August 27, 2010

Long-time local priest: ‘God’s had his arms around me all the time’

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San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer greets Msgr. James O’Malley (seated) at St. Mary’s Cathedral August 15. Msgr. James Tarantino is at left. The cathedral was nearly filled for a prayer service and investiture of Msgr. O’Malley, Msgr. Tarantino, Msgr. Michael Padazinski and Msgr. John Talesfore.

Judge stops federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research

By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – A federal judge ruled Aug. 23 that the Obama administration’s guidelines for funding embryonic stem-cell research violate federal law and stopped such funding while a lawsuit against it continues.

Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said in his 15-page ruling granting a temporary injunction that Drs. James L. Sherley and Theresa Deisher, both adult stem-cell researchers, had standing to challenge the guidelines because they faced the possibility of losing funding from the National Institutes of Health when NIH funding for embryonic stem-cell research was expanded.

The lawsuit had originally been filed on behalf of the two doctors; Nightlight Christian Adoptions, an adoption and counseling agency that facilitates international, domestic and embryo adoptions; embryos themselves; two couples; and the Christian Medical STEM-CELL, page 6

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Msgr. James O’Malley might never have heard the vocation call but for a suggestion from a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at San Francisco’s St. Paul Elementary School when he was in eighth grade. Msgr.

O’Malley celebrates his 91st birthday in October and 65th year as a priest in 2011.

“I grew up in the Mission,” Msgr. O’Malley told Catholic San Francisco. “St. Paul’s is the only parish I knew.” Msgr. O’Malley was born on Church St. and his dad, Frank, a San Francisco firefighter who retired as a lieutenant after 45 years, served just doors from their house at a Duncan St. fire station. “My dad just walked around the corner to work,” he said. Msgr. O’Malley’s mom, Mary Genevieve, born in Mayo, Ireland, died when he was four and his dad later married, Auntie Win, his mom’s sister.

“The nice thing was that after my mom’s death, the fire department left my dad on Duncan St. so he could be close to home if we needed him,” Msgr. O’Malley remembered. “My Auntie Win came to live with us. It was a big old house and we had an extra room. My aunt could not have been a better mother. She and my dad later moved to Clipper St. with a bigger lot. My dad, born in Galway, was a farmer and raised potatoes and parsnips until the day he died.”

“I wanted to be a milkman in Boyes Springs,” Msgr.

O’Malley said, remembering the thought with a smile.

One day, however, that all changed when he was asked by his eighth grade teacher at St. Paul School to stay after school.

After cleaning the blackboards and erasers he started to take his exit. “When I was walking out the door she said, ‘Oh James, by the way, tell your mother I think you should go to the seminary.’ I just froze and when I got home told my mom.” After all, his brothers, Frank and Joe, now deceased, went to Sacred Heart High School and Msgr. O’Malley hoped to follow them there.

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Iraqi refugee family, suffering wartime loss, struggles to put roots down in San Francisco Rick DelVecchio Muhammad Abed once had a good life in his native Baghdad. He operated a mobile crane and won awards for his skill. He had a nice house and two cars. His family was growing as his wife, Arabiya Salah, gave birth to a daughter, Mays, in the early 1990s and a second girl, Aya, three years later.

But after war came in 2003, nothing was the same.

Abed and his wife and two daughters found themselves trapped between the American forces and Iraqi militants who opposed the invasion on ideological grounds. In 2005 they had to run for their lives.

They arrived in Jordan in a flood of war refugees and would stay for nearly five years. They were safe in Jordan but could not establish a new life with any measure of dignity, because in most Middle Eastern countries refugees from the region’s many conflicts cannot easily find a job, let alone a skilled one. Abed said he would have been deported to Iraq if he had been caught working, and he could not have risked that because the militants were waiting for him.

The Abeds finally were granted visas to enter the United States as legally admitted refugees who are authorized to work and can apply for permanent residency in a year as a step to citizenship. Determined to start over, they left

Muhammad and Arabiya Abed at their sparsely furnished apartment in Daly City.

Jordan with all their important papers in an International Organization for Migration white plastic bag, marked “Muhammad Abed + 3.” They landed in the Bay Area on April 12, among the lucky 2 percent of Iraq’s nearly 2 million refugees – not counting the 1.6 million displaced inside Iraq – who have been able to resettle in a third country.

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Sister Marie Ignatius Clune, RSHM, a Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, recently celebrated her 50th year of consecrated life with a Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco. Sister Mary Genino, provincial of the Western American Province of Sister Ignatius’ congregation joined friends and former students of the longtime teacher in the assembly. A native of Southern California, Sister Ignatius, who holds a graduate degree in Theology from Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union, served for 20 years as Outreach Director in University Ministry for the University of San Francisco. Sister Ignatius is also known for her efforts in organizing and motivating students toward community service in areas including Respect Life, tutoring and fundraising. She founded the Heart of Mary Ministries, a series of residences for women students at USF where daily prayer and other faith-fostering activities take place. “Living at Heart of Mary helped me to understand and nourish my Catholic faith,” said Olivia Ono, a former resident. Sister Ignatius is also known for her dedication to Respect Life work.

She serves as a Respect Life officer with the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women and as a board member of United for Life. Mary Ann Schwab, a founder of the Respect Life Commission in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, said, “Sister Ignatius is deeply committed to the Respect Life movement. She leads an active life in the community. She is a good neighbor and always ready to lend a helping hand.” … Phyllis Moylan was honored with

Holy Names Sister Mary Herbert with former students George Heeg, Dan Collins, and Len Davey at luncheon honoring the longtime educator in July.

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the St. Brigid Award of the the Ladies Ancient Order she taught in the 1940s treated her to pasta and meatballs of Hibernians and the Ancient Order of Hibernians at at the Immaculate Conception Chapel’s well-known the groups’ annual convention in Ohio in July. More than Spaghetti Lunch. Helping serve up the feast were Mary 700 delegates from 29 states joined in honoring Phyllis, Ann Neumayr Bertken, Donna Boyd, Dan Collins, Len who was recognized for her living Davey, Virginia Leishman Good, the Order of Hibernians motto of Mary Hamill, Jerry Heckert, “friendship, unity and Christian George Heeg, Fred Hoedt, John charity.” …The art of Deacon Lally, Rosemary Murphy Lally, Leon Kortenkamp is on display Honorene Phillips Mix, John through Oct. 31 at the Rotunda Moriarty, Diane Hastings Murphy, Gallery, 555 County Center and Eileen Mellon Shea. Sister Mary at Bradford and Hamilton St. Herbert, still active at her congregain Redwood City. Hours are tion’s Holy Names University in Monday through Friday 9 a.m.

Oakland, spoke to the more than – 5 p.m. In addition to his minis150 diners of her “long and rewardtry with the ordained community ing experiences” at Archdiocesan of deacons, Professor Leon has schools, including Marin Catholic served on the faculty of Notre High School. Franciscan Father Dame de Namur University in William Lauriola, spiritual director Belmont for 25 years. Leon holds of the popular undertaking, was away Sister Marie Ignatius Clune and Anne a Master of Fine Arts degree from so Father Jim Garcia, pastor of St. Marie Massocca at celebration of the University of Notre Dame in Sister Ignatius’ 50th year as a religious. Anthony Parish just across the street, Indiana where he studied under gave the blessing. He did not, howartists including Marc Chagall. ever, Jerry Heckert told me, “absolve Leon works often around memories of rural Iowa where the pasta and meatball lunch of all calories.”… This is he grew up and approaches his work “with the convic- an empty space without you. E-mail items and electronic tion that ordinary objects and everyday events are deeply pictures – jpegs at no less than 300 dpi – to burket@ charged with spiritual reality,” he said … Holy Names sfarchdiocese.org or mail them to Street, One Peter Yorke Sister Mary Herbert was honored and thanked in July Way, SF 94109. Don’t forget to add a follow-up phone when 15 of her former St. Cecilia School students whom number. Thank you. My phone number is (415) 614-5634.

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By Carol Zimmermann WASHINGTON (CNS) – Thirteen years after her death, the impact of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’s work and prayer is still felt around the world.

Mother Teresa would have turned 100 Aug. 26. The order she started 60 years ago – the Missionaries of Charity – continues its outreach to the “poorest of the poor.” Her spiritual life also continues to gain attention as her sainthood cause progresses.

Many say Mother Teresa’s legacy is the combination of her extreme devotion to the poor and her spirituality since both were so deeply intertwined.

For young people, the nun is a model for how to live out one’s faith.

“What strikes them is that she practiced what she preached,” said Eileen Burke-Sullivan, an associate professor of theology at Jesuit-run Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. She said students connect with Mother Teresa because they grew up seeing her image on television or in the newspaper and they knew she “lived and died working for poor.”

Burke-Sullivan told Catholic News Service that students appreciate how Mother Teresa made that connection between the practice of faith and justice.

Students at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kan., have a vivid reminder of the founder of the Missionaries of Charity in the school’s Mother Teresa Center for Nursing and Health Education to be dedicated Aug. 26 as part of the college’s new nursing program.

Stephen Minnis, president of Benedictine College, said school officials searching for a name for their new nursing center kept talking about Mother Teresa even though she wasn’t a nurse.

“Who is a better caregiver than Mother Teresa,” he said, adding that she is a “wonderful example” for students and hopes they will be inspired by her quote displayed at the building’s entrance: “Give your hands to serve and your heart to love.”

David Gentry-Akin, a theology professor at St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga, said for all the accolades about Mother Teresa, she also received a fair amount of

criticism. Although many thought her work was noble, they also wanted her to do more to “change the system” and some in the church thought she was too traditional.

But as he sees it, the nun’s enduring legacy is her spirituality. “The work she did is phenomenal,” he said, adding that it was more effective because it was “motivated out of deep faith and holiness.”

Gentry-Akin said a telling feature of Mother Teresa’s spirituality is revealed in a prayer she is said to have prayed each day asking God’s light to shine through her so that those she came in contact with would “see no longer me but only Jesus.”

The prayer’s imagery serves as title for a book of her writings published in 2007: “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light.” It describes, in her own words, the crises of faith she experienced and how she often felt that God had abandoned her.

After its publication, some said the revelations made Mother Teresa seem less genuine, but Gentry-Akin said it only made her more inspirational.

“The fact that she could go through that and remain faithful makes her sanctity all the greater,” he said.

Margaret Thompson, a history professor at Syracuse University, said: “We are only now beginning to learn how complex she really was, and as historians we’re not ready to issue final word on her.”

Thompson finds irony in those who dismissed Mother Teresa for being too traditional, saying she was initially viewed as controversial when she left her religious order to start her own order and walked through impoverished neighborhoods in India wearing a sari.

She said Mother Teresa’s work was not about making good impressions but meeting the needs of people wherever they were.

And those needs are still carried out by about 5,000 sisters of her order in 762 convents in 135 countries. The order’s work also has expanded to priests and brothers of the Missionaries of Charity as well as lay Missionaries of Charity who run orphanages, AIDS hospices and centers for refugees and the disabled.

In San Francisco there are 40 novices working in soup kitchens and operating a women’s shelter. In Pacifica the

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Impact of Mother Teresa’s work, prayer continue to be felt throughout the world

Pope John Paul II greets Mother Teresa of Calcutta at the Vatican in an undated photo.

sisters care for the chronically ill, including HIV positive and hospice care patients.

Five years after her death, the Vatican began the process of beatification for the woman often described as a “living saint.” In 2002, the Vatican recognized one miracle attributed to her intercession. Her canonization is currently awaiting proof of a second miracle.

A sister at Queen of Peace, the North American motherhouse for the Missionaries of Charity in the New York City borough of the Bronx, told Catholic News Service that there is no shortage of miracles attributed to Mother Teresa.

The sister said she spent a year in Calcutta working on the nun’s sainthood cause and spent three days simply entering miracles into the computer that people attributed to Mother Teresa’s intercession.

The sister said she’s convinced the order continues its work through her prayers.

“We constantly feel her spirit,” she said.

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Relic of St. John Bosco comes to Salesian parishes in San Francisco Sept. 11-13 An acrylic likeness of the incorrupt body of St. John Bosco containing a relic of the “saint of the youth” arrives in San Francisco just before midnight on Sept. 11 – and about 40 teens from the Salesian Boys and Girls Club will be camping out overnight at the club to help with the all-night veneration at Sts. Peter and Paul Church, followed by a day of Masses there in honor of the Italian saint.

Honor guards of the Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta, Knights of the Holy Sepulcher and Sts. Peter and Paul parishioners will maintain a vigil throughout the visit. The Salesian Club teens will wake up to greet its arrival in the “wee hours,” said Russ Gumina, the club’s executive director.

The bicentennial of St. John Bosco’s birth is in 2015 and, the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Society of St. Francis de Sales, commonly known as the Salesians, was in 2009. To commemorate both events, the Salesians of Don Bosco launched a worldwide pilgrimage of the relic to Salesian parishes, missions, and schools. In the Bay Area, three days of festivities, a Triduum of Masses and prayers, will precede its arrival at Sts. Peter and Paul and then its journey across town to Corpus Christi Church, also a Salesian parish.

“It’s kind of like a world rally,” said Salesian Father John Itzaina, pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul where the relic will stop September 11-13 for its first U.S. viewing. The idea of relics, physical remnants of the saints – in this case the arm of the saint – is foreign to many in the modern U.S., Father Itzaina said. “To Anglos, it’s a little bizarre. But we should make it a time to renew our interest in the young and to work for those who are poor.”

Frank Lavin, a parishioner of Sts. Peter and Paul, who attended the grammar school and belonged to the Salesian Club, said the visit of St. John Bosco’s relic is an opportunity to evangelize, to spur Catholics on to pride in their faith and to “Catholic action,” at a time when Catholic values are under attack. “A relic points to our hero – someone who has made it to heaven,” Lavin said.

Since the relic began its journey on April 25, 2009 from Turin, Italy, it has traveled throughout South America. From San Francisco the relic will go to the East Bay, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Florida, Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago and then on to Canada on October 4. In all, the relic will travel to 132 countries on five continents before it returns to Turin.

“I think that a problem of today is that we have to a certain extent forgotten the poor and the young,” said Father Itzaina.

“And that is his mission. The relics, Don Bosco’s pilgrimage to us is based around that recognition that God works through

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Acrylic likeness of the incorrupt body of St. John Bosco with a relic will visit San Francisco Sept. 11-13.

people and God has worked with Don Bosco and continues to work with his mission and spirit that is with us.”

The motto of St. John Bosco (1815-1888) “Give me Souls, you can have the rest,” was put into practice through “reason, religion, and kindness.” In contradiction to the common practice of the time, St. John Bosco believed in prevention and love, rather than punitive discipline of youth.

St. John Bosco’s father died when he was 2 and his mother raised him and his two brothers on very little. His mission, formulated first when he visited prisons and found so many hopeless youth there, crystallized when a sacristan kicked a teen-ager, Bartolomeo Garelli, out of church because he would not serve at Mass because the boy did not know the words of the Mass. St. John Bosco formed “oratories,” in the fields around Turin, playing with the boys, saying Mass, hearing confessions, feeding them and eventually educating them and training them for trades.

