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Pope Benedict: consumerism, hedonism will be defeated It is present in the form of materialistic ideologies that consider God as something expendable or pointless and that maintain life is all about “consumption, selfishness, amusement” and “taking all there is to get in this brief lifetime,” the pope said.

“Once again it seems absurd, impossible to defy this dominant mentality,” especially with the support it gets in the media, he said.

“Nonetheless, we know that in the end the defenseless woman won” the battle against the dragon, signaling the victory of God’s love, he said.

The woman clothed with the sun and with the moon under her feet represents Mary “living totally in God ... penetrated by the light of God” and conquering death, said the pope.

“She tells us: ‘Have courage. In the end love wins,’” he said, adding that this love entailed living her life as a servant of God and giving herself totally to God and others.

The feast of the Assumption “is an invitation to have faith in God, to imitate Mary” and “to give our lives, not seize life,” Pope Benedict said.

Love is stronger than hatred, he said, and the seemingly weak God, who came to the world as a baby, is strong. Though faith in God may seem weak against all earthly powers, it “is the true power in the world,” said the pope.

Pope Benedict called on the faithful gathered in the papal courtyard to imitate Mary with a humble devotion to Christ “and generous service” to others.

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Help from around the world including a contribution personally directed by Pope Benedict XVI is being marshalled to help thousands impacted by the Aug. 15, 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Peru. Among those killed were two Mercy Sisters. The Seton Institute has established an earthquake relief fund; contributions payable to Seton Institute (Peru Earthquake Relief) may be sent to 1800 Sullivan Ave., Suite 506, Daly City, CA 94015, according to Deacon Gene Smith, executive director.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — The seemingly invincible ideologies of consumerism and hedonism and the reign of violence and terror will all be defeated

by God’s love, Pope Benedict XVI said in his homily Aug. 15, the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virigin Mary.

“It still seems impossible today to think that God ... is the true ruler of the world,” the pope said, but in the end, “love wins, not selfishness,” over material power and hatred.

The pope’s comments came while he celebrated Mass at St. Thomas Church in Castel Gandolfo, where the papal summer residence is located, south of Rome.

Giving his homily without using a text or notes, the pope said that according to St. Augustine, human history has been driven by a struggle between two kinds of love: love for God in which one “loses oneself and gives oneself” totally to him and loving oneself to “the point of disparaging God and hating others.”

Pope Benedict said this selfish love versus true love can be seen in the two images present in the feast day’s first reading from the Book of Revelation, an account of the encounter between the powerful dragon and the defenseless woman.

The dragon, he said, represents “power without mercy, without love, of absolute selfishness, terror, violence” as well as all “materialistic dictatorships” throughout history, including the Nazi and Stalinist regimes.

“Even today the dragon exists in new and different ways,” he said.

Nearly 2,000 worshippers took part in the eighth annual Hispanic Charismatic Catholic Congress Aug. 11-12 on the campus of Mercy High School in San Francisco. According to Father Jose Corral (third from right), liaison to the Hispanic Charismatic movement, the event “emphasized the love and obedience to which we are all called.” Based on John 14:15, the congress’ theme was “If you love me, you will obey what I command.”

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by Tom Burke information about the facility, call (707) 874-0200 or visit camp.cccyo.org….Hats off to Lucille and Tony SanchezCorea who were honored at this year’s Purple and Gold Gala Capuchin Franciscan Father Flavian Welstead, benefiting Archbishop Riordan High School. Lucille and parochial vicar at Our Lady of Angels Parish in Burlingame Tony’s generosity of time and more is felt in many places which has been entrusted to the including St. Anne’s Home – the hapCapuchin Friars since its founding in piest address on Lake Street – in San 1926, celebrated his 40th year as a Francisco and the work of the Order of priest May 21. Congratulations as well Malta. “The evening was dedicated to to his brother Capuchins celebrating the Sanchez-Corea Family who through jubilees including Father Gerald extraordinary dedication to Archbishop Barron, former pastor of OLA, Father Riordan High School have been activeMartin Haggins, a former parochial ly involved in support, education and vicar at OLA, and Brother Pius fundraising for Riordan,” the school Higgins in service in Berkeley and said. The gala was chaired by Lucille well-known at OLA - 50 years; and and Tony’s son, Tony, a 1980 alum of Father James Stump, chaplain at the Riordan, and daughter-in-law, Karen.

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Happy Birthday to Father Bertram Kevin Ibarra, a recent graduate of Our Mulligan, 58 years a priest and a forLady of Loretto Elementary School, mer pastor of Our Lady of Angels, who has won first prize in a Catholic recently celebrated his 85th. A fond Daughters of California essay conSalesian Father Larry Lorenzoni farewell at OLA to Brother Mark test. Kevin’s essay, “The Beauty of Vance, who served as sacristan there for the last two years but God’s Creation: Taking Time for Others,” speaks of his travels has now moved to assist in leadership of the congregation’s to Peru where he helped at an orphanage. “Congratulations, novitiate in Wisconsin. The OLA community gathered to thank Kevin, from Court of Our Lady of the Miracle,” the sponsors him in May. Fifty-eight Capuchin Friars serve in the Western said…. “I’m on a Cane and Able,” said priest and perenniAmerica Province. They minister in parish, al funnyman, Salesian Father Larry hospital and prison ministry, mission work in Lorenzoni, when telling me of his fall in Mexico as well as in retreat work at their San Rome that cost him two months in an Eternal Lorenzo Retreat Center in Santa Ynez and in City hospital and earned him a new hip. “I the education apostolate at their St. Francis was wrapped like a mummy for 11 days High School also in Southern California. before they could operate,” he said. Adapting May I speak for us all when I say, “Thank to the new part continues here in the states you.”…Welcome aboard at Catholic where his regimen includes regular exercise Charities CYO to Jim Willford who was on a new stationary bike lent to him by good recently appointed executive director of the friends Steve and Barbara Lombardi, proCYO Camp and Retreat Center in prietors of Lombardi’s Sporting Goods….

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Nine local Sisters of Mercy mark jubilees of profession Nine Sisters of Mercy celebrating jubilees of profession this year were honored at an Aug. 12 Mass and reception at the their Burlingame Regional Community motherhouse.

The event was also the culmination of the congregation’s annual convocation which had started Aug. 9.

Father Edward K. Murray celebrated the Mass held in the motherhouse chapel.

Mercy Sister Janet Ruffing spoke addressed the assembled Sisters and Mercy associates.

70 YEARS Sister Cecilia Dolores Conant (Mary Urban) Our Lady of Guadalupe in Bakersfield was but one of 11 elementary schools where Sister Cecilia was stationed during nearly 50 years as an educator. “Of course all the other children were lovable,� she adds, “but these were special.� Their love and respect for her and for each other were palpable, and she was drawn to them as to none other.

In the later years Sister Cecilia found herself in an entirely new ministry, working at Mercy Terrace, San Francisco. There, for almost 20 years, she endeared herself to the elderly residents in a variety of roles, the last of which she reluctantly relinquished in 2003 — preparing meticulously for weekly Mass.

Sister Mary Martha Kiening Everyone who knows Sister. Mary Martha has always been greeted with a smile and a bright comment. Sister Mary Martha began her life in the convent as a nursing supervisor, but she spent 30 years as a nursing instructor.

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She then participated in the founding of the McAuley Psychiatric Institute at St. Mary’s Hospital and was on the founding staff of USF School of Nursing as acting dean.

In 1980 she began a 15-year tenure in psychiatric nursing at the McAuley outpatient clinic at St. Mary’s.

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60 YEARS – Diamond Jubilee Sister Mary Regina Sutton Sister Mary Regina began ministry as a science teacher. She received her Master of Science degree from the University of Notre Dame and then taught for 22 years at both Mercy High Schools and St Peter School. In

1972 she became “Sister Fix-it� when she was assigned to the new media center at Mercy San Francisco and was given the responsibility for keys and locks in the school.

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50 YEARS Sister Joseph Mary Galli Although Sister Joseph Mary spent her first 24 years in Switzerland, she found her vocation when she visited St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco. She knew immediately that she wanted to be a Sister of Mercy like the

Sisters she saw there. After her profession she became sacristan and general helper at the motherhouse. She taught many novices how to care for the sacristy and prepare for Mass.

In the early 1970s she was needed to translate for Italian-speaking patients as part of the Pastoral Care Team at St. Mary’s Hospital and ministered to many who needed her attention and interest as well as her prayers.

Now at Marian Care Center, she carefully remembers those who ask for prayer and is generally helpful about the convent.

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LONDON (CNS) — An English bishop has resigned from Amnesty International after the human rights group adopted a policy to fight for the decriminalization of abortion around the world. Bishop Michael Evans of East Anglia announced Aug. 18 he was leaving Amnesty after 31 years of active membership to protest the abortion policy adopted at a meeting of Amnesty leaders in Cocoyoc, Mexico, Aug. 11-17.

Denies Rome targets Wikipedia VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Accusing the Vatican of manipulating entries on Wikipedia, a Web site billed as an encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to or edit, “lacks any seriousness and any logic,” the Vatican spokesman said.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, the spokesman who also serves as director of Vatican Radio, said Aug. 17 that even if another Web site accurately identified a Vatican Radio computer as the source of a change to the entry on Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, the person using the computer was not acting on behalf of the radio agency, let alone the Vatican.

WikiScanner, a new Web site that tries to identify owners of computers used to make changes in Wikipedia articles, reported that Vatican-owned computers were used to make at least 86 edits in Wikipedia articles since 2003. Most were spelling changes, clarifications or updated information.

Church aids Peru CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS) — Offering prayers for the victims of the Aug. 15 earthquake in Peru and calling again for international assistance for survivors, Pope Benedict XVI said his secretary of state personally would deliver a papal donation to relief efforts.

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An unidentified man holds an image of Chauncey Bailey during a funeral Mass at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Oakland on Aug. 8. Bailey, editor of the African-American weekly the Oakland Post, was shot on his way to work Aug. 2 in Oakland. As many as 1,000 family, friends, coworkers and community members attended the Mass.

Father Jay Matthews, pastor, was a longtime friend of Bailey and was main celebrant. He said the church seats 400 but 700 crowded in with hundreds more outside to pay respects. Eighty members of Bailey’s family came from across the country, and the National Association of Black Journalists sent a delegation. Father Matthews said Bailey was a well-loved member of the community.

“Our thoughts and prayers constantly have been turned to the people of Peru, struck by a devastating earthquake,” the pope told visitors gathered at his summer villa Aug. 19.

Would help coed mothers WASHINGTON (CNS) — As the debate rages about whether abortion should be restricted or made more available, Feminists for Life says abortion is a choice no woman wants to make. Members of the organization were on Capitol Hill Aug. 14 to explain their support for the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act of 2007, which was reintroduced to both houses of Congress this year. This bill would establish programs at universities to support pregnant college women.

Late Yankee generous NEWARK, N.J. (CNS) — Yankee legend Phil Rizzuto, who died Aug. 14 at age 89, will be remembered for many things, not the least of which will be the amount of money he raised for St. Joseph’s School for the Blind in Jersey City, a private Catholic institution founded and sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. He raised more than $2 million through his work organizing celebrity golf tournaments as well as through family donations.

Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City celebrates Mass Aug. 9 at San Rafael Mission in Huntington, Utah, where six men remained trapped in a cave-in at a nearby mine. The bishop urged all to pray for the miners, their families and the rescue workers. The Catholic pastor of a mission church near the mine where six miners remained trapped said their families were “coping as well as they can amid the slow progress of rescue operations and their attempts to keep their hopes up that the miners are still alive.” Father Donald E. Hope has been meeting with miners’ families every day since the Aug. 6 collapse at the Crandall Canyon Mine.

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Faith, courage and holiness of Father Michael Keane extolled Father Michael J. Keane, much beloved Bishop Daniel F. Walsh of Santa Rosa and pastor of San Rafael’s St. Isabella Parish, retired Archbishop John R. Quinn of San was buried from the parish church Aug. 17. Francisco were also celebrants. Bishop Walsh, The 76-year-old priest, who marked his who “worked and lived together” with Father golden jubilee of ordination this summer, Keane as parish priests at St. Brigid in the died Aug. 13 at Marin General Hospital in 1970s, told Catholic San Francisco his friend Greenbrae following an extended battle “showed himself to be a dedicated priest who with cancer. served the people without counting the cost.”

“We praise Jesus Christ for sending us “As pastor of St. Augustine in South San for 50 years a priest who answered the call, Francisco and at St. Isabella’s his pastoral care ‘Come, follow me’ with such zeal, such was outstanding for all who came to him. He faithfulness, such generosity and such was a model priest,” Bishop Walsh said. courage and strength,” said Archbishop Father Mark Mazza, who served as Bishop George H. Niederauer in pastoral associate with Father remarks at the funeral Mass.

Keane since July of last year, said he had been deeply inspired by Father Keane’s ministry was “this holy, humble, extraordialso praised in the funeral nary priest — our beloved Mass homily by Father Tom pastor and friend.”

Daly as well as by fellow priests, family and the parishDescribing Father Keane ioners who filled St. Isabella as “a man of tremendous faith Church where Father Keane and prayer,” Father Mazza had been pastor since 1989. said, “For him practicing the Noting he and Father faith was like breathing in and Keane had taken part in the breathing out, totally natural. same priests support group He loved being a priest. His for nearly 20 years along with greatest pride and joy came Father Michael J. Keane Father Keane’s cousin, Father from being pastor here at St. 1931-2007 Kevin P. Gaffey, Father Daly Isabella’s. He loved everyunderscored Father Keane’s devotion to the thing about priesthood: the people, the parish, young. Father Daly said the St. Isabella pastor the work, the company of other priests, the knew children of the parish by name, how they Church, the rectory, the joys, and even the chalwere doing in school, and encouraged voca- lenges presented by difficulties and sorrows. tions to priesthood and religious life.

We need more priests like him. Hopefully, his “He was extremely supportive of Catholic holy life and holy death will sow the seeds for more young men to follow in his foot steps.” education and vocations,” Father Daly said.

