June 25, 2010

Gulf residents facing hardships, unknown effects of oil disaster

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By Janet Marcel Catholic News Service

Parishioners from around the Archdiocese gather in the Plaza in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral, June 19, to pray the Rosary for Priests, closing the Year for Priests.

SCHRIEVER, La. – Fishing, swimming and interacting at all with the water off the coast of Louisiana is off-limits to residents, and their livelihoods and quality of life are suffering, said the pastor of Our Lady of the Isle Parish in Grand Isle.

“They can’t fish; they can’t swim; they can’t interact with the water; they can’t live off the food from the water,” Father Mike Tran told the Bayou Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux. “This oil spill has had a traumatic impact on the people of the island.”

Grand Isle is a barrier island at the mouth of Barataria Bay where it meets the Gulf. The island is connected to the mainland of Louisiana by a causeway.

“There are no more tourists; basically everything is shut down. We can’t even enjoy the fresh air when we go outdoors because of the smell of the oil that is continually washing up on the beach,” the priest said. “And now, with the beginning of hurricane season, the stress levels of the residents have risen even more.”

Father Tran also reported that the number of people attending Mass at the Grand Isle church has decreased on weekends and collections are down by approximately $1,000 a week so far. He said he is worried about the future of the parish.

Grand Isle residents and their counterparts across the Houma-Thibodaux Diocese and the rest of the Gulf EFFECTS OF OIL SPILL, page 3

Faithful of Archdiocese invited to priesthood ordination June 26 at Cathedral Archbishop George H. Niederauer will ordain transitional Deacons Wade Bjerke and David Shunk to the priesthood June 26 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough St. at Geary Blvd. in San Francisco at 10 a.m.

Archbishop Niederauer has invited all members of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to attend the Mass

and to pray for the archdiocese’s newest priests.

Deacon Bjerke, 54, formerly worked in the entertainment television industry. “I finally came to see this is what God was calling me to do,” he said about his call to priesthood in a Catholic San Francisco interview May 21.

Deacon Shunk, 31, a former classroom teacher, grew up in Novato’s St. Anthony of Padua Parish. “I see myself going in the direction of being a parish priest,” he said in a Catholic San Francisco interview May 28.

Both men completed their studies for the priesthood at St. Patrick Seminary and University in Menlo Park.

Msgr. Harry Schlitt: “I’m looking forward to not being in a hurry”

By Rick DelVecchio On June 30, Msgr. Harry Schlitt completes a 12-year term as Vicar for Administration and Moderator of the Curia for the Archdiocese of San Francisco as he turns over the assignment to his successor, Father James Tarantino, long-time pastor at St. Hilary in Tiburon.

Msgr. Schlitt, who was ordained in 1964 and incardinated in the archdiocese in 1974, was pastor of St. Gabriel parish in San Francisco before his appointment to the archdiocese’s top administrative job. He will continue in active ministry but will not take on another full-time role.

He will fill in as a “weekend warrior” for pastors who need help with liturgies and other tasks. At the same time he will continue as celebrant of his longrunning televised Mass program serving Bay Area Catholics who are unable to attend Mass. He is working to expand the broadcast to San Diego and Salt Lake City.

Msgr. Harry Schlitt “I will keep the TV Mass, which I’ve been doing for eight years now,” Msgr.

Schlitt said. “That’s been a very fulfilling ministry for me, and it’s the been the most fulfilling as a priest.”

Referring to the tough duty of

administrative work at a time of financial stress for parishes and the archdiocese, he said: “I never intended to be dealing with this kind of stuff when I was ordained.”

Msgr. Schlitt also is working on a memoir of his career as a radio priest. He is reviewing the 5,000 to 6,000 scripts for radio spots he aired since 1968 on the syndicated Father Harry broadcast he hosted through his own God Squad Productions Inc. Msgr. Schlitt was a young priest working in high schools when he got his start on a music station, KICK AM in Springfield, Mo. A disk jockey helped him blend the lyrics from popular songs into one-minute stories for young listeners. Msgr. Schlitt also had an awardwinning program on Armed Forces Radio for 20 years, which he said was the most popular religious program on the military network.

Msgr. Schlitt also was a popular broadcaster in San Francisco. He is a member of the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, which features a sample of one of his

1978 KFRC AM broadcasts on its website at sfradiomuseum.com/audio/kfrc/.

“At one time in this city,” Msgr. Schlitt said, “I got up at 5 o’clock and did 6 to 7 at KNBR, got in my car and went over to KYU and did 9 to 12, came home at 12 and from 12 to 12:30 listened to myself on KCBS-FM, got home at 1 o’clock for a television show that was on KRON on Sunday. So if you didn’t like me, it was too bad.”

As a broadcaster, Msgr. Schlitt honed his own style. He sought to reach a wide audience with a positive, non-judgmental religious message that countered the fire-and-damnation approach of Bible Belt evangelists. “I took a little heat from priests,” he said. “I know I was looked on as someone who was a soft salesman for religion.”

He recalled one priest’s challenge: ‘“You never say Jesus, you know you work for Jesus?’”

His answer: “Well, it’s just not my style.”

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INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION New Riordan President. . . . . 5 Men as spiritual leaders . . . . 8 Gaza blockade concerns . . . . 9 Commentary & letters . 14-15 ‘Yes-but’ followers . . . . . . . . 16

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Thank you in a very large way to Msgr. John Foudy, Ph.D. celebrating 70 years as a priest in 2010.

Msgr. Foudy’s service as pastor and administrator is well remembered throughout the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Deacon candidates for the Archdiocese of San Francisco were installed as lectors June 11 at Our Lady of Mercy Church. The men are in a five-year study and formation program that will take them to ordination in 2012. The wives of married candidates also attend the classes. Front from left: Bob Leathers, Juan Antillon, Ernie von Ernster, Jose Penate, Bishop William Justice, Joseph Ramos, Dana Perrigan, Jack Murray. Back from left: Deacon Leon Kortenkamp, Jerry Quinn, Mario Zuniga, Miguel Barreiro, Rich Younkin, Thomas Kelly, Venancio Garcia.

Soon after earning his doctorate at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC in 1945, the young priest began 15 years in the Department of Catholic Schools that culminated with his serving as Superintendent of Catholic Schools for almost a decade. His time as pastor of San Francisco’s St. Agnes Parish from 1964 to 1970 was an era when life in that neighborhood was followed in the news around the world. He served as pastor at St. Anne of the Sunset Parish from 1970-1990, his 50th year as a priest, and retired to continued service at St. Cecilia Parish where he lived until moving to Alma Via Residence in 2004. Now 96, he is the oldest priest in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and at 70 years ordained the longest serving. Thank you, again and again, Msgr. Foudy! For all of us, please let me say, we are proud! Please also let me offer special thanks to Msgr.

Foudy from Catholic San Francisco. He has been at the ready for us many times with his amazing institutional history of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the City and has spoken many times about what he has called his “wonderful life as a priest.”

Msgr. Foudy’s current address is Christina’s Care Home, 1580 Crestwood Drive, San Bruno, 94066…. Clarence W. Bryant, a parishioner of San Francisco’s St. Emydius Parish, leads an

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Effects of oil spill . . .

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Coast were waiting anxiously for word that BP has been able to contain the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from the company’s blown-out drilling rig called Deepwater Horizon.

Since the April 20 explosion and fire that killed 11 workers on the rig, millions of gallons of oil have been pouring into the Gulf each day; and containment efforts by BP to date have been only partially successful.

There is much uncertainty about the long-term impact of the man-made environmental disaster, which is being called this country’s worst, on the people of south Louisiana who live and make their living on the water.

Father Thomas Kuriakose, pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Point-aux-Chenes, said a lot of his parishioners are fishermen and although their future livelihood is being threatened, currently many of them were working for BP to help in some way with the cleanup of the spill.

“At this time, most of the people here don’t need much financial assistance, but I have spoken to a lot of people who are depressed about the uncertainty of what the future holds for them and for the seafood industry in this area,” said Father Kuriakose.

He said he has noticed an increase in the number of people coming to Mass at his church since the accident and that for now parish collections remain steady.

“This is a terrible tragedy that is not only affecting the people along the coast of Louisiana, and several other states, but also the land and wildlife, as well,” said the priest.

He said he has had two meetings with Michel Claudet, president of Terrebonne Parish, a civil entity, and other church members to discuss the tragedy and how it is affecting local residents.

Counseling, prayer services and pastor visits are some of the ways St. Charles Borromeo Parish is helping the victims of the spill.

At Our Lady of the Isle, parish staff has been busy trying to identify those families truly in need and to offer any assistance they can.

Prayer services were being held once a week for all islanders to give them a chance to pray, socialize and express any fears or concerns they may have. Father Tran also is making himself available to anyone who needs to talk about the situation.

Kathryn Anderson, associate director for parish social ministry at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of HoumaThibodaux, said the agency has made case workers available to residents.

She also noted that from the beginning, Matthew 25 disaster response teams have been present in their communities.

“Matthew 25 volunteers are used to getting their hands dirty right after a disaster. When we have a hurricane they respond quickly by serving meals or helping with the cleanup,” she told the Bayou Catholic. “They haven’t had that opportunity in this situation because the cleanup work is being performed by contract labor or wildlife specialists.

“However, that may change as we continue with the recovery efforts,” said Anderson.

“Most of the people who come to us are visibly upset, but by the time they leave, they feel better,” said Maryal Mewherter, a case worker at the Grand Isle Community Center. “Sometimes I get a hug just for giving them one $100 food voucher.”

Father Mike Tran, pastor of Our Lady of the Isle Church in Grand Isle, La., and Rob Gorman, of the Diocese of HoumaThibodaux Catholic Charities, survey a Louisiana beach contaminated by pools of thick black oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

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WASHINGTON – Although Florida Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed a bill this month that would have required women to have an ultrasound before a first-trimester abortion, similar legislation is having more success in other states. In Louisiana, a bill requiring ultrasounds before all abortions is awaiting the signature of Gov. Bobby Jindal, who has said he supports the legislation. In Michigan, where an ultrasound already is required before an abortion, a Senate committee is considering a bill that would mandate high-quality images from the best ultrasound equipment available at the facility where the abortion is performed. Sheila Hopkins, associate director for social concerns and Respect Life at the Florida Catholic Conference, called Crist’s veto “a sad day for Florida women. She said “Many women have lamented their decision (to have an abortion) and wish they could have viewed an ultrasound before making a choice that they now deeply regret.” Currently in Florida, ultrasounds are required before all second- and third-trimester abortions in order to determine the gestational age and location of the fetus, and an estimated 80 percent of abortion clinics in the state already perform ultrasounds before first-trimester abortions.

Record charitable donations NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Knights of Columbus set record highs last year for charitable donations and volunteer service hours, according to the results of an annual survey. The Knights’ Annual Survey of Fraternal Activity indicates the Catholic fraternal organization contributed more than $151.1 million to charitable causes in 2009.That amount exceeds the previous year’s total by more than $1 million. Group members also collectively contributed nearly 68 million volunteer service hours to charitable causes in 2009 – an increase of more than 468,000 hours over the previous year. The survey reported that group members volunteered 227,900 hours to Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit Christian housing organization that builds affordable housing in partnership with people in need. It was the most common service program for Knights. The survey also recorded more than 413,000 blood donations from members in 2009.

Knights have donated more than $1.37 billion, and nearly 640 million volunteer hours to charitable causes in the past decade, according to cumulative totals from the group.

Abortion-promoting groups got nearly $1 billion in federal funds WASHINGTON – Six organizations that perform or pro-

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Apostolic visitation to see 80 religious communities WASHINGTON – Visits to religious communities of women will restart in mid-September after a three-month summer hiatus, reported the Office of Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States. Sister Kieran Foley, assistant for communications for the process, told Catholic News Service that 35 congregations were visited during the first round of visits that started April 11 and ended June 4. Beginning again Sept. 12 and running through Dec. 17, the next round of visits will include another 40 to 50 congregations, said Sister Kieran, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist. “We’re trying to do about 25 percent of all religious congregations,” she said from the visitation’s office in Hamden, Conn. “Between 80 and 100 will be the final total.” A total of 341 religious congregations are the subjects of the visitation, ordered in 2009 by Cardinal Franc Rode, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregations

for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. The study covers nearly all of the country’s 67,000 sisters. Only those nuns who live in cloisters are exempt.

Vatican foreign minister cites Church-state relations in Cuba VATICAN CITY – The whole question of a separation between church and state originated with Jesus, who told believers they must give to God what belonged to God and to Caesar what belonged to Caesar, the Vatican’s foreign minister told a gathering in Cuba. Without the Gospel, the fundamental distinction between the religious and secular spheres “would not have entered into the history of humanity,” Archbishop Dominique Mamberti said June 16 in Havana, opening a weeklong series of conferences on Catholic social teaching. Addressing Cuban government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, bishops and laity, Archbishop Mamberti said it was obvious that churchstate relations have been different throughout history and across cultures. But, he said, it is clear that secularism and the secular state are terms that often take on “a nuance of or the acceptance of an opposition to the church or to Christianity. In this regard, one cannot forget the fact that in the name of this concept (separation of church and state) decisions are sometimes made or norms sometimes enacted that objectively damage the person and communal exercise of the fundamental right to religious freedom.”