At the time of Don Bosco’s death in 1888 there were 250 houses of the Salesian Society in all parts of the world with 130,000 children, from which annually went out 18,000 finished apprentices, according to the New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia. Additionally, Don Bosco formed schools, parishes and youth centers with his order of Salesians, which first formed in 1859 and was granted papal approval in 1874.

Don Bosco died in 1888 at the age of 72. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1934.

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Schedule of events: Sts. Peter and Paul (Sept. 8-13) Wednesday, Sept. 8 – 7 p.m. Mass celebrated by Archbishop George Niederauer Thursday, Sept. 9 – 6:15 p.m. Russ Gumina, Director of Salesian Boys’ and Girls’ Club, speaks on the Salesian Youth Movement. 6:30 Mass celebrated by Fr. John Itzaina, SDB, Pastor. 7:30 Reception.

Friday, Sept. 10 – 6:15 p.m. Short talk on the history of the Salesian Movement. 6:30 Mass. 7:30 Reception.

Saturday, Sept. 11 – 11:30 p.m. Don Bosco relic arrives. Sleep-over at the Salesian Boys’ and Girls’ Club. All-night veneration and prayer in the church.

Honor guard of the Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta, and Knights of the Holy Sepulcher.

Sunday, Sept. 12 – 7:30 a.m. Mass “Don Bosco: Model of Service.” 8:45 a.m. Mass “Don Bosco: Apostle to the Young.” 10:15 a.m. Mass “Don Bosco: Missionary to the World” celebrated by Bishop Emeritus Ignatius Wang. 12 noon Mass “Don Bosco: Model of Holiness” followed by a Reception in the Auditorium. 5 p.m. Mass “Don Bosco: Faithful for the Kingdom,” honoring our Salesian Jubilarians.

Monday, Sept. 13 – 9:00 a.m. School Mass. 10:00 a.m. The Relic departs and will travel through the streets of San Francisco to Corpus Christi Church.

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Use of new Roman Missal to begin at Advent 2011 WASHINGTON – Catholics in the United States will begin using the long-awaited English translation of the Roman Missal on the first Sunday of Advent in 2011, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago said Aug. 20. The cardinal’s announcement as president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops marks the formal beginning of a more than 15-month period of education and training leading to the first use of the “third typical edition” of the Roman Missal at English-language Masses in the United States on Nov. 27, 2011. The missal, announced by Pope John Paul II in 2000 and first published in Latin in 2002, has undergone a lengthy and rigorous translation process through the International Commission on English in the Liturgy, followed by sometimes heated discussions over particular wording at USCCB general assemblies during much of the past decade.

President Lars Lund, third from left, Maurreen Huntington, Bishop William Justice, and principal, Barry Thornton, and San Mateo County legislators break ground for new Center for the Arts and Sciences at Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo August 23. Construction, which includes a music rehearsal hall, a second floor science wing, and Smart Board equipped classrooms, is part of a $21 million improvement campaign at the school. Work is expected to be complete in August 2011. Bishop Justice is an alumnus of the school.

to other (non-Catholic) families who share our values and who want a Catholic school education for their children.”

LCWR members told to keep Cardinal urges House to support ‘hope in the midst of darkness’ permanent ban on abortion funds DALLAS – Contrasting events of the last year that have both WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to support proposed legislation that would permanently forbid federal funding of abortion.

Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston said the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, H.R. 5939, introduced

by Reps. Chris Smith, R-N.J., and Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., would “write into permanent law a policy on which there has been strong popular and congressional agreement for over 35 years: The federal government should not use taxpayers’ money to support and promote elective abortion.” He added in an Aug. 20 letter to House members: “Even public officials who take a ‘pro-choice’ stand on abortion, and courts that have insisted on the validity of a constitutional ‘right’ to abortion have agreed that the government can validly use its funding power to encourage childbirth over abortion.” As of Aug. 23, the bill had 166 co-sponsors, including 20 Democratic members of the House.

St. Louis Archdiocese spurs education initiative ST. LOUIS – Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis said Catholic schools are his first priority in an archdiocese with a long, strong tradition of Catholic education. Few dioceses have as many Catholic schools: By population, St. Louis is the 38th largest diocese in the country, but the seventh largest in Catholic school enrollment. To help that tradition continue and grow, Archbishop Carlson has established a new Mission Advancement Initiative for Catholic education. The multiyear initiative, which is being planned with the help of a team of educators and fundraising professionals, will focus on helping parishes and schools implement the archbishop’s vision for Catholic schools.

“I believe in Catholic education,” Archbishop Carlson told the members of the initiative earlier this summer. “I also believe as archbishop of St. Louis I have a God-given responsibility to do everything I can to help our schools be ‘Alive in Christ,’” which was the theme of this year’s leadership conference for educators. He said the schools need to be “vibrant centers of faith and learning committed to excellence and to holiness.” They must be “available, and affordable, for every Catholic family that desires a Catholic school education for their children,” he said, and wherever possible, the archdiocese must offer “this ministry

“California voters spoke clearly on Prop 8, and we’re glad to see their votes will remain valid while the legal challenges work their way up through the courts,” said Andy Pugno, general counsel for protectmarriage.com. Proposition 8, which was championed by protectmarriage.com, was approved by California voters in November 2008. “Invalidating the people’s vote based on just one judge’s opinion would not have been appropriate and would have shaken the people’s confidence in our elections and the right to vote itself,” Pugno said. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker struck down the same-sex marriage ban Aug. 4, and he ruled Aug. 12 that same-sex marriages in California could resume unless a higher court were to issue a stay within six days.

The arguments will occur in San Francisco the week of Dec. 6.

spotlighted the accomplishments of women religious and focused broad attention on challenges facing the Catholic Church, the outgoing president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious urged the organization to maintain hope that the Gospel will guide members to articulate their mission with “inclusive love.” Sister Marlene Weisenbeck, a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration, called upon the gathering of 750 women religious at the organization’s annual assembly in Dallas Aug. 13 to let the world know that “Jesus Christ is the center of our lives.” She A bell that marked the entrance to St. Michael Korean cited several events since the organization’s 2009 gathering in Church in San Francisco for more than 100 years was reported New Orleans that she considered positive: the traveling “Women stolen Aug. 17. Parish members arriving at the church at 7:15 & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America” exhibit that highlights the p.m. Aug. 17 found that the bell had been removed from its accomplishments of women religious in the United States, and the supports, parish secretary Theresa Shim said. The bell weighs passage of health care reform legislation by Congress in March 300 to 400 pounds and was installed in 1901. Shim said the after women religious supported the bill. Sister Marlene contrasted value of the object is “priceless.” The church, located at 32 those events with the public disagreement that arose between the Broad Street near San Jose Avenue in the Oceanview District, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and women religious over serves Korean Catholics throughout the Bay Area. the health care legislation, the clergy sexual abuse scandal that expanded around the world and the continuing apostolic visitation of U.S. women religious and the doctrinal assessment of the LCWR. “Amidst all the systemic unrest “Residents are the heart of our community.” that these explosive events engender, we have called ourselves to hope in the midst of darkness,” Sister Marlene said.

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Association. Lamberth ruled in 2009 that none of the plaintiffs had legal standing, but an appeals court overruled him only in the case of the two doctors.

The Aug. 23 ruling said the researchers’ attorneys had shown that the Dickey-Wicker amendment, approved annually since 1996 “without substantive alteration,” demonstrates that “the unambiguous intent of Congress is to prohibit the expenditure of federal funds on ‘research in which a human embryos or embryos are destroyed.’”

“By allowing federal funding of ESC research, the guidelines are in violation of the Dickey-Wicker amendment,” Lamberth wrote.

He also ruled that “the guidelines threaten the very livelihood of plaintiffs Sherley and Deisher” because their “injury of increased competition ... is actual and imminent.”

Supporters of the Obama administration’s guidelines for funding embryonic stem-cell research have argued that no embryos will be created and destroyed for the research since only already existing embryos created for in vitro fertilization and later discarded would be used.

Steven H. Aden, senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, co-counsel in the lawsuit, said the decision “is simply enforcing an existing law passed by Congress that prevents Americans from paying another penny for needless research on human embryos.”

“Experimentation on embryonic stem cells isn’t even necessary because adult stem-cell research has been enormously successful,” he added. “In economic times like we are in now, it doesn’t make sense for the federal government to use precious taxpayer dollars for this illegal and unethical purpose.”

“Judge Lamberth ruled correctly and upheld the will of Congress,” said Vickie Evans, Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. “Congress passed the Dickey Amendment in 1995 during the Clinton Administration to provtect human beings from being experimented on at any stage of development. It denied federal funds for research causing the destruction of human embryos by extracting their stem cells.”

However, she said, “President Obama’s 2009 executive order allowed federal dollars to be spent for research causing the destruction of embryos acquired from fertility clinics.

Congress in 1995 understood that the American people were not so utilitarian that they would approve the destruction of one person so that another could live or be cured.”

She added, “Scientists have already determined that adult stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells have healing capabilities currently outweighing those of human embryonic stem cells, without the ethical implications of destroying a human embryo.”

The Catholic Church strongly supports adult stem-cell research but opposes any research that involves the destruction of human embryos.

The Abeds are clients of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, which helped them find an apartment in Daly City and line up what little government aid was available for rent and groceries. But the young migrant family, homeless for five years, is struggling as it tries to set roots in a new land.

The funds the Abeds were given in Jordan to get established in the United States, enough for a car or some furniture, were used up on rent. The Abeds are merely subsisting, on welfare and food stamps, and do not have easy access to services in their suburban neighborhood. They have no cash to take their children to a movie at the local multiplex, let alone for furniture or a car. Abed would like to work as a crane operator, but that requires a Class A license, and to qualify for one he must enroll in a training program in Oakland at a cost of $4,500.

The family’s plight has become so serious that George Wesolek, director of the archdiocesan Office of Public Policy and Social Concerns, recently issued this appeal: “Our Gospel values teach us to welcome the stranger into our midst. Catholic Charities CYO invites you to join in providing help to this needy family. We are in desperate need of immediate housing, whether it be an apartment in San Francisco that can be leased from 6-12 months at reduced or no rent, or short-term funds provided to help the family pay their rent, until they can learn enough English, get trained, and find meaningful employment in their new homeland.

“We can help them with all of these services at Catholic Charities CYO, but we do not have the housing for them.

That is why we need your help. The apartment should be in San Francisco because that is where the best services exist for newcomers.

“Please, if you have or know of an apartment for rent in San Francisco, have donations of furniture, clothes, can volunteer to escort the family members to appointments and job interviews, can provide short-term funds to assist the family in paying their rent, or have any other ways that you would like to help this family of newcomers, please contact the Director of Refugee Resettlement, Christopher Martinez, at (415) 972-1205 or cmartinez@cccyo.org.

Martinez said he has received many emails and calls from people wanting to help with small amounts of cash, and many wanting to donate furniture.

“The most critical needs right now are an affordable apartment in San Francisco, and employment,” he said. “I have a couple of leads for jobs, but still no chance on an apartment in SF, which would help this family out tremendously.”

The most difficult part, Abed said in an interview at his apartment, is that his wife and children look to him for support but he is unable to do anything for them.

“I am trying, but I am so tired now,” said Abed, 49. “I am trying to fix my life, but it’s very difficult.”

Asked what he was feeling in his heart, he hesitated before answering.

“I can’t explain,” he said. “I came here with all my hope to find peace – the first thing that I think about it. But life here is difficult. I can’t find a job. My English is not good.

My situation is difficult.”

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As he spoke, Arabiya was preparing coffee and homemade baklava in the kitchen. In one of the two bedrooms, both daughters were asleep.

“You see no furniture, no money,” Abed said, looking over the empty apartment. “If they need anything from me, I can’t give it to them.”

Abed was tired the day of the interview with Catholic San Francisco. The family had been up until 4 in the morning because one of their daughters was in the emergency room with stomach pains, although it turned out to be nothing serious. But he and Arabiya seemed more than tired, and there was evident grief in their slow speech and movements.

Abed’s eyes were wet, and although Arabiya’s were dry, her face had the look of someone who had been suffering a long while. As Abed went on to explain, the story in her face was the story of their migration, one marked by a series of devastating events.

In 2005 Abed received an envelope with a threatening document and a bullet inside it. According to an officially stamped English translation he retrieved from his refugee bag, the document was signed by the Al-Fiqar Regiment. It warned that any offense to the Islamic system and Muslim scholars would be repaid a thousand-fold.

“Long story,” said Abed, who is Muslim. “The American army comes to Iraq. Her brother (his wife’s younger brother, Alaa Abed Salah, born in 1966, the father of five children) worked with the American army. When they knew that he worked with the American army, they tried to kill him. I hid him in my home. But when they knew I hid him, they sent a letter: ‘You must go out from Iraq, if you stay more than two weeks we’ll kill you and your family.”’

That night, the family ran away.

“In Iraq if you receive this,” Abed said, “that means you are finished.”

Abed led his family back to Baghdad in 2006, hoping the militants had given up looking for him. After 13 days he received a phone call repeating the threat. The family fled again, making it back to the safety of Jordan as the militants hunted.

“They looked for us a long time,” Abed said. “Then they went to my house and burned it.”

On Oct. 21, 2007, Arabiya’s brother Alaa’s wife and the siblings’ mother reported that Alaa had been taken by armed men at 7 a.m. on his way to work as a driver at a hospital.

He has not been heard from since and is presumed dead.

Abed said the militants targeted Alaa because the American army had helped him find a job.

He said his wife “feels so sad” over the loss and has had health problems.

He added: “My life is destroyed with this.”

The Abeds can only wonder what life is like in Iraq for Arabiya’s mother and their other relatives.

“We tried to bring her to Jordan,” he said. “She said, ‘I don’t go out of Iraq because Alaa died here.”’

“I don’t know where they are,” Abed said. “They tried to call us. They’re not in one place. They have to run. Anyone catches them, they kill them.”

He said he will never return to Iraq, but explained that not much is left of the country he knew.

“Everything in Iraq is destroyed,” he said. “I can’t tell you but if you watch with your eyes you’ll see better. Everything destroyed, everything. Even the trees, even the roads.”

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Sister Mary Jean Meir, Sister of Mercy Sister Mary Jean Meier, RSM, died August 8 at age 85. Sister Mary Jean had been a Sister of Mercy for 64 years. A funeral Mass was celebrated August 14 at Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles. Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archbishop of Los Angeles, presided. Interment was in the Cathedral mausoleum. The late religious is a former principal of Mercy High School in Burlingame and also taught at Mercy High School in San Francisco.

“Sister Mary Jean will be remembered as a dynamo who integrated financial acumen, a remarkable memory and a compassionate heart,” the congregation said in a notice of Sister Mary Jean’s death. “From teaching high school to supporting church ministry and leading pilgrimages, Sister Mary Jean demonstrated irrepressible energy. Her great love for the Church is something

that went into every ministry she was involved in. That propelled her to love people and do Mercy the best way she knew how.”

As early as 1971, Sister Mary Jean ministered in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in elementary school finance, later serving as a Development Director and then Cardinal Roger Mahony’s Director of Special Services. She established an annual Cardinal’s Awards Dinner, honoring outstanding people in the community and in the process raised millions for the Catholic schools. Her 80th birthday party at the Cathedral attended by the Cardinal, several bishops, dozens of priests, and 550 of her “closest friends” raised more than $3.6 million for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Education Foundation.

