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Catholic relief workers say situation in Darfur is far from resolved

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Catholic writer, had reported that as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope had strong doubts about the 1986 meeting and felt it emphasized spectacle over faith. But in his message, Pope Benedict said Pope John Paul II had correctly perceived the value of having leaders of different faiths gather to send a message that true religion builds bridges and has nothing to do with violence. “His invitation for a choral witness to peace served to clarify, without any possibility of misunderstanding, that religion can only be a source of peace,” he said. The 1986 meeting and those that followed have also highlighted the importance of prayer in changing human hearts and helping to clear the often difficult path to peace, the pope said. “We need this ‘education to peace’ more than ever, especially looking at the new generations,” the pope said.

YAOUNDE, Cameroon (CNS) — Despite a May peace agreement meant to end the conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur, refugees who fled to the neighboring central-Africa country of Chad are not returning to Sudan, according to reports by aid workers. Small groups of refugees are still staggering into Chad, and huge numbers may be preparing to leave Sudan if a threatened Sudanese government offensive starts, said a Catholic Relief Services representative. “The number of refugees is increasing,” said Fortune Agboton, the team leader for CRS’ emergency team in Abeche, in eastern Chad. “The situation in Darfur is not solved.” In a telephone interview, Agboton said that at the moment refugees are crossing the border in groups of 10 or 20. Fighting among rebel groups, some of which did not sign the Darfur Peace Accord reached in May, and increased banditry by militias and armed gangs have risen since the peace deal was signed. The United Nations says the number of areas in Darfur inaccessible to aid workers is rising steadily because of the upsurge in violence as well as a lack of funds. Although for several years non-Arab rebel groups have been fighting Arab militias, the rebel groups have now splintered, and some are committing atrocities against civilians. At least a dozen aid workers have been killed in the region since late June. Nearly 500,000 internally displaced people in Darfur did not receive their monthly food ration in July, said U.N. officials. In addition, the Sudanese government is preparing to send 10,000 Sudanese soldiers to Darfur to confront the active militias. Agboton said he fears that if the threatened offensive takes places, thousands more Darfur residents will flee to Chad. Human Rights Watch reports that cross-border attacks by the Janjaweed, the Sudanese-government militias responsible for many of the atrocities in Darfur, as well as active Darfur rebel groups, have continued even after the peace accord was signed. Other human rights groups have noted a rise in rapes and other sexual violence. But the humanitarian situation in Chad’s refugee camps is not nearly as dire, Agboton said. Approximately 240,000 Darfur refugees live in 12 camps in eastern Chad. CRS, the U.S. bishops’ international relief and development agency, helps the Chad branch of Caritas manage two camps, at Farchana and Kounoungou, with a total of 35,000 refugees. Agboton said that CRS and Caritas, known in Chad by its French acronym, Secadev, may be adding a third camp and about 17,000 refugees to their work. Refugees in the camps are receiving enough food and medicine, Agboton said, and the aid organizations are beginning to train Sudanese refugees in tailoring and other small trades so they can feed themselves. The crisis in Darfur began in 2003 when the

A rebel with the National Redemption Front, an alliance formed by groups that have not signed the Darfur Peace Agreement, carries his weapon in Sudan. Attacks by the Sudanese government militias responsible for many of the atrocities of Darfur and by active rebel groups have continued even after the peace accord was signed.

Pope calls interreligious prayer a ‘prophetic’ way to witness against conflict and war By John Thavis ASSISI, Italy (CNS) — On the 20th anniversary of the first interreligious prayer meeting in Assisi, Pope Benedict XVI said the initiative had been a “prophetic” way for various faiths to witness against conflict and war. The pope said such gatherings were needed even more today, when younger generations of all faiths must learn that prayer “does not divide, but unites” and that religion must never be used as an excuse for violence. The pope made his comments in a message Sept. 4 to the 20th Interreligious Prayer Meeting for Peace in Assisi, Italy. Sponsored by the Sant’Egidio Community, the two-day encounter brought together more than 150 representatives of various world religions. The pope’s message offered a strong endorsement of the interfaith meetings that began in Assisi in 1986, surprising some observers. Vittorio Messori, a well-known Italian

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On The Where You Live by Tom Burke Pepsi got a taste of the real thing from John Cianciolo, a competitor in the cola company’s recent National Youth Bowling Championships. John, a graduate of Ralston Middle School and now a freshman at Junipero Serra High School, rolled into the tourney with family in tow including his folks, Vera and Bob and his sister, Taylor, a Notre Dame High School graduate now matriculating at Sonoma State. Proud grandparents are Mary and Frank Cianciolo, founding parishioners of Mater Dolorosa Parish in South San Francisco and Elfie and John Krische, members of neighboring St. Augustine’s….Was very glad to visit with my brother Shawn and his wife, Patrea, who were in from Orlando for a Yosemite wedding but took a coupla’ days in the City first. Shawn has been doing morning radio in the Sunshine State for nigh onto a dozen years following similar stints in major markets including Philadelphia – where else? - New York, Chicago and St. Louis. The family is pretty proud of the boy – a middle child by the way -and it was great to see him. As Shawn’s usual wake up time is 2 a.m., he and Patrea are into the early dinner. I see the experience as good rehearsal for the “early bird” deals I guess I’ll be chasin’ down now that I’ve reached the ripe old age of 55.….Much afoot in the Richmond District!! Star of the Sea Elementary School’s Class of ‘56 will hold “Golden Diploma” rites October 7 and the beloved and much-missed Star of the Sea Academy will be feting its 56ers October 15, according to school principal, Terry Hanley. In addition, Star is beginning an early wind-up to its 100th anniversary in 2009, Terry said. “We are calling out to all our graduates from both schools to contact us,” he said. “We want to be sure we have you on our mailing list so you are kept informed of upcoming events as we celebrate 100

Here at Catholic San Francisco we just couldn’t be happier for our colleague Sandy Dahl Finnegan and her new husband, Stephen Finnegan, who took their vows May 20th at St. Dominic Church in San Francisco. Sandy helps keep CSF’s advertising arm moving and Steve is a firefighter from San Francisco’s Station 18. The bride’s folks are Terry and Bob Dahl of St. Vincent de Paul Parish. The groom’s mom is Sarah Finnegan. His dad and step-mom are Peter Finnegan and Natalie Berg. Lt. John Carlin of the San Francisco Police Department played the pipes at the wedding rites. Basking in the glow of the day and the day’s events are Sean Zamb, left, John Carlin, Barry Lo, Mike Coleman, Ken Smith, Stephen, Sandy and “best dog” Rory, Moisa Cueto, Scott Doonan, Lorenzo Ibarra.

years of Catholic Education at Star of the Sea.” Alums should call (415) 221-8558 or email terryhanley@starsf.net…. Makin’ all the papers is the 100th birthday of John La Barbera, longtime parishioner of Church of the Nativity in Menlo Park. The new centenarian was feted at a reception at Nativity after a morning Mass August 6th and the week before by more than a hundred family and friends – of course - at Sharon Heights Country Club, said his daughter, Marie Zahn…. Celebrating 60 years of marriage are Mary Anne and Robert Roby of St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Burlingame where they renewed their vows July 20th with

pastor, Father Al Vucinovich. The couple’s children gifted their folks with a trip North to Portland where they visited with daughter, Sister Mary Linda Roby, a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and Director of Deaf Ministry for the Archdiocese of Portland….Remember this is an empty space without ya’!! The email address for Street is burket@sfarchdiocese.org. Mailed items should be sent to “Street,” One Peter Yorke Way, SF 94109. Pix should be hard copy or electronic jpeg at 300 dpi. Don’t forget to include a follow-up phone number. Call me at (415) 6145634 and I’ll walk you through it.

Happy anniversary to the Ladies of Charity, St. Anthony’s Guild of St. Matthew Parish, San Mateo who are celebrating their 100th year in 2006. Much like Catholic Charities here the group grew around the many needs created by the famed 1906 Earthquake. “For one hundred years, they have responded to people in St. Matthew’s parish: the aged, the lonely, the poor, the immigrants and the needy,” said Father Dominic Savio Lee, parochial vicar at St. Matt’s. “They have 80 members, 25 are still in active.” Congrats to Carmen Lopes, left, Mary O’Halloran, Jamma Velia, Angie Chiesa, Rosemarie Horgan, Carlotta Espinosa, Caroline Biafore and Barbara Shea with Father Anthony McGuire, pastor, Deacon James Shea and Holy Cross Sister Marcelle Frizzie, who has served at St. Matt’s for 50 years. “Sister Marcelle still visits the sick daily,” Father Dominic said.

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U.S. diplomat says Hezbollah arms, Iran’s aims key to stable Mideast By John Thavis ROME (CNS) — Stopping the weapons flow to Hezbollah in Lebanon and responding to the nuclear ambitions of Iran are essential for a stable Middle East, said the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. The ambassador, Francis Rooney, said the international community needs to make sure that as Lebanon moves toward peace and security countries like Syria and Iran are prevented from transferring arms to “terrorist groups such as Hezbollah.” Rooney made the comments Sept. 1 in written responses to questions submitted by Catholic News Service. The ambassador said the international community, including the Vatican, should not be fooled by Iran’s equivocations on its nuclear program. “The United States shares with the Holy See and the international community a desire for a stable Middle East, and none of us want to see nuclear proliferation in the region,” he said. “The danger for the whole international community, including the Holy See, is to be taken in by Iran’s stalling tactics and half-truths about its nuclear

ambitions. The stakes are just too high,” he said. The issue is one discussed with Vatican officials, he added. The ambassador’s comments came the day after Iran refused to meet a U.N. Security Council deadline on suspending its uranium enrichment program. Iran says the nuclear program is strictly for peaceful purposes. Rooney said the Lebanese conflict underscored the need to “stop Hezbollah from acting as a state within a state.” The cornerstone of a sovereign and independent Lebanon is a strong and effective Lebanese army, he said. He blamed Hezbollah for starting the Lebanese conflict with a rocket attack on Israel. He said that after the Israeli response the lesson learned, even by Hezbollah leaders, was that “aggression and terror don’t pay.” A key challenge now is to prevent outside countries from rearming Hezbollah, Rooney said. He said Iran and Syria have a long history of supplying weapons to Hezbollah and similar groups in the region, and that needs to be shut down. He said the United States shares the Vatican hope for a continued strong presence of Christians in Lebanon.

“We need to work to ensure that restraint during the fighting the pope and Lebanon recovers quickly from this con- others in the church played a “critical flict and its people are able to live without diplomatic role.” The ambassador said the United States, the shadow of threats from Hezbollah,” he like the Vatican, was sadsaid. dened at the loss of life “The international comand extensive damage to munity will also need to infrastructure in Lebanon. ensure that no outside An estimated 1,200 influences create an imbalLebanese, mostly civilance that would threaten ians, died in the 34-day the ability of people of difconflict; 157 Israelis, most ferent faiths to live togethof them soldiers, also were er in harmony. This is — killed. and has been — a part of Rooney pointed out that Lebanon’s distinct characthe United States has proter,” he said. vided $50 million in When the Lebanese humanitarian assistance to conflict began in July, Lebanon and announced a Pope Benedict XVI and $230 million package for other Vatican officials Francis Rooney humanitarian, reconstrucstrongly urged an immediate cease-fire. The United States support- tion and security assistance in the country. He noted that the Catholic Church has ed the Israeli position that certain conditions were necessary before a cease-fire also responded with humanitarian aid in Lebanon. could be effective. “The United States and the Holy See Rooney said he thought the Vatican and the United States shared the basic share a common goal here — to see a lastobjective of ending hostilities, but “we ing peace in the region, to secure assissaw different means to reach the same tance for the Lebanese people, and to support the rapid repair of wartime damage,” end.” He said that in calling for reason and the ambassador said.