Although Cuba has a strong Catholic heritage, under communism the church has faced serious restrictions. Church-state relations have shown improvement in recent years, but only slowly.

Pope appeals for end to Kyrgyzstan ethnic violence VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI appealed for an end to ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan and urged the international community to provide humanitarian aid to the civilian population in the Central Asian country. The pope’s appeal came after several days of clashes between ethnic Uzbeks and Kyrgyz left hundreds dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. Addressing pilgrims at the Vatican June 20, the pope pleaded for an end to the NEWS IN BRIEF, page 5

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San Francisco’s Archbishop Riordan High School names new president

By Tom Burke As the newly named first lay president of Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco, Patrick Daly, a home-grown graduate of Sacred Heart High School, will now cheer for a new team. His dedication to Catholic education, however, remains solid and unchanged.

“Catholic schools are the last bastion of what is right in education today and we must always maintain the traditions that are the foundation for Catholic education,” Daly told Catholic San Francisco.

“I will take the appropriate steps to ensure Archbishop Riordan serves the young men of the Bay Area in the Marianist and Roman Catholic traditions. As president I will address the needs of our students, families, alumni and the Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco,” he said In announcing Daly’s appointment, outgoing and first Riordan president, Marianist Father Thomas French, said, “Mr. Daly is a fourth generation San Franciscan, a graduate of Sacred Heart High School, and is excited to have the opportunity to lead Archbishop Riordan as the school’s second president.

He is grateful to the Marianist Community and the board of trustees for providing him the opportunity to continue to foster the Marianist traditions that have governed Archbishop Riordan High School for over 60 years.”

President Daly’s roots are strong in the City. “My mom, Marian A. Daly, is excited to have one of her sons returning and especially her grandchildren,” Daly said. Daly’s mom and her twin sister, Mildred Lee, are graduates of San Francisco’s St. Vincent High School and “led the way” for Daly, his siblings, Irene, Kathleen, Donald, Father Thomas Daly, Robert and Maureen, as well as the Lee cousins to attend “Sacred Heart, Cathedral, Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep, and St. Rose schools” Daly said.

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■ Continued from page 4 conflict and the re-establishment of peace and security in the country. “I invite all the ethnic communities of the country to renounce any provocation or violence, and I ask the international community to work so that humanitarian aid can quickly reach the stricken populations,” the pope said. “To the relatives of the victims and to all those suffering in this tragedy, I

“As siblings we are all very close and that is because of our parents. We are close as well to the Lee’s. Both families are similar in age and we had a lot of fun growing up.

In the Daly and Lee homes if you don’t have a sense of humor and a quick wit it will be a long day. All of us inherited our humor from our mother and her sister.”

Daly’s late father, Donald, was a 1947 graduate of St. James High School from which Archbishop Riordan High School was formed in 1949.

“My father said there were only two schools his sons could consider - Riordan or Sacred Heart,” Daly remembered. “I graduated from St. Brendan Elementary and I was the only one to attend Sacred Heart. I am proud to be a Sacred Heart alumnus and grateful for the education I received from the Christian Brothers, but now my loyalty is to the Purple and Gold of Archbishop Riordan.

My cousin John Lee teaches at SHCP and is the Varsity Head Football Coach. We told each other we will cheer for both schools with the exception of the day the Crusaders and Irish play each other.”

President Daly’s brother, Father Tom Daly, is president of Marin Catholic High School, and also serves as vocations director for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “Tom and I speak all the time and I always say he is the modern day version of the priests from the old movies like Pat O’Brien and Bing Crosby,” Daly said. “His faith is evident in how he relates with students and adults and his strong belief in Catholic schools is why he is successful as the president of Marin Catholic.”

“People have joked with us that two Daly’s will be leading two of the four Archdiocesan high schools and both of us look forward to working together to ensure the traditions of both Archbishop Riordan and Marin Catholic,” Patrick Daly said. “Tom is a great uncle to his fourteen nieces and nephews and our children adore Uncle Tom and his humor.

They also love to sit down and talk to him about anything and everything.”

Patrick Daly, a former Director of Athletics at Marin Catholic as well as Associate Director of Athletics at Humboldt State University, was set to accept a higher college-level athletics job on the East coast when he learned that St. Bernard Catholic School in Eureka, where his oldest child was then attending pre-school, was scheduled to close.

After a series of talks with Father Tom Daly, and other priests and educators, Daly turned down the new job and became principal at St. Bernard’s in 2000. “I decided I could not stand by and witness the closure of the only Catholic school between Santa Rosa and Medford, Oregon,” Daly recalled.

“It was the faith I inherited from my parents and the teachings of the Daughters of Charity, Adrian Dominicans and the Christian Brothers that provided me the perseverance, intellect, self discipline, and relentless drive to prove to the community that the school was necessary and would be successful,” Daly said. In 2006, he became St. Bernard’s president.

Daly and his wife, Dianne, were married in 1994 at St. Vincent Parish in Petaluma.

Father Tom Daly witnessed the rite. “It was a typical City wedding with graduates from almost every Catholic high school in the City in attendance,” Daly said. The couple’s children are high school sophomore, Shanan, eighth grader Kaelan, first grader, Brigid, and pre-schooler, Liam. Shanan will attend Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, Kaelan and Brigid will attend St. Gabriel Elementary School and Liam will attend a yet-undecided pre-school.

“I love Eureka, the area and the families of St. Bernard’s, but I am a San Francisco native and I am very happy to return to the City,” Daly said. “Being able to return to lead

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“The primary educator of a child is the parent, but as the increase of non-traditional families continues it is essential for Catholic schools not to waiver from the Magisterium or the traditions of Catholic education,” Daly said. “Parents and students need the support of the school and the ministries Catholic schools offer. The young men of Riordan need to be prepared to serve as faith-filled leaders, fathers, sons and husbands. Our young men will embrace their individual culture, ethnicity, faith and yet they will all be Crusaders. It is not enough to call yourself Catholic; one must live the faith and most importantly Catholic schools cannot be Catholic by name only as some currently operate, they must embrace and teach the faith.”

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express my heartfelt closeness and assure you of my prayers,” he said. A Polish priest ministering in Kyrgyzstan denied reports that local Christians were targeted for religious reasons during recent violence against Uzbek communities but warned that many people were left “fearful and in need” after the fighting. “This is a political struggle with ethnic ingredients,” said Jesuit Father Krzysztof Korolczuk, who works in Jalal-Abad. “It isn’t aimed in any sense against Christians.”

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obituary Capuchin Franciscan to be rector at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi Father Ronald Burke, Archbishop George H. Niederauer has appointed oldest parish in California and served as the pro-cathedral Capuchin Father Gregory Coiro rector of the National for the Archdiocese of San Francisco for three years. It Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi and the La Nuova survived the 1906 earthquake although the fire that folPorziuncola Chapel in San Francisco, located at lowed gutted it. The church was rebuilt within its stillColumbus and Vallejo in North Beach. standing walls and continued to serve A former director of media relations as a parish until it was closed as part of and spokesman for the Archdiocese of a realignment of parishes following the Los Angeles, Father Gregory hosted a 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

“Clergy on Call” program on KPLS-AM. Emeritus San Francisco Archbishop He also served as a consultant to motion (now Cardinal) William Levada repictures and television programs includopened St. Francis of Assisi as a shrine ing “The Father Dowling Mysteries,” in honor of the city’s patron saint in 1998.

“Sister Act” – which was filmed primarThe United States Conference of Catholic ily on location at San Francisco’s St. Bishops designated it as the National Paul Church - and “Sister Act 2: Back Shrine of St. Francis in September 1999. in the Habit.”

Currently undergoing seismic retrofitting, Father Gregory has taught at Daniel the shrine church is scheduled to resume Murphy High School, Los Angeles; San operations at the work’s completion.

Joaquin Memorial High School, Fresno; Father Gregory, now living at the Father Gregory Coiro, and the Capuchins’ St. Francis High Capuchins’ San Buenaventura Friary in OFM Cap. School, La Cañada Flintridge, where San Francisco, has been serving as spirihe also served as chaplain. Father Gregory is also a tual assistant to the Knights of St. Francis. The volunteer former parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels Parish in association was founded by Angela Alioto, who played Burlingame where the Capuchin Friars have ministered a principal role in the construction at the shrine of La since the parish founding in 1926.

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Born in San Francisco to Ruth and Harold Burke, he was one of ten children, only five of whom survived past their early years. He attended St. Anne Elementary School Father Ronald Burke entering the now-closed St. Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View after the eighth grade. He was ordained to the priesthood from St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park on June 11, 1954.

Ordained at a time when the Archdiocese of San Francisco included the present Dioceses of Oakland, Santa Rosa, Stockton and San Jose, Father Burke served at St. Brendan Church in San Francisco; St. Mary Church in Oakland; St. George Church in Stockton; St. Joseph Church in San Francisco; and Saint Mary Church in Gilroy.

In 1966, Father Burke began 15 years of service in the Latin American Mission Program (LAMP) in Guatemala. He returned in 1981 to St. Bruno Parish where he served for many years as pastor.

Father Burke retired July 1, 1999, and resided at Mission Dolores Basilica before moving in 2003 to Serra Clergy House. In recent months, he had been living at Maria’s Home for the Aged in San Mateo, where he received the day-to-day care necessary for his weakened heart.

Father Burke is survived by his sisters Patricia Lawson, Mary Helen Salvemini, and Barbara Mallen; and by many nieces and nephews including Dan Lawson and Lori Frischerz. Remembrances may be sent to Dan Lawson, 374 El Paseo, Millbrae 94030.

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Conference on teaching through prism of Catholic faith draws educators statewide

By Valerie Schmalz Now more than ever, Catholic teachers need to be able to answer philosophical questions and to explain Catholic intellectual thought as well as give personal witness of faith if they are to evangelize the high school students of the 21st century.

That was the point made over and over again by the presenters at the first annual Substantially Catholic Conference for high school educators. The conference, held June 8-10 at Marin Catholic High School, drew educators from throughout California and was designed to present Catholic content and practical tips for teaching science and literature through the prism of faith. Next year’s threeday seminar will focus on social studies and the arts.

The seminar was guided by the words of Pope Benedict XVI in his April 17, 2008 address to Catholic educators at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. “A university or school’s Catholic identity is not simply a question of the number of Catholic students. It is a question of conviction – do we really believe that only in the mystery of the Word made flesh does the mystery of man truly become clear?�

Pope Benedict XVI said. “Is the faith tangible in our universities and schools?�

The Catholic Education Institute ran the conference which was organized by Marin Catholic theology teachers Ryan Mayer and Joe Tassone. The institute was founded in 2001 to provide practical support to colleges in improving their Catholic character.

The Substantially Catholic seminar promised teachers tools and information so that the teachers could address more religious themes related to their academic disciplines, said Jesuit Father John J. Piderit, retired Loyola University Chicago president and president of the Catholic Education Institute.

University of San Francisco philosophy Professor Thomas Cavanaugh noted Catholic heroes and intellectual giants populate every discipline. That puts the lie to atheists’ claim that religion is hostile to science as well as highlighting that the intellectual history of the Church has been one that encouraged inquiry.

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allowing geometric shapes to be expressed in algebraic equations in the 17th century, for instance, and Queen Christina of Sweden abdicated her throne to become Catholic in 1654. “Modern evolutionary theory would not be possible without Father Gregor Mendel,� Cavanaugh said. The Augustinian priest, who died in 1884, was posthumously credited as the father of genetics for his study of the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants.

For Substantially Catholic attendees interested in the New Atheism, Oliver Putz distilled the thought of the “Four Horsemen� of the New Atheism and offered counter arguments to the writings of Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. Putz, who has a doctorate in evolutionary biology from Freie Universitat in Berlin and is a doctoral student at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, also offered suggestions to teachers concerned that even those arguments wouldn’t convince student atheists. “You should not try to force them into faith,� said Putz. “You should be available to them.�

Father Piderit and his colleague Melanie Morey, senior director for research, noted that adolescents and young adults are seekers. “Don’t be afraid to give personal witness,� said Father

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Morey and Father Piderit co-wrote Catholic Higher Education: A Culture in Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2006) and found that a student could graduate from a Catholic college with no knowledge of Catholicism, Morey said.

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Father Larry Richards’ mother was a cop. So was his father. He doesn’t believe in the Fathers Knows Best stereotypes of the 1950s.

But he does believe that men are being shortchanged in both the Church and in society in a misguided approach that substitutes a false concept of equality and love for a strong challenge to live the Gospel. The result is many men are neglecting their own spiritual lives and abdicating the spiritual leadership of their families, Father Richards contends in his Father Larry Richards recent book, “Be A Man: Becoming the Man God Created You to Be,” published

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The past 40 years saw “needed changes in society and in the Church,” Father Richards told Catholic San Francisco.

