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Opposition forms to abortion funding in proposed health care reform bills

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President Barack Obama waves after speaking about health care reform in the White House Rose Garden in Washington last week.

Many people fear that proposed health care legislation could mandate abortion coverage for most insurance plans.

WASHINGTON (CNS) – President Barack Obama’s push for health care reform could be the worst thing for the pro-life cause since Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion nationwide, said individuals and groups that oppose abortion.

The three health care reform bills currently in Congress do not specifically mention abortion. But legal precedent proves abortions could be covered by federal tax money unless excluded in legislation, pro-life members of Congress said.

Legislation also could mandate abortion coverage for most insurance plans.

The Obama administration has not ruled out the possibility of publicly funded abortions, said Peter Orszag, White House budget director, on “Fox News Sunday” July 19.

“We would be very naive and foolish in the extreme if we didn’t notice the game that’s being played here,” said Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., chairman of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus for 27 years. “It’s Orwellian.”

Obama would be misleading Americans and Pope Benedict XVI in promising to reduce the number of abortions if language excluding abortions is not added to the legislation, said Smith, a Catholic.

Thousands of abortion facilities could

spring up as a result of the legislation, and funding could cause an increase in abortions because lack of money would be one less barrier in a woman’s decision, Smith told Catholic News Service July 20.

“It makes a quicker abortion that much more possible because she’s at a moment of vulnerability,” he said.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops also weighed in on the issue.

“No health care reform plan should compel us or others to pay for the destruction of human life, whether through government funding or mandatory coverage of abortion,” wrote Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., chairman of the bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, in a July 17 letter to Congress. A copy of the letter was released by the USCCB July 21.

“Any such action would be morally wrong. It also would be politically unwise.

No health care legislation that compels Americans to pay for or participate in abortion will find sufficient votes to pass,” the bishop said.

A May Gallup Poll found that a majority of Americans are calling themselves pro-life for the first time since Gallup began asking the question in 1995.

San Francisco-based Catholics for the Common Good highlighted a webcast seminar that was scheduled for July 23.

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By Rick DelVecchio Architecture students at the University of San Francisco are applying the language of architecture and design to spiritually sensitive projects in several economically struggling places around the world.

In India, they are helping to realize a community center in an urban settlement known as a bubble of Muslim-Hindu harmony.

In South Dakota, they are contributing ideas for an Oglala Lakota Native American cultural arts center dedicated to the spirit of the visionary Black Elk, who participated in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, was hurt at the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890 and later converted to Catholicism. The location is the Pine Ridge Reservation, richly spiritual but one of the most economically desperate spots in the nation.

Unemployment tops 80 percent and life expectancy is the nation’s worst.

“When the children come of age they begin to lose their dream,” Black Elk’s great-granddaughter Georgine Looks Twice, who leads the project, said in an e-mail to Catholic San Francisco.

The students are helping a second Oglala Lakota group design a meeting hall for 200 people. Their idea: a circular structure that combines a traditional roundhouse with modern framing that keeps the floor of the structure open.

The students are working under Assistant Professor Seth Wachtel, who directs the Architecture and Community Design Program in the Department of Art and Architecture and is co-director of the Garden Project Living-Learning Community at Jesuit-run USF. Wachtel focuses on low-income housing and the development of innovative construction techniques that produce sustainable and aesthetically and culturally appropriate buildings for human environments. He runs the Community Design Outreach and International Projects courses, which provide students the opportunity to work on real world design/build projects for underserved communities both locally and internationally.

In addition to the projects in India and on the Lakota reservation, the students have local projects in underserved communities in Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Liberia and China. In the Brazil project, for example, they are working with an American Jesuit priest, Father Harold Rahm, who has an outreach with the community and sees the need for a place where unwed mothers and their children can go for help.

The India project is in Gujurat state, in the Jamalpur area of Ahmedabad.

Within Jamalpur is the settlement of Ram Rahim no Teckro, with its Muslim-Hindu population mix that has remained harmonious through

(PHOTO BY RICK DELVECCHIO/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

USF students help design buildings in underserved communities in seven countries

USF Assistant Professor Seth Wachtel with (left to right) architecture and design students Samuel North, Irene Kim, Tricia Smith and Kaci Taylor.

generations of inter-religious strife in the region.

The students are challenged with the problem of working in a cramped urban spot to design a tiny gathering space that adjoins a Hindu temple and a Muslim gravesite. The design must reflect the special character of

the place without using overt religious references.

Student Alex Kieve said the students decided to design the structure so that it is open to cooling breezes from a nearby river. They hit on an idea based on a popular form of recreation in the USF STUDENTS, page 10

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Father Andy will be honored with all Jesuit jubilarians at the order’s residence in Los Gatos in September. A special moment from the 70 years? “Naturally Ordination Day, June 12, 1952, would be a favorite,” he told me…. Hats off to the Senior Outreach Program and those who make it work at Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame. The

By Tom Burke effort, now in its twelfth year, offers “a monthly luncheon with all the trimmings to our senior Catholic community,” said Kelli Benz, on behalf of herself, Doris Rudolph, Recently had the pleasure to speak with Father Frances Cannizzaro and Angela Dobson. All oversee the Wilton Smith now retired and living at what he called “the October-through-May get-together. The good work is sponanteroom to heaven,” Nazareth House in San Rafael. sored by the OLA Mothers’ Club. Many more hands are also involved, Kelli told me. A Capuchin “They spoil us,” the retired pastor of St. Friar from OLA presides at Mass openVeronica Parish in South San Francisco, ing the afternoon, parents prepare the food told me. “The Sisters, staff and volunteers in the OLA kitchen, the meal is served are tremendous, so gracious and loving. I and entertainment supplied by students love retirement. It gives me so much time from Our Lady of Angels Elementary to pray, read, and reflect.”… “If God keeps School, Holy Names Sister Pat Hunter, letting me wake up every day between now a pastoral associate at the parish, prepares and then, I will celebrate the 70th anniverthe program, and parish custodian, Carlos sary of my becoming a Jesuit on Aug. 15 of Szarata, takes care of the set-up and breakthis year,” said Father Andrew Maginnis in a down. The May luncheon featured a fashnote to this column. Father Maginnis served ion show with clothes from St. Vincent de as Vicar for Religious of the Archdiocese Paul Society stores in San Mateo County of San Francisco from 1974-2004 and and “modeled by 10 beautiful and outgotoday serves as Guestmaster for Jesuit ing seniors,” Kelli said. Proceeds from Guests at St. Ignatius College Prep where he is Sub-Minister of the Jesuit community. Father Andrew Maginnis, S.J. sale of the clothes benefited St. Vincent de Paul Society programs. “Our success His great-grand uncle was Father John Maginnis “founder and first pastor of St. Patrick Church with the monthly luncheons is a result of the enthusiasm and in San Francisco and who persuaded the first Daughters of dedication of many parents, students, staff and Capuchin Charity to come out from Maryland and open an orphanage Friars,” Kelli said. “This is our way of giving back to those who, for decades, have given of their time and talent to our thriving parish and school.”…

An Apple Pi Salute to Jenifer Spinale, math teacher at San Francisco’s St. Vincent de Paul Elementary School, who was recently honored with a 2009 Herbst Award for Teaching Excellence. Janet, who has been a member of the SVDP faculty for more than 25 years, was recognized for her dedication and commitment to the profession of teaching, school librarian, Sue Della Cella, told me. On hand were Father John K. Ring, pastor, Barbara Harvey, principal, Dwight Merriman, Jr. of the Herbst Foundation, and the school’s entire student body Dwight Merriman, Jr., Barbara Harvey, and Jenifer Spinale at ceremonies and staff…..Congratulations to honoring Jenifer May 20 at St. Vincent de Paul Elementary School.

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Audrey Cabrera Amort, at left, spent three weeks in Calcutta caring for children at a Missionaries of Charity ministry.

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Michoacan bishops call for prayer to end drug violence MEXICO CITY – Catholic bishops in western Mexico called for three days of prayer for the end to a wave of revenge-driven, drug-cartel violence that has engulfed the state of Michoacan. “As disciples of Jesus Christ and pastors of the community of God, we cannot stay silent or remain indifferent. It’s time to speak out and ask in the name of God, ‘Enough death already,’� seven Michoacan bishops said in a statement, which acknowledged the tense atmosphere that drug violence has created in the state and set July 23-25 as days of prayer to include a daily “holy hour, Way of

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MANILA, Philippines – A Catholic priest who serves as governor of the Philippine province of Pampanga has declared he is running for president of the country in the May 2010 election. “I have every intention to file my candidacy,� Father Eddie Panlilio told reporters July 21, according to the Asian church news agency UCA News.

The priest turned politician, who is currently on leave from his religious ministry, also announced his plan to apply for a dispensation from the priesthood before filing his certificate of candidacy prior to the Nov. 30 deadline. “I’m ready for all the consequences,� Father Panlilio said. “This priesthood that I love so much I’m willing to give up for a greater love and that’s love for the country,� said the 55-year-old priest of the San Fernando Archdiocese in Pampanga. A dispensation will release him from priestly obligations, including obedience to the bishop, according to Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz of Lingayen-Dagupan, head of the dispensation desk of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. Once dispensed, Father Panlilio would no longer be allowed to celebrate Masses or administer the sacraments. Archbishop Cruz and other prelates had urged Father Panlilio to run as a layman.

Riders cycle in the Alps mountains during the Tour de France cycling race between Pontarlier and Verbier July 19.

Pope Benedict XVI, who is vacationing in the Italian Alps and recovering from a fractured wrist, sent his greetings to the world-class cyclists July 21, the day the tour passed near the village where pope is staying.

A Palestinian resident holds a Palestinian flag as tear gas is fired by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration against the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah July 17. If completed as planned, the security barrier would stretch nearly 400 miles and restrict, sometimes drastically, the movements of nearly 40 percent of the residents in the West Bank.

the Cross and rosary.� “There are many that have received threats and been the object of kidnapping and extortion,� the statement said. “The population lives in anguish, feeling defenseless, and families are terribly traumatized when one of theirs is injured.

There are communities that are becoming uninhabited due to insecurity,� the bishops said. The statement was signed by Archbishop Alberto Suarez Inda of Morelia and six other bishops.

Survey shows Americans share pro-life attitudes NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A recent survey conducted by the Knights of Columbus and the Marist Poll show that 86 percent of Americans would significantly restrict abortion.

According to the survey, 79 percent of Americans support conscience exemptions on abortion for health care workers. The figure includes 64 percent of those who identify themselves as strongly pro-choice. Sixty-nine percent of Americans think that it is appropriate for religious leaders to speak out on abortion, according to the survey, part of a Moral Compass series of surveys. This data and other key findings in the survey show that “the American people are placing an ever-increasing value on human life,� said Supreme Knight Carl Anderson in a statement issued from the Knights headquarters in New Haven. “Far from the great divide that most people think exists when it comes to the abortion debate, there is actually a great deal of common ground,� he continued. “Most Americans are unhappy with the unrestricted access to abortion that is the legacy of Roe v. Wade, and pundits and elected leaders should take note of the fact that agreement on abortion need not be limited to the fringes of the debate and issues like adoption or prenatal care,� he said.

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Human dignity and rights always must be respected, Vatican official says GENEVA (CNS) – Even in emergency situations caused by war or natural disaster, the dignity of each human person must be respected, said the Vatican’s representative to U.N. agencies in Geneva.

The right to freedom, to work, to family reunion, to education and personal development and other human rights “cannot simply be discarded in emergencies,” Archbishop Silvano Tomasi said July 20 during a meeting of the humanitarian affairs segment of the U.N. Economic and Social Council.

