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Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice ordained May 28 Newly ordained San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice, second from left, is introduced as such by Archbishop George H. Niederauer, left, to the congregation attending his May 28 ordination rite at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Joining in the congratulations are additionally, from left, seminarian Hansel Tomaneng, Reno Bishop Randolph Calvo, Father Steven Lopes (secretary to Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith), and Salt Lake City Bishop John Wester, formerly San Francisco auxiliary bishop. See additional coverage on pages 12-14.

‘All or nothing’ measure to prohibit same-sex marriage headed to voters

Father Juan Lopez ordained Newly ordained Father Juan Lopez rejoices with his mother, Benita, June 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral shortly after his ordination to the priesthood

by Archbishop George H. Niederauer.

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By Rick DelVecchio An initiative to ban gay marriage in California has qualified for the Nov. 4 ballot, as county clerks are to begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples to comply with a new state Supreme Court ruling.

Secretary of State Debra Bowen qualified the California Marriage Protection Act after a county-by-county check of voter signatures gathered by the sponsors verified more than the 694,354 names required to make the ballot.

The initiative, proposed by a coalition of 150 organizations called ProtectMarriage.com, seeks to overturn the state high court’s 4-to-3 ruling May 15 that same-sex couples have the right to have the state designate their civil unions as marriage.

The sponsors maintain that the issue

should be decided by voters, not by judges. Polls show that a majority of Californians favors restricting the institution of marriage to opposite-gender couples.

The measure would amend the state Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

Twenty-six states have constitutional amendments or similar prohibitions on same-sex marriage If enacted, the amendment could be canceled only by another initiative and not by court or legislative action, according to the coalition.

“Passing this amendment is the only way for the people to override the four Supreme Court judges who want to redefine marriage for our entire society,” Ron Prentice, CEO of the California Family Council and chairman of ALL OR NOTHING, page 6

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Father’s Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Rally for Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Scripture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Corpus Christi Parish rebounds from fire ~ Page 3 ~ June 13, 2008

Catholic high schools graduate nearly 2,000 ~ Pages 16-17 ~

Respect Life essays: life in the womb ~ Pages 24-25 ~

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by Tom Burke St. Gabriel Elementary School bids fond farewells to Becky Kelsey, who has retired after 18 years as head of the school’s extended care program. When she began there were about 40 students in the program. Today, there are almost 400. “Becky has made an everlasting impact on the lives of countless students who have come through the doors of our extended care program,” said Mercy Sister Pauline Borghello, principal. “She is one of a kind and will be greatly missed. We will all work together to continue the caring `home away from home’ atmosphere Becky has created. Becky’s beginning her retirement with a month-long trip to Italy…. Victoria Saitz, a sixth grade student at Pacifica’s Cabrillo Middle School and a member of St. Peter Parish, is first place winner in this year’s Jim Calabretta Essay Contest sponsored

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Theme of her composition was “If I Were President of the United States for a Day.” Proud folks are Sandra and David. Also sharing congrats are her Victoria Saitz brother, James, and granddads, John Repetto and Joe Saitz, both members of YMI. Who can we thank for the good news? You got it – proud grandma Barbara Saitz…. The class of ’43 from San Francisco’s now closed and much-missed Presentation High School gathered for food and fun April 16 at Sinbad’s Restaurant in San Francisco. “Everyone enjoyed themselves especially reminiscing about all the good times we had at `Pres’ and meeting and greeting one another,” said Mary Millett Montgomery, whom I thank for fillin’ us in…. The San Francisco Federation of Teachers honored seniors from each of the Archdiocesan Catholic high schools with $500 awards for “distinguishing themselves in academics, character, and commitment and devotion to their school.”

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A reunion of Presentation High School’s Class of ’43 brought members including, front from left, Mary Cronin Blaine, Mary Millett Montgomery, Presentation Sister Helen Kathleen Griffin, Betty Marie Prielipp Donohoe, Dolores Tattenham Johnson, Mary O’Connor LeTourneau, Dolores Dever Kelly, Jean Egan Lee, Betty Jane Muldown Scully, Patricia Cavanaugh Johnson Olympia Meneghitti DeMicheli, Dolores McCarthy Skinner, and, top from left, Bernadette Brown Oliva, Miriam Carberry Cole, Presentation Sister Kathleen Healy, Alicia Legorreta Clay, Peggy Agell Dukes.

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Above, the newly refinished interior of Corpus Christi Church awaits rededication ceremonies June 21. Archbishop George Niederauer will preside at the liturgy.

At left, the front door mural by Rob Grant portrays a life sized Jesus with arms outstretched in welcome against a cityscape reminiscent of San Francisco and Nazareth.

Corpus Christi Church rebounds from 2006 fire

By Tom Burke Damaged by fire almost two years ago, San Francisco’s Corpus Christi Church will be rededicated June 21 by Archbishop George H. Niederauer. Prayer and song of the Mass will be in languages including English, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Chinese and Slovakian.

The church has been open for worship since last December after undergoing upgrades and repairs totaling approximately $2.5 million.

Salesian Father Ramon Zarate has been pastor of Corpus Christi, a parish some 2,000 families, since 2005. “The people have been very patient and generous,” Father Zarate said. “We are all very excited and looking forward to many years in the new church.”

Salesian Father Al Pestun has served as a parochial vicar at Corpus Christi for 13 years. He will celebrate 50 years as a priest

in 2009. It was he who first saw smoke at the church following an evening Mass the night of the fire, Aug. 14, 2006. “Thank God for the improved church,” he said. “It is beautiful. I am very excited to have Archbishop Niederauer here for the rededication.”

Masses during construction were celebrated in the parish hall. Rob Grant, music director, said praying at a different site was good for the parish. “The fire that put us out of the church and into the basement for 18 months actually turned out to be a grace for us,” he said. “The exile has brought the parish closer together and the camaraderie and intimacy that attended our moving into the closer quarters has translated in our move back to the church into a richer sense of togetherness for this faith-filled, hardworking, multi-cultural parish.”

The rededication Mass will feature music from several traditions. All the choirs – adult and children’s ensembles as well as a children’s choir from Corpus Christi school

– will sing through a “diverse repertoire,” Grant said. He called the singers “an intergenerational/cross cultural volunteer choir reflecting the rich tapestry that is Corpus Christi.”

Concelebrants in addition to Fathers Zarate and Pestun will include Salesian Provincial Father David Purdy, Salesian Father Tom Prendiville, congregation secretary, as well as Salesian priests from Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in San Francisco.

Steve Kalpakoff of the Building and Construction Office of the Archdiocese of San Francisco oversaw the project. “Anyone who has been to the church prior to the fire will be impressed and amazed by all of the new upgrades,” Kalpakoff told Catholic San Francisco, noting new lighting, sound

system, pews, and “a reconfigured altar platform” among the improvements.

“Through the dedication of many involved individuals, Corpus Christi Parish can proudly celebrate the reopening of their place of worship. We are grateful to everyone for their patience throughout this reconstruction and hope the Corpus Christi community will be continuously blessed in years to come,” Kalpakoff said.

Ron Case of San Francisco was project architect.

The Salesian Sisters who serve at Corpus Christi Elementary School and Sts. Peter and Paul Elementary School will celebrate their 100th year in the United States in 2008.

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Vatican to bypass protocol VATICAN CITY (CNS) – When Pope Benedict XVI and U.S. President George W. Bush meet at the Vatican today, June 13, they will scrap the usual formal protocol and instead hold talks and take a leisurely stroll in the Vatican Gardens. The Vatican opted for the “particular” and “unusual” setting as a way to show its appreciation for “the cordial welcome and meeting held at the White House” during the pope’s April 15-20 visit to the United States, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, said June 9. Normally heads of state visiting the pope at the Vatican are taken with much fanfare to the pope’s library in the main Apostolic Palace. But “in light of the (pope’s) recent pastoral visit to the United States and the United Nations” and for the warm welcome and hospitality shown the pope during his meeting with Bush on the pope’s birthday, April 16, an informal setting at the Vatican was chosen instead, said Father Lombardi.

GGBC will be in the Washington metro area from June 28 to July 7, with additional stops planned at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage and Walter Reed Army Medical Center. GGBC is a choir open to school-age boys in the Bay Area. The choir’s annual tours for older members have taken them as far away as Japan, New Zealand and the Vatican.

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The Golden Gate Boys Choir will perform in concert on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. July 4 for the Pueri Cantores America Festival. The festival will draw school choirs from around the country for a celebration on Independence Day.

U.S. students mingle with local children during a break from their volunteer work in Laoag, in the northern Philippines, June 4. Thirteen young people from Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward, Calif., traveled to the Philippines to construct houses for poor families.

SAN FRANCISCO – De Marillac Academy, the only Catholic middle school in San Francisco’s impoverished Tenderloin district, is sending its entire eighth-grade class of 2008 on to some of the city’s best Catholic high schools next fall, Academy officials report. From multiple acceptances, the 18 members of this year’s graduating class have chosen as follows: Ten will go to Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory; five will go to Archbishop Riordan High School for boys, and three will go to Mercy High School for girls.

“De Marillac Academy continues to fulfill its mission of offering tuition-free, top-quality education to San Francisco’s families to help their children escape the grip of poverty, achieve academic success, and become service-oriented community members,” said Christian Brother Stanislaus Campbell, provincial of the Western Province of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. The school has been featured on San Francisco’s ABC and NBC television stations and in the local press. See the website at www.demarillac.org.

Pope: study philosophy VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI called for a re-emphasis on the study of philosophy in universities, as part of a more intense dialogue between faith and reason. At the same time, philosophy must accept the contribution of religion – not just in the private realm of belief, but as part of the total human experience that gives meaning to life, he said. The pope made the comments June 7 in a speech to university professors from 26 European countries who were meeting in Rome to discuss the theme “Widening the Horizons of Rationality.”

Palestinians and international activists join to form a human clock in Manger Square in Bethlehem, West Bank, June 8.

The event, called “It’s Time for Palestine,” commemorated six decades since Palestinians were displaced from their lands by the creation of the state of Israel.

Adds anti-terrorism units VATICAN CITY (CNS) – The Vatican has set up two new anti-terrorism units that will work closely with international police experts to prevent possible attacks, the Vatican’s director of security announced. A “rapid-intervention group” and an “anti-sabotage department” were recently established as subunits of the Vatican’s gendarme corps, Domenico Giani, corps director, told the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano June 7. He said the Vatican also has begun closer collaboration with Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organization.

Adoption agency to stay open LONDON (CNS) – A Catholic adoption agency in London has become the first in England to announce it will stay open despite new gay rights laws that compel such charities to place children with same-sex couples. The decision was announced

by Auxiliary Bishop Bernard Longley of Westminster, chairman of the Westminster Archdiocese’s Catholic Children’s Society, in a June 4 letter to priests of the archdiocese. “The trustees have had to make a prudential judgment as to the best way forward for our agency, guided by the moral teaching of the Church, particularly with regard to the centrality of marriage and the importance of family life,” he said. The trustees of the society have been advised by lawyers that if they amend its constitution the agency may be able to comply with the Sexual Orientation Regulations, which take effect Jan. 1, and remain loyal to the teachings of the Church. They must legally fulfill the requirements of Regulation 18, which allows people to “provide benefits only to a person of a particular sexual orientation” if acting in accordance with the charity’s rules or regulations.

‘Propose, not impose, Gospel’ VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Christians engaged in interreligious dialogue have the duty to propose but not impose the truth of the Gospel, Pope Benedict XVI said. “It is the love of Christ which impels the Church to reach out to every human being NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5

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By Michael Vick Local Catholic leaders have rallied behind those affected by the Great Sichuan Earthquake, a devastating 7.9 tremor responsible for the deaths of nearly 70,000 people. Nearly 18,000 people are listed as missing. The quake struck the western Chinese province on May 12. Aftershocks have hit the region nearly every day since the initial quake.

Paulist Father Dan McCotter of Holy Family Chinese Mission in San Francisco said his congregation has continued to keep the victims and their families in prayer since the event. The priest, following a call for donations by Archbishop George Niederauer, has had special collections for the past two Sundays.

Father McCotter said last week that although the congregation is relatively small, only 150 to 200 parishioners on average, they have raised $3,387 so far. “People are very generous when there is a special need,� he said.

The priest said the money, raised both for earthquake relief and for continued aid to cyclone-stricken Myanmar, will go to Catholic Relief Services, the relief and development agency of the U.S. Catholic bishops.

This, he said, reflects a welcome improvement over previous fundraising efforts for disaster relief in China. The priest said several decades ago the parish raised money for aid to China, but worried about how to get the funds to the Chinese people. They ultimately chose to donate the funds to the Salvation Army and the American Red Cross. Since then, the Chinese government has become more open to accepting relief from agencies like CRS. “Their willingness to accept help through Catholic Relief Services is a great blessing and a breakthrough in relations,�

Father McCotter said.

San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang said the outpouring of funds from American Catholics comes as no surprise. “The United States has always been generous,� said the bishop, who is a native of China. “Americans have always been a people of hope.�

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“This is not about the private activity of two people. This is about fundamentally redefining a core social institution,” Brown said. “This is what we want to make clear to people. It will affect you when your son is taught in kindergarten that it’s the same for a boy to marry a boy as marry a girl.

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Another coalition member said the campaign has national implications and predicted that it will rival the presidential race in attention and controversy.

“This truly is the defining moment on whether there’s going to be same-sex marriage in the country or not, particularly because there’s no resi- ‘This is not about the private activity of dency requirement in California,” the mem- two people. This is about fundamentally ber said. “Same-sex couples from all over redefining a core social institution.’ the country can come to California to get -Brian Brown, National marriage licenses and return to their home Organization for Marriage California states.

“This is the last chance voters are going to have. It truly is the all-or-nothing, make“Catholics and other people of faith have or-break battle,” the member added. to understand this is a direct attack on our Said Brian Brown, executive director religious liberties,” he said. of the National Organization for Marriage California bishops are planning to issue a California, an organization that supports the pastoral letter on marriage and in support of initiative: “This is a profound transformation the amendment. In addition, the California in American law and it’s going to affect Catholic Conference will prepare and disstates across the country.” tribute materials to parishes reviewing the Proponents are confident their initiative Church's teaching on marriage and family will win and feel that the majority that voted and urging support for the proposition, CCC against same-sex marriage with the passage officials told Catholic San Francisco. of Proposition 22 eight years ago is still Bill May, chairman of Catholics for the intact, despite some new polling results to Common Good, a lay organization based the contrary. But they note that the question in San Francisco, described success of the could be close and that their initiative faces initiative as “absolutely essential.” well-financed opposition.

“First of all, it’s important to recognize The campaign to override the court will that the advocates of redefining marriage require $10 million to $15 million in funds, have unlimited financial resources and the Brown estimated. The coalition member side of protecting marriage will be outconfirmed the higher number. spent,” he said. “In order to protect marriage “We’re doing a major grassroots push,” it is going to take all of the financial and Brown said. “We’ll have millions of e-mails volunteer resources of Catholics and other going out asking people to get their friends and people who support the common interest

of children and having married mothers and fathers.