“For many, many years women were put down.” But the changes have gone too far and lost sight of the nature of men and women, so that men have become more feminine and women have become more masculine, he contends.

Father Richards is the pastor of an inner city parish in Erie, Pennsylvania, and hosts a daily national radio show on Relevant Radio. He is the founder of The Reason for Our Hope Foundation.

“We make Jesus this gentle, very peaceful, passive person,” Father Richards writes. “Oh yeah, this is the Jesus I want to spend eternity with! Come on gentleman. Jesus Christ was a man’s man. He gave everything to prove that.

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In his book, Father Richards says: “If the only strength Spiritual Leader,” Father Richards writes: “Take spiritual we have is from the world, we are going to have problems. authority in your family and lead by example. Have a daily prayer time with your family.”

Our strength must come from God.” Father Richards cites Pope John Paul II’s Theology Among his words of advice: spending time in silent of the Body, and the book of Genesis: “God created us prayer every day, listening to God. male and female.”

“Men want to be the best they can. f “That’s the whole point.

So you go to church and Father’ss up That’s not sexist. It’s going there saying, ‘God loves you just the back to creation. Men and way you are, and God is Barney,, ‘I women are different and they love you,’” Father Richards said in an fit together. The problem interview the week before Father’s r’s is when a man tries to be a Day. “Guys say, ‘what is the point?’ t?’ woman or a woman tries to be There is no challenge. Men respond nd a man, it’s not about a gender to challenge. So the Church needs ds role, it’s going against their to challenge people. Because for thee very nature. God created them past 40 years, it’s been very la la. I v male and female. Man needs want to scream sometimes.” m to work with the nature God The first step is acknowledggave ing God as Father, the priest said. ga us,” Father Richards said.

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Gazans see lifting of blockade as only solution to dire conditions

By Judith Sudilovsky JERUSALEM (CNS) – Only a total lifting of the Israeli-imposed blockade on the Gaza Strip will significantly improve the situation for Gazans, said the Jerusalem regional director of the Pontifical Mission of Palestine after a two-day visit to the beleaguered region.

“The mood in Gaza is that really whatever sort of things are in the process to ease the blockade, they will not make a significant difference on their life,” said Sami El-Yousef, who met with civil and religious representatives including those of several Christian organizations during his visit June 14-15.

“What they are looking for is the lifting of the blockade. Otherwise, (Gazans) say, (easing the blockade) is just a joke unless it is completely lifted and there are no limitations put on the humanitarian supply,” El-Yousef told Catholic News Service.

Most Gazans believe U.S. President Barack Obama’s recent pledge of $400 million in aid to Gaza will have little impact on their situation, he added.

After the May 31 raid on a flotilla that organizers claimed was carrying humanitarian aid but that Israeli officials believed to include Islamist extremists from Turkey, Obama urged Israel to limit the blockade to items that can be used to produce arms and to allow items through that could improve daily life and economic activity for Palestinians.

However, details of the plan must be released and reviewed before a “learned comment” can be made about it, the director said, noting that, according to reports, only $40 million of the aid will be earmarked for the Gaza Strip.

Both Israel and Egypt have enforced a blockade on Gaza since June 2007 after the

militant Hamas Islamic movement took over governing the strip following Palestinian elections in 2006 and a battle with the more moderate Fatah party.

Egypt opened its borders with Gaza indefinitely after the May 31 incident.

Israel has said it would open the blockade if Hamas would allow the International Red Cross to visit Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped from the Gaza border four years ago and is being held in the Gaza Strip.

El-Yousef said the entry of products such as “mayonnaise and soft drinks” will not make a difference in the lives of most Gazans because they cannot afford them. He urged that the blockade be lifted so that building supplies and other necessities can enter the region and allow Gazans to provide jobs by rebuilding infrastructure and buildings destroyed during the January 2009 war.

One particular need El-Yousef cited was the Shajai Medical Clinic, which mainly treats mothers and children and which the pontifical mission helped make operational within three months after the war. The clinic has been unable to bring in a dental unit and two electric generators for use during frequent power outages.

While in Gaza, El-Yousef also observed people recycling used construction material, opening the way to potential tragedies as people move into buildings that are not structurally safe, he said.

“You have lots of homes which will collapse,” he predicted.

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He found, however, that cooking gas was in short supply because it cannot be smuggled through the tunnels.

The pontifical mission is working with local partners in the Christian community to bring aid to the Gaza population, including job creation programs aimed at new graduates in order to retain a generation of young Christians in the region. People between

18 and 35 years old are the smallest group represented in the Christian community, he said.

In general, El-Yousef described a feeling of despair among the Gazans he met. He said Gazans feel pessimistic that the blockade will be eased soon or that Hamas and Fatah will reconcile with each other.

“It is a stressful situation,” he said.

“People say they are in it for the long haul and have to find ways to make it more livable.”

Pope urges fair treatment, respect for world’s refugees VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI appealed for fair treatment of the world’s refugees, saying they deserve to be welcomed with respect for their rights and human dignity.

At the same time, the pope said refugees should show respect for the identity of their host countries. He made the remarks at the Vatican June 20, which the United Nations marks as World Refugee Day. “Refugees desire to find welcome and to be recognized in their dignity and their fundamental rights. At the same time, they intend to offer their contribution to the society that welcomes them,” he said.

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Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based umbrella organization for Catholic charities, highlighted the condition of women refugees, who it said were especially vulnerable to human rights abuses when they’ve been forced to leave their homes for long periods.

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■ Continued from cover Msgr. Schlitt began his path to the priesthood when he was 14, and the discipline of prayer and the Mass continues to be central to his experience of being a priest.

“Some of us went in after the eighth grade, and our minds were bent by the constant presence,” he said. “We had a lot more talk about the figure of the Holy Spirit as part of your calling, and that was taught to us and instilled, and so you really believed that you were called.”

Msgr. Schlitt spoke with Catholic San Francisco about his media ministry, his career as an administrator and about evangelization, communication and the vocation of priest during a trying time for the Church. He talked about priests who were also characters, and how hard it is to combine the two roles today.

The conversation began with a discussion of parish school economics, as Msgr. Schlitt had just learned of a funding shortfall at an elementary school and was preparing to deal with the news.

CSF: What is the status of parochial schools, those that are in the most fragile state? What’s likely to unfold over the next year?

Msgr. Schlitt: It’s not news in San Francisco that the number of children is dwindling. There are just not enough children to fill the desks of all the parochial schools that we have in the inner city. We’ve had at least three studies done. We’ve had enough studies. All the studies tell us that we have too many seats, too many chairs, for the few students that we have. We have a lot of older buildings that need maintenance and upkeep and we can’t afford to have the buildings taken care of just for a small number of students, so we have to find a way, and I’m hoping next year at this time

June 25, 2010 there will be a sound plan that gets all of these children into a Catholic school. We’re not doing away with Catholic education; in fact this would reemphasize how important it is. But we also do not have the people or the parents who have the wherewithal to keep buildings going. Most of our Mission schools, for example, there’s a lot of young immigrant families there and there are a lot of young people who have families who don’t have a strong heritage from grandfathers, great-grandfathers, who can pay the tuition for the grandchildren. So, we need a reorganization of a lot of inner-city schools to make sure there’s a seat for every Catholic kid who wants an education.

high schools have families and wherewithal to support – the money we put in gets donated.

So it goes back to that thing, well, the Catholic people don’t give as much in the offertory collection. But a lot of our Catholic people are supporting Catholic education and that’s more expensive than supporting your parish in the Sunday collection. And we have to realize that. The Archdiocese of San Francisco has four of the best Catholic high schools in the country and they have great facilities and they have the ability to teach Catholic education and develop a whole person. It’s quite a wonderful thing. In the elementary schools we just don’t have the numbers of students to support our elementary schools.

‘The Archdiocese of San Francisco has four of the best Catholic high schools in the country and they have great facilities and they have the ability to teach Catholic education and develop the whole person.’

CSF: You’re talking about closure of these schools and consolidating the students and faculty in nearby schools, so they continue the parochial school experience, just on a stronger economic footing?

Msgr. Schlitt: That’s right.

CSF: So, there would be a drop of several sites?

Msgr. Schlitt: I would think there has to be. If there isn’t, it doesn’t solve the problem. I told the Council of Priests at the May meeting, I said this is not business as usual in the archdiocese, where we can count on a bailout of elementary schools. We’ve put over $55 million into our high schools since I’ve been in this job as Moderator of the Curia, that’s a lot of money, but most of the

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Msgr. Schlitt: We’ve talked about that. There are a couple where that could have been done this year. What will force that issue more than anything will be the number of pastors who will be available to be a one-pastor parish. It’s going to happen probably in five years that we’ll likely have a half-dozen parishes that are administered by a pastor who has more than one parish and a team to operate the second parish or the third parish. It’s happened in dioceses all around the country. It hasn’t happened here mainly due to the fact that we have a large number of religious, we have a number of retired priests who can fill in and help a pastor. One of the emerging factors that came out in our Council of Priests meeting was when you ask a new pastor whether he wants a parochial vicar, he’s apt to say, ‘I can’t really afford one.’ To house and feed and pay a priest is about $41,000 a year. For $41,000 a year a pastor can hire a retired priest or a religious to come in and help with the Masses on the weekend and occasionally take a funeral or a wedding. I’m not talking about the larger parishes, they have the wherewithal, but a smaller parish who might have had one parochial vicar or assistant a few years ago can’t really afford it now.

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Msgr. Schlitt: Both. In the old days, 25 years ago, almost every parish had a housekeeper and cook, somebody who took care of the house, did the laundry and somebody who prepared the meals. I’ll bet you there are not a quarter of our parishes who now have a housekeeper and a cook. A lot of times the cook had a room in the back. If you go to these parishes you see on the first floor there’s always a guest room in the back where the cook would live next to the kitchen. They are few and far between now.

CSF: Is that because there are fewer parish members, or because those who are members and are active are less able to give?

Msgr. Schlitt: Both. That strong group who were working in the ‘50s and ‘60s and sending their children to Catholic schools, and it was affordable, and the parish helped out in the school, and you had free teachers because of religious men and women – all of that, when the schools went to lay teachers, lay principals, those people all had to have an equal salary with other teachers. So now we have that but it’s a terrific strain on some families. We have the high-class schools where the tuition is $10-$15,000 and they have a waiting list, because there are people with means who can afford it. You don’t hear much about that because they pay and the education is first-class. But the more and more Catholic immigrant family students that we have, the more and more difficult it gets to pay for their education.

CSF: While we’re on the economic basis of things, let’s talk about the Pastoral Center. There have been cuts in the last three years, ministries have been closed, things have been outsourced. This has been the case in dioceses across the country. What’s the outlook for the central organization?

Msgr. Schlitt: Part of my administrative goal was to have people keep their jobs as long as they could. We probably would have been better off if three years ago if we had bitten the bullet and done more cuts and then become more level in our budgeting process. Every year I have had to begin the budget, in the last five years, with at least a million-dollar deficit. And you just can’t go on that way, and you can’t cut programs because our programs in the chancery are not that expensive. The expense comes in the salaries and the benefits. So you have to find a way.

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‘You don’t need to cram God down people’s throats – they’ll see it, they’ll hear you if you talk about the quality of life and the goodness that can come from being kind and not cheating and stealing and lying.’

Msgr. Schlitt: I don’t know if it was Thomas Aquinas, whoever said In medio stat vertus – Virtue stands in the middle. Virtue stands in the middle, which is one thing, and the Scriptures say don’t be lukewarm, be hot or cold, so there’s mixed messages in all of this. But I always thought that if you had a strong opinion, you could be right or left but that doesn’t mean you have to make that your crusade to make others right or left. There are very good people who are on the right side who it seems to me often complain the loudest about the way the diocese is being run. It really infuriates me when Rome or the apostolic delegate in Washington gets a letter about Archbishop Niederauer and the way he conducts this archdiocese. I know him as well as anybody, and I’ve lived with him now for five years. He is just a really good man. He’s very intelligent, and he understands what he’s doing, and so when he makes a decision he takes everything into consideration. And yet it’s like a damned if you do, damned if you don’t kind of situation. He makes very few mistakes.... On the other hand, the other side thinks that if you’re not out in the trenches every day and if you’re having an office like this or a big cathedral you’re not doing enough for the poor people. So, to stand in the middle, to have virtue in the middle, is the most important thing.

CSF: What happened to the public priest, who not only had his vocation but also was a persona in society? Father Peter Yorke was the prototypical public priest, whose ministry was on the picket line and who tried to beat back the anti-Catholic forces at the time. What happened to the persona of the priest in the society at large?

