July 14, 2006

Archbishop Niederauer receives pallium from Pope Benedict XVI

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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer received the pallium from Pope Benedict XVI during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul June 29.

U.S. Archbishops Daniel N. DiNardo of GalvestonHouston and Donald W. Wuerl of Washington were also among 27 archbishops from 18 countries to receive the circular band of white wool symbolizing an archbishop’s authority and unity with the pope.

The pope and archbishops were dressed in brilliant red vestments, but the pope wore a longer, more traditional style of the pallium, which he reintroduced after his installation last year as bishop of Rome.

Pope Benedict XVI told the archbishops who had been installed within the last year that the powers of evil and death will never triumph over Christ and the church he built on the rock of Peter and continues to fortify with his successors.

Though the church and Christ are continually walking toward their cross, suffering and being tossed to and fro like a small boat on a sea whipped up “by the winds of ideologies, ... in the suffering church, Christ is victorious,” the pope said.

In his homily, the pope recalled the trials of Job after God allowed Satan to test the man’s faith. Similar trials continue to befall Christ’s faithful, and sometimes “it seems that God gives Satan too much freedom” and “the capacity to shake us up too terribly.”

But, just as Jesus prayed for Peter, he prays for the PALLIUM, page 4

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By Carol Glatz

Pope Benedict XVI greets Archbishop George H. Niederauer after presenting him the pallium during a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican June 29, the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul. The pallium symbolizes the archbishop’s authority and unity with the pope.

By Tom Burke San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester ordained six men to the permanent diaconate June 25 at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

The almost 2,000 member assembly for the Mass met and congratulated the new clergymen at a reception in the Cathedral’s downstairs halls following the rite.

The men’s ordination completes a fiveyear course of preparation that included classes, days of recollection, yearly retreats and formation in ministry. Archbishop George H. Niederauer was unavailable to preside due to his being in Rome to receive the Pallium June 29, from Pope Benedict XVI. “These men verify the statement ‘Ask a busy man to do something and it will be done,’” said Father David Pettingill, Director of Formation for the diaconate program and

a concelebrant at the Mass. “They are a bumper crop of deacons, if you will. They share a great love for the Word of God and effective ministry in preaching and the teaching of catechetics. I am proud of all of them, their wives and their families as well.”

“On behalf of the diaconate community of the Archdiocese I am delighted to welcome our newly ordained deacons and their wives,” said Deacon Leon Kortenkamp, Diaconate Director. “We look forward to sharing our lives and our ministries with you. Through your ordination, God has blessed and increased the total number of the local diaconate community to 79 deacons and 69 wives of deacons, all in service to the people of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.”

“The ordination rite was one of the DEACONS, page 6

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Bishop Wester ordains six new permanent deacons

Fr. Pettingill, Bishop Wester and Bishop Wang join newly ordained deacons in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Back row, from left, are Deacons Benjamin S. Salvan, Thomas Reardon, Richard Foley, Larry Chatmon, John Harvey Rittenhouse and Michael Murphy.

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By John L. Allen Jr. VALENCIA, SPAIN (NCR) - Benedict XVI is a master of ecclesiastical tradition, and in Valencia this weekend he executed a classic papal high-wire act — leaving no one in doubt about his political views, yet never directly challenging the opposition, hence leaving the door open to “doing business” where possible.

Pope Benedict’s homily for the closing Mass PAGE 16 In this coastal city in eastern Spain, for the close of a Vatican-sponsored “World Meeting of Families,” Benedict delivered a bracing defense of traditional church teaching on the family and human sexuality. In the Spanish context, it amounted to a clear challenge to Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who for many European Catholics has become an avatar of secularism run amuck.

Since coming to power two years ago, Zapatero’s government has either adopted or discussed legislation in favor of: – Same-sex marriage legislation; – Fast-track divorces; – Curbing religious education in state schools; – Supporting embryonic stem-cell research; – Easing abortion laws; – Reducing or eliminating public funding for the church.

Benedict’s disapproval of Zapatero’s program was unambiguous, yet always indirect.

“Attempts are being made to organize the life of society on the basis of subjective and ephemeral desires alone, with no reference to objective, prior truths such as the dignity of each human being and his

inalienable rights and duties, which every social group is called to serve,” the pope said in a Sunday morning Mass attended by one and a half million people.

In a similar vein, Benedict exhorted the Spanish bishops to “dauntlessly proclaim that prescinding from God, acting as if he did not exist or relegating faith to the purely private sphere, undermines the truth about man and compromises the future of culture and society.”

The pope minced no words in defining the family as “founded on the indissoluble marriage between a man and a woman,” drawing strong and sustained applause twice at the Sunday Mass.

Yet Benedict XVI never crossed the line into direct challenge to Zapatero. In fact, he never even mentioned the prime minister, or referred directly to the Spanish situation.

When tempted to do so, Benedict shifted to a positive register.

During a brief encounter with the press on the papal plane en route to Valencia, Benedict XVI was asked about the legalization of gay marriage in Spain.

“I would say that we shouldn’t begin immediately with the negative things,” Benedict XVI replied, “because we also see families that love each other, that are happy, and we want to encourage this reality, which gives us hope for the future.”

“It’s true that there are problems, things to which Christian life must say ‘no,’ “ the pope said. “We want to make people understand that on the basis of human nature, it’s man and woman who are ordained to one another, who are ordained to give humanity a future.

“Let’s shine a light on these positive things, so we can try to make people understand why the church cannot accept certain things, but that at the same time it wants to help people and to respect them,” he said.

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Benedict offers Spain gentle, unambiguous defense of tradition

Pope Benedict XVI waves from the popemobile as he arrives for the Fifth World Meeting of Families in Valencia, Spain, July 8. The pope urged mothers and fathers to be open to life and to create a home based on love, acceptance and mercy.

Upon arrival, Benedict again accented the positive.

“Christian faith and ethics are not meant to stifle love, but to make it healthier, stronger and more truly free,” he said in front of a million people Saturday night.

“Human love needs to be purified and to mature if it is to be fully human and the principle of a true and lasting joy.”

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Archbishop Niederauer and Father Michael Padazinski greet Pope Benedict XVI during a private audience on the day following the Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica.

(PHOTO BYCHRISTOPHER GRAY)

Archbishop Niederauer is joined by (from left) Fathers Labib Kobti, Patrick Michaels, William Nicholas and Kenneth Weare at the North American College reception.

Archbishop Niederauer with his cousin Anne Arthofer at a reception at the North American College in Rome.

Pallium . . .

■ Continued from cover church and its people “that your own faith may not fail,” he said.

After the ceremony, Archbishop Niederauer told Catholic News Service that when the pope talked about Jesus heading toward Jerusalem for his suffering and resurrection “that road is going to be the same for us.”

“We will not evade that cross, we will not evade the confrontations that come, but in Christ we will be able to carry

our crosses ... and be able to keep the promise we made to Peter, the church” and Christ, he said.

Seated near the altar was a delegation representing the leader of the world’s Orthodox believers, Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. The patriarchate is based in Istanbul, Turkey.

At the end of the Mass the pope and the head of the delegation, Metropolitan John of Pergamon, prayed together at St. Peter’s tomb beneath the basilica’s main altar.

The patriarch sends a delegation to the Vatican each year for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, the Vatican’s patron saints.

This year, Pope Benedict is planning to go to Turkey Nov. 28-

30 to participate in the Orthodox church’s celebration of the Nov. 30 feast of St. Andrew, patron of the patriarchate.

Other guests at the pallium Mass included a 70-member choir from Catholic Central High School in Grand Rapids, Mich., which along with the Sistine Chapel Choir and an Italian choir provided music.

In his homily, the pope emphasized that the ministry of Peter and all Christ’s disciples is “a commitment to service.” An archbishop’s authority over a church or an archdiocese, he said, is coupled with the responsibility of caring for his flock, like the Good Shepherd.

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Pallium . . .

■ Continued from page 4

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Archbishop Niederauer, Bishops John C. Wester, Ignatius Wang and priests of the Archdiocese of San Francisco celebrate Mass at a chapel near the tomb of St. Peter. Newly ordained Deacon John Rittenhouse is at far left.

Archbishop Niederauer with Patrick Powers (left) and H.E. John H. McGuckin, Jr., Lieutenant of the Northwest Lieutenancy of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. At left, a mosaic from Ravenna, Italy, depicts St. Apollinaris wearing the cloth pallium of a bishop, similar to the one worn by Pope Benedict XVI.

Even though Peter was weak and failed Jesus, he was still called to strengthen others because he had at last learned that building the church is not a job done alone, but is done with others and with the help of God, the pope said.

During the ceremony, each archbishop came up individually to the pope, bowed and knelt as the pope placed the woolen stole over his head. The pope warmly shook hands with each one and engaged in a brief conversation.

Archbishop DiNardo’s twin sister, Peg Riesmeyer of McMurray, Pa., said later that when she saw her brother kneel for his pallium she “got teary-eyed” and thought how much she wished their parents, both of whom have died, could have been there.

“Dan always wanted to be a priest; from the time he was 4, that’s what he wanted to do,” she said.

She said she always felt he was destined for great things since he “seemed to have the will, the desire, the passion to become a priest,” so receiving the pallium represents “a blessed, happy fulfillment of what we always thought Dan could do and would become.”

Archbishop DiNardo told CNS that becoming a new archbishop “means a great deal” and that receiving the pallium gives “the sense of your responsibility for the unity of your church.”

He said Pope Benedict has referred to the pallium as “a sweet yoke,” that is, a bittersweet responsibility to preserve the unity of the church with Peter and his successors.

Archbishop Wuerl told CNS that in the

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Archdiocese of Washington Mass is celebrated each weekend in more than 20 languages.

The ethnic, linguistic and cultural traditions of the city’s people all are part of the church there, he said, and the archbishop’s job is “to highlight what we share — one faith, one baptism, one Lord — and, at the same time, to rejoice in our diversity.”

Archbishop Wuerl added that with the nation’s capital being in his archdiocese politics plays a big role. He said the church is not partisan, but rather speaks about issues and values, “what is needed to build a good and just society.”

“In the pews are people with a range of political perspectives” and the archbishop must ensure that “the voice of the church is not pre-empted as a political voice,” he said.

On the day following the Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, Archbishop Niederauer celebrated Mass at a chapel near the tomb of St. Peter along with San Francisco Auxiliary Bishops John C. Wester, Ignatius Wang and priests of the archdiocese.

Later that day Archbishop Niederauer had a private audience with Pope Benedict XVI. He was joined by his cousin Anne Arthofer; Fr. Michael Padazinski, Judicial Vicar of the archdiocese; Msgr. Jose Rodriguez, Vicar for Spanish Speaking; and David Schunk, a seminarian for the Archdiocese of San Francisco studying at the North American College in Rome.

In the days following, Archbishop Niederauer led a group of parishioners from the archdiocese on a pilgrimage which included a trip to Assisi.

Cindy Wooden of CNS and Catholic San Francisco staff contributed to this story.