Archbishop Tomasi repeated the Vatican’s call for real action to ensure the safety of women

and girls in refugee camps around the globe.

“The continued sexual violence perpetrated against women and girls within and around refugee camps violates all standards of international law and leads to the emotional, physical and mental devastation of these women, which cannot be justified under any circumstances,” he said.

While local governments and aid agencies, including Catholic charities, usually have the best knowledge of people’s needs, the international community must have a mechanism for stepping in when the local government is unable or refuses to act or uses a disaster situation for

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Money should fund education, not abortions, say pro-life youth SACRAMENTO – About 65 young pro-life activists picketed outside the California governor’s office demanding taxpayer money be used to fund education and law enforcement – two sectors affected by budget cuts – rather than for organizations that support abortions. Activists represented Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, a Christian pro-life youth activist organization.

The June protest was part of its 12th annual ProLife Training Camp, which equips high school and college students with practical experience in advocating against abortion in churches, schools, towns and nationwide. “If abortion is a moral issue, why are taxpayers being forced to pay for abortions rather than fund education?” asked group member Sarah Massell in a press statement. “Public funds that should be going to ensure our teachers are properly compensated are now going to fund unlimited and unrestricted abortions,” she said. “The more we cut resources to our educational system the more it will have a negative impact on future generations.”

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CNS) – A ruling that removes a federal injunction against a parental notification law means “for the first time in decades Illinois will enjoy an entirely reasonable, if minimal, restriction on access to abortion,” a Catholic official said July 14.

“Parental notice enjoys broad public support and works to ensure the protection of Illinois’ children and families,” said Bob Gilligan, executive director of the Catholic Conference of Illinois, the public policy arm of the state’s bishops. Gilligan was commenting on the decision by a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a case on the constitutionality of the 1995 Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act. Under the law parents must be notified 48 hours before a girl 17 or younger obtains an abortion; it does not require parental consent. It also allows a girl to bypass the notification requirement by notifying a judge. The appeals court panel in its July 14 decision said the statute “is constitutional on its face under the relevant criteria for consent statutes, and therefore it satisfies any criteria that are required for bypass provisions in notice statutes.”

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Archbishop Tomasi said the effort to feed and offer other kinds of assistance to millions of victims of natural and man-made disasters is facing serious challenges today.

“The food crisis has led to a decrease in food distribution in famine areas, in camps and detention centers,” he said, and “the energy crises have added drastically to the cost of providing aid over long distances.”

“Now,” he said, “the global economic crisis risks reducing funding to public and civil society, humanitarian agencies and organizations.”

The Vatican representative praised countries

and individuals who continue supporting aid agencies, adding that “failure to remain in solidarity with and provide for people in humanitarian crises during this difficult time will lead only to social and political instability, which undermines society and its ability to come together and resolve the economic crisis.”

Archbishop Tomasi said the international community must implement clear rules for intervening to provide humanitarian assistance.

“We must put at the center of all our interventions the person and her material, psychological and spiritual needs,” he said.

Men studying for the permanent diaconate in the Archdiocese of San Francisco gathered for a Candidacy Mass in Old Mission Dolores June 26. The 13 men are expected to be ordained in 2012. San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice vicar for clergy, presided at the Mass. Deacon Leon Kortenkamp, right, who coordinates for the ordained deacon community, and Deacon Ed Cunningham, who directs the permanent deacon formation program, assisted. The candidates’ wives and families were among the assembly.

From left: Mario Zuniga, Joseph Ramos, Jerry Quinn, Dana Perrigan, Jose Penate, Jack Murray, Deacon Ed Cunningham, Bishop William Justice, Deacon Leon Kortenkamp, Miguel Barreiro, Nestor Fernandez, Ven Garcia, Tom Kelly, Ernie von Emster, Rich Younkin.

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Was Shakespeare Catholic?

Jesuit scholar to speak at Retreat House and Cathedral

By Valerie Schmalz What if William Shakespeare were secretly Catholic?

From John Henry Newman and G.K. Chesterton to the present day, there is a persistent strand of scholarly thought that holds the Bard clung to a Catholic faith, even while writing and staging his popular plays in Elizabethan England.

Now Bay Area residents can learn about Shakespeare and, at the same time, join London-born Jesuit scholar Father Peter Milward, S.J. in exploring the textual clues in Shakespearean plays and sonnets which indicate a strong Catholic sensibility and sympathy.

Father Milward, scholar of the English Renaissance and professor emeritus at Sophia University, will present the view at a four-day seminar at the Jesuit Retreat House in Los Altos, from Aug. 17-21. He also will speak in San Francisco Aug. 25 at 7 p.m. at Saint Mary’s Cathedral.

“Almost all his plays reveal the dramatist’s Catholic sensibility, once we relate them to the religious background of his age, when it was a major aim of the Queen and her favored ministers to uproot the old religion, and when the supporters of that religion had to lie low for fear of incurring punishment under the strict penal laws,” Father Milward said.

A few known facts of Shakespeare’s life also point toward Catholicism even though Catholics were hunted down, lost their property, and drawn, quartered and hanged as traitors during the brutal reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Father Milward said. King Henry VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn, the mother of Elizabeth, leading to decades of brutal persecution and civil strife.

A Sept. 13, 2004, New Yorker magazine review of Harvard scholar Stephen Greenblatt’s book “Will in the World” describes the era: “The underlying crisis was religious. In half a century – within the lifetime of Shakespeare’s father, John – England had gone through a very conservative regime of Catholicism, to an uneasy form of improvised state Catholicism under Henry VIII, through a period of radical Protestantism under King Edward VI, back to Roman Catholicism under Queen Mary, and then on to the staunchly Protestant Pettingell

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monarchy of Elizabeth. As each sect seized power, it set about burning and disemboweling those who had been ascendant moments before. By the time Shakespeare was a young man, to be a Catholic priest at all was a capital offense.”

The view that Shakespeare was Catholic is a minority one. Greenblatt, for instance, ascribes the Catholic references in the Bard’s works to his family and to the culture in which he was raised rather than to a personal faith.

“I think it is likely that Shakespeare grew up in a family that had continuing ties to Catholic practices and beliefs, and his works display a fascination with Catholic figures (monks, friars, etc.),” Greenblatt said in an e-mail. “And,

Juliet’s prayerful nurse and Lear’s hunted priest: hints Shakespeare was Catholic? of course, much that you are likely to identify as “Catholic traditions and ideas” was also fully absorbed into the Church of England. (The Puritans executed Archbishop Laud – an Anglican – for this reason, among other factors).

But I also believe that Shakespeare’s spirit was skeptical and secular.”

What’s more, the website CatholicEducation.org refers to the fact that Shakespeare’s daughters were raised Protestant.

But, Father Milward says, there is evidence throughout Shakespeare’s writings and in his life of Catholic sensibilities: “If this doesn’t stand out even in his most famous

plays, it is because Shakespeare himself had to take pains to prevent it from standing out. He always had to be on his guard against the ‘suborned informer’ (Sonnet 125).”

In Shakespeare’s life, little is known for certain, Father Milward said. “But there are many suggestions pointing to a Catholic formation both through his parents at Stratford and as a ‘schoolmaster in the country’ of Lancashire,” he said. The scholar said there are signs of Shakespeare’s familiarity with the writings of two Jesuits, Robert Persons and Robert Southwell, not to mention his portrayal of “the hunted priest” in “King Lear.”

“Two of his plays, “King Lear” and “Pericles,” were shown to Catholic audiences in Yorkshire in 1609-10, as if implying their relevance to such audiences. After his departure from London he was involved in the purchase of the Blackfriars Gatehouse, a notorious place of resort for Catholic priests and Jesuits,” Father Milward said.

The Jesuit scholar said there are key elements in Shakespeare’s plays that indicate he was Catholic, including “invariable nostalgia for ‘the good old days’ in England, in contrast to “these last times so bad” (Sonnet 67).”

Despite the looting and destruction of the monasteries under Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare presents friars favorably in “Romeo and Juliet,” “Much Ado About Nothing,” and “Measure for Measure,” Father Milward said. And, in the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet,” there is the “Catholic prayer for the souls of the dead on the lips of Juliet’s Nurse.”

Some signs that Father Milward sees in Shakespeare’s works that indicate sympathy to Catholicism: • Shakespeare’s sympathy with the old order, as opposed to the new, present order, as personified by characters like Hamlet in Denmark.

• His frequent treatment of exile and banishment, as in “As You Like It” and “King Lear.”

• His favorable presentation of friars in “Romeo and Juliet,” “Much Ado About Nothing” and “Measure for Measure,” in contrast to Protestant parsons/Puritans.

• His characterization of ideal heroines, especially in his Jacobean plays, in terms reminiscent of medieval devotion to the Virgin Mary.

Above all, “King Lear” can be read “between the lines” as Shakespeare’s extended comment on the intolerable sufferings undergone by English Catholics and especially priests in the Elizabethan Age. At the Jesuit retreat house, Father Milward will lead seminars on the Shakespearean plays and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in the mornings. In the afternoon sessions, he will discuss the Marian heroines of SHAKESPEARE, page 7

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Update: Financial aid for Catholic school students

By Annette Brown Thanks to the generosity of donors past and present, the Archdiocesan Family Grants for Elementary Students and the High School Scholarships have been allocated and awarded for next school year (2009-2010).

The difficulties of the current economic and financial environment have increased the demand for grants and scholarships at the same time that the total fund of the Archdiocesan Educational Endowment has dropped to near the principal amount.

Endowments can only spend what they earn from interest earned due to investment in the markets; endowments cannot spend what the donors have donated. Those funds are invested to provide scholarships in perpetuity.

There were nearly 4,000 applications for financial assistance this year, and the Department of Catholic Schools was able to fund more than 1,700 of these requests in amounts of $500, $750, or $1,500, depending upon family income, school tuition,

Shakespeare . . .

■ Continued from page 6 Shakespeare’s Jacobean plays. In the evenings, Father Milward will read from his new work “Poem on the New Creation.”

Father Milward was educated at Oxford when C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Neville Coghill (translator of Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales”) were teaching. He attended Lewis’ lectures as a student.

Father Milward’s books include “The Catholicism of Shakespeare’s Plays” (1997), “Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age” (1977), “Religious Controversies of the Jacobean Age” (1978), “Christian Themes in English Literature” (1967) and “Shakespeare’s Religious Background” (1973).

and available resources of the Archdiocese.

The families who qualified for financial aid presented financial statements from 2008, most commonly their tax returns, and were placed in a tiered ranking system. Financial Aid was distributed to the neediest families until all funds were allocated.

That is not the entire story. Since January, the Department of Catholic Schools has received countless calls from families who have lost their jobs this year. However, we have no emergency fund at the Archdiocese to help these families until they get back on their feet with a new source of income.

Many families are being forced to make a difficult decision of funding their children’s education, paying the mortgage, and paying for everyday living expenses.

Some of our traditionally “middle class” families are making the choice to forego retirement investment or sell property in order to give their children the best education they can probably no longer afford.

The prospect of sending their children to the public schools becomes a real decision

Father Father Milward’s home page is www.info.sophia.ac.jp/renaissa/ FatherMilwardDefault.htm Shakespeare on stage at local high schools this fall includes these productions: “Romeo and Juliet” Archbishop Riordan High School, San Francisco: Nov. 13-22.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, San Francisco: Nov. 12-24 and 19-21.

“Macbeth” TriSchool Productions at Serra High School, San Mateo: Oct. 23, 30, 31.