She was remembered for understanding what was important to other people—their names, their birthdays, their children’s

accomplishments and wrote thousands of thank you notes, messages of condolence, and get well cards, the Mercy Sisters said. “I felt always her warm, open and generous heart,” said Mercy Sister Gloria Mary Avila. “She welcomed everyone she met. You felt so comfortable with her. She never forgot your birthday or feast day. She sent a personal note.”

Sister Mary Jean held a graduate degree from the University of San Francisco and completed undergraduate work at San Jose State.

Remembrances may be made to the Sisters of Mercy, 2300 Adeline Drive , Burlingame 94010.

Sister Ange T. Cadigan, Sister of Charity, BVM Sister Ange T. Cadigan, BVM, 92, (Julia Patrice) died Aug. 7, at Caritas Center in Dubuque, Iowa. A funeral Mass was celebrated August 11 with interment in the Sisters’ Mount Carmel cemetery in Dubuque. Sister Ange entered the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 8, 1936 from St. Philip Parish in San Francisco. She professed first vows on March 19, 1939, and final vows on Aug. 15, 1944.

“In our Mass of resurrection today, we will sing several hymns which Ange chose for this liturgy,” said Sister Julie O’Neill. “One of them is We Remember. We remember … we celebrate … we believe. Indeed, we do remember Angelina

Teresa Cadigan, born in her beloved San Francisco on Nov. l6, 1917, the third of seven children, three boys and four girls, of Patrick and Julia O’Sullivan Cadigan.”

In the Archdiocese of San Francisco Sister Ange taught at St. Paul School in 1939, St. Thomas More School from 1970–72, and in San Francisco United Public Schools from 1974–81. From 1981-85 she served at Cathedral School. From 1985–90 Sister Ange taught at St. Vincent de Paul School. She then served for five years as a retired volunteer at St. Paul Outreach in San Francisco.

She also taught in Kauai, Hawaii; Cresco, Iowa; and was teacher and superior/principal in Chicago, Ill.; and Butte, Mont.

Her parents; three brothers, Patrick, Gerald and Emmett; and two sisters, J. Patricia Harrison and Ann Brown; precede her in death.

Surviving are a sister, M. Frances Vergano as well as nieces and nephews and the Sisters of Charity, BVM, with whom she shared life for 73 years.

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The whole family, as many as 15 or 20 people, would make the trips to St. Joseph Minor Seminary to see seminarian O’Malley ■Continued from cover on those once-a-month visiting Sundays.

At a meeting later with St. Paul’s pastor, Picnics were the order of the day. the now late Father Cornelius E. Kennedy, “My mom would have chicken and turkey the possibility of a vocation in the young and food for all my cousins and aunts,� Msgr.

O’Malley was explored. “Kennedy loved the O’Malley said. His Irish aunts loved the idylkids,� Msgr. O’Malley said. “He picked me lic setting of the school. “My aunt Margaret up and told my mom loved the coun‘Jimmy will make a try and she’d say great priest.’� ‘Seamus’ – my name Msgr. O’Malley’s in the Irish house – mom, trusting the ‘you’re lucky to be nun’s and priest’s here. I could sit here suggestion, took her forever.’� son to the nowMsgr. O’Malley closed St. Joseph said he “loved it� at Minor Seminary in the seminary. “Once Mountain View a I got there I never few weeks later. had a bad night,� he “She wanted to see said. Though many the place, meet the of the students cried Msgr. O’Malley at people in charge and themselves to sleep Nazareth House in San Rafael. find out what was with homesickness, expected.�

Msgr. O’Malley Msgr. O’Malley joined the freshman took to the seminary right away. high school class at St. Joseph’s and on his “I loved the kids, I loved the place,� he first day his mom said, “I want to see your said. room.� She inspected the dorm-like facility Summers at the family cottage in and inspected the mattress her son would Boyes Springs were nothing but fun, Msgr. sleep on. “She did not like the condition of O’Malley recalled. “The minute school was the mattress and demanded I get a new one,� out my mother wanted to get us out in the Msgr. O’Malley said. “She never missed a sunshine,� Msgr. O’Malley said, recalling that visiting Sunday in all the time I was there,� from morning to night with breaks for meals he said, “and she’d always bring me a big he played and ran and swam. Always part of angel’s food cake. She died just a year before the day for the young future-priest was Mass.

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I have more than 40 years of memories with Msgr. James O’Malley stored up. It all started October 1967 when he first arrived at St. Kevin’s in Bernal Heights. St. Kevin’s did not have a secretary but many of us volunteered so a few days after our initial meeting Msgr. O’Malley came to our house and asked me to help in the office a couple of hours a day, a couple of days a week. Well, the rest is history. He’s retired and I’m still there.

From day one Msgr. O’Malley was easy to work with and as calls kept coming in from parishes where he had previously served including St. Patrick’s, San Jose, St. Gregory’s, San Mateo, St. Michael’s, San Francisco, we knew we had a special person. He had a following and no wonder.

It wasn’t long before he was calling St. Kevin’s parishioners by their first names. He was always warm and welcoming. St. Kevin’s became the center of activity for all Bernal Heights, which was very important for the inner city at that particular time. The introduction of summer opportunities for school-age children, Head Start and then pre-school programs, English classes, parish picnics, festivals and senior lunches before the Neighborhood Center was built were all connected to Msgr. O’Malley. To this day, young and old alike stop by the rectory and ask for him. To say he was “loved� is an understatement.

For me personally, I can honestly say that we became and still are “family.� Throughout all these years we have shared the happiest and saddest moments. We have celebrated each other’s birthdays, anniversaries and any other happy occasion that came up. Msgr. O’Malley was no stranger to our family parties and dinners. He baptized one of my grandsons and other babies in the family. He married one son and was present at the other one’s wedding. He married our nephew and was also present at my grandson’s wedding. He was with my husband, Mel, and me for our 25th, 50th and 60th wedding anniversaries. He enjoyed our Tahoe home with his friends. These were very happy times.

We also mourned with him the deaths of his family members and brother priests. Msgr.

O’Malley was present in the hospital room when both my mother, my father and Mel’s mother died and he celebrated their funeral Masses. Though retired, he also con-celebrated Mel’s funeral Mass.

This is a 40-plus year connection I wouldn’t trade for anything. To this day every visit and every phone call with Msgr. O’Malley is a trip down the most precious memory lane. hitchhike into Sonoma,� he said. “Even as a boy, Christ was very much alive to me.�

His years at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park were marked by “very good professors� and “an appreciation of being treated as an adult,� he said. “I loved life at the seminary. They were happy years.�

Msgr. O’Malley brought his closeness to Christ and a desire to “be with people and helping people� to his priesthood. His special devotion to visiting the sick was enhanced, he said, from his own experience when his ordination was delayed for two years by tuberculosis.

Assignments have included St. Gregory Parish San Mateo, St. Patrick Parish in San Jose, and St. Michael Parish in San Francisco. Msgr. O’Malley was named pastor of San Francisco’s St. Kevin Parish in 1967 and served there until retiring in 1993. “My priesthood has been wonderful for me, a joy� Msgr. O’Malley said. “The people are wonderful to us. I thank God every morning and every night. I pray for strength every day to be a better priest.�

Msgr. O’Malley liked adapting to the changes in the Mass and wider Church brought on by Vatican II. “Vatican II has helped the people participate more fully in the Church,� Msgr. O’Malley said. “I think that’s tremendous and has brought us priests closer to them. I marvel at the dedicated

deacons we have now as well as women and men readers and Eucharistic ministers.

Think of all the people at home who would not receive the Blessed Sacrament without them.�

Television serves Msgr. O’Malley only for sports and the news. He says the rosary daily with a small group of residents at Nazareth House in San Rafael where he has lived since March 2008. He calls the facility “heaven� noting “the food is great, the people are great, everything is great.

Everyone is so kind and gentle and they will take care of us until the day we die.�

Msgr. O’Malley concelebrates Mass daily with fellow residents including retired Msgr. Joseph Sullivan, retired Msgr. Richard Knapp, retired Father William Knapp and retired Father Wilton Smith. His day off as a parish priest was Wednesday. “I always played golf,� he said. Foursomes on the links often included retired Father Jack Kavanaugh, now living at Serra Clergy House, and the now late Father Warren Woods.

Msgr. O’Malley’s sister, Pat, is also now deceased. A sister, Cecile Toomey, lives with her husband, Tim, in St. Pius Parish in Redwood City. “I’ve never had a bad day all of my life,�

Msgr. O’Malley said. “God’s had his arms around me all the time. I’ve been blessed.�

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(PHOTOS BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Northern California’s Weekly Catholic Newspaper

Varsity athletes hit the ground running in preseason football drills at Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, including Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory and, left to right in the bottom row, Marin Catholic, Junipero Serra and Archbishop Riordan.

Interscholastic play opens the first weekend in September with preseason games in the West Catholic Athletic League and Marin County Athletic League.

WCAL football Local Catholic teams redoubling training to battle rivals

By Valerie Schmalz Local Catholic varsity football teams are looking to new playbooks and training regimes to best each other and to battle their tough West Catholic Athletic League rivals to the south.

Small schools hit the field with eight-man football. . . . . . . . . . . Page 12 “The WCAL looks to be a very difficult challenge once again in 2010,” says Coach Patrick Walsh of Junipero Serra High School in San Mateo, who scheduled

strength and conditioning sessions beginning last January for his players. With a 3-4 WCAL record, Serra had the best finish of the archdiocesan schools in the 2009 season, which was dominated by Archbishop Mitty and Valley Christian High Schools of San Jose and St. Francis High School of Mountain View.

“Every game in our league is a battle,” said Archbishop Riordan High School’s new football coach, Bryan Blake, who says a stronger work ethic is already making a difference in pre-season workouts for the Crusaders. “The kids are really working hard and I am really proud of them,” Blake said.

St. Ignatius College Preparatory kept just about every

loss close last year and the Wildcats are toughening up to clinch games this year. “With the exception of its 47-24 loss to Archbishop Mitty, St. Ignatius was close in every single loss going into the fourth quarter,” Coach Steve Bluford wrote on the St. Ignatius website.

Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory Coach John Lee is looking for a return to the success of 2008 when the Fightin’ Irish claimed its first Central Coast Section title in 40 years. The CCS games are held after the WCAL season. “The coaches are pleased with the players’ effort thus far, and we are eager to see the team gel into a family, which has brought us so much success in the past,” WCAL FOOTBALL, page 11

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Although most of the offensive line Marin Catholic’s football team is graduated in 2009, veteran defensive coming off a league championship, and players are back.

Coach Mazi Moayed expects the high “We’ve got some good things to look school’s “rich tradition” of winning to forward to this year,” Moayed said. “We continue in 2010. have a fairly confident club, and guys Marin Catholic plays in the Marin who know what it takes week in and week County Athletic League and frequently out to be successful.” goes on to play in the North Coast Marin Catholic’s top competition Section playoffs, where it won a chamin football most years is Novato High pionship last year, Moayed said.

School. But out-of-league games provide “We gained great experience last Coach Mazi Moayed good archdiocesan competition: Notably, year,” said Moayed, who is stepping up from assistant to head coach, with former head coach Ken the Wildcats face St. Ignatius College Preparatory on the home field Sept. 4.

Peralta planning to coach the freshman team.

(PHOTOS BY JOSE LUIS AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

Sept. 3-4, 10-11, 17-18, 24-25 – Pre-season games Oct. 1-2 Archbishop Riordan @ St. Francis Oct. 1 7:30 Sacred Heart Cathedral @ Archbishop Mitty- Foothill College Oct. 1 7:00 Bellarmine @ St. Ignatius Oct. 2 1:00 Junipero Serra @ Valley Christian Oct. 1 7:30

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Oct. 8-9 Junipero Serra @ Sacred Heart Cathedral – Kezar Oct. 9 St. Ignatius @ Archbishop Riordan TBD St. Francis @ Bellarmine – San Jose City College Oct. 8 Valley Christian @ Archbishop Mitty – Foothill College Oct. 8

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Junipero Serra varsity football players, left to right, Ian Freiberg, Tushar Zalpuri, Michael Tatola, Siaosi Tuitavake, William Quant, Luke Longinotti, Johnny Maurino, Kyle Rudolph.

Archbishop Riordan varsity linebacker Luis Sarabia leads junior-varsity players during a practice.

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tires and began implementing new offensive and defensive schemes in early practices.

■ Continued from page 10 Blake, a St. Ignatius grad and a former assistant coach at Lee said.

SHCP and at City College of Valley Christian of San San Francisco, says, “We will Jose boasts a top player in the be able to stay in games and state, junior Byron Marshall, give ourselves a chance to win and San Jose’s Archbishop in the end.”

Mitty High School is led by Walsh said no one can count Cal-bound quarterback Kyle on any easy wins. “Finally, all Boehm, Walsh said, adding of the San Francisco-based that St. Francis High School WCAL schools should be of Mountain View is loaded much improved from 2009 with talent at varsity and Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep’s as Sacred Heart, St. Ignatius, junior varsity level.

DK Villanueva, foreground, and and Riordan are all returning At Riordan, a new weight Conor Delahunty, in the green shirt. quality young players from room was under construction 2009 who gained valuable through the summer, so coaches used innovative strategies including working out with experience,” the Padres football coach said.

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Thousands volunteer to coach kids in archdiocesan CYO sports programs Tim Curran is a 40-year veteran CYO coach now coaching at St. Vincent de Paul The juggling of schedules and reserving Parish in San Francisco. of fields and gyms, not to mention the actual “It’s wonderful to be able to show kids coaching, boggles the ordinary mind. But how to share,” said Curran, who coaches each year the Catholic Youth Organization’s 3rd-grade CYO boys’ basketball and soccer 2,300 volunteer coaches work with 17,500 and as well as baseball, which is organized elementary school kids, teaching them the through the separate San Francisco Parish fundamentals of basketball, soccer, volley- and School Baseball League. ball and track, field and cross country.

“The best kid doesn’t have to be in all “They are showing their faith through the time,” said coaching,” said Courtney Johnson Clendinen, Curran began coaching as a 16-year-old director of CYO Athletics in the Archdiocese at St. Paul Parish, and coached through of San Francisco. Clendinen presents the his years as the parent of four girls and Christian ministry aspect of coaching during a boy. He says a lot of coaching is about the mandatory 90-minute annual training for balance. A coach has to be able to tell the all CYO coaches, which includes coaching ultra-competitive player that CYO is about tips on sports fundamentals. participation and that he has to step aside to “The most important thing I try to teach give a less skilled player a chance. the kids on the court and on the field is sports“We’re sharing here,” Curran said. “’You manship: communigot your minutes, cation, helping one now they get to get Kids love to win, but another out,” said their minutes.’”