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Interreligious prayer . . . ■ Continued from cover “Many young people in areas of the world marked by conflict are educated in sentiments of hatred and vengeance, in ideological contexts that cultivate the seeds of ancient animosities and prepare hearts for future violence,” he said. The pope addressed bluntly the accusation, aired in some conservative church circles, that the Assisi meeting represented an injudicious blending of different faith elements and prayer expressions. He noted that 20 years ago Pope John Paul emphasized that the religious leaders had not come together to seek a religious consensus or “negotiate” their faith convictions. Pope Benedict said the policy chosen in 1986, which continues today, is for the various religions to pray in their own distinct way even as they gather to witness in the same place. In this way, confusion is avoided, he said. “The convergence of diverse representatives should not give the impression of a concession to that relativism which negates the very meaning of truth and the possibility of taking it in,” he said. The pope also offered a historical perspective on the 20 years that have followed the first interreligious prayer meeting. He said the fall of European communism and the promise of a more cooperative globalized economy generated hope for a new era of peace.

September 8, 2006 “Unfortunately, this dream of peace did not come true. On the contrary, the third millennium opened with scenarios of terrorism and violence that show no sign of dissolving,” he said. He said the fact that many conflicts today occur along regional geopolitical fault lines may give the impression that religious differences themselves constitute elements of instability or a threat to peace. That only gives added relevance to the interreligious prayer meetings for peace, he said. George Wesolek, director of the San Francisco Archdiocese Office of Public Affairs and Social Concerns, noted that local interfaith prayer services, emulating Assisi, have been held over the years. He said, “In a world where violence all too often seems to prevail, it is more important than ever to join together in prayer, recognizing our common humanity under God.” Father Gerald O’Rourke, director emeritus of the Archdiocesan Office of Ecumenical and Interfaith Affairs, said, “Jesus is the great exemplar of accepting people of other faiths, as we see in the Gospels.” He said, “Interreligious prayer meetings allow people of diverse faith traditions to come together in respect and harmony and peace in healing and in prayer.”

Cardinal speaks out on immigration LOS ANGELES (CNS) — Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony kicked off a week of immigration-related rallies nationwide with Labor Day letters to President George W. Bush and congressional leaders, urging them to push for comprehensive reform legislation and not let it become mired in partisan politics. “Failure to enact comprehensive and fair immigration reform will simply continue the inequality of those living and working in our country for the benefit of all of us,” said Cardinal Mahony in the Sept. 4 letter to Bush. “We simply cannot allow that to happen.” In a Labor Day homily preceding an immigrant-rights rally, the cardinal blamed Congress for adding to confusion about immigration and warned members of Congress that they “do not have the right or luxury to let four weeks go by and refuse to deal with immigra-

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tion reform.” Congress returned to work after Labor Day for a brief session before planned adjournment in October, to allow campaigning prior to November’s general election. Cardinal Mahony said legitimate security concerns are but one element of reforms that are needed. Legislation should also address the reality that immigrant workers “are essential to the life, and the economy and the opportunity of all of us, not just themselves, but all of us. And so they must be given just treatment,” he said. The event in Los Angeles was one of many held around the country during the Labor Day weekend. In Chicago, several thousand people joined a rally to end a four-day, 45-mile protest march through various points around the city. The march concluded in front of House Speaker Dennis Hastert’s congressional office.

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New order, primarily of deaf men, will minister to deaf Catholics In rites at the Dominican Friars’ St. Albert Priory in Oakland, Bishop Allen Vigneron, leader of the Diocese of Oakland, witnessed the first steps of a new religious order for the deaf Aug. 27. Father Thomas J. Coughlin, pastor of St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf in San Francisco, is founder of the Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate. Joining Father Coughlin, as temporarily professed members of what is now called a Private Association of the Faithful are Gregoire Youbara, 27, Isidore Niyongabo, 26, Adam Zawadzki, 22, and Andrew Sanchez, 49. Gregoire and Isidore are deaf and Adam and Andrew are hearing. All five bring proficiency in Sign Language to the new effort. The men pronounced their vows before Oakland’s Bishop Allen H. Vigneron, who formally recognized the new community in 2004. Father Coughlin will remain a diocesan priest until he makes his final vows in a few years. The other four men are in various stages of preparation for the priesthood, and the religious community also has two novices. Creating this order has been a challenge for the determined priest, who has been making his case before bishops and cardinals for nearly three decades. Father Coughlin was ordained in the Trinitarian order in 1977 and he went to Honolulu 10 years later at the invitation of then-Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario of Honolulu, who was perhaps the only bishop in the United States at the time skilled in American Sign Language. The bishop, who died in 2003, welcomed Father Coughlin into the diocese and assigned him to Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Honolulu where he celebrated the Mass in sign language and created a ministry to the deaf. An interpreted Mass for the deaf continues there today. In a 1987 interview with the Hawaii

Catholic Herald, the priest expressed his determination to start an order of priests who are deaf for the deaf. At the time, few if any seminaries and religious orders welcomed deaf candidates. He left Hawaii in the early 1990s to follow his dream. In 1993 in Denver he joined the Dominicans. Although he remained a Dominican for only a year, he was encouraged by the head of the Dominican order to form a new branch in the Dominican order designed specifically for the deaf candidates and apostolate. Father Coughlin approached the bishops and vicars general of several different dioceses seeking authorization to form a religious community, but they all turned him away. In 2002, then-Archbishop William J. Levada of San Francisco heard Father Coughlin’s story and invited him to his archdiocese to minister at St. Benedict Parish. There, Father Coughlin established the Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate, an offshoot of Oakland’s Dominican community, to “preach the Gospel to deaf people in sign language and to give opportunities for deaf men to study for the priesthood in their native language, which is sign language.” “We preach to the deaf in Sign Language as part of the Dominican charism of preaching,” Father Coughlin told Catholic San Francisco. “Our motto is Preaching in Sign Language – a new Dominican tradition.” “We will also be involved in pastoral work at St. Benedict Parish for the Deaf, at St. Francis Xavier Church, in San Francisco and in Oakland,” Father Coughlin said. “In addition we will facilitate retreats for the deaf here and wherever God calls us.” The new association is self-supporting. Donations may be made to Dominican Missionaries for the Deaf Apostolate, 1801 Octavia St., San Francisco 94109. Visit www.dominicanmissionaries.org.

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In an interview, Archbishop Niederauer speaks of seminary visitations By Catholic San Francisco Staff Reports are expected to be sent to U.S. bishops as early as this fall summarizing the results of a program of apostolic visitations to U.S. seminaries begun last year. The visitations were initiated by the Vaticanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Congregation for Catholic Education, which oversees seminary formation, and were coordinated by U.S. Archbishop Edwin F. Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien of the Archdiocese of Military Services. The objectives of the visitations were to examine the criteria for admission of candidates and various aspects of priestly formation, including the intellectual formation of seminarians in the field of moral theology and the programs of human and spiritual formation aimed at ensuring they can faithfully live chaste, celibate lives. The congregation appointed 117 bishops and seminary personnel as visitors. They traveled in small teams to 156 diocesan and religious seminaries and houses of formation. During the visits, the teams interviewed seminarians, faculty, staff and members of the board of directors. There were 10 areas of concentration, including the concept of the priesthood, governance of the seminary, admission policies, academic formation, human formation, pastoral formation and service of the seminary to the newly ordained. In all there were 56 questions, six of which had to be answered. These had to do with whether psychological testing is employed in admissions procedures; if the interviewee had concerns about the moral life of the seminary; whether there was evidence of homosexuality in the seminary; whether there was adequate formation to enable seminarians to live a life of celibacy and chastity; whether students were being prepared to respond to the moral relativism they will face in the society; and whether the seminary checked regularly for impediments to ordination. San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer talked with Catholic San Francisco about the visitations in late August. CSF: How did the program of apostolic visitations to U.S. seminaries come about? ABN: In Rome in April 2002 the U.S. Cardinals and USCCB officers met with Vatican officials concerning the Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to the crisis regarding clergy sexual abuse of minors. One of the proposals to emerge was an apostolic visitation of all U.S. seminaries to assess the quality of priestly formation. Two months later, meeting in Dallas, all the U.S. bishops included this proposal in their â&#x20AC;&#x153;Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.â&#x20AC;? CSF: What was the purpose of the visitations? ABN: To assess the quality of priestly formation in U.S. seminaries, especially the human formation and spiritual formation, and most particularly to determine that seminarians were being prepared properly to live a chaste and celibate life.

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firmed the idea that the church can live with evolution as an explanation of the “how” of creation, as long as evolutionary theory does not try to exclude a divine cause. He said the philosophical component was an important part of the symposium, which went beyond the perspectives of religion and natural science. Reuters News Agency reported that Pope Benedict and his former doctoral students plan to publish the proceedings of their weekend seminar on evolution to promote a dialogue between faith and science on the origins of life. The minutes, to be issued later this year, will show how Catholic theologians see no contradiction between their belief in divine creation and the scientific theory of evolution, they said Fr. Fessio said the group met Sept. 1 without the pope and heard presentations by Austrian molecular biologist Peter Schuster; German Jesuit Father Paul Elbrich, a professor of natural philosophy; and Robert Spaemann, a German philosopher. On Sept. 2, with the pope in attendance, those presentations were summarized and Cardinal Schonborn spoke. A wider discussion followed in the afternoon. Fr. Fessio said, “At the end, as he always does, the pope beautifully summarized some of the major points of all the

presentations and our discussions.” In an unprecedented decision, the pope also encouraged the students to publish the papers and discussions in several languages, because of their high quality, Father Fessio said. That means that eventually the world will get a firsthand look at the content of the symposium. When the papers are published, Father Fessio said, Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio people will see that the gathering did not mark any significant shift in direction on the church and evolution, but rather a deeper understanding of the challenges it poses. Father Fessio studied under the future Pope Benedict at the University of Regensburg in Germany in the 1970s.

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the causes were already clear and evident, there would be no need for the study. Many factors may be involved. For instance, the study of the nature and scope of the problem, already completed, indicates that over 80 percent of the offenses were committed during only 20 of the 52 years studied. If there had been simply one cause, what accounts for the concentration in those years? It seems prudent to wait for the completion and publication of the second study before drawing conclusions about causality. CSF: All of these questions have focused on an institutional perspective, but the vocation to the priesthood is a personal experience. How does all of this fit together? ABN: Theologians make a useful distinction among the

different gifts of grace the Holy Spirit gives to Christians. Some gifts are given mainly for the disciple himself or herself, for example, a grace of prayerful contemplation or the grace to resist a temptation. Other gifts or charisms are given mainly for the benefit of the Church and are used in its service, for example, the gift for teaching children the faith or the gift for leading the parish choir. The gift of a vocation, a call from God, to serve and live as a priest is that second kind of gift. No one has a right to be a priest because he thinks he’d like the life. While a priestly vocation is enormously important for the candidate’s own interior life, still he needs to seek out the Church as teacher, director and guide, and as co-discerner with him.

■ Continued from page 6 CSF: Some people have pointed to the high incidence of homosexual acts by priests in sexual abuse data contained in published reports. Should we assume that a homosexual orientation among some priests is responsible for much of the clergy sexual abuse? ABN: The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has commissioned and is funding a three-year study of the causes and context of the crisis of clergy sexual abuse of minors during the second half of the twentieth century. If

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By Evelyn Zappia Joe Levins stood in the remains of the New York World Trade Center shortly after the deadly terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 and looked in disbelief at the destruction around him. Without thinking, he reached down and scooped up some of the buildings’ broken stones and placed them in an envelope. He had no idea at the time that the shattered fragments would eventually be in the hands of U.S. soldiers serving in the Middle East. “My dad brought the stones to me,” said Jennifer Kretschmer. She and her husband Paul are longtime parishioners at St. Peter’s Church in Pacifica. Jennifer remembers the exact words her dad said when he gave her the envelope filled with small stones. “I knew you would be the kind of person who would take care of this.” As an insurance adjuster for different companies headquartered at the World Trade Center (WTC), Levins knew many of the people working there. “He lost many friends that day,” said Jennifer. “He had lunch with friends at the WTC on Friday, and on Tuesday some of them were dead.” The selection of Joe Levins to be the lead insurance adjuster for the WTC claim brought the Kretschmer family into contact with the triumphs and failures that took place daily at Ground Zero. This indirect involvement convinced Paul and Jennifer that they needed to visit the disaster site in 2001 with their daughters Allison and Samantha (“Sammy”). Allison, now ten years old, was in kindergarten at Good Shepherd School in Pacifica at that time. She remembers vividly the purpose of the trip. “When we were in New York, we gave freedom bracelets to every policeman we saw to thank them for what they do for our country – and for me and my sister,

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Darfur . . . â&#x2013; Continued from cover Janjaweed militias began attacking rebel groups in Darfur, a region of western Sudan. The violence has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced more than 2 million, most of them within Darfur. An African Union force of 7,000 soldiers has been patrolling Darfur since 2004, but it is poorly equipped and has received little funding. The AUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mandate to police a ceasefire expires Sept. 30, and the pan-African body has said without a major infusion of cash it could not continue any longer. On Aug. 31, the U.N. Security Council voted to create a 22,500-strong U.N. peacekeeping force for Darfur. The force would not be allowed to enter Darfur without the agreement of the Sudanese government, which has so far refused to grant permission. The Sudanese government says such a force would be a violation of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sovereignty.