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Paulist Father David Dwyer is the publisher of the popular BustedHalo website (www.bustedhalo.com), an online magazine for “spiritual seekers� in their 20s and 30s. He is also director of Paulist Young Adult Ministries. Fr. Dwyer will deliver a keynote reflection entitled, “Young Adults Living in the Light,� on the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Bishop’s Pastoral Plan for ministry with young adults.

Prior to answering the call to priesthood, Fr. Dwyer produced and directed shows for MTV and Comedy Central.

Dr. Eleanor Ann Brownell, retired vice-president of William H. Sadlier publishers and a popular speaker on church education, will speak on the conference’s theme, “Take me as I am.�

On Saturday, San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer will celebrate Mass for participants in St. Ignatius church to be followed by a dinner and dance.

Throughout the conference workshops will be held with topics such as “Quest for Intimacy Today,� “Top 10 Reasons to be Catholic,� “From Me to We: Choosing Marriage for All the Right Reasons,� and “Faith and Politics: Bring it to the Table.�

The cost for the entire conference is $140 per person and includes all meals, events and dinner dance. Excluding dinner dance, cost is $90. Groups of five or more can register at a discounted price of $112.50 for the entire event.

Visit website www.sfyam.org to register online or for further information. Several pre and post event activities are being organized separately including a Giants Baseball game, Mission District tour and Sonoma Valley wine tour.

Details are available at the website.

The conference is sponsored by the National Catholic Young Adult Ministry Association and the Archdiocese of San Francisco in cooperation with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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sponsored a “Theological-Pastoral Congress� on family issues.

During this session, Cardinal Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, laid out the social teaching of the church with respect to the family.

The family “does not receive its legitimization from the State, nor can it be considered a simple component of the social system,� Martino said. In fact, the family “precedes and is the foundation for both civil society and the State.� “The family is the first form of natural society, and holds its own rights,� Martino said. It is “the primary location of interpersonal relations, and the context in which the individual is formed.�

The official theme of the World Meeting of Families was “the transmission of the faith in the family.�

Bishop Ricardo BlĂĄzquez PĂŠrez, president of the Spanish bishops’ conference, citing several works of thenCardinal Joseph Ratzinger, argued that it is not enough simply to expose youth to prayer and the gospel, which he described as a “Protestant visionâ€? of faith formation.

It’s also necessary, Blåzquez said, to foster in young people a sense of being shaped by the church.

One clear theme from discussions at the congress was the contribution made by grandparents to families, as well as the church’s pastoral care of the elderly.

The congress featured three “tracks,� one for theologians, one for young people, and one for grandparents. Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, Australia, told NCR that he was most impressed with the final message of the grandparents’ assembly, which, he said, was a “simple, but quite beautiful� statement.

The statement called for optimism with regard to the family and the contemporary social situation, asserting that “the love of God is stronger than our sins.�

Several speakers, Pell said, stressed the crucial role played by grandparents and other elderly relatives in a world in which both parents often work outside the home.

Elderly members of the family frequently become primary care-givers and “handers-on of the faith,� Pell noted.

Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio, addressed the importance of the “apostolate to the elderly� in his remarks at the congress, observing that many elderly persons today feel isolated, and that offering them pastoral care is an important task for the church.

In his remarks Saturday night, Pope Benedict included a special appeal for grandparents, urging that “in no way should they ever be excluded from the family circle.�

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profound and meaningful moments in my life,� said Deacon Richard Foley. “It was both a culmination of discernment and study in responding to a calling from God as well as a beginning of a life of service to God’s people. I am humbled by and grateful for this opportunity.� “The Rite of Ordination really brought into focus for me what Church is all about, as I was absolutely overwhelmed with the love, prayers, and support of so many people from so many different parts of my life,� said Deacon Michael Murphy. “I simply hope in the future to continue to have the opportunity to work with and know and love all these incredible people who go into making up the community of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.� “I can’t begin to describe our ordination in any terms but a visible and shared moment of God’s Grace and the greatest moment of humility,� said Deacon Larry Chatmon. “I don’t think that I have landed yet, with all the people of faith wishing me blessings.�

Additional concelebrants at the ordination Mass included San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop Ignatius C. Wang; Capuchin Father Harold Snider, pastor, Our Lady of Angels; Father James Tarantino, pastor, St. Hilary ‘s; Father Piers Lahey, pastor, Good Shepherd; Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Gawlowski, pastor, St. Paul of the Shipwreck, and Father David Ghiorso, pastor, St. Charles.

Deacon John Harvey Rittenhouse will minister at St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon. Deacon Richard Foley will minister at Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame. Deacon Benjamin S.

Salvan will minister at Church of the Good Shepherd in Pacifica.

Deacon Thomas Reardon will minister at St. Gabriel Parish in San Francisco. Deacon Larry Chatmon will minister at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Parish in San Francisco. Deacon Michael Murphy will minister at St. Charles Parish in San Carlos.

The diaconate is a rank in ordained ministry behind priest and bishop. From about the fifth century until the Second Vatican Council it was used almost exclusively to describe the final stage in preparation for ordination to priesthood. The council declared that the diaconate could also be restored as a permanent and separate rank and that married men may be ordained to this rank.

Pope Paul VI restored the permanent diaconate in 1967.

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Irish sisters elect first Indian leader

Sisters Mary Hanrahan, Joan O Sullivan, Teresita Abraham, Emer Manning and Mary Deane.

The Union of Presentation Sisters founded in Cork, Ireland in 1775 by Nano Nagle has elected an Indian sister as Congregational Leader for the first time in the order’s history.

More than 250 representatives of the Presentation family from throughout the world met for a Congregational Gathering in May where they heard reports on the work of the order from various countries and elected a new leadership team.

The new leader, Sister Teresita Abraham, is a native of Kerala, India. She comes from a family of nine and is a teacher by profession. She joined the Presentation Sisters in 1972 and has worked in teaching, congregational leadership and among the poor in Zambia.

Assisting Sister Teresita in her new responsibilities is a leadership team of four other sisters including United States Provincial Leader Sister Joan O’Sullivan. A

native of County Kerry, Ireland, Sister Joan has lived in the U.S. for 30 years. She has worked in education and counseling throughout California and once served as a counselor at St. Gregory parish in San Mateo.

Sister Antonio Heaphy, Director of Pastoral Ministry and Evangelization at the Archdiocese of San Francisco for the last nine years, will assume provincial responsibilities for the U.S. on an interim basis when Sister Joan joins the international leadership team in August. Sister Antonio, who is also currently Assistant Provincial in the U.S., will be leaving the archdiocese at the end of July due to her additional responsibilities with her order.

Other leaders are Sisters Mary Deane from the English Province, Mary Hanrahan of Ireland, and Emer Manning, an Irish native who has worked in Pakistan since 1978.

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St. Denis church celebrates 150th anniversary

By Evelyn Zappia Archbishop George H. Niederauer presided at a celebratory Mass June 10 at St. Denis Parish in Menlo Park, marking the church’s 150th anniversary.

Following Mass, parishioners joined the archbishop in the Parish Memorial Garden where he blessed a statue of Mary, Mother of Consolation.

The statue of Mary was a gift to the Church in memory of Barbara Mape Skarston, according to Father Vincent Ring, pastor. “The statue can be viewed from the inside of the Church. It was made by Marianist Brother Joseph Aspell, the artisan who created many of the works for Pope John Paul II’s visit to San Francisco in 1987,” he said.

St. Denis Church was dedicated by Archbishop Joseph Alemany, O.P., June 8, 1856. It was the first Catholic church built on the peninsula between Mission Dolores in San Francisco and Mission San Jose, 50 miles to the South.

The church was named in honor of the patron saint of Dennis Martin, a successful Irish pioneer who built the church on his property for his family, neighbors and employees. He also built eight homes for his workers.

The parish was originally staffed by Jesuit priests. Early pastors included Jesuit Fathers Joseph Bixio and Michael Accolti, founders along with Father Anthony Maraschi, of St. Ignatius Academy, which later became St. Ignatius High School and the University of San Francisco.

Martin gave freely to those around him until hard times came his way. The redwood forests which supplied much of his livelihood slowly diminished, and the lumber mills began closing. His workers left the area to find jobs elsewhere. By 1867 the church was closed.

It was not until 1961 that Archbishop John J. Mitty reestablished St. Denis Parish.

By 1995, St. Denis was once again changing when Our Lady of the Wayside in Portola Valley became a mission of St. Denis after being closed as a parish under the 1995 Archdiocesan Pastoral Plan.

Today, the parishioners of St. Denis Parish continue to follow the lead of Dennis Martin by recognizing the importance of giving to those in need through many outreach programs.

One program that continues to grow is the monthly Maple Street Shelter outreach project where parishioners

Archbishop Niederauer blesses statue of Mary, Mother of Consolation at St. Denis parish.

prepare and serve Sunday dinners to approximately 50 homeless or needy residents. The volunteers also provide entertainment following the dinners.

Two years ago, several of the parish’s Confirmation students and their families prepared and served one of the dinners as a service project in their year of preparation for Confirmation, according to Mercy Sister Mary de Chantal, pastoral associate.

In 2001, the parish began a special collection for school children in Africa.

The parish was addressed by Mr. Kimeli Wilson Naiyoman of Maasilan, Kenya, who explained there was a great need in his village to reopen a school. St. Denis parishioners responded generously.

In 2003, Kimeli returned to St. Denis with his family and the chief of his tribe to thank the parishioners for all their tremendous help. “Our gift helped to build three new classrooms for the children of Empurkel Primary School,” said Sister Chantal. The government had shut the school down because it did not meet the minimal standards, she said. “Because of our gift, the school has been reopened. It

is where Kimeli’s education began 20 years ago, under a tree,” Sister added.

The 2004-05 Confirmation candidates initiated “Operation Drop a Line” where parishioners sent letters to the Armed Forces serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Often, special projects to help others or exhibit concern are suggested by individual parishioners. For example, a recent postcard campaign was organized by parishioners to encourage President Bush to become more involved in the Darfur peace talks and provide sustained U.S. leadership in the Sudan region.

Today, the parish continues to live by the rule of its mission statement “We the Catholic Church of St. Denis and Our Lady of the Wayside, in a communion of faith and charity with the successor of Peter, reach out and receive with welcoming arms all of God’s people. . .”

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Assisted suicide bill rejected by Senate panel Dolejsi called the bill’s rejection by legislators “a wake-up call.”

“What’s truly needed in our state is quality health care coverage for all and quality hospice care. This addresses the wishes of many people, not acceding to the wishes of just a few people,” he said. “All of us in California need now to work hard for the expansion of hospice care and palliative care and to embrace those among us who are dying.”

Among the other organizations aligned with CAAS were

one of Orange County’s Catholic bishops, who opposed the measure, and a UC Davis bioethics expert, who supported it.

Berg contended that Dunn’s fears wouldn’t come true, SACRAMENTO - Opponents of assisted suicide were based upon eight years of experience in Oregon since it elated June 27 after the state Senate Judiciary Committee became the first state in the nation to allow the practice of rejected a long-dormant bill that would have allowed terphysician-assisted suicide. minally ill patients to obtain life-ending drugs.