“His priesthood was lived as a response of Pointing that “many a time Father Keane pure gratitude to God for all that God had done was seen adoring the Blessed Sacrament or for him,” Father Daly said. “He was clearly the with his well-worn rosary,” Father Mazza good shepherd. No sacrifice was too great for noted that the St. Isabella pastor was buried him. In fact when his cousin Father Gaffey “with his personal, ragged copy” of his breasked him at the hospital how he was doing in viary near his head. the final times while he was still coherent, he Family and parish staff have praised Father said, ‘I am at peace. It has been a great life.’” Keane’s good friend, Tim Gallagher, a tertiary Father Keane’s niece, Maura Thurgate, Franciscan and member of San Francisco’s St. also delivered a tribute and recalled with Boniface Parish, for the extensive care and humor and affection a trip they had made to support he provided Father Keane in his last weeks of life. They credited Gallagher’s care Ireland with her mother and son.

with allowing Father Keane to remain in residence at St. Isabella until finally being admitted to Marin General on Aug. 2.

Father Keane was born May 6, 1931, to Andrew and Mary Gaffey Keane. He had two siblings: Maureen, the eldest, who died three years ago; and Betty, his younger sis-

ter. The family was raised in the Mission District of San Francisco. Father Keane graduated from St. Paul School and attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory for one year before enrolling in St. Joseph Seminary, and later, St. Patrick Seminary.

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Festival of Flowers: ‘kaleidoscope of colors’ in planning

By Tom Burke The first annual Festival of Flowers will be showcased at St. Mary’s Cathedral Oct. 4 through 7. Modeled on a tradition well known in Europe, the event invites people of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the Bay Area to enjoy the Cathedral as it has never been decorated before.

“A kaleidoscope of color will meet visitors from the first moment they enter the great Cathedral doors until they leave,” Doug Benbow told Catholic San Francisco quoting from a brochure he prepared promoting the floral cavalcade.

Benbow is director of liturgy at the Cathedral as well as director and coordinator of the upcoming festival.

Benbow said he has gathered a committee of “flower experts and community builders” from around the Archdiocese

Gathered to discuss the upcoming Festival of Flowers at St. Mary’s Cathedral were, from left, committee members Rosina DeMartini, Doug Benbow, Patrick Vallez-Kelly, Mary Ellen Hoffman and Anne Desler. Also helping in the planning are Bill Zappettini, Kathleen Ryan and Marilyn Knight.

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to assure the festival’s success including Bill Zappettini of Brannan Street Flowers whom he called “the godfather of flowers” and an “icon of the flower industry.”

Benbow also praised committee members Kathleen Ryan, Marilyn Knight and Anne Desler as “people ready to help and who can bring constituencies together around a cause.” Also serving on the committee is Patrick Vallez-Kelly, director of the Office of Worship of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Flower displays will adorn the popular shrines of the Cathedral as well as the sanctuary of the huge church and the cement pylons that support the 19-storey structure.

Benbow is in the process of inviting local florists to design the huge arrangements.

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■ Continued from page 6 The theme of the festival is All Things Bright and Beautiful. “The whole idea is to open the doors of the Cathedral and share its beauty,” Benbow said. “The Cathedral is a treasure. The Flower Festival is something that’s done all over Europe. It is the first time we are doing it here in San Francisco and we know people will be inspired by it.”

“The Festival of Flowers is one more way we hope to highlight this praying community in the City and the spectacular architecture and spirit of the Cathedral,” Benbow said. St. Mary’s Cathedral, dedicated in 1970, was the first in the world built according to Vatican II norms.

Parishes are invited to submit flower arrangements for a Little Flower Festival that will line the corridors surrounding Patron’s Hall in the Cathedral

Conference Center. A Little Flower Award will be presented to the parish with the best display from each county of the Archdiocese. A Best of Show award will also be presented. A panel of florist judges will decide the winners.

The Cathedral is sponsoring a Floral Arts Workshop Sept. 15 for parish representatives from altar societies and art and environment committees from 10 a.m. to noon. “It’s a workshop on decorating the church,” Benbow said, “and anyone with an interest in that ministry is invited. We especially invite parishes expecting to enter the Little Flower Festival.”

General information about the Festival of Flowers and the Sept. 15 workshop is available from the Cathedral office at (415) 567-2020 or Doug Benbow at Dbenbow@st.marycathedral.org. For information about the Little Flower Festival, parishes should contact Patrick Vallez-Kelly at vallezkellyp@sfarchdiocese.org. Also see more details in “Datebook”.

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Biennial memorial Mass to be Sept. 15 for families who’ve lost children, babies The biennial memorial Mass for families who have lost babies before, during or shortly after birth — or have lost young children — will be celebrated Sept. 15 at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Cemetery, 1500 Mission Rd., Colma.

“This Mass has been traditionally a touching and important spiritual experience for families who have lost babies or young children from any cause,” stated officials of the cemetery and from the archdiocesan Project Rachel Post Abortion Ministry of the Respect Life Program which are co-sponsoring the bilingual, muliticultural event.

Msgr. Floro Arcamo, pastor of Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco, will be main celebrant at the outdoor liturgy scheduled to take place near the Rachel Mourning Shrine at Holy Cross.

Scheduled homilist in English is Father Vito Perrone, parochial vicar at Immaculate Heart Parish, Belmont. Father Moises Agudo, pastor of St Charles Parish, San Francisco, will give a homily in Spanish.

“The Project Rachel committee organizing the event includes 14 women who provide mentoring and other supports for Project Rachel services,” according to Mary Ann Schwab, Project Rachel coordinator.

A reception will follow the Mass.

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Burlingame Mercy Sisters take aim at global poverty BURLINGAME — At their annual convocation Aug. 9 to 12, the Sisters of Mercy of the Burlingame Regional Community took steps to make good on the title of one of their sessions — “Make Poverty History” – by building on last October’s national “Point 7 Now!” conference at San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral, and by giving their blessing to a new initiative called “Mercy Beyond Borders.”

In a presentation to the more than 160 Sisters and Mercy associates gathered at the Burlingame motherhouse, Mercy Sister Marilyn Lacey outlined a proposal for a new non-profit entity, Mercy Beyond Borders, which she said will address global poverty with the United Nations Millennium Goals as its inspiration.

“This can be a million-nun movement which focuses on concrete, small projects,” said Sister Lacey, who directed the Diocese of San Jose Catholic Charities’ refugee services outreach for 21 years, and during her current sabbatical year is writing a book on refugees.

“We can connect the nation and focused on Mercy resources in the reducing global poverty.

U.S. with projects already Its title refers to a goal of established in the develfirst- world nations conoping countries that need tributing .7 percent of their seed money. We can gross national income mobilize our Mercy pastoward elimination of sion to do this. We have poverty. The U.S. foreign 10 years to meet the U.N. aid figure is currently Millennium Goals,” she about .2 percent. told participants.

Reaching the U. N. Millennium Goals by 2015 The U.N. Millennium is one of the most urgent Goals include eight develmatters on the planet, opment objectives which Sister Lacey said, noting range from halving extreme she hopes to launch Mercy poverty and halting the Beyond Borders in January spread of HIV/AIDS to 2008. Sister Lacey said she providing universal primary Sister Marilyn Lacey, RSM will be working full time health care.

Overcoming worldwide poverty was also on the project because she believes alleviataddressed in a video-taped presentation to ing extreme poverty and addressing the needs the group from economist Jeffrey Sachs who of refugees and migrants are priorities for her had addressed the Point 7 Now! gathering personally and for the Mercy community.

“This is something that our founder, Oct. 27-28 in San Francisco. The conference drew more than 1,000 people from across Catherine McAuley, would do,” said Sister

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■ Continued from page 3 she has spent most of her 50 years as a Sister connected with St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix. In the early 1970s she became a hospital chaplain and now continues that path as a volunteer.

Sister Laurana has a love of writing, and many of her countless articles over the years reflect her life-long love of animals and nature. She calls the outdoors “God’s chapel,” where every living thing has value. She authored a widely published book called “Care and Feeding of Infant Orphaned Wild Birds.”

Sister Charleen Koenig (Mary Bernardine) A weekend retreat was a life-changing event for Charleen Koenig and confirmed her sense of vocation. After entering, Sister Charleen was awarded a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the University of San Francisco in 1957 and followed nursing as her ministry at St. Joseph’s Barrow Neurological Institute. She went from Mercy Hospital, Bakersfield, to St. John’s Hospital, Oxnard, where she developed the first risk management program and learned to guide time management for the nursing acuity study.

Sister Charleen has found her time on the Mercy campus especially rewarding, first as coordinator of nursing at Marian Care Center and currently as assistant bookstore manager at Mercy Center. She especially enjoys guiding people who come to the Center in search of the right workshop or the right book.

Sister Patricia Ryan Sister Pat graduated from Lone Mountain College for Women as a science major, but her interest and talent for science are balanced by a gift for the humanities, especially poetry. She has taught science at Mercy High School Burlingame and became the president of the Burlingame Regional Community in the early 1990s when the Region became part of the new Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas.

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The Burlingame Regional Community draws membership from nearly all California plus Phoenix, Ariz. During the gathering the Sisters also heard an address on health care ethics by Carol Bayley, Ph.D., vice president, ethics and social justice education, Catholic Healthcare West; welcomed new community associates; and honored nine jubilarians.

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A woman works on an assembly line at a plant that supplies auto parts in Warren, Mich. The national Labor Day holiday, honoring the working people of America, is celebrated Sept. 3 this year.

Labor Day commentary

Tony Muffoletto, 71, repairs a shoe at a mall store in Indiana.

He has worked in the trade for more than 50 years.

Jesus Christ, the New Adam, sanctified work

At an earlier time Labor Day in the U.S. meant a parade of floats depicting various crafts — baker, carpenter, metal smith, etc.—,union picnics, and the proverbial political punditry. At the sparsely attended Labor Day events in our current era, labor leaders and their political allies will raise concerns over globalization, labor law reform, immigration, the decreasing density of union jobs in the U.S. workforce, and the war on terrorism. These are undeniably important concerns wherever one lies on the political spectrum, but rather than add to the cacophony of murmurings, I prefer to start this Labor Day commentary with a focus on Scripture and Jesus the Christ.

Jesus was a worker who lived in a household that depended on a family business. Mary, Joseph and Jesus exemplify for every Christian a trust in God that resounds with a definitive fiat, let it be done. Let me be with child, let me be this woman’s husband, let the Father’s will be done. If alienation too often occurs in our familial and work lives today, then we have too easily let go of our faith in God. Only when we trust in God, say “yes” to a loving Father, do we begin to have the freedom to respond as Christians to the pressing challenges we face in our day.

Labor union adherents are wont to boast that the labor movement brought workers the weekend; unfortunately, they have sometimes forgotten that “the weekend” started with the first Sabbath. The Chosen People had a covenant relationship with Yahweh that required faithfulness and thankfulness in response to his faithfulness and love. When we attend the Sunday liturgy, we manifest our faith and our thanks. At the liturgy, which means work of the people, ritual practices are transformed into norms for living that we take into the world.

Culture — law, art, work, leisure, and so on — comes from a people of cult. Moreover, when we rest on the Lord’s Day, as the Holy Family did on the Sabbath, we are trusting in God’s providence. Our rest is fitting for children of Yahweh, who also rested on the seventh day of creation. If we fail to set aside time to worship God, our worries (lack of trust) obsess us and possess us. To find the real meaning of our lives, particularly our family and work lives, we need to attend Mass.

Jesuit Father George E. Schultze Our lives of labor are not without their trials; employers, employees and their famstudied industrial and labor relations at ilies will need to trust and sometimes sacriCornell University, earned a Master’s fice. “With the sweat on your brow shall you Degree in Business Administration from eat your bread, until you return to the soil, the University of California at Berkeley, as you were taken from it.” Original sin and received a doctoral degree from the exists in the world. Yet Jesus Christ, the University of Southern California. He New Adam, sanctified work. In Jesus’ day pagans saw work as a burden for slaves and has written on Catholic social doctrine other unfortunate men and women. The life and work life and recently published of Jesus, however, shows us God at work.

“Strangers in a Foreign Land: The During those many hidden years prior to his Organizing of Catholic Latinos in the public ministry, the Son of God labored like United States” (Lexington Press). His you and me. Jesus, a descendant of earthly royalty as well, apprenticed as a woodworkfather was a member of Operating er under Joseph. He observed his mother’s Father George E. Schultze, SJ Engineers Local 3 and his mother daily labors and undoubtedly served her. belonged to General Warehouse and Food Processors Since he knew work, he could identify with all of those Union Local 655 (Teamsters). He is a spiritual who ate by the sweat of their brow. He called among others director at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park and fishermen, a tax collector, and a tent maker to preach the an advisor to Catholics for the Common Good. kingdom of God. St. Paul, the tent maker, did not want to bur-

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den others and humbly plied his trade while joyfully proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.

Pope Benedict XVI has written in his latest book, “Jesus of Nazareth,” that our most urgent priority is to present the figure and message of Jesus “to foster the growth of a living relationship with him.” A personal relationship with Jesus will give meaning to our lives at home and at the work place. Spiritual reading, daily prayer, acts of charity and the practice of the sacraments will help us know Jesus, a worker like us.

Briefly, the Church’s social encyclicals are a rich tradition of study and reflection that provide for all people of good will some sense of the rights and responsibilities of workers, employers, consumers, investors and most importantly the poor. Most of us participate in these categories to some degree, voluntarily or involuntarily. The late Pope John Paul II remarked in the 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens that First World consumers, whether persons or institutions, were often the indirect employers of Third World workers. In this era of globalization, our interconnectedness is an undeniable reality. The social encyclicals’ adherence to Scripture, tradition and natural law make them the most comprehensive and rooted response to the materialism, determinism and secularism of much of contemporary life — “isms” that are ultimately reduced to atheistic or pantheistic world views. Like the Israelites murmuring in the desert, we tend to cause ourselves trouble when we fail to trust in God; that is, when we waver in our faith, hope and love.