“The encouragement and support of bishops is very important, but it is the responsibility of the laity to make sure our laws conform to the common good,” he said.

Marianne Duddy-Burke, executive director of the gay and lesbian Catholic group Dignity USA, maintained that civil recognition of same-sex marriage is a matter of individual rights and does not impact the Church.

“Voters who are going to the polls need to be not confused about that, and we call on Church officials to be clear about that in their campaigning,” she said. “It’s also important to note Catholics are increasingly supportive of lesbian and gay couples.”

A last-minute attempt to block the high court’s ruling from taking effect fell short on June 4 when the justices, in a 4-to-3 vote, ordered the decision to become final on June 16 at 5 p.m. The decision means that county clerks can begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples the next day.

San Francisco may begin holding weddings at City Hall on the 16th as soon as ruling takes effect.

South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah.

The state attorneys predicted that a torrent of litigation would result if the ruling were to take effect before the election. For example, the status of any marriage licenses issued between June 17 and Election Day could be contested if the initiative passes.

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed an opposition to the move to delay, saying it would be “unprecedented and inhumane” to further delay constitutional rights to gay and lesbian partners based on political conjecture.

After the delay was denied, ProtectMarriage.com predicted “nationwide legal chaos” as a result of the implementation of the ruling before the initiative is decided.

“The actions of this court will make the 2000 Florida presidential recount seem a like a high-school debate, as couples will now flood into our state, get ‘married’ and start to file legal challenges to force their radical redefinition of marriage upon the nation,” a campaign statement said.

Some opponents of same-sex marriage feel federal action might be the only way to stop it. Eight days after the California Supreme Court ruling, ‘The encouragement and support of Rep. Paul Broun, a Republican, bishops is very important, but it is the Georgia introduced the Marriage Protection responsibility of the laity to make sure Act of 2008 to amend the U.S. Constitution our laws conform to the common good.’ to make marriage legal only between a man - Bill May, and a woman. The measure was referred the House Judiciary Catholics for the Common Good toCommittee with 38 co-sponsors.

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Father’s Day St. Joseph: consider ‘like wife, like husband’ When asked by a questioner about the dignity of St. Joseph in Christian tradition, the late Jesuit Father Francis L. Filas, a leading authority on the subject in his time, responded simply, “Like wife, like husband.”

St. Joseph rarely enjoys much press. Usually he is forgotten, or at least left standing obscurely in the background. His self-effacement seems to have influenced the scant attention given him by many Church teachers.

In a hymn honoring the Eucharist, St. Thomas Aquinas describes the inadequacy of human language to express full appreciation of the Blessed Sacrament. St. Bernard and other great devotees of Mary voiced the same idea regarding our Blessed Mother. I think we may say the same about St. Joseph, the husband of Mary and the virgin father of Jesus.

Such appreciation unfolds slowly after much study and reflection. Even today many Catholics are inclined to think St. Joseph is a wonderful saint, but he was not the real father of Jesus, so we honor him as protector of Mary. And, thus, St. Joseph is relegated to the background.

This opinion was certainly the outlook in the first 13 centuries of Christianity. Church history shows St. Joseph was the victim of benign neglect in the lives of our early saints, and fathers and doctors of the Church.

St. Augustine and some other thinkers wrote of St. Joseph, but sparsely. The tide turned slowly in the next 500 years and we find simple beginnings of a solid devotion.

The theology of his vocation, dignity, holiness, and intercession began to flower only in medieval times, and the 17th century was the golden age. The enthusiasm of St. Teresa of Avila for St. Joseph was remarkable, vividly expressed in her writings and perpetuated in the 12 new convents given his name.

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Sacramento rally to target Planned Parenthood funding The alleged fraudulent charges involve the distribution of contraceptives. The organization is accused of purchasing A coalition of pro-life groups will gather June 18 on the capitol discount contraceptives and charging the government as much steps in Sacramento for a rally and to lobby for the de-funding of as 12 times the purchase price.

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest provider of abortions. The Charges also arose from an undercover report by UCLA’s effort comes amidst a battle in the State Senate and Assembly over student-run magazine The Advocate. Posing as a potential donor, the budget. The state faces a shortfall estimated at $17 billion. an actor asked Planned Parenthood offices in six states if he could Organizers hope the state’s budget woes, coupled with what donate specifically to services for African American women. they charge are large profit margins for Planned Parenthood and a In the course of the conversation, the actor made it increasseries of recent allegations against the organization, will give even ingly clear why he wanted to make this request. pro-choice legislators cause to consider removing state funding.

“I don’t want my kids to be disadvantaged against black “Many people who are pro-choice are unwilling to lose their kids,” the “donor” said in a taped phone conversation. “The children’s schoolteachers” in order to keep federal funding for less black kids out there, the better.”

Planned Parenthood, said Wynette Sills, a lead organizer for the In spite of the racist overtones, Planned Parenthood officials rally. “We’re hoping that some will reconsider their voting record in each state were willing to accept and earmark the donaon this particular issue.” tions. Autumn Kersey, vice president for marketing at Sills told Catholic San Francisco she hopes Planned Parenthood in Idaho, actually seemed enthuto put a human face on the cost of abortion in ‘The California Catholic Conference is siastic about the donation, and called the “donor’s” California by including in the discussions with concerns “understandable.” legislators and their aides women who have had working with many groups to raise the issue “Excuse my hesitation,” Kersey is recorded saying. abortions and regret the decision.

“This is the first time that I’ve had a donor call and “For the most part they think they are helping of restricting public funding of abortion….’ make this kind of request, so I’m excited and want to women,” Sills said of pro-choice legislators. “These make sure I don’t leave anything out.” women can speak from their personal experience of A spokesperson for Planned Parenthood’s Idaho - Ned Dolejsi, CCC executive director affiliates the pain and suffering this choice has brought into has since apologized for Kersey’s comtheir lives.” ments.

The rally will be held on the west steps of the capitol Calls to Planned Parenthood of California for comfrom 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., followed by legislative visits until 4 Sills, Hogan and May all said one reason Planned Parenthood ment on the allegations and the issue of state funding were not p.m. Sills said she hopes to see a thousand people at the rally. is vulnerable this year has nothing to do with the budget crisis. returned by press time.

In an e-mail to Catholic San Francisco, Ned Dolejsi, execu- The group has been dogged recently by a number of scandals, Sills, a longtime pro-life activist who has participated for tive director of the California Catholic Conference, said the June including revelation in the Los Angeles Times that Planned years in counseling sessions for women outside abortion clin18 event offers a rare opportunity.

Parenthood affiliates in California overcharged state and federal ics, said the time is right to push the issue of state funding for “The California Catholic Conference is working with many governments by more than $180 million.

Planned Parenthood. groups to raise the issue of restricting public funding of abortion “It’s time to do what’s right, regardless of the outcome,” The March 18 Times article cited a lawsuit by former vice in the state budget,” Dolejsi said. “We have not done such an president for finance and administration of Planned Parenthood’s Sills said. “Our silence makes us complicit in this holocaust. event in many years.”

Los Angeles office P. Victor Gonzales, who alleged he was fired If we’re not doing all that we can, our complacency is a large Carol Hogan, CCC pastoral projects and communications in retaliation for raising allegations of illegal overcharging. part of the problem.” director, said that while the amount of money Planned Parenthood receives, estimated at around $33 million, is small compared to the overall budget shortfall, the abortion provider receives roughly a third of its income from state and federal funds.

“June is the time legislators get serious about the budget,” Hogan said. “One of the things that never gets cut is funding for abortion.” Hogan said she hoped the legislative visits and the budget crisis change that.

Bill May, head of the Bay Area based Catholics for the Common Good, said legislators should look at the practical reasons for cutting Planned Parenthood funding.

“It’s better to cut something like [Planned Parenthood] than education or healthcare,” May said. “They [Planned Parenthood] reported over a billion in income in the last fiscal year, almost $115 million in profits. They don’t seem to need state funding.”

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Catholic San Francisco presented press awards In the 2008 Catholic Press Association egory of “best regular special supplement with an editorial emphasis” among awards competition, a Catholic diocesan newspapers of San Francisco editorial won C s F any size. Award judges recognition for the ninth said the newspaper’s consecutive year, while the special supplement on newspaper also was honored “Senior Living” confor a special supplement ~ Page SR 2~ tained a “nice mix of on senior living. The 2008 stories, with a very strong award winners, which were emphasis on the local.” drawn from entries submit~ Page SR 3~ The award-winning supted by Catholic diocesan plement reflects the work newspapers throughout ~ Page SR 5~ of Advertising Director Joe the United States and Pena, Production Manager Canada, were announced Karessa McCartney and at the annual Catholic ~ Pages SR 6-7 ~ Aging demand community rel s the attention of th entire Editor Dan Morris-Young.

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“We need reference points like saints because without them we are all too likely to make ourselves the standards when it comes to living the Gospel,” said Marist Father Rene Iturbe, pastor, in published remarks. School Principal Mary Ghisolfo called the new chapel “a place away from the hustle and bustle” for students, faculty and staff where they can step away for prayer, reflection, refreshment and peace.”

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Five men to be ordained permanent deacons Five men will be ordained permanent deacons for the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Archbishop George H. Niederauer in a June 29, 3:30 p.m. rite at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

They are, from left: Richard Grant, St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo; Rawdan (Simon) S.K. Tsui, St. Mary’s Chinese Mission-Holy Family Parish, San Francisco; Wilfredo (Willie) E. Sevilla, Corpus Christi Parish, San Francisco; Michael F. Curran, St. Dominic Parish, San Francisco; and Rafeal Brown, St. Matthew, San Mateo.

Profiles of the men and their families will be carried in the June 27 Catholic San Francisco.

St. Joseph . . .

■ Continued from page 8 creation God could find none more worthy than Mary to be the Mother of Jesus, God could find none worthier than Joseph to be the husband of Mary, and to be related to Jesus by the spiritual ties of a true fatherhood.

In the words of Leo XIII, “If God gave Joseph as a spouse to the Virgin, He assuredly gave him not only as a companion in life, a witness of her virginity, and the guardian of her honor, but also as a sharer in her exalted dignity by reason of the conjugal tie itself.”

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Auxiliary Bishop William Justice ordained San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice greets a well-wisher during his May 28 ordination Mass at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Newly ordained San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice pledged to “have a heart ever open to Jesus” so that he can “share him with you” in his ordination Mass remarks. Applauding are Msgr.

Harry Schlitt, archdiocesan vicar for administration, and Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles.

Nearly two dozen bishops, more than 300 priests and deacons and a standingroom-only cathedral of worshippers attended and celebrated the May 28 episcopal ordination of San Francisco’s Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice.

(PHOTOS BY GREG TARCZYNSKI)

The Archdiocese of San Francisco’s 16th auxiliary bishop was challenged “to respond in loving service to his sisters and brothers in Christ” and model himself after the Apostle St. Peter in the ordination Mass homily by San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer, principal consecrator. (See complete text, page 14.)

Principal co-consecrators were Reno Bishop Randolph Calvo, a longtime friend of Bishop Justice, and Bishop John Wester, also a friend and a San Francisco auxiliary bishop until named to head the Salt Lake City Diocese last year.

Dignitaries attending included Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, more than a dozen representatives of different faiths, and several government officials.

In his remarks, the newly ordained bishop underscored his roots in the Archdiocese. “I have lived in the Archdiocese for 62 of my 66 years – all in these three counties,” he said. “I grew up in San Mateo County, and ministered there for 20 ½ years; I served in San Francisco for 19 ½ years, and I was assigned as a deacon in Marin County for – one month.”

He repeated several times, “This is my home. It is our home.”

The announcement of Bishop Justice’s appointment by Pope Benedict XVI was made April 10.

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(PHOTOS BY GREG TARCZYNSKI)

Archbishop Niederauer confers the order of bishop by the laying on of hands on Auxiliary Bishop Justice. At right, the new bishop lays prostrate in the traditional posture of supplication.

Auxiliary Bishop Justice distributes Communion following ordination. At left, he is joined at the altar by, from left: Reno Bishop Randolph Calvo, Archbishop Niederauer, Archbishopemeritus John Quinn, and Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang.

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Ordination Mass Homily Following is the text of Archbishop George H. Niederauer’s May 28 homily at the ordination Mass of Bishop William J. Justice at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco.

The Apostle St. Peter is an important figure in this celebration today: Peter’s successor, Our Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has appointed William Justice to become auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and today he is to be ordained a bishop. Peter is also at the center of the reading from St. John’s Gospel chosen by Bishop-elect Justice. In that passage we hear about Peter at the lakeside with the Risen Christ and the other disciples.

Peter is an encouraging patron for bishops and for all disciples: he could be weak in the face of temptation; he was sometimes fairly slow to grasp what Jesus was teaching and asking. But Peter loved Jesus with his whole heart, and he was willing to leave everything behind so he could follow Jesus anywhere. Jesus saw to the heart and soul of Peter, so he called and chose him to be the rock on which he built up his Church, his assembly of believers.

Now we 21st century modern types know that job descriptions matter a great deal, and that “new hires” must match up in skills, experience and personal qualities with what will be expected of them. Father William J. Justice is a “new hire” as a bishop. However, we modern 21st century Catholics need to be reminded that what matters first and most in Christian vocation is the call of Christ and a whole-hearted response in love from the one who hears that call. Christian parents know about that. Being a good mother or father is a daunting call, but women and men keep on responding to that call, with God’s grace, and with unconditional love. In the service of the Church, bishops, priests, deacons and religious women and men all know that responding to the call of Christ demands that we give ourselves away in love to Jesus Christ, in his people, all our lives long.

As we consider these readings we have heard, and as we listen to the words of the Rite of Ordination of a Bishop, we need to hear them as the call of Jesus Christ in his Church to Bishop-elect Justice to respond in loving service to his sisters and brothers in Christ.

Following an ancient custom, in today’s rite, before the people of God, I will ask Bishop-elect Justice certain questions. It is called the “Examination of the Candidate.” I am already quite confident that our candidate will pass this examination with flying colors! Nevertheless, these questions teach us and the new bishop some powerful lessons about the office and the life to which Jesus Christ has called him in the Holy Spirit. So right now we will have one last review for his examination.

The Church will ask Bishop-elect Justice whether he is resolved by the grace of the Holy Spirit to exercise to the end of his life the office of apostle that is passed on to him by the laying on of hands. An apostle is one whom Jesus sends, and in our first reading we hear from the prophet Isaiah, whom Jesus will later quote when he is teaching in the synagogue at Nazareth at the beginning of his public ministry. Isaiah claims, and later Jesus claims, that God has sent him to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the broken-hearted, and to proclaim liberty to captives and release to prisoners. Our Savior also claims that he is anointed and the Spirit is with him. Today the Church invokes the Holy Spirit and anoints our Bishop-elect.