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publication of the third secret of Fatima in 2000, another delicate task. The archbishop also has traveled extensively, including one visit to China, so he is no stranger to foreign affairs of state or the universal affairs of the church. Cardinal Bertone has made clear that he is not coming into the job with his own agenda. As he put it in one interview, the secretary of state should above all be â&#x20AC;&#x153;a Italian Cardinal man loyal to the pope,â&#x20AC;? someTarcisio Bertone one who executes the popeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s projects and not his own. One criticism of the Secretariat of State sometimes heard in Rome â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and strongly denied by those who work there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is that in recent decades the office has become too autonomous. Especially in Pope John Paul IIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s later years, there were murmurings that the outgoing secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, was running his own diplomatic enterprise. In his comments to date, Cardinal Bertone has not indicated any major shifts in Vatican foreign policy. He commented that the dramatic situation in Iraq, for example, had demonstrated that the Vaticanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warnings against the war were prophetic. On Lebanon, Cardinal Bertone said Vatican officials were right to press for an immediate cease-fire and that the delay in reaching it cost many lives and much suffering. He has supported the Vaticanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s varied efforts to promote peace and justice in the world, emphasizing that the churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social and political work is part of its main mission: announcing Christ as savior to the world. The cardinalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acknowledged â&#x20AC;&#x153;weak pointâ&#x20AC;? is that he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t speak English. He said he told the pope immediately about this shortcoming, and the pope told him not to worry â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that a lot of important people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know English, including former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. And in any case, the pope added, the Vatican has an excellent team of translators.

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By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — In calling for more common bonds among Africans during the first African National Eucharistic Congress in the United States, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry of Chicago reminded his audience, “We eat the same food. We share the same life that food sustains.” Recalling some of Africa’s fratricidal wars, Bishop Perry reminded the priests and nuns, “Reconciling is a task you cannot sidestep, even as solutions might seem elusive.” In the Eucharist, he added, “we are sharers of the same word of life. We are partakers of the same bread of life.” Bishop Perry was the keynote speaker for the Sept. 2-3 congress, held in Washington. He urged his audience to “directly appeal to the Eucharist as a sign of unity” to avert the “tribal, racial and ethnic prejudices” that have plagued Africa for generations. “We must take pains to avoid a conflict between different tribes, different races, different ethnic groups,” he said. Bishop Perry also expressed concern about the continent itself. “No nation has ever given back to Africa even one-third of what was taken from Africa during the slave trade,” he said. While the church in sub-Saharan Africa is growing “by leaps and bounds,” he added, he knew some participants came from nations “where the church is repressed and even outlawed.” He said African immigrants to the United States may find things they didn’t expect once they arrived. “For us Westerners, religion is an interesting idea, or a topic for debate,” Bishop Perry said. “You might be tempted to view

this country as inhospitable, with a hyper sense of privacy.” Moreover, they may encounter “problems of poverty and social imbalance .... and hedonism” not seen in their homeland, the bishop added. As a result, Bishop Perry said, “we find it is so easy to succumb to the virus of individualism ... once we survive this culture.” In calling on African immigrants to stick to the values they brought with them, Bishop Perry said, “We Americans look to your example of communitarianism and collaboration and a cohesive faith.” “Do not lose sight of your richness and heritage while you are here,” Bishop Perry said to applause. “Life here in America is an anxious existence for all its material gain and promise.” Prior to Bishop Perry’s talk, two speakers called for greater attention to the needs of African-born Catholics by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. “It’s time to have our (own) office in the USCCB,” said Beatrice Unegbu, to shouts of “Yes!” from some at the congress. “We have the numbers to form our own national association.” There may be as many as 100,000 African-born Catholics in the United States, among them 900 priests and 1,000 nuns. The eucharistic congress was expected to draw 500 participants, but nearly 600 had registered by the time of the first day’s lunch break, according to Sister Joanna Okereke, a Nigerian-born member of the Handmaids of the Holy Child Jesus who works as coordinator of ethnic ministries for the Office for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees of the USCCB, which coordinated the gathering.

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At first Eucharistic Congress, bishop calls for bonding among Africans

Bishop Augustine Shao of Zanzibar, Tanzania, accepts baskets of fruit from women during the offertory procession at the first African National Eucharistic Congress at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington Sept. 2.

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FACES OF GLOBAL POVERTY

The Quest For A Clean Water Supply In Western Kenya

Story by Karen A. Cheng Photography by Peter Lemieux The following story is part of a series on the faces of global poverty presented by Catholic San Francisco in anticipation of the “POINT 7 NOW – Keeping America’s Promise to Make Poverty History” conference, Oct. 27-28, at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco. The event will bring together people from the academic, business and church communities from around the nation and the world to discuss concrete ways to eradicate global poverty. The POINT 7 NOW Conference will feature a photo exhibit by San Francisco author and photographer Peter Lemieux. Visit website peterlemieux.com to view his work. rom a distance, the sight of young children digging in the sand of a dried up riverbed looked innocent enough. In their bright green and yellow school uniforms, they crouched on the ground and scooped out one handful of sand after another. Their chatter grew louder and louder the deeper they dug. But unlike children on a beach or in a backyard sand box, these children were not building sand castles. Rather, they were burrowing for something essential for their survival. Two feet below the surface of the Pattei riverbed in western Kenya, water began seeping into the bottom of the pit. The children stopped digging and cupped their hands to deliver the precious liquid to their mouths. Not the easiest way to quench a thirst on a walk home from Tamugh Primary School, but in these semi-arid hills, it is their way of life. Overlooking the Great Rift Valley, about 300 miles northwest of the capital Nairobi, sits the area of West Pokot – home to some 350,000 Pokot tribesmen well-known for their nomadic, cattle-rustling lifestyle. One of the poorest districts in the country, West Pokot is prone to seasonal drought and famine. In July, Solomon Ouko, West Pokot district commissioner, warned that 170,000 to 200,000 Pokots currently face starvation in the district. With unreliable rains and no permanent rivers flowing through this region, the Pokots, scattered throughout these remote mountains accessible by foot, struggle to find water for themselves, their cattle and their fields.

A West Pokot family cleans up after breakfast in Chepnyal, Kenya. Women and children share the majority of the burden in West Pokot families. A typical Pokot household relies on water pans, sub-surface dams, rock catchments, digging in seasonal riverbeds, and hand-dug shallow wells for its daily water supply. The women and children shoulder the bulk of this burden. Often it requires trekking deep into the valley to a source, as much as three miles in one direction, and hauling the water up the rugged slopes. The average family consists of 10 members and consumes a minimum of 60 liters of water per day. Because one woman alone can carry only 20 liters at a time, this grueling chore may take a full day to complete. Unless, of course, she gets help from her children. “I’ve even seen children carrying jerry-cans of water bigger than themselves,” explains Sister Mary Holland, a Daughter of Charity from Cork, Ireland who supervises the water program for the local Catholic parish of Chepnyal located deep in West Pokot territory. In 2002, Sr. Mary arrived in Chepnyal – the last town on a 27-mile, dead-end, bonejarring, dirt, pot-holed road that climbs to 6,000 feet above sea level. She, along with three other Daughters, joined Father Michael Dillon, a Catholic priest from Cuffesgrange in Kilkenny County, Ireland, who arrived in 1961 shortly after his Ordination. And today, Fr. Dillon still presides over the Parish of the Risen Christ in Chepnyal. In Chepnyal, where less than one percent of the parishioners have formal employment,

life is primitive. Electricity for the bumpy main road reached the area two years ago. And a radio system has only become common in the past five years. “Kerosene lamps are all they have,” says Sr. Mary. “Wick and tin…that’s the only lighting. The technology world, they don’t know anything about it.” As technology has been slow to arrive in Chepnyal, so too has gender equality. A recent community-based study by a religious group in the neighboring Kacheliba parish determined that Pokot women work 18 hours each day, while their male counterparts work only six. Sr. Mary notes the discrepancy. “The work is mostly done by the women. Field work, weeding, planting, taking care of the animals, cooking breakfast, collecting firewood, keeping the fire going, getting water, taking animals for water… their work never stops. But for the men, it says it all that on the main road of Chepnyal - which has thirty houses total - four are pool halls filled with men.” It may be difficult to change a deep-rooted culture where even cattle outrank women in status. “In Pokot society, animals are highly regarded. Women are the property of their husbands. When the couple gets married, a man must pay the family with cattle for the girl. He believes that he has bought her and she is not an equal partner,” adds Sister Nigisti Zeray, a Daughter of Charity who runs a women’s development center in Chepnyal. During the dry season, water scarcity forces people and cattle to share the same waterholes. Animals often get first dibs. And it has been said that women, if they are lucky, take their turn last — once the animals have finished and the spring has replenished itself. This behavior begets dysentery, parasites, typhoid and worms, all preventable if the community had access to clean water. Naturally, personal hygiene suffers too. According to a survey taken by Sr. Mary, Pokot women wash clothes and take a bath once a month due to lack of water. “There isn’t a culture of washing. They are so used to sparing water for drinking that they don’t prioritize personal hygiene. Changing habits will take time. They need lots of education (about hygiene).” Their children fare no better. “Children are dirty and many of them have scaly scalps because they do not wash their heads enough,” continues Sr. Mary.

West Pokot children dig a hole in the dried out river bed for water. A few feet deep, brown water fills the basin and is collected by the children, on their way home from school. “How can we maintain personal hygiene at school and ensure that pupils are clean when we don’t have water for drinking?” complained one teacher from Kasitit Primary School, a local school in the Chepnyal area. To date the Parish has installed two working wells with the help of the Pokot people. Sr. Mary has set her sights on raising funds to dig 10 more in the coming year. For each well, she will supply tools, cement and a pump, and expects the community to contribute the labor. “We need them to participate, to own this project, to finish the work. Without this [effort], the wells will be left incomplete or poorly maintained, the women will continue to suffer, and the children will continue to dig in the sand for water.” Providing clean water is essential for improving the health and hygiene levels of the Pokot community. Each well costs $700 to complete. Local non-profit organization Seton Institute, with the help of Bay Area donors, hopes to raise the $7,000 needed for Sr. Mary to achieve her initial goal of building 10 wells. But even achieving this will not satisfy Sr. Mary in the long term. “It is hard to estimate what is required. The goal depends on how far you feel a person should carry water. Is one mile reasonable to carry water when most individuals in the world have access to it in their own kitchens? Let’s give these (Pokot) people the same privilege and get the water source as close to their families as possible.”

Mothers and children surround one of the three bore holes in the area, which provide water to the West Pokot community near Chepnyal. From the bore hole, the children, some only a couple of years old, carry the gerry cans several kilometers up and down the mountainside to their home.

A Pokot woman carries water to her home, with one child in hand. Her work includes raising the children, preparing the food, collecting the fire wood and water, and tending the fields.

Sister Mary Holland, Daughter of Charity from Ireland, opens the pipe at a rock catchment, which will provide water to villagers below. This is the first day the catchment had been opened in more than 10 years.

