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Ulysses D’Aquila, Andrew Johnson and Linh Nguyen are presented, declared worthy and elected to the priesthood. Upper right: Archbishop Levada joins Father Linh Nguyen, members of his family and Father Doan Van Lai at a reception following the ordination.
Archbishop ordains three men to priesthood at St. Mary’s Cathedral By Jack Smith Archbishop William J. Levada ordained three men to the priesthood June 5 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. Deacons Linh Nguyen, Ulysses D’Aquila and Andrew Johnson were seated with their families in the midst of the congregation before being called forth by Archdiocesan Vocations Director Father Tom Daly for presentation to and approval by Archbishop Levada.In accepting the men he called his “dear sons,” Archbishop Levada said they were joining a “truly exemplary
‘band of brothers’ who will receive you into the presbyterate with joy, and who will willingly assist you in learning to put the priestly ministry you receive today into practice.”
the path was hard in communist Vietnam. In 1989 he left Vietnam for Hong Kong, spending more than five years in a refugee camp before coming to San Francisco and soon beginning
Ordination photographs . . . . . . . . .PAGES 12 – 13 Archbishop’s ‘Ordinary Time’ column . . . . .PAGE 17 The three men are strongly distinguished by culture, age and life experience. Linh Nguyen, born in Vietnam in 1970, the sixth of eight children, knew at a young age he wanted to be a priest, but
study for the priesthood. Father Tom Daly said, “Having suffered and sacrificed a lot, Linh brings with him a sense of compassion he can share.” Father Linh’s parents, Tam and Dai
Nguyen, were recently permitted to leave Vietnam to be present at his ordination. Father Ulysses D’Aquila was born 1949 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Son of an Air Force pilot, he lived in many places throughout the United States and Spain lending him an early appreciation for different cultures. The newly ordained priest had some early inklings about a call to the priesthood but became an educator teaching English as a Second Language for 14 years at ORDAIN, page 17
INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Partial-birth abortions . . . . . 3 Diocese to appeal case . . . . . 6 This Catholic Life . . . . . . . 10 Letters and commentary . 14-15 Scripture and reflection . . . . 16
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On The Where You Live by Tom Burke A Springtime staple and a proud one is the Family Mass and Communion Breakfast sponsored by Young Men’s Institute Council 32 and held this year at St. Veronica Parish, South San Francisco. Honored as Catholic Persons/Couples of the Year were retired St. Veronica pastor, Father Wilton Smith, and former St. Veronica school principal, Joan Coleman; Candida and Elni Ramirez, All Souls Parish; Margarita Lee, Mater Dolorosa Parish; Nerissa Broas, St. Augustine Parish. In addition to the YMI cheer, each of the honorees received a Certificate of Merit from the city of South San Francisco presented by YMI member and SSF Vice Mayor Ray Green. Thanks to Awards Chair, Dick Noftsger, for the good news….Married 50 years ago May 1st were Alice and Tom Flynn, longtime parishioners of St. Cecilia’s in the Parkside District. The couple took their vows at St. Agnes Church in the Haight-Ashbury District. Helping them enjoy the occasion were sons John with his wife, Leslie and their children, Thomas and Kaitlyn; Liam with his wife Janelle; and daughters, Marie Stynes with her husband Jerry and their children Patrick and Carey, and Cathy Kyne with her husband John and their son, Sean. “Love from all your family and friends on your 50th,” they all said to be sure to say….Happy 60 years married to Mary and John
Johnson, longtime parishioners of St. Charles, San Carlos, and who took their vows at Glen Park’s St. John the Evangelist Church. By no small coincidence, Mary is an alumna of the missed and remembered St. John Ursuline High School. A May 8th celebration commemorated the occasion. Their son, Paul, and his wife, Toni, are St. Gregory parishioners and parents of Michael and Mark. Daughter, Kathy Phillips and husband, Jim, belong Sudeshna Das, teacher Cathy Aveson, Alessandra Zanassi. to St. Bartholomew Parish. Their daughters are Mary, Katie, Kristine and Meagan. Daughter Teresa Sunset parishioner, Bernice Spiller, 100 years old May Mumm, her husband, Ted, and their daughter Hannah live 18th. “May God give her abundant blessings,” the parish, in Newport Beach. …Congrats to St. Dunstan 8th graders itself celebrating its hundredth year, said…. Its always merci Alessandra Zanassi and Sudeshna Das honored May 12 beaucoup to Colette Fontanelli, secretary at Notre Dame with USF’s Student Recognition Awards. Proud parents are des Victoires Parish for the last five years and my resource Lavinia and Richard Zanassi and Raksha and Chandra on the French language for as long. She hails from Aix-enDas. In the fall it’s Saint Ignatius College Preparatory for Provence in Southern France…. Having lost, misplaced or Alessandra and Mills High School, Millbrae for burnt out the remotes for the television and VCR, I’m in the Sudeshna…. Unable to link-up to the recently mentioned market for one of those universal jobs. Some, I hear also open Hurley Women’s Golf Tournament but on the course in the garage door as well as change channels on your neighspirit were Megan Hurley, Teresa Hurley and Peggy bors’ boob tubes…. Changing chairs at St. Mary Star of Eaton…. Thanks to Deacon Joe LeBlanc of St. Veronica the Sea Parish in Sausalito, are retiring pastor, Father Parish for his homily reminder that “the Ascension brought Richard Deitch, and new pastor, Father Edward Phelan. Hats off to both. Enjoyed this blurb from a Jesus to heaven and it also brought heavrecent bulletin there: I don’t know why en to earth” especially in the Holy Spirit some people change churches. What difand Eucharist. Ordained in 1999, Joe and ference does it make which one you stay his wife, Becky, celebrated their 18th wedhome from?…Welcome aboard at St. Finn ding anniversary April 19th. Happy birthBarr Elementary to new principal, Tom day to their daughter, Rachel, a sophomore Dooher, and farewell to Dominican Sister at Notre Dame High School, Belmont and Celestine Bancal thanked “wholeheartedly” 16 years old April 27th…. Happy birthin a recent bulletin for “her hard work and day to Maria Reichmuth who was 90 years dedication.”…Also bidding adieu are old on January 3rd. Family and friends – Matthew Stenquist-Mattei and Judith including her daughter, Cornelia, from Girard departing music director and accomSwitzerland - feted the new nonagenarian at panist at St. Matthias Parish, Redwood the Catholic Kolping Center in San City. “We thank them for their excellent Francisco. Maria is a longtime member of St. Maria Reichmuth music and service to our parish for 14 years,” James Parish and former pastor, Father Father John Glogowski, pastor, said in a recent bulletin…. Dan Carter, was among those wishing her well. Party planSend items and a follow up phone number to On the Street ners were Maria’s nieces, Jackie Zuger, and her husband, Where You Live, One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Pete, of St. Philip Parish, and Joanne Ceballos and her husFax (415) 614-5641; e-mail tburke@catholic-sf.org. band, Richard, of St. Anthony Parish. Maria’s brother is retired Salesian Father Stefan Huwyler…. Sharing the Do not send attachments except photos and those in jpeg, Pope’s birthday but a bit older is longtime St. Anne of the please. You can reach Tom Burke at (415) 614-5634….
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Ruling on partial-birth abortion ban draws criticism, faces appeal By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The June 1 decision by a federal judge in San Francisco declaring the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional “makes a mockery of the Constitution,” said the U.S. bishops’ chief pro-life spokeswoman. Cathy Cleaver Ruse, director of planning and information in the bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, said that by her decision U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton “has declared that Roe vs. Wade stands for the right to kill a child in the process of being born.” “The American Medical Association says this procedure is never medically necessary,” Ruse added in a June 1 statement. “To say that it is a fundamental constitutional right makes a mockery of the Constitution.” But a legal expert said the decision, which placed an injunction on enforcement of the law in San Francisco and in some 900 Planned Parenthood clinics nation-
wide, was “the first stop on a lengthy legal road that ends at the Supreme Court of the United States.” Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law & Justice, said he was “confident that the national ban on this horrific procedure ultimately will be declared constitutional.” Hamilton was the first of three District Court judges considering appeals of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act this spring. Judges in Lincoln, Neb., and New York City were expected to rule later this year. The federal law signed by President Bush in November was being challenged for several reasons, including its lack of a clause providing an exception when a pregnant woman’s health would be endangered by using a different type of abortion. Supporters of the ban say that a health provision would have rendered the legislation virtually meaningless because of the broad definition of maternal health given by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973 in its decisions to legalize abortion.
The law bars a type of abortion that is usually performed in the second or third trimester. In the procedure, a live fetus is partially delivered, then the skull is punctured to sever the brain stem before the whole body is delivered. Under the law, doctors who perform such abortions, which are also known to physicians as “intact dilation and extraction,” are subject to up to two years in prison. In her 120-page ruling, Hamilton said the law “poses an undue burden on a woman’s right to choose an abortion” and “may force pregnant women to undergo a procedure that is less safe.” But Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, said Hamilton’s “deep personal hostility to the law has been evident throughout the judicial proceedings” and is evident in her decision. “Other district and appellate judges also will be heard from during the months ahead,” Johnson added. “It is the U.S. Supreme Court that will ultimately decide whether our elected representatives can ban
the practice of mostly delivering a living premature infant and then puncturing her skull. A one-vote shift on the Supreme Court would allow the ban on partial-birth abortions to be upheld.” A White House statement on the decision called partial-birth abortion “an abhorrent procedure that must be ended once and for all” and said Bush “strongly disagrees” with Hamilton’s ruling. “The administration will take every necessary step to defend this law in the courts,” it added. A statement from the campaign of Sen. John F. Kerry, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, said the Massachusetts senator supported restrictions on late-term abortions “only where there was a clear exception for life or health of women.” The partial-birth abortion ban supported by Bush, however, “failed to protect the health of women,” the campaign statement said. “When John Kerry is president he will appoint judges that are committed to upholding the Constitution, not pursuing an ideological agenda.”
Catholic San Francisco wins national press awards Catholic San Francisco won recognition in seven categories including general excellence in the 2004 Catholic Press Awards announced at the annual meeting of the Catholic Press Association held May 26-28 in Washington, D.C. The awards competition considered work completed in 2003 by Catholic newspapers in the United States and Canada. Among the panel of judges were professional journalists, many from secular newspapers, university professors and other experts.
In the overall category of “general excellence,” Catholic San Francisco won second place honors among diocesan newspapers with a circulation above 40,000. The recognition for general excellence honors the work of the entire staff of Catholic San Francisco. An editorial, “Remembering Sharan Folotico,” by Maurice Healy, editor and associate publisher, garnered first place honors for “best editorial on a local issue” among large diocesan papers. Feature Editor Evelyn Zappia won second place in the “best sports news’ category for her story “Cross Country Ride.” She also took third place in the category of “best personality profile” among large diocesan newspapers for “Fear and Faith” a profile of Father Michael Barber who served as a Chaplain in Iraq.
Catholic San Francisco staff won first place in “best seasonal issue” among all newspapers for the Dec. 19 Christmas issue. In the “best editorial page or editorial section, Catholic San Francisco won third place after national newspapers Our Sunday Visitor and National Catholic Reporter. The Archdiocese of San Francisco Sesquicentennial Year logo took third place in the ”best illustration” category among all newspapers. In addition to these seven awards, Father Ron Rolheiser and Christine Dubois, syndicated columnists regularly carried by Catholic San Francisco, were recognized for columns on spirituality and family life, respectively.
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WASHINGTON — As dioceses continue applying policies to prevent child sex abuse, bishops are starting to examine whether some of the policies should be modified. An issue already being debated is the degree of autonomy that should be exercised by the Office of Child and Youth Protection and the National Review Board. The two entities, composed completely of laity, were created by the bishops to help dioceses implement and monitor compliance with policies. But some bishops have complained that both have been acting too independently, cutting into the autonomy the bishops have in running their diocesan affairs. The bishops, at their June 14-19 special assembly in Denver, are scheduled to discuss two projects directly involving the office and board and their relationship to individual bishops and to the body of bishops.