From 40 years of priestly service Father Justice knows very well that there are many kinds of captivity and imprisonment, many ways a heart can be broken, and lots of need for good news. He also knows that on the first Easter Sunday evening the Risen Jesus Christ said to his first apostles, “As the Father sent me, I also send you.”

(PHOTO BY GREG TARCZYNSKI)

Episcopal Rite of Ordination calls a bishop ‘to respond in loving service to his sisters and brothers in Christ’

San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer, seated/background, says the Prayer of Ordination as Bishop-elect Justice kneels before him during the May 28 ordination rite. Assisting are, at left foreground: Deacon Leon Kortenkamp, and at right: now-Father Juan Lopez who was ordained a priest on June 7.

Just how does a bishop in the Church carry out this ministry of Christ? Primarily he does so by proclaiming the good news of the Gospel, by conferring the sacraments, the mysteries of faith, by overseeing the life and growth of the Church, and by guiding its earthly pilgrimage, its life together as the People of God. Then the Church will ask our Bishopelect whether he is resolved to be faithful and constant in proclaiming the Gospel of Christ. In our beautiful Gospel reading for today, Peter told Jesus that he loved him and Jesus told Peter to feed his sheep. After that, Jesus added that Peter would suffer for his faithfulness. One commentator on this passage remarks that the love of Christ has brought Peter both a task and a cross. That is true for every faithful disciple, including our Bishop-elect. We pray for him today, and always.

Chesterton said that people who make vows actually make appointments with themselves in the future. As Bishop-elect Justice accepts his episcopal office he makes his appointments in the future. We pray that he and we will keep our appointments with Christ and his people faithfully and fruitfully, all our lives long.

Next the Church asks the new bishop whether he is resolved to maintain the deposit of faith, entire and incorrupt, as handed down by the apostles and professed by the Church. Beware: there’s much here that is counter-cultural. The world around us urges us, above all, to be successful and

his concern must be for the entire Church, in this region, in this country, and around the world. We are Catholics, not congregationalists, and that must be true in our parishes, in our dioceses, in our country, and around the world. Just as the Risen Christ guided the fishermen on the lake, in our Gospel reading today, so the Vicar of Christ guides us in our service of leadership in the Church.

The Church then asks the new bishop whether, as a devoted father, he will cooperate with the priests and deacons who share his ministry in sustaining the people of God and guiding them on the way to salvation, and whether he will show special compassion toward the poor, the stranger, and the needy, and seek out especially the sheep who stray from the fold of the Lord.

In carrying out his office, the bishop needs to see deacons and priests as brothers and collaborators, and to treat them as such. The Church instructs us that the title of bishop is not one of honor but of function, hence the bishop must strive to serve, not to rule, just as Jesus Christ came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for the many. Among those many, the neediest have the strongest claim on us. St. Francis of Assisi, patron of the Archdiocese, is our special model and intercessor in responding to those needs.

Finally the Church asks Bishop-elect Justice whether he is resolved to pray for the people of God unceasingly, and to carry out his duties in a way that gives no grounds for reproach. He will respond that he is so resolved, and then will add, “with the help of God.” It is the unceasing prayer, the attempt to be one with God’s loving will, day by day, hour by hour, that will bring that powerful help of God. “The Lord is my shepherd,” we sang as our psalm response, and, for our new bishop, it will be the Lord Jesus Christ who will shepherd the shepherd. In our second reading we heard a list of some of the virtues that will help Bishop Justice keep his resolve: humility, gentleness, patience, and bearing with much out of love.

Love is the key. The late Cardinal John O’Connor, archbishop of New York, used to tell a story about himself as a young priest in his first assignment. An elderly priest, whom Father O’Connor admired very much, lived in the rectory, so one day the young curate asked the older man whether he had any advice for him as he started out in his priestly ministry. The old priest replied with three pieces of advice: “Love the people, love the people, love the people.”

Our new bishop has chosen as his motto, “God’s mercy endures forever.” That word “mercy” can also be translated as “compassionate love.” The best compliment I can give you, Bishop-elect Justice, is also the best advice I can give you: keep on doing what you have been doing as a priest for 40 years, but do it now in the exercise of your episcopal office, and never forget that it is the Spirit of Christ that empowers you to do it: “Love the people, love the people, love the people.”

popular. Success and popularity are nice enough, but, among Christians, that’s about all that can be said in their favor. They are not Gospel values. Consider instead courage and faithfulness — now those are Gospel values. A bishop, a successor of the apostles, must preach the entirety of what the Church teaches, whether the message is welcome or unwelcome. We are called to correct error, patiently and humbly, but clearly and faithfully.

Now the Church asks the Bishop-elect whether he is resolved to build up the Church, the Body of Christ, and to remain united with it within the order of bishops under the authority of the pope, the successor of St. Peter, to whom he will remain faithful and obedient. The great value here is unity, the unity among his followers that Jesus Christ prayed for at the Last Supper.

AD MULTOS ANNOS! In the second reading, from the Letter to the Bishop William, Ephesians, we hear about the We know that you, like Francis, patron saint, essential value of unity in the of our Shrine, our city and our Archdiocese Church: one Lord, one faith, one baptism. The bishop, would advise us to “preach the gospel at all the overseer of the Church, times, and if necessary to use words.” as shepherd must gather all Congratulations! the faithful together into one flock. In these fractious The National Shrine of and polarizing times, that is Saint Francis of Assisi an enormous challenge, but 610 Vallejo Street it is not merely local in its San Francisco, CA 94133 scope. A bishop is ordained into the body of bishops, and

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Catholic school students honor and honored Seniors from Immaculate Conception Academy with donor and longtime school supporter, Dede Wilsey, following the school’s Major Donor Reception that drew more than 150 guests in April. Wilsey was presented with an honorary diploma by the school. Wilsey is chair of ICA’s Twenty-first Century capital campaign.

From Left: Danielle Espinal-Stekert, Leslie Paular, Andrea Argouarch, Millie Hathaway, Na-Li Park, Fatima Duran, Juvi Anne Bartolome, Lauren Lacayo.

Manisha Patel, a fifth grade student at San Domenico Elementary School, was among winners of the Celebrate America Creative Writing Contest sponsored by the American Immigration Law Foundation. Prizes included a $100 individual award and a $1,500 award for her school. Joann Brew is her teacher at San Domenico.

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Students from Notre Dame Elementary School in Belmont took honors for their artwork in a recent countywide contest sponsored by the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County. Congratulations to, from left: Kelly Kmak, Taylor Wicks, Logan Brickley, Felice Bamford and Grace Walters.

Fatima Duran, class of 2008 at San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception Academy, has been named a Gates Millennium Scholar.

The award is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and pays for a student’s entire undergraduate education. Fatima will attend the University of San Francisco with a focus in Latin American Studies and Media Studies.

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Nearly 2,000 graduate from local Catholic high schools I

n class sizes that range from 33 to 347, the 14 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco will have graduated 1,992 seniors for the 2007-2008 academic year when Woodside Priory School concludes its commencement exercises tomorrow.

including some of the most prestigious schools in the world. Most of the small percentage of students who do not immediately continue their formal educations enter the military, school officials said.

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have had the pleasure of attending several our Catholic high school graduations this spring,” said Superintendent of Schools Maureen Huntington. “The young

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St. Ignatius College Preparatory School awarded diplomas to 347 seniors May 31 at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. Jesuit Father Robert T. Walsh, president, presided over the commencement exercises.

Sophie Harrison-Wong was valedictorian. Honored with the year’s Ignatian Award was Columbus Leonard. A baccalaureate Mass with Father Walsh as principal celebrant was celebrated May 29 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Concelebrants included Jesuit Fathers Thomas O’Neill, Anthony P. Sauer, Francis Steigeler, Paul Capitolo, Michael Kotlanger and Russell Roide.

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Junipero Serra High School awarded diplomas to 246 seniors on May 31 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

Principal Lars Lund presided.

Valedictorians were Dan Saber, Bradley Stirling and Kenneth Zurcher.

Msgr. Robert McElroy, pastor of San Mateo’s St. Gregory Parish and a member of the school’s Board of Regents, was principal celebrant of the graduation Mass with Holy Cross Father Thomas K. Zurcher, uncle of valedictorian Kenneth Zurcher, concelebrating.

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Mercy High School in Burlingame awarded diplomas to 118 seniors on June 1 at St. Ignatius Church on the campus of the University of San Francisco. Laura Held, principal, presided. Remedios J. Geronimo was valedictorian. Angie S. Kang was salutatorian. A baccalaureate Mass was celebrated May 31 at Our Lady of Angels Church in Burlingame.

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Tynan McAuley

Woodside Priory School will award diplomas to 64 seniors on June 14 on the school’s Portola Valley campus. Tim Molak, headmaster, will preside. Valedictorians are Alyssa Cheung, David Mandell and Kaori Ogawa. Salutatorian is Tynan McAuley. Guest speaker is Alexander Karsner, assistant secretary, United States Department of Energy. A baccalaureate Mass was to be celebrated June 13 at the school with Benedictine Father Martin Mager presiding. Benedictine Fathers Pius Horvath and Maurus Nemeth were scheduled concelebrants.

Sacred Heart Preparatory in Atherton awarded diplomas to 123 seniors June 5 on the Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton campus. The master of ceremonies was James B. Everitt, principal. Katie Peterson, Ph. D., a prize-winning poet and a 1992 graduate of the school, delivered the graduation address.

Valedictorian was Julia Brownell. Salutatorian was Brendan Montgomery.

Graduation Mass was celebrated June 4 with Father Thomas Moran, presiding.

ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN HIGH SCHOOL

Camille Buchanan

MERCY HIGH SCHOOL, BURLINGAME

NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL

Brendan Montgomery

Leslie Paular

SAN DOMENICO UPPER SCHOOL

San Domenico Upper School awarded diplomas to 40 seniors on June 7 at the school’s San Anselmo campus. Mathew Heersche, Ed. D., head of school, presided. Student speakers were Camille Buchanan, senior class president, and Callie Ballard, student council president.

Guest speaker was philanthropist and vintner, Dick Grace. A baccalaureate Mass with Dominican Father Thomas Hayes presiding preceded the graduation exercises.

SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PREPARATORY Julia Brownell

women and men graduating from our Catholic schools are a source of pride and admiration. These graduates demonstrate a level of maturity, integrity and confidence that reflect the Christian values they have learned from their families and their Catholic high school. It is inspiring to see how accomplished they have become in four years.

These future leaders will make us proud to call them our alums.”

Juvi Anne Bartolome

From left, Roshelle Chan, Elizabeth Weidner and Kristine Wong Amanda Howard Giuliana Scafani Notre Dame High School in Belmont awarded diplomas to 181 seniors on May 30 at St. Pius Church in Redwood City. Rita Gleason, principal/ president, presided. Valedictorian was Amanda Howard. Salutatorian was Giuliana Scafani.

A baccalaureate Mass was celebrated May 20 in the school’s Moore Pavilion. Father Stephen Howell was principal celebrant. Msgr. Edward McTaggart, great uncle of graduate Megan McTaggart, concelebrated.

Deacon Hank Jacquemet, grandfather of graduate Christina Jacquemet, assisted.

Mercy High School, San Francisco, awarded diplomas to 126 seniors on May 31 at Holy Name of Jesus Church in San Francisco. Dorothy McCrea, Ed. D., principal, presided. Valedictorian was Roshelle Chan.

Salutatorians were Kristine Wong and Elizabeth Weidner.

A baccalaureate Mass was celebrated the same day at Holy Name Church with school counselor Father Patrick Gregory McGivern as principal celebrant.

STUART HALL HIGH SCHOOL

MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL Mairead Johnson Andrew White Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School awarded diplomas to 289 seniorson May 24 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Kenneth Hogarty, principal, presided. Mairead Johnson was valedictorian. Andrew White was salutatorian. Father Thomas Daly was principal celebrant of a baccalaureate Mass May 22 at the Cathedral.

CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL

Andrea Argouarch From left, Dustin Hu, Willy Lai, Gregory Schwartz, Alejandro Zamora

Archbishop Riordan High School awarded diplomas to 164 seniors on May 24 in the school’s Lindland Theatre. Edward Borges, vice principal for academics, presided. Valedictorians were Dustin Hu, Willy Lai, Gregory Schwartz and Alejandro Zamora. Riordan President, Marianist Father Thomas French, was principal celebrant of a baccalaureate Mass May 23 at the school. Concelebrants included Father John Russi, school chaplain. Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron, OFM Cap. of Agana, Guam, was present in the sanctuary.

Theresa Stelter

San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception Academy awarded diplomas to 59 seniors on May 23 at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Mary Cerutti, assistant principal for academics, presided. Guest speaker was Terry Hodges, Home Economics Department chair and member of the ICA faculty for 36 years.

Valedictorian was Leslie Paular. Salutatorians were Andrea Argouarch and Theresa Stelter. Senior Juvi Anne Bartolome was student speaker. Baccalaureate Mass was celebrated that morning at St. James Church. Principal celebrant was Jesuit Father. J. Cameron Ayers.

Morgan Kendall

Convent of the Sacred Heart High School awarded diplomas to 55 seniors on May 30 at 4 p.m. in the Main Hall of the Flood Mansion, 2222 Broadway in San Francisco. Doug Grant, Head of School, presided.

Valedictorian was Morgan Kendall. Guest speaker was Convent alumna Lucy Robinson Garcia, ’69. Baccalaureate Mass was celebrated on May 28 in the Convent of the Sacred Heart Chapel.

Corey Linehan

Anthony Gambardella

Jennifer Noonan

Marin Catholic High School awarded diplomas to 147 seniors on June 5 at Marin Civic Center Auditorium. Father Thomas Daly, president, presided, with Principal Don Ritchie assisting.

Anthony Gambardella was valedictorian. Jennifer Noonan was salutatorian. A baccalaureate Mass with Father Daly as principal celebrant was celebrated June 4 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Mill Valley.

Thomas Pardini

Stuart Hall High School awarded diplomas to 33 seniors on May 31 at 11 a.m. in the courtyard of Stuart Hall High School, 1715 Octavia St., in San Francisco. Gordon Sharafinski, Head of School, presided.

The faculty speaker was Michael Buckley of the Social Sciences Department.

Valedictorians were Corey Linehan and Thomas Pardini.

Baccalaureate Mass was celebrated May 29 at St. Benedict Parish at St. Francis Xavier Church with Jesuit Father John Savard as principal celebrant.

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Volunteer corp seeks recruits A representative of Jesuit Volunteers International will preach at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Daly City July 26-27 to invite young Catholics from the San Francisco Archdiocese to consider service with the organization.