“There has never been any question among rational peoThe deciding vote was cast by outgoing Sen. Joseph Dunn, a ple that this practice would be expanded and offered to Santa Ana Democrat who chairs the committee. He said he strugpeople who are not dying,” she said. gled with how to vote on the bill but ultimately decided he did Susan Penney, an attorney for the California Medical not want to see the poor and disabled urged to end their lives so Association, said in testimony that the Oregon hospitals and the medical industry could cut costs. law hadn’t been in effect long enough to ensure During a 15-minute speech prior to casting his that it wouldn’t be extended to cover more than no vote, Dunn, who is being termed out at the end ‘All of us in California need now to work hard for the terminally ill. of the year, said “in this society, more often than “It’s entirely premature to argue that there is not, public policy decisions are driven unfortunate- the expansion of hospice care and palliative care no slippery slope,” she said. ly by money concerns, not by policy concerns.”

AB 651 would have allowed a physician to Supporters of AB 651, co-authored by and to embrace those among us who are dying.’ prescribe a self-administered, life-ending Assemblywoman Patty Berg, D-Eureka, and for an adult who requested it and had Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys, after – Ned Dolejsi, California Catholic Conference drug been found by two doctors to be mentally being unable to gather the necessary three votes competent and within six months of death. on the five-member Judiciary Committee, After an earlier version of the bill stalled in the declared defeat on the right-to-die movement in California. the California Medical Association, the California Disability Representatives from a broad coalition of groups opposing Alliance, the California Foundation for Independent Living Assembly last year, Berg and Levine amended aid-in-dying the bill, called Californians Against Assisted Suicide, which Centers, the Western Service Workers Association, the provisions into AB 651, which had already passed the included the California Catholic Conference and the Alliance Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals, and the Assembly and was awaiting action in the Senate.

The Judiciary Committee vote was 2-2, with Senators for Catholic Healthcare, said the legislation’s defeat should be League of United Latin American Citizens.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger never took a position on Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, and Martha Escutia, Dthe end of the debate on physician-assisted suicide in the state.

“We’re very pleased,” said Ned Dolejsi, executive direc- AB 651. In January he said he would rather see assisted sui- Norwalk, supporting the measure and Dunn and Sen. Tom Harman, R-Huntington Beach, opposing it. The fifth comtor of the California Catholic Conference in Sacramento. cide addressed in a voter initiative than in the Legislature.

During an emotionally charged hearing that drew about 120 mittee member, Sen. Bill Morrow, R-Oceanside, was “The testimony from opponents, including a hospice nurse, representatives of disability rights’ groups, and an ethicist people to testify, Dunn said he wrestled with his position on the absent, but aides said he also opposed the bill. from the California Medical Association, provided con- controversial assisted suicide bill. The San Francisco Chronicle Julie Sly is editor of the Sacramento Catholic Herald. reported June 28 that during the past week Dunn consulted with vincing arguments to defeat this bill.”

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‘Life’ in a parish

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orenzo has been attending the same parish church since 1994. For some time he and others had been trying to get a parish council established. Finally, in November 2003, with the arrival of a new pastor, Jesuit Father Stephen Barber, who came with a commitment to establish a parish council, Lorenzo and other parishioners became the charter members of the parish council of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Our Lady of the Rosary is the Catholic Chapel at San Quentin State Prison. Fr. Stephen Barber is the Catholic Chaplain. Lorenzo is a 37 year old inmate doing 15 years to life for a second degree murder he committed in 1986.

Lorenzo was one of three brothers raised by a career Air Force mechanic and his wife. He grew up in the north Bay Area, where his Dad worked for an oil refinery after he retired from the military. Lorenzo was raised in a Catholic environment. By the time he was in high school, he was a leader in the parish youth group, playing football and working as a lifeguard. By this time there was also a great deal of tension and conflict with his father. Lorenzo began to drink to deal with his emotional pain. He graduated in June of 1986 and was excited about being the first one of his family to go on to college. He also was in love with a 15 year old sophomore.

In September, Lorenzo’s world fell apart. Four days before he was to start college, His father told him he would not pay for any of his college expenses. At the same time, he discovered that his girlfriend wanted to end the relationship. Lorenzo was hurt, angry and depressed enough to consider suicide. He got his father’s .38 caliber revolver and intended to go to a remote area and kill himself. He went to his parish church to talk to the youth ministry coordinator, but she was not there. He then decided to go to the high school and see his girlfriend.

He took two bullets out of the revolver so that the hammer would fall on an empty chamber if the trigger was pulled. He confronted his girl friend as she came out of class and they argued.

She tried to walk away and he pushed her against the wall. He pulled out the gun, pointed it at her and pulled the trigger. The hammer hit a live round. By the time Lorenzo was taken to the police station, the girl had died.

Lorenzo thought God had abandoned him, but during his 20 months in county jail, he was visited and counseled by four priests who brought God back into his life. He began to study Scripture and pray, and by the time Lorenzo was sent to Old Folsom Prison, and later to the state prison in Vacaville, he was an altar server and lector at Mass.

Lorenzo acknowledges the devastation he caused. He took the life of a 15-year-old girl, an only child. He caused immeasurable pain to her parents, family and friends, violated their trust and support, and in every way permanently shattered their lives. In a different but painful and lasting way, his own parents and family members were devastated, as were the students and staff at his high school. His mother was made to feel like an outcast at church. No one feels more remorse and sorrow for what he has done than Lorenzo. And no one has done more to change his life, to live his life in a way that would honor the young woman he killed, to live his life in a way that would honor God. Since 1994, when he was transferred to San Quentin, Lorenzo has also served as sacristan, altar server, lector and Eucharistic Minister at Holy Rosary Chapel. In 2001 he successfully persuaded the Archdiocesan School of Pastoral Leadership (subsequently renamed the Catholic Studies Institute) to bring their curriculum to San Quentin. Lorenzo and 11 other inmates

participated in classes over a 30-month period, renewing their faith, learning more about the teachings of the Church, developing their prayer life, and in the process, becoming a small faith community.

Lorenzo’s story is not unique. Steve is 45 years old and doing 15 years to life for a second degree murder he committed when he was 20 years old. He was raised by a single mom and ran away when he was 13. He got involved in drugs and alcohol, bounced from one family member to another, did a stint in a program for juveniles at Synanon, and eventually went back to the world of drugs, both using and dealing. He tried to help a young woman get away from an abusive boy friend, and in the process a struggle took place, and Steve stabbed the man to death. He spent his 21st birthday in county jail awaiting his trial.

Steve rediscovered his faith 14 years ago, took the SPL classes, serves as lector and Eucharistic minister and is one of the original Parish Council members at San Quentin. He knows that while his victim’s family has not forgiven him, God has forgiven him, and He wants Steve to forgive himself. He is a man of faith, a man of prayer and if he got the chance outside, I believe he would be a man of service, helping vulnerable families who need support and isolated kids who need role models.

Dwayne grew up in southern California, the youngest of seven children of a loving, spiritual mother and an abusive, alcoholic father. He was a three sport athlete in high school and played junior college football before he joined the Navy. He returned to school after his military service, but got caught up in the “fast” life, nightclubs, casual sex and drugs. His continued use of drugs led him to participate in a robbery in which he shot and killed a man. He was sentenced to 25 years to life for first degree murder. During the trial, Dwayne wrote a letter of deep remorse and apology to the wife of his victim and she forgave him. In fact she sat with Dwayne’s mother and wife during the court proceedings.

After Dwayne arrived at San Quentin, he started going to Mass. He was welcomed by the chaplain at that time, Fr. Jack O’Neill, who guided him back to his faith and a life of prayer.

He is a member of the Parish Council, an altar server, Eucharistic minister, co-director of the choir and also the drummer for the choir. Since 1986 he has been working with youth to attempt to divert them from the juvenile justice system, work that he would like to continue on the outside.

Ron grew up in a working class San Francisco neighborhood and went to Catholic grammar and high schools. He spent two years in the Army and went to work for the phone company. He married and had four children. After a traumatic automobile accident, job injuries and two major surgeries, he found relief in alcohol. He was divorced in 1977 and entered an alcohol treatment program. He remarried a few years later to a woman with two sons. He eventually began drinking again and they later separated. After another stint in a treatment program, they reconciled, but it didn’t last, and struggling with multiple health issues, his drinking worsened. After this, he was at his estranged wife’s house, and exploding in anger, he shot his wife and two step sons, killing one of the young adults. In 1985 he was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to 15 years to life plus 6 years for the weapons and assault offenses. His conviction was subsequently overturned by the state appellate court. After the District Attorney’s office withdrew a proposal for manslaughter, Ron accepted a plea to second degree murder with the understanding that with good behavior, he would be out of prison by 2000.

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Sitting in a county jail cell under suicide watch, Ron found God, or perhaps more accurately, parole, and with an understanding that those who serve their time without problems would be God found Ron. Since his conviction, he has been in five different prisons, arriving at San Quentin eligible for parole as soon as their minimum number of years are served. in 2000. That journey has coincided with his journey of I have only come to know these men since the faith, a journey of sorrow and remorse, a journey of Spring of 2005. The names I’m using here are not prayer and meditation, and after two unsuccessful parole ‘Some would say that taking a life real, but their stories are real. There are many folks hearings, a journey toward acceptance of God’s will. He should mean life in prison, period. far more versed in prison ministry than I am, Fr. Steve has been through the Kairos Retreat, a non-denominaBarber, Fr. Jack O’Neill, Lorraine Moriarty, John Kelly, tional three and a half day retreat based on the Cursillo It is an understandable point of Ray McKeon, Sister Marguerite Buchanan, Deacon model. He has taken the School Of Pastoral Leadership Bernie O’Halloran, and so many others. But I do know classes and sits on the Parish Council. Like Lorenzo, view. But are there not exceptions?’ that because an inmate attends Mass at the Chapel, Steve and Dwayne, he lives every day with what he did does not mean he is ready to get out. I do know that and whom he hurt, but also like Lorenzo, Steve, Dwayne and so many others, he knows that God not everyone who might be eligible for parole is in fact suitable for parole. has forgiven him and therefore he has been able to forgive himself. As he wrote three years ago, My oldest son is a police officer. He puts himself at risk every night he goes to work. He knows “God has accomplished in me what I was unable to do, He restored me to life.” as I know, that there are people on the street who should be in prison. He knows as I know, that Ray grew up in the south Bay Area the third oldest of four brothers and two sisters. His there are people in prison who should not be let out. Some would say that taking a life should parents were loving and caring Catholics, and Ray learned the value of hard work from his mean life in prison, period. It is an understandable point of view. But are there not exceptions? father who remodeled homes. He started drinking and smoking marijuana in high school. He Are there not extenuating circumstances? Are there not times when we can say prison has served barely graduated and went to work, but his life was spinning out of control. His parents were its purpose? Are there not times when we can say rehabilitation has been accomplished?

Lorenzo, Steve, Dwayne, Ron, Ray and many others with whom I’ve spent time on Thursday extremely concerned and thought that joining the Navy would help Ray straighten up. He lastnights and Sunday mornings at San Quentin, are men of deep spirituality, full of remorse for the ed only two months and returned to a routine of work, partying, drugs and alcohol.