(Collaboration by Mercy-Burlingame, Notre Dame, and Serra high schools).

for some parents. These are hard-working families that simply cannot find a job in these tough economic times.

Schools have been mindful of the parents’ economic situations and have cut costs wherever possible. For some of our schools, this means combining classes. As always, the primary focus is providing quality education to our students, even in times of declining resources. For our schools that do not have tuition income that covers the cost to educate the students, the “gap” is funded with donations, parish subsidy, and fundraising activities.

The ultimate solution is to increase enrollment at our schools. With increased enrollment, ideally 30-35 students in a classroom, students have a richer and more diverse learning experience. Financially, fixed costs are spread out over more students, so the paradox is that increased quality of education comes at a reduced cost per pupil. With increased resources, schools are able to implement additional programs, such as technology, science, arts, thus further

increasing the quality of education.

What can be done to help these families and our schools? There are many ways that the people of the Archdiocese can help individual families and individual schools provide a Catholic education for their children, including a generous response when the second collection is “for our schools.”

People also can contact pastors or school principals and offer to sponsor a student for a year or for the entire time they attend Catholic School. Similarly, donors can offer to fund “the gap” for one or more students.

The Department of Catholic Schools can help individuals, families and companies explore ways to contribute to the Educational Endowment that is in place or even start your own Fund or Endowment.

Annette Brown is Assistant Superintendant for Planning and Finance at the San Francisco Archdiocesan Department of Catholic Schools. She can be reached at browna@sfarchdiocese.org.

Heritage bible on TV program Sunday In an encore presentation, Benedictine Father Eric Hollas guests on the television program “Mosaic” airing July 26 at 5 a.m. on KPIX-Channel 5. The priest was a principal behind the Saint John’s Bible, the first hand-written, hand illuminated Bible produced in more than 500 years involving calligraphy talent from around the world, as well as local artist Thomas Ingmire.

A Heritage edition of the Bible was presented to Pope Benedict XVI and local benefactors have given the Bible to the Diocese of Oakland, at the new Christ the Light Cathedral.

Santa Clara University also has been the recipient. Copies of the book cost as much as $1,000,000 and are donated as designated by donors contributing toward the cost.

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Bishop George Palliparambil, also known as Bishop PK George, of the Diocese of Miao, India, spent a week in the Archdiocese developing a sister diocese relationship between the two Catholic communities. Members of the Catholic and interfaith communities honored him at a reception at St. Mary’s Cathedral, and Archbishop George H. Niederauer presented him with gifts that included icons of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Patrick.

Attending the reception were members of the St. Anselm Parish “Rosaries for India” group. In the photo at left, Olivia King, a home-schooled third grader from St. Anselm, displays a poster showing children making the highly prized gifts for Catholics in the bishop’s community. With Olivia are the bishop, Marin Catholic student Emily Cincebeaux and Carmen McGuire. The bishop celebrated Mass Sunday, July 12, at St. Mark Church in Belmont and was honored at a Knights of Columbus ceremony. Previously enrolled as a Knight of Columbus, Bishop PK was welcomed into the four degrees of knighthood simultaneously.

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Bishop Walsh: Sacrament of penance ‘like an oil change for the soul’ In a letter urging Catholics in the Diocese of Santa Rosa to embrace the Sacrament of Penance, Bishop Daniel F. Walsh said impurities in a car engine, clutter behind the couch, weeds taking over a garden – all are metaphors for sins that periodically need to be cleared away.

“Every so often we have to weed our gardens,” Bishop Walsh, former Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco, said in the letter.

“If we don’t, the weeds will take over and the garden disappears.” The sacrament of penance, he said, “is like periodically checking the garden of our souls for weeds that hamper our discipleship.”

There has been a decline in participation in the sacrament since the Second Vatican Council but whatever the reasons for its decline, Bishop Walsh said, “I think in our permissive society we have lost the sense of sin.”

The objective of Bishop Walsh’s letter was to encourage and invite everyone to return to going to confession regularly.

Comparing souls to cars, the bishop indicated the importance of maintenance.

Every so often, drivers service their vehicles with an oil change to prevent a buildup in the engine. “There may not be any major problem with our engine,” said the bishop. “But slowly, over time, minor

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reconciliation that sinners rid their soul of these impurities and restore and renew their relationship with God. Pope Benedict XVI’s 2008 homily at the Nationals baseball stadium in Washington called for conversion and the forgiveness of sins during the Easter season. In the homily, which the bishop referred to in his letter, the pope reminded those present that “the church was born of the Spirit’s gift of repentance and faith in the risen Lord.”

The pope noted “the liberating power of this sacrament, in which our honest

confession of sin is met by God’s merciful words of pardon and peace, needs to be rediscovered and re-appropriated by every Catholic.”

Likewise, Bishop Walsh, in his letter, called for priests and laypeople to overcome their discomfort and participate in the sacrament even if they haven’t been to confession in a long time or have forgotten how to go.

“When we have unburdened our hearts, we will hear him (Jesus) speak again,” Bishop Walsh said.

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■ Continued from cover settlement: flying kites. “Our idea was based on a kite,” Kieve said. “By raising it up it acts to catch some of the wind that comes from the river.”

The students struggled with the Lakota roundhouse project. They first sketched an angular, Western-style building, but that idea was turned back by the clients.

Returning to the classroom, they joined forces and arrived at a design more in keeping with Lakota tradition.

Student Daniel Begaye, who is a Navajo, decided to join the project. He consulted with a Lakota friend and came back to the group with a new perspective.

“I told them it should be a circular building,” he said.

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The little girl is his daughter. Lucy.

USF architecture students are working on a community center on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

universe was created,” he said. “I basically told them that, and we went from there.”

The clients liked the students’ second version, which included not only a circular design but also a modern roof structure rather than one supported by lodge poles.

“One thing they liked about it was taking their traditions and ideas and moving in another direction,” student Jake Gulick said. “It’s about the future for these people. They’re trying to reboost their culture and also the area.”

The project by a separate Oglala group for a cultural arts center will help bring art into the lives of people who have long had to put all their resources into survival, said Looks Twice, whose non-profit Morningstar Journey Inc. is the developer. She said the larger goal is to help the community on its journey toward spiritual healing.

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Opposition forms . . .

■ Continued from cover On its website (www.ccgaction.com), it noted that “Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocates are trying to use the Health Reform bill to mandate coverage and tax-payer funding for abortion.”

Bill May, chairman of Catholics for the Common Good, said “This could have the most dramatic effect on abortion in the U.S. since the passage of Roe v. Wade 36 years ago.”

Before the 1976 passage of the Hyde amendment, which prevents Medicaid from spending federal money on most abortions, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that abortion is covered under Medicaid because it fit in such mandatory care categories as “family planning” and “outpatient services,” said Kristen Day, executive director of Democrats for Life of America.

Before Hyde, Medicaid funded as many as 300,000

USF students . . .

■ Continued from page 10 addictions,” she said in an e-mail. “Even if the one program this individual goes to for help does help, this person still has to go home. This is one of the reasons our people are having a hard time coming to grips with colonization.

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abortions annually. Now, 46 percent of health care plans cover abortion.

The Hyde amendment would not apply to the affordability credits – proposed as part of health care reform – which would be given to people who earn up to 400 percent of the poverty level to help them buy health insurance, because the credits would be separate from Medicaid, Day said.

“If you don’t specifically say abortion won’t be funded, it will be,” Day told CNS. Opposition to the inclusion of abortion funding is bipartisan. Nineteen Democrats in the U.S. House appealed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to exclude abortion from the health reform plan in a June 25 letter.

The health care reform bill is being debated in the U.S. House and Senate. President Barack Obama is seeking its passage by August. The package is estimated to cost as much as $1.5 trillion over ten years.

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) said abortion should not be an issue in the debate since so many Americans oppose

taxpayer-funded abortion.

“No matter what your views are on abortion, you shouldn’t ask people to use their tax dollars if they think that abortion is taking a life – to use their tax dollars for those purpose – for that purpose,” he commented on Fox News Sunday.

“I would hate to see the health care debate go down over that issue,” he added. “So hopefully we won’t get ourselves wrapped around the wheel of abortion in this debate.”

The Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress have already expanded funding for abortion and abortionpromoting groups. In January, President Obama rescinded the Mexico City Policy which bars funding for groups that promote or perform abortion overseas.

Last week the House voted to eliminate a ban on local funding for abortions in Washington, D.C. and to broaden the circumstances in which federal funds for abortions may be used in the District.

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Catholic San Francisco

July 24, 2009

July 24, 2009

Catholic San Francisco

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30 women religious celebrate jubilees Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur

Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

80 years:

75 years:

Sister Ann Maureen King loved teaching–from the first graders at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in Redwood City and Notre Dame School in San Francisco to the teenagers at Notre Dame High School in Belmont. Summers were spent at the College of Notre Dame instructing new Sisters in educational psychology and teaching methods. Sister AnnMaureen now resides at Mercy Retirement and Care Center in Oakland.

Sister Carletta Marie Anderson taught at St. Joseph in 1938-1939 and at Marin Catholic in the 1950s.

Sister Mary Louise Guenther (Sister Regina Rose) taught at St. Anselm more than 70 years ago, then at St. Cecilia, St. Joseph, and St. Monica.

Sister Theresa Rose Valerga taught at St. Cecilia and St. Monica in the 1940s.

60 years: Sister Aileen Marie Bermingham, as a new teacher in 1952, fell in love with her fifth-grade class at Moreland Notre Dame School in Watsonville. Later she would enjoy teaching middle and high school grades in St. Mark’s Parish School in Seattle, Notre Dame School in Chico and Notre Dame high schools in San Francisco and San Jose. She now tutors at Sacred Heart Nativity School in San Jose.

Sister Avelina (Guadalupe Julie) Garcia entered the novitiate after high school graduation and for years served as cook, housekeeper and assistant nurse in the large SND communities including San Francisco and Belmont. Sister Avelinae earned a master’s degree in religious education at USF and continues to serve as a religious education coordinator in Watsonville.

Sister Lois Hagerty has been an elementary school teacher in Notre Dame schools from Covina, California, to Portland, Oregon, including Notre Dame Elementary in San Francisco. Sister Lois, a proud San Franciscan, does not hesitate to tell you that her grandfather was one of the City’s first fire chiefs.

Sister Teresa Ann Leahy entered the novitiate after graduating from Notre Dame High School in San Jose and was soon teaching sixth grade at Notre Dame Elementary in San Francisco. Sister Theresa’s ministry for the past 30 years has been at Moreland Notre Dame School in Watsonville.

Sister Celeste Pagliarulo’s teaching assignments took her to Catholic schools in California, Oregon and Hawaii, including Sacred Heart in Salinas, Star of the Sea in Honolulu and Mission Dolores in San Francisco.

“My love is the ministry I’m doing now as a Eucharistic minister at O’Connor Hospital,” she said.

Sister Cecilia Wallace taught and was principal in Notre Dame elementary schools throughout California, Oregon and Washington, including at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel School in Redwood City. Former student Rita Gleason remembers, “Sister Cecilia modeled what I try to do now in my role as a principal: be attentive to one student at a time.”

50 years: Sister Georgianna (Priscilla Jo) Coonis taught elementary classes in schools in Salinas, Santa Clara, Covina and Honolulu. During the ‘90s she used her administration skills with the “I Have a Dream” program at the James Flood School in Menlo Park. Since 2003 Sister Georgi has been principal at Resurrection

Sister Ann Maureen King, SNDdeN

Sister Aileen Marie Bermingham, SNDdeN

Sister Avelina Garcia, SNDdeN

Sister Marygene Heller (Sister Stephen Mary) taught at St. Monica, then at St. Joseph.