Join Catholics from the United States and around the world for a landmark gathering in San Francisco Oct. 27-28 at St. Mary’s Cathedral to mobilize against global poverty. Visit www.point7now or www.sflifeandjustice.org for information and registration. Seton Institute (www.setoninstitute.org) is a foundational sponsor of the upcoming conference POINT 7 NOW - Keeping America’s Promise to Make Poverty History.” Seton Institute, based in Daly City, was established in 1985 to support the healthcare programs of Catholic Sisters working in the poorest countries of the world. It raises funds for specific healthcare projects, collects, medical equipment from hospitals and vendor throughout the United States to send to the Sisters’ clinics overseas, and responds quickly to emergency needs created by natural disasters. Seton is supported by generous contributions from individuals, organizations and foundations. Since all operating costs are covered by a sponsoring organization, 100 percent of every donation goes directly to assist the health programs of Sisters in developing countries. If you would like to learn more or to contribute to Sr. Mary’s Pokot Well Project, please contact us at: Seton Institute, 1800 Sullivan Avenue, Suite 506, Daly City, CA 94105-2225.

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September 8, 2006

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Guest commentary In the face of terrorism By Father Eugene Hemrick CNN broadcast a documentary recently on Osama Bin Laden that dealt with his philosophical and theological ideas. Among the more frightening ideas discussed, the documentary said he had a plan to attack and kill millions of Americans. What is even more frightening was his belief that he’s fulfilling God’s will. As the documentary unfolded, I thought — of all things — of artwork in the U.S. Capitol and at the Supreme Court, and how the American philosophy those works symbolize differs from that of terrorists. In a Supreme Court frieze, Moses is surrounded by Solon, the great Greek lawgiver, and Confucius, the Chinese philosopher and educator. Ever present at the U.S. Congress are medallions of St. Louis, Hammurabi of Babylon and Suleiman of Turkey — just a few of the many great lawmakers represented there. While these figures are symbolic of lawmaking, they also represent inclusiveness. Not only are American lawgivers lauded, but lawgivers around the world. This reflects the belief that we applaud the person who has contributed to making the world better, no matter what his or her country is. Inclusiveness, tolerance and a desire to be one with other cultures rank among our nation’s greatest traits. An equally wonderful American trait is our respect for another’s religious beliefs. The terrorists’ philosophy is anything but inclusive or tolerant. Nor do terrorists have any desire to unite with other cultures. Not too long ago we saw an example of this in Afghanistan when a Muslim attempted to convert to Christianity. Immediately the cry for his death was heard. Conversion is a one-way street for radicals. It’s their way or no way. As terrorism increasingly becomes associated with Muslims in today’s world, we could witness Muslims being profiled and hence excluded from the mainstream of American life. We could also witness a build-up of intolerance against the Muslim religion. During World War II this actually happened with Japanese living in the U.S. As we learned in hindsight, we were un-American is doing this and ended up asking for forgiveness. We even built a memorial in the nation’s capital to honor imprisoned American Japanese and to express regret over their poor treatment. The pride of the U.S. is its tolerance. Yes, there have been abuses against tolerance, and we’ve witnessed abundant racism. But in general we have reached out to other cultures, more often than not adopting many of their rich traditions. If we are to win the war against terrorism, the values upon which America was built must remain in place. Brotherly and sisterly love has been and always should be our hallmark. The direct antithesis of this is intolerance. It is noteworthy that intolerance often is at the root of terrorism.

Catholic Communications Campaign On this weekend of Sept. 9-10, many parishes in the Archdiocese of San Francisco will take up a second collection to help fund Catholic communications at the national and local level. These efforts range from radio and television, to newspapers, the Internet, public service announcements, CDs and videos. For more than 25 years, the Catholic Communications Campaign has been promoting the Good News, the Gospel of the Lord. We urge you to be generous in your support of the communications collection in your parish this weekend. MEH

Uneasy and unconvinced The three conditions that Fr. Coleman has outlined to indicate what is properly licit material cooperation are much appreciated! (“Adoption and the Archdiocese of San Francisco, ” Aug. 25.) Being conversant with the “moral framework” to which he refers is extremely important to the parish priest in his confessional practice. That being said, I am still left uneasy, not by the conditions, which are traditional enough, but by the conclusions drawn when the three conditions are applied to the present case. Specifically, I wonder 1) if it is certain that the “vulnerable children” will harvest a good that is greater than the “objective disorder” they will come to experience by being placed in a same-sex household? And 2) I wonder if it is certain that scandal to the faithful will be avoided as this new arrangement between Catholic Charities CYO and California Kids Connection/Family Builders by Adoption becomes more publicized in its details? The very fact that San Francisco Supervisor Tom Ammiano is so much in favor of the arrangement is enough to make “pious ears” burn. Being unconvinced myself as to whether or how the law of the Church applies in this particular situation of material cooperation, my response is twofold. First, to grant the right of others to follow Fr. Coleman’s probable opinion, namely that it is licit to materially cooperate with California Kids Connection/Family Builders by Adoption. Second, to distance myself from all involvement in this initiative while looking for a safer way to fulfill the gospel mandate to protect the “little ones.” Rev. James Garcia Pastor, St. Anthony Parish Menlo Park/North Fair Oaks

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End-run against Vatican? “In an adroit end-run against a Vatican ban on granting adoptions to same-sex couples, Catholic Charities of San Francisco . . .” That’s how an Aug. 27 San Francisco Chronicle story begins in telling how San Francisco Catholic Charities used a slick approach to pass off adoption referrals to Family Builders by Adoption, an organization that is heavily involved in “gay” adoptions. Jack Gergurich San Francisco

No middle path The San Francisco Chronicle news story, “Catholic agency finds way out of adoption ban,” on Sunday, Aug. 27, made it abundantly clear that San Francisco Catholic Charities has retreated from Church teaching, and now will be aiding (and increasing) the numbers of adoptions to same-sex couples. In 1978 a man stood in Rome and proclaimed to the world, “Be not afraid.” Karol Wojtyla was a fearless Archbishop who defied the Communism of his native land and forcefully upheld the Church’s teachings. He knew fear and faced fear, yet he was not afraid. Because of his example and courage, communism crumbled and fell in Europe. Here in San Francisco, Catholics live without fear of being imprisoned or tortured by the government for their views. We have the immeasurable benefit of living in a free country. But when faced with the prospect of losing the financial support of political powers and being scolded by the leaders of our City — we have given in to fear. The Archdiocese of San Francisco is part of the universal Roman Catholic Church. It should speak truth to power, despite persecution, and not be bought by politicians or fall silent in fear. Be not afraid, Archbishop Niederauer. Lead your flock and we will follow. Lead us away from the lie and towards the truth — there is no middle path between the two. John Herreid San Francisco

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Kudos to Archbishop George Niederauer, Mr. Brian Cahill, and their working group for designing a plan for adoption services which respects Vatican teaching, continues the fine tradition of Catholic Charities CYO in the important work of adoption, and enables children, especially at risk children, to find homes with loving families. As someone who knows from personal family experience the difficulties many people face in adopting a child, it is gratifying to know that our new Archbishop took the time to explore creative solutions to this very important social issue. I am encouraged by the plan, which promises to build an effective collaboration between the mission of the Church and the work of civil agencies throughout our State. It also is a fine example of how something productive can come from open dialogue among experts in a given field. One would hope that in the coming years, this dialogue and collaboration will continue as society and the Church learn more about the effects on children who may be adopted by loving, same-sex par-

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ents. Perhaps such an enterprise will help to dissolve long-held stereotypes, prejudices, and fears. Rev. Craig Forner Pastor, St. Kevin Church San Francisco

Appearance of scandal I read with interest Fr. Coleman’s commentary regarding the Catholic Charities CYO change from direct adoptions to a support program. Fr. Coleman states that this change will cause no formal cooperation in direct adoptions to a homosexual household, which is definitely forbidden by our Church. If this support program will help adults who are stable, heterosexual, married and looking to adopt, then this would be a blessing to a child. However, if the program is to help a child find parents through an agency that is well known for arranging adoptions to homosexual households, it clearly seems to be cooperation with evil, even though, perhaps, somewhat remote. That would be scandalous, and that is how it appears, regardless of how many words are said to the contrary. J.Munn Foster City

With all due respect The effort by the Archdiocese of San Francisco and Catholic Charities to increase adoptions is commendable, even crucial. However, the goal should be to increase adoptions by married, heterosexual couples, rather than homosexual households. With all due respect to the moral theologians who were consulted, the collaboLETTERS, page 16

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Guest Commentary

How should we feel about 9/11 today? The fifth anniversary of 9/11 inspires memorials and opportunities for reflection. These are important, but the enduring sadness of lost life ought not mislead us into thinking that the next five years will be a continuation of war and worry. It is easy enough to despair, of course. But can we get beyond an attitude of doom and gloom? A constructive first step would be to recall our intended destiny as a “shining city on a hill.” Somehow we have convinced ourselves that ending the Cold War and taming inflation were trivial by comparison with the long, dark and irrational shadow of worldwide terrorism. Such despondency understates the historical significance of the “shining city” reference. It originated not in the 1980s but 250 years earlier on the deck of the Arabella bound for the New World. The Rev. John Winthrop called upon the men and women traveling with him to sustain the luster of the city by making a covenant with God. Keeping the covenant, said Winthrop, would bring “God’s wisdom, power, goodness and truth,” such that 10 in the fledgling nation “shall be able to resist a thousand of our enemies.” Those would be good odds in the war on terror. But we misperceive our present position to be the reverse if we permit Lilliputian insurgents to tie America down to its present course of provoking Iraqi civil war. To be sure, we could outlast. But Winthrop’s insight was not premised upon weapons sophistication or troop counts but on confidence in the divine. If we do the right thing — if, as Winthrop said, we fol-

low the “counsel of Micah to do justly, to love mercy, to walk humbly with our God,” then “he shall make us a praise and glory” to succeeding generations. Do these high-sounding phrases have practical meaning? Yes, if we free ourselves from the defeatism we’ve let Osama bin Laden impose upon us. The tragic loss of life on 9/11 was his doing; much of the continuing anxiety has been our own. As James Fallows of the Atlantic magazine notes, focusing on the possibility of another terror attack understates the significance of the past half-decade’s achievements. Fallows reminds us that al Qaeda’s “command structure is gone; their Afghan sanctuary is gone, their ability to move around and hold meetings is gone, [and] their financial and communications networks have been hit hard.” And from the beginning we followed Micah’s admonition of justice by not engaging in the wholesale condemnation of American Muslims. Radicalized Islam bent on violence, not an ancient faith different from our own, received the condemnation. Yet in Iraq and with some of the mindless, nail-clipper security at home, we have let bin Laden get the better of us. These miscalculations spawn overreactions and drag us down. We only play into bin Laden’s hands to continue to occupy Iraq; when we cower in defensive fear we betray the courage of those on United 93 who challenged their captors. Fallows may be yielding to literary license to argue that we

have fought the global war on terror and won, but the general point is sound. Mislabeling the terror threat that remains a “war” understates our own achievement or, worse, supplies rationalization for extreme or misDouglas directed measures. W. Kmiec We did not seek war; it was thrust upon us. For the most part the president waged the war successfully, but that success now is endangered by its unwise continuation. There is serious work to do: reducing nuclear proliferation; hardening at-risk domestic targets like seaports; responsibly enhancing the surveillance and counterterrorism efforts that can prevent attack. But to persist in combat longer than against Hitler’s Germany in World War II engages the pretense that our lives can be freed of terrorist danger by our own device. Such a heaven-on-earth blasphemy dims a city that can still shine brightly upon a hill — if we trust in God. Douglas W. Kmiec is dean of Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

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The health benefits of going to church Added to the growing body of research on the health benefits of spirituality are two studies that indicate that attending religious services can be good for your health and life-expectancy — in a cost-effective way. The first study, presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in May 2005, surveyed almost 37,000 men and women. Participants were asked about their attendance at religious services and whether their spiritual values helped provide meaning to their lives. The researchers concluded that religious practice and faith play crucial roles in key areas of health. “The higher the worship frequency, the lower the odds of depression, mania and panic disorders,” says Dr. Marilyn Baetz of the Canadian University of Saskatchewan. “Going to church may be a proxy for social support,” says Duke University’s Dr. Marian Butterfeld. “And studies show social support is protective against both physical and mental illness.” Also, according to Baetz, people who reported a “greater sense of meaning in their lives were significantly less likely to have an alcohol and drug problem.” The second paper, written by Dr. Daniel Hall, a physician and Episcopal priest, and published in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine in 2006, takes an economic angle to the argument that participation in religious services can make a health difference.