Msgr. Schlitt: I think that, number one, there are fewer of us. Let’s call them characters, because I believe I was one. You could enjoy an extraneous character 30 years ago more than you can today. I’ll give you an example. Twentyfive, 30 years ago there were pastors in this town where the government of City Hall would not do anything unless they checked with them. Now we don’t have any presence there....It’s one of the reasons we have such a hard time in city govenrment in getting any sympathy for Roman Catholicism or for the Archdiocese. I think right now it’s very difficult to be heard. I’m getting away from character priests. Number one, I think we had more (priests) so there were more characters and their time was outside the parish so they weren’t strapped with administering a parish. A pastor 25 years ago had two or three assistants in a big parish, so the youngest guy would take care of CYO and the baseball teams and the kids dances, the next guy would take the Women’s Sodality and the men’s club, and the third guy would watch the books. And the pastor would hold forth at dinner and know that he was on his way out but he was teaching, he was mentoring all three of these men...We have a mentoring program where we try to get younger priests in with a pastor, but it doesn’t mean they live with them. So, the pastor doesn’t have time to be a character anymore. And I don’t know that, right and left since Vatican II some 45-50 years ago made a split. A lot of pastors want to keep both sides happy. If they go one way with one they cut off a number of people, and when they do that their collection goes down. I help out at one parish. I said. ‘Father, you have three Masses on Sunday, MSGR. SCHLITT, page 18

■ Continued from page 10 CSF: Will your successor have to deal with this rolling wave, confronting a million-dollar hole every spring?

Msgr. Schlitt: No. Because he came in here in January and went through the budget process with me, he’s convinced he’s not going to do this next year. He’s going to have a small committee from the Finance Council help plan the budget, and he’s going to try desperately to restore our corpus in the archdiocese. (Msgr. Schlitt explained that the corpus is the portfolio of investments and deposits that produce income for the archdiocese. It is one of four sources of income for the archbishop to fund the archdiocese’s $10 million administrative budget. The other sources are the archbishop’s annual appeal, property rentals and bequests to the archbishop.)

CSF: You say your Armed Forces Radio program was very popular. What were the people responding to?

Msgr. Schlitt: I always talked to the brass and the chaplains and said, ‘What do you really want me to talk about?’ The overwhelming response was the quality of life and the basic tenets of morality. There were many men and women in the service who did not know that it was wrong to steal, or to cheat or to lie. I talked a lot about how that would improve your life. I didn’t have, ‘Jesus or God’s going to punish you if you steal.’ I got away with a very soft-sell kind of religion without mentioning Jesus...When I started on the radio, I came from Springfield, Mo., where there were five Bible colleges and the Assemblies of God were headquartered there. That was Tammy Faye and (Jim) Bakker and Jim Robinson, Red Foley’s daughter married Pat Boone – it was a whole country-and-western and a very religious way of life centered on the Scripture but the way they interpreted it. I came out of that experience and I used to call them God killers. I had Saturday and Sunday nights and worked for three hours from 9 to midnight. I had all these Bible kids calling me – they were on fire with the Scriptures, but it was just one thing they learned. They had no idea there were translations from the Scriptures and they came from several languages. All those things were new to them. So I took that and I said I’m not going to be a God killer if I get chance to go further on the radio. You don’t need to cram God down people’s throats – they’ll see it, they’ll hear you if you talk about the quality of life and the goodness that can come from being kind and not cheating and stealing and lying. There’s godliness in that.

CSF: You’re talking about judgmentalism. How do you see the state of dialogue within the Church? Where would you like to see it go? How can we do better?

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By Cindy Wooden ROME (CNS) – In the basement of an Italian insurance company’s modern office building, Vatican archaeologists – armed with lasers – discovered important historical evidence about the development of Christian devotion to the apostles.

At Rome’s Catacombs of St. Thecla, in the burial chamber of a Roman noblewoman, they have discovered what they said are the oldest existing paintings of Sts. Peter, Paul, Andrew and John.

Technicians working for the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology discovered the painting of St. Paul in June 2009 just as the Year of St. Paul was ending.

Barbara Mazzei, who was in charge of the restoration work, said June 22 that she and her team members knew there were more images under the crust of calcium carbonate, but excitement over the discovery of St. Paul in the year dedicated to him led them to announce the discovery even before the rest of the work was completed.

Presenting the complete restoration of the burial chamber to reporters a year later, Msgr. Giovanni Carru said that the catacombs “are an eloquent witness of Christianity in its origins.”

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■ Continued from page 12 the tombs of the wealthy were decorated with Christian symbols, biblical scenes and references to the martyr.

At the Catacombs of St. Thecla, the noblewoman’s burial chamber – now referred to as the Cubicle of the Apostles – dates from late in the fourth century. The arch over the vestibule features a fresco of a group of figures the Vatican experts described as “The College of the Apostles.”

The ceiling of the burial chamber itself features the most typical icon found in the catacombs – Christ the Good Shepherd – but the four corners of the ceiling are decorated with medallions featuring the four apostles, said Mazzei.

Fabrizio Bisconti, the commission’s archaeological superintendent, said that in the decorations of the catacombs one can see “the genesis, the seeds of Christian iconography,” with designs from the very simple fish as a symbol of Christ to the resurrection image of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead.

The discovery of so much attention to the apostles in the Catacombs of St. Thecla documents the fact that widespread devotion to the apostles began earlier than what most church historians believed, he said.

“This is the time when the veneration of the apostles was just being born and developed,” he said, and the art in the catacombs no longer presented just the martyrs or biblical scenes.

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Mazzei said that when restorers first went into the burial chamber in 2008, all the walls were white – completely covered under the crust of calcium carbonate that ranged from a millimeter thick to 4-5 centimeters deep. The Vatican, however, had watercolors and diary descriptions from the 1800s testifying that there were paintings on the walls.

In the past, she said, restorers would use tiny scalpels and brushes to remove the white crust, but some of the paint always came away with it. Restorers were left trying to find the right balance between removing enough to see a faint image of a catacomb fresco and destroying it.

Then along came the laser, Mazzei said.

After attending an art restoration conference and listening to presentations on how lasers were being used on frescoes in buildings above ground, she said she suggested to the Vatican that they gather a team of experts to see how lasers would work in the extremely humid catacombs where almost no air circulates.

“We went slowly and basically set up an experimental laboratory” in the catacombs, she said.

The restoration project was just as painstaking as the scalpel-and-brush method because it involved firing the laser pinpoint by pinpoint across the surface of the cubicle, “but the result is totally different,” Mazzei said.

She said the two-year project to restore the tiny cubicle cost only about $72,000 because many of the consultants donated their time and the laser company gave the Vatican a steep discount.

Bisconti said the Vatican has no plans to open the Catacombs of St. Thecla to the public, although the pontifical commission occasionally gives permission for groups to visit as long as they are willing to pay a licensed guide and escort.

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Guest Commentary Decision pending on future of marriage

By William B. May The message delivered to Federal District Judge Vaughn Walker by Prop 8 proponents during the closing arguments at the trial to redefine marriage in San Francisco was clear.

The voters have overwhelming authority and rational reasons for defining marriage between a man and a woman. The voters’ decision to pass Prop 8 cannot be overturned unless the plaintiffs negate every single claim of state interest for promoting the uniquely pervasive institution that channels procreative activity into a stable relationship.

Judge Walker noticeably stiffened in his chair as Charles Cooper, lead counsel for the defense, further stated that even if he concludes that every claim made by the plaintiffs is true, he could still not rule against Prop 8 unless he found that all of the rational reasons for protecting marriage were false. “It is a judicial tsunami they are asking you to sail into.”

Plaintiffs’ counsel claimed that people who voted for Prop 8 could only have done so “through irrational or dark motive, some animus, some kind of bigotry.” After citing myriad U.S. Supreme Court cases going back to the late 1800’s that affirmed the public interest in marriage, Cooper responded by telling the judge that the plaintiffs’ charge was “a slur on 7 million Californians It’s a slur on 70 of 108 judges who have upheld as constitutional and rational the decision of voters and legislatures to preserve the traditional definition of marriage.”

At the end of his argument, Cooper took the opportunity to urge the judge to let the debate on marriage continue by upholding Prop 8. Cooper’s words were more significant than one might imagine, because if Prop 8 had failed, – or if the judge decides to overturn it and his decision is upheld –, it would be legally discriminatory to even argue that marriage between a man and a woman has a higher value to society than same-sex relationships.

Former U.S. Solicitor General Ted Olsen, the attorney who presented the closing arguments for the plaintiffs, argued that procreation has never been a condition for marriage and therefore it cannot be about procreation. There is much procreation taking place outside of marriage as fewer people are getting married and more people are cohabitating. Marriage has changed over the last 30 years, he claimed, and is breaking down on its own attempting to demonstrate that it could not be adversely affected by permitting gays and lesbians to marry.

Olsen tried to equate restrictions on same-sex “marriage” to attacks on the dignity of blacks in past marriage laws, and a contention contended that withdrawing same-sex “marriage” rights contributes to stigmatizing gays. He referred to the fact that 18,000 same sex couples married during the period from May 2008, when the California Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act passed by the voters in 2000, to the date of passage of Prop 8 that November.

Olsen misrepresented court decisions striking down interracial marriage barriers as a redefinition of marriage to bar racial discrimination against adults in loving relationships.

Cooper, on the other hand, pointed out that the right to marry in those cases assumed marriage between men and women as the justices pointed out was “fundamental to the existence and survival of the human race.” He noted that these restrictions “grew out of . . . white supremacist theory,” meaning these laws were about eugenics – racial purity and the procreative nature of relationships between men and women.

Olson also pointed to Romer v. Evans, a Colorado case on an initiative amending the state constitution to ban all legislation at any level of government that would provide any protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation. The U.S. Supreme Court found that there was no rational reason to adopt something so broad and overturned it on that basis. Cooper pointed out that is not the case in California. Prop 8 is very narrow and there are clear reasons for retaining the traditional definition of marriage, which the plaintiffs have not refuted.

Cooper further cited a New York Court of Appeals case upholding marriage and the Lofton v Florida upholding a ban on gay adoptions by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Both courts cited common sense alone as being sufficient as rational reasons for adopting the laws. No one knows how long it will take Judge Walker to arrive at a decision.

It could be a couple of weeks or it could be several months. There is no deadline.

As a closing note, conversations between attorneys and the judge highlighted the great amount of confusion there is about what marriage is, and its relationship to children and parenting.

The debate is complicated by many factors, among which are the promotion of alternative families in which being deprived of mothers or fathers is considered normal, redefinition of motherhood and fatherhood as roles rather than biological realities, artificial means of procreation through IVF, and children unwittingly being reduced to objects for adult fulfillment rather than gifts of equal dignity. The fight to protect and promote marriage between a man and a woman cannot be divorced from these factors.

William B. May is Chairman of Catholics for the Common Good.

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Natural family planning I appreciated the May 21 article on the 50th anniversary of the pill. My husband and I converted to the Catholic Church precisely because of her unchanging 2000 year old teaching on the evils of contraception and abortion. During the 60’s we couldn’t know how bad contraception would be, but the Church did. Every prophecy made in Humanae Vitae has come true; from an exponential increase in promiscuity, adultery and divorce to governments using contraceptive technology to control families’ reproductive choices. It has greatly diminished the dignity of women and human life.

We need much more dialogue to promote understanding on this subject. In the 26 years that I have been a Catholic I can’t remember hearing a single homily about the evils of contraception. Natural Family Planning is not widely understood nor taught. Many marriage preparation classes don’t require that engaged couples learn NFP or at the very least attend an introductory class to understand what it is and how it works. Couples need this information if they are going to even have a chance of living the Church’s teachings.

Many couples are too afraid to even consider using NFP. They believe it doesn’t work, or that the self-control it requires is too hard. They believe that it will negatively impact their sex lives. Those of us who have practiced NFP and experienced the great benefits it has brought to our marriages need to be more generous in sharing this information with other couples in our parishes. The archdiocese would do well to have a NFP office and constant classes available. And priests should be lovingly sharing the fullness of the Church’s teaching in this area which goes to the very heart of what it means to be human.

The prevalence of the contraceptive mentality in the Church must be addressed if we wish to end abortion, encourage good marriages, develop an attitude of generosity in the welcoming of children, and stop the progress of euthanasia and so called “gay” marriage. These are all the fruit of the tree of contraception which separates sex from babies and marriage from self-giving love and mutual respect. Perhaps Catholic San

Francisco might consider a regular feature on this much needed subject to answer the confusion, anger and fear that it engenders.

In this post-Christian era it has become urgent that we re-discover what it means to be Catholic so that we can save our culture and our future. The church has the riches that can help us find the happiness that we all long for. Let’s take them out and dust them off and share them.

Cheryl Amalu Belmont Editor’s note: For information about Natural Family Planning, contact Archdiocese of San Francisco Deacon John Norris by phone (415) 614-5504, by fax (415) 614-5658, or by email at norrisj@ sfarchdiocese.org.

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The story of the Holy Ghost Festival in Pescadero (along with photographs)

by Francis da Silva (CSF June 11) was well written. In Sausalito, the 122nd annual IDESST Holy Ghost Festival was celebrated May 23 on Pentecost. This year almost 100 Holy Ghost Festivals will take place throughout California, in which more than a quarter million people will experience these unique celebrations brought to the United States by our pioneers from the Azores.