JVI volunteers commit to serving two years in community with one another in developing nations. JVI responds to requests for long-term assistance from the Jesuits, the local Catholic Church and other organizations seeking to reduce poverty in Belize, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Nepal, Nicaragua, Peru and Tanzania. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just people going to help the poor,â&#x20AC;? said Scott Hicke, advancement director for JVI. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that when the volunteers are living and working among the neighbors wherever they live, they are a living bridge between one faith community and another â&#x20AC;&#x201C; built on shared members

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Catholic San Francisco

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Open the discussion

Guest Commentary Religious liberty at stake

By Maggie Gallagher They say we are tired of culture wars. Tell that to the California Supreme Court, which didn’t sound tired at all when it lobbed a big, fat hand grenade into the marriage debate.

Ideas have consequences. And the California court endorsed two big, brand-new, very bad ideas.

The first idea is that the internationally recognized human right to marry includes same-sex marriage. In U.S. constitutional law, fundamental human rights are those deeply rooted in our traditions. Not even in Massachusetts or in New Jersey could the courts quite stomach the idea that same-sex marriage is deeply rooted in those traditions.

Not even the European Court of Human Rights or the United Nations Human Rights Committee has so ruled. In 2003, the European Court of Justice ruled, “Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights protects only traditional marriage between two persons of opposite biological sex.” (For excerpts from these and other marriage cases see “Is Marriage Discriminatory?” at www.marriagedebate.com.)

So in rooting around for precedents, the California court had liberal recourse to our neighbor to the north, Canada. Like Canadian courts, the California court grounded same-sex marriage in a larger human right to form families of choice and to have the government sanction all family forms as having equal dignity. Polygamy anyone?

Moreover, Canada is the country that ought to be voted “Most Happy to Persecute in the Name of Tolerance.” Just last month the Orwellian “Human Rights” Tribunal of Ontario ruled that Christian Horizons, a charity that runs homes for developmentally disabled adults, engaged in illegal discrimination when it tried to ensure that its employees were practicing Christians who accepted Christian sexual teaching on adultery, fornication and homosexual sex. Worse than the $23,000 fine is a government edict that the organization submit to a re-education plan to change the group’s attitudes.

So the second big idea endorsed by the California court is even less promising: Sexual orientation should be treated just like race under the California equal protection amendment, subject to “strict scrutiny.” This is another historic first for a U.S. court.

This is a ruling which, if left undisturbed, means that Protestants, Catholics, Jews and Muslims who see marriage as the union of husband and wife, and view sexual activity as best confined to marriage so defined, are in the exact position as racists under California law. In Great Britain, a similar idea recently led a court to fine an Anglican bishop $100,000 for refusing to hire an openly gay man as a youth minister in one of his parishes.

There are religious liberty defenses under the U.S. Constitution for youth ministers, but not for Christian schools, physicians, social workers, teachers, attorneys, psychiatrists, counselors or tax-exempt charities. The First Amendment will not protect us if our own governments (through the courts) decide that, for example, my Catholic faith is in itself a form of bigotry.

If gay rights advocates don’t really mean this to happen, why don’t they stop asking courts to rule in this way?

I’d love to get beyond the culture wars in this country. But so far, there are few signs that the courts, or the people who disagree with me, are content to let me.

Fortunately the people in California do not have to accept this outrageous and sweeping ruling. Working with Protect Marriage (www. protectmarriage.com), NOMCalifornia.org (a project of the National Organization for Marriage, of which I am president) has raised $1 million this spring to get a state marriage amendment overturning this ruling on the ballot in November. The 1,122,000 signatures we have helped gather are far more than the 690,000 needed to qualify. The next step is to raise $10 million to get the message out.

In November, voters in California, like voters in Florida, will have a chance to go on record: Should four judges overrule more than 4 million Californians who voted for Proposition 22 in 2000? We will fight for marriage and we will win.

Maggie Gallagher, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of three books on marriage including “The Case for Marriage,” is president of the National Organization for Marriage and the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy. 2008 Universal Press Syndicate.

Your lead article in the May 23 issue of Catholic San Francisco, “California Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage,” unconditionally rejected the possibility of marriage outside of traditional Catholic teaching. This was a real disappointment to read. I wish that we in this community, where so many of our neighbors, co-workers and friends are gay or lesbian, could at least open the question about Catholic thinking on same-sex marriage.

As a woman and man, my wife and I have been blessed with 28 years of marriage.

Extending this same privilege to same-sex couples in no way diminishes the quality of the relationship that we enjoy.

This is a great opportunity for the Church in San Francisco to be welcoming instead of exclusive, to open our doors to all people, regardless of the sexual orientation that God gave them. While your publication needs to inform its readers about official teaching of the Church, I hope it can also give voice to minority opinions and thus shape the discussion around this important and timely topic.

John Sedlander San Francisco

Equal rights not issue

God will triumph The California Supreme Court has seemingly settled the great divide between those who want lesbian and gay marriage and those who believe the sacrament of marriage is only between a man and a woman.

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Did the California Supreme Court create this world? Did they make the animals and trees from nothing? Did they design the human being and create the first person? Did they set the planets in outer space and teach them to revolve around the sun? Only a fool believes there is no God. No human being can create anything from nothing.

The words in the “Our Father,” state: “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

This earthly journey is short and it is up to us to discover in our lifetime just what God’s will is and how we are to follow his will.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Bible explain clearly that God does not condone gay relationships.

When people have an inclination toward the same sex, it is a call for them to lead a celibate life. They can be members of the Church and practice their faith. In some cases through prayer some have reported that they changed their homosexual orientation. Many of us are called to celibacy – soldiers and their wives who are separated, priests, widows and those who choose the single life. No one is saying that this is easy; we have choices and the choice to obey God’s laws, even when it calls for sacrifice, is critical to eternal life. We must be holy as our creator is holy.

Liberals would like to silence the voice of God, but God’s love lives in the hearts and souls of so many people who know the great joy that comes from surrender to his will. God gives you a peace that surpasses all understanding.

In the end God will triumph.

Claire Rogus San Mateo

L E T T E R S

The arguments swirling around the issue of homosexual “marriage” are predicated on the concept of equal rights. If heterosexuals have the right to marry, so also should homosexuals.

The argument is fallacious!

Heterosexual marriage is a natural institution, men and women being fitted with complementary organs ordered to the production of children, coupled with an innate impulse to provide a nurturing environment. While sexual pleasure may provide the impulse to intercourse, it is not the primary purpose of the sexual act. Homosexual unions are intrinsically sterile, rendering marriage an impossibility. The argument for equal rights, then, is irrelevant.

That heterosexual marriage is a natural institution is borne out by the universal judgment of mankind.

Anthropologists and archaeologists find evidence of the family, consisting of man and wife and children, as far back as their methods can take them. In natural sequence as well as logic, heterosexual marriage is followed by the family unit, families coalesce into tribes, and tribes into states.

The state, of course, is a johnny-come-lately, having emerged in places like Egypt and Mesopotamia a mere 4,000 years or so ago.

Since, therefore, heterosexual marriage is a natural institution predating the state, no representative of the state, whether a mayor, a judge, or a Supreme Court, can change its nature and hence its definition as a union between a man and a woman.

Joseph R. McCaffery San Francisco

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Called to this Church

Thanks to Jim McCrea for his May 23 reflections on same-sex marriage, “Unions and Matrimony.” First, I agree the Catholic Church and any other religious institution has the right to choose how to sanctify marriages within their respective organizations.

We can simply look at this as the separation of church and state.

I don’t buy the argument that same sex marriage threatens “the common interest of every child in having a mother and father” as proposed by Bill May, chairman of Bay Area Catholics for the Common Good. As a medical social worker for the past 11 years, I have been invited into the homes of the terminally ill to provide support services and counseling to patients and “traditional” families. I have witnessed domestic violence and mistreatment of children on numerous occasions. Sanctioning of a marriage by the Catholic Church doesn’t change the reality of such struggles. Do we take away marriage licenses on these grounds?

Mr. May’s notion of protecting traditional marriage as a “social justice issue” is ludicrous. Social justice is about equality for all persons, an argument same sex marriage proponents will undoubtedly debate with the religious right through the election in November and beyond.

I have been a faithful member of the Catholic Church my entire life serving in many capacities at my parish starting as a young teen and into my adult years. I am grateful for those who have embraced the committed relationship to my partner over the past five years.

Though I have been dragged down many times by the Church hierarchy, I continue to get back on my feet because I feel called to be a member of the Catholic community. The Jesus I know is a man of compassion who invites everyone to his table. The true Catholic Church to me is the goodness of the people sharing in the body and blood of Christ as One. Brad Leary San Carlos

Why courts exist There are valid arguments to be made against the California Supreme Court’s recent decision finding the ballot initiative unconstitutional, so I am disappointed by one fallacious argument adopted by the executive editor as well as Messrs. Dolejsi, Prentice and May. In particular, as a Catholic and a lawyer, I find objectionable the theme echoed by all these

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Guest Commentary

‘Perfect girls’ suffering anorexia of the soul?

By Courtney E. Martin Worried talk about the next generation of high-achieving, health-neglecting “perfect girls” is everywhere.

Girls Inc. just published the results of its depressing, nationwide survey called “The Supergirl Dilemma,” which reveals that girls’ obsession with thinness has gotten significantly worse in the past six years. Despite the efforts of the Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty – well-intentioned, though undeniably marketdriven – and Love Your Body Day events sweeping every school from San Francisco to Syracuse, 90 percent of teenage girls think they are overweight today, compared with 24 percent in 1995, according to a recent ELLEgirl survey.

So what gives? Is it our celebrity-obsessed, extreme makeover culture? Is it the newest version of the age-old story of dysfunctional family relationships? Is it peer pressure – mean girls critiquing one another’s every lunchtime indiscretion? Is it the $30 billion-a-year diet industry?

It is, in truth, all of the above. But there is also another profoundly important – yet little noticed – dynamic at work in the anxious, achievement-oriented lives of America’s perfect girls: They have a sometimes deadly, often destructive, lack of faith.

So many perfect girls were raised entirely without organized religion, and the majority of the rest of us – I reluctantly admit to my own membership in the perfect girl club – experienced “spirituality” only in the form of mandatory holiday services with a big-haired grandmother or unconscionably elaborate and expensive bat mitvah parties, where everything but the Torah is emphasized.

Overlay our dearth of spiritual exploration with our excess of training in ambition – never mind SAT prep courses; today,

even community service is linked to college application brownie points – and you have a generation of godless girls. We were raised largely without a fundamental sense of divinity. In fact, our worth in the world has always been tied to our looks, grades and gifts – not the amazing miracle of mere existence.

In this climate, we feel perpetually called to perfect our own “body projects” – the term used by historian Joan Jacob Brumberg. Thinness and achievement stand in for the qualities of kindness and humility. We think that our perfect bodies – not God’s grace or good works – will get us into heaven. We have no deeply held sense of our own divinity, so we chase after some unattainable ideal. Perfect girls, as a result, feel they are never enough. Never disciplined enough.

Never accomplished enough. Never thin enough.

The worst of this can be seen in the frightening websites that purport to be support groups for girls with anorexia and bulimia. Such sites claim these two disorders are a religion, not a disease, and pray to false gods named after them: Ana and Mia. Though highly deluded and dangerously ill, girls who frequent these sites have taken the black hole at their centers and filled it with an obsessive faith in the power and purity of thinness. In essence, they are crying out to our godless culture, showing us just how damaged a child can be who is thrown to the wolves of advertising and amoral media without any spiritual armor.

I’m not calling for a return to conservative religion or restricting dogma. I’m envisioning an inspired movement toward community where girls are nourished with dinnertable conversations about the values of kindness and charity; where girls undergoing puberty are encouraged to embrace the miraculous, complex, and perfectly imperfect bodies

they possess; and where girls can find inspiration – not condemnation – in religious texts.

For starters, the Bible has something to teach the perfect girl who calculates beauty in terms of pounds and dress sizes: “Your beauty should not come from outward adornment…. Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight” (I Peter 3:3,4). (New International Version) And Buddha, the man often portrayed as blissful with his belly, has a paradigm-shifting message for the average American woman accustomed to self-hate: “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

In the age of the skeletal celebrity-filled US Weekly and shrill sound bite commentators such as Ann Coulter, these are the kinds of deep reflections and recommendations we perfect girls need most.

A supermom of an elite college hopeful told New York Times reporter Sara Rimer, “You just hope your child doesn’t have anorexia of the soul.” While she is spot on in her fears, she seems woefully shortsighted about her responsibilities.

It is we, all of us, who have the power to resurrect a society that values spirit above skinniness. We have to start doing it – one prayer, one family hike, one heart-to-heart discussion about what really matters – at a time.

Courtney E. Martin is the author of “Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body.”

The Catholic Difference

Martyrdom of charity Prior to Maximilian Kolbe’s canonization in 1982, there was considerable debate in higher Church circles about whether this Polish Franciscan, who had sacrificed his life in the starvation bunker at Auschwitz to save the condemned father of a family, should be canonized as a martyr. John Paul the Great, agreeing with the many Poles and Germans who wanted Kolbe honored this way, overrode the decision of two specially appointed judges and proclaimed, in his canonization Mass homily, that “Maximilian Mary Kolbe, who following his beatification was venerated as a confessor, will henceforth be venerated also as a martyr!”

During the pre-canonization debate, some theologians and canonists suggested that a new category – “martyr of charity” – be created to cover situations like Kolbe’s. The Franciscan priest had not, after all, been killed “in hatred of the faith” [odium fidei], at least according to the traditional understanding of that ancient criterion for martyrdom. The Nazi officer who agreed to Kolbe’s voluntary substitution of himself for the condemned prisoner had evinced no interest in the fact that Kolbe was a Catholic, a Christian or a priest.

Kolbe was just another Pole to be starved to death. So why not split the difference and call Kolbe a “martyr of charity”?

I suggest that John Paul II was making an important theological point in declaring St. Maximilian Kolbe a martyr, period. Systematic hatred of the human person (as in Nazism and other totalitarian systems) was a contemporary version of odium fidei, for the faith taught the inalienable dignity of

the human person and those who hated the person implicitly hated the faith. In any event, the argument over what constitutes “martyrdom” continues (most recently, at a plenary session of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints), and will likely continue long into the future.

The idea of a “martyr of charity” continued to intrigue me, though, most recently in the case of Petty Officer Second Class (SEAL) Michael Anthony Monsoor, who died in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, on Sept. 29, 2006. Michael Monsoor was a devout Catholic of Arab Christian descent, who had grown up in Garden Grove, Calif. Two years after his high school graduation, he enlisted in the Navy, where this superb athlete was soon attracted to the toughest of the tough, the Navy SEALS. A year after completing SEAL training, Monsoor deployed to Iraq. A month into his deployment, he rescued a fellow SEAL under fire, winning the Silver Star.

His chaplain remembers Michael Monsoor requesting the sacrament of penance at their first meeting; he was also a regular Mass-goer. Sacramentally, he was prepared for Sept.

29, 2006, when his SEAL team was ordered to work with an Iraqi Army unit to set up an anti-sniper over-watch position.

An insurgent threw a fragmentation grenade, which bounced off Monsoor’s chest and fell to the ground. Crouching next to the only exit from the over-watch position, Michael Monsoor could have escaped. Instead, he threw himself onto the grenade to shield his comrades from the impending explosion.