So we Catholics must take our liturgical experience and social teaching into the daily life of the world. At times this means making sacrifices (sacred acts) in the toilsome moments of home and work. Yet seen in the light of Jesus, our sacrificial labor has meaning. Thinking Catholics also know that work constitutes a foundation for the formation of family life by supporting marriage between a woman and a man, by providing for new life, by educating the young and by caring for the sick and elderly. Promoting the commonweal through job creation is a worthy effort for those who follow a Lord who worked. This Labor Day let us give thanks to God for the gift of work and remember those who have none.

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It’s fall and football memories stir the soul

Above, the 1948 St. Ignatius football team. Right, gathered last fall at the home of Dante and Terry Ravetti were members of St. Ignatius College Preparatory’s 1948 football team; front, from left: Bob Moore, Bill Helmer, Dan Ravetti and Laurie McCaffrey; standing, from left: Pete Arrigoni, Jack Cunningham, Bob Menicucci, Jack Mackall, Gerry Martin, Preston Lee (foreground), Gene Lynch, Pete Labrado (partially obscured), Bill Rippon, Harry Mullins, Phil O’Connor, and Tevis Martin.

By Robert Moore, as told to his daughter, Donna Moore Fentanes.

It’s September 1948. The curtain had come down on World War II, the airlift in Berlin was underway, and something was brewing on the Korean Peninsula that would dramatically affect our lives in the near future. The grim memories of the war were retreating to the attic of our memories, except for the few whose wounds were so deep that they would remain front and center forever.

Under this backdrop, these boys of autumn assembled and the season of ’48 began. We were anxious to prove ourselves worthy of the Red & Blue. If we didn’t

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We were S.I. And we were going to go all the way.

Football is a great all-consuming sport. Just being on the field is exciting.

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Your eyes are fixed on the ball, your ears alert to changes in motion, the sweat and mud permeate your skin, you spit blood and mud, and, yes you can smell a linebacker a mile away.

Football demands all from your body, your heart and your wit. We were happy to comply and submit to its demands. Our coach, Mike Hemovich, whipped us into shape, bruising our bodies without bruising our spirits. Coach Hemovich, a war hero, was the kind of coach who not only taught good football, but also taught good and right living. He was a nice man with nice manners. He treated us kids with respect and kindness. His stock is sorely missed today.

There we were. The S. I. Wildcats Varsity Football Team. We had a good season and made it to the semi-finals. From the “goof squad” to varsity, we saw football first hand, on the field, playing and watching from the sidelines. We wore the

uniform. We felt the wet earth, we heard the groans.

Then we graduated. We’d return to games to see younger brothers, or just to relive our memories. Then we came to watch our sons; or bring our kids to see games. It’s different in the stands than on the field. But you can still smell the grass or think you feel the gravelly mud in your mouth. And you always feel the pain.

It’s September 2006. The dusty streets of Baghdad headline the newscasts. A woman stands poised to become the first female Speaker of the House. And something may be brewing, again, on the Korean Peninsula that could dramatically affect our lives or those of our children and BOYS OF AUTUMN, page SR8

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Ailing mother, stressed family buoyed by adult day program When Mary Thomas speaks of her mother’s final years, she tells stories of a strong-willed but gentle woman who would proudly talk of her days as a cook, or share her delight in the friends she’d see everyday throughout her community.

It’s hard to imagine, but just a few years ago, Mary’s mother, Emma, would spend her days isolated in her bedroom, reluctant to eat or change clothes. She was combative when family members would try to help her. Emma was in the grips of dementia and the further the disease progressed, the more withdrawn, frightened and physically frail she became.

“My mother had always been a very strong woman,” Thomas said, “and to see her wasting away, retreating further and further, was so devastating. It got to the point where she was less than 100 pounds and had incontinence problems.”

With Emma’s physical and mental well-being continuing to decline, Thomas found it increasingly difficult to care for her because of the financial and emotional stress involved. She was unable to work outside the home because Emma was not safe alone, yet the daughter was deeply frustrated because she could not improve the situation for her or her mother.

After a series of hospitalizations for Emma, Thomas was referred to Catholic Charities CYO’s San Francisco Adult Day Services (SFADS), located at 50 Broad St. “When she brought Emma in for a program visit, Mary was very stressed,” remembers Patty Clement, SFADS program director. “She was concerned about

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Dulce Morales (left), is one of the San Francisco Adult Day Services caregivers to work with Mary Thomas (right) and Thomas’ mother, Emma.

leaving the house, thinking that Emma might wander off or hurt herself.”

Through the day program at SFADS, Emma participated in a number of activities to keep her mentally and physically stimulated. She did therapeutic exercises to help build and maintain her strength, physical games to improve hand-eye coordination and interactive activities to help keep her mind stimulated and refreshed.

Emma had been unwilling to allow family members to assist her with her personal care at home. By accessing Catholic Charities CYO’s Homecare Program, these needs were met.

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home, help her bathe and dress, and then assist her onto the van that took her to the center.

“The day care and home care was the perfect combo for us – the program fees were affordable, and my mother improved and could stay at home with us, her family,” added Thomas.

And Emma certainly did improve.

After she started attending SFADS, Emma’s health stabilized. She put on some much-needed weight, as she was less withdrawn and more willing to eat with the others. The mental and social stimulation – particularly with new friends at the center — helped to keep her functioning as independently as possible,

and the family learned techniques to lessen Emma’s combative behavior.

“At the time my mother started here, San Francisco Adult Day literally saved her life,” Thomas recalls, tearing up. “Had it not been for this program—including the love she got from the staff and her friends here—my mother certainly would not have lived as long as she did, with the quality she did. They blessed our family with more time with her.”

SFADS’ Patty Clement said Thomas is not alone. “So many caregivers are struggling with the same issues, from the physical and financial demands of caring for someone who needs full-time assistance, to the psychological toll the stress and anxiety of the situation can take,” she said. “We help caregivers get the resources they need to lessen the tremendous weight they often feel and help maintain their quality of life.”

Emma passed away a few months ago but Thomas still maintains a special connection to the SFADS program. Her sister Barbara is now a client. Barbara was diagnosed with dementia and began wandering from her home earlier this year, sometimes falling. After seeing the difference SFADS made for Emma, the family decided it was the best option for Barbara.

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Face chronic illness with faith, resolution and a plan ● Allow yourself plenty of time to adjust to your illness and the lifestyle changes it necessitates. Recognize More than half of the senior population has a chron- that your family and friends will also need time to ic illness, defined as a permanently altered state of adjust, and may not know what to say or do. Let them health that significantly affects daily living. Examples know how you wish to be treated, and keep the lines of include arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease communication open. ● Do something nice for and neurological diseases such as Parkinson’s disease. someone. It will take your Upon diagnosis of a major However unwelcome it mind off your own situation medical condition, most peoand boost your self-esteem. ple initially go into a state of aside quiet time each may be, illness — like other day,● toSetnurture shock or disbelief. Subsequent your spiritualiemotions usually include ty and help keep you groundanger, fear, anxiety, guilt, sad- life crises — presents ed. ● Turn to your faith for ness and loneliness.

With progressive diseases, opportunities for growth. comfort. Ask God to give you losses can be many, including the strength to face chalstrength, coordination, energy, lenges with courage and communication, bodily functions, roles and responsibil- grace, and place your trust in him. ● Seek counseling if you get stuck in one of the phasities, previously enjoyed pastimes and plans for the future. Resulting dependence on others can strain rela- es of grieving, such as anger or depression, or find yourtionships and negatively affect self-esteem. self making unhealthy lifestyle choices. ● Recognize that no matter what happens, you Time frames vary for individuals, but eventually most people come to accept the reality of their situation. always have a choice about how you respond. Tap into At that point they’re ready to plan for their future and your mental power. take control of it as much as possible.

However unwelcome it may be, illness — like other If you or a loved one have been diagnosed with a chronic illness, following are ways to empower yourself mentally, emotionally and spiritually. ● Learn as much as possible about the illness and its management, and educate family and friends to help them understand. has many faces ● Be receptive to learning new ways of doing things Do you have mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease? If so, and trying new activities. Concentrate on what you can would you like to participate as a volunteer in a research study? rather than can’t do.

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Mental health program aware of older persons’ needs While not designed to address solely the needs of older persons, Seton Medical Center’s Outpatient Mental Health Program addresses mental health challenges commonly encountered as persons age, said officials there.

“It is true that older adults are more prone to depression,” said Alexandria Hodes, a licensed marriage family therapist at the program’s clinic.

As persons age, she said, many symptoms of depression can develop or become more acute, such as not wanting to leave one’s home, avoiding contact with others, feelings of uselessness, and even thoughts of suicide.

Group therapy sessions offered by the outpatient program bring together persons of differing ages, she pointed out, which often leads to cross-generational positives.

Attending a session in itself provides healthy social contact and activity, she said, and the relationships formed during the gatherings are often mutually beneficial.

She cited examples such as newly retired persons receiving helpful support from persons who have dealt with their own or spousal retirement in the past. Another example, is the sharing between younger persons and older on a variety of topics.

“It is hard to do things when you are not feeling good,” observed Hodes. The clinic sessions “give you a place to go on a regular, scheduled basis whether you are feeling good or not. You start to get to know other people. You are greeted by people who know you and there is a sense of belonging. There is also a bit of altruism in that you might be able to help somebody else, which is a very positive way to decrease depression.”

The Seton mental health offerings include a more intense alternative called the Partial Hospitalization Program “that treats people who are experiencing acute psychological distress,” hospital officials said. “Our clients may have symptoms of major depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or schizophrenia. The program focuses on reducing symptoms, increasing coping skills,

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From quantum physics to art history, Fromm students – average age 71 – continue quest to learn An expanded version of this story is posted on the Catholic San Francisco Web site: www.catholic-sf.org.

By Michael Vick When classes open in September, the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning will be full to the brim with more than 1,100 students. The difference between this class and other incoming classes at the University of San Francisco campus this fall – the average age of students is 71.

Former student Jack Driscoll looks on as Prof. of Philosophy Dodi Donnelly teaches her class, “Sea Change.”

The Fromm Institute, the first of its kind west of the Mississippi, started in 1976. Under the leadership of philanthropists Alfred and Hanna Fromm, Jewish immigrants who escaped from Nazi Germany in 1936, the non-profit program has become a model for other such initiatives throughout the region.

The institute is now housed in its own building on the USF campus. The building was once Xavier Hall, the residence hall for the university’s Jesuit priests, but was renamed Fromm Hall in 2003.

“We haven’t quite found its boundaries yet,” Robert Fordham, the institute’s executive director, said in an interview with Catholic San Francisco. “Now there is a real place that is the Fromm Institute. It’s not in nebulous locations that change from year to year.”

Designed by the institute with the help of gerontologists, the state-of-the-art facility has four classrooms, one of which seats 250 people.

The classrooms are equipped with large monitors that allow teachers to display notes and graphics in bright colors, a blessing for the aging eye. The professors, all of whom are also retired, teach in rooms designed to provide comprehensive acoustical clarity. Students who still have hearing challenges have access to headsets linked by an infrared broadcast system to the professor’s microphone.

“They’re really popular,” said Fordham of the hearing aids. “We have about 100 sets that go out every morning and afternoon for the classes.”

The building is also all on one floor so stairs do not present an obstacle.

Success has its price. In the new building, faculty offices once removed from the classrooms are now centrally located.

“At the end of a successful class, we have people coming to tell us about it right away, regardless of how much work we have to do to make the program function,” smiled Fordham.

The institute currently offers 25 courses from which students almost always choose four. Each session lasts eight weeks.

The course offerings read like an intellectual’s dream: seminars on ancient Greek, a course on Ella Fitzgerald and her contribution to jazz, a class on the history of Hawaii, “The Neuroscience of Empathy,” among others. Courses have included topics ranging from quantum mechanics to art history.

“One of our students wonderfully described the

Fromm curriculum as a beautiful symphony that is played three times a year and changes ever so slightly,” Fordham said.

Author and consultant Alan Wendroff, a Fromm student, said in a telephone interview he sees Fromm as indispensable to his longevity.

“Going to school and leading an active life is part of the regimen you have to have when you mature,” said Wendroff.

He and his wife, Lyllian, both attend classes. Both are 76. Wendroff underscores that is their physical age.

“Mentally, we’re still trying to figure it out.”

The classes the Wendroffs and fellow students attend are unconventional not just for the age makeup of the participants, as student Kathy Calegari attested in an e-mail.

‘No homework, no tests, no grades, only terrific lectures by esteemed professors was music to my ears.’

Kathy Calegari, 69 “No homework, no tests, no grades, only terrific lectures by esteemed professors was music to my ears,” Calegari wrote.

A retired United Airlines flight attendant, the 69-yearold said she first learned of the program in a 1976 news story. Not yet retired or 50 (the institute’s only admission prerequisites), Calegari looked forward to the day she could sign up for classes.

Soon after retirement in 1992, Calegari got her chance.

At a dinner party her friend Charles Fracchia shared that he had become a new Fromm professor, and he raved about the program. Calegari attended the next open house. She soon enrolled and has attended ever since.

“Our faculty teaches because they love to teach,” said Fordham. “Our students learn because, likewise, they love being in the classroom learning.”

The fact the institute is nestled inside the USF campus highlights the differences between it and other collegelevel programs. The Fromm students, affectionately referred to as “Frommies” by their undergraduate cohorts, interact with young students on a daily basis.

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“This place is an island in an urban environment,” said Fordham. “Our students can come into that environment and have a more personal experience with the young people at USF.” Patricia Swendsen, 81, and her husband Carl, 83, have both attended classes at the institute since 1989. Mrs. Swendsen also complimented USF students for their demeanor. “We coexist, but it’s better than that.”

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Of course, relations with the students only go so far. “It’s terrible,” she quipped, smiling, “I haven’t been hit upon at all.”