Sister Emily Marie McKernan was at St. Anselm in 1943-1944.

Sister Mary Nessi (Sister Mary Theophane) taught at St. Anselm, St. Joseph, St. Cecilia, St. Monica and Marin Catholic.

Sister Dolores Barling, SNJM

Sister Margaret Kinzie, SNJM

Sister Dianne Nixon, SNJM

Sister Elizabeth Adams, SNJM

Sister Sharon Francis, SNJM

Sister Frances Franey, SNJM

Sister Patricia Kenny, SNJM

Sister Juliana Lucey, SNJM

Sister Marygene Heller, SNJM

Sister Emily Marie McKernan, SNJM

Sister Mary Nessi, SNJ

Sister Carletta Marie Anderson, SNJM

60 years:

Sister Lois Hagerty, SNDdeN

Sister Teresa Ann Leahy, SNDdeN

Sister Celeste Pagliarulo, SNDdeN

Sister Cecilia Wallace, SNDdeN

Sister Frances Franey (Sister Maria Anna) taught at St. Cecilia from 1963-1966.

Sister Patricia Kenny (Sister Mary Bartholomew) served at St. Cecilia and Marin Catholic through the 1950s, then at Sacred Heart and St. John of God in the 1990s, followed by administrative service at Presentation Convent in 1996-1997.

Sister Juliana Lucey (Sister Mary Aloyse) taught at St. Cecilia in 1957-1958.

Sister Joan Frances Ortega was at St. Anselm in 1956 and Marin Catholic from 1958-1960.

50 years:

Sister Georgianna Coonis, SNDdeN

Sister Anne Locke, SNDdeN

School in Sunnyvale.

Sister Anne (Mary Terence) Locke taught at many schools in California including Notre Dame High School in San Francisco. After completing her degree in chemistry and biology, she taught science and served as dean of students at Notre Dame High School, San Jose. In 1982 she went to work for Catholic Charities in San Jose.

Sister Kathleen “Kay” McMullen taught elementary grades in schools in Salinas, Chico, Carmel, Yuba City, and Belmont. In 1979 her work shifted to social justice and women’s issues in both Washington, D.C., and San

Sister Kathleen McMullen, SNDdeN

Sister Jean Stoner, SNDdeN

Francisco, including working for the Commission on Social Justice for the San Francisco Archdiocese. In the fall she will begin a mission assignment helping Sisters in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Sister Jean (Mary Jean) Stoner’s first assignment after college was teaching a lively second grade class later, teaching math at Notre Dame High School, San Jose. She also taught at Notre Dame High School, Belmont, later serving as vice principal. While she has enjoyed all her ministries, she admits that none had as much impact as doing a “financial needs assessment” for the SND provinces in Africa and Latin America.

Sisters of Charity, BVM

Sister Dolores Barling (Mary Dolores) returned to the Archdiocese from Southern California in 2008 to accept a music position at St. Robert in San Bruno. Her previous experience in the Archdiocese was teaching at St. Anselm in 1962. She lives in Daly City.

Sister Margaret Kinzie (Sister Maureen Assumpta) is a native San Franciscan who has taught and directed choir at St. Cecilia School since 1978. For many summers she also worked in the Sisters’ infirmary.

Sister Dianne Nixon (Sister Brian Anthony), Pacifica, taught mostly in Southern California until she transitioned into parish ministry in 1989, first at St. Raphael Parish and, since 2000, at St. Peter in Pacifica.

She has coordinated RCIA, liturgy planning, training of liturgical ministers, and adult faith formation. She was a board member of Marin Interfaith Homeless Chaplaincy and has been involved in community organizing with Peninsula Interfaith Action in San Mateo County.

Sister Elizabeth Adams (Sister Clare Margaret) who began playing the piano at St. Thomas Parish when she was in seventh grade and was a liturgical minister at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park.

Sister Sharon Francis (Sister Judith Marie), who taught at St. Cecilia in the mid-1960s. For 32 years Sister Sharon was an award-winning high school biology teacher in Southern California. For 14 years her ministry has involved working as Peace and Justice co-coordinator and as a Justice and Peace team member in California for the Holy Names community.

Sister Joan Frances Ortega, SNJM

Sister Mary Louise Guenther, SNJM

Sister Theresa Rose Valerga, SNJM

‘Women & Spirit’ exhibit reveals stories of Catholic Sisters in U.S. history

50 years: Sister Barbara Gaul, BVM (Charles Mary) taught at St Paul High School, 1965-72, 1973-74. She is currently a regional representative for the BVM congregation, and lives in Brookfield, Ill. Sister Anne Kendall, BVM (Robertine) was a librarian at St Paul Elementary School, 1990-92. She also worked in youth ministry at St Paul Parish, 199293. She was principal at St Monica Elementary School, 1994-2002. She is now retired and lives in Glendale.

Sister Margaret Lynn Lester, BVM (Ann Joseph) taught mathematics and computer literacy at St Paul High School, 1971-93, where her tremendous interest in computers began with the advent of the Apple IIe. “This was something new to learn, and I wanted to know all about it!” While at St. Paul, Sister Lynn worked to energize students through emerging technologies. Currently, she is an associate professor of education and director

70 years:

Sister Barbara Gaul, BVM

Sister Anne Kendall, BVM

of assessment at Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa.

Sister Mary Ann Zollmann, BVM (Clement Mary) taught religion at St Paul High School, 1973-81. She is currently the president of the BVM congregation, and resides in Dubuque, Iowa. She shares, “It is said that

Sister Margaret Lynn Lester, BVM

Sister Mary Ann Zollmann, BVM

one leaves one’s heart in San Francisco. Part of mine is always there with the students I taught and learned from at St. Paul High School, the faculty who were inspirational colleagues, and the devoted people of St. Paul Parish. Those years live on in me.”

“From the time the Ursulines arrived in New Orleans in 1727 up to today, women religious have made an incalculable contribution to this nation. Running schools, hospitals and orphanages from America’s earliest days, these women helped foster a culture of social service that has permeated our society. Over the centuries these courageous women overcame many obstacles — both physical and cultural — to bring their civilizing and caring influence to every corner of the country. Understanding and celebrating the history of women religious is essential to understanding and celebrating the history of America.—Cokie Roberts In the historical exhibit, “Women & Spirit,” scheduled for several prominent venues during 2009-2012, the stories of Catholic Sisters in America are revealed as never before.

The first Catholic Sisters arrived in America nearly 300 years ago, and within a short time, many women from Europe followed in their footsteps to serve frontier communities. Sisters

moved into fields of education, health care and social service, often providing a safety net of care in the nation’s worst natural disasters, wars and epidemics.

As millions of immigrants sought to begin new lives in America, Catholic Sisters also arrived in greater numbers from many countries. These Sisters left home and family to help others navigate the confusion and promise of America.

Recognizing the power of education, Catholic women religious opened schools, orphanages and colleges.

“Women & Spirit” offers history museums across the country an opportunity to display artifacts and images that have rarely been seen by the general public. With a balanced approach that draws upon first-hand narratives, visitors will discover an untold story in American history.

Through a range of media, visitors to the traveling exhibit will meet Catholic women religious who corresponded with President Thomas Jefferson, talked down bandits and rough-

necks, lugged pianos into the wilderness, and provided the nation’s first health insurance to Midwestern loggers.

Exhibit visitors will discover the quiet courage of Catholic women religious during many dramatic moments in U.S. history, including California’s Gold Rush, the Civil War, San Francisco’s 1906 earthquake, the early 19th century influenza epidemic, the Civil Rights movement and natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.

The exhibit, sponsored by the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), opened earlier this summer at the Cincinnati Museum Center and will travel nationwide for a three-year tour. Additional venues that have been announced include Dallas Women’s Museum this fall; the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. January 2010; Statue of Liberty National Monument in New York, September 2010; and the Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque, Iowa, February 2011. For additional information and venue updates, see www.womenandspirit.org

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Catholic San Francisco

July 24, 2009

Catholic san Francisco Newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco

Guest Commentary A just and moral people

By Father Robert A. Sirico In his much anticipated third encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (Love in Truth), Pope Benedict XVI does not focus on specific systems of economics – he is not attempting to shore up anyone’s political agenda. He is rather concerned with morality and the theological foundation of culture. The context is of course a global economic crisis – a crisis that’s taken place in a moral vacuum, where the love of truth has been abandoned in favor of a crude materialism. The pope urges that this crisis become “an opportunity for discernment, in which to shape a new vision for the future.”

Yet his encyclical contains no talk of seeking a third way between markets and socialism. Words like greed and capitalism make no appearance here, despite press headlines following the publication of the encyclical. People seeking a blueprint for the political restructuring of the world economy won’t find it here. But if they look to this document as a means for the moral reconstruction of the world’s cultures and societies, which in turn influence economic events, they will find much to reflect upon.

Caritas in Veritate is an eloquent restatement of old truths casually dismissed in modern times. The pope is pointing to a path neglected in all the talk of economic stimulus, namely a global embrace of truth-filled charity.

Benedict rightly attributes the crisis itself to “badly managed and largely speculative financial dealing.” But he resists the current fashion of blaming all existing world problems on the market economy. “The Church,” he writes, “has always held that economic action is not to be regarded as something opposed to society.” Further: “Society does not have to protect itself from the market, as if the development of the latter were ipso facto to entail the death of authentically human relations.”

The market is rather shaped by culture. “Economy and finance . . . can be used badly when those at the helm are motivated by purely selfish ends. Instruments that are good in themselves can thereby be transformed into harmful ones. But it is man’s darkened reason that produces these consequences, not the instrument per se. Therefore it is not the instrument that must be called to account, but individuals, their moral conscience and their personal and social responsibility.”

The pope does not reject globalization: “Blind opposition would be a mistaken and prejudiced attitude, incapable of recognizing the positive aspects of the process, with the consequent risk of missing the chance to take advantage of its many opportunities for development.” He says that “the world-wide diffusions of prosperity should not . . . be held up by projects that are protectionist.” More, not less, trade is needed: “the principal form of assistance needed by developing countries is that of allowing and encouraging the gradual penetration of their products into international markets.”

The encyclical doesn’t attack capitalism or offer models for nations to adopt. “The Church does not have technical solutions to offer,” the pope firmly states, “and does not claim ‘to interfere in any way in the politics of States.’ She does, however, have a mission of truth to accomplish, in every time and circumstance . . .” Benedict is profoundly aware that economic science has much to contribute to human betterment. The Church’s role is not to dictate the path of research but to focus its goals.

“Economic science tells us that structural insecurity generates anti-productive attitudes wasteful of human resources. . . . Human costs always include economic costs, and economic dysfunctions always involve human costs.”

He constantly returns to two practical applications of the principle of truth in charity. First, this principle takes us beyond earthly demands of justice, defined by rights and duties, and introduces essential moral priorities of generosity, mercy and communion – priorities which provide salvific and theological value. Second, truth in charity is always focused on the common good, defined as an extension of the good of individuals who live in society and have broad social responsibilities. As for issues of population, he can’t be clearer: “To consider population increase as the primary cause of underdevelopment is mistaken, even from an economic point of view.”

Several commentators have worried about his frequent calls for wealth redistribution. Benedict does see a role for the state here, but much of the needed redistribution is the result of every voluntary and mutually beneficial exchange. To understand such passages fully and accurately, we do well to put our political biases on the shelf.