Hall looked at three separate studies involving weekly attendance at religious services, physical exercise and use of statin-type agents. The results of the studies showed, respectively, an increase in life expectancy in their study populations of two to three life years, three to five life years, and two and one-half to three and one-half life years. Hall then calculated the approximate cost per added life year for each of the factors: between $3,000 and $10,000 for regular religious attendance; between $2,000 and $6,000 for regular exercise; and between $4,000 and $14,000 for statin-type agents. Putting attendance at religious services on an economic footing is a unique, practical and compelling way of quantifying an aspect of the spiritual. “As a society, we’ve lost much of the capacity to articulate a common notion of the good. The default setting has become an economic one,” says Hall. “The economic argument makes people sit up and pay attention.” “The reason I wrote the paper was to make the argument that the association between religious attendance and longer life comes from the same kind of data as does the association between exercise and longer life, and is of the same order of magnitude,” says Hall. “What I would hope would come from the study is increased recognition from the medical establishment and funding agencies that there’s a phenomenon here that’s worthy of study.”

There has been a reluctance among many investigators to venture deeply into the realm of spirituality and science when it comes to costly, time-consuming and complex research projects. However, as more Maureen Pratt medical professionals explore the connection between spirit and health, analyses such as those I’ve discussed help pave the way for in-depth studies. The results of future studies may, indeed, bring very different perspectives to the practice of medicine as it is today and thus influence medical decisions, popular perceptions and ongoing patient care. In the meantime, we can continue to reap the benefits of attendance at Mass and other spiritual activities, such as prayer and fellowship. And perhaps we can also encourage the more skeptical that going to church can be good for you — in more ways than one! Maureen Pratt, a Los Angeles-based author, writes on health and spirituality.

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Home - The place from which to understand More than anything else, we long for home. Our deep ache for intimacy, security, and comfort is, in the end, a longing for home, nothing more. We are forever restlessly searching for someone or something to take us home. But what is home? Is home a family? A house? A city? A country? A lover? A language? An ethnic group? Home transcends all of these. We can find a home in many different families, houses, cities, countries, ethnic groups, and languages, and we can be far from home within our own family, house, city, country, and ethnic group. Home is a place in the heart, not a bloodline, building, city, or ethnicity. Home is that deep, fragile place where we hold and guard what’s most precious to us. It’s that place where, in some dark way, we remember that once, before we came to awareness, we were caressed by hands far gentler than any we’ve met in this life and where we were once kissed by a truth and a beauty so perfect that they are now the unconscious standard by which we measure everything. Home is where things “ring true”, where what’s most precious to us is cherished, the place of tender conscience, of intimacy. And we know when we’re there and when we’re not. Home is a gut feeling, a resting place, a goodness, a security that we sense or don’t sense.

Sometimes people ask me: “How do I know that the love I have for a person is the kind of love that I can build a marriage on?” My answer: “Love is a mystery and there are no guarantees, but, ask yourself this: “Does this person bring me home? Or, is this a love, irrespective of how powerful and exciting it is, from which I need eventually to go home?” There’s a huge difference between sharing powerful feelings with someone and building life and a home with him or her. There’s a huge difference between an affair and a marriage, between having a honeymoon and building a life with someone. Many kinds of kinds of love make for a honeymoon, but only one kind takes us home. And then, after we’ve found home, we still have the problem of staying there. This isn’t meant literally, but in a deeper way. How? In the Gospels, immediately after he denies Jesus, we are told that Peter “went outside”. What’s being described here isn’t a simple physical movement, someone stepping through a door and going outside. What’s meant is that Peter went outside of himself, outside of who he is, outside of his conscience, outside of his normal understanding of things. He “went outside” in the way a man “goes outside” when he goes to a singles’ bar and links up with someone in a way that takes him “outside” of his normal moral reality. And from that, he has to go home. Why? Because, like

Peter, he has “gone outside.” What a person does in any morally schizophrenic act, in essence, takes him or her away from home (even if that act is done in his or her own house). Morally and Father psychologically the act Ron Rolheiser is done away from home. It’s done “outside”. There’s a crude joke that catches this. It asks: “What do promiscuous people do after they have sex?” The answer: “They go home!” That expresses a sad irony: Sex is not something from which we are ever meant to go home. It’s meant to take us home, to constitute home. Intimacy is home and if we need to go home from an experience that’s an infallible sign that what we’ve experienced isn’t ultimately life giving for us. And this has huge implications for understanding life: In the Gospels, Jesus says: “To you [inside the circle of understanding] are revealed the secrets of the Kingdom, but ROLHEISER, page 16

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Letters . . . ■ Continued from page 14 ration of Catholic Charities with Family Builders by Adoption seems predicated upon a deeply flawed moral analysis. According to Brian Cahill, executive director of Catholic Charities, three Catholic Charities workers will work at Family Builders by Adoption, which coordinates the statewide, online referral service called California Kids Connection. Family Builders specializes in placing children in gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender (LGBT) households. Catholic Charities staff will not distinguish between heterosexual couples and same-sex couples seeking to adopt. They will refer inquirers seeking to adopt a child to the services of county and non-profit adoption agencies, including Family Builders. Thus, it seems clear that Catholic Charities will be fostering adoptions by same-sex couples. John Kepler San Francisco

‘Plan B’ dangers In the San Francisco Chronicle’s reporting on the FDA’s unprecedented decision to make Plan B available to women 18 and older without a prescription, not one coherent argument was advanced about why this might not be the panacea Chronicle writers seem to believe

Rolheiser . . . ■ Continued from page 15 to those outside everything is in riddles.” Who’s “inside” and who’s “outside” the circle of understanding? Who “gets” the secret and who doesn’t “get” it? “Getting” or “not getting” the secret is not a question of intelligence, learning, luck, or finding the right books or teachers. Rather, we are “inside” the circle of understanding and we “get” the Gospels when we are at “at home”, when we are true to what’s deepest in us, when we are true to our consciences, when we don’t morally “go outside” (as did Peter and as we do when we do acts that, morally, aren’t true to

September 8, 2006 it is. Women deserve quality health care, but over-the-counter use of this potentially abortifacient drug will compromise informed consent and follow-up care when necessary. The FDA describes Plan B as a contraceptive drug and equates its side effects to those of ordinary birth control pills. While Plan B can prevent fertilization, the manufacturer admits it may also prevent a newly conceived embryo from implanting and surviving in the womb. This is properly understood as causing an early abortion. Without the benefit of a doctor’s supervision, many women will be unaware of this abortifacient action, the side effects and other risks posed by Plan B. For example, Plan B is a powerful dose of the artificial progestin hormone, Levonorgestrel, which contains up to 40 times the amount found in comparable prescription-only birth control pills. According to Plan B’s new package insert, the risk of potentially fatal ectopic pregnancy is up to five times higher with progestin-only birth control. Making this more potent dosage available to women without a prescription offends common sense – especially when the drug is not designed to treat a disease or pathological condition. Despite exaggerated claims to the contrary, Plan B will not realistically reduce abortion rates. Research in Europe and the U.S. along with recent studies show that

who we are). When we are morally faithful, we “get” the Gospel. Conversely, we “don’t get” it when we “go outside”, outside morally, when we “leave home” by being unfaithful as Peter was. And we know this truth from experience: When we’re faithful, the Gospels make sense. When we’re unfaithful, almost immediately, we fill with objections, grow bitter, and begin to poke holes into truths we once believed. T.S. Eliot once said, “Home is where we start from.” It’s also the place from which we understand what does or does not bring us life. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher and award-winning author.

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Rights of Palestinians Editor: I do not consider the Israeli ambassador an unbiased observer of the conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel (“Israel’s ambassador to Vatican says Lebanese conflict had no victor,” Aug. 25) Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International came to very different conclusions about the conduct of the war, saying that both Israel and Hezbollah committed war crimes in their targeting of civilians. Although requested by the United Nations, Israel has not yet disclosed the location of landmines placed in southern Lebanon. Yes, Israel has the right to exist. But Palestinians have rights to a viable state, duly elected officials, freedom of movement, water supply, economic opportunity, open borders, money from their own taxes, compensation for confiscated or destroyed property and above all, human dignity. It is understandable why the Arabs were opposed to the partition plan of the United Nations in 1947, since it was their land and property that were given. Paul Edwards San Francisco

Basis for hatred Fr. Larry Lorenzoni, in spite of his studies and long life, apparently has little idea of what is going on in our world (Letters, Aug. 25). Maybe he should study world history; it still is not too late. The reason the Arabs hate us is our support of the state of Israel and our guarantee of its existence. The Arab world views the state of Israel as a cancer in the body of the Middle East. It is not our way of life or our freedom the Arabs hate, but our support of Israel. August C. Pijma Redwood City

Lunch with a terrorist Fr. Larry Lorenzoni’s suggestion that we ask, “Why do the Arabs hate us so much?” indicates that by so doing we will find a “light at the end of the tunnel of war.” This is liberal nonsense at its zenith. Who cares why those murderous thugs hate us? More to the point is fighting them off before they exterminate every last one of us, which is their dedicated goal. Waving a white flag as we “extend the hand of fellowship” or “reach out” to the enemy is the best guarantee of the kind of weakness that nourishes their hate and strengthens their brutality. Go ahead and take a terrorist to lunch, Fr. Lorenzoni, but be prepared to die with your guest before dinner. For the terrorists, their “light at the end of the tunnel “ is already shining with the promised siren song of 72 virgins ready to reward them for their suicide and your demise. Jane L. Sears Burlingame

Keep in mind Regarding Palestinian protests about the usurpation of their land by the nation of Israel, the following facts should be kept in mind. Israel has not been an independent, self-sustaining nation since 850 B.C. (Encyclopedia Britannica), and it has been an independent nation only since 1948. Israel was formed in 1948 by force and insurgency against the British, including terrorism. It was formed out of the lands of Palestine, and Palestinians who were displaced were not compensated for the value of their property. Viewed from the perspective of the Palestinians, hostility toward Israel is understandable. Jerome Downs San Francisco

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TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Isaiah 35:4-7a; Psalm 146; James 2:1-5; Mark 7:31-37 A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH (ISAIAH 35:4-7A) Thus says the Lord: Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God, he comes with vindication; with divine recompense he comes to save you. Then will the eyes of the blind be opened, the ears of the deaf be cleared; then will the lame leap like a stag, then the tongue of the mute will sing. Streams will burst forth in the desert, and rivers in the steppe. The burning sands will become pools, and the thirsty ground, springs of water.

A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT JAMES (JAMES 2:1-5) My brothers and sisters, show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ. For if a man with gold rings and fine clothes comes into your assembly, and a poor person in shabby clothes also comes in, and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Sit here, please, ” while you say to the poor one, “Stand there, ” or “Sit at my feet, ” have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil designs? Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?

RESPONSORIAL PSALM (PS 146:7, 8-9, 9-10) R. Praise the Lord, my soul! or Alleluia. The God of Jacob keeps faith forever, secures justice for the oppressed, gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets captives free. R. Praise the Lord, my soul! or Alleluia. The Lord gives sight to the blind; the Lord raises up those who were bowed down. The Lord loves the just; the Lord protects strangers. R. Praise the Lord, my soul! or Alleluia. The fatherless and the widow the Lord sustains, but the way of the wicked he thwarts. The Lord shall reign forever; your God, O Zion, through all generations. Alleluia. R. Praise the Lord, my soul! or R. Alleluia.