Success of the Fromm experiment has even translated into a few specifically intergenerational classes, such as one offered

by USF professor Robert Elias. The course, “Law, Politics, and the National Pastime,” is also taught as an undergraduate-only class. Prof. Elias said teaching a class that includes Fromm students presents unique opportunities and challenges.

“The Fromm students are very friendly, and thus they begin developing interactions with the younger students almost immediately,” he said.

Interestingly, he added, sometimes during a lecture he becomes aware that the Fromm students are the only ones who seem to have done the reading assignment.

“On the one hand, the undergrads are perhaps not as motivated as they should be,” observed Elias. “On the other hand, they are often juggling an enormous amount – courses, jobs, family obligations.”

Director Fordham agrees. He concedes that teachers like Prof. Elias at times have to “remind the Fromm students to let the younger people get a word in edgewise.”

Professor Elias said the class invariably draws in Fromm students who are or have been involved in some way in professional baseball – the national pastime.

One such student was Howard Nemerovski, an attorney involved in negotiating television rights for both the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics.

In a telephone interview with Catholic San Francisco, Nemerovski recalled the class fondly.

He said in spite of their busy schedules, and the fact that Elias’ course was important to their degrees, the undergraduates still had time to befriend Fromm students.

“The students at USF are just delightful,” said Nemerovski. “They treated us with as much courtesy and hospitality as we could have wanted.”

Classes at the institute cost $200 per eight-week session, or $550 for all three sessions. This fee entitles the student to take four classes per session. If a student wishes to take more than four courses per term, there is a $50 fee per addition.

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hardship cases. A scholarship fund has been established over the years, he said, through the donations of thousands of people.

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New nat’l pastoral life leader: parish life key to Church

By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — Paulist Father John E. Hurley will take the post of executive director of the National Pastoral Life Center in New York, effective Sept.

17.His appointment was announced by the center’s board of directors Aug. 20.

From 1997 to 2005, Father Hurley was executive director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Evangelization. While there, he coordinated a three-year study to look for any problems in how parishes employ the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.

In an Aug. 21 interview, Father Hurley said the National Pastoral Life Center “has certainly kept at the forefront of guiding pastoral initiatives in the life of the Church for the past 25 years.”

The center was founded in 1983 by Msgr. Philip Murnion, a New York archdiocesan priest. He led the center until his death in 2003.

Father Hurley succeeds Father Eugene Lauer, a Pittsburgh priest whose three-year term ended in April.

The priest said he believes reconciliation initiatives in the wake of the clergy sex abuse scandals that rocked U.S. Catholicism earlier this decade are one necessary measure for the U.S. Church.

Father Hurley said evangelization is another priority for U.S. parishes. “Why do parishes exist? To live out the essential mission of the life of the Church, which is evangelization,” he said.

“Parishes are doing better at evangelization than some dioceses are doing. Dioceses are struggling with money

issues right now,” Father Hurley added. The “most effective” evangelizing parishes, he said, are those where “the priest sees himself as a clearinghouse and a facilitator of lay life in the community, as opposed to one who has to do everything himself.”

Father John E. Hurley, CSP

Boys of Autumn . . .

■ Continued from page SR2 grandchildren. On a warm, bucolic afternoon late in September, the boys of autumn huddled once again for the first time in 58 years. There we were: the Varsity Football Team of 1948, or what remained of us, reassembling on Dante Ravetti’s Hillsborough patio. We enjoyed a superb luncheon graciously hosted by Dante and his lovely wife, Terry.

Certainly not the same sight as 58 years earlier, but definitely the same men. We reminisced, reliving the memories and the plays like they were yesterday; and we thought about those who weren’t with us any longer. We commented on how well we looked and told a few more lies. We had a great time; and at the end of the afternoon, we, then, entered into the fourth quarter of our lives. What a game!

(Reprinted from Genesis, a publication of St. Ignatius College Preparatory, a San Francisco Jesuit secondary school entering its 152nd year. A 1950 graduate of St. Ignatius, Robert Moore played football for the Navy during the Korean War and later coached youth football at several levels.)

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Medical center offers wide variety of senior programs St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco offers programs and opportunities geared toward older persons from health and education to movies and dining, according to officials there. “In partnership with physicians, staff and community organizations, St. Mary’s provides a thriving program for local seniors,� according to a spokesperson for the medical center’s Senior Service Program, 2235 Hayes St., third floor, San Francisco.

The program includes: � Community education: Seniors can learn how to manage chronic illnesses and maintain health by attending one of St. Mary’s community education classes or health fairs. The regular presentations are coordinated by medical staff and community partners. Topics include dementia/Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis management, Medicare and Social Security and new trends in health care.

To learn more about upcoming classes, call (415) 750-5800. â—? Lifeline emergency response: the Lifeline personal response service helps seniors continue to live independently.

With the Lifeline system, seniors can press the button on a Lifeline pendant or wristband to call for help. Within seconds, a certified Lifeline professional responds and sends appropriate help when needed. If the senior is unable to respond, Lifeline will send help immediately. To learn more, call (415) 750-5800. � Meal discount: Seniors may enjoy well-prepared meals for lunch or dinner at St. Mary’s cafeteria. Meals are discounted to seniors 60 and over. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.; dinner is served from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. To hear the weekly menu, call (415) 750-5902. � Mall Walkers: This complete walking session includes warm-up, cool-down and stretching exercises.

Mall Walkers meet Thursday mornings in Stonestown Center Court, 3251 20th Ave., San Francisco. For information, call (415) 564-8848 or (415) 750-5800.

St. Mary’s Medical Center will offer a free seminar – Healthy Heart, Latest Treatments in Cardiac Care – Oct. 6 at 10: 30 a.m. in its Morrissey Hall, 2250 Hayes St., San Francisco.

A free blood pressure screening and continental breakfast will be included. An address by Dr. Remo Morelli will cover topics including cholesterol management, non-medical heart care protocols, and the lifestyle impact of heart disease.

� Tai Chi: Seniors can learn the ancient Chinese martial arts practice of Tai Chi. Considered meditation in motion, Tai Chi emphasizes relaxation, and can reduce tension and stress. Free classes are held Tuesdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in Room H2-7, St. Mary’s Hall, 2255 Hayes St. answer sessions with physicians, talks on � Resources and referviolence prevention, eye examinations, flu ral: If seniors need additional shots, scoliosis screenings and information assistance at home, St. Mary’s on careers in medicine.

Though the event will focus on youth, it will feature programs for other age groups.

Also featured will be the youth Gospel choir from the parish and from E.R. Taylor Elementary.

Tickets for a free lunch will be distributed at the physicians’ forum.

For more information, call (415) 7505683.

Health fair scheduled Sept. 15 To combat disparities in community health care services, St. Mary’s Medical Center will partner with the San Francisco Giants Community Fund to hold the fifth annual Free Faith-Based Community Health Fair next month.

The Sept. 15 event will be held at St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church, 1122 Jamestown Ave., San Francisco, and Arthur C. Coleman Medical Center, a block north on Third Street at Ingerson Avenue. Hours will be 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Nuns gather to mark 40th anniversary of bone study OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) — By the end of the first eightday session of the Omaha Nun Study in 1967, Sister Rosalina Wilkinson was sick of chocolate bars.

The Sister of Mercy had eaten one chocolate bar each day.

“I only picked the chocolate bar because it was on the list they gave me and I thought it sounded good,” Sister Wilkinson told the Catholic Voice, newspaper of the Omaha Archdiocese. “Boy was that a mistake.”

Sister Wilkinson was one of 190 nuns from six motherhouses who agreed to participate in a Creighton University study on calcium intake and women’s bone health, now known simply as the Omaha Nun Study.

Participating nuns were from the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration, Servants of Mary, School Sisters of St. Francis, Notre Dame Sisters, Sisters of Mercy and Benedictine Sisters.

More than 30 of the nuns involved in the study were on hand April 25 to help celebrate the study’s 40th anniversary.

“As a good Catholic lad, I have said thank you to various sisters over the years for my education, my faith and my vocation,” Jesuit Father John Schlegel, Creighton University president, told the women. “Now as I stand here, I would like to thank you for my mother’s health.

She is 90 years old and she has learned a lot from your study and her bones are very solid.”

The reception, held at the Creighton University Medical Center, recognized the nuns for their contributions to women’s bone health.

“I would like to reiterate the impact you had,” Dr. Robert Heaney, study director and designer, told the nuns. “I don’t think you realize this, but the intake recommendations for calcium were based on the figures you people provided not to me, not to Creighton, but to the women of America.”

The staff from Creighton’s Osteoporosis Research Center — past and present — also attended the event.

When the project was started in February 1967, the nuns — then between the ages of 35 and 45 — spent eight days and nine nights at the Creighton center’s metabolism unit every five years.

They chose their menu for a day, but that menu was repeated each of the eight days.

The diets were designed to match — within 5 percent

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Benedictine Sister Cecilia Polt marks the 40th anniversary of the Omaha Nun Study last April with a milk mustache provided by the American Dairy Association/Dairy Council of Nebraska at Creighton University Medical Center in Omaha.

— their usual food intake in terms of calories, protein, calcium and phosphorus.

“Before we arrived at the hospital we had to tell them what we usually ate,” said Sister Iris Deprez, a Servant of

Mary. “We were sick of our choices by the end of that eighth day.”

The food selection was not the only thing the researchers were watching.

“They monitored everything,” Mercy Sister Claudia Robinson said. “Each meal was measured down to the exact number of ounces.

“We learned quickly to ask for an extra piece of bread each meal to lap up all the extra food on our plates. It was that or lick the plate clean,” she added.

From daily blood draws to urine collection, every step of the process was meticulously recorded to identify factors that influenced how the women’s bodies absorbed calcium, utilized it and excreted it.

“The project, because of the number of participants and the length of the study, literally wrote the book on the operation of calcium economy in midlife women,” Heaney said.

The Omaha Nun Study also helped establish Creighton University as an international leader in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis, said Dr. Robert Recker, current director of Creighton’s Osteoporosis Research Center.

The project received continuous federal funding from 1967 until 1995, and was one of the longest-running, continually supported projects in the history of the National Institutes of Health.

Among the findings resulting from the Creighton research: Healthy midlife women require 1,200 milligrams of calcium daily and calcium absorption is influenced by body size, vitamin D and estrogen levels, race, age and other nutrient interactions.

Although the eight-day inpatient studies ended, the nuns, now in their 70s and 80s, continue to return to Creighton for calcium absorption measurements and bone-density scans.

“It is a great feeling to know that we helped other women,” said Sister Robinson. “I also have learned to be conscious of bone health and I understand that we all need to encourage other women.”

“When we were doing the study, we did not know that we were helping anyone,” said Sister Wilkinson.

“But I am sure glad we did it.”

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It took the death of a close friend to wake me up. Now I’m wondering why I procrastinated so long.

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concrete. I can change it easily, whether adding a codicil or by simply having it redrafted. The important thing is that I have a workable will in place-right now.

My will makes provision for family members in a way state laws would not do. My will lets me give money to my children and grandchildren in an orderly manner after I pass on. My will identifies my parish and the Archdiocese to receive special bequests. In short, my will allocates my assets according to my desires.

My will is safely stored. I have a copy of my will in my files at home, but I keep the original in a safety deposit box. I don’t want to lose this important document through fire or theft. I also made sure my personal representative, my son, knows how to find my will.

My will is legally valid. I went to an attorney who

My will provides peace of mind. For years, I lived

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I even thought of just sitting down and writing out my will on a piece of paper, a sort of do-it-yourself project. I’m sure glad I didn’t fall into that trap.

After all, why do a will and then spend the rest of your life or the last moments of life wondering whether it is truly valid?

with a nagging apprehension about what would happen if I died without a will. Those feelings are gone. I now have a sense of peace about these matters. It took a little time and effort and it cost a few dollars, but it was well worth it all.

My will is up-to-date. This is because I only

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St. Gregory sends malaria-fighting nets to Africa

A “thermometer” at St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo, recorded the success of a parish Lenten effort to raise funds to purchase mosquito netting to combat the spread of malaria in Africa.

As part of its Lenten preparation this year, St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo channeled the sacrifices of its parishioners into a tangible result for nearly 7,500 impoverished Africans – bed nets that help stem the tide of malaria.

“Our goal was to stimulate a reexamination about the degree to which materialism has crept into all of our lives, and to use that as a moment to reach out to the poor in our world with material help and solidarity,” Msgr. McElroy, pastor at St. Gregory, told Catholic San Francisco.

The parish’s social justice committee set a goal of purchasing 2,000 such nets after attending the Point 7 Now Conference at San Francisco’s St. Mary’s Cathedral in October. The conference was an effort to raise awareness about poverty issues, and centered on the goal of giving 0.7 percent of the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for international aid to poorer nations. One issue raised in the conference was that of the need for bed nets in regions most affected by malaria, particularly Africa.

With matching funds from the Gates Foundation, the St. Gregory’s program was able to purchase 7,465 nets through “Nothing But Nets”, a national anti-malaria organization. Each net costs $10, and the parish raised just over $37,000.

“What pleased me the most was the degree to which the broad range of parishioners became committed to relieving the suffering of malaria,” said Msgr. McElroy. “This became a real life issue for them, where they

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By Michael Vick

Hadija Sahik sets up a mosquito net to help protect against malaria in the village of El Moriib in the Nuba mountains south of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, last Dec. 10. St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo, recently helped purchase nearly 7,500 such bed nets through a Lenten project.

felt connected in a new and different way with the suffering of people far away.”

Spearheading the parish effort was a group chaired by Deacon Steve Fox. Others instrumental in the project included Jeff Mattan, Tom Wainwright, Madge and Jim Gough, and Carol James.

More than one million people die annually in Africa from malaria, but its spread can be readily diminished with the use of

bed nets. Equipping an entire village, however, can become costly for people who survive on very little income.

Msgr. McElroy said he hopes to “make Lent a continuing time of reflection and commitment focusing on poverty.”

“It turned out to be a great way of deepening our knowledge about the plight of the poor, and both connecting with and assisting them,” he said.