‘Zero tolerance’ is controversial cornerstone of sex abuse policy WASHINGTON — A controversial cornerstone of the U.S. bishops’ policies to prevent child sex abuse is the permanent removal from ministry of any priest or deacon who has committed at least one act of child sex abuse. The policy has strong support among victims’ groups as a sign that the church is serious about protecting children, but has been received less warmly by some priests and canon lawyers who are critical of the idea of having one penalty for a wide range of sex abuse activities. Known as the “zero tolerance” or the “one-strikeyou’re-out” policy, it is based on a 2002 statement made by Pope John Paul II to a group of U.S. church leaders that “there is no place in the priesthood or religious life for those who would harm the young.” U.S. bishops are expected to discuss zero tolerance in November as part of their required two-year review of their sex abuse policies as contained in the 2002 “Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.”
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World War II veteran Irvin Holtan of El Paso, Texas, shows his daughter, Mildred Pritchett, the grave of a friend at the American Cemetery in Colleville, France, June 4. Veterans and heads of state and government were in France for ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the Allied landings in Normandy.
Museum exhibit focuses on faith of World War II generation WASHINGTON — A new exhibit at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington pays tribute to the World War II generation by showing how their faith sustained them during the war years. “Faith of Our Fathers and Mothers: The Role of Faith in the Greatest Generation” opened May 15 in anticipation of the dedication of the National World War II Memorial in Washington on May 29 and will run until Sept. 7. A symposium on chaplaincy and an educational film festival relating to the faith of the people during the World War II era also will be held in conjunction with the exhibit. The centerpiece of the exhibit is 10 triptychs that were used as portable altarpieces on ships in the field of battle. They are on loan from the Virginia War Museum and the U.S. Naval Academy Museum. The exhibit also features a chalice made by a ship’s machinist for use onboard ship, loaned by the Naval Academy Museum. Other items include religious articles of faith that soldiers have taken into battle — rosaries, prayer books, Bibles, prayer cards, medals, the “Soldier’s Book of Worship” and a Seder kit.
ST. LOUIS — It may have been the billboards. Or the yard signs. Perhaps the fliers delivered door to door. Since August, Mass attendance at Holy Family Parish in South St. Louis has grown from an average of 225 to about 450 now. At a recent 10:30 a.m. Sunday Mass there weren’t enough parish bulletins for the number of people in attendance. “A real treat is that we’re all working together,” said Alice Nicolas, who co-chairs the parish development committee with Pete Mutter. The committee has been at the forefront of an effort by active parishioners to welcome neighbors to their church. The billboards are a “dynamic endeavor,” Mutter told the St. Louis Review, St. Louis archdiocesan newspaper. “Hopefully, it will get the school enrollment up and show the neighborhood what we have to offer.” Father Rickey J. Valleroy, pastor, formed a development committee which sponsored a raffle that raised $17,000. The new pastor asked the committee to devise a way to further develop the parish and help evangelize the neighborhood. “It’s amazing to see what this board has done since its incorporation of only a few months,” he said. The parish also has used fish fries to attract people to a faith founded by a fisher of men.
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ment of people from the cities to the suburbs (and) the decrease in the number of active Catholics,” Archbishop O’Malley said.
Doctor discusses reality of assisted suicide in Oregon SACRAMENTO — Dr. William Toffler is battling what he considers an infectious disease that has swept through his home state of Oregon, a disease he says requires a reassessment of how compassionate care of people at the end of life is defined. His battle has been shaped by the passage in October 1997 of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which made physicianassisted suicide a legal medical option for terminally ill Oregon residents. Toffler, a physician who is director of the Department of Family Medicine at Oregon Health and Sciences University, was in Sacramento recently to speak about end-of-life issues at the diocesan pastoral center. “What’s been sold to the Oregon populace is really dispassion. Whether you live or die is your decision. It really doesn’t matter to me,” said Toffler during an interview with the Catholic Herald, Sacramento diocesan newspaper. “We need to say killing people for whatever utilitarian purpose is a bad idea.” Co-opting terms such as “compassionate” and “death with dignity” to describe end-of-life issues is both inaccurate and demeaning, he explained.
Bishop Vigneron blesses site for new cathedral in Oakland OAKLAND — Declaring that the new Cathedral of Christ the Light will be a “true icon of Jesus Christ,” Oakland Bishop Allen H. Vigneron blessed the ground on which the cathedral will be built in downtown Oakland. About 350 people attended the multicultural ceremony May 23. “We are undertaking an important work that will help us form into a strong community to do God’s work,” the bishop told the crowd before leading them from the plaza overlooking the site to the cathedral location, now a parking lot. “Here God will nourish us so we can live in light and love,” he said. The 33,000-square-foot church will feature soaring wooden latticework encased in glass with portals facing Lake Merritt. The wooden latticework will rise from a sturdy base, which will be carved out to include a chapel and reconciliation rooms. The cathedral will seat 1,500 with a small chapel able to accommodate another 200. Underneath will be a mausoleum. ST. CLARE’S RETREAT Santa Cruz
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Catholic Healthcare West and union reach landmark contract WASHINGTON — In a landmark move Catholic Healthcare West and the Service Employees International Union have reached a tentative agreement on a California-wide master contract covering 14,000 workers in 28 Catholic Healthcare West facilities across the state. The four-year agreement includes an average wage increase of 5 percent a year and a $4 million training fund. The jointly operated fund will provide tuition reimbursement up to $3,000 a year and paid educational leave to help the hospitals and their employees meet — from within — the growing needs for skilled health care workers. The agreement also provides employer-paid health insurance and significant increases in pension benefits. In a June 2 media teleconference announcing details of the agreement, chief SEIU negotiator John Borsos said it gives health care workers a major voice in staffing and other decisions affecting the quality of patient care.
WASHINGTON — The time has come for the U.S. Catholic Church “to launch a special effort of evangelization through media, including and perhaps especially through Internet,” the top Vatican communications official said during a visit to Washington. U.S. Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications said the moment was signaled by the end of two years of “virtual siege conditions” because of the clergy sex abuse scandal and the “tremendous response” to Mel Gibson’s film, “The Passion of the Christ.” The movie “has reawakened interest in our redemption through the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,” the archbishop said in a May 26 talk to members of the U.S. bishops’ communications committee, meeting in Washington. He suggested the U.S. church “reach out to inactive Catholics, especially those who might have used recent scandals as a type of justification for their own inactivity or alienation.” With approximately 20 million inactive Catholics in the United States, they are the nation’s second largest “religious group” after the 65 million active Catholics, he said.
Vatican to publish war documents VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is preparing to publish a two-volume book and eight DVDs that document the Holy See’s quiet efforts to help prisoners of war during World War II. The material from the Vatican Secret Archives, including information on some 3 million people, illustrates the “gigantic” project undertaken by the Vatican to help the prisoners and relatives seeking news about their fate, a Vatican statement said June 8. Pope John Paul II decided in 2002 to release material from the Vatican archives ahead of the normal publication schedule, follow-
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Ecuadoran students and Indian groups clash with riot police as they protest outside the hotel where the Organization of American States was holding its general assembly in Quito, Ecuador, June 7. The Vatican released a message to the assembly's president and the ministers of 34 American nations declaring that a dignified standard of living for all people would do more than the latest weaponry in guaranteeing greater stability and peace in the world.
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Diocese appeals Charities contraceptives case to U.S. Supreme Court By Julie Sly Catholic News Service SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Diocese of Sacramento will appeal a California Supreme Court decision holding that Catholic Charities of Sacramento is not a religious institution and as such must provide coverage of contraceptives for its workers. Sacramento Bishop William K. Weigand announced June 1 that he will take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to overturn a March 1 decision by the state’s highest court, which requires Catholic Charities and other church entities to pay for contraceptives as part of employee health insurance. The 6-1 ruling said Catholic Charities of Sacramento may not be exempted from a 1999 state law that requires all employers to include contraceptives when they provide insurance coverage for prescriptions. The ruling could affect hospitals, colleges and universities and social service agencies run by the Catholic Church and other faith groups. “This lawsuit has very little to do with
health insurance and everything to do with our fundamental rights as Americans,” Bishop Weigand said in a statement. It comes down to a simple question, he said: “Under the (U.S.) Constitution, does the state of California have the right to tell its citizens how to practice their religion?” Catholic Charities challenged the law in July 2000 on the grounds that it unconstitutionally imposes a mandate that is contrary to the teachings of the church, which opposes all artificial means of contraception. The law does not require employers to provide coverage for prescriptions in general, but Catholic Charities argued that the church’s social justice teachings call for it to provide prescription coverage as a moral duty. The Women’s Contraceptive Equality Act, passed by the California Legislature in 1999, includes an exemption for “religious employers” but defines those as nonprofit institutions directly involved in inculcating religious beliefs, and whose employees and beneficiaries of services are primarily members of the faith group. The state Supreme Court in its March deci-
sion said Catholic Charities does not qualify as a religious employer because it offers secular services to the public without regard for the recipients’ beliefs and without preaching about Catholic values. Catholics do not make up either a majority of its employees or a majority of the recipients of its services. Bishop Weigand said that providing aid to the sick and needy is “fundamental to how Catholics practice their faith. We don’t ask anyone if they’re Catholic first.” The bishop added: “If we turned our back on the basic teachings of our religion and employed only Catholics, provided charity and social services only to Catholics, educated only Catholics in our universities and treated only Catholics in our hospitals, we would be in compliance with the law.” Attorneys for Catholic Charities — Kevin Baine in Washington and James Sweeney in Sacramento — filed their petition with the Supreme Court May 28. The state of California has 30 days to respond. According to the statement, attorneys for Catholic Charities do not expect to hear whether the court accepts the case until
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October. At least four justices must agree to hear the case before it comes before the full court. If it is rejected, the state Supreme Court decision will stand.
Iowa diocese case may challenge constitutionality of California law By Catholic San Francisco Staff A clergy sexual abuse case filed in California against the Diocese of Davenport in Iowa may challenge the constitutionality of a California law eliminating the time limit for victims of sexual abuse to bring civil suits against the employers of perpetrators of sexual abuse. Davenport priest Fr. James Jannsen and the Diocese of Davenport are being sued by an unnamed plaintiff who accuses Jannsen of sexually abusing him more than 30 years ago. Davenport Diocese has asked the court in Iowa to dismiss the case because it was filed well after the expiration of time limits to file
such suits under Iowa law. However, on Dec. 30, 2003, the unnamed plaintiff filed suit against Jannsen and the Davenport Diocese in a California court claiming Jannsen abused him during a decades old trip to San Diego. A California law enacted in 2002 eliminated the statute of limitations on bringing civil actions in sexual abuse cases for a period of one year, allowing accusers until Dec. 30, 2003 to file suit regardless of the age of the alleged offense. Nearly 800 law suits were filed as a result of the law; several hundred pending against Catholic dioceses in California. On May 25, the Davenport Diocese asked the U.S. District Court in San Diego
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If the Davenport Diocese prevails on the Constitutionality of the state law, it could affect hundreds of cases currently progressing in California state courts, including cases naming California Catholic dioceses. The Archdiocese of San Francisco released a statement June 1 maintaining “legal action by the Diocese of Davenport does not in any way diminish the main goals of the Archdiocese of San Francisco” in response to clergy sexual abuse. Among other goals, the Archdiocese said it would continue to reach out to victims of clergy sexual abuse, work to reach fair compensation settlements with all victims, and continue forward with mediation and settlement efforts in the California Superior Courts.
