415) 453-3687 or Diane Donohoe Mulligan at (415) 664-7977.

San Mateo’s St. Matthew Elementary School will soon mark its 75th year. Graduates and former students should contact Nancy Desler Carroll ’83 at (650) 372-9536 or nancy.carroll@rcn.com.

More too at school Web site, www.stmatthewcath.org/alumni.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings June 30, July 1, 2: Mary at the Foot of the Cross,

Kevin Starr, Ph. D., State Librarian for California, will receive the annual Alemany Award given by the Dominican order in honor of Dominican and first San Francisco Archbishop Joseph Alemany June 22 at St. Albert Priory in Oakland. “Dr. Starr is a distinguished historian, author, journalist and teacher,” said Dominican Father Michael Sweeney, President of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley.The honored scholar has served as a Knight of Malta and in roles including regent of St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Patrick’s Seminary.

Tickets are $200 per person. Contact the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at (510) 849-2030.

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Datebook is a free listing for parishes, schools and non-profit groups. Please include event name, time, date, place, address and an information phone number. Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired.

Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633.

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Grief Groups meet at the following parishes.

Please call numbers shown for more information.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-5581015; St. Dunstan, Millbrae. Call Barbara Cappel at 650-692-7543;. Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sr. Carol Fleitz at 650-355-2593; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. Call Barbara Cantwell at 650-755-0478; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call Parish at 650-366-3802; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call Sr. Patricia at 650-589-2800.

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

San Francisco: St. Dominic. Call Sr. Anne at 415567-7824; St. Finn Barr(Bilingual). Call Carmen Solis at 415-584-0823; St. Gabriel. Call Elaine Khalaf at 415-564-7882.

Young Widow/Widower Group: St. Gregory, San Mateo. Call Barbara Elordi at 415-614-5506.

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

Children’s Grief Group: St. Catherine, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-558-1015.

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

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Featuring: Local Bay Area Youth bands and talents Saturday, June 24, 2006 ~ 5:00 PM James Logan High School Pavilion, 1800 ‘H’ St., Union City, CA 94587

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Enrollment may close quickly, so please call as soon as possible if interested.

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GOLDEN GATE BOYS CHOIR AND

PHOENIX BOYS CHOIR Spring Concert by the GGBC and bellringers with guest group, the Phoenix Boys Choir.

Georg Stangelberger, director, is formerly a director of the Vienna Choir Boys.

Saturday, June 17th, 7:30 p.m. at Saint Vincent de Paul Church, Steiner at Green, SF Suggested admission offering: $10 regular, $5 seniors and children under 14. Under 7 years old, free.

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Catholic San Francisco

June 9, 2006

For Advertising Information Call: 415-614-5642 Fax: 415-614-5641 Email: jpena@catholic-sf.org

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Oh, Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near Kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked.

Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

This Novena has never been known to fail. This Novena must be said 9 consecutive days. Thanks.

M.L.

* Parishioner of St. Gregory’s Church, San Mateo

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assist me in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need. Oh Mary, conceived without sin.

Pray for us (3X).

Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3X).

Say prayers 3 days.

M.L.

SERVICE DIRECTORY For Advertising Information Call 415-614-5642 E-mail: penaj@sfarchdiocese.org

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The law also state that contractors performing work totaling $500 or more must be statelicensed. Advertisments appearing in this newspaper without a license number indicate that the contractor is not licensed.

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Responsibilities and duties: Supervise, train and oversee the residents’ daily chores; maintain the orderliness of Mary’s House; enforce house rules and regulations. Administrative duties include answering and taking telephone messages; type, sort and send letters for solicitations, fundraising and/or donations. Must know Word and Excel software to generate letters, maintain mailing lists and record monthly donations.

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If interested, call or email: Laura Hornberger RN, MS Directr of Women’s Health Services 415-409-8255 ● laurieh@firstresort.net

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Under the direction of the Executive Director, the Director assists in the promotion of the liturgical apostolate in the Diocese of Phoenix by overseeing the day-to-day workings of the Office of Worship; also assists in the preparation and implementation of special parochial liturgies; acts as a consultant to parishes regarding liturgical needs; plans for and develops educational programs for parishes; assists with diaconal liturgical formation; oversees publication of a monthly liturgical newsletter; promotes communication among diocesan musicians/liturgists; conducts training workshops for parish liturgists, musicians and others involved in Worship; and assists in the formation of a Diocesan Liturgical Commission to promote liturgy, sacred art and music within the Diocese of Phoenix. Candidates should possess a Master’s or Doctorate in liturgy. Competitive benefits package, salary is DOE. SEND COVER LETTER AND RESUME TO HR, Diocese of Phoenix, 400 E. Monroe St. Phoenix, AZ 85004, fax to 602 354-2428, or e-mail to applicants@diocesephoenix.org

Special Needs Companion Services We are looking for you.

• Honest • Generous • Compassionate • Make a Difference • Respectful

Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package

Send your resume to: Email: Fax: Mail:

Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN, PHN RNTiburon@msn.com 415-435-0421 Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street #427 Tiburon, CA 94920

Special Needs Nursing, Inc. The Office of Religious Education and Youth Ministry Archdiocese of San Francisco Opening for the Associate Director of Youth Ministry and Catechetics. Candidate must have Master’s Degree in Catechetics, Youth Ministry, Theology or related field. The candidate must have a valid California Drivers License and car; excellent writing and verbal skills; a master catechist; and 3 to 5 years experience in youth ministry at a parish or diocesan level.

Send resume and references to: Sr. Celeste Arbuckle, One Peter Yorke Way, SF, CA 94109 or email: Arbucklec@sfarchdiocese.org

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL FULL

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Religious Studies (Candidates must have Master’s Degree in Theology or related field in Spirituality.)

Foreign Language (Spanish) Social Sciences Minimum requirements for Notre Dame High School: Bachelor of Arts Degree and California Teaching Credential (preferred) or Master’s Degree Salary and benefits are competitive. The salary schedule reflects the 2006-07 scale for the San Francisco Archdiocesan High Schools. Degree and Credential preparation should be consistent with the guidelines set forth by the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and the placement upon the scale is dependent upon degrees, qualifications, and experience.

Interested candidates should submit a letter of intent and resume to: JoAnn Kozloski, Associate Principal Notre Dame High School 1540 Ralston Avenue, Belmont, CA 94002 (650) 595-1913 e-mail: jkozloski@ndhsb.org

Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

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STEWARDSHIP Stewardship is using all of the gifts God has given us to respond to His call to each of us to help carry out His mission – to take the Gospel to those who have not heard it, to live in a way that attracts others to God, and to support others as they try to live as Christians.

Our Bishops

(in their pastoral letter in 1992)

described Stewardship as:

Accepting God’s gifts in gratitude – recognizing that everything I have belongs to God.

Cultivating those gifts responsibly – Improving my skills, talents and abilities, investing time and money wisely, protecting the environment, etc.

Sharing God’s gifts lovingly – Our gifts are different and should be shared with others.

Returning all to God with an increase – Like the parable of the talents, I should bring back to God what He has given me, along with what I have earned with it!

THIS IS HOW WE RESPOND TO GOD’S CALL CALL YOUR PARISH AND GET INVOLVED!

Stewardship is more about my need to give . . . . . . than it is about someone else’s need to get.