This encyclical is a theological version of his predecessor’s more philosophical effort to anchor the free economy’s ethical foundation. Much of it stands squarely with a long tradition of writings of a certain “classical liberal” tradition, one centered on the moral foundation of economics, from St. Thomas Aquinas and his disciples, Frederic Bastiat in the 19th century, Wilhelm Roepke, and even the secular F.A. Hayek in the 20th century. It also clearly resonates with some European Christian democratic thought.

Caritas in Veritate is a reminder that we cannot understand ourselves as a human community if we do not understand ourselves as something more than the sum of our material parts; if we do not understand our capacity for sin; and if we do not understand the principle of communion rooted in the gratuitousness of God’s grace.

Simply put, to this pope’s mind, there is no just or moral system without just and moral people.

Father Sirico is president and co-founder of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. See www.action.org.

Truth of charity The thing that I loved most about “Caritas in Veritate” (CSF July 10) is the ability of Pope Benedict XVI to expose and intertwine four crucial truths at the very same time: two sets of issues (developmental social justice and individual moral) and to shed light on them from two angles (faith and reason).

The developmental and social justice issues of today, whether they are local or global – and that is the main meat of the encyclical – are linked with the individual moral issues of today (such as openness to life and respect for the whole of humanity) and both of them are shown to depend on how well we are open to God, acknowledging our own transcendence, and what happens when we don’t.

Pope Benedict XVI is always expressing his points clearly with constant references to reason, in an on-going effort to use both faith and reason to articulate the faith and expound the doctrines of the Church and to find common grounds with non-believers. He stressed the “truth” of charity right from the beginning, warning against misconstrued and misinterpreted charity detached from ethical living.

Michele Szekely San Francisco

Grand old flag Regarding the practice of having a U.S. flag in the church sanctuary (CSF July 12), the intent of the U.S. Flag Code’s “position of superior prominence” is in relation to other flags or bunting. The protocol does not say how far to the right of the speaker the flag must be placed. The Church has never before forbidden the flag being either in the church, or on a veteran’s coffin.

It is a custom desired by the people of this blessed land, whose sons, daughters, husbands and fathers have given their lives under it to save others from tyranny, torture, slavery and death. The Catholic faith is not so fragile that having the American flag in church, or on a veteran’s coffin, would create a distraction or somehow diminish the faith?

Raymond D. White San Francisco

St. Mary’s alumnus

Weigel supporter A recent letter denigrated the character and denounced the views of Catholic columnist George Weigel. Judging from the tenor of the letter, the writer has subscribed to the notion that anyone who tries to rein in the present tendency of an alarming number

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Issue not balance?

In response to the complaint of balance to columnist George Weigel, I note that on the recent Notre Dame controversy, the newspaper included the strongly differing views of former Archbishop John Quinn, no less. I also recall various columns by Father Andrew Greeley, Father Gerald Coleman and others who definitely would be more acceptable to the letter writer than is Weigel. I think the real issue is not balance, but dislike for Weigel himself. One of the most respected contemporary Catholic writers, Weigel displeases some people because of his orthodoxy. The paper does a fine job of presenting various viewpoints.

Keep up the good work.

Roger S. Thorne San Francisco

L E T T E R S

It was very interesting to read the Catholic San Francisco obituary (CSF June 12) concerning John Henning, a good friend and an outstanding Catholic gentleman. John touched many lives and all his exploits were too numerous to mention. However, many of us were disappointed that the obituary failed to mention John’s lifelong association with St. Mary’s College in Moraga and his many awards for service above self. He was a true son of St. Mary’s College. Go Gaels!

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of American Catholics to follow selectively only tenets of the Church with which they agree and ignore the rest is mean-spirited.

The letter accused Mr. Weigel of taking these “shoppers” to task not because he is a sincere Catholic but because he has hidden political agenda. The Catholic Church is not a “super market.” Catholics can’t pick and choose the dictates they want to follow. If one wants to be a member in good standing, he or she follows the dictates of the Church. Mr. Weigel simply states the rules and supports them.

William J. Tognotti San Francisco

And another thing Letter writer Dr. Barbaccia (July 10) could have added that George Weigel is a name dropper, arrogant, sanctimonious and pseudo-intellectual. Despite that I go first to read Mr. Weigel to see what is his latest diatribe. I vote to keep Mr. Weigel’s column. But Dr. Barbaccia is correct. The newspaper needs a competent counterpoint to Mr. Weigel. Otherwise you give the impression that Mr. Weigel’s views are gospel.

P.S. My affection and concern for Catholic San Francisco go back to the time I was sports editor of The Monitor in the days of Monsignor Tappe and Al O’Dea. Donald F. Farbstein San Mateo

Different imbalance The request to “provide balance to Weigel” (CSF Letters, July 10) by Dr. Joseph Barbaccia is a disingenuous and cynical attempt to degrade George Weigel and the values he defends. It is an indisputable fact that our media is essentially materialistic and anti-Christian. The people who control it present religion and faith as sociology; ethics is existential, thus, double standards reign and absolute precepts are derided. Here indeed rests the true imbalance. For every Weigel in the media and public forums, there are at least five Maureen Dowds or Larry Kings.

George Weigel encourages all of us to better understand and appreciate the demise of the principles which have been the bedrock of our country and our civilization. Together with the remnant few, it is the Weigels of the world who need help and support to redress this imbalance – an imbalance that seriously threatens our Christian faith and founding values which have made us great as a people and a country.

Michael Djordjevich San Rafael

Missing Rolheiser Never having written Catholic San Francisco before, I decided it was time. My wife and I want to find out if Father Rollheiser’s column is no longer appearing in the paper. We have always felt that it was one of the best, if not the best, column you publish. It always is very well written and extremely thought provoking. We hope he will be back.

John & Mary Lou Kaufer Foster City Ed. Note: Father Ron Rolheiser’s missed a few issues recently, but he continues to be one of our regular columnists. His “Spirituality for Life” column now appears on the Scripture page.

July 24, 2009

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Making a difference

Strong words from a gentle pope It’s powerful, it’s wise, it’s challenging, it’s ancient and yet modern: It’s Pope Benedict XVI’s new encyclical “Charity in Truth” (“Caritas in Veritate”).

Building on over 100 years of Catholic social teaching with a special concentration on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical “The Development of Peoples” (“Populorum Progressio”), Pope Benedict takes his predecessor’s groundbreaking teaching on international development — with its emphasis on economic justice for all as the basis for peace — and applies it to the economic crisis currently facing the whole world.

Among the contemporary issues the pope focuses on are globalization, microfinancing, intellectual property rights, embryonic research, technology and the environment. And among the old critical issues he concentrates on are poverty, hunger, abortion and violence.

To both new and old areas of concern, the Holy Father applies the always relevant, ancient teaching of the church: that “love is God’s greatest gift to humanity, it is his promise and our hope.”

Love (or charity) guided by truth teaches us to care for the needs of our human family, especially the vulnerable and poor.

In the truth of God’s loving plan, human beings must always come before everything else, including profit. Profit is useful if it is a means toward a good end. However, “once profit becomes the exclusive goal, if it is produced

by improper means and without the common good as its ultimate end, it risks destroying wealth and creating poverty,” wrote the pope.

And that is primarily what caused our current economic crisis. Wealth was destroyed, and most of all, poverty was created as a result of a lust for profit that put the accumulation of money and other assets above the good of all.

As a result of this greed, well over 100 million additional people are now hungry.

According to a recent U.N. report, for the first time in history more than one billion fellow human beings are now starving or undernourished!

This unjust distribution of wealth is totally unacceptable to the Holy Father — and should be totally unacceptable to us.

Like Pope Paul, Pope Benedict calls for the need to create “a model of market economy capable of including within its range all peoples and not just the better off.” He also continues Pope John Paul II’s teaching of promoting a culture of life that recognizes and respects the interconnectedness of all human life from conception to natural death, including all of creation.

The Holy Father urges us to look at our planet as a living being. And he warns that if we continue destroying our environment, we will end up destroying our own life source.

The pope is calling us to better understand and act on the whole of Catholic social teaching.

It is not enough to only work for the protection of the unborn, or to promote nonviolence and peace, or Tony Magliano to strive to end poverty and hunger, or to respect the integrity of creation.

Faithful Catholics are called to do all of the above to the best of our ability!

This encyclical is packed with information on spirituality, theology, economics, politics, ecology and more. It is impossible to cover it adequately in one sitting or one column.

Hopefully it will be the ongoing subject of college courses, clergy in-service days, numerous homilies, social justice committee gatherings, corporate board meetings, congressional debates and family conversations.

To do justice to this outstanding encyclical we need to study, pray with and consider how best to act on the teachings of “Charity in Truth.”

and worship God, signify the traditional use of bells in the Bible. The ornate vestments of the high priest Aaron as he approached the Arc of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies, is described in Exodus 28:33. “On its skirts you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet stuff, around its skirts, with bells of gold between them, … And it shall be upon Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the holy place before the Lord.”

Pictorial descriptions of bells can also be found in Ecclesiastes 45:9; in Zechariah l4:20 and in Psalm 150:5-6.

Most of the Eastern Catholic Churches still use bells in their Divine Liturgy to symbolize the sound of their wings as angels gather around the altar.

Ideally, churches with tower bells could emulate the Basilica of Saint Peter at the Vatican and other cathedrals in England and Europe by ringing them either as outside Sanctus bells or along with the inside Sanctus bells when the priest elevates the Sacred Host and Chalice. It’s doubtful that anyone, even the most easily distracted among us, would not come to full attention at that miraculous moment.

The assumption by some that Sanctus bells have been

permanently deleted from the Mass is contradicted in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal: “A little before the consecration the server may ring a bell as a signal to the faithful. Depending on local custom, he also Jane L. Sears rings the bell at the showing of both the host and the chalice.”

So Catholics should feel free to request the return of the bells to their churches, reminding all that the sound elicits joyful reverence. If there is resistance, try gently holding your ground by quoting Longfellow: “For bells are the voice of the church; they have tones that touch and search the hearts of young and old.”

Tony Magliano writes a column on social issues for Catholic News Service.

Potpourri

The silent bells For centuries, bells have been used to summon pilgrims to prayer, families to dinner, ships to safe harbor — and worshipers to prepare for the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Sadly, along with many other sacred sounds and signs instituted by the Church to emphasize, and make holy, certain events during worship, bell ringing in many parishes has been sidelined. The myriad of moments once highlighted

by Sanctus bells were key to a realization of heaven meeting earth to replace the mundane with the magnificent.

The symbolism of bells to prepare us for the approaching moment of receiving Christ in the holy species enabled us to withdraw from the distractions of persons and sounds, and into that singleness of purpose — our personal meeting with our divine Savior. Some would argue that as a community, our focus should be less on our own encounter with Christ and more on our being with others of the gathered community, in the real “oneness” of coming to Him. This “togetherness” concept, though liturgically correct, does not alter the right of an individual to yearn for, and seize upon, that singular moment when He alone is mine and I alone am His. Scripture references to bells used to prepare for,

Jane L. Sears is a free lance writer and a parishioner at Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame.

The Catholic Difference

What Apollo 11 still means Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, a low decade reached a glorious apogee when Neil Armstrong steered Eagle over a lunar rock field and, with 17 seconds of fuel left, gently set his spidery spacecraft down on the Sea of Tranquility—the first time human beings had landed on another celestial body. Strangely, Apollo 11 never quite seized the public imagination the way Apollo 8 did with its Christmas Eve circumnavigation of the Moon and those stunning “Earthrise” photos. Three Apollo missions later (and nine months before the high drama of Apollo 13), Americans were accustomed to success in spaceflight. There was nothing automatic about that first lunar landing, though, which was a hair-raiser until touchdown. On its 40th anniversary, it’s worth remembering what an extraordinary accomplishment Apollo 11 was.