In one evening, Ray’s life and the lives of many others were radically changed. Ray’s 13 year old crimes they committed and the great harm they brought to others. They are qualified and capable brother was going to an A’s game with their 20 year old neighbor. Ray’s Dad asked Ray to go because of earning their way and serving others on the outside. Lorenzo knows diesel mechanics, welding, he didn’t trust the neighbor. On their way to the game they stopped and picked up a case of beer. After computer programming and is a trained machinist with a number of job offers waiting for him the game they picked up two young men, and as they were driving, the twenty year old suggested that on the outside. He hopes to earn an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering. Steve has they rob the two young men. The young men an A.A. degree in engineering and eventually wants to get a Bachelors degree. Dwayne wants to became apprehensive and asked to be let out continue the work he has been doing for the last twenty years, mentoring young adults and trying of the car. Ray exited the freeway, drove to a to keep them out of the justice system. Ron is 66 and has a vested pension, but would prefer reemside road and stopped the car. The young ployment with the phone company or some other work that would suit his skills. Ray men got out of the rear seat on the passenhas an A.A. degree and is an accomplished cabinetmaker with a job ger side and the 20 year old got out and waiting for him at his brother’s door and winbegan to assault them. Ray went around dow shop. He also wants to the back of the car and joined in the volunteer as a youth counfight. Ray and his neighbor got back in selor. All of them want to the car and along with his thirteen actively participate in parish year old brother, left the scene. Back life. All of them are rehabilitated in the car, the twenty year old stated by any objective standard.

Should they have been held that he had stabbed both men. Ray accountable? Yes. Should they have kept driving, leaving both men on been punished? Yes. Should they be the side of the road. One of them held far beyond the term of their adjudied from his wounds.

During his time in county dicated sentence even though they have jail, Ray was visited by his met all the criteria for release? No. They parish priest and by his famiwere not sentenced to life without the ly. Ray was convicted of second possibility of parole. They were sentenced degree murder and was sentenced to 22 years to life. with the possibility of parole. They have During his early years in prison, Ray worked, played sports and done their time and then some. They are smoked dope. He became a skilled cabinetmaker, generally stayed out of trouble and not the same men they were when they did served his time. In 1995 his interior life finally started to change. He began to attend A.A. meettheir crime. We need to see them and know ings and for the first time, to abstain from marijuana. After he was denied parole, he was transthem for who they are now, not who they were ferred to San Quentin. In October that year he attended his first Kairos retreat, and his spiritual 20 or 25 years ago. We need to see them as livjourney really began. That weekend he finally realized that God, through His Son, Jesus Christ, ing witnesses to the transformative power of faith. If we are followers of Jesus Christ, then we believe in could forgive him, and therefore he could forgive himself. He could forgive himself as he put it, the power of redemption and forgiveness, and if we believe, then we need to live that belief.

In November of 2004, Ray went for his seventh parole hearing. He assumed he would be “for being a murderer and a coward.” He could finally experience true, deep, spiritual remorse denied, but this time, to his amazement and joy, he was found suitable. He gave thanks to God. for what he had done. He could apologize for the life that was taken, for the lives that were Five months later, the Governor reversed the suitability finding. Ray remains in San Quentin, destroyed, for the nightmare that he forced his younger brother to experience, for all the pain not losing hope and not losing faith. This April Ray was found suitable again and his fate is and devastation that he had caused. He could begin to follow Jesus Christ, and in doing so, he once again in the hands of the Governor. Dwayne has a parole hearing in September. could begin to serve others. He became involved in two mentoring programs designed to divert After being denied four previous times, the Board of Parole Hearings found Lorenzo suitable young men from the justice system. He also facilitates a program for inmates focusing on for parole in November of last year. The Board received over 75 separate letters of support for accountability and integrity, and for dealing with life issues without relying on substance abuse.

Lorenzo. Subsequently, the parents of Lorenzo’s victim claimed that they did not receive notice of the November parole hearing. As a result the full Board held another hearing on Lorenzo on RESPONSIBILITY AND REHABILITATION In the Spring of 2005, we completed our strategic planning process at Catholic Charities February 22, and disapproved the November decision. He was given another suitability hearing CYO. Among other things, we determined to be far on June 28. There was a split decision and his case is more aggressive in doing parish outreach and respondagain being referred to the Board of Parole Hearings to ‘We need to see them as living ing to parish needs. Shortly after that, the first request be taken up in the next month or two.

On the last Sunday before Christmas, I went to Mass for help we received was from the Parish Council at Our witnesses to the transformative at San Quentin and received Communion from Lorenzo.

Lady of the Rosary Chapel at San Quentin. I was asked My prayer is that sometime in the not too distant future, to join a group of folks involved in prison ministry to power of faith. If we are followers I will go to Mass at Lorenzo’s new parish, receive assist Lorenzo and the other Council members in develCommunion from him, and if he has time, maybe take oping a policy statement for the California Catholic of Jesus Christ, then we believe in him out to breakfast. And God willing, in the near Bishops. The statement was presented to San Francisco future, I will go to Mass at Steve’s parish, and Dwayne’s Auxiliary Bishop John Wester and Sacramento the power of redemption and parish, and Ron’s parish, and Ray’s parish, and if they Auxiliary Bishop Richard Garcia who visited San forgiveness, and if we believe, have time, take each one of them out to breakfast.

Quentin in September. With some help from the group, These are men who have caused a lot of pain and the guys did a great job writing recommendations then we need to live that belief.’ have experienced a lot of pain. These are men who relating to victim assistance, prevention and alternabecause they are so intimately familiar with pain and isolation and suffering, are close to God. tives to incarceration, services to inmate families, prisoner education, re-entry services and term Maybe some of that closeness will rub off on those of us who pay attention to them. to lifers who are denied opportunities for release. Term to lifers are inmates who were given a Brian Cahill is the Executive Director of Catholic Charities CYO. sentence ranging from a minimum number of years (e.g. 7years) to life, with the possibility of

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Amos 7:12-15; Psalm 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14; Ephesians 1:3-14 or 1:3-10; Mark 6:7-13 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET AMOS (AM 7:12-15) Amaziah, priest of Bethel, said to Amos, “Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying, but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.”

Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets; I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. The Lord took me from following the flock, and said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.”

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14) R. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

I will hear what God proclaims; the Lord - for he proclaims peace.

Near indeed is his salvation to those who fear him, glory dwelling in our land.

R. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss.

Truth shall spring out of the earth, and justice shall look down from heaven.

R. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

The Lord himself will give his benefits; our land shall yield its increase.

Justice shall walk before him, and prepare the way of his steps.

R. Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your salvation.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS (EPH 1:3-14 OR 1:3-10) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with

every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved.

In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace that he lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight, he has made known to us the mystery of his will in accord with his favor that he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth.

In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ. In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised holy Spirit, which is the first installment of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s possession, to the praise of his glory.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK (MK 6:7-13) Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick - no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave.

Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against them.” So they went off and preached repentance. The Twelve drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.

Scripture FATHER PAUL SCALIA

Possess Poverty When our Lord first sends His Apostles into spiritual combat, He provides them with an essential weapon: nothing. “He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick - no food, no sack, no money in their belts.” (Mk 6:8) Of course, this “nothing” is the evangelical counsel of poverty, the renunciation of possessions for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Our Lord places this at the center of the Apostles’ mission, and therefore of the Church’s life.

Poverty does not mean that we cannot own anything. The Church has explicitly rejected such thinking. Most of the faithful exercise rightful ownership, for the good of their families, communities and the Church herself. At the same time, however, the allure of created goods can so dominate us that we become possessed by our own possessions. The constant concern about the body and the world — “What shall we eat?” or “What shall we drink?” or “What shall we wear?” (Mt 6:31) — distracts us from the soul and eternal life.

For this reason men and women religious take a vow of poverty, freely choosing to own nothing except what their superiors provide, so that they will be freer to focus on the spiritual life.

Their witness reminds us that detachment from created goods — simplicity of life — is obligatory for all the faithful.

This poverty, or detachment, is at the beginning of the spiritual life. We cannot take the first step in blessedness — that is, the first Beatitude, “Blessed are the poor in spirit” — without simplicity of life. We cannot see our spiritual poverty unless we experience at least a little material poverty. Attachment to possessions also obscures the providence of God and damages our ability to trust Him. If we look to created goods to fulfill our every need, then we will never know or trust our heavenly Father, who feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass of the field.

Poverty serves the moral life by cultivating the power necessary for all virtue: the ability to deny one’s self. Poverty is the first step to constraining the appetite. If a man never exercises self-denial as regards possessions, then how will he be able to deny his other, more dangerous, more powerful, appetites and passions? The ability to endure trials and suffering in pursuit of virtue begins with the ability to go without and do with less.

Parents should recognize the importance of cultivating poverty in the souls of their children. A child who gets whatever he wants quickly becomes a spoiled brat, and will eventually become a man enslaved to his own appetites. Parents have a good and noble instinct to provide for their children. They must beware, however, that providing their children with material goods may deprive them of the spiritual benefits of doing without.

What is true for each soul within the Church is also true for the Church herself. Church history witnesses to the danger of riches and the power of poverty. Times of great corruption in the Church have invariably followed times of great wealth. And reforms rooted in poverty — the Benedictines, Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits, etc. — have inevitably born great fruit.

“He instructed them to take nothing.” Our Lord places in the hands of the Apostles not a weakness or a lack but a great weapon against the corrupting power of wealth. St. Dominic, the 12th century reformer, followed the Master’s example. On his deathbed he left his disciples an inheritance of just two words: “Possess poverty.” May we recognize the wisdom of this counsel and cultivate the nothingness that attains everything.

Fr. Paul Scalia is a priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia. This article originally appeared in the Arlington Catholic Herald.

Can a Catholic be a baptismal witness for a Protestant child?

Q. Just what is an anti-pope, and how Q. We have close friends of many years who are expecting a baby this fall. They are many have there been? (Hawaii) Methodists, devoted to their faith as we are A. An anti-pope is a man set up, usuto our Catholic faith. We’ve been asked to ally by some group or faction opposed to be sponsors or witnesses at their child’s the validly elected pope, as a rival “bishop baptism. We consider it an honor, but what of Rome.” There have been about 30 such is the Catholic Church’s rival popes in the history of the church. policy? (New York) The first known anti-pope was St. Hippolytus, a promiA. It is Catholic nent theologian, who policy that normally opposed what he godparents at bapthought were overly lax tism should be memattitudes toward sinners bers of the church or eccleon the part of the bishsial community in which ops of Rome in his day. the baptism is being celeHis followers elected brated. One reason is that Father John Dietzen him pope, but when he sponsors serve not only as relatives and friends; they also normally was sentenced, with Pope Pontian, by the commit themselves to support that child Roman authorities to the mines in Sardinia, as it matures in faith and commitment to he renounced his “papacy” and his errors.

Both of these men died as martyrs in 235 or the Christian life.

It is also Catholic belief, however, that 236 A.D. Their feast day is August 13.

From 1309 to 1377, the popes lived “in a valid baptism in any Christian faith makes one part of the larger community exile” in Avignon, France. During this time, of believers in Christ. This is one reason a political and nationalistic animosities, and baptized person of another denomination deep divisions and turmoil in the church promay serve as a witness at a Catholic bap- duced such a series of anti-popes that it was difficult at times to determine which were the tism, along with a Catholic godparent.