Thirty minutes later, Michael Monsoor was dead, but his

teammates and their Iraqi allies were alive.

On April 8, at the White House, and in the presence of the young SEAL’s parents, President Bush posthumously awarded Michael Monsoor the George Weigel Congressional Medal of Honor, America’s highest award for military valor. A video of the ceremony is available at www.navy.mil/moh/monsoor. It’s hard to watch without tearing up, as the President did in speaking of an extraordinary act of self-sacrificing heroism.

No one knows whether, in the split-second of his decision, Michael Monsoor thought himself called to the martyrdom of charity. Like most Catholics, he’d probably never heard the term. But everything we know about this remarkable young SEAL suggests that his instantaneous decision to give his life for the sake of his teammates and allies was rooted in his Catholic faith and his understanding of its demands.

And that’s why it’s worth considering the possibility that Michael Anthony Monsoor died as a “martyr of charity.”

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Spirituality for Life

A saint and compassion fatigue There is a story told about St. Vincent de Paul. Perhaps it’s partly myth, but its challenge is real nonetheless.

Vincent once gave an instruction to his religious community that sounded something like this: “When the demands of life seem unfair to you, when you are exhausted and have to pull yourself out of bed yet another time to do some act of service, do it gladly, without counting the cost and without self-pity, for if you persevere in serving others, in giving yourself to the poor, if you persevere to the point of completely spending yourself, perhaps someday the poor will find it in their hearts to forgive you. For it is more blessed to give than to receive, and it is also a lot easier!”

That might sound curious. Why do the poor need to forgive us? For what do we need to be forgiven? Shouldn’t we feel good about serving others?

All of us, I suspect, have a pretty good sense of what

he means. We all know there is a certain humiliation in needing to receive, just as there is a certain pride in being able to give. The things we often complain about are really our greatest blessings. What is worse than being too busy?

Having nothing to do. What is more painful than having to give away something we own? Having nothing to give away. What is harder than being dragged out of bed to minister to someone in need? Being the person who is in bed and who needs someone to help him or her. What is harder than being brought to our knees by the demands of those around us for our time and energy? Being on our knees asking someone else for his or her time and energy.

It is more blessed to be able to give than to receive, and it is easier.

There’s more. There is a certain divine power, literally, in being able to give. The one who gives gets to be God, or, at very least, to feel like God. That’s not an

overstatement. God is the source of all that is, the source of all gift.

When we are in a position to give, we mediate divine power and we are able to feel that power.

Whenever we act like God, we get to feel like Father God. Ron Rolheiser The irony is that our very gifts and strengths, if not given over with the proper attitude, can easily make others feel inferior. It is important to understand this so that we are more careful to not serve others in ways that demean

ROLHEISER, page 28

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Exodus 19:2-6a; Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 5; Romans 5:6-11; Matthew 9:36-10:8

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

“You’re nobody ‘til somebody loves you.

You’re nobody ‘til somebody cares. You may be king, you may possess the world and it’s gold. But gold won’t bring you happiness when you’re growing old. You’re nobody ‘til somebody loves you, so find yourself somebody to love.” Dean Martin’s heartwarming song rings true, pointing to the centrality of love in our life.

On the other hand, nobody is really nobody. Everyone is somebody. Each of us was loved and cared for even before we appeared on this planet. Love was the reason we came into existence. We have always been on the mind and heart of God. His love overflowed to bring us into being. We are made out of love, by love, from love, for love. Love is our origin; love, our destination. Love is the quest, foundation, orientation and purpose of our life as we journey from our origin toward destination.

If God has so loved us as to bring us into life, how could anyone of us be nobody?

Because we are somebody, we can respond to that love. Caught up as we are in human love, we discover that it is a dynamic metaphor for divine love. Our deep thirst for human love only points to the implicit – and ultimate – thirst we have for God, for whom our hearts are restless until they rest in him. Human love is a river pouring out perennially into the ocean of God’s love.

While we have to search for human love, we have already found ourselves somebody to love: God. Even more truly, it is God who has first found himself each one of us to love.

Such is his will and pleasure.

In Exodus, God’s love for Israel is a metaphor for his love for humanity. Israel is his “special possession;” so are we. They are saved from bondage through God’s marvelous deeds; so are we. They are borne up on eagle’s wings; so are we. God’s special love for Israel – and us – is demonstrated in concrete deeds of liberation and providence.

Our response is to hearken to his voice and keep his covenant. Being faithful and open to God, we can continue to be his special possession. We shall then be to him “a kingdom

of priests, a holy nation.” The psalmist, too, affirms this: “He made us, his we are; his people, the flock he tends.”

God’s love for us is made perfect in Jesus Christ. In him, we belong to God totally.

Our preciousness in the eyes of God takes a quantum leap in Jesus who died for us. In the call of the apostles, we receive the invitation to belong to Jesus as his prized possession.

Belonging to Jesus entails responding to his call to spend a lifetime with him and to be sent out to cure the sick, heal the wounded, feed the hungry, and proclaim the good news of hope and peace. Our fidelity to Jesus would consist in inserting ourselves into body of Christ – all those united with him – to care for others in the same way Jesus cares for everyone, especially those who are in need. He sends us out, the present day apostles, to affirm everyone’s preciousness in the eyes of God and one another.

Paul is convinced we are loved by God in the most special way because he sent his son to die for us when we were still “sinners” and his “enemies.” Reconciled now to God, we continue to luxuriate in the blessings of new life. Jesus has bought us with his own body and blood, by laying down his life, so that we can belong to him as his special possession.

Jesus died once, but the new life he brought us is ongoing in our personal salvation history.

On this Father’s Day, as we give thanks for the love and care our fathers have showered on us, we cannot miss God the Father’s love shining through them. Knit closely together in the bond of love, a father and child know that they belong to each other as a prized possession.

It is such a sense of belonging in the most perfect way that characterizes our intimacy with God our Father in Jesus Christ, whose precious possession we are, whose eyes we delight, and whose heart we enthrall – endlessly.

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marry in Virginia even though such an interracial marriage was against the law of that state promulgated by the “sovereign people” through the democratic process?

I would also suggest that reliance on the “will of the voters” or “people are sovereign” argument by these speakers is short-sighted and could come back to haunt them in certain contexts. Indeed, if Roe were to be overturned and the decision on abortion regulation be returned to the states, would these gentlemen meekly accept the argument that no constitutional challenge could ever be brought if a majority of California voters endorsed an “abortion on demand” regulatory scheme? I would think not.

I would recommend that each of the speakers either go back and take a rudimentary high school civics class or at least consult with a minimally qualified attorney before they make legal arguments that display such an uninformed view of our state and country’s constitutional forms of government.

John Kavanagh San Francisco

■ Continued from page 19 voices that somehow the court erred when it “overturned the will of the people” or “denied the axiom that in a democracy the people are sovereign.” In so arguing, these various voices almost without fail cite the fact that the original ballot initiative was endorsed by over 60 percent of the voters, as if that fact had even a hint of relevance when determining constitutionality.

Do none of these speakers remember the concept of judicial review established in Marbury v. Madison a little over two centuries ago? It would not matter if the ballot initiative had been passed by 99 percent of the voters if it abridged a constitutional right. In a constitutional democracy, it is a court’s duty to protect minorities from majority oppression and that means a court often will be called upon to declare as unconstitutional statutes that were passed by a vocal majority. Indeed, who can dispute that the U.S. Supreme Court was at its best when it found “separate but equal” unconstitutional in 1954 even though segregated schools were the “will of the voters” in Topeka or when the court held in 1967 that a white man and black woman could

Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., was recently named administrator of St. Veronica Parish, San Francisco, effective July 1.

New, single whole When Mr. Jim McCrae, (letters, May 23) criticizes the California Catholic bishLETTERS, page 26

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Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Scripture reflection

We are made of love, by love, from love for love

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF EXODUS EX 19:2-6A In those days, the Israelites came to the desert of Sinai and pitched camp. While Israel was encamped here in front of the mountain, Moses went up the mountain to God. Then the Lord called to him and said, “Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob; tell the Israelites: You have seen for yourselves how I treated the Egyptians and how I bore you up on eagle wings and brought you here to myself. Therefore, if you hearken to my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my special possession, dearer to me than all other people, though all the earth is mine.

You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 100:1-2, 3, 5 R. We are his people: the sheep of his flock.

Sing joyfully to the Lord, all you lands; serve the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful song.

R. We are his people: the sheep of his flock.

Know that the Lord is God; he made us, his we are; his people, the flock he tends.

R. We are his people: the sheep of his flock.

The Lord is good: his kindness endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

R. We are his people: the sheep of his flock.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE ROMANS ROM 5:6-11 Brothers and sisters: Christ, while we were still helpless, yet died at the appointed time for the ungodly. Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person, though perhaps for a good person one might even find courage to die. But God proves his love for us in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us. How much more then, since we are now justified by his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath.

Indeed, if, while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, once reconciled, will we be saved by his life. Not only that, but

we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW MT 9:36—10:8

At the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest.”

Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus; Simon from Cana, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.

Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus, “Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.

Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”

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‘German Requiem’ solid conclusion for Brahms festival

By Father Basil DePinto The texts of the Catholic Mass have inspired composers from the Gregorian originals down to those of much later days: Bach, Mozart, Verdi. The Mass for the Dead offered a particular attraction due to the powerful drama of the Dies irae. Johannes Brahms, an original in so many ways, decided to approach the mystery of death from a specifically Lutheran perspective and left us his masterful “German Requiem.” Instead of the Catholic liturgical text, the composer set a group of biblical passages of his own choosing. He was fortunate in having at his disposal Luther’s own translation, as dear to German speakers as the King James version is to us.

There are seven sections, the first and the last beginning with the word “Selig” – happy or blessed. Brahms does not dwell on the dark side of death, nor even on the dead themselves, except at the end when he quotes Rev. 14:13 to proclaim, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord.” For the rest, he is concerned with the living: their concern about their own death and the pain of losing loved ones. So he begins with the Beatitude, “Blessed are those who mourn” (Mt. 5:4.) and employs some of the most stirring texts of both the Old and New Testaments to present a vision of death that is realistic indeed, but finally is enfolded in the love and mercy of God for his people.

If the terms majestic and noble are ever applied to music they are right on target here. This is music of lofty serenity which resonates with a deep faith in the biblical sources, and at the same time uses all the technical and dramatic forces

Michael Tilson Thomas

at its disposal. It is primarily a choral piece, with two brief interpolations, for baritone and soprano. The chorus bears the greatest weight of exposition, clothing the biblical texts with high drama, but more importantly with a profound sense of their religious sublimity.

Michael Tilson Thomas brought the San Francisco Symphony’s Brahms festival to a close with a series of performances of this great masterpiece. The first, on May 21, was sparked by the powerful, even muscular, contribution of the Symphony chorus, admirably prepared

by its new director, Ragnar Bohlin. One might question whether 200 voices are not too much of a good thing: at certain moments the chorus overwhelmed the orchestra. One suspects that Brahms, ever the symphonist above all, would not have approved. Still, the large body of singers never lost focus, was scrupulously in tune at all times, and did full justice to both the technical demands of the music and its dramatic impulse.

The soprano, Laura Claycomb, performed her solo with clear, brilliant tone.

Matthias Goerne, a master recitalist, was perhaps not heard to best advantage in this large venue, but his superlative vocalism was a pleasure to hear all the same.

Mr. Thomas held his large forces together admirably, but at some important moments he simply rushed the tempo – intemperately. It was especially harmful at the conclusion of the lovely setting of Psalm 84, “How lovely are thy dwelling places,” which requires a calm reflective pace after the powerful drama of the preceding piece, and the breakneck speed the conductor chose for it.

But these are minor quibbles when set against the evidently deep commitment of all concerned to unfold the vital, dynamic character of this superb religious document. The final movement, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,” wove a spell of peace and tranquility that could only come from a great composer who was also a man of faith, sharing his genius with all who had ears to hear.

Father Basil DePinto is a frequent contributor on the arts. A priest of the Oakland Diocese, he celebrated his golden jubilee of ordination this month.

EWTN June programming focuses on Year of St. Paul Special programming during June on the Eternal World Television Network will focus on St. Paul as Christians around the world mark the 2000th anniversary of his birth.

A seven-part series, “Paul: From Tarsus to the World,” will air in 30-minute segments on June 19-20 and June 23-27 at 12 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. The series looks at Paul’s life and wisdom and takes the viewer to places where he taught and preached, including Damascus, Antioch, Corinth, Malta and Rome.

On June 28, from the Basilica of St. Paul’s Outside the Wall, Pope Benedict XVI will lead Vespers at the start of the Pauline Year. The Vesper service will air live from Rome at 8:30 a.m., with an encore telecast at 1:30 p.m.

Also on June 28, an animated children’s program, “ Adventures of the Apostle Paul,” will air at 7 a.m. It looks at the life and work of St. Paul, including his being struck blind, his imprisonment at Philippi, and the shipwreck at Malta.

On June 29, the Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul, Pope Benedict will celebrate a Mass and the imposition of the pallium on metropolitan archbishops. EWTN’s telecast from Rome will air live at 12 a.m. and encore at 6 p.m.

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Veteran journalist is ‘Mosaic’ guest

James O. Clifford, Sr.,left, joins Tom Burke July 6 at 5 a.m. on KPIX Channel 5’s “Mosaic.”

The main topic of conversation is Clifford’s 40-year career as a journalist with United Press International and the Associated Press and the novel he has written based on much of that experience, “Philip’s Code – No News Is Good News to a Killer.” The book is available from Amazon.com. Clifford and his wife, Peggy, raised their seven children in Redwood City and are longtime members of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish. “Mosaic” is a joint production of the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Communications Department and KPIX.

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Marianist ‘Brother Wasy’ dies at 90 On the high school level, he taught English, history and Brother Joseph Wasielewski (“Brother Wasy”), a member of the Marianist community in Cupertino, Calif., and former religion. Passionate about sports, and particularly basketteacher at St. James High School in San Francisco, died in ball, Brother Wasy coached several teams.

Brother Wasy began his longest assignment in 1959, Cupertino on May 31 after a long illness. He was 90 and when he was the first Marianist missionhad been a Marianist for 70 years. ary from the former Marianist Province of Brother Wasielewski was born in the Pacific to be sent to Japan. He spent Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 15, 1917. He was the next 37 years at St. Joseph College in taught by Marianists at St. James Elementary Yokohama as a teacher, coach and adminin Baltimore. One of his teachers had trouble istrator. pronouncing his last name and shortened Brother Wasy was a respected educator, it to “Wasy.” The name stuck, despite his known for exactness in teaching grammar mother’s protests. Brother Wasy’s admiraand writing and his droll humor. According tion for his Marianist teachers inspired him to Marianist Brother Jim Dods, Brother to enter the postulate of the Society of Mary Wasy often repeated two statements to at age 14. His class was the first to complete students: “When the going gets tough, the four years of high school in the Marianist tough get going,” and “Pooh, pooh, perpostulate at Beacon, N.Y. ouh,” when he thought they were bending Brother Wasy’s novitiate was spent at the truth regarding homework.