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Father Joseph O’Reilly celebrates 65 years as a priest with memories and friends By Tom Burke Father Joseph O’Reilly was ordained 65 years ago. Today, at age 92, he still visits, still exercises, still prays, and still is a priest. He was ordained in 1939. “It has been awesome for me,” Father O’Reilly said about his six and a half decades as a clergyman for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He spoke with Catholic San Francisco from the comfort of St. Stephen Parish rectory where he has lived for the past 32 years – 15 as pastor and since 1987 in retirement. Father O’Reilly, a native of St. Anne of the Sunset Parish, keeps memories from all his assignments “close to his heart” but the people of St. Stephen’s have retained a special place “in his heart,” he said. “They are good and solid people,” Father O’Reilly said. “They have worked hard for what they have, and been most generous with the Church.” Father O’Reilly who completed his undergraduate degree in Economics at St. Mary’s College in Moraga before entering St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, said priesthood had been on his mind for a long time as a young man. Examples of service had come from a late uncle, who was a Capuchin Franciscan Friar, as well as priests he remembered from his years at St. Anne’s, one of whom was the late Father Joseph Donworth, second pastor and Father O’Reilly’s predecessor at St. Stephen’s. “I never considered any other career,” he said, quick to compliment his business training at St. Mary’s and that “it came in handy many times” during his years of tending to the nonsacramental aspects of parish leadership. While not active in ministry today, Father O’Reilly is not quiet about obstacles for priests then and now. “Paperwork,” he said, is among the greatest. “Priests need to be priests,”
Father Joseph O’Reilly the year after his ordination. Priest friends and former associate pastors of Father O’Reilly enjoyed lunch with the Father O’Reilly said. “Be jubilarian on June 2, the day before his sixty-fifth anniversary as a priest. From left: Father with the people. As much as the parish might come to William Knapp, Jesuit Father Tony Sauer, Bishop John C. Wester, Fathers Te Van Nguyen resemble a business, it is and Joseph Walsh, Msgr. Maurice McCormick, Fathers James O’Malley and Henry Trainor. not a business.” Father O’Reilly is dedicated to all the Gospels. The Letters Father O’Reilly admitted that two of his toughest years were as pastor of St. Agnes Parish in the Haight Ashbury of St. Paul are among his favorite New Testament readings. District from 1970 to 1972, a time forever chronicled as one “He was a man of common sense and holiness,” he said. “My priesthood has met my expectations and beyond,” of tumult and quandary for a younger generation bereft of “faith and hope,” he sadly recalled. “I was unable to help Father O’Reilly said. “It has been a few days of Calvary but many days of Cana.” About his performance as a pastor and them,” he said in a still-wondering whisper. A loss of dexterity has kept Father O’Reilly from cele- guide to younger priests Father O’Reilly would only say brating Mass in recent years but he never misses his morn- smiling, “All my associates still talk to me.” Though “I’d rather be seen than viewed” is a popular ing prayers and keeping in touch with Scripture. “Without prayer you’re finished,” he said, adding that the welfare of rejoinder from Father O’Reilly on receiving visitors, he is the priests, religious and people of the Archdiocese of San well aware that his time “to meet God” could be at hand. “I’ve been very blessed,” he said, “and I am ready.” Francisco is always among his intentions.
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Bush cites Catholic programs as examples of faith-based success WASHINGTON — President Bush June 1 recognized Migration and Refugee Services of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as an example of faith-based initiatives that work. Speaking at a White House conference on faith-based and community initiatives, Bush cited two refugees whose resettlement in the United States has been handled through Catholic agencies as examples of people whose lives have been changed through their association with faith-based organizations. Operating on a contract basis for the federal government, the Catholic Church has for decades resettled more refugees in the United States than any other entity. Like people with addictions or children with parents in prison, refugees are among those who benefit from social service pro-
grams run by people whose motivation comes from religious faith, Bush said. “That’s what the faith-based and community initiative is all about,” Bush said. “How do we gather up the strength of the country, the vibrancy of faith-based programs? The social entrepreneurs — how do we encourage them?” Bishop Wilton D. Gregory of Belleville, Ill., USCCB president, wrote in a letter to Bush that his “commitment to re-energizing and sustaining the U.S. tradition of admitting refugees from around the world was very much welcomed.” Increased refugee admissions to the United States this year have “required concerted effort on the part of many in our government, but the leadership from the White House has been critically important,” Bishop Gregory added. Details of the letter were released June 4. Mark Franken, MRS director and a participant in the conference, said afterward,
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“Presidential leadership will be required to ensure that the refugee admissions program is fully restored, so that once again our great nation can be a beacon of hope and rescue for some of the world’s persecuted.” The Bush administration’s faith-based initiatives have included creating centers in 10 federal agencies to assist small community and religious organizations in becoming involved in providing social services through federal government programs. It also has focused on eliminating some of the administrative barriers that previously might have kept faith-based organizations from participating in federal programs. In his speech at the conference, Bush said, “I fully understand it’s important to maintain the separation of church and state. ... But I do believe that groups should be allowed to access social service grants, so long as they don’t proselytize or exclude somebody sim-
ply because they don’t share a certain faith.” Bush said there is a way to accomplish the separation of church and state “and at the same time, accomplish the social objective of having America become a hopeful place and a loving place,” which he said faith-based institutions are better equipped to do than government acting on its own. “I understand the limitations of government,” Bush said. “Governments can hand out money. But governments cannot put love in a person’s heart, or a sense of purpose in a person’s life.” Among the participants in the conference were the directors of various programs that provide social services for the federal government, including Franken. Bush also referred to the participation of Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of St. Paul-Minneapolis and Pittsburgh Bishop Donald W. Wuerl.
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Special Mass in Portuguese June 19 A special Mass in Portuguese will be held at St. Mary’s Cathedral on Saturday June 19 at 7:30 p.m. in thanksgiving for Portuguese diplomat Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a devout Catholic who was named Consul General for Portugal in Bordeaux, France in 1940. A wealthy lawyer from an old aristocratic family, de Sousa Mendes had represented Portugal in Brazil, Zanzibar and the Unites States. Hitler’s forces had marched into Paris and a flood of humanity fled in fear from the Nazi regime. Their destination was Bordeaux where a Portuguese visa could assure them passage through Spain into Portugal, which was nominally neutral; from there they could perhaps hope to obtain a passport or visa to America. The president of Portugal, however, ordered his embassies not to issue exit visas to Russians, Portuguese political exiles and Jewish people. Thousands of refugees reached Bordeaux and sought out the Portuguese Consul General. With great compassion, de Sousa Mendes decided to disobey the Portuguese president’s order and handwrote some 30,000 visas in order to save as many refugees as possible from the Nazis. 10,000 of those refugees
were Jews. He was quoted saying: “I have to save these people, as many as I can. If I am disobeying orders I’d rather be with God against men, rather than with men against God.” He was recalled to Lisbon in disgrace and stripped of all this diplomatic status. His licensee to practice law was taken away, and he was forced to sell all his possessions to buy food for his family. He died penniless in a house for the poor in Lisbon in 1954. Aristides Sousa Mendes been honored by the U.S. Congress and has been restored to a place of honor and respect by the President of Portugal, Mario Soares. This year marks the 50 year anniversary of his death. The Angelo Roncalli International Committee and the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation has chosen this devout Catholic for a special recognition. San Francisco Archbishop William Levada has asked Father Agnel De Heredia, Pastor of All Souls Parish, to celebrate the Mass. Members of the faithful, especially those with roots in Portugal, the Islands of Azores, and Brazil, are invited to the liturgy.
Black Catholics urged to ‘tell it like it is’ on abortion By Catholic News Service NEW YORK — The National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life is urging African-American Catholics to “tell it like it is” about abortion during June, observing it as abortion awareness month in the black community. “There are nearly 1,200 African-American babies killed by abortion in America every day,” said Franciscan Father Jim Goode, president of the apostolate. “Approximately 35 percent of all abortions in America are performed on black women, while they represent only 13 percent of the female population of the country. “Black Catholics will not remain silent,” he added.
“Together we must pray, educate, motivate and mobilize the African-American community against the evil of abortion.” Black Americans for Life, an affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee, also sponsors the observance, which has as its 2004 theme “Join us as we restore hope and save our race from the evil of abortion.” A brochure for abortion awareness month in the black community noted that the 14 million black children who have been aborted since the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision equals the combined population of eight Midwestern states. “A disproportionate number of the nation’s abortion clinics are located in low-income and minority neighborhoods, where a majority of African-Americans live,” the brochure said.
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Life By Evelyn Zappia “I will never leave the Roman Catholic Church,” said Dennis Marcellino. This is a remarkable statement from a 1960’s rock-and-roll icon who abandoned his faith nearly 30 years ago and became a casualty of fame, fortune and the ‘60s social revolution. The native San Franciscan struggled through a confusing and lonely three-decade journey seeking truth and happiness. The journey included studies of a score of philosophies, a successful bittersweet career in entertainment and a professional career in engineering. He returned to Catholicism in 1989, the faith he inherited at birth in 1948. A North Beach kid, born to Domonic Marcellino and Frances (Guagliano) Marcellino, he was raised in Sts. Peter and Paul Parish and attended St. Boniface School. God gave the young boy extraordinary talents. When his parents suggested taking music lessons, he chose the saxophone, guitar, flute, and a few more instruments. His quick learning ability, combined with his natural talent, gained the youth “virtuoso status” among his teachers. Marcellino’s gift for music was complemented by his educational accomplishments. After graduating from Lowell High School in 1965 at age 17, he was offered a scholarship to study aerospace engineering. But this promising path lost out to the bewitching lifestyle of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury. “Before the hippie movement, I was living a life that was inspired by my mind within the confines of what society revered, but not inspired by my heart,” Marcellino recalls. “I saw threads of spirituality, truth, deep inquiry and wisdom being revered in the hippie movement. It represented a new generation saying ‘I didn’t necessarily buy into the current ways of the world.’ I thought that there was a better way,” he said. Leaving his Catholicism behind, the teenager plummeted into destructive life-altering choices for 10 years he describes as “very painful and empty.” It took him another 14 years to recover from the life-shattering transformation. In 1966, his musical talent earned him a spot in the then popular band, Electric Flag, as a saxophone player. “I went into playing concerts for thousands of people and riding in limousines,” he said. “I felt like I had been
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USF nursing soph spins big on ‘Wheel of Fortune’ backstage exhortations from show staff included “Give it some juice” and that appearing on Wheel is a “once in a lifetime opportunity.” “I love San Francisco and USF,” Jennifer said about the city and her Jesuit run school, noting her summer would include classes and perhaps an activity or two with the ROTC program. She chose nursing for reasons including her desire to “help people” as well as the “big shortage” of nurses. She’s looking to specialize in surgical nursing. Upon graduation she will serve four years as an officer with the U.S. Army.
By Tom Burke The television game show Wheel of Fortune is two years older than Jennifer Alexander but that hasn’t stopped the University of San Francisco sophomore from being a fan of the program since age four. Jennifer, an ROTC scholar and future nurse, was all but puzzle-perfect in her April “College Week” appearance on Wheel winning $19,000. The highs and lows of the number one syndicated program were all hers with a win in the final round that netted her $18,000 when letters were worth $6,000 each – the richest prize of the game - as well as two Bankrupts - the bane of all contestants on the show. The premise of the game is guessing the correct spelling of song titles, quotes and everyday items one letter at a time. Spins of the Wheel of Fortune set their value. Jennifer won the big money with the answer “Famous last words” in a category called “Phrases.” “I didn’t think about the Bankrupts until after the show and then I was really, really disappointed,” Jennifer said from her home in Phoenix where she lives with her parents, Nancy and Roger and sister, Lisa, another Wheel fan and a sophomore in high school. Adding to her chagrin was the fact that the UC Davis student who went on to the show’s Bonus Round and a chance at additional prizes worth up to more than $100,000 made it to the coveted circle with only $50 more than Jennifer. Jennifer said the audition process for Wheel was more nerve wracking than the actual television experience. “I was more nervous on the try-outs than on the show,” she said. “There were hundreds of applicants. I tried to show a lot of energy because that appeared to be what they were looking for.” Jennifer, who expects to receive her winnings in September, said no use has yet been assigned to the money and it will probably go straight to the bank or another safe haven. Jennifer’s mom, dad, and sister, joined an audience of 3,000 people for the taping April 18 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. The Alexanders are parishioners of Corpus Christi Church in Phoenix. “Wheel of Fortune visits three cities each season tap-
A Jesuit tradition San Francisco Jesuit Father Tom Smolich, Provincial of the California Province of the Society of Jesus also is a successful television game show winner. He took away nearly $40,000 after four appearances on the show Jeopardy in 1990. “I was serving at our Dolores Mission in East Los Angeles and we were desperate for funds to start a daycare center,” Father Smolich said about his reasons for applying to appear on the game. He said the money served as a “grub stake” for the new ministry, which is still serving families today. His best topics were History and Beatles’ Songs, the Sacramento native said, noting that his doing well on the show could have had something to do with his having “a mind like a sponge.” Father Smolich, a Jesuit for 30 years and a priest for 18 years, completes his six-year term as Provincial next year. Pat Sajak and Jennifer Alexander
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Celebration of priesthood ordinations brings faithful to St. Mary’s Cathedral
Father Tom Daly, Vocations Director of the Archdiocese.
Father Ulysses D’Aquila offers his blessing after his ordination.
Newly ordained Father Linh Nguyen offers his first blessing to Archbishop Levada.
Archbishop Levada anoints the hands of Father Andrew Johnson.
The newly ordained concelebrate Mass with Archbishop Levada and Bishops John Wester and Ignatius Wang.
The Vietnamese choir performs during the ordination ceremony.