‘Dream Train’ riders still hopeful on immigration reform

By Michael Vick They traveled across America to the nation’s capital in part to promote an immigration bill that never passed, but the immigrants and immigrant rights activists who participated in June’s “Dreams Across America Tour” say their resolve remains steadfast.

“We’re not going to stop,” Samina Sundas told Catholic San Francisco. “We’re going to continue educating and mobilizing, and use this time that we have to continue building relationships with all human beings concerned about immigrants’ rights.”

Sundas, a Pakistani immigrant who lives in Palo Alto, is the founder of American Muslim Voice, a human rights group.

Dreams Across America, an eight-day tour that started on June 13, was described not as an opportunity to promote any specific reform legislation, but a chance for immigrants to share their stories with fellow Americans. It also allowed them to speak in the halls of power in Washington.

Cathy Gurney, a businesswoman with a landscaping service in Chico, said she joined the group because even with the wages and benefits she offers potential employees, she has trouble finding Americans who will take the jobs she offers. She pays from $8 to $28 an hour, provides health and retirement benefits, and paid time off. Gurney said most applicants are undocumented immigrants, whom she cannot hire.

“Without access to a legal workforce, we could have to shut our doors,” said Gurney.

She lays much of the blame for the current situation on politicians who seem unwilling or unable to address the problem. As a businesswoman, she takes a hard-line on the inaction.

“I’m not supposed to be the policeman,” Gurney said. “We have elected these people in government to do a job. If you don’t do your job, you get fired.”

Gurney, a Republican, is upset with her party on this critical issue.“I’m so disappointed. I’m honestly thinking about switching parties. We’ve got Republicans here in California who are just a nightmare.”

Gurney said the sticking point for many Republican lawmakers seems to be amnesty.

“Republicans make statements like, ‘Over my dead body will we give amnesty,’” she said. “Nowhere did anyone ask for amnesty.

No one is just handing them an amnesty card.

They’re already working and paying taxes.”

Gurney emphasized that “the news media only wants you to know part” of the undocumented immigrant story, and she criticized an over-emphasis on centering the discussion of reform in terms of Mexicans and Central Americans seeking legal status. She said she met immigrants from Europe and Asia who all face threats of deportation and who live in the shadows of society.

Gurney said the Dream Train experience was humbling. She said issues she faces are not life threatening as is the situation with

fellow travelers she met. One such Dreamer, she said, was Tony Wasilewski, a Polish immigrant who now lives in Chicago and will soon become an American citizen.

Wasilewski’s wife, Janina, was recently deported to Poland after a long court battle attempting to gain asylum. Their U.S.-born son now lives with his mother in Poland.

As Gurney related the story, she began to cry. “It’s life changing to meet these people. It shows me how much I take for granted as an American citizen. These people are willing to give their lives to come to this country. If I were on the other side of the tracks, I’d be trying to get over, too.”

Gurney said she met with several politicians while in Washington, including Senator Edward Kennedy. “I was very honored to speak with Sen. Kennedy,” said Gurney of the man many in her party vilify.

“Even though we have differences in our political direction, he is very passionate.”

Gurney said she and the senator do agree on the need for comprehensive immigration reform, and both oppose the proposed border fence.

“We talk about building the fence, when we were instrumental in tearing down the Berlin Wall,” Gurney said. “Now we’re building our own.”

Gurney said that in Chicago the group encountered protests by the Minute Men, a group that has come under fire for what some call racist undertones in its anti-illegal

immigrant stance. Gurney said the Dreamers even encountered two Chicago police officers who flashed Minute Men cards and said that they would “be there in Washington.”

Javier Gonzales, executive director of the immigration rights group Strengthening Our Lives and a member of the Dreams Across America leadership team, told Catholic San Francisco that the major strength of the tour was that it transcended any legislation.

“The strength of our struggle is our stories and our lives,” said Gonzales. “We put regular people out there and they actually did better than the lobbyists.”

Gonzales said it was the dreams of those immigrants that inspired them to organize the project in the first place.

The dreams of San Francisco resident Koko Khang, in fact, inspired him to join.

“My dream is like other immigrants. I want to live a peaceful life, not living under fear anymore like I used to live,” said the Burmese native in an e-mail interview. “I want my sons to get a good education and to serve the people who need help. Most of all, I don’t want to be far from my family members.”

Samina Sundas hopes the presidential election season will help keep the immigrants’ rights movement alive in 2008.

“As people who are concerned, we can make this an issue for presidential candidates, for labor unions, for NGOs, and for anybody else involved,” Sundas said. “We should not give up just because one bill is dead.”

Fathers Vitale and Kelly might see jail before they see jury

By Michael Vick At a pre-trial hearing that produced more questions than answers, Franciscan Father Louis Vitale and Jesuit Father Steve Kelly faced the possibility of going to jail even before their trial. The two priests are charged with federal trespass and an Arizona state charge of failure to comply with a police officer.

The priests’ arrest at Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. last November came after the two attempted to deliver a letter denouncing torture to Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast. Fast, then commanding officer at the fort, is now stationed at Ft. Monroe in Virginia. She was also in charge of military intelligence during the Abu Ghraib torture scandal.

Human rights attorney Bill Quigley, who

represents both men, argued during the hearing that the First Amendment protects non-violent protests against torture. Because torture is illegal under U.S. and international law, he said, the priests were justified in their actions. He requested that all charges be dismissed.

In a 23-page memorandum to the court, Quigley outlined the defense, detailing the alleged involvement of U.S. military and intelligence personnel in torture around the globe.

Quigley concluded the priests were exercising their right to protest in a peaceful manner.

“History will illuminate and judge all who touched this issue, just as it has in prior scandals of injustice,” Quigley wrote. “The case offers the legal system an opportunity to make a clear statement about the illegality and injustice of torture and to offer history writers

the hope that justice will ultimately prevail.”

Capt. Evan Seamone, the army judge advocate general representing the government in the case, said the priests’ venue for their protests renders their actions illegal. Seamone noted that the government does not teach or condone torture, and said he will present evidence and witnesses to attest to that.

In an e-mail interview prior to the hearing, Fast echoed Seamone.

“Intelligence training is completely consistent with applicable law and policy,” she wrote.

“Torture is not condoned.”

Magistrate Judge Hector Estrada admonished Father Vitale for potentially violating a pretrial order not to break local, state and federal laws. The priest took part in a Nagasaki Day line-crossing at the Nevada nuclear weapons

test site on Aug. 9. The Franciscan was cited.

Seamone and fellow prosecutor Capt. Ryan Wardle have sought to have the priests held in jail pending trial.

Catholic San Francisco tried to contact Seamone and Wardle for this story, but repeated attempts were unsuccessful.

In a phone interview, Father Vitale said he is unsure if he and Father Kelly will be held in custody before their trial.

For now, the priests have been released on their own recognizance, though Father Vitale said he had to see a probation officer regarding his Nagasaki Day citation.

Magistrate Estrada is expected to set the trial date and make a final decision on all pretrial motions, including the priests’ request for a trial by jury, by the end of the month.

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Fallacious assertions

Getting over ourselves Throughout its long history, the Catholic faith has been in a state of dialogue, and often dynamic tension, with whatever society in which it resides. At times, as in China or Zimbabwe today, Catholics are seen as.outsiders and a threat. In other countries, Catholicism is often so integrated into the social structure that the Church seems almost an extension of the state.

Most often, a local Church is neither in opposition to, nor swallowed up by, the larger society. Rather, it tends to reflect the prejudices and shortcomings as well as the strengths of the surrounding culture.

In the United States, Catholicism struggled for more than a century to win acceptance by the dominant, Protestant culture.

In the early years, Catholics — who were primarily immigrants – fought prejudice and anti-immigrant xenophobia of the wider society. In seeking respect, Catholics often tried to portray themselves as fully American, subsuming their Catholic identity.

The successful integration of U.S. Catholics into American society was popularly symbolized by the election of John F. Kennedy as the first Catholic U.S. president. Scholars and social critics noted that this may have been the moment when Catholics began to lose their identity, becoming virtually indistinguishable from their fellow Americans in terms of behavior, politics, prejudices and beliefs.

It is not only our Catholic identity that was threatened by the success of our assimilation. As an immigrant Church, Catholics in this country often had a strong sense of the wider Church outside. Appreciation for the missions was common. This identification with the Catholics of other lands was a way of acknowledging the larger Church to which we were connected.

But material and political success may have brought with it a greater provincialism, as observers have pointed out. We tithe less than other faiths. We pay scant attention to the Church in other parts of the world. We have almost completely lost our commitment to the missions. Evangelization has become just “Church talk.” Though we were an immigrant Church, many of us rail at the immigrants. And though we no longer produce enough vocations, many of us grumble when our bishop sends us a priest from Africa or Asia because he has no one else to send.

Yet, these shepherds from faraway shores are reminders to us of a greater Church than what exists in our parish, or (arch)diocese or even nation. The billion Catholics in the world today are a vibrant testimony to the diversity of the Church and the universal glory of our Savior. For U.S. Catholics in particular, acknowledging that we are all parts of one body — African, Asian, Latin American, European, Eastern rite and Roman rite, immigrant and native born — is an absolutely critical awareness if we are not to be blinded by our own pride, power and wealth.

Many young Catholics already get this, in part because of the amazing phenomenon of World Youth Day. In 2008, it will be held in Australia, and this will be another tremendous opportunity for Catholics to join with their fellows from around the world.

Americans, bounded by two oceans and seemingly a world apart, have always tended toward isolationism. For Catholics. such a temptation is to be resisted. We are many members, but one body. Perhaps the priest shortage and the influx of foreign-born priests, like the immigration crisis, are invitations for U.S. Catholics to get over ourselves and see what a Catholic world it truly is.

(Reprinted from Our Sunday Visitor magazine, Aug. 5, 2007.)

Kurt Thialfad’s diatribe against poor illegal immigrants (Letters, Aug. 10) could be dismissed as just another exercise in “blaming the victim” were it not for additional shortcomings: his crude and fallacious assertion that poor illegal immigrants “drag down” American society and his morally objectionable, thinly-veiled endorsement of eugenics.

Even more troublesome, however, is the reiteration of an old myth about the First Amendment and the meaning of separation of church and state. Congress cannot make Catholicism or any other religion the official faith of our country, nor can the government interfere with our individual decisions about what faith to practice (or not). That said, Catholics (and the practitioners of all faiths) enjoy the freedom to bring their religious values into the public sphere where government policy is debated. It goes without saying that “secular humanists” and atheists have the same freedom. It would be a hollow democracy indeed if antireligious and non-religious people were allowed to shape our laws according to their beliefs, but religious people were prohibited from doing so.

Bill Issel Berkeley

Longing for reverence

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Healthy step back Pope Benedict XVI’s endorsement of the traditional Tridentine Mass will, I hope, be received with overall enthusiasm and, perhaps, be viewed as a harbinger of better days to come. Whatever resistance it encounters is apt to come from those who never knew it.

The congregation who grew up with the old Mass, as I recall, only reluctantly accepted its departure. Many, such as my own father, refused to attend church again, never accepting the watered-down-in-every- way, demystified, truncated vernacular version. Undoubtedly, had not most of this group now passed on to the next world, we would be witnessing widespread joy over this recent papal turnabout.

In retrospect, the “modernization” of the Church under Vatican II could not have arrived at a worse time. A Catholic college student at the time, I myself drifted away from my ancestral Church, wooed by the false and hitherto unknown promises of the cultural and spiritual revolution known as the “Sixties.” If anything was needed by the faithful at this time, it was certainly not a lessening of devotional practices and rituals, of fervency or reverence or mysticism.

There is no way of knowing how many of the ills that have befallen the Church since 1962 can be attributed to Vatican II, but no one can deny the downward spiral culminating in unprecedented scandal, loss of resources, and closures of sanctified and beloved places of worship.

Why then is a “retreat from Vatican II” seen as something undesirable?

As for the Jews, is there not a Christian worthy of the name who does not hope and pray for the eventual conversion of these people, as was once openly stated in the old rite? Can the faithful not legitimately wonder about the pain caused by the ongoing refusal of Jesus’ own blood people, whom he surely especially loves, to accept himself and his Church? Is this something we should fear to express, or something that should offend the Jewish people?

I see the relaxation on use of the Tridentine Mass as more than a long-awaited overture to disaffected Catholic traditionalists.

I see this as a new page turning, as the Church positively responding to emerging challenges and attempting to correct old mistakes. I see this as the Church going forward by going backwards to an ancient, beautiful and more elevating rite of worship. We deserve more than what was forced on us by Vatican II. More important, God deserves more.

C. M. Creighton San Francisco

L E T T E R S

I was bemused by Father Piers Lahey’s letter (July 20) in which he bemoans the return of the Tridentine Latin Mass, albeit optionally. He questioned the wisdom of bringing back a rushed service offered by a priest mumbling incomprehensible Latin, back turned to a congregation waiting eagerly for it to end.

There is an alternative view.

While Father Piers survived his youthful Latin ordeal and went on to become a blessed priest, I, of same age, left the Church. With my re-conversion to the faith in 2005 came a new world of formation, study, prayer and Vatican II changes including the Mass already in their 40th year. I have read much about confusion the early years produced.

The Church today bears remnants of those turbulent times. Witness wide variations in liturgical practice in different parishes even in Masses in the same parish. With those differences come striking variations in attitude and demeanor.

The most striking change witnessed after my long absence is the loss of reverence. Chatter often fills otherwise quiet space which for many is communion time with the Lord — not only before Mass but during and even at Communion. Not just chatter, but gum chewing, candy crunching, and phone calling!

As for the priest’s back to the congregation in the Tridentine Mass, this was not a snub; he was leading us into the Holy of Holies; into the Real Presence of Christ and the miracle of every Mass. Perhaps we did not fully understand then. Perhaps we don’t fully understand today. Maybe if we sat quietly in the Presence of the Lord we might find ourselves welcomed into the Holy of Holies no matter the direction the priest faces. Experiencing the Real Presence no one will have to tell us to

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silence cell phones, discard gum and candy, read the newsletter later or dress neatly. No one will need to tell us to bow or genuflect when passing the altar or Tabernacle.