Mount St. John in Dayton. He professed first Brother Joseph Brother Wasy returned to the United vows in 1937 and perpetual vows in 1943.

Wasielewski, SM States in 1996 and joined the Marianist Hall Brother attended one year of scholasticate at Mount St. John and the University of Dayton and was assigned community in Honolulu.

In 2001, he moved to the Marianist community in a teaching position. The assignment changed his plans for college but did not deter him from earning a degree. After 10 Cupertino where he corresponded regularly with alumni years of summer sessions, he completed his bachelor’s degree and parents from years past. Brother Wasy enjoyed meditation, reciting his rosary, spiritual reading and playing the in education in 1947 from the University of Dayton.

In 1938, Brother Wasy began a nearly 60-year career in harmonica.

Brother Wasy had no immediate survivors. A Mass of education. Throughout the next two decades, he taught at a number of elementary and secondary schools, including St. Christian Burial was celebrated June 10 at the Marianist John’s Home for Boys in Brooklyn, Holy Rosary in Dayton, Residence in San Antonio. Burial was at St. Mary’s St. James High School in San Francisco, Cathedral School University Cemetery in San Antonio. Memorial contribuin Honolulu, Junipero Serra High School in Gardena, Calif., tions may be sent to the Marianist Province of the U.S., 4425 West Pine Blvd., St. Louis, Mo. 63108. and St. Anthony in Maui.

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Longtime local educator dies June 4 Longtime San Francisco educator Sister Ann Marie McNamara, BVM, 90, died June 4 at her congregation’s Caritas Center, Dubuque, Iowa.

Sister Ann Marie was a business teacher and staff member at St. Paul High School, San Francisco, for 27 years from 1964-91.

In retirement, she tlived at St. Paul Convent until 1996. She was also an educator in Chicago, Ill. and Lincoln, Neb. “Annie was an institution at St. Paul’s and very well known,” said Margaret Anne Kerns, also a former faculty member of the school. “She was really Sister Ann Marie good with finances and McNamara, BVM managing the book store.

We were good friends.”

Sister Ann Marie was born in Chicago, and entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Feb. 2, 1946.

She professed first vows on Aug. 15, 1948 and final vows on Aug. 15, 1953.

A funeral Mass was celebrated June 10 with interment in the Sisters’ Mount Carmel cemetery.

Memorials may be sent to the Sisters of Charity, BVM Retirement Fund, 1100 Carmel Dr., Dubuque, IA 52003.

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espite what organizers described as some of the toughest questions posed in the 18-year history of the Annual Archdiocesan Respect Life Essay Contest, significantly more than 400 entries from 38 schools were received this year, they report.

“As it turned out, the more challenging the questions were, the more original, creative and thoughtful the answers were,” said Vicki Evans, coordinator of Respect Life Ministry within the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns.

“This reminded me that we often underestimate the ability of our young people.

They can and do rise to challenges we present them, whether they be academic, athletic or moral challenges. When we ask hard questions, they come up with answers that amaze us. When we teach the moral standards of the Gospel, they respond by living up to them.”

More than 100 of the entrants were honored May 18 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer welcomed and praised the essay writers and their families during his homily at the 11 a.m. Mass, and then personally handed the award certificates to winners at a following reception.

The first and second-graders this year were asked to respond to the question, “What are some ways you can welcome babies into the world? Third and fourth-graders responded to: “What suggestions would you make to a mother-to-be about what she should or should not do while she is pregnant to make sure she has a healthy and happy baby?”

After an explanatory note about ultrasounds during pregnancy, fifth and sixthgraders were asked, “What would you look for in an ultrasound picture? What kind of activities are babies busy with before their actual ‘birth day’ arrives?”

Seventh and eighth graders were provided information on what babies can sense and experience during pregnancy, then asked, “Why should a woman be told about the

pain her baby will feel during an abortion?

What are some arguments in favor of providing anesthetic to the baby if an abortion is performed? Are there any reasons not to provide the baby with a painkiller?”

Noting that “polls show that every year more and more young people are becoming pro-life,” contest organizers said to potential freshmen and sophomore entrants, “Talk about why abortion is the most fundamental social justice issue. What are the reasons why young people are choosing life and rejecting abortion today, more than in previous generations?”

High school juniors and seniors were reminded that the Church “approves and welcomes” stem-cell research that does not involve destruction of human embryos, and that amniotic fluid, the placenta and umbilical cord blood offer “rich sources of embryoniclike stem cells” during birth. The students were then challenged: “Do some Internet research and find out how these ethically sound sources of stem cells are being banked and saving lives. Write an essay describing some of your most interesting findings.”

Essay excerpts Following are texts and excerpts from the essays of the grand prize winners in the 18th Annual Respect Life Essay Contest which is sponsored by the Respect Life Ministry program of the Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns of the Archdiocese: Erika Kathleen Hazlett, Little Flowers Academy (Grades 1 and 2) Last year my family gathered together for Easter dinner. We were very excited because my Mommy’s cousin and his wife were expecting another baby that summer. I was thrilled to put my hand on her tummy and feel the baby kick.

About a month later, something terrible happened. The baby was Erika Kathleen Hazlett not due for another two admires her grand-prize months, but Cousin Kristen certificate just presented was swelling up with fluid. to her by Archbishop The doctors were afraid George H. Niederauer. that the baby would die in her tummy. That made all of us feel very sad. But Mommy said to pray a special prayer called a novena to St. Jude for help. We prayed each day for nine days that God would make the baby be okay.

On the sixth day of the novena, my second cousin Hailey Josephine was born. At first everyone thought she was going to die. But then a miracle happened: she survived! Still, our family was worried because she was born so early. She had to be in a special bed called an incubator and stay in the hospital for almost two months.

While Baby Hailey was still in the hospital, I helped Mommy make lasagna for Cousin Kristen and her family.

This present reminded me of how the Three Wise Men gave gifts to the Baby Jesus to welcome him. We also kept praying and praying for Baby Hailey and her parents.

After Baby Hailey came home from the hospital, we were all very happy and grateful to God. Sarah Commesso, St. Hilary School (Grades 3 and 4) Dear Mom, Hello, down here, the butterfly in your stomach. I would

Grand prize winners in grades 1-8 received $100 U.S. Savings Bonds, with 1st prize winners in those grades receiving $50 bonds. Grand prize winners in grades 9-10 won $200 bonds, with 1st prize winners receiving $100 bonds. Grand prize for grades 11-12 was a $300 bond, with 1st prize winners receiving $150 bonds.

Following is a list of those honored and their parishes: GRADES 1 AND 2 Grand Prize, Erika Kathleen Hazlett, Little Flowers Academy; 1st Prize San Francisco, Arielle Medina-Hamilton, St. James; 1st Prize San Mateo County, Arabella Prestosa, Holy Angels; 1st Prize Marin County, Sophie Devincenti, St. Hilary.

Honorable mentions: Leanna Tarongoy and Ethan Rey Guerrero, Our Lady of Visitacion; Shanai Hayes, Megan Furth Academy; Madison

like to let you now I’m your baby girl, and would like to give you some advice. Whatever you eat or drink, I of course HAVE to eat or drink. So I guess I should begin with what you eat, and what you shouldn’t eat.

Please do not eat Tabasco because it is too spicy, nothing with alcohol in it because it can give me birth defects and I will come out unhealthy. Here is a very important one, so listen up: all my food must be cooked. That means no raw meat and fish, or any of that stuff. Take your prenatal vitamins….

You need to drink lots and lots of water and milk so I can have strong bones. Absolutely no alcohol, as I said in the first place. I mean it!….

Another important thing is that you stay healthy by exercising. Just taking a stroll or jogging works for me. Going to the doctor is super duper important to make sure you stay in good condition, and get ultrasounds to see if you need anything special or extra. Sleep well; otherwise, you will turn out tired and drowsy….

I am no ordinary baby. I like lullabies that have a good beat. I also like pop music. So you can have big people music around the house. My favorite song is “Bubbly.” I hope you like that song.

I would like you to read me Dr. Seuss and the nursery stories. One of my favorites is the Bible. My favorite story is the Good Samaritan….

I can’t wait to see you. I hope you follow this advice to making me healthy and a happy baby. Love, ????

Patrick Jensen, St. Veronica School (Grades 5 and 6) Babies are a gift from heaven, a true blessing touched by the hand of God. I know this for a fact because when my mother was going to have me, there were complications.

The doctors did not know if I was going to live or die. I had grabbed onto the umbilical cord that gave me nutrients from my mother, and it stopped the blood flow to me, causing me to have meconium in the amniotic fluid. If I had swallowed the meconium, I would go into respiratory distress and possibly die. As the intensive care delivery team … got ready for my birth, my parents and Dr. Lourdes Sheere, a devout Catholic, prayed together for a safe delivery. With Dr. Sheere’s expertise and the will of God, I survived.

When our family found out that our mother was with child on September of 2005, my heart was filled with joy and sadness. I was happy that I might have another brother or maybe even a sister, but I remembered what had happened to me….

I told my mom why I was scared, and she showed me the pictures of the ultrasound before she had me. I was so surprised.

I was doing summersaults in her womb….

My parents went to have an ultrasound of the baby…. My parents explained that an ultrasound shows how the baby is

Sturges, St. Monica; Angel Hernandez, St. Peter; Kalea Palaby, St. Gabriel; Joel Giannelli, St. James; Isabella Sainz-Portillo, St. Philip; Jarrod Mishima, St. Thomas the Apostle; Gabriela Ruiz, Holy Angels, Colma; Daniel Hinderliter, St. Veronica, South San Francisco; Lauryn McKean, St. Matthew; San Mateo; Ailene Gubbins, Good Shepherd, Pacifica; Jonathan Tablante, St. Dunstan, Millbrae; Emily Strambi, St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame; Jessica Cusi, Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; Grace Dailey, St. Rita, Fairfax; Kenzie Morgenlaender, Our Lady of Loretto, Novato; Carolyn Mock, St. Isabella, San Rafael; Athena Manthouli, St. Hilary, Tiburon.

GRADES 3 AND 4 Grand Prize, Sarah Commesso, St. Hilary, Tiburon; 1st Prize San Francisco, Eriette Atanante, Corpus Christi; 1st Prize

developing …. Because my mother was older when she got pregnant with the baby, there was also another test offered to see if the baby had any genetic disorder….My parents declined any testing. My parents believed that a child is a gift from God and whatever happens is meant to be.

We had just gotten out of school for summer break, and I was at a basketball game for summer slam. During the game I got news that my mother was in labor. I was so excited but scared… . However, I remembered what my parents had said, “ Patrick, have faith in God, and he will never leave your side even in times of trouble.” So, I got down on my knees and prayed.

On June 13, 2006, at 2:34 a.m., my little sister, Fiona Anne, was born. She was four pounds. One of the nurses that took care of her was my classmate’s mother. Mom said the nurses were God’s angels helping Fiona so that she could come home some day soon. My brothers and I visited Fiona in the hospital. … After two weeks my little sister was allowed to come home… My heart was happy that God have her to us. She is a true blessing and gift from God, and I love her.

Tracy Lee, Corpus Christi School (Grades 7 and 8) Imagine this: a well-known serial killer has just kidnapped you. … While he is brandishing his butcher knife… he calls your mother and asks her if she wants you to have anesthesia before he kills you. There are three things that can happen to you. One: your mother can refuse the anesthesia and allow you to have a painful death. Two: she can let you be under anesthetics and allow you do die with as little pain as possible.

Three: her maternal instincts kick in and she’ll trace the call and attempt to rescue you ….

Two questions now: Which one do you hope would happen?

Which one do you think is more likely?

Now imagine this: you’re a zygote in your mother’s womb…. You have three more things that can happen to you.

First: you can live. Second: you can die from natural causes.

Third: you can be murdered. Two more questions: Which one would you like to happen to you? Which one would your mother choose for you?

Scientists have discovered that fetuses can feel pain as early as when they’re 20 weeks old. They also respond to outside stimuli very soon after conception. There have been bills proposed that would make an abortion clinic mirror the serial killer scenario…. Yet another pair of questions: If a “mother” were to approve the use of anesthesia, would it make much sense?

Would it change what she’s doing to the baby inside of her?

If all 3,700 abortions performed today – and that statistic is just in the United States alone – were performed after giving an unborn baby anesthesia, does that change the fact that the baby still dies? Does it change the fact that a human being was killed…. Does it change the fact that babies with the potential

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Respect Life Essay Contest

GRADES 5 AND 6 Grand Prize, Patrick Jensen, St. Veronica; 1st Prize San Francisco, Emann Williams, Megan Furth Academy; 1st Prize San Mateo County, Sabrina Miller, St. Dunstan; 1st Prize Marin County, Jack Snyder, St. Hilary.

Honorable mentions: Julia Tognotti, St. Matthew; Miya Sheker, St. Dunstan; Melissa Tiong, Holy Angels; Alyssa Aliotti, St. Matthew; Kaela Chavez, St. Dunstan; Mia McSweeney, Our Lady of Angels; Katherine Flores, DaMarillac Academy; Rafael Guerrero, St. Monica; Yaneli Gonzalez, St. Peter; Michael Desmond, St. Stephen; Fiona Li, Star of the Sea, San Francisco; Alejandra Martinez, Epiphany; Sai McNamara, St. Finn Barr; Debbie Pao, St. Thomas the Apostle; Carly Christiansen, St. Anselm; Spencer Trombley, St. Anselm, Lauren

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San Mateo County, Benjamin Fernandez, Jr., Holy Angels, Colma; 1st Prize Marin County, Beatrice Kelly-Andrews, St. Anselm, Ross.

Honorable mentions: Miranda Torres, Holy Angels; Dylan Yapp, St. Pius; Kieran Nishio, St. Philip; Xzalyn Hernandez, St. Peter; Adamma Chinaka, St. Finn Barr; Raymond Shew, St. Elizabeth; Alanna Ching, Our Lady of Visitacion; Christopher Wan, St. Monica; Tupou Fakatene, St. Dunstan; Bailey Steger, Good Shepherd; Angelica Martinez and Trenton Birch, St. Veronica; Gianna Raucher, St. Timothy; Cole Bellomo, Immaculate Heart of Mary, San Francisco; Fatai Heimuli, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; Trevor Hackman, Our Lady of Mercy; Christa Collman and Gavin Limchayseng, Our Lady of Loretto; Sarah Egas, St. Raphael, San Rafael; Gabriel Ramirez, St. Isabella.

Pictured with Archbishop George H. Niederauer at the May 18 awards ceremony held at St. Mary’s Cathedral are Respect Life Essay contest grand prizes honorees Phillip Carrion (left), grades 10-11 division; and Tracy Lee, grades 7-8 division.

to be great have already been assassinated long before they had achieved the greatness of their God-given destiny?