From right Father Andrew Johnson with sons David and Peter before his presentation for ordination.
Father Linh Nguyen with his family. His father Dai and mother Tam came from Vietnam for the ordination.
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Father John Talesfore together with all priests present lay hands on the newly ordained.
Archbishop Levada ordains Father Linh Nguyen by the laying on of hands.
Those presented for ordination lie down during the Litany of Supplication as the congregation offers prayer for them.
Father Ulysses D’Aquila with his mother Mary Ann and stepfather Bill.
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Guest Commentary Newly ordained, newly arrived By Father Eugene Hemrick As I concelebrated with a newly ordained priest at his first Mass, my thoughts drifted back to all the unexpected happenings I experienced when I was newly ordained. I knew I would be sent to a parish, but never expected to be with a pastor who was a model of kindness. From my first day on the job, he was there to help me as best he could. He could be firm, but he was never overbearing. He was concerned that I keep up my studies, take my day off and stay healthy. I remember once lying sick in my bedroom. All of sudden he appeared with a doctor from the parish in the doorway, and before long I was on my feet. The parish had a school and two full-time assistants. Never did I expect that the other assistant would become one of my best friends and support me throughout my 41 years of priesthood. We still call each other on a regular basis, even though I am hundreds of miles away from him. Other priests helped us on a regular basis because of a heavy Mass schedule. They were the first priests truly to teach me about the fraternity of the priesthood. We debated theology, competed in golf and baseball and were forever chiding each other. As a newly ordained priest, I received lessons from them that I still follow and pass on to other priests: Don’t overextend yourself! — Keep a sense of humor! — Don’t neglect prayer! — Get away every so often! — Shorten and simplify your homilies! Our honesty with each other was fraternal correction at its best because we cared for each other. Not only did we have a happy, supportive rectory, but we had a wonderful group of lighthearted sisters. Because I was somewhat uptight, they constantly would remind me to loosen up. What deeply touched me was hearing first confessions and experiencing how seriously the laity lived their spiritual life. Often I left the confessional feeling I was nowhere near their level of spirituality. In fact, the more I ministered to parishioners and saw the deep faith they had when suffering, the more I realized that here were theological lessons you can’t find in textbooks. This May and June, many newly ordained priests are beginning a life of new, unexpected experiences. I pray their first pastor is a model pastor, that they experience the fraternity of the priesthood in its fullness, that they are awed by the spirituality of those they serve and they fully appreciate all that ordination gives them and empowers them to do. On a related topic, we are witnessing a rise in the number of foreign priests serving U.S. parishes. These priests come from Mexico, South and Central America, Europe, Africa and the Far East. The presence of these priests, however, raises suspicions among some. Why are they really here? Are they just here to better their economic status? How well can they serve when their accents make it difficult to understand them? And is it fair for the church in the United States to take priests from poorer nations? America is a land of opportunity. It has given hope and dignity to generations of people who came here. No doubt some priests come seeking a better life. At first this may sound self-focused, but when we think about it, seeking dignity is completely normal. We work, we study and we sacrifice in order to raise our standard of life. Many of us enjoy a more dignified life than might otherwise have been the case because of grandparents who came to this nation seeking a better life. But, it might be objected, why not stay in one’s own country and serve the poor there? The answer is that not everyone receives the special grace needed to work with their own poor. And too, when we turn to the Bible, we realize that God’s chosen were forever on the move. Remember that Abraham didn’t stay in Mesopotamia, nor did Moses stay in Egypt. Just as God has inspired Americans to leave home to serve in foreign countries, so God inspires those of other countries to serve here. It is true that some priests from other nations are difficult to understand because of their accents. On the other hand, there are numerous stories of the love people have for them because of their compassion. Compassion, kindness, service and a love for God are languages in themselves, superseding all languages. When we think in theological terms, we are reminded that the word “catholic” stands for universality. Although we have our own particular nationality, we all are one. This aspect of the faith has been particularly emphasized by Pope John Paul II, who over and over has reminded us of our global responsibility. Just as we send missionaries to other countries, so other countries send us missionaries. The church is missionary in nature and always has advocated the spirit of sharing. We will see even more international priests in U.S. parishes in the future. If one of these parishes is yours, try looking around some Sunday and counting how many international doctors, businessmen and women, and laborers are in the pews. We live in exciting times when cultures are mixing as never before to make our church even more vibrant. Father Eugene Hemrick writes for Catholic News Service.
I’m wondering if the author of “Gender was spoken by God” (CSF – May 28) realizes what a hurtful article she wrote. You cannot imagine the ridicule, teasing, and ostracizing that goes on in high school for those students who don’t fit into the stereotypes of football jock or cheerleader girl. A rigid, conformist attitude is promoted. Remember that Christ was not a conformist. The article promotes ideas that are held by convention, not biology. We are all not Rhett Butlers and Scarlet O’Haras, nor would most people want to be. “A he does not behave like a she.” is a bigoted remark. It is the kind of taunt that is yelled and screamed by bullies every day. Eve Tushnet has only added pain to other’s lives by repeating it. Lloyd Swenson San Francisco Eve Tushnet responds: I tried to be clear in my piece that I was not holding forth for particular gender stereotypes - which have varied widely across cultures - but for a deeper acknowledgment of the differences between men and women. Beyond that I am not sure what I can say. If the letter-writer genuinely believes that e.g. 18-year-old men and women should treat one another as if their risks, goals, and inclinations in sexual courtship are exactly the same, then I am not sure I can convince him that he is wrong. I can only state that I think his view is liable to hurt both men and women (women most obviously, men more subtly), quite deeply - far more deeply, really, than playground taunts, which, while obviously wrong, are not as bad as the sexually insane culture in which we currently live.
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I have never written a letter to an Editor before, but I must speak out this time. I was offended and appalled by the recent “Guest Commentary” (CSF May 28) by Bishop Thomas Wenski, “Politicians and Communion.” He has introduced a new term to vilify Catholic politicians - and laypersons as well - as “self-identified” Catholics, which reads somewhere between a sneer and a self-righteous put-down. More importantly, however, he states that “perhaps, they are baiting the Church, daring an ‘official sanction’ making them ‘bad Catholics,’ so as to gain favor among their secularist, ‘blue state’ constituencies.” Since when did it become necessary to vote Republican in order to be a good Catholic? And why is the Church promoting singleissue, partisan politics at the expense of all the other issues - support for the poor, economic parity, immigrants’ rights, world peace and rehabilitation instead of death for criminals - that she has so profoundly influenced all these years through tireless, practical good works and prayer? The intertwining worlds of the State and the Church
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give rise to complex, heart-wringing, tough issues and choices - and there needs to be dignity and respect when approaching the issue of “voting one’s conscience” - not a self-satisfied and smugly superior sledgehammer to beat down one’s opponents with name-calling and innuendo. Mary F. Burns San Francisco Ed. Note: Bishop Thomas Wenski is chairman of the U.S. Bishops Committee on Migration and a strong voice on the various issues for which the letter writer expresses concern. Bishop Wenski did not make a blanket vilification of Catholic politicians or laypersons in his article. He wrote, “one cannot be complicit in the injustice of denying the right to life of an unborn child or an invalid elder and still consider oneself Catholic.” The statement is neutral with respect to political parties except for the positions they freely adopt. My daughter Breauna and I participate in Most Holy Redeemer’s Wednesday Night Suppers and we were featured in photos and quotes in your article. We do this because of the loving, powerful community of openhearted people that come there to both be served and to serve. As a gay Dad, it’s important for me to acknowledge that this work is born in the gay community - the very community so harshly treated and condemned by the Catholic Church. The community that recently watched anti-gay marriage rights priests and parishioners march through North Beach. Seems more caring and time better spent to serve a meal and provide community to someone in need. Gregg Cassin San Francisco Ed. Note: The Church’s opposition to the redefinition of marriage does not constitute harsh treatment or condemnation of the gay community. Neither is the position opposed to the charitable work of the Church which is undertaken by many parish communities.
Reciprocal condemnation I am writing to comment on the article from Catholic News Service May 14 dealing with the issue of the abuse of some Iraqi prisoners by some U.S. military personnel. It should go without saying that physical torture and abuse is beyond the pale and those guilty of it should be brought to justice. This is not to say, though, that nonmilitary, irregular prisoners caught out of uniform, are entitled to the full Geneva Convention protections accorded uniformed members of a military force. It is not unreasonable to suppose the events of Abu Graib prison have harmed Western-Muslim relations. It should be equally clear that the events of 9/11, the earlier World Trade explosions, the executions of Nick Berg and Daniel Pearl, the desecrated bodies hanging from the bridge in Fallujah, and suicide/murder bombers have damaged Western-Muslim relations. I doubt the vast majority of Americans have a dehumanizing view of Muslims. It seems less clear that the vast majority of Muslims don’t have a dehumanizing view of infidels. It is good that the Leadership Conference of Women Religious is reaching out to our Muslim sisters and brothers. It’s possible that statements by the Pope and other Christian leaders will make Muslims feel better. But where are the statements from Muslim leaders condemning terrorism carried out by Muslims in the name of Islam? Where is the condemnation by imams and mullahs of the men who chop off the head of a young man trying to rebuild Iraq, while they shouted “Allah Akbar.” Malcolm Post San Francisco
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The Catholic Difference On May 10, forty-eight Members of the U.S. House of Representatives – all Catholics, all Democrats, forty-five prochoice, three pro-life – wrote Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, chairman of the bishops’ “Task Force on Catholic Bishops and Catholic Politicians.” Their letter bespoke a host of confusions about the nature of the abortion issue, the responsibilities of legislators, and Church law. One confusion has to do with the public character of the abortion license, which the Members described repeatedly as a matter of “personal morality.” This is precisely wrong. Abortion, as the bishops have consistently taught, is a matter of the fifth commandment, not the sixth; it’s a question of public justice, not sexual morals. Why? Because abortion involves taking the life of an indisputably human creature, endowed with an inalienable right to life. That is a serious public matter, not a private choice, because protecting innocent life is one of the first requirements of justice in any decent society. Roe v. Wade (the 1973 Supreme Court decision that tried to justify abortion via an alleged “right to privacy”) and Casey v. Planned Parenthood (the 1992 decision that re-tooled the abortion license as a “liberty right”) were both wrongly decided – just as Dred Scott v. Sandford, the 1857 decision declaring African-Americans legal non-persons, was wrongly decided. As the Pope, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the U.S. bishops have all taught – and as any reputable theory of justice would confirm – legislators who have sworn to uphold the rule of law, but who recognize that the Supreme Court has made a grave error, have certain responsibilities; they
can’t simply wash their hands of the affair, on the grounds that, well, the Court has settled the issue. To begin with, legislators have an obligation to state publicly that the Court got it wrong. In their letter, the Members justified pro-choice voting records on the grounds that “the Supreme Court has declared that our Constitution provides women with a right to an abortion.” Anyone truly opposed to abortion would immediately continue, “But the Court, sadly, was wrong. Tragically and lethally wrong.” Secondly, conscientious legislators have a moral obligation to try to limit the damage caused by bad Supreme Court decisions. Some of the Members who wrote Cardinal McCarrick have done so; most have not. Moreover, few of the signatories have made any serious effort to change the dynamics within the Democratic Party, in which unabashed support for the abortion license is the litmus test for national office and the litmus test for weighing judicial nominees. This suggests that most of these Members are not working, as any morally serious legislator must, to reverse the Court’s wrongheaded abortion decisions – which is the third requirement for lawmakers in situations like post-Roe v. Wade America. The Members also mistakenly invoke Father John Courtney Murray, SJ, in defense of their attempt to describe abortion as an issue of “private” morality not subject to legal regulation. Murray (who died almost six years before Roe) was dubious about the wisdom of the Church defending state laws that criminalized the sale of contraceptives. But contraception, while a serious sin with grave cultural impli-
cations, is, in essence, a matter of conjugal morality and the sixth commandment; abortion is a matter of public justice and the fifth commandment. That’s the distinction Murray would likely George Weigel draw, not the one suggested by the Members. Finally, the Members misrepresent canon law and the purpose of canonical penalties. Canon 915 states that those who “obstinately persist in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to Holy Communion.” The application of this canon to present circumstances is being vigorously debated throughout the United States (and in Rome) right now. The debate would be a wiser one if everyone understood (as the forty-eight Members of Congress evidently do not) that canonical penalties have a different aim than penalties in civil and criminal law. The purpose of canonical penalties is remedial, even medicinal: imposing a penalty is intended, not so much as a punishment, but as a prod to conversion. The aim is not retribution, but change of heart and mind. The Members’ letter did not, alas, advance an important debate. It muddied the waters even further.