Scott Streeter, 24, CYO is a division a coach at Salesian of CYO Catholic sometimes losing helps Boys and Girls Club Charities, and the in San Francisco. sports for grades them learn more “Kids love to win, 3 through 8 are but sometimes losthrough – Scott Streeter organized ing helps them learn parishes in San more. The kids get Francisco and San down on themselves Mateo counties. for losing, but in the practices in the week Marin County youth sports are organized the after you find they work harder.” same way in a separate CYO program. San A fifth-generation San Franciscan, Mateo and San Francisco have about 12,000 Streeter is a graduate of Sts. Peter and Paul students and 1,800 coaches, with 500 coaches School and is working on a graduate degree and about 4,500 children in Marin County. in Sport Management at the University of The CYO program is founded on San Francisco. Next year he will coach Christian values and those values need to 6th-grade basketball and 5th-grade baseball. come through in every game, Clendinen Streeter says the game is about much noted. Every sport has a requirement of more than winning — it is about teaching minimum playing time for every player. For Christian life skills. instance, in basketball, each player must play Streeter said he is careful to allot each a minimum of two quarters. child, regardless of physical prowess, the Lest anyone forget, every CYO gym same amount of playing time over the course showcases a large banner that proclaims: of the season as long as the child shows up “Remember the game is for the kids.” for practice. The story of the kids with better Clendinen said she reminds the coaches skills dominating playing time is a common in her annual clinic that coaching is a vocaone in youth sports, but Streeter said the flip tion: “This should come through when I am side is that children with less physical talent working on the sidelines, when I am working need more time to improve. with the kids and with the parents.”

By Valerie Schmalz

CCCYO’s Courtney Johnson Clendinen with a Mission Dolores girls’ team in 2005.

Offense rules as small schools, smaller players, hit the field with eight-man football San Francisco’s Stuart Hall High School is forming a football team this fall, but with a difference. Stuart Hall’s team will have eight players, three short of the traditional 11.

“It’s a game where there’s little blocking and a lot of passing,” said North Coast Section Commissioner of Athletics Gil Lemmon. “It is a very high-scoring game.”

With two fewer linemen and one less defensive back, the eight-player game is friendlier to physically smaller athletes.

What’s more, the eight-man field measures 40 yards by 80 yards instead of 60 by 100.

“It’s a little more wide open football,” Stuart Hall Athletic Director John Bertken said. “Not as much smash mouth as 11-man football.”

Stuart Hall decided to start a football program for a simple reason, Bertken said: “It appeals to boys.”

Small schools don’t have the numbers to compete in 11-man football at the freshman, junior varsity and varsity levels, but eight-man allows them to get on the field with a team made up players from all grade levels.

Stuart Hall will play in the Central Coast Section, alongside another small high school in the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Woodside Priory of Portola Valley. The Priory formed its football team two years ago.

The playing field will be on Treasure Island, where the San Francisco Gaelic Athletic Association is renting fields to Stuart Hall for both soccer and football practice.

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quarterback and two running backs. Fewer offensive moves are possible compared with 11-man play, and old-school running plays such as the dive and sweep are common.

There is less passing in eight-man than in 11-man play, but scores can run impressively high. Games can be lopsided, and a 45-point mercy rule is sometimes enforced.

The defensive array usually consists of three linemen, three linebackers and two pass defenders.

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Salesian Club summer action

(PHOTOS BY JOSE LUISE AGUIRRE/CATHOLIC SAN FRANCISCO)

For nearly 100 years the Salesians of Don Bosco in San Francisco’s North Beach have operated a club where children and youth can drop in for a pickup game of baseball, basketball or soccer, or just exhaust their energies romping on the playground. The Salesian Boys and Girls Club, located next to Sts. Peter and Paul Church at 680 Filbert St., is open to any boy or girl between 8 (or 3rd grader) and 18, regardless of race or religion. Boys and girls pay a membership fee of $10 a year, which can be waived for financial need. The Club, founded in 1918, features pool tables, a yard and a basketball court, and offers numerous activities and trips. For more information, go to www.salesianclub. org or call (415) 397-3068.

Jose Luis Aguirre of Catholic San Francisco dropped by the Club recently and brought back these photos.

Max Miles, 9, and Sarah O’Connell, 13, fighting for a soccer ball.

Gino Ragusa, 17, and Michael Dong, 17, hugging in victory as Coach Scott Streeter and Quintin Larose, 11, look on.

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August 27, 2010

New ND athletic director, doubling as English teacher, leads scrappy Tigers

By Valerie Schmalz Jason Levine is as comfortable discussing Dickens’ “Great Expectations” as he is explaining soccer strategy.

The new athletic director at Notre Dame High School, Belmont, not only leads the Tiger sports program but also chairs the English Department. As if he’s not busy enough, he has a third job overseeing the daily in-house TV news broadcast to the classrooms.

Levine just completed his 10th year at the 550-student girls’ Catholic college preparatory school set in the suburbs midway between San Francisco and San Jose. He started coaching tennis and soccer at the same time that he began teaching English.

“I’ve taught everything since I’ve been at Notre Dame except the two AP (advanced placement) classes,” said Levine, who is in the process of getting his administrative credential. “And the reason I stayed away from the AP classes is because I do coach and that would get a little overwhelming because those students need a lot of time and care from the teachers.”

In his new role, Levine, 37, will teach one section of English – English 1G for students with learning differences. “I have been teaching that for 10 years and didn’t want to give that one up. I did my master’s thesis on the course,” Levine said.

As the only all-girls’ school in the Archdiocese of San Francisco that competes in the West Catholic Athletic League, Notre Dame battles hard during the regular season.

Jason Levine’s goal is to keep the Tigers competitive in the “very tough” West Catholic Athletic League.”

It competes with such WCAL rivals as co-ed Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco and St. Francis High School in the Diocese of San Jose.

But when all the WCAL schools advance

to compete in the Central Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation of Schools, Notre Dame often shines.

“We’ve been toughened up,” Levine said.

Levine noted that Notre Dame, as a small

girls’ school, is placed in another division of CCS than its larger WCAL rivals.

“As of right now our goals are to continue to stay as competitive as we can in WCAL,” Levine said. “We want to remain as competitive as we can and continue to win a championship here or there because we are the smallest school by far in the WCAL. It is a very tough league. For our size we fare well.”

Levine is succeeding an athletic director who chose to return to teaching in the East Bay after one year. Before that, the AD job was held by Mike Ciardella, who is now retired and assistant basketball coach at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, Levine said.

Last year, Notre Dame didn’t win WCAL softball but won in the CCS, he noted. Two years before that, Notre Dame was WCAL and CCS champion in softball.

In 2006-07, Notre Dame was CCS Division 3 softball champion and also CCS Division 3 volleyball champion. In 2003-04 and in 2004-05, Notre Dame was Division 2 soccer CCS champion.

For a small school, Notre Dame has done a good job sending players off with good sports skills as part of a well-rounded education, Levine said.

“We have a girl now who plays professionally for a Philadelphia team and we retired her jersey last year,” Levine said.

Soccer midfielder Chioma Igwe, who graduated from Notre Dame in 2004 and played for Santa Clara University, now plays for the Boston Breakers Women’s Professional Soccer League team.

Catholic Athletes for Christ Athletes of faith aim to evangelize sports world, attack “moral crisis”

By George Raine Sal Bando’s baseball legacy is well known: third baseman and captain of the Oakland Athletics during the team’s three consecutive World Series championships in the 1970s, power hitter and club leader in runs batted in. Less well known is that all the while he was equally passionate about his Catholic faith.

Always, he kept the two passions in balance.

“As I grew in my faith,” Bando said, “it did not stop me from trying to take a guy out in a double play.”

Bando, now a semi-retired businessman in Milwaukee, tells the story of being a Christ-centered athlete when speaking on behalf of Catholic Athletes for Christ, a non-profit that serves Catholic athletes in the practice of their faith, encouraging them to share their beliefs. Masses are said at stadiums across the country, an annual retreat for baseball players is hosted and a panel of athletes and coaches, largely retired but some active, is available to speak about how their Catholic faith is an essential part of their careers.

The aim is to evangelize the world of sports by offering up solid Catholic role models and helping reverse the “moral crisis in sports today.”

“We are helping players practice their faith, but the second and related goal is to not only practice it but to share it,” said Ray McKenna, 51, the founder and president of Catholic Athletes for Christ, based in Alexandria, Va., and formed in 2006. “It is to not just live your life for Christ but also to share your faith as you live.”

That was the vision of Pope John Paul II, once an avid skier, swimmer and hiker, who organized the Vatican Office of Church and Sport in 2004 on the eve of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens, a year before his death. The world of sport, the Vatican said at the time, has “gotten further away from its original ideals,” and the Church recognized “an urgent need to recall those fundamental values.”

McKenna, with a contingent of U.S. athletes, attended one of the early organizational sessions of the Vatican office.

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Sal Bando was a power hitter and club leader for the Oakland Athletics in the 1970s. Today he is a speaker for Catholic Athletes for Christ, an organization that helps players embrace and share their faith.

He was inspired and left his day job, as general counsel of the General Services Administration, in Washington, D.C., to establish Catholic Athletes for Christ.

McKenna had a running start: For eight years he served

as a baseball chaplain, for the former Potomac Cannons, a single-A team in Woodbridge, Va., now the Potomac Nationals affiliated with the Washington Nationals.

Now the U.S. group works closely with the Vatican office, creating a network that is reaching beyond professional baseball, engaging young athletes and in many cases their parents, educators, school administrators and others.

A chapter has formed at Catholic University of America as well as in Philadelphia and Charlotte, N.C. Interest is gaining too among football players – Jack Del Rio, head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, is on the advisory board – as well as soccer, basketball and hockey players.

“The goal is to try to create this well established, coherent network of Catholic athletes at all levels so we can have hundreds, perhaps thousands of well-versed Catholic athletes to share their faith far and wide,” McKenna said. There is much work to do, he added. He said that to date there is little participation in the program by Latino athletes.

Bando said the effort is expanding year over year. “It’s like having faith in a foxhole,” he said. “When you go through tough times, and let’s face it, in baseball you fail more than you succeed, guys are looking for a little divine inspiration, a little peace in their lives. At least if it is there they have a choice.”

David Casper, a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Oakland Raiders tight end from 1974 to 1980, also a speakers’ bureau member, said that most people who ask him to speak “are asking for some great revelation, of which I don’t have any.”

Rather, he said, his message is that he, like everyone else, has not solved all his problems, that he is a work in progress.

“I do not have the key, the magic answer, although the answer has been around for 2,000 years,” said Casper, now an agent for Northwestern Mutual, with homes in the Chicago area and Bay Area. “People keep looking for another answer. It is not that complicated but, as someone said about football, ‘Football can be a fairly simple game but ATHLETES FOR CHRIST, page 15

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Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep’s Kelly Ostello (12), at the net with St. Ignatius College Prep’s Maureen Kaprosch (13) and Jessica Serrato (16), during 2009 WCAL volleyball play. In the foreground is SHCP’s Jacyln Mack (5).

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Laura Wilkinson won a gold medal in the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, the first for a U.S. woman since 1964 – and she ■ Continued from page 14 did it with pain from a foot injury. When it is not easy to do.’ I think the solutions in reporters rushed to her for comment, life are fairly simple, but they are not easy.” Wilkinson quoted Philippians 4:13, saying, Casper added, “The biggest thing I have “I can do all things through Christ who learned in my life is to be grateful for what strengthens me.”

Kelly was wowed.

I have, for being alive and trying to maintain “That was a revelation for me because I some kind of an understanding that it is not got to see an athlete using the gift that God necessarily all due to me.”

When Gaelyn Kelly of Davis speaks had given her and using her sport as a means on behalf of Catholic Athletes for Christ, to glorify God, and it was clear that Christ she urges young athletes not to do what was the source of her strength,” she said.

Kelly, 33, marshe did when she ried and the mother was a diver on the of a 5-month-old Stanford University God stepped in and boy, said that at the women’s swimming time, diving “was in and diving team. reminded me that effect my idol or my “My faith was God.” compartmentalized at the core, my identity “Rather than as one of many using my sport to interests in my life,” is as His child. glorify Him and she said, “so being a leaning on Him as a diver was my whole – Gaelyn Kelly, source of strength,” identity, and my she said, “I called on strongest desire was for success in that.” former champion diver Him only in emergencies and really Kelly, who began separated my faith competitive springboard and platform diving at 9 years old and from my sport. My sport was number one.

“The message that I love to share is who was ranked among the nation’s top 20 NCAA women divers – then as Gaelyn Felix, encouraging others not to make the mistake I her maiden name – realized at the end of her made, because I believe wholeheartedly that college career that something was missing. my career would have been much richer and “When I retired from the sport after fuller and successful had I had that hierarchy so many years I went through an identity in place.

“My identity as a child of God would crisis,” she said. “I thought, ‘Well, if I am not a diver who am I?’ That is when God have grounded me in such a way that I would stepped in and reminded me that at the core, have been more free to win or lose, more free to excel,” she said, “knowing that I did not my identity is as His child.”

About that time, U.S. platform diver begin or end with my success or my failure.”

More sports on catholic-sf.org Remembrance Anne Stricherz remembers St. Brendan School and St. Ignatius Preparatory alumna Jill Costello, 22. Costello was a devout Catholic and admired student-athlete whose last year of life included leading UC Berkeley’s varsity 8 women’s crew to a second-place national finish and immersing in the healing waters of Lourdes as she battled Stage IV lung cancer. “When asked where Jill finds her strength,” Stricherz writes, “she said ‘I see God in the people around me.’”

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WCAL girls’ volleyball San Francisco cross-town rivals St. Ignatius College Preparatory and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory, as well as Notre Dame High School, Belmont, are working on agility training as they head into the 2010 women’s varsity volleyball season in the West Catholic Athletic League.

The players are also focusing on strength and conditioning, said Lisa Beccera, SI’s head coach. She said the players come together about twice weekly in club volleyball and pre-season games in year-round training for the season.

“Volleyball in the Bay Area and definitely in the WCAL is really, really competitive,” Beccera said.

“It’s a competitive sport,” said Jeff Kim, Notre Dame’s new women’s volleyball coach, “and it’s a growing sport as well.”

Notre Dame is the only all-girls school in the WCAL from the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Schools compete in the WCAL and go on to play in different divisions, depending on size, in the Central Coast Section. SI and SHCP can face each other, but Notre Dame competes in the CCS’ small school division.

SHCP women’s volleyball Coach Margi Beima is looking to continue a steady winning streak in the CCS, where the team has won three straight. “I am excited about our returnees, who are already setting the tone for the 2010 season,” she said.

Last year, the SHCP Fightin’ Irish finished 3-3 in the WCAL, the best record of the three archdiocesan schools.

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Guest Commentary Planned Parenthood has big plans

By Vicki Evans Economic times are tough and not many businesses are in an expansion mode.

But Planned Parenthood is. It’s expanding its physical plant size, implementing plans for increasing its professional workforce, and broadening its customer base.

Moreover, it is benefiting from significant new sources of capital. What’s the product that puts Planned Parenthood in this enviable position? Abortion.

Freestanding abortion clinics now provide over 90 percent of abortions performed.

Planned Parenthood’s share of that market is 25 percent and growing, with abortion being its most lucrative profit center. Its current business plan entails closing down unprofitable clinics and consolidating operations into “abortion mega-centers.”

Over the past three years alone, abortion mega-centers have popped up across the country. Outside Chicago, a 22,000 sq. ft. center opened to community protests.