For the same reason, and because there authentic popes and which were not.

The last anti-pope, Felix V, was elected may be other ties of friendship and family, a Catholic may serve as a Christian wit- by a regional council in Switzerland in 1440. ness at a Protestant baptism, if of course There has been no other papal schism in the the other church allows this participation. church since then.

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The Prophet Amos – Archimandrite Zinon, Pskov-Pechery, 1985.

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Recognizing the Real Presence of Jesus Christ ferent grains of wheat that go together to make one bread for Mass are a sign of us many different members who go to make up one Church that believes in and worships Jesus Christ, and lives his life together in the Church.

One “Body of Christ” exists for the sake of the other, the Sacrament for the sake of the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ. The Mass exists in this world as we journey in faith together. But there will be no Eucharist in heaven, no 10:30 Sunday morning Mass. However, there will be the members of the Body of Christ, his sisters and brothers, forever. The “Jesus presence” in Eucharist is for the sake of the “Jesus presence” in the Church, in Catholic Christians. Whoever receives the Real Presence of Jesus at Mass accepts and takes on the challenge of being the Real Presence of Jesus in the world. Jesus feeds us with Himself, and we feed him in our hungry brothers and sisters. We must have reverence for the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and for Jesus present in each other.

much left over.

Furthermore, Jesus Archbishop George H. Niederauer delivered the foldemanded that his following homily at St. Mary’s Cathedral on June 18, the lowers care for each Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. other. He demands the The first President Bush was visiting a nursing home. same response from He went up to an elderly man in a wheelchair in the hallus. way, bent over, and asked him, “Do you know who I It is our Catholic am?” The old man answered, “No, but if you ask at the faith that makes this nurses’ station, they can help you.” following of Jesus There is a question of identity for this feast day too: Do possible. Faith helps the words “Body of Christ” mean only the consecrated us see Jesus present bread on the altar at Mass, or something more besides? How beneath the appeardoes this involve our own identity? In the first two readings ances of bread and for this feast of the Body of Christ, we hear, first of all, that wine. Faith also helps Moses sacrificed animals as a sign of the first covenant us to see Jesus present between God and His people. In the second reading, from in our brothers and the letter to the Hebrews, we learn that the Blood of Christ sisters here, despite the differences of race and lanobtained eternal redemption, that it “cleanses us guage and national background, and all the from dead works, to worship the living God, other differences besides. Mother Theresa ‘Whoever receives the Real Presence of Jesus at and leads us to an everlasting inheritance.” of Calcutta said that the poor and suffering The words “Body of Christ” refer to the are Jesus Christ, often “in a most distressing presence of Jesus Christ in this Sacrament at Mass accepts and takes on the challenge of being disguise.” the altar. We hear the words of Jesus Christ at St. Anthony of Padua said: “The one who the Last Supper, as set down in Mark’s the Real Presence of Jesus in the world.’ is filled with the Holy Spirit speaks in difGospel. Jesus gives us his flesh as spiritual ferent languages. These different languages food and his blood as spiritual drink – the are different ways of witnessing to Christ, same flesh and blood he sacrificed on the Cross for the Years ago, in the movie about the life of Archbishop such as humility, poverty, patience and obedience. We forgiveness of our sins and for our eternal life.

Romero of San Salvador, we Catholics flinched as we speak in those languages when we reveal in ourselves Also, the words “Body of Christ” refer to Jesus Christ watched the scene in which a soldier with a machine these virtues to others.” We also speak many different present in his people, in the Church. St. Paul says else- gun strafed the altar, sending bullets into the tabernacle languages in San Francisco, but some of the most where that the Church is like a human body, with Jesus as containing the Body of Christ. We also flinched as important languages are universal: kindness, patience, its head and each of us, the baptized, as its different another soldier killed the Archbishop, a member of the forgiveness. members. We Christians are very different from each Body of Christ.

We may not speak each other’s languages, but we other, with very different gifts, just as body parts are difWe can harm the body of Christ without a machine can understand and spread the languages of joy and ferent from each other. But just as the parts of a body gun: If we cheat or lie to a brother or sister, we cheat service and generosity and faith and love. This, at our work together, never in competition with each other or or lie to Jesus; if we gossip about a sister or brother, we best, is who we are as Catholic Christians. And we rejecting or looking down on each other, so we Catholics gossip about Jesus; if we sell drugs to someone, we sell pray that this food from heaven, the Body and Blood of must be in the Church founded by Jesus Christ.

Jesus Christ, will make us even more aware of our drugs to Christ.

And these two meanings of “Body of Christ” are We learn reverence for each other from Jesus. In the identity. We know who we are, and what we are, and closely connected and related to each other: St. Ignatius gospel story of the loaves and fishes, Jesus shows con- whose we are. We recognize Jesus in each other and on of Antioch, in the second century, said that the many dif- cern for hungry people; his help is generous, with this altar, feeding us and making us one.

By Archbishop George H. Niederauer

Guest Commentary

Embryonic stem cell research and excommunication On June 6, 2006, the Pontifical Council for the trine usually do so for two primary reasons: twinning, The Catechism Family, founded 25 years ago by John Paul II, published etc. does not take place until after implantation is comgoes on to explain that “Family and Human Procreation.” In an explanatory plete, and thus there can be no “individual person” until since the gravity of note, Fr. Abelardo Lobato, O.P., consultor to the after this point; and the fact that a number of embryos abortion does such Pontifical Council, writes that the document presents never implant, thus physiologically destroying nascent “irreparable harm … “an introduction to the theme of the relationship human life. to the innocent who is between … the family and procreation.” The document For whatever the reason, to maintain that human put to death, as well as stresses anthropological and religious perspectives life does not begin until after implantation is erroto the parents and the which emphasize that “God the Creator … infuses a neous and not in accord with clear Catholic teaching. whole of society,” the soul into each individual and relies on man’s cooperaThe Gospel of Life states, “Nothing and no one can in act itself automaticaltion to achieve the fullness of human existence.” any way permit the killing of an innocent human ly subjects a person to Father Gerald D. The President of the Pontifical Council for the being, whether a fetus or an embryo, an infant or an excommunication “by Coleman, S.S. Family is Cardinal Alfonso Lopez-Trujillo. On June adult, an old person, or one suffering from an incurthe very commission 29th the Italian magazine Famiglia Cristiana published able disease, or a person who is dying… Every innoof the offense.” an interview with Cardinal Trujillo on this document. cent human being is absolutely equal to all others.”

The Catechism explains that this automatic excomHe addressed the specific question of research on (no. 57) munication is “subject to the conditions provided by human embryos. He said that “destroying Canon Law.” These conditions state that an embryo is equivalent to abortion [and] the woman having an abortion and her excommunication is valid for the women, ‘The catechetical and pastoral responsibility that direct accomplices (e.g., the physician the doctors and researchers who destroy performing the abortion, or anyone who embryos.” The timing of this statement is lies ahead is to help convince ourselves, if necessary, formally cooperates in the procuring of an particularly significant in light of the fifth abortion) act with “full imputability,” that World Meeting of Families in Valencia, and others that all human life is sacred . . . ’ is, she/they know that they are doing Spain, which took place from July 1st to something wrong/evil and they do so with July 9th. Pope Benedict XVI attended this full “deliberation of mind and consent of meeting for its final two days.

In other words, an embryo before implantation and will.” These same conditions would apply to the scientist Two moral clarifications are needed on the delicate an embryo after implantation are equally human. To who destroys human embryos, e.g., in stem cell research. point put forward by Cardinal Trujillo. destroy this human embryo for any reason, including Cardinal Trujillo’s statements need to be interpreted First, the church teaches doctrinally that human life stem cell research, is the “direct and voluntary killing of in this light: destroying a human embryo is equivalent to begins at conception. Human life does not begin at or an innocent human being [and] is always gravely an abortion. after implantation. This teaching further explains that immoral.” (Gospel of Life, no. 57) Cardinal Trujillo’s The catechetical and pastoral responsibility that lies God cooperates with the husband and wife in bringing a statement assumes that we understand this doctrinal ahead is to help convince ourselves, if necessary, and othchild into the world. God infuses a soul when human teaching. To deny or repudiate a doctrinal teaching of ers that all human life is sacred and is so because from the conception occurs. The Catechism of the Catholic the church seriously distances oneself from the fullness very moment of its existence a human life is ensouled by Church explains, “Human life must be respected and of Catholic moral teaching. To do so represents a seriGod and is created in God’s image and likeness. To directprotected absolutely from the moment of conception. ous moral error. ly destroy human life at any stage of its development and From the first moment of his existence, a human being Second, Cardinal Trujillo is giving emphasis to this growth is immoral and represents a crime against life and must be respected as a person as having the rights of a teaching by extending the church’s canonical discipline society, as often stated by John Paul II and Benedict XVI. person, among which is the inviolable right of every regarding direct abortion and excommunication to Sulpician Father Gerald D. Coleman is professor innocent being to life.” (no. 2270) include the destruction of human embryos for purposes of ethics at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University Many persons in our society, including some of research. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, and teaches adjunct at Santa Clara University.

Catholics, do not easily accept this “doctrinal” teaching, relying on canons 1364-1399, teaches that “the Church named as such by John Paul II in his 1995 Encyclical attaches the canonical penalty of excommunication to He is Vicar for Priests in the Archdiocese The Gospel of Life, no. 57. Persons who deny this docthis crime [abortion] against human life.” (no. 2271) of San Francisco.

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Pope Benedict XVI delivered the following homily at the closing Mass of the 5th World Meeting of Families in Valencia, Spain on July 9.

Dear Brothers and Sisters, In this Holy Mass which it is my great joy to celebrate, together with many of my Brothers in the Episcopate and a great number of priests, I give thanks to the Lord for all of you, the joyful throng of beloved families gathered in this place, and the many others who in distant lands are following this celebration by radio and television. I greet all of you with an affectionate embrace.

Both Esther and Paul, as we have just heard in today’s readings, testify that the family is called to work for the handing on of the faith.

Esther admits: “Ever since I was born, I have heard in the tribe of my family that you, O Lord, took Israel out of all the nations” (14:5).

Paul follows the tradition of his Jewish ancestors by worshiping God with a pure conscience. He praises the sincere faith of Timothy and speaks to him about “a faith that lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and now, I am sure, lives in you” (2 Timothy 1:15).

In these biblical testimonies, the family includes not only parents and children, but also grandparents and ancestors. The family thus appears to us as a community of generations and the guarantee of a patrimony of traditions.

None of us gave ourselves life or singlehandedly learned how to live. All of us received from others both life itself and its Pope Benedict XVI meets children at the Fifth World Meeting of Families in Valencia, Spain, July 8. basic truths, and we have been called to The pope urged parents to raise their children in an environment of love and acceptance. attain perfection in relationship and loving called us to be his children. Consequently, at apart from our relationship with others and move beyond ourselves in order to enter into communion with others. communion with others and with God. The family, founded on indissoluble the origin of every human being there is not our responsibilities in their regard.