from cancer. She was at home, and I went to visit her with my baby. My aunt was lying in a hospital bed which had been moved into her bedroom, and she had oxygen tubes in her nose. My mom took my baby son and put him in her arms. I was a sleep deprived new mother and felt anxious about this - I was not sure if it was a good idea. But my aunt beamed with happiness. I should say that my aunt was a tough lady. She had never married, worked over 40 years for Bank of America, working her way up to Vice-President. She lived in her family home her entire life, and was the “breadwinner.” It was quite a shock to see her so vulnerable. But she beamed at my baby, sleeping in the crook of her arm. “There’s a man in my bed!” she yelled. “I finally got a man in my bed!” My mom took a picture of my baby son in my aunt’s arms (and again I admit thinking, mom what are you doing?). My aunt died about two weeks later. When the picture was developed, I remember just sit-
ting and looking at it for a long time. My aunt is looking at the camera, with a slight smile on her face. There is a look in her eyes that is almost “other-worldly.” Some people looking at it have called it Lynn Smith “macabre” or “depressing.” But when I look at the picture I see two people who are very close to God. One, just come from Him, and the other, about to return.
wonderful energy, color, wit, intelligence and creativity that make the world go ‘round and make life worth living. This is the voice beckoning us toward romance, creativity, art, sex, achievement, physical health — the voice telling us Jesus’ parable of the talents and holding before us a truth too often neglected in religious circles, namely, that God is also the author of eros, color, physical health, wit and intelligence. Life, it insists, needs to be tasted, in God’s name. So which is the real voice? Is one of these voices to be heeded and the other resisted? This is a complex question and there’s more to it than meets the eye. Historically, the temptation, at least in religious circles, has been to over-simplistically identify the voice of Jesus with the voice that calls us toward self-sacrifice and asceticism: “Everything is about self-renunciation!” Indeed, it is. Jesus did say that, as did every great saint. But Jesus and those others also said more, and our failure to take heed of the rest of what they said has sometimes made for a spirituality that is a half-truth with some nasty consequences; namely, in the name of religion, we have sometimes become unhealthily fearful, timid, and guilt-ridden. ºWhenever this happens, the other voice, the one inviting us to enter more fully into life’s dance of energy, is not blotted out but driven underground and there, because we have neglected part of what God has called us to, instead of becoming martyrs, we become people with “martyr complexes,” frustrated persons whose energies become negative and manipulative in the name of love and service. Moreover, in the name of this half-truth, we often end up having God fighting God, truth fighting truth, wisdom fighting energy, and spiritual health fighting physical
health, because we’ve put self-renunciation in false opposition to the challenge to also enter into the wonderful God-given energy of this planet where beauty, romance, creativity, physical health, wit, Father wine-drinking and Ron Rolheiser good humor also extend part of God’s authentic invitation. How to find a balance in all of this? If both voices invite us to truth and yet they seem in opposition to each other, where do we go with this? There is no simple truth, here or anywhere else. Truth is painfully complex (as are we) and truth is always bigger than our capacity to absorb and integrate it. To be open to truth is to be perpetually stretched and perpetually in tension, at least this side of eternity. And that’s true in terms of the seeming opposition between these voices. At times they are in real opposition and we can’t have it both ways, but have to choose one to the detriment of the other. Truth has real boundaries and there’s a danger in letting it mean everything. But there’s an equal danger in letting it mean too little, of reducing a full truth to a half-truth — and nowhere, at least in the spiritual life, is this danger greater than in our tendency to let either of these voices completely blot out the other.
George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Family Life
Two close to God One day recently when I was chatting with my parents, I told them my son said to me that he didn’t want them to go to heaven. “Well, where does he want us to go?” asked my dad. I had a good laugh over this, but my son, of course, is starting to understand that the older you are, the closer you are to “going to Heaven.” He understands that there are certain people missing, for example he asks my parents where their parent’s are, and wants to know their names. He mentions them when we hear those particular names. “Margaret! That’s just like pa’s mommy.” We have explained to him that these people are in Heaven, but I can understand, and, the older my parents get, admit to sharing his concern. Although my parents are relatively young, and barely qualify as senior citizens, we still know that death is inevitable for all of us. About four years ago, when my son was perhaps two months old, I had an aunt who was in the final stages of dying
Lynn Smith is a parishioner at St. Monica Parish and is mother of a four year old boy.
Spirituality
Conflicting voices We are drowning in a sea of voices. Superficially, we see this in advertising. Everywhere around us, billboards, radio, television, newspapers, magazines, the Internet and the fashion industry hold out the promise of something better for us — a new soap, a new lover, a new philosophy of life. More deeply, however, we experience this sea of voices as a great tension. The different voices we hear pull us in many directions and, after a while, we’re no longer sure who we are, what we believe in, or what will bring us life. Different voices tell us different things and each voice seems to carry its own truth. On the one hand, there’s a powerful voice beckoning us toward self-sacrifice, self-renunciation, altruism, heroism, telling us that happiness lies in giving life away, that selfishness will make us unhappy, and that we will be ourselves only when we are big-hearted, generous, and put the needs of others before our own. Deep down, we all know the truth of that; it’s Jesus’ voice telling us that there is no greater love, or meaning, than to lay down one’s life for others. Francis of Assisi was right; we receive only by giving. And so we admire people who radiate that and we feed our souls and those of our children with stories of heroism, selflessness, and bigness of heart. But that’s not the only voice we hear. We hear as well a powerful, persistent voice seemingly calling us in the opposite direction. Superficially, this is the voice calling us toward pleasure, comfort and security, the voice that tells us to take care of ourselves, to drink in life’s pleasures to the full, to seize the day while it’s still ours to seize. More deeply, this is the voice that challenges us not to be too timid or fearful to be a full human being. This voice invites us to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy the
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SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
Scripture SISTER SHARON MCMILLAN, SND
Genesis 14:18-20; Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26; Luke 9:11b-17 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS (GEN 14:18-20) In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine, and being a priest of God Most High, he blessed Abram with these words: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, the creator of heaven and earth; and blessed be God Most High, who delivered your foes into your hand.” Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything. RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4) R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek. The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand till I make your enemies your foot stool.” R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek. The scepter of your power the Lord will stretch forth from Zion: “Rule in the midst of your enemies.” R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek. “Yours is princely power in the day of your birth, in holy splendor; before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you.” R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek. The Lord has sworn, and he will not repent: “You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.” R. You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.
A READING FROM THE FIRST LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS (1 COR 11:23-26) Brothers and sisters: I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes. A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE (LK 9:11B-17) Jesus spoke to the crowds about the kingdom of God, and he healed those who needed to be cured. As the day was drawing to a close, the Twelve approached him and said, “Dismiss the crowd so that they can go to the surrounding villages and farms and find lodging and provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.” He said to them, “Give them some food yourselves.” They replied, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have, unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people.” Now the men there numbered about five thousand. Then he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty.” They did so and made them all sit down. Then taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing over them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd. They all ate and were satisfied. And when the leftover fragments were picked up, they filled twelve wicker baskets.
Who is Melchizedek? We know of Melchizedek (meaning “king of justice”) first in Genesis 14:18-20. There he is portrayed as a priest of the Lord and the king of the city of Salem (meaning “peace”), a precursor to Jerusalem. He came to Abraham after Abraham had won a great victory in battle. When he met him, he blessed Abraham and offered a sacrifice of bread and wine. Abraham then gave him a tenth of everything that he had won in the battle. Psalm 110, in which the king of Israel (who ruled from Jerusalem) is praised, refers to Melchizedek. In the psalm, the Lord himself promises to make the king “like Melchizedek,...a priest forever…” (Ps 110:4). The first Christians often saw in the Psalms prophetic references to Christ. They especially saw this in Psalm 110. The author of the Letter to the Hebrews confirms this by his extended comparison of Jesus to Melchizedek in the entirety of chapter seven of that letter. In that chapter the story from Genesis is referred to as well as Ps 110:4 where the promise of being a priest forever like Melchizedek is applied to Christ. The mysteriousness of Melchizedek comes in when we consider his life span. As early as the time of the writing of the Psalms the Jewish people believed that Melchizedek had somehow neither been born nor died. He was sent by the Lord to the earth and then taken back up there. That is why in Psalm 110 we see the king referred to as a “priest forever” like Melchizedek. Likewise, the Letter to the Hebrews tries to explain this oddity by showing that he was a prophetic precursor of Jesus: “Without father, mother, or ancestry, without beginning of days or end of life, thus made to resemble the Son of God, he remains a priest forever” (Heb 7:3). Does this mean that Melchizedek was somehow divine, being neither born nor having died? No. It would instead seem, as the Letter to the Hebrews suggests, that he was a human made this way by the Lord in order to show his people a prophetic sign of the Messiah to come. Melchizedek points us ahead to the coming of Jesus in many ways. We have already seen that he was like Jesus in that he was neither born nor died forever. He was also like Jesus in his being both a king and a priest. He was a precursor to Jesus in a very special way in his offering of bread and wine as a sacrifice, just as Jesus did at the Last Supper and as we continue today. In my home parish of St. Joseph near Indianapolis we need not look far to see the significance of the mysterious person of Melchizedek. Above our stained glass window of the crucifixion you will see a round window of Melchizedek offering his sacrifice of bread and wine. Abraham is there with him, with his helmet still on having just completed his battle. Next to that window is a portrayal of Abraham offering his son Isaac as a sacrifice. These three windows show us how the connection between the crucifixion as a sacrifice and the Eucharist as a continuation of that one perfect sacrifice was foreshadowed many ages before the time of Christ in the story of Abraham and Melchizedek. Sean Gallagher is a reporter for The Criterion newspaper published by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
Gift of life in abundance The readings for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ invite us into an experience of the abundant nourishment that is ours as members of Christ’s Body. Luke’s Gospel for this feast concludes with the words, “They all ate and were satisfied,” and goes on to tell us that even when just the leftovers were collected, there were twelve baskets filled to overflowing. The nourishment which Christ provides is beyond all our needs, beyond all we can ask or imagine. The nourishment that is Christ himself, his own Body and his own Blood, is the gift of life, and life in abundance, life to the full. This Gospel passage begins by offering us a fine summary of Jesus’ own mission: he preaches the kingdom of God while he himself embodies the kingdom of God. His preaching is then confirmed in the healing that he brings to all who needed to be cured. God’s power is manifest in both Jesus’ words and in the healings that follow. This mission Jesus has also given to his apostles: to proclaim God’s good news and to cure those in need. As this Gospel reading begins, the apostles have just returned from their journeys and have shared with Jesus everything that they did in his name. Jesus draws them aside to a quiet place but I imagine he is not surprised to find that the hungry, the needy, the sick and the suffering, and those searching for God have followed them. Jesus, his followers, and the people (about five thousand) spend the day together, experiencing what the kingdom of God must be like: good news, healing, and the joy of encountering the lavish goodness of God. But as the day was drawing to a close, Jesus feeds their hunger for God in yet another way. And he does this in a manner meant to draw our minds and hearts to the sacred meal of the Eucharist. Jesus takes the food, blesses it, breaks it, and gives it to those with him in this simple hillside banquet. These four actions (take, bless, break and give) are the four central actions at the heart of the Eucharist. On the night he was betrayed, Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to his disciples to share. Likewise he took the cup, blessed it, and gave it to his disciples. After these four actions (as the words
of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Paul tell us), Jesus identified himself with the blessed bread and wine: “This is my body. This is my blood of the new covenant.” When Luke records this miraculous story of the multiplication of the loaves and fish, he deliberately uses the same four verbs (take, bless, break and give) that will inspire in the hearts all who hear this Gospel story the memory of the gift Jesus gave us the night before he died. This miraculous gift of food foreshadows the greatest gift: his own body and his own blood shared wherever his disciples gather, shared wherever the hungry, the needy, the sick and the suffering, and those searching for God gather in the name of Christ Jesus to do as he commanded us: “Do this in remembrance of me.” Eat my body, drink my blood, and share this most sacred meal of my very self with one another. Then go, and live what you receive. The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ invites us to remember and to celebrate this gift of infinite grace to which Jesus calls us. This feast may also be a good time for us to reflect on our reception of both Christ’s Body and his Blood. Every Church teaching on the Mass since the Second Vatican Council has urged all members of Christ’s Body to “take and drink” as well as to “take and eat.” Today’s second reading from St. Paul recalls Jesus’ words: “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” Jesus asks me to drink this cup. How do I accept the challenge and the abundant graces of his request? May the Church’s gift of this Solemnity draw us deeper into the reality it celebrates, the dying and rising of Jesus Christ who comes to us as our very food and drink, and sends us out into the pain and brokenness of our world to be the healing and wholeness of Christ for one another. Notre Dame Sister Sharon McMillan is assistant professor of sacramental theology and liturgy at St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park.