I have but two more questions: … Are there any differences between killing someone who can feel pain and someone who can’t? Does that change the very notion that is still death – the murderous death of a human being?

Phillip Carrion, Archbishop Riordan High School (Grades 9-10) God has told us, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born, I dedicated you” (Jeremiah 1:5).

Abortion is wrong. It destroys the lives of innocents, those who can neither speak for themselves nor defend themselves. God knows us and has a plan for all of us before we even exist. No one has a right to destroy a life, especially the life of a human being who has not even taken a breath…. To destroy a person, one who has not even a chance to speak or to defend herself, is the most grave and illicit of all acts, and people of faith must do all we can to stop it.

Abortion is not only destroying lives, but is destroying us as a generation, a people. To destroy 48 million lives in only 35 years is incomprehensible… (and) in the same category as the most horrendous of wars, the most horrifying of genocides, and the most devastating natural disasters. Our government supports and promotes it, and our tax dollars are being used to fund it. …Abortion has become so commonly accepted that

Miller and Sean Haechler, St. Hilary; Tavia Vitkauskas, Our Lady of Loretto; Julien Ishibashi, St. Rita.

GRADES 7 AND 8 Grand Prize, Tracy Lee, Corpus Christi; 1st Prize San Francisco, Ana Varela, St. Philip; 1st Prize San Mateo County, Catherine Mullings, St. Matthew; 1st Prize Marin County, Aidan Stubbs, Our Lady of Loretto.

Honorable mentions: Erin Navarro and Maiko Ibay, Epiphany; Courtney Louie and Iris Tso, St. Mary’s Chinese Day School; Rosanna Orozco, Kristen Manansala and Faye Tan, Corpus Christi; Raih Cruz, DeMarillac Academy; Ellaine Taniquchi, Star of the Sea; Mabel Sisk, Megan Furth Academy; Mary Basile, Sts. Peter and Paul; Stephen Woodworth and

some politicians overtly support abortion, even though they claim to be Catholic ….

I believe that there are many reasons why young people such as myself are realizing the wrongs of abortion and instead are defending the lives of innocents. We see in sacred Scripture a primary example being the Visitation: “For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy” (Luke 1: 41-44).

God also tells Moses that if a man hits a pregnant woman, any harm shall be an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, life for a life (Exodus 21; 22-25). …. I also believe that young people realize the toll that abortion has taken upon the population. It hurts me to know that over a million people my own age are not here, but that they should be here. Another important reason for young people to take a pro-life stance is that we see that it is our duty to be the voice of those who cannot speak out, to defend those who cannot stand up for themselves…. We as the people of God must stand up against abortion, and we cannot remain silent, for silence implies approval….

We have a responsibility to stop the destruction of lives of our innocent and defenseless brothers and sisters. The official teaching of the Catholic Church on abortion is that although women have the ability to control their bodies, “… from the moment of conception life must be guarded with the greatest care” (Guadium et Spes)…. The taking of life, whether through abortion, euthanasia, modern warfare or capital punishment, is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord.

Many people say that the fetuses in the womb are not fully developed, not fully human, and that this somehow justifies their elimination. Three or four hundred years ago, slave owners said that the African peoples and native peoples in the New World were not fully developed, civilized human beings, and therefore it was deemed tolerable for these people to be enslaved. Today, the anti-life movement, a small but powerful group…says that a baby in the womb is not “fully developed” enough; therefore, it is licit to kill the child in the womb.

God knows us at the moment of our conception. He loves us and he has a plan for us. All lives are sacred, and we must do all we can and use all of our energy and resources to stop abortion and protect innocent human life.

Rebecca Mehrwein, Immaculate Conception Academy (Grades 11 and 12) It amazes me that we have come so far in scientific research in attempting to find medical cures by using stem cells and that there are alternatives to research on embryonic stem cells that have the potential for saving lives. I’m excited about the possibility of alleviating suffering and saving the lives of numerous suffering people by using umbilical cord and placenta stem cells in a way that is morally right.

Alexandria Mullings, St. Matthew; Nicole Wilson, St. Veronica; Joseph Jweinat, St. Dunstan; Kristen Cepriano, Holy Angels; Ray Whelan, Our Lady of Angels; Natalie Chapman, St. Rita; Annabella Mineghino and Joe Legnitto, Our Lady of Loretto.

GRADES 9 AND 10 Grand Prize, Phillip Carrion, Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco; 1st Prize, Suzanne Vieira, Marin Catholic High School, Kentfield; Honorable mention, Soledad Jean-Pierre, Marin Catholic.

GRADES 11 AND 12 Grand Prize, Rebecca Mehrwein, Immaculate Conception Academy, San Francisco; 1st Prize, Janne Rivera, Immaculate Conception Academy.

Embryonic stem cells are taken from embryos and are thought to be the most promising for research. These stem cells have the ability to become any type of body tissue or specialized cell. The problem in procuring embryonic stem cells is that the life of the embryo or innocent human life is sacrificed. The Catholic Church welcomes some forms of stem cell research, but strongly objects to embryonic stem cell research because the killing of the embryo or innocent human life is an intrinsic moral evil.

Adult stem cells as well as placenta or umbilical cord cells are totipotent, which means they have the ability of becoming many types of cells found in the human body. Even though embryonic stem cells are thought to be more promising than placenta/cord stem cells, the placenta/cord cells could possibly save lives ethically.

I am excited about the possibility of preserving and banking the placenta and umbilical cord blood after a baby is born. Umbilical cord blood stem cells are harvested from the cord blood and preserved at minus-196 degrees Celsius in a Placenta-Cord Bank. Cord blood is rich in stem cells and contains many times more blood-producing cells than bone marrow. The placenta is also rich in blood-producing cells and can nearly double in the total number of stem cells from cord blood alone. The stem cells found in cord and placenta blood can replenish themselves and transform into other types of cells including red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.

Storing a child’s stem cells may help protect the baby’s and the family’s future health. Stored stem cells may become even more beneficial in the future with research constantly underway …. Privately banked cord blood will provide the baby with a perfect match for potential stem cell transplants and may also be a suitable match for family members.

One advantage of using umbilical cord or placenta blood is that the blood matches perfectly your baby’s blood. Finding bone marrow donors can take a long time, and in some cases it comes too late. Another advantage is that cord blood stem cells have a better chance of being an acceptable match because they are immature and undeveloped in comparison to adult stem cells. Lastly, and most importantly, is acquiring stem cells from the placenta and umbilical cord causes no harm to the baby or to the mother….

In conclusion, the research I have found has helped me realize that there are different ways of procuring stem cells that don’t come from the embryo that can help save lives. I appreciate the work and scientific findings of the people who strive for the cures in a way that is moral. I have hope for the segments of people in our society that still promote embryonic stem cell research, even though innocent human life or embryos are being sacrificed. I believe that these segments should become more educated to the fact that many lives can be saved without having to sacrifice the life of one embryo.

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I am grateful to Rick DelVecchio and Catholic San Francisco for capturing in pictures and text the heart of the work of the Multicultural Institute with day laborers in Redwood City (“Jornaleros of North Fair Oaks –Part of community fiber,” May 10).

DelVecchio wrote with concision and insight of the complex human and economic issues that bring foreign workers into our country and onto our streets. He caught how the Multicultural Institute, true to its Franciscan roots, acts as an instrument of Christ’s peace on those streets, serving with equal concern the workers and the communities where they seek employment.

I thank San Francisco Catholic for introducing its readers to the work of the Institute and encourage anyone interested in creative, effective ways of dealing with the volatile issue of immigration to learn more at www.mionline.org.

Phil Murphy, San Anselmo President, Board of Directors, Multicultural Institute

ops for their opposition to the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex “marriage,” he is criticizing them for being, well, Catholic. Further, he says, “In no way does the ruling ‘attack the sanctity of marriage’ or the stability of the family.”

Of course it does. The “sanctity” of marriage derives from its position as the very fulcrum of human life, as created by God – the unification of the two halves of the human species into a new, single whole. That is something that is the very beginning of my life, Mr. McCrae’s life, everyone’s life.

It is also something that can never happen with persons of the same gender. They can never become “one flesh.” Marriage, the unity of one man and one woman into a new whole, is a reality created by God – it is not an institution created by men. Equating same-sex relationships with marriage not only trivializes marriage, it is an insult to reason.

Gibbons J. Cooney San Francisco

Good for them, indeed Commenting on the opposition of Ms. Antoinette Bosco, her children and her older sister to the death penalty, even for those who murdered their son / brother / nephew and his wife, Malcolm Post wrote in the May 16 letters, “Their tolerance of evil does them credit in a sick and sad sort of way.”

Could it be they are simply trying to live by the Sermon on the Mount? Jesus said, “Do not set yourself against the man who wrongs you .... Love your enemies and pray for your persecutors; only so can you be children of your heavenly Father, who makes his sun rise on good and bad alike, and sends the rain on the honest and the dishonest.” (New English Bible, Matthew 5: 39P 44- 45.).

Good for them, indeed.

As for the idea that institutionalizing vengeance so that it is exacted not by the individual but by society allows a modem civil society to exist without making us all murders: well, no, it doesn’t. It means that the killing, committed in our names and with our tax dollars, makes us all accessories to murder.

Carolyn M. Daniel San Francisco

Recycled, but remembered Thank you and your writer-photographer for such a nice article on Professor Dan Sulmasy’s talk on April 28 at the University of San Francisco that appeared in the Catholic San Francisco (“Catholic Doctor: spirituality is key to the dying patient’s quality of life”). My own copy was recycled by an overzealous recycler in my household! May I bother you to send along a copy of the issue it appeared in to me?

Tom Cavanaugh, Ph.D. San Francisco (Ed. note: It’s in the mail.)

Hooray for opinions I have to compliment you on your guest commentary page in the May 16th issue of Catholic San Francisco, especially the one by Jane Sears, “Miracle madness.” She enlightened me on Marianne Williamson who is giving the course on spirituality that Oprah Winfrey has been so excited about. Oprah is a very giving person, but this sounds like it could mislead many people who are vulnerable. Thanks for that insight.

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I also liked Father Gerald Coleman’s essay on clergy and sex abuse. I especially liked the phrase, “If we do not learn to love the Church in its sinfulness, we will not love the Church loved by the Lord but, rather, some figment of our romantic imagination.” To that I would say, “right on.”

Lastly, George Weigel was very clear in pointing out how Pope Benedict XVI is a master teacher. The pope has surprised me on the way he has conducted himself. He seems more open, and hooray for that.

Mary Faber Belmont

Sant’Egidio community I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your May 2 publication of my op-ed on my changed perspective on the death penalty, “Italian Catholics changed my ideas on death penalty.”

I also enjoyed reading the two letters that responded to it.

In a recent National Catholic Reporter there is an article on the Community of Sant’Egidio of which I wrote. I have provided the link in case you would find it interesting: http://ncronline3.org/drupal/?q=node/993.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco – (415) 567-2020 July 15, 7:15 p.m., Cathedral Event Center, Hall C: “St. Bonaventure: Preaching and Teaching the Love of God” Free of charge, all are welcome to take part.

Talks are followed by a reception with light refreshments. Presented by Stephen C. Cordova of the St. Anthony of Padua Institute. For more information, contact stephencordova@yahoo.com. Ample parking is available free of charge in our Cathedral lot.

July 23, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Cathedral Event Center, Monsignor Bowe Room: A free Grief Support Workshop. Presenter: Barbara Elordi, MFT, Director of the Archdiocesan Grief Care ministry. For further details, please call Sister Esther at (415) 567-2020 x 218.

August 12, 7:15 p.m.; Cathedral Event Center, Hall C: “St. Clare: The Hidden Evangelizer” Free of charge, all are welcome to take part in this lecture which focuses on this lifelong friend and spiritual sister to St. Francis, principal patron of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Talk is followed by a reception with light refreshments. Presented by Stephen C. Cordova of the St. Anthony of Padua Institute. For more information, contact stephencordova@yahoo.com. Ample parking is available free of charge in our Cathedral lot.

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Tridentine Mass The traditional Latin Mass according to texts and rubrics from before Vatican II is celebrated at locations and times below.

First Friday of the month, 7 p.m.: St. Francis of Assisi Church, 1425 Bay Rd. at Glen Way in East Palo Alto. Mass is followed by Benediction. For more information, call (650) 322-2152.

Sundays at 12:15 p.m.: Holy Rosary Chapel at St. Vincent School for Boys. For more information, call St. Isabella Parish at (415) 479-1560.

Food & Fun First Friday of the Month: Catholic Marin Breakfast Club meets at St. Sebastian Church, Sir Francis Drake Blvd. and Bon Air Rd. in Greenbrae for Mass at 7 a.m. followed by breakfast and talk. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J, Justice is first guest of the new year Sept. 5. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside Dec. 5 as Christmas draws near. Presentation Oct. 3 will

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Prayer July 4, 5, 6: San Francisco International Marian Conference, at Crowne Plaza Hotel Conference Center, 1221 Chess Dr., Foster City. Five popular speakers will address conference theme of “Mary, Queen of the Apostles.” Weekend also includes Mass and Charismatic devotions. For ticket information as well as times and more details, visit www.straphaelministries.org or call (800) 456-4197.

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The Men’s Chorus of Junipero Serra High School is “Singing Its Way to Sydney” and World Youth Day in July. “Though we haven’t reached our goal of $14,000 keep those donations coming! - we have raised quite a bit, mostly through an appeal to performing arts alumni,” said Jay Jordan, chorus director at the San Mateo school. “The boys are singing with a lot of confidence.” While in Australia the group will perform in and around Sydney including a performance on the main stage of the world-famous Sydney Opera House as well as singing as part of the larger choir leading song at a closing Mass with Pope Benedict XVI. address upcoming elections and Nov. 7 gathering offers opportunity to learn more about the Knights and Dames of Malta. Members breakfast $7/visitors $10. Call (415) 461-0704 weekdays or email sugaremy@aol.com.

June, 13, 14, 15: Join us for the 28th annual Nativity Carnival at Nativity School in Menlo Park, corner of Oak Grove and Laurel. 12 carnival rides, car raffle, silent auction, Saturday night casino, food and game booths, live entertainment and so much more. More details can be found at our website: http://www.nativitycarnival.org/ June 28: Eduardo Verastegui, star of the film “Bella,” is special guest at annual dinner and auction of Our Lady’s Ministry at St. Veronica Parish Hall, 434 Alida Way in South San Francisco, beginning at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25 per person. Contact Katie Bruno at (415) 664-2100 or kathleen- Eduardo Verastegui bruno@gmail.com.

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

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Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese.

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

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

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Reunions June 19, 12:30 p.m.: Class of ’46 from St. Paul High School at the Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. at Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Call June Maffei at (415) 584-7239 or Maureen Collins at (415) 585-5203.