Attempts are being made to organize the To help us advance along the path of marriage between a man and a woman, is something haphazard or chance, but a lovthe expression of this relational, filial and ing plan of God. This was revealed to us by life of society on the basis of subjective and human maturity, the Church teaches us to communal aspect of life. It is the setting Jesus Christ, the true Son of God and a per- ephemeral desires alone, with no reference respect and foster the marvelous reality of where men and women are enabled to be fect man. He knew whence he came and to objective, prior truths such as the dignity the indissoluble marriage between man and born with dignity, and to grow and develop whence all of us have come: from the love of each human being and his inalienable woman which is also the origin of the famrights and duties, which every social group ily. To recognize and assist this institution of his Father and our Father. in an integral manner. is one of the greatest services which can be Faith, then, is not merely a cultural her- is called to serve.

Once children are born, through their The Church does not cease to remind us rendered nowadays to the common good relationship with their parents, they begin to itage, but the constant working of the grace share in a family tradition with even older of God who calls and our human freedom, that true human freedom derives from our and to the authentic development of indiroots. Together with the gift of life, they which can respond or not to his call. Even if having been created in God’s image and viduals and societies, as well as the best receive a whole patrimony of experience. no one can answer for another person, likeness. Christian education is consequent- means of ensuring the dignity, equality and Parents have the right and the inalienable Christian parents are still called to give a ly an education in freedom and for freedom. true freedom of the human person.

“We do not do good as slaves, who are not This being the case, I want to stress the duty to transmit this heritage to their chil- credible witness of their Christian faith and dren: to help them find their own identity, to hope. The need to ensure that God’s call and free to act otherwise, but we do it because we importance and the positive role which the initiate them to the life of society, to foster the good news of Christ will reach their chil- are personally responsible for the world; Church’s various family associations are playthe responsible exercise of their moral free- dren with the utmost clarity and authenticity. because we love truth and goodness, because ing in support of marriage and the family. we love God himself and Consequently, “I wish to call on all Christians dom and their ability to therefore his creatures as to collaborate cordially and courageously with love on the basis of their well. This is the true free- all people of good will who are serving the famhaving been loved and, ‘The family, founded on indissoluble marriage dom to which the Holy ily in accordance with their responsibility” above all, to enable them to encounter God. between a man and a woman, is the expression Spirit wants to lead us (Familiaris Consortio, 86), so that by joining (Homily for the Vigil of forces in a legitimate plurality of initiatives they Children experience human growth and maturi- of this relational, filial and communal aspect of Pentecost, June 9, 2006). will contribute to the promotion of the authenJesus Christ is the tic good of the family in contemporary society. ty to the extent that they Let us return for a moment to the first trustingly accept this her- life. It is the setting where men and women are perfect human being, an example of filial free- reading of this Mass, drawn from the Book of itage and training which dom, who teaches us to Esther. The Church at prayer has seen in this they gradually make their share with others his own humble queen interceding with all her heart own. They are thus enabled enabled to be born with dignity, and to grow love: “As the Father has for her suffering people, a prefigurement of to make a personal syntheloved me, so I have loved Mary, whom her Son has given to us all as our sis between what has been and develop in an integral manner.’ you; abide in my love” Mother; a prefigurement of the Mother who passed on and what is new, (John 15:9). protects by her love God’s family on its eartha synthesis that every indiAs the years pass, this gift of God which And so the Second Vatican Council teaches ly pilgrimage. Mary is the image and model vidual and generation is called to make.

At the origin of every man and woman, the parents have helped set before the eyes of that “Christian married couples and parents, of all mothers, of their great mission to be and thus in all human fatherhood and mother- the little ones will also need to be cultivated following their own way, should support one guardians of life, of their mission to be teachhood, we find God the Creator. For this rea- with wisdom and gentleness, in order to instill another in grace all through life with faithful ers of the art of living and of the art of loving.

The Christian family — father, mother son, married couples must accept the child in them a capacity for discernment. Thus, with love, and should train their children, lovingly born to them, not simply as theirs alone, but the constant witness of the their parents’ con- received from God, in Christian doctrine and and children — is called, then, to do all also as a child of God, loved for his or her own jugal love, permeated with a living faith, and evangelical virtues. Because in this way they these things not as a task imposed from sake and called to be a son or daughter of God. with the loving accompaniment of the present to all an example of unfailing and gen- without, but rather as a gift of the sacramenWhat is more: each generation, all parenthood Christian community, children will be helped erous love, they build up the brotherhood of tal grace of marriage poured out upon the and every family has its origin in God, who is better to appropriate the gift of their faith, to charity, and they stand as witnesses and co- spouses. If they remain open to the Spirit discover the deepest meaning of their own operators of the fruitfulness of Mother Church, and implore his help, he will not fail to Father, Son and Holy Spirit. as a sign of and a share in that love with which bestow on them the love of God the Father Esther’s father had passed on to her, lives and to respond with joy and gratitude.

The Christian family passes on the faith Christ loved his Bride and gave himself for her” made manifest and incarnate in Christ. along with the memory of her forebears and The presence of the Spirit will help her people, the memory of a God who is the when parents teach their children to pray and (Lumen Gentium, 41).

The joyful love with which our parents spouses not to lose sight of the source and origin of all and to whom all are called to when they pray with them (cf. Familiaris answer. The memory of God the Father, Consortio, 60); when they lead them to the welcomed us and accompanied our first criterion of their love and self-giving, and who chose a people for himself and who sacraments and gradually introduce them to the steps in this world is like a sacramental sign to cooperate with him to make it visible and acts in history for our salvation. The mem- life of the Church; when all join in reading the and prolongation of the benevolent love of incarnate in every aspect of their lives.

The Spirit will also awaken in them a ory of this Father sheds light on our deepest Bible, letting the light of faith shine on their God from which we have come. The experience of being welcomed and loved by God yearning for the definitive encounter with human identity: where we come from, who family life and praising God as our Father.

In contemporary culture, we often see and by our parents is always the firm foun- Christ in the house of his Father and our we are, and how great is our dignity.

Certainly we come from our parents and an excessive exaltation of the freedom of dation for authentic human growth and Father. And this is the message of hope we are their children, but we also come from the individual as an autonomous subject, as authentic development, helping us to mature that, from Valencia, I wish to share with all God who has created us in his image and if we were self-created and self-sufficient, on the way towards truth and love, and to the families of the world. Amen.

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The Catholic Difference Boston College’s president, Father William Leahy, SJ, is a man of no small dreams, having publicly declared his intention of leading B.C. to the position of world’s premier Catholic university. (I’m still trying to figure out what B.C. is doing in my beloved Atlantic Coast Conference, but that’s perhaps another matter.) One has to admire Father Leahy’s sense of purpose, which less charitable souls might even call chutzpah. Recent goings-on at B.C. suggest, however, that the university is more likely to become a Catholic imitation of politically-correct Harvard than the greatest Catholic institution of higher education on Planet Earth.

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was invited to deliver this past May’s B.C. commencement address and to receive an honorary degree. Many B.C. students were thrilled; they admired her, and getting Dr. Rice to their commencement trumped that other Boston-area university, the one in Cambridge. But Father Kenneth Himes, OFM, the theology department chairman, and Father David Hollenbach, SJ, who holds the Flatley Chair in Father Himes’ department, were not thrilled. To the contrary, they were very unhappy campers, and organized a petition, signed by some two hundred other B.C. folk, which strongly objected to Rice’s honorary degree. Why? Because, they claimed, an article she had written in Foreign Affairs had argued a view of the role of national interest in U.S. foreign policy that was incompatible with the teaching of the Catholic Church. And because Dr. Rice had, in office,

committed grave errors of “practical moral judgment” – meaning her role as National Security Advisor in the decision to go to war in Iraq.

As Father Paul McNellis, another Boston College Jesuit, usefully pointed out, Himes and Hollenbach misrepresented both Rice’s concept of national interest and its place in the formulation of foreign policy, and the Church’s settled moral teaching on international public life. As for Iraq, Himes and Hollenbach were playing politics in the guise of moral theology. For Fathers Himes and Hollenbach seemed to assume, as self-evidently true, that the U.S.-led action in Iraq did not meet the standards set by the just war tradition. But that is not selfevidently true at all. Serious just war analysts could and did have different prudential judgments about what should be done, in early 2003, about a genocidal maniac who, defying a dozen U.N. resolutions, was about to break out of “the box” of international sanctions and resume his quest for regional hegemony and weapons of mass destruction, and his support for international terrorism. But to assert, as a moral given, that the action undertaken by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq was unjustified and indeed unjustifiable is, as Father McNellis put it, a “political disagreement masquerading as a moral and theological dispute.”

That, alas, is par for the course in today’s American Catholic theological guild, in which Fathers Himes and Hollenbach are prominent members. Another member of the guild, Father Drew Christiansen, SJ (now editor of America), has gone so far as to propose revising the Catechism of the

Catholic Church to establish, not a parallel magisterium of theologians, but a shadow government of theologians who would determine when the criteria for the morally justifiable use of armed force has been George Weigel met. No small ambitions there, either.

I certainly don’t wish to suggest that Father Leahy’s hopes for Boston College are misplaced or untoward. Still, the B.C. commencement follies came in the wake of some other – shall we say – peculiarities in Golden Eagle-land. Another member of the B.C. theology department, Father John Paris, SJ, publicly supported the campaign to euthanize Terry Schiavo. B.C. has also been home to efforts by prominent and wealthy Catholic laymen to reinvent Catholicism as Catholic Congregationalism, under the rubric of improved management practices.

There are great teachers and great students at Boston College. Unless Father Leahy gets his faculty to understand that the Sixties are over, however, his honorable ambitions are going to be, and should be, frustrated.

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Family Life

What discipline really is and why it is good Why is discipline good for a child? The same reason it’s good for an adult. In the long run, it makes our lives better.

When it comes to helping a child learn self-control and proper behavior, veteran parents offer these tips: —Remember that discipline is not synonymous with punishment. The point of disciplining is to help your child learn. Sometimes that lesson involves a “fine”: an extra chore, being grounded, no TV for a while. The goal is not to hurt but to help.

—Don’t lose sight of the fact that if your child doesn’t hear “no” from the time he’s a tot, he’s going to have trouble saying “no” to himself and others as a teen — and beyond.

—Lay out the ground rules: “You do that, dear child, and the result is going to be this.” (The foundation of family law and order.) Make the consequence appropriate both for the child’s age level and for the offense.

—Be consistent when it comes to discipline.

—Realize God has entrusted you with the role of parent, not friend. Your child has a lot of friends. Your job is to be the parent. That means you two aren’t always going to be buddies.

—Notice that a disciplined child is a happier child.

The most miserable children are the ones who have no family rules and the ones who rule their parents.

—There may well come a time after your sons and daughters reach young adulthood that they actually thank you for being so “tough” on them as tots, grade-schoolers and teens. Really.

Lifetime Learners “Discipline” is training that’s expected to produce a specified character trait or pattern of behavior. Especially, it’s training that’s expected to produce moral or mental improvement. The Latin root is “discipulus,” meaning “pupil.” And that comes from “discere,” “to learn.”

What can get lost in the shuffle of family life is that we human beings need to be trained. Preschoolers are taught to use the toilet. Youngsters are warned to beware of strangers. Children are reminded to chew their food with their mouths closed.