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Called as priests to serve the people of God The Church has just celebrated the annual Feast of Pentecost, when the promise of the Lord Jesus to his first disciples was fulfilled in the sending of the Holy Spirit upon them in the Upper Room in Jerusalem, anointing them as the nascent Church, consecrating them in faith and holiness to be the Lord Jesus’ own missionaries of truth and love to the whole world. Today at this Ordination we are the privileged witnesses and participants in the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in building up the Church of God. In the consecration of these three men as priests, the work of the Holy Spirit begun in the Upper Room continues to unfold in our own time. From the holy People of God, anointed by the Spirit in the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation, the Lord Jesus Christ again today chooses priests to carry out publicly in his name, and on behalf of all mankind, a priestly office in the Church. As Christ was sent by the Father and he in turn sent the Apostles into the world, so that through them and their successors, the Bishops, he might continue to exercise his office of Teacher, Priest, and Shepherd. Indeed, priests are established co-workers of the Order of Bishops, with whom they are joined in the priestly office and with whom they are called to the service of the People of God. Surely today we can all rejoice and give thanks to God together, Archbishops and Bishops, Priests and People, for our particular Church that is the Archdiocese of San Francisco. For more than 150 years this Archdiocese and her seven Achbishops have counted on the priestly service of hundreds of faithful priests who have dedicated themselves to teaching and preaching the Gospel of salvation, to sanctifying God’s people by the holy sacraments - whose Author and Principal Celebrant is Jesus Christ himself, and to building up the Church in unity and love, following the example of the Good Shepherd himself. You, dear sons, about to be ordained, will be joined to a truly exemplary “band of brothers” who will receive you into the presbyterate with joy, and who will willingly assist you in learning to put the priestly ministry you receive today into practice. The Upper Room of Pentecost is intimately linked with the Upper Room of the Last Supper. Although these two events were chronologically separate in the lives of the first Apostles, they form a unity in the plan of God to give birth to the Church. Our Holy Father Pope John Paul II unfolds this unity in his recent Encyclical Letter on the Eucharist, Ecclesia de Eucharistia: “the Church lives from the Eucharist.” As we listen to the account of the Last Supper in the 22nd chapter of the Gospel according to Luke, we too should pause in the Upper Room “and contemplate the Redeemer who instituted the Eucharist and the Priesthood at the Last Supper.” Let us consider that the “call” to the priesthood is ultimately discerned in the context of the Lord’s call to his first priests at the Last Supper. In his 2004 “Holy Thursday Letter to Priests” - the 25th such letter of this papal silver jubilarian - Pope John Paul II lovingly and profoundly develops the theme of priesthood and Eucharist. “At the Last Supper we were born as priests,” he says. “We were born from the Eucharist. If we can truly say that the whole Church lives from the Eucharist (“ecclesia de Eucharistia vivit”), . . . we can say the same thing about the ministerial priesthood: It is born, lives, works and bears fruit ‘de Eucharistia’. There can
National trend seen Ordination to the priesthood nationally in 2004 reflects a trend toward older, more educated and more foreign-born men entering the priesthood in the United States. Sociologist Dean R. Hoge, PhD., of the Catholic University of America Life Cycle Institute, identified the trend in his Report on Survey of 2004 Priestly Ordinations. Hoge, who has examined data related to ordinations for several years, found three changes in the ordinands since the research began in 1998. First, the average age at ordination rose from 34.8 to 37.0. Second, the level of education prior to entering the seminary rose. In 1998, 30 percent had less than a B.A. or B.S. degree; this figure in the 2004 sample was 22 percent. Correspondingly, those who had received a master’s degree or professional degree beyond the B.A. rose from 12 to 28. Third, the percentage born outside the United States rose from 24 to 31 percent. The four principal countries of birth today (outside the U.S.) are Vietnam, Mexico, Philippines, and Poland. The study also noted that involvement in parish ministries, primarily as altar servers, lectors, and Eucharistic ministers, preceded seminary for the vast majority of men.
be no Eucharist without the priesthood, just as there can be no priesthood without the Eucharist.” He goes on to say, “The same mystery of sanctification and love, the work of the Holy Spirit, which makes the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ, is at work in the person of the minister at the moment of priestly ordination. There is a particular interplay between the Eucharist and the priesthood, an interplay which goes back to the Upper Room: These two sacraments were born together, and their destiny is indissolubly linked until the end of the world.” God, who “humbled” himself to take on our humanity in the Incarnation, gives us a yet further example of humility in placing himself - his body and blood - in our priestly hands when we celebrate the Eucharist. Pope John Paul reflects, “we find ourselves amazed and overwhelmed, so deep is the humility by which God ‘stoops’ in order to unite himself with man! If we feel moved before the Christmas crib when we contemplate the incarnation of the Word, what must we feel before the altar where, by the poor hands of the priest, Christ makes his sacrifice present in time? We can only fall to our knees and silently adore this supreme mystery of faith.” No wonder, then, that in just a few moments these three deacons will lie prostrate in humility before the altar, as we invoke God and all the saints on their behalf. This act of humility will often remind them of the humility of our Lord, who “being found in human form, ... humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death - even death on a cross” (Phil 2:8). Our Lord’s humble service unto death, displayed at the Last Supper and in every Eucharist, is artfully linked in Luke’s Gospel to the Apostles’ pride and ambition. There we see the Apostles’ earthbound humanity once again erupt at this solemn moment: “Which of them should be regarded as the greatest!” But Jesus, the one whom they revere as Master and Teacher, says to them, “Let the greatest among you be as the youngest, and the leader as the servant. For who is greater: the one seated at table or the one who serves? Is it not the one seated at table? [Yet] I am in your midst as the one who serves!” Our work as priests is a work of service to the People of God. We are Christ’s chosen instruments in nourishing, enlightening and strengthening his Church for the service of living out God’s purpose in the world, thus becoming a leaven in society that opens it to the action of the Holy Spirit, whose mission is the consecration of the world by reconciling it to God. This work can only succeed if our priestly work bears the stamp of the one in whose name we serve, the stamp of humility. The imitation of the humility of Christ is and will be the challenge of all our priestly lifetimes. God tells the prophet Jeremiah, “Say not ‘I am too young.’ [For] Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you ...” To us our vocation seems a discovery that we make. But in reality it is God who has first called us, and we discover that call through a process of discovery that involves openness to his call, conversion of life to his commands, and hearts open to his love. The Holy Father guides us in reflecting on our call. At the Last Supper “he called by name each and every priest in every time. He looked at each one of them with the same look of loving encouragement with which he looked at Simon and Andrew, at James and John, at
Ordination . . . ■ Continued from cover San Francisco City College. His call to priestly ministry was strengthened by increasing involvement at St. Dominic’s parish over the years. Father D’Aquila hopes to “simply be the best parish priest I possibly can be, and to use whatever gifts God has given me in the service of his people.” Father Andrew Johnson was born the fourth of seven children in 1930 in New Jersey to a Catholic mother and Southern Baptist father. He had a long and successful business career before pursuing a vocation to the priesthood. The widower is also father of six and grandfather of two. Johnson believes his prior life experiences will help him to be effective “assisting people on this great journey of life and faith that our Lord has put us all on.” Father Tom Daly agrees, saying Johnson brings to the Church “wisdom that comes with age.” In his homily, Archbishop Levada emphasized the strong bond of the ministerial priesthood to the ministry of the bishop and to the celebration of the Eucharist. He drew on the words of Pope John Paul II in his recent encyclical Ecclesia et Eucharistia to
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Nathanael beneath the fig tree and at Matthew sitting at the tax office. Jesus has called us, and along a variety of paths he continues to call many others to be his ministers.” So too he has called our brothers to be ordained priests today: Linh Nguyen, Ulysses D’Aquila and Andrew Johnson. After their individual, unique paths of discernment of God’s call, and after the important work of assisting that discernment and validating it by their Seminary faculty and their pastors, the Church herself gives voice to the call of Christ in the words of the ordaining Bishop you have just heard: “Relying on the help of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ, we choose these, our brothers, for the Order of the Priesthood.” In the name of the whole Church I want to thank both the Seminary faculty for this essential service to the Church, and my brother priests who have worked with these candidates for the priesthood. Today let us renew our commitment to work and pray for vocations to the priesthood. Again in his Holy Thursday Letter, our Holy Father reminds us, “From the Upper Room Christ tirelessly seeks and calls. Here we find the origin and the perennial source of an authentic pastoral promotion of priestly vocations. Let us consider ourselves, my brothers, the first ones responsible in this area, ready to help all those whom Christ wishes to associate to his priesthood to respond generously to his call.” In this apostolate for priestly vocations, the work and prayer of our faithful parishioners is no less indispensable. For the many stories of vocations that we hear attest to the fact that for many the spark that opened their minds and hearts to the call of Christ was ignited in the gentle word of invitation and encouragement from a coworker, a fellow parishioner, a confessor, a teacher, a pastor: “Have you ever considered that Christ may be calling you to be a priest?” We give thanks to God today for bringing these men to the moment of their priestly ordination. We pledge them our support and our love. And we ask God to bless them and the people they will humbly serve as priests of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Most Reverend William J. Levada Archbishop of San Francisco Homily at the June 5, 2004 Ordination of Priests at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco emphasize the importance of the role the men soon to be ordained would play: “what must we feel before the altar where, by the poor hands of the priest, Christ makes his sacrifice present in time? We can only fall to our knees and silently adore this supreme mystery of faith.” Thus humility is an essential characteristic of the priesthood, Archbishop Levada explained: “This work can only succeed if our priestly work bears the stamp of the one in whose name we serve, the stamp of humility. The imitation of the humility of Christ is and will be the challenge of all our priestly lifetimes.” Archbishop Levada also called on the pastors and priests present to “renew their commitment to work and pray for vocations to the priesthood,” adding that, “In this apostolate for priestly vocations, the work and prayer of our faithful parishioners is no less indispensable.” Assisting Archbishop Levada in the celebration of the Mass and Rite of Ordination were Auxiliary Bishops John C. Wester and Ignatius C. Wang, along with several dozen priests of the archdiocese. The Archdiocesan Choir directed by Tony Eiras and the Vietnamese Choir provided music for the ceremonies.
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Reagan remembered for pro-life acts, Central American policy disputes WASHINGTON — Catholics who came in contact with President Ronald Reagan in the context of his opposition to communism or his support for pro-life legislation were effusive in praise of the late president, who died June 5 at the age of 93. Those who think of him in terms of his policies toward Central America described Reagan as a personally congenial man, but whose support of a failing Nicaraguan opposition movement led to what they say was disastrous military intervention. Two cardinals were among those who cited Reagan’s anti-communism efforts. “Along with the Holy Father, President Reagan was instrumental in his deconstruction of communism and the restoration of religious freedom in Russia and Eastern Europe,” said a statement from Detroit Cardinal Adam J. Maida. “For his devout patriotism, his steady moral compass and his loyal friendship to the Catholic Church, may Ronald Reagan enjoy eternal peace with the Lord.” Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony praised Reagan for his “gifts of wisdom, courage, strength and for his commitment to a vision of a world and a nation in which all people enjoy full freedom and individual opportunity.” Cardinal Mahony, in whose archdiocese the late president lived, said in a statement Reagan was a man of faith who “truly believed that our Creator had endowed individual people — not governments — with dignity and equality.” He recalled that Reagan admired Pope John Paul II for his promotion of individual human dignity. “These two world leaders were surely God’s instruments in helping communism crumble beneath its own deceitful premises.” In a tribute to the late president, the pope also noted Reagan’s important role in the fall of communism. A papal spokesman said the pope, who was visiting Switzerland June 5-6, was saddened to learn of Reagan’s death and had prayed for the “eternal rest of his soul.” “The pope recalled the contributions of President Reagan to the historical events that changed the lives of millions of people, especially in Europe,” Joaquin NavarroValls, the Vatican spokesman, told reporters. The National Right to Life Committee and the American Life League both issued statements crediting Reagan with being a champion of the pro-life movement. “His stalwart opposition to abortion was grounded in compassion and love — both for the mother and her unborn child,” said the statement from Wanda Franz, president of the right-to-life committee. Judie Brown, president of the American
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President Ronald W. Reagan reaches out to Pope John Paul II at the pope's arrival in Miami in September 1987 for a U.S. visit. Reagan, 93, died June 5 at his home in Bel Air, Calif., after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. Pope John Paul paid tribute to Reagan, noting his important role in the fall of European communism.