This was followed by a 46,000 sq. ft. center in St. Paul, a 33,000 sq. ft. two-story center in Massachusetts, and a 52,000 sq. ft. facility in Denver. In 2009, Houston became home to what is touted as “the largest abortion facility in the world.” It is a seven-story, 78,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art building close to the University of Houston and Texas Southern University and within walking distance of black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

By carefully choosing its locations, Planned Parenthood can maximize its clientele and increase its customer base exponentially. University towns and economically-disadvantaged neighborhoods are fertile ground for abortion sales.

The economic downturn has been turned into a positive marketing tool in that women can more easily be encouraged to abort because “they can’t afford a baby in this bad economy.” Another obvious advantage of these imposing structures is the ease of keeping the opposition at bay. That includes sidewalk counselors and others whose prayerful presence outside an abortion mill would seem to imply that there just might be something wrong with what Planned Parenthood is selling.

Doctors have had these misgivings from the start. Medicine is a healing art that cures, treats or alleviates a disease. Pregnancy is not a disease and killing doesn’t generally fit into the definition of healing. The abortionist has historically been stigmatized by society as well as by fellow doctors. Although nearly half the country claims to be “pro-choice,” there remains a chasm between those approving of abortion and those physically performing the act. Abortion may be an essential reproductive right in the abstract, but the reality of performing one is still grotesque.

The New York Times tells us, however, that this is about to change. In an article published last month called “The New Abortion Providers” by Emily Bazelon, we learn there is a well-funded campaign under way to increase the number of trained abortion providers and bring them into the medical mainstream, where abortion can be “embraced and not shunned.” These training programs are made possible through generous grants from the Family Planning Fellowship and the Kenneth J. Ryan Training Program. Both are funded by the Buffet Foundation which, according to its 2008 tax records, paid out $50 million to universities to subsidize the programs and another $53 million directly to Planned Parenthood.

The Times described the Family Planning Fellowship as a “two-year stint following residency that pays doctors to sharpen their skills in abortion and contraception.” It has expanded into 21 universities to date including Stanford, UCLA and UCSF, described as “the hub of the abortion-rights countermovement in medicine.”

Whether these programs will succeed in attracting doctors, mainstreaming abortion, and increasing access to abortion remains to be seen.

A healthy influx of capital is another sign of a thriving business and Planned Parenthood’s future appears bright here as well. Besides profits from its abortion business segment and multimillion dollar gifts from family foundations like the Buffet Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the John D. Rockefeller Foundation, another spigot of almost limitless funds is available–-taxpayer dollars.

To date, this pool of funds has accounted for about one-third of its gross receipts.

Obama Care, in its present form, has the potential to increase federal government subsidies to Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers in two ways. First, in the high-risk pool program. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service issued a report confirming that neither the health care law itself, nor the executive order on abortion, nor the longstanding Hyde Amendment prevent the use of funds in the new high-risk pool program from being used to cover all abortions. Second, up to $11 billion dollars is earmarked for “community health centers.” According to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, there is nothing in the law to prevent these funds from being used for elective abortion.

Will these factors converge to create a perfect storm for abortion-industry expansion? This is all happening at a time when polls show that more Americans call themselves pro-life than pro-choice, particularly among young people. It is also a time when San Francisco produced the 40,000-participant Walk for Life West Coast in a city that is known for its open hostility toward those who refuse to move in lockstep on the road to unlimited abortion license.

The one thing that is missing in Planned Parenthood’s business plan is ethics.

This is something people do recognize over time–-sometimes a long time. Without an ethical foundation, it’s a house of cards.

Vicki Evans is Respect Life Coordinator for the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Praise for Msgr. O’Malley I was filled with great pride and joy to read that Msgr. James O’Malley was given the title of Prelate of Honor to His Holiness, Benedict XVI. For many years, my family was privileged to know Msgr. O’Malley as pastor of Saint Kevin’s on Bernal Heights. His compassion, joyous disposition, and his ability to create a family-like atmosphere were inspiring to all who entered his church. Moreover, countless families and individuals were beneficiaries of his kindness and generosity –- he always put others ahead of himself in service of Christ. At a time when the Church can and must look inward for inspiration, we need not look further than Msgr. O’Malley, a man who best exemplifies priestly vocation.

Andrew J. Martin New York, NY

Telling role of Mary In response to several letters in the August 13th issue of Catholic S.F. criticizing the Guest Commentary by Gary Zimak in the July 30th issue: “Ten facts most Catholics don’t know (but should!)”, I have just three little words to say: “Humility, humility, humility.”

Oh yes, and one more – obedience. We should look to the Saints for lessons in these most important of virtues. If Jesus had wanted women to be priests what more perfect disciple could he have chosen other than His Mother, the greatest of all the Saints. She would have made the best priest of us all.

Yet, in her utmost humility she remained in the background and always regarded herself as the handmaid of the Lord. Let us take pride in the fact that this masterpiece of God’s creation is a woman, the Mother of God and a most powerful Queen, and let us follow our Heavenly Mother’s shining example. She is always pointing to her beloved Son and telling us (as at the wedding at Cana), “Do whatever He tells you to do.” If Jesus decided to make only men priests that should be good enough now as it was in His day.

Some things don’t need to be changed.

Vivienne Beasley San Carlos

Marriages and domestic partnerships are both similar and different, but they are not the same. The similarities justify treating them alike under the law; the differences justify distinguishing them in language.

To illustrate the latter point, let’s consider a hypothetical court case involving equal rights for women. The court reasons that a distinction between men and women that does not affect their rights differently under the law has no legal purpose for being.

I doubt that the court then would go so far as to declare that women are men.

Nor should a court say that domestic partnerships are marriages. The word “marriage” already is taken, and the concept it represents cannot be stretched. It already is near the breaking point for translation purposes. In effect, the defining note of this concept across cultures (by and large) is that it is between a man and a woman. Take away that note, and what is left to distinguish it from other unions?

Communication would be better served by using a higher-level term such as “domestic unions” to reflect their similarities, and the words “marriage” and “domestic partnership” to reflect their differences. The word “marriage” cannot be used as the higher level term without destroying its usefulness for

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Commentary & response Thanks Catholic San Francisco for printing Gary Zimak’s letter in the July 30 issue. I disagree with much of his Guest Commentary “Ten Facts most Catholics don’t know (but should)” but, as a career journalist and a member of the newspaper’s advisory board, I am glad to see the commentary resulted in impassioned rebuttal letters in the August 13 issue, showing people read the newspaper.

Some of those letters, however, suggested the newspaper shouldn’t have given space to Zimak’s opinion. That is truly scary, particularly one woman who wrote that “every time I read your paper it makes me seriously consider leaving the Church.” She vented, “God forbid you ever publish an article recognizing the contributions of women to the Church!”This criticism leveled despite the fact that every issue of Catholic San Francisco carries some article praising the work of women, particularly nuns.

The issue in which her letter appeared had a half-page story about a nun who works in Hurricane Katrina’s wake.

The same issue carried a piece on girl altar servers.

Regarding the clergy sex scandal, the letter writer claimed Catholic San Francisco had published an article on “why the rapes weren’t as bad as they’re made out to be.” Please give me the date of any article in Catholic San Francisco that lessened the gravity of those sins. Her evidence was the reporting of the fact that “the children were pubescent,” which is a huge jump from saying the “rapes weren’t as bad as they’re made out to be.”

James O.Clifford, Sr. Redwood City

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Different, not the same

Letters welcome

communication both within our society and across cultures.

Communication between the opposing sides in this controversy also is important.

Our differences and agreements can only be recognized by “comparing notes,” because notes are the building-blocks of concepts.

Are we ready for that dialogue?

James Ervin Corte Madera

Giving voice to all I had not laughed so hard reading Catholic San Francisco as I did today on BART, seeing liberals run around panicking because of Gary Zimak’s Ten Commandments from the Catholic right. If a diocesan newspaper is to give a voice to all Catholics within the diocese in order to stimulate thought and discussion, then it should be impartial with the right and the left and let everyone’s voices be heard.

But the liberal scrambling around (and, oh, how I could hear the hyperventilation) reminded me of the liberal bishops at Vatican II desperately trying to highjack Cardinal Ottaviani’s official agenda for the Council and thus silence the right. Internecine but it worked.

Kudos to Catholic San Francisco then, for giving a voice to everyone in their care, despite the veiled and not-so-veiled wrath of the politically-correct thought police. How delightfully ironic that they should rail against the purported pursed lips of the Tridentine Church and now they’re the ones desperately trying to censor dissent. I especially laughed at the letter “Love and Compassion”, which then went on to distill nothing by vitriol and cast late-1970’s ideological aspersions on the Bark of Peter as an institutional patriarchy. Such unaware self-irony!

Pope Benedict has said that the future Church may be smaller and yet filled with faith. The writer probably also believes as false the dictum Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus; if so, start your own little church, make yourself pope, and then force people to believe whatever comes into your head. I never thought intransigent liberals could be so funny!

Oscar Ramirez San Francisco

Food for thought I am a devout Catholic. I just finished reading “Crossing the Threshold of Hope”

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The Catholic Difference

When compromise trumps apostolic tradition Pope Benedict XVI’s pastoral visit to Great Britain next month will unfold along a pilgrim’s path metaphorically strewn with landmines. Headline-grabbing new atheists like Richard Dawkins, along with their allies in the international plaintiff’s bar, may try to have the pontiff arrested as an enabler of child abuse. More subtly, but just as falsely, homosexual activists and their allies will portray John Henry Newman, whom the Pope will beatify, as the patron saint of gay liberation. No challenge facing Benedict in Britain, however, will be greater than the challenge of re-framing the Anglican-Catholic ecumenical dialogue, which is on the verge of de facto extinction.

The death of that once-promising dialogue would have been unimaginable 40 years ago. Then, in the aftermath of Vatican II, it seemed possible that Canterbury and Rome might be reconciled, with full ecclesiastical communion restored. That great hope began to run aground in the mid1980s, when the Church of England faced the question of whether it could call women to holy orders (a practice already under way in other member communities of the worldwide Anglican Communion). As I discovered when researching the biography of Pope John Paul II, a theological Rubicon seems to have been crossed in a 1984-86 exchange of letters among Dr. Robert Runcie, the Anglican primate, Cardinal Johannes Willebrands, the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, and the Pope.

John Paul and Willebrands made quite clear to Runcie that the bright hope of ecclesial reconciliation would be

severely damaged were the Church of England to engage in a practice that the Catholic Church (and the Orthodox churches) believed was unauthorized by apostolic tradition, and in fact contradicted that tradition. While admirably candid, Dr. Runcie’s attempt to explain why the Church of England believed it could proceed to the ordination of women demonstrated that Anglicanism and Catholicism were living in two distinct universes of discourse, one theological, the other sociological. For Runcie advanced no theological arguments as to why apostolic tradition could be understood to authorize the innovation he and many of his Anglican colleagues proposed; rather, he cited the expanding roles of women in society as the crucial issue. Sociological trends, Runcie’s letter implied, trumped apostolic tradition—which was not, of course, something the Catholic Church could accept.

The same issue recently re-emerged in the Church of England’s debate over the ordination of women as bishops.

Dr. Rowan Williams, the current Anglican primate, and his colleague in York, Dr. John Sentamu , proposed a compromise in which the Church of England would ordain women to its episcopate, but parishes unable to accept this innovation would be allowed to invite a male bishop to preside over those rituals for which a bishop’s presence is required.

This compromise was rejected by the General Synod of the Church of England, leading the London Telegraph to deplore editorially the loss of the Anglican “ tradition of compromise that has preserved the Church for more than 400 years.”

The Telegraph’s sense of what has “preserved the Church for more than 400 years” is misplaced, I fear.

Elements of sanctity, intelligence, and beauty have been nurtured in the Anglican Communion for more than four centuries by the work of the Holy Spirit, who distributes gifts freely, and not only within the confines of the George Weigel Catholic Church. Thus there have been great Anglican theologians and noble Anglican martyrs in the Anglican Communion, which has also given the world a splendid patrimony of liturgical music and a powerful example of the majesty of the English language as a vehicle of worship. None of this has had much, if anything, to with a “tradition of compromise.”

The sad truth of the matter is that the “tradition of compromise” is what is destroying the Anglican Communion.

For that “tradition” has come to mean that the apostolic tradition of the Church—the essential constitution bequeathed to the Church by Christ, which can be discerned in the Scriptures and which was articulated in the creeds—has ceased to have any normative claim within Anglicanism.

Thus an ecclesiological rule-of-thumb: when anything goes, the first thing to go is apostolic tradition.

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

Of Grace and Sippy Cups

The broken record There is one sentence that I say to my boys more often than any other. It’s not “Please stop that,” or “Finish your milk,” or even “I love you.”

It’s “Be careful!”

I say this at least fifty times a day. Matthew starts jumping on the sofa: “Be careful!” Lukey reaches up and grabs a book poised on the edge of the table: “Be careful!” Matthew and Lukey abandon sofa-jumping and book-procurement and chase each other around the coffee table, careening wildly around the corners: “Be careful!”

I’m the proverbial broken record.

There was no way that I could have been prepared for all of the heart-in-mouth moments that come from being the mother of two very active boys. My sister and I were fairly sedate, as kids go. I can’t recall a single ER visit during my childhood.

But my boys are explorers and runners and climbers and they love, absolutely love, to move their little bodies.

At one and three, they also lack certain things (caution, experience, depth perception) to know that they are putting themselves into harm’s way. That’s where I come in, with my three-syllable soundtrack of warning.

To be honest, I wonder if I’m saying it so often that it has no meaning anymore. Will the boys someday tune it out completely? Maybe they already are.

All the same, I’m going to keep saying it. It’s reflexive: I doubt I could stop if I tried. I’m like my own mom, who still tells me to drive carefully every time she sees me get into my car. And after thinking about it for a while, I’ve realized that these repeated warnings are one way that we moms try to control the uncontrollable.

As parents, we can – and must – be vigilant with our kids; that’s a given. That said, children manage to hurt themselves even when we are watching, even in the most benign environments. I learned that a year ago, when Matthew fell into a library bench and ended up in the ER getting facial stitches. There is, honestly, only so much we parents can do. That is a hard thing for a loving and protective mom to accept, but it’s the truth.

In the end, we moms need to go on faith. We need to trust that our kids will end up okay. We need to have faith that if (or when) they are hurt, they will get the care they need.

And we need to go on faith that God himself looks upon

our kids – and upon us, too – with the same affectionate concern.

His heart probably stops when we do something reckless or stupid. He too must be amazed at all of the different ways that we find to hurt ourGinny selves. Maybe he is also Kubitz Moyer mouthing “Be careful,” over and over, watching all of us rushing around at work and at play.

It wouldn’t surprise me if he is. After all, “Be careful” is really just code for something else.

It’s another way of saying “I love you.”

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

Making a Difference

Rock the boat! Transform American culture!

Don’t rock the boat.

Don’t challenge the system.

That message – promoted by the vast majority of the economically and politically powerful – continually is transmitted through a myriad of ways to numb the rest of us into submission.

Our culture encourages us to accept the status quo; to be quiet; to leave things the way they are. Boat rockers are not welcome.

It takes courage, integrity and selfless love to challenge the powerful – to be a boat rocker! Most of those who hold wealth and power rarely want to share it and, therefore, work hard to keep things much the way they are. Their continued goals are to make the system work to their benefit.