Perhaps the most impressive thing about the entire Apollo program was the creativity that went into it. No one knew how to do this in 1961, when President Kennedy announced that the United States would land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth before the decade was out. The booster rocketry wasn’t yet designed. The path to the Moon—direct ascent, earth orbit rendezvous, lunar orbit rendezvous?—was undetermined. The stack of vehicles to do the job hadn’t been imagined. The Apollo command module, Columbia, was the most complex piece of machinery ever built; millions of parts had to be invented from scratch. The same was true for the lunar module, Eagle, the first craft ever built to fly solely in space: Should

it have three legs or four? Where would the windows go?

Would the astronauts sit or stand? How do you keep the pilots from punching a hole in the Eagle’s .0000833 inchthick nickel-steel skin—a hull the thickness of three sheets of aluminum foil?

Everything about the Apollo program—hardware, software, navigation techniques, mission rules and procedures—had to be invented: a stunning exercise in intellectual creativity and engineering prowess. And it was all done without today’s sophisticated computers—the computer onboard Eagle had less computing power than your standard iPhone today.

In The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe justifiably celebrated the courage and skill of the astronaut corps, spiritual qualities that ought to remain an inspiration today. Yet in the retrospect of 40 years, what seems equally impressive is the sheer volume of creative ideas that made possible Neil Armstrong’s epic transmission—“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed”—and Buzz Aldrin’s word-portrait of the Moon’s “magnificent desolation.” As we ponder the accomplishment of Apollo 11, the thought that bears repeating is, “No one knew how to do any of this, eight years before it happened.”

On this anniversary, it’s also worth reflecting on why we stopped pushing out into space and what that’s meant.

At the height of the space race, it was simply assumed that, after conquering the Moon (and perhaps building a permanent base there), there would be a Mars mission, which

was thought doable by the end of the 20th century, if not earlier. Yet Congress decreed that we stop exploring the Moon with Apollo 17; we can’t get back with the equipment we have now; Mars George Weigel remains an unfocused dream; and the next men on the Moon (or beyond) could be Chinese.

The lowness of another low decade, the 1970s, had something to do with America’s failure to keep pushing the outside of the envelope in space, I suspect. As in the spiritual life, so in public life: if we look down, or look around, but don’t look up, the human spirit withers a bit. After a season of withering, we find it difficult to imagine ourselves as creatures called to transcend ourselves. So we turn inward, become self-absorbed, and end up, like contemporary Europe—trapped in a crisis of civilizational morale, unable to summon the moral energy to create future generations.

God made us for adventure and discovery. Abandoning the great adventure of manned space exploration was a serious mistake, for America and for the human future.

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

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Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Scripture reflection

2 Kings 4:42-44; Psalm 145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18; Ephesians 4:1-6; John 6:1-15

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18 R. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs.

Let all your works give you thanks, O Lord, and let your faithful ones bless you. Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might.

R. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs.

The eyes of all look hopefully to you, and you give them their food in due season; you open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

R. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs.

The Lord is just in all his ways and holy in all his works. The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.

R. The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE EPHESIANS EPH 4:1-6 Brothers and sisters: I, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another through love, striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace: one body and one Spirit, as you were also called to the one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN JN 6:1-15 Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.

Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little.”

One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?” Jesus said, “Have the people recline.” Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in

Loaves and fishes; Eucharist and calling

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF KINGS 2 KGS 4:42-44 A man came from Baal-shalishah bringing to Elisha, the man of God, twenty barley loaves made from the first fruits, and fresh grain in the ear. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.” But his servant objected, “How can I set this before a hundred people?” Elisha insisted, “Give it to the people to eat.”

“For thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and there shall be some left over.’” And when they had eaten, there was some left over, as the Lord had said.

FATHER CHARLES PUTHOTA

“Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes,” a late Baroque fresco by artist Gregorio Guglielmi.

number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.” So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they said, “This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.” Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone.

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Jesus himself feeds the hungry. Being human, he knows firsthand our bodily and spiritual needs. He cannot bear to see anyone go without food. Seeing the large crowd coming to him, he says “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He knows, though, that he is going to multiply food to satisfy their hunger. When he can fulfill their innermost longings, satisfying their physical hunger is not a tall order.

What is more, Jesus identifies with the poor and the hungry. When we feed the poor, we feed Jesus himself. Mother Teresa has shown us the way. A powerful way we can share Jesus with the world is by caring for the poor. Hence Gandhi’s insight: “To a hungry person God comes in the form of food.”

If Jesus can change bread and wine into his body and blood in a gesture of self-gift, he can more easily—-and miraculously—multiply food. However, in the midst of the miracle event, it is striking that Jesus still relies on our offering—-our five loaves and two fish. Jesus chooses to multiply what we can bring to him in our common concern for the poor and the hungry.

Elisha the prophet feeds the hungry on a small scale. Jesus on a grand scale feeds the five thousand with five barley loaves and two fish. In Jesus, the God who cares for the poor is perfectly manifested—and identified.

That Jesus takes the loaves, gives thanks, and distributes them indicates the Eucharistic purpose. However, in chapter 13, John describes the last supper details differently. Instead of the bread and the cup,

we are given the washing of the feet. The Eucharist thus becomes a distinctive call for action: to serve one another. Combining the multiplication event with the washing of the feet, we cannot miss the significance: as followers of Jesus we must care for the needy and feed the hungry.

In the Eucharist, the source and summit of the Christian life, we feed on Jesus for our survival and sustenance. In the Eucharist, we are forged into unity as St. Paul envisions it: “One body, one Spirit, one hope of your call; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all.” We are bound together forever by the body and blood of Jesus.

As we commune with Jesus in the Eucharist, united in him and with one another, we are energized with Jesus’ mission to wash the feet of one another and feed the hungry. The Eucharist we celebrate day after day, week after week, impels us to seek ways to end world’s hunger. Among the world’s population of 6.7 billion, 963 million people are said to be hungry. Every day nearly 16,000 children die of hunger-related causes—-one child every five seconds. In the United States, 35.5 million people, including 12.6 million children, live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger.

In heeding the call of Jesus, we acknowledge that our little mite could become vast amounts of food for the world. Those of us who have faith in the Eucharist cannot but be moved to wash the feet of one another and care for the hungry. The Eucharist is an invitation to be united with Jesus. It is also a call to action: having been fed to feed others.

St. John Chrysostom captures the spirit of the Eucharist: “Do you want to honor Christ’s body?... For he who said: This is my body, and made it so by his words, also said: You saw me hungry and did not feed me, and inasmuch as you did not do it for one of these, the least of my brothers, you did not do it for me.”

Father Charles Puthota, Ph.D., is Pastor of St. Veronica Church and Parish in South San Francisco.

Spirituality for Life

A loving embrace that speaks it’s truth Be compassionate as your heavenly Father is compassionate. Jesus challenged us with those words and there is more in them than first meets the eye. How is God compassionate?

Jesus defines this for us: God, he says, lets his sun shine on the bad as well as the good. God’s love doesn’t discriminate, it simply embraces everything. Like the sun it doesn’t shine selectively, shedding its warmth on the vegetables because they are good and refusing its warmth to the weeds because they are bad. It just shines and everything, irrespective of its condition, receives its warmth.

That’s a stunning truth: God loves us when we are good and God loves us when we are bad. God loves the saints in heaven and God loves the devils in hell equally.

They just respond differently. The father of the prodigal son and the older brother loves both, one in his weakness and the other in his bitterness, and his embrace is not contingent upon their conversion. He loves them even inside their distance from him.

And we are asked to love in the same way.

How do we do that? First of all, it poses this question: If God loves us equally when we are bad and when we

are good, then why be good? This is an interesting question, though not a deep one. Love, understood properly, is never a reward for being good. Instead goodness is always a consequence of having been loved. We aren’t loved because we are good, but hopefully we become good because we experience love.

But how do we, like God, embrace indiscriminately?

How do we let our love shine on the bad as well as the good, without saying that nothing matters, that it is okay to live in any way and do anything? How do we love as God loves and still hold true to who we are and what are values are?

We do so by holding our personal and moral ground in a gracious and loving way. And, for this, we have Jesus’ example. He embraced everyone, sinners and saints alike, without ever suggesting that sin and virtue aren’t important. Indeed, a truly loving embrace suggests the reverse.

Let’s take an example: Imagine that your college-age daughter comes home for a weekend, along with her boyfriend. You already know that they are living together, but the awkward question still arises: Do you challenge them to sleep in separate rooms while they are at your

house? You do and your answer is clear, you tell your daughter, gently but unequivocally, that while they are under your roof and unmarried they will sleep in separate rooms. She objects: Father “That’s hypocritical, Ron Rolheiser my values aren’t the same as yours, and I don’t believe this is wrong in any way!”

Your response is the non-discriminating, discriminating embrace of Jesus: You hug your daughter and tell her that you love her, that you know that she is already sleeping with her boyfriend, but that she may not do so in your house, under your roof. Everything inside of your body language, your embrace, and your person, will clearly tell her two things: “I love you, you’re my daughter, I will always love you no matter what. But I don’t agree with you on this matter. “ SPIRITUALITY FOR LIFE, page 22

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Franciscan Father Floyd Lotito, known for work with St. Anthony Foundation A funeral Mass was celebrated July 21 for Franciscan Father Floyd Lotito, OFM, at St. Boniface Parish in San Francisco. Archbishop George H. Niederauer was present in the sanctuary. Franciscan Father John Hardin, Provincial Minister of the Franciscan’s Santa Barbara Province, was principal celebrant. Homilist was Franciscan Father Finian McGinn, a friend of Father Floyd’s since high school.

Father Floyd, known for his work with the St. Anthony Foundation as well as his popular evangelization efforts including an annual blessing of the City’s taxis and the Franciscan-themed blessing of animals on the feast of the order’s founder, St. Francis of Assisi, died July 14. Father Floyd (his religious name) entered the Franciscan Order July 12, 1953 and was ordained to the priesthood Dec. 17, 1960. He would have been 75 years old July 28.

In a statement from the offices of the St. Anthony Foundation announcing Father Floyd’s death Franciscan Father John Hardin, a former executive director of the foundation, remembered Father Floyd as a round-theclock minister of the love of God. “Father Floyd affirmed the dignity of each person he met calling them `brother’ and `sister,’” Father Hardin said. “He used his incredible gifts of communication, presence, planning and charisma to build relationships with people from the entire community – from politicians, journalists, philanthropists and athletes to those living on the margins of our society.”

George Wesolek is director of public policy and social concerns for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “I always thought of Father Floyd as a man who kept one eye on the poor and the other on the press,” Wesolek said. “He was very skilled at bringing the two together.”

“Floyd was our community liaison and he knew multiple Born in Los Angeles, Father Floyd held an undergraduate degree in theology and a graduate degree in generations of people who lived in the Tenderloin,” Aviani speech and communication arts. In his years before told Catholic San Francisco. “The first thing he told me when I came on board was ‘get to know coming to the St. Anthony Foundation everybody’s first name,’ which he did. He in 1968, Father Floyd was a high school knew everybody by their first name.” teacher in Southern California, and a Presentation Sister Rosina Conrotto, parish priest in California, Oregon, and newly named director of the Office for Wisconsin.