Perhaps Latin represents a clarity and continuity linking us to our origins. Some say many are simply longing for a return of reverence. That longing and communal sharing of the miracle of the Mass spoken in any language can truly liberate us. We are called to conversion and holiness every day. We are called by the Lord.

Pax Domini sit semper vobiscum Mary McCurry Pacifica

Consecration is key In 1943 when I was 10 years old and before Father Piers Lahey (Letters, July 20) was born, my grandparents gave me “My Sunday Missal” by Father Stedman as a confirmation gift. I used that missal every Sunday until Vatican II. The missal has the Latin Mass on the left pages and the English translation on the right. I never thought of the Mass as “Father’s prayer.” In fact, I was taught to participate in the Mass; it was “our” Mass. I learned to recognize the Latin so I could keep up in English.

Today, I see people who “attend Mass … as one might attend a concert or a play … clearly not as participants …,” to quote Father Lahey. It matters not whether the LETTERS, page 14

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The Catholic Difference A while back, I noted with a touch of asperity that the “Prayer of the Faithful” too frequently deteriorates into serial sermonettes, an AmChurch innovation without foundation in the Church’s liturgical tradition.

I was particularly scornful of petitions that politicize the liturgy by promoting, as self-evidently desirable objects of the Lord’s attention, various planks in the Democratic platform. The same objection would, of course, apply to petitions drawn from the Republican playbook; but given the ambience from which most mass-produced liturgical “aids” emerge these days, that’s not likely to be a big problem any time soon.

Numerous readers have asked me to revisit the issue, so here we go again. Try these two gems, to which I was recently subjected (they were taken from a canned set of petitions for weekday Mass): “For a transformation of world vision which will put the needs of human beings before capital gain and create policies which manifest Jesus’ love for the poor, let us pray to the Lord...”

“For the leaders of the United Nations, may they effectively design programs to provide aid to the people who experience the greatest suffering, let us pray to the Lord...”

I trust the Lord wasn’t listening.

The first petition cited is soft socialism masquerading as intercessory prayer. It ignores the fact incorporation into global markets is key to economic development and the empowerment of the poor, as post-World War II western

Europe and Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, post-Cold War east central Europe, and now India demonstrate. In his 1991 encyclical, Centesimus Annus, John Paul II stressed that the moral obligation of the wealthy is to bring the global poor into those “capital-gain” driven networks of productivity and exchange that our petition-writer deplores. So why set “capital gain” over-against “Jesus’ love for the poor,” as if the two were mutually exclusive?

As for those “leaders of the United Nations” who are the objects of the second petition’s concern, anyone familiar with the actual functioning of the U.N. might suggest that U.N.-related petitions to the almighty would be better directed at ending the rape of children by U.N. “peacekeepers” in Sudan. Or perhaps our (private) prayers might seek the conversion of the hearts and minds of the “leaders of the United Nations,” so that, having read the scientific evidence, they’re moved to abandon their salvationthrough-latex approach to the AIDS pandemic.

As for “people who experience the greatest suffering,” they’re far beyond the reach of “U.N. leaders,” for the greatest suffering in this world is moral and spiritual, and alleviating that is not, the last time I looked, a mandate of the U.N. Charter. None of this belongs in the people’s common prayer at Mass.

These petitions are not, in fact, prayers. They may be expressions of conventional liberal pieties. They may be guilt-trips aimed at suburban congregations. They may

even be subtle advertisements for the Carter Center. But they’re not prayers of the sort envisioned by the Second Vatican Council when it mandated that, in the reformed liturgy, “interGeorge Weigel cession will be made for holy Church, for the civil authorities, for those oppressed by various needs, for all mankind, and for the salvation of the entire world.” (Which raises another question: When was the last time you heard a petition that used the phrase “holy Church,” or that invoked the divine mercy “for the salvation of the entire world”?)

What to do? The answer is austerity. The integrity of the liturgy requires us to use simple, even formulaic, petitions – for the universal Church; for the local Church; for civil authorities; for special local needs; for peace; for Christian unity; for the salvation of the world; for the dead – and leave it at that.

Like the refugees at the beginning of “Casablanca” who look longingly, and heavenward, at that over-flying DC-3, we wait. And wait. And wait.

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

Twenty Something

House beautiful vs. home eternal I admit it: I cry when I watch ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” Something about Ty’s neighborhood rally, the dazzling redesign and the awed reactions tug my heart strings and tear ducts.

“She has epilepsy,” I wail between sniffs, “and now she has a princess castle in her bedroom! And her brother has a life-size Lego fort!”

“Extreme Makeover” may pack in the most drama per minute, but in the booming business of home design, it’s in crowded company.

With home ownership at an all-time high, our interest in not-so-humble abodes has kicked off a dizzying proliferation of reality TV, how-to books, glossy magazines and conversations at Panera.

Who doesn’t want to flip their house or trade their space? Who doesn’t crave a new look, a fresh start? And who doesn’t secretly believe in the potential of Plum Burst walls framed in Angel Touch purple to unleash creative genius?

We set down “House Beautiful” and glance at that cluttered junk room with wistful eyes, imagining it reborn in a nautical motif, complete with life preserver and wooden ship wheel. Some favor a Tuscan look, dressed up with a terracotta urn and rustic ceramic pottery. Others flirt with an Asian theme, wooed by the hip, exotic aura that somehow flows from elephant figurines and bamboo.

The surging popularity of home design makes me restless.

A June move marked my fifth since 2004. And my next zip code will not be my final. I’m chasing jobs and dreams, putting the allure of home and family on hold. I’m exhaustingly mobile.

So when I stroll through Pottery Barn, I try keep my yearnings in check. I’m sticking with the cheap, lightweight and unbreakable for now. The intricate rug, artistic mirrors and fireplace décor will come later.

Even if it’s frustrating, the young-adult nomadic lifestyle serves us well spiritually. Our Christian disposition should be marked by a sense of restlessness, impermanence and patience. We are all nomads on earth, preparing for our true home in heaven. As St. Augustine said, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in thee.”

If it wasn’t such a distant thought, heaven would shift our concept of interior design, compelling us to redesign an interior that’s not held up by bricks and mortar, but by bones and tendons.

True interior redesign begins with a restored prayer life, one that’s dusted and made more prominent. Patch up the patience that’s been too flimsy too long. Caulk the cracks that let materialism and relativism seep in. Demolish envy. Repair self love. And reinforce the weight-bearing walls of principles and priorities.

The Easter Gospel reminds us of the empty tomb Mary Magdalene discovered and the eternal home Jesus entered.

The story comforts a restless nomad like me.

I may not have found my earthly home, but my spiritual home is all set.

Heaven, that place eye has not seen and ear has not heard, will astonChristina ish us with its design.

Capecchi Every feature will accommodate. There’ll be no cramped closets, junk rooms or unfinished basements – just hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings and smudge-proof windows. A divine design.

When we arrive, the moment will no doubt surpass all the drama of an “Extreme Makeover” episode. Cheering, crying, hugging. Awe and elation. But it’ll be even better because all our dearest friends and relatives will be there.

And they’ll stick around long after the camera crew leaves.

House beautiful, home eternal.

Christina Capecchi is a graduate student at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. E-mail her at christinacap@gmail.com.

Spirituality for Life

Seek acuity on innocence and experience One of my favorite writers, Christopher de Vinck, wrote a series of essays titled, “Songs of Innocence and Experience.” Those two words, innocence and experience, don’t easily go together. No matter who we are and no matter how pure our intentions, experience always threatens our innocence, even when we don’t want it to.

When I was 17 and a novice in our Oblate novitiate, while horsing around in a lake with my fellow novices one afternoon, I almost drowned. I had already gone down twice and was unable to call for help. Only luck and the perceptiveness of a fellow novice prevented my death.

I was pretty shook up. When we returned to the novitiate that evening, there was a letter waiting from my mother (who wrote every week). It was her usual note, full of motherly concern and of the various details of our family’s life. I was more touched than usual because, as I was reading that letter, I kept thinking how close I had come to never reading it and how my mother and my family would be feeling right now had I drowned.

Re-reading that letter recently triggered a flood of thoughts and emotions. Nearly 40 years have passed since that near fatal day. My mother has been dead for more than 30 years. And the years, too, have changed me. My thought

was: “Had I died that day, so many years back, what would have died?”

Looking back now at myself at 17, I see a boy of uncommon naiveté, of much innocence, considerable purity, high intention, deep faith, and, happily, lacking much of the complexity and many of the neuroses I carry today. Much as I hate to admit it, the boy of 17 was somewhat more hospitable and surely more innocent than the man of today.

But the comparison can be a false romanticism, the catcher-in-the-rye nostalgia of J.D. Salinger’s famous novel.

Nobody grows into adulthood with his or her childhood innocence intact. Real virtue and purity of heart are post, not pre, critical, and the task of living is to achieve adulthood.

That requires a certain death.

A child dies when an adult is born and an adult no longer looks nor feels like a child. As adults, all kinds of wrinkles, blemishes and stretch marks begin to leave scars, and not just in terms of a sagging body and greying hair. Complexity, hurt, and moral failure begin to sully our baptismal robes and chill our hearts. Had I died at 17, I would have died less blemished, physically and morally, but I would have died a boy, not a man.

And still there is more than simple romantic sentimentalism in longing for the simplicity and purity of one’s

youth, despite its naiveté. As we grow more adult and experienced, we progressively lose in more areas than in just our sexuality.

I remember a remark by, Faye Dunaway, the Father Hollywood actress: “I Ron Rolheiser went through the star machine and became urban, sophisticated, neurotic, cold, and all that. I’d gotten very far from my own heart and soul and who I really was: a little girl called Dorothy Faye from the South.”

Then there’s the tragic, biblical story of Saul who, when he first became the king, was the handsomest, best, most gracious and humble man in Israel, and who slowly and in a way that was imperceptible to himself, filled with a jealousy and bitterness that led him to take his own life.

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TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 66:18-21; Psalm 117:1, 2; Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13; Luke 13:22-30 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF ISAIAH (IS 66:18-21) Thus says the Lord: I know their works and their thoughts, and I come to gather nations of every language; they shall come and see my glory. I will let a sign among them; from them I will send fugitives to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory; and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations.

They shall bring all your brothers and sisters from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and dromedaries, to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their offering to the house of the Lord in clean vessels. Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the Lord.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 117:1, 2) R. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.

Praise the Lord all you nations; glorify him, all you peoples!

R. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.

For steadfast is his kindness toward us, and the fidelity of the Lord endures forever.

R. Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.

A READING FROM THE BOOK OF HEBREWS: (HEB 12:5-7, 11-13) Brothers and sisters, you have forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as children: “My son, do not disdain the discipline of the Lord or lose heart when reproved by him; for

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■ Continued from page 12 Mass is in Latin or in the vernacular. People participate or they don’t.

I was in the Navy from 1950 until 1954. I attended Mass in Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Guam, Hawaii, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle, to name some of the places our ship called. At each the Mass was said in Latin and I could follow along with my Stedman missal. Today, the Mass is said in the local languages and my participation would be difficult.

As for the priest having his back to the people, we were all, priest and congregation, facing the same direction – toward the tabernacle and the Body of Christ. To say it is more communal to have the priest face us does not make sense. The people in the front pews have their backs to me as I have my back to the people behind me. Are we not communal? How would Father Lahey orient us so no one would have his or her back to others? Is there a church so large we could all stand in a huge circle? If so, which direction would the priest face?

Father Lahey says, “I have not the slightest idea where to locate a Latin missal.” Surely he jests. I would offer him mine, but I cherish it too much.

I do not attend Mass because it is in English, nor did I attend because it was in Latin. The consecration takes place no matter what language is spoken, and that is what is important.

Ron Corkrey Novato

What next in Iraq?

I was deeply disturbed by the message of columnist George Weigel in the July 20 issue, “After martyrdom, what next in Iraq?”

whom the Lord loves, he disciplines; he scourges every son he acknowledges.”

Endure your trials as “discipline”; God treats you as sons. For what “son” is there whom his father does not discipline?

At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.

So strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees. Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE (LK 13:22-30) Jesus passed through towns and villages, teaching as he went and making his way to Jerusalem. Someone asked him, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?”

He answered them, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough. After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying, ‘Lord, open the door for us.’ He will say to you in reply, ‘I do not know where you are from.’

And you will say, ‘We ate and drank in your company and you taught in our streets.’ Then he will say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers!’

And there will be wailing and grinding of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you yourselves cast out. ”And people will come from the east and the west and from the north and the south and will recline at table in the kingdom of God. For behold, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

Before the invasion of Iraq in early 2003, Mr. Weigel was one of the cheerleaders for President Bush’s propaganda that Saddam Hussein was a threat to the safety of the United States. Mr. Weigel joined the fundamentalist neo-con, non-Catholic Christians who proclaimed a pre-emptive war against Iraq fulfilled the criteria for a just war.

The United States’ invasion of Iraq has been occurring for more than four years. Mr. Weigel continues his nearly 100 percent pro President Bush war position by trying to blame the martyrdom of Christians in Iraq on Muslims. He continues to ignore the main cause of the violence against Christians and other Iraqis. It is the United States’ war that is intensifying the violence.

Mr. Weigel seems to ignore how the persecution of Christians has intensified as the United States’ invasion continues. The Christians were at peace in Iraq because they did not threaten Saddam Hussein.

Pope John Paul II realized this and tried to protect the Christians. Now nearly half of the Christians and millions of Muslims have fled Iraq as refugees thanks to the U.S. invasion that Mr. Weigel defends.

Yes, there is increased hatred by some Muslims against Christians because they see the U.S. invaders as Christians, so they transfer their hatred toward Iraqi Christians.

Mr. Weigel does not understand the Catholic teaching on a just war.