Life League, said that “there is little question that Ronald Reagan will be remembered as one of the greatest presidents in our country’s history.” She said she was particularly grateful for Reagan’s proclamations in 1984 and 1988 about the inherent dignity of every person’s life. A statement from Supreme Knight Carl Anderson of the Knights of Columbus credited Reagan for establishing full diplomatic relations with the Holy See. He said Reagan was “one of our greatest presidents, in no small part because of the sincerity and depth of his love of Christ and his humble effort to live every day in his service.” Anderson served as a special assistant to Reagan from 1985 to 1987. For others, though, Reagan is remembered somewhat less kindly because of his Central American policies. Robert White, former U.S. ambassador to El Salvador and current president of the Center for International Policy, told Catholic News Service that in many ways Reagan “was an outstanding leader, who accomplished many good things in some aspects of his foreign policy.” “It is most unfortunate that he embarked on this Central American adventure,” said White. “It flawed his presidency.” White was U.S. ambassador to El
Salvador in December 1980 when four U.S. churchwomen were kidnapped and murdered there. He has been a vocal critic of the Reagan administration’s response to the women’s deaths and the subsequent investigation. Another former diplomat to Latin America, Lawrence Pezzullo, said Reagan’s policy in Nicaragua of “starting a war in a minor country with no strategic interests” was “just a disaster.” Reagan’s decision to support the already failing efforts of the Contras in Nicaragua was based on bad advice, Pezzullo said. He was ambassador to Nicaragua and Uruguay before spending 10 years as president of Catholic Relief Services, ending in 1993. Pezzullo told CNS one effort of the Reagan administration with which he dealt while at CRS was its drought relief program in Ethiopia. He said because Ethiopia was ruled by a brutal communist leader the administration was slow in reacting to what turned out to be a major humanitarian crisis. But once the extent of suffering in Ethiopia became known, the Reagan administration put together a respectable rescue effort, he said. But the legacy of Reagan’s Central American policies continues today, he said. Reagan’s actions in Nicaragua led to “a lot of the irresponsibility in foreign affairs that we see the results of today, like lying to
the international community and the American people,” he said. Pezzullo said the U.S. reputation in the world was irreparably damaged by Reagan’s decision to bolster the Contras in battling the democratically elected, but communist-leaning Sandinista government. He said many of the same people are today advising the Bush administration on the invasion of Iraq, which he predicted will one day be viewed as another disastrous foreign policy decision. In Nicaragua, Msgr. Eddy Montenegro, vicar for communications for the Archdiocese of Managua, told reporters June 6 that “every person has their lights and their shadows ... but now that he’s dead, God will judge his actions.” Speaking after Mass in Managua’s cathedral, Msgr. Montenegro noted that the Reagan administration was the prime sponsor of the Contra rebels who waged war against the leftist Nicaraguan government in the 1980s. “We knew him for the role that he played here during that horrible epoch when we were involved in the Cold War, although here it wasn’t cold, here it was hot,” he said. “Unfortunately, many Nicaraguans died here then, quantities of people were left disabled. For these people it was not a good time; many lost their loved ones, others lost their limbs and are having a hard time.”
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Church opposes abortion, death penalty — but experts see difference or hold public policy positions that conflict with fundamental moral teachings of the church. In U.S. politics in general, abortion and capital punishment are often litmus tests. Some people may tend to oppose legal abortion while others may tend to oppose capital punishment — and sometimes there’s little crossover. Catholic teaching sees a common theological base for opposing both. The catechism discusses abortion and capital punishment as part of the church’s adherence to the Fifth Commandment, “Thou shalt not kill.”
Father Smith said that opposition to capital punishment is also tied to the church’s concept of mercy. St. Augustine, a bishop and theologian born in the WASHINGTON — Abortion and capital punishment fourth century, said that a bishop’s duty was to plead for are hot political potatoes which divide more than unite mercy for people sentenced to death, said Father Smith. U.S. voters, but opposition to both is clear in Catholic “There is always a strong rudder in the church steerteaching. ing toward mercy,” he added. A major difference between the two issues is that The church’s evolution toward restricting capital accepting the abortion teaching is more important for punishment also has sociological roots in the tremenadherence to one’s Catholic faith than following the dous human carnage Europe has seen starting with the teaching on capital punishment, said several theologians 18th-century French Revolution, Father Smith said. and experts in Catholic social thought interviewed by He cited the Russian Revolution, World War I, Nazi Catholic News Service. Germany and World War II. Another difference, outlined in the “This cheapening of human life helped “Catechism of the Catholic Church,” is that Some people may tend to oppose legal abortion in moving the church toward the abolition abortion is always wrong, while there may of capital punishment to restore respect for be circumstances — although “very rare” while others may tend to oppose capital punishment human life and dignity,” Father Smith said. in modern times — when state-approved Father Langan added that part of the evocapital punishment is possible. lution includes strong papal pressure for — and sometimes there’s little crossover. “A Catholic who thinks that there is no Catholics to be consistent and defend life on moral problem with abortion fails to grasp both abortion and capital punishment issues. the thrust of the church’s teaching,” said Jesuit Father Regarding abortion, the catechism says that “human “The pope’s position is that if you are defending life John Langan, professor of Catholic social thought at life must be respected and protected absolutely from the in one area, you should defend it in all,” he said. Georgetown University’s Institute of Ethics in moment of conception” and that “this teaching has not Father O’Rourke said that, although abortion has Washington. changed and remains unchangeable.” always been morally condemned, there has been evoluRegarding capital punishment, “a Catholic can say Regarding capital punishment, it says that in today’s tion — based on advances in scientific knowledge — that in certain circumstances prohibiting it doesn’t world “the cases in which the execution of the offender regarding at what moment a human being is formed. apply,” he said. is an absolute necessity ‘are very rare, if not practically Advances in genetics starting in the 19th century In theological terms, the abortion teaching requires nonexistent.’” The quote within the quote is from Pope make it clear now that a human being is established with “assent of faith” while the teaching on capital punish- John Paul II’s 1995 encyclical, “The Gospel of Life.” the fusion of the egg and sperm because the entire ment requires “religious respect of mind and will,” said Both teachings originated early in church history, human genetic material is present at that moment, Father Russell Smith, official theologian for the with opposition to capital punishment growing stronger Father O’Rourke said. Diocese of Richmond, Va., and past president of the in the 1990s under the current pope, said Dominican Before, based on their knowledge of biology, many National Catholic Bioethics Center in Boston. Father Kevin O’Rourke, bioethics professor at Loyola theologians, including St. Thomas Aquinas in the 13th Canon law also calls for the excommunication of “a University in Chicago. century, thought that a human being was not formed person who procures a completed abortion” while there “Pope John Paul II has developed it more firmly to until several weeks after impregnation, said Father is no legal penalty for people involved in state-sanc- where it is almost never justified,” he said. O’Rourke. tioned capital punishment. Father Smith said the historical issue has been, Father Smith added, though, that since the early writInterest in church teachings about abortion and capi- where does one draw the line in terms of when capital ings of the church there always has been a moral rejectal punishment has risen recently because of the wide punishment is permitted? tion of deliberate expulsion from the womb even if it debate as to whether bishops should deny Communion “The line moves and the latitude can widen, but the took place before the moment when theologians thought to Catholic politicians who support legalized abortion Holy Father doesn’t see it widening in these days,” he said. a human being had been formed.
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Food & Fun June 17th: Monthly breakfast meeting of the Catholic Professional & Business Club featuring Dominican Sister. Christine Wilcox, Director of Young Adult Ministry for the Archdiocese of San Francisco, who will discuss the challenges all adults face when striving to live their vocations as Catholics in the working world. Meeting includes full breakfast beginning at 7:00 am in the lower-level conference center halls located below St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF. Cost is $20 for non-members, $15 for members. Membership dues are $45 annually. Call (415) 614-5579, or visit the website at www.cpbc-sf.org. Sundays: Concerts at 4 p. m. at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, Vallejo and Columbus, SF. Call (415) 983-0405 or www.shrinesf.org. Open to the public. Admission free. Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary Cathedral at 3:30 p.m. Gough and Geary Blvd., SF. Call (415) 5672020 ext. 213. Concerts are open to the public. Admission free. June 20: David Brock, organist from Incline Village; June 27: Lyle Settle, organist. The Cathedral Autumn Group welcomes men and women 55 years and older. Call Mercy Sister Esther McEgan at (415) 567-2020, ext. 218. Reservations required for all events. June 17: Sausalito by Ferry with lunch at Spinnaker; July 15: Docent Tour of SFCity Hall; Aug. 18: Baseball at SBC Park, Giants vs. Expos. 3rd Wed.: All you can eat Spaghetti Luncheon at Chapel of the Immaculate Conception, 3255 Folsom up the hill from Cesar Chavez, SF. $7 per person. Now celebrating its 49th year. Reservations not required. Call (415) 824-1762. June 30: Catholic Networking Night, a support group for job seekers, at St. Dominic’s Church, 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF from 7 – 9 p.m. Exchange ideas and brush up on job search skills. Admission is free. Those attending are asked to bring a snack to share. Reservations are requested. Contact Connie at daura@ccwear.com or (415) 664-0164. Future meetings to be held Aug. 18, Oct. 6, and Dec. 1. 3rd Sat.: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at St. Mary Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF, at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 584-5823. 4th Sat.: Handicapables of Marin meet at noon in the recreation room of the Maria B. Freitas Senior Community adjacent to St. Isabella Church, Terra Linda, for Mass, lunch and entertainment. Call (415) 457-7859.
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Leading Disneyland’s Main Street Parade April 15th was the Archbishop Riordan High School Marching Band fronted by senior drum majors, Ryan Brown and Brandon Bondoc, and junior drum major Patrick Mancoda. Playing their way to a first place finish at the recent Music in the Parks Festival at Great America was Archbishop Riordan’s Intermediate Band. Bandleaders are Scott Souza and Tom Blount. Contact Mary Rudden at (415) 824-7695 or Don Ahlbach at (650) 348-5577 or dahlbach@pacbell.net.
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Mon – Fri., KEST 1450 AM, 7 p.m.: Catholic Radio Hour features rosary, music and commentary with Father Tom Daly. 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, 6:30 a.m., KRON Channel 4: For Heaven’s Sake, featuring conversations about Catholic spirituality.
June 13: Patronal Mass and Procession, Corpus Christi Monastery of the Dominican Sisters, 215 Oak Grove Ave, across from Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park at 10 a.m. Dominican Father Roberto Corral presides. “We invite all our friends to join us for a day of prayer and reflection, praise and thanksgiving to God,” the Sisters said. Call (650) 322-1801. June 19: Day of Recollection: Franciscan Prayer and Meditation, 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., at the Poverello, 109 Golden Gate Ave between Leavenworth and Jones, SF. Franciscan Father John Vaughn, spiritual director for the Poor Clare Sisters in America, will lead the day. $10. Bring lunch. Drinks provided. Call (415) 621-3279 or contact angelpierre2000@yahoo.com to register by June 15. Sponsored by the St. Francis Fraternity.
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June 19: Class of ’44 Most Holy Redeemer Elementary School, SF. Call Margaret Meyer at (415) 435-4987. June 19: Class of Spring’54, Balboa High School, SF, 6:30 p.m. at Patio Espanol, 2850 Alemany Blvd., SF. Contact Joe Ramirez at RamirezJV@athlink.net. Sept. 11: Class of ’54, Notre Dame des Victoires High School, at San Mateo Marriott Hotel. No-host bar at 11 a.m. with lunch at noon. Contact Toni Pink McMickin at (415) 382-6580 or Bajada Herrera at deeshaven@accessbee.com. Sept. 18: St. Paul High School, San Francisco, class of ’64, 1 p.m. at the Terrace Room of El Rancho Motel, Millbrae. Contact classmate, Liz Hannan, at lizhannan3@yahoo.com. Sept. 26: Class of ’66, Notre Dame des Victoires High School at St. Francis Yacht Club. Contact Yvonne Deasy-Gowdy at ygowdey@yahoo.com or Renee Lorda Fassett at (510) 655-8903. Nov. 13: Class of ’54, St. Cecilia Elementary School, SF. Reception and dinner at the school.