Women Religious in the Archdiocese of The priest wore many hats during his San Francisco, said, “I met Father Floyd more than 40 years with the Tenderloin briefly once or twice on a Friday when District charity founded by Franciscan I work at St. Anthony Dining Room. I Father Alfred Boeddeker in 1950. He would say that he embodied the spirit served at Father Alfred’s side as deputy of St. Francis in the way he dealt with executive director and later moved into the volunteers and the guests at St. roles including public relations direcAnthony’s Dining Room. Always treattor and director of St. Anthony Dining ing us with dignity and gentle humor.”

Room now serving more than 2,500 Interment was at the congregameals a day to San Francisco’s poor. tion cemetery at Old Mission Santa The dining room moved to an everyday Barbara. schedule under Father Floyd’s leaderFather Floyd Lotito, OFM Remembrances may be made to the ship.

A renowned speaker, Father Lotito delivered the St. Anthony Foundation, 150 Golden gate Ave., San benediction at the 1984 Democratic National Convention, Francisco 94102.

In addition to the Dining Room, St. Anthony’s proand blessed the opening of Pacific Bell Park at the pregame ceremonies in 2000. His work was written about grams include one of the oldest and largest free medical in Newsweek Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the San clinics in San Francisco; a free clothing and furniture Francisco Chronicle, The San Francisco Examiner, and program; a residence for low-income senior women; a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation center; an many other publications.

Up until just days before his death, Father Floyd was employment program and technology lab; a social work in his office at St. Anthony Foundation, said Francis center; and educational programs for the community on Aviani, the organization’s communications director. Since issues of poverty and homelessness.

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Sister Hosanna Almaguer, 106, Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose Sister Hosanna Almaguer, 106, Dominican Sister of Mission San Jose for 84 years, died at the congregation’s Fremont Motherhouse June 11. Sister Hosanna, a native of a small village in Mexico, was one of eight children.

“Mexico at the time Sister was growing up was a place of poverty and war; a hard time to be raising many children,” an announcement of the death from the Dominican Sisters of San Jose said. “Her family survived by loving each other, by working closely together and by helping one another. These qualities would carry over into Sister’s religious life, to the benefit of

all with whom and to whom she ministered.”

Sister Hosanna entered religious life in 1925, in Mexico. In 1926, Sister Hosanna came to the United States and made her profession in 1927. She never returned to live in Mexico, and was proud that she became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

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Father Edward Cleary “He’s the new man in heaven and he’s praying for us now.�

Father Smith remembered Father Cleary’s dedication to the pro-life effort and his devotion to the rosary and the Blessed Mother. “He prayed the rosary endlessly for an end to the Rose v. Wade decision,� Father Smith said. “Ed was a great golfer,� said Father Kevin Gaffey, retired pastor of St. Anthony Parish in Novato and ordained from St. Patrick’s a year after Father Cleary.

Father Gaffey remembered Father Cleary’s uncle, Pat Mahoney, a golf pro from a course in Palo Alto, coming to St. Patrick’s to give pro-bono golf lessons to the seminarians. “Ed still played until a year or two ago on a nine-hole course in Sonoma he kiddingly called ‘Geritol Gulch,’� Father Gaffey recalled. “He always had a new theory on his swing.�

Father Cleary was also remembered at a Mass celebrated at Nazareth House on June 14. He was interred at St. Francis Solano Cemetery in Sonoma.

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A funeral Mass was celebrated for Father Edward Cleary, retired pastor of San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s St. James Parish, July 15, at St. Francis Solano Church in Sonoma. Father Lawrence Goode was principal celebrant and San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop William J. Justice was present in the sanctuary. Father Cleary, who was 88 years old, had lived at Nazareth House in San Rafael since 2003.

He marked his 56th year as a priest June 16.

Following graduation from Sonoma Valley High School, Father Cleary served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. On his return at the age of 24, he enrolled in the now-closed St. Joseph Seminary in Mountain View, later completing studies for the priesthood at St. Patrickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seminary and University in Menlo Park. He was ordained for the Archdiocese of San Francisco by Archbishop John J. Mitty at St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cathedral on June 16, 1956.

Father Cleary began his service to the Archdiocese as a parochial vicar, ministering at Saint John the Baptist Church in Napa (1956-1957), St. Martin of Tours Church, San Jose (19571958), St. Finn Barr Church (1958-1964), St. Brigid Church (1964-1966), St. Matthew Church (1966-1971), and St. Raphael Church (1971-1976). Archbishop John R. Quinn then appointed Father Cleary as pastor of Holy Angels Church, where he served from 1976 to 1990. He was then assigned as pastor of St. James Church for five years, retiring July 1, 1995.

In retirement, Father Cleary lived in residence at Our Lady of Mercy Church (1995-1997) and Saint Veronica Church (19972003) before moving to Nazareth House in San Rafael.

Father Lawrence Goode, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto, met Father Cleary as members of the Respect Life Commission of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was very focused and I admired him because every week heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d lead people in prayer at an abortion site not far from where he lived,â&#x20AC;? Father Goode told Catholic San Francisco, noting the facility ultimately closed down. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was very passionate and committed to pro-life and wanted to tell people about it. It was his big thing in life.â&#x20AC;?

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By Father Basil De Pinto Of the three very popular operas of Verdi’s “middle” period (c. 1851-1853) “La Traviata” probably holds the stage more firmly than any of the others. The fragile heroine, forced to renounce the great love of her life and reunited with him on her deathbed, sounds like the stuff of afternoon soap opera, but transformed by great music it takes on the lineaments of genuine tragedy.

But just because it is surefire at the box office is no reason to underestimate its demands. The performance on July 2, one of the run that concluded the current San Francisco Opera season, could be taken as an object lesson in the perils of casting an opera that can only reveal its power in the hands of really expert artists.

Elizabeth Futral, the Violetta, has a voice of considerable lyric beauty, and she used it to advantage at many points. She did make the mistake of attacking the optional E-flat at the end of “Sempre libera” in Act One; it was forced and unpleasant and largely undid the benefit of the sweetly pensive aria that preceded it. But that could be overlooked since her really important work was about to take place in Act Two. The duet between Violetta and the elder Germont, father of her young lover, is crucial in the unfolding of the drama.

The harshly judgmental aristocrat is quickly convinced of the inner nobility of “the fallen woman” of the opera’s title, but remains unbending in his demand that she separate herself from his son because of the scandal of their liaison. Ms. Futral showed a keen understanding of the subtle variations in the music as it portrays Violetta’s transition from acquiescence to panic to grief-stricken resignation.

And yet this great scene requires more than a basic grasp of the situation. The protagonist must be able to project

through the music the agonizing, crushing sense of loss that pervades Violetta. The long lines of “Ah, dite alla giovane” reveal the hopelessness of one who has been at the cusp of happiness only to feel it slip away. Ms. Futral was not quite up to it; to be fair, very few sopranos ever have been, but they are the immortals who have made this opera more than a standard repertory piece.

In the next scene, in the aftermath of Alfredo’s disgraceful public repudiation of Violetta, her gentle rebuke requires a plangent tone that Verdi’s “La Traviata” concludes opera season combines sorrow and a love that even this treatment cannot budge. Here Ms. Futral was handicapped by staging that as music director for the esteemed Donald Runnicles. His had shown clumsiness earlier, but at this point was totally sensitive and expert handling of the orchestra on this occaamiss. Whenever actors are required to climb on tables and sion was one of a piece with all the fine work he has done chairs, you know that the director hasn’t a clue. The singer in seventeen years with the company. He will return as guest did her best but was betrayed by the direction. Ludicrous too conductor of the new Ring cycle and no doubt be as warmly was the final moment of the opera: a dying woman does not received as he was at his departure. stand upright in bed moments before her demise.

San Francisco Opera’s 2009-2010 season begins Sept. 11.

That being said, Ms. Futral is a talented and committed artist For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www. who did very well and would do even better in happier stage cir- sfopera.com. cumstances. The Alfredo, David Lomelí, and his father, played Bay Area priest Father Basil De Pinto

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24-hour Adoration schedule: July 21, 7 p.m.: Reading St. Paul with St. Bonaventure, a free lecture series presented by Stephen C. Cordova of the St. Anthony of Padua Institute in the Cathedral Event Center. For more information, contact stephencordova@yahoo.com. Ample parking is available free of charge in our Cathedral lot.

July 29, 10:30 a.m. – noon: A free Grief Support Workshop in the Cathedral Event Center with Barbara Elordi, MFT, Director of the Archdiocesan Grief Care ministry. For further details, please contact Sr. Esther McEgan at (415) 567-2020 x 218.

First Friday Masses at 6:45 a.m.; 8 a.m.; 12:10 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. First Saturday Masses at 6:45 a.m. and 8 a.m. Adoration begins after the 8:00 a.m. Mass on Friday and continues through Morning Prayer on Saturday at 7:30 a.m. Throughout the day, Adoration is held in Our Lady’s Chapel in the Cathedral sacristy which is located behind the sanctuary. After the 7:30 p.m. Mass, Adoration moves into the Msgr. Bowe Room on the lower level with entrance from Cleary Court side of Parking Lot until 6:30 a.m. To join the Apostolate of the Blessed Sacrament, contact Mary Ann Eiler at (650) 355-7528.

Sundays, 3:30 p.m.: Concerts featuring local and musical artists from around the world. Open to the public. Free will offering helps support Cathedral’s music ministry. Call (415) 567-2020, ext. 231.

Support Resources Relevant to the Economy Edgewood Works, an employment support group, meets Mondays 9 a.m. – 11 a.m. and 4th Thursdays from 7 – 9 p.m. in Merry Room at St. Matthias Church, 1685 Cordilleras Rd. in Redwood City There is no cost to attend. Drop-ins welcome. Call (650) 906-8836 or e-mail edgewoodworksstm@gmail.com for more information.

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Trainings/Lectures/Respect Life July 25, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.: “Reflections on the priesthood from the Scriptures and the Early Fathers,” with Father David Anderson at St. Sebastian Church, Bon Air Rd. at Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Greenbrae. Day begins with Choral Divine Liturgy, Byzantine Father David Catholic Rite, at 10 a.m. folAnderson lowed by an 11:30 Brunch and the conference from 12:30 to 3 p.m. Free event – but free will donations accepted. Registration appreciated: contact Mary Ann Haeuser at (415) 454-0979.

Oct. 1 – 4: The annual Cathedral Festival of Flowers will highlight a group of fantastic floral designers from Europe who are coming to San Francisco specifically to work on this event. The opening gala (Thursday, October 1) will feature the designs of the professional designers in the Cathedral proper as well as the Cathedral Treasures exhibit and the Little Flower Festival with arrangements from amateur designers in our local parishes. On Friday and Saturday there will be several workshops and flower arranging demonstrations offered throughout the day. The Festival will end on Sunday afternoon (4 p.m.) as the annual Choral Festival concert will take place in the Cathedral. Visit the Festival’s website: http:// www.cathedralflowers.org/

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3rd Tuesdays, at 7 p.m. in the Spirituality center on the main floor of the “school” building. The other one is in the parish hall of St. Stephen Parish near Stonestown, San Francisco, on the 1st and 3rd On Sunday, Aug. 16, we will gather on the Peninsula, for our annual picnic, at San Bruno City Park. All unmarried Catholics and their families are invited for an afternoon of good food, great fun, and lots of camaraderie. We will supply hot dogs, sausages, buns, condiments and a cook.

Please bring a side dish, beverage or dessert to share. We always have fun and find interesting dishes when we get together, so join us at noon on 8/16/09. There is a nominal charge of $5/person, or $10/ family to cover meat, charcoal etc. For directions and more information please call Gail at (650) 591-8452.