Mrs. M. M. Filippi Mill Valley

Women in Medicine The story recently published in Catholic San Francisco on Mercy High School’s Women in Medicine (CSF May 21) was wonderful. You captured beautifully the essence of the program and those terrific girls.

Liz Belonogoff, Admissions Director Mercy High School, San Francisco

Where’s Father Rolheiser?

Just wondering what happened to Father Rolheiser’s column, which was missing in the May 21 edition of the paper.

I hope that he has not been permanently deleted from Catholic San Francisco. He is definitely my favorite writer, providing solid theological food for thought.

Maryjane Knoll San Francisco Editor’s note: Father Rolheiser’s insightful column appears regularly in Catholic San Francisco. Sometimes he gets a week off, a practice which he would agree is good for the spirit.

Language of the Heart Reading Ron Rolheiser’s article, “Deeper Language,” (CSF May 28) brought back so many good memories. I had the grace and privilege of sharing community LETTERS, page 19

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Potpourri

It’s time for reasonable apologetics Why are so many insisting the Catholic Church is to blame for all manner of evils, and guilty of unspeakable crimes? It’s a question in dire need of being answered in this culture of anti-religion that focuses almost exclusively on Catholicism.

By constantly being barraged via the media by declarations that the Church is “guilty” of this and that; that she is to blame for clergy scandals, dissident nuns, poor Mass attendance, trendy liturgies, etc., we have become so inured to the general contempt heaped upon her, we have forgotten our obligation to defend our faith against those who would perjure it. Sadly, these attacks come not just from the proponents of anti-Catholicism, but from practicing Catholics as well.

This being the case, then Catholics blaming the Church per se must necessarily conclude that the Church founded by Christ is an imperfect Church. By use of reasonable apologetics, it is up to the rest of us to clarify for our brethren this mistaken notion by pointing out that the Church, being infallible, is not only exempt from actual error, she is exempt from the possibility of error.

The Catholic Encyclopedia clarifies this further by stating that the Church does not require holiness of life, much less imply impeccability in its organs. Simply put,

this means that the Church cannot err; only her members can err.

This current condemnation of the wrongs of some priests, followed by the unsuitable reactions of their bishops, has even brought into question the Church’s infallibility, and that of the Pope. The Catholic Encyclopedia blows away this nonsense by stating that, “If He bestowed the gift of prophecy on Caiphas who condemned Christ (John 11:49-52; 18:14), surely He may bestow the lesser gift of infallibility even on unworthy human agents. It is, therefore, a mere waste of time for opponents of infallibility to try to create a prejudice against the Catholic claim by pointing out the moral or intellectual shortcomings of popes or councils that have pronounced definitive doctrinal decisions, or to try to show historically that such decisions in certain cases were the seemingly natural and inevitable outcome of existing conditions, moral, intellectual, and political. All that history may be fairly claimed as witnessing to under either of these heads may freely be granted without the substance of the Catholic claim being affected.”

In other words, the office of Pope, except in cases of faith and morals, and all clergy, does not come with a guarantee of impeccability, and the anger of many

Catholics over the bad decisions and shortcomings of some of our leaders, while perhaps at times justifiable, should not tarnish the Church, which of, in, and by herself is flawless and which Jane L. Sears is, according to Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Immortale Dei, a “perfect society,” the external glory of God. That the Church, because of her inherent holiness has always been persecuted is a well-known fact, but the current misconception that all blame for the mistakes of her members be laid on the Church, is a wrongful assertion. Despite the enormous scandals and disgraces currently attributed to her, the unequivocal assurance given to us that Mother Church is exemplary should not give us pause, but should reassure us that the mistakes of her members can never defile her sanctity.

and count the minutes until naptime – that glorious respite which moves twice as fast as the boys’ waking hours. It is a constant challenge for me to lift my eyes past the demands of the potty breaks, the frustration of squabbles over toy trains, the all-consuming, physically exhausting tasks of parenting. So often, I find myself wishing I could just press a button and fast-forward to a magical future moment when the boys are older, bigger, easier to raise.

And then I catch myself. Grace comes. It often comes when I look at those small shoes, sitting empty on the shelf, bringing me back to reality. The little feet that fill those sneakers and sandals are precious now, right now, just as they are. When I look at those shoes, I realize more than ever how those feet have walked their way around and around my heart. They have left little prints there, indelible ones. I am not the same person that I was before.

Since having the boys, I often find myself blindsided by waves of fierce, visceral love. It’s a love that feels almost like sadness, because you realize how much these little people have added to your life. You unconsciously sense the gaping hole, the bleak negative space, which

would be left if they were not there. You realize that you are blessed, every day, by their exhausting, whirlwind presence.

So when I look at the empty shoes, it’s a reminder. It reminds Ginny me that those boys have Kubitz Moyer walked squarely into my heart and hunkered down and made their home there. There is a space carved out for each of them, a space that they alone can fill, a space that it is my privilege to give.

Really, though, I’m the one who’s been given the gift.

Jane L. Sears is a freelance writer and a member of Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame.

Of Grace and Sippy Cups

Shoes in a row The boys’ shoes sit on the shelf, lined up in a neat row. There are two pairs of sneakers; now that the weather is warmer, two pairs of sandals as well. We keep them always in the same place, having learned the hard way that there are few things more frustrating than tearing through toy boxes for a missing shoe when we’re already running late.

I look at those shoes often in the evenings, when the boys are fast asleep in their beds. I see Lukey’s little brown Stride Rite shoes, with their thick Velcro tabs. I pat Matthew’s sneakers, the ones he wore so often that they literally started to come apart.

When they are off of the boys’ feet, I can really see how small those shoes are. It’s easy to forget that when those sneakers are in motion, running on the grass or grabbing for a foothold on the side of the couch. But in their resting position, they look so tiny. They look vulnerable.

They pull at this mom’s heart with a force I would never have imagined.

The days can be long when you have young kids; I’ve learned that in the last three years. You look at the clock

Ginny Kubitz Moyer is the author of “Mary and Me: Catholic Women Reflect on the Mother of God.” Contact her at www.blog.maryandme.org.

The Catholic Difference

Catholic revival in Europe?

In mid-May, Pope Benedict XVI made an apostolic pilgrimage to Portugal; half a million people attended the outdoor papal Mass at Fatima.

When the pope returned to Rome, 200,000 pilgrims jammed St. Peter’s Square for Benedict’s recitation of the Sunday Regina Coeli, demonstrating their support for a pontiff beset for months by criticism over abusive clergy and irresponsible bishops.

A week later, a 44-day exposition of the Shroud of Turin in the cathedral of that northern Italian city concluded. Over the course of six weeks, some 2 million people braved long lines to spend a few brief moments before what many believe to be the burial clothes of Christ.

To vary Mark Twain: Have reports of Christianity’s death in Europe been greatly exaggerated?

It’s a fair question, and as one who has been ringing the alarm bells about a European crisis of civilizational morale since the publication of “The Cube and the Cathedral” in 2005, I’m obliged to try to answer it.

The answer is: It’s too early to tell.

The vast flock of pilgrims at Fatima, the enthusiasm for the pope manifest on a sunny Roman spring day, the extraordinary numbers who came to see the Shroud— these are all encouraging signs. So is the intense piety that continues to be evident in Poland, most recently in the wake of the tragic deaths of so many national leaders in an April plane crash, while they were en route to the killing grounds of the Katyn forest. So, in an odd way, are the virulent attacks on the Church and the pope these

past several months. No one expends energy berating an institution deemed moribund and an 83-year-old man considered an irrelevance; the attacks themselves are evidence that Christian faith—and the Catholic Church—remain factors in European culture and European public life.

Moreover, if World Youth Day 2011, to be held in Madrid next Aug. 16-21, turns out a million or more young pilgrims, which seems possible, a challenge will have been laid down to the hyper-secularist Zapatero government in Spain and to Europe’s aging children of the Sixties, who may tolerate Christianity as a personal lifestyle choice (if considering it an exceedingly odd one) but who also insist that 21st century European public life must be stripped of religiously-informed moral argument.

The game-changer in all this, however, will be when these mass public displays of Christian conviction and piety become culture-transforming, and thus capable of getting traction in the public square. And it’s not easy to see that happening in Europe anytime soon. European Catholicism has little of the infrastructure for cultural combat that has been built in the United States over the past few decades.

For example: there is simply nothing in Europe like the periodical First Things and its stable of writers, whose essays and articles demand attention from public officials, academics, the general media, and other opinion merchants.

That’s not my idiosyncratic view as a longtime First Things contributor and now the chairman of its board; that’s what my European friends and colleagues tell me.

Getting that kind of cultural traction requires hard work and resources. Above all, however, it requires a critical mass of radically converted Christian disciples, who have been George Weigel through moments like Father Robert Barron of Chicago lived in Turin: “I have to admit that it was one of the most extraordinary religious experiences of my life. The marks on the Shroud—including the blood stains—are clearly visible, which means that the brutal reality of the Passion is clearly visible. Staring at the Shroud, I was brought vividly back to that squalid little hill outside the city walls of Jerusalem in the year 30 where a young man was tortured to death. But then the face of the figure comes into focus: that strange, haunting, noble, peaceful face, which discloses, at the same time, the depth of human misery and the fullness of divine mercy. In the face of the crucified God, the full drama and poetry of Christian faith is on display, the Answer which is anything but an easy answer, the Word which surpasses the word of any philosopher…”

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

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A READING FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS KGS 19:16B, 19-21 The Lord said to Elijah: “You shall anoint Elisha, son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah, as prophet to succeed you.” Elijah set out and came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat, as he was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen; he was following the twelfth. Elijah went over to him and threw his cloak over him. Elisha left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, “Please, let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, and I will follow you.” Elijah answered, “Go back! Have I done anything to you?” Elisha left him, and taking the yoke of oxen, slaughtered them; he used the plowing equipment for fuel to boil their flesh, and gave it to his people to eat. Then Elisha left and followed Elijah as his attendant.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11; R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.

Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge; I say to the Lord, “My Lord are you.

O Lord, my allotted portion and my cup, you it is who hold fast my lot.”

R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.

I bless the Lord who counsels me; even in the night my heart exhorts me.

I set the Lord ever before me; with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.

June 25, 2010

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time I Kings 19:16b, 19-21; Psalm 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10; Galatians 5:1, 13-18; Luke 9:51-62 R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.

Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices, my body, too, abides in confidence because you will not abandon my soul to the netherworld, nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.

R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.

You will show me the path to life, fullness of joys in your presence, the delights at your right hand forever.

R. You are my inheritance, O Lord.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE GALATIANS GAL 5:1, 13-18 Brothers and sisters:

For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. For you were called for freedom, brothers and sisters. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love. For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another. I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh. For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want. But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

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ith regard to the Scriptures and the teachings of Christ, I recall a person explaining to a priest, with a tone of all reason and logic, “Father, if I followed everything that is in that book, I would have to change my entire lifestyle!” In interviewing potential candidates for the RCIA, I have been told, on occasion, by the person making the inquiry, “I am looking for a church that will accept me for who I am.”

There is an attitudinal phenomenon of which almost everyone is guilty one way or another. We eagerly embrace the idea of the Gospel, of Christianity and of being a part of the Church, but with stipulations that make it more agreeable to our particular individuality. The late Pope John Paul II referred to this phenomenon as “cafeteria” Catholicism. I like to refer to it as “yes... but” Catholicism.

Jesus was no stranger to the reality of his followers wanting to classify “their” following; adjusting it according to their own circumstances. We hear it throughout the Gospel with potential disciples. Many who hear his message receive it with great enthusiasm and declare at least their intention to become His followers. Then they follow up by integrating a couple of provisos: Yes, “I will follow you wherever you go,” but...”let me first bury my father,” “let me say farewell to my family at home.”

Not much has changed among Christ’s

Scripture reflection FATHER WILLIAM NICHOLAS

“Yes...but” Followers followers down through the centuries. All of us have at least the intention to follow Jesus unreservedly; at least the intention to be a part of His Church. Yet how often do we add stipulations, provisos or exceptions; our own style of “yes...but” Catholicism? Yes, I am Christian, but I do not believe in ‘organized religion.’ Yes, I am a Catholic, but I do not agree with everything the Church teaches.

Yes, I follow Christ, but I still believe in a woman’s right to choose. Yes, I love God, but I do not believe I have to go to Mass on Sunday to be a good person. Yes, I am Catholic, but I am more traditional/liberal.

Yes, I am Catholic, but I am not religious.

Jesus is aware of the shallowness of His potential followers’ intentions and He responds to their requisites accordingly. In a few familiar passages it would seem that Jesus is determined to lay on, as heavily as he can, the obligations and expectations that come with being His Disciple; His own “yes...but” answer to their “yes...but” stipulations: Yes, you want to follow, but “the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head,” “let the dead bury their dead,” “no one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit...” In another place, Jesus says to a prospective follower: Yes, you have followed the law, but you still must “go sell

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 9:51-62 When the days for Jesus’ being taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem, and he sent messengers ahead of him. On the way they entered a Samaritan village to prepare for his reception there, but they would not welcome him because the destination of his journey was Jerusalem.