Office of Young Adult Ministry: Connecting men and women in their 20s and 30s to the Catholic Church. Contact Dominican Sister Christine Wilcox, (415) 614- 5595, wilcoxc@sfarchdiocese.org, or Mary Jansen, (415) 614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. June 14, 28: Extreme Makeovers: From the Inside Out, a two-part series, at St. Vincent de Paul Church, Steiner and Green, SF, 7:30 p.m. “What are we, as young adult Catholics, seeking as we search for fulfillment?” Cathy Earley and Sue Schultes will facilitate. Contact StVincentsYAG@aol.com. 2nd and 4th Mon.: St. Vincent de Paul Young Adult Group meets. “Just show up and be part of our community.” Meetings take place at SVDP, Steiner and Green, SF at 7:30 p.m. Thurs. at 7:30 p.m.: St. Dominic Adult Formation Series in the parish hall 2390 Bush St. at Steiner, SF. Explore the skills needed to understand the bible and help it inform daily life. Join at any time. Contact Scott Moyer at scott@stdominics.org.
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Single, Divorced, Separated Separated and Divorced support groups meet 3rd Sat. at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Cathedral, call Pat at (415) 492-3331; and 1st and 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, SF, call Gail at (650) 591-8452. Catholic Adult Singles Assoc. of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 8970639 for information.
Consolation Ministry Groups meet at the following parishes. Please call numbers shown for more information. St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame. Call (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame. Call Louise Nelson at (650) 343-8457 or Barbara Arena at (650) 344-3579. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call (650) 366-3802; Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call (650) 589-2800. Immaculate Heart of Mary, Belmont. Call Ann Ponty at (650) 598-0658
Programs for Catholics interested in returning to the Church, have been established at the following parishes: St. Philip the Apostle, 725 Diamond St. at Elizabeth/24th, SF. Call the parish office at (415) 282-0141; St. Hilary, Tiburon, Mary Musalo, (415) 435-2775; St. Anselm, Ross, parish office at (415) 453-2342; St. Sebastian, Greenbrae, Jean Mariani at (415) 461-7060; Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, SF, Michael Adams at (415) 695-2707; St. Dominic, SF, Lee Gallery at (415) 221-1288; Holy Name of Jesus, SF, Dennis Rivera at (415) 664-8590; St. Bartholomew, San Mateo, Dan Stensen at (650) 344-5665; St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame, Silvia Chiesa at (650) 685-8336, Elaine Yastishock at (650) 344-6884; Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame, Dorothy Heinrichs or Maria Cianci at (650) 347-7768; St. Dunstan, Millbrae, Dianne Johnston at (650) 697-0952; Our Lady of the Pillar, Half Moon Bay, Meghan at (650) 726-4337; St. Peter, Pacifica, Chris Booker at (650) 738-1398; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Mill Valley, Rick Dullea or Diane Claire at (415) 388-4190; St. Mary Star of the Sea, Sausalito, Lloyd Dulbecco at (415) 331-7949.
Meetings 2nd Wed.: Men’s Evening of Reflection: Being Catholic in the Modern World at the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi, 610 Vallejo St. at Columbus, SF beginning at 7 p.m. Call (415) 983-0405. Courage, a Catholic support group for persons with same-sex attraction, meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. Call Father Lawrence Goode at (650) 322-2152.
Taize Prayer 3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m. with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in their Province Center Chapel, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont across from Ralston Hall on the college campus. Call (650) 593-2045, ext. 350 or www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org. 1st Fri. at 8 p.m. at Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013. 2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m. at St. Peter Church, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. Call Deacon Peter Solan at (650) 359-6313. 2nd Fri. at 7:30 p.m., St. Dominic Church, 2390 Bush St., SF. Call Laura McClung at (415) 362-1075. 3rd Fri. at 8 p.m. at Woodside Priory Chapel, 302 Portola Rd., Portola Valley. Call Dean Miller at (650) 631-2882. 1st Sat. at 8:30 p.m. at SF Presidio Main Post Chapel, 130 Fisher Loop. Call Catherine Rondainaro at (415) 713-0225.
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12th San Francisco International Marian Conference Marian, Eucharistic and Charismatic Conference July 2, 3, 4, 2004 Crowne Plaza Hotel - San Francisco Bay Area 1221 Chess Dr., Foster City, California 94404 7 International Speakers: Fr. Robert Faricy, S.J., Rome; Fr. Stan Fortuna, Fr. Michael Sears, Ralph Martin, Fr. Mathew Linn, S.J., Fr. George Reynolds, Prof. Courtenay Bartholomew, MD, West Indies. Youth & Children Programs. For more information and Registration call (800) 456-4197 or write: Saint Raphael Ministries P.O. Box 160 Half Moon Bay, CA 94019 www.sraphael.com – E-Mail: srm.inc@juno.com
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By Gerri Pare NEW YORK (CNS) — With a new director at the helm of “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” (Warner Bros.), the franchise forges forward. This is the third — and arguably the best — adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s wildly successful Harry Potter fantasy novels about the boy wizard. Chris Columbus, who directed “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” and “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” in 2001 and ‘02, switches to a producer’s hat this time, as Alfonso Cuaron (“A Little Princess”) slips into the director’s chair. Cuaron brings a more cinematic sensibility to the tale just as Steve Kloves’ screenplay is less concerned with a literal translation of Rowling’s novel. The resulting visuals are impressive, sometimes glorious — and occasionally frightening. In other words, too intense for young children unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy, for whom nightmares about snapping monsters and horrible ghouls would be a natural aftermath. The story opens as wizard Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), now 13, is seething under the insulting remarks made by his Uncle Vernon’s cruel sister (Pam Ferris) about his tragically murdered parents. Unable to rein in his temper or his promise not to perform magic outside his Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry bloats her and floats her — up, up and away like a giant blimp. This is a scene of comic delight that precedes the darker emotional territory Harry is headed for. Storming out of the house, he’s picked up by a magical purple bus and taken on a warp-speed ride (with delightful special effects), eventually ending up with his best buds, Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint), back at school. Danger lurks there as prison escapee Sirius Black (Gary Oldman), accused of killing Harry’s folks, is in the area, and said to be set on adding Harry’s scalp to his belt. Just as fearful are the Dementors, black-hooded spirits who can suck the soul from their prey and have Harry in their sights. On the plus side, giant Hagrid (Robbie Coltrane) has been promoted to teacher status and sends Harry on a fabulous flight astride Buckbeak, a huge, winged horse-bird whose very survival is soon threatened. And the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Lupin (David Thewlis), helps Harry defend himself against the Dementors while harboring quite a shocking secret. Director Cuaron “opens up” this third Potter film, in that it is frequently outdoors in creepy forests or at spiky hillsides and precipitous cliffs, suggesting Mother Nature’s instincts may be less than maternal. This is particularly true when it comes to a
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certain tree that “embraces” Harry and Hermione, an example of special effects that are as scary as they are swell. There are fewer classroom scenes, although Emma Thompson as a heavy-goggled, clueless soothsayer, contributes periodic comic relief. Nor does the swooping game of Quidditch figure much in the telling of this tale. Overall, the film is visually enthralling and displays an equally intoxicating sense of fun and of danger. The three teen leads are showing growth in their acting skills and Cuaron has especially been able to tone down Grint’s tendency to make Ron hammy. More seasoned performers such as Maggie Smith and Michael Gambon (replacing the late Richard Harris’ Professor Dumbledore) do well in their small roles and the ever-reliable Alan Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint star in the Rickman’s sinister Snape does not disappoint. But all is not goodness and light as the story centers on adventure film “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” Harry’s learning about those involved in his parents’ deaths ly a fantasy, in no way a textbook for teaching black magic, and coping with a deep desire for revenge. It’s seen as sheer fantasy when Harry makes the arro- and thus is no threat to Catholic teaching. “The Prisoner of Azakaban” is likely to hold a worldgant aunt inflate (she’s rescued later and none the worse for wide audience captive. wear) but his wish to destroy Black is grounded in reality, Due to some frightening images and scenes of intense just as it’s problematic when Hermione is cheered and conmenace, the USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting clasgratulated when she slugs her classmate-tormentor, Malfoy. Happily, Harry gradually matures through the narrative sification is A-II — adults and adolescents. The Motion as he uncovers the truth, stays loyal to his friends and Picture Association of America rating is PG— parental gleans lessons in living from his experiences. To its credit, guidance suggested. this is accomplished in well-paced, polished fashion, and Pare is director of the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. — as in the two previous movies — it remains very clear-
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Employment Opportunities Director of Finance and Operations Catholic School (6-12) on the peninsula is seeking an experienced person to direct thier finances and operations. Responsibilities include financial planning, budget and endowment management, business office supervision, facilities and grounds management and custodial supervision.
Fax resume with cover letter to: 650-851-2839 or send to 302 Portola Road, Portola Valley, California 94028. Providence High School a private, Catholic, co-educational, college preparatory school, in Burbank, CA, sponsored by the Sisters of Providence, seeks a principal. A qualified candidate must be a practicing Catholic, hold at least a Master’s degree in educational administration or the equivalent, and have a minimum of 5 years of successful administrative experience, as well as additional classroom experience. Applicants should submit their resumes to: The Law Offices of Vincent Stefano, Jr., Attention: Search Committee, 101 South First Street, Suite 402, Burbank, CA 91505 Hispanic Pastoral Associate Full time position in a 650+ Southern Oregon parish. Communicate verbally and in writing in English and Spanish Inquire by June 25, 2004 Shepherd of the Valley 600 Beebe Road Central Point, OR 97502 Phone: 541-664-1050 Fax: 541-664-9312
Catholic Elementary School (K-8) on the Peninsula is seeking experienced, credentialed teachers for the 2004–2005 school year.
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Special Needs Companion Services We are looking for you.
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Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421
Special Education Teacher – P.T. Math/Science Teacher (gr. 7-8) ● Eighth Grade Teacher Fax resume with cover letter to (650) 697-5203 or send to 1133 Broadway, Millbrae, CA 94030 ●
Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920
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Fantastic, flexible DRE needed to lead multi-ethnic parish of 4,500 households into Whole Community Cathechesis. (Ability to walk on water not required, but helpful. Sense of humor essential!) Our Lady of the Assumption Parish is seeking a director of faith formation. Must be a team player, able to provide vision, leadership, and coordination for comprehensive religious education program, pre-school to adult.
Send letter of interest and resume ASAP to mjneault@olaclaremont.org or M.J. Neault, 435 Berkeley Ave., Claremont, CA 91711. For more info: (909) 626-3596, ext. 216 or www.olaclaremont.org
K – 8 CATHOLIC SCHOOL PRINCIPAL ST. DUNSTAN CATHOLIC SCHOOL St. Dunstan Catholic School is seeking an experienced Catholic leader ready to continue a rich tradition of excellent Catholic education and financial development. This position will begin in the 2004-2005 school year. The ideal candidate must be a practicing Catholic, hold a valid Administrative Credential, a Master’s degree, and/or prior successful experience in school administration.
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Marilyn Lynch, Associate Superintendent Department of Catholic Schools Archdiocese of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109-6602
RNs or LVNs We are looking for you. Work FULL or PART time while your children are in school. Nurses are needed to provide specialized nursing care for children in the San Francisco Public School setting. Generous benefit packages for generous nurses. 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
EXTENDED CARE COORDINATOR ST. JOHN SCHOOL (K-8) is an active Catholic/ Christian school community of Educators, Parents and Children. Our Community is looking for someone who understands the needs of children, can respond in a meaningful and caring manner, work with parents as partners, manage Extended Care aides, build a program that attracts and stimulates children before and after the academic day.
Qualifications: Active Catholic preferred; Experience working within an educational setting; BA/Certification; Management skills; Ability to work with children and parents; Computer skills, Work/Excel, Quickbooks, database, e-mail...etc.
Salary: $16,800 - $27,300 (Depends on Experience)
Send Resume to: Mail: Ken Willers at 925 Chenery Street, SF, CA 94131 E-mail: principal@stjohnseagles.com – Fax: 415-584-8359 Web-site: www.stjohnseagles.com
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