A READING FROM THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARK (MK 7:31-37) Again Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!” — that is, “Be opened!” — And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

Christ can be seen in faces of all people, pope says at sanctuary MANOPPELLO, Italy (CNS) — All Christians should be on a never-ending search for Christ, who can be seen in the faces of all people, especially the poor and needy, Pope Benedict XVI said. To be drawn and transformed by the splendor of Jesus’ face is to live in God’s presence on earth, the pope said during a brief visit Sept. 1 to the Sanctuary of the Holy Face in this small city some 120 miles east of Rome. Some scholars believe the sanctuary houses “Veronica’s Veil,” the cloth used by Veronica to wipe Christ’s face prior to his crucifixion and which, according to tradition, now contains the image of Christ’s face. “We will be filled with the presence of God” by imitating the lives of the saints who lovingly recognized the face of Jesus in their brothers and sisters, “especially the poorest and those most in need,” Pope Benedict said. “Veronica’s Veil” is a 7-inch-by-9.5In a speech to priests, religious and inch transparent veil that portrays pilgrims who packed the long, narrow the image of a male face with long church, the pope quoted Jesus, “Whoever has seen me has seen the hair and a beard. Studies have found no pigments or paints were used Father.” to create the image. In order to recognize Christ, especially in other people or in one’s daily life, people must have “innocent hands and pure hearts,” Pope Benedict said. Having innocent hands means living one’s existence “enlightened by the truth of love that conquers indifference, doubt, lies and selfishness,” he said. A pure heart, he added, is a heart that has been “captured by divine beauty” and houses Christ’s very image. It was only after Jesus’ passion and resurrection that the disciples recognized him as the true Son of God, “the Messiah promised for the redemption of the world,” said the pope. “Looking for Jesus’ face must be the yearning of all of us Christians,” the pope said. For those who persevere in that search, he said, Jesus “will be there at the end of our earthly pilgrimage.”

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Hear, speak the Word of God With today’s Gospel reading we enter into a central part of Mark’s Gospel. The section begins with the healing of a deaf man and ends with the healing of a blind man (Mark 7:31-10:52). These are not just miracle stories about Jesus’ power; they have a teaching purpose. Jesus has just been in the Gentile area of Tyre and Sidon (on the Mediterranean coast in modern Lebanon) and has moved on to the area of the Decapolis (Ten Towns), on the east bank of the Jordan River. It was basically a Gentile, a non-Jewish area. There a man is brought for Jesus to heal. He was deaf, that is, he could not hear and he had an impediment in his speech, that is, he could not speak properly. It does not say he was like that from birth. HEARING RESTORED The healing process Jesus uses is almost like a ritual and, in fact, it was. Jesus puts his fingers in the man’s ear and puts spittle on his tongue. (Saliva was believed to have healing properties and today we know this is actually true.) At the same time Jesus looked heavenward - to his Father - and said, in Aramaic, “Be opened”. Immediately the man was healed: he could hear and speak perfectly. The people around were astounded. They cry out almost in chorus: “He has done all things well; he makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak.” They echo the lovely words from Isaiah in the First Reading: “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the deaf unsealed, then the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongues of the dumb sing for joy.” The future promised by the prophet has now arrived. MODEL OF BAPTISM The way Jesus heals the man reminds us of the Sacrament of Baptism. Through the gift of faith, which precedes adult Baptism, our ears are opened to hear the Word of God and our tongues are loosened to speak about Christ to others. Before we became germ-conscious, it was part of the baptism ceremony for the priest to touch the ears of the person being baptized and to put some saliva on the tongue. Baptism is a sign of our full incorporation into the Body of Christ, his Church. It involves a total commitment on our part to the way of life that Jesus calls us to follow. A constituent part of that commitment is a growing openness to hear what Jesus says to us — and a growing ability to be able to share our faith with others. Unlike the man in the Gospel story we don’t normally find ourselves immediately endowed with these gifts. POOR LISTENERS? POOR SPEAKERS? If we are honest, many of us are not very good at either listening or speaking, where God is concerned. Some have even stopped hearing. In catechism class they heard all about the seven sacraments, the ten commandments of God, the six commandments of the Church, the seven deadly sins and they now feel there is nothing more to learn. They may not realize it but they have become deaf. And, being deaf, they cannot speak either. They have nothing to say, nothing to share. Alas, it is not infrequent to meet Catholics who are highly qualified in their secular profession but are basically illiterate in their faith. What really is distressing is that, in their ignorance, they are often not slow to pontificate and tell others what Christianity is about. Others, though, are good at listening. They want to know more about the meaning of Jesus and his Gospel in the changing circumstances of their lives. But they, too, though good at hearing may do very little speaking, very little sharing. Yet, to hear

the Word of God and not to proclaim it is, in the mind of the Gospel, a contradiction. As Jesus said once, there is not much point in lighting a lamp and then hiding it away. A light is supposed to share its light. In the Gospel, really to hear the Word of God is to carry it out. “Hearing” implies: listening, understanding, making the message one’s own and living it out in word and action. A COMMITTED EVANGELIST Although Jesus tried to restrain the man in today’s Gospel, the cured man and all those around proclaimed what had happened everywhere they went. Really the man just had to do it. After all, he was now hearing and he was now able to share with others what he had heard and experienced. If we were really excited about the Good News of Jesus Christ, if we were really excited about the experience of having the Christian vision of life, we would have to do exactly the same. If we were like the disciples after Pentecost, if our being Christian was truly a deep and liberating experience and not just a set of doctrines to be conformed to, we too could not keep ourselves from letting other people know. PRIVATE RELIGION The problem is that for a long time we see our religious as something personal between ourselves and God: being morally good, keeping in the state of grace, going to Church at fixed times and receiving the Sacraments. The rich man in the Gospel told Jesus he kept all the commandments. He asked — Do I need to do more? Yes, he was told, let go of everything you have, share it with the poor and needy, and then come and follow me. Have we heard that message yet? Have we, for instance, heard today’s Second Reading? How do we treat different kinds of people in our society? If we are honest, we know that there have been times when we have treated people in exactly the way James describes: obsequious to our wellheeled friends or people we think are important and off-hand and even rude to strangers, especially those who are obviously at the lower rung of society. What are our attitudes to wealth and poverty? Which people do we regard as really rich and enriching? What kind of wealth are we in pursuit of? Are we totally free of discrimination in areas of sex, race, religion, class, or occupation? Our answers to these questions will tell us how much we have really heard the Word of God. They will also tell us how we communicate to others by our words and our actions and attitudes. Yes, we are often deaf and we are often dumb. We have lost the capacity both to hear and to speak. We have lost the ability to recognize the voice of God calling to us in the many changing situations, both good and bad, of our society. God is shouting at us through the happenings described in our newspapers and television programs. When we see something we don’t like, we say, “Tut, tut” or “What is the world coming to?” and just switch channels to the nevernever world of soap operas or sports. So, let us pray today for the gift of hearing, to hear the voice of God calling to us in everything that will happen this day. Let us pray for the gift of speech, that is, to be so filled with the liberating experience of knowing Jesus that we simply cannot refrain from sharing that experience with all those around us. Father Frank Doyle is an Irish Jesuit and chaplain at Gonzaga College, Dublin.

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Mind on the media What’s worse: Quality of television or quality of service? By Mark Pattison WASHINGTON (CNS) — One of the great tug-of-war contests for the television viewer today is the loser-takesall battle between dissatisfaction with the programming and dissatisfaction with your TV equipment. Many tales have been told since TV became a more or less permanent guest in our living rooms. First, it was the fuzzy reception with the antenna on top of the TV set, which led to antennas sitting atop our roofs that look like they could have been transmitting instructions to Sputnik. Then came cable TV, and the tales of frustration that have come with poor quality, poor service, torn-up lawns and outrageous pricing. Collective anger over shoddy service spawned the 1996 movie “The Cable Guy.” Cable giant Comcast took a public relations hit earlier this year when a customer placed footage of a sleeping repairman on the Web for the Internet masses to chuckle at. It should come as no surprise that the repairman got fired, but the poor customer had been on hold for more than an hour after he placed a call to — you guessed it — Comcast. Now, reports The New York Times, cable companies like Comcast — which are more than just cable companies since they now offer extra services like telephone, Internet, video-on-demand and digital video recording services — find that multiple-platform competition (phone companies like AT&T and satellite TV providers) can steal away all of their business by offering a decent price but with better service.

Time Warner Cable’s New York City franchise increased the number of operators at its call center by 15 percent this year and plans a similar increase next year, the newspaper reported. This may be one welcome offshoot of competition, although it is hard to understand why cable companies couldn’t offer service akin to other government-regulated monopolies like the electricity and natural-gas utilities in the first place. Then there’s the issue of actually enjoying what’s being shown. In addition to the issues of taste and decency, there is the not so small matter of commercials. Technology has allowed us to zip past ads, but now the TV moguls are fighting back. This is an indication that the art of television is only in service to the business of television. As a result, we will soon be living in a time when advertising will be embedded in so-called regular programming to a greater degree than reporters were embedded with military units in Iraq. According to a report by the Writers’ Guild of America, “In 2004, the use of products in filmed entertainment increased 44 percent and generated revenues in excess of $1 billion.” The study added, “During the third season of ‘The Apprentice,’ Burger King, Dove Body Wash, Sony PlayStation, Verizon Wireless and Visa reportedly paid upwards of $2 million per episode to have their products incorporated into plot lines.” Of course, that may have been too much of a good thing. Ratings for “The Apprentice” slipped badly in its

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Reviewed by Father Norman J. Muckerman, CSSR In the attractive and well-written “Joy: The Spirit’s Gigantic Secret Behind the Church’s Survival,” Father John Catoir, former director of the Christophers and a prominent veteran of the Catholic press, reveals his formidable talents as a spiritual mentor and guide, as well as a strong apologist for the church. Father Catoir, already the acclaimed author of several books (“God Delights in You,” “Enjoy the World,” “World Religions”), emphasizes that if Catholics wish to live a faith-filled and more effective life today they must be full of joy. He points out that when St. Paul told the Thessalonians, “Rejoice always,” he was simply reinforcing the promise of Jesus himself who said: “I have come that you may have joy, and that your joy may be complete.” In the very first chapter of this book, after quoting Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s solid diagnosis, “Joy is the gigantic secret of Christianity,” Father Catoir points out that Catholics today can and

even must understand and use the Spirit’s gift of joy, if only to counter the shame and disruption caused by recent scandals of past clergy sexual abuse. In succeeding chapters he shows how joy can and should be extended throughout all Christian living and beliefs. Joy, the author stoutly affirms, is (among other things) the enemy of evil, the answer to the pessimism found in the New Age movement, the essence of pure prayer, an integral part of living with a clear conscience and the key to self-surrender. In a powerful final chapter, Father Catoir links the gift of joy with the highest gift of all, the Eucharist. Making striking use of quotes from the Second Vatican Council plus some pronouncements from a number of popes, especially Paul VI and John Paul II, he reinforces the idea that the Eucharist is not only our truest blessing but also “the source and summit of the Christian life” (“Lumen Gentium,” 11). In times like ours, it is a real joy to read a book offering a hope-filled perspective that both inspires and teaches us to be truly happy in this life and to prepare for eternal life with God. Father Muckerman, a Redemptorist priest, was editor for 12 years of Liguorian magazine, for which he continues to write.

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St. Mary’s Cathedral The following events are taking place at or are coordinated by the cathedral of the Archdiocese located at Gough and Geary St. in San Francisco. Call (415) 567-2020 for more information about any event listed here. Sept. 11: San Francisco Auxiliary Bishop John C. Wester will preside at a Prayer Service for Peace, at 7:30 p.m. More than 10,000 people took part in ceremonies at the Cathedral on the first anniversary of the September 11th attacks in 2002. Liturgies for school-age youth drew 6,000 students from Catholic and non-Catholic schools throughout the Archdiocese. An additional 4,000 people were present for an evening Interfaith Prayer Service as well as music offerings that took place throughout the day. Call (415) 567-2020, ext 220.