When the disciples James and John saw this they asked, “Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?” Jesus turned and rebuked them, and they journeyed to another village.

As they were proceeding on their journey someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” Jesus answered him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.” And to another he said, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, let me go first and bury my father.”

But he answered him, “Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” And another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home.” To him Jesus said, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God.” all you have and give to the poor, then come follow me.” It is a wonder that any of His followers stayed considering the unyielding provisos Jesus Himself heaped upon those who expressed an interest in following Him. Unmoved by the conditions of those who hear His word, Jesus continued to remind them of just what it means, without exception, to be His followers.

It is, indeed, a hard reality to grasp that the Church founded by Christ is not oriented toward simply accepting us as we are, with all the conditions, provisos and stipulations we wish to attach to our embracing the Gospel; that yes, Jesus accepts us as we are, but loves us too much to leave us that way. Rather, Christ, in and through the Church, calls everyone to an ongoing conversion of our lives; a refocusing of our priorities, a changing of our lifestyle, a re-orienting of our outlook to the standards, challenges, and life-giving priorities Jesus has given us in His preaching of the Kingdom of God. We are called to embrace the reality that yes, Jesus loves us, but He also calls us to a complete and ongoing conversion if we are to be His followers.

Father William Nicholas is Parochial Vicar at Our Lady of Loretto Parish in Novato. Visit his website at www.frwcnicholas.com.

Archbishop’s Journal

Is there a compromise Jesus?

Jesus Christ is gentle, “meek and humble of heart” (Matthew 11:29), but he can also seem so demanding and uncompromising that we are intimidated. The Gerasenes felt that way about this man who dealt so radically with their possessed neighbor and with their herd of pigs (Luke 8:2639). Perhaps they would have felt better disposed toward the healer if he had stopped at the cure and not permitted their squealing investments to be driven over the cliff. The Gerasenes were some of the first people to choose between Jesus, on the one hand, and peace and prosperity, on the other. They made the popular choice: they asked him to leave town.

Compromises of all sorts tempt us: moral, spiritual, personal, political, economic, and social. All the time, however, Jesus is uncompromising, and we need him to be uncompromising. If that is hard to understand, imagine for a moment a “compromise Jesus.” Picture him with the woman caught in adultery (John 8:3-7), as she cowers before him and the crowd. Then imagine Jesus saying something like this: “If some of you haven’t sinned too very much, at least not lately, perhaps you could throw a few of the smaller rocks.”

Imagine Jesus calling the rich young man (Matthew 19:21) to go, sell everything, put it into a trust fund, and

then follow him for a while to see whether it felt agreeable enough to stay with him. Or imagine the Messiah responding to the Pharisees’ rebuke for curing people on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-12) by promising to cut down on it gradually, or to limit it to extreme cases only, or to try to schedule healing for sunset, or even later. Those are the responses of a forgettable prophet, one who will die in bed and not on a cross. He’s not the Jesus we need, the radical Jesus who challenges us to our roots.

The compromise Jesus is related to another false image of God more prevalent in recent years: the divine pushover in the sky, the “Good Old God,” a kind of cosmic sweetheart who could never be angry with anyone, let alone condemn what they do. Even the most wrong-headed, wrong-hearted, and destructive attempts at human living and relating will be fine with Someone Up There Who Likes Everything About Us. “Good Old God” thinks everyone should get an E for effort, or maybe even an A for attempt.

What’s wrong with that image of God? Jesus is wrong with it. We have only to look at his treatment of the woman accused of adultery. Jesus does not condemn her, but neither does he say something fuzzily “modern” to her: “I understand, dear. Yours was probably an arranged marriage. No doubt your husband is much older than you, and he travels

a great deal. You were lonely, and Jerusalem is a big city. Besides, we know that social mores are changing rapidly all across the empire.”

Instead, noting that no one else has condemned her after his challenge to them, Jesus Archbishop says, “Neither do I conGeorge H. demn you. Go, (and) from now on do not sin Niederauer anymore” (John 8:11).

For Jesus, sin is sin, it calls for repentance and conversion, and there is always compassion, forgiveness, and grace from God. As Christians, we reject the motto “Anything Goes,” and say instead, “Everything is grace” (to summarize Ephesians 2:4-10).

The reflection above is from Archbishop George H. Niederauer’s book, “Precious as Silver: Imagining Your Life With God,” published in 2004

by Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, IN.

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Spirituality for Life

Discerning the truth Many of us today tend to be intimidated by any kind of knowledge that makes scientific claims. Who dares argue with science? Who dares argue with the experts?

Very few, and those who do are easily dismissed as backward or ignorant.

And so inside of our lives, objectified expertise generally trumps moral insight or, worse still, is simplistically identified with it. Truth is truth, science has the truth, and science trumps our moral concerns (which can be made to appear parochial and fear-based in the face of scientific claims). Thus the idea is prevalent that we should listen to the scientific experts when it comes to discerning the truth.

But is it really that simple? And who really are the experts? What makes someone an expert? A post-graduate degree? Being a mother who’s raising her family well?

Being a respected researcher? Living a good life? Being steady and faithful? There are various kinds of experts.

Moreover there is also the issue of personal integrity and how this relates to “expertise”. What’s to be said for the truth of someone who produces scientific insight but who leads an unhealthy life? Does man or a woman’s personal life affect his or her research and professional expertise?

Many great thinkers - philosophers, theologians, and even scientists - would say that it does. Truth can never be divorced from moral insight since truth and morality are really one at their base. Hence personal integrity or lack of it in any researcher or scholar in some way does color his or her expertise, however imperceptible this might be on the surface. How? Aristotle, for example, had a concept he called phronesis, which taught that it is impossible to separate the teaching of truth from the practice of virtue. For Aristotle, genuine knowledge, the type that ultimately makes you a better human being, could not issue forth from someone whose intellectual theory and personal moral life were radically out of sync.

Albert Einstein, in effect, said that it is impossible to do research that does not include a lot of me-search.

Who we are and what perspective we have on reality will always help determine how we see the world and articulate any theory about it. And who we are and our perspective on reality is always partly shaped and deeply colored by our own moral lives. Our moral lives deeply influence our research because they help shape our eyesight.

The medieval mystic, Hugo of St. Victor, had an axiom for this: Love is the eye! For him, our eyesight is largely shaped by either the love or bitterness that is inside of us at any moment. When I look at the world with love, I see it one way; when I look at the world with bitterness, I see it another way. That’s also true for every researcher.

Granted mathematics is beyond emotion, but the realities in love, in friendship, in to which we apply it aren’t. kindness, in fidelity, in Finally, and not least, Jesus teaches that we see the hope, in peace-making, world accurately only to the extent that we are pure of in courage, in prayer, in heart. When he said this he wasn’t just talking about honesty, in chastity, in having purity of heart in order to see straight religiously, aesthetics, in practical he was affirming that purity of heart is a pre-condition in sanity, and in humor. order to see straight in every way, religiously, morally, When you are lookpractically, and scientifically. ing for stars by which to Father What we see through a microscope is partly colored guide your life scan the Ron Rolheiser by how we are feeling about life in general and how we heavens widely. Don’t are feeling about life in general is deeply colored by how lock-in on one narrow we are living morally. corner. There are many And so what’s the lesson? stars, each with its own particular expertise in giving off The lesson here is not the one that you sometimes light. hear in circles of fundamentalist religion, namely, that we should stop listening to scientists, academics, and techOblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, nological experts and should try to dispute their insights teacher, and award-winning author, by using scripture. Our task is not to become defensive is President of the Oblate School of Theology about the findings of the various professional academies, in San Antonio, TX. He can be contacted to stop studying.

Rather, these are the lessons: through his website www.ronrolheiser.com.

First, honor the findings of genuine science and research even if you aren’t always enthralled about their source. All truth has Our culture is in crisis. The fear of marriage one author, God. Thus God and of children. The lack of courage and will. is the source of the bible and God is also the source The reliance on government as provider of of science and its findings. solutions. The increasingly common question: Accept truth in all its guisDoes human life have any real value or meanes, but be less intimidated ing? by the teachings of those experts who claim scienHow did we get here, and where can we find answers? tific objectivity without acknowledging their own Join human rights activist and Walk for Life West Coast limits, their own hidden co-founder Dolores Meehan as she explores these judgments, and their own questions with major thinkers such as Father Michael biases, particularly when their truth touches quesSweeney, OP; Bishop Salvatore Cordileone; author Mary tions of health, meaning, Eberstadt; Professor Janet Smith; Fr. Joseph Fessio, SJ; morality, and happiness. and others, as they remind us that our Catholic tradition A good researcher admits does indeed provide us with the spiritual, intellectual, and elements of me-search, is humble about the truth. moral resources to Reclaim the Culture.

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■ Continued from page 11 you only need two.’ He said there are people who come to that early Mass, a handful, who are older people, and they are responsible for most of the collection on Sunday. He has to make that judgment.

CSF: As a Church, why are we so defensive? Why are we so risk-averse when we have the best story in the world? Why are we letting others fill that space? Why aren’t we competing? When did we stop competing? Are we waiting for the storm to pass?

Msgr. Schlitt: I think there are several reasons. One is the institution itself – we’re so top-down managed. Every priest is careful not be called in by the bishop for taking a risk....I think it’s part of the institution where we have a risk aversion because we don’t want to be in trouble. And it goes back also to 2002 when the abuse thing started and guys were not wearing their collars as much because a few remarks would be made on the street. I used to walk down to play handball at the Olympic Club, and I’d get people looking at me like I just fell off the abuse wagon. That didn’t help to drive guys further back into their holes. And I think the other thing would have been – I was pastor at St. Gabriel in the early ‘90s and when the kids would come up and hug your leg after Mass or want to be picked up, you always had a second thought about that. But 10 years before that, I used to tickle them and pick them up and hug them. You just have second thoughts about that.

CSF: That’s a tragedy.

Msgr. Schlitt: Isn’t it?

CSF: The last year of your job coincided with the Year for Priests. What was the most challenging experience in your vocation in the past year?

‘A lot of people have a deep spiritual sense that they keep to themselves, and they don’t explore any further. You need a deep spiritual sense to deal with the challenges of the day.’

Msgr. Schlitt: For me in this job it’s always been the budget situation because it irritates me to know I have to make some changes that will not please everyone and that will cause some bad feelings around the building and some

lowering of morale and all of that. That’s always been the challenge in this particular job. The challenge for my priesthood is always trying to get to be in a hurry about things. I’m going to make a concentrated effort. I hurry my prayers in the morning. The archbishop and I say our office together and we pray the Mass together when we don’t have something outside, and when that happens you slow down because you’re with somebody else. But when you’re by yourself it’s hard to give that time to God and not be in a hurry to get to the next meeting or the next person you’re supposed to see. I’m looking forward to not being in a hurry. I read somewhere that when you hurry your prayer life, you actually do violence to God. And I suppose if I were to be listing my faults that would be major to me.

CSF: What advice would you give a young man considering the priesthood?

Msgr. Schlitt: If there are any indications at all that you are looking to a life where you’d be able to help other people you should find out what’s it all about....If you have any inner feelings or thoughts of being a spiritual person or having a relationship with God or beyond yourself, if you have these feelings you should go try them out. And a way to do it is to go someplace where there’s a priest and you can make a retreat and spend some quiet time and really talking in depth and not just talking around. Try to see the thing through by yourself. A lot of people have a deep spiritual sense that they keep to themselves, and they don’t explore any further. You need a deep spiritual sense to deal with the challenges of the day. It has been a hard two to three weeks for me since we announced people are leaving here. If I didn’t have Mass and prayer in the morning and meditation to see that I’m doing my job, and having that leveling situation, it’d be harder. It’s unbearable. If religion is a crutch, it certainly is. It’s a good one for me.

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Letters . . . ■Continued from page 14 and ministry with Larry Rosebaugh (Padre Lorenzo) in El Salvador. How often we teased Larry about the way he slaughtered the Spanish language. Larry spoke the language of the heart, a more difficult language to speak than Spanish or Portuguese. I was shocked the morning I received the news of Larry’s murder, yet after a good cry and prayerful reflection, I came to understand that perhaps it was altogether fitting that Larry would die the way he did, sharing the same fate as so many street people who are killed and whose assailants are never found. Thank you, Ron, for linking Larry’s charism with the gifts of Pentecost.

Sister Laetitia Bordes, sh San Bruno

Powerful public prayer We would like to thank all those who participated in the 2010 Public Rosary Crusade, let by Father John Jimenez, on May 29 near San Francisco City Hall. Public prayer is powerful prayer. Thank you and God bless you, Helene H. Rosenthal San Francisco

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were two commentaries which appeared written by descendants of European immigrants. One stood out as a reliable consideration of the immigrant issue that has reached large political proportions. This was the examination by our brilliant, perceptive, faith-based commentator, George Weigel, who began by telling us that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Catholic political theory places a high value on the rule of law, which it regards as morally superior to the alternative â&#x20AC;Ś the rule of willfulness imposed by brute force.â&#x20AC;?