Also, the shrinking middle class – that’s still most of us – receive certain benefits from leaving the status quo as it is.

After all, challenging the system might mean that our benefits could be lessened, or that we might have to tighten our belts to more equitably share wealth and power with those who have neither.

But when we ignore the vulnerable, the poor and those on the fringe of society, we make a mockery of America’s foundational principles: “That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

How is the right to life honored when rich and powerful

entities such as Planned Parenthood, and American weaponproducing corporations such as Martin Marietta, profit from abortion and war, respectively?

And how are the principles of liberty and the pursuit of happiness honored when the rich and middle class turn their backs on America’s poor?

Not only do many of our cultural values contradict our nation’s founding principles, but much more importantly, they conflict with the principles of the Gospel.

While abortion, pornography, same-sex marriage, capital punishment, environmental degradation, poverty, hunger, homelessness, corporate greed and war-making are culturally acceptable, they are absolutely unacceptable to the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Yet, many Catholics ignore the Gospel call to actively build a kingdom based on the highest principles of love, justice and peace – the kingdom of God. As disciples of the Lord, we cannot turn a blind eye to the many ills of our society. In the face of so many societal evils, we cannot allow ourselves to be lulled into sleep-like complicity. We cannot allow popular culture to influence us more than the Gospel.

Forty-five years ago, the world’s Catholic bishops at the Second Vatican Council approved the “Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity.” This highly challenging and relevant

document – well worth reading and praying over – calls the laity to renew today’s culture in the “light of the Gospel and the mind of the church.”

Because the needs of most everyone – especially Tony Magliano the poor and vulnerable – are often ignored by the raw laws of the marketplace, the workplace and society in general, it would be foolish to continue letting these entities largely regulate themselves.

Instead, those of us who comprise the laity are called to “infuse the Christian spirit into the mentality, customs, laws and structures of the community ...”

By tirelessly striving to bring the love, justice and peace of Christ to the social, economic and political arenas of American culture, we fulfill our unique role in bringing about the kingdom of God. So, by all means, let’s rock the boat!

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

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A READING FROM THE BOOK OF SIRACH SIR 3:17, 18-19, 20, 28-29 My child, conduct your affairs with humility, and you will be loved more than a giver of gifts. Humble yourself the more, the greater you are, and you will find favor with God. What is too sublime for you, seek not, into things beyond your strength search not. The mind of a sage appreciates proverbs, and an attentive ear is the joy of the wise. Water quenches a flaming fire, and alms atone for sins.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM PS 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11 R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor.

The just rejoice and exult before God; they are glad and rejoice.

Sing to God, chant praise to his name; whose name is the Lord.

R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor.

The father of orphans and the defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling.

God gives a home to the forsaken; he leads forth prisoners to prosperity.

R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor.

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Psalm 68:4-5, 6-7, 10-11; Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a; Luke 14:1, 7-14 A bountiful rain you showered down, O God, upon your inheritance; you restored the land when it languished; your flock settled in it; in your goodness, O God, you provided it for the needy.

R. God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor.

A READING FROM THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS HEB: 12:18-19, 22-24A Brothers and sisters: You have not approached that which could be touched and a blazing fire and gloomy darkness and storm and a trumpet blast and a voice speaking words such that

those who heard begged that no message be further addressed to them. No, you have approached Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and countless angels in festal gathering, and the assembly of the firstborn enrolled in heaven, and God the judge of all, and the spirits of the just made perfect, and Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and the sprinkled blood that speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE LK 14:1, 7-14 On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the

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s we continue this season’s nearly continuous run through the parable-laden Gospel of Luke, in Chapter 14 we see Jesus again up to his ears in frustration with the religious authorities of his time—and again at his story-telling best as he attempts to bring those leaders (and us) to a more authentic understanding of just what it is that God wants from us.

Back in Luke’s Chapter 12 we heard the story of the rich fool who builds a great barn, only to die before he gets to enjoy it.

In Chapter 13, we listened to the parables of the mustard seed, the leaven, and the unproductive fig tree.

In this Sunday’s Chapter 14 reading, we come to dine with Jesus one Sabbath evening at the home of a Pharisee. What we don’t hear in today’s Gospel reading are the seven rather important verses that precede it. In those verses, Jesus has arrived at the Sabbath dinner, and before him is brought a man with a disfiguring swelling known in ancient times as dropsy. Jesus has a dilemma—should he defy the Jewish proscriptions about doing work on the Sabbath and, God forbid, heal the man…or should he ignore the pain of the man before him and tell him to come back tomorrow. Jesus knows that he is being watched, and in compassion, heals the man, knowing well the scandal that is to ensue.

Immediately there is a gasp—a stirring— not in amazement at the healing, but in shock at the thought that this renegade teacher must

Scripture reflection ROB GRANT

Called to a ‘true’ humility be an impostor because he breaks Talmudic Law by healing on the Sabbath. Jesus—perhaps smiling a bit because this is what the evangelists recount as at least his seventh healing on the Sabbath–- turns to his host and says, “Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?”

Jesus has a right to be angry at these men attempting to trip him up —he is clearly in authentic possession of the better mindset—but he does not (this time at least) become enraged, condemn or shut down the Pharisees. Rather, he tells them the story we hear today of the foolish man who seeks a place of honor at a banquet, only to be humiliated when the host asks him to sit in

the back so that a more worthy guest may come to the front.

Given just the 7-14 verses we hear in this Chapter 14 reading, it could be tempting to take this story out of context and see it as a simple lesson in humility: don’t get all caught up in your own self importance—you might get shot down. But, as it is in life, so it is in Scripture that context is everything.

If we add to the context this chapter’s initial verses of the Sabbath healing, and complete it with the closing verses of “…to your feast invite the poor, the lame and those who cannot repay you…Go to the byways and invite all to come to my feast,” we can harvest from this fuller reading a deeper appreciation of Jesus’ insight into what is true humility.

people there were observing him carefully.

He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table.

“When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place.

Rather, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place so that when the host comes to you he may say, ‘My friend, move up to a higher position.’ Then you will enjoy the esteem of your companions at the table.

For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Then he said to the host who invited him, “When you hold a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your wealthy neighbors, in case they may invite you back and you have repayment. Rather, when you hold a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind; blessed indeed will you be because of their inability to repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.”

Perhaps Jesus is reminding us that, rather than humility being a call to see ourselves as inferior to others, it is, rather, a call to see ourselves simply as neither larger nor smaller than we truly are: at once brilliant, yet blinded; powerful, yet lame; abundant, yet lacking.

Jesus doesn’t condemn the Pharisees for breaking the Sabbath to save their ox from a pit—what he chastises them for is their unconsciousness in denying their own humanity, their vulnerability, their instinctual compassion, in favor of adherence to an inhumane legalism and righteousness that canonizes their fears, that separates, rather than unites.

Jesus calls us to a true humility that actually frees us from a neurotic preoccupation with ourselves, from our need to only identify with and associate with those who are “like us.” A humility that allows one to hold steady in one’s own certainty because it is based not on external cues or a comparison of self to others, but solidly anchored, centered, in the internal knowledge of who we really are at our own core – a humility that is truth in self-understanding and truth in action.

Rob Grant is a 30-year veteran of parish ministry. He teaches Pastoral Ministry at the Dominican School of Theology in Berkeley.

Contact him at robbieness@aol.com.

Spirituality for Life

Editing your own life The laws of mathematics and physics have forever been one of our great constants. They are predictable and reliable, not given to strange surprises. But now, more and more, scientists are finding that even the laws of physics sometimes offer unexpected surprises and exhibit a freedom that leaves us baffled. Freedom, it seems, is everywhere.

Novelists have always known this. A novelist creates an imaginary character, begins to write a story, and then discovers that this character doesn’t always want to follow what the author had in mind for her. She becomes her own person, develops her own attitude, goes her own way, and shapes the story in a way that the novelist never intended. In the end, partly independent of the author, each character writes his or her own story.

In a new book, “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years,” Donald Miller takes this concept and uses it to offer a wonderful challenge within which each of us is invited to edit our own life so as to make our story a better and more noble one.

He does this through a series of autobiographical essays within which he challenges himself to write a better story with his own life and then invites his readers to each edit our own lives so as to build a story which is more interesting and more noble, one which, like a great movie, will leave its audience in tears and longing to do better things with their lives when the final credits roll.

Here’s how he describes this: “So I was writing my novel, and as my characters did what they wanted, I became more and more aware that somebody was writing me. So I started listening to the Voice, or rather, I started calling it the Voice and admitting there was a Writer. I admitted that something other than me was showing me a better way. And when I did this, I realized the Voice, the Writer, who was not me, was trying to make a better story, a more meaningful series of experiences I could live through.”

His writing is brilliant but deceptive. Because of his particular genre, he can seem almost superficial at times, but, in the end, what you get is a combination of David Sedaris (wit, playful self-effacement), Annie Lamott (earthy, disarmingly direct), Kathleen Norris (outstanding common sense, intelligence), Henri Nouwen (an honest look at yourself) and Ignatius of Loyola (good rules for discernment and a bit of a guide to everything). Donald Miller runs all of this through a blender.

Initially, as I read the first chapters, I was taken only by his language and not by his content. He sounded more the comic wit than the wise elder. But slowly, almost imperceptibly, and this is his genius, depth, idealism, Christian vision, disarming common sense, and his real challenge begin to seep through, becoming clearer and more inviting as his story goes on.

Here’s an example of both his writing and his depth. In this

a passage he shares how he discerns the real voice of God from the many false, neurotic voices that he, and most everyone else, commonly can confuse with God’s voice: “As a kid, the only sense I got from God Father was guilt, something I Ron Rolheiser dismissed as a hypersensitive conscience I got from being raised in a church with a controlling pastor. But that isn’t the voice I’m talking about. ... The real Voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and the profane. It’s not an agitated Voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts.

The Voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom that says: Hold your tongue; don’t talk about that person that way; forgive the friend you haven’t talked to; don’t look at that woman as a possession; I want to show SPIRITUALITY FOR LIFE, page 19

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Letters . . .

■ Continued from page 16 feeling it left me was the truly simple and sincere faith of this wonderful Pope. As we know “Anything is possible for God” but after Gabriel’s Annunciation Mary said “How can this be, since I have no relations with a man” (Luke, 34) yet because Mary was the wife of Joseph, of the tribe of David, Jesus therefore was from David’s house. The Pope’s acceptance of his role as the successor of Peter is profound and convincing, However, a commentary in the Catholic San Francisco July 30 issue and several letters in the Aug. 13 issue brought some thoughts and questions to my mind. Knowing that for centuries women were not considered equal to man, it only came to actual equality in the 20th century with the suffrage movement. If Jesus delayed his coming to today would He have only-chosen men as followers? The “story” of creation by God should have said He created man, male and female, the generic man of both sexes. Using the Latin ergo, there should not be a ban of a woman becoming a priest. In the words of Christ “Love one another as I loved you.”

Alan E. Kahn San Rafael

‘Rejecting Church authority’ I’ll leave it to smarter people than I am to defend the Church’s teaching on women’s ordination, other than to say that two thousand years of tradition and guidance by the Holy Spirit really does settle the question.

However, I was somewhat surprised by both the anger of the letter writers and the preposterousness of their positions.

They accuse the Church of holding back and restricting women. Is this the same Church that freed women from being chattel? Is this the same Church that first educated women?

Is this the same Church that is accused of an over emphasis on the Blessed Mother? Is this the same Church that, in this century alone, produced women such as St. Katherine Drexel, Blessed Mother Teresa, and Mother Angelica of EWTN fame? These women changed the world they lived in. Those women would laugh if you told them the Church held them back or treated them as second class citizens. I don’t even have to consider St. Catherine of Siena or St. Theresa of Avila or many other women in the Church.

Just as in the reaction to Pope Paul VI’ encyclical, Humanae Vitae, the reaction regarding women’s ordination is a rejection of Church authority. I think it is time for these people to look in the mirror.

Stephen Firenze San Mateo

Global hunger implications We are responding to the article on Global Hunger (Catholic San Francisco, Aug. 13). Father Weare is our Parish Priest at St. Rita’s Church, Fairfax, and we agree with his position on global hunger.

We would like to point out that the most important single action that our state and federal legislators could do to ease global hunger is to end the law that mandates ethanol made from corn be added to our gasoline. This law reduces the amount of corn that would otherwise be used for food and raises the price of corn worldwide.

In Brazil, ethanol is made from sugar cane. In that country, it provides an alternative to gasoline made from crude oil. This is not feasible in the United States.

Corn-based ethanol does not reduce air pollution, global warming, or dependence on imported crude oil. It is energy-inefficient and is simply a hidden price support for the Midwestern corn farmers.

Frank and Connie Berto San Anselmo

Bless Catholic preschools Today with such an increase of materialistic distractions aimed at small children, it is comforting to know of the growing number of Catholic preschools. The words of Father Ken Weare, Pastor of St. Rita Parish in Fairfax, in

your cover story are most reassuring when he says: “We’re there for the family.” Such a pastoral sensitivity to the heartfelt concerns of loving parents in Catholic families is greatly needed in our church and society. Hopefully, more pastors will follow the example of Father Weare and the other pastors who have founded preschools.

Dolores Stoll Fairfax

Plus ca change …

I became an altar server at St. Catherine’s Church in Burlingame in 1960/61,learning the Latin Mass and hoping to be faithful in my service to the Church. I well remember the days after the Second Vatican Council, and the challenges for devout Catholics to move away from the Mass in Latin to Mass in the vernacular. I well remember those Missals, which printed both the Latin and the English side-by-side. One of our parishioners allowed me to look into her “Latin-English Booklet Missal for Praying the Traditional Mass” (originally published in 1962). Right after the Sanctus, we find this Prayer before Consecration, which reads in part “Most merciful Father, we humbly pray and beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ Thy Son, Our Lord, to accept and to bless these gifts, these presents, these holy unspotted Sacrifices, which we offer up to Thee, in the first place, for Thy Holy Catholic Church, that it may please Thee to grant her peace, to preserve, unite and govern her throughout the world; as also for Thy servant N....our Pope, and N....our Bishop, and for all orthodox believers and for all who profess the Catholic and Apostolic faith.”

Looking at the Roman Canon in the latest translation of the Roman Missal, we find this text....”To you, therefore, most merciful Father, we make humble prayer and petition through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, that you accept and bless these gifts, these offerings, these holy and unblemished sacrifices, which we offer you first of all for your holy Catholic Church. Be pleased to grant her peace, to guard, unite and govern her throughout the whole world, together with your servant N. our Pope and N. our Bishop, and all those who, holding to the truth, hand on the Catholic and apostolic faith.” We firmly believe that the Lord Jesus breathed forth His Spirit upon the Church, yes, during the days of the Council, and yes, during these days as we await this new translation of the Roman Missal. I will do lots of homework....but my first glance at the revised prayers does raise a question..... are we truly being led by the Spirit, or is it a clear indication that “everything old is new again?”