Some training they don’t mind enduring because they can imagine the results. The grade-schooler will be able to ride that bike. The high-schooler will be able to drive that car.

What a parent may not realize while training (teaching) that son or daughter to master a particular discipline is that the

youngster is also learning how to be trained.

And having that ability makes life so much easier because our training doesn’t stop suddenly when we reach 18.

As adults, we’re trained on the job to hanBill and Monica dle the newest piece of Dodds equipment or computer software. We’re told to do this and not to do that.

Then, too, there can come a time when we begin training — when we start to learn, with the help of others and God’s grace — how to handle a cane, a walker, a wheelchair; how to survive widowhood or that gray time after the death of a child; how to get through even a single day.

Bill and Monica Dodds are the editors of “My Daily Visitor” magazine.

Spirituality

In pursuit of innocence In the novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence describes a woman, Hagar Shipley, who, after overhearing a very unflattering comment about herself one day, goes into a public toilet and examines her face in a mirror. She’s taken aback by what she sees, scarcely recognizing herself.

What she sees in the mirror is a face grown old and hard in experience - bitter, cynical, full of disdain. There’s nothing left in her face of the innocent child or young woman she once was and still imagines herself to be.

She’s stunned and asks herself: How can this have happened? How can one, imperceptible to one’s self, change and become so different, so cold, so lifeless, so devoid of freshness and innocence?

It can, and does, happen to all of us. Most of us have long ceased being the type of person that the child we once were would want to be friends with. In a word, we’ve lost a lot of our innocence and, with that, a lot of the freshness, wonder, and fire that we had when we were little. We pay a heavy price for that.

Towards the end of his life, the American Educator, Allan Bloom, wrote a book he entitled, The Closing of the American Mind. In it, he suggested that our perspective on life is narrowing, that our minds are in fact closing, and that what has perhaps contributed the most to this is precisely our progressive loss of innocence as we have grown more and more sophisticated.

For Bloom, innocence means chastity, not just sexual, but in every area of our lives. Chastity, for him, means experiencing things only if and when we can experience them in such a way that we remain integrated. In simple language, this means we lack chastity and we lose innocence whenever we have

experiences that unglue us, psychologically, emotionally, spiritually, or sexually. Obviously a lot of healthy experiences, necessary to growth, will do that to us, but there are experiences that unravel a deeper, moral part of our being. It’s these experiences that close our minds and harden our faces.

In Bloom’s assessment, today, many of us have lost too much of our innocence and this manifests itself both in a certain hardness and in a lack of idealistic fire inside of us. He coined a phrase for this - “erotically lame”. For him, there is a kind of sophistication that takes the fire out of our eyes and out of our dreams and leaves us limping when we walk anywhere inside the arena of sublimity.

Adult innocence should not be confused with the natural innocence of a child. Children are innocent precisely because they are still children, naive, and inexperienced in life. For an adult, innocence has to mean a certain “second naivete”, a “post-sophistication”, that has already accounted for experience. Childishness is not childlikeness. The former takes its root in naiveté and lack of experience; the latter takes its root in an experience and a knowledge which is both wise and chaste enough to take on the wonder of a child.

How do the Gospels look on this? Jesus challenged us to innocence by inviting us to have both the heart of a child and the heart of a virgin. ... “Unless you have the heart of a child you will not enter the kingdom of Heaven.” “The Kingdom of Heaven can be compared to ten virgins waiting for their bridegroom.”

For Jesus, the heart of a child is one that is fresh, receptive, full of wonder, and full of respect and the heart of a virgin is one that can live in inconsummation, without experiencing the fin-

ished symphony. The child and the virgin both have to live inside a great patience because many of the things they intensely desire cannot be had just yet. Both hearts may not test their God. Deep down, we all Father still long for this. Just as Ron Rolheiser any healthy child spontaneously longs for the experience of an adult, any healthy adult longs for the heart of a child. But it isn’t easy to keep the heart of a child.

Innocence, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Annie Dillard suggests, “is not the prerogative of infants and puppies . . . Like any other of the spirit’s good gifts, it is there if you want it, free for the asking . . . It is possible to pursue innocence as hounds pursue hares: single-mindedly, driven by a kind of love, crashing over creeks, keening and lost in fields and forests, circling, vaulting over hedges and hills, wide-eyed, giving loud tongue all unawares to the deepest, most incomprehensible longing . . . ” It’s time to pursue innocence as hounds pursue hares, single-mindedly, crashing over creeks, keening in lost fields, driven by a kind of love.

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

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‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest’ Reviewed by David DiCerto NEW YORK (CNS) — Director Gore Verbinski, the man who put the jolly back in the Jolly Roger with 2003’s sleeper hit, “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl,” delivers more of the same rip-roaring fun in “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Disney).

For a sequel, the new movie matches — if not tops — the original as first-rate popcorn entertainment with all the right ingredients: action-adventure, spectacle, screwball comedy and a bit of romance. It even has an outrageous three-way swordfight on a runaway mill wheel. But most importantly, it has Johnny Depp, who once again steals the show as the mascaraed and rumsotted rogue Capt. Jack Sparrow. (His screen entrance is one of the more hilarious in recent memory.)

Sparrow finds himself back in a sea of supernatural trouble as he tries to wiggle his way out of a Faustian pact with the fabled Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), the squidfaced captain of the Flying Dutchman ghost ship, who rules the deep and gives new meaning to the term “octopuss.”

Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley return as Will Turner and his bonnie bride-to-be, Elizabeth Swann, who before they tie the knot are arrested by the nefarious British bureaucrat and pirate hunter Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander), who presses them into tracking down Sparrow and swiping his magic compass.

They all end up questing after the same object: Jones’ legendary locker, the content of which will give its possessor control of the briny main.

Amid the swashbuckling slapstick there are some slightly darker moments and scary supernatural elements that, while mostly harmless, preclude giving the film an A-I classification. There are also a few scenes involving a tentacled sea monster known as the Kraken — a computer-generated cousin of the giant squid in Disney’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” — that may be too intense for the wee ones.

The story and characters have about as much flesh as a peg leg, but the skeletal plot is kept afloat by several riotous set pieces pulled off as before with flair by Verbinski, imaginative effects and makeup, and some solid supporting performances by Nighy and a barnacled Stellan Skargsgard as Bootstrap Bill, Will’s longlost father. There are also funny turns by Lee Arenberg and Mackenzie Crook as a pair of bungling buccaneers.

“Dead Man’s Chest” is a bit too long. But while it plows many of the same comic waters as the original — and granted, the idea based on a Disney theme-park attraction is stretched thin — its good-natured goofiness demonstrates that there is still enough wind in the franchise’s sails to justify the third installment set up by the cliffhanger ending.

If crustacean-limbed ghost crews and comical cannibals don’t shiver your timbers, you may want to think twice about dropping your anchor, but if you liked the first movie this pirates’ life is for ye, matey.

The film contains recurring action-adventure violence and peril, including a nongraphic throat cutting and off-screen executions, a fleeting gruesome image, some intense sequences and frightening supernatural effects, voodoo hokum, lightly suggestive humor and innuendo, and a mildly rude expression. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-II — adults and adolescents. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.

DiCerto is on the staff of the Office for Film & Broadcasting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. More reviews are available online at www.usccb.org/movies.

EWTN July Highlights Special EWTN telecasts in July include Journey Home Roundtable interviews with three “reverts,” Catholics who left the Church but later returned, including one who became a priest. The program airs July 16 at 7:00 p.m. and July 18 at 11:00 a.m.

Another special visits McGuire Memorial Home in Pennsylvania where Felecian Sisters manage an extraordinary program for developmentally disabled children. The special airs July 19 at 7:00 p.m.

EWTN is carried on Comcast Digital Channel 229; RCN Channel 80; DISH Satellite Channel 261; and Direct TV Channel 422. Comcast Airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County. Visit website www.ewtn.com for more program notes.

Johnny Depp returns as Capt. Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest.

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Visiting • Bethlehem: Shepherd’s field, Nativity • Bethany: Lazarus Tomb • Sea of Galilee: Mensa Christi, Capernahum, Mt. of Beatitudes, Golan Heights, Mt. Carmel • Haifa: Elijah’s Cave, Mt. Tabor, Muhaghra, Jordan River • Nazareth: Mary’s Well • Annunciation • Kana • Jerecho: Mt. Temptation, Elisiah’s spring • Masada • Qumrun • Dead Sea • Old and New Jerusalem: Calvary, King David’s Tomb, the Upper Room, Pater Noster, Gallicantu, Mt. Ascension, Pool of Bethesda, The Flagellation, Way of the Dormition Abbey • Ein Karem: Church of Visitation • Yad Vashem • Emmaus, and many more places as time will allow. All entrance fees, excellent English guide, fully escorted • Daily Mass Celebration HOTELS IN USE: First Class and 5-Star Deluxe Accomodations with daily Buffet breakfast and dinners.

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Catholic San Francisco invites you to join in the following pilgrimages FRANCE

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January 13 – 23, 2007

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Fr. Glenn Kohrman Spiritual Director Visit: Tel Aviv, Netanya, Caesarea/Mt. Carmel, Upper Galilee, Tiberias, Jerusalem, Cana

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St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco.

Call (415) 567-2020 for more information about any event listed here.

Aug. 20: The Cathedral’s annual Assumpta Award is being presented to all priests in the Archdiocese.

Prayer service at 3:30 p.m. followed by presentation of the award and a reception in the Cathedral Conference Center. “The Award is an expression of gratitude for our priests’ devotion and commitment to the faithful in the Archdiocese,” said information promoting the event. Parishioners are especially invited. Tickets are $10 each. Contact your Parish Council president or your parish office.

Cathedral Autumn Group: All people 55 and over are cordially invited. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 218.

Reservations Required to (415) 567-2020 ext. 218.

July 14, 2006 Cemetery, Colma in All Saints Mausoleum at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060.

Wed. at 7:30 p.m.: Christian Meditation in Siena Room of St. Dominic Church 2390 Bush St. at Steiner in San Francisco. Based on the teachings of late Bendictine Father John Main. “Father John believed that the contemplative experience creates community for ordinary people from within the Christian contemplative tradition,” information about the evening said.

Contact maranatha@ christianmeditation.us.

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

Contact Steve at (415) 290-5598.

Saturdays: Prayer meeting at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, at 9:30 a.m. Father James Tarantino, presiding. Hospitality follows. All are welcome. Call Moriah at (415) 756-5505 Saturdays: Bible Study at St. Hilary Church, 761 Hilary Dr. Tiburon, 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. All are welcome. Call Moriah (415) 756-5505.

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Food & Fun Fri. through August 18: Children’s Story Hour from 11 a.m. to noon. Come and listen to stories about Jesus and God’s heroes, spend time in praise and song, have fun and meet new friends.

Recommended age: 5-9. Parental accompaniment required. Come to the Pauline Book & Media Center, 2640 Broadway, off El Camino Real, Redwood City.

For more information call: (650) 369-4230.