Joe Trevors Hercules

ID testing needed To come out of the shadow economy the illegals must become qualified as “residents willing to work.” They could be vetted by an agency with appropriate resources and would be responsible for the veracity of any certificate of acceptance. This testing would consist of basic language and cultur-

Scripture reflection FATHER ANDREW GREELEY

A chilling Gospel seems to ask if we even try to listen to Jesus This is a chillThen, instead of ing Gospel. Jesus listening to what sounds like he’s the man might tired and in a bad have come to say, mood. Yet how they began to talk. chilling is the Indeed they babthreat that he will bled. Their visitor say to some people, did not have a “Don’t know you”? chance to get in a word edgewise.

He’s probably Finally, they ran fed up with people out of steam and asking him the silly quieted down. question about how Then the driver of many people will his car honked. He be saved. Don’t sighed and got up they know that the and said he’d father in heaven is enjoyed the connothing but forgiveversation and the ness and love? He’s soda bread and pot saying to them, of hot tea and he “Get with it! Don’t was sorry but he waste your time had to run. He with such silliness.

"There will be wailing and hoped they could Take advantage of grinding of teeth when you see talk some other all I have to tell you Abraham, Isaac and Jacob …," time. about the Father warns the Aug. 26 Gospel He may have while I’m still reading from Luke 13:22-30. sighed with relief around to tell you as he got out of the my stories.”

Story: Once upon a time a very impor- house, but if he did no one noticed. tant public official visited a certain family. They were all honored to have him in Father Andrew Greeley is an author, their house and they served him some of the best Irish soda bread in the world. sociologist, journalist and teacher. al comprehension, understanding of the regulations of employment and residency.

This would benefit the individual and society.

In his Aug. 10 editorial, Mr. George Wesolek states that families may be divided if some parents are not allowed to remain in the U.S. when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) commences to impose the law on those working illegally. Family ties are stronger than the writer implies so it is doubtful the children would be abandoned. Rather the wage earner would become qualified or retreat to their country of legal residence with an intact family.

Qualification and identity testing would result in a de facto amnesty. As stated, an “informal amnesty” already exists.

This came about through governmental neglect of border enforcement and disregard of the laws of residence and employment.

Approaching this problem as it exists requires encouraging the qualification of resident illegals and stricter enforcement of the border. No new laws, no legislation, just enforcement of existing laws.

Ron Gillis Kentfield

Learning showcased On returning from a summer trip and reviewing “old mail,” I came upon the wonderful, well-played photo of Cathie Alvarado and her class standing in front of the new Mission Dolores mural in your July 6 issue. Thank you!

Very encouraging headline: “Catholic schools showcase creativity, leadership, generosity.” And right under that “lead” is Mission Dolores School with a clear, concise caption that expresses so much of our philosophy: generous help of parents, cooperative learning, creating beauty in our sur-

roundings as stewards of the earth, interrelating different strands of the curriculum – math, history and art — and dedicated teachers who minister to our students who represent the world’s cultures.

Cathy Patterson San Francisco

Unions aid health care I want to commend Bishop Daniel Walsh, Msgr. John Brenkle and the Diocese of Santa Rosa for endorsing the U.S. bishops’ guidelines on unions enunciated in “Just and Fair Workplace” (“Santa Rosa adopts guidelines on unions, Catholic health care,” May 25 Catholic San Francisco.)

As a unionized health care worker at St. Francis Memorial Hospital, I know all too well how important my union is to ensuring high quality care for our patients and fairness for employees and our families.

I was disappointed to learn that St. Joseph Health System (SJHS) has chosen to run an anti-union campaign against its employees. How can SJHS and its sponsors, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, create a just and fair workplace when workers are regularly subjected to intimidation and fear? How can caregivers defend their patients when they are afraid to speak out for fear of retaliation?

My employer, Catholic Healthcare West, has chosen a different course. CHW realized that by working together with its unionized caregivers that it could create an environment that honors patients and caregivers while delivering the best care. I would hope St. Joseph ’s Health System could choose a more enlightened way to relate to the people who work night and day to make their health care ministry possible.

Maya Morris San Francisco

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Teacher, hospital caregiver dies Aug. 6 Notre Dame de Namur Sister Mary McCarthy (Sister Mary Elizabeth), who served as a member of her congregation for 46 years, died in Redwood City on Aug. 6.

A lively and engaging teacher, Sister Mary taught in Notre Dame elementary and high schools throughout California, including 20 years at Notre Dame High School in Alameda. In 1985, severe back pain forced her resignation from teaching, but not from ministry.

Appreciating the care she received at St.

Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco, she began providing the same caring support to patients in the pain clinic and to out-patients at the hospital for the next two decades. In 2003 Sister moved to the Sisters of Notre Dame Province Center residence in Belmont.

Sister Mary is the daughter of Eugene and Elizabeth McCarthy, sister of Jean McCarthy, half-sister of Gene Maury, Kenneth and Alan McCarthy, all deceased.

She is lovingly remembered by her many

students, friends and Sisters of Notre Dame.

Funeral Mass was celebrated at Notre Dame Province Center Sister Mary on Aug. 14. Inurnment McCarthy, was at Santa Clara SNDdeN Mission Cemetery.

Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Retirement Fund, 1520 Ralston Ave., Belmont, Cal. 94002.

San Francisco-born Maryknoller dies Aug. 5 Maryknoll Sister Joan McKay died Aug. 5 at the Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care Unit at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, NY. She was 86 and had been a Maryknoll Sister for 67 years.

The late religious was born in San Francisco and is a graduate of St. Brigid Elementary School. She entered the Maryknoll Sisters from St. Anne of the Sunset Parish on July 2, 1940. She received the religious name Sister Mary Margaret Ann and professed first vows Mar. 7, 1943 at Maryknoll, N.Y. Her final profession was on Mar. 7, 1946 also at Maryknoll.

Sister Joan worked for the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers from 1944 to 1948 in several different positions. She was assis-

tant procurator in the Maryknoll Sisters Convent in San Francisco from 1950 to 1962, serving as superior of the house from 1956 to 1959.

She took over the purchasing department at the Motherhouse in Maryknoll in 1962.

In 1969 Sister Joan was assigned to the Maryknoll Sisters Hospital in Monrovia, California. When the Maryknoll Sisters closed the facility as a hospital, it became the Maryknoll Sisters Retirement House in 1971. Sister Joan continued on the staff there as bookkeeper.

While in Monrovia, she was a member of the U.S. Western Region and served as coordinator of its governing board from 1985 to 1988.

Failing health took Sister Joan to the Maryknoll Sisters Residential Care unit at Maryknoll in 2003 Sister Joan where she remained McKay, MM until her death. Sister Joan is survived by a sister, Mary Becker of Danville, and two nieces, Mary Ellen Howe of Livermore and Margaret O’Brien of Danville.

A funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 8 with interment in the Maryknoll Sisters Cemetery. Remembrances may be sent to the Maryknoll Sisters Center, P.O. Box 311, Maryknoll, N.Y. 10545-0311.

Father was ordained with his cousin, Father Kevin P. Gaffey, Vallombrosa Center chaplain, on June 15, 1957 by Bishop Hugh Donohoe at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. Archbishop John J. Mitty initially assigned him as parochial vicar of St. Justin Parish in Santa Clara. He remained there until 1964 when he began serving as parochial vicar at St. Mary’s Cathedral.

In 1973, Father Keane was assigned as parochial vicar at St. Brigid Parish in San Francisco. He was appointed pastor of St. Augustine Parish in South San Francisco on Feb. 16, 1978, where he served for more than 11 years. Father Keane became pastor of St. Isabella in San Rafael in 1989, and was dean of Marin County’s Deanery Seven.

Father Keane was honored by the parish for his 50th ordination jubilee during a reception and dinner in May. Two dozen priests concelebrated at the jubilee Mass, including Bishop Walsh. His illness forced him to miss a reunion of classmates ordained from the St. Patrick Seminary Class of 1957 held in June at Vallombrosa Center.

During his tenure at St. Isabella, which was originally built as a gymnasium, the priest oversaw projects to update and renovate its worship space. These included the major installation project of stained glass windows in 2005.

Interment was at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma. The family asked that memorials be made to St. Isabella Parish.

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August 24, 2007 Mondays, 7 p.m.: New prayer group meeting at St. Anne of the Sunset Convent, 1330 14th Ave. (in chapel) between Irving and Judah St., San Francisco. Call Pat (415) 215-1884.

Sept. 15: A Mass, symposium and reception commemorating the 20th year anniversary of canonization of St. Lorenzo Ruiz of Manila at St. Veronica Church, 434 Alida Way, South San Francisco beginning at 8:30 a.m. Lunch and entertainment, too. Call Delia Tabasa at (707) 631-9577 for more information. St. Lorenzo Ruiz is the first Filipino saint. Born in Manila in the early 17th century, the martyr was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1987. His feast day is Sept. 28.

Sept. 15: A retreat, “Thomas Merton: Soul of the Age,” will be directed by Notre Dame Sister Kathleen Deignan at the Palo Alto Foothill Parks Interpretive Center, 3300 Page Mill Rd., Palo Alto.Welcome at 9:30 a.m.; concludes at 3 p.m. Sister Deignan is a theologian, song writer, and professor of religious studies at Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y. For information, contact the sponsoring Merton Center at www.thomasmerton.org or Kay Williams at (650) 3282781 or kaywill@pacbell.net. Pre-registration required.

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Sept. 15: Handicapables gather for Mass and lunch at noon. Volunteer drivers always needed. Call (415) 751-8531.

Oct. 4 through 7: First Annual Festival of Flowers.

Oct. 4: Festival opens 9 a.m. with Mass at 12:10 p.m. and viewing until 7 p.m. Oct. 5: Festival available from 9 a.m. with Mass at 12:10 p.m. and touring until 7 p.m.

Oct. 6: Festival opens at 9 a.m. with Masses at 12:10 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. and viewing until 7 p.m. Oct. 7: Day begins with Mass at 7:30 a.m. and subsequent liturgies at 9 a.m., 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and a festival concert at 3:30 p.m. Touring closes at 5 p.m. Cathedral docents will be available for festival information. To schedule a group tour, contact the Cathedral office by Sept. 15.

Serra Club Sept. 8: Annual Mass and picnic honoring seminarians and their families at St. Patrick Seminary, 320 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park; liturgy at noon followed by BBQ. Tickets are $20 per person. Contact Art Green at (650) 349-7207 by Aug. 29.

Food & Fun Sept. 9: Variety Show Fundraiser for St. Mark Church, 4 – 6 p.m. at 325 Marine View Ave., Belmont. Tickets:$10. Fellowship and bake sale to follow show. Call (650) 591-5937.

Sept. 9: Palmdale Spectacular X, a fundraiser benefiting works of the Sisters of the Holy Family at 159 Washington Blvd. (end of Bryant Terrace) in Fremont.

Begins at 1 p.m. Silent and live auctions plus dinner and entertainment. Call (510) 624-4581. An online auction commenced Aug. 3. Visit www.holyfamilysisters.org.

Sept. 21, 22, 23: Journey through the Years, annual St. Robert Parish Festival, Crystal Springs Rd. at Oak in San Bruno. Entertainment, food, games, rides for the kids plus raffles, prizes and bingo. Call (650) 589-2800.

Oct. 7: 11th Annual Vincenzo Wine & Food Festival to benefit St. Vincent’s School for Boys, One St. Vincent Dr., San Rafael, from 2-6 p.m. St. Vincent’s grounds will become an Italian-style trattoria featuring wine tastings from premiere wineries and restaurants – and an auction of wines coordinated by David Reynolds. Price: $125. For information, call (415) 972-1233 or e-mail vincenzo@cccyo.org.

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

Sept. 7: First Friday Mass at St. Hilary Church, Hilary Dr., Tiburon. Rosary at 7 p.m. and Mass at 7:30 p.m.

Oct. 5: First Friday Mass at St. Anne of the Sunset Church, Funston and Judah St. in San Francisco.

Sept. 28, 29, 30: Holy Spirit Conference beginning with Mass at 7 p.m. at Archbishop Riordan High

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Students from St. Patrick Elementary School in Larkspur raised $1,400 for a local charity called Canal Alliance and another $1,400 for the wider work of Catholic Relief Services with a pasta/bingo event in April. Sarah Shapiro stands behind Deacon Joe Symkowick of CRS as he accepts the contribution from Grace Narlock.

Also on hand were Mike Simmonds, bottom left, Will Simmonds, Patrick Ryan, Kyle Ryan with Matt Healy, top left, David Strand, John Herrero, Wes Simmonds.

School, 175 Phelan Ave. across from San Francisco City College. Event continues Saturday and Sunday at Riordan with registration each day at 8 a.m.; closing Mass Sunday at 3 p.m. Speakers include Father James Tarantino, pastor, St. Hilary Parish in Tiburon and Father Raymund Reyes, pastor, St. Anne of the Sunset Parish in San Francisco as well as retired San Francisco priest, Father David Pettingill. Cost is $20 per day or $30 for all days. Call Ernie von Emster at (650) 906-3451 or Mario Vierneza at (415) 350-8677.

Social Justice/Respect Life Sept. 15: Memorial Mass and healing liturgy remembering deceased babies and children and praying for healing of their family and friends. The outdoor liturgy will be celebrated near the Rachel Mourning Shrine in Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma at 11 a.m.; Msgr. Floro Arcamo, pastor, Star of the Sea Parish in San Francisco, will be main celebrant.

Reception follows. Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Project Rachel Ministry and Holy Cross Cemetery.

Call (415) 717-6428 or (415) 614-5572 for more information.

Reunions Sept. 7, 8: Class of ’57 from Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma will hold wine and cheese evening at the school Sept. 7 and dinner at Basque Cultural Center in South San Francisco Sept.

8. Contact Susan Ward Terry at Susan5T@comcast.net or contact holyangels@holyangels.com or call (650) 755-0220.

Sept. 13: Star of the Sea Academy, Class of 1950, Annual Reunion Luncheon at Irish Cultural Center, 45th Ave. and Sloat Blvd. in San Francisco. Contact Carol Emery at CEDanville@aol.com.

Sept. 15: First Annual Fall Homecoming Dinner Dance for graduates and friends of Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma. Tickets $15 /$25 per couple. Call (650) 755-0220.