Rev. Piers Lahey, Pastor Good Shepherd Church Pacifica

Reading the Code Regarding the letter “Excommunicating Oneself” of Thura Straus, July 16, 2010, I would refer the writer to the opinion of Ladislas Orsy, SJ, well known canonist honored by the Canon Law Society of America for his work in the field of canon law and also a professor of canon law at Georgetown University, reflecting on Canon 1398 and other pertinent canons in this case. As originally published in the highly regarded British Catholic journal, “The Tablet”, June 19, 2010, Fr. Orsy develops a careful analysis of the actions of Bishop Olmsted re the “excommunication” of Sister Margaret Mary McBride, and has declared it, based on canon law, “null and void.” Other canonists of considerable stature as well have weighed in on this highly complex case and found the actions of the Bishop of Phoenix outside a proper reading and interpretation of Church law. I would suggest for any of us that judgment in a case where access to all the facts is not at hand and the understanding of Church canons without reference to the fuller code, is ill-advised.

Sister Raya Hanlon, OP Richmond

‘A little too dogmatic’ It was with sadness that I read the recent Guest Commentary by Mr. Gary Zimak entitled “Ten Facts most Catholics don’t know (but should!).” Some of these “facts” may be Mr.

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Zimak’s opinion, but are not much more than that. For example: “Women Will Never Be Priests.”

Seems to me to be a little too dogmatic. He states that this is an infallible declaration by the pope. In fact the recent statements regarding the ordination of women were not “Ex Cathedra” statements; “infallible” statements come in a variety of ways, and responsible theologians (including those who don’t care for the statements) are on the fence about their status.

“The Bible is a Catholic Book” Although the original canon of scripture was brought together well before the Protestant Reformation, Sacred Scripture is there for all people, not just Catholics. And let us not forget that the Torah, Prophets and Psalms (the basis of our “Old Testament,”) was compiled by our Jewish brothers and sisters thousands of years before that.

“There is No Salvation Outside Of the Catholic Church.” This sentence can be very misleading. He does admit, however, that all salvation comes through the Body of Christ and that non-Catholics can be saved.

I am sure Mr. Zimak wants to be of service, but the tone of his article is smug and very off-putting; the kind of thing that pushes people away from the Church rather than bringing people to it.

Bob Nelson Daly City

for the Roman Catholic Church regarding women priests? What in fact are his credentials for representing the Vatican in any way?

Mr. Zimak concedes that married male priests are a possibility now. Considering the fact that most of the priests of Jesus’ day were married, this is hardly newsworthy.

Women were not priests in Jesus’ day because of the culture of the Jewish religion which the early Christian Church also followed. The modern Jewish faith has mostly disregarded that gender bias.

Certainly there is a serious shortage of priests in the Roman Catholic Clergy, which stems from excluding half of the population of the Faithful, the women.

Let’s be real.

It is a fact that property rights were important to the early Church. This situation was best controlled by keeping wives, children and all heirs separate; and property and inheritances strictly in the hands of the Church. This is the prime reason for an unmarried clergy.

Jesus worked within the culture of his day. He encouraged his followers in every way to imitate Him and be holy. Is there any documented case of an external sexual organ certifying anyone’s holiness?

Mary-Alice Eldon Redwood City

Women’s role in Church

It is very sad and disheartening to see letters (CSF Aug. 13) attacking Gary Zimack and his commentary in Catholic San Francisco with a vehement closemindedness. Writing with a “take no prisoners” approach, these letter writers reveal an absolute unwillingness to be exposed to any thoughts or opinions except those with which they already agree. If any orthodox or traditional Catholic ideas are presented in a commentary, or reported as part of a news story, the liberal wrath quickly descends.

Instead of embracing a respectful dialogue, these critics seem to want to silence all voices that are not in agreement with their views.

Certainly, there seems to be a need for more Christian charity and Catholic universality.

Roger Thorne San Francisco

I read with curiosity, “Ten facts most Catholics don’t know (but should!).” What got my attention was the very first “fact” noting that “Women Will Never Be Priests. . . . this doctrine has been infallibly decided and will never change.” Equally interesting was, “It is not a ‘glass ceiling’ or the Church’s attempt to hold back women.”

I wonder if Mr. Zimak realizes who his audience is. Some American Catholics are critical thinkers. If any other institution banned women from holding certain positions, how else could this be seen as anything other than discrimination? Can he or anyone else in the hierarchy explain what is intrinsically “male” about the priesthood? How does gender play a role in the duties of a priest? What task couldn’t women fulfill? As our society has developed, women have heard all the excuses why they couldn’t do a certain job. Perhaps “lack of strength” was given. However, women soldiers, police officers, and fire fighters have proven “the powers that be” wrong.

And now we come to the priesthood: saying Mass, preaching, administering to the sick, performing marriages, hearing confessions, baptizing, etc. What is particularly “male” about these duties? And if the church is serious about addressing the child abuse problem within the Church, it might look at the advantages of having women as priests. When was the last time a woman was involved in the sexual abuse of children within the Church?

Richard Morasci San Francisco

‘Let’s be real’ It is with dismay that I read the article

by Gary Zimak in the Guest Commentary. He purports to be the founder of “following the truth” ministries. I am doubly troubled that “Catholic San Francisco” presents him as an authority of sorts.

May I please know the authority by which this lay apostolate says he speaks

Spirituality for Life . . .

■ Continued from page 18 you the sunset; look and see how short life is and how your troubles are not worth worrying about; buy that bottle of wine and call your friend and see if he can get together, because, remember, he was supposed to have that conversation with his daughter, and you should ask him about it.”

And that Voice, he says, is forever saying to us: “Enjoy your place in my story. The beauty of it means you matter, and you can create it even as I have created you.”

In the end, this book is a healthy apologetic for faith, morality, decency, and God, the kind of challenge we badly need

‘Sad and disheartening’

‘Fact and belief’ Regarding Gary Zimak’s commentary “Ten facts most Catholics don’t know...”, [CSF, July 30], I note the following: First, the writer confuses the notion of “fact” with “belief,” to the detriment of the latter. After all, Jesus said to the woman: “Your faith has saved you” (Luke 7:50) - not: “Your facts have saved you.” We long for the assurance and comfort of facts, but that is not our calling as followers of Jesus.

Second, Fact #1: “Women will never be priests” is neither a fact nor a belief, but a prediction. (He could have accurately stated: “Women have never been validly ordained priests.”)

Third, the justification offered for “Fact #1”, i.e., that Jesus did not ordain women, is theologically weak. After all, there is also no evidence that Jesus ever wrote, or asked His disciples to write, anything about Himself.

Yet they did, and about 300 years later, the Church declared some of those writings the Word of God (“Fact #3”).

Paul Seliga San Bruno

today. I was given the book by a friend who has a twenty-something daughter who has long protested her doubts about God and, not least, her agnosticism about the church.

This young post-Christian, my friend said, found the book on the kitchen table, picked it up out of curiosity, and then read it cover to cover, admitting that she was much challenged by it.

Now that’s not a bad endorsement!

Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, theologian, teacher, and award-winning author, is President of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX. He can be contacted through his website www.ronrolheiser.com.

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High-tech catechesis Priest, local parishioner team up on catechism computer game that teaches the sacraments, Ten Commandments

By George Raine Computer store shelves are chock-a-block with video games with guns blazing and cars crashing. But a new title, “Paolo’s Journey,” delivers a much happier ending: A boy makes friends with Jesus.

The 3D video game, aimed at youngsters 12 and older, teaches the Catechism of the Catholic Church. It was developed by a priest in the Philippines who, as a child, used cartoons to tell fables and now applies new technology to evangelize.

Art studio founder Ronald Schaffner and Father Maximo Villanueva Jr., a diocesan priest in the Philippines, have created a video game that teaches children the sacraments, the Ten Commandments and Christian living.

Father Maximo Villanueva Jr. of the Balanga Diocese in Bataan, was assisted in the project by Ronald Schaffner, a member of St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo and the founder of Secret 6, an art studio with offices in Burlingame and a production facility in Manila.

Schaffner offered to do the work free of charge.

“The idea of using video games to teach catechism was not a stretch for me,” Schaffner said. “I was excited to use the medium that is so often aligned with negative stories due to violence in some games for something positive.”

Schaffner added: “As a father of four children, I also have first-hand experience in how children are influenced by games.”

“Paolo’s Journey” tells the story of a 9- or 10-year-old boy who one day after school chases after a kitten. Paolo falls into a deep well and ends up in a series of caves. There, an angel instructs him to answer questions in three categories: the Sacraments, the Ten Commandments and Christian Living. Correct answers will allow Paolo to access keys that will enable him to find his way home.

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Screen shots from “Paolo’s Journey,” a religious-education video game in which a boy falls into a well and meets an angel who instructs him in the sacraments, the Ten Commandments and Christian living.

“In reality, Paolo is anyone of us, looking for a way to reach Jesus,” Father Villanueva said. “It is anyone’s journey in the road we call life.”

“Paolo’s Journey,” which is available in English, Filipino, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian translations, was introduced in July at a Philippines’ Catholic Bishops’ Conference meeting. CDs of the game are being distributed to Catholic schools in the Philippines, and there are plans for international distribution that would finance future games.

“It is so simple yet so profound to leave an imprint, especially on young people, and even grown-ups,” Father Villanueva said. “It can move mountains.”

Father Villanueva, who studied 3D animation during two visits to the New York Film Academy and further study at Disney Studios in Los Angeles, created the script, the 3D models of Paolo and the angel character, the environment and more. He ultimately teamed with Secret 6 to produce the game.

As a child, Father Villanueva dramatized fables and myths for his five brothers and five sisters, using cut-out cardboard. Later, having listened to stories his parents told the children while gathered on their balcony in Naga City after supper, he decided to produce “live cartoonish” adaptations. His passion for cartoons, anime and 3D movies was born.

“When I became a priest, I told myself, ‘Why not use that medium to evangelize, at least as an alternative?’” Father Villanueva said.

It was during Father Villanueva’s second study trip to the New York Film Academy that he became determined to use video games for evangelization.

By 2009 he had completed the work on “Paolo’s Journey but needed help with production. He wrote several animation studios but was discouraged by the fees quoted – $25,000 and up. Schaffner’s offer to do the work free of charge was an unexpected blessing, Father Villanueva said.

“He believed in the project,” the priest said. “We both believe in God and the Church. And the wonderful fairy-tale birth of ‘Paolo’s Journey’ started.”

Schaffner said video games may not replace real life lessons or experiences but help simulate real-world situations that the player can learn from.

“We laid out the game with the idea that it must be fun for children to keep them engaged, while maintaining educational value,” he said.

The project had the support of Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan. When announcing the launch of the CD at the bishops’ conference meeting in the Philippines, he said the conference will fund 10 CDs for each diocese to distribute to schools, the Union of Catholic Asian News reported. He added that while he was head of the Balanga Diocese, he sent Father Villanueva to study animation in New York so that he could bring “technology for new evangelization” back to the Philippines, the news service reported.

In an e-mail, Archbishop Villegas said the game is really a response to the appeal of three popes: John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. “Jesus Christ must be preached and taught to all people, using all the means available and in all situations possible,” he wrote. “We will not leave any stone unturned.”

The game is based on the 2005 Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which was issued during the pontificate of John Paul II. It is also in keeping with Pope Benedict XVI’s interest in digital media to spread Church teaching.

In 2009, Benedict titled his message for the 43rd World Communications Day “New Technologies, New Relationships: Promoting a Culture of Respect, Dialogue and Friendship.” He said new digital technologies are bringing about fundamental shifts in patterns of communication and human relationships.

“Human hearts,” the pope said, “are yearning for a world where love endures, where gifts are shared, where unity is built, where freedom finds meaning in truth, and where identity is found in respectful communion.”

Archbishop Villegas said there is no substitute to proclamation and witnessing by exemplary living.

“The message of Christ must be spoken, heard, studied, prayed over and lived,” he said. “This video game is only a supplement.”

Still, the archbishop said, the dream is “to reach young people all over the globe.” It represents an effort, he said, to “keep trying our best to make Christ present in the lives of our people – that our young may know Jesus, love Jesus and follow Jesus.”

Father Villanueva said he has nearly completed his next game. In it, Paolo is now a young adult and is looking for his girlfriend. The game will focus on the parables of Jesus.

For more information on the game, and to contact Father Villanueva, go to http://videoketics.com/paolo’sworld.html.

August 27, 2010

St. Mary’s Cathedral Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 Sept. 7, 2 p.m.: Bishop-designate Robert Mc Elroy, pastor of St. Gregory Parish in San Mateo, will be ordained to the episcopate in rites at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco.

Archbishop George H. Niederauer is ordaining prelate. Cardinal Bishop-designate William J. Levada, for- Robert Mc Elroy mer Archbishop of San Francisco, is expected to be present in the sanctuary. A choir of singers from throughout the Archdiocese will lead song. All members of the Archdiocese of San Francisco are invited.

St. Mary’s Cathedral marks its 40th year in 2011. Among special events of the anniversary is the annual Festival of Flowers which takes place at the Cathedral October 1 – 3, with a Gala Preview and Reception September 30, from 6 - 9 p.m. For more information on the Festival visit the Flower Festival website www.CathedralFlowers.org, or call (415) 567-2020. Monterey Bishop Richard Garcia this year joins Archbishop George Niederauer as Flower Festival Honorary chair.

Catholic Charismatic Renewal Sept. 17 – 19: San Francisco Catholic Charismatic Renewal Conference at Archbishop Riordan High School, 175 Phelan Ave. in San Francisco across from City College.

Speakers include Msgr.

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Tickets are priced at Tarantino $25 for the weekend.

Hot lunch is available. To register in English, call (415) 564-PRAY; in Spanish, call (650) 773-4709; in Vietnamese, call (408) 661-6751.Youth registration, call (415) 350-8677. Masses of healing will be celebrated Friday at 7 p.m.; Saturday at 11:30 a.m.; Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Special Liturgies Sundays, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament with Benediction at Notre Dame des Victoires Church, 566 Bush St. between Stockton and Grant in San Francisco. Convenient parking is available across Bush St. in StocktonSutter garage. Call 397-0113.

Sept. 12, 13: Relics of St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesians visit St. Peter and Paul Parish and school and Corpus Christi Parish and school.

Talks and preliminary events take place Sept. 8, 9, 10 including a Mass and dinner with Archbishop George H. Niederauer presiding Sept. 8 at 5 p.m.

Call (415) 421-0809.

Aug. 27, 7:30 p.m.: The Art of Life, a benefit concert, film and presentation benefiting the Gubbio Project at St. Boniface Theater, 133 Golden Gate Ave. in San Francisco.

The Gubbio Project helps fund services to the poor at St. Boniface Church including the church’s remaining open during daylight hours for homeless persons to rest in the pews. The group also distributes toiletries, hygiene items, socks and clothes to those who need them as well as referrals to counseling and larger assistance. The Gubbio Project helps more than a hundred people a day with a monthly budget of $9,500. The fundraiser is part of an effort to raise $10,000 to maintain the ministry and increase its outreach. Suggested donation at the door is $20. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, call (415) 861-5848 or visit www.thegubbioproject.org

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Speakers include Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron - Christian Conscience and the Issues of the Day; Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Curry - Church and State Relations; Francis Beckwith Defense of Life: Prevailing by Argument; Jennifer Morse Chastity and the Future of Marriage.