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Food & Fun Sept. 15, 16: OPA, the Big, Fat Greek OLA Fun Faire benefiting Our Lady of Angels Elementary School on the school campus, 1721 Hillside Drive in Burlingame. Enjoy rides, games, food, drinks, prizes, raffle, silent auction, entertainment and more. Fri.: 6 p.m. – close and Sat.: 2 p.m. to close. Fun for all!!!! Sept. 22, 23, 24: St. Matthew Elementary School’s annual three-day carnival and fundraiser kicking off the school’s 75th anniversary. Fri.: 6 – 10 p.m.; Sat.: noon – 10 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. takes place on school campus at 910 El Camino Real at Aragon in San Mateo. Tickets available for raffle and special events at St. Matthew Catholic School or calling (650) 343-1373. Enjoy entertainment, High Roller’s Casino, more than 35 Kids Booths, Kids Rides, plus a $20,000 Raffle, TriTip Dinner. For more information on St. Matthew 75th Anniversary Carnival & Celebration, please contact Mary-Kevin Stockwell, PR and Communications Volunteer Chairperson (650) 787-5723. Sept. 22, 23, 24: St. Robert’s Parish Festival, “Ports of Call”. Come enjoy festive entertainment all weekend long. A variety of delicious food, games and rides for the kids, a silent auction, raffles, prizes and Bingo! Located at St. Robert’s Church on Oak/Crystal Springs, San Bruno. Call 650-589-2800 for more details. Sept. 23: Spiritual Dinner with Mother Lillie at St. Patrick Parish in Larkspur beginning at 6 p.m. The featured guest founded the Trinitarian Sisters in 1992, a contemplative community living, praying and serving in the Mt. Tabor region of Mexico. Proceeds from this event will drill a fresh-water well for the people of the region which is currently without running water. Donations accepted in any amount. Call Maria or Anthony Good at (415) 927-7065. Sept. 24: CYO Day at Raging Waters Enjoy a full day of waterslides and tubing fun at Raging Waters in San Jose. The entire park will be reserved exclusively for Catholic Charities CYO participants. The $26 ticket price includes admission to the park, unlimited use of tubes, full lunch and unlimited soft drinks, CYO tee-shirt. Call (415) .972.1233, rbalcunas@cccyo.org Sept. 30: Aloha Festival at Holy Name of Jesus located on Lawton and 40th Avenue in the Sunset District, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.. Enjoy carnival games, jumpers, Bingo, Tiki Room, raffle, face-painting, lots of food and prizes. Admission is free. Benefits Holy Name school. Visit www.holynamesf.com or call (415) 731-4077. Featured entertainment provided by Kapalakiko Hawaiian Band Trio, Kaiaulu and Touch of Polynesia. Visit school website or call (415) 731-4077 for performance times. Oct. 7, 8: Annual Columbus Day Bazaar benefiting Saints Peter and Paul School, 660 Filbert Street at Powell, San Francisco open 10 a.m. – 7 p.m. both days. A North Beach family festival of games, food and entertainment. Salami toss, giant slide, dunk tank, mini-golf, face painting, pumpkin bowling. Food includes the favorite grilled Italian sausage and bell pepper sandwich, hot dogs, cotton candy, snow cones. Benefits the scholarship goals of Saints Peter and Paul School, serving North Beach

San Francisco Police and Firefighters will pray together at the annual Police – Fire Memorial Mass September 10 at St. Monica Church, Geary Blvd. at 23rd Ave., at 10:30 a.m. Father John Greene, pastor of St. Monica’s and chaplain to the San Francisco Fire Department will preside at the Mass that commemorates the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as well as remembers police and firefighters lost in this and other years. Father Michael Healy, pastor of St. Bartholomew Parish in San Mateo and chaplain to the San Francisco Police Department will be the homilist. The Mass, now in its 49th year, will especially honor Police Officer Nick Birko who gave his life just weeks ago in the performance of duty. since 1919. Call ( 415) 421-0809 or www.stspeterpaul.san-francisco.ca.us Oct. 8: 10th Annual Vincenzo Wine & Food Festival - Join us for an afternoon filled with exquisite wine and food—all to benefit at-risk youth at St. Vincent’s School for Boys. The beautiful grounds of St. Vincent’s in San Rafael will be transformed into an Italian marketplace featuring choice cuisine and premier wines, and a live auction offering rare vintages and travel packages. Tickets are $95 per pserson. All proceeds benefit St. Vincent’s. Call (415) .972.1239, www.cccyo.org, www.vincenzo.org. Oct. 19: The annual Red Mass of the St. Thomas More Society at St. Peter and Paul Church in North Beach at 5:30 p.m. Dinner follows at the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club. Franciscan Father Louis Vitale will be honored with the group’s St. Thomas More Award whose recipients exemplify the Society’s goal of practicing the ideals of service and sacrifice in the pursuit of justice, as reflected in the life and death of St. Thomas More. Tickets are $75 per person with discounted tickets of $30 available for clergy and religious. Reply by October 12 to Thomas B. Reed, Jr., St. Thomas More Society Treasurer, c/o Watson & Lanctot, LLP, 44 Montgomery Street, Suite 3685, San Francisco, CA 94104, (415) 362-0900, treed@watlanlaw.com. Further information is available at www.stthomasmore-sf.org.

Catholic Charismatic Renewal Sept. 13: Evening of Praise sponsored by Hispanic Charismatic Movement of the Archdiocese at 7 p.m. at St. Finn Barr Church, 415 Edna St., San Francisco.

Oct. 2: 14th Annual Capuchin Seminarian Golf Tournament, Half Moon Bay Golf Links, Ocean Course. Tourney is 18 hole Scramble beginning with check-in at 10:30 a.m. lunch and golf at 12:30 p.m. and cocktails and dinner at 7 p.m. Contact Mike Stecher at (650) 342-4680 or Anne Hahn at (650) 692-5044. Proceeds benefit the Capuchin Franciscan Seminary.

Potluck dinner will follow the liturgy. Charismatic Healing Masses are celebrated on first Fridays of the month at 7 p.m. St. Anthony of Padua Church in North Fair Oaks, San Mateo County and first Saturdays at St. Veronica Church in South San Francisco. Retreats and prayer group meetings are also scheduled. Call Carmen Solis at (415) 584-0823.

Shows/Entertainment/Auditions Sept. 14, 16: Notre Dame des Victoires, the French National Church in downtown San Francisco, and the Choeur Paroissial (French Choir) announce auditions for “Les Choristes” choral scholarships for exceptional high school and college aged singers at NDV church. To schedule an audition contact Steven Olbash, Director of Music at (415) 397-0113 or e-mail olbash@comcast.net

Reunions Sept. 9: Mercy High School’s Class of 1961 is celebrating their 45th anniversary! The Class of 1961 will mark the event with a luncheon at the Irish Cultural Center in San Francisco. For more information about the reunion please contact Nilsa Lennig, Director of Community and Alumnae Relations at (415) 337-7218 or nlennig@mercyhs.org. Sept. 10: Class of ’56, St. Cecilia Elementary School at 4 p.m. beginning with Mass in St. Cecilia Chapel followed by dinner at Olympic Club Lakeside. Call Bernadette at (415) 924-5196 or Peggy at (650) 878-8260. Sept. 16: University of San Francisco classes of

Sept. 27: EWTN’s Bob and Penny Lord come to the National Shrine of St. Francis of Assisi in North Beach. The couple will present a program on Franciscan saints. Free valet parking will be available. Popular stars of the EWTN religious media network, the Lords conduct pilgrimages to shrines and holy places around the world. They have produced over two hundred videos and twenty books based on their work. The evening begins at 5 p.m. with wine, hors d’oeuvres, music and dinner outside the church. Bishop John Wester presides at Vespers at 6 p.m. followed by the featured presentation.Tickets are $60 per person.Ticket sales close September 15.For ticket information, call the Shrine during business hours at (415) 983-0405, or Molly Arthur at (415) 983-0222. You may also email Molly Arthur at mollyarthur@flash.net.

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’66, ’76, ’86. Contact school’s Alumni Relations office at (415) 422-6431. Sept. 23: Presentation High School, SF, class of ’56 at Sinbad’s Restaurant, San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. Contact Judi Guidi Crosetti at (650) 589-8377 or nonihugs@aol.com; Aggie Roensch Malanca at (925) 283-4477 or tomagco@yahoo.com. Sept. 23: St. Brigid School, Class of 1976, is having a 30-year reunion in San Francisco. Alumni may connect with other 76ers and learn about the reunion at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stbrigid76/ Sept. 30: St. Brigid High School Alumnae Reunion Luncheon at Castagnola’s Restaurant, Fisherman’s Wharf, San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. Contact Rita Fabri at (415) 346-0369 or Eleanor Matheu at (415) 566-5331. Sept. 30: St. Rose Academy, class of ’86, for a cocktail party at the Rosewood Bar in San Francisco. Contact bebe@ski.org or Beatriz St. John at (415) 255-7512. Oct. 1: Nativity Elementary School in Menlo Park celebrates its 50th anniversary. Archbishop George H. Niederauer will preside at a Mass of Thanksgiving at noon followed by a BBQ luncheon and open house. Co-chairs Russ Castle ‘75, and Karen Finney Skogstrom ‘66, say “a great time will be had by all!” For more information: Email-alumni@nativityschool.com or call Karen at (650) 3678488. Oct. 7: Class of ’56 from Immaculate Conception Academy, with social at noon and lunch at 12:30 p.m. at the Basque Cultural Center 599 Railroad Ave. in South San Francisco. Contact Nancy Sutter at (650) 756-7539 or Arlene Balestreri at (415) 8833619. Oct. 7, 15: Star of the Sea Elementary School, Class of 1956 will be celebrating their “Golden Diploma” ceremony on October 7. Star of the Sea Academy will be doing the same on October 15. The school is also calling out to all graduates from both schools for the upcoming 100th anniversary in 2009. Phone (415) 221-8558, e mail terryhanley@starsf.net. Oct. 14: St. Monica Elementary School, class of ’56 beginning with Mass at 5 p.m. in parish church, 23rd and Geary Blvd. in San Francisco. Social gathering continues 6 – 10 p.m. in church hall. Contact Karen Schurer Mullen at (415) 453-0482 or kathy.mullen@comcast.net. Oct. 14: Annual reunion of Golden Alumni of the University of San Francisco at USF 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The class of ’56 will be specially honored and welcomed into the esteemed golden gang. Day includes Mass and luncheon. Call USF Alumni Relations at (415) 422-6431. Oct. 14: Class of ’50, St. Cecilia Elementary School luncheon. Contact Doris at (415) 664-2247. Oct. 15: Class of ’66, Notre Dame High School in Belmont at 11 a.m. in the school dining room, 1540 Ralston Ave. Contact Connie Partmann Trewin at (650) 343-6889 or Angela Harrington Norton at (650) 349-5091. Oct. 15: Star of the Sea Academy, class of ’56 at El Rancho Inn in Millbrae. Contact Natalie Nalducci Sandell at (415) 453-3687 or Diane Donohoe Mulligan at (415) 664-7977. Oct. 22: St. Paul Elementary School marks its 90th anniversary with Mass at 12:15 p.m. in the parish church followed by a reception in the Father Mario P. Farana Parish Hall. Call (415) 648-7538. Nov. 10: Class of ’57, St. Paul High School, San Francisco is looking for members of the class. Call Carol Kennedy Toomey at (650) 756-4586 or ctoomey@ci.millbrae.ca.us.

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CALL MITCH AT (650) 557-9106 ● Cell (650) 784-6544

Lic. # 778332

# 687359

Wally Mooney Auto Broker

650-244-9255 Spells Wally 650-740-7505 Cell Phone All Mfg. Warranty: Rebates and Special Dealer Finacing goes to Registered Owner/s P.O. Box 214 San Bruno, CA 94066

St. Robert’s Parish San Bruno

GARAGE DOOR REPAIR

Discount

415-239-8491

Family, Cosmetics, Implant Dentistry

3500 Callan Blvd. South San Francisco, CA First Floor space available

2033 TARAVAL STREET

Call Charley Haggarty (650) 344-3044

(415) 665-8397

RAMING

Custom Framing ✧ Needlework & Oriental Picture Framing ✧ Competitive Prices Many 3D Religious Pictures

313 WESTLAKE CENTER, DALY CITY 94015

TABLES SEATING LINENS SETTINGS SERVEWARE STAGING

100 North Hill Drive, Unit 18 • Brisbane, CA 94005 Lic. No. 390254

Expert Plumbing Repairs

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General Repairs Clean Drains & Sewers Water Heaters ●

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SANTI PLUMBING & HEATING

FAMILY OWNED

415-661-3707

Lic. # 663641

24 HR

SPIRITUAL HEALING

BEST PLUMBING, INC. Your Payless Plumbing

Lic. # 872560

➤ Drain-Sewer Cleaning Service ➤ Water Heaters ➤ Gas Pipes ➤ Toilets ➤ Faucets ➤ Garbage Disposals ➤ Copper Repiping ➤ Sewer Replacement ➤ Video Camera & Line locate PROMPT AND UNPARALLELED SERVICE

(650) 557-1263 CELL (415) 205-2801 PAGER (415) 313-0195 EMAIL: bestplumbinginc@comcast.net

COUNSELING

Garage Door

Repair

ALL PLUMBING WORK PAT HOLLAND

Unhealed wounds can hold you back - even if they are not the “logical” cause of your problems today. You can be the person God intended.