Sept. 30: Aloha Festival at Holy Name of Jesus located on Lawton and 40th Avenue in the Sunset District, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.. Enjoy carnival games, jumpers, Bingo, Tiki Room, raffle, face-painting, lots of food and prizes. Admission is free. Benefits Holy Name school.

Visit www.holynamesf.com or call (415) 731-4077.

Catholic Charismatic Renewal The Catholic Charismatic Renewal plans events throughout the year. Information about the group’s activities can usually be found here in Datebook and always at their Web site www.sfspirit.com. First Fridays of the month are commemorated with rosary and Mass at selected churches throughout the Archdiocese usually beginning at 7 p.m. For more information, contact John Murphy at exmorte@aol.com.

Young Adults

St Mary’s Medical Center recently honored former chief of staff, Dr. Garnet F. Wynne, Jr., and the hospital Auxiliary whose members have raised more than $2 million for the facility since 1925. “Dr. Wynne and our Auxiliary members exemplify the caliber of people who help St. Mary’s Medical Center continue its mission of compassionate health care to San Francisco and Bay Area residents,” said Mercy Sister Diane Grassilli, President of the congregation’s Burlingame Region. Shirley Terry, Auxiliary President, accepted the award from Conventual Franciscan Brother George Cherrie, the hospital’s Vice President of Mission and Community Services.

Reunions

Eriksson at eydu2@yahoo.com orJean Hayes Watterson at mondular@netzero.net.

Class of 1971, St. Cecilia Elementary School, is currently in the planning stage for a reunion and is trying to locate missing classmates. If you have not been contacted, please contact Carol Guinasso at (650) 6109766 or send her an email at cguinass@yahoo.com.

Aug. 13: 2nd annual Blessed Sacrament Parish Reunion at China Camp Miwok Meadows Picnic Grounds from 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Bring food and beverages. Charcoal and cooking facility provided. “Spread the word to your fellow parishioners,” said Lu Hu Phillips.

Contact Lu at (415) 472-1501, Betth Gene Sheehy at (415) 479-2888 or Mary Carbone at (415) 472-1422.

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

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

Class of ’55, St. John Elementary School reunion and 65th birthday celebration. Contact Carolyn

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings

3rd Wed. at 7:30 p.m.: Sisters of Notre Dame Province Center, 1520 Ralston Ave, Belmont. Call (650) 593-2045 ext. 277 or visit www.SistersofNotreDameCa.org.

1st Fri. at 8 p.m.: Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Dr., Burlingame with Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Call (650) 340-7452; Church of the Nativity, 210 Oak Grove Ave., Menlo Park at 7:30 p.m. Call Deacon Dominic Peloso at (650) 322-3013.

might help. For information, call Tony and Pat Fernandez at (415) 893-1005.

Information about Natural Family Planning and people in the Archdiocese offering instruction are available. Call (415) 614-5680.

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

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends can add to a Lifetime of Love. For more information or to register, call Michele or George Otte at (888) 568-3018.

Shows/Entertainment

TV/Radio

1st and 3rd Tues.: Noontime Concerts – 12:30 p.m.

- at Old St. Mary’s Cathedral, 660 California St. at Grant, SF. $5 donation requested. Call (415) 288-3800.

Sundays: Concerts at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary St., SF at 3:30 p.m. Call (415) 567-2020 ext. 213. Open to the public. Admission free.

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

Harry Schlitt presiding.

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

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

Taize Prayer

Social Justice/Family Life Are you in a troubled marriage? Retrouvaille, a program for couples with serious marital problems, July 29: The Secular Franciscans are having a day of Recollection from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with Brother William Short from the Franciscan School of Theology. The Poverello is at 109 Golden Gate Ave. San Francisco. Call for more info or a reservation at 415 621 3279. Archbishop George Niederauer will preside at a Mass praying for all Third Order disciples August 5th. Information is available at the number above.

July 16: The Women’s Auxiliary of St. Vincent’s School for Boys announces an afternoon BBQ in the school’s Father Dave Ghiorso Courtyard on its Marinwood campus. Enjoy tasty fare plus entertainment, silent auction and dancing from 4 – 8 p.m. Tickets are $50 per person. Call (415) 479-2776 or 472-1306.

Aug. 5: 1st Saturday Mass at Holy Cross July 15: Pasta Dinner benefiting work of St. Paul Women’s Club. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6:30 p.m. No host bar plus raffle. Tickets at the door $15 adults/$5 children. Come to St. Paul Parish Center, Church St. at 29th St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 648-7538.

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Grief Groups meet at the following parishes.

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San Mateo County: St. Catherine of Sienna, Burlingame. Call Debbie Simmons at 650-558-1015; St. Dunstan, Millbrae. Call Barbara Cappel at 650-6927543;. Good Shepherd, Pacifica. Call Sister Carol Fleitz at 650-355-2593; Our Lady of Mercy, Daly City. Call Barbara Cantwell at 650-755-0478; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Redwood City. Call Parish at 650-366-3802; St. Robert, San Bruno. Call Sister Patricia at 650-589-2800.

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

San Francisco: St. Dominic. Call Sister Anne at 415-567-7824; St. Finn Barr (Bilingual). Call Carmen Solis at 415-584-0823; St. Gabriel. Call Elaine Khalaf at 415-564-7882.

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Office of Young Adult Ministry and Campus Ministry: Connecting late teens, 20s and 30s, single and married to the Catholic Church. Contact Mary Jansen, 415-614-5596, jansenm@sfarchdiocese.org. Check out our Web site for a list of events around the Bay Area and download our Newsletter at www.sfyam.org. We publish a quarterly newsletter to connect college students and young adults to the Catholic Church.

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

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

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St. Teresa of Avila Catholic School in Carson City is seeking a principal for the 2006-2007 school year.

The position requires a Master’s Degree in School Administration or related field and Nevada license as school administrator or eligibility for license. Applicant must have 5 years teaching experience and be a practicing Catholic.

For more information and/or to request Application packet, Please contact: Rev. Jerry Hanley, Pastor St. Teresa of Avila Parish at 775-882-1968, or by e-mail at jerrycp@aol.com

TEACHING POSITION St. Francis Catholic School in Concord is seeking a full time science teacher for grades 6-8. Quailified candidates are asked to submit a resume and two letters of recommendation to: Sister Noreen O’Connor, Principal St. Francis Catholic School 866 Oak Grove Road, Concord, CA 94518 Email: snoreen@sfaconcord.org School Website: www.sfaconcord.org/school Phone: (925) 682-5414 Fax (925) 682-5480 IMMEDIATE FULL TIME OPENINGS-EXCITING OPPORTUNITIES Interim Occupational Health is seeking experienced nursing professionals in the Fremont/East Bay area for the following positions:

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RN Occupational Health Clinic Manager - this position includes a $2500 SIGN ON BONUS along with a Comprehensive Benefit Package.

Seeking a dynamic, motivated RN to oversee an on-site manufacturing clinic.

Candidate will have a strong background in Occ Health w/ exceptional management and leadership skills plus knowledge of state and federal OSHA and workers comp regulations. BS degree required/COHN preferred.

We also have openings for per diem RN and MA’s for all shifts.

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VICE PRESIDENT FOR DEVELOPMENT Jesuit High School, a Catholic, coeducational, college preparatory school in Portland, Oregon, has a current opening for a Vice President of Development. This is a member of the administrative team and would report directly to the President. The experienced candidate would be responsible for the planning and direction of capital campaigns, planned giving, major gifts and fundraising activities to meet capital and endowment needs of the school. This person will have a strong development background with proven fundraising results, marketing, supervisory, solid written and oral communication skills and strategic planning knowledge. He or she would embrace the Catholic faith in the Ignatian tradition of education, and be effective in communicating Jesuit’s mission to the local community and beyond.

A complete job description and application requirements can be found at www.jesuitportland.com.

Applications will be reviewed immediately with an anticipated start in the fall 2006.

Daughters of Charity of Canossa Development Officer The Daughters of Charity of Canossa, an International Congregation of religious women dedicated to the cause of human rights, education and faith formation has an opportunity for a Development Officer within the Province of Cristo Rey (U.S.A.) The preferred candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills, writing ability, creativity and organization. Responsibilities to include: identifies, cultivates and solicits funds through grants, direct mail and co-ordinates senior officials’ personal solicitation. Familiarity with the aim and objective of the Congregation is a strong plus; however, consideration will be given to all qualified candidates.

Requirements include a minimum Bachelor’s degree, M.B.A. preferred, 7-10 years fund-raising experience and the ability to articulate the case for support. This full-time position is salary and benefits competitive, located in Albuquerque, N.M.

Please send resume, cover letter and letters of reference to:

Search Committee-Chair, 2532 Vermont NE Albuquerque, NM 87110 or Fax (505) 298-0120

DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT ST. DOMINIC’S CHURCH, SAN FRANCISCO

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Work Full or Part-time in San Francisco – Marin County • Provide non medical elder care in the home • Generous benefit package Fax your resume to: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN 415-435-0421 Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

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St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco is a 3,500-strong congregation of spiritually mature and active Catholics united by a desire for spiritual enrichment, service and prayer. Inspired by the Dominican Friars who serve as the pastoral staff, the goal of the parish community is to foster a truly welcoming church that is a center of faith, friendship and spiritual renewal embracing the larger community.

St. Dominic’s Roman Catholic Church seeks a highly motivated, experienced individual to lead in all aspects of fundraising development, public relations, and stategic financial planning. The Development Director is responsible for planning and overseeing a multifacted fundraising program, planned giving and special events.

Candidates must have minimum 5 years of proven success with major gift solicitation, multi-million dollar capital campaigns and succesfully meeting targets and timelines.

The Development Director must have strong knowledge of and comfort with the Catholic community and the abililty to build relationships with individual donors in the parish. The Development Director reports directly to the Pastor and communicates all fundraising activities with the Parish Finance Council. St. Dominic’s seeks a unique candidate who is innovative, committed and passionate for the mission and history of the parish. Must have strong public speaking skills and present a compelling vision of the parish to the San Francisco community.

Full-time position. Salary $85K – $110K, commensurate with experience. Benefits.

Resumes to 2390 Bush Street, San Francisco, CA 94115.

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Catholic San Francisco

July 14, 2006

St. Joseph’s Atherton celebrates 100 years Celebrating 100 years is St. Joseph’s School of the Sacred Heart in Atherton.

More than 400 alumni and friends joined to remember and rejoice in the century of education and service May 20th. “We had a wonderful day,” said M’Lis Greenfield Berry, Director of Development and a 1977 graduate of the school. Jesuit Father William Muller, ’58, and Jesuit Father Phillip Bourret, ’25, were concelebrants at a Mass commemorating the centennial. St. Joseph’s principal is Karen Eshoo.

Remembering the 50 years since they’ve walked the halls were members of St. Joe’s class of ’56 including Lynne Rice Morrison, front left, Sheila Smyth, Kathy Miller Reilly, Toni Asturias Talbott, Gloria Troglio Walker, and Dennis Harrington with Theresa Gerbo Garcia, back left, Lydia Dioli Cooper, Diane Haas Powers, Sue Morey Mein, Cynthia Tuttle, Peter Kump, Louise Taggert Conners (in red sweater), Charlie Troglio, and Karen Seidelman Cover.

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