Sept. 22: Mercy High School San Francisco Alumnae Association invites alumnae and friends to a casual dance featuring music of the 70s. Tickets are $20. Visit www.mercyhs.org for more information.

Sept. 29: Annual St. Brigid High School reunion at Presidio Golf Club with cocktails at 11:15 a.m. and lunch at noon. Tickets are $40. Make check payable to Sister Maleada Strange and mail before Sept. 10 to her at 11-A, 255 Coggins Dr., Pleasant Hill, 94523.

Sister Maleada can be reached at (925) 932-6613.

Oct. 6: Class of ’57 from Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School. Contact Joan McCormack at phone.joan@sbcglobal .net or call (415) 221-2684.

Oct. 6: Class of 1972, Notre Dame High School, Belmont. Contact Notre Dame Alumnae Office (650) 595 1913, ext.191 or Gail Jackson gjackson@ndhsb.org.

Oct. 6: Class of ‘77, Mercy High School, San Francisco at Mercy High’s Rist Hall. Contact Barbara Bardelli Rindge at (408) 313-9358 or brindge@comcast.net or Rosemarie Paredes Muzio at (650) 888-8654 or rosemarie58@sbcglobal.net.

Oct. 20: St. Emydius Class of ‘71 at Patio Espanol, San Francisco. Contact Joanne Johnston Ryan at (650) 871-5007.

Oct. 20: Class of ’67, Mercy High School, San Francisco at Irish Cultural Center. Contact Stephanie Mischak Lyons at (415) 242-9818 or smlyons@earthlink.net.

Prayer/Lectures/Trainings Sept. 1: First Saturday Mass at Holy Cross Cemetery, Colma at 11 a.m. Call (650) 756-2060.

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

Separated and divorced support groups: 1st and 3rd Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at St. Stephen Parish Center, San Francisco; call Gail at (650) 5918452 or Vonnie at (650) 873-4236. 1st and 3rd Thursday at St. Peter Parish Religious Education Building, 700 Oddstad Blvd., Pacifica. Call Diana Patrito or Joe Brunato at (650) 359-6313.

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

St. Thomas More Legal Society Visit www.stthomasmore-sf.org for more information about these and other St. Thomas More events or contact Hugh A. Donohoe at (415) 972-6320 or hdonohoe@ropers.com.

Sept. 20: Noon luncheon at Bankers Club, 555 California St., 52nd Floor. Speaker: Nell Jessup Newton, Dean, Hastings College. Tickets are $45 /$20 law students. Call Stacy Stecher at (415) 7729642 or e-mail sstecher@tobinlaw.com.

Oct. 18, 5:30 p.m.: 70th Annual Red Mass and Award Dinner. Honoree: Judge Carlos T. Bea. Sts. Peter and Paul Church and Italian American Athletic Club, 666 Filbert St. at Washington Square, San Francisco. Tickets are $75. Contact Stacy Stecher at (415) 772-9642 or sstecher@tobinlaw.com.

Arts & Entertainment Through Oct. 20: USF’s Thacher Gallery hosts an art exhibition of Filipino Topography. Located in the Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, the Thacher Gallery is free and open to the public during library hours. Call (415) 422-2044 for hours, or visit www.usfca.edu/library/thacher.

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In memoriam, Beverly Sills: 1929-2007

By Father Basil DePinto The artist in America must walk a very fine line between folksiness and esthetic distance. The former leads to the dumbing down of principle and the latter to the dread disease of the high falutin’. So how did a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn become at once an international superstar of opera and at the same time a wellloved and popular figure to the general public?

The success of Beverly Sills, who died July 2, must be attributed to her personal and artistic integrity. She was completely genuine and unaffected whether portraying Manon or Rosina onstage, or clown-

ing around with Carol Burnett on television. She understood the difference between the two, but she cultivated both with respect for each of the media and for the public that supported them.

Typical of her personal integrity was her loyalty to the company that she called home, the New York City Opera.

Sills consistently shielded her David from the Goliath across Lincoln Plaza, the Met. That may have been partly due to her belated debut at the Met, after she had been received to great acclaim in London, Milan, Vienna and other operatic capitals.

In any case she cultivated the feisty and original policies of City Opera, which have endured to this day.

Papal Austria trip telecast scheduled Eternal Word Television Network will provide live coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s Sept. 7-9 trip to Austria. The pope plans to visit the Holocaust memorial in Vienna and meet with Austrian President Heinz Fischer at the Hofburg Palace.

Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna said one of the aims of the pope’s upcoming visit is to offer encouragement to Austria’s parishes.

For more information, visit www.ewtn.com. In the Bay Area, EWTN is carried 24 hours a day on Comcast Digital Channel 229, RCN Channel 80, DISH Satellite Channel 261 and Direct TV Channel 422. Comcast airs EWTN on Channel 70 in Half Moon Bay and on Channel 74 in southern San Mateo County.

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■ Continued from page 13 Revelation where God tells us he likes most everything about us, except that now, as adults, we “have less love in us than when we were young!” (Rev 2,4) For good and for bad, we’ve all come a long way from the little girl or little boy we once were.

J.D. Salinger wrote “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut,” a short story of two women who had been childhood friends and who meet after many years. They spend an afternoon drinking, reminiscing, and crying about broken relationships, frustrations, and wounded lives. Their dialogue is full of bitterness, gos-

sip, and harsh judgments of others, betraying the type of street-smarts that must have characterized Adam and Eve after they ate the apple and had “their eyes opened.”

At the end of the afternoon — drunk and tired — one says to the other: “Remember when we first came to New York, and I had that dress that I used to wear in high school, and I wore it and everyone laughed at me and said nobody wore a dress like that in New York, and I went home and cried all night? I was a nice girl then, wasn’t I?” Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas. His Web site is www.ronrolheiser.com.

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CATHOLIC JOURNALISM - Dan Morris-Young Dan Morris-Young has sat with us at many CPBC meetings. We now will have him stand on the other side of the microphone to speak to us. Aside from his extensive work in the Catholic Press, Dan has also operated an insurance and investment practice. He has owned and operated a tavern; was sales manager for a mobile home sales organization; has taught communications and business at Gonzaga University. Dan has taught high school journalism and also directed the development and public relations department for Morning Star Boys’ Ranch in Spokane. His has authored of “Beatitude Saints,” a book published by Our Sunday Visitor Publishing.

Dan started in the Catholic Press as a non-Catholic reporter for the Inland Register in Spokane, Wa. while an undergraduate student at Gonzaga University in 1968. He became its first lay editor, and served there until 1980 when he was named first lay editor of The Catholic Voice in the Oakland Diocese until 1987. In Oakland he was co-producer and coanchor of a syndicated television news magazine, Video Edition. Dan also served as editor pro tem at the Seattle Progress and at the Arkansas Catholic In 1998 he joined the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s communications department and helped spearhead resurrection of a weekly Catholic newspaper – Catholic San Francisco – becoming its first editor. In 2002 he returned to the Pacific Northwest where he resumed reins of Young Ocean Life Enterprises, the diving and export company he owned and operated since 1987. He has written a weekly column (“Uncle Dan”) for Catholic News Service for three decades. He returned to Catholic San Francisco in February.

Awards have included the Catholic Press Association’s top honors for news writing, coverage of ethnic diversity, for work on the Santa Rosa Diocese’s turmoil at the turn of the century, for newspaper campaigns for the disabled.

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But the fame of Beverly Sills rests above all on her great achievement as a singer. She certainly paid her dues. She sang on the road, in the sticks, tackling the most unlikely parts: Tosca, Aida and Carmen (!); and some really corny ones like “Naughty Marietta” and “Countess Maritza.”

But once she found her home at City Opera, under the great conductor Julius Rudel, she blossomed into the roles that would define her: the great coloratura heroines of bel canto and the parts that allowed her to show her great human warmth, such as Douglas Moore’s Baby Doe, and above all her Manon.

I was fortunate enough to see her in the Massenet opera, and can attest that she actually seemed to be Manon. She was, shall we say, sturdily built, although never the “fat lady” of operatic caricature. What mattered was the total credibility she brought to the part. As she herself admitted, no one would ever take her for a 16year-old, yet she convinced the audience both as the simple country girl of the start as well as the tragic figure at the end of the opera.

Like all the great ones, she did it entirely by her mastery of the music and her superb vocal technique. She was a true coloratura in the modern sense: a soprano with full and secure mastery of the highest reaches of the voice. But she was not content to warble aimlessly; every phrase was composed of notes seamlessly joined together to produce a fully integrated whole.

She did not have the sheer power of Joan Sutherland, who seemed to grow stronger the higher she went, and of course she could not invest everything with the inherent dramatic fire of Maria Callas; who could? But she always respected the structure of her vocal apparatus and used it with consummate artistry.

Sills had a long and happy career at the San Francisco Opera, and is remembered

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After she retired from the stage she continued to work tirelessly in administrative posts both at City Opera and at the Met. Her familiar face and warm laughter in TV intermission features made classical music approachable and real for millions of people.

Beverly Sills had a great voice and a great heart. Her genuine and unaffected personality supported and enhanced her artistic skill. She cannot be replaced but her memory and her recorded legacy are a permanent treasure.

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Prayer to the Blessed Virgin never known to fail.

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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May the Sacred Heart of Jesus be adored, glorified, loved & preserved throughout the world now & forever. Sacred Heart of Jesus pray for us. St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

Say prayer 9 times a day for 9 days.

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Thank You St. Jude.

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Prayer to the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, you who make me see everything and who shows me the way to reach my ideal.

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.

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JOB OPPORTUNITY – CATHOLIC PRE-SCHOOL TEACHER TEACHER: Beacuse of our continued growth, we are in need of another afternoon Pre-Kindergarten teacher. During this class schedule, children arrive, have circle time, snack and outside time, small group and open center time.

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In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July Maddalena M. Merla Frank A. Taitano Virginia E. Fraumeni HOLY CROSS Beverly Ann Mills Raymond A. Thurman Guillermo Galdamez COLMA Wallace F. Mooney Sr. Mary Louise Toolan Jorge F. Garagorri Richard A. Albertsen Russell George Albury Sonia Alcala Juana Inez Altamirano Maria G. Alvarado Frank C. Arnone Mary Barbieri Isabel Benavides Mildred E. Bennett Elvira “Cis” Bisho Donna Rae Boffi Antoinette Molinelli Boles Rose Beatrice Borelli Walter J. Bowden Louise Torrigino Bowers Marie I. Broda Robert Joseph Buckley Marion F. Buran Leonida S. Burton Esther Caramella Lorenzo Cardenas Madeleine M. Caroul Felipe Carrion Gloria J. Chavarri Catherine Chin Hsien Chen Ernestina M. Closas Rose Cresta Nancy E. Czaple Nicodemus G. Dasig, Jr. Martin de la Calzada Anna Delucchi Edmund J. DeMartini Lorraine A. Ervin Sr. Mary Cecile Feldhaus, PBVM Gloria J. Filzen Stella S. Florez Ines Mejia Folger

Chris R. Garcia Mary A. Glen Patricia Jean Gonzalez Irene M. Gonzalez Krystyna E. Gorelik Betty J. Grewell Zdenko Grskovic Amalia M. Guzman Robert D. Hancock James G. Hansell Maria P. Hanson James E. Hennessy Nadene Demeter Hobson Thomas P. Horan, Jr. Francis Yong Hwan Jhung Alice M. Johnson Lorraine C. Kelly Mary Kathryn Kesler Seng Tiam Rosa Chen Ko Segundo Douglas C. Ladera Mary C. Lichtenstein Patricia A. Lombardini Refugio C. Lopez Mary Louise LoPorto Dolores Lydon Martin F. Maher Marie A. Mahoney Josephine J. Mahurin Timothy John Malone Kenneth M. Mann Kathryn M. Mariani Steve J. Markovich, Sr. Manuel Martin Adolph S. Mehak Rodolfo N. Melo Elsa Mendieta

Carmen Munoz Jose Alfredo Navarro Dimitri James Serrano Nayan Francis H. O’Leary Juanita L. Owens Pedro Antonio Panilla Helen G. Paulin Jeremy Michael Valentine Pointer Flora L. Raggio Ellen E. Ramezzano Gladys Ramirez Angel Ramirez Adam N. Ramirez Barbara R. Rasmussen Donna M. Rossi Julieta G. Salazar Javier Alfonso Salgado Lucille M. Salvoni Mario Lorenzo Samatra Jose Antonio Santillan Harriet Marie Sauders John A. Savini Alice G. Seegmiller Martina Sepaher Betty E. Sequeira Beatriz V. Serrano Rosanna Siracusa Warren W. Smith Silvia Solari Florence M. Stevens Donald Leslie Stewart III Mirko Stipanov Earl L. Strack William N. Strambi William H. Struckman Patricia A. Sturtevant Chul K. Suh

Helen L. Torresani Judith Lorraine Travis Loreta Treglia Ross Don Trovato Michael A. Verducci George A. Vierra William A. Vocke Bartholomew W. Wilger

HOLY CROSS MENLO PARK Eric A. Arreola Cruz Shaun Eileen Greeley Anita Maichel Francis Joseph Van Poppelen

MT. OLIVET SAN RAFAEL Leona J. Barnacle Henriette Cozza Mary A. Esteves Janet (May) Hughes Chester Earl Lee Geraldine Marie Lee Gary Keith Peck Jose C. Segura Dorothy Claire Silva Fred J. Welsh

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA 1st Saturday Mass – Saturday, September 1st, 2007 – 11:00 a.m.

Rev. Piers M. Lahey, Celebrant – Church of the Good Shepherd All Saints Mausoleum Chapel

RESPECT LIFE MASS – Saturday, September 15, 2007 – 11:00 a.m.

Memorial Mass and Healing Liturgy – Outdoors at Rachel Mourning Shrine Gathering and small reception after Mass sponsored by the Archdiocesan Project Rachel Ministry and Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 94014 650-756-2060

Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 94025 650-323-6375

Mt. Olivet Catholic Cemetery 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 94903 415-479-9020

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.