CA LIC #817607

BONDED & INSURED

415-205-1235 Broken Spring/Cable? Operator Problems?

One Price 24 /7

415-931-1540

PHOTO RESTORATION

0% Financing Available

REAL ESTATE

When Life Hurts It Helps To Talk • Family • Work • Depression • Anxiety

* Parishioner of St. Gregory’s Church, San Mateo

Today

❖ 30 years experience with individuals, couples and groups ❖ Directed, effective and results-oriented ❖ Compassionate and Intuitive ❖ Supports 12-step ❖ Enneagram Personality Transformation

San Francisco: 415.337.9474 Belmont: 650.888.2873 Complimentary phone consultation www.InnerChildHealing.com

If I can be of service to you, or if you know of anyone who is interested in buying or selling a home, please do not hesitate to call me . . .

MIKE TEIJEIRO Realtor (650) 523-5815 m.teijeiro@remax.net

Inner Child Healing Offers a deep spiritual and psychological approach to counseling:

Lila Caffery, MA, CCHT

SPECIALIZING IN SAN MATEO COUNTY REAL ESTATE

NOTICE TO READERS

650-992-7219

Do you want to be more fulfilled in love and work – but find things keep getting in the way?

Lic #376353

Lifetime Warranty All New Doors/Motors

ENTER

HOLLAND Plumbing Works San Francisco

not a licensed contractor

Contractors State License Board 800-321-2752

DENTAL OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE

FINE SERVICE, BETTER EVENTS.

Phone: 415.468.1877 Fax: 415.468.1875

AUTO SALES

Handyman

Licensed contractors are required by law to list their license numbers in advertisments. The law also state that contractors performing work totaling $500 or more must be statelicensed. Advertisments appearing in this newspaper without a license number indicate that the contractor is not licensed. For more information, contact:

DR. ERICH K. HABELT

John Bianchi

Phone (415) 724-5645 Fax (415) 952-4272

FERGUS

Contractor inspection reports and pre-purchase consulting

NOT A LICENSED CONTRACTOR

(415) 731-0816

Plumbing • Fire Protection • Certified Backflow

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Call (650) 757-1946 Cell (415) 517-5977

2345 Noriega Street

Calif. Lic. No 549434

•Interiors •Exteriors •Kitchens •Baths

Painting, roof repair, fence (repair/ build) demolition, carpenter, gutter (clean/ repair), skylight repairs, landscaping, gardening, hauling, moving, janitorial. All purpose.

2 Teeth Whitening.

DOUGLAS D. BOUCHER, D.D.S. 825 OAK GROVE AVE., MENLO PARK (650) 325-8030

PLUMBING

NEEDHAM ELECTRIC, INC

(650) 355-4926

Handyman

FAMILY DENTISTRY

PARTY RENTALS

(650) 355-8858

ELECTRIC

Ca. Lic 391053 General Contractor Since 1980

Carpentry, Cabinetry, Painting,Refinishing Floors and Furniture, Door & Window Instal.,Cement Work. Se habla Español & Tagalog. Serving also the East Bay, Contra Costa,&Marin Counties

WILLIAM L. FAMILY DENTISTRY Specializing in Cosmetic GALLAGHER, Procedures including Invisalign Invisible D.D.S. Braces, and Zoom!

ESTLAKE

John Holtz

Painting & Remodeling

SAN MATEO COUNTY

SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY

HANDY MAN GENERAL CONTRACTOR ART AND FRAMING &F C ONE STOP MAINTENANCE AND HANDYMAN Gydesen Const., Inc. W23 years inA Westlake Center

LIC.

Painting & Remodeling

❑ Prayer to the Blessed Virgin ❑ Prayer to the Holy Spirit

Select One Prayer: ❑ St. Jude Novena to SH ❑ Prayer to St. Jude

DENTAL DIRECTORY

• Relationships • Addictions

Dr. Daniel J. Kugler

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Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Over 25 years experience

Confidential • Compassionate • Practical (415) 921-1619 1537 Franklin Street • San Francisco, CA 94109

September 8, 2006

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heaven can’t wait Serra for Priestly Vocations

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Piano Lessons PIANO LESSONS BY

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CAROL FERRANDO. Conservatory training, masters degree, all levels of students. CALL (415) 921-8337.

This is a Career Opportunity!

Send your resume: Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street, #427 Tiburon, Ca 94920

Spanish instructor needed to teach basic conversational Spanish to small groups of individuals in SF area. Must have some teaching experience with bilingual skills.

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RNs and LVNs: we want you. Provide nursing care for children in San Francisco schools.

Full or part time. Generous benefit package. Send your resume to: Email: Fax: Mail:

We Take No Prisoners!!

Alcatraz Cruises is Now Hiring

Children of all levels

Yearly Recitals At Clarion Hotel $50 mo. once a week lesson

650-583-4796

SENIOR HOUSING VILLAGE SENIOR HOUSING COMPLEX 84 – 1 bedroom units

Located in desireable Glenview District.

DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTING

To submit call toll free 1-888-261-2351 or on-line at www.alcatrazcruises.com/jobs

Full time, benefited position on beautiful campus of nonprofit religious organization. The person is responsible for managing and supervising the accounting staff, development and maintenance of the accounting, financial and payroll reporting systems of three corporations, accurate & timely preparation of all required financial statements and reports, annual budget and audit report preparation, monitoring daily cash flow. B.A. in accounting or business or equivalent combination of education and experience required. At least 5 years related experience in non-profit or religious organization preferred. Abilities required are: demonstrated proficiency on accounting software and Microsoft Office Suite; knowledge of Paychex payroll system; excellent organizational, interpersonal and oral/written communication skills; ability to work with evolving systems and structures; excellent leadership and supervisory skills.

PARISH ORGANIST & CHOIR DIRECTOR The position of Parish Organist and Choir Director will be open at St. Gabriel Parish, San Francisco on November 6, 2006. The position includes participation in two Sunday Masses. Resumes and/or information requests to: Fr. John Ryan or Mr. Matt Shea 2559 – 40th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94116 (415) 731-6161

- Quiet and well maintained garden and veranda area. - Walking distance to St. Margaret Mary Church. - Elevators - Bus stop close by - Heating provided

R ENT R ANGE $775 – $1000 3761 PARK B LVD . WAY, O AKLAND 510-531-2510

Jeannie McCullough Stiles, RN, PHN RNTiburon@msn.com 415-435-0421 Special Needs Nursing, Inc. 98 Main Street #427 Tiburon, CA 94920

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Special Needs Companion Services

Help Wanted

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Help Wanted We are looking for you.

For The Largest Publisher of Catholic Church Bulletins

SF native seeking caregiver work for elderly woman. Excellent refs, over 15 yrs. experience, part- or full-time, with car.

Qualified applicants may send their resume to: Sisters of Mercy, Attn: HR Department 2300 Adeline Drive Burlingame, CA 94010-5599 or fax to: (650) 373-4509, or email to: cricafrente@mercyburl.org

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Catholic San Francisco

September 8, 2006

Catholic Studies Institute Course Schedule 2006 – 07 The Catholic Studies Institute is a program of adult faith formation and lay ministry training of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The curriculum leading to a certificate in either Theological Studies or Theology and Lay Ministry consists of a three-year cycle of courses. Our school year begins in September and runs to July. Classes are held in the evenings from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in San Mateo, San Francisco, and Kentfield in Marin County. Tuition is $100 for 12-week courses, and $150 for 18-week courses. For more information about our program, visit our website at www.sflayformation.org , or contact our office at 415-614-5546.

SAN MATEO 2006 – 07

SAN FRANCISCO 2006 – 07

MARIN COUNTY 2006 – 07

Tuesdays 7:30 - 9:30 pm

Thursdays 7:30-9:30 pm

Junipero Serra High School 451 W. 20th Ave. San Mateo, CA 94403

Collins Center (at St. Cecilia Church) 2560 18th Ave. San Francisco, CA 94116

Marin Catholic High School 675 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. Kentfield, CA 94904

Biblical Theology I – Old Testament (18 wks) Instructor: Charles James Dates: Sept 26; Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; Nov 7, 14, 28; Dec 5, 12, 19; Jan 9, 16, 23, 30; Feb 6, 14 (Note: Feb 14 class on Wednesday, not Tuesday)

Biblical Theology II – New Testament (18 wks) Instructor: Charles James Dates: Feb 20, 28*; March 6, 13, 20, 27; April 17,24; May 1, 8, 22, 29; June 5, 12, 19, 26; July 10,17 *(Note: Feb 28 class on Wednesday, not Tuesday)

Biblical Theology I – Old Testament (18 wks) Instructor: Mark Brumley Dates: Sept 19, 26; Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, 31; Nov 7, 14, 28; Dec 5, 12; Jan 9, 16, 23, 30; Feb 6, 13

Biblical Theology II – New Testament (18 wks) Instructor: Mark Brumley Dates: Feb 20, 27; March 6, 13, 20, 27; April 17, 24; May 1, 8, 22, 29; June 5, 12, 19, 26; July 10, 17

TEACHERS

Fall 2006 The Gospel of Luke (12 wks) Instructor: Fr. David Anderson Dates: Sept 21, 28; Oct 5, 12, 19, 26; Nov 9, 16, 30; Dec 7, 14, 21

Winter 2006 The Acts of the Apostles (12 wks) Instructor: Fr. David Anderson Dates: Jan 11, 18, 25; Feb 1, 8, 15, 22; March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29

Spring 2007 The Catholic Epistles and the Book of Revelation (12 wks) Instructor: Fr. David Anderson Dates: April 19, 26; May 3, 10, 24, 31; June 7, 14, 21; July 12, 19, 26

REGISTRATION FORM

CHARLES JAMES: Served as an Episcopal priest in the East Bay area for twelve years, and was later received into full communion with the Catholic Church in 2001. He holds a Sacred Theology Doctorate from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. He is currently an associate professor of philosophy at St. Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park. He has taught on a broad range of subject areas over the years, including theology, philosophy, Scripture and apologetics.

Complete this form and mail it with check or money order (payable to “Archdiocese of San Francisco”) to:

MARK BRUMLEY: Holds a Master of Theology Degree from the University of Dallas and is the president of Ignatius Press in San Francisco. He is a widely known author, editor and conference speaker in the areas of theology, apologetics and evangelization. He has taught in our program for several years in such areas as Scripture, doctrine, liturgy, and moral theology. He brings a broad range of experience to the classroom.

Address:

Catholic Studies Institute Archdiocese of San Francisco One Peter Yorke Way, San Francisco, CA 94109 Name:

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FR. DAVID ANDERSON: Holds a Master of Divinity degree from St. Vladimir Seminary in New York, where he specialized in liturgical studies. Originally ordained an Eastern Orthodox priest in 1983, Fr. David was later received into full communion with the Catholic Church and is now an Eastern Catholic priest of the St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Chicago. He is curently pastor of St. Peter Eastern Catholic Church in Ukiah. He has taught many courses in our program in various subject areas such as Scripture, liturgy, patristics, doctrine, spiritual theology, and the writings of C.S. Lewis.

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Circle location of course(s): San Mateo San Francisco

Kentfield