He adds that â&#x20AC;&#x153;A proper Catholic understanding of limited and constitutional government grasps that the state...which means the national government â&#x20AC;&#x201C; has the right to enforce its citizenship laws and the duty to conduct that enforcement in a just way.â&#x20AC;? And within those few principles, he suggests, lie an acceptable, if not perfect, solution to immigration reform.

The other contributor, Antoinette Bosco bemoans the alarmed Arizonians, caught in the violence of gang warfare, drug smuggling, and human trafficking, which have brought uncontrolled lawlessness spilling over the Mexicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s border. She says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I hear of the anger so many feel about immigration today, I say a prayer to dad in heaven.â&#x20AC;?

Ms. Bosco twists around the rational perspective of the importance of the rule of law, and asks whetherâ&#x20AC;?

America is becoming less sensitive, less caring toward the poor, the weak, the needy,â&#x20AC;? and leaves us castigated for having dared to see things in a way that holds on to the essence of our strength as a society, and the foundation of our Catholic Church, which stands firmly by the canons of justice. These canons, Weigel notes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;dictate that people should not be rewarded for law-breakingâ&#x20AC;?

Robert Jimenez Burlingame

Disagrees with bishop I was very troubled by the News in Brief section regarding â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nun excommunicated loses post over abortion decisionâ&#x20AC;? (CSF May 21). In the story, Bishop Olmsted said that â&#x20AC;&#x153;The unborn childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life is just as sacred as the motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life, and neither life can be preferred over the other.â&#x20AC;?

What would the bishop have preferred, that if both could not be saved that both mother and child should have been allowed to die? The medical team came to a heartbreaking conclusion, that unless the baby was aborted the mother would die. I suspect they did not come to this conclusion lightly, but after a thorough review of the medical facts and a meeting of the hospitalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s medical ethics team, of which Sister Margaret Mary McBride was a member.

There are limits to what medical science can do to save people from death. In this case the medical and ethics team seems to have reached a very painful, but nevertheless responsible conclusion â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that at least one could be saved, and it would be the mother. Instead of excommunication, the bishop should have offered the nun spiritual counseling and humane support.

L. Tolmach San Francisco

Thank you for the item about my husband Dick and me in the June 11 issue of Catholic San Francisco. It generated many calls asking how I rated such great exposure in print. It just shows how popular Catholic San Francisco is. Everyone wants to appear in it. Almost every issue mentions someone I know, or knew, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a little like old home week in print.

Keep up the interesting information.

Natalie Egan Herb San Mateo

Catholic schools are good Thanks for including items on St. Timothy Elementary School in San Mateo in the June 11 issue of Catholic San Francisco. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a celebration of the good things that we do!

Rosemary Stuebing, Development Director St. Timothy School, San Mateo

Leading by example Thank you for publishing comments by Bishop John Wester (former auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, now Bishop of Salt Lake City and chairman of the USCCB Committee on Migration), including his commentary some time ago on immigrants and health care. His continued call for compassion and civilized discourse based on facts is an excellent model of leading by example.

Barbara Berman San Francisco

Kagan and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;settled lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan â&#x20AC;&#x153;considers abortion rights to be settled lawâ&#x20AC;? Yet Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s courts and legislatures have a proud history of changing â&#x20AC;&#x153;settled lawâ&#x20AC;? and flawed judicial decisions. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856) is the most commonly cited instance. The slaveholderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to property eclipsed and subsumed the slaveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to freedom. The Constitution was eventually amended to correct the error. And the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Separate but equalâ&#x20AC;? doctrine of Plessy v.

Ferguson (1896) sanctioning segregation was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education some 58 years later.

Many reversals of Supreme Court cases came about when new evidence was brought forward that made it clear that someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights, not previously recognized, were being violated. Thus, Louis Brandeis brought forward the facts about how workers were being harmed, and got the court to protect their rights.

Federal courts have upheld South Dakotaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s law requiring that abortion providers tell women that the procedure destroys a â&#x20AC;&#x153;whole, separate, unique, living human being.â&#x20AC;?

This came about because of the evidence presented to the court regarding the humanity of the unborn child. With hundreds of embryological sciences, and massive evidence of the harm abortion does to women, such evidence, combined with new legal concepts, can challenge Roe vs. Wade in the same way its erroneous ancestral decisions were challenged.

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NEW YORK (CNS) – The third time’s a charm with “Toy Story 3” (Disney/Pixar), the action-packed sequel to two of the biggest animated films of all time, “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2.” Arriving 15 years after the start of the franchise, “Toy Story 3” offers a satisfying and poignant conclusion with valuable lessons on family, friendship, and destiny.

Toy owner Andy (voice of John Morris) is all grown up and heading to college, which means putting away his childish things. This is the moment all toys dread, with only three possible outcomes: storage in the attic, donation to charity, or the garbage pile. “At the first sight of the trash bags, we leave,” says the leader of the green toy soldiers, as his battalion parachutes out of the open bedroom window.

Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen), and the rest of the “Roundup Gang” wax philosophical as the “warm and safe” attic beckons. “Every toy goes through this,” Woody says. “We’ve survived yard sales and spring cleaning.”

Although the toys have never been played with in years, Woody insists that is not their raison d’etre: “It’s never been just about being played with. It’s about being there for Andy.”

Before “Toy Story 3” gets too bogged down in discussing the meaning of plastic life and the destiny of playthings, the action adventure kicks into high gear. Woody is chosen to go to college with Andy, while

Animated characters Lots-o’-Huggin’ Bear, Buzz Lightyear and Woody are pictured in a scene from the movie “Toy Story 3.”

The film contains mild cartoonish violence and scenes of peril.

the other toys, prepped for the attic, are accidentally placed in the trash.

They escape, and joined by a reluctant Woody, spurn Andy and choose the next best option: donation to “Sunnyside,” a daycare center which promises the one thing toys desire – to be played with by a loving child.

At first glance, Sunnyside seems like Nirvana, and a warm welcome is offered by the resident toys and their benevolent leader, Lots-O’Huggin Bear (Ned Beatty). “Here there are no ‘overs,’ no heartache,” Lots-O

tells the refugees. “We are never abandoned or forgotten. We control our destiny.”

Woody is not convinced, and his loyalty to Andy leads him to part company with his friends. But his journey home is cut short, and Woody lands in the arms of a caring child, Bonnie (Emily Hahn). Her home offers even more new toys to play with, including a hilarious porcupine dressed in lederhosen, Mr. Pricklepants (Timothy Dalton), who fancies himself a classically trained actor slumming among amateurs.

Meanwhile, back at Sunnyside, the rest

of the gang savors their peaceable kingdom – until the children arrive. The toddlers are unruly and destructive, and this dream world becomes a nightmare.

Lots-O, moreover, rules with an iron paw, imposing prison-like conditions after hours on the new arrivals. Sunnyside becomes a very dark place, and scenes of toy “torture” (and a rather menacing Big Baby doll) may upset or confuse the smaller ones in the audience.

Taking a page from “The Great Escape,” “Toy Story 3” ramps up the action when Woody learns the truth and returns to help his friends. “We’re a family. We stay together,” he insists.

The journey is perilous, but “Toy Story 3” never forgets its core audience. Good triumphs over evil, and the denouement is heartfelt, hope-filled – and handkerchiefworthy.

Directed by Lee Unkrich (“Toy Story 2,” “Finding Nemo”) with music, once again,

by Randy Newman, “Toy Story 3” is a film for all ages. Baby-boomer parents will appreciate the gag-driven script with plenty of innuendo (the blossoming relationship between the Barbie and Ken dolls steals the show), while kids will delight in all the new characters – and drag their parents to the toy store afterward.

The film contains mild cartoonish violence and scenes of peril. Catholic News Service classification is A-I – general patronage. The MPAA rating is G – All ages admitted.

More reviews are available online at www.usccb.org/movies.

Fascinating book on papal response to Nazism draws upon archival material “POPE AND DEVIL: THE VATICAN’S ARCHIVES AND THE THIRD REICH” by Hubert Wolf. Translated by Kenneth Kronenberg. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Mass., 2010). 316 pp., $29.95.

Reviewed by Eugene J. Fisher (CNS) – Between 2003 and 2006, the Vatican released for scholarly study all materials in the Secret Archives relating to the pontificate of Pope Pius XI (Feb. 6, 1922-Feb.

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10, 1939). With “Pope and Devil,” Hubert Wolf, professor of church history at the University of Munster in Germany, has gone through these materials to provide a fascinating “insider” view of how the Vatican sought to cope with the great danger that was German National Socialism.

The title of the study is from a 1929 statement by Pope Pius XI explaining the treaty he made with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and subbsequent treaties with Francisco Franco inn Spain and Adolf Hitler in Germany: “If it were possible to save even a single soul, too shield souls from greater harm, we wouldd find the courage to deal even with the devil himself.”

Pope Pius XI’s secretary of state in 1933 was Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, who in 1939 would succeed him as Pope Pius XII and who, Wolf shows, strongly shared this view.

Cardinal Pacelli was the nuncio to Bavaria and then to Germany from 1917 to 1930, so Wolf spends a great deal of time on him and his attitudes toward Germany and the Jews, which give necessary background for the decisions he ultimately makes as pope during World War II. Wolf’s careful and balanced analysis will greatly enhance the reader’s appreciation of the complexities facing both Pope Pius XI and Pope Pius XII. The author details two key experiences of Cardinal Pacelli’s in Germany that he believes lie behind what Wolf calls his “silence” about the Holocaust as pope.

The first is the failure of the Holy See’s peace initiative during World War I, from which he learned the necessity of remaining neutral in international conflicts, since there would inevitably be Catholics on both sides of the battle lines and no pope could hope to facilitate peace or justice if the appearance of taking the side of one over the other were given.

The other issue was historical, one ingrained in his training, which was the attack on the Church in Prussia (1871-91), in which the state closed down thousands of Catholic parishes and schools, leaving countless Catholics without adequate catechesis and forcing them to live and die without the sacraments. The lesson, again, was the necessity of working above all to preserve the Church’s right to meet the spiritual and pastoral needs of her people.

Both Pope Pope Pius XI and Cardinal Pacelli clearly

abhorred the paganism and racial anti-Semitism of Nazi ideology and considered them to be against the teaching of the Church, the latter because it denied the fundamental unity of humanity, that we are all descended from the same ultimate parents and that each human is made in the image and likeness of God. But how to effectively attack racial anti-Semitism and Nazism while at the same time maintaining the diplomatic neutrality necessary to ensure the survival of the Church? This is the major question that embroiled the Vatican internally during two papacies.

One example on which Wolf goes iinto great detail indicates the passions involved in these internal disputes within in the Curia. The first involved an associath tion, Friends of Israel, whose membership tio consisted of about 3,000 priests, among co them 19 cardinals and 278 bishops and the archbishops. This group fostered love for arc the Jews, hoping thereby to attract converts.

In 11928 it issued a pamphlet, “Pax Super Israel,” denouncing anti-Semitism, and Isra appealed to the Vatican agency for liturgical appe matters to change the wording of the Good matt Friday prayer for the “perfidious Jews,” using more positive terminology.

The congregation accepted the group’s new wording, but the Holy Office (now the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) rejected any reform of the liturgy as setting a dangerous precedent, and throwing into the bargain a demand to dissolve Friends of Israel. Pope Pius XI compromised.

He refused to make the changes and in an announcement disbanding the group specifically and clearly condemned anti-Semitism.

Wolf expressed disappointment with this decision, since such a change in the liturgy in 1928, he feels, likely would have had greater impact in combating anti-Semitism than did Pope Pius’ 1937 encyclical, “Mit Brennender Sorge,” which denounced anti-Semitism and the ideology of Nazism in clear terms. Cardinal Pacelli, who was secretary of state by that time, played a vital and positive role in the drafting of that encyclical.

Fisher is retired associate director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi La Porziuncola Nuova Columbus at Vallejo in San Francisco’s North Beach The Porziuncola and “Francesco Rocks” Gift Shop are open every day but Monday from 10 a.m.

– 6 p.m. Visit www.knightsofsaintfrancis.com To volunteer and become a Knight of Saint Francis, contact Jim Brunsmann at jimbrunsmann@ comcast.net or go to www.knightsofsaintfrancis. com and follow the Volunteer Application link at the bottom of the home page.

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

Single, Divorced, Separated Information about Bay Area single, divorced and separated programs is available from Jesuit Father Al Grosskopf at grosskopf@usfca.edu (415) 422-6698.

Would you like support while you travel the road through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers support for the journey. The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (SDCASF) has two ongoing support groups in the 1st and 3rd weeks of each month. There is one on the Peninsula, at St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Dr, San Mateo, on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the Spirituality center on the main floor of the ‘school’ building. The other one is in the parish hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown, San Francisco, on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m. Call Gail (650) 591-8452, or Joanne at St. Bart’s, (650) 347-0701 for more information.