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Aug. 29: St. Paul’s High School, class of ’59, announces a reunion of the Golden Belles at Embassy Suites, 150 Anza Blvd. in Burlingame. The alumnae are seen here in St. Paul Church following a Mass marking their 49th year since graduation in 2008. “This is a special group,” classmate Nancy Singleton said.

“Many of us have been friends since we were five years old in kindergarten.”

Contact Nancy Borgia Singleton at (415) 664-0062, Angela Barberini Johnson at (650) 347-0672 or Anne Anderson Zarate at (415) 587-8639. See Food and Fun for details on Women of St. Paul’s pasta dinner July 25.

July 28, 29, 30, 5:15 – 6:45 p.m.: St. Paul the Apostle and St. Ignatius Loyola: Stories of Conversion, Mission and Education Three days preparing for the Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola July 31. Schedule of event: Mass in St. Ignatius Church on campus of the University of San Francisco at 5:15 pm with a 15 minute homily followed by a short session in the parish offices on Ignatian Prayer and Spirituality All are welcome. For more information, contact Daniel Faloon at (415) 422-2195. Quentin Dupont, S.J., a Jesuit scholastic of the California Province of the Society of Jesus and currently teaching at Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, will facilitate. Admission is free. All are welcome.

Aug. 16, 23, 10:45 am - 11:45 am: Jesuit Father Tom Reese, former editor of America, the Jesuits’ weekly magazine, speaks at St. Ignatius Church on the campus of the University of San Francisco. July 19, Religion and Politics: What is forbidden, what allowed, what prudent? (Maraschi Room) August 16, Eucharistic Prayers: The Heart of the Eucharist (Xavier Chapel) August 23, Catholics and Obama: Bishops, People and Issues (Maraschi Room) Admission is free. All are welcome. Talks are in Fromm Hall directly behind the church. For more information, contact Daniel Faloon at (415) 422-2195.

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

group is also open to new membership. Meetings are held the second Thursday of the month except August and December at St. Gregory Parish’s Worner Center, 138 28th Ave. in San Mateo at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call Jessica at (650) 572-1468.

Food & Fun July 25, 5:30 p.m.: The Women of St. Paul invite you to its annual Pasta Dinner to be held at St. Paul Church, Father Mario P. Farana Parish Hall, 29th and Church Streets, San Francisco. The meal includes salad, bread, pasta, meatballs and ice cream. No host bar opens at 5:30 p.m. Dinner starts 6:30 p.m. Cost: Adult $15.00; Child 12 years and under $5.00. For reservations contact St Paul Rectory at (415) 648-7538.

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

Would you like support while you travel the road through separation and divorce? The Archdiocese of San Francisco offers support for the journey. The Separated and Divorced Catholics of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (SDCASF) has two ongoing support groups in the 1st and 3rd weeks of each month.

There is one on the Peninsula, at St. Bartholomew Parish, 600 Columbia Dr., San Mateo, on the 1st and

Oct. 15: A relic of St. Damien of Molokai visits St. Mary’s Cathedral, Geary Blvd. at Gough, in San Francisco. Tentative plans include a dramatization of the saint’s work by actor Casey Groves as well as a prayer service at the Cathedral and an opportunity for the faithful to venerate the relic. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will be present for the Cathedral programs and has asked that no major events be planned for that date by any Catholic organizations in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Blessed Damien will be canonized Oct. 11 in Rome and the relic’s stop in San Francisco is one of only three it will make on its way to Hawaii for special ceremonies at the end of the month. Blessed Sister Jeanne Jugan, founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor, will also be made a saint Oct. 11 in the Rome rites. The Little Sisters of the Poor have been in service to the elderly for more than 100 years at St. Anne’s Home in San Francisco.

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Class of 1980, St. John Ursuline High School, San Francisco, is planning its 30 year reunion! We need to hear from you! end us your current contact info to Ana Cianci at missana_c@yahoo.com or visit www. stjohnursuline.alumz.com Class of ’59 Mercy High School, San Francisco will have their 50th year reunion in September. For information, please contact Andi Thuesen Ibarra at (415)6650959 or email to mercyhighschool1959@gmail.com.

Class of 59, Holy Angels Elementary School, Colma is having a reunion in September. Call Mary Anne Woods at (707) 632-5270 or e-mail Maureen Marconi at mgmarconi@cox.net for information.

Class of 1959, Presentation High School, San Francisco is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Joanne Camozzi Alkazin at (415) 454-7550 or jalkazin@aol.com.

Class of ’59 from San Francisco’s Star of the Sea Academy is planning its 50th reunion. Contact Maria Elena Keizer at (415) 924-9756 or Keizerm@ sutterhealth.org Aug. 29: St. Paul’s High School, class of ’59, announces a reunion of the Golden Belles at Embassy Suites, 150 Anza Blvd. in Burlingame. “This is a special group,” classmate Nancy Singleton said. “Many of us have been friends since we were five years old in kindergarten.” Contact Nancy Borgia Singleton at (415) 664-0062, Angela Barberini Johnson at (650) 347-0672 or Anne Anderson Zarate at (415) 587-8639.

Sept. 6, 12:15 p.m.: Centennial Mass commemorating first century of Star of the Sea Elementary School and its now closed sister-school, Star of the Sea Academy, at Star of the Sea Church, 8th Avenue at Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside with Msgr. Floro Arcamo, pastor, among the concelebrants. Reception and rededication rites follow the liturgy. Call (415) 221-3399 or e-mail alumni@staroftheseasf.com.

Sept. 20 with Mass at noon: Our Lady of Mercy Elementary School, class of ’68. Contact Jean Anderson at (650) 756-3395 or jeananders@aol.com.

Sept. 26, 27: St. Elizabeth School in San Francisco marks its 60th anniversary. Graduates, former students, staff and friends of St. Elizabeth Elementary School please mark their calendars for a weekend celebration and e-mail your contact information to stelizabethalumni@yahoo.com to receive detailed information regarding the weekend’s events.

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as performing charitable service for the benefit of the most vulnerable members of society.”

The identity of these communities was challenged by the Tridentine emphasis on enclosure, and Evangelisti narrates the histories of Angela de Merici (1470-1540), who founded the Ursulines, and Mary Ward (1585-1645), whose English Ladies failed to attain approval for an Ignatian mode of life that would allow women “to participate in active spiritual renewal and fight for the Catholic faith.”

Evangelisti writes with authority and insight into the 250-year struggle to negotiate the complex tension between enclosure and worldly involvement, silence and speech, class and wealth, contemplation and action. “Nuns” is a fascinating history of a period that gave us the style of religious life we know today, a history that models how women can learn to live with paradox and change as they give form to their desire to worship and serve.

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July 24, 2009

NOVENAS PUBLISH A NOVENA Pre-payment required Mastercard or Visa accepted

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme 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.

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You who give me the divine gift of forgive and forget the wrong that is done to me. I, in this short dialogue, want to thank you for everything and confirm once more that I never want to be separated from you no matter how great the material desires may be. I want to be with you and my loved ones in your perpetual glory. Amen. You may publish this as soon as your favor is granted. M.A.B.

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother.

Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

Oh Mary, conceived without sin. Pray for us (3X).

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

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

Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make you be invoked. Say three our Fathers, three Hail Marys and Glorias. St. Jude pray for us all who invoke your aid. Amen.

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Help Wanted

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Send cover letter and resume to Mrs. Remy Everett St. Philip School 665 Elizabeth St., San Francisco CA 94114 (415) 824-8467; FAX (415) 282-0121 Email: reverett@saintphilipschool.com

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OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE Approximately 2,000 to 10,000 square feet first floor office space available (additional space available aif needed) at One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco (between Gough & Franklin), is being offered for lease to a non-profit entity. Space available includes enclosed offices, open work area with several cubicles, large work room, and storage rooms on the lower level of the Archdiocese of San Francisco Chancery/Pastoral Center. We also have mail and copy services available, as well as meeting rooms (based on availability). Reception services available.

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Catholic San Francisco

July 24, 2009

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of June HOLY CROSS COLMA Antonia Agius Benedict Cinco Aguas Elmer B. Aherns Col. William G. Applegate, Sr., USA (RET) Alejo Aujero Betty Avelar Marjorie Marie Bacon Jenny Balestrieri Georgette Bandak Angelina Banducci Helen G. Barry Sr. M. Edwardine Bohan, SHF Anita Bonfigli Jane P. Boyle Marion C. Burns Joahnna M. Calimag William J. Campbell Barry L. Carli Esperanza Garcia Catuar Mina Centeno Tina L. Cerini Albina C. Cerruti Angelita G. Chan Frances N. Cleary Norma Virginia Conti Bernadette Claire Dowd Corsiglia Edward Cortez, Jr. Aurora L. Cruz Lolita Cuyson Earlene W. Daniels Jose C. Daradar Cornelio D. Dayao Exiquio de la Torre Sr. Maria De San Pedro, A.P. Edna M. Dellinges Marcelle Demetri Olga M. Devincenzi Eulalia Rego Dias Anthony B. Diepenbrock, Jr. Loreto Y. Directo Mary L. Enea Karim Eways Anna Fabian Etta Findley

Eileen M. Finn Donald E. Fogarty J. Jeff Foley William Gaffney Olga L. Giacoboni Wayne Giles, Sr. Jacqueline Gilmartin Richard Charles Glendon Rev. Rene Gomez Frances M. Guillaumin Filomena Guzman Margaret Hagan Shirley M. Harrington John F. Henning, Sr. Peter Herrero Brian T. Higgins Valerie R. Hillyer Richard H. Humphrey Dorothy Evan Jadinak William J. Johnson Warren Gilbert Johnson Henry K. Jone Lenora B. Jones Del Julian Richard J. Kilmartin Bette Kovacich Stephen S. Lam Frances J. Mansfield Anthony Edward Mariani John Marin Robert Joseph Marucco Maureen T. McCafferty Lorraine Emily McEleney Carmen G. Medina Edmond Anthony Melhado Cayetana P. Mendones Carlos A. Menjivar Thomas P. Moore Robert Morris Joan W. Naify Margaret Neville Mary Ann O’Brien Alfred M. Ollagnier Natividad V. Ong Morgan J. Papillion

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK

Elsie M. Pelicano Ana Graciela Pineda Natalia Jean Poletti David Kelly Powelson Mary Alyce Prestidge Vernon J. Reber Lloyd J. Renner Beatriz Rodriguez Norbert Joseph Romelfanger Yolanda Romero Ruthellen Rosenberger Annette Sarraille Mary Theresa Scanlon Margaret A. Skelly Sr. M. Rose Therese Sousa Albert N. Sudario Vera Tigri Rose Ann Tobey Angeline A. Tomsic Loretta Tribulato Marie Troche Valia Valentino Helen Vallindras Robert A. Venturini Juan Jose Villalta Gerrard Vink Phyllis M. Vogel Richard J. Vogel Steve Willemsen David Rosendo Winn, Sr. Helen A. Young

John L. Broderick Roland V. Cannavo Winfrey Elwood Dellinger Anne Marie Gilles Kennelly Margaret Cecilia Lenahan Victoria Magana Hector G. Magana Mary Ellen Murphy Norman J. Roger

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Senan Conway John F. Cunha John M. Flagerman Eleanor McArdle Jean Amanda A. Lucero Noel J. Petitou

OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR Jess Hernandez Beverly Jean Willin Smith-Wolfe

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA First Saturday Mass Saturday, August 1, 2009 11:00 a.m. – All Saints Mausoleum Rev. Daniel E. Carter, Celebrant Our Lady of Lourdes, Parish

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.