Admission: $35. Pre-registration required. Call (888) 619-7882 for info or to register or visit www.sapi.org/mforum.

Takes place at St. Isidore Parish Archbishop Allen Vigneron in Danville. The day is presented by the St. Anthony of Padua Institute and the Diocese of Oakland’s Dept. for Evangelization and Catechesis. The day is sponsored by the Knights of Columbus (Oakland Chapter), Catholics for the Common Good Institute, and the Issues4Life Foundation.

Sept. 12, 2 p.m.: Charismatic Mass and Healing Service with Bishop Mylo H. Vergara, Bishop of San Jose Diocese, Nueva Ecija, Philippines, presiding, at St. Patrick Church, 756 Mission St. at 4th St. in San Francisco. Parking at Jesse Parking Garage—Enter on 3rd Street and Stevenson. Tickets will be validated at the Gift Shop. Call (415) 421-3730.

Sept. 22, 7 p.m.: Mass of Thanksgiving commemorating 100th anniversary of the ordination of St. Padre Pio and the 50th anniversary of the ordination of Capuchin Father Fintan Whelan at Our Lady of Angels Church, 1721 Hillside Dr. in Burlingame.

Reception follows. Call (650) 347-7768.

St. Patrick’s Seminary and University Sept. 18: St. Patrick’s Seminary & University Four Pillars Gala at the school, 320 Middlefield Rd. in Menlo Park. Evening includes Vespers at 5 p.m. then tours, social hour, dinner, raffle and dancing. Tickets are $150 per person. Raffle tickets $25 each or a book of five for $100. For more information visit our www.stpatricksseminary.org, email events@stpatricksseminary.org or call (650) 325-5621, ext. 211.Proceeds benefit the school.

Arts and Entertainment Oct. 8, 8 p.m.: A Night of Prayer and Song with musicians Bob Hurd and Dan Schutte at St. Kevin Church, 704 Cortland Ave. in San Francisco. Songs written by the pair include Pan de Vida and Here I Am Lord. Tickets at $25 per person include refreshments at 7:30 p.m. Visit www.lanier.org/st-kevin or contact Matt Lanier at (650) 738-1632 or matt@lanier.org.

Proceeds benefit the parish.

Volunteer Opportunities Catholic Charities CYO is an independent non-profit organization operating as the social services arm of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

Rooted in our faith traditions of charity and justice, CCCYO works to support, stabilize and strengthen families. Volunteers have the power to change lives and impact communities. Contact Liz Rodriguez at erodriguez@cccyo.org or (415) 972-1297 to fill out a volunteer application. A list of current open volunteer positions is available online at www.cccyo.org/volunteer.

Come volunteer your time and talents with the St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco (SVDP). SVDP works to provide direct person to

person service to San Francisco’s poor, homeless, and victims of domestic violence. Serving more than 1,000 children, women and men every day, volunteers play a critical difference in our community. Through serving meals, helping in our laundry room, community garden, tutoring, or in our holistic Wellness Center- St. Vincent de Paul Society volunteers get a chance to get out, have fun, and truly make an impact. For more info contact Tim Szarnicki: tszarnicki@svdp-sf.org 415-977-1270 x3010.

St. Anthony Foundation serves thousands of poor and homeless individuals and families through its food program, drug and alcohol recovery, free medical clinic, clothing program, tech lab, and other programs. Our award winning Volunteer Program is an integral part of our services and relationships. For more information, visit www.stanthonysf.org and fill out a volunteer opportunity request form or contact Marie O’Connor at 415-592-2726.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul of San Mateo County is the safety net every year for over 40,000 San Mateo County residents in need, including more than 17,000 children. See how you can join us. Call Atrecia at 373-0623 or e-mail svdpinfo@yahoo.com.

Handicapables continues its 40-year tradition of prayer and fellowship each month at St. Mary’s Cathedral. Volunteers are always welcome. Call Olivia at (415) 751-8531 or Jane at (415) 585-9085, for more information or to volunteer. Handicapables will not meet at the Cathedral in October but another event is planned. Ask at the numbers above.

La Porziuncola Nuova at National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi. To volunteer and become a Knight of Saint Francis, contact Jim Brunsmann at jimbrunsmann@comcast.net or go to www. knightsofsaintfrancis.com and follow the Volunteer Application link at the bottom of the home page.

Food & Fun Aug 28, 5:30 pm.: Women of St Paul annual Pasta Dinner and Raffle at St. Paul Church, Father Mario P. Farana Parish Hall, 29th and Valley Streets in San Francisco. The meal includes salad, bread, pasta, meatballs and dessert. No host bar opens at 5:30 p.m. Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. New this year: A Children’s Craft Table. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. For reservations, contact St Paul Rectory at (415) 648-7538.

Aug. 28, 29: Super Bargain sale at St. Anne of the Sunset’s Moriarty Hall on Funston between Judah

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and Irving. Hours are Saturday 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m. – noon. New and used items will be available for purchase. Proceeds benefit St. Anne Parish. For more information or to donate items call Lucy at (415) 681-8719; Lydia at (650) 888-8973, or Vera at (415) 752-2732.

Sept. 19, 3 – 6 p.m.: Third Annual Wine and Roses benefiting Redwood City’s St. Francis Center at The Sullivan Estate and Vineyard in Woodside. Day includes wine tasting, music, silent auction, and raffle. Tickets are $75 per person. Call Lynda Connolly at (650) 592-7714 or e-mail lyndaconnolly@c2usa.net September 26, 9 a.m. - 8p.m.: International Food, Music and Dance Festival featuring ethnic cuisine, music and entertainment. Enjoy foods from Brazil, Burma, the Philippines, the Middle-East, Greece and the United States. Also: animal balloons, cotton candy, face painting, hookahs, jewelry, photos and smoothies. Foods will be available for purchase.

Admission is $3. Takes place at St. Thomas More Church, at Brotherhood Way at Thomas More Way, San Francisco. (415) 452-9634.

Oct. 6, 11 a.m.: St. Vincent de Paul Society of San Francisco’s annual Brennan Awards lunch and ceremony at the Hilton San Francisco Hotel, 333 O’Farrell St. Award recipients are Sharon McCarthy Allen and Joanne Murphy. Visit www.svdp-sf.org

Reunion Sept. 18: St. Paul High School class of 1960 contact: Lil Carter 415-584-3938 or e-mail sphsclassof1960@yahoo.com Sept. 25, 11:30 a.m.: St. Brigid High School all-school reunion at Presidio Officers Golf Club.

Contact Pat Sabatini at (650) 685-5666.

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

Contact Bob O’Donnell at rjodfc@yahoo.com or Nancy Sarlatte Murphy at nancymurphy1248@comcast.net Oct. 23: Class of 2000 Notre Dame High School, Belmont with campus tours at 4:30 p.m. and celebratory event at 7 p.m. at King Fish Restaurant in San Mateo. E-mail ndbjaguars2000@gmail.com.

Oct. 23: Archbishop Riordan High School, class of ’60 dinner dance, at the Italian American Social Club in San Francisco. Contact Tucker Spolter at teespot@earthlink.net or (415) 461-4628, or Tom Aspell at aspellt@al.com.

Oct 24: St. John Ursuline, San Francisco class of 75’ and 76’ reunion lunch at the Irish Cultural Center. Contact Karen Grimley at Karen.Grimley@ ssf.net or Theresa Keane at theresakeane@gmail. com for ticket information.

Nov. 20, 4 – 8 p.m.: Class of ’60, Holy Name of Jesus Elementary School in San Francisco on school campus at 40th Ave. and Lawton. Contact Dennis Norton at (415) 454-3184 or danort@comcast.net Class of ’60 from Holy Angels Elementary School in Colma. Contact Linda Brewer at brewer@ sbcglobal.net or visit www.holyangelscolma.com or call (650) 755-0220.

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

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

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

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Most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel Blessed Mother of the Son of God, assistme in my need. Help me and show me you are my mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and earth. I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to help me in this need.

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

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

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St. Jude helper of the hopeless pray for us.

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Public Notice SHIPWRECK’S 95TH ANNIVERSARY GALA! The St. Paul of the Shipwreck Church family extends a warm invitation for you to join us in celebrating our 95th Anniversary Year as a parish community in the Bayview/Hunters Point District of San Francisco! To honor this memorable occasion, we are sponsoring a Gala Dinner Dance on Saturday, September 25th, Patio Espanol Restaurant, 2850 Alemany Boulevard, San Francisco. Cocktails are at 6 p.m., Dinner is at 7 p.m., and a Silent Auction runs throughout the event. (Evening attire).

We promise an exciting evening of fun, entertainment, delicious cuisine, and dancing to the music of the dynamic David Hardiman, Jr. Band. The ever popular and personable award-winning news anchor, Barbara Rodgers, is our Host. Ms Rodgers, who retired recently from CBS Eyewitness News after almost 30 years, appears regularly as a Host of “Comcast Newsmakers’.

Have fun while supporting a good cause! Our Gala will kick off a two-year Capital Campaign to enable the expansion, renovation, and maintenance of the church and school facilities that house our community outreach programs for at risk youth in Bayview/Hunters Point and Visitacion Valley. We will take this opportunity to honor our benefactors: Mr. Clint Reilly, Mr. Brian Cahill, St. Mary’s Medical Center/CHW, and the S.F. Giants Community Fund, who have helped make our youth outreach possible over the years.

You can be a part of this memorable evening and support our cause in several ways: Attend the Gala ($75 per ticket); sponsor a table; purchase ad space in our souvenir booklet; contribute items for the silent auction; or make a direct donation. To facilitate your gift, call the Church Office at (415) 468-3434, email us at spswoffice@ aol.com, or visit us on the web at www.stpauloftheshipwreck.org

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Catholic San Francisco

August 27, 2010

In Remembrance of the Faithful Departed Interred In Our Catholic Cemeteries During the Month of July HOLY CROSS COLMA

Ernest Peter Frescura Roger K. Galatoire Pedro Roman Garcia Victor J. Garibaldi Sergio E. Acosta Victor J. Garibali Maurice Ajuria Daniel “Gil” Gilbert Ana Maria Alano Elmo S. Giovannetti, Sr. Ivan Vicente Alcala Walter H. Giubbini Christine Baisa Alexander Daniel L. Goltiao James E. Allen Victoria M. Gonzales Lucie A. Anciano Sr. Helen Griffin, PBVM Rosalina Garcia Antonio Josefa G. Gutierrez Ernest A. Bautista Lorretta Gutierrez Margaret M. Benardo Adelina Maria Da Luz (Dina) Boutourlin Maria Del Carmen Guzman Barbara C. Hallett Dennis M. Boyd James T. Hallisy Robert G. Bryant Virginia Mae Allen Harari Frederick E. Burket Denis Harrington Constance P. (Connie) Cables Alicia M. Hopkinson Noel M. Callaghan Anita P. Ignacio Mary A. Calliguri Sharon Kelly James Calway Eunran Andrea Kim Vickiann Vas Carini Sr. M. Agnes Teresa Kovich, PBVM Norma Carli Theresa Maria Kummerling Mary Wrenn Carlier Ernest Albert Layrac Leslie M. Casazza, Sr. Aurora R. Lenon Margaret M. Casey Mary Motak Leung Lydia Cassetta Joseph Lye Rita Castell-Blanch Jose P. Madriaga Allison X. L. Chung Anita Marcy Green Marlette Ernest J. Clot Lino G. Marraccini William T. Cochrane Nellie V. McEnroe Frank A. Compani Juanita L. Medina Eileen A. Conlon Thomas L. Menicucci Phyllis R. Conti Josephine Milani William P. Costello Lorraine A. Molinari Leonore Sears Cresalia John A. Molinari, Sr. Albert Crespin Carolyn Means Musto Ida R. Crespin Paul S. Nahm Ron J. Crivello Lawrence J. Nannini Diana R. Crosetti Asuncion M. Nepomuceno Hipolito A. Cusi Nellie Nicolai Michael Vincent Davino Rosetta Nicolosi Carol A. De La Cruz Humphrey O’Leary Donald C. De Lutis Alicia Ocampo-Mallorca Leo E. Del Rosso Eric Ongsitco Ryan Kevin Devine Rena A. Orovich Robert J. Domergue Ricardo J. Ortega Joseph J. Dub Michael H. Ozawa Alberto Alcibiades Nestor Elizalde Mary Moran Pajalich Purificacion J. Empleo Barbara T. Parodi Thomas J. Farnsworth Donald Patch Gioconda Fatica Madre Elena Patricia, O.C.D. Ramon C. Fernandez Mary I. Pellizzer Rose Ellen (McCormick) Forbes Maria Elena Perez Thelma Fraschieri

Walter M. Podesta, Sr. Rosario Gomez Rebolledo Robert E. Riegel Mary Ristow Jane Rivera Elaine K. Rivers Ruby W. Robinson Thomas John Rochford Theresa Maria Rolandelli Gregory Romiguiere Jack (John D.) Ryan Amelia P. Sabit Salvador Sahagun Juliana Sanchez Mary J. Sanchez Eugene Santi Maria Teresa Sayson Evelyn S. Scerri Bernice Rose Schott John W. Shea Veronica P. Skillin June M. Stelmak Rose Stern Sr. M. Dolora Sullivan, PBVM Maria Dolores Tabarez Rena O. Tozzi Joan K. Tusch Theresa R. Valin Rita F. Verili Frank J. Vicino Joseph J. Vinal Sarina Vitrano John J. Webb, Jr. Cynthia Luthi Weber Patricia M. Wong

MENLO PARK Philip Vincent Muhilly Jess A. Saldivar, Jr. Ruben Antonio Samper Catherine C. Scott

MT. OLIVET George Earl Alexander Cecelia Braga Rosemary Cunningham Roger Louis Di Genova Anita M. Lara Alice Marie McNamee David Frank Piazza Edward F. Pilgrim George Polinski Meline Polinski

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY, COLMA First Saturday Mass – Saturday, September 4, 2010 All Saints Mausoleum Chapel – 11:00 am • Rev. Moises Agudo, Celebrant

Ministry of Consolation Training – Grief Care Ministry Saturday – September 25, 2010 • St. Pius Parish Center, 9:00am – 4:00 pm Please contact Barbara Elordi for more information and registration 415-614-5506 – elordib@sfarchdiocese.org

“Tomb Walk” Saturday – September 25, 2010 • 10:00 am – 12:00 pm All new Saturday morning walking tour with Historian, Michael Svanevik Offered through the San Mateo Senior Center. Fee payable to San Mateo Senior Center.

Call 650-522-7490 for more information and registration.

The Catholic Cemeteries Archdiocese of San Francisco www.holycrosscemeteries.com HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY 1500 Mission Road, Colma, CA 650-756-2060 PILARCITOS CEMETERY Hwy. 92 @ Main, Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1676

HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CEMETERY Intersection of Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA 650-323-6375 ST. ANTHONY CEMETERY Stage Road, Pescadero, CA 650-712-1679

MT. OLIVET CATHOLIC CEMETERY 270 Los Ranchitos Road, San Rafael, CA 415-479-9020 OUR LADY OF THE PILLAR CEMETERY Miramontes St., Half Moon Bay, CA 650-712-1679

A Tradition of Faith Throughout Our Lives.