August 27, 2010 by Catholic San Francisco

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. LOCAL PRIEST, page 8

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. IRAQI REFUGEE FAMILY, page 6

INSIDE THIS WEEK’S EDITION Mother Teresa’s impact . . . . . 3 St. John Bosco relic . . . . . . . . 4 News in brief. . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Commentary & letters. . 16-17 Scripture & reflection. . . . . 18

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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

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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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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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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.

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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.â&#x20AC;? Television serves Msgr. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;heavenâ&#x20AC;? noting â&#x20AC;&#x153;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.â&#x20AC;? Msgr. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always played golf,â&#x20AC;? 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. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, Pat, is also now deceased. A sister, Cecile Toomey, lives with her husband, Tim, in St. Pius Parish in Redwood City. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never had a bad day all of my life,â&#x20AC;? Msgr. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malley said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had his arms around me all the time. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been blessed.â&#x20AC;?

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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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