Catholic Adult Singles Association of Marin County: “We are Catholics, single or single again, who are interested in making new friends, taking part in social activities, sharing opportunities for spiritual growth, and becoming involved in volunteer activities that will benefit our parishes, our community, and one

July 10, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.: Rummage Sale benefiting work of San Mateo Pro-Life at Ralston Ave. at Alameda de las Pulgas in Belmont. Visit www.sanmateoprolife.com

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Saturdays: San Mateo Pro-Life prays the rosary at Planned Parenthood, 2211 Palm Ave. in San Mateo at 8 a.m. and invites others to join them at the site. The prayer continues as a peaceful vigil until 1 p.m. The group is also open to new membership.

Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 5721468 or visit www.sanmateoprolife.com Saturdays, 9 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Rosary for Life 815 Eddy St. – Planned Parenthood – in San Francisco.

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TV/Radio Fridays at 9 a.m.: The Archbishop’s Hour on Immaculate Heart Radio, KSFB - 1260 AM, San Francisco. Enjoy news, conversation and in-depth look at local and larger Church. Program is rerun Fridays and Mondays at 9 p.m. and Sundays at 11 a.m. e-mail info@sfarchdiocese.org with comments and questions about faith. 1260 AM also offers daily Mass, rosary and talk on the faith. Visit www.ihradio.org Sunday, 6 a.m., KOFY Channel 20/Cable 13 and KTSF Channel 26/Cable 8: TV Mass with Msgr.

Harry Schlitt presiding.

Sunday, 7 a.m.: TV Mass on The Filipino Channel (TFC) (Channel 241 on Comcast and Channel 2060 on Direct TV. Saturday, 4 p.m.: Religious programming in Cantonese over KVTO 1400 AM, co-sponsored by the Chinese Ministry and Chinese Young Adults of the Archdiocese.

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

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

EWTN Catholic Television: Comcast Channel 229, AT&T Channel 562, Astound Channel 80, San Bruno Cable Channel 143, DISH Satellite Channel 261, Direct TV Channel 370. For programming details, visit www.ewtn.com

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Father Tom Seagrave, retired pastor of St. John of God Parish and now living at Serra Clergy House in San Mateo, was special guest of the class of 1960 from San Francisco’s now-closed and much-missed St. John Ursuline High School at an annual all-school St. John’s reunion April 25. Father Seagrave was among celebrants of a morning Mass at St. John the Evangelist Church where he and 13 members of the class of ’60 attended grade school together. “Because of Tom we’ve had several eighth grade reunions in the last two years with another in the works,” said Margaret Silva, whom we thank for the good news.

“Father Tom has touched all of our lives in so many ways over the last 50 years.

Please keep him in your prayers.” The class of ’60 presented a check for $1,200 to their grade school alma mater for its scholarship fund, Margaret said. another. We welcome those who would share in this with us.” For information, call Bob at (415) 897-0639.

Good Health July 1, 5 p.m.: Reclaim Your Life: Options for Total Joint Replacement, a free seminar to discuss all of the latest surgical techniques for joint replacement at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan Street, 3 East Conference Room – 3rd Floor. Dr. Jason Provus will be on hand explaining the specific details of surgery and your recovery. Call (888) 457-5202.

July 15, 5 p.m.: Managing Joint Pain and Arthritis, nearly half of all Americans suffer from arthritis.

Come and learn activities you can do to ease your hip and knee pain without surgery. Presented June 17 by Ashley Scott Bernstein, physical therapist, and July 15 by Pam Holmes, Physical Therapist at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan Street, 3 East Conference Room – 3rd Floor. Call (888) 457-5202.

June 30, 2:30 p.m.: Cancer 101, a free seminar to learn about cancer prevention. Dr. Cecily Fitzgerald will discuss ways to prevent cancer, give tips on diet and exercise as well as answer your questions on various cancer treatment options at St. Mary’s Medical Center, 450 Stanyan Street, Doctor’s Dining Room – Level B. Call (888) 457-5202.

Pauline Books and Media Daughters of St. Paul, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City (650) 369-4230 - Visit www.pauline.org Fridays, 6:30 p.m.: Pauline Books & Media in Redwood City hosts Faith & Film night. Explore movie themes and engage media culture from a faith perspective. Film begins promptly at 6:30 p.m.

June 25: Remember the Titans; July 2: The Count of Monte Cristo; July 9: Freedom Writers; July 16: Romero; July 23: Pride & Prejudice; July 30: Dead Man Walking; Aug. 6: Paul VI; Aug. 13: Invictus; Aug. 20: Quiz Show; Aug. 27: The Blind Side. For more information go to www.PaulineRedwood.blogspot. com, or call Pauline Books & Media, 2640 Broadway, Redwood City, (650) 369-4230.

Second Wednesday of the Month, 7 p.m.: Catholic Fiction Book Club. Delve into some of the greatest Catholic novels of our times and times past. Discover the beauty of the written word and the power of literature to nourish faith. Discuss various works of Catholic literature and how their timeless themes relate to our own lives.

Taize/Sung Prayer 1st Friday at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan.

Call (650) 340-7452; young adults are invited each first Friday of the month to attend a social at 6 p.m. prior to Taize prayer at 8 p.m. The social provides light refreshments and networking with other young adults.

Convenient parking is available. For more information, e-mail mercyyoungadults@sbcglobal.net.

Tuesdays at 6 p.m.: Notre Dame Des Victoires Church, 566 Bush at Stockton, San Francisco with Rob Grant. Call (415) 397-0113.

3rd Friday, 8 p.m.: Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. For further information, please contact Dominican Sister Beth Quire at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.

“Why Africa Matters?” – The Lane Center Summer Lecture Series at Xavier Hall on Main Campus of the University of San Francisco. July 7: Religion and Politics; July 14: Ministry in the African Church; July 21 Challenges from Christianity’s New Center of Gravity. Jesuit Father Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, Provincial of the Eastern Africa Province of the Society of Jesus, will facilitate the talks.

Free and open to the public. No reservations required. All sessions are 5 p.m.

– 6:30 p.m. Visit www.usfca.edu/lanecenter or call (415) 422-5200.

Sept. 25, 11:30 a.m.: All school reunion for graduates, former students and friends of St. Brigid High School at the Presidio Officers Golf Club. Contact Pat Sabatini at (650) 685-5666.

October 22: Class of ’60, St. Cecilia Elementary School Wine and Cheese Party in the parish Collins Center. Event includes tour of the school and the opportunity to participate in the annual Parish Festival. Contact Bob O’Donnell at rjodfc@ yahoo.com or Nancy Sarlatte Murphy at nancymurphy1248@comcast.net October 23: Class of ’60, St. Cecilia Elementary School Reunion Dinner at the Irish Cultural Center.

Contact Bob O’Donnell at rjodfc@yahoo.com or Nancy Sarlatte Murphy at nancymurphy1248@comcast.net Class of ’60 from Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma. Contact Linda Brewer at brewer@ sbcglobal.net or visit www.holyangelscolma.com or call (650) 755-0220.

Class of ’60 from Notre Dame High School in Belmont is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Bettina Igoa McCall at Mcbett@comcast.net or (510) 851-2344.

Holy Cross Cemetery 1500 Old Mission Rd. in Colma, (650) 756-2060 July 3, 11 a.m.: First Saturday Mass in All Saints Mausoleum. Capuchin Father Michael Mahoney, pastor of Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame, presides.

Special Liturgies Third Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Manifest Mysteries Rosary Prayer – Examine how the mysteries of the rosary are manifested in daily life using short film and the Dominican Rosary prayer. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.

First Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Lectio Divina – Pray with Sacred Scripture and share your Faith with others. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont. Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www. msjdominicans.org for more information.

Fourth Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m.: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament –Silent prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. 7:30 - 8:30 pm at Dominican Sisters of Mission San Jose, Motherhouse Chapel, 43326 Mission Blvd. (off Mission Tierra), Fremont.

Call Sister Beth Quire, at (510) 449-7554 or visit our website at www.msjdominicans.org for more information.

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Youth Ministry Coordinator St. Gabriel Parish is seeking a Confirmation Program and Youth Ministry Director, the candidate should be a person willing to work as a part ministry team.

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Saint Philip Preschool is Seeking Teachers Full-Time Pre-K Teacher: Plan and implement a Pre-Kindergarten curriculum that promotes literacy, pre-math skills, critical thinking and creativity. Co-ordinate with preschool team. Maintain frequent and open communication with parents. Position requires a BA or AA in Early Childhood Education and at least four years of teaching experience. Prefer experience with a variety of curriculum approaches to the Pre-K year and the transition to kindergarten.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of May HOLY CROSS COLMA Vicente B. Abecendario Quirico A. Abordo Frank L. Allen Vera A. Allen Mathilde Sison Bagao Julie Rubi Balangue Joseph Bao Maria Bao Gloria A. Barone Lorraine M. Bartolini Joseph G. Bates Cecilia S. Bautista Arnold M. Benson, Sr. Laurette L. Bergez Irene Marie Bertetta Ramon N. Blanco Beverly Frances Bonnici Barbara Noemi Albano Bonoan Carolina M. Borromeo Madalene Bregante Genevieve N. Brun Frances Anolin Cabig Hilda E. Camozzi Oscar E. Carcamo Marciano B. Carnero Georgina Grace Catania Palmina Cavalli Manuel D. Chavez Louis M. Chiappe Isabelle J. Christensen Billy H. Comstock Anthony Robert Cruz Bernardo DaSilva Dennis Dean Leon L. Del Grande Therese A. Derby Buenaventura “Ben” Cusi Dimapasoc Ann G. Dougherty Andrew Driscoll James Edwards Luisa Ezquerro Jack Fabbri

Alan Fabyancic Helen Marie Fanucchi Alfonso Fonseca Romulo B. Fontanilla Sharon R. Friel Leonie G. Gauthier Ernest Genovesi Audrey M. Gray Sr. Mary Gregory, PBVM Purificacion D. Gualberto Clotilde Guerrazzi Guadalupe Gurule Maria Gutierrez Guadalupe A. Herrera Claire E. Hines Mary Josephine Hudson Shirley Jovick Barbara M. Joyce Hortensia Juarez James H. Keeffe Eleanor Kendall Diane Gammon Kerr Hildegard Kevis Evelyn Beronio Koenig Roseann F. Kwartz Sofia Lacayo Raphael Legorreta Michael M. Lera Eleanor Monfredini Lewis Jose Manuel Lopez Wai Ming Louie Danilo Sergio Luna Eleanor P. Maglio Elba Olivares Mairena Frances D. Mannion Alejandra Mariano Elizabeth Marshall Leo Martinelli Carmelina de Jesus Martinez C. J. Mascaro Evelyn Bajada McCarthy Robert Arthur McInerney Curley O. McPeters Nina Angelene Meadors

Mary Ann Menconi Rosa M. Menjivar Gemma Micallef Willis A. Montgomery Norma J. Musante Olga I. Nathan John (Jack) Nelson Maria L. Nevarez Adriana Nunez Patrick M. Nyhan Catherine B. O’Donnell Mary Grace O’Nyon Concepcion F. Rosal O’Shea Marion Ocegueda Cynthia A. Ortega Manuel Padilla Edwina B. Perez Mary Louise Phillips Joell D. Pokorny Yvonne Pratt Martha Raygoza Catherine Raymond Candido Rebolledo Rodolfo G. Recio Cabiria Reinhardt Arthur J. Riccomini John A. Ring Dora A. Rivas Kelton Robertson Avelina Castano Rosales Kevin J. Ryan Pasquale Staleri Maxine N. Stanich Anthony Tanti Mary Ann Tostanoski Claire A. Urrere Frank Vetari Stephan Paul Vlautin David Peter Walsh Zenaida Warit Gertrude Marty Whitlow Wah Wong Norman J. Yates Jin Hong Yi

J. Martin Yniguez Gertrude Young Theresa Sazio

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Garbiel Arreguin Colleen Walker Brooks Peter B. Dias Nunia Fatai Mary E. Gibson William T. “Bill” Gray, Sr. Susana Lopez Cpt. Carl H. Rosene, USCGR Ruth M. Rueter Thomas J. Yetso Mary Elizabeth Yost

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Rinaldo L. Guinasso Lucien Ingrassia Blanche Elaine Knoles Enrica Lazzarini Leopoldo L. Lopes Richard V. Nuttman

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR, HALF MOON BAY Apolonio Huerta Maria Pedroso Siste M. Crudeli Silva

ST. ANTHONY, PESCADERO Jeffrey C. Meze, Sr.

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA 1st Saturday Mass – July 3, 2010 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am

Celebrant: Father Michael Mahoney, OFM Cap. Our Lady of Angels, Burlingame

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375

MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020

PILARCITOS CEMETERY Hwy. 92 @ Main, Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1676

ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.