June 26, noon: Reunion of 1953 graduates from St. Ignatius, Sacred Heart and Archbishop Riordan high schools at Caesar’s Restaurant Bay and Powell in San Francisco. Tickets are $37 per person. Call Charley Leach, SI, (415) 420-5082; John Zeiter, SH, (415) 479-3286; George Schnapp, Riordan, (415) 731-7692; Bill Cotton, Riordan, (408) 725-1339.

St. Emydius Class of 1958 will have its 50th reunion this year! We are looking for classmates and have a website at www.stemydius58.com. You can enter your information, post pictures and help us plan the event, now scheduled for spring 2008. We are hoping to go to Duggan’s ranch, where we had our 8th grade picnic, with some of us riding up in a Facciola meat truck! It will be much fun - contact Bill Duggan at (415) 239-2278, Duggan341@aol.com, or Irene Hogan Deem, (707) 869-3751, irenedeem@comcast.net.

Star of the Sea Elementary School will mark its hundredth year in 2009. Graduates, former students, staff and friends of Star of the Sea grade school and its now closed sister-school, Star of the Sea Academy, are invited to call (415) 221-8558 or e-mail centennial@ staroftheseasf.com. Events marking the occasion include opening rites, dances, golf outings and wine tastings.

Arts and Entertainment July 11, 12, 18, 19: “I Remember Mama,” at San Francisco’s St. Boniface Church Theater, 175 Golden Gate Ave. Matinee and evening performances at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. July 12 and 19. Evening performance only July 11 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. The play is based in San Francisco and will be remembered by many. Donation of $5 is requested and will benefit St. Francis Living Room for the elderly poor. Contact Doug Marshall at (415) 5922872 or Patrick at pabbyman2000@yahoo.com.

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Courage is a Catholic support group for persons with same-sex attraction. They meet in San Francisco Thursdays at 7:45 p.m. Call Father Anselm Ramelow at (415) 567-7824 or Father Mark Taheny at (650) 588-1455 or www.couragerc.net.

Information about Natural Family Planning is available from the Archdiocese of San Francisco at (415) 614-5680.

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Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs are available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at (415) 422-6698.

Ongoing support groups for the separated and divorced take place at St. Bartholomew Parish, 300 Columbia Drive at Alameda de las Pulgas, in San Mateo, first and third Tuesdays of the month at 7 p.m. in the Spiritual Center and first and third Wednesdays of the month at St. Stephen parish hall, Eucalyptus and 23rd Ave. in San Francisco next to Stonestown Mall at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail at (650) 591-8452 or Joanne at (650) 347-0701.

2nd and 4th Wednesday in Spanish at St. Anthony Church, 3500 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Toni Martinez at (650) 776-3795.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin meets for support and activities. Call Bob at (415) 897-0639 for information.

Third Saturdays: The potluck is back and being held at St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo. Gather at 6 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room of the parish hall at 600 Columbia Drive, just uphill from the church, which is at the corner of Alameda de las Pulgas and Crystal Springs Road in San Mateo. Call Gail (650) 591-8452, or Vonnie (650) 873-4236 for more information or directions.

June 27 – 29: “Come join hundreds of other Catholic single adults for the National Catholic Singles Conference to be held in San Diego. Featured speakers are Matthew Kelly, Jason Evert and Kerrie Caviezel. Live praise and worship, mixers, Mass, adoration, beach excursions, Saturday night dance social, and finding peace and strength in living the single life. For more information and to register, go to www.nationalcatholicsingles.com or call 858-4908260. Co-sponsored by the Diocese of San Diego.”

Consolation Ministry Grief support groups meet at the following parishes.

San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame; call Debbie Simmons at (650) 5581015. St. Dunstan, Millbrae; call Barbara Cappel at (650) 692-7543. Good Shepherd, Pacifica; call Sister Carol Fleitz at (650) 355-2593. Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City; call Barbara Cantwell at (650) 755-0478.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City; call parish at (650) 366-3802. St. Robert, San Bruno; call Sister Patricia at (650) 589-2800.

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

San Francisco: St. Dominic; call Deacon Chuck McNeil at (415) 567-7824; St. Finn Barr (bilingual); call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823. St. Gabriel; call Elaine Khalaf at (415) 564-7882.

Datebook is a free listing for parishes, schools and non-profit groups. Please include event name, time, date, place, address and an information phone number. Listing must reach Catholic San Francisco at least two weeks before the Friday publication date desired. Mail your notice to: Datebook, Catholic San Francisco, One Peter Yorke Way, S.F. 94109, or fax it to (415) 614-5633, or e-mail burket@sfarchdiocese.org.

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Rolheiser . . .

■ Continued from page 20 them. It is not automatic, nor easy, to give a gift in a way that does not shame the recipient. Vincent de Paul’s counsel highlights this caution.

There’s a second lesson here as well.

Vincent de Paul meant this, too, as an antidote to self-pity. For anyone who is in a giving role (a parent, a minister, a teacher, a nurse, a social worker, an advocate for jus-

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tice, a philanthropist, a politician) there is the temptation to fall into self-pity. “Look at all I am doing! I do all this for others, but nobody is doing anything for me! I am so tired! Is there no end to this? Am I the only one who cares? This is asking more of me than is fair! I have my own problems that I should tend to!”

It is easy, especially when one is tired and frustrated by lack of support, to lose heart, be begin to feel sorry for oneself, and to eventually feel we are being unfairly used by others, being asked to give more than our share.

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That is very common. Care-givers often feel victimized. We’ve even coined some terms for this: “compassion fatigue,” “compassion burnout.” Not surprisingly, many good people resent the demands of the poor: the welfare system, the push by various groups for their rights, the pressure for more immigration, the drain that the sick put on the energy and money of our society, the cost of repairing the damage done by youthful vandals, and so on. The temptation is to give up and give in; give up on going the extra mile and give in to the temptation to resign and take care of ourselves.

And so Vincent de Paul’s counsel should be told and retold. If we do not

continue to serve the poor, despite our tiredness and self-pity, the poor will never find it in their hearts to forgive us. We need to remember that it is more blessed to give than to receive, and it is also easier.

Portraits of Vincent de Paul show him with a strong, warm face, a face that everywhere suggests a comfortable friendliness. He looks like a man you would want over for dinner. But if you had him over for dinner, you might want to make sure you didn’t complain about the unfairness of life.

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Notre Dame High School in Belmont, CA has a part-time opening for a Janitor/Maintenance staff member. The successful candidate will be a responsible, motivated team member who can work with minimum supervision and perform routine janitorial and maintenance duties including the operation of extraction, vacuum, and polishing machinery.

Help Wanted Rental Wanted RNs, LVNs, CNAs, Caregivers We are looking for full or part time

CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES FROM AUSTRALIA . . . . studying in San Francisco Two mature aged females require self contained 2 bedroom furnished accommodation near transport for Fall Semester ’08. Preferred location between Oakland and Mission areas. House sitting or reasonable rent. Arriving SF Aug 5th. One person studying in 2009 - interested in longer term rental.

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A qualified candidate will have prior janitorial/maintenance experience. Experience with plumbing, painting, and electrical is highly desirable. The candidate should be eligible to work in the United States, be able to read and understand instructions in English, possess a valid CA Driver’s License and clear DMV record, and pass the Life Scan background check.

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ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT / RECEPTIONIST The West Midwest Community of the Sisters of Mercy is in need of a part time Administrative Assistant / Receptionist for its Burlingame campus. The person shall perform a variety of administative and support duties for Sisters and lay staff in Community leadership roles. S/he shall prepare correspondence, records, and reports; screen telephone calls; and respond to routine inquires. S/he shall schedule and maintain a calendar of appointments, meetings, and travel itineraries and coordinate related arrangements.

A Bachelor’s degree and 1 to 2 years of administrative experience or equivalent combination of related education and experience are required. The person must have the ability to cultivate effective working relationships with a broad range of employees and external contacts and have solid computer skills with knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat.

S/he must have knowledge of office administrative procedures and ability to pay attention to detail in composing, typing and proofing materials, establishing priorities and meeting deadlines. Prior experience in a healthcare or religious organization, understanding and appreciation of the traditions and culture associated with Sisters of Mercy, and familiarity with the Catholic Church structures and teaching preferred.

TEACHER WANTED St. Dunstan Parish School in Millbrae, Ca. is looking for a teacher with a special education background to work with students in grades five to eight.

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Business Manager

Looking to make a difference?

We, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco, pledge ourselves to be a dynamic and collaborative community of faith known for its quality of leadership; richness of diversity of culture and peoples; and united in faith, hope and love. We are seeking a seasoned Business Manager for our Alliance of Mission District Catholic Schools (AMDCS). This position reports to the Executive Director of the (AMDCS) This position is a Regular Parttime Exempt Employee (20 to 25 hrs/week) and is based in our Chancery Offices near St. Mary’s Cathedral at 1 Peter Yorke Way.

OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION: The Business Manager of the AMDCS is responsible for AMDCS financial operations. This individual will work under the direction of the Executive Director of the AMDCS. The Business Manager consults and works with the Assistant Superintendent for Planning and Finance for the Department of Catholic Schools.

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Monitor accounting, tuition collection, bookkeeping procedures and staff for the member schools. Reconciles monthly AMDCS member schools’ bank statements and prepares standard monthly financial reports. Holds all AMDCS member schools accountable for reporting financial information as requested.

Studies, and with the AMDCS Consultative Board, develops a proposal for total AMDCS centralized financing. Subsequently, works with the AMDCS member schools to transition to an AMDCS centralized finance model.

Creates a business plan for the AMDCS. Generates monthly financial reports for each AMDCS member school in a timely manner.

Establishes and monitors the internal financial controls for the AMDCS member schools.

Monitor the daily operation of all accounting functions including general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, AMDCS member schools’ payroll, etc.

Oversees and supervises the preparation and revision of annual AMDCS school budgets in conjunction with member school principals and the Executive Director.

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St. Dominic’s Parish is seeking a part-time Director of Religious Education (DRE) to develop and lead our religious education program for children, youth and their families under the guidance of the Pastor and with the assistance of the Faith Formation Commission of the Parish. The DRE will lead the Youth Faith Formation Committee and its volunteers. Our goal is an intergenerational formation program that will educate our children, deepen the understanding and commitment of youth and assist parents in forming families of dynamic faith. The DRE will have a background in religious education, will select, guide, and supervise the teachers, and make use of the programs provided by the Archdiocese for their training. The Director will assist parents in their role as the “first teachers of their children in the ways of faith” (Rite of Baptism), and as much as possible encourage and integrate them as participants and volunteers in the classroom.

We seek a person with organizational skills in building a team that places the education of children within the context of forming families of faith within the family of the parish. The Director of Religious Education is responsible to the Pastor, works with the Director of Adult Faith Formation and is a member of the Faith Formation Commission of the Parish.

PURPOSE: To provide professional leadership for an integrated religious education program for children and youth that involves the parents and strengthens their connection to the parish.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS: • Degree or Certificate in Theology, Religious Education or related fields • Minimum of three years of supervised catechetical/teaching experience in a religious education program or Catholic school and 1 year management experience • Initiative and the ability to work effectively in a highlycoordinated, team environment PLEASE SEND RESUME TO:

Part-Time DRE Search Committee St. Dominic’s Church 2390 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA, 94115.

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St. Isabella Parish School is committed to providing an education that challenges students to live out the Catholic faith in service to the parish and wider community. We provide a solid foundation for the spiritual, psychological and academic development of our students.

St. Isabella School has 260 students, with an average of 29 students per class, kindergarten through grade 8. We have two wonderful teachers who co-teach kindergarten. There are classroom aides for grades 1-5 and K-8 science classes. Our middle school, grades 6-8, is departmental. Our faculty includes specialist teachers for Spanish, music, algebra, PE, computer technology and science. We also have a school counselor and two learning resource teachers; one for grades K-4, the other for 5-8. Last year we added an enrichment program for grades 3-5. Our full and part-time faculty gives us a teacher student ratio of 1:17. St. Isabella School is fully accredited by the Western Catholic Educational Association and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.

Qualified applicants for all elementary principal positions should: be a practicing Catholic in good standing with the Church, have a current California teaching credential, have a minimum of five years of successful teaching or administration in a Catholic school, have a master’s degree in education or a related field and an administrative services credential.

Applicants for administrative openings with the Archdiocese of San Francisco should download the Principal Applicant information found on the Department of Catholic Schools website www.sfcatholicschools.org and return the completed application and accompanying materials to: Maureen Huntington, Superintendent of Schools One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Email: huntingtonm@sfarchdiocese.org Fax: 415-614-5664

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Catholic San Francisco

June 13, 2008

Ordained Juan Lopez was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

by Archbishop George H. Niederauer on June 7 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, San Francisco

Archbishop George H. Niederauer conveys the sacrament of holy orders through the laying on of hands to Father Juan Lopez.

Father Primitivo Gonzalez, left, a priest of the Los Angeles Archdiocese who is Father Lopez’s god father, and Father James Garcia help vest Father Juan Lopez with the priestly stole and chasuble.

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Following the conferral of holy orders, newly-ordained Father Juan Lopez blessed many of the priests taking part in the ordination rite including San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius Wang, right.

n an ordination liturgy that reflected the Hispanic and American influences in his life, Father Juan Lopez was ordained a priest of the San Francisco Archdiocese at St. Mary’s Cathedral on June 7.

In his homily delivered in Spanish and English, Archbishop George H. Niederauer exhorted the new priest to a ministry of prayer and service – “as a priest who offers sacrifice, as a shepherd who guides, nourishes and protects.”

“The Good Shepherd wants to love and strengthen his people through Juan in many ways: in each sacrifice of the Mass that he offers; each time he baptizes a child or adult….; every time he speaks the words of forgiveness to sinners; every time he anoints a sick person; each time he teaches people and counsels them; each time he leads and serves Catholics in a faith community; every time he leads people in prayer or prays for them, alone and in silence,” said the Archbishop.

A native of Mexico, the 39-year-old priest moved to the United States with his family in the1990s. His father, Jose, is deceased; his mother, Benita, and 11 siblings continue to reside in the Bay Area.

The new priest’s first assignment will be as parochial vicar at St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo.

He celebrated his first Mass, in Spanish and English, at St. Anthony Parish in North Fair Oaks on June 8. St. Anthony’s pastor, Father James Garcia, has been a significant influence in his choosing a priestly vocation, Father Lopez said.

Nearly 200 of Father Lopez’s family attended the ordination Mass. Several took part in the liturgy – proclaiming the readings and bringing the gifts.

“I first want to be a parish priest and to learn the ins and outs of the parish, and to celebrate the sacraments the best I can. I want to focus, too, on justice and peace and life issues and work with youth,” Father Lopez recently told Catholic San Francisco.

Father Lopez had completed undergraduate studies at Mt. Angel Seminary in Oregon and at San Francisco State University before enrolling at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park where he studied for the priesthood.

(PHOTOS BY MICHAEL COLLOPY)

Father Juan Lopez lays prostrate in an ancient sign of supplication as the litany of saints is recited during his June 7